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The Cedar Rapldi Paw tie: Nov. 28, Wt If Foster: Ali Can Punch Like Frazier Red Peppers By Eric Prewltt STATELINE, Nev. (AP) -Former heavyweight chamolon By Gut SchraAcr "He's a great, great fighter too good to fight light heavyweights," Ali said. "I didn't know anyone could hit so much with left jabs," Foster said he was bothered Muhammed All still charges by the weight difference but more by Ali's quick and con ter's comments during a post-fight conference. Then he repeated what he's been saying since losing a 15-round decision 20 months ago in the biggest money event in boxing history: Frazier "I want Frazier.

I don't want the division to die because the champion is killing it." Frazier has fought just two unranked opponents, for a total of eight rounds, since beating Ali, who has gone into the ring nine times for a total of 86 rounds in that period. The 33-year-old Foster, who stant lefts that kept him from scoring with his own dangerous "He's a great, great fighter," said Ail. "I've got a cut and a bruise. That's something that Joe Frazier nor anyone else could do to me. Little Bit Human "I'm a little bit human," he added about the cut over his left eye that required five stitches.

The only other time he was cut, Ali said, was in Ml third fight as an amateur when he was a Louisville, teenager named Casslus Clay. "But it's worth the $250,000," Ali said. He was guaranteed the quarter million for the scheduled 12-round fight in the theater showroom of the Sahara-Tahoe hotel. Foster, whose ring record is now 49-6, received $125,000. The live crowd was 1,941 the smallest ever to see All as a pro and the gate was announced as $165,000.

The fight was seen elsewhere on closed circuit television. The heavyweight division spotlight now shifts from this ski and gambling resort area to the island of Jamaica, where Frazier is scheduled to meet unbeaten George Foreman, ranked the No. 2 contender behind Ali, on Jan. 22. "If he fights George Foreman and whups him, that will make up for his idleness," AH said.

"He's fighting a good man the best besides me." Foster, the lanky 6-foot-4 sheriff's deputy from Albuquerque, looked like a basketball player in the ring with his heavier opponent. that Joe Frazier, the only man who has beaten him, is wearing a crown "too heavy for his brow." But Bob Foster, who lost by an eighth round knockout to Ali Tuesday night, landed a left Jab that cut the ex-champ early in the fight and later cut All with his remarks. "I don't think he can punch like Frazier," said Foster, the reigning light heavy champion who was knocked out In the second round by Frazier in a 1970 heavyweight title match. "I don't think he can beat him." All sat quietly, holding an ice pack to the swelling left side of his face as he listened to Fos left hooks. "A guy who weighs 221 pounds isn't supposed to have hands that fast," said Foster.

AH concluded, "He didn't know I was as fast as I am and I didn't know he was as good as he is." Foster said he plans to defend his title next month, although no match is set yet, and Ali will soon take off on an exhibition tour that will include several stops in the Far East. at 160 was outweighed by 41 pounds, gave Ali some of the roughest rounds in his 41-fight pro career despite beina knocked down seven times. Foster went down the final time 40 seconds into the eighth round. Mets' Matlack Is Top Rookie By Ken Rappoport 0 The Big Ten sent out a ballot the other day to pick the "coach of the year" in the conference. No doubt about our choice: Cal Stoll, rookie coach of Minnesota.

Sometimes it hurts an lowan a little to have to vote for a Gopher in anything connected with athletics, but we think Cal deserves the recognition. Minnesota was picked ninth just above poor Iowa by the Big Ten Skywriters last September. Few thought they would win any games. Indeed, they were underdogs in the Iowa game with an 0-5 record when Cal went to a surprise no-huddle offense and bombed the Hawkeyes 43-14. Since then the Gophers have knocked off Northwestern 35-19 and Michigan 14-10.

If they beat Wisconsin Saturday, Cal should get national attention as well as just inside the conference. Since the fans of C.R. Regis presented Tom Good with a beautiful new station wagon, we've heard others wondering why the same thing isn't done for Jack Fisk and other deserving coaches. Jack directed C.R. Jeff to the state 4A championship, climaxing an enormous seven-year record with the J-Hawks.

We're sure a lot of Jeff fans would like to do this, but it's against state law. We are told 68-B (Point 5) specifically bars state employes (and teachers in public schools come under the provision) from accepting gifts worth more than 125. Kennedy fans wanted to give Coach Mike Collis a color TV set last spring after his Cougars won the state AA basketball title, and school administrators had to point out the Good, of course, is exempt from this, as he works for a private school. 0 Promised Steve Burkhalter we'd give a mention to the Hawkeye Ski which has expanded its membership to 150 families and offers family skiing on an excellent slope within the C.R. city limits.

The group has been doing considerable work on their slope this fall, as pictured in The Gazette recently. People wishing to join may call Steve at 364-7103 or 362-5947. 0 0 0 Tickets, tickets. If you want to order some for the Iowa State-Georgia Tech game in the Liberty Bowl at Memphis the night of Dec. 18, write the Iowa State athletic department pronto.

They expect an allotment of about 6,000. Tickets are $7.50 each, and you should include 50 cents for handling with each order. Someone asked about the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery, the night of Dec. 27. That's the game in which Iowa's Frank Lau-terbur and K-State's Vince Gibson will coach the North.

Don't have ticket pricea, but you should write Allyn McKeen, Director of the Blue-Gray Montgomery, Ala. 36111. 0 0 0 For the second straight year Coach Bob Blackman has wound his Illinois football team up for a hot finish. Last year Illinois lost its first six games, then won the last five. This year the Illini dropped their first seven, but now go into the Iowa game with a three-game winning streak.

Part of the Illini resurgence has been the recovery of QB Mike Wells. He suffered a gashed finger on his passing hand just before the opener against Michigan State. He played that game but was badly handicapped. He missed the Southern California and Washington games completely, and was still bothered in the Penn State contest. His hand has been improving, and so has Illinois success.

Another factor in the Illinois comeback: Blackman has given the team a lot of cross-field laterals, fakes, reverses and pastes out of punt formation in recent games. They not only have worked bat have fired the imagination of the Illini to perk np the whole squad. For instance, against Indiana, Illinois' soph sensation, Lonnie Perrin, took a kick-off and started up field. Suddenly he stopped and whipped a lateral the width of the field to George Uremovich, who outflanked Indiana's coverage and fled 97 yards to score. The next game was against Wisconsin, and the Badgers had been alerted for this play.

So Perrin took a kickoff and started looking for Uremovich on the opposite side. Uremovich was screaming for Perrin to throw the ball. The Badgers stopped, then began converging on Uremovich. So Perrin turned and flipped a lateral to Joe Lewis on the near side of the field, and Lewis went 64 yards to the Wisconsin 30 before being tackled. Can't say Iowa is the luckiest football team in the world.

The Hawkeyes this year played Oregon State for the eighth straight season. Iowa won 19-11 for its first victory over the Beavers in four years and only its second in the last seven years. So what happens? Darned if the series hasn't run out with Oregon State, right at a time when it seems Coach Dee Andros' program has run into a sharp decline. Oregon State finished a dismal 2-9 season last Saturday by losing to rival Oregon 30-3. The Beavers, previously known for their rock-'em, sock-'em defense, gave up an average of 28 points a game this year.

So Iowa bids a reluctant farewell to the Oregon State series, and next year picks up (ouch!) UCLA instead! And Southern California (double ouch!) the year after that. NEW YORK (AP) Jon Matlack, who mastered a ma mm fmmmm aaaTauKjaaaaar HI jor league curve ball just last winter and used it to win 15 games for the New York Mets in the 1972 baseball season, to day was named the National League's Rookie of the Year. The 22-year-old southpaw was Mets in limited work, then pitched winter ball in Puerto Rico in an attempt to learn to control his curve. Getting the opportunity to face major league hitting also improved his confidence. Mat-lack stepped right into the starting rotation and wound up the second highest winner on the staff behind ace Tom Sea-ver.

Matlack had a 15-10 record with a 2.32 earned run average, the best on the team and the fourth best in the league. The left-hander started 32 games, completed eight of them and pitched four shutouts. Matlack was the Mets No. 1 draft choice from West Chester, a runaway winner of the cov eted award, receiving 19 out of a possible 24 votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America committee. His landslide vote total was the most since Kenny Hubbs of the Chicago Cubs polled 19 after the 1962 season.

The writers distributed their Pa. high school in .1967. He cuurently lives in Katonah, N.Y. Rader took over the Giants' regular catching job about a month into the season. His 1972 credentials included a .259 bat ting average, six home runs and 41 runs batted in.

Milner was a Met regular in his first full year, hitting 17 homers and compiling a .238 batting average- Catcher Earl Williams of the UPI Telepholo Atlanta Braves won the award fatter Goes frown from a Muhammad Ali Punch said, 'After all this, he has to be a After he saw me, I had to be called 'Champ' because I weighed almost 11 last year. Michigan Almost Got Ohio State's Henson pounds," young Henson contin Posada Will Boss C.R. Club JON MATLACK ued. Henson's dad, Ashville, Ohio, farmer Harold Raymond Hen I "Harold has good speed, he's excellent on his cuts and his By George Strode COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)-Ohio State fullback Harold The new C.R. skipper played Leo Posada, 36, will manage remaining votes to catcher son, was such a rabid Uhio the Houston Astros' first base parts of three seasons for the Dave Rader of the San Fran second effort is great," added cisco Giants, who received four Kansas City Royals.

nine games while managing the Cocoa club. He will be a non-playing manager in C.R. Posada will open spring train ing with the Cedar Rapids pitch "Champ" Henson, the nation's ball team for Cedar Rapids in the class A Midwest league in ballots, and New York Met out Posada currently is managing 1973. fielder John Milner, who got State football fan that he walked his son around Ohio Stadium as a 3-year-old. "We'd walk around it and talk about my playing there a team in the Venezuelan have better personnel at C.R.

next season. C.R. has replaced Cocoa as the Astros' only farm club. The Astros will have only one rookie team at Covington, Va. as they have dropped the rookie team at Cocoa.

Smith predicted C.R. fans will Hayes. Henson, who also set a one-game rushing record with 44 carries in a 27-14 victory at winter circuit. He and his wife ers and catchers about March Appointment 'of Posada was one. Matlack was a pleasant sur leading college football scorer, nearly went to Michigan because of tardy Buckeye recruiting.

"Ohio State didn't contact me until April of my senior year," the 6-foot-4, 221-pound soph 10 at Houston's minor-league announced today by George (no children) live in Miami, Fla. Leo was born in Cuba but base at Cocoa. About a week someday," Henson said. "We'd Clifford, president of the C.R Northwestern last week, vividly prise for the Mets, who needed a solid southpaw starter when is an American citizen. club, with the approval of the recalls how he picked up his later the other players will join drills.

The Astros have five diamonds at Cocoa for their four He had his freshman season Astros. The C.R. and Houston like Posada, and said the new nickname. omore recalled before facing as a manager in 1969. He direct do that two, maybe three times a summer." The Big Ten Skywriters forecast Henson would be the league's Sophomore of the Year clubs last week signed a work manager will be highly coopera the Wolverines in the nation ed Houston's class A farm club ing agreement for 1973.

"My dad hitch-hiked from Fort Eustis, where he was in at Cocoa in the Florida State ally-televised (ABC) Rose Bowl showdown Saturday. Jerry Koosman came up witn arm problems in spring training. Matlack spent three seasons with the Mets' Triple-A farm team at Tidewater before coming up at the end of last season. He lost three games with the tive to all types of promotional activities to help attendance here. service, when I was born," the! before the season began.

He's league. The teams had a 42-87 It nearly broke Henson's Posada hit over .300 in several No. 1 Ohio State ground gainer living up to the advance raves remembered. ith his rash of touchdowns "He had a tough trip and he and 759 rushing yards. record and finished sixth in the southern division.

After serving as a scout for three years, he returned to managing last year and directed the Astros' rookie heart. A nearby farmboy, he had dreamed of playing for the Buckeyes since toddling around Ohio Stadium as a 3-year-old. of his 16 minor-league seasons. He led the Texas league in homers with 26 and in RBIs farm clubs. When Posada brings his 1973 team to Cedar Rapids, it won't be his first trip here.

He played for Winona, against C.R. in the 1958 Three-I league race. His baseball record as a player includes these stops: l5-Corpu Chrlitl in the Bif State, Odttaa In the Lonfhorn, Laka Charles In tha Evangeline. 1955 Corpus Chrlitl In the all State. IM7 LI Hie Rock In the Southern, Columbia In the South Atlantic, Abilene in the Bif State.

ItSa-Wlnona in the Three-I. H5 Shreveoort In the Southern. "We think Leo Posada will make an- excellent manager for Cedar Rapids," said Tal Smith, vice-president of the Astros. "He had a long career as a baseball player, he has served our organization three years as a scout and he has been a minor league manager in our farm system for two seasons." with 107 in 1965. "By the time Ohio State con team at Cocoa to third place After six seasons in the (27-30 record) in the Florida East Coast league.

minors, Posada broke in with Kansas City for 10 games in tacted me, I had been to Michigan twice and almost went there. The only reason I picked Michigan was I knew I'd be "GO Club champion year after year. Smith thinks Posada will 1960, hitting .361. He played 116 nlairinrf in Cnliimhnc I xrirn in games for the Royals in 1961, and was sent down to Shreve-port after hitting only .253. In 1962 he returned to K.C.

for 29 games and batted .196. 1M0 Shreveoort in Ik Southern, Kansas City in the American. INI Kansas City in the American, Shreveoort in the Southern. I'M Kansas City In the American, Toronto In the International. l3 Toronto In the International, Honolulu In the Pacific Coast, Monterrey in the Mexican.

1944 San Antonio In the Texas. IMS-it Afliarlllo In the Texas. mr-Oklahoma City In the Pacific Coast. Itet-ef Cocoa in the Florida Statt. His last season as a player was 1969, when he appeared in SWOM(NI ft) Hl KlHV (kill) I 'IM (tNaMU ClM WNtMV I' 'i mxmi unaoa Retirement Today, more men and women everywhere welcome Canadian Club.

New friends appreciate its gentle manners. The pleasing way it behaves in mixed company. Old friends admire its unmistakable character. A taste not matched by any whisky, anywhere. C.C Rejects Bowl, Raps NCAA NEWARK, Del.

(AP) The placing in vuiuuiULU i iv i. three years," said the strapping, 19-year-old. Henson, however, chose Ohio State and has become another in a long line of brilliant Buckeye fullbacks for Coach Woody Hayes. His 19 touchdowns and 114 points not only have given him the national scoring lead. He's already wiped out school records shared by Jim Otis and John Brockington with that auspicious start.

Hayes avoids saying which of his fullbacks he favors, but will compare them. "Otis and Brockington were quicker. Henson has more power and is bigger," the man who has coached 22 Ohio State teams said. For Parker LOS ANGELES (AP) Wes unbeaten University of Dela ware football team, the No. 1 Parker, Golden Glove first baseman for the Los Angeles the taste that's ahead of its time.

Taste why, tonight. Prairie Girls Defeat Tipton Julie Jansa's 58 points led the Prairie girls to a 74-63 win over Tipton Tuesday at Prairie. Jean Rosenow had 28 for the losers. The Prairie team also won, 32-31, as Becky Hohensee led with 20. Nancy Edgar had 22 for Tipton.

Benton Tops Hawks In 7th, 8th Action Benton handed Prairie's seventh and eighth grade basketball teams defeats Tuesday at Prairie. Less had 24 to lead the eightli grade. 44-37. Ralph Becicka led Prairie with 17. Bariz and Silhenek each had eight in a 22-21 seventh grade win.

Gibney's 11 led Prairie. Marion Girls Win 4 Jr. High Games Laurie Klein scored 20 points and Marion's eighth grade girls' basketball team won at Vinton Tuesday 34-31. Julie Anthony hit 19 for Vinton. Marion also won the game 25-18.

In seventh grade play at Marion, the host team bounced Springville 32-19. Marion also won the game 51-11. Cyclones Rank Ninth With 41 8.6-Yard Avg. NEW YORK Iowa State university ranks ninth in total offense with an average of 418.6 yards, according to the latest ranked small college football team in the nation, has turned down a bid to the Boardwalk Bowl game, and criticized the Dodgers, announced his retirement Tuesday to "lead a more settled life." Parker, who was 33 on Nov. National Collegiate Athletic As ai i aai a sociation's college-division bowl VI 13, signed a letter requesting the Dodgers to place him on the voluntary retired list, left on a holiday trip and asked the National League club to release a statement.

"After much thought and de set-up. The vote to reject the bowl bid, which would have been Delaware's fifth straight appearance, was made Monday night but not announced until a statement expressing the players' reasons for the action was drawn up late Tuesday night. The statement cited two main reasons for the rejection: "The current system does not provide an opponent commensurate with our national liberation for the past year, I have decided to call an end to my baseball career," Parker said in the statement. "This de When you join the Air Force, you're already starting a better life. You get: $288 a month to start, plus room and board, guaranteed promotion, opportunity to travel to such places as Europe, Hawaii, Japan, and all over the U.S., your choice of job guaranteed, training in skills that you can use anywhere in military or civilian jobs.

For more information on all you can get from the Air Force, Contort: Ssgt. Lewis Orcutt Fed. BltJg. Cdar Rapids or call 362-9343 cision is not an easy one, as it is hard to give up something that I love and have been doing all my life. "My main reason for con eluding my career is to allow ranking," and NCAA allows only 38 players to dress for the which "does not convey a team; effort, and it was this team concept that enabled our team to finish with a 10-0 regular season record this year." 3 tSKlwSi' Wt myself time to enjoy the many Interests which I have in life while I'm still young.

The desire to lead a more settled life is another contributing factor." 1 The leading offensive team is Arizona State with a 512.6 flUS 010 IMPORKD III 801111 FROM CANADA 8Y HIRAM mm IMPORTERS IMC DtlROII. MICH. 8 PROOf. IUK010 CANaOtU WHISKY. Leo Posada looks ahead to 1973 average..