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Memphis St. upset Page 4D pDfftS section TC Jets defect Page4D The Evening Press Binghamton, N. Y. i Feb. 23, 1982, Take the blame, Boeheim Locker room perspective Baseball Ken 4 IW- nmf Davis An open letter to Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim: DEAR Jim: When the 1983 NCAA Basketball Records Book is published, Syracuse University will hold a rather prestigious spot under the heading of attendance records.

Last Wednesday's Carrier Dome crowd of 27,066 for the SU-Villanova game is certain to hold up as the home-court mark for a single game. I think the record should be accompanied by an asterisk, however. Those fans deserve recognition for their accomplishment, not only as the largest crowd ever to watch a basketball game at an on-campus site, but also as the largest group of scapegoats ever assembled in the same building. You see, Jim, you are the master of distraction. Your team lost to Villanova that night, 81-69, in a game that it could have easily won.

But that wasn't your fault, was it? The reason Syracuse lost the game was quite evident. The crowd didn't make enough noise. At least that's what your post-game remarks would lead others to think. No, you didn't come right out and blame the loss on the crowd. But you did spend enough time ripping the behavior of your fans that it made everything else seem insignificant.

"They were sitting on their hands," you said. "They were too quiet tonight. They helped us in stretches, but they weren't loud enough when we really needed them. "That was the quietest 27,000 I've ever heard. We can't seem to find a happy medium we might as well have been playing on the road." AP The SU crowd that sat on its hands.

I GUESS IT REALLY shouldn't have come as a surprise that you would say those things. It seems that every time Syracuse loses a big game you find a way to move the focus of attention away from you and your players. Remember the DePaul game a few weeks ago? That day it was the officiating. Terry Cummings played the entire second half with four fouls and never fouled out. The officials wouldn't do that to an All-American, you said.

You managed to a little griping about the officiating last Wednesday: "There's a war out there and Tony's: (Bruin) in foul trouble." But for the most part you chose to pick on the audience. I'm just curious. How much more noise can you really expect from a crowd of 27,000 as opposed to Does it really make that much difference? What about the standing ovation that Leo Rautins got when he came into the game with 12 minutes left in the first half. You didn't say anything about that afterward, but it must have made Rautins feel pretty good after missing seven games with a knee injury. See DAVIS.

4D "That was the quietest 27,000 I've ever heard. We can't seem to find a happy medium we might as well have been playing on the road. Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim Orange routed byBC Unique contract for Rose Pete Rose has agreed to a new contract con-t cept that will keep nim in a Phillies' uniform for the remainder of his baseball playing days, the Wilmington Morning News (Delaware) reported today. Once this unusua contract is signed, probably early next month, it will ensure Rose being with the Phillies if and when he shatters Ty Cobb's all-time hits record of 4,191 (Rose predicts he'll get the 495 hits by mid-May 1984 The tentative contract is for three years, through 1984, with the Phillies holding the option for each year thereafter. Rose, who will be 41 on April 14, is on the final year of a $3.2 million contract.

The Phils have an option for 1983 after which Rose conceivably could become a free agent. Bill Giles, the Phils' new president, does not want that to happen. He has openly predicted what a tremendous gate attraction Rose will be when he nears the record. Under the format being discussed by Giles and Rose's agent, Cincinnati attorney Reuven Katz, Rose will receive a base salary of well over $1 million a year beginning this season. In addition, Rose may share in the residual revenue the Phils i are certain to realize from souvenirs, as he approaches the record.

What makes the proposed contract unique is that it will not be guaranteed past its current year. This would allow either Rose or the Phils to back off from it if something unforeseen happens. i The signing of the new contract will guarantee Rose's salary for 1982, but sometime in November or December the Phils will notify him if they want him back for 1983. If both parties agree, the pact would be guaranteed for that season. The same procedure will take place each year after that.

"But we're a long way from a final agree-'. ment," Giles said. Giles is willing to increase Rose's current salary from $810,000 to $1.2 million plus incentives. Katz is asking for a base ofrover $1.5 million. Torre blasted John Stearns says that "losing was almost acceptable" under manager Joe Torre and that the former manager didn't chew out players often enough for their ragged play.

"You have to stand up and not tolerate defeat," said the veteran Mets catcher. "But 100 times over the last five years I expected him to come in and scream at us and insist we play the game better. But he didn't. "The only time he did was after a game we won last season in Pittsburgh in which somebody did something wrong in the game. He really yelled at us.

That night I went back to my room and applauded silently. "Torre is a great guy and I'm sure he learned a lot from managing in New York. I'm sure he'll do well in Atlanta. I love the guy. But I never thought he had us playing as well as we should have." Basketball From Press wire services NEWTON, Mass.

The Syracuse Orangemen came away from here last night with visions of John Bag-ley dancing in their heads. Not pleasant visions, either, because Bagley, a 6-foot junior guard from Bridgeport, scored 26 points to lead Boston College over the Orange. 88-77. The Ea'gles, 16-8 overall, have now won 11 of their last 13 games. Syracuse is 15-10 overall and tied with BC at 7-6 in the Big East.

Only Seton Hall and Providence have worse league records, at 2-10. Bagley connected on 11 of 17 field goal attempts and four of five free throws. He has scored 117 points in his last four games. During Bagley's torrid stretch, the Eagles nave whipped Georgetown, Holy Cross and St. John's in addition to Syracuse.

"John Bagley has been playing very, very well," said BC coach Tom Davis, "but the rest of our kids are doing their share, too. It's obvious that we are doing the things that good teams do. Our passing, our defense and our player movement have been excellent. It's almost too much to ask for our team to keep playing this well." Boston College, which forced 23 Syracuse turnovers, led 41-33 at half-time. With five minutes remaining in the game, the Eagles led, 80-56.

Rich Shrigley and John Garris each added 15 points to the Eagle offense. Tony Bruin scored 23 points to pace Syracuse before fouling out. Ron Payton added 19 for the Orange. Syracuse plays its final regular season game tomorrow night. The Orange entertain St.

John's in the Carrier Dome. The Big East post-season tournament is next on the agenda, beginning at Hartford, Conn, on Thursday, March 4. Speed-skater Eric Heiden skated his way to fame and his fifth Olympic gold medal two years ago today at Lake Placid. Heiden shuns gold exchange Will i Dons' Dailey charged University officials say basketball star Quintin Dailey will remain witn the University of San Francisco team despite five felony charges, including attempted rape, filed against him. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound junior, fifth among the nation's scorers, declined comment yesterday after, he surrendered to face allegations made by a female student.

He was released a half-hour later on $5,000 bond and told a campus reporter: "I'll be playing ball. That's all I can say." Assistant District Attorney William Fazio said the charges grew from a Dec. 21 incident in which police said Dailey allegedly entered the unlocked room of a student. ing queen Dorothy Hamill, among others. "Not said Heiden, "I had some good offers.

My agent (Art Kaminsky) urged me to accept them. I said, When you sip those kinds of contracts, people start owning you. "I don't want anybody owning me." SO YOUNG HEIDEN, 23, is doing just what he wants to do. He is a pre-med student at Stanford University, aiming to eventually specialize in sports medicine. And, in whatever spare time he has, he is working with U.S.

cyclists, pointing to the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. Cycling was one of Heiden's first loves, as was speed skating. As a growing kid he had to make a choice whether to be a world-class cyclist or world-class speed skater. The silver blades won out, although Eric succeeded in both. See GRIMSLEY.

4D THE tall young man in blue jeans and plaid wool shirt sat at a table in a crowded midtown hotel restaurant, munching breakfast and chatting with friends. No one turned a head to stare at him. No one rushed over from an adjoining table to ask for his autograph. He finished, got up and casually strode through the lobby en route to New York's Coliseum for the International Cycling Show. No mob scene.

"That's the way I like it," said Eric Heiden. "I enjoy my privacy. I have no ambition to be an exploited Olympic hero." Exactly two years ago today Heiden swept to a fifth gold medal in the XIII Winter Games at Lake Placid, setting a world record in the process. Thousands struggled just to get a brief glimpse of him, while millions marveled from TV. It was an individual feat comparable to Jesse Owens' four-medal track exploits in the Berhn's Nazi Olympics in 1936 and Mark Spitz's cache of seven swimming golds at Munich in 1972.

AT THAT PARTICULAR moment his image reflecting in the glare of Olympic gold and the snow of Lake Placid's hills this remarkable unaffected young man from Madison, was the most lionized athlete in the world. The obvious next step for the celebrated king of the ice was to sign contracts worth millions of dollars for myriad endorsements, public appearances and other commercial ventures following the footsteps of Spitz, decathloner Bruce Jenner and figure skat- Football Section 4 hoop teams start new season By Geoff hobson Tonight's Sect. 4 cage games Class A Quarterfinals Elmira SS (11-9) at Horseheads (12-7), 7:30 Ithaca (9-10) atEFA (15-4), 7:30 Vestal (9-9) at Union-Endicott (17-2), 8:30 Class First Round Dryden (12-7) at Chen. Valley (6-14), 7:30 Corning E. (1-17) atSV (8-11), 8:30 Chen.

Forks (1-18) at Waverly (11-9), 7:30 Corn. vs. Oneonta (9-11) at SV, Class First Round Unatego (14-6) vs. Candor (15-7) at S. Cayuga (13-5) at Lansing (18-4), 7:30 Hancock (14-6) at Greene (15-4), 7:30 Deposit (7-11) at Elmira ND (15-5), 7:00 Class First Round Edmeston vs.

MtUpton at 7.30. Force Bear to retire? A circuit judge is considering a suit that would force University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant to retire in less than two years. The suit challenges a law that would allow the Alabama Board of Trustees authority to exempt any employee from mandatory retirement at age 70. Bryant became the winningest coach in college football last November as the Crimson Tide defeated cross-state rival Auburn, giving him a 315th career victory. Circuit Judge Randall Thomas said yesterday that lawyers have a "significant hurdle" to overcome if they are to convince him the law is constitutional.

Thomas said the Legislature was "paying homage and special respect to a man I think deserves it. But they did wrong in the law. I think they knew they had a problem with it;" Attorneys for the state and the university say the law is constitutional and isn't an attempt to get around the mandatory retirement age. Tomorrow What is it like for a professional athlete who pays his dues in the minor leagues and reaches the top of his sport to slip back to the minors? Binghamton Whaler defenseman Norm Barnes is the subject of reporter Barry Meisel's Press Profile. Inside Scoreboard 2D Pro statistics 2D Frank Dolan 2D Hockey 2D Baseball notes 4D Classified 5D-8D them because we beat them up here pretty good.

I don't think I'd like playing them if we had beaten them twice." To advance, the Yellowjackets must beat Corning West tonight, while SV must beat Corning East. Although the Corning schools have a combined record of 4-32, SV coach Frank Gahagan worries about facing an unknown item. "You'd like to think you have something on somebody," he said. "We're just going to feel them out, check them out during warmups and see what defense we'll play." CV coach Mark Couchman does not know much about Dryden, the Warriors opponent tonight from the Interscholastic Athletic Conference. However, his team did set some goals.

"They had a meeting by themselves before practice," Couchman said. "I think they wanted to talk about what they wanted to accomplish and how they wanted to doit." Just what teams will accomplish in Class may depend on how their meetings go with some old friends. JC, SETON and Windsor, the defending Class champions, all drew byes for tonight. The Black Knights will play the winner of Norwich and Owego. Windsor The Section 4 tournament, which began last night and ends with a couple of not dates at the Broome County Arena on March 6, may provide some instant re-lays of the past season, especially in Class For example, if Chenango Valley and Oneonta get by their first-round opponents tonight, the Warriors will play top-seeded Johnson City (the Division II champ) and the Yellowjackets will meet third-seeded Seton Catholic Central in Friday's quarterfinals.

If JC can beat the Warriors, which it has in two bloodbaths, and SV can win its first two games, the Wildcats will play SV in a thir(d game. This time it would be a semifinal. The Sabers accelerated the Division race twice by slowing down and beating JC. Also looming ahead is a possible JC-Seton rematch. Their two meetings went a long way in deciding the Division II champion.

The Wildcats won each time and finished a game ahead of the Saints. "1 think it depends on how you did against them as far as wanting to play a team a third time," said Oneonta coach Bob Zeh, who split with SCC during the season. "I feel pretty good about playing coach Gary Vail fears Owego's size and Norwich's quickness. CLASS A There's an instant replay tonight in a quarterfinal game at Umon-Endicott when bottom-seeded Vestal takes on the second-seeded Tigers. U-E, the sectional winner the last three years, has handled the Bears in two outings this season.

Vestal did have a chance to upset a lethargic U-E team in the second game, losing 41-36. Coach Willie Lobb would like to cut down on the turnovers that plagued his club against U-E. He also needs some help in the backcourt from reserve Rich Rake. Rake has been seeing time because Vestal's point guard, Mark Bajkowski, nas missed the second half of the season with mononucleosis. The move cuts down Vestal's size but gives it more outside shoot- On the other hand, Vestal will be trying to jam up U-E's strong inside game with its 2-3 zone.

Binghamton, the top seed and STAC champion, may be moving toward an in- See TOURNAMENT, 4D.