European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 05, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday june 5, 1980 the stars and stripes Page 23 Raf Iway loser still talks like a Champ Woodbridge . Not suddenly the Rahway slate prison looms above the empty Fields that surround it Damp and dismal under Cloudy skies. Check in at the office inside the Entrance. Show identification. Clip on a visitor s badge. Wait for a Blue uni formed guard to unlock one heavy wooden door. Walk through a Metal Detector. Hold out your right hand for an Ultra Violet stamp. Wait for a guard to unlock an other heavy wooden door. Walk through a big Oval room surrounded by beige painted bars. Walk past three More guards and several prisoners who stare then walk up two flights and across to a Small panelled room where James Scott a loser May 25 for the first time in his boxing career was sitting behind a desk. He was wearing a White Short sleeved shirt Brown pants Blac shoes and his Best smile. It s like Rudyard Kipling s poem he was saying now in his prison boning rehabilitation office. If you can meet with Triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same. If you. He smiled again. When this Light heavyweight con tender with the shaved head was undefeated with 18 victories and one draw some people who know him considered him to be arrogant. He even called himself  he signed autographs great  but with the loss of a unanimous 10-round decision in which he was floored twice by Jerry Bull Martin of Philadelphia he now is a philosopher. And other in mates Are Able to identify with him easier. Most of the people in Here Are losers he explained. And when i went Back to my cell after losing the fight i heard some of them Yelling you re one of  before that he was a Jailhouse celebrity James Scott alias Scotia alias 57735, alias the Boxer who is doing 30 to 40 years after violating parole for an armed robbery conviction alias the uncrowned Light heavyweight Champion because in 1978 he had out pointed Eddie Gregory the current world boxing association title Holder. Most of the people in Here did t think 1 had the attitude to accept a loss he was saying now. I used to say nobody can beat me i m the Best but now if i Don t accept that i lost i la be beaten again. By accept ing it 1 can improve on my  his mistakes were covered by band aids one above his left Eye another under it. Underneath each was a two stitch Gash that Martin had opened. Before the fight Martin had a 19-1 won lost record with 12 knockouts. Out of Antigua he also had a reputation in Philadelphia As Ahard puncher. But All that Scott knew about his 27-year-old oppo nent was his nickname. Anybody who s called Bull " he said i figured to be Small like Joe Frazier or Rocky Marciano and a Strong puncher. But this Guy turned out to be a Demon Boxer. And when i looked across the ring Here was this big Guy taller than me and i m tall. Just looking at him i knew he wanted to win As much As i did. He was wearing Raggedy shoes he did t even have a decent pair of trunks. I knew this Guy came to  As Early As the first round Scott was decked with a right hand. He was knocked Down again in the second. I be always been hit with a right hand but never like this Guy hit me he said. It s like when Joe Louis com to Max Schmeling. He dropped his left hand after he threw a Jab and he was wide open. Like  quickly he snapped a left Jab but when he brought his fist Back it had been dropped to Chest level. It should  he said snapping another Jab but bringing his fist to the Side of his head like  because of a Transfer of his promotional contract to Don King from Murad Muhammad it had been nearly six months since Scott s previous fight a unanimous 10-round decision Over Alvaro yaqui Lopez then the top ranking Aba contender. But he declined to use his Long Layoff As an Alibi. No excuses he said. I Laid off but it was t like i was on the Street Layin off with drinking and women. I was Layin off in Here with nothing else to do but  now that he has lost in his ninth fight inside the prison Scott Calls himself a More determined Boxer who still Hopes at age 32 to fight for a title either the Aba version that Gregory holds or the world boxing Council version that Matthew Saad Muhammad for Merly known As Matt Franklin holds. I ii fight Martin again with the Winner to fight Gregory for the title he said. I think the Marquis of Queensberry would agree with that not Jose Sulci Man of the wac or Mike Mortimer of the Aba they run boxing now. But it should t be run that Way. It should be  Talent and  High school slugger picked 1 St by mets in Amateur draft a a Rel Surat Tymy finl Puyer chosen in ibis Yeu i Amtull Uuttu draft. Its for pictures with he 16-Yetr-om mice cult. It Preasha High caught in the draft school la lot Ait act. Strawberry Macc cd by he new York mets. Now l a cot to o proc by self said the 6 of oms kit Bander. A Polo new York a baseball s no. I Amateur draft Choice is outfielder Darryl Strawberry selected tuesday by the new York mets in the annual summer grab bag. Strawberry who played at Crenshaw High school in los Angeles batted .400 this season and has been one of the most highly touted High school players in the country. He s a Power hitter who runs Tike a Dee Rand has a better than average Arm said Roger Jong Wood. Who scouts Southern California for the mets. Brooks Hurst Strawberry s coach a Crenshaw took that a step farther. He has the Best High school Arm i be Ever seen Hurst said. Strawberry who also pitched at Crenshaw batted .372 last season and pos Ted a 4-1 record on the Mound. He struggled through a slow Start this season batting just .100 for the first Quarter of the season before his Bat started smoking. He batted Between .600 and .700 for the last five or six games Hurst said. The youngster who turned 18 in March said he started slowly because he had Only one Day of practice before the baseball sea Ion began. He had been playing on Crenshaw s City championship basketball team. It was Tough switching from the big Ball to the Small Ball so fast he said. But the coach said to hang in there and everything would come into place and it  Strawberry finished the year with five Home runs and 21 runs batted in. I would describe myself As a Good hitter who can run. Throw and play defense he said. Most of All though i like to  Strawberry also has a College scholarship offer to Oklahoma state and said he would wait until after graduation from High school to decide whether to sign with the ecu or continue his education. It s a big ques Tion he said. It s up to my mom. It la take awhile before we decide. It s a lot to think about. I be got to finish High school and graduate Lif  Strawberry was one of three met selections in the first round of the draft s regular phase. The others As compensation for free agent signings last Winter were outfielder Bill Blanc of Rancho Bernardo. Calif., and Catcher John Gibbons from san Antonio Texas. Both have had College offers Bane from Stanford and Gibbons from the University of Texas. After the mets opened the draft by choosing Strawberry Toronto picked Short Stop Garry Harris from san Diego. Before the Start of the second round the Blue jays announced that they had signed the Young Ster. The sons of two sex major leagues were chosen in the first round. San Diego picked outfielder Jeff Pyburn from the University of Georgia and Montreal chose outfielder Terry Francona of Arizona. Pyburn whose dad Jim played for Baltimore also played quarterback for the bulldogs and was drafted by the Buffalo Bills of the National football league. Francona s father Tito played for several major league clubs. In the secondary phase of the draft re served for players previously selected but unsigned Houston had the no. I Choice and picked right handed Pitcher Jeff Heathcock of Oral Roberts University. The teams went through two rounds of regular draft and then completed the secon Dary draft in which 84 players were selected. The regular phase resumed wednes Day. Colorado state names Mcandrews Cage coach fort Collins Colo. A Colo Rado slate University has hired Tony Mcandrews assistant coach at the University of Iowa for the past six years to be head basketball coach Csc athletic director Thurman Fum Mcgraw announced. Mcandrews 37, replaces Jim Williams who was dismissed last april after 26 Pearson the Job