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Daily Press, Newport News, Virginia, Sunday, April 13, 190 D8 Celtics Bitter Following Sampson's UVA Choice 1 4: added, "I have a number of private, personal goals I can accomplish only by returning to Virginia next season." "I felt I had to consider the financial advantages of playing in the NBA is not the most important thing to me at this time. I have a number of personal goals I can accomplish only by returning to Virginia next season. The decision was mine and mine alone and I know it is the best thing for me." Auerbach said the Celtics won't give up that easily. "All I can say is we've got until (April) 25th and we're not giving in," Auerbach said. April 25 is the NBA deadline for college players to declare hardship and enter the pro ranks.

"We're going to be in there pushing because we know for a fact we're 100 percent in the right in what's best for the kid," Auerbach said. "Maybe Ralph Sampson and his parents will come to their senses that they are being hoodwinked by some glad-hands at the University of Virginia," he said. "If he was an intellectual or was going to be a brain surgeon, I could see it," Auerbach told the Washington Post. "But he could end up with some team he doesn't want and could go off the deep end. How anybody could advise him like that defies common sense.

It baffles me. "He'll blow i half a million dollars (base salary plus endorsement contracts) if he goes back to school for another year." "Anyone who advises him to do that is being totally unfair to Ralph. I think those people are being selfish and unfair. We are willing to offer him a good salary and insurance to protect him in case of injury." Virginia Coach Terry Holland said he was not surprised at Sampson's decision. When Sampson announced his decision to go to Virginia on May 31, 1979, he said he planned to play college basketball for two years before turning pro.

Sampson, the Atlantic Coast Conference's rookie of the From Wire Dispatches Boston Celtics Coach Bill Fitch, whose obsession with video tapes is only slightly less than that for basketball, says he has one cassette in his well-stocked library which Ralph Sampson might want to see. "I'va got a film of the Ohio State-Virginia game and there's play where Ralph Sampson leaps to the ceiling. I mean his feet are as high as the other guys' belly-buttons. "Well he gets his legs cut out from under him, but there's a guy underneath him when he fails 10 nothing happens," said Fitch. "It was one of those 'Oh My God' things.

If he does that again, and there's no one under him, I hope all those people and profs in Virginia who deal in theory instead of the real world can pick him up and tell him why he shouldn't have joined the Celtics." Sampson's decision Friday to stay at Virginia for his sophomore season and therefore turn down a Celtics offer to turn prq left the Celtics' brass mystified. General Manager Red Auerbach said Sampson's advisers "ought to be ashamed of themselves." Fitch agreed. "I think it was the dumbest thing I've heard yet. Somewhere down there among those great educators, there must be someone who can tell him of this opportunity. My thinking is that it can't be a final decision.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if he reconsidered," Fitch said. Auerbach said he cannot understand why Sampson wants to stay in college and that the freshman basketball star is "being hoodwinked by some glad-hands at the University of Virginia." Auerbach called it "irrational" for the Sampson player to turn down a lucrative offer to join the NBA Celtics this year. "If he signs with us. he's set for life and so is his family," Auerbach said. Sampson said Friday that college came before the National Basketball Association, a setback to Auerbach's hopes in the June draft.

The Harrisonburg. native said he was "flattered that the Boston Celtics were interested in drafting me," but am i'X Hamilton Honors Golfer Al Matera Mayor Charles Wornom (right) Matera for his service to commu- golf. In middle is Matera's wife Flo. presents token of city's esteem to nity and contributions to Peninsula at presentation ieremuni. year and most valuable player in the NIT, averaged 14.9 points and 11 rebounds for the Cavaliers and led college players in blocked shots.

NBA Playoffs Resume, Big Edge To Home Clubs Tk PfVaTTtlrnTTD Minimum monthly payment required. ft'iA 4r5t" All finance charges refunded when if i ijtaDELOa paidasagreed- zJ lf1 SMWIE on sizes to fit mivwly Limited day night with 16 points. "This had to be my most satisfying game since we were down two," said the 5-foot-8 Criss, who spent five years playing semi-pro ball before making the National Basketball Association at the age of 28. "The guy's got a heart as big anyone I've ever seen," Sixers Coach Billy Cunningham said of Criss. "That's why he's in this league." Boston won the first two games of its series against Houston at home 119-101 and 95-75, giving the Celtics eight straight victories over the Rockets this season.

But the next two games are at Houston, and Celtics Coach Bill Fitch is wary. "Now we're going into their home," said Fitch. "They're a great shooting team and everybody shoots better on their home court." After splitting a pair of overtime games at Seattle, the Milwaukee Bucks returned home and beat the defending champion Sonics 95-91 Friday night. Centers Bob Lanier and Harvey Catchings made key contributions for the Bucks, Lanier scoring 24 points and Catchings coming up with a pair of blocked shots late in the game. Although the Bucks lead the series 2-1 and have the next game at home, Milwaukee Coach Don Nelson isn't claiming Victory.

"We're too even," he said of the two teams. "There is no control in this series until it's over and somebody wins or loses. Even if we had lost the two games out there, I would have felt this still would be a long series, and I still feel that way." By The Associated Press The home-court advantage has been important but not insurmountable in the National Basketball Association playoffs so far, with home teams winning 19 of the 22 games played in the first two rounds. The Los Angeles Lakers bucked the odds Friday night when'they beat the Suns in Phoenix 108-105 to take a 3-0 lead in their best-of -seven second-round series. That was only the Lakers' second victory in Phoenix in six years.

The Lakers will try for No. 3 in Phoenix tonight, which would wrap up the series. The other three series also resume today. The Boston Celtics, leading 2-0, play at the Houston Rockets and the Seattle SuperSonics, trailing 2-1, visit the Milwaukee Bucks in afternoon games. The Atlanta Hawks, trailing 2-1, will host the Philadelphia 76ers in a night game.

Ten of the 11 games in the first round of the playoffs were won by the home team, and nine of the 11 second-round games played so far. Besides Los Angeles, the only teams to win on the road have been Philadelphia, in the first round at Washington, and Milwaukee, in the second round at Seattle. "Playing at home makes a big difference," said Steve Hawes of Atlanta, after the Hawks beat the Philadelphia 76ers in Atlanta after losing the first two games of their series in Philadelphia. "You better believe those Atlanta fans meant something," added Charlie Criss, who was the sparkplug in Atlanta's 105-93 victory over the Sixers Thurs TfT A "WW TTh 1 REG.30 6.00-12 Blarkwall. Plus ST.48 F.E.T.

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The NEA was, and is, one of the All-Americas officially recognised by the NCAA. Mayer, a casualty of World War is one of six former athletes who will ba inducted into the State's Sports Hall of Fame at the annual induction banquet April 25 at the Elks Club (n Portsmouth. Living inductees are Ed Merrick, former University of Richmond football star and coach; Macauley McEver, Virginia Tech's former all-around athlete, coach and athletic official; Qlenn Roberts, former basketball star at Emory and Henry, and Billy Martin, former wrestling coach at Granby High School in Norfolk. Another former All-American football player, William H. Lewis of Norfolk, will be inducted posthumously along with Mayer.

RICHMOND (AP) Eugene Noble "Buck" Mayer, captain of the 1915 University of Virginia football team and the first player from a southern school to be chosen a firsMeam AU-American, will be inducted posthumously into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. A native of Norfolk, Mayer played four years 1912 15 of varsity football at Virginia under four different coaches. The Cavaliers back then followed the custom of some eastern schools by having alumni coaches who served one-year terms. Virginia lost only three games, one each year, duripg Mayer's last three seasons at Charlottesvile. The 1913 Cavaliers lost only to Georgetown, by a single point; the 1914 team was beaten by Yale; and Harvard's unbeaten Crimson, led by three-time Ail-American fullback Eddie Mahan, defeated the 1915 Cavaliers 9-0.

Mayer still holds five Virginia individual scoring records. In 1915, he scored six touchdowns against Richmond. Over his senior season, he scored 21 touchdowns and 142 points. During his career at Virginia, he scored a total of 48 touchdown and 312 points. He was the fourth player from a southern school to be recognized by Walter Camp, then intercollegiate football's most influential figure and the man who picked and popularized the All-America.

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