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2 Pct-Str. Giwts Fws.NY. Thday.Ag 30.196 Local man pens v-: basketball book Unknown Thomas seeks spotlight vs. Witherspoon LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) fought," Thomas said 'Tve Pinklon Thomas, undefeated in always thought I had the 25 fights with 20 knockouts, is potential to win the title it was still a virtual unknown going just a matter of doing the right into Friday's heavyweight title things getting enough sleepj fight against Tim Witherspoon.

eating right and staying away from the "He's the best kept secret around," said veteran trainer Angelo Dundee, who signed on with Thomas for the fight. "People don't know Pinklon, but he's got tons of ability and he's a great guy to boot." Thomas hopes his scheduled 12-round performance against Witherspoon for the World Boxing Council title will finally put him in the spotlight in the confused world of heavyweight boxing where three different fighters claim championships. "They don't really know Pinklon Thomas yet because I haven't had the exposure," said the boxer, whose impressive record includes a draw with World Boxing Association champion Gerrie Coetzee. "They might start knowing who I am after I win the title Friday night." Thomas, 26, who now lives in Witherspoon, also 26, won the WBC crown in March with a 12-round decision over Greg Page for the title undefeated Larry Holmes vacated in a dispute with promoter Don King. The Philadelphia fighter, who became prominent on the heavyweight scene when he dropped a controversial split decision to Holmes, also suffers from the same lack of recognition from most of the boxing public that still considers Holmes the only true heavyweight champion.

Even promoter Don King, who was embroiled in a money dispute with Witherspoon that prompted the champion to' threaten to pull out of the fighr earlier in the week, admits to as much-. "As long as he (Holmes) is' out there, he's got to be considered the heavyweight A better uay Steve Meyer points out some of the advantages to his new system for keeping basketball statistics. A hard cover book featuring Meyer's methods is scheduled for printing this fall. Bill Owens photo) Philadelphia, literally fought his way past an addiction to heroin that had plagued him since his champion of the world," King' teens in Detroit. His slow climb saia.

By PAUL PALMER Sports Writer When NCAA basketball powers like North Carolina and UCLA take the court this year, they may be helped by the brainchild of a Glens Falls resident. Steve Meyer has developed a new system for keeping statistics during basketball games. According to Meyer, the system is both easier and more organized. "The main advantage is better organization." said Meyer, who will have a hard cover version of his system going into print this fall. "Normally, a team will need a lot of sheets to keep individual statistics, but with this you only need to keep team stats." Meyer's idea seems simple enough it is used to keep team and individual statistics at the same time.

The system that is currently the most popular requires the statistics keeper to maintain a separate sheet for each player, which at times can be very unorganized. Meyer's system has been used nationally, internationally and locally during its developmental stages. Meyer took his system to the Maccabee Games in Israel in 1981, and then put it to use at Wesleyan University in Connecticut where he is a junior. His system was also given a chance at the New York State High School Basketball Championships this year in Glens Falls. According to Meyer, the responses so far have been positive.

"The American coaches were very enthusiastic about it at the Macabee Games. At first they were skeptical, but after the first game they were impressed," Meyer said. Reaction on both the college and high school level has been positive as well, according to the author. "I have to give a lot of credit to both Glens Falls High and Weselyan for letting me work with this. I started this with Mr.

(Ed) Davis at Glens Falls and when I got to college, I got ahold of the coach and explained it to him and he was very enthusiastic about it." Meyer estimates he has spent hundreds of hours working on and improving his system. Included in those hours is the time spent this summer stuffing envelopes for the mass mailing to high schools, colleges and junior colleges that will begin in September. While the idea for the new system was in his mind for some time. Meyer said the opportunity to actually print and use it didn't come about until his freshman year at college. It was then that Wesleyan head basketball coach Herb Kenny allowed the system to be printed and given a chance to prove its worth.

"There was enough money in the budget to print this at Wesleyan for the first time. Then he (Kenny) suggested to me that I try to sell it on my own before I offered to sell it to the NCAA," Meyer said. "He also is on the NCAA rulemaking committee which has been meeting this summer, and he was trying to get their support for the idea." Flexibility is another advantage of the system, both in use and manpower. "Most schools use two or three people to keep the sheets, but with this you only need one. Also, you can keep only the statistics that you want with this." Meyer admits the system has one drawback, but he feels confident this system is better.

"I think maybe it's a little slower getting individual stats after the game, but still it only takes about ten minutes," he said. "It is better organized because there aren't all those pages to flip through, especially when the action really gets going fast. We found it to be very accurate and very simplistic." As for the future, Meyer would like to see his program advance with the times and move into the computer age. "I'm planning on trying to computerize it so that in the future there is a keyboard at the game and the results will be printed out immediately after it." But for now, the author will have to wait to see how the nation responds to his new idea. His mailing list includes nearly all the Division I schools in the coutry and someselected high schools and junior colleges.

Meyer also has sent mailers to Division II and III schools in hopes of selling his new idea. First on the list of deliveries will be a special presentation to Glens Falls High School and its varsity basketball coach Bill McEwen. After that, Meyer hopes to get responses from across the country for a new system that will keep track of an old game. Simulcasting begins; Opens locally today up the heavyweight ladder nearly seven years later will finally culminate in a title shot. "It's his job to hold his title and my job to take it," said Thomas.

"I think my job will be a little harder, but my whole life has been harder. It's just been a tough go, that's all." If he wins, Thomas plans to give the title belt to his son, Pinklon III, as an eighth birthday present. Actually, Thomas has has more fights than Witherspoon although he has never figured prominently in the title picture. A quick puncher with a good left jab, he has also displayed lots of power in running up his impressive knockout record. "I feel I have more experience if you compare the guys I've fought with the guys he's To beef up the card, King added a fight between Page and undefeated David Bey and also put former champions Michael Dokes and Michael Weaver in the lineup against different opponents.

Still, he says he is not doing well on the promotion, which will be televised on cable by Home Box Office from the convention center at the Riviera Hotel. "I've got seven of the 11 best heavyweights in the world on the card and we still don't have a sellout," said King. Witherspoon is scheduled to get $450,000 for the fight although he says he'll be lucky to clear $50,000 once King's son', Carl, takes his 50 percent cut for managing him and the Internal Revenue Service gets its share. Thomas is contracted to get $100,000 for the bout. Darwin suspended and daily double possibilities are also transmitted through those same telephone lines.

David Morris, president of Saratoga Raceway, said his track received permission from the state at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday to begin the Belmont simulcasts. Morris also said that at 3:30 p.m. that same afternoon, everything at Saratoga was in place and ready to go. But complications which arose downstate on Wednesday morning were the cause for the delays.

Wednesday afternoon's official attendance at the Raceway was 666, with the handle for races 6-9 totaling $31,860. This means that per-capita wagering averaged nearly $48, which isn't bad when you consider that betting was not available until the sixth race. Patrons at Saratoga were given free admission and programs on Wednesday, and that same policy will remain in effect today. This coming Monday Labor Day Morris and Saratoga Raceway will attempt to provide fans with a rather unique afternoon of racing. Not only will the track feature, simulcasting from Belmont, but Saratoga will also present a full 10-race matinee harness card in conjunction with the thoroughbred action.

Probable first-race post times for Monday's racing bonanza By MARK CUSANO Special to The Post-Star A new chapter in the continuing saga of thoroughbred racing in this area was written on Wednesday when, for the first time in history, simulcasting came to upstate New York. Saratoga Raceway, along with four Off-Track Betting locations, received the live picture from opening day at Belmont Park. And except for a few minor complications, fans were able to wager on and watch the action that originated on Long Island. The OTB parlors that provided simulcasting action on Wednesday are located in Albany, Schenectady, Troy, and Amsterdam. But seven other branches including the one in Queensbury will be in operation soon.

In fact, simulcasting to the Queensbury parlor, which is located in the Northway Plaza on Route 9, will begin today. Wednesday's complications at Saratoga Raceway were caused by a delay in the installation of telephone lines near Belmont Park, along with and as yet unknown problem that originated from the phone company's office in Garden City. With the mutuel machines and computer being dependent on those lines, wagering at Saratoga was not available until literally seconds before the fifth race. Also affected were the 3TQ3ACE Boots Travel Trailers Motor Homes Antique Cars And Much Morel 1 2,000 sq. ft.

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His suspension was levied for making physical contract with umpire Ken Kaiser during an argument Aug. 18, Brown said. Sports Diriofis Modified football practice jut i Further information may be obtained by contacting Frank Green or Mike Poplaski of Salem. are 1 p.m. for Belmont, and 1:15 transmissions of probable exotic SALEM Modified football practice for those in grades 7-9 will be held Friday at the Salem Central School gymnasium at 1 p.m.

payoffs as all exacta, quinella, p.m. for the harness card. Trial airs dirty laundry Racing at Saratoga set SARATOGA SPRINGS A purse of $48,860 will be up for grabs Thursday night in New York Sire Stakes action at Saratoga Harness Raceway. There will be two divisions of the stakes for two-year-old filly trotters, carded as the fourth and eighth races on the pro gram, with each contest featuring 10 starters. Armbro Devona, a daughter of Sppedy Crown, tops the.

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Gastineau and O'Brien are each charged with six counts of misdemeanor assault against McGinley, Peter Fernandez, 19, of Jersey City, and John Benson, 23, of Manhattan. NEW YORK (AP) A man who testified last week that New York Jets players Mark Gastineau and Ken O'Brien kicked and beat him in the Studio 54 discotheque admitted Wednesday that Suffolk County police have charged him with selling cocaine. Charles McGinley, 29, of Union City, N.J., said in Criminal Court in Manhattan that he was arrested March 28, 1984, and charged with criminal sale of a controlled substance. With his lawyer standing beside him, McGinley, a key prosecution witness in the assault case against Gastineau and O'Brien, testified that he never told Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Schlanger Whitman Sin Sp Tire P17575R13 $51.95 P18580R13 $53.95 P18575R14 $57.95 P19575R14 $59.95 P20575R14 $64.95 P20575R15 $66.95 P21575R15 $69.95 P22575R15 $72.95 Fonda's fall season slated Arriva Radial Fven hs Footprint Wis bu Its Dim-rent Double aleel heltN for alrenjilh. traction.

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