European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 11, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday. January 11,1990 the stars and stripes Page 17 sports Tyson meets Holyfield on june 18 new York a Mike Tyson will defend the heavyweight championship against Evandor Holyfield june 18. A spokesman for promoter Dan Duva said tues Day night. Kathy Duva. The promoter s wife who also serves As publicist told the associated press by Tele phone thai her husband and pro Moter Don King had reached agreement for the tight during a meeting in Las vegas tuesday night. The financial split will be two thirds for Tyson and one third for Holyfield. Duva said with Holyfield guaranteed at least s11 million. No site was named but the Likely live site promoter will be Don Ald Trump s Taj mahal in Atlantic City. Duva said. Offers have come from other sources including Japan. Tyson is set for a title defense feb. 11 in Tokyo against James Buster Douglas. Holyfield has no scheduled fights before his june 18 Date against Tyson. Palmer Morgan gain baseball Hall of Fame Belfors favouring 49ers if they gain super bowl Las vegas a the san fran Cisco 49ers have to win another game to reach the super bowl but that has l stopped bettors from pushing up the Point spread in possible matchup against either the Cleveland Browns or Denver Broncos. The 49crs. If they make the super bowl arc a nine Point favorite to beat the Broncos in the super bowl and an11-Point favorite to beat the Browns according to Odds posted at the Sands hotel sports Book. That s up from the opening line at the Book which favored san Francisco by seven Points Over Denver and eight Points Over Cleveland. It s 49cr said Sands sports Book manager Bob Gregorka. Bets placed on teams that Don t make the super bowl Are refunded by the Spons Book. By Ben Walker new York a look at the Best teams of the 1970s and the names of Jim Palmer and Joe Morgan keep showing up. On tuesday night for making those Grea teams even better. Palmer and Morgan received baseball s highest individual Honor election to the Hall of Fame. The irony of it is you really have to rest on your laurels. But if you rested on your laurels during your career you would t make it into the Hall of Palmer said after getting the second highest vote total Ever for a Pitcher. Palmer was 268-152 in 19 full seasons All with the Baltimore orioles. Like most Superb players he was at his Best when it mattered most going 4- in the playoffs and 4-2 in the world series. Morgan was a .271 career Hitler in 22 years not necessarily a great average. But More than anyone else he was the Man who made Cincinnati s big red machine run. Morgan was the National league s most valuable player for those championship years in 1975 and 976. It Vyas his two out single in the ninth inning of game 7 that drove in the winning run against Boston. I would say this he was just a Good major league player when it did t mean former manager Sparky an Derson said tuesday night. Hut when it meant something he was a Hall of Morgan spoke to Anderson minutes alter the election was announced. I just talked to spark. In 1975. Al the end of the season he came to me and said. You re going to be the most valuable player in the Jea Guc " Morgan re called. And he said Joe. You need one of those to gel into the Hall of Fame " that was the first time i thought about going into the Hall of Fame. I started thinking maybe. I never thought for he said. Palmer and Morgan became the 20lh and 21st players elected to the Hall of Fame in their first year of Clig Billy. It was. However another year of disappointment for several other top pitchers. Gaylord Perry a 300-game Winner came up Short and Ferguson Jenkins and Jim running also failed. There was a lot of doubt in my mind in terms of getting in the first sear. There Jim palmer268-152 Over 19 years Are a lot of Guys who deserve it who Don Palmer said from a Celebration party in Towson. My. To get in the first year is really Palmer was named on 411 of 444 votes Casl by members of the baseball writers association of America. His 92.5 percent trailed Only Bob Feller s 93.75 percent in 1962 among pitchers. Players need 75 percent to be elected to the Hall and this year that meant .1.13 ballots. Morgan Gol 363 votes for 81.7 percent. To make it in on the first ballot is Morgan said in new York. As the old say my goes Only the players who Are deemed great make it on the first ballot. I guess that makes me a great second Perry meanwhile missed with 320 votes or 72 percent. Jenkins got 296 votes and sunning received 257. Palmer and Morgan increased the Hallof Fame roster to 206. Induction Cere monies will be aug 5 in Cooperstown. . In March the veterans committee will vote on electing any old timers to the Hall. Palmer won an american Laguc re Joe Morgan. Two time map in no. Cord three v Young 2.86 career car cd run average ranks fourth All time among pitchers with 3.000 innings and he was a 20-gamewinner eight times. Only five other pitch ers who played exclusively in this Cen Tury reached 20 v in topics so was one of just nine players to win consecutive most valuable player awards. He hit 268 Home runs with1.133 rills and 689 stolen bases in 22 Lull was the no Rookie of the Vear in 1965. The same year Palmer started and both players ended their Ca Reers in 1984.Palmer and Morgan were postseason futures in the 1970s. During that dec Ade one of them was in the playoffs every year except 1977 and 1978. I Don t remember the first Lime pitched against him. But the second time he hit a Home run against me in the 1977all-Star Palmer said of Morgan. Nice to give up a Home run to a Hall of and Morgan faced each other again in the 1983 world series. Palmer s final Victory in the big leagues came in Relief in game 3 and the orioles went on to beat Philadelphia for another championship. Mcaa cuts 3 basketball games off season Dallas a the Mcaa sputtered into its Effort to Reform big time College sports tuesday voting to reveal each school s graduation Rale for athletes and slice three games off the basketball season. The was More like a Laboured con fused chess match than a final four thriller As it took five ballots and four hours of parliamentary wrangling and Power struggles to kill then revive and finally pass the Rcd Clion in bask Coball games which begins with inc 1992-93 season. Thai measure was labelled a watershed in the Mcaa presidents commission Effort to Reform big time athletics and relieve pressure on athletes. It was favored As a move to give athletes More time for study bul opposed As a costly Cash crunch for schools. This is the most important thing at this Conven Tion pleaded Greg o Brien president of the univer sity of new Orleans after inc basketball cuts crashed in flames on its first vote. It is a signal of great importance beyond this room that reforms Are going o Brien said. It was not a pretty Victory. It was a Messy Victory Hul 1 think we got it Wake Forest president Thomas Carn. Like o Brien a member of the presi dents commission said after the final vote. The Mcaa delegates also approved Compromise cuts in Spring football practice reducing practice Days from 20 to 15. And limiting Contact drills to 10 of those Days. The presidents commission had proposed halving Spring football to 10 Days and eliminating Contact drills altogether in the Spring. But the hardest fought Battle was Over the basketball cuts which included a Compromise measure restoring to the 25-Gamc limit for preseason Lour name nos and moving the Start of preseason practice to nov. I from oct. 15. Said they could lose up to $250,000 per year from three fewer bask Coball games Loo much some athletic directors said for the Mcaa to give for Library time for s big Money sorely said Brad Hovious athletic director a the University of Texas Al Paw two or three basketball games can pay for three or four non Revenue is better in my opinion to take no action than to approve what seems to be a Patchwork quilt series of measures thai really do not address the scope of said Allan Hauser. Faculty representative from appalachian state difficulty in winning approval for the cuts in athletic commitments Cut to the heart of the Battle within the Mcaa Over whether to do pm Phasic ath message the Mcaa should Send is less Lime in the All clips facility More Lime in the the three game Cul was do scaled initially on a Vole added John Hogan faculty from the at put in off until next year s convention. Schools Colorado school of t
