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INSIDE SPORTS SCORES 523-5264 (3 P.M. TO 12 A.M.) FRIDAY Scoreboard TV Sports Market Report Missoulian July 2, 1993 Sports mo ordinairylsmay Joe, Montana lives today HPT niHgiHraHHUi By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press FRIDAY first cow pie marks the winning square. There'll be food booths and a flea market, as well as a street dance (on Joe's unpaved streets) after the fireworks. The town also has arranged with the U.S. Postal Service to have a special stamp cancellation.

The postmark, in the shape of a football helmet, says "Joe, Montana Station, July 3, 1993." A $3 fee for adults and $1 for children will be collected at each of the three entrances to the town. That's to help cover the estimated $3,000 in expenses for liability insurance and the 22 portable toilets being trucked in from nearby Baker. But those who plan on venturing to Joe should know that other amenities are limited. In fact, there are no businesses at all not even a bar. "We hope that everybody that comes will bring their lawn chairs," Rieger said.

tional proportions," said KYYS promotions director Scott Souh-rada, a Montana native. "We hope that there's a ton of people come in and they make a bunch of money for the fire department." KYYS' morning show is going to broadcast from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on July 3 from beautiful downtown Ismay, he said. Two Kansas City residents have won a trip to the new "Joe" and will be accompanied by KYYS radio personalities Max Floyd, Tanna Guthrie and Larry Moffitt.

The station has made a "Welcome to Joe, Montana" sign to be put up outside town. And radio station KFLN of nearby Baker is doing a remote Saturday from "Joe" as KJOE. A Sports Illustrated photographer visited Ismay last week, and the syndicated tabloid news magazine TV show "Inside Edition" plans on recording the festivities. There's plenty of sports activi- Ismay City Clerk Wayne Rieger. "Our best guess is we're preparing for 3,000 to 5,000 people for food and beverages." The real Joe Montana isn't expected to be among them, though radio station officials hope he'll meet the folk of Ismay-turned-Joe in Kansas City later this year.

Montana was San Francisco's quarterback for 14 years before signing with Kansas City rather than play backup for the 49ers. In his tenure in San Francisco, Montana earned four Super Bowl rings, three Super Bowl MVP awards and two NFL MVP awards. KYYS thought a proper Midwest welcome for the West Coast star would be naming a town after him and Ismay, on the plains near the North Dakota line, agreed to go along. "It's just a fun stunt that has snowballed into something of na Population in the farming town of Ismay has boomed by 27 percent since townspeople decided to rename the village after Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Joe Montana. That's sue new people, in addition to the 22 people living in Ismay when Kansas City radio station KYYS proposed renaming the town.

The station offered residents a trip to a Chiefs game later this year in return. "We had a population boom," quipped Rita Nemitz, wife of Mayor Gene Nemitz. The temporary name change becomes official Saturday, and several thousand people are expected for "Joe Montana Day." "People have been calling us for directions to get here from all over the United States," said Mavs' Mike Kleckner hurls second straight no-hitter Page D-2 CITY i Missoulian ties planned at Joe this weekend. Try turkey bowling, where participants roll 10-to 12-pound frozen Butterballs at pop bottles. Then there's bossie bingo, where a well-fed cow is penned in an area divided into squares.

The Butte center to sign with Griz ob Olson, a 6-foot-9 center at Butte High, has made a oaf into finals Novotna, Graf 8 NBA sabotage 76ers land 7-6 Bradley after threat Associated Press By STEVE WILSTEIN Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England It was a case of mystic grass, an enchanted Centre Court bedeviling an old mistress who once held it under her charm. No matter which side of the net Martina Navratilova played on, the grass betrayed her and verbal commitment to attend the University of Montana on a basketball scholarship, his father said Thursday. Olson will be a senior for the Bulldogs next fall. The 190-pounder averaged 17 points and nine rebounds a game last season for Butte, who finished third in Western AA. He was the Bulldogs' MVP and earned first team all-conference and second team all-state honors.

Olson had been contacted by Arizona State, Stanford, Villanova and Montana State before deciding on Montana. Another decade, another groundout 5E jfr jsaaw-i, lavored Jana Novotna. Or so it seemed to Navratilova, denied a chance for a 10th Wimbledon title by a 6-4, 6-4 loss Thursday in the semifinals. "The court was really slow on her half," she said in puzzlement, "and it was really 7 KMC -s i-. J- T.

PAUL, Minn. -Minnie Minoso, denied a chance to play in his sixth decade in the majors in 1990 by former commissioner Fay Vincent, appeared as the designated hitter for the St. Paul Saints in a Northern League game Wednesday. Minoso, 70, grounded out to Thunder Bay pitcher Yoshi Seo in his only plate appearance in the Saints' 3-2 eight-inning loss in the second game of a doubleheader. "I guess I've done the cycle," Minoso said.

"This is something I can tell my kids. My 412-year-old son, Charles Orestes Minoso Wright, will be proud." A' PHILADELPHIA The intrigue surrounding the Philadelphia 76ers and 7-foot-6 Shawn Bradley made for good mystery. Several hours before Wednesday night's draft a rumor reached 76ers owner Harold Katz and general manager Jimmy Lynam. The word was the Orlando Magic and Golden State Warriors were going to make a deal that would send Bradley to Golden State. The report indicated Orlando, with the No.

1 pick, would take Bradley and trade him to the Warriors for Anfernee Hardaway, whom Golden State would draft with the third pick. The 76ers sat in between, holding the No. 2 pick. They wanted Bradley and had made no secret of it. Katz and Lynam see him as the keystone in rebuilding a team that has missed the playoffs the last two seasons and finished 1993 with the third worst record in team history.

Orlando eventually selected Michigan's Chris Webber and Golden State took Hardaway. The Magic dealt Webber to the Warriors for Hardaway and three first-round picks. The 76ers didn't sit back when they heard the rumor. It appears they got word to Orlando and Golden State that if the deal went through, Philadelphia would sabotage it by taking Hardaway. Then Orlando would have to deal with Philadelphia to get Hardaway and there was no way the Magic would get three first-round draft picks Maybe it was a bluff.

Maybe it wasn't. Katz was asked about it Thursday at a news conference to introduce Bradley. The 76ers owner said whether that was why the rumored deal didn't go through "doesn't really matter. Shawn is here. We wanted Shawn." (See 76ers, Page D-3) 4 fast on mine.

She had something going on with the blades of grass." Novotna will need all the magic she can muster in the final Saturday to beat Steffi Graf, who has kept Centre Court under her spell through four Wimbledon championships in the last five years. Graf wondered whether she, too, might be tricked by the grass in her semifinal match when she fell behind 1-4, 0-30 against Conchita Martinez. Then, abracadabra, everything turned Grafs way: 11 straight points, a tiebreaker shutout and a second-set romp for a 7-6, 6-3 pass to her sixth Wimbledon final. "If you see Martina having a tough match and you are down, you say, 'Come on, get yourself said Graf, who was not all that surprised by Novotna's victory. "She's got the talent, she's got the game, and we had a lot of close, close matches last year.

I never could figure out why she was unable to get beyond that (one previous Grand Slam final). But I guess she has figured it out now." In truth, and in fairness to Novotna, she created her own good fortune with an attacking style and brilliant execution that spun Navratilova dizzy. As early as the third game of the opening set with Navratilova serving, Novotna pushed her to 15-40 with a backhand lob that Navratilova chased down and barely sent back only to have Novotna smash it with an overhead. Navratilova saved one break-point but lost the next when she lunged and slapped away Novotna's strong forehand down the line. That set the tone for the rest of the match, Novotna always rushing the net like her former Czech compatriot, always getting there a bit quicker and hitting a bit harder from all over the court.

Novotna raced to a 5-1 lead before Navratilova had a chance to break a sweat. The 24-year-old Novotna never seemed intimidated, though she went into the match feeling Navratilova, 36, had a home court edge that could overcome any age disadvantage. This was Navratilova's 125th match at Wimbledon in 21 years and only her 12th loss. And many of those victories have come on the Centre Court lawn that plays a little differently than all the other courts here. 4 Asftoclatd PrM JANA NOVOTNA of the Czech Republic serves to Martina Navratilova.

Novotna upset Navratilova 6-4, 6-4 in Wimbledon's women's semifinals. Marvin Camel off the mat again By DARYL GADBOW of the Missoulian The first week of July in 1983 was a big week in sports both locally and nationally. Two University of Montana Grizzly basketball players were making news at this time ten years ago. Big Sky Conference MVP Derrick Pope was taken in the eighth round of the NBA draft by the Portland Trailblazers. The forward would be cut by the Blazers in training camp but has gone on to a successful career in Europe.

At the U.S. Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, freshman forward Larry Krystkowiak led the West with 18 points and had nine rebounds as his squad earned the bronze medal. Also at the Sports Festival, former Hellgate star and then-University of Washington sophomore Mike Ramos scored a meet record 7,834 to win the decathlon. Ramos would go on to finish fourth the following year at the U.S. Olympic Trials, barely missing out on a spot on the team that would represent the U.S.

in Los Angeles. Ramos, who later set an NCAA decathlon record that still stands, is an assistant track coach at the University of Montana. On the fourth of July, 1983, Dave Righetti was truly a "Yankee Doodle Dandy" as he notched the New York team's first no-hiitcr since Don Larscn's famed perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Ironically, the closest thing to a hit the Boston Red Sox got in the 4-0 loss was a liner by Wade Boggs, who is now a Yankee. Dodger reliever Steve Howe was, for the second time of that season, facing suspension due to drug-related problems.

Commissioner Bowie Kuhn would fine Howe $54,000 and sit him down for a month. Howe was subsequently suspended from baseball five more times in the next 10 years, the Inst after a 1991 Incident In Whitcfish. Chris Wallcrskirclien lice Camel of Charlo has 12 children, so you'll have to excuse her while she rummages around to come up with the telephone number for one of them. Her son Marvin, the former world champion boxer from Ronan, she reports, is living in Florida now. "He's helping the hurricane victims," she says.

"Oh, and he's training some Canadian fighter." After much lobbying by Boyce, the World Boxing Council created the cruiserweight division between light-heavyweight and heavyweight in 1979. The 190-pound limit was a natural for Camel. On June 5, 1979, in Missoula, Camel won a 12-round decison over Bill Sharkey for the North American cruiserweight title. On Dec. 8 of that year, he fought to a 15-round draw with Yugoslavian brawler Mate Parlov for the WBC world cruiserweight championship in Split, Yugoslavia.

In their title rematch in Las Vegas in March, 1980, Camel claimed a bloody 15-round decision to become the first and only world boxing champ to hail from Montana. Eight months later, on Nov. 25, in his first defense of the WBC crown, Camel lost a close 15-round decision to Carlos DcLeon in New Orleans. Camel suffered severe cuts around his eyes in that fight. When he met DcLeon a second time, in February, 1982, those cuts came back to haunt him.

DcLeon went to work on the scar tissue and opened up the cuts early in the bout. The fight was stopped in the seventh round and DcLeon was awarded a (See CAMEL, Page D-2) Hi 1 i -7 I promoting fights. I met him when I fought Ibar Arrington in Cocur d'Alcne (in 1978), and he gave me some pointers, as if I needed 'em. "Mo would be my manager and a guy out of New York named Johnny Boss would line up the fights," he adds. "He (Boss) has a big stable of fighters and he books overseas fights.

I've still been training since I left Montana doing road work. Now I have an opportunity to go to Africa." Camel is 42 years old. Considering the recent comebacks of Larry Holmes and George Foreman, his age alone can't rule out the resumption of his boxing career. "You know," Camel says, "you get the bug." Fighting for Boyce out of Missoula, Camel first entered the ring as a professional in 1973. By 1978, he was a ranked contender in the light-heavyweight division.

But the awkward style of the rangy left-hander made him a dangerous opponent. His lack of name recognition outside of Montana made him a doubly undesirable foe for the title-holders. As a result, Camel was frustrated in bids to land what seemed to be a deserved championship fight. Marvin is obviously pleased to hear a voice from the past on the line from Montana. "Hey," he announces, "we're getting ready to go fight in Africa." Who's fighting in Africa? "I am," says Camel cheerily.

"I'm working with Mo Smith out of Reno. He knew Elmer (Camel's first manager Elmer Boycc of Missoula.) He's still MARVIN CAMEL posed in his trademark Indian headdress with his first manager, the late Elmer Boyce, In the early 1980s. ftMW.IHli t)JWlipVlt ff-ri I1 1 hr Trri ti ilfin fci ilhtuhnJwiiw bmtou it.