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Page 16 Southern Illinoisan, Thursday, July 10, 1986 (DUTDtiairiiiLcss a good shot at making the team are forwards John "Hot Rod" Williams and Johnny Newman and guard Mark Price. Bears announce signings of 4 players The Chicago Bears announced on Wednesday the signings of two veterans and two free agents. The Bears signed guard Mark Bortz, linebacker Cliff Thrift, running back E.J. Jones and wide receiver Steve Finch. Bortz, 6-foot-6 and 270 pounds, started all 19 regular-season and playoff games last season.

The former Iowa player is in his fourth-year. Thrift, out of East Central Oklahoma University, also played in all by Mayor Terry Goddard that at least three major-league baseball teams have been in contact about the possibility of locating here, one meeting being as recent as two weeks ago, but that he refused to name the teams. Cavs hire Wilkens Lenny Wilkens, who starred as a small but swift guard in the NBA for 15 years and who has coached in the league for 13 seasons, could no longer ignore his urge to coach again. So Wilkens gave up his administrative duties with the Seattle Su-perSonics and on Wednesday took on the task of coaching the youthful Cleveland Cavaliers. "I feel we will be a competitive team," Wilkens said.

"The thing I rr Sugar Ray Leonard said Wednesday that he will continue to train for a fight with undisputed middleweight champion Marvelous Marvin Hagler because he still has a "gut feeling" such a bout will occur. Leonard said, however, changes were fading for the fight to be held this year. Last week, Hagler announced he the Bears' games last season. The eighth-year player is 6-foot-l and .237 pounds. i Jones, 6-foot and 210 pounds, play Was rnmpmnianng rrmz r- May 1 of this year, Leonard said he would come out of retirement again only if a fight with Hagler could be arranged.

Hagler was expected to respond to that challenge last week, but surprisingly announced instead that he was seriously thinking of quitting the sport. "He (Hagler) needs to straighten out his life before this fight can come off," Leonard said. "But I still believe this fight will become a reality." Phosnix listed as possible site for Sox Phoenix, reportedly is among four cities being mentioned as a possible new home for the Chicago White Sox if co-owner Jerry Reinsdorf decides to move the American League baseball team. The Arizona Republic said in Wednesday's editions that Reinsdorf and club president Eddie Ein-horn have said they prefer to build a stadium at Addison, 111., where they own 140 acres, but that the franchise might leave Illinois if the stadium construction concept doesn't prove feasible. The Republic also said it was told ed five games with the Kansas City is piay an up Chiefs last year, his rookie season.

tempo game. It (f He formerly played at Kansas. i would depend on I our talent and not Finch is a 6-foot, 200-pound rookie I retirement, a decision Leonard said was not entirely all Hagler's. "The pressure is coming from his wife," Leonard said at a press conference. "He's not saying he wants to retire, wnat someDoay else does." Brad Daugher- 7 fVio 7frrf ran out of Elmhurst.

Tigers' 'Skeeter' Webb dead at age 78 James L. "Skeeter" Webb, a for VSTK1 I Vs-1 pJter who was the A A 1 lTS selection in I -IH llast month's NBA mer major league shortstop who was on the Detroit Tigers team that tv L. ",2 CN won the 1945 World Series, died at age 78 following a lengthy illness. he's Saying his Sugar Ray Leonard family wants him to retire." Leonard, who won 33 of his 34 professional fights, retired from boxing for a second time after he was knocked down by unheralded Kevin Howard in May 1984, but went on to score a ninth-round knockout. On Lenny wilkens draft, and highly regarded 6-6 guard Ron Harper, the eighth player taken, are among the Cavaliers rookies who are expected in Wilkens' training camp in two weeks.

Other rookies considered to have Services for the Meridian native were scheduled for today at Webb Funeral Home, said his son, John AP pnoto Midnight hoops: The midnight sun lingers in Fairbanks, Alaska, as these youngsters shoot some hoops at 1 1 p.m. The city is about 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle Robert Webb. From SI Wire Services Rozelle confident arbitration will fovoir the NFL dang plan See it here! ff NEW YORK (AP) NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle said Wednesday he believes an arbitrator will endorse his right to order random drug testing for players. It was that feeling which led him to issue his order even though the league's collective bargaining agreement with the players union specifically limits when drug tests can be done. "I felt that an arbitrator might feel that I could do what I did," Rozelle said.

Under the collective bargaining agreement, a grievance filed by the players association Tuesday will leave it to an arbitrator to decide if Rozelle has the authority to circumvent the contract with the players. The agreement permits testing abrogated the existing one 1st October and the union has challenged Ueberroth's right to order testing. "I have the right to do what I did for the sake of the health and welfare of the players to preserve the integrity and public confidence in the NFL," Rozelle said of the plan he announced Monday. Cleveland Browns owner Art Mod-ell agreed, "It's in the collective bargaining agreement that when the health and welfare of the sport in involved and we have to preserve the game's image and reputation," Modell said Wednesday. Tex Schramm, managing partner of the Dallas Cowboys, said Rozelle did not need the approval of the owners to order drug testing.

only once during the preseason and then during the season only if there is suspicion of drug use. Gene Upshaw, president of the NFL Players Association, said that while the union is "very concerned" about drug use among players, it will insist on upholding the terms of the contract. Upshaw, who has accused Rozelle of making a grandstand play, said the union also has an obligation to protect the rights of the players, especially confidentiality of drug counseling. In baseball, the union has been successful in blocking Commissioner Peter Ueberroth's attempt to have the players agree to voluntary testing. There has been no drug program in baseball since management I CAS-TURBO SR XTRACAB SPORT TRUCK STUrbo Off-Roader! Low Cost and Loaded! CHOOSE FROM OVER 60 TRUCKS IN STOCK! MM Cab Chassis SAVE! commercial Cab Chassis ready for a bed built to suit vour needs! LHJUL Affordable Adventure! i LOWEST PRICES EVER! TAKE YOUR PICK! 4ow in our showroom? Ki'jj It or Play "VZ CARCO VAN TTDncD ff awnnly Ston "-ra' 1 In-'inttoSotoUmp fiii5cHr.0RH 1 T.cr,U fitted flowci I cooties i 1 We've got em! if) Tj mI Check our LEASE prices! i II One Tough 1 Ton! WHO TOYOTA COULD ASK FOR ANYTHING MORE! lcV lrA TOYOTA MIELIL9 IflDME IFTOMMMGS TTDa IFainimSIly Sttaon0 MONDAY-SATURDAY 10-6 MASTERCHARGEVISA 993-8733 NEW RT.

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