European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 03, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Friday june 3, 1977 the stars and stripes Poge 23 Steiner captures Mcaa decathlon you re the greatest heavyweight Champ Muhammad All takes a Friendly punch in the fro Houston Mctear Winner of the 100 meter dash in the Muhammad All invitational track meet at Norwalk Calif. After seeing Mctear run All shouted Tourn you re the greatest but Mctear shot Back no Man you re the greatest Mctear s time or the100 meters was 10.14 seconds. A Spinks Brothers return to Montreal to foes Montreal a Michael and Leo Spinks. Olympic Gold medal winning Brothers from St. Lous won by knockout wednesday night on a professional boxing card in the Tate of Knox vice. Tenn., Chris Clarke of Halifax n.s., and Jean Lapointe of Montreal also won by Spinks who won a Gold medal As a middleweight in the 1976 olympics Here scored a knockout at 2 20 of the second round Over Joe Borden of new Glasgow n.s., for his third Victory in As Many pro , at 167 pounds and fighting As a Light heavyweight put Borden. Its on the Canvas Early in the second round of their six Rounder with what he described As the Down Raymond Rousse Leau of Quebe City que. Twice in the tint before ending the fight with a body punch in the third. Lapointe 133, who won the Canadia lightweight title from Barry Sponagle of new Glasgow Here March 22, knocked out Danny Stokes 132%, of Oshawa ont., at 1 30 of the fourth round in their scheduled 10 Rounder. Spinks was a Tough Man him. He kept Michael said. But i his head too ringside fans among the crowd of 2,240 appeared not to see the punch that did it and Spinks admitted he had t expected Borden to fall. I was kind of surprised when he Wen Down but 1 put a lot of Power behind that punch Spinks said. Leon s Victory was almost As , at 201%, disposed of Bruce Scott of Beaumont tex., 185%, with a right to the top of the head As the Bell ended toe third round. The Victory was the fifth for Leon in As Many pro fights. Like his brother he won Agold medal at the 1976 olympics fighting As a Light heavyweight he now fights in the heavyweight Guy surprised me a whole lot said Leon. He took a lot of my Good punches and he showed he wanted to go All the , 220, put Norm Kues 193, of Toron to away at 1 45 of the first round with a right uppercut to the body and a left upper Cut to the , 146. A Lethander was the aggressor from the opening Bell. He knocked Hallquist beats Brink to keep us on top in Usta women s Tennis temp Ariz. A top seeded bar Bare Hallquist Defeated Debbie Brink to keep her University of Southern California team on top at the end of wednesday s sin Gles action in the Usta women s collegiate Tennis Defeated Brink of cat state stanislaus 6-1, 6-2 to give us 12 Point going into thursday s quarterfinals. Miami of Florida was in second place wit nine Points As was Southern methodist. De fending Champion Rollins College of Florida had 8v4 Shelia a Clemey of us Defeated Dundee Davis of Rollins 6-2,6-0. Champaign til up Tito Steiner an Argentine olympic athlete took Over first place after the first event wednesday and never trailed in winning the Mcaa de Cathlon with 7,659 Points the fourth Brig Ham Young University Winner of the event in the last five , trailing Houston s Richard la Combe by 29 Points after the first five events on tuesday finished third in the 110 meter hurdles the first event wednesday to move ahead of Lacombe by is , be won the discus with a toss Nail Star of join bucs As place kicker Tampa Fla. A Derek Smethurst of the Tampa Bay rowdies the second leading scorer in the North american soccer league will join the Tampa Bay buccaneers of the National football league As a place kicker but he wont give. Up his soccer , 29, will wait until the end of the soccer season before joining the he plans to alternate Between the two teams playing football in the fall and soccer in Spring and summer a spokes Man said. I be been Given the Opportunity by Bot the rowdies and the bucs to play football and now the responsibility is mine to go outland prove i can kick Smethurst said adding that he s used to playing under soccer coach predicted greatness for will be one of the Best place kickers the nil has Ever seen said Row Dies coach Eddie Firmani. He said he Haslet to see anyone who has such Force and accuracy in his kicking. Lots of people can kick hard but can t put the Ball where it must go he , a native of Durban South Africa will practice with the football Tea but won t play any games until after aug. 29. The Date of the Nail championship the bucs 0-14 inaugural season in the nil last year the place kicking duties were performed by Dave Green a Veteran punt specialist who was the Lead ing punter in the american football con Ference. With Smethurst on the team. Green will stick More to his punting speciality a team spokesman career scoring Smethurst is just one goal behind nausea done Steve David of los Angeles a former Miami Toros Star. Smethurst has 48 goals and nine assists in311 games. He s missed just one game in the three years he s played in the .he becomes the 30th soccer style kicker in the nil. Only nine kickers in the traditional style using the front of the foot in Stead of the Side remain in the league. Mcnamara s ban off key san Diego a before the re suns of a publicly distributed ballot re lated to the team s problems could be tallied John Mcnamara was fired As manager of the san Diego dismissal was carried out late last saturday night by Buzzie Bavasi president of the National league base Ball club who turned Over Field opera Lions of the club to Alvin , results of the ballot asking san deegans to place blame forthe padres problems were published by the san Diego evening got 211 votes As the Man responsible for the Low standing of the got 1,111 votes. Of 152-Feot-3, tied for fourth in the pole vault with a reap of Sweet la i finished fourth in the javelin with 198-feet-b. And seventh in the 1.500 metersin4 34.3.while Steiner was compiling a reason ably High number of Points in each of the five events Lacombe finished behind him in every one of them but finished in the Overall standings with 7,374 Points. Mauri Cio Bardales the Mcaa ii Champion from University of California Irvine finished third with 7,366, Russ frills of Tennessee was fourth at 7,245 and Barry Stebbins Oft. St. Mary s fifth with 7,159. Robert Baker of or India. Who finished 14th in the Field of is set an Mcaa decathlon record with a Docking of 4 10.4 for 732 Points in the 1,500-meter run. Bardales was High with 912 in the javelin on a toss of 239 feet-4, and Joe Schneider of St. John s and Steve Benedict of Georgia each won 945points in the pole vault with leaps of 14 feet la v Seiner s Brigham Young teammate Jouko Kokkonen won the 110 meter High hurdles and 921 Points with a time of 14.35. Coaches of the 177 schools with entrants i the track and Field championships begin Ning thursday scratched an entry list of nearly 1,800 Down to 598 individual entries plus 63 teams in the two them were 32 members of for eign olympic teams and 15 who were Mem Bers of the . Olympic track squad. The Field also included defending champions inline individual events As Well As three of the four runners who were on arizon state s winning 1.600-meter relay team � year ago. Bonda Calls off talks on possible Sale of indians Cleveland
