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'V t. 4 f. rv 0 mk compiled by Joe Distelheim and the FreePress sports desk a rfeHT rmt prtss Detroit fro: flb 4. 3: 2D Satch still in li here pi I chin In the 1362 NBA All-Star game, Wilt Chamberlain scored 42 points and grabbed 24 rebounds yet failed to win the game's most valuable player award. Who won the award that year? St.

Louis Hawks' forward Bob Pctt.t put on a record performance his own, clearing an Ail-Star game high 27 rebounds and scoring 25 points to the West to an 150-130 victory over psopSo sids i ine narnuenain-ieu cabi. reiui pei- IIQiS formance, in a game played in St. Louis, earned him his fourth All-Star game MVP award. He won the honor in 1956 and 1958 and shared it with Elgin Baylor in 1959. Pettit in 1958 and Julius Erving in 1977 are the only players to win the award while playing for a losing team.

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Seventy-five years old is not too old for a vice-president. And it's not too old for Satchel Paige. At that age give or take an average career, he's still going strong. Paige, the legendary pitcher who had a 50-year career, mostly in the Negro leagues, still looks to be in great shape. There are only dashes of gray in his black hair.

His eyes still dance like a rookie's when he talks baseball. Paige still is involved in baseball. For 1 2 years, he's worked for the Triple-A Springfield Redbirds, the last minor league stop for budding St. Louis Cardinals. He's identified as a vice-president.

He does public relations work, and advises young pitchers on the fundamentals of pitching a subject he knows as well as anyone around. Some sage Paigisms: "Coaches try to change motions and batting stances of young players. They should leave 'em alone." "Pete Rose is the toughest hitter in the game today. He gets a piece of the ball. I love him; he plays hard, like I did when I pitched." "Pitchers today have arm trouble because they sit on the bench and don't work enough." Managers should make greater use of intentional walks, especially in the late innings.

"If a man can beat you, walk him." WARREN MOON wants into the NFL. If a bunch of American teams don't think that's an opportunity, they might ask Bo Schembechler. 1 The last time you heard Moon's name may have been on a New Year's afternoon. He was in the process of quarterbacking the University of Washington to an upset victory over Michigan in the 1978 Rose Bowl. A month before that year's NFL draft, he signed with the Canadian Football League's Edmonton team.

He's led the Eskimos to three straight Grey Cups. Now, he says he's looking for a career in the National Football League. His agent says a half-dozen teams have expressed an interest despite Moon's 10-year contract with Edmonton. "It's a binding contract," says agent Leigh Steinberg. "Warren does not have any automatic escape opportunities under it.

But a contract is one thing and market conditions are another." TERRY FOX needs a miracle. "All I can say is that his condition has deteriorated. He's getting worse. The boy has cancer," said Dr. Ladislav Antonik, medical director at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, B.C.

The doctor said the 22-year-old marathoner's inoperable cancer had spread to lymph glands in his abdomen. The young runner's first encounter with cancer claimed his right leg above the knee in 1977. Determined to prove the disease had not beaten him and to help others in the process, Fox began arduous training that would later allow him to run a marathon (26 miles) a day for five months on one good leg and a wooden one. foi the record 1 a I rv i i UPI Photo They remember Thurman Billy Martin, the fiery twice-former manager of the New York Yankees, embraces Diana Munson, widow of the late Yankee catcher and captain Thurman Munson, in an emotional meeting in New York Monday. Martin was on hand for the first annual Thurman Awards presentation by the Association for the Help of Retarded Children.

Sha quotebox Herschel may make end run to Canack "That's going to be a tough game. They are one of the top teams in the country right now as far as I'm concerned." Michigan coach Bill Frieder (14-3) on Thursday's game with Michigan State (9-8). Baseball: All final documents have been signed, completing the purchase of the Seattle Mariners by a limited partnership headed by California developer George Argyros. The details of the sale were approved by a unanimous vote of the American League clubs in Chicago last Thursday. Basketball: Indiana coach Bobby Knight has not been reprimanded for grabbing an official in Saturday's 69-61 win over Purdue.

"There have been reports that coach Knight was reprimanded by the Big Ten, but they have been exaggerated," conference commissioner Wayne Duke said. "From all available reports, coach Knight was concerned that he could not see the play, and he pulled the oflicial aside" Indiana sophomore guard Islah Thomas, who scored 13 points in the Hoosiers' 56-53 win over Minnesota and 26 points in their win over Purdue, has been named the Big Ten player of the week. In the running was Michigan State's Kevin Smith Virginia forward Lee Raker, who paced the top-ranked Cavaliers to a pair of Atlantic Coast Conference college basketball wins last week, has been chosen the ACC player of the week Forward Bernard King of the Golden State Warriors, who averaged 27.4 points per game and had a remarkable .727 shooting percentage, has been named National Basketball Association player of the month for January. Football: LaVern Torgeson, a center with the Detroit Lions from 1951-54, has been hired as defensive line coach for the Washington Redskins. Torgeson, 51, is a former Redskin linebacker and assistant coach.

Skiing: Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark has won the 59th World Cup ski race of his career, beating Austrian Hans Enn in the season's fifth giant slalom race in Schladming, ths roundup 7 1 Herschel Walker to Canadian football? Right now, after only one year of college football? The University of Georgia is waiting for a ruling from the NCAA on the legality of a proposed insurance agency several Bulldogs fans want to set up for the All-America running back. Their aim, they say, is to prevent Walker from considering a rumored $2-million offer from the Canadian Football League. Georgia Coach Vince Dooley has forwarded the proposal to NCAA headquarters outside Kansas City and said he expects an answer in about a week. Earlier this week, the newspaper quoted members of the No. 18 Shockers as saying they have received illegal payments.

Malicious at the The Cleveland Cavaliers filed a $10-million damage suit Tuesday against radio station WWWE, claiming breach of contract and seeking termination of play-by-play broadcast rights. The suit contends that the station, which signed a three-year broadcast agreement with the Cavaliers in April 1980, has been unfair in its on-the-air treatment of the NBA team. David Berst, enforcement director for the NCAA, said earlier he did not believe the Insurance agency proposal would be approved. More Wichita reports: There's more reported ugliness in the Wichita State basketball situation. The Kansas City Times reports that the girlfriend of a Wichita State basketball star underwent an abortion a year ago arranged by coaches to keep the player on the team.

"I didn't like them when I came in and I don't like them going out. On the other hand, I'm sure the feeling is reciprocal." Former White Sox owner Bill Veeck, bowing out of baseball, on his fellow American League owners. Avon notes 4-fight Garden program on the ropes ix Jp? WV An which paid him a fee to use his name. "People shouldn't condemn boxing because of this," he said. "Boxing just had a bad man (Smith) in a key spot." IN LOS ANGELES, the Wells Fargo suit alleged that the fraud charged against MAPS was "accomplished through an internal manipulation of funds involving some 13 accounts.

Appropriate law enforcement and regulatory agencies have been advised." Smith and his wife, along with Sammie Marshall, president of MAPS, and Benjamin Lewis, a MAPS vice-president who also was operations manager at the bank, were charged in the suit. Marshall was in New York attending the managers meetings and attempting to save the program. Smith and his wife and Lewis have been missing for the last 10 days since discovery of the possible ened by the collapse of co-promoter Muhammad Ali Professional Sports Inc. The Wells Fargo Bank in Los Angeles Tuesday charged MAPS and its chairman, Harold J. Smith, with fraud and embezzlement of $21.3 million.

STEWARD EARLIER had said he would not reduce the $2-million purse Hearns was to receive for defending his title against Benitez, and Ali seemed to confirm that. "I'm not naming any names," he told the Free Press, "but some of the managers wouldn't agree to a cut to save the program." Ali, who as late as last week was going ahead with arrangements for another fight this spring, also announced his retirement again from active fighting, declaring he intends to enter the promotion business and "outdo" national promoters Don King and Bob Arum. Ali had no business ties with the MAPS organization, Free Press Staff and Wire Reports Muhammad Ali, meeting with managers in New York in an attempt to save the multi-championship boxing program scheduled for Madison Square Garden Feb. 23, said Tuesday he doubted the full program will survive. "Some of the managers won't come down in their price," the former heavyweight champion said.

Emanuel Steward, manager of WBA welterweight champion Tommy Hearns of Detroit, who was to defend his title against Wilfred Benitez, reportedly was in New York but did not appear at the Madison Square Gardens meetings. Neither Steward nor his assistant, Prentiss Byrd, nor Detroit All-Star Boxing promoter John Yopp, who was to handle Michigan's closed circuit telecasts of the program, was available for comment. Cancellation of the program, which featured four world championship bouts, was threat i Fast fade ends boxing's 'Great Grab' story Free Press Pnoto by ALAN KAMUDA Second-seeded Virginia Ruzici polishes off Beth Norton Tuesday afternoon. With stars out, Avon pares its Detroit purse By CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer The purse for the Avon Championships of Detroit was cut Monday from $150,000 to $125,000 in an move calculated to warn the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) it must, in the future, meet its obligations to provide top-notch players. In a related move, the WTA was fined $3,000 (two percent of the original $150,000 purse) because of Tracy Austin's and Billie Jean King's withdrawal from the tournament.

"Our contract with the WTA provides for them to pay a fine if a player pulls out of the tournament from four to 21 days before the opening date, and is not replaced by a comparable player," said tournament director Niki Gallaudet. That $3,000 goes directly to the Junior League of Birmingham. THE REDUCTION in the prize fund reducing slightly the amount awarded to each participant in the tournament was engineered by Avon. "Avon is committed to provide at least one of the three top players at every stop said Avon publicist Shep Goldberg. "But it was beyond our control, when the WTA couldn't provide us with that player.

"It is optional, whether or not we reduce the prize money and we've done it for a couple of reasons. But the principal one is to support the Junior League, recognizing that they could suffer a loss of income by not having that name player in their tournament." It also served the secondary purpose of putting the WTA on notice that its players are liable to play for less money if it is unable to produce the promised field. The prize fund change reduces the winners share of the pot from $30,000 to $24,000. STATE TEEN ROLLS showed up. He called me later and told me, 'Stronger powers than me wanted the fight It later was learned that Mayor Young interceded and demanded the fights be held in Detroit.

McSwigan found nothing strange or suspicious about Smith. "He seemed as sharp, polished and knowledgeable as any businessman," McSwigan said. "He asked all the right questions a good promoter should ask. He knew what it was all about." Now they are saying he knew more than Wells Fargo, for sure. Sports Phone is carrying results of the tournament, updating them after every match.

The results are available by calling 976-1313. probably a half-million dollars" from the organization for the use of his name within the last year. "Harold was so nuts about that show (Feb. 23) in New York. He had gained control of the top heavyweight contender (Gerry Cooney), the light-heavyweight champions, the welterweight and lightweight champions (Hearns and Kenty) and lesser champions all within a year." When Smith labeled the show "This Is It," he was saying more than he meant.

It led to his downfall. McSwigan has explicit memories of Smith. Smith fully intended to stage the Hearns-Cuevas championship fight in the Silverdome last Aug. 2. Instead, the fight was switched to Joe Louis Arena on Detroit's riverfront.

The smaller arena required higher ticket prices, and Smith supposedly lost $2 million on the show. "We were within 20 seconds of signing an agreement," says McSwigan. "He told me to draw up the contracts, and he would be back to sign. He never PUSCAS, from PagelD He had been in the boxing business for seven months. Already questions had arisen about the source of his money.

Even Sommer wondered while working in the MAPS office. "One day he showed me a cashier's check made out to him for $6 million," says Sommer. "I told him he'd better put it away so it wouldn't get lost." Sommer discounts Smith's standard reply to reporters that MAPS' money came from his wife, Barbara Lee, whose family supposedly wealthy." Lee, as she is known, worked in the MAPS office and supervised Muhammad Ali Amateur Sports Inc. Funded by the U.S. government with an $800,000 annual budget, that group recruited young California athletes from the streets and took them on overseas tours.

MAPS, and Smith, sprang from that foundation. "He said the money came from his wife's family because of all the rumors about his money. that it came from Vegas, from the Muslims, from dope or the government," said Sommer. "He always said he had been in the rock concert business before boxing." (Chuck McSwigan, manager of Pontiac's Silver-dome, which hosts many rock concerts, said that he had never heard of Smith in connection with concerts.) "Smith told me that he had several investment companies that furnished the money for MAPS," said Sommer. "He told me he would quit boxing within a year.

That might be why he wanted Muhammad Ali to come and take over MAPS. Smith said he was buying a string of theaters in the South, and he had invested in a cable television network. He thought that's where his future was. He was a very smart, very nice man." Except the Wells Fargo bank in Beverly Hills, says $21.3 million is missing, and it accuses Harold J. Smith, among others.

SOMMER SAYS that Ali, who triggered the expose of Smith and MAPS by demanding an audit of the corporation's books, had received "at least $230,000 and The Junior League of Birmingham, which has staged this tournament for 1 1 consecutive years, will meet in March as it does each year to determine whether it will put this tournament on again next February. "There has been discussion about it in the past," one Junior Leaguer said Monday night, "and it has never been unanimous. A lot of people feel service, not fund-raising, is our primary purpose. "With the problems and bad publicity that have arisen this year, I suspect there will be more opposition to it this March." During the past decade the Junior League has raised approximately $800,000 for charities in the metropolitan Detroit area from proceeds of the tournament. l.lmprov.yor Prattle from Oolflond i HEATED TEES Pj.

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