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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 23thursday, August 17, 1978 Mohammad Ali left photo hams it up visited his Deer Lake pa., training for a group of kids from the Bronx who Camp. Hie sex Champ was Back to his am Camps it up for kids land jabs at Spinks face by will Grimsley for All. He was entertaining four Busload Deer Lake  a a  of Black children from the Mission society Ali tries to make chump out of Champ old pre bout badmouthing at he ridiculed heavyweight title Holder Leon spanks right. Spanks took a dip after working out in Monticello . A Bywy Grimsley a " a. Somber Muhammad Ali worked out before l Galaxy of 200 Bronx youngsters and a couple of movie celebrities tuesday then confidently predicted he would regain the world heavyweight championship from Leon spanks in new Orleans sept. 15. I that Man is too ugly to represent us the 38-year-old former Champion told a news conference in front of his log Cabin training Headquarters. Spinks is so ugly. I he s got no Teeth. His Mother says every me he cries tears run Down his Cheek Halfway Stop and then run  tuesday s training session was special i Bobby Orr plans i to skate in 78 for Black Hawks Toronto a defens nun Bobby Orr plans to return to action with the Chi Cago Black Hawks in time for the opening of the h7i hockey season. Orr sidelined the past 18 months since under going an operation on his left knee said tuesday he will be at the Black Hawks training Camp next month. I tin very confident i win be Back Al most certain Orr said. The chances of paying again Are excellent but i want to be sure. The knee has to be tested further i a Tel not commit myself completely. I but in my opinion the knee is stronger in it was when i went to training Camp far team Canada in the Canada cup com  Orr. 3d, was voted the most valuable payer in the tournament. He then went to jew Black Hawks but played just so games wore be re injured his knee. The opera Hon on his left knee was his sixth. Store the injury Orr who signed a five a a s3 million contract with Chicago has cited general manager coach Bob Pul it. Orr returned to skates in january to As stupid Ford in Chicago practices and since put More and More pressure on the Nee. I m getting a a lot of skating and i Illy want to get Back playing Orr said. Of Ali busloads Blac e Missio society who had been stood up several Days ago by Spinks. The 4.000-member society is a Charity organization strongly Hacker a show business personalities Cliff Robert son and Dina Merrill and is aimed at get Ting Bronx youngsters involved in Community and other  and his wife Merrill hew in by special plane for the  was More serious than a half a year ago when he lost to the former olympic Champion and a raw Rookie in a shattering upset. Nevertheless he joked with his guests. He caressed several of the wide Eye Young visitors and Drew one of them 3 year old atom Sidberry into his Lap during his informal press conference. Kalm immediately burst into tears and his Mother Debby Mckune one of those making the three hour bus trip from the Bronx rescued him. He is just tired. He s not scared just tired the Mother  said he had boxed 206 rounds in preparation for the return fight and was in Asgood shape As he had Ever been at a Simi Lar stage prior to any of his fights. The former Champion was asked How much he Felt be had slipped in the 14 years since he first won the heavyweight Crown from Sonny listen in Miami Beach in 1964. On a scale from 1 to 100,1 would say i was a 95 against listen he said. No i am about 80.""what about Spinks someone asked. Thirty five Ali  of the Ali entourage insist that they have never seen Ali work so hard. He is up every morning at 4 o  said Gene Kilroy a longtime aide. He runs three Miles before breakfast. He works hard and does t Stop until he Falls asleep watching television close to mid  player s son is qualifier Cincinnati a Wayne player the 16-year-old son of Golf great Gary player was among five persons All under 22 years old who qualified in Cincinnati for the . Amateur championship. Player snot an eight Over  14� with rounds of 76 and 73 at the Camargo club to tie for the final spot. Vietnam victim Kalsu enshrined in pro Grid Hof Canton Ohio a Bob Kalsu the Only pro football player killed in action in Vietnam has joined the game s immortals in the pro football Hall of Fame. The former University of Oklahoma guard played just one season with the Buffalo Bills in the american football league in 1968 before he joined the 101st airborne infantry in Vietnam. He was killed july 21, 1970, at the ripcord base. He was 25. A plaque in Kalsu s memory was presented tuesday to his widow Jan and Earl Schreiber chairman of the Hall of Fame. No one will Ever know How great a foot Ball player Bob might have been but we do know How great a Man he was to give up his life Tor his country read the plaque Tobe placed in the shrine. Kalsu s widow and two children 9-year old Jill Ann and 8-year-old Bob jr., were on hand at the Brief ceremonies at the Hall. Mike Novak one of 1st big cagers Dies at 63 red Creek . Upil Mike Novak one of the tint genuine my men to play the game of basketball was pronounced dead upon arrival at Meyers Community Hospital in Sodus ., monday of an apparent heart attack. He Wai s3. At g-foot-9, Novak starred As a Center for the University of Loyola in the mid-19308 and May have been the cause of basketball s present go attending role. His coach Leonard Sachs use to have Novak stand under the Basket and leap Over the rim to Block shots. In it Novak was an All America senior and led the Ramblers to a Runae rup finish in the National invitation tournament. Perennial Power Long Island University was Cham Pion that year handing Loyola its Only loss. In 1 70, Novak was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Loyola University. Bengals Browner out 6 weeks after Arm surgery Cincinnati up the Cincinnat bengals have lost their no. 1 draft pick former notre Dame defensive Lin Manross Browner for six weeks because of an Arm injury and resulting surgery. Browner was Hurt in saturday night s 14-10 preseason loss to the Detroit Lions and underwent surgery  physician or. Ralph Richter who performed the operation said Browner had some of his Bleep muscle torn off the Bone and had to have it sewn Back. Bengals assistant general manager Mike Brown said Browner suffered the in jury when he threw out his Arm to Ward off a Block and his Bleep hit the Blocker shoulder pads. The remarkable thing was he was Hurt in the second Quarter and he played the whole second half said Brown. And he played  s a Tough blow for him and the team added Brown. The six week absence Means Browner probably will miss the first four games of the regular season. Suit filed Over rams 1980 move to Anaheim Santa Ana Calif. A a suit tiled in Superior court challenges the Deal in which the National football league s los Angeles rams will move into Anaheim stadium Start ing in 1980. Douglas e. Patty formerly a minority partner in the California Sun of the now defunct world football league charged monday that there would be illegal and improper use of City of Anaheim funds in the proposed Deal. Patty alleged the july 25 agreement Between the City and the nil team included improper gifts to the football club. His suit seeks an injunction against the agreement. Last month Patty filed a $60 million suit against the rams the nil and the City of Ana Helm claiming he was denied application for a nil franchise in Orange county since1976  
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