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12 The Index-Journal, Greenwood, Nov. 20, 1984 raves serious about Sutter USC's Seawright named to NEA All-America team 1 ATLANTA (AP) The Atlanta Braves have extended a "very substantial" contract offer to free agent relief pitcher Bruce Sutter, said his agent, Jim Bronner. "We've started what we call preliminary negotiations," General Manager John Mullen said. "We'll see where it takes us." Owner Ted Turner said the content of the talks will be kept confidential this year in contrast to prior years when some of the offers were discussed publicly. "It's been well-chronicled what problems we've had with free agents who didn't sign with us," Turner said Monday.

"If we don't make public what we're thinking, there can't be a big letdown." The Braves also picked pitchers Rick Sutcliffe, Steve Trout and Ed Whitson in baseball's free agent reentry draft, but so far there has been no word on contacts with them. "The Braves have given us evidence that their interest is strong," Bronner said Monday. "The elements are closer to being right than anything else we've seen," he said. "They made us a very substantial offer. Are they in our ballpark? I don't know what the ballpark is, but it's a very substantial offer.

We're not there, but we're closer on this with them than we are with St. Louis." One of the stumbling blocks which led Sutter to declare free agency from the Cardinals is a no-trade clause, something the Card- Bruce Sutter Braves make 'substantial offer' for Cardinals relief ace. HOLMES, Washington, 6-4, 255; NG TONY CASILLAS. Oklahoma. 6-3, 275.

LB DUANE BICKETT, USC, 6-5, 235; LB JACK DEL RIO, USC, 6-4, 235; LB JAMES SEAWRIGHT, South Carolina, 6-3, 220; LB ERIC WILSON, Maryland, 6-2, 235. CB RICHARD JOHNSON, Wisconsin, 6-0, 195; CB ISSIAC HOLT, Alcorn State. 6-2, 190; JERRY GRAY, Texas, 6-1. 185; DAVID FULCHER, Arizona State, 6-3, 220. RICKY ANDERSON, Vanderbilt, 6-2, 190.

SECOND TEAM OFFENSE: QB Bernie Koaar, Miami RB Dalton Hilliard, LSU; RB Greg Allen, Florida State. WR Tracy Henderson, Iowa State; WR Reggie Bynum, Oregon State; TE Keli McGregor, Colorado State. Lance Smith, LSU; Daren Gilbert, Cal State-Fullerton; Jim Lachey, Ohio State; Andrew Campbell, SMU; Gene Chilton, Texas. PK John Lee, UCLA. DEFENSE: Leslie O'Neal, Oklahoma State; Tony Degrate, Texas; NG William Perry, Clemson.

LB Larry Station, Iowa; LB Fred Smalls, West Virginia; LB Tim Meamber, Washington; LB Greg Carr, Auburn. CB Don Anderson, Purdue; CB John Hendy, Long Beach State; Kyle Morrell, BYU; Bret Clark, Nebraska. Tom Tupa, Ohio State. HONORABLE MENTION Offense: Robby Bosco, BYU, QB; Damon Allen, Cal State-Fullerton, QB; Chuck Long, Iowa, QB; Ethan Horton, North Carolina, RB; Johnny Jones, Tennessee, RB; Rueben Mayes, Washington State, RB; Robert Lavette, Georgia Tech, RB; Chuck Scott, Vanderbilt, WR; Al Toon, Wisconsin, WR; Scott Gieselman, Boa-ton College, TE; K.D. Dunn, Clemson, TE; Jim Juriga, Illinois, Kevin Allen, Indiana, Larry Williams, Notre Dame, Trevor Matich, Brig-ham Young, Dan Eernissee, Wash- ington, Jeff Jaeger, Washington, PK.

I Defense: Tim Green. Syracuse. nals have refused. Sutter, 31, led the National League with 45 saves last season only four fewer than the entire Braves staff. Bronner said he expects to dis-.

cuss terms with Toronto and Baltimore this week. California, Texas and New York have yet to inititate negotiations. "Everybody thinks Bruce will just stay with the Cardinals" who have offered a $6.2 million deal, said Bronner, who called that package unacceptable. "But that's not necessarily true. He'd like to stay in the National League, but I can't say how big a factor that is." Nebraska, Mark Traynowicz followed in the Cornhusker tradition of 1981-82 Outland Award winner Dave Riming-ton as an anchor at center.

The place-kicking job on the '84 NEA offensive unit was awarded to long-booting Kevin Butler of Georgia. On NEA's defensive team, the surprise, besides the selection of Holt, was the development of Duane Bick-ett of Southern Cal into an Ail-American. This was a case where a unanimous pre-season choice, Del Rio, performed as expected, but the other outside linebacker, Bickett, was even more visible in the USC defense. So they both had to be picked. With them on the NEA All-America team are linebackers James Seawright, leader of unexpectedly strong South Carolina, and Eric Wilson of Maryland.

On the three-man NEA defensive front, Bruce Smith of Virginia Tech may be the most coveted of the '84 seniors, a one-man, 275-pound wrecking crew. Team him with Ron Holmes, top dog of the defensively supreme Washington Huskies. Between them put 275-pound nose guard Tony Casillas of Oklahoma (who was steadier than the huge Clemson middle man, William Perrv). In the NEA secondary, Jerry Gray of Texas is an Ail-American repeater at safety. David Fulcher of Arizona State, the only sophomore on the squad, is considered the best athlete in the Pacific 10 Conference.

Alcorn's Holt is a natural cornerback. Equally adept at pass coverage is another All-American, Richard Johnson of Wisconsin. In a year of many fine punters, Ricky Anderson of Vanderbilt was a close NEA choice over Ohio State's Tom Tupa. The complete 1984 NEA All-America roster: OFFENSE QB DOUG FLUTIE, Boston College, 5-9 34, 176; RB KEITH BYARS, Ohio State, 6-2. 233; RB KENNETH DAVIS, TCU, 5-11, 210.

WR DAVE WILLIAMS, Illinois, 6-3, 195; WR EDDIE BROWN, Miami (Fla), 6-0, 185; WR JERRY RICE, Mississippi Valley, 6-3, 205. LOMAS BROWN, Florida, 6-5, 277; BILL FRALIC, Pittsburgh, 6-5, 270; DAN LYNCH, Washington State, 6-4, 256; CARLTON WALKER, Utah, 6-2, 270; MARK TRAYNOWICZ, Nebraska, 6-6, 265. PK KEVIN BUTLER, Georgia, 6-0, 185. DEFENSE BRUCE SMITH, Virginia Tech, 6-3, 275; RON By Man-ay Oldennan NEW YORK (NEA) A college football matchup on the turf of Memorial Stadium in Jackson, this season featured an All-America receiver against an All-America defensive back a classic confrontation. Would you believe they pick up their campus fan mail in the country towns of Itta Bena, and Lorman, Itta Bena is the home of Mississippi Valley State University, for whose football team Jerry Rice catches an average of 12 passes a game and converts 25 percent of them into touchdowns.

Lorman is the post office for Alcorn State University, where Issiac Holt defends against passes so successfully that when the two schools met he "held" Rice to eight catches. He also returned an interception for a touchdown to help keep Alcorn undefeated. In a breakthrough, both small-school stars Rice and Holt were named today by Newspaper Enterprise Association to its 1984 All-America team. Dating back to 1917, the annual NEA All-America team is one of the nation's oldest such listings. The NEA syndicate includes more than 700 U.S.

daily newspapers. Rice and Holt join on the '84 NEA team such nationally touted heroes as Doug Flutie, the diminutive Boston College quarterback who has been the most recognizable figure of the '84 season, and Jack Del Rio, the repeat All-America linebacker from the University of Southern California. Flutie leads an explosive backfield that features the running of huge tailback Keith Byars of Ohio State and swift Kenneth Davis of surprising TCU, both Junior ball-carriers who'll be on the rampage another year. For receiving targets, little Doug has 6-foot-3 Rice, plus Dave Williams of Illinois, the most prolific pass-catcher in Division I-A football, and Eddie Brown, a big-play threat from Miami of Florida. (Three wide receivers were chosen because of a paucity of top tight ends.) Up front on NEA's offense, there is both awesome size and mobility.

There never has been a more heralded college lineman than Bill Fralic of Pittsburgh. Though his team experienced a disastrous season, his play held up to merit Ail-American selection for the third straight year. The 270-pounder is joined at tackle by Lonui Brown of Florida, who is even bigger at 277. It was more than a coincidence that Washington State and Utah produced strong running attacks this year their blocking was led, respectively, by NEA All-America guards Dan Lynch and Carlton Walker. At USC wins basketball exhibition the bench.

James and Foster combined to give Carolina a 13-7 edge then went on a 12-point tear to put the Gamecocks up 43-28 at the intermission. Marathon Oil, led by James 'Chubby" Wells and Bud Greer, cut the Gamecocks' lead to as little as five points in the second half but couldn't close the gap. Wells and Greer finished with 20 and 15 points, respectively. Also scoring in double figures for Marathon Oil were Larry Caldwell and Frank Kaminsky, who had a dozen points each. James finished with 11 points.

Matt Mayes added 14 points for the Gamecocks, Mike Britton had 15 points and Linwood Moye had 12. COLUMBIA (AP) Sophomore guard Michael Foster pumped in 22 points as South Carolina claimed a 90-75 win over Marathon Oil Monday in exhibition college basketball play. Foster scored South Carolina's first eight points, went nine-for-nine from the floor and our-for-four from the foul line and had nine assists. With all the Gamecocks but Foster cold from the field in the early going, it was a-nip-and-tuck game until freshman Keith James came in from Now you know Pete Rose has played in more winning baseball games than any man in the history of major league baseball. The Grooming Post MasswtaBataSanAaal BAGWELL'S KAR KARE "Complete Automotive Repair" 72 By-Paea Greenwood 223-5173 oog woofmng Cinnt faff 22941318 OteSTorT Pet Supplies fch You Can Dress for Success You Can Dress for Success Ray Childress, Texas Jim Herrmann, BYU, Lee Blakeney, Washington State, LB; Donnie Elder, Memphis State, CB; Ron Pitta, UCLA, CB; Tony Thurman, Boston College, Randall Cunningham, UNLV, QB-P, Rich Donnelly, Wyoming, P.

Changing USFL, set for last spring NEW YORK (AP) Just two months before its teams are scheduled to open training camps, the United States Football League was finally set to announce its format for 1985, its final season in the spring. The USFL, which has acknowledged losses of $100 million in its first two seasons, was expected to announce today that 14 teams, four fewer than last season, will begin play Feb. 24. Those 14 are the result of three mergers: the USFL champion Philadelphia Stars and the Pittsburgh Maulers into the Baltimore Stars, 1983 and moved to New Orleans in 1984, will play this season in Portland, Ore. The moves mean the league's first two champions, Michigan and Philadelphia, have relocated, both because they were unable to secure stadium leases for fall play.

In fact, the Michigan franchise remains in limbo because of a suit filed against it by the Pontiac Silverdome, with which it had a 15-year lease. It also means that since its inception the USFL has lost five of the top 10 television markets Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston and Detroit. who will play their home games next year in College Park, Md. then move to Baltimore in 1986; the Michigan Panthers and the Oakland Invaders, who will play in Oakland, and the Oklahoma Outlaws and the Arizona Wranglers, who will play in Tempe, Ariz. In addition, the Chicago franchise, purchased by Eddie Einhorn after the Blitz failed and were taken over by the league, was expected to suspend operation.

Einhorn says, though, he wants to revive the team when the league moves to the fall. And the Breakers, born in Boston in Bartkowski considering retirement? Ttlf mnQi rnoant enrain .1 out having to use crutches or be in somewhat of an invalid state. I don't want to put a burden on my family like that." for Less at Rosenberg's with All American Made Clothing! For Your Shopping Convenience We Will Now be Open Monday thru Saturday 9:30 am to 9:00 pm Starting Monday, November 5th Free Alterations Free Gift Wrapping Free Parking From Now Until November 21st between the hours of 6:00 pm 9:00 pm You Will Receive a 10 Discount on any Purchase made (excluding already reduced suits sportcoats) i-The Human Touchr am a great deal of pain because of bone rubbing against bone in a joint where almost all the cartilage has been removed. "I think about my boys," he said. "I think about being able to play Wif-fle ball with them in the front yard or throw a football.

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"I don't know where I am physically right now. I wish I could tell you what I'm going to do, but I need some time alone to seek what God would have for me. I don't want to make any rash moves. I don't want to say 'This is or 'I'm coming Bartkowski was sacked 10 times in Sunday's 23-7 loss to Cleveland. The 10th clobbering ended his season, and possibly his 10-year National Foon-ball League career.

"If that was indeed the last game, I still have a great deal to be thankful for," he said. "Sunday night was a time of retrospect and reflection in my life." He refused to blame his offensive line for allowing his brutal treatment. "I'll let you judge that," he said. "I'm not going to try to defend myself. I've given my heart and soul to the franchise for 10 years.

I've tried to line up and do my job as well as I can anygo out and perform to the level of capability God has given me. I think that's all anyone can expect of me." Sunday "was pretty frustrating," Bartkowski said. "One of those days when you'd rather not be there. We knew they were a pretty good football team, but I guess we underestimated their pass-rushing capabilities." This is the last season on Bartkows-ki's current contract with the Falcons, but he said negotiations and cash are not involved in his thinking about retirement. Bartkowski, who had major knee surgery in 1977, admitted concern about the damage to his legs.

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