European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 13, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 3 exec cagers tied to fixes new York a Henry a government informer allegedly involved in a number of organized crime says he paid three Boston College players to shave Points during the 197879 College basketball in a copyrighted Story in the 16 edition of sports Hill said the scheme began with by teammates Rick Kuhn and Jim the scheme expanded to in clude Ernie the Star of the whose cooperation was needed for the shaving to Hill says nine games were to be fixed but the gamblers involved won on Only six of deacons Deal heels Home loss by United press International the cracks Are beginning to show in Carmichael auditorium in Chapel the Home court of North Carolina Dina Rily an untouchable fortress for the tar heels has been less than secure of on wednesday night ninth ranked North Carolina was ripped 8468 by Sev ent ranked Wake last week the tar heels lost at Home to it Marks the first time since 1973 that College basketball North Carolina has dropped two straight at since the Arena opened in 1965 the tar heels have gone 13016 at but Blue As it is known to the provided Little Security against the Demon i cant remember us being dominated like especially said North car Olina coach Dean were embarrassed As a the behind a Tough zone and some intelligent broke to a 4322 Lead at the sufficiently shaking the tar Mike Helms finished with 20 Points and Jim Johnstone 17 As Wake Forest moved its record to Alvis Rogers and Guy Morgan had 13 apiece and Frank Johnson Wake was primed and Smith they certainly beat us every which there ranked ahead of us and de serve their High the tar looking to Salvage some came out with a press to Start the second they Cut it to 13 with two minutes left but the Issue had Long been we knew we were going to be hard pressed in the second said Deamon coach Carl i thought we did what we had to do to keep things under con for North Al Wood finished with 20 Points and Sam Perkins we weren t ready to play that my Smith somehow we have to regroup for sunday at in the top 2 Virginia Defeated continued on Page 22 we really had our ups and Hill told is writer Douglas but when the last pass had been thrown out of i had won six of the lost on three and made Between and not bad for 11 weeks according to the players made about but it want As easy As i Antic Hill nothing Ever it sounds All we wanted was by to win by less than the betting line when it was favored and to lose by More than the line when it was the underdog the did not always work Hill and the gamblers collected on games against Harvard and Urcla but lost the next two by contests against Rhode Island and holy then came three straight gambling victories against con Fordham and a loss against holy Cross and a final Victory against according to Kuhn and Sweeney were involved from the Start and Cobb joined them for the final five the players were paid per a negotiated according to Sweeney was a like the Gambler Birds of a first he and Rick wanted a game but i wound up chcwin1 pm Down to Hill recalled meeting with Sweeney and Kuhn when the plan was put into then we discussed which games we would do business he Sweeney took out one of those Little schedule circled the games he thought they could fool and gave the card to they kept saying they thought they had a Good team and they liked the idea of just shaving Points and not blowing tie thing that got me was they were familiar with they knew about they were not dumb they knew How to because when 1 tried to explain to they we know All a photo Cleveland Roger Phegley holds onto Ball and balance despite bumping into Philadelphia Lionel Hollins wednesday night Bird Powers celtics Over lakers by United press International last night we blew the game and be Lieve we remembered it Larry Bird said wednesday night after scor ing 36 Points to help give the Boston celtics a 10591 Victory Over the los an Geles who hit on 18of25 from the also pulled Down 20 made five distributed five assists and blocked three i got off to a Good Birdex Aba Roundup i was passing and and everything just fell into i hate to compare my Best games and my worst lets just say that tonight i played Well enough for us to Boston coach Bill also disappointed Over dropping a 108107 overtime decision to Seattle the previous mar veiled at Birds ability to last night Larry played 50 minutes continued on Page 23