European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes january 1981 Page Law needed on nil violence compiled by boo Odem staff writer football any Federal Law to control violence in sports should be aimed equally at coaches and manage according to National football league Veteran Alan in an article published monday in the february Issue of sport a defensive tackle with the Chicago bears and a practising said legislation is needed because those in charge of the nations professional sports have failed to do the but Page added that the proposed sports violence act needs to be expand in my judgment the act is a positive step because the people who control professional sports Are either unwilling or unable to police he but the act does not go far enough because it neglects to place criminal penalties on those people the league pro and even College coaches who promote or teach players to use excessive the 14year Veteran they should be just As liable for acts of violence As the Perpe Page also said that any Law should pro vide penalties for unnecessary violence that occurs within the goals and rules of the he pointed to two recent cases in the nil where Legal hits severely injured in Philadelphia wide receiver sports wire Wally Henry suffered broken ribs and a ruptured and had to have his spleen in the new eng land wide receiver Darryl Stingley was paralysed from the neck the proposed Federal which is expected to be reintroduced in Congress this contains maximum penalties of a year in prison and a As introduced in the House of representatives last it would apply to any professional athlete who uses excessive physical Force that has no reasonable relationship to the competitive goals of the sport is unreasonably violent and could not be reasonably or consented by the injured while Congress works on the Page suggested that pro sports try themselves to Cut Down on Enfield he said the nil and the National football league players association should discuss changing rules that permit the use of excessive such As changes instituted last season to protect basketball Chris Cobbs of the los Angeles whose series about drug usage among National basketball association players created much Contro Versy last monday was named one of four winners in the annual writing contest conducted by the pro basketball writers association of Cobbs won in the investigative series Joe Hamelin of the san Diego Union won in the features category for a Story about Lloyd Barry Bloom of the Freeline news Syndicate in san fran Cisco won in the news category for a Story about the trial of Bernard and Shel Don Ocker of the Akron Beacon journal won in the columns category for a piece about the late Terry winners will receive and a Type writer from Phillips Petroleum general Rick the mid lands sports editor for United press inter has been named Missouri sportswriter of the year for 1980 by the National sportscasters and sportswriters it was announced Gosselin is a 1972 Michigan state University graduate who has been in the employ of up for eight he worked general assignment for two years in de troit and on the National sports desk for two years in new York before his appointment As a regional sports editor in Kansas City in Muhammad above right in talks with a distraught 21yearold Man who had threatened to jump from the ninth floor fire escape of a los Angeles All to the Rescue High Rise building the whose name had not been stayed on the ledge of the fire escape for several hours before the former heavy weight Champion was talks the Man out of jumping and consoles him As he helps him off the photos