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Section 4 Chicago Tribune, Tuesday, October 20, 1992 HIGH SCHOOLS Flaherty 's leadership rum its course H-F wins SICA East mxa title Chicago Marathon head steps down Slip-' By Julie Deardorff Hoping that Carey Pinkowski will be as consumed with organizing the Chicago Marathon as the people who run the grueling 26.2-mile race, founder and chairman Lee Flaherty announced Monday he is stepping down. Beginning next Monday, the day after this year's event, current race director Pinkowski will become more involved in day-to-day business operations. His main additional responsibility will be finding the ever-elusive major sponsor. "I believe an organization can grow with one person who is totally focused on it, lives it, breathes it, and is totally devoted to it," said Flaherty, who founded the race 1 5 years ago and will still help find sponsors. "Carey will take it to a new plateau.

My job will be to step back. I now pass the torch or the baton to Carey Pinkowski." Flaherty, chairman and CEO of Flair Communications, says his own company needs more of his time in the sluggish economy. The race, which has grown from 1,300 runners in 1977 to more than 10,000, is without a major sponsor for the second year in a row, a problem Flaherty hopes the organizational switch will help alleviate. "Having time to devote 100 percent of myself just isn't possible," said Flaherty. "This year we have eight different sponsors we have to deal with.

On the other side there are 3,000 volunteers who need recognition and tender loving care." Pinkowski, in his third year as race director for the Chicago Marathon and Rogaine 5KChi-cago, was an All-American track and cross-country athlete at Vil-lanova, who later qualified for the Olympic trials at 5,000 meters. In his first year as race director, the marathon had one of the closest finishes in history with Martin Pitayo defeating Tony Niemczak by a step-and-a-half at the finish. Last year, Ireland's Roy Dooney and Brazil's Joseildo Silva battled it out in the final mile, with Silva winning by six seconds. In the 1991 Rogain 5K, Scotland's Liz McColgan tied the all-time best mark of 14 minutes 57 seconds, which earned her a $25,000 Rogaine Bonus. "We're poised to give New York and Boston a run for their money," Pinkowski said.

"What it boils down to is prize money." With a seven-year sponsorship from Beatrice and a three-year contract with G. Heilman Sons, Chicago was able to offer first-place prize money of $50,000 in 1985, 1986 and 1988, and turn the event into a world-class competition. But without a major sponsor the last two years, the total purse has hovered around $50,000. "The foundation is there," said Pinkowski, who seems undaunted by the fact that the marathon is now his to win or lose. "I've got some exciting people to work with." In addition to procurring sponsors for next year, Pinkowski will move the marathon headquarters out of the Flair Communications building to a site he hopes is closer to Grant Park.

Tribune photo by Michael Fryer a non-conference match Monday night. Teammate Lindsey Celba (12) watches. Libertyville's Arian Adams dives for the ball during her team's 15-5, 15-5 victory over Maine South in PRO HOOKEY High schools Monday's results Boys soccer Andrew 2, Jollet Central 1, (2 OT) Batavla 8, Sycamore 0 Bollngbrook 4, Lockport 1 Bremen 6, Hiilcrost 2 Clements 5. Lincoln Park 2 C.L. South 4.

C.L. Central 1 Dundee-Crown 0. Lake Zurich 0 Foreman 0, Welle 0 Geneva 4. OswBgo 1 Hinsdale South 1. Jollet Catholic 0 Homowood-Flossmor 1, Elsenhower 0 Jacobs 4, Woodstock 3 Johnsburg 2, Wauconda 1 Jollet West 3.

Romoovllto 0 Latin 7. Morgan Perk Academy 0 Uncoln-Way 1, Bradloy-Bourbannals 0 Loyola 0, St. Jooseph 0 Maine East 4. Glonbrcok North 2 McHenry 2, Cary-Grove 1 Notre Dame 5. Francis Parker 2 Oak Forest 4, RkJiards 3 Plalnflekt 2, Aurora Christian 2 Round Lake 13, Marian Central 1 St.

Viator 4, Benet 1 Sandburg 3, Stagg 0 Schaumburg 3, Bantngton 1 Tllden 2, Washington 1 Volleyball Beecher d. Illinois Lutheran 15-7, 16-14 Bradley d. Kankakee 15-13, 9-15, 15-13 Conani d. Mundelien 7-15. 15-10.

15-13 Crete-Monee d. Rteh Central 15-5, 16-14 Grayslake d. Round Lake 15-5, 154 Holy Trinity d. St. Gregory 15-6, 15-11 Immaculate Conception d.

Glenbard W. 15-8, 15 Johnsburg d. Marian Cen. 16, 5-15, 15-10 Juarez d. Flower 15-3, 15-1 Ubertyvlile d.

Maine South 15-5, 15-5 Lyons d. Oak Park 10-15, 15-10, 13 Canadiens rout Bl with 4-goal outburst Holy Trinity d. St. Gregory 15-6, 15-11 Trinity (14-7, 9-1) had already clinched the Chicagoland Prep title but its two big servers made sure the Tigers finished their conference schedule with a 15-6, 15-11 victory. Mary Lou Cucllar (14 points) and Becky Jimenez (10) led Trinity.

Belinda Williams added five kills. Juarez d. Flower Maria Fuen-tcs served for 12 points, 10 of which came bri aces, as Juarez (11-5, 11-3) cruised in the Public League Red-West. FROM Homewood-Flossmoor midfielder Multack ended Eisenhower's bid for a fourth consecutive SICA East soccer title Monday night in Flossmoor. Multack scored off a goal-mouth scramble 12 minutes 42 seconds flic into the second half to give Homewood-Flossmoor a 1-0 victory and the SICA East title outright.

The victory completed a season sweep of Eisenhower by Homewood-Flossmoor 1 5-4-1 12-0). Clemente 5, Lincoln Park 2 Juan-Carlos Galeno scored twice to lead Clemente (10-2-2, 10-2-2) to the Northwest section victory. Holy Trinity 5, St. Benedict 0 Fernando Lozano scored a pair of goals and Jaime Ibarra scored once and added an assist for Holy Trinity (12-6, 7-0) in the Chicago-land Prep playoffs. Erasto Alcauter turned aside seven shots for the shutout.

Holy Trinity will meet Quiglcy for the conference champi-; onship. Foreman 8, Wells 0 Darek Polechonski scored four goals and assisted on two others as Foreman (10-0-3, 10-0-3) rolled in the Northwest Section. Dorin Bujdci recorded his seventh shutout, with 10 saves. Notre Dame 5, Parker 2 Greg Zaccaro scored two goals and added three assists for Notre Dame i (4-11-2) in the non-conference matchup. Round Lake 13, Marian Central 1 Jody Farmer scored four goals and assisted on two others as Round Lake (8-4-1, 7-0-1) clinched the Northwest Suburban title.

Volleyball Lyons d. Oak Park No. 7 Lyons (25-7, 6-0) clinched the West Suburban Silver conference with the 15-10, 15-3 victory. Megan Fauks led the attack with eight kills and five aces. Ellen Gallagher added 12 kills and three digs.

Stevenson d. Buffalo Grove Stevenson, ranked eighth in The Tribune poll, rallied for a 7-15, 15- 9, 15-10 non-conference win. Angie Pachof had 1 3 kills and Katie Coleman added 12 service points and three aces. Grayslake d. Round Lake Grayslake (20-2, 14-0) continues to i roll in the Northwest Suburban, downing Round Lake 15-5, 15-4.

Nickie Bonfanti led the attack with five kills and Sarah Kerns served for eiiiht nnints. ascots i Continued from page 1 1981, when new White Sox owners Eddie Einhorn and Jerry Reins-dorf commissioned the Brooklyn firm of Harrison and Erickson to a mascot to entertain fans at the ballpark. Bonnie Erickson, a former design director for the Muppets, had created the Phillic Phanatic three years earlier and it had been cessful. i "They came back with this idea of two guys," recalls Einhorn, "and I liked it because it would be a byplay kind of thing." "Jerry and Eddie were trying to create a family-type atmosphere at the ballpark," recalls former White Sox publicity director Ken Valdiserri, who now is director of marketing for the Bears. "The crowds had been known more for their rowdiness.

It was an image problem the new owners were trying to overcome." But fans hated Ribbie and Roobarb from the first sight of them. No one could figure out what an elephant (Ribbie) had to do with the White Sox and no one including Roobarb himself could figure out what Roobarb was supposed to be. The ballplayers were more accepting than the fans or media. "Billy Martin was great," Roobarb remembers. "He'd say, 'Come on over and knock my cap off or kick -dirt on my Reggie Jackson would let us tackle him before the game.

The bullpen from Seattle, they were so bad they thought everything was a joke. They loved messing around with us." The idea of mascots, of course, came from the colleges where stu-j dents and alums have rallied i around symbols, real or illusory, almost since collegiate athletics i began. But they were almost unheard of i in pro sports in 1969 when Pat i Williams created Benny the Bull. "1 believe it may have been the i first one in all of pro sports," says i Williams. Not quite.

The Bears had a fan dressed in a bear costume on the From Chicago Tribune wires MONTREAL Todd Ewen scored twice, including the ticbreaking goal in the third period as Montreal beat the St. Louis Blues 6-2 Monday night. Ewen, acquired from St. Louis in 1989, got two goals in a game for the first time in his career. He scored once in the opening period and then added the game-winner on a breakaway to start Montreal's four-goal burst.

Ed Ronan, Brian Bellows, Guy Carbonneau and Denis Savard also scored for Montreal, which won its second straight game. Nelson Emerson and Brendan Shanahan scored for St. Louis. Ronan got his first NHL goal 6 minutes 9 seconds into the game when he took advantage of a mixup at the St. Louis blue line to go in alone and beat goalie Curtis Joseph on the backhand.

The St. Louis defense was caught when Mathieu Schneider set up Ewen alone at the side of the net for an easy tap-in almost three minutes later to make it 2-0. The Canadiens dominated most of the second period, but the Blues Reed-Custer d. Piano 15-4, 15-7 R-Burton d. St.

Edward 15-13, 12-15, 15-8 Rich South d. Rich East 15-7, 15-1 Stevenson d. Buffalo Gr. 7-15, 159, 15-10 T.F. North d.

Hillcrest 15-2, 15-12 T.F. South d. Oak Forest 15-5. 11-15, 16- 14 Timothy Christian RkJgewood 159, 15-8 Tlnley Park d. Bremen 15-9, 15-9 Wauconda d.

Greet 15-8, 154 Swimming Buffalo Grovo 99, Stevenson 84 Fenwlck 129, Hlnsdala South 125, Na- among her 11 service points as Wauconda (7-12, 5-9) prevailed 15-8, 15-4 in the Northwest Suburban. Field Hockey IHSA State Tournament Lara Nicmira, Lizzie Maughan and Betsy Hoag all scored for Deerfield (9-5) in a 3-2 victory over New Trier. Melissa Mruz scored twice and Sharon Bcnkendorf and Kara Anderson added goals as Elgin Academy (U-5) advanced with a 4-1 decision over North Shore. parking spot right next to Halas' and 30 happy years "like part of the family." And then, "I was just shoved out in the cold. I don't go to the games anymore.

I know if I put my name on the waiting list for tickets I'd never get them. It hurts to this day." The mascot who has made the biggest impact remains the San Diego Chicken, Ted Giannoulas. Now he is billed as "The Famous Chicken." "The Mets and Reds both had a guy dressed up as a baseball head before I came along in March of 1974 but that was more a ceremonial thing than anything else," says Giannoulas, who has kept box scores of games at which he has appeared and says he has performed before 60 million people in the last 18 years. The Chicken was born when a San Diego radio station, KGB, "rented a costume from a local shop for a one-week promotional gimmick. But nobody at the station would agree to do it so they disptached a representative to San Diego State and told him to pick the first college student who would say yes.

Giannoulas volunteered, put on the chicken suit and went to the San Diego Zoo for his week's stint handing out candy Easter Eggs. "Then it dawned on me this would be a good ruse to get into the ballpark free," he says. "I called the Padres and asked if I could come in and cavort in the stands." Giannoulas eventually developed an act that is as timeless as the Harlem Globetrotters. He was the model for all the mascots that followed. Although never officially affiliated with the Padres, he was a regular presence at their games until just recently.

"Until the mid-'80s I worked most of their games. Now it's just selected ones. This is the first year I've missed a Padres season. They're trying to start their own character and I think they don't want me to upstage it." But in any event, Giannoulas has long been, as he puts it, "a free-agent chicken." A fitting label for our times. PRO FOOTBALL Standings in Scoreboard were able to tic the score.

Emerson skated through the slot to deflect Paul Cavallini's shot between goaltender Patrick Roy's legs at 16:38. Shanahan moved in and blasted a low drive into the far corner at 1 8:36 for his sixth goal of the season. FIRST PERIOD 1, Montreal, Ronan 1 (Dlonne, Savard), 6:09. 2, Montreal, Ewen 1 (ScfineWer, Carbonneau), 9:02. PENALTIES Dalgneault, Mon (holding), Baron, SIL (holding), 15:577 SECOND PERIOD 3, SL Louis, Emerson 3 (Cavafflnh, 16:38.

4, SL Louis, Shanahan 6 (Korolev, Laporrierei, 18:39. PENALTIES Cavalllnl, StL (Interference), Savard, Mon (hooking), Baron, StL (high-sticking), Brown, SIL (roughing), Dlonno, Mon (slashing), Emerson, StL (holding), Ewen, Mon (roughing), 19:55. THIRD PERIOD 5, Montreal, Ewen 2 (LeClalr, Lebeau). 2:29. 6, Montreal, Bellows 5 (Muller, Dam- ghousse), 4:43.

7, Montreal, Carbonneau 1 (Schnleder. ovard), 0:12. Montreal, Savard 3 (LeClalr, Deslardlns). 14:21. PENALTIES Baron.

SIL (hooking), Zombo, StL (roughing), Ewen, Mon (charging), Chase, SIL, major (lighting), Odetein, Mon, major (lighting). 12:52: Damphousse. Mon (interference), Shanahan, StL (roughing), 16:55. Shots on noal: Power plays St. Louis 0 ol Montreal 0 of 5.

Qoaile3 St. Louis, Joseph. 1-4-0 (33 shots-27 saves). Montreal, Roy, 3-2-1 (27-25). A 16,249.

Rofereo Mike McGoough. unasmon Ron Asselstlna, Wayne Bonney. Bears-Packers rivalry, Ditka said: "Same old thing. Packers and Bears. Seventy years." Harbaugh was considerably less reticent to talk than Ditka.

He discussed his elbow injury and career-best day of 304 passing yards against the Bucs. "It is OK. There is just some soft tissue around the elbow that is swollen," Harbaugh said. "By Wednesday it will be fine. I hit it two or three different times.

I could throw right now, but it is still sore. It is nothing internal with the elbow." Harbaugh threw two touchdown passes Sunday. "There were a lot of big plays by a lot of people," said Harbaugh, who threw passes of 60 and 43 yards to Waddle and 83 yards for a touchdown to Anthony Morgan. The shortest pass pleased Harbaugh just as much as the long ones. It was a I -yard TD toss to fullback Brad Muster.

Harbaugh had complained during the offseason that the Bears hardly ever throw from inside the opponent's 5-yard line. "I think we have really improved on scoring once we get inside the 10-yard line. That has been a big key for us," Harbaugh said. "The thing we have to do better now is when we get the ball inside the other team's 50-yard line on a turnover we have got to turn those plays into scores. That is something for us to concentrate on in the second half of the sea- Libertyville d.

Maine South Katie Snver had 19 service points and five aces as Libertyville (21-5) won the non-conference match 15-5, 15-5. Sriver served for 11 straight points to start the match. 1 Timothy Christian d. Ridgewood Alexis Knoppers led Timothy Christian (16-7-2) to a 15-9, 1 5-8 non-conference victory. Knoppers served for seven points and Heather Sikkenga added four kills.

Wauconda d. Grant Kristen Wisniewski served for four aces PAGE 1 also created by Harrison and Erickson, is named Stuff the Magic Dragon. The NBA even has a slam dunk contest for mascots during the All-Star weekend. Although the NFL doesn't keep track of how many of its teams use them, NFL Properties has created mascots for each of its 28 teams to use at their discretion. "The program originated in 1981," says Ann McDowell, senior licensing manager for NFL Properties.

"We created a mascot for every club, a light, whimsical character to put on products for children. Some clubs use them to this day. The 49ers are very active. The Broncos, Seahawks and Cowboys use them. "The Packers didn't like theirs or the guy wearing it.

The Vikings did their own, a dinosaur they call Vikadontis Rex." The Bears have not used a mascot since firing their longtime man in the bear suit, George Motyka, after the 1 984 season. Valdiserri recalls being the subject of two Walter Jacobson "Perspectives" during the flap over whether the Bears should take the mascot to San Francisco for the 1984 NFL championship game. Motyka remains more saddened than embittered over his dismissal after 30 years on the sidelines. Motyka was the second Bear mascot. "Frank Dean was the mascot before I was," Motyka says.

"He was originally in the circus business. He was a clown. He must have been there 15 or 20 years, then he went blind and passed away and that's when I came in in 1954." A longtime Bear fan who had grown up with Mugs Halas, "I went to the game one Sunday and the Bear wasn't there." He worked at the same hospital where the Bears' team physician, Dr. Ted Fox, had rounds and "I saw Dr. Fox the next day and asked what happened to the mascot.

He said, "I don't know, why don't you try out?" Motyka met with George Halas and got the job and his own bear costume, made to Halas' specifications. "It's still in my basement," he says. Never officially a Bear employee, he got season tickets, a sidelines at least as early as the 1930s, but Benny the Bull certainly was among the earliest of the modern mascots, whose function is to entertain more than it is to merely lead cheers. Williams, now president of the Orlando Magic, remembers that when he arrived as the new general manager of the Bulls, "the team was one step from moving to Kansas City." Attendance the previous year had averaged 3,790. The promotion-minded Williams hired an advertising agency to help find a shop that would make a mascot.

"The only problem was we didn't have anybody to wear it," he recalls. "The first week on the job I had met a young real estate developer named Landy Patton. We had a nice talk and his closing words were, 'If there's any way I can help you, I'll be glad "I took his card and a month rolled by and the day before the season started we'd arranged a lunch in the Sherman Hotel for our few season ticketholders. We well could have held it in a phone booth. "I wanted to debut the mascot there and suddenly I thought of Landy.

Can you imagine me trying to explain to him with a straight face that I wanted him to meet me in the Celtic Room and put on a red bull's suit and cavort among the tables? "We met in the men's room and I remember he couldn't keep his glasses on with the head coming over them and he was literally blind without them. I had to lead him into the room. That's how Benny the Bull debuted." He was named for Ben Bentley, then the Bulls' publicity director and now the popular moderator of the radio and television "Sports Writers on TV" shows. "There was no contest, no newspaper poll," recalls Williams. Perhaps Chet Walker deserves some of the credit, too, but the Bulls attendance soared to more than 10,000 a night that first season.

Today, more than half the teams in the NBA have mascots, including, of course, Williams' own Orlando Magic, whose mascot, Continued from page 1 er Phil Theobald of the Peoria Journal Star stood up and protested Ditka's obscene attack. "Coach, I have respected you. I have never called anybody that name. And that is the first time I have ever been called that name," said Theobald, who then stormed out. Ditka said: "I'm glad you respected me.

Anything else?" And then Ditka walked out. The two passed each other in the basement corridor of Halas Hall and, according to Theobald, Ditka apologized, saying that he meant nothing personal toward him. Before the outburst, Ditka touched briefly on more pertinent football questions. Asked about injuries to players such as Jim Harbaugh (elbow), Keith Van Home (knee), Tom Waddle (knee), Lemuel Stinson (ankle) Wendell Davis (hip), Ditka responded, "I think we are going to be OK." With regard to Harbaugh in particular, he said: "It's not the elbow, it is the tricep muscle and it just tightened up. They think he will be OK." Asked if it was good to get backup quarterback P.T.

Willis some playing time late in the game, he said, "It was good to get him some work." Asked about the intensity of the.