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Page 26 JOHNSON CITY PRESS-CHRONICLE Sunday Jan 20 1985 Sports briefs eweil takes Compiled from wire reports Camacho pounds Burke in five to wipe his eyes his tee shots began to stray He fell victim to four bogeys his first of the tournament and had to work hard for a round of one-over-par 72 that lift him 2 t--second at 202 with Morris Hatalsky Hatalsky playing in the same group with Tewell salvaged a 66 with a scrambling back nine Peete who told tournament officials he was having difficulty with his contact lenses wiped his eyes repeatedly during the round declined to be interviewed afterwards and sought the services df an optometrist Isao' Aoki of Japan moved up with a 67 in the warm sunshine and was only three back at 203 Ed Fiori was next at 65-205 The group at 206 included Johnny Miller Chip Beck TC Chen Corey Pavin George Burns Bob Eastwood and Tim Norris Chen had a third-round 66 Miller Beck and Pavin shot 67s Bums had 68 Eastwood dnd Norris matched rounds of par-71 Peete a run-away leader through the first two rounds made his first two bogeys of the tournament on the third and Jourth holes but bounced back with a string of three consecutive birdies That rally enabled him to retain two strokes of his lead at the turn in the face of Tewells challenging 32 They matched birdies on the 10th By Bob Green AP Goff Writer PHOENIX Ariz With Calvin Peete falling victim to a rash of oogejra ttiiu an apparent auolgj attack Doug Tewell found the round he was looking for Tewell came from six shots back and moved into the third-round lead Saturday in the $450000 Phoenix Open Golf Tournament "All I thought about was shooting that low round I felt I had in me said Tewell who bounced back from a late double-bogey and compiled a third-round 65 six under par A birdie-birdie-birdie finish gave the 35-year-old journeyman pro a 202 total for three trips over the 6726-yard Phoenix Country Club and a two-shot advantage going into Sundays final round of the chase for an $81000 first prize "I feel confident said Tewell whose only two tour triumphs came in the 1980 season "I feel like Ive got an even lower round in me Fd like to see myself go out and shoot that low perfect round Peete a runaway leader through the first two rounds simply would like to be able to see The 1984 Vardon Trophy winner for the tours low stroke average Peete had missed only one fairway over the first two rounds But with tears streaming down his face and stopping occasionally AP Laserphoto Calvin Peete was bothered by eye problems Whats going on in sports today? ATLANTIC CITY NJ Unbeaten Hector "Macho Camacho returned from an eight-month layoff Saturday and needed only 15 minutes to pound Louie Burke into submission The former World Boxing Council super featherweight champion knocked Burke down in the second round forced him to take a standing eight count in the fifth ripped a cut on his nose and pounded his left eye to a slit before referee Larry Hazzard signaled the fight woa over ailer tile bell had sounded ending the fifth round It was the 25th victory and 15th knockout for the 22-year-old showboater from New Yorks Spanish Harlem Curry easily retains WBA crown BIRMINGHAM England Donald Curry of the United States retained his World Boxing Association welterweight crown Saturday night when he stopped challenger olinJonenf Britain 36 seconds into the fourth round Jones who was making his third attempt to win a world title received a bad cut on the bridge of the nose towards the end of the third round and the fight was halted early in the fourth after a quick inspection by the ringside doctor It was the first time in his career that the 25-year-old Welshman had been stopped Curry was making his fifth defense of the title he won in February 1983 and remained unbeaten after 21 pro fights 16 of them going less than the scheduled distance Springs arrested at topless bar DALLAS Dallas Cowboys' fullback Ron Springs was free on bond Saturday following a disturbance at a topless bar in north Dallas where two police officers were assaulted According to a police report Springs attacked the officers when they entered the bar to answer a call that he was creating a ruckus Springs 28 was arrested about 5:30 pm Friday at the Million Dollar Saloon police Sgt JJ Degan said When police arrived at the club Springs "became belligerent and assaulted the two officers Degan said Officers Vanessa Pitz and James Hughes suffered minor cuts and bruises Degan said Degan said police were called to the nightclub after Springs had been asked and refused to leave after "tiying to grab at one of the dancers on the floor Springs was charged Friday night with assault of a police officer a felony and misdemeanor counts of criminal trespass and assault He was released oh bond of $5000 posted late Friday Kings to ask for transfer approval KANSAS CITY Mo The Kansas City Kings are apparently about to ask the National Basketball Association to approve their transfer to Sacramento Calif Meanwhile a member of the City Council said he has come up with a five-year lease proposal offering new incentives in an effort to persuade the team to stay and continue playing in Kemper Arena The Times quoted two anonymous sources as saying that the Kings request to transfer and the new lease proposal would both be filed on the same day Nuggets Issel planning retirement DENVER Veteran Denver Nuggets center Dan Issel will retire at the end of this season Issel declined comment Friday night on the pending retirement but Coach Doug Moe told the Denver Post that a formal announcement will be made Tuesday "I knew he was thinking about retirement Moe said "And hed rather go ahead and announce it now than have people keep asking about it for the rest of the season Issel 36 had said at the outset of training camp that this probably would be the final season of a 15-year career He has informed friends of his decision and in past weeks has said he didnt need the money he would get by playing again next season and that he wouldnt continue playing at the risk of embarrassing' himself on the court Central edges Cosby by one BLOUNTVILLE Emily Williams sank two free throws with four seconds to play her only two points of the game to give Sullivan Central a 38-37 non-conference victory over Cosby Saturday mght Central 10-8 outscored Cosby 13-2 to get back in the contest after trailing 35-25 entering the final period Terry Christian led the Lady Cougars with 10 points Football Hall of Fame list trimmed SAN FRANCISCO The list of finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame was reduced from 15 to seven Saturday The seven include quarterbacks Fran Tarkenton Joe Namath and Rogfer Staubach running backs OJ Simpson and Paul Hor-nung center Frank Gatski and National Football League Commis-soner Pete Rozelle Pro Football Hall of Fame selection rules call for at least four but no more than seven new members each year The 1985 class will be announced Tuesday night The actual vote by the Halls 29-member Selection Board was taken Saturday but will not be announced until Tuesday 4 Waltrip testing new Chevrolet TALLADEGA Ala A Chevrolet that Darrell Waltrip is testing at the Alabama International Motor Speedway looks like the inside of a spaceship but hes more concerned about Fords than rockets Waltrip and his racing team arrived Talladega Friday for two days of test runs in prepartion for the Daytona 500 which opens the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National circuit next month Unofficially Waltnps fastest speed Friday was just under 199 mph In tests Saturday he reached slightly more than 201 mph That is just short of the 202881 mph mark set in December by Bill Elliott in a Ford 'This is an experimental session with Darrells new Chevrolet and he seems to be testing a number of different things rather than just speed said Don Naman the tracks general manager "The car is loaded down with all kinds of exotic instruments to record how the car is performing and all that equipment inside the car is certainly impressive Naman said much of the equipment is experimental and -not allowed during regular races One gets the impression at times that the whole world of sports is rolling along fine thank you but completely out of control Foi that matter perhaps sports is merely falling in line with the general feeling that seems to say "everything will be all right if you just leave it alone While President Reagan and Congress struggle to reduce a burgeoning federal deficit involving billions of dollars and few ready solutions sports grapples with problems like how much to pay college athletic scholars for their services how to have a playoff in football without losing $40 million in bowl money: or how to keep a bankrupt race track operating The furor over the reported use of steroids by many schools to enhance the performance of their athletes is also very much in the news adding to the impression of "whats going on here? Tennessees head football coach Johnny Majors has spearheaded the notion that some payment should be made to college athletes who produce lucrative "gates at the Vols athletic facilities as they do elsewhere across the country At the recent meeting of the American Football Coaches Association in Nashville a lot of coaches agreed that something along this line is necessary but stopped short of recommending a figure Majors had proposed $50 recalling that he received much njore than that back in the 1950s as the Tennessee tailback when a $15 per month stipend was supplemented by money he acquired selling tickets a practice not frowned upon at that time Illustrating the confusion on implementing anything at all on this issue is the disparity in the amount of money some want to pay the athletes ranging from $50 to $1000 In most situations it seems there are haves and have-nots Even in the Southeastern Conference where all 10 members go after the same titles each season so me schools are financially poorer than others Some might find it impossible to pay the $50 a month if the payment covers all scholarship athletes The bill could be from could actually leave much doubt if the pollsters err say between No 1 and No 2 or between No 2 and No 4 The roller-coaster sports is on today doesnt permit schedule evaluation but in any type of polling which omits an on-the-field or floor confrontation its obvious the weight of the decision will be heavy in the won-lost column Stock car racings latest bankruptcy isnt likely to affect the new season coming up At least thats what is being said now about the problems at Bristol International Raceway and Nashville International Raceway both of which are involved in Warner Hodgdons filing for protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act Hodgdon also has a halfinterest in Johnson-Hodgdon Racing which backs the cars of Grand National drivers Darrell Waltrip and Neil Bonnett BJR president and general manager Larry Carrier said "everything will go on as planned Junior Johnson said the proceedings would not affect the Waltrip-Bonnett team And in Nashville the season is expected to open on schedule Gary Baker involved at one time in the ownership of both BIR and NIR was reported saying things will be worked out there too perhaps with Baker returning as owner in exchange for a payment he said hed made on Hodgdonsobligations Hodgdon a California businessman listed debts exceeding $624 million and assets of $175 million Two of NASCARs presently prosperous tracks Charlotte Motor Speedway and Atlanta International Raceway successfully survived bankruptcy proceedings in the past Others of the 15 racing plants operated by NASCAR have had some money problems along the way but the circuit for the most part has run a steady lucrative course over the past two decades Taking your team off the floor in protest isnt very prevalent anymore so when it happens its news King College basketball coach Len Garner commenting on Em even larger They had different seminars on the various aspects of the firearm trade and how the firearms dealer can cooperate with the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms I got to hear a one-time employee of the Tennessee Fish and Game Commission make a talk He was Grits Gresham who is well-known to outdoorsman as the field host for ABC-TVs "The American Sportsman Gresham who provided the keynote address for the show is also shooting editor of Sports Afield The next "Shot Show is schedule for Houston in 1986 Future columns will deal with the many outdoor-related items I got to inspect during the show ory Henrys withdrawal from play in a game won by King 86-76 Wednesday night made a good point saying the episode took away from Tornado Mike Triggs 30 points and the 30 and 29 respectively scored by the Wasps Charles Dabney and Kevin Brown "Hopefully this wont end our games with Emory Gamer said "Its too good a rivalry to take it away from two fine institutions The Wasps took a timeout while trailing 84-76 with 1:25 on the clock but didnt return to the floor on time after the horti beckoned the players back into action One of the officials Ralph Woods handed the ball to a King player who put it in play resulting in an uncontested dunk by another player Charlie McConnell the other official asked about the situation said Saturday "It was our error We should have called a technical for delay of the game instead of putting the ball in play Johnson said he didnt know the timeout was over because of the crowd noise and because he was talking to the players McConnell said Emory Henry was' half-a-minute late in breaking its huddle which called for a technical foul It would seem that someone on the coaching bench not necssari-ly the head coach should be responsible for noting the length of the timeout to avoid future problems From sitting close to the Tennessee bench in Knoxville Fve noted that teams justifiably so utilize every second they have on timeouts At times it appears that the officials are depended upon too much to coax a team out of its huddle Id suggest that the officials the fans the players and the coaches would be better served by strict observance of the timeouts and that this violation draw a technical just as quickly as the others called If its important to stay until the last second the bench needs to have its own stop-watch tuned to the official one Gamer acknowledged that Emory Henry at the time still had a chance to win by fouling his team "and forcing us to make our free throws for 1985 Hiere will be a public hearing Friday at 7 pm concerning the Forest Service property known as Coal- Spring Mountain and the Appalachian Trail There has been stand-off between various groups on how this property should be used An attempt will be made to solve these differences by airing the views before mediators The hearing will be conducted at the Greeneville Light and Power Building All interested persons and groups are urged to be present to make their concerns public The duck season closes at sun-1 set today Jimmy iStfb Smyth $125000 to $250000 or more annually It would of course double at $100 or be out of reason at $1000 Besides that college sports would be proclaiming itself professional something a majority of university presidents would abhor But the big schools worked themselves into this embarrassing dilemma by building giant and expensive to maintain athletic facilities to showcase student-athletes who are expected to be happy with the bare necessities of tuition meals and lodging The scholarships jo to a wide range of athletes coming from different economic climates and this produces a have and have-not situation on an individual as well as school basis Therell be more talk on this one by all concerned before any concrete action is taken As for the playoffs in football an agreement down the road seems probable but only if the basic bowl idea is retained When the Rose Bowl is paying close to $6 million to each of its participants you can wager that the Pac-10 and Big Ten arent eager to get involved in a national playoff that could endanger that arrangement The same of course to perhaps a lesser degree applies to the other postseason extravaganzas A two-team playoff after the bowl games could eventually be adopted Georgias Vince Dooley said he would favor that Dooley envisions a college super bowl pairing the nations No 1 and No 2-ranked teams in the week prior to the NFL Super Bowl Many fans would have liked to have seen national champion Brigham Young play one more game this season to erase all doubts Again though the mythical status of the championship now Howard Earnest firearms and ammunition to archery axes backpacks sleeping bags belt buckles binoculars black powder blinds boats clothing compasses leather goods reloading equipment and much more In mj' attempt to see all of the -exhibits I figured I covered more than five miles of aisles Exhibits covered the area of about 10 football fields 1 Shot Show becomes ATLANTA The Shooting Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show better known as the "Shot Show already the largest show of its kind in the world became even larger in 1985 as more than-925 exhibitors from 40 nations displayed their shooting products and services to about 25000 attendees The show which dominated two floors of the massive Georgia World Congress Center last week was a supermarket of new and traditional products for the outdoor and shooting sports enthusiast The show is considered the premier trade show of the industry including everything from Former UT athlete admits steroid use NASHVILLE Tenn A former Univesity of Tennessee football player keeping his identity a mystery has said he used steroids while at the Knoxville school and credited them with helping his performance "To be honest I doubt I would be as far along in my athletic career as I am now if I had not used steroids the former student said in a television interview "Personally I feel they did help me and I know for a fact that they helped others During the interview with WTVK-TV in Knoxville and also shown on WSMV-TV in Nashville Thursday the former student was in shadows and his voice electronically altered I mOodm MrnJm i I.