European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 12, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 Hurricane May win the 16th round outside in Tiik Daz la of the Sun on this Stea my june Day in 1974. The temperature sizzled in the 90s. Inside. To visitors were being screened by a corrections officer at the Vroom building the Maxi mum occur ii new Jersey stale psychiatric prison Intro non. We re one of the visitors explained to see Rubin slowly one Long steel door chunked open. The Viii tors stepped through but another steel door loomed ahead. Behind them the first steel door thanked closed. Then the of her steel door opened and they slipped through. Another corrections officer waited. Rubin Carter he said. Follow walking Down a Long empty corridor toward the cell blocks one of the visitors heard a hissing sound. Looking around he realized that it was coming from old radiators under a Row of windows. Steam heal was hissing out of those radiators. With the tempera Ture in the 90s outside the prison had the heat on. Moments later Rubin Hurricane Carter appeared glowering a corrections officer close on each Side. Bearded but with his head shaved the one time middleweight Boxer sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1966 murder of three patrons of a Paterson n.j., bar was brought into a Small win Dowless room not much larger than a closet. He talked to his visitors there. As they spoke perspiration glowed on their faces and soaked their shirts. Out of curiosity one of the visitors finally said Why do they have the heal on in the Winter Carter said with a sneering smile they turn it for anyone hoping to define what prison is like let those words Hiss like scam heat. For most of 19 years Carter was in prison for a crime that he always insisted he did not commit. And in Newark last week a Federal judge h. Leo Saro Kin overturned his 1976 conviction at a retrial for the same Points Carter had always asserted the prosecution s suggestion of racial revenge and its with holding of evidence from the defense. Friday the same judge ordered that Carter be released on his own recognizance without bail pending an Appeal by the Passaic county prosecutors. That Appeal could go to the . Supreme court and a possible third trial. At the bail hearing in Newark the prosecution argued that Carter was dangerous and violent that Dave Anderson if he were released he would be a threat to inc Community but Sarokin disagreed. Bald and bespectacled Sarokin talked about How Carter s second conviction had been so Constitution ally flawed that he did not deserve to spend another dry or even another hour in and that human decency mandates that he be released imme Carter s friends shrieked with Joy. No longer a prisoner he stood to embrace Myron Baldock Lewis steel and three other attorneys. He told me Baldock would say later " thank you we did it " but More than anybody else. Carter did it. Once a fighter always a fighter. Once he went 15 rounds for the middleweight title now he s gone 19 years with the new Jersey court system. And at age 48, he s surely not any softer but he seems smoother. In earlier years he strode defiantly his eyes glaring through Gold rimmed glasses his shaved head Glisten ing. Friday he strolled into the courtroom with thick Black hair and a Mustache but no Beard. Holding a new beige sheepskin coat Over his Arm he appeared to have stepped out of a men s shop window instead of his Rahway prison cell. On his husky shoulders he wore a heavy Olive Woolen sweater Over a Gray Turtle Nick shirt. His Tan Slacks had been pressed. His Brown boots were polished. But in prison. Carter had always been different. He did t eat prison food he used an electric Coil in his cell to heat canned food mailed to him. He did t Wear the Gray and Blue clothes issued to prisoners he wore his own clothes sometimes a while High collared tunic with White pants. I Don t Wear what the other Guys Wear he once explained at Rahway. It s the Only Way i can keep my individuality in his Rahway cell he also typed his autobiography the 16th round no. 1 contender to no. 45472." published in 1974. Two years later the new Jersey supreme court overturned the original conviction and ordered a second trial. Carter suddenly was a Juil House a club ily. Muhammad Ali came around. Bob Dylan wrote a song about him and Sang it at n Madison Square Garden Benefit for inc Hurricane late in 1976, at his second trial. Carter was convicted again so was the Oiler accused murderer Juhn Artis who has been free since 1981 01 parole. But when Carter had logo Back to jail ineligible for parole until 1997. Nobody sing his song anymore. Exc Cpl for his Altorn cys. Nobody was even around anymore. But he kept fighting for his Freedom. Jabbing clinching tricks Hurricane never used in the ring where he had always depended on inc fury of his left Hook. Late in 1964, he stunned boxing by knocking out Emily Griffith then the world welterweight Champi on with that left Hook in the first round of a non Lilly bout in Pittsburgh. But a year later Carlsr lost his Only title bout when he was outbox cd by Joey Giardello then the Middle weight Champion in Philadelphia. On oct. 14, 1966, Carter had recently returned from a loss to Rocky Rivero in South America his last fight Asil Lur cd out. He and Artis who is also Black suddenly were arrested for inc murder of two men and a woman All while Al the Lafayette Grill four months earlier. To understand How Long Carter has been fighting for his innocence consider that Muhammad Ali then had been the heavyweight Champion for less than three years. Jose Torres then ruled the Light heavyweights Griffith the Carlos Ortiz the lightweights. All those champions slopped fighting Long ago. But Carter did t. Now he s ahead on Points perhaps to stay. To put Carter on trial a third Lime after 19 years according to his attorney Lewis steel would be a mockery of the whatever happens Hurricane in l talking yet. After his release on Kri Day he was whisked out of the Newark courthouse through a Back door. No questions no cameras. He left somebody said in a Carter might be forced into a rematch with the new Jersey court system but for now jabbing and clinching he was ahead on Points. After 19 years. New York to Btl Fryar tallies 2 Quick ads patriots surge drops Colts 34-15 in lbs Fryer. 77-Yard punt return Foxboro mass. A Irving Fryar scored on a 77-Yard punt return and a 5 Yard pass in less than two minutes of the third Quarter to break open a close game and Lead the new England patriots to a 34 15 sacking of the error prone Indianapolis Colls sunday. The patriots winning i hair fifth straight game led 7-6 at halftime then got 17 Points Tyler three third Quarter Fumble recoveries. A second Quarter interception by Fred Marion set up one of Steve Grogan s two touchdown passes. New England improved its record to 7-3, while the Colls fell to 3-7 Wilh their fourth loss in five games. Four plays after Marion recovered a Fumble by George Wonsley Tony Franklin gave the patriots a 10-6 Lead with a 41-Yard Field goal. New England put together a nine play scoring drive on its next Possession. The drive started at the Colts 33-Yard line after Johnny Rembert recovered Oliver Williams Fumble and ended Wilh Grogan passing to Fryar for a touchdown with 7 47 gone in the third Quarter. Indianapolis could t get a first Down on its next Possession forcing Rohn Stark to punt. Fryar who had an 85-Yard punt re turn for a touchdown earlier this season fielded in Al his own 23 and burst up the Middle to score 9 29 into the period. Fryar was inc top Choice in last year s draft. He slatted the game lied for second in the acc in punt returning and equated a club record set in 1976 by Mike Haynes of iwo touchdowns on pull returns in one season. The Colls reached the patriots 34 on their next Possession before Don Blackmon recovered pal Beach s Fumble. Tony Collins finished off the ensuing 81-Yard drive with a 2-Yard touchdown run on inc first play of the fourth Quarter. Franklin added a 30 Yard Field goal with 6 37 to play. Owen Gill scored for Indianapolis with a 1-Yard run Wilh 56 seconds left in the game. The Colls Goi a safely on inc following Kickoff when Fryar caught it outside the end zone and stepped behind the goal line where he was tackled. Indianapolis had taken a 6-0 Lead Early in the second period on an 18-Yard touchdown pass from Mike Pagello Beach. Raul Al Legerc missed the extra Point attempt. Four minutes later. New England went ahead to stay on Grogan s 19-Yard pass to Morgan and Franklin s extra Point. The patriots extended their club record to nine straight victories Over divisional rivals. New England 5-0 this year against acc East opponents and Chicago arc the Only nil Leams who have won All their divisional games. The Colts entered the contest tied for third in the n Al in fewest sacks allowed 17. That did l impress the patriots As they tackled Pagel and his replacement mall Kofler seven times behind the line of scrimmage.77.Yard dual return Iii Ulic Audi a i us Wita juju is vim a Tului Muidie Puiia Willii hum cum ii m Iii Cul to unmade Barnes fires concorde by rough riders 30-20. _. _. _. N i i. It am Linn not nor thu to his thu la Arnm Tuccino � ? Tel a via Tonuca _ or Lhnn in in inline Fror 11 Arr Montreal a quarterback Joe Barnes passed for almost 400 Yards and Rookie Tony Johns scored touchdowns on runs of 3 and i Yards sparking the Mon Treal concorde to a 30-20 Canadian foot Ball league Triumph Over the Ottawa rough riders in the East division semifinal sunday. The concorde will face the Tiger cals in Hamilton next sunday to decide the Easl s representative in the Grey cup to which Montreal plays Host nov. 24. A slim crowd of Only 11,372 shivered in freezing temperatures and had Little to cheer about until the final 17 minutes when Montreal broke open a 16-13 game. The concorde moved into a 23-13 Lead As the gun sounded to end the third Quarter. With Barnes tossing a 20-Yard to pass to Nick Arak i. Barnes then engineered a five play. 63 Yard touchdown drive that ended with Johns ploughing Over from the i Yard line at 3 56 of the fourth Quarter. The Montreal quarterback playing in his fifth game since being acquired on sept. 30 from the Cal Gary Stampede is expertly used the screen pass including one to Johns for 23 Yards to move inc concorde Down the Field. Montreal led 13-10 entering inc second half but Dean Dorsey kicked a 27-Yard Field goal to tie in at 6 33. Paul Gray a defensive standout for the concorde recovered a Fumble to set Mon Treal up for a lib racking 43-Yard Field goal by Roy Kurtz
