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Sports i i UJ Ul U. 03 Ul Ui Ul -oz U) v. Ul I 1 eoikf arracougars i rf i I by dunking Pirates Area roundup -s 4kU.immwr?l.. Morristown coach Karen Lane said as her team's overall and conference records dipped to 1-1. I Triton Central broke open a tight game with a 17-point third quarter, then held off a Yellow Jacket comeback that tied the game with two minutes left.

I Morristown's Susan Stergar led all scorers, with 22 Triton Central was paced by Vicki Meadows' 20. The Yellow Jackets host Morton Memorial Thursday. Elsewhere, Eastern Hancock dropped to 1-2 for the year at Connersville as the host Spartans rolled to a 74-45 victory. Kim Lawrence led three Eastern double-figure scorers with 16. The Royals travel to Blue River Valley The Pirates turned out to be something loss than seaworthy Tuesday night at Anderson." (Ireenfield-Central's Barracougars successfully opened their boys swimming ''campaign -'with a 126-43 dunking of Madison Heights by winning 10 of 11 events.

Tom Sturm and Buddy Presley were double winners for Greenfield-Central, which swept the Pirates in three in-. dividual events. The Barracougars make their home debut Thursday against New Castle. Wrestling Greenfield-Central's grapplers made Bill Yozipovich's debut as coach a happy one with a 36-21 pasting of Connersville. The hosts lost the first three matches before coming on for the victory.

John Allemeier, Barry Edon and David Troy posted pins for Greenfield-Central, which won six others by decision. The Cougars host a triple dual with Hamilton Southeastern, Morristown and Mount Vernon Saturday. Elsewhere, New Palestine opened its season with a 59-9 shellacking of Knightstown. The hosts could win only two matches as New Palestine took seven victories by pin. New Palestine hosts Triton Central in the annual battle of Big Blue River Conference'powers Tuesday.

Mount Vernon, fielding a reserve unit, took a win over Morton Memorial. Girls basketball Triton Central took a big step toward another BBRC title with a 51-43 victory at Morristown. We just never got our'offense going," Still critical in New York I Square' Garden Fight by Wilfred Scypion. Above, Classen is examined on the canvas afterthe punch. (UPI photo) i Veteran middleweight Willie Classen is still listed in critical condition in a New York hospital following brain surgery.

He was knocked out Friday night in a Madison Thursday. Boys basketball were selected top offensive linemen. Defensive standouts honored during Monday's Danquet were senior end Gerry Gluscic. McKsort, and junior safety John Allman of St. Louis: Kicker Joe Stellern.

a junior from Rockport. 111., was named the top newcomer. Greenfield Christian suffered ijs first loss of the season at Plainfield Charlton (Indiana Boys School), "coming out on the short end of a 57-49 count. Greenfield, which trailed at every quarter stop, was led by 19 from DeWayne Hurd and 17 from Danny Perritt Greenfield Christian hosts Baptist Academy Friday. Complete summaries appear daily in Sports in brief Moeller's firing irks Schembechler ICU honors Bogardus, ykTLeari Scoreboard.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) Bob Bogardus and Steve McLean won toD honors at Indiana Central's football ban-. Checkers beat Birmingham BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) Dave Cameron scored two goals Tuesday night to lead the Indianapolis Checkers to a 3-1 victory over Birmingham in Central Hockey League play. Mike Dyer gave Birmingham a 1-0 lead after the first period, but Cameron's first goal knotted the count, 1-1, heading into the final session. Cameron added his second red-lighter and Yvon Vatour scored the Checkers' third goal, both in the third period.

Ill, Purdue games televised INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The appearance of both Indiana and Purdue in bowl games will be televised live by station WISH at Indianapolis, officials said Tuesday. The station said it had negotiated with Mizlou, an independent sports network, to the rights for the Hoosiers' game against Brigham Young in the Holiday Bowl on Dec. 21 at San Diego. and the Boilermakers' meeting with Tennessee in the Bluebonnet Bowl on Dec. 31 at Houston.

The Indiana game starts at 9 p.m. EST and the Purdue game at 8 p.m. EST. Pacers trade Elmore INDIANAPOLIS UPI The Kansas City Kings traded a 1980 second round draft choice and an unnamed future consideration Tuesday for Indiana Pacers backup center Len Elmore. The 6-foot-9'2 Elmore ruptured the extensor tendon in his right thumb during training camp and had not appeared in any games this season.

When he got back in shape, he had trouble getting into the lineup because of the continued improvement of the present backup center, Clemon Johnson. Elmore was the Pacers first round draft choice in the 1973 ABA underclass draft. His best year was 1975-76, when he averaged 14.6 points, and 10.8 rebounds per game. Mears wins Titus Award BURBANK. Calif.

(UPI) The Jerry Titus Memorial Award, -auto racing's equivalent to coll 0e football's Heisman Trophy, has been awarded to this year's In-, dianapolis 500 Rick Mears. The Jerry Titus Award was named after the journalist and" driver who was killed in a racing accident. Mears, 27, led the 10th annual Drivers All-America team selected by members of the American Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association, thus winning the Titus award. The announcement was made Tuesday. Sycamores announce awards TERRE HAUTE.

Ind. (UPI) Quarterback Reggie Allen was one of six players honored by the Indiana State football team for performances during the season, Coach Dick Jamison announced Tuesday. Allen, a sophomore from Monessen, was picked as the top offensive back while center Tunch Hkin, Highland Park, 111., and tackle George DeTella, Matteson, Jttvboth seniors, Sutcliffe top NL rookie NEW YORK (UPI) Right-hander Rick Sutcliffe, 23, who brightened an otherwise dismal season for, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Wednesday was named the National League's Rookie of the year by the Baseball Writers oft America Association. Sutcliffe led the Dodger staff in victories with 17 and lost only 10 to become an easy winner over outfielders Jeff Leonard of Houston and Scot Thompson of Chicago.

In becoming the eighth Dodger to receive the award since it was originated by the BBWAA in 1947, Sutcliffe collected 20 of a possible 24 votes from a special BBWAA committee consisting of two writers from each city. The Dodgers' No. 1 selection in the June, 1974. free-agent draft, Sutcliffe appeared in one game in 1976 and two games in 1978. He began' the 1979 season in the bullpen and was moved into the starting rotation after in juries hit the Los Angeles staff.

He became the club's most dependable pitcher, appearing in .39 games, completing five and compiling an earned run average of 3.46 over 242 innings. Los Angeles, the league champion the two previous years, fell to third place IP 2 games behind first-place Cincinnati but would have fallen lower without Sutcliffe. The native of Independence, was the winningest Dodger rookie since the team moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Only five pitchers in the league, all veterans, won more games than Sutcliffe. Leonard, who came to Houston from Los Angeles, batted .290 in 134 in the Astros' abortive bid to win the NL West.

He had 1 19 hits and drove in 47 runs despite hitting no home runs. Thompson hit .289 over 129 games for the Cubs. He also lacked power, hitting just two home runs and driving in 29 runs. Other Dodgers to win the award include Jackie Robinson, 1947; Don Newcombe, 1949: Joe Black. 1952; Jim Gilliam, 1953; Frank Howard, 1960; Jim Lefebvre, 1965; quet Tuesday night.

Bogardus was named the most valuable offensive player and McLean was chosen the top defender. Mark Hetrick won the team's mental attitude award. Padres acquire Cash SAN DIEGO (UPI) The suddenly wheeling-dealing San Diego Padres Tuesday acquired slugging second baseman Dave Cash from the Montreal Expos in a 2-for-l trade for reserve infielder Bill Almon and utility outfielder Dan Briggs. The -trade came on the heels of the Padres' signings of free agent pitchers John Curtis, an ex-Giant, to a fiveryear contract reportedly worth $1.75 million, and former Cleveland pitcher Rick Wise to a $2 million five-year pact. Shrine roster grows STANFORD.

Calif. (UPI) Four quarterbacks, including Marc Wilson of Brigham were named Tuesday to the rosters of the East and West teams for the 55th annual Shrine football game at Stanford Stadium, Jan. 5. Wilson and Delrick Brown of Houston were added to the West team, which previously selected quarterback Turk Schonert of Stanford, while Bill Hurley of Syracuse and' David Woodley of Louisiana State became the first two quarterbacks named to the East Police study sports betting ring HARTFORD Conn. (UPI) Connecticut state police Tuesday sifted through gambling records and other evidence, preparing to seek dozens of arrests in what they said was a $20 million-'a-year professional sports betting ring.

Lt. John Bardell said he expected 30 to 50 people will be arrested as a result of evidence-gathering raids Monday night. State gaming officials have estimated illegal sports betting is a billion-dollar business in Connecticut. I Two share Spinks Award NEW YORK (UPI) Bob Broeg, former sports editor and columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the late Tommy Holmes, for many years a baseball writer and columnist with the defunct Brooklyn Eagle, Tuesday were named by "the Baseball Writers Association as winners of the J.G.

Taylor Spink Award for journalistic achievement. Broeg and Holmes will be inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., in the summer of 1980. Kaegel named at Sporting News ST. LOUIS (UPI) Richard Kaegel, sports editor of the St. I)uis Post-Dispatch, has been appointed managing editor of The Sporting News, it was announced Tuesday.

CHICAGO (UPIV Michigan's Bo Schembechler would like to see univer-' sities act more responsibly in honoring their long-term contracts with football roaches. What drew Schembechler's ire was the firing last week of Illinois Coach Gary Moeller with two years remaining on his five-year contract. Moeller formerly served as Schembechler's assistant. Schembechler argued schools should have to stand by agreements with coaches, even when new athletic directors come in and want their own man. But he acknowledged successful coaches, who have tendency to look for greener pasfbrss.

also should be required to honor their contracts. "I think some of the money from the American Football Coaches Association should go to make sure coaches have attorneys that can review the contracts to make sure they are legal," Schembechler said. Moeller was ousted because of a series of circumstances. He won only six games in three seasons and attendance was dwindling and, as a-result, less money was coming into Illinois coffers even though other Big Ten schools were giving the conference a league attendance record. The icing came when Athletic Director Neale Stoner was hired from Cal State-Fullerton to replace Cecil Coleman, who met a similar fate as Moeller earlier in the year.

Schembechler said Stoner and Illinois should have honored the contract Moeller and the school's representative signed in good faith three years ago. But the argument can and is being made that Stoner, as head of the school's athletic program, should have the Tight to have his own staff working under him. When a new director of a business comes in to salvage the company, he can usually hire and fire personnel to have the kind of team he wants. If the company fails to make a profit, the director's job is on the line. If Stoner had kept Moeller for two more years and Moeller failed to produce, Stoner likely would have been under pressure from alumni for not having a winning football program.

The same pressures Bo SchernbecMer that led to the dismissal of Coleman could be applied to Stoner. Stoner, therefore, was in a no-win situation. Had Moeller been retained and the program continued to slide, he would be accused of failing to act. Had Moeller been retained and the program improved, Stoner would have received little credit because he was not the man who hired Moeller. Schembechler also said the Illinois program was so far down when Moeller took over that no coach could have done better.

It also is argued that a new coach coming into Illinois will face a similar situation. But when Stoner and the Illinois Athletic Association met, they had only to look at neighboring Iowa to see what a head coach can do in one year. Hayden Fry inherited a program that was in a similar situation as Illinois but he managed to make rapid progress in one year. Fry played competitive, exciting football. It was that style, rather than victories, that helped Iowa set an attendance record this year.

Provided the right coach can be hired, it will be the quality of the man, rather than of the length and integrity of the contract, that will be the answer at Illinois. 1 5 and Ted Sizemore, 1969. Area basketball stats CENTRAL SUBURBAN CONFERENCE 1 "JK All League 0-0 04) 0-0 Stacy Smith (M) 4 38 9.5 14 Defense Joe Mills (NP) 3 27 9.0 14 17558.3 John Phares (M) 4 34 8.5 12 4848.0 Jeff Edwards (EH) 3 24 8.0 8 20367.6 Dan Robinson (GO 1 7 7.0 7 12562.5 Scott Albertson (M) 4 26 6.5 10 6767 0 Mark Shannon (M) 4 26 6.5 9 13165.5 Randy Hall (K) 2 13 6.5 9 Offense 20561.5 7777.0 21772.3 17286.0 5151.0 11356.5 3-0 1- 0 2- 1 1-1 0-1 Pike Greenfield-Central Franklin Central Lawrence North Lawrence Central Decatur Central 0-0 04) 04) 0-2 This week coiniv iPld-Central at Franklin CentralWhiteland at Field goal percentage leaders Greenfield-Central's Dan Robinson is the leader in three of the four individual categories in The Daily Reporter's first compilation of area basketball statistics. The area statistical roundup will appear each Wednesday through the sectional tournament. Robinson holds a narrow lead over Knightstown's Mark Lawrence in the scoring race after the Panther sophomore busted for an area season-high 26 at New Castle.

New Palestine's Gary Pruitt is third. Mount Vernon junior Brian Osswald paces area rebounders with a 10.5 average in two games. Jeff Schleter of Greenfield-Central is a close second with 10 grabs in the Cougars' lone outing, with Stacy Smith of Morristown third. Robinson's .750 field gial percentage is slightly better tha Robinson's .750 field goaltstown's Mark Carroll, Robinson's 8 for 8 Mark at the line is one of three perfect free throw figures. Tom Jordan of Knightstown is 4-4, 'while Schleter is 2-2.

Decatur Central; Lawrence Central At North Centra ILawrence North at Brebeuf; Pike at Zlonsville. SATURDAY Cambridge City Lincoln at Greenfield-Central; Perry Meridian at Pike; Lawrence Central at Warren Central; Franklin Central at Center Grove. (5 attempts per gam minimum) Scoring leaders 'ft j. i -f ill 1)3 At Games FGM FGA Pet. Dan Robinson (GO 1 6 8 .750 Mark Carroll (K) 2 10 14 .714 Jay Holier (NP) 3 11 16 .687 Troy Doubman (K) 2 6 9 .667 Todd O'Neal (GO 1 5.8 .625 Stacy Smith (M) 4 .18 29 .620 Brad Wheeler (NP) .3 18 30 .600 Gus Taylor (K) 1 3 5 .600 Gary Pruitt (NP) 3 21 36 .583 Jeff Docking (NP) 3 .12 21 .571 Lu Brian Osswald Mark Lawrence Games Pts.

Avg. High Dan Robinson (GO 1 20 20.0 20 Mark Lawrence K) 2 39 19.5 26 GaryPruift(NP) 3 47 15.6 19 Dan Freeman (GO 1 15 15.0 15 Scott Albertson (M) 4 59 14.7 22 Brian Osswald (MV) 2 26 13.0 14 Brian Dunbar (EH) 3 38 12.6 14 Brad Wheeler (NP) 3 37 12.3 18 Bruce Carlton (M) 4 48 12.0 16 Todd O'Neal (GO 1 12- 12.0 12 BIG BLUE RIVER CONFERENCE Free throw percentage leaders Team totals Eastern Hancock Greenfield-Central Knightstown Morristown Mount Vernon New Palestine PCT. .617 .680 .648 .461 .593 .600 RES.AVG 8829.3 4242.0 5326.5 15739.2 8341.5 12441.3 PCT. .371 .476 .514 .433 .357 .549 FT 29-47 17-25 24-36 42.91 19-32 -39-65 FG' 65-175 30-63 55-T07 107-247 44-123 100-182 (2 attempts per game minimum) League All Offense Defense Tri 1-0 2-0 13969.5 10854.0 Morristown 1-0 3-1 25664.0 24561.2 New Palestine 1-0 23979.6 16454.6 Knightstown 1-0 1-1 13467.0 12060.0 North Decatur 0-0 1-1 12763.5 14773.S Eastern Hancock 0-0 1-2 15953.0 20969.6 Triton Central 0-1 1-1 13869.0 12160.5 Morton Memorial 0-2 0-3 11538.3 25685.3 Tlilt week FRIDAY New Palestine at Eastern Hancock; North Decatur at Morton Memorial; Knightstown at Shenandoah; Trl at Blue River Valley; Waldron at Triton Central. 1 SATURDAY Morristown at Knightstown; Eastern Hancock at Dalevllle; Triton Central at Tri.

Rebounding leaders Standings Games Ftm Fta Pet. Dan Robinson (GO 1 8 8 1.000 Tom Jordan (K) 2 4 4 1.000 Jeff Schleter (GO 1 2 2 1.000 Mark Lawrence (K) 2 11 12 916 Roy Andrews (EH) 3 5 6 .833 Mike Young (NP) 3 7 9 .777 Dan Freeman (GO 1 3 4 .750 Joe Mills (NP) 3 8 11 .727 Brian Dunbar (EH) 3 10 14 .714 Defense 12261.0 Offense 10753.5 INDEPENDENTS All 0-2 ThiswMk High 11 10 Avg. JlO.5 10.0 Reb. 21 10 Garnet 2 1 Mount Vernon Brian Osswald (MV) Jeff Schleter (GO i.