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Page2-C THE EL PASO TIMES. Tuesday. August 13, 1985 -i Houston duo ruled ineligible 5 sports summary compiled from The Associated Press ft The ax fell on ex-NMSU lineman Louis Garza, left, and former New Mexico quarterback Buddy Funck. Buffalo waives Electric guard In news reports last week, unidentified sources were quoted as saying the sanctions included a two-year moratorium on bowl appearances and a ban on football scholarships next year, among other penalties. AUTO ROUNDUP Auto racer Manfred Winkelhock of West Germany died Monday of injuries suffered Sunday when the car he was driving in the Bud-weiser GT endurance race at Mo-sport Park, Ontario, Canada, slammed into a concrete barrier.

Winkelhock, 30, suffered "massive head injuries" from the accident. Meanwhile, Bill Elliott, who has won nine of the first 18 races on the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National circuit, has built a 143-point lead in the season-long points race. Elliott, of Dawsonville, has amassed 2,836 points, compared to 2,693 for second-place Darrell Waltrip of Franklin, Tenn. Neil Bonnett is third in the standings at 2,550 points with 10 of the 28 races still to be run. INTERIM DIRECTOR Robert Rhinehart, a biology professor at San Diego State University, was named acting athletic director of the school, replacing Mary Alice Hill, who was fired last week.

Quote du jour Oakland A's pitcher Don Sutton, who needs just nine more wins to reach 300 career victories, on Chicago White Sox pitcher Tom Seaver who has already reached that plateau: "He's not a student of the game; he's a professor of the game." bound to UH, Ford said, because his binding letter was forwarded to the SWC office. REPORTS DENIED An attorney for Southern Methodist University has denied news reports that school officials intend, to "bargain" for leniencey with the NCAA Council this week over imposed football sanctions. Johm McElhaney also said SMU would try to avoid a lawsuit "Those stories were inaccurate they were just flat wrong," McElhaney said. "What we will do up there is bring forward a presentation of our case. It's an appeal bargaining has nothing to do with it." SMU officials confirmed last week that they would journey to Boston Wednesday to meet with the National Collegiate Athletic Association Council over penalties related to alleged recruitment violations.

Tito Horford. a highly recruited schoolboy basketball player, and Bay City track star Joe De-Loach were declared ineligible by the NCAA to compete for the" University of Houston because of recruiting violations, school officials announced Monday. Houston Athletic Director Tom Ford made the announcement at a news conference and said the Southwest Conference school had one more appeal to make to the NCAA's Council Subcommittee on Eligibility and if that failed, the school could consider civil action. Ford said he was surprised by the NCAA's decision since the school already had imposed sanctions on itself. "I felt very comfortable going into the appeals process," Ford said.

"We'd done our homework and thought it would turn out differently." Horford, from nearby Houston Marion, was declared ineligible to compete for the Cougars after it was recently revealed that assistant basketball Coach Donnie Schvarek made an illegal contact with the 7-0 star at his home in the Dominican. The NCAA ruled that De-Loach's scholarship agreement with Houston was invalid because Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis, a former Houston student, accompanied Cougar Coach Tom Tellez on a recruiting visit to Bay City. NCAA rules permit only coaches to recruit prospects. Horford is ineligible to play basketball for the Cougars for the next four years under the current NCAA ruling. He is still Hill, dismissed after she at- tempted to fire three members oL the athletic department and a private contractor in charge of; promotion, had been the only woman Division I-A athletic director in the nation.

SI MENTIONED BRIEFLY James Carroll Jones, asso ciate athletic director at the Uni versity of Texas at Austin, has1 been named Texas Tech Univeiw sity's new athletic directory Jones, 54, will succeed retiring' Tech Athletic Director John Con-y ley on Sept. 1 The New Jersey Nets announced they have once again ended a search for a sue-" cessor to Stan Albeck, and parently will name Dave Wohl as head coach of the team where he ended his playing career eight years ago Veteran wide re--" ceiver Nat Moore, who had announced last year that 1984 would be his final season, has changed his mind and returned to the Miami Dolphins for the 1985 sea-1 son, the National Football1 League team announced. i Replace fluid, pan gasket, and filter on vehicles so equipped. Service not available for Honda or Mercedes Benz. mm The Associated Press Guard Joe DeLamielleure, a member of the Electric Company that "turned on the Juice" during O.J.

Simpson's record 1973 season with the Buffalo Bills, was cut Monday by the National Football League's Cleveland Browns, jeopardizing his streak of 175 consecutive games. Among the other notables cut Monday were veteran wide receiver Alfred Jackson of the Atlanta Falcons; safety Jeff Nixon of the Bills, and quarterback Wayne Peace, a castoff from the United States Football League who had signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Bengals. NFL teams, whose rosters generally number in the 70s and 80s these days, have to be pared to 60 players on Aug. 20, 50 players on Aug. 27 and the 45-man limit on Sept.

2. DeLamielleure's streak, which he shares with punter Ray Guy of the Los Angeles Raiders, is second among active players only to Dave Dalby's 189 in a row for the Raiders. The Browns also cut free-agent defensive back Terry Minor from Knoxville College, and punter John Vrnasco from Evansville. And quarterback Paul McDonald was nudged a bit closer to the cut list when Schottenheimer said rookie Bernie Kosar and veteran Gary Danielson, the latter acquired from Detroit, will play in the Browns' exhibition against visiting Philadelphia. The Falcons cut wide receiver Perry Tuttle, a four-year veteran who came to Atlanta last season on waivers from Tampa Bay, and free-agent rookie punter Mike Miller.

Nixon was one of six players cut by the Bills, who picked up free-agent tight end Eason Ransom, a six-year veteran with San Francisco and Houston. Among the five free agents dropped by Buffalo was guard Rudy Phillips of Arrington in LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) Janice Gibson of Tulsa, Okla. fired a 2-under par 70 on Monday to take the first-round lead in the Future Golf Tours' $12,000 Fort Leavenworth Open at the Fort Leavenworth Golf Course. Gibson battled 30 mph winds to take a two-stroke lead over Jane Sirmons of St.

Petersburg, and Michelle Berteotti of Pittsburgh. Sue Tonkin of Adelaide, Aus- bulletin board Mail information at least two weeks before the sporting event to: bulletin board, co The El Paso Times sports department, P.O. Box 20, 1 Paso, Texas 79999. Campestre golf The 28th annual Campestre Juarez golf tournament will be played Aug. 24-25.

The 36-hole, stroke-play tourney will be limited to the first 200 entrants on a first-come basis. Entry deadline is Aug. 21. Entry fee is $20 for members of Campestre Juarez, $30 for guests. Competition will be in seven flights.

For more information call Ruben Ramirez in El Paso at 533-0659. Softball search The Ascarate Mens Softball League is seeking teams for its winter league. Interested persons or teams can call Ray Madero at 779-0600. Riverside physicals Physicals for athletes at Riverside High School have been changed from Wednesday to Tuesday 8 a.m. at the Bel Air High gymnasium.

NFL camps North Texas State, who played four seasons with Ottawa of the Canadian Football League and twice was named the CFL's premier lineman. Peace, a former University of Florida star, was listed as Cincinnati's fourth quarterback behind Ken Anderson and reserves Turk Schonert and Boomer Esiason. Also cut by the Bengals were wide receivers Gary Williams and Darrell Smith, linebacker Bernard King and guard Louis Garza from New Mexico State University. Elsewhere: The Washington Redskins signed tight end David Her-sey, formerly of the USFL's Los Angeles Express, and cut tight end David Mills, linebacker Keith Biggers and running backs Greg Jones and Ron Jackson. The Redskins also formally announced that 36-year-old running back John Riggins had agreed to a contract for 1985 season.

Terms of the contract were not officially announced, but The Associated Press learned last week it is worth $850,000, the highest sum ever paid an NFL running back for one season. The Denver Broncos cut kicker Steve Schonert, quarterback Buddy Funck from the University of New Mexico, offensive linemen Dan Lynch, Russell Gallon and Mao Mao Niko; wide receiver Steve Price, defensive lineman Jim Joyce, linebacker Tommy Thurson and defensive back Nat Ceasar, The Green Bay Packers cut guard Dave Dreschler, who failed his physical after undergoing back surgery in the off-season, guard Leotis Harris, tackle Gary Hoffman, linebacker Cliff Lewis, nose tackle George Small, safety Mark Allen, tight end Curt Cole and guard Morris Johnson, the Packers' ninth-round draft pick. contention tralia was third with a 73. Seven players shot a 74 in the first round, including El Paso's Kristi Arrington and 1984 U.S. Amateur and World Amateur champion Deb Richard of Man-; hattan, Kan.

I Arrington is the reigning and three-time El Paso Times City Amateur Women's champion; She played golf at Coronado High and the University of New Mexico where she was all-America. Just a mistake ROCKLIN, Calif. (AP) The San Francisco 49ers' 1985 media guide, just off the presses, refers to Coach Bill Walsh's "vastly futile mind." A second, revised edition is planned. "It read 'fertile mind' when it went to the printers," the 49ers' public relations director, Jerry Walker, said Monday. Walsh has coached the National Football League team to two Super Bowl titles.

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