European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 26 the stars and stripes july 1985 Choice must be right by Barry Jacobs not undaunted by the midday summer a solitary figure paused on an Asphalt court and began his daily bal handling touch Honing skills that make him the Harlem Globe Trotters preeminent when the basketball entertainers open their 60th sea son in they will be playing with a new White and Blue and this was Larry Gator Rivers first Chance to try but for a Veteran of 12 campaigns with the has More pressing in his first year As the self proclaimed Clown Prince of basketball had come Here to conduct tryouts to find a Clown Princess who would be the first woman Ever to play for the this is such a Touchy said if its not done right the first its going to leave a bad taste in a lot of Peoples Twenty one from newly graduated collegians to seasoned were invited to the three Days of workouts beginning monday at Charlotte among them Are Many of the nations bes known Wom ens the Field includes fou time University of Kansas All America Lynette Captain of the Gold medal winning 1984 olympic team the twins Pam and Paula who helped the University of Southern California to Mcaa titles in 1983 and 1984 Sandra the top scorer in the five year history of Mcaa women basketball at the University of new and Cheryl Cook of the University of who finished second in the nation last season with a Points Pergamo from the group of Rivers will select six to eight women to attend the globetrotters training Camp in los Angeles beginning seventeen Days when the team opens its season in he anticipates two women playing on the in looking for in looking for and above Good because any player that can can teach them anything i can Rivers people say were before any of the were magicians of and that takes Ballan in two hour sessions twice the women will play basketball and nothing said those who think this will be the time to Cut Loose on the to up photo a olympian Lynette Woodard globetrotters her secret dream employ legerdemain previously held in Check in More structured basketball May be somewhat Dis if she cant do a trick shot six out of 10 leave it on the Rivers i have no idea what they said the 5foot9 Inch guard Candy who attended the University of North Carolina Here and said she was shocked to be invited to the i dont know what to on the other feels primed for the she has been practising Many of the teams tricks for inspired by a the recently retired Globetrotter Hubert geese that Why the globetrotters have always been like a secret dream of she anybody who sees loves you have when she read that the which last season played 175 games in the United states and would be seeking women 1 went said now the assistant coach at i was too nervous to assist As basketball coach at i was too nervous to Call to find out if it was talk of the tryout has been widespread among women involved in according to Duke women coach Debbie some people Are very much against the saying that it is patronizing that its Only for she other people think its great that a woman is going to be in a position to enter Tain and display the Talent she i kind of lean that speculation in women basketball circles regarding the globetrotters Likely Choice has entered on the vivacious and versatile according to Leon her name is she said of the 5foot11 guard who was graduated in in the basketball As Small As it May be for Lynette Wood Ard is a big whoever is Rivers hastens to will not be the teams main comic or bal handling the position of showman these Days filled by Sweet Lou Dunbar and Twiggy Sanders is that of a Pivot a Center who can mix it up inside even As he mixes in As for the role of dribbler a Point guard such As Marques Haynes or curly Neal who can dazzle with wrist twirls and shoulder Rolls that spot is already As Rivers demonstrated by deftly flipping a Small Jar of Mustard from his left hand to a spot at the base of his in Rivers is concerned that the presence of a woman on the team could diminish its Quality of citing differences in body fat and he with All due respect to women never be Able to compete on the level with but i think we can get away with i think we can get away with it because were exhibition we want to show we want to show the what if Spivak cant figure out Usel game plan Detroit a Peter Spivak had a vision in Early 1982 when he helped breathe life into the United states football but what he hoped would evolve into a Cin Derella league has turned into a modern Day this is not what we said the leagues first there has been one metamorphosis after big moving to non nil now moving the our thinking was that you develop a game plan and have the Confidence to stick with scrambling works for some Quarter but its disastrous for the excitement of competitive sport was what the Usel was supposed to be Spivak Selling a new league to an american Public which had already chewed up and spit out the old world football league want going to be the fun was in the he friends universally told me it 1 loved we got the contract with Abc when everyone said the networks Deal with we got stadium Well regarded coaches were making it and the former Wayne county judge helped set up the leagues 12team format in Early he also became part owner and president of the Michigan who won the first Usel championship in 1983 and merged this season with at first i had my but they had such great Faith in Spivak they had studies and surveys that indicated it would work people would come to the games and watch them on Spivak left the panthers after Only one the time came to pursue other business he it was rumoured that he was tired of Power struggles within the clubs so what once had glittered he wears a championship ring to commemorate the 1983 title has been Spivak is disgusted with the unstable High salaries and the move to the fall beginning next for most league owners thought they could survive with High paid attractions like Herschel Steve Young and Doug but flutes million yearly salary exceeds the Cap Spivak set up in 1982 for 40man it distresses me to read about owners who cant financially keep up Spivak this out offhand escalation of costs was never part of the the plan was no bidding the plan was exciting football on a manageable but Spivak says Hes not going to Tell the owners what to do because his Money int at stake the Mantle was and the current owners Are the ones at in he i dont have the right to be Digap i just dont recognize this league As what i the owners Are smart and capable he i have to think they know what there but i dont know if it will one think i do know a Spring football league in top markets with smaller salaries that would Spivak said the a sols move to the fall would make sense if the owners were plan Ning either to merge with the nil or establish franchises in non nil there just spinning their he they must have a game but i cant figure it he if the plan int for i dont know what it an attorney with a practice in watched sundays Usel championship in which the Baltimore stars Defeated the Oakland some 15 former panthers including quarterback Bobby Hebert and wide receiver Anthony Carter suited up for the i helped bring Many of those players Spivak Hebert and Carter and the those Are my it was Nice to recognize them on i Budd admits causing olympics crash with Slaney Seattle a Barefoot runner Zola Budd of South Africa has admitted publicly for the first time that she caused the collision with Mary Slaney at the 1984 summer olympic games in los in a copyright interview with Seattle television station Budd said she Cut in too close causing then known As Mary to fall with meters left in the women Budds Pieter also told the station his Star Pupil was to blame for the Slaney has maintained Budd was responsible for the but she told the Tele vision station she accepts a Large share of the blame for failing to reach out and let Budd know she was too Slaney said she wrote to who now lives in in March and apologized for hurting her feelings with her comments after the Slaney had told Budd dont bother when she came Over to apologize after the Slaney then criticized her at an olympics news running for the British team in the said she was forced to Cut in on Slaney by teammate Wendy we came around the Bend and i was running next to her Budd and Wendy sly began to run close to me and i had to go she would have run into me and would have blocked and i think that what made me to Cut in Shorter than what is the right and because everybody was boxed in at that we were boxed i think we were four athletes at that stage and and Wendy sly tried to As she she made me go closer to 1 think that Why i had to Cut in the four runners Budd referred to were rumanian Maricich sly and Pica won the Gold medal in the Slaney also told the station Budd was wrong for cutting but i was in the wrong for not knowing How to handle the you i should have been Able to handle it i should have let her know she was cutting you just As a race Slaney
