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Sports Today3C Horses5C Scoreboard6C Edwin Pope Sports Editor Love letters By SUSAN SACHS Herald Staff Writer DALLAS In the third disappointment in as many years Miami lost its bid to be the host for another Super Bowl when NFL owners Tuesday passed over the Orange Bowl for the 1985 and 1986 championship games It a complete snub At the suggestion of the New York Jets the owners postponed a decision on where to play the 1987 Super Bowl until their March meeting Rice Stadium was thought to have the inside track for that game before the meeting Miami Dolphins General Manager Michael Robbie did not make a pitch for Miami but spoke in favor of the postponement He said a hopeful sign for Miami but warned that it is unlikely another Super Bowl will ever be played in the landmark Orange Bowl again never been played there before but Rozelle said he is sure the NFL owners and fans have a lot of As expected the 1986 Super Bowl will be played at New Superdome New Orleans officials had told the NFL that due to previous convention bookings the city could bid only for the 1986 game Orleans was almost an automatic Rozelle said The NFL particularly liked the party atmosphere of the city which was the host for Super Bowl XIV in 1980 Rozelle denied that from now on the NFL will switch its lucrative Super Bowls from coast to coast even though that has been the pattern of the last few site selections If the trend continues chances for the 1987 game would be even dimmer because the owners might move the game to the West Coast again after playing in New Orleans four years from now The key for Miami most officials agreed is Joe Robbie And the key for Robbie according to his own statements and others from Michael Robbie is a new stadium The owner made that clear in 1980 in Hawaii where the NFL owners met to select Super Bowl cities for 1981 1982 and 1983 Robbie effectively killed chances with an outburst at the owners meeting against the city and the condition of the Orange Bowl Last year at the meeting in Detroit Robbie backed bids for the 1984 game but only he said because the Metro Sports Authority had been formed to seek ways to build a new football stadium When a countywide referendum to in-Please turn to SUPER BOWL 6C people of Miami are going to have to decide what they Robbie said they decide the Orange Bowl is adequate have to go along with the His father Joe Robbie owner of the Dolphins at the meeting to witness latest rejection His son said he had previous commitments to meet with bankers in New York and change those plans It is clear that without Joe support Miami might as well drop out of the running for the 1987 game and any subsequent Super Bowl as well club would have to want the said NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle The choice for the 1985 game Super Bowl XIX is Stanford stadium in Palo Alto Calif about 20 miles from San Francisco The Super Bowl has Jockey Jacinto Vasquez works seventh race at Calder but to no Dear Pope: Whoa boy I thought the i Snowplow Caper was a gas even though a (casual) Dolfan so wrong with putting a little fun into such a grim game? John King Tamarac 'i Dear King: Woe boy The Snowplow Caper was a farce so right about a coach Ron Meyer who should be setting an example throwing out ethics altogether I and blatantly demonstrating that anything i goes as long as it works? Would you want a teacher espousing the same principles or lack thereof to one of your children? rules are intended for the same pur pose as fairness for all Unfor-tunately nowadays too often seem to be getting the same kind of shrift as short OK by Boston Dear Edwin: As a transplanted Bostonian I find your outrage over ingenuity both infantile and amusing Nobody in pro football is more driven toward winning than Don Shula The difference is Shula stop at using a snowplow to clear the snow for a field-goal kicker as Meyer did for John Smith Shula would use a cannon Hilary Garthwaite Fort Lauderdale Dear Hilary: Given the history of failure 1 can understand their fans wanting to win any way they can However you obviously know Shula very well People who do perceive him as a rules fetishist who never has deliberately employed an illegal tactic to win If that sounds astonishing in an anything-goes age it is no less true business Pope: Football is a business right? Meyer was only being a good businessman when he sent the convict out with the snowplow right? What are you bawling about? Marc Copeland Miami Copeland: What bawling about is when football becomes so much of a business that sportsmanship ceases to exist a lousy business and the businessmen who run it and some who coach in it ought to be ashamed a sorehead Mr Pope: just a sorehead In a game where players often deliberately maim each other it is stupid to become so indignant over a little ruse like the Patriots used Keith Davis Naples Mr Davis: Soreheart would be more accurate right now that ruse like being a pregnant? a impropriety the same as being ethical? Dolphin safetyman Lyle Blackwood best described what Meyer did: As for players deliberately maiming each other any who purposely injures another should be suspended for at least a season and in the case of more serious injury should be suspended for as long as the injured player is out funniest Eddie: The Snowplow Caper was the funniest thing I ever saw and then you have to go and ruin it with your puritanical tirade Julie Rodriguez Hialeah Julie: It WAS funny At first It took a little longer to realize it was the same as say giving one prizefighter six-ounce gloves while the other is forced to use 12-ouncers or letting one pitcher stand 30 feet three inches from the plate while forcing the other to remain 60 feet six inches away Shades of George Allen Eddie: What you call cleverness reminds me of a conversation between Bear owner George Halas and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle back in the 1960s after assistant coach George Allen left the Bears to go to the Rams Halas was telling Rozelle that Allen was a liar and a cheat and Rozelle replied like a hell of a Tim Page South Miami Timmy: That may have something to do with the eventual fact that George Allen went to the USFL because he get a job in the NFL By the numbers Pope: 1 You seem to get it through that granite skull that the Dolphins lost because of poor quarterbacking and halfbacking and receiving and not because of the snowplow 2 What chance do you give the Dolphins against the Jets in the Orange Bowl Saturday if they show vast improvement in the aforementioned three categories? (Mrs) Lorraine Bergen Hollywood Bergen: 1 Yes I can 2 None Vasquez says Maple a plans defense Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fraiman Monday granted a 48-hour stay enabling Vasquez to ride his five scheduled mounts today it means that Vasquez will be able to ride until January or Dawson said by phone from New York we will appeal the racing decision to the Appelate Division of the New York Supreme Court That will continue to stay and allow Vasquez to continue riding until the case is decided we lose in the appelate division we Phils land Joe Morgan From Herald Wire Services Hayes his horse No Plan in suspended for one year by the New York SRWB for allegedly asking Maple to pull a horse at Saratoga in 1974 (Maple rode Sky Kingdom to a sixth-place finish in a nine-horse field in the race when the alleged incident took place) have no Vasquez said are taking word over mine And every time Maple testifies he says something different because Vasquez was scheduled to begin his suspension today However New York State i 1 It 4ft John Mahaffey: No more Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde promise and never break he said know that sounds awful dramatic But he gave up a lot for my amateur golf He was always there for me funny how other people can make you see yourself better than you could Mahaffey sat near a putting green as he spoke Tuesday at Boca West where he is paired with Marlene Hagge in the $160000 Johnny Miller Invitational a mixed-team tournament that concludes Thursday A can of Tab rested in his right palm Behind him a large tub of ice filled with and Michelob was Please turn to MAHAFFEY 2C BILL FRAKES Miami Herald Staff avail finishing last will take the case to the highest court of the State of New York which is the Court of Vasquez jovial a moment earlier while playing cards with other jockeys turned grim when he volunteered to speak in his own defense fighting for my reputation my dignity my wife and two daughters and my he said know why Maple is lying why is trying to save his own Please turn to VASQUEZ 5C Morgan 39 the Comeback Player of the Year last season batted 289 for the Giants with 14 home runs and 61 runs batted in His home run on the last day of the regular season beat the Los Angeles Dodgers and gave the Atlanta Braves the West Division title think I can play second base as well as Manny Tnllo because the Morgan said I think still one of the better defensive second basemen in the Phillies owner William Giles said General Manager Paul Owens had negotiated the deal at the winter meetings in Hawaii last week but that it could not be completed Please turn to BASEBALL 5C on upswing Even without their best junior player Guy Forget 18 the French team is favored to win this 39-nation tournament considered to be a junior version of the Davis Cup Admission is free to the matches being held at International Resort through Sunday was a pretty obvious No 1 said Marvin Feldman the tournament referee also in charge of seedings Forget may be the No 1 junior player in the world according to International Ten-ms Federation rankings but the French team is stacked without him Tank Benhabiles 17 and Loic Courteau 18 are ranked third and fourth consecu- Please turn to SUNSHINE 2C By LUTHER EVANS Herald Turf Writer Maple is a jockey Jacinto Vasquez charged Tuesday at Calder the New York State Racing and Wagering Board is a Kangaroo Maple is a agreed Sam Dawson attorney Vasquez has testified under oath twice that he never offered Maple any Vasquez twice the winning rider in the Kentucky Derby and fifth leading moneywinning rider in racing history has been Back again By GREG COTE Herald Sports Writer Some know John Mahaffey as a successful pro golfer with more than $1 million in career earnings and six tour victories including the 1978 PGA Championship But Mahaffey knew the alter ego all these years the loser he called mean drunk a vindictive In the mirror he saw a heavy beer-drinker who was drowning his motivation for golf and losing control of his personal life Mahaffey stuck to beer so much that he count cans buy by the case round would be over and a lot of the other players would head straight to the putting green or the practice he said Tuesday head straight for wherever the beer was There was always an excuse be celebrating a good tournament or drowning my Then something happened that gave Mahaffey an excuse to stop drinking something that succeeded where years of his words and tears had failed Seven months ago he learned that his father had cancer Seven months ago Mahaffey 34 drank his last beer Last month the golfer buried his father was right with him when he passed away I said I made you a Joe Morgan and Pete Rose who played together on three Cincinnati pennant-winners in the 1970s were reunited Tuesday in their baseball dotage The Philadelphia Phillies traded pitcher Mike Krukow and two minor-leaguers to the San Francisco Giants for second base-man Morgan and relief pitcher A1 Holland thereby assuring themselves of possibly the most ancient right side of the infield in baseball history First baseman Rose will be 42 next April Two-time National League MVP Morgan is 39 However the trade enabled the Phils to plug a hole at second base that developed last week when they traded Gold Glover Manny Trillo and four others to the Cleveland Indians for outfielder Von French tennis By SANDY KEENAN Herald Staff Writer Asked to name the greatest French tennis player ever most people hesitate mumble hesitate some more and then say either Rene Lacoste Yannick Noah or Charles DeGaulIe The French captured a Davis Cup title in years Their last countryman -to win Wimbledon was Yvon Petra in 1946 and Noah even grow up in France Sadly Lacoste is remembered more for alligator shirts than for his brilliant play in the 1920s But judging by the team seedmgs at the 25th Annual Sunshine Cup in Delray Beach French champions may nl longer be answers to obscure trivia questions I I.