European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Eaton wins Aba award for defense new York a Mark the towering Center of the Utah jazz who shattered the National basketball association record for shot blocking this on thursday was named the leagues defensive player of the the 7foot4 Eaton received 32 beating eight other players in balloting by a nationwide panel of Media members who cover the Aba three from each franchise City and nine representatives of the National Sidney Moncrief of who won the award in 1983 and finished Sec Ond with 13 votes and his teammate Paul Pressey was third with Michael Cooper of the los Angeles Lak ers was next with nine followed by Maurice Cheeks of the Philadelphia and Dennis Johnson of the Boston gel Dunn of the Denver nug Micheal Ray Richardson of the new Jersey nets and Danny Vranes of Seattle each had two when i came in to the Basket Ball people just figured i would stick around As a backup said who was taken by the jazz in the fourth round of the 1982 its been a slow but in getting More respect around the everybody got to Deal with i have a lot of Pride in the fact that in doing the 28yearold who played just 41 minutes during his senior year at has led the Bain blocked shots the last two years and this season received More votes for the coaches Al defensive team than any other he blocked 456 shots this season to be come the first player in Aba history to win a statistical category by better than a 2tol Akeem Olajuwon of the Houston rockets was second in blocks with Eaton broke the Aba record of 393 blocked shots set by Elmore Smith in 1974 and also bettered Smiths average of blocks per game with a record he has become a Force in the Utah coach Frank Layden we used to go through airports and people would look at that big now they theres Mark Eaton Hes never going to be a player that Hes just going to win games for said Philadelphia coach Billy Cun said Dallas coach Dick Motta he changes us defensively More than any other player in the May the stars and stripes Page 23 70 players linked to cocaine newspaper claims Milwaukee up at least 10 major league baseball players from the Mil Waukee Cleveland indians and Chicago White sox were described As drug customers of a Man convicted of drug con according to a copyright Story by the Milwaukee seven of the 10 players Are still the paper six of the players Are cur rent members of the Brewers or were team members from 1979 through the other players were then members of the indians or Chicago White but Are no longer with those Tony Peters was sentenced to 22 years in prison in june 1984 on cocaine conspiracy no players were charged in connection with the information also showed three of the players sold or distributed some of the co Caine they received from Peters to the Story an East Side Milwaukee tavern was shown to be a common meeting place in 1979 and 1980 for Many professional base Ball players who bought cocaine from pet the information comes a Day after base Ball commissioner Peter Ueberroth announced a mandatory testing program for minor league players and major league players Are exempt because the program must be approved by the play ers Ueberroth but Ueberroth said he was appealing to the Union to approve the the investigation showed Peters was very Good friends with several of the Brewers that bought drugs from he often was allowed to enter the Brewers clubhouse and was Given free passes to Brewers games by the during the investigation of officials were told in 1980 that Brewer general manager Harry Dalton had warned two players to stay away from Peters and the East Side but when asked about the dal ton said he was totally mystified about the warning and said he never heard of the tavern or Peters until the cocaine dealer became newsworthy two years Ueberroth believes players Are innocent a photo utahs Mark Eaton getting More respect added Mavericks Forward Jay Vincent its like shooting Over two plus Hes thick in the Akeem and Ralph Sampson Are thin can at least see the but with you cant even see Eaton suffered a knee injury in the deciding game of the jazz first round playoff Victory Over Houston and was sidelined for the remainder of the new York a commissioner Peter Ueberroth said thursday he believed in the innocence of players who testified before a Pittsburgh grand jury investigating possible drug trafficking involving major league baseball about a dozen major leagues have been granted immunity and testified before the Federal grand the group includes Lon Nie Smith of the Louis Tim Raines of the Montreal expos and Rod Scurry of the Pittsburgh pirates All of whom went through rehabilitation for chemical dependency others who appeared before the grand jury included Al Holland and Lee Mazzilli of the pirates exp rates Lee now with the Baltimore and Dale now with the new York Yankees Keith Hernandez of the new York mets and Enos Cabell of the Houston Holland appeared just a Day after being traded by Philadelphia to the the commissioner would not say if he has talked with Federal authorities involved in the Pittsburgh i will Tell that i feel the players who testified Are he Ueberroth said he hoped to have a drug program including mandatory testing for All baseball personnel except major league players in place within one its a sensitive the commissioner i want to collect a couple of missing links on the id like to get All the details together before discussing it one of the things both the players association and the player relations committee asked was to give them the details not to air it that what in going to Boom Boom says Bye Bye to ring career new York a Ray Boom Boom who held the world Box ing association lightweight title for two years and made millions of dollars in a pro says he is retiring from i dont want to train Manci told the new York daily i dont want to get banged around at this stage of the i have used dont in not going to let boxing use who won the lightweight title on May with a first round knockout of Arturo was a favorite of boxing fans who liked his aggressive he recently was the subject of a television Ray the heart of a he held the championship until he was knocked out by Livingstone Bramble last june a bout that caused him to be hospitalized because of the punishment he he also took hundreds of punches in by a rematch to Bramble on Mancini won 29 of 32 pro 23 by his Only other defeat was against then world boxing Council lightweight Champion Alexis Arguello on Mancini retirement has been anticipated since the second loss to i aint coming in almost sure of it he said but i just want to know if i can still practice the self denial a fighter must his relatively Short career has been a lucrative he and his Bank account is i can live off interest for the rest of my Mancini that the Bottom Mancini boxing career followed in the footsteps of his who also was nicknamed Boom winning the lightweight title for his who was denied a title shot when he was drafted for world War ii and then was Long was the younger Mancini 1 after winning the title from he successfully defended the Crown three times before losing to one of the defences ended in korean fighter Duk Koo Kim lapsed into a coma after being knocked out by Mancini in the 14th round on and the challenger died several Days no Start the inning off loser Mike Bielecki and advanced when winning Pitcher Mark Thurmond sacrificed for the second giants cubs 0 san Francisco the giants Only run for no West Pace setting Mann Trillo didst like what he but Flannery s single scored carmelo Marti after being ejected the previous night for Nez from second Martinez walked to protesting a called third knew when from Page 21 to keep his Mouth and it paid off later when his two out hit lifted san fran Cisco Over i was going to swing if the pitch was anywhere said whose single on an 02 pitch from loser Warren Brusstar gave the giants their fourth Vic tory in five games and dropped the cubs to second place in the no they Trail the new York mets by a Rob batting for winning Pitcher Scott lined a two out single to Center in the 12th and went to second when Brusstar hit Dan Trillo followed with his single to giving the giants their first run in 24