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THE oLOBE MONDAY. JULY 4, iae3 29 Comics 35 TV Radio 36 A fanfare for the uncommon MP on Yankees Sox gang II I I jpWIIIJMI. i I. 1 7TD vf ice man follow. It's not how strong you are, it's bat speed, and if I'm getting the bat speed for 200 hits, the 40 homers will come." It's just as Dwight Evans said: "You don't win pennants with one, two or three people.

You need contributions down the line." i As yesterday: Ojeda (5-3) came back from two forgettable starts against the Indians to pitch strongly into the eighth, when the heat finally wore him down. He threw hard, striking out Andre Robertson twice and Dave Winfield once with fastballs running high in the strike zone. He threw strikes, walking none after having walked 10 in the ln- nings of his last three starts. "I tried not to think," Ojeda said with a smile, "because I get in trouble when I try to think." What Ojeda demonstrated was what Ralph Houk has preached all along that he's got the stuff of a winner if he'll throw the ball over i the plate. And he did Just that as his manager was contemplating putting him in the bullpen.

Allenson broke open a 2-1 game In the fourth with a three-' run homer to left, his first of the season. Between his work behind the plate and his toughness at the plate, Allenson Is beginning to emerge as the leader of the three-catcher platoon system that Is, as Allenson says, "pretty tough on all of us." RED SOX. Page 31 By Peter Gammons Globe Staff NEW YORK As they crawl from the wreckage of the three smashing weeks lowlighted by Coup LeRoux. the Red Sox have slowly put some of the pieces back together! Two of three against the Yankees in Fenway. Two of three in Cleveland.

Now, two of three in Yankee Stadium, and, lo and behold, they're only four games out of first. In addition to the leaps and bounds in the standings, what's important about the last few weeks is the way the Sox have found supplementary parts. Yesterday, for instance, Jim Rice continued his rampage with his sixth homer in four games, his fourth in the series this one pounded into the Boston bullpen. 450 feet from the plate. But just as important were the other heroes of the 97-degree afternoon: a starter named Bobby Ojeda.

a short reliever named Mark Clear, an offensive first baseman named Dave Stapleton and a catcher named Gary Allenson. They came together for this 7-3 victory over the Yankees before a crowd of 36,430. Not that Rice's reign of terror isn't something to behold. The seventh-inning homer off loser Shane Rawley (7-7) sent people scrambling for record books to see when the last righthanded batter hit four homers in a series here (actually. Rice has 13 in The Stadium over his career and only four In Fenway, against the Yankees).

His league-leading 22 homers. 58 RBIs and 175 total bases project to a 47-homer, 124-RBI. 373-total base season with 196 hits. Asked whether he'd rather have 200 hits or 40 homers. Rice replied, "If 1 get 200 hits, the 40 homers will left fielder.

With respect but not with acclaim. "To me. you should go by what you put on the books," Rice went on. "Just put the numbers out there and that's It the stats speak for themselves." And with Rice, the stats are but shouting lustily. The homer off the Yankees' Shane Rawley yesterday was his 22d, the best In the American League; the RBI was his 58th, best In the league, and his batting average Is nudging .300.

In his last four games, Rice has six homers and 11 RBIs and he Is, manager Ralph Houk said emphatically, underrated. This is how Jim Rtce says he wants it just Judge him by his statistics but that Is far from enough. Because he Is black and because Fred Lynn accompanied his every step through Pawtucket, to Boston and to the World Series, Jim Rice has learned he cannot have what he deserves In Boston. So his bat talks and the pain is subdued. But never burled.

"I know I'm underrated, but I don't worry about It." said Rice. "This is my ninth year and I've consistently hit 30 home runs a year, knocked in 100 runs a year Those aren't my goals; those are my standards." Rice mentioned Thomas Bos-well's article in Sport magazine that had Robin Yount, Andre Dawson and Gary Carter for its cover boys. "But if you go back and check those guys stats with my stats, they're not even close. I know I haven't gotten the recognition but I don't worry about it." "Why not?" Rice was asked. MADDEN.

Page 30 NEW YORK Some balls are hit, but that ball was launched, a fitting homage to the monuments, its flight 450 feet through the oppressive, swarmy heat of the South Bronx to the base of Babe Ruth's and Miller Huggins' bronzed faces in deepest left-center. The ball was still white when Red Sox catcher Jeff Newman finally ran it down In the Boston bullpen, but it, too, should have been bronzed. "You don't get but one out of it," Jim Rice would say when asked if this one were extra special. "A home run Is a home run and It don't matter how far It, goes. If (Dave) Winfield had knocked It over the fence (with his glove), I still would have thanked him for it." Rice's reply was reflexive, an answer that smothered the hurt of too many years with too little acclaim.

Perhaps Jim Rice's only refuge now is to speak with his bat and deflect with his words; pile up the statistics but bury the pain In his heart. The wound Is now scarred but the scar is yet raw. History is repeating Itself in Boston. Boston learned nothing from its bittersweet years with Ted Williams, for Boston is now treating this left fielder as it treated that Both world records in 100-meters broken Story, Page 32 BREAKERS ARE BLITZED Boston won its game against Her-schel Walker (above) and his New Jersey Generals yesterday at Nickerson Field, but Chicago's defeat of Oakland kept the Breakers out of the inatigural USFL playoffs. Barry Cadigan's story on Page 30.

globe photo by john tlumacki iuu i.im in ii i I elivers Grounded, ground up LONDON -He was a tourna-ment-wrecker from the bottom of the world, frqm nearly the bottom rung of tennis respecta-bilty. What was he doing on Centre Court, spoiling DUD COLITIS three sets, McEnroe lost only nine points but four on his first serve. The opening game held promise. On the second point, a late call made McEnroe mumble a bit, then three points later he hit a backhand wide and Lewis led, 1-0. There the magic melted.

The four-time finalist won the next game at love, broke at love to 2-1, then held at love to 3-1. "I didn't want to let him get into the match," said McEnroe, who for his efforts was awarded $110,000 plus the warmest ovation he has had in years. "I wanted to win easily and do it in the manner I did." McEnroe managed only two aces with his mid-size racquet, and Lewis answered with just one ace from his oversized racquet (making this the first final with larger than standard-size racquets). But velocity didn't matter. Lewis never had so much as a break point against McEnroe, who won five games at love.

"He was In another class," said Lewis, who received nearly 100 telegrams from around the world even one from the Telex people, who told him they'd never seen such a one-day influx. "I'd have to be a better player to beat him the next time." Only in the second game of the final set did Lewis think he had played to his ability. Trailing. 30-0. Lewis hit a backhand return that landed perfectly, beyond McEnroe's reach.

But that came on McEnroe's second serve. By the next game, nothing Lew is did was even worth complaining over. McEnroe broke at love, then took a 3-1 lead before people returned to their seats. At the end, when McEnroe had won his 82d point (to Lewis' 43). a' champagne cork popped in the crowd and someone yelled, "Good work, John." "This feels great," said McEn-, roe, who lost last year's final to "Connors and the 1980 final to Bjorn Borg.

"It was a great opportunity for me; I wasn't playing Borg or Connors. I wanted to win it one-sided. His path to the finals was the most direct route, losing only one set in seven matches (to Florin Se-' garceanu in the second round) and drawing minlscule fines (a mere $500 for an obscenity shouted dur-, ing a doubles match). "I'd like to harness my emotions," said McEnroe. "I set out to' do that here." In the mixed doubles, 39-yearr old Billie Jean King was denied her 21st Wimbledon title when she lost her serve In the final game of the final set.

She and Steve Denton lost to John Lloyd of Britain and Wendy Turnbull of Australia, 6-7. 7-6. 7-5. By Lesley Visser Globe Staff LONDON No jeers, no catcalls, no menacing looks or deadly deadpans. Not even a princess.

The 1983 Lawn Tennis Championships (pronounced "shaumpionships" here), aka Wimbledon, delivered everything they promised. Not since 1974, when Jimmy Connors rope-a-doped Ken Rosewall in three quick sets, had there been a more one-sided final. Second-seeded John McEnroe, barely breaking a wince, won his second Wimbledon in 85 minutes yesterday, dumping 91st-ranked Chris Lewis, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2. The unseeded righthander from New Zealand (called "Kiwi" by the press for the Australian bird that can't fly) said he didn't read the papers before his final, knowing how they heavily favored McEnroe, and that his strategy was to get as many of McEnroe's serves in play as possible. So much for strategy.

"I couldn't do anything with his serve," said Lewis. "No one else on the tour is like him. He's an artist with the racquet. He varied the serve wide to the forehand, wide to the backhand, varied spin, varied pace. I was frustrated." And completely outclassed.

In the first set, McEnroe didn't lose a single point on his first serve. In all everybody's fun everybody but the All-American Pout. John Patrick McEnroe You never saw McEnroe smile so much? Hell, Leo the MGM Lion would have grinned and purred, too, if they'd led Chris Lewis into the lair with only a swollen-headed racket to defend himself. But he was here, and nobody could take that away from him, even though Christopher John Lewis had wrecked any hope of another thrilling Wimbledon final yesterday simply by being part of it. Yet, in a way, it was as much his tournament as McEnroe's.

It takes two for an execution, and the Flying Kiwi, possibly the most unlikely of all Wimbledon finalists, was pleased to offer his neck for McEnroe's impeccable work with gut-strung blade. "I was very happy to get this far. I guess it was a 100-1 shot, maybe 200-1. But I tried," said Lewis, whose strenuous ineffectiveness was only too evident to those among his 3 million countrymen in another After John McEnroe kissed off Chris Lewis yesterday, 6-2, 6-2, 6-2, he paid a little lip service to the Wimbledon men's singles trophy. ap photo world called New Zealand who bravely chose to take it on the chops with their improbable man via the telly at 1 in the morning.

Like the fairly silent majority in New Zealand 26 million sheep Lewis got sheared while his neighbors in Auckland and the rest of the planet-wide audience bleated their condolences. But Chris Lewis had disrupted the proceedings, the 106th running of Wimbledon, in a way that could only reflect credit on any athlete. The Flying Kiwi, stamped 91st and thus rated an inferior to approximately half of the 128-man field, had flung himself into the fray two weeks before like a guy climbing Everest in snor-keling gear. All but one of his six foes along the climb COLLINS. Page 30 USF boosters didn't go with the program jyp IS COLLECS BOOSTERS: Quintin Dailey was charged with assaulting a USF nursing student and subsequently said that he'd been paid $1000 a month by a friend of USF named Luis Za-bala for a Job he never attended, Lo Schiavo said, "There is no way to measure the damage done to the university's most priceless assets, its integrity and reputation." "That's bull." said Zief, a successful attorney in San Francisco.

"He wanted to kill the program. It was a financial mess, and this was the easiest way out. You don't drop a 50-year institution because someone gets charged with assault." Other alumni agree. Tom O'Connell, vice president of Dean Witter in San Francisco and president of the Dons-Century Club, said that the budget, not the boosters, caused the problems at USF. "Basketball was completely mismanaged and not promoted well," said O'Connell.

"USF ruined the greatest asset it had going. And did other schools follow suit? Did USC suddenly drop football? Did Alabama? We be- While the zeal of O'Connell and Zief may bias their assessments, there are others more detached from the USF scene who concur. John E. Cribbet, who as chancellor of the University of Illinois also deals extensively with boosters, disagreed with Lo Schiavo's decision. "It doesn't seem to me that abolishing a sport is the answer." he said.

"Athletics are too important, too meaningful to a university these days. Schools should struggle for control." It often is a struggle. In USF's case, the struggle had been between administrators, who were trying to stay within the NCAA's guidelines for amateur athletics, and boosters, whose set of values came more from the professional business community. When evidence surfaced that USF had broken the rules on the heels of two NCAA probations since 1979 the school hired attorney Sandy Tatum to investigate. And when Tatum recommended that USF drop basketball because it could not saying, "People were beginning to think we were hypocrites, stupid or naive." According to Zief, O'Connell and other alumni, boosters were never the problem.

John Duggan, who founded the Century Club five years ago (later merged with the Dons Club), thinks the charges are absurd. "We raised only $90,000 a year," said Duggan, a stockbroker whose office overlooks the Oakland Bay Bridge. "That's chicken feed compared to most schools. USF had one violation (Dailey's no-show job from Zabala), and the university wilted." Dan Belluomini, a former USF player who was told to run a clean ship when he replaced Bob Gaillard as head coach in 1979, was fired when a recruiting trip put USF on probation again. In that incident.

North Carolina center Sam Perkins said that assistant coaches from USF had offered him cash and a car to sign. The NCAA cited USF for illegal offers to Perkins on two occasions, once during a weekend 1980 Dapper Dan all-star game in Pittsburgh. Vlnce Combs, former assistant at USF, claimed that Perkins used the attention to his advantage. "He was playing three schools off against each other," said Combs, now a high school coach in Los Angeles. "Sam Perkins liked having USF, Larry Brown (UCLA) and Dean Smith (North Carolina) all after him.

"Hey, booster money talks. If you grow up in the inner city, you're susceptible. Cheating is widespread, but the NCAA doesn't help the situation. There will always be money under the table unless they make the penalty suffer." Perkins wasn't the only player to go on record. Guard Raymond McCoy told the Chicago Tribune that Belluomini arranged for cash payments during 1979-80 (denied by Belluomini as "blatant and that whenever he needed money, "I asked for it." POOSTFRS Pnfp rV OUT OF COHTBOi? Second of a three-part series By Iesley Visser Globe Staff SAN FRANCISCO The vein in Art Zief neck was bulging.

When asked why the University of San Francisco abolished its Division 1 basketball program last summer (only to restore it last month), Zief couldn't contain himself any longer. "Because Lo Schiavo is a dodo," said Zief. speaking of Rev. John J. Lo Schiavo, president of the university and Ziefs former good friend.

By most accounts, president Lo Schiavo had been hailed for dropping basketball when the school faced its third NCAA instigation in five years, but prominent Minnr from USF had viewed the pro-am's demise differently. Last Julv. when USF basketball plaver.