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TTBiKB Des Moines Tribune uesday, May mo 13 Flyers-Islanders rivalry ready to boil over in playoffs upstarts and there was a feeling that they talked too much for their own good. The Flyers went about dismantling their dream with workmanlike efficiency. Quickly Philadelphia forged a 3-0 lead and began booking reservations for the finals. But the Islanders came back to win three straight games and forced a showdown seventh. They eventually succumbed, but the seeds of bitterness had been sown.

If that series gave birth to a Yankees in the World Series, or Philadelphia against Boston in the National Basketball Association, or Green Bay vs. Dallas in older National Football League times. Or maybe even the intensity of the United States against Russia in Lake Placid. This rivalry first began to heat up five springs ago. The Flyers, first and only expansion team to win the Cup, were defending champion.

In the semifinals they were matched against the Islanders, at that time not taken very seriously (shades of the Minnesota North Stars). The Islanders were regarded as brash developed a rivalry that bubbles like tar in August that shimmers like heat waves off an expressway in the dog days of summer. The Flyers and the Islanders have, if not downright hatred, at least a' healthy dislike. And now the two teams that have dominated their division will have center stage all to themselves tonight in the opening of the National Hockey League's best-of-seven championship series. The Stanley Cup playoffs are a fitting backdrop for a rivalry that conjures up memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers against the By Bill Lyon Kfilohl-RkkMr NtwsMMrt PHILADELPHIA, PA.

In a sense, they are mirror images of each other, the Philadelphia Flyers and the New York Islanders. Two teams that go bump in the night. One of them has been to the top of the mountain. Twice the Flyers sipped champagne from Lord Stanley's Cup. The Islanders have been close to the summit, but each time they seemed ready to reach the peak they were caught in a landslide.

In the process, the two teams have NHL Please turn to Page IS Track furv Dicker son is'ugliest' By Marc Hansen SUM Wrlttr INDIANOLA, IA. That is some gratitude. There she was, Cristy Dickerson, whose belated 100-meter victory only moments before had given the defending state Class 3-A champion Indianola girls' track team a last-minute district championship Monday night. And she was wearing an old skirt, a cardboard crown and waving some kind of scepter. Believe it or not, the state's 3-A defending 100- and 200-meter champion had been elected "Miss Ugly" by her teammates, who with Dickerson's considerable help had bested Ankeny, 103-101, in the 12-team meet "They give it to the person who looks the ugliest after the meet," chuckled Dickerson, who was forced to win the 100 again after it was discovered the distance had not been correct the first time.

Perhaps "ugliest" really means "most fatigued," because Dickerson, who also won the 200 and anchored the record-setting sprint relay team, certainly earned that distinction. "I won the first 'Miss Ugly' contest as a freshman," she said with a laugh not long after turning Ankeny's five-point advantage after 18 events into a two-point Indianola victory. The award, of course, is all in fun. But Ankeny, which has been runner-up to the Indians in every meet it has competed in except one, probably would agree with the voting. Watching Dickerson rolling up the points hasn't been the most appealing of sights for the Indians' foremost opponent.

Ankeny was led by Cindy Luke, who won the high jump, the 400 and ran a leg on the winning 4 400 relay team, and Karlin Hayes, who captured the long jump and ran the anchor leg in the same relay. All of the winners here, plus the next 10 best times and distances in the state, qualified for the state tournament May 23-24 in Des Moines. Five district records fell Monday night. In the sprint medley relay, In-dianola's Michelle Bower, Amy Patterson, Lea Ann Starr and Dickerson did 1 minute 48.45 seconds. In the distance medley, Bower, Starr, Patterson and Sue Nelson broke the old mark with a 4:10.1 clocking.

Dowling quarter-miler Colleen Mahoney's 2:17.19 effort was an 800 1 I 1 1 1- 7 Will 3 .4 weekly tolumn hononng hifik sod oo arhlefes who twrrifd in cmtNdnidtno or tou'iue- perform a rises' dunsp the puyt nwk. By Randy Peterson A year ago, there was a 16-year-old girl named Annegret Meyer living in Oldenburg, West Germany, and the farthest thing from her mind was participating in a track meet io the United States. She was more concerned with German handball (a sport that somewhat resembles soccer), with what she'd order at one of her town's two McDonald's restaurants, and with the plight of her two brothers and two sisters. Annegret knew that she'd be visiting the United States before too long as a foreign exchange student and she knew that she'd be Uving la a place called Johnston, la" But being part of a track meet? No way. She had never participated in track before and she bad had very little exposure Aanegret Meyer She's a fast learner to it, save for the time she watched the Olympics on television when they were held in Munich In 1972.

But how quickly Meyer picked up oo one of the most popular sports offered Iowa high school girls. Last week she found herself rated among the state leaders in the grueling run. And Monday night the found herself trying to qualify in that event for the May 23-24 state meet. She finished third in the Class 2-A district meet at Nevada in 5 minutes 18 seconds. Whether she qualifies for state depends on other winning district times.

"The reason I went out for track was to meet people," she says. "I first went out for the volleyball team after arriving here in August and didn't do too badly forme. 4s "Then I went out for basketball and I was terrible I didn't learn the rales very well. Someone asked me if I was planning on going out for track and I thought to myself, Why But why the four-lap race, the longest individual event for girls? "For me, it wouldn't have been any easier to run the shorter races," she said. "In order to be sprinter, I feel that a person must start at an early age because there's so much to learn.

"I'm just starting out, so I decided that the longer race would be best for me." She didnt have long to work out either. "I was out for basketball and I couldn't start practicing for track until the basketball season was over," she said. "1 started working out for track about a week before the first meet" Her best time is 5:09.4, which last week was the third best in Class 2-A. She also has run on some of Coach Craig Oldham's relay units. "There is no track for high school girls during the school year in Oldenburg," Meyer said.

"There are mostly summer meets and most of them are for boys. Besides playing German handball, I played volleyball and was in gymnastics." She is adapting quite well to the Iowa girls' way of life this spring. "I really like the tacos here," she said. "I've had pizza before and I like it and it seems that wherever you go there's a McDonald's." France 'no to boycott PARIS, FRANCE (AP) The French National Olympic Committee rejected Tuesday the American-led campaign to boycott the 1980 Olympic Games and voted to send a team to Moscow. The decision, announced by French Olympic Committee President Claude Collard, was approved unanimously, with 22 votes for sending a team and one abstention.

tl I. M.I III. II J' i i Cub tkes cover The Chicago Cubs' Scot Thompson protects his head on a steal of Thompson wound up at third, but Rudy Law swiped four bases to spark second as the throw from Dodger catcher Steve Yeager sails past' the Dodgers to a 2-1 victory, their third in a row and ninth straight at shortstop Bill Russell during Monday night's game at Los Angeles, home. (STORY: Page 14.) 1 Bears stay put, but move up vs. Oaks i-'J teams.

"Vancouver (in British Columbia) is building a domed stadium," said Burris. "That is a possibility for a site for one expansion team. Denver could be the other." He said there is nothing definite on expansion. Burris believes the Quad Cities would be a good site for an American Association franchise. 1 "There would have to be some adjustments in the ballpark," he said.

"But a team could save a lot of money there. You could transport a team in a bus to many sites and get out of an airplane." Denver presently plays in the Mile High Stadium, also the home of the Broncos of the NFL. "The Broncos sell it out for all their games," said Burris. "We don't come close to that. We often get 8,000 and i Track Please turn to Paae 16 Bud Flood honor to Swift, Mosley Iowa tight end Jim Swift and halfback Dennis Mosley were named co-winners of the Bud Flood Fighting Hawk Award by the Polk County I Club at a banquet attended by more than 800 Monday night at the Val Air Ballroom.

The award honors the spirit and memory of the late Hawkeye athlete. Bob Root of Des Moines, a long-time Hawkeye booster, was given a special plaque. Coach Hayden Fry said the Minnesota Vikings are trying Mosley as a wide receiver and the Seattle Seahawks are looking at Swift as an offensive tackle. Urbandale's Lollman to Wayne State SmcM DIsmicO to Tht Tribunt WAYNE, NEB. Doug Lollman, a 6-foot 5-inch forward from Urbandale, has signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Wayne State, the Central States Conference school announced.

Lollman, who led the J-Hawks to the Class 3-A boys' state tournament this year, will play for the South in this summer's Iowa Basketball Coaches' Association all-star game. we'll have one game this summer where we will have 32,000. "Last week we played four day games with only 300 present at each game. We've had terrible weather in Denver and wanted to get them out of the way." The Bears are 21-7 and lead the Western Division. Burris said the team was hitting .302 coming into the five-game series with the Oaks.

However, the Bears collected only five hits in a doubleheader Sunday. But the Bears erupted for 12 hits Monday night including three doubles and Randy Bass' three-run homer. Bass' blow came in the first inning. The Bears added three more runs in Oaks- Please turn to Page 14 Football League, had a long-term contract and told Finley, "You're going to stay here." "The American Association had picked the Quad Cities as the No. 1 choice to move the Denver franchise," said Burris.

"If we could have made a deal with the Midwest League (the Quad Cities are presently a member of the Class A league) we would have played at John O'Donnell Stadium in Davenport. "I went into the city, much to the chagrin of Midwest League President Bill Walters. There is a lot of interest in a triple-A club in the area." Last winter there was talk of a Denver group purchasing the Chicago White Sox, the Oaks' parent team, and moving it to Denver. Burris also sees the possibility of the National League adding two more By Wayne Grett Denver was pounding the Iowa Oaks, 9-0, Monday night at Sec Taylor Stadium when Jim Burris, the Bears' general manager, began talking about the Mile High City acquiring a major-league franchise and the Quad Cities (Davenport, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline, 111.) becoming the home of the displaced American Association team. This almost happened just before the 1979 campaign.

Marvin Davis, who Burris said is sometimes referred to as "the world's largest independent oil producer," wanted to buy the Oakland A's from Charlie Finley. Finley was willing to sell, but the Oakland Stadium Commission, which rents the facility to the A's and the Oakland Raiders of the National PUJ HJIiiwHJ UWIIUHIWWJf wJJiiiWJ uilUJJIiHiHilJim uim.nuiliu j.wwm.m -I wqWMmj iij.mii..ii IT "-r-t ----r nut irrtiinriir-T "i- 111 one that smartly showcased Sugar Ray Leonard? Well, Leonard's defense against Roberto Duran for the World Boxing Council welterweight championship will be shown on closed circuit television. It's the biggest non-heavyweight championship bout in years. "It's disappointing," said Spence. "Economics do come into play." Network television cannot afford Leonard-Duran.

Shero takes charge 19M Ntw York Tlmti NEW YORK, N.Y. Fred Shero said be has decided to return as coach of the New York Rangers so he can run a tighter ship next season. After revealing his move back to coaching, the Rangers general manager said assistant coach Mike Nykoluk has resigned. Nykoluk, who had expected to become head Ranger coach next year, turned down a offer to join the Toronto Maple Leafs. "I've given him lots of chances," Shero said of Nykoluk.

"I've lost confidence in him." over the past decade, a study by the dean of admissions and records shows. "It confirms the exploitive nature of past athletic regimes and the low quality of the recruits," Robert Weaver said of his investigation. The study was triggered by allegations of the doctoring of grade transcripts for junior college transfers. "Only 5.7 percent of the football players earned a degree in four years, and only 7.3 percent of the basketball players accomplished the same goal," Weaver said. "That is pitiful." Weaver found that from 1970-79, 444 of 1,537 male athletes in all sports earned degrees, while 666 dropped out, transfered or were suspended.

Ring around NEW YORK, N.Y. (AP) Jim Spence, vice president of ABC-TV sports, thinks "there is too much boxing on television right now." So what happens to Spence's network, the league players' strike occurs May 22, club President Ballard Smith said. "A dozen of them either have drawn advances on their salaries, or would owe us. money because they're being paid on a 12-month basis," Smith said. "I don't know how we would get the money back, but I'm working on some ideas." Smith said most salaries are based on a 177-day regular season.

A player making $177,000 a year would earn 81,000 a day, starting with the April 10 season opener. By May 22, or 43 days into the season, that player would have grossed $43,000. However, if that same player was being paid on a 12-month basis, he would have drawn approximately $70,000 by May 22. New Mexico woes ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) Basketball and football players at New Mexico have a poor record of getting academic degrees Sign Florida prep IOWA CITY, IA.

(AP) Dan White of Fort Lauderdale, the national Junior Olympic champion in the 100-yard breast-stroke, has signed a national letter of intent with Iowa. White last week broke the all-time Florida state record in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 57.2 seconds. The Iowa record is :57.63. "Dan is one of the most promising young breaststrokers in America," Coach Glenn Patton said. "He is definitely a potential Big Ten champion and Ail-American." White is a native of Fort Dodge, where former Iowa national champion Rusty Garst interested him in swimming.

Padres ace debt SAN DIEGO, CALIF. (AP) Nearly half of the San Diego Padres' 25 players will owe the club money if the threatened major-.