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Founded 1902 THE JUNE 11, 1982 Gettysburg Times I Sports PAGE NINE Champ is 9-5 favorite i Holmes hopes to silence his critics By ED SCHUYLER JR. AP Sports Writer LAS VEGAS, Nev, (AP) Larry Holmes. 32, and thought by some observers to have slipped as a fighter, defends the World Boxing Council heavyweight title Friday night against 25-year- old Gerry Cooney, a question mark in such areas as experience and stamina. It is a battle of two unbeaten fighters in a classic confrontation of boxer vs. puncher.

Although a 9-5 favorite. Holmes once again seems to be in the position of having to prove himself this time against a 6-foot-7 slugger. "Larry Holmes wants to win this fight even more than when he won the championship," said Eddie Futch. Holmes' 70-year-old trainer. "This is a fight my kids have to live with the rest of their life my brothers, my family," said Holmes.

A win won't assure Holmes of someday attaining the status of being a great heavyweight champion, but a loss would probably keep him from attaining that goal. While the hype for what could be boxing's richest fight has centered on the fighters' records and their styles, never far beneath the surface has been the matter of race. Cooney get? rankled over being called "a white hope." "There is no color involved." said the challenger "I'm just a fighter I don't want people thinking of me as a "white hope I don't want to be labeled." Cooney has been reluctant to talk about Holmes the past few weeks, but the challenger once said. "I'd say there's some racism in Larry Holmes." Holmes has said he feels Cooney's climb to the position was made easier by his being white, but the champion becomes visibly upset over suggestions that he is a racist "I'm very bitter about labels being put on me," said Holmes. "I feel we all got a little prejudice in our hearts." Holmes' 12th defense of the title he won on a split decision over Ken Norton June 9,1978.

is set for 8 p.m PDT Friday in a 32.500-seat outdoor stadium built on a Caesars Palace parking lot. The fight, co-promoted by Don King and Sam Glass of Tiffany promotions in association with Caesars Palace, will be shown on closed-circuit television at 318 locations, with a total of about 2 million seats, in every state but Delaware and in Canada It also will be beamed live and on a delayed basis to many other other countries. It will be seen in the United States June 25 when ABC. which paid $3 million for the rights, will show it from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.

EOT. Holmes, who has a 39-0 record, with 29 knockouts, and Cooney, 25-0, with 22 knockouts, each stand to make as much as $10 million on percentage deals. Their guarantees reportedly are S3 million apiece. Also on the card are another championship bout and 10-round heavyweight matches pitting unbeaten Greg Page against Trevor Berbick, who went 15 rounds against Holmes, and James "Quick" Tillis against veteran Earnie Shavers The other title fight will be Wilfred Gomez' 15th defense of the WBC super bantamweight title against Juan Antonio Lopez Gomez, of Puerto Rico, scored a seventh-round knockout over Lopez, of Mexico, in a title bout in 1978. Holmes wil! be fighting for the first time since getting off the floor in the seventh round to stop Renaldo Snipes in the llth last Nov 6, and the seven-month layoff is the longest he has had since becoming champion.

It will be Cooney's first action since he knocked out Norton in 54 seconds May 11. 1981. and the postponement from March 15 because of an injury to his left shoulder means the challenger will go into the ring with less than six full rounds of fighting in the last 30 months. Brewers stop O's streak with 9-7 win By The Associated Press MILWAUKEE "After they tied it from a 7-3 deficit. I started wondering which way this ballclub is going," said Milwaukee Brewer outfielder Ben Oglivie.

Ogliyie then took matters into his own hands, lining a two-run, tie-breaking double in the eighth inning to lead the Brewers past to a 9-7 victory over the Orioles Thursday. Oglivie's heroics spoiled a 17-hit Baltimore barrage that included four homers as the Brewers snapped their three-game losing streak and the Orioles' five-game winning streak. "Any time you get 17 hits and four homers, you should win the game," said Orioles Manager Earl Weaver Trailing 7-3, the Orioles rallied for two sixth-inning runs off Milwaukee reliever Jim Slaton and then tied it with two more in the seventh off Rollie Fingers, last year's American League most valuable player and Cy Young Award winner. I didn't have my good stuff." Fingers said. "I had a a a decent breaking a a a a decent forkball and not a good fastball at a I hadn't thrown in four or five days, so last night I aired it out in the bullpen.

It never fails. After you get up and throw hard to get some work, you're in there the next day Fingers still had enough to retire the Orioles in order in the ninth inning to pick up his third wjn against five defeats Oglivie's hit came off Oriole reliever Tim Stoddard, who relieved loser Tippy Martinez after Jim Gantner led off with a single and was sacrificed to second. Stoddard and Martinez, who were expected to be a strong late-inning relief tandem, have both been struggling. "It seems like if one isn't giving it up. the other is." Weaver said.

The Orioles tied the game 7-7 with two runs in the seventh on an RBI groundout by Eddie Murray and a run- scoring single by pinch-hitter John Lowenstem off Fingers. Milwaukee took a 6-3 lead with four runs in the third that chased Baltimore starter Sammy Stewart. With one out, Don Money. Oglivie and Gorman Thomas singled to load the bases before Roy Howell's opposite-field double into the left field corner knocked in Money and Oglivie. Charlie Moore then rounded out off reliever torm Davis to score (Continued on page 10) i 4 1 World Boxing Council heavyweight champion Larry Holmes clutches his championship belt as he poses for pictures during Thursday's weigh-in for his I- nday match with Gerry Cooney at Caesar's Palace in Vegas.

Holmes weighed 212L. while Cooney tipped the scales at (APLaserphoto) Division-leading Braves surprising but how about them Padres? There is probably just one thing more surprising about the 1982 baseball season than the Atlanta Braves' hold on first place in the National League West: San Diego's grasp on second place. Since their inception in Padres have been somewhat of a constant factor in the fast-changing baseball Loose Talk By JIM LOOSE Times News Editor world. They were bad in 1969 and they were bad in each of the succeeding seasons. Suddenly, that appears to have changed.

Throughout the years, the San Diego ownership has tried many routes in an attempt to provide a winner. They've had eight managers, ranging from Preston Gomez to Alvin Dark to Jerry Coleman to Dick "Williams, the current skipper They even took the novel approach a couple of years back oi trying their broadcaster I Coleman as manager. They've tried rebuilding programs, although it was always kind of tough to figure out how the Padres could rebuild when they never really built in the first place. They've tried trades lots of them. They've signed free agents, notably Rollie Fingers and Gene.Tenace.

They even created a chicken. But until 1982, nothing worked. It's not easy to pinpoint what caused the turnaround. The Padres were still quite bad as the 1981 season ended They made some trades over the winter, but they seemingly weren't enough to change the over night. Much of the credit, it would seem, should go to Williams, who has proven his managerial ability at several major league locations, most recently Montreal.

Right from the Williams said he would work with the young talent in an attempt to develop a winner. It's worked, a lot quicker than he probably ever expected it to. Pitching has been one of the keys to the team's success. The Padres, as a team, have been among the league leaders in pitching stats during the first couple of months of the season. And they've been there with guys like Tjm Lollar and Chris Welsh starting and Eric Show.

Floyd Chiffer and Luis DeLeon coming out of the bullpen. Those aren't exactly what you call household names The latter three are all rookies. Welsh and Lollar are in their second seasons in the big leagues. It's the same thing with the rest of the team Ruppert Jones and Garry Templeton are familiar names But how about Alan Wiggins 9 Luis Salazar? Juan Bonilla? Not quite General manager Jack McKeon should probably get a lot of the credit for assembling this group. The trade sending Ozzie Smith to St.

Louis for Templeton is well-known to baseball fans. So is the one that brought catcher Terry Kennedy from the Cardinals in a multi-player swap. But McKeon has quietly done a masterful job with much of the rest of the club, acquiring Bonilla mow injured) from Cleveland for Bob Lacey He got Salazar from Pittsburgh in a deal that cost only Kurt Bevacqua and Mark Lee Wiggins was drafted from the Dodgers. Welsh and Lollar came from the Yankees in the Jerry Mumphrey trade, along with Jones And then he capped it off by picking the right man to manage the team. The winning might not last the entire season After all.

it is only June. But it's kind of amazing to see the Padres near the top even this far into the season. San Diego can only be considered one of the surprises of the 1982 season. After all. who would have expected the Reds and Astros to be battling for the basement in the N.L.

Wesf the Mets to be winning some games with George Foster hitting few home runs? a guy named LaMarr Huyt to be the top pitcher in the American League, if not all of baseball? Geoff Zahn. Steve Renko. Bruce Kison and Ken Forsch to give the Angels a formidable starting rotation? even Minnesota to lose so many games, so fast and so easily? Steve Garvey to actually a prolonged slump? Tim Raines to lag base-stealing counterparts like Omar Moreno. Lonnie Smith and Bob Dernier? the Royals to stay so close to the top of the A.L. West with their team riddled by injuries all season? Chicago's Salome Barn.jas and Ernesto Escarrega would become top-flight relief pitchers so soon'' Oakland would be close to the bottom of the league in team pitching statistics 0 Don Sutton to get oft to an excellent start after it was rumored a shattered kneecap might end his career? Detroit and Boston to quietly battle for first place in the A L.

East while the Orioles and Brewers tn, to figure out what the heck has wrong'' Those are some of the surprises. But some things, it seems, stay the same. After all. George Stembrenner did fire a manager, didn't he? The 1981-82 sports year in review FALL: Warriors falter but Eagles, Colonials pick up slack Editors null': I he following the in a of three articles which take a quick look hack through the 1981-1982 scholastic year. By PHIL GLATFELTER Times Sports Writer Gettysburg's Blue Mountain League basketball championship highlighted Adams County's scholastic sports scene in the 1981-82 school year.

But a lot happened before the Warriors' magical finish and as much occurred after it. So, let's start at the beginning and the beginning of any scholastic sports season always means football. Without a doubt, the preseason choice for the team to beat was Gettysburg High School, just as it had been the past two years. The Warriors entered the season with a 26-game winning streak, tied for longest in the state. A 6-0 win over Chambersburg extended it to 27 and it appeared the Warriors were well on their way to another good season and possibly another BML title.

But from that point on, the wheels of Gettysburg's cart fell off. Gettysburg dropped a 13-8 decision to non-league contender Susquehan- nock to end its streak. Things didn't improve as the warriors nose-dived to a 3-7-1 season. Despite that losing record, the team was in every game. The breaks that went its way in the past had turned against the Warriors.

In the wake of Gettysburg's demise, two surprise teams arose New Oxford and Bermudian Springs. Both with similar stories (both were young teams and had lost a good bit from the 1980 season the two teams were right at the top for most of the year. The Colonials reeled off six straight wins to open the campaign while Bermudian. after two opening. non-league losses, also reeled off six straight wins Keying New Oxford was a defense that allowed no more than seven points in any game with the exception of 21 against Waynesboro.

Bermudian relied on an almost equally as tough defense and an awesome running game, led by 1000-yard rusher Wayde Stambaugh 1.036 yards on the year). But lurking in the background throughout the entire year was a tough Waynesboro team in its first year in the league. The Indians suffered their only defeat of the BML campaign at York Springs. 7-0. on October 10.

New Oxford was knocked from contention when the Indians handled the Colonials to a tune of 21-6 and Littlestown tied them. 7-7. in-back-to-back games. Bermudian Springs, at one point 4-0 in the di- vision, was dealt its first derailment by Gettysburg in a 6-6 tie The next week. New Oxford bumped off the Eagles and all but i i a chances The List week of the season set up some curious possibilities.

Waynesboro sat atop the division with a 5-1 a i FALL CLASSICS While Bermudian Springs running back Wayde Stambaugh (above) was ripping through opposing defenses for over 1,000 yards in his junior year, crosscountry standouts Kevin Kendle of Greencastle and Greg Beegle of Gettysburg (left) renewed their rivalry for supremacy in the Blue Mountain League. (Times Photos) Bermudian Springs and New Oxford were so close, yet so far at 4-1-1. If upstart James a a could defeat Waynesboro. the Eagles or Colonials had new life. If the Rockets should happen to tie the Indians, the chance for a three-way tie would have arisen But the Indians were able to knock off the Rockets and settle the outcome once and for all The i a standings showed Waynesboro at 6-1.

i a at 5-1-1 and New Oxford at 4-1-2 i after tying Greencastle the last gamei. Littles- iown was close behind 4-2-1. Wayneshorn sented the Southern Di vision against Northern but came up on the short end of a 19-16 score in the a i i game In the other fall sports Littlestown took the BML girls' field hockey Southern Division title with a 1 0 playoff win over Biyler- ville The Stickers fell to Waynesboro for the league title, 3-2. on a penalty stroke-off Going mtc the last week of the season. Littlestown was tied with Biglemlle and Greencastle for the lead Rut New Oxford defeated Greencastle to i i a a possible three-way tie and the Stickers downed the Canners in the playoff game.

Littlestown became the only BML Southern Division field hockey team ever to advance as far District I I I semi- unals. The Stickers downed Cocalico 1-0 in overtime before losing to West Perry. )-2. and Reading Holy Name. 3-0.

In cross country. Gettysburg a i a i its usually powerful team but fell for the second year in a row to equally as powerful Greencastle. That one loss separated the two: Greencastle first. Gettysburg second. The Blue Devils also took the Conference meet tUle (38-51: next closest competitor being Big Spring with 154) The in- i i a a of Kevin Kendle and Greg Beegle was a.s light as the matchup, with Kendle beating Beegle to the line one second.

Gettysburg was number one in the District ill meet i Class A A A i not a i to contend i Greencastle (Class A A Beegle again second. i i i of Penn Manor The a i took iiumber five in the state and Beegle finished in the top 10 In golf, the only team to 1o well was Littlestown Ahich fmisncd third with 7-3 record Biglervillc second in girls tennis with a 7-3 mark. Fairfield suffered through a downswing the usual excellence of its soccer program The i.reen Knights finished i a 7-6-2 record overall and failed to make the playoffs.