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12 Part III Sunday. February 26. I984 CoeArifleleflfflmea The Soviet Expedition: Diary of U.S. Boxing Tour Bouts With the Flu and the Food Were Worse Than Those With the Russians yfrfVTTVT TODA (UPPERS) Qy, at Seattle. bread, yogurt and ice cream.

Hickman loves the ice cream. He has five servings. DAY TWO At 7 a.m., the boxers drift sleepily into the lobby, then take a two- mile run. Breakfast: hard-boiled eggs, bread, jam, cheese, greasy lunch meat. Considerable griping.

First gym workout. Bus trip through Moscow, past Gorky Park, to the Zil Automotive Plant's sports facility, the Torpedo Sports Club. (Zil makes trucks and limousines for high officials.) The boxing gym is a 30-year-old brick building at one end of a 20.000-seat soccer stadium. An identical building at the other end is a wrestling gym. Present to greet the team is an overjoyed Jimmerson, with Artem Lavrov, coach of the Soviet national boxing team.

Also, a strange, shirtless man of about 40 who is behaving peculiarly. While the U.S. boxers warm up with rope-skipping, the man raves in Russian about what a wonderful rope-skipper bantamweight Robert Shannon is. He disrupts the workout to praise Shannon's technique for the 50 young boys who are present, watching. Soon, someone appears and leads the fellow away.

"He's a nut," says translator Victor Karant. an American from New York who always travels with U.S. boxing teams in the USSR. "Every time we come over here we run into that guy." Dinner: One piece of greasy, half -cooked chicken, on rice. Griping becoming more strident.

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po.nn, and 11 assists 'i gamer vs Williams at urri' Donaldson vs at (enter t)ie fce wau By EARL GUSTKEY, Times Staff Writer At dawn on the Sunday America was revving up for the Super Bowl, two van loads of amateur boxers traveled from the U.S.A. Amateur Boxing Federation's training camp at Colorado Springs. to the city's airport. There, as the sun rose over the frozen Great Plains and bathed Pikes Peak in golden light, they unloaded a third van filled with "USA BOXING" duffel bags and trunks. Then the 22 fighters took off on a "Mission to Moscow" that, in a sense, would end for many of them at the Olympic Games this summer in Los Angeles.

On their 15-day winter journey to the Soviet Union, they would box before a total of nearly 30.000 spectators in Moscow. Kiev and Donetsk their last international competition before the Games. They would see Red Square, the Kremlin, Lenin's Tomb, the site of a "life-or-death" soccer game in Kiev and the coal-mining heart of the Ukraine, Donetsk. They would finish at New York's JFK airport, where the boxers and their coaches, delegation leaders, doctors, referees and judges would split up and catch flights to homes across America. What happened along the way was a kaleidoscope of Soviet circuses, visits to bitingly cold Red Square and Lenin's tomb, a never-ending cacophony of rock music from several of the boxers' music boxes, some lapses in courtesy, occasional remarks indicating the limited knowledge of some of the athletes of the country they were visiting you drive to and the best-ever showing by an American team in the USSR in the 15-year history of the USA-USSR boxing series.

Here's a reporter's diary of the trip, a look at some young Americans in Moscow, warts and all: Olympic Hall doors to open. The building is two huge arenas, divided by a movable partition. Each seats 18.000. The hall was the site for the 1980 Olympic boxing and basketball competition. On the arena floor, Baker finds that an ABC official is upset because two advertising banners on the ring apron, printed in English, plug two Finnish products, cheese and a knife.

"Our contract with you states there can be no advertising on either the boxers or the ring." the official says. "We're concerned this might be an FCC violation, since in effect we're showing free advertising for products exported to the U.S., unless those banners come down." Baker talks heatedly to several USSR sports officials, asking that the banners be removed. They decline, politely. Finally, Baker tells Nikki Demesov. past president of the International Amateur Boxing Assn.

(AIBA), that if the advertising causes the telecast not to be shown in the U.S., resulting in the loss of roughly $100,000 in revenue to the USAABF. Baker will submit a $100,000 bill to the USSR Boxing Federation. The banners remain. The telecast was shown. Case closed.

Baker, later: "We were taken advantage of. That advertising was solely intended for an American audience." Finally, boxing, before 14,000 Muscovites. In the first bout. Gonzales, an Olympic gold medal prospect, tires in the third round but still outclasses Lernik Papian and wins a decision. In the flyweight bout, Paul Banke of Azusa.

in the most impressive outing of his career, wins a 3-0 decision over Rashid Kabirov. Then, in the most important event of the trip for the Americans, bantamweight Hickman, 17. humiliates one of the USSR's most decorated boxers, former world champion Yuri Alexandrov. He batters him in every round, knocking out Alexandrov's ill-fitting mouthpiece 14 times. The Americans are 3-0 on the 12-bout card and the U.S.

boxers seated at ringside are chanting "USA! USA!" The Soviets then win seven bouts in a row, until Los Angeles heavyweight Avery Rawls decisions Ramsan Sibiev. Final score: 8-4. USSR. DAY THREE After a workout at Zil. the boxers have the option of lunch or going shopping.

Nine, fearing more chicken, go shopping. The bus driver takes the boxers and Sergei, the translator, to Gum's, a massive, bazaarlike department store just off Red Square. Inside, three boxers buy fur hats. Light -flyweight Paul Gonzales pays 61 rubles ($76.25) for his. On Red Square, walking back to the bus.

a hard wind creates a chill factor well below zero. Nonetheless the Americans, a lively bunch, talk animatedly. Their parkas, with USA emblems, attract considerable attention. One boxer sees a line of perhaps a thousand people outside a reddish marble structure and asks what it is. "Lenin's Tomb," he's told.

"Oh, I thought it was the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier," he says. "Who's Lenin?" TONIGHT at Tulsa, 5 p.m. Records Strikers hi Roughnecks Kj IS Radio kCXiOukj Sockart Update Alter the intc, won meir Sixth straight game Thursday night against Tampa Bw Coach Ron Newman said this year team has more depth than the teams that captured bar to bar mdoo' titles in the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League me last two seasons Playing without Kaz Deyna Hugo Perez Lorenj Hiikes Martin Donnelly and Alan Mlyer a shorth.inded and Mer) Sockets team beat the Rowdies to win then fourth game in the past week Julie Veee scored four goals and Jean WHInch added four assists Veee suffered a hip flexor strain against Tampa Bay but will make the trip to Tulsa Vidal Fernandez, playing only his third game ot the year, had one goal and two assists Ade Coke' scored a key goal with one second remaining the third quarter to give San Dgo a two goal cushion Goalkeeper Jim Gorsek made 10 saves to earn h.s seventh win eight starts since replacing Mayer Dena. who suffered a hamstring pull last Sunday game against New York, will not accompany the team on the first stop of the four game trip Roughnecks Update Forward Laurie ADrahams leads the team scoring with 23 goals and 26 assists Zequrnha has 19 goals ana 15 assists and Ron Futcher has 1 7 goals and 8 assists Goalkeeper Winston Dubose scheduled to start today game has a 7 1 1 record and 7 07 goals-agamst average Goalkeeper Paul Coffee has a 3-4 mark and 6 75 goals against average Defenseman Barry Wallace Igrom straml. forward Billy Caskev (recovering from a shoulder separation! and forward Irai Danaifard (sprained ankiei are doubtful for today game Defenseman Ivan Belhor might return to action after having missed the last 20 games with a strained knee Key Matchup The Sockets do not match up wen against Tulsa They have lost two of three games to the Roughnecks Tulsa defeated the Sockers 4 2m Tulsa on Jan 10 and 7 6 at the Sports Arena on Dec 10 DAY SIX Splitup day.

Ten boxers are to head for Kiev. The 12 who fought in Moscow go home after Sanders tries unsuccessfully to persuade one of them. Rawls. to stay and box Alexander Yagubkin, of the world's best, in Donetsk. Sanders: "I'm disappointed.

Avery is improving rapidly. He could make the Olympic team. If he does, a bout with Yagubkin under his belt would be invaluable experience. But he told me he's been in Colorado Springs two weeks before we left for Moscow and wants to go home." At breakfast, plain -talking Loring Baker, still upset over the Finnish advertising episode, asks translator Sergei to find Yuri Radoniak. president of the USSR Boxing Federation.

"I'm afraid it would be difficult on such short notice because we need to get your group to the airport in a couple of hours," Sergei responds. Baker: "Let me explain something, Sergei. If Yuri isn't here in one hour, we won't be going to Kiev and Donetsk." Sergei rushes off. In 40 minutes, Radoniak appears. "Yuri," Baker begins, with Sergei translating, "I want to make certain you understand how seriously we view that problem last night with the Finnish advertising.

It is possible that telecast will not be shown in the United States and I want to make certain you understand that if that happens, we will expect your federation to pay us the revenue we would lose. Now, if we don't resolve this right now, we are not going to Kiev and Donetsk. Am I blunt enough? Do you understand me?" Radoniak mumbles something about a misunderstanding, that he understands how seriously Baker views the problem. Baker: "And let me tell you something else, Yuri. I have not been happy with our reception in Moscow.

It has been cold and unfriendly. We have repeatedly asked for a room in this hotel where we could exchange gifts Please see DIARY, Pfe 13 DAY FOUR Virtually every member of the delegation has a cold, sore throat, cough, flu, diarrhea or insomnia. Team physicians Drs. Jerry Leitel and Earl Woods who is also the team psychiatrist are disturbed to learn Moscow is having an Asian flu epidemic. An incident: National champion light -heavyweight Ricky Womack of Detroit is angered to learn he is not boxing on the following day's Moscow card, the only one of the three shows to be telecast in the U.S.

(tape-delay). In his place, light-heavyweight Bennie Heard of Augusta, will box Vitaly Kachanovsky. Womack confronts Baker in a hotel hallway and says: "Mr. Baker, I want you to know I understand what's happening here. Two guys from Georgia (Baker is from Atlanta) are boxing on the TV card.

I don't want to box in the other two places. If I can't box on TV. I want to go home." Baker, later: "Ricky feels he was assured of boxing on the TV show and no such promise was made. The last time he boxed Kachanovsky (at the October World Cup. in Rome), Kachanovsky made him look like he'd never been in a ring before.

"Ricky says he wants to go home, and we are going to accommodate him as rapidly as possible." The following morning, Womack flies out. The boxers, desperate for cheeseburgers, fries and Cokes, are taken to the U.S. Embassy for lunch. They're warmly greeted by Embassy personnel, most of whom are given tickets for the bouts. Hickman tries for two orders of fries, but Sanders overhears and he winds up with none.

DAY ONE Several boxers are beefing even before they board the plane. They've just been told by team manager Wiley Farrier, a Cleveland policeman, that they won't be able to see all of the Super Bowl before leaving New York for Stockholm and Moscow. Bantamweight Todd Hickman, a candidate for the Olympic team, has a weight problem he has to be at 1 19 pounds in Moscow in five days, but he's 126. Still, he visits a vending machine and loads up on cream-filled cookies, potato chips and chocolate milk. The delegation takes a commuter flight to Denver, goes by jetliner to New York, then kills four hours in an airport hotel, watching part of the Super Bowl, before heading for Stockholm.

At the SAS gate, a couple of music boxes are on. A man with a Swedish accent barks: "This isn't a disco-, turn that off." The music is turned down. Stockholm: 15 degrees and windy. A three-hour wait for an SAS flight to Moscow. USAABF President Loring Baker gathers the group and says: "First of all, don't get involved with selling jeans or anything else in Russia with anyone you meet on the street.

It's illegal. Second, keep in mind that your calls in the hotels will probably be monitored. Third, when we sit down to eat. no hats. It's considered extremely poor etiquette in Russia to sit and eat with a hat on.

Fourth, keep the music turned down. We get more complaints about loud music on international trips than anything else." Soviet customs inspection. Wiley Farrier hands out passports, with a folded visa tucked inside. Uniformed agents check them. But middleweight Arthur Jimmer-son of St.

Louis, a late addition to the team, has no visa due to a paperwork foulup in Colorado Springs. In fact, he doesn't know what one is. "Visa! Visa!" says the customs man. Jimmerson. with a puzzled expression: "Visa? You mean like a MasterCharge?" They take Jimmerson away.

He will spend the night in an airport hotel, then be issued a visa in the morning. In a truck, inspectors find 24 videotape movies brought along for entertainment when the boxers would be confined to hotel rooms. After considerable discussion, the movies, like Jimmerson, will be kept overnight The Americans are assigned two translators. Alex and Sergei, who will accompany the delegation for the trip. The hour-long bus ride to the hotel begins at 7 p.m.

Sights along the way include three huge sculpted tank traps on the highway median, designating the Germans' closest advance to Moscow in World War II. and a half-dozen night-lighted sports parks where citizens are ice skating, running, playing soccer, throwing the hammer and practicing archery. Twenty-six hours after arriving at the Colorado Springs airport, the delegation arrives at Moscow's 26-story Sport Hotel. Built to house judges and referees for the 1980 Olympics, it is dark, drab and drafty. Now it's used to house foreign sports delegations.

Coach Roosevelt Sanders tells the boxers to go to their rooms, don sweats and report back for an "easy shakeout run." Later, hatless, the boxers have a dinner of cabbage salad, greasy sliced lunch meats, chicken soup, dark "Word of Mouth HAMBURGERS! DAY FIVE The weigh-in. in a hotel room. The Soviets extend to the Americans the "traveler's courtesy" of one kilogram (2.2 pounds), meaning each boxer can be up to one kilo over the weight limit for his class. Light -flyweight Paul Gonzales, for example, instead of having to make the limit of 106, can come in at 108V4. His opponent, however, must weigh 106.

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