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Desk DETROIT FRIT PRESS SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1C34 2D Compl'cd by Wylio Gerties and the Free Press Sport 1 1 a fei Hid KccidNorman leads PGA 1 or flu J-M 'uarierftacKs ths roundup loss so far is about $2,200 in money and jewelry taken from three women. Soviet landings: The U.S. granted the Soviet Union permission to land 25 planes and dock a ship off Los Angeles for the Olympics. The freighter will be used to house all members of the Soviet delegation except athletes and trainers, who will stay at the Olympic villages at UCLA and the University of Southern California. The ship will be docked in Long Beach harbor.

Bribe testimony: A former teammate, Rick Kuhn, testified he gave Boston College basketball star Ernie Cobb $1,000 for shaving points in three games during the 1978-79 season. Kuhn was convicted of the plot in 1981 and is serving 10 years in prison. He testified in Cobb's trial on similar charges before a Brooklyn federal court jury. Kuhn was a reserve on the team; Cobb became the school's third leading scorer and had tryouts with two NBA teams. BOSSLEDDING: Former Olympian Charles (Chesty) McDonald, 51, died in Albany, N.Y.

He drove a two-man U.S. sled to seventh in the 1964 Olympics. BOWLING: Mark Roth led the field in the Bowling Proprietors Association of America U.S. Open in Oak Lawn, by 85 pins after six rounds. He had a total pinfall of 10,495.

Larry Laub was second. DOG SLED RACING: Dean Osmar, a fisherman, was the upset winner in the annual Iditarod race from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska. He beat 45 other contestants in a time of 12 days, 15 hours, 7 minutes and 33 seconds and won a prize of $24,000. FIGURE SKATING: Tiffany Chin, who finished fourth in the Olympics, will not compete in the world championships next week because of a foot injury. FOOTBALL: The San Francisco 49ers traded an undisclosed 1985 draft pick to Philadelphia for linebacker Frank Le-Master.

LeMaster, 32, has played 10 seasons in the NFL but missed last year because of a shoulder injury Paul Schudel, offensive line coach at Michigan, is one of three candidates for head coach at Massachusetts. Bob Pickett resigned at Mass Feb. 1 1 Bears running back Walter Pay-ton is scheduled to have "routine and After three days of spring football practice at Michigan, everybody wants to know "Who's the quarterback?" Michigan lost Steve Smith to graduation and backup David Hall to a knee injury, leaving a little-used junior (Jim Harbaugh) and two sophomores (Russ Rin; ahd Chris Zurbrugg). got three of 'em out there working and we'll be all right," U-M coach Bo Schembechler saidFriday. "They are all good athletes and run well.

We'll keep the option in with each, but we won't use it as extensively as with Steve." Schembechler is banking on the defense to carry his cluSearly. "We've got at least seven or eight petitions that are solid." He is impressed with Paul Jokisch, a 6-foot-8, 230-pound basketball forward and split end. Jokisch moves the the football team this season after playing' two Wolverine basketball seasons. "What I've seen in three days, without a scrim-magejs that he is a football player and is deceptively fast," Schembechler said. "I'd love to have had him the last two years to see where he'd be today.

If he chooses to make a commitment to football, he can be a good player. You send him down underneath and at makes a hell of a target." i Tommy George P.erfect role: Actor Roy Scheider wasn't in this moVieJor the money. He decided to star in the made-for-tele'vtsion epic "Tiger Town" because he got to spend three days working out with the Tigers. As he put it bran article in April's Playboy magazine, it was "art offer no red-blooded 48-year-old American boy could refuse." Scheider plays an aging star right fielder whose last hurrah leads the Tigers to a pennant, a character Scheider admits is based on Al Kaline. Among Scheider's observations of the Tigers is this description of Sparky Anderson: "The Tiger skipper had just the craggy, tanned, fatherly face you'd want your leadej to have.

The Marlboro Man as manager." The movie has been shown across the country on the Disney cable channel. Cinderella Is a clinker: Loyola of Chicago basketball coach Gene Sullivan's idea for a Cinderella Invitational Tournament turned into a pumpkin Friday after Illinois-Chicago and Ohio University turned down invitations. Sullivan had proposed that Illinois-Chicago host the tournament at its new pavilion, so its refusal was crucial. Ohio University said it turned down the bid because most of its players had left the school for spring break. "With those two canceling, we would have lost what we were trying to prove.

We wanted teams with 20 wins and less than 10 losses to prove to the NIT (National Invitation Tournament) what they missed," Sullivan said. Easy marks: Circle up them golf carts, pardners. Bandits have been stickingup golfers in the Indio, Palm Springs and La Quinta areas in California. Indio police Sgt. Mike Sprankle says golf course settings let the outlaws made a "quick and easy" hit.

The area has about 35 public and private golf courses. The biggest NFL sale notes: Dallas television station WFAA reported Friday that a group headed by local businessman H.R. (Bum) Bright has made a deal to purchase the Cowboys for $75 million. But Cowboys spokesman Doug Todd discounted the report, saying, "That's just the semiweekly rumor." Phoenix businessmen who met with Colts owner Robert Irsay say the Arizona city has the inside track in landin the team. Real estate develooer Eddie Lvnch minor" arthroscopic surgery on both knees.

GOLF: Australian Greg Norman matched the course record with a nine-under-par 62 and took a three-stroke lead in the second round of the Bay Hill Classic in Orlando, Fla. Hal Sutton, Ray Floyd and George Burnt shared second at 136 Japan's Ayako Okamoto birdied the last two holes to tie Patty Sheehan at 8-under-par 136 through the second round of the Tucson Conquistadores LPGA Open. SKI JUMPING: Finland's Olympic champion Mattl Nykaenen jumped 600.6 feet to set a world record. The leap came in Oberstdorf, West Germany, (luring training for weekend competition. The previous record, 597.3 feet, was held by Pavel Ploc of Czechoslovakia.

SWIMMING: Tracy Caulklns of Florida established an NCAA and a meet record at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships in Indianapolis. She won the 400-yard individual medley in 4:08.37, a meet record. She then won the 100-meter breaststroke in an NCAA record of 1:01.37. TRACK AND FIELD: Kenneth Carpenter, who won the gold medal in the discus' at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, died in Fullerton, at age 70. spoils sound off FRIDAY'S QUESTION: The Detroit CBS affiliate, WJBK (Channel 2), isn't showing any of the late-night NCAA games this week or next.

"We have needs for local time," said WJBK program director Marianne Mazer. By showing local programming and old series reruns, Channel 2 gets all the commercial spots. With a network telecast, the local station shares advertising time with CBS. Mike Duffy says that pre-empting tournament games in the nation's seventh largest TV market is a bush-league move. Do you agree with him? YES, 90 percent: "It's a bush-league move by a bush-league station." "Channel 2 is out of touch with the number of local basketball fans." "I try not to watch WJBK any other time because of this policy." 11 is my Detroit CBS station." "If they don't care about sports fans, then sports fans should stop watching them." NO, 10 percent: "Until the semifinals, it's all boring anywayJ' "Soap is the best show ever made, run the games after It." Based on about 640 calls.

Next question: Tuesday. said Irsay is leaning toward Phoenix rather than tHstSSlt ICplSV icuiauuiig ill uaumiuiG vi juvvuig becaused "we are in the heart of the Sun Belt's growing economy and because of our area's wonderful lifestyle." tEe trail fittt gtotft (tffa MONTREAL FANS RIOT; WINGS WIN ON FORFEIT 'That other league' tops NFL meeting agenda r. itr'(M I Hun iii Mellaril Free Press Wire Services MONTREAL Thousands of spectators furious over the suspension of their idol, Maurice (The Rocket) Richard took over the Forur. i Thursday night in a frenzied demonstration during the ame between Montreal and Detroit. "I'm sure the USFL will be a topic of conversation.

I don't expect any action except the consideration of moving the draft forward. And that could happen." Cowboys president Tex Schramm Ilarch 17, IS33 The game was forfeited to Detroit, which owns the USFL Pittsburgh Maulers. Ed DeBartolo Jr. owns the San Francisco 49ers. Pete Rozelle says this is a conflict of interest and has asked the DeBartolos to resolve the situation.

This has been going on for more than a year and nothing has happened. There have been reports that the elder DeBartolo is considering selling the Maulers for financial reasons. One report said the Maulers must average 101,000 a game in Three Rivers Stadium to break even. Rule changes: Schramm's competition committee met for two weeks in Maui before the meetings. Schramm said there will no major rule changes introduced.

"It's really a matter of just refining what we are doing," he said. There could be new rules again for pass interfence. Some owners have been in favor of making it a maximum 10- or 15-yard penalty rather than giving the offense the ball at the spot of the foul. Super Bowl sites: The 1985 game Super Bowl XIX is at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto. The 1986 game is at the Superdome in New Orleans.

The owners will award the 1987 game, Super Bowl XXI, at the meetings. The Rose Bowl in Pasadena is the favorite. been reports that the NFL will conduct a separate draft for players in the USFL. That would eliminate the need to use a draft pick on a USFL player such as the Cowboys did in the sixth round last year with Reggie Collier but still give NFL teams negotiating rights. If the owners decide to implement this, they are sure to meet with resistance from the NFLPA.

The union would argue the supplemental draft is a restraint of trade. Undergraduate eligibility: The NFL has no intention of allowing undergraduates into the league, unless they get challenged and lose in court. Schramm said the league will probably formulate a game plan in the event a player files suit, such as Bob Boris did against the USFL. Boris won his suit, but it did not affect the NFL because it was not a co-defendant. It did, however, set a precedent and confirm that the draft rules could not stand up in court.

The Baltimore Colts: There's nothing the NFL can do to prevent Robert Irsay from moving the Colts to Indianapolis or Phoenix. That much was established in the Raiders' move from Oakland to Los Angeles. Irsay should be making his decision shortly. The DeBartolos: Ed DeBartolo Sr. By OARY MYERS Dallas' Morning News HONOLULU After l'2 years of hoping the USFL would go away, but doing nothing to expedite that process, NFL owners may finally adopt some get-even policies at league meetings, which begin Sunday.

I "I'm sure the USFL will be a topic of conversation," Cowboys president Tex Schramm said. "I don't expect any action except the consideration of moving the draft forward. And that could happen." There is an undercurrent of NFL owners who are fed up with the league's uppity attitude toward the USFL, which has allowed the new leajue a four-month head start on signing the top college players. In the last two- years, the USFL has signed 10 certain' NFL No. 1 picks, including Stetfe Young, Mike Rozier, Kelvin Trumaine Johnson and Reggie THE -NFL TOOK the stance that moving up its draft from May to the week after the Pro Bowl would simply create -an unnecessary bidding war with the USFL.

But now, the thinking is beginning to change. And there have been indications that if a vote is taken this week, last October's 24-4 vote to was leading, 4-1, at the end of the first period, the only one played. The victory put Detroit in first place in the National Hockey League with only one more game In the season to be played between the two teams in Detroit Sunday. The riot was directed against NHL president Clarence Campbell, who suspended Richard for the remainder of the season. He arrived in the packed Forum midway in the first period.

For the next quarter-hour, the 14,000 fans' pent-up emotions grew wilder. At the intermission a smoke bomb exploded as hundreds of spectators, as well as Campbell, made their ways to the exits. Fire chief Armand Pare ordered the game halted for 'the protection of the people Richard was set down by the NHL president for a fracas during a fight with Hal Laycoe of Boston on Sunday night The Montreal ace also punched linesman Cliff Thompson twice. Police had to use tear gas to control the crowd, which had pelted Campbell with programs, peanuts, eggs, overshoes and oranges. Compiled by Bernie Czarniecki keep the draft in the spring will be reversed.

And Schramm said he would no longer oppose moving the draft. The NFL meetings are unlike the baseball meetings there is very little player movement. Most of the discussions deal with policy and internal matters. Other topics of conversation at the meetings, which run through Friday, are expected to be: The Cowboys sale: Assuming that owner Clint Murchison has advised one of the three finalists that his bid to purchase the team has been accepted, NFL owners will put it to a vote 21 out of 28 are needed for approval. It is not expected to be a problem.

A supplemental draft: There have Which former Tiger holds the American League record lor most strikeouts In a game by a relief pitcher? A Denny McLain struck out 14 batters in 6 innings of relief on June 15, 1965. John Mac Don cldo bets ald, Detroit Today's question: Which pitcher gave up the most home runs in the major leagues last season? Tom Vervaras, Madison Heights CANADA CONNECTION BRINGS IN TALENT The 'say ehT kids boost Spartan hockey JOHNNY MIZE AUTOGRAPHING Hall of Fame Slugger 60 Dealers Buying Selling BASEBALL CARDS 1910-1984 Sports Memorabilia Aaron to Yaz Sat. Mar. 17 Airport Hilton 10-4 I-94 Exit 198 Metro Airport Sun. Mar.

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I don't care where they're from." MASON'S BEST DEFENSE is his record. In each of the last three seasons of Amo Bessone's tenure as coach, the American-dominated Spartans finished out of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs. In Mason's first five seasons, the number of Canadian players has steadily increased and the Spartans have risen from losers to national championship contenders. "The junior teams aren't as good here as in Canada, but some of the individuals are," said Eisley. "But to us, it really doesn't matter where a guy is from.

I've heard that some teams have a lot of dissension between their Canadian and American players. But all we're concerned about is winning the national Eisley (RedfordJunior Red Wings) and Don McSween (PlymouthRedford) and forwards Mike Donnelly (LivoniaWaterford), Tom Anastos (DearbornPaddock Pools) and Kelly Miller (LansingRed-ford). But the presence of Canadian players is also felt all across the college hockey world. Only at Boston College which has never had a Canadian player and at the University of Minnesota will you find rosters filled exclusively with in-state products. Those schools operate that way because of the strong high school systems in their states.

"It is a sensitive issue, and we've had to defend ourselves on it more than once," Mason said. "But there are a couple of factors people don't realize foremost of which is that there are probably just as many Americans that go to Canada to play major junior (most notably, Olympians Pat LaFontaine and Al lafrate, Michigan natives) as there are Canadians playing in American colleges. "Also, we feel we owe it to the kids we do take from Michigan to present the highest level of college hockey possible. I have sympathy for the people who spend years carting their kids to the rink and such who don't get our scholarships, but how many kids from their local high schools make it to Michigan State or Michigan to play football? "The legislators don't like it but, at MSU, the By MIKE PRISUTA Free Press Special Writer EAST LANSING Potential hockey players at Michigan State aren't required to wear tuques and say "Eh?" a lot. It only seems that way.

When Ron Mason took over as coach in 1979, there were 20 Americans (including 13 from Michigan) on the 28-man pre-season roster. This year, there were 15 Canadians and 14 Americans, including eight Michiganders. Of the 20 regulars who will suit up against Boston College in the NCAA quarterfinals at 7 p.m: Saturday and Sunday at Munn Arena, seven players are from the United States and five are from Michigan. The Canadization of East Lansing is coincidental, according to Mason. "In recruiting, we start locally first and then move away geographically," he said.

If we don't find what wi need close to home, we have to go elsewhere. We still spend more time recruiting Detroit than any other area. great players are great players, whether they're Americans or Canadians. And let's face it, there are simply more of them in Canada." THE PRIME TALENT in the Detroit area usually comes from the Great Lakes Junior League. Five Spartans- are from the league defensemen Jeff i A A A A INSIDE INFORMATION A.

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