European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday november 2, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary boxers called fhe Salt of fhe Earth one question i keep gelling asked is which group of athletes i find most most Friendly accessible and comfortable to be with baseball football hockey or basketball players or maybe even golfers or gymnasts. My answer always is the same. None of the above. Boxers Are the ones who get my Vole every time. Generally speaking they re the Salt of the Earth. Naturally warm outgoing and gentlemen like As Well As normally inclined to talk your ears off and answer any questions you ask. Inside the ring some of them rip claw and fight like tigers. Outside it. Most of them arc pussycats even those with reputations for being so hard and Lough. I could t help but be reminded of that while watching Donald Curry the Aba welterweight Champ and Milton Mccrory the wac title Holder silting up on the same dais in a new York hotel wednesday. They looked More like a couple of col lege buddies All dressed up for their prom rather than two Guys getting ready to tear each other apart for the undisputed 147-Pound Crown dec. 6 at the Las vegas Hilton. Curry a 24-year-old fort Worth Texas resident Wilh a perfect 23-0 slate that includes 18 knockouts is so Quick they Call him Mccrory who is 23 and comes from Detroit shows 22 knockouts on his 27-0-1 record. He was Given the n me iceman because of How easily he put his first five professional opponents in the deep freeze. They All went in the first round. But you never saw two gentler souls than Curry and Mccrory on wednesday. Forgotten was All that hype about cobra and they behaved perfectly properly like the Good friends they be been for years. When they got up to speak each naturally said he believed he was going to win. But both voiced regard for the other without any attempt to downgrade him. I got a lot of respect for Milton Curry said. I know him since he was 16. He s a Good fighter but i m a better one. I m definitely going to win Mccrory said this is a Gate opening for us. This is the fight we both need. I think Donald is a great fighter. I like him As a Friend. But this is Busi Ness. Any kind of talk that Milton Mccrory is afraid of Donald Curry is not True. I have no fear of any Man who puts on ordinarily when fight contracts arc drawn up and a Champion of a division in involved he s the one who gets his Choice regarding the number of rounds the fight is scheduled for the Lype of gloves to be used the color of the trunks he wants to Wear and who enters the ring first. Since Curry and Mccrory each hold a title. Top rank s Bob arum promoting the fight said All these pressing matters will be decided by Coin tosses. Mccrory and Curry acted As if they could t have cared less. After All the introductions were finished not Only did they stay to answer every last question asked them by All the newsmen present but inc two fighters also stripped to the Waist right there in the Hole ballroom to oblige a photographer who wanted that particular shot of them. Teddy Brenner who handles the matchmaking for top rank has been in boning going on 50 years. Nobody knows More about the business than he docs but he keeps up with inc other sports also. He and former middleweight King Jake the Bull Lamotta were at wednesday s gathering and talking about the Way Boxen Are entirely individual from other ath letes. Brenner declared boxers arc inc most human of All athletes and the least belligerent outside the ring 1 mean. You say something to a ballplayer he does t Lik and the next thing you know he wants to fight Yoi. A Boxer never. Why should he fight you that s v hat he docs for a Lamotta listened and nodded. One newsman asked Brenner if he had Ever heard of a Boxer refusing to talk to reporters a silly habit with a growing number of ballplayers. Fighters talk to bin nor laughed. They re the easiest athletes you la and the most Humble la molten Pul in quite seriously. Mccrory said he enjoys talking Wilh writers. In boxing you need he said. I be never had them write anything bad Aboul me. But even if they did 1 Don t think i d carry my resentment to the Point where i would t speak Wilh Curry feels the same. Who arc the ones who make the athletes reputations in nil sports he asked. The writers. Why would t you talk to them you re Only helping Prthu International Aba from Page 21 to was averaging 37.7 Points per game was limited to 17. Jack Sikma paced Seattle with 18 Points. Clippers 120, bulls 112 los Angeles the los Angeles clippers tied a franchise record set by the Buffalo braves in 1976 by increasing their record to 4-0, and they handed Chicago its first loss in four games. Marques Johnson scored 17 of his 33 Points in the third Quarter but the clip pers had to rally once More after a 10-1 Chicago spurt gave the bulls 104-99 Lead with 6 57 remaining. Jamaal Wilkes scored five of 10 unanswered Points and the clippers were ahead to stay. Chicago playing without injured Michael Jordan was led by Orlando Wool Ridge s 28 Points. Kings 122, rockets 116 Sacramento Calif. The Kings came away a Winner for the first Lime after a pair of losses. Sacramento took the Lead for Good when Eddie Johnson scored to make it h5-h4with 1 13 remaining. Larry Drew scaled the Victory by steal ing an inbound Houston pass with 11 seconds to go and hitting a Layup. Sacramento which led by As Many As 18 Points got 37 Points from Johnson. Akem Olajuwon led All Houston scorers with 30. Hartford s Daw Tippelt scores Over the outstretched Sukk of Quebec goal Richard Seyigny in the wha Krs 6-4 Tilory wednesday Ueberroth simmer keys Bruins win Over Kings from Page 21 the arbitrator in the umpires salary Dis Pute. The team owners and the umpires Union chose Nixon to decide How much the umpires would be paid for the two games added to this year s league playoffs. I was totally against that Ueberroth said. I Don t think a tiny dispute that i would t even get involved in should involve the former head of this country. And it dredges up All the problems Richard Nixon faced. I did t want to do from press dispatches Boston Charlie simmer the National hockey league s leading scorer broke a i i tic Midway through the second period thursday night triggering the bos ton Bruins to a 7-4 Victory Over the los Angeles Kings. Simmer took a goal Mouth pass from Barry cd arson and easily beat los an Geles goalie Darren Eliot from close up for his 12th goal of the season. Three minutes later. Simmer set up Keith Crowder whose shot deflected off Eliot s no Roundup Glove and Pul Boston ahead 3-1. It was Crowder s fourth goal of the season. Boston Ray Bourquc inter cup cd a los Angeles Clearing pass and scored his fourth goal unassisted just seven seconds into the third period. Garry Galley scored on a los Angeles Power play at 4 37 before Barry Pedrson and Dave Pasin nailed Down the Boston Victory with goals just 23 seconds apart. Poderson scored his fifth goal on a pass from Dave Reid to make he score 5-2 and Pasin then got his first nil goal. In thursday s other nil game devils 2, red wings 2 of East Rutherford. . Left Wing Doug Sulliman scored with 28 seconds left in the third period to boost new Jersey to an overtime tie with Detroit. Sulliman shot Mark Johnson s rebound Over the prone body of red Wing goalie Greg Stefan Ufler the devils pulled goal tender Alain Chevrier with less than one minute remaining in regulation
