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4C THE LAWTON CONSTITUTION, Thursday, July 29, 1976 Sugar Ray Leonard Has Other Things To Do Than Box By WILL GRIMSLEY MONTREAL (AP) There are 18 inuie a less-- remain career of Sugar Ray Leonard, and 'inch he will hang up his gloves and go to school. No amount of money and sweet promoters' promises can lure the bolo kid from Palmer Park, into pro boxing. "My mama told me she wants me to quit. I always do what my mama says," the rugged light welterweight said today. "Boxing.

has been fun for me but I got other things in life to do." Leonard, at 20 a veteran of 135 amateur fights all over the world, is one of the survivors of the strong American team which will be battling the Soviet Union and Cuba for a major share of the medals in the weekend climax of the Olympic Games. Impressive winner of his first fights in the 140 pounds and under class. Sugar Ray next faces Kazmier Szcerba of Poland in the semifinals and, if he wins, probably will go against a tough a Andres AI- dama, tor the championship gold. "No doubt I'm going to win i Leonard said with a cool confidence that had no trace of arrogance. "I've won everything there is to i Pan Am Games, North A i a AAU, Golden Gloves.

Only need the Olympics. "My mama said I could box i win this one, and that's it." Sugar Ray's mama will bo at the Olympic Forum to see her will filled--hers and that of a higher authority. If you happen to catch her on camera, you probably will see her hands clasped at her chin, head bowed and eyes closed--praying. a praying a i Sugar Ray said. "We're Baptists.

I pray. My mama prays. We all pray." If such petitions are judged on bers, young Leonard stands a very good chance of getting a favorable response. Getha, his mother, is just one member of the Leonard clan who will be raising cheers and silent entreaties. "My daddy is here, too.

My big brother, two sisters, my brother's girl friend and my girl i They all drove up in a trailer and parked it in the lot across from the Forum. You call it easy. It's yellow and it has my pictures pasted all over it. Getting tickets has been tougher than fighting." Sugar Ray's dad, Cicero, took time off from his job as night manager a Palmer Park super market to attend the Games. He loves boxing, Sugar Ray says, and his brother, Dale, 23, was once a champion in the armed services.

Sugar Ray, who is only 20, sat in an anteroom at the Olympic Village on his day off and spoke softly of his life style, his philosophies and his plans. He will enroll at the University of Maryland in the fall, majoring in business a i i a i and nications, under a scholarship provided by the people of his home town. "I never was. a tough guy in my neighborhood," he said. "I was always kinda shy.

I really soft-hearted." I hate to see people hurt. But once I get in the ring I become a different person." Sugar Ray stretched out his the tools of his trade. "Look at those knuckles," he said. "They been swollen like a ever rchery Czar Makes Sure Everything Is Right By VICTORIA GRAHAM MONTREAL (AP) It might be the most gsntoe! of Olympic sports, the shooting of arrows by figures in white on a field of green. It's 'ike a needlepoint scene on a summer house easy chair: archers in caps, bows in hand, arrows flying in a clearing in a meadow.

They are like players in a music box, actors in a movie without sound, participants in a sport which more than any other emphasizes beauty, tranquility and order. The picture frame is as important as the picture. In Wednesday's competition, American Darrell Pace and West a Maria Urban maintained their leads in the four-day event. Gentlemen on one side. ladies on the other.

they lined 'jp for the ancient event. They use bows of i a wood laminations and plastic bristling with stabilizers and compensators. A far crv from the wooden bow of YV'I- liaro Tell. They wear a a a in CM: whiie. Ladies must wear skins.

In a downpour, they might be permitted to wear slacks. They siand at a line of chalk on lawn. Behind tnem are identical while a looped i i i a and while umbrellas, surrounded by red chairs. Before them are identical targets. Each fires three aluminum arrows at a time at a target.

The only sound is a rush of air and a dull snap as the arrow strikes home. A troop of scorfkecpers in while anr! beige, with clipboards, marches out to the bleat of a horn that belongs more in a railroad ard a a garden. The archers collect their arrows, re- 'urn and toko aim. There's no clash or gnash of contact. It is silent.

There are no and the aucit'nce is asked not to a a It is almost impossible to see the arrows and keep score without the big board, It's not a sport for a spectator without knowledge or binoculars. "Everything is perfect, a delight," said Inger K. Frith of Great Britain, president of the International Archery Federation and the only woman to head an i a i a sports ation. Mrs. Frith is a white-haired, white- Gulllcrmo Vllas oi Aroenlir.c unseeded Eric Van DlHon 6 6-4 in erf in the S' 25.300 Lrxn'sviilr- interncT'oncl I no oiea'ca 1 lo qiir.

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gloved, soft-spoken, tough-minded lady who Uas molGcd archery al the international level. She sits there, the larly who demands white dresses and has touched and retouched every aspect of the a ment. She wears 2 pale i dress with pearls, white shoes, a neat, boxy white purse and a wide-brimmed hat trimmed with large bows of pink, blue and pastels. She wears a silver pin and a gold Olympic medal dangles from a bracelet. "I am very particular a everything must be just rjghi, the picture setting, the colors and everything identical," said Mrs.

Frith, a former international archer. "I want it to frame the archery, to enhance it. "I want it to look nice. It's very imp a a i look nice," added the grand dame of archery who refuses to give her age or discuss her husband, saying. "This is mine." "The umbrellas, the tables, the chairs, all the same and in line.

The numbers and yellow flags on top of the targets. There's a sense of order and serenity about it, "And it looks so nice lo have the scorers marching out. all dressed alike. It's not important but it's nice. "It's such a contrast to the sports.

The peace is delightful. "Nothing has been done without my approval," said Mrs. Frith, Even the pois of scarlet flowers and petunias were ordered by her 'to relieve the concrete stand." But as the tape recorded music struck up "Cherry i and A Blossom White," she said a "However, didn't choose the music." Before she left, leading archer Darrell Pace. 19, presented her with the last arrow he shot.to break a record last year. "I gave it to a a i he said, "because she told me 1 could da it." since I can remember, big as marbles.

Every time I land a blow, awful pain rips up my arm. But I can't let up. I've got to get that medal." Young Leonard started out by beating Ulf -Carlsson of Sweden, then he jabbed Clinton McKenzie of Britain into submission, won a slugfest from Russia's Valery Limasov and beat Ulrich Beyer of East Germany in a fight a had crowd a i a screaming. With the kind of charisma that made Muhammad All and Sugar Ray Robinson great gate attractions, the little sugar man is building up a huge following of his own among TV fans. "Most people think I copied my style from Sugar Ray Robinson," Leonard said.

"It's not so. 1 pick up techniques from a lot of fighters I've seen in the movies--I move like Jersey Joe Walcott, I dance like Aii. I throw punches--the bolo and combinations to the body and head--like Sugar Ray." Although he says it's "not in my heart" to turn pro, Leonard said he would like to see one change made in the sport that has been much of his life. "I wish they would call it 'boxing' and not call it he said. "When I i of fights, I think of street fights.

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