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B6 Thursday, Sept.24, 1981, Palladium-Item, Richmond, Ind. Killanin accuses Carter of trying to sabotage 1 980 Olympics dent, ABC Video Enterprises, and Stuart W. Evey, Leonard drops WBA middle title NEW YORK (AP) Sugar Ray Leonard is back to being a one-title champion, but his fighting future Is filled with possibilities. Leonard, who held the World Boxing Council welterweright title and the World Boxing Association junior middleweight title, became the undisputed welterweight champion last Wednesday night by stopping Thomas Hearns, the WBA 147-pound class champ. Rodrlgo Sanchez, WBA president, said Wednesday in Panama that he has received a telegram from Leonard stating: "This is to advise you that Sugar Ray Leonard elects to retain the WBA welterweight title and remain undisputed welterweight champion of the world." Leonard had been able to hold two titles because the WBA didn't recognize him as welterweight champion and the WBC didn't recognize him as junior middleweight champion.

But when Leonard beat Hearns, he held two titles recognized by the WBA and under the rules has to surrender one. ABC, ESPN creat joint pay-TV venture NEW YORK (AP) ABC and cable television's ESPN sports network have agreed to create a joint pay-TV venture that will compete with other broadcast outlets for major sports events, like the recent $35 million boxing match between Sugar Ray Leonard and Thomas Hearns. The announcement was made jointly Wednesday by Herbert A. Granath, vice presi BADEN-BADEN. West Germany (AP) Lord Killanin.

former president of the International Olympic Committee, began the 11th Olympic Congress today with a scornful attack on former President Carter over the United States" boycott of the 1980 Games in Moscow. He described Carter's action as ill-advised and unprepared, and accused him of trying to sabotage the Moscow Games. Killanin finished his eight-year term as IOC president after the Moscow Olympics and now has the title of honorarv life president. He has played little part in Olympic affairs in the last year, however. "Little did we realize that the Olympic movement and the Olympic competitors were' to be sacrificed by the ill-advised, unprepared action of the president of the United States of America, who endeavored to sabotage the Olympic games in Moscow the Olympic games, the property of us all here and not thatof the Soviet Union.

"I am glad to say this failed, and I believe the attempt is regretted by all concerned." The speech set the stage for a congress during which talks are to be held on the subject of permitting professional athletes to compete in the Olympic Games. Jefferson, Williams may play Sunday GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) John Jefferson and Del-vln Williams, two new cogs in the Green Bay Packer offense, may be ready to play against the Minnesota Vikings Sunday at Milwaukee. "I expect to play Sunday, at least some, because I think I can get the game plan down," said Jefferson, the swift and slick wide Names in sports receiver the Packers snared from the San Diego Chargers, who could not reach agreement with him over a contract. As to Sunday plans for halfback Williams, picked up on waivers from the Miami Dolphins Wednesday, Coach Bart Starr said he was uncertain.

"It's hard to say. He hasn't been that active," Starr said. "I chatted with him when he was here and he said he had been working out. Again, that depends on what he's been doing and how extensively." Holmes-Snipes fight set Nov. 6 PITTSBURGH (AP) Larry Holmes will defend his World Boxing Council heavyweight championship here Nov.

6 against undefeated Renaldo Snipes, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported Thursday. The fight is to be held at the Civic Arena and televised nationally. It will be the windup of a four-bout heavyweight card, the paper said. Holmes, 38-0, will face Snipes, 22-0, who recently survived two knockdowns and beat South African Gerrl Coetzee in Tarrytown, N.Y. Other bouts will pair Greg Page, 15-0, against Jimmy Young, 27-10; Michael Dokes, 20-0, against George Chaplin, 18-3, and Colombian Bernardo Mercado, 27-3, against Randy "Tex" Cobb, 18-2.

sified Operations Division. ESPN, cable TV's around-the-clock sports network that reaches 12 million homes, is a subsidiary of Getty. Plans call for the new pay-TV entity to offer its first sports presentation in the spring of 1982, with a projection of one event every month. Chet Simmons, president of ESPN, admits there will be pressure to come up with topline events each month. "Not every event will be Hearns-Leonard.

It will be a mixture of events that exist and that we'll put together ourselves." It seems, however, that gaining inside position on technology and viewer access would mean more for the ABC-ESPN venture In the future. As more of the nation gets cabled, and coding equipment for charging viewers is Installed, free events like the Super Bo wl and World Series are more likely to go pay-TV. Pros, amateurs to compete together PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) The Athletics Congress, governing body of amateur track and field in the United States, will allow competition between amateurs and professionals in domestic track and field and road racing events. Peter Cava, director of information for TAC, said Wednesday that his organization had rescinded its "contamination rule" after gaining approval at a meeting of the International Amateur Athletic Federation in Rome late last month.

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