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Ray Scott, Calton to telecast Twins People in sports 3B Minneapolis Tribune Jan. 25,1973 televised games, 46 will be on the road and four at Metropolitan Stadium in schedule yet to be completed, i TWINS TOPICS: The Twins announced thfc signing of 1975 contraef-by pitcher Dave Goltz, catcher Phil Roof and, third baseman Eric Soderholm. of the play-by-play announcers on WCCO radio. WTCN-TV announced that Midwest Federal and Schmidt's Brewing are the major sponsors for Twins telecasts. Of the 50 I FACTORY CLOSE-OUT! All Merchandise Must Be Sold! Ray Scott and Larry Calton will provide the commentary for 50 televised Minnesota Twins baseball games on WTCN-TV (Ch.

11) in 1975, it was announced Friday by Robert C. Fransen, general manager at WTCN. Scott, who has done a variety of national network sports reporting, returns to baseball after a one-year hiatus. He originally did the Twins from 1961 through 1966, then returned in 1973 to do 30 games on WCCO-TV. He thought he had an oral agreement to do television commentary for WCCO last season, but lost out in the shuffle.

He threatened to sue but dropped it on the advice of his attorney. "I'm glad to be back doing the Twins again for WTCN," said Scott, who is moving his residence from Phoenix, back to the Twin Cities. "If I'm back with CBS on football this fall, I've told them that I won't take any football until my baseball schedule is completed. I don't want any conflicts." Calton handled Twins' play-by-play on radio and television for WCCO last season. He may return on WCCO radio again this summer unless he is caught in' a sponsor conflict.

Herb Carneal will return as one Promoters of the Muhammad All-Chuck Wepner heavyweight championship bout scheduled for Cleveland on March 24 announced that the fight would be a twin bill, with former heavyweight champion George Foreman fighting Oscar Bonavena on the same card. Part of the gate receipts are to go to "Project Survival," an organization dedicated to helping famine-stricken Africans. "It's OK with me if they take out the money for charity," said Ali. "I'm a poor man and I fight to help my poor family." Joe Frazier, shunted aside by Muhammad Ali for an immediate title bout, will meet former World Boxing Association champion Jimmy Ellis in Melbourne, Australia, March 2. Mike Hess, an 18-year-old high school senior from South Albany, and Amateur Boxer of the Year In 1973, enlisted In the U.S.

Marine Corps and will be assigned to the corps' boxing team. Hess is the current 125-pound Amateur Athletic Union boxing champion. Coach George Allen of the Washington Redskins said, "We need a race horse running back; we need more speed on offense." Allen has been talking to officials of the New York Giants in an effort to obtain Ron Johnson. Jack Mollenkopf, former Purdue University football coach, returned home from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, after a series of chemotherapy treatments for cancer. Mollenkopf, 71, retired at the end of the 1969 season.

Tower diver Janet Ely of Dallas and swimmer Andy Coan of Fort Lauderdale, were the only two American winners in the second day of the New Zealand Games in Christchurch, New Zealand. Miss Ely, a 21-year-old art student, defeated reigning Olympic and European champion Ulrika Knape of Sweden, 406.61 points to 406.95. Coan, 6-foot-4 and 16 years old, took the 100-meters freestyle In :52.92 seconds to defeat Brett Taylor of New Zealand. Bill McPeak, former head coach of the Washington Redskins who suffered a stroke last March, was told by the Miami Dolphins that his assistant coaching contract with the team will not be renewed for next season. SKI PACKAGE Skis Bindings Poles Goggles Staff Photo by Mike Zerby AS LOW AS METAL SKIS Reg.

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12-5 Bums says he gave Stars strong messages No one knows what goes on behind closed doors, the song says, but North Stars Coach Charlie Burns told what went on behind closed doors Friday. Before a workout for tonight's meeting with the Kansas City Scouts at Metropolitan Sports Center (8:05 p.m.), Burns closed the doors. Only for five or 10 minutes, but afterward he said he had delivered some messages in the North Stars locker room. "Before I had always generalized," said Burns, who took over as coach nine games ago. "But today I went to some individuals and expressed some opinions.

Some strong opinions. It all goes back to the mental mistakes that have been killing us." Not that Burns feels any panic, but he must sense the first-year Scouts breathing over the North Stars' shoulders. The Scouts, in last place in the Conn Smythe Division, are only four points behind the Stars. If the Scouts win tonight, they're only two points behind. "We certainly don't want to go into the cellar," said Burns.

"But if Kansas City is gong to get out, it's us they're going to walk over." Under Burns the Stars are 0-8-1 and in their last 11 games are 0-9-2. That doesn't discourage Burns as much as the way it has come about. "The last couple of weeks the efforts have been tre-mendous," said Burns. "For two weeks we've been building something. But the third period against Montreal when the Stars were outscored 5 to 0 on the way to a 7-0 loss (Thursday night) put us right back where we were before.

Not winning is one thing, but no effort is another. "I think we did the right thing (making three trades for younger players). I'd like to see us do some more. What we've got to do is build for next season. It's going to take some time, and some patience.

But what is frustrating is to watch mental mistakes hurt us. What we've got to find out is whether when we tell a player about a mistake and the same thing happens again, is he not listening or is he not capable of handling the job? "I know that some of the older players are used to being on the winning side of the ledger and it isn't easy for them to be on the other side now. But it's going to be the older players who turn us around. "It takes a lot out of our club, the whole right side, when you lose (Bill) Golds-worthy, (Lou) Nanne and (Henry) Boucha because of injuries. So we'll have to go with young players and be patient while they get their experience." Goldsworthy is expected to be out another 1-2 weeks because of a hand injury.

Burns doesn't know how long Nanne will be out because of a broken bone in his hand. And Burns speculated that Boucha might not play the rest of the season. Burns said he will start Cesare Maniago in goal By Jon Roe Staff Writer In the case of Jeff LaFleur, the adage might go: "As the kid is balanced, so grows the man." A junior at the University of Minnesota, LaFleur was raised knowing how to keep his balance while upside down. Balance, in fact all aspects of gymnastics, seem to be in the LaFleur blood. "My grandfather was a gymnast," said the Gophers' top gymnast, "and he got my father and uncle started.

Felt it might be a way for them to get a college scholarship and an education. My dad's interest rubbed off on me. I've got a picture, taken when I was two years old, showing me doing a handstand in my dad's hands." LaFleur's father, Anthony, grew up in Milwaukee and had enough interest in the sport to join a club called the Turners, a gymnastics group that performed professionally. "For as long as I can remember," said Jeff, "my brqther, Tim, and I were balancing in my dad's hands. We used to have contests at home to see who could balance the longest in his hands or who could hold a handstand on the floor the longest.

Even when we'd be watching television, when there was a commercial we'd be doing some kind of trick in the living room." Other sports interested LaFleur, too He played football until he was a sophomore in high school, and he competed on the track team. But one thing was evident. "I played defensive and offensive back on the football team," said LaFleur, "but along about ninth grade I realized my size was going to be pretty tough to overcome. And I knew that if I wanted to AMC will give you a $200 to $600 cash rebate. $200-Gremlins and Hornets $300-Matador Coupes $400- Hornet Hatchback Hornet DL, Hornets equipped with the Touring Package $600-Cassini Matador $39.95 7500 $4995 i salei eicluded Irom thlt otfM MSI get a college scholarship it would be in gymnastics, so I concentrated on that.

"Our high school in a Mil-waukee suburb didn't have a gymnastics team so my mother and dad got a petition going in the neighborhood to get a team started. They got more than a thousand signatures and by the time I started high school we had a gymnasium team." At 5-foot-5 and 130 pounds, LaFleur's football days were over, but his gymnastic ability drew the attention of Gophers Coach Fred Roethlisber-ger. "Because of all the balancing he had done with his a Roethlisberger said, "I've got to think it gave him quite an advantage. In almost every piece of apparatus a gymnast works, he must go through a handstand position at some time during a routine. Having done handstands so much with his father helped Jeff a great deal." LaFleur is one of the top two all-around performers in the Big Ten.

He finished seventh in the conference last year and took third in vaulting probably my strongest Today he will face his top conference challenger, Michigan's Gene Gagnon, when the Gophers meet the Wolverines, the conference power, at Williams Arena at 12:30 p.m. His brother, Tim, a sophomore at the unversity, will miss this season because of knee surgery. But next season they'll probably be trying to outdo each other again. GOPHER NOTES: Other Gopher teams in action at home today are the wrestlers against Drake, Superior State and Nebraska at. Williams Arena at 3:30 p.m.

and the track team against Drake at the Field-house at 1 p.m. place among the top 10. The front-runner once more was Cindy Nelson, 19, of Lutsen, who was 12th in 1:50.43. 1. Marie-Theres Nadig, Switzerland 1:46,95 minutei; 2.

Annemarie Moser-Proell, Austria, 3. Jacqueline Rouvier, France, 1.48,32; 4. Bernodette Zurbriflgen, Switzerland. 1:48 94: 5. Irene Epple, West Germany, 1:49.02.

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