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The Call-Leader from Elwood, Indiana • Page 9

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The Call-Leader, Thursday, July 24. ISM PAG9 Efraetfo Cblt'st Camp Update, D011 v. bassBalC KANSAS Kan-ai City, Royals Manager. Dick Howsfcr, suffering from a cancerous Urain tulJJor that doctor could not completely remove, waa listed in fair condltlonVt'St: Luke's Hospital. A.

malignant tumor known as a glioma was discovyreU during a three-hour optration Tuesday. Doc- ton said only of the tumor was removed beciusoFfejfrs that additional surgery would damage other -f- lured reserve list. "Whether it's been bad luck or what, I've got something to prove and won't quit until I've done it." The injury, a dislocated kneecap during a pre-season practice, seemed basic enough. An allegedly simple arthroscopic surgery figured to remedy the problem in a hurry. Instead, the blood flow stopped between his knee and ankle.

The surgeon had to make an' incision in his calf to induce blood flow, otherwise, he may have lost the leg. "It Shook me up," Harbour said. "You start to wonder about what you've done to deserve it, then you know, all you can do is work your way out of it." On paper, though, it was the third straight year Harbour did not play a full football season. His last two seasons at Ole Miss were marred by muscle pulls and another knee'injury. Were it not for these injuries, chances are the 6-1, 190-pound receiver with 4.5 speed would have been taken in the first three rounds of the NFL draft as opposed to, early in the seventh round.

"No question about it," Colts receiver coach' Chip Myers said. "He's got great talent he's got a legitimate chance to be a star. He's ANDERSON, Ind. (API r- "I'm on a mission'this year," says Indianapolis receiver James Harbour, out to prove he doesn't deserve the reputation of injury prone. "I can't' wait to play football," said the Colts second-year wide receiver.

Before I got; hurt last year, I was doing well, and I knew everybody was happy with I had a real chance to. contribute, and 1 know I let a few people down. That won't happen again." "People can say what they want about me," said Harbour, who spetit the 1985 season on the National Football League Colts' in- Grand Jury trying to get the facts vantage International, received the subpoena last week, Lee Fentress, the senior partner, told The Sun. Amongt those not yet are Terry Long and David Gregg, two fellow basketball players, and Brian! Lee Tribble, a friend of Bias. AH three were in the dorm room when he collapsed.

Marshall has said he would wait until he had finished with other witnesses before deciding whether to subpoena Long and Gregg. Under Maryland law, anyone subpoenaed before a grand jury in a drug case is immune from prosecution on related charges. Transactions filed by lawyers for the.zt-year-old brothers. The attorneys.had argued jurors shouldn't have been allowed to hear the recorded telephone venations of two people-accused of being drug suppliers. WASHINGTON (AP)'-Opening arguments before a neutral arbitrator began in the dispute over National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle's plan to ran domly test players as part of a sweeping new drug program for the league.

Lawyers for the NFL, the NFL Management Council and the NFL Players Association are all scheduled to present their point of view in the closed hearing before Philadelphia arbitrator Richard R. Kasher. Opening arguments will continue Thursday and then move to New York next week, with no ruling expected until September. ROCHESTER, Mich. (AP) Billy Sims, the Detroit Lions' all-time leading rusher in just five seasons gave up efforts to return from a 1984 knee injury and ended his NFL career.

Sims, the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner from Oklahoma, was Detroit's No. 1 pick in the 1980 draft, In fewer than five seasons, he broke ten team records, including most career rushing yards. TENNIS BASTAD, Sweden (AP) Italian Paolo Cane upset third-seeded Joakim Nystrom of Sweden 2-0, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the $125,000 Swedish Open tennis championships. i Top-seeded Mats Wilander downed Claudio Pistolesi of Italy 6-4, 6-2 in the remaining first-round match. Second-seeded Stefan Edberg defeated Juan Antonio Rodriguez of (Spain 6-3, 6-2, in the second round.

Other second-round victors included sixth-seed Emilio Sanchez of Spain and No. 8 Ulf Stenlund of Sweden. PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia' (AP) Martina Navratilova struggled to beat a Spanish teen-ager while Chris Evert Lloyd breezed to a straight set win as the the top-seeded United States team moved into the third round of the Federation Cup. Hana Mandlikova and Helena Sukova won singles matches for second-seeded Chechoslovakia, which routed Switzerland. Other seeded winners were West Germany, Bulgaria, Australia, Argen-' Una, and Italy.

But fourth-seeded Canada was upset by Austria, 3-0, as Carling Bassett lost toPetra Huber. LIVINGSTON, N.J? (AP) Top seed Tim Mayotte and Nr" 3 seed Paul Ahnadone fell' victim toa'palr-' of African players at the $125,000 Volvo Tennis New Jersey championships. Nduka Odizor of Nigeria stunned Mayotte, the U.S. Davis Cup hero, 6-4, 6-2 in a first-round match, and in a second-round match Wednesday night, Annacone was upset by his doubles partner, Christo van Rensburg of South Africa, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Brad Gilbert, the No.

2 seed, opened his defense of his tournament title by defeating Bob Green 6-3, 6-3 in another nighttime match. BROOKLINE, MASS. (AP) Ninth seed Libor Pimek of Czechoslovakia relied on a powerful ground stroke game in gaining a 6-2, 6-2 triumph over veteran Hans Gildemeister of Chile during second round play Wednesday at the U.S. Pro Tennis Championships. jury, Jeff Baxter, a teammate who also shared a dormitory suite with Bias, replied: "Do you really think I can talk about that?" He was also asked how he felt now that he had finished his grand jury appearance.

"Like I feltjwhen I went in, fine," he said. Keith Gatlin, who also shared the suite in the dorm, eluded reporters when he Jeft the Prince George's County courthouse. Christina Johnson, who said earlier that she spent some time with Bias before he collapsed in his dormitory room about 6 a.m. June 19, would not comment when she left. Her lawyer, Victor Huloh, said she had testified and that he did not expect her to be called back before the grand jury.

While Hulon would not discuss her testimony before the grand jury, he said Ms. Johnson talked about the information that had already been reported in the news, media. Earlier news reports said she met Bias at a convenience store and turned down his request to go to his dorm room. Other witnesses included Ber-nadette Holton, who said she loaned Bias $310 the night he died. Among those subpoenaed who have still yet to appear before the grand jury is the agent who represented Bias.

Gordon Wangersheim, vice president for marketing services for Ad UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) The parents of Len Bias are among those waiting to testify before the grand jury investigating the circumstances surrounding the cocaine-intoxication death of the Maryland basketball star. the Prince George's County grand jury moves into its fourth day, there was no word when James and. Lonise Bjas Would testify and what they might tell the grand jury, Wayne Curry, their lawyer, told The Associated Press. Curry said the Biases, who were not subpoenaed by the panel, decided, to take up an offer made about two weeks ago by county prosecutor Arthur A.

Marshall Jr. "They want to be able to assist in the exploration for the truth," Gurry told the Baltimore Sim. "They may be abje to' answer some questions that, may "be able to shed some The Biases have been critical of statements by Marshall" and the publicity surrounding their son's death. Len Bias' name "has been linked with entirely unrelated pursuits such as gambling, point-shaving, things of that sort, which have cast him in a light (that may not be conducive to zeal on the part of jurors," Curry told the paper. "All they know is their son is dead, and there were other people involved and apparently narcotics involved," Curry said.

Bias' father spent time with his son the evening before he died and would probably' fee able to sef the stage for the chronology of events leading up to his son's death, Curry told the paper. Witnesses called on Wednesday by Marshall included most of the people known to have been with Bias the day he died, as well as the emergency crew called to the dormitory after he collapsed June 19. The grand jury heard from two of Bias' roommates and a woman who saw the Ail-American that morning. Jurors also listened to testimony from Johnnie Walker, a District of Columbia police officer and a friend of Bias who retrieved articles from the player's room at the request of the parents. Most witnesses refused to talk to reporters when they left tne grand jury room, and those who did had little to say.

Asked what he had told the grand a if dl CHEVY-OLDS-POUTIAC-BUICK bright and works hard, and he knows he's got something to prove." The first step was strength. Har- bour increased his upper-body strength to 300 pounds in the bench-press from 225. "I feel like I can, take a hit now. The whole program, set up by (strength coach) Tom upancic has made me feel better about my body. "I feel strong, faster and more confident than I ever have in my life.

I'm not worried about what anybody else is doing. I just want, to be healthy and catch the foot ball. If that happens, everything else win oe just fine. Marshall said he does not plan to subpoena Tribble, the man he described As the source of the co- caine that killed Bias. Marshall also has not said whether, he will subpoena, Maryland basketball Coach Lefty Driesell and Robert-Wagner, who coached Bias in The prosecutor has said he.

wants to know whether either man improperly cautioned players not to' talk to the police or to destroy evidence in Bias' room. Marshall said last week that indictments could be returned as early as Friday for charges of use, possession and distribution of drugs. HOCKEY National Hockey League PITTSBURGH PENGUINS Signed Carl Mokosak, left wing, to a multiyear contract. COLLEGE NEBRASKA Named Tom Pratt' pitching coach. NORTH CAROLINA Named Tommy John pitching coach, effective at the end of the baseball season.

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AMFM stereo, AC. 30,000 miles. Ckun. Phono 552-9811 brain tissue. They, wen awaiting further pathology reports before making a decision on the best method of treating the tumor, located in the left frontal lobe of the brain, where emotions -and personality are centered." HACKENSACK, N.J.

(AP) domestic violence complaint against former New Jersey basketball star Micheal A filed Nets Ray Richardson by his wife will be dismissed under an agreement reached between the two and outlined in court, i The agreement also stipulates that Richardson, who was banned from the NBA in, February for violating the league's drug policy a third time, will be allowed to return, to' his Mahwah home, where his wife iJeah lives the couple's two children, said Richardson's attorney; Ronald M. Abramson. COLLEGE BASKETBALL UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) The parents of University of Maryland basketball star Len Bias will testify before a grand jury investigating -the circumstances surrounding their son's death from cocaine intoxication, their attorney said. But the attorney, Wayne Curry, said that he did not 'know when James and Lonise Bias would appear before a Prince George's County grand Jury which completed its third day of testimony MADISON, Wis.

(AP) -r A woman accusing three former Minnesota basketball players of raping her may have had a blood-alcohol level twice the level considered legal intoxication on the night of the incident, a defense witness testified. Raymond Matejczyk, a forensic toxicologist, said the woman's blood-alcohol level was 0.38 at lO ajn. Jan 24, several hours after the'time she said she was assaulted. Legal intoxication in Wisconsin is 0.10. Matejczyk testified before a Dane County Circuit Court jury hearing the first-degree sexual assault of Mithcell Lee, Kevin Smith and George Williams all former University of Minnesota basketball players.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) Because he failed to meet NCAA academic standards Keith Robinson, one of the nation's highest ranked high school basketball players, won't be able to play his freshman year at Notre Dame. Robinson, a 6-foot-9, 195-pound center from Buffalo's Grover Cleveland High School failed to reached a required score of at least 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Robinson however will still accept the full athletic scholarship and attend Notre Dame and lose one year of athletic eligibility. BOXING DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania AP) Tanzania's national middleweight boxing champion killed himself after a grabbing a gun at a police armory, the government-owned Daily News reported.

The newspaper said Stephen Mwakasanga, a 26-year-old police corporal, shot himself in the chest Monday night at the central police station in Dar Es Salaam and died at a hospital two hours later. CYCLING SAINT-ETIENNE, France (AP) Julian Gorospe of Spain won the 19th stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday, despite a headwind and several late challenges on a hilly course. He was timed in 5 hours, 6 minutes and 10 seconds. American Greg LeMond remained the overall leader after the 112-mile journey from Villard-de-Lans, with no significant changes in the overall lineup. LeMond's teammate, Bernard Hinault, in second place, gain-' ed two seconds on LeMond and trails him by 2:43 overall.

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