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snoiis ujojIiI DETROIT FREE PRESS SATURDAY. AUG 1986 2D morning line Phillips wins gymnastics gold roundup Viz. Skiles gets contract, but no jail McEnroe ties knot Brash tennis star John McEnroe and actress Tatura O'Neal, who gave birth to his son two months ago, were married Friday in St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church in Oyster Bay, his agent said. McEnroe, 27, a four-time Wimbledon winner noted for his outbursts on the court, and O'Neal, 22, the daughter of actor Ryan O'Neal, have lived together since 1984.

O'Neal gave birth to a son by the tennis star May 23 in Santa Monica, Calif. The baby, Kevin, was the first grandchild for her father. McEnroe, who took a six-month hiatus from the tennis circuit this year, has said domestic life has mellowed him. "Family life changes you," he said. "It's the best thing that's ever happened.

It's a broken record for dental. The delay in Skiles' signing a Bucks contract had to do with the team's salary cap problems rather than with the possibility of Skiles' drawing a jail sentence, sources said. "Scott is a terrific player and he'll do whatever it takes for the team to succeed," said coach Don Nelson. Skiles was the team's first pick in the draft. District Judge Daniel Tschirhart suspended Skiles' driver's license for six months, except to drive to work.

EAST LANSING Former Michigan State basketball All-America Scott Skiles had some good news and some better news Friday: He was ordered to pay $600 in fines and court costs but serve no jail time after pleading no-contest to a drunken driving charge, and he was signed by the Milwaukee Bucks to a three-year contract with an option for a fourth season. Milwaukee sources said the sentencing and the signing were coinci Kristie Phillips, coach Bela Karoy-li's latest teen-age star, thrilled a record crowd with her floor exercise performance and won the women's all-around gold medal in U.S. Olympic Festival gymnastics Friday night in Houston. Phillips, 1 4, of Baton Rouge, scored a 9.05 in her first event, the uneven bars, but finished with consecutive 9.75s in the balance beam, floor exercise and vault for a cumulative 38.300 score. Another Karoyli student, Phoebe Mills of Northfield, 111, won the silver medal, and Robin Richter of Lincoln, Neb, took the bronze.

Karoyli, who tutored Olympic champions Nadia Comeneci and Mary Lou Retton, cheered along with record festival gymnastics crowd of 13,265 as his proteges finished 1-2. In diving, Michele Mitchell, who already has qualified for the World Championships on the springboard, opened a huge lead in her specialty, the 10-meter platform. Hours earlier, Rich Burchill, a hockey goalie from the University of New Hampshire, was released from jail on bond after being arrested Thursday night for breaking into an automobile. Burchill, 19, of West Roxbury, Mass, played for the North team. UPI Photo Mr.

and Mrs. John McEnroe seal it with a kiss. anyone who has children. I thank God every day. It's wonderful." O'Neal made her movie debut at age 9, starring opposite her father in "Paper Moon." Officials said he would not practice or play in the team's final two games.

Golf: Fred Couples shot a 68 and moved into a tie for the second-round lead in the Western Open Golf tournament in Oak Brook, 111. He was tied at that figure, six under par, with Bobby Wadkins, who had a second-round 69. Gary Hallberg and Tom Purtzer were a single stroke off the pace at 139, five under par. Scott Simpson, Tom Byrura and South African David Frost were next at 140. Greg Norman, the Australian who won the British Open in his last start, slipped to a 74 and was seven strokes off the pace at 145 Chris Johnson birdied all the par-5 holes and shot her second straight 2-under-par 70 Friday to take a one-stroke lead at the halfway point of the $300,000 LPGA National Pro-Am.

Johnson took the lead over Amy Alcott and Debbie Massey. Alcott had one of the day's best rounds, a 3-under 69. Massey, who began the day tied for the lead, had a 73. Chi Chi Rodriquez, leading money-winner on the Seniors PGA Tour, shot a 6-under-par 64 fqr the first-round lead in the Seniors Commemorative tourna- Jerseys and jellybeans as LeMond meets Reagan Classic. Krickstein also lost to Gomez in the U.S.

Pro Championships in Brookline, Mass, last week, and Gomez went on to win the title. Obituary: William (Smokey) Saunders, one of only eight jockeys to win the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes, died Wednesday. He was 71. Saunders rode Omaha to thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown in 1935, becoming the third jockey to do so. Compiled by Ken Ficara ment at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough, N.Y.took a two-stroke lead over Dale Douglass, No.

2 money-winner at $216,156 and winner of three events this year. Tennis: 9th-seeded Aaron Krick-stein of Crosse Pointe Woods lost to top-seeded Andres Gomez in the D.C. National Tennis Classic, 6-4, 6-1, in quarterfinal singles play. Gomez has beaten Krickstein in all seven of their meetings, usually with ease, and beat him two years ago in finals of the D.C. return received a presidential jar of jelly beans, a book marker and a mug.

LeMond, asked about his own politics, described himself as a sportsman and an athlete. "I have to really watch myself in Europe for that," he said. He plans to relax for several days, he said. Greg LeMond, winner of the Tour de France, the world's premier bicycle race, met with President Reagan and said later he was happy that "I'm finally getting some recognition for what I do." The 25-year-old Californian presented Reagan with a yellow jersey from the award ceremony, and in Walker was the ultimate Lion Sportspeak Dallas quarterback Danny White, in London for Sunday's exhibition game between the Cowboys and the Chicago Bears: "I feel like an ambassador for American football. It's just like being Christopher Columbus." Compiled by Ken Ficara sports today Tha Fame Came WHAT: Pro Football Hall of Fame inductions and pre-season game.

INDUCTEES: Doak Walker (Lions), Paul Hornung (Packers), Frank Tarkenton (Vikings and Giants), Ken Houston (Oilers and Redskins) and Willie Lanier (Chiefs). WHEN: noon today. WHERE: Canton, Ohio. GAME: New England Patriots vs. St.

Louis Cardinal at Canton's Fawcett Stadium. TIME: 2:30 p.m. TELEVISION: ABC-TV, Channel 7 In Detroit. Television 11:00 a.m. ffl Trackside at Ladbroke DRC.

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1:30 p.m. CM) High school football: Michigan all-star game. 2:30 p.m. This Week in Baseball. 2:30 p.m.

Football: AFC-NFC Hall of Fame game, New England vs. St. Louis (pre-season) 3:00 p.m. (ED Golf: Senior PGA, the Commemorative, second round, Cleveland the victim, Walker produced 1 1 points in a 17-16 victory, scoring one touchdown and kicking a field goal and two conversions. The Browns mauled the Lions, 56-10, in the '54 title game, Walker kicking a field goal, catching two passes for 39 yards and returning a kickoff for 20.

"We had Hunchy (Bob Hoernschemeyer), Pat Harder and Gene Gedman as runners during Doak's Sleepy Hollow Country Club, Scarborough, New York. 00 p.m. Baseball pre-game. 00 p.m. Sportsweekend.

15 p.m. 53) Baseball: Atlanta at San Francisco. 00 p.m. (BaD Tennis: Paine Webber Invitational, men's semifinal, Colo. 30 p.m.

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CfM) Harness racing from Hazel Park. 00 p.m. Tigers: Detroit at Chicago White Sox. 00 p.m. (EH) U.S.

Olympic Festival: Track and field, men's gymnastics, men's ice hockey (North vs. South) Houston. 30 p.m. CM) Trackside at Ladbroke DRC. 3: 3: 3: 4: 4: 4: 6: 7: 8: 9: time, Layne said, and they shared the work load so that thev all had about DOAK WALKER, from Page 1D "I was told that once the electors understood I played both ways (offense and defense), they treated it like 12 seasons," Walker said, laughing.

Men who were his contemporaries say his play in college and pro football was uncanny, unforgettable. "Billy Sims couldn't match him," said Nick Ker-bawy, the Lions' general manager through Walker's pro career (1950-55). "That's no knock against Sims. Doak was so versatile, nobody matched him." Bobby Layne was the Lions' quarterback then. He and Walker grew up in Dallas and were high school teammates.

They went separate ways in college, joined the Merchant Marines together, then by an odd twist of trades, wound up teammates on the Lions. "He was the greatest clutch player I ever saw," Layne said of Walker. Elected to the Hall of Fame in 1967, Layne will present Walker for induction in today's ceremonies. "There was nobody else I would have," Walker said. "We've been closest friends since I was in grade school.

I live in Denver and he lives in Lubbock, Tex, but we still phone each other at least once a week." It figures that Layne, who dreads speeches, would gut-out one more. "Well, I'll tell ya," Layne said, "if we were ahead 28-0 or somethin', you might not notice Doak on the field. But if it was a close game, everybody knew he was there and he would be the difference." RUSS THOMAS, now the Lions' general manager, -was a scout during Walker's career in Detroit. He has vivid memories of the time. "There was that championship game in Cleveland in 1952," Thomas said, "and Doak literally ran 67 yards through the whole Cleveland team.

I don't know how 1 1 guys missed him, but he was like that. "He made things happen. He had uncanny field vision, but I was always amazed how he survived. He wasn't particularly big." Walker remembers 1952, too. He was all-pro and the NFL's leading scorer in his rookie season (1950) and again in 1951.

But 1952, when he didn't make all-pro, was his most gratifying season even though he missed 10 games with a hamstring injury. "That Cleveland game (the Lions won 17-7) was my biggest thrill in football, because it was a great climax to a great Lions season," Walker said. A week earlier, he had thrown a 24-yard touchdown pass to Leon Hart as the Lions beat the Rams, 31-21, in the division playoff. "To take the championship back to Detroit, which hadn't won one since 1935," Walker said, "to have the kind of year we had, and the way we were treated by the fans, well, nothing could match it." IN THE 1953 championship game, again with "He came to training camp for three days in 1957, and Buddy Parker told me to sign him," Kerbawy said. "But Doak said he had to make the most important phone call of his life.

It was to his wife, and when they were finished talking, he left camp. That was the end." The marriage ended two years later. Walker later married Skeeter Werner, a former Olympic Alpine skier whose family owns a ski resort in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Walker soon became an avid skier. It almost cost him his life in 1970.

He was buried in a snow avalanche in the Canadian Rockies in a near-tragedy that haunts the Werner family. Buddy Werner, his wife's brother and a world ski hero, had died six years earlier in an avalanche near St. Moritz, Switzerland. "No, I don't have any regrets about quitting football when I did," Walker said. "I'm not sorry because I've got all my teeth, both knees and most of my faculties." Old Lions have rallied here to salute Walker's entry into the Hall of Fame.

There's Layne, Yale Lary, Joe Schmidt, and Dick (Night Train) Lane, already in the hall, and Cloyce Box, Jimmy David and Gil Mains. "We were together just a few weeks ago in California," Kerbaway said, "for the funeral of Jack Christiansen." FOUR OTHERS will be enshrined today with Walker. They are Paul Hornung of the Green Bay Packers, Ken Houston of the Washington Redskins, Willie Lanier of the Kansas City Chiefs and Fran Tarkenton of the Minnesota Vikings. Walker had given up any hope of making it into the hall. His election came as an "old-timer," a player from the deep past overlooked or not properly evaluated.

All the other honors bestowed on him seem shallow by comparison. "This is the greatest honor any pro player can receive," he said. "It's the climax to the closing of a career, and I just thank goodness that I'm able to enjoy it while I'm still alive." At his side on the steps on the Hall of Fame will be his wife, Skeeter, his two daughters and two sons, his sister, and his father, Ewell Doak Walker Sr. "My dad has been waiting for this," he said. "He's 88.

He was a high school football coach. When I was two, three years old, he started shoveling passes to me." Did Doak become the greatest Lions runner? Maybe. There was Sims, from a new era, a different style of football. And there were Bullet Bill Dudley and Frankie Sinkwich in the 1940s, and Earl (Dutch) Clark in the '30s. They had their time, which is all anybody can claim.

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"That's how much he meant to them," Kerbawy said. "They loved him so much he got an extra $4,100 from the Lions just for that game. He was only making about $15,000 for the season." Walker and his wife shortly moved to Denver, but he was being pressured to quit football. He sat out one season, then came back. Sunday television Lions ahead despite looks, Rogers says Long 'beginning to wondei 11:00 a.m.

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CHICAGO Chuck Long was here Friday, smiling and shaking hands with old friends and foes. But his mind was on Detroit. Long received the 1985 Big Ten-Jesse Owens male athlete of the year award at the conference's annual football kickoff luncheon. But he continues to miss valuable training time at the Lions' camp because of a contract disagreement. "Sure, I'd rather be there," Long said, "but I'm beginning to wonder how sincere Detroit is about getting this over.

We keep drifting apart, but I do believe we'll come to terms in a matter of time. I want to play for the Lions as much as ever." Long completed 67 percent of his passes for 3,297 yards and 27 touchdowns last season, leading Iowa to a 10-2 record and the Big Ten championship. Tommy George LIONS, trom Page 1D "And we have greater competition in spots across the board," Rogers said. "That will enable us to make more changes this year if we have to. I can foresee more new people (playing) this year than last.

"Last year we were a new staff; we said, 'Hey, let's not make changes for stupidity's Now we have more basis to make changes. We can say, 'This guy didn't belong here After the first two weeks of training camp, however, Rogers has been more aware of players he wants to keep than players he wants to get rid of. Here's a look at some of the training camp pluses, by positions: Defensive line The front line features Curtis Green, Eric Williams and William Gay, but Keith Ferguson, Leon Evans, Allen Hughes and Steve Baack have made good impressions. Linebackers The outside backers are set with Mike Cofer and Jimmy Williams, assuming Williams' holdout ends soon. Kevin Hancock and James Johnson, from last year's rookie class, and free agent Paul Butcher from Wayne State are making bids for jobs held by Kurt Allerman, August Curley and James Harrell.

Defensive backfield Second-year pros John Bostic and Duane Galloway are making bids. Rookie Devon Mitchell has been moved to No. 1 free safety. Should be better than last year. Offensive line "Our offensive line minus Chris Dieterich has come off the ball better than they ever did last year," Rogers said.

A veteran group should be even better when Dieterich returns. Running backs "At least we have some competition," Rogers said. Rookies Garry James and Oscar Smith have been impressive. Free agent Scott Williams is making a push for the backup job to fullback James Jones. Receiver! Injuries have hampered the wide receivers, but Pete Mandley returned to work this week.

Mark Brammer is a strong addition at tight end. Quarterbacks Eric Hippie and Joe Ferguson are still 1-2, just like last year. John Witkowski has thrown well, but faces an uncertain future when Long signs. Although the training camp has been mainly positive, Rogers still has problems to be solved before the Sept. 7 opener at Minnesota.

The holdouts could be a problem if they last much longer. Dieterich and Williams know their jobs well enough, paring the starting quarterbacks ratter than teaching the rookie. After today's two workouts, the' Lions and Philadelphia Eagles will hold, four days of combined practices. The teams will hold separate morning workouts but will work against' each other in the afternoons through" Wednesday. scorelines but still have to get into hitting condition.

Graham might need more time, since he probably will be moved from free to strong safety. The two inside linebacker positions must be strengthened, whether they're held by incumbents Curley and Allerman or other players. And unless the Lions sign Long soon, his season could be a total waste. "He's missed 20-some practices already," Rogers said. "He'll miss 30-some before he signs.

He will be so far behind it will be extremely difficult for him to catch up. We all know that; he knows it; I assume (agent) Jack Mills knows it." ONCE the regular season near, coaches will concentrate on pre it neips us Dotn, Kogers sam. we have more bodies on the field, morel Sports Phone 1-976-1313. Free Press quiz for a subscription to Michigan Lotto at 2 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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