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The Daily Herald, Wausau-Merrill, April 23. 1984-Page 17 SpflDSglfofl Betting could affect '88 Games Calgary may be in trouble if pool proposal is canceled on Sports Faldo wins the Heritage HILTON HEAD ISLAND, C. (AP) Nick Faldo was under pressure when he The federal government argues the betting pool requires skill to win and is not a lottery that depends on luck. Last week in Montreal, federal lawyers went to court in an attempt to block the injunction filed by Kuhn and 28 National League baseball teams to stop the use of baseball results in the pool. That hearing resumes Tuesday.

The court will hear arguments April 30 to have ticket sales for the pool suspended until the court cases are settled. Alberta, the only province not filing a legal challenge, is looking to the pool to provide funding for the Calgary Olympics. VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) The federal government should design an alternative plan so the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics and other amateur sport organizations get funding if litigation interferes with the proposed sports betting pool, Canadian Senator Ray Perrault said Sunday. Law suits filed by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and nine of Canada's 10 provinces may delay or even cancel the betting pool proposed by the federal government, Perrault said in a telephone interview. "The money is badly needed by the Calgary Olympics, medical research and Kuhn has said Vancouver's bid for a Major League team is threatened because the betting pool plans to include Major League baseball results.

The pool, scheduled to begin in mid-May, will involve baseball at first and other sports are expected to be added later. The provinces are opposing the federal government's intention to operate the pool, saying it violates an agreement made with Ottawa in 1979 that turned the right to operate lotteries over to them. In return the provinces agreed to pay the federal government a percentage of the revenue they earn operating lotteries. amateur sport groups across the country," he said. "The federal government should be looking at backup plans to make sure that those organizations get the money they need." Perrault, who has been working to get a Major League baseball team for his hometown of Vancouver, denied an earlier news report that quoted him as saying he believed the federal government is prepared to make changes to the betting pool proposal.

"I certainly didn't say they were planning to change it because I've seen no indication that they are." A II-A mericans head U.S. team strode up the 18th fairway to his first American PGA Tour triumph. "It's not easy anyway, winning your first tournament," the 26-year-old Englishman said after he'd turned back Tom Kite's last-round charge Sunday and won by one shot in the Sea Pines Heritage Classic. Faldo won it with a front-running, no-bogey, 2-under-par 69 and a 270 total, 14 under par and matching the record on the respected Harbour Town Golf Links. Kite made a run at him with a solid, no-bogey 66 that fell one stroke short at 271.

Fergon takes title ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) Gorgeous weather and generous pin and tee placements rendered the Pasadena Yacht Golf Club course almost defenseless for three rounds of the LPGA Classic. Six players tied the course record with rounds of 66 through 54 holes and when the field arrived for Sunday's finale, the leaders were threatening to smash the LPGA's 72-hole tournament mark of 17-under-par 271. Betsy King, Hollis Stacy and Ayako Oka-moto were greeted by a crosswind, however.

And while that trio struggled, Vicki Fergon came on to win the $150,000 by one stroke. Navratilova dominant AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) After a demoralizing defeat at the hands of Martina Navratilova in the $250,000 Women's Tennis Association Championships, Chris Evert Lloyd said she knows what to expect at the French Open in May. Lloyd lost the championship 6-2, 6-0, ending her streak of 84 victories on Florida clay. "I learned from the match.

I'll know what to expect at the French Open now. I guess we're on equal terms, so to speak. All of my streaks are broken," Lloyd said. Ziarnik finishes first Sr t- 1 BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) -All-Americans Patrick Ewing, Way-man Tisdale, Michael Jordan and Sam Perkins head the 20-player U.S.

Olympic basketball team announced today. In addition to the 7-foot Ewing, other big men chosen were 7-0 Jon Koncak of Southern Methodist, 6-11 Joe Kleine of Arkansas and 6-11 Tim McCormick of Michigan. The forwards are Perkins, 6-9, of North Carolina; Charles Barkley, 6-6, 275-pounder, and Chuck Person, 6-7, teammates from Auburn, and 6-9 Jeff Turner of Vanderbilt and the 6-9 Tisdale of Oklahoma. Also named was Chris Mullin, 6-6, of St. John's.

He and Jordan, also 6-6, of North Carolina play either guard or forward. The guards chosen were Steve Al-ford, Indiana; Johnny Dawkins, Duke; Vern Fleming, Georgia; Lancaster Gordon, Louisville; Maurice Martin, St. Joseph's Alvin Robertson, Arkansas; John Stockton, Gonzaga; Terry Porter, Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and Leon Wood, Fullerton State. The selection was made after workouts which began at Indiana University last Tuesday and concluded with doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday nights. Originally, Knight said he planned to keep about 16 players from the roster which was reduced from 72 to 32 Saturday.

"Play was so strong, especially in Dally Htrild photo by Bob Raduni Knight said he and his staff and the trials coaches reached virtually the same decision on what players to keep. The Olympic Games selection committee, chaired by Dave Gavitt, also took part in the voting process. The final 12-player squad for the Summer Games in Los Angeles will be decided by the July 14 deadline. The squad also will have practice sessions starting June 15 before embarking on an exhibition tour against National Basketball Association players. Among those who failed to make it was Antoine Carr, the former Wichita State star who played the past season for Milan of the Italian League.

Although he reportedly earned $200,000 this season, he was considered an "amateur" by International Olympic Committee standards. Knight would not comment on why players were cut. Also failing to make the squad after today's cutdown were Michael Brown, George Washington; Tyrone Corbin, DePaul; Kenny Fields, UCLA; Jay Humphries, Colorado; Bobby Lee Hurt, Alabama; Larry Krystkowiak, Montana; Karl Ma-lone, Louisiana Tech; Jim Master, Kentucky; Anthony Teachey, Wake Forest; and Michael Young, Houston. Dropped again were Del Curry of Virginia Tech and Dayton's Roosevelt Chapman who were cut Saturday but recalled to fill out the rosters for the weekend doubleheaders because of player illnesses and injuries. "Another group of coaches may have picked another team," said Knight.

"We picked a team we thought was the most conducive to the way we want to play." Scramble to safety Krii Kline of the Peoria Chiefs dives back Timbers' pitcher Benny Malave is first into first base on an 8th-inning plckoff at- baseman Paul Smith. The Chiefs rallied tempt Sunday afternoon at Wausau's Ath- from a 4-1 deficit to win the Midwest letlc Park. Taking the throw from Wausau League contest 6-5. No joyous Easter for Wausau Timbers the guard area," Knight said, "that instead of trying to establish guards through debate, we decided to establish the guards through play." The 20 players will return to Indiana University May 10 for five days training under Knight and his three aides, CM. Newtown, Don Donoher and George Raveling.

OSHKOSH Connie Ziarnik was first in the 30-39 age group in the second annual ADASI Dry Run in Oshkosh. Ziarnik was the second overall finisher in the 6.2-mile run and had a time of 45 minutes, 51 seconds. Five-year-old Jaclyn Ziarnik was the youngest runner in the one-mile fun run. Jaclyn had a time of 9:18 and was 46th out of 89 runners. Greg Ziarnik competed in the 10K run and had a time of 45 52.

Lensmire wins title LA CROSSE Cindy Lensmire of Marathon placed first in the shot put for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's track team in the 36th annual Carle-ton College Relays. Lensmire had a winning toss of 46 feet, inches. Timken all-district LA CROSSE Mike Timken of Wausau was named to the NAIA All-District swim team this year. Timken, a graduate of Wausau East High School, was a member of the University of Wisconsin La Crosse's winning 400-yard freestyle relay team. Area players All-USA Lisa Bonnell, a Merrill High School senior, and Mark Miller, a Medford High School senior, have been named to the All-USA TODAY high school basketball teams.

Both earned honorable mention status on the national all-star teams. Bonnell will be attending Washington State University; on a scholarship; while Miller has received a scholarship from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Stratford hosts banquet STRATFORD The Stratford Lions' Club will host the annual Stratford High School spring athletic banquet on Tuesday, May 1 at 7 p.m. in the elementary gym. Tickets are $4 and can be purchased from Edwin Otto at Stratford High School.

Porter still has shot at making Olympics By The DAILY HERALD STAFF The Easter Bunny dumped on the Wausau Timbers over the weekend. Not only did he leave the Timbers with a pair of losses, but they were unable to hold leads in both ballgames. After dropping a 7-6 decision to the Peoria Chiefs Saturday night, the Timbers completed the dismal weekend with a 6-5 defeat Sunday afternoon. Big Bill Merrifield slammed a two-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to wrap up Sunday's victory for the Chiefs. The 6-5 third baseman had belted a solo home run in the fifth inning.

Neither ball needed any assitance from a gale force wind which pummeled Athletic Park all game long. i Sunday's contest started with the thermometer at 49 degrees. By the end of the contest, it had dropped to 41. A brief eighth-inning snow shower spiced action for the 103 spectators who braved the cold. Timbers' manager Greg Mahlberg, a dour expression on his face, refused to second-guess his decision to pitch to Merrifield in the ninth.

"Why should we bring a lefty to the plate?" he replied to a question. "We had a right-handed batter up there. But Malave (Benny) got the pitch right over the plate. You go at them with your best stuff. That's not a time to get cute." Three of the six Peoria runs scored after runners had reached base on walks.

That fact was not lost on Mahlberg. "Walks will kill you," he said. "Eighty percent of the time you walk a leadoff batter, he scores." "We stranded 10 runners last night and 10 more today. We had enough hits to win, but we can get more," Mahlberg said. After spotting the Chiefs a run in the second on Greg Steen's RBI-double, the Timbers jumped on Peoria starter Jim Tinkey for four runs in the third.

Edgar Martinez led off with a wind-aided home run to left field. Following back-to-back, one-out singles by Dave Hengel and Tom Dug-gan, Mike Wishnevski homered for the second time in as many games. The Chiefs tied it in the seventh when reliever Dave Smith got into trouble. Bobby Buchanon's run-scoring single brought on Malave for Smith. After Merrifield flied to left, Steve Lusby's hit to left tied the score.

A leadoff walk to Mark Doran preceded Merri-field's game-winning blast in the ninth. The Timbers got one run back in the bottom of the inning on Hengel's bouncing single to the right side which eluded Steen at second. Paul Cozzolino then got Duggan on a swinging third strike to end the game. On Saturday, it appeared the Timbers had stretched their modest winning streak to three games, when they led 6-3 heading into the ninth inning, but the Chiefs put a damper on things with a four-run uprising. After pitching two strong innings of relief, Paul Schneider walked Jay Lewis and Kris Kline to get Peoria started.

Jn came James Bryant in relief. After striking out Ken Grant, Bryant yielded an RBI-single to Alex Diaz, closing the score to 6-4. Steen then clouted an RBI-double to center field, making it 6-5 with runners on second and third. On came Bob Gunnarsson from the bullpen. He struck out Doran, but then Buchanon sliced a two-run single to left for the game-winning hit.

The Timbers open a two-game series with the Appleton Foxes at 7:30 tonight at Athletic Park. BLOOMING-TON, Ind. (AP) Wisconsin-Stevens Point guard Terry Porter still has a shot at a spot on the U.S. Olympic basketball team, despite his bout with the chicken pox during the weekend's key The squad must be down to 12 by July 14. Because of the illness, Porter was unable to play in the weekend's exhibition games, but U.S.

team coach Bobby Knight said Porter would be invited back for two days of trials at the May 10 Olympic camp, along with rest of Monday's survivors. "We'll give him his two days then," said Knight. "He has really earned a shot at the team." Porter, 6-foot-3, was an NAIA All-America and the most valuable player in the NAIA tournament, where he was the leading scorer with a 25.6-point average. Stevens Point Coach Dick Bennett, attending the trials, praised Knight's decision. k.

A photo Terry Porter trials for the squad. Porter, among the longshot players seeking to make the team at the start of the tryouts at Indiana University last Tuesday, was among 33 survivors when the cuts were announced Saturday morning. Sportsvue not likely for local TV sports fans of Central Wisconsin, is that not every cable system carries, or has the ability to carry, Sportsvue. Teltron Cable which services Wausau, Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids, is one which does not. But it's not entirely by choice.

Teltron has the ability to carry only two premium scrambled pay services. Currently these are Home Box Office and Cinemax. For Teltron to carry Sportsvue, it would either have to undergo a costly rebuilding process, or drop one. of its current premium services. Neither is likely to happen.

Even if Teltron wanted to drop one premium service for another, it could not until existing contracts expire. to be as resourceful as we possibly That's jusUhe way it is." Selig's thoughts are echoed by Larry Barbera, vice-president of marketing for Sportsvue. "I think you'll see more professional sports teams are going to pay cable broadcasts as they continue to develop new sources of revenue, particularly in the smaller markets," says Barbera, who doesn't believe Sportsvue will suffer the same fate as other specialized sports channels. "This has been in the planning stages for 2V4-3 years. We've had time to examine how other systems operate so we can maybe avoid some of the same pitfalls." Only time will tell.

dent) Jim Fitzgerald, the owner, is very worried," says Miller. "I'm a close friend of his, and he's worried whether this will be successful or not." Sportsvue was formed with the idea of providing additional television revenues for the Brewers and Bucks. "When we came into baseball in 1970, our radio-TV market was No. 19 in major-league baseball," Brewer President Bud Selig recently told the Milwaukee Sentinel. "Today, we're 29.

We've dropped 10 markets. This means there are six or seven markets in the country that have bigger radio-TV markets and don't have major-league baseball. So we and the Bucks are trying gling and six are going out of business." The same could happen to Sportsvue, and it's another reason why Teltron is taking a wait-and-see attitude. "We've received numerous inquiries about Sportsvue, but as soon as we ask them if they would be willing to pay $120 a year to watch the Brewers and Bucks, the enthusiasm dies down," says Miller. 'My gosh, I never thought I'd pay that they say.

"People are excited about anything that's new," says Miller. "The same was true with HBO, but only 40 percent of our customers currently subscribe. "Even (Milwaukee Bucks Presi "When premium services were initiated, there only was HBO," says David Miller, marketing manager for Teltron. "A couple years later there was Showtime and Cinemax. But all of those were somewhat similiar in nature.

We had to take a look at the Wausau market, and at the time the community could tolerate no more than two services." This proved sufficient since there was little else to offer, but in the past year the number of highly specialized channels has exploded. So has the competiton. As a result, many are finding it more difficult to make a profit. "There are 12 major sports channels," says Miller. "Six are strug By ED WODALSKI Daily Herald Spors Writer I idea whose time has come, or merely a flash in the pan? I Launched the opening day of the 'Milwaukee Brewers baseball season, Sportsvue, the pay-TV Wisconsin Sports Network, may be a bit of both.

Currently enjoying nearly 15,000 subscribers in more than 60 cities, Sportsvue brings live cable telecasts of Milwaukee Bucks, Milwaukee Brewer and selected University of Wisconsin and Marquette University athletic events. The service costs approximately $10 per month and is in addition to the basic cable system cost. The problem, at least in the case 1.