Lansing State Journal from Lansing, Michigan • Page 26

C-2 THE STATE JOURNAL July .22. 1976 capitals lose Saturday game, quits Flint "We weren't ready to play that first game because we didn't have anybody show up to practice," he said. "The Thursday after we got beat I figured everybody would be at practice, fired up and wanting to get things straightened out. "But I get there and we have 15 guys show up, and not ail of them are players. We only practiced once a week once the season began, but some nights you'd have a backfield and no line, other nights you'd have a line and no backfield.

"YOU CAN put together a defense pretty easily," Young continued. "But getting an offense together requires timing. And we didn't have enough people show up to get that timing down." Also disgruntled over the practice absences was former assistant coach Ron Hatcher, who told Kelly last week that he had seen enough. "It was a circus out there," said Hatcher, a former Michigan State football player who also played in the National Football League. "If you couldn't get them to practice, how could you expect them to play a game? "UNLESS YOU have O.J.

Simpson you can't expect to win football games with our players avoiding practices. I finally told Russ after the Pon- gate receipts he felt would be more than respectable for the Flint game. The league is obliged to compensate the club to an extent, but not to the degree Kelly expected from the Centennial Field gate. Flint's departure means the MFL's Central Division now consists ot two teams Lansing and the Michigan Indians and it throws the MFL schedule into considerable disarray. MEANWHILE, KELLY is trying to stabili2e his coaching staff since Dick Young was let go as head man last week following the team's 3SO opening game loss.

"Incompetence," Kelly said as to the reason for Young's dismissal. "He just wasn't qualified to handle a head coaching job. "It didn't take a mental giant to tell we weren't ready to play the first football game." YOUNG, 50-year-old manager of the Ramada Inn on South Pennsylvania said Tuesday he didn't want to get into a verbal, war with Kelly, but Blamed the Capitals' opening-game loss on other problems. By LYNN HENNING Staff Writer The two problems that have haunted the Midwest Football League and its Lansing representative all along personnel and money have cropped up again. The Lansing Capitals, who have already lost their first two games of the season and their head coach, now don't have a Saturday night opponent.

THEIR ORIGINALLY scheduled home game with Flint has been canceled after the Sabres' financial woes have forced them to withdraw from the league. It will be the second straight no-show for the team, and that means expulsion from the league along with forefeiture of their $5,000 league security fee. "This hurts tremendously," said Russ Kelly, the Capitals owner-president who is now doubling as the team's head coach. "I'm concerned first of all about the stability of the league but if another team folds, the league can't survive." KELLY STANDS to lose some money from tiac game I just didn't have the time for it. "I'm a housing developer, I own a restaurant and I've got too many things to do for that nonsense," Hatcher added.

"Hell, I don't need that grief." Kelly has since assumed most of the coaching duties. "As long as I've got to do the work. I might as well do the (coaching) job, too," he said. YOUNG INSISTED Tuesday he and Kelly had no major off-the-field differences. However, it is known that Young and Harry Gilligan, the team's public relations director, did not see eye-to-eye, precipitating more problems.

Young, who coached in the Marines, on the high school and college level, and was head coach of the Wheeling (Va.) semi-pro team, landed the Capitals job in May by surprise. He was helping Kelly organize this year's team, and he even interviewed a number of coaching candidates, when Kelly named him coach. Assisting Kelly is Tom Drahnek, former high school football coach and ex-Lansing All-Stars' assistant and head coach. Drahnek was head coach of the All-Stars in 1971. MWWH wiwunnnniiniiiiiriiiiiiiiininnimiw i 1 1 i i i in i r-r U.S.

cagers win despite foul woes MONTREAL (AP) Mitch Kupchak was so frustrated he wanted a whistle. Coach Dean Smith was so concerned he thought 6-foot-2 Phil Ford might have to play the post in the second half. ALL-AMERICAN SCOTT May was so involved in the game he didn't even know the United States was in serious foul trouble when they trailed European champion Yugoslavia by four points at halftime. The Americans overcame the adversity with a brilliant second half comeback that produced a 112-93 victory, clinching a spot in the medal- round semifinals of the men's Olympic basketball tournament. It kept Uncle Sam on a collision course with the Soviet Union, which virtually clinched a medal playoff spot in the other bracket by easily handling previously undefeated Canada 108- 85.

THE UNITED States and the USSR each 3-0 records, with the Americans automatically going to 4-0 tonight against Egypt, which has withdrawn from the Olympic Games. "I got mad and was upset," said Kupchak, the 6-foot-10 center from North Carolina. "I wished I'd had a whistle, but then I'm a player and I really wanted to play." The officials, David Turner of Great Britain and Manuel Tavaros of Brazil, called the game extremely close. As a result, three U.S. centers had 11 fouls called against them in the first half-four each on Tom Lagarde and Phil Hubbard and three on Kupchak.

"IT WAS a very different game because of the foul situation," said Smith. "I thought Phil Ford was going to have to play the post in the second half. 1 was real concerned at how it was being called." But May. who had 26 points, and All-American Adrian Dantley of Notre Dame, who had 27, teamed with Ford to trigger a second half comeback in which the United States outscored Yugoslavia 61-38. "I didn't really know who was in foul trouble," May said.

"We knew we hadn't played well in the first half so we had a meeting at the half. We've worked too hard and too long to let Yugoslavia beat us." YUGOSLAVIA GOT 20 points apiece from Drazen Dalipagic and Mirza Deli-basic, but never led after May's free throws with 15:29 left gave the U.S., a 664 edge. Russia jumped on Canada from the start, getting 16 points from Vladimir Arzamaskov and 15 from Alexandr Be-lov in the opening half when the Soviets built a 20-point lead. Vladimir Tkach-enko, the 7-foot-4 Russian giant, led the scoring with 22, most of them in the second half. "This might be the best team in the world," Canadian Coach Jack Do-nohue said of the Russians.

In other games, Cuba bombed Japan 97-56, Italy trimmed Czechoslovakia 79-69 and Austrlia beat Mexico 120-117 in overtime as former LSU star Ed Palu-binskas scored a tournament-high 50 points. Puerto Rico beat Egypt by forfeit. TODAY'S SCHEDULE has Czechoslovakia meeting Puerto Rico and Yugoslavia taking on Italy in a game that should decide which team joins the United States in the semifinals. U.S. boxers win two bouts MONTREAL (AP) Davey Armstrong was bothered by a defeat in Moscow.

Howard Davis was not bothered by boos. And Armstrong's memory and Davis' poise helped them score U.S. boxing victories at the Olympic Games Wednesday night. "EVERY NIGHT I thought about him. I even dreamed about him," said Armstrong after his unanimous decision victory in the 125-pound division against Anatoly Volkov of the Soviet Union.

Volkov had knocked Armstrong down with a right hand and stopped him in the second round earlier this year before 26,000 people in Moscow. "I thought about him all the time. Today I did it." And Davey did it with a superb performance that sent the crowd at the Maurice Richard Arena into an uproar. THE 20-YEAR-OLD from Puyallup, who fought as a 106-pounder in the 1972 Olympics, moved from side, snapping jabs, firing right leads and working to the body in final round. The Russian couldn't get set and when Davey was firing his left it was in position to block the right that beat him in Moscow.

The crowd also was with Da vis. at the start of his 132- pound bout against Yuko Segawa of Japan, just six days after the death of his mother. She hadn't seen him fight much, he said, "but she was my biggest fan." But by the end of the fight the fans were booing Davis, a 1974 125-pound world champion whose game is the slick move, the feint, the sharp jab, the quick right. And they booed when Davis was announced as a unanimous decision winner. "I KNEW I had the fight won and I didn't have to go all out," Davis said of his third-round dance act which irritated the crowd.

"I figured I wouldn't take a chance because he can hit." Davis was sent to one knee by a right hook from the lefthanded Segawa late in the first round. "The name of the game is to hit and not get said. But the boos couldn't goad Davis into changing his style in the third round. Asst. Coach Tom Johnson said Davis was following instructions.

"THEY WANT to see two people come in and bang each other to death," said Davis. "I'm here to survive." Another American-Russian confrontation was set for Thursday night when Sugar Ray Leonard of Palmer Park, meets European champion Val-ery Limasov in a secondround match at 139 pounds. Other key bouts Thursday came at 156, with Rolando Garbey of Cuba, a world champion, against Dashniam Olzvul of Mongolia. in, mraif htiii ifflnnir" iiiiiiiiniirtwmiiiii-iiimi inraMiviniMMin'im imairoii nnimiri iifiMiinMitiiMiMii(iMrTiniiiiii Philippine boxer Ruben Mares (left) takes a hard right from Richard Nowakowski Olympic queen just a girl ain ox grants mm Concluded from page C-l Kim eventually finished second, Miss Tourischev third. Nadia, cool and almost forbidding out of the gymnasium, scored her fourth and fifth perfect 10 scores, this time on the balance beam and uneven parallel bars.

Before these Games, no score of 10 had been awarded in Olympic competition. She finished with a score of 79.275 of a possible 80. AND THE sober-faced little girl took it all in stride. She plans a vacation on the Black Sea, swimming and riding her bike. And she's taking with her a huge doll given by her trainer "because I did so well.7, "I feel good, nothing special," she said through an interpreter.

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It's not too short or easy. It's very representative of a. championship course." "There are not probably 10 courses in the world with greens this good," he added. MILLER SAID Essex is the best course he's ever played in the Canadian Open and the best this season "since Pebble Beach." WINDSOR, Ont. (AP) Johnny Miller, only two weeks away from his British Open championship, just might not be hungry enough to win his first Canadian Open.

But, perhaps for inspiration, he brought his British Open trophy for display at the Essex Golf and Country Club while he joins 149 other professional golfers for the 67th Canadian Open which began today. THE 72-HOLE, $200,000 tourney -which has drawn nearly all the game's top names runs through Sunday. The Donald Ross-designed course, has a par 70 and is about 10 miles south Detroit. "Ideally, I win after a Miller said, after a practice round Wednesday. I'd like to break that pattern.

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PoHl Coruso 48, Cecl Stoufier 48. Terry Ring 49. Barbara JUNIOR GIRLS CLASS Paul Kruse and John Rosier, Linda Baryames and Mary Jo Troy, the, golf hats are doffed in your honor. The four young Lansing golfers finished first in separate championship divisions of the Junior Boys and Junior Girls golf tournaments held at Red Cedar Golf Course this week and sponsored by the city's Parks and Recreation Department. KRUSE WON the Class boys tourney with a 71 for 18 holes, besting Mike Fagan by a stroke.

Kosier shot 87 on nines of 46 and 41 to take the Class boys event. He teat Jim Nebbeling by four strokes. Baryames' 40 was three strokes better than runner-up Beth Sierra could manage in the Class A girls competition, while Troy's 45 topped second-place Anne Lilla's 51. All the girls golf was over nine holes. The boys competed Tuesday and Wednesday, while the girls made their tournament a oneway fling, playing Wednesday.

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