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DETROIT FREE PRESSSATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1985 2D Flutie's four TD passes lead Generals, 28-10 What was the shortest overtime game In NFL history? Denny Simmons, Grand Rapids A Chicago's Dave Williams took 21 seconds to return the opening kickoff of over' roundup 80 begin One Lap rally side bets Los Angeles, Jacksonville, and finally at Darien, heading for the finish line at the Lansdowne. The One Lap is not a mad dash at the fastest speed possible. Drivers must hit checkpoints at specified times. Representatives of consumer advocate Ralph Nader issued a press release from his Washington, D.C., office criticizing the race, contending that even though it is designed to be run at legals speeds, drivers will have to exceed the speed limits to. make up for lost time.

Matt tori to round of a scheduled 10-round fight Thursday night in San Marino, Italy. Elsewhere: Pete Weber led the field by 166 pins Friday and qualified as the top seed for today's championship round of the Lite Beer Open in North Olmsted, Ohio. Los Angeles Clippers center Bill Walton, who has missed 12 of the last 13 games with an ankle injury, was removed from the injured list. Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers, who scored 19 of his 26 points while playing on the road in February, was named NHL player of the month for the fourth straight time. A painful right shoulder forced China's LI Ning, a triple gold medalist in the Los Angeles Olympics, to withdraw Friday from the American Cup all-around gymnastics competition at Indianapolis.

Mary Lou Retton in her first international competition since she won a gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics is among athletes from 15 nations who will begin competition today at Market Square Arena. Today's top eight women and top eight men scorers advance to Sunday's finals, but the preliminary scores are discarded Top-seeded John McEnroe defeated Brad Gilbert, 6-3, 6-3, and No.2 seed Kevin Curren ousted fifth-seeded Tim Mayotte, 7-5, 7-6, in quarterfinal matches at the World Championship Tennis Shootout at Houston. Compiled by Bob Ellis and Ken Kraemer His comments came the same day Boston Marathon officials announced a break in tradition, saying the host Boston Athletic Association will pay hotel expenses for top runners in next month's 89th running of the race. Indiana leads track: Defending champion Indiana took a strong lead in the opening day of the 75th annual Big Ten indoor track and field meet at Madison, when Scott Reed and Terry Braham won the only two finals. Braham retained his title in the two-mile run in 8:39.98 and Reed won the long jump at 24 feet, 6 inches.

Indiana had 22 points, Wisconsin 17, Illinois 16, Michigan 6 and Iowa 1. Tyrrell team absent: Drivers Stefan Bellof of West Germany and Briton Martin Brundle of the controversial Tyrrell team were missing Friday from the list of 25 entries for the 1985 Formula One Grand Prix season. FISA, auto racing's world governing body, has not decided whether to permit Tyrrell to race this season after it violated FISA rules by taking the organization to court. Tyrrell sued to regain 13 world championship points and $500,000 in bonus money lost last season when the team was banned for the rest of the season for using illegal ballast and fuel at the Detroit Grand Prix. Golf update: Curtis Strange made up an eight-shot deficit Friday with a 64 and tied Fred Couples for the lead after the second round of the Honda Golf Classic in Coral Springs, Fla.

Couples and Strange are at 131, 13 under. Betsy King fired a four-under par 68 for a one-stroke lead over Patty Sheehan in the LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Classic at Phoenix. time 95 yards for a touchdown that beat the Lions in Pontiac, 23-17, on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 27), 1980. Today's question: Who Is the only maor leaguer to hit more than 300 career home runs but never hit 30 or more In a season? Keith Friedman, Flint Wt pay $5 II your quMllon and answer ara published.

Sand to Slda Bats, Sports, Detroit Free Press, 321 W. Lafayette, Detroit 48231. Include your name, address, telephone number and source of Information. locally FOOTBALL: Jerry Cvengros, 51, for the past 23 years head football coach at Escanaba High, will be honored tonight at a retirement banquet in Escanaba. Cvengros led his Eskimos to a state Class A title in 1981 after being beaten in the finals by Redford Catholic Central in 1979.

Escanaba is the only Class A team from the Upper Peninsula to win the state title. Cvengros will remain at Escanaba as the school's principal. transactions BASKETBALL: Northwestern Louisiana coach Wayne Yates resigned after a 3-25 season. HOCKEY: The Pittsburgh Penguins bought the contract of forward-defense-man Wally Weir from the Hartford Whalers. Weir is expected to join the Penguins for today's home game against the New York Rangers.

He will replace Troy Loney, who sprained his ankle Wednesday against the Winnipeg Jets, at left wing. The Chicago Black Hawks recalled goal-tender Chris Clifford from Kingston of the Ontario Hockey League and returned left wing Tom McMurchy to Milwaukee of the International League. Today on College Basketball Northwestern at Michigan 2:00 pm 1 RADIAL TA WHITELETTER (60 Series) mm WARREN PASS 1 PRO AM SPORTS SYSTEM Valley women share the notoriety Rookie quarterback Doug Flutie threw touchdown passes of nine, nine, 25 and 47 yards Friday night, leading the New Jersey Generals to a 28-10 USFL victory over the Orlando Renegades. Three of the passes by the Heisman Trophy winner were to wide receiver Clarence Collins. The fourth was to tight end Sam Bowers.

Orlando (0-2), which lost its home opener, scored on quarterback Jerry Golsteyn's two-yard touchdown pass to Tight end Bob Niziolek and a 22-yard field goal by Jeff Brockhaus. Flutie was 11 of 24 for 191 yards and no interceptions for the Generals (f 1). He ran six times for 57 yards. Bucks sold, stay put: Investor Herbert Kohl will buy the Milwaukee Bjiscks and keep the NBA club in the cjty, it was announced Friday. The Iice and other terms of the agreement with Kohl, 50, were not disclosed.

'kKohl, a Milwaukee native, said he fys pleased and delighted to be the Bucks' new owner. "This was a project that needed to be'done, and I was lucky enough to b3 in i position to be able to do it," he said. "The Milwaukee Bucks are in Milwaukee and they're going to stay in Milwaukee." The Bucks have been hurt by playing in the NBA's smallest arena with a capacity of 11,052. Efforts to build a new arena or remodel the existing one downtown have dragged down in political maneuvering. i Rodgers skips Boston: Three-tjip Boston Marathon winner Bill Rodders said Friday he's skipping this year's race April 15 to run in a more profitable New Jersey race.

I "I ran Boston 1 0 times for nothing," said in a telephone interview tfom Phoenix. "I like the race (Boston). It's my favorite race, but the sport is changing." He said the New Jersey marathon made him a better financial offer. Saginaw I The Saginaw Valley State women's basketball team has been ranked No. 2 by the NAIA for nearly two seasons.

The Cardinals have received plenty of attention, but coach Marsha Reall doesn't want that to interfere with preparations for the national tournament. Saginaw Vallev (2M Kubiak defeated Aquinas, 74-62, Friday night in the final of the District 23 (Michigan) playoffs. The Cardinals play Defiance at Defiance, Ohio, Tuesday night in a regional playoff, with the winner advancing to the nationals. "One thing that helps is that we have someone different contributing Spar wars! It often has been said by those warriors in the Kronk boxing army that the toughest fights are those within their ranks. Against each other.

For practice. Neophytes against veterans or champi ons. One champion against another. "It wakes you up in a hurry," said Thomas Hearns, the World Boxing Council champion and leader of Rickey Womack iV mmmmwumwmmmiimm 'I If i I getting it straight To ensure accuracy, the Free Press will correct in this space any factual error that may occur in our news columns. A story in Friday's Free Press should have said that the Central Collegiate Hockey Association finals will be March 8-9 at Joe Louis Arena.

tournament the first time an MIAA women's team has done so. The Scots were to play Wisconsin-Whitewater (20-6) in a Great Lakes Regional semifinal at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Friday. Last fall, Calvin received the league's first-ever invitation to the NCAA Division III volleyball tournament, advancing to the Final Four. AMERICA'S LARGEST TORO DEALER HARDWARE 27430 Joy Rd.

LIVONIA 421-5161 IFGoedrich One by one, at one-minute inter vals, 80 vehicles pulled away from the Lansdowne Ferry restaurant Friday, edging slowly up the ramp behind Cobo Hall A rather modest start for a circumnavigation of the United States. When the vehicles return, a week from today, they will have covered more than 8,800 miles In the Uniroyal One Lap of America endurance road rally. From Detroit, the course runs west to Ann Arbor, up to the Mackinac Bridge, across Michigan's Upper Peninsula, then points west. Somewhat the drivers will turn left at Seattle, Football Komlo signs: The Seattle Times reported in its Friday editions that the Seattle Seahawks have signed former Lions quarterback Jeff Komlo. Komlo, a ninth-round Lions draft choice out of Delaware, was released in 1982 and claimed by the Atlanta Falcons, who cut him the following year.

He was signed after the fifth game of the 1983 season by Tampa Bay and spent last season on the injured reserve list. Wayne Radloff, last season's all-USFL center with the Michigan Panthers, signed with the Atlanta Falcons. Radloff, 6-feet-5 and 270 pounds, was a free agent. He signed with the Panthers before the 1983 NFL player draft. Drunken driving charges against San Francisco 49ers running back Carl Monroe, who scored the first touchdown in Super Bowl XIX, were dismissed after an investigation showed he was in the passenger seat during an accident Jan.

4 at San Jose, Calif. Division II North Central Region and No. 8 in the nation, is virtually assured a berth in the regional playoffs, Thursday through next Saturday, despite a 94-80 loss to Grand Valley State last Monday. But the rest of the regional playoff picture remains cloudy. Grand Valley, No.

3 in the region, extended its record to 20-7 by beating Northern, and seemingly assured itself a bid, barring last-minute politicking. The 32 national seedings won't be completed at least until a Sunday morning conference call among the eight regional chairmen. South Dakota State, 20-6 and No. 2 in the region, and No. 4 North Dakota State (18-8) complete their regular-season schedules today.

North Dakota, 16-10 and No. 5, still has an outside shot at a bid. "We tried to get Northern Michigan (21-6) approved for the tournament Tuesday (as an at-large team), figuring it was a good political move, because we wanted to get four other teams from our region invited," said Ferris Hearns-Marvin Hagler middleweight title fight April 15 in Las Vegas. Womack will face Lionel Byarm and Chambers will meet Luis Santana. McCrory update: The McCrory brothers Milton and fledgling pro Steve have departed for Paris, where on March 9 Milton will defend his title against Pedro Vilella of New York (CBS-TV).

"I met McCrory at the airport here in New York," said fight agent Ben Greene. Vilella was on the same flight. I think they were both surprised McCrory to find Vilella was so short (5-feet-8) and Vilella to see McCrory was so tall (6-1). Holmes In trouble: International Boxing Federation heavyweight Mw Hi ST 1 i'lC Michigan colleges Steve Crowe every game," Reail said. "We've had seven different scoring leaders and eight different rebounding leaders in games this season.

And we've been able to use our bench more than most teams at this time of the year. So the publicity has been spread around." Gail Kubiak, a 6-foot-2 centerfor-ward from Burbank, III, is one of five senior starters getting ample attention. She averages 11.3 points and 7.8 rebounds and has 46 blocked shots. "We're really balanced and have a lot of depth," Reall said, "but when you get to nationals, the rest of the teams seem to have about the same things." Pairings unsettled: Northern Michigan, ranked No. 1 in the NCAA Boxing roundup: Aaron Pryor, 35-0 with 32 knockouts, will defend his International Boxing Federation junior welterweight title against Gary Hinton today in a nationally televised bout (4:30 p.m., ABC-TV, Channel 7 in Detroit) in Atlantic City.

World Boxing Association featherweight champion Eusebio Pedroza shot a man who was trying to steal his BMW automobile, and was slightly injured in the incident Friday in Panama City, Panama, said his manager, Santiago del Rio. Del Rio said the incident occurred about 5 a.m. after the thief broke into the garage of Pedroza's home. After firing a warning shot in the air, Pedroza ran after the man, tore a muscle in his own right leg, then shot the man in the leg. Pinklon Thomas, the World Boxing Council heavyweight champion, must undergo a medical examination because of reports he has an eye problem, said WBC president Jose Sulaiman.

Jerome Kinney of Highland Park stopped Italian welterweight Nino La Rocca in the third State's Dean Davenport, a member of the NCAA North Central ranking committee. But that effort was unsuccessful. "Everyone's jockeying for position right now," he said. The regional chairmen could bypass a North Central team for one from another region. "The thing you have to consider," Davenport said, "is what the rest of the country is doing and how many 20-plus-win teams there are.

That seems to be the magic number." Regional sites also should be determined Sunday. South Dakota State is considered the front-runner to host the North Central regional. Grand Valley and Northern also will be considered, Davenport said. An MIAA first: The Alma College women's basketball team, 17-5 overall and 12-0 in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, has received a bid to the NCAA Division III national reputations champ Larry Holmes is a 3 to 1 favorite over David Bey in their March 15 showdown in Las Vegas. But some who have been watching Holmes prepare for his farewell fight say the champ has slipped badly.

He could take his first beating in his last fight. Bonecrusher Smith against Tony Tubbs and Michael Dokes against Randy Cobb round out that heavyweight carnival. The Smith-Tubbs winner gets a WBA title date with champ Greg Page April 29. POWER PLAY SPORTS 2 Team N.B.A. Parlay Of The Year BUCKS LAKES vs vs NUGGETS MAVERIKS ABSOLUTELY FREE Call our Toll Free N.B.A.

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If Sat. 10-6 CLOSED TUES. JPAY CWCK LOCAL COWS Kronk practices build iSlOli George Puscas ftiT ft xing An Invitation from Inacomp Computer Centers: ut7 VaV SEE THE COMPAQPORTABLE COMPUTER SEE THE PISTONS PLAY THE BUCKS FREE! ring working against Hearns. Eventually, McDonald, who fancies himself as a songwriter, tired of the gym poundings and moved to Nashville, Tenn. He's still waiting for his first hit record, but he never forgot the lessons he learned at Kronk.

Now he has his first significant smash in the ring. Matched in Houston against Detroiter Willie Edwards, the top-ranked World Boxing Association contender, McDonald laid a heavy right on Edwards' chin in the fourth round, and came away with his 15th straight victory and 14th knockout. "Oh, God, I was hoping nobody up here had heard about it," said Edwards' manager, Billy Gutz. "We were looking for a title fight and took McDonald just to keep busy. "Willie has this guy out on his feet three times and McDonald is looking for some place to fall down.

There's only a second left in the fight and Willie has him on the ropes and McDonald hits him a straight right right on the button. They could have counted a thousand and Willie wouldn't have heard a word." It was a great boost for McDonald and a tremendous setback for Edwards, who for more than a year has been gunning for a big-pay fight with champion Michael Spinks. Gutz had rejected a $15,000 offer to fight No. 4 Fulgencio Obelmejias in Italy and settled for a $5,000 date with McDonald. Hearns-Hagler undercard: Womack and Darrell Chaabers have been added to the undercard of the KEROSENE HEATERS DEMOS 13,100 B.T.U.

tj Kronk troupe. doesn't matter whether I work ouf witn MiIton McCrory (WBC wel-' tliweight champion) or Rickey Wo-. clack, I know I'm going to feel it." JWomack, 21, is a light-heavyweight yty missed the U.S. Olympic team in the final cut. He has had only three professional fights, but Kronk boss Erdanuel Steward considers Womack Ul.

roughest fighter, f' don't even let Tommy spar too Jong with Womack," Steward said, 'because the guy's just too punishing, fie? wears your body out." fothers in boxing notably Angelo Dundee, who trained Muhammad All ijii Sugar Ray Leonard disagree Steward's philosophy of heavy starring. Ali and Leonard never did it. fYet, there are benefits for young fighters put into the practice ring to ila'fh and be slammed by the best. Jim McDonald is proof of it. A year or so ago, McDonald, a little-frown light-heavyweight from Flint, pas in the Kronk stable, battering and being battered.

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