European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes january 1981 Holmes says he will fight Spinks Larry Holmes verbal commitment new York a Larry Holmes said wednesday night that he has a verbal commitment to defend his world boxing Council heavyweight title against Leon Spinks in May after fighting Trevor Ber Bick on april Holmes said the fight with Berbick would be in Las vegas and would be carried on Cable Bob a publicist for promoter Don said negotiations were under Way for Holmes to fight Spinks in Las vegas in May on a card that would also include a title bout Between former wac welterweight Champion Roberto Duran and wac Junior middleweight Champion Mau Rice Hope of those bouts were not yet said he said the fight with Berbick was Defi Holmes told the associated press by Tele phone shortly after arriving at his Home in from Las vegas that the fight against who briefly held both the boxing association and wac will be around May a has not fought since he lost the wac welterweight title when he quit against sugar Ray Leonard 25 at new Leonard will fight Aba Junior middleweight Champion Ayub a ugandan living in for Palules title in May or the Holme Berbick fight will be carried by Home Box which showed Marvin haulers middleweight championship de sense against Fulgencio Obe Mejias live from Boston the Canadian heavyweight got into the title picture when he knocked out John the former Aba heavyweight last june 20 in apparently none of the major networks wanted to meet Holmes Price for a defense against a jamaican living in Cana Holmes said Abc had offered for the Hob has offered Berbick will fight Chuck Gardner of Minneapolis saturday night in Leon Spinks former Champion Virginias Sampson frustrates Wake Forest continued from Page 21 grabbed 10 rebounds to Lead leu Over with an 181 record Overall and 90 in the Southeastern con also got 12 Points from Ethan Martin and 10 from Howard we knew it would be a Good said leu coach Dale Ole miss Mantovan defense gave us prob lems that we had not faced this but once we figured out a Way to Brown gave credit to Macklin defensive play in the first and to a Cool team approach when Mississippi came on Strong in the second we didst do the silly things when we realized wed gotten ourselves in a serious Brown Sam Bowie Shook off the effects of an injured hip and sparked a second half burst that led Kentucky Over Mississippi Bowie scored 27 two Short of his career and the 7foot1 soph Omore Center helped the wildcats take control at the Start of the second we were very successful getting the Ball into Sam Early in that said wildcats coach Joe then Mississippi state missed eight or nine shots in a and that was the led by Dale Tennessee fought Back twice from eight Point deficits in the first then played keep away during the final four minutes to beat with a Gam leading 24 sparked the Tennessee rallies with layups and 10foot jumpers from the despite sitting out 12 minutes with three Gary Carter had 20 Points for the vol freshman Sam Perkins hauled Down 12 rebounds and scored 16 Points to Lead North Carolina Over the set Back was the third for the tigers at Home this season since their 22game Littlejohn coliseum Victory Streak was broken two weeks the tar heels did it the hard ral lying to outscore Clemson 222 Over a 14 minute Span in the second Tim Jankovich and Tyrone Adams both scored 14 Points to trigger Kansas states upset of Kansas in a big eight Jan but Barber Cut him Down who came into the game averaging Only shredded the Kansas zone hitting 7 of 8 shots from the a 6foot6 hit 5 of 10 from the Field and All four of his free throw Rolando a 6foot6 senior and member of the olympic had Only one Point for the but proved his Worth in other he had a game High seven a game High seven assists and also made three that a perfect example of what he can mean to his team when Blackman Doest said Kansas state coach Jack he did a tremendous amount of things that dont show up in the v corps Green was Sef to win lightweight title Thomas Green with coach Mike Taylor Priolo by Dave Didlo Bubuc Syfox staff writer Germany Thomas Green was Shadow bantering with his buddies and waxing opt this was preflight usually greens considering All the fights hed in Only two years of this 21 year old lightweight has won 40 of 49 More he was the de fending Allamy a second place finisher at last years interservice meet and a Bronze medal Winner at the Conseil internationale do sport Militare Competition in last sunday Green was planning another March through All to assure he had to defeat cur tis Barber of Nuernberg in the lightweight final in front of a packed crowd attending the Usa eur invitational at the Kelley Barracks Green had trained like a spartan since october at his base in Ger and then tuned up for the invitational by winning bouts in Luxembourg and i expect to stick and said demonstrating in the locker room How he hoped to beat he Shoul Dve since not too Long both fighters were on opposing clubs in when he landed at Virisa it tvs Ivill ii la Jaugu a i moments before entering the ring of Battle greens fortunes Only because he went into training under the guidance of Mike a former us afe when i got Taylor he was really i know he had Long arms and could take advantage of his he was so i taught him to Bob and he has worlds of and he trains real so theres no prob Lem for All of greens Taylor figured that after sunday his fighter could gain even More by dropping from 130 to 125 so he could qualify for the featherweight division at hed be stronger in that Taylor and then otherwise he has everything Hes Strong and the lightweight championship promised to ignite the which was filled with mostly Vii corps this being a Vii corps Barber represented Vii corps and Green the hated v the partisan fans we rent from the opening Barber went on a hooking Landing mostly rights and Early on a left that stunned in the second Barber kept on the at pounding Green on the ropes and hurting him with a right left that caused Green to take a standing eight by this time Taylor was Yelling for Green to fire his Green re continued on Page 23