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TRADE PICK TO PORTLAND Get Petrie, Hawes and that the decision was unanimous among the Hawk brain trust. "It was the combined judgment of Seretean, Brown, Kauffman and myself that the two guys we got would mean more to the Hawks winning games than any one individual we could have gotten by picking second in the draft," Cousins said. "I want to emphasize it was not a monetary decision because the two guys we got will have to be paid as much as we would have had to pay Barnes." Chicago made Artis Gilmore the By GEORGE CUNNINGHAM The Atlanta Hawks say they gained a lot of character Thursday. Passing up a chance at talented big men Marvin Barnes, Moses Malone and Maurice Lucas, the Hawks traded to Portland their second pick in the NBA dispersal draft in exchange for guard Geoff Petrie and benchsitter Steve Hawes. Petrie is a better than average shooting guard who needs an operation on his knee.

He is not rated as highly as current shooting guard Lou Hudson. Hawes is a two-year veteran who qualifies as a backup center strong forward. "The decision was made on character and the kind of team we want," said Hawk executive Bob Kauffman who fronted the draft locally in the absence of owner Bud Seretean (reportedly at a ranch in Oklahoma) and coach Hubie Brown (who had a speaking engagement somewhere). "I have heard Hubie say that he ranks character as important as ability." Tom Cousins, who owns 80 per cent of the club as opposed to Seretean's 20, contended money was not a factor first pick in the draft. Portland quickly hopped on Lucas.

And after Kansas City made Ron Boone the third pick, Detroit and Portland (exercising its own pick) found nothing wrong with the character of either Barnes or Malone by snapping up the two big men. Detroit is expected to dispatch either Barnes or No. 1 rookie pick Leon Douglas to the New York Knicks. Portland, which had to pay out just for the right to select See HAWKS, Page 6-D Steve Hawes 1 Geoff Petrie nr st i fLK ft ill. 4 Jesse OUTLAR Sports Editor NBA Owners Can't Win At the Gate News that the Hawks had bypassed an opportunity to purchase Marvin Barnes, Moses Malone or Maurice Lucas in the NBA fe-itf 'AiSif III kt 4 fyiMA Ft 1'x ml 1 HmmmWr pi dispersal draft didn't prompt fans to jam the switchboard at our shop.

They've become accustomed to seeing the Hawks lose out in the big deals. After the Chicago Bulls paid $1,100,000 for Artis Gilmore, the Hawks were next in line at the Thursday auction. They elected to trade their Outlar Barr Baffles Braves, 2-1, For No. 10 By WAYNE MINSHEW This is a National League tale of two cities. One is Atlanta.

The other San Francisco. Citizens of both were of the opinion in April that they would be represented by, if not contending baseball teams, then certainly clubs which would cause a lot of trouble and hang close in the N.L. West race. Now, here they are battling for the cellar, or for fifth since negative journalism is frowned upon in these parts, with the Giants taking a step closer to the Braves in their attempt to escape the dungeon by winning a 2-1 victory Thursday night. Righthander Jim Barr and center fielder Gary Thomasson were the Giants' main men in a game which attracted only 3,884 to the stadium, offering conclusive proof if any is needed that a race in the opposite direction is not exactly box office stuff.

Barr and reliever Randy Moffitt, who worked the eighth and ninth innings in perfect fashion, stopped the Braves on a mere three hits while moving the Giants to within one game of the Atlanta club for fifth place. Thomasson homered on his first at-bat, doubled and scored two runs to lead the Giants' offensive against losing pitcher Phil Niekro, 11-8. So, the race is not, but it's not the race Barr expected for either club. "When Atlanta was making all those trades, we all said, 'Geez, they're really gonna be but like us they had a bad start and lost games in bunches. We haven't thought about being in the cellar much on this club, and I'm sure they aren't discouraged over there, either." "We know we've got too good a ball club to be this low, and the Braves are too good a team to be fifth.

So, we try to finish as high as we can and look ahead to next year, when it will be better." Thursday night, Barr, utilizing thread-the-needle control, allowed only singles, one each to Darrel Chaney, Jerry Royster and Cito Gaston, as he pitched his 10th victory against seven defeats. He gave up his only run in te second, and it was tainted, coming because second baseman Marty Perez made a bad throw on a double play relay with runnes at first and third. Barr sailed along after that, seeing no trouble until the seventh, when the Braves had two on two out with Dave May batting for Niekro. He got May on a hard grounder to first baseman Darrell Evans, and that, for all practical purposes, was that. "I didn't have real strong stuff," said Barr, "but I had good control.

I threw the ball where I wanted to. I had a good break-See THOMASSON, Page 8-D North's Ed Guthrie, in Reverse Here, Stretches Out For Touchdown in Prep All-Star Game Thursday SOUTH WINS, 30-29 Jolly Pulls Same Old Heroics ports pick to Portland for guard Geoff Petrie and reserve center-forward Steve Hawes. The transaction promoted mixed reaction among the customers. Critics quickly pointed out that the Hawks passed up a sure chance to move from the basement to the NBA penthouse when they failed to land David Thompson, Marvin Webster and Barnes or Malone. That overall package of talent would have cost more than $5 million.

If agent Irwin Weiner is able to merchandise Barnes at his price, the tab would have approached $6 million. I Can't Fault Hawks Critics vow that Tom Cousins and associates should pay the price or get out of the basketball business. Ironically, Cousins contends that tight pursestrings have not prevented the Hawks from acguiring the super talent offered them. Management claimed that the Hawks offered Thompson and Webster as much as Denver did, but mismanagement in advance negotiations cost Atlanta the chance to sign them. Cousins reiterated Thursday that money was not the prime factor in the Hawks' decision to trade their draft choice.

Realistically; however, there is no comparison between Petrie and Hawes and available stars Barnes, Malone or Lucas. Personally, I can't fault Cousins for not paying more than $5 million for three players. The Hawks have been chronic financial losers since they arrived in Atlanta in 1969. There's no assurance that a championship team would fill the Omni nightly, and you'd have to draw full houses to balance the budget. The neighboring Braves are exhibit A when he's on the field." Moultrie's Bud Willis, the winning South coach, was also quite calm about Jolly's late heroics.

"He can do it from anywhere at any time," he said about the future Georgia Tech Yellow Jacket. "I swear I don't like endings like this," said Jolly with a slight grin. "I'd rather have a big lead, but it seems like I always get in games like this one." The North took an early lead in the contest as Wheeler's Ed Guthrie capped a 53-yard drive with a three-yard burst just 59 seconds before the end of the first period. The score was set up, as most of the night's were, by a turnover. East Rome's Ray Donaldson intercepted a Jolly pass and returned it 12 yards to get the North moving for its first touchdown.

The second period was scoreless and sloppy until the final 3:18 when 17 points hit the board. A South fumble led to a five-yard scoring sweep by West Fulton's Larry Sims to put the North up 14-0 with 3:18 left in the half. By STEVE FIGL'EROA Michael Jolly, who quarterbacked Central of Macon to the state AAA football champion- ship this past season with numerous last-second heroics, picked up right where he left off in the third annual Georgia Athletic Association high school all-star football game as he led the South to a pulsating 30-29 victory over the North Thursday night at Memorial Stadium. The North was sitting on a 29-23 lead with just 1:57 to play when Jolly took the South 56 yards to victory. He did it with just 16 seconds left on the clock.

And, he did it in typical Jolly fashion. Seemingly bottled up the arms of big Marty Duncan of St. Pius, he broke loose, reversed his field, sprinted about 25 yards towards the sidelines and lofted a scoring pass to Valdos-ta's Billy Berrian, who made a diving catch in the end zone to tie the game at 29-all. After the two teams traded penalties, Georgia Military Academy's Gary Hardie kicked the winning extra point. The scoring pass came on a fourth and seven.

On the drive, Jolly either ran or passed Aug. 6 1976 Page 1-D on all but one play, a three-yard run by Laney's Mitchell Ferguson. The exciting ending made up for some very ragged play by both teams in the early going. A total of 18 penalties were called in the contest, 11 on the South. There also were 13 turnovers in the game.

The North lost six fumbles and had two passes intercepted, while the South coughed up the ball four times and had one Jolly pass picked off. No one in either locker room seemed at all surprised at the finish. Losing North Coach Dowis said, "I've gone against him (Jolly) before, I'm always worried GOLD MEDAL WINNER Scores that a million dollar man does not assure a winner. Of course there's no comparison between baseball and basketball at the box of We have brought all remaining merchandise from our Sandy Springs and Ros-well Village stores to Buck-head for FINAL REGROUPING fice. If the Braves ever field a winner, they have more than 50,000 seats available.

Some 16,000 is all you can crowd into the Omni. Paternity Suit is Filed Against Sugar Ray Leonard 3 MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL National League Cubs 4 1st Expos 3 Mets 7 Pirates 4 Giants 2 Braves 1 Philadelphia at St. Louis, late Houston at San Diego, late Cincinnati at Los Angeles, late Tonight's Game San Francisco at Atlanta, 7:35 American League Brewers 9 Yanks 3 Orioles Indians2 Red Sox 5 Tigers 4 Rangers 1 Angels 0 Rangers 6 Twins 4 By MARY ANN KUHN WiihingtMi Star PALMER PARK, Md. Sugar Ray Leonard took it like a champ. Right there in the middle of his living room, with the fans swarming in and out of his home to congratulate him.

America's hero. Maryland's hero. Everybody's hero. It was the first he had heard of it, he said. Suddenly, his whole new world seemed to be shattered.

"Things are coming at me so fast," he said, not moving his eyes up from the rug. "The kids look up to me and if this thing blows up in my face, it will destroy me. I wouldn't want the kids to look at me and see me in different images. But life comes in all ways and angles. You have to take the bitter with the sweet." Sugar Ray told how he met with Winfield M.

Kelly, the Prince Georges county executive, sometime before the Olympics and, at Kelly's request, took a county flag with him to the Olympics. After his victory against Valery Limasov, the Soviet southpaw, Sugar Ray unfurled a flag with the county seal on it, again at Kelly's suggestion. "We siipppsfed he nntnlrt it in Sugar Ray Leonard As one broke investor in the late ABA lamented, pro basketball has to be the worst investment in sports. He allowed that if he had it to do over again he would invest in New York City bonds instead of pro basketball. At least he'd have a remote chance of getting his money back.

More than Secretariat After conversing with Barnes' agent, our Mr. George Cunningham figured out that, over a five-year span, the Hawks would have to pay $2,125,000 for Marvin. Off past performance he is not the most reliable athlete in the business, so it's inconceivable to me that any team would spend that fantastic sum of money for Barnes or any other, player. Hell, Secretariat wasn't worth that much until he went to stud. The Detroit Pistons paid $500,000 in the draft for the rights to Barnes.

It will be interesting to follow negotiations between agent Weiner and Detroit officials. After the trade with the Hawks, the Portland Trail Blazers bought Malone in the auction for $350,000 and got Lucas for $300,000. Since NBA basketball ratings are low, compared to football and baseball, networks don't shell out whopping sums to show the sport. With salaries averaging more than $100,000 and exorbitant bonus demands, not to mention the high cost of traveling, you don't have to be a CPA to figure out why most of the NBA franchises lose money. Like the ABA investor said, New York City bonds appear a better investment than pro basketball.

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GIANTS In the middle of all that, the Olympic light welterweight boxing gold medal winner got an unexpected blow. His face turned serious. He rubbed his forehead underneath his U.S.A. lettered cap with one hand, then returned it next to his other hand, and sat there on the couch in his parents' home, clasping both hands. He was stunned.

Leonard, 20, had just been told by a reporter that a paternity suit had been filed against him in court recently by the Prince Georges County state's attorney's office as part of a federally assisted crackdown on welfare cheaters in the county. He was quickly told that this was not to say he was a welfare cheater that it meant his girlfriend applied for welfare for her illegitimate son, and she had to tell authorities who the father was so that they could determine whether Sugar Ray is, in fact, the father and whether he can provide for the support of the child. He was told that an official in the state's attorney's office said this was being handled as a routine case, that nobody is trying to embarrass the champ, that the official himself thinks Sugar Ray "is the greatest boxer ever made" and a lot of other superlatives, but, as he asked: "Can we afford to have the county pay for welfare so he can box in the Olympics?" "Paternity suit?" Sugar Ray asked. miim'iH' Little Ray Wjt show people the beautiful area of the country he comes from," Kelly said at the time. "We're pretty proud of that young man.

I guess he's just as proud of us as we are of him, if that's possible." "Here I bring out the flag for Prince Georges County, for Maryland. I gave them their share of happiness and glory. And what do I get? A paternity suit," said Sugar Ray. "All I can say is I'm sorry. I wish it hadn't happened at this particular time.

I wish it had happened earlier." There's more irony. Kelly went to Sugar Ray's gold medal bout on July 31. "He congratulated me and said the people of Prince Georges County and of Maryland are very proud of me," said the champ. Have a with Kahn's Wieners at Home or at the Ballgame. Now featured in the Stadium and at your favorite food-store.

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