European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes april 1985 Hearns Calls Hagler truly great Champion by Milton Richman Las vegas up he was the last visitor in the world Marvin Hagler Ever but there he stood before with All proper the Man he had just stopped inside of three not so much with a couple of murderous but with a Tomahawk and an Thomas Hearns had come in peace to Marvin haulers dressing room to Tell the Winner and still middleweight Champion exactly what he thought of for a few silent seconds the two men who had been trying to tear one another limb from limb Only 20 min utes earlier outside in the ring at Caesars Palace Mon Day night looked at each other with mute then they both and suddenly threw their arms around each they hugged one another so genuine so youd think they were Long lost Brothers who had been searching for one another for Hearns had something he was anxious to Tell something he wanted him to hear from his lips and didst care who else in the dressing room heard Hagler realized Hearns had something he wished to say to youre the better Hearns told youre not Only the better but youre a great fight i mean a truly great the 30yearold Hagler hugged the 26yearold Hearns some in very grateful for you for coming in i woul Dve done the same thing if it had been the other Way answered who had proven quite conclusively he richly deserved to be ranked with the great fighters of All time in defending his middleweight title successfully for the 11th consecutive who holds the wac super welterweight title and also owned the Aba welterweight Crown before losing it to sugar Ray Leonard in had wanted to become the first Man Ever to win four that didst seem important right Hearns had a sudden thought he wanted to get and he did it you he if we Ever talk about another you and we gotta get More Hagler howled Over he had earned million plus 45 percent of the total while Hearns got million and 35 percent of the it was a great want it Hagler youre Damn Hearns laughing along with a capacity crowd of saw the fight and not a soul Felt even those who paid for a ringside the two fighters went full bore almost from the open ing at one Point Hearns opened a deep enough Cut Over haulers right Eye that referee Richard Steele Felt compelled to Hal the action and ask Donald Romeo to examine it Midway through the third the doctor stated to me that the Cut was not that bad because it was not blocking his haulers Steele but who has not been beaten in nine years and whose record now stands at was somewhat concerned the fight would be i was afraid a Little he i saw the blood and that when i turned into a i knew i had to do it a Little the first round of the fight was As Good a round As there might have been in the entire history of both men hammered away at each other with two Herb Santos and Harry giving the round to and the other Dick voting for the second round was a Carbon copy of the first except that Hagler was the More dominant and won it on the cards of All three shortly after the doctor gave Hagler his Okay to continue in the third it was All Hagler missed a vicious left Hook then connected with a violent right to the head that jarred the very interstices of Hearns he followed that one with an even harder right to the which sent the Detroit challenger spinning to the Hearns trip to the Canvas came with such startling swiftness that it took even he picked up the count from the timekeeper at four and went to nine before Hearns staggered to his but it was All and Steele acted prudently in ending the i didst ask him the referee said of i just knew he had his eyes were glazed and his legs were Hearns was still a bit unsteady on his feet a half hour after the and Emanuel his suggested he not bother going out and talking to the Hearns buy you have to face defeat As Well As Hearns told his in a Man and in Gonna go out and talk to he paid that visit to Marvin he wanted to make sure to Tell him How absolutely Marvel Ous he celtics last to turn Bac Toback trick in 1969 Boston Hopes to end be Peak famine new York up when John Don Nelson and the rest of the Boston celtics carried red Auerbach off the court after game 7 of the 196869 Aba championship it was nothing out of the the defending league titlist had won in those that scene seemed to be repeated about As often As an episode of Star of the 20 champions crowned from 11 had won the year but with the retirement of Bill Russell following the celtics 108106 Victory Over the lakers on May 1969 a Triumph that gave Boston its both Aba championship in 11 seasons there would be no repeaters in the next 15 Larry Bird and the rest of the current celtics try to end that string when the Aba playoffs begin but it wont be its almost impossible when the Early celtics played they dominated be cause they had such Superior said Milwaukee Kevin who wears the championship ring of the 197778 but the players Are better now and theres More of youll never see a dynasty like that again in professional basketball because its just too Tough you wont see it in my lifetime at the reasons those who have played since the late 60s Point to an even spread ing of trades or just a Plain Lack of desire As chief causes for a teams championship photo missing from consecutive pages of the Aba five defending champions during this Era were knocked off by a club that would go on to the league and three of those fell in the championship six lost a deciding game in the where a Basket or free throw May have made a to stand Pat after a championship season is but Many times a Trade can upset a teams fragile in the Bucks won the title led by Lew a gifted Center who seemed capable of carrying a club by but Milwaukee traded Greg Smith and Mccoy Mclemore two role players at Best and the despite another spectacular season by Alcindor now Kareem Abdul Jabbar of the lakers fell in six games to los Angeles in the West the Golden state who coasted along As smoothly As a Rick Barry jump shot a glorious 197475 seemed on the verge of another title when they drafted Gus Williams the next we won 59 games and went into the play offs very said George then the warriors we probably were too confident and Phoenix beat the Seattle supersonics followed their Banner 197879 season with their est regu la season but they ran into Jabbar and Rookie magic Johnson in the West final and lost in five its difficult to pinpoint a Lack of intensity on the part of a Champion its something that cannot be measured with a but the 197980 who fell victim in the first round to a Young and hungry Houston team led by Moses and the who lost three Home games to new Jersey in the opening round two years Are prime examples of champs who figured they be Able to turn it on at the end it want it really didst hit us until we were walk ing off the floor after that fifth said 76ers general manager Pat then you realize youre youre just another that when humiliation sets can this years celtics avoid that Humilia Tion Center Robert Parish says they we went through All that after we won in he the next year we thought we could coast through the regular season and try to turn it on in the it Doest work that it wont happen to us that what Treyve been saying for 15 Mchugh from Page 25 the 10team Gary Stibgen of Sembach led the Way with team mates Greg Dennis Sells and Tom Gleason added 1190 and re Stibgen was in fourth place in the All events race going into wednesdays doubles the women lacked the big but not the excitement that the men had generated earlier in the with Only six women teams in the top three were separated by Only 29 pins going into the sixth and final the 1 in second going into that made up a 15pin deficit to grab team Lolita Wesley of Green Ham common provided the firepower in the final rolling a Only a 160average 1 just knew we were going to they Csc i team made me i was so mad i almost started to they wanted to win this but i just told myself theres no Way there going to win Wesley credited teammate Bev Warner with helping her Roll the top game of the Day in the women portion of the i used to throw a backup said the Moss but Bev showed me How to throw the Ball differently and that what i was doing Wesley 1059 three game Block vaulted her into third place on the women All events list behind Dee Curry of the Csc 1 who finished with and Jennie Beach of san Vito who led her Mac teammates to third place in team Competition with a Kris Faussete Warner 995 and Cherryl Baruch 983 completed the Wom ens foursome that topped first assigned to the nato Ming Center in attributed her status atop the Al events list to experience on synthetic on these you have to go to the inside but a lot of the women Only bowl the outside said the san Anto either they cant or wont but the inside is where its Curry shot a 583 final three game including a 213 in the sixth never her team finished 73 pins i think the other teams just had the Breaks in their last said we were going All but then we had one or two splits and those took away our they just killed off the Adrena Lin we had going for helping generate that momentum were Linda Renee Owade and Pam who finished with 966 and strikes and spares Conrad Marks of in Ciurlik Rolleri a the top game of the the hander started with a then Strung 10 strikes before another split ended his ram steins Bob Tronin and Helta Nikon Jim Collins cracked the 250 bar Tronin finished with a 258 and col Lins fired a Warner is returning in an attempt to defend the Al events Crown she won a year ago at Bob Dobson of the who won the mens title a year is not among this years the bowlers voted Down a proposal that would have allowed doubles and sin Gles Competition to be limited to two bowl ers per speedier Bowling usually re sults in higher but after the Way the men shot no one could say that Zaragoza is a Tough the eight bowlers who qualify for the worldwide meet wont have much time to rest on their Safe has booked them on a saturday flight to radio pro basketball Aba Washington bullets at Philadelphia 3
