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grfll HMt' V'Tid $111 glltf ffl I I i I ISnicks trade Elcfldoo New York's Big Mac (right) went to the Boston Celtics for three first-round draft choices and a player to be named later. Page 3 Thundeibolt in Hio Jay Smith is burning the nets as the state's top scorer in high school basketball. Page 4 Tuesday, Feb. 13, 1979 HORSE RACING 6f OBITUARIES 7 CLASSIFIED 7-12 COMICS 13-15 A 1 jj L-y DETROIT FREE PRESS Brother Rice star Andree will go to Notre Dame "I talked to coach (Digger) Phelps and told him what I was going to do. He seemed kind of said Tim Andree with a laujih.

happy, I basketball school it's tops. You can just feel the excitement on the campus. "I feel very comfortable on their campus. All the guys on the team are super guys. One of the deciding factors was that they're losing two centers Flowers and Bill Laimbeer.

I feel I will be able to develop and grow there." Like Flowers was four years ago, Andree is the most recruited basketball player in Michigan. He is the cream of the class of 1979, which most coaches feel is the best group of high school seniors the state has ever produced. Although he has not decided on what he will major in, Andree said he would like to eventually enter law school. Notre Dame's the place I want to go. When I was a little kid, in the summer, dreaming about coaches coming in to visit me, I dreamed about Notre Dame.

"I'm from a Catholic family and my parents and family were pro-Notre Dame. But I wanted to take my time to decide, I wanted it to be my decision and it is. I'm extremely happy with it." ANDREE IS THE second high school All-American to announce his intention to attend Notre Dame. Last month John Taxson from Ohio announced his intention to play for the Irish. "I talked to coach (Digger) Phelps and told him what I was going to do.

He seemed kind of happy, I think," said Andree with a laugh. By MICK McCABE Free Press Sports Writer Tim Andree, the 6-foot-10 senior center from Birmingham Brother Rice, will play his college basketball at the University of Notre Dame, he announced Monday. Although the national signing date for high school seniors is not until mid-April, Andree indicated he will sign an institutional letter Wednesday to end speculation on where he will enroll. Andree had narrowed his choices to six schools Michigan, Michigan State, Kentucky, North Carolina, Duke and Notre Dame by the end of last August. "I decided on Notre Dame this weekend," Andree 'said.

"I had a lot of time to think this weekend and 7 i Andree will be the second Michigan All-Stater to enroll at Notre Dame since Phelps took over the Fighting Irish. Nearly four years ago, Bruce Flowers from Berkley High made the same choice. "I feel sort of loyal to play at Notre Dame," Andree said. "I always wanted to go there. But Michigan really put up some tough competition.

I really couldn't pick out a deciding factor. Notre Dame is just a great Digger Phelps MSU Titans want promotion in polls JJTWUgWB II I i Tern cC Henderson A successful week on the court for the University of Detroit and Michigan State basketball teams has their followers looking for a successful week off the court at the polls. The weekly ratings are due Tuesday, and MSU, fresh from road victories over the Big Ten Conference co-leaders, is looking for higher recognition than the ninth and 10th spot the Spartans held a week ago. And U-D the Titans are just looking for recognition, period. Pin elite in town for $90,000 meet Bowling's finest performers those nomads of the Professional Bowlers Association tour return to the Detroit area Tuesday as play begins in the $90,000 Dutch Masters Classic at Sunnybrook Lanes in Sterling Heights.

Most of the top names in the game including Mark Roth, winner at St. Louis last weekend, and record money-winner Earl Anthony will be in the overloaded field of 192. Competition will begin with a pro-am event Tuesday. The pros will take over the lanes Wednesday to begin qualifying for the $13,000 final round, which will be televised nationally Saturday. It marks the first time the professionals have visited Sunnybrook, the huge bowlinggolf complex in the northeast suburbs.

In recent years Continental Lanes in East Detroit, Hartfield Lanes in Berkley and Thunderbowl in Allen Park have hosted the stars. The tour itself has gained momentum annually since its We beat two teams in the top 10 last week (Georgetown and Marquette) and that should put us in the top 20," said Detroit coach Dave Gaines as he put his Titans through drills for another tough foe, St. Bonaventure (14-5) coming to Calihan Hall Wednesday. "We beat Georgetown convincingly; then we went in and beat Marquette at Marquette. The home court advantage is suppoed to be 10 points so we beat them by 1 1 points," he said with a laugh.

"But I've said all along I don't control the news media, I only control the 10 guys on this team," Gaines said. "And people around here say this is the best team for playing together they've seen here in many years." Back-to-back victories away from home over Iowa and creation in 1962. Because of high television ratings, the prize fund has reached a record $3.7 million, and 1,500 registered pros take turns shooting for shares of it. The professionals will roll a total of 18 games spread over Russians win on the ice, but wbal price freedom? NEW YORK Grace and style beat blood and guts. The Challenge Cup was a match of equally iron wills, and so it was decided on ability and hockey ideology.

The purists from Russia demolished the hit-till-we-die pros from the NHL in a remarkable series that stripped the Canadians of their claim to world supremacy. The NHL stars so potent that Marcel Dionne, Steve Shutt, Anders Hedberg and Ulf Nillson took turns sitting in the stands breezed to a 4-2 win in the first game and led by the same score in the second period of Game 2. From there, the Russians were invincible. They outplayed and outscored the Canadians in a way no one could have imagined. The NHL didn't score in the last 95 minutes of the series; it got 1 6 shots on goal in the second game and no goals in the third; more amazing, the last nine goals were scored by the Russians.

They were a machine, a beautiful meshing of gears and lubrication that ground up the NHL. They passed with uncanny precision, making blind passes and drop passes the way they've never been made in North America, except maybe once in a while in Montreal. they did it against a truly superb collection of athletes Bryan Trottier, Mike Bossy, Clark Gillies, Bobby Clarke, Guy Lafleur, Shutt, Dionne, Larry Robinson, Serge Savard, Ken Dryden and they did it in the middle of the Canadians' season, when they were at their peak. But I keep recalling a conversation I had with Vaclav Nedomansky when he came to the Wings 15 months ago. We went to lunch, and I wanted to learn why a national star like Nedomansky would defect.

Money? Philosophy? "You really want to know?" he asked, "It's a long story." Nedomansky saw the light Nedomansky is intelligent, and it embarrassed him to speak in English. He talked of complex things, and he spoke slowly, often pausing for long seconds to search for a word. The next hour was a fascinating glimpse into the dreariness of life behind the Iron Curtain. Nedomansky was a national hero in Czechoslovakia. He three qualifying rounds Wednesday and Thursday.

The field Ohio State back up the bid of Jud I leathcote Spartans to move back up the ratings ladder. A change at the top is a virtual certainty in the wake of UCLA's victory over top-rated Notre Dame at South Bend. Second-ranked Indiana State, the nation's only undefeated then will be reduced to the top 24 scorers. These qualifiers each will bowl another 24 games in three rounds of match play Thursday night and Friday to determine the five television finalists for Saturday's match play. major team, is the heir apparent, but some pollsters may look at the Sycamore schedule and opt for the Uclans.

MSU QB LIKES WIDE FIELD -si- mith signs with Canadian team was captain of the national team, the highest scorer in its history. He was in the elite, his friends were actors and That may have been at least partially responsible for Smith's decision to take the CFL offer, although the money was apparently a major factor. "The Tigers made me an offer that I felt was the best I could get anywhere, including the NFL," Smith said. "Playing in the CFL will give me the best opportunity to make more out of playing pro ball, and not only financially. Hopefully, I won't have to sit on the bench long." Payne got his first look at Smith during his junior season, when Payne was coaching the Lions' offensive linemen.

He watched the MSU quarterback in two regular season games as well as the Blue-Gray and Senior Bowl all-star games. Smith broke his collarbone in the Senior Bowl but that is not expected to hurt his i satisfied with Smith's 4.7-second speed in the 40 yards, it is obvious that it's the strong right arm that the Tiger-Cats really wanted. "We think he's suited to the Canadian League," Payne said by phone. "It doesn't take the big 6-foot-3 kid here that they want in the NFL. We have a bigger field, more receivers.

"He's a good passer if you rate him. The way the NFL teams rate them he's the top quarterback, as far as productivity is concerned. We think he has a real good potential for the Canadian League. "He can throw long, he can loft it and he can find the open receiver," Payne added. "He also has the touch and can take the sting off the ball when necessary." The Tiger-Cats were only 5-10-1 in the CFL last season, winning five of the 10 games they played after Payne, a former Detroit Lions assistant, took over.

The way is apparently open for a quarterback. Former Southern California star Jimmy Jones was the No. 1 man last season and threw for more than 2,000 yards but club owner Harold Ballard, also the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League, is reported to be dissatisfied with him. By CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer Michigan State quarterback Eddie Smith didn't even wait to see if the National Football League would make him an offer. He decided instead that he would take the Hamilton Tiger-Cats' money and if he must run, although he would much rather throw.

Smith, who set several MSU and Big Ten passing records but was considered too small by NFL standards, signed a two-year contract Monday with the Canadian Football League team. Terms of the agreement were not announced, but the Tiger-Cats reportedly had offered the six-foot, 165-pound Smith a package worth $100,000. "In college we were primarily a straight drop-back team, but we had bootlegs and play-action passes and I feel that is a strength which will help me in the Canadian Football League," Smith said at a press conference in Hamilton. "Having the use of a wider field I think will help, too, there's no doubt about that. I feel I can get outside and I'm going to work on throwing the ball on the run." Although Hamilton coach John Payne is writers, the intelligentsia.

Though he had to share a house with four other couples, life was good. Alexander Dubcek was the Communist Party leader, and things were loosening up. Then came the Russian invasion. Dubcek was ousted and a crackdown of liberties followed. That might not have been so bad, except that Nedomansky had been spoiled by the same system that now tried to clamp down.

Nedomansky had often been to Canada for tournaments and exhibitions, and he could sense what it would be like to live where you could own what I 1 1 passing ability. The 22-year-old Smith completed 169 of 292 passes for 2,226 yards and 22 touchdowns, leading the Spartans to a tie for the Big Ten championship with the University of Michigan. During his three seasons at MSU Smith threw for 5,706 yards, a Big Ten career record. 8 Nedomansky "The Tigers made me an offer that I felt was the best I could get anywhere, including the NFL," said MSU's Eddie Smith. you could afford, travel when you wanted, say what you pleased.

He began to chafe. In 1973 he got some feelers from the World Hockey Association about defecting. Word got out, his travel visa was restricted and his phone was tapped. They were listening to him now, watching him, like something in a grade melodrama. Itfs official: Lem Barney is now a free agent One weekend in 1 974, having secured a weekend pass to By CURT SYLVESTER Free Press Sports Writer Switzerland, he, his wife and his two children got in the car and never came back.

"We couldn't pack anything or they would have been suspicious," he explained. "So we just took a couple of overnight bags." Lem Barney is officially a gentleman of leisure these days. interruption of Barney's lifestyle by the arrival of It was decided last summer that Barney, ap- the official end of his term with the Detroit Lions, proaching his 33d birthday, was expendable in The former all-pro cornerback, whose playing Clark's rebuilding program. He was put on injured career actually ended in training camp last summer, waivers because of a relatively insignificant groin was put on waivers Monday. injury and spent the rest of the season on the injured "This was the finalization of the decision we reserve list, drawing pay on the final season of his made last year," explained Clark.

contract. "Life still goes on, for sure," said Barney, And when the Lions didn't call him back, even Friends and relatives were not told of the departure. It He just returned from a month vacation was better if they knew nothing, for they would be you know, golf in Miami, San Juan, the Virgin I .1 hi Si- questioned later by the authorities. Islands. Now that he home Detroit he is spending a lot of time on his tennis game.

So, except for the courtesy of a phone call from maintaining that he feels no bitterness toward the when they were on the verge of running out of coach Monte Clark, there would have been no Lions. defensive backs because of injuries, Barney knew it was over. At least in Detroit. "Life still goes on, for sure," said Lem Barney, now officially a former Detroit Lion. tion.

"We want to treat him with respect," Clark explained. "The decision was made back then (last summer) to go with young people. But it had to be declared now, and I wanted to make sure if he Big Ned finds personal liberty Silently and fearfully, national hero and family left their culture and parents to live where they don't know the language and where people think "Nedomansky" is better off shortened to "Big Ned." Four years later he was in Detroit, and we were sitting over lunch while he told me how great it was in the West. He was like a starving man who has just won a lifetime pass to Joe Muer's, or someone waiting to wake up from a particularly pleasant dream. He was able to go on vacations, to take more than two weeks in a year off from hockey.

He built his own house, owned his own yard, and his son spoke English as a native. "You can ask me what you want? You can write what you want?" he asked skeptically. "No one tells you what you cannot say? In Czechoslovakia, even if we play bad they can't say it." Or in Russia, either. One wonders if there are any Nedomanskys on the Russian team, players for whom adulation and the game of hockey won't be enough. If Nedomansky could taste freedom and culture in Canada, what must the Russians have sensed in New York City? What must it be like to have a 10 p.m.

curfew, to be allowed out only once in a week to shop (and then en masse), to be barred from going to discos or talking to the press, to be surrounded by KGB. What must these restri-tions be like in the midst of freedom? I sat in the box during Sunday's clinic by the Russians. In the row in front of me a fan from Toronto introduced himself to a fan from Montreal who was hanging around with three fans from the Bronx. They shared a joint of marijuana, unfraid and free in their excesses. Nothing happened to them but a great game of hockey.

Nedomansky was right to come here, even if the hockey isn't the best. "I THOUGHT if they would do anything it would be then, when the big DB problem was happening," he said. "After a while the anticipation wasn't there. Then, when they didn't call, I knew it was final." Barney doesn't expect to be picked up on waivers by another National Football League team, although he isn't ruling out a return to football next summer. "The thing this does is give me the freedom as a free agent to negotiate with other teams if I wish," he said.

"If I still feel like I want to pursue it it will have to be in later months. "If a contending team would call and express an interest that would have a bearing a big bearing. I wouldn't want to have to try it again with a team that's not a contender." Barney normally would have gone on waivers some time ago, but Clark waited until he was back from vaca- wanted to pursue it he would be free to do so. "He said he didn't know, that he wasn't sure. So I said if he still wants to play I'll do what I can to assist I said I wouldn't pass up anything for him." Barney, an 11-year veteran, holds Detroit records for punt returns (143), punt return yardage (1,312) and interception return yardage He had 56 interceptions, six short of Dick LeBeau's AP Photo team record.

The Challenge Cup, and the glory, belong to the Soviets after their 6-0 victory Sunday night..