European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse 22 the stars and stripes August 1985 changeling his Energy a photo Peter Johnson gives the thumbs up sign after setting a record tuesday for the fastest swim across the English Chan Nel from France to of took 8 hours and 20 minutes to swim the 21 Miles from Cap gris Nez to margarets four hours into the he proposed to Julia who was in the escort she suit seeks to strip Hagler of middleweight Crown a a Federal Law Suil filed by second ranked world boxing association middleweight contender James Kinchen seeks to strip Champion marvelous Marvin Hagler of the title for failing to follow Aba rules and defend his Dan Kinchens charged tuesday that Hagler also reneged on a Promise to fight his client by scheduling a november bout against John the suit in new Jersey follows a Friday court session in Massachusetts during which a judge gave haulers attorney a temporary restraining order preventing the Aba from stripping the fighter of the a Day the was championships committee had threatened to vacate the title because Hagler had scheduled his next bout against Mugabi and not the leading available Kinchens filed monday in District claims the Aba should have automatically vacated the title july the Date by which Hagler should have defended it in accordance with the organizations Aba rules state a Champion must defend his title against the leading available contender within six months of his last haulers Pat said the Aba agreed to extend the six month title defense deadline to allow time for the fighter to heal after suffering a facial Cut when he Defeated Thomas Hearns april Petronelli said that if Hagler defeats Mugabi in Las vegas he will then take on who is were willing to have Kinchen Box the we think that he its a question of waiting a few Hes not being Kinchen claims in the suit that the fail ure of the which is named with Hagler As a to declare the title vacant has caused him great professional and economic harm because he was the leading available contender at the Riggins Back in Camp Dorsett seeks continues his holdout by United press International John Riggins was Back in the washing ton redskins training Camp tuesday pronouncing himself fit to while another Star running Back Tony Dorsett of the Dallas cowboys was continuing his holdout and asking to be one Day after ending a three week also promised not to be a nil Roundup bad boy off the Field this the 36yearold is coming Back from injuries that slowed him during the 1984 season when he ran for i am where i want to he the Best shape of my life i dont it might kill me if i Ever got in that Good either or they outlaw me from the he also said he relishes the Competition with George Rogers for the starting Job in coach Job Gibbs Neback ground Washington acquired a Heisman trophy in May from the new or leans being on the same i think he and i will complement each other quite and i think will be one of the Bright spots on the Rig gins Dorsett met with club president Tex Schramm in Dallas during the weekend and asked to be considered for a right i think i will be Dorsett told the Dallas times i think Ive made it pretty obvious that i mind going to another right now i dont know if 1 will be with the cowboys or not this who has three More years on his told Schramm he should con Sider trading him to another nil team before the regular season begins in four he has said he would prefer to be traded to Pittsburgh or Dorsett has been fined a Day since july when he missed a third training Camp in other training Camp news Veteran wide receiver Pat Tilley was expected Back in the Louis cardinals training Camp tuesday Jim tillers said monday his client has reached tentative agreement on a new contract with the Tilley and Danny another wide were the Lone holdouts in Pittman still is and his future with the club is Pittsburgh Steeles tight end Darrell a photo Tony Dorsett wants better Deal Nelson was removed from the physically unable to perform list and began to prac Tice with the Nelson had been out with a hand injury suffered prior to the Start of the training first round draft Choice Darryl who had suffered a Finger also resumed prac As did linebacker Fred who was out with a knee safety Tim who was told not to report to Camp this was placed on waivers by the san Diego chargers after nine years in the coach Don Coryell said a Trade could not be so Fox was Larry the Houston oilers leading rusher last and the teams two first round draft Ray Childress and Richard apparently will not be signed by the nil Houston 1 and his agent met with the Memphis showboat monday and Are considering an offer from that football league a cornerback from also drafted in the first is enrolling in a Grad uate program at the University of Moriarty is in the option year of a con tract that will pay him the Oil ers have offered Moriarty a year for three Moriarty wants a Deal similar to the million con tract signed by Mike Hershey meet draws Cream of playgrounds by Bruce Lowitt a sports writer few things go together As Well As kids and they come together this weekend in appropriately but dont look for milk chocolate smeared faces and Chubby Little nearly 500 boys and girls Ages 9 to the lean but not mean Cream of Ameri Cas will be on display at Hershey National track and Field youth the culmination of months of District and state meets involving communities and close to it also is the culmination of an optometrist s Donald founder of the National track and Field Hall of Fame in never really believed Back then that his desire to organize a playground activity in would take off the Way it it was nothing More than a Long Range he Jack Justice was the cites recreation director in the wed worked a lot of programs together and decided to Start a Little track thing in it was so Well received that i thought it might get big like into something for the the next year it was a statewide by Cohen was thinking he found interested listeners at the National recreation and Park who helped expand it in 1977 to a 10state by Cohen was thinking even big he went looking for corporate sponsorship and found an equally inter ested the program went National in based in and moved two years ago to Henry Hershey Field in the land of milk and on with 1960 olympic de Cathlon Gold medallist Rafer Johnson looking youngsters from eight regions representing All 50 states and the District of Columbia will compete in 200and 400meter a 400meter 800and 1600meter the standing Long jump and softball it is not a Junior olympics there in a Junior olympics conducted annually by the Amateur athletic Union for 8to 18yearolds and Cohen would just As soon see the youth program remain that were not concerned with developing great Cohen there Are programs like cities with track clubs where the kids Are worked As hard and As Young As in Little league we could easily make it a High level compete but that not our were More interested in just getting Chil Dren into More concerned with developing a recreational outlet for i like to think of it More As a learning expert not just an athletic the kids we work with generally Are not the ones from affluent Cohen the youth programs National spokesman since said it is directed at kids even at the age of want to be the Best they can but what were telling them have some of them Are taken with their first taste of Competition and celebrity and it alters their
