Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 44

ALHl'QL'KRyUE JOURNAL Tt.urm.ay, July 4, 1974 New York Press Hard on Champ Foster won the fight. BOB ARl'M. THE president of Top Rank Inc. (the people who bring you the black-and-white, out of focus picture for only $12) anted to apologize to the people of Argentina for Ripp's Rap Bv BART R1PP, Journal Sports Writer When a heavyweight championship is not the subject, the N'ewYorkprcsslooksuponanout-of-townfightasa peculiar happening, something like a three-legged race or a pipe-smoking contest. The recent draw here between world light heavyweight champion Bobby Foster and Argentina's Jorge Ahumada drew the following respo se from one of the nation's better known columnists, Dick Young of the New York Daily News: "They took the 10th round away from the challenger for a low blow and took away the other 14 rounds for hitting a man from Albuquerque." There were claims that one of the official scorecards was doctored after the fight.

Gil Clancy, Ahuraada's manager, thought enough of his man to stay in New York with limp-white hope Jerry Quarry, but later had the courage to say that Foster should be declared the loser, although no one "the worst decision ever seen in boxing." Lester Bromberg, boxing writer for the New York Post, watched the fight on Arum's fuzzy picture and the headline Los Altos Wins Team Title the final hole. Nesbitt played for Bear Canyon. Peter Kidalgo, Four Hills, and Ron Perrine, Paradise Hills, had 72s. Baca of the winning team had the day's unusual round. He used only 21 putts in one stretch he one-putted eight straight greens and chipped in for a birdie from 50 yards out on the 18th.

The Los Altos Golf Assn. finally shed the bride's maid role in the annual City Men's team championship golf tournament at Albuquerque Country Club Wednesday. With four of the six members shooting identical 73s over the par-72 ACC course, the Los Altos team, second the last four vears, finished at 292 for a nine-stroke victory over the University Golf Assn. and Paradise Hills, both with identical 301 scores DEFENDING CHAMPION Bear Canyon finished in a tie for sixth place with a 307, the same as the Albuquerque Public Schools team. The Albuquerque Country Club and Four Hills tied for fourth with 304s.

A total of 10 teams participated in the one-day meet. Each team used six players with the low four counting. Ted Martinez, Ernie Fresquez, Bobby Ortega and Bobby Baca all had "3s for the winning LAGA team. Sam Fresquez and Jim Davis were the other two members. MEDALIST FOR THE tourney was Jerry Nesbitt at even-par "1, thanks to a birdie pitch from behind the green on ALBl'Ql'FRQVE PLBLIC SCHOOLS Parrish 3, Harmeson 76.

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Morgan 90. Werner 13 SANDIA! D. BranscomV G. Smith SO. R.

Blouse 81, Gardner 82. Harrington 87, Morrison LOS ALTOS Martinet Fresquez "VS. Orten 'J. Bai 73, Fresquel '8. Pvis -9 L'MNERSTtTY G01J ASSN.

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Mensing Booker 84 on his "Strictly Personal" column read: "Foster li Through." "Amazing," begins Mr. Bromberg. "No other word describes the strange goings-on in Albuquerque, M. And the stranger scoring which gave Bob Foster the draw that kept the light heavyweight crown on his head, if ever so precariously. He's 32 (actually 35), though he seemed to be going on 42 Bob Foster is through.

Monday night's shenanigans were merely a repreieve There's an immediate temptation to cynically dismiss his poor showing as artful entrapment of the old school (what this sentence means perhaps only persons east of the Hudson can translate). That is, a return and a sud den revival of his dynamic punch and a knockout. He is managed by Lou Viscusi, who's been around since the days when he shephereded dancing master Willie Pep and OJd Bones Joe Brown. He might know a trick or two. "But Bob, all 6 feet 3 inches, with the skinniest waist line of all time (Bromberg must be omitting Little Egypt), has had it.

He has reached the stage where the comeuppance could come at any time." Bromberg, perhaps envious of the champ's courage, goes on to write: "Foster, to get to the root of the matter, never could handle bigger men, yet he kept trying and squandered his skills in the effort. Ordinary heavyweights like Doug Jones and Ernie Terrell had too much for him (Terrell certainly did he outweighed Bobby by over 50 pounds). But when Bob got the light heavyweight match at the Garden with Dick Tiger in 1968, he seemed to find the overwhelming target. He blew the squat, short-armed Tiger into pieces. "YET TRACE HIS victories afterwards.

All against light heavyweights, even overstuffed middleweights. Eventually, though he tried the big league heavies for the money. "And Bob paid for it. He was mercilessly beaten in a two-round knockout by Joe Frazier in 1970, just before Joe reached his own peak. But the finishing touhches came in 1972 when Foster submitted to the cultured indignities of Muhammad Ali in eight rounds leading to a kayo.

It is ironic that he went to Frazier and Ali bravely, as if imbued with a deathwish (Maybe Bromberg had one, thinking of the next time he met Foster). Instead, it meant death to him as an invincible among the light heavies. "Ever since, Viscusi has managed Bob like a baby (but a rich baby). Pierre Fourie, the South African nothing (he was ranked nothing but No. 1) traveled 15 rounds twice." BROMBERG, PERHAPS THINKING about that death-wish, has conveniently ommitted the sweet dreams Foster implanted upon such contenders as Vicente Rondon, Mike Quarry and Chris Finnegan.

One has to leave New York and go south to Florida to find a more truthful column about the fight. Lee Geiger of the Orlando Herald has shown in past columns his dislike for Florida promoter Pete Ashlock, who put on the Foster-Ahumada fight. Geiger, called "hard-hitting and honest" by the famed American Boxing News, saw the fight on both closed circuit TV and on Wide World of Sports, where the picture was clearer. "After viewing the tape, I think Foster won the fight," Geiger writes in his Florida Fistic column. "But thievery, ourtright robbery, disgraceful? Far from it.

Foster fought one of the dumbest fights I have ever seen a champion fight. He kept his right hand down against a fighter who has only one weapon a left hook. He didn't do much of anything except jab and he failed to do that enough (A plus for Mr. Geiger). "I have met Foster and I don't like him personally.

(Geiger once wrote: Foster speaks English but little else. I feel he is ready to get knocked off by the next good fighter he meets. But all this noise over a close, boring fight is really dumb." O'Toole Gives Prescription Righthander Rick Rhoden Dodgers Recall Duke Pitcher Rick Rhoden Answers Call League playoffs. He was referring to the heralded scuffle between the Reds' Pete Rose and Harrelson. "Rose did what any ballplayer is supposed to do: break up the double play," said C'TooIe.

"I think maybe Harrelson wanted to keep things stirred up." "The Mets won that game 9-2 over the heavily-favored Reds and won the National League championship two davs later with a 7-2 victorv. O'TOOLE, 37, believes that baseball's new breed aren't as scrappy as players of the past. "There were more hard-nosed guys from baseball's old school back then. Now players have got too many outside interests," he said. "We always had somebody getting in a fight," recalled O'Toole, who now works in real estate in Cincinnati.

"WE USED TO call Don Hoak 'old canvasback' because he spent so much time on his back. And Johnny Temple was always in the middle of something. He even decked a sportswriter once," recalled O'Toole, laughing. The worst fight, he recalled, was the bloody battle between the Reds' Billy Martin and Chicago pitcher Jim Brewer. "It was the result of the Cubs stealing our signs by having a guy with binoculars in the scoreboard," he said.

"Billy threw his bat after a close pitch and the war was on. Brewer got his jaw busted and was in bad shape," recalled O'Toole. ANOTHER INCIDENT involved Frank Robinson. "Frank slid into Eddie Mathews of the Braves at third base Eddie tagged him hard with the ball on the back of Frank's head and a fight broke out. When Frank came out to play the second game of the doubleheader, he had two black eyes so big we didn't think he could see.

"But he robbed Mathews of a game-winning triple with a great catch that carried him over the Crosley Field fence and finished up with three hits. "That was a case of letting a sleeping dog lie," said O'Toole. "THERE ARE SOME teams and players you don't want to get riled up. Back in 1964, we only had to win one game to clinch the pennant. But Chieo Cardenas started a fight with the Phillies Chris Short and they ended up knocking us off 4-3," he said.

"ThentbeybeatuslO-0 the next day. I knocked the heck out of Cardenas after the game," said O'Toole. CINCINNATI (AP) Ex-Cincinnati pitcher Jim O'-Toole. a brawling Irishman who savored a fist fight as much as a well-placed fastball, says there's nothing wrong, with the Reds that a good, old-fashioned donny-brook couldn't cure. "I'm not suggesting they go looking for a fight, but there's nothing like a good scrap to get the competitive blood boiling." said the former 19-game winner on the Reds' 11 National League title team.

"A good fight always woke us up," said 'Toole, who once refused to give up the baseball to a beckoning manager and even tore into a teammate aftera bitter loss. HE SAID HE suspects New York Mets shortstop Bud Harrelson victimized thReds with such a play in last October's National Albuquerque Duke righthander Rick Rhoden has been called up by the Los Angeles Dodgers and will join the National League club tonight in Cincinnati. The Dodgers have three doubleheaders in the next five days, including one tonight against the Reds and two this weekend in Montreal. The club said the logjam of twinbills was the main reason Rhoden was recalled Outfielder-catcher Lee Robinson was returned to the Dukes. The 28-year-old Robinson, who hit 373 with two homers and 16 RBI in 20 games earlier this year with Albuquerque, never appeared in a game in his month-and-a half stint in Los Angeles Robinson will join the Dukes tonight in Tucson.

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