European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 5, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday april 5, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 25 Boxin Haugen stops Mancini in 7 from wire reports Reno Nev. A Greg Haugen delivered Ray Mancini a retirement papers Friday night with a hard right that sent the sex Champion to the Canvas moments before the referee stopped the fight in the seventh round. A i did no to like the Way his eyes focused i did no to like the Way his legs looked. I said a no son. That a enough a a referee Mills Lane said after halting the North american boxing federation Junior welterweight title bout 33 seconds before the end of the round. Mancini agreed that the fight and his career were Over with a record of 29-5. He said he would return to his Home in Youngstown Ohio then resume his fledgling acting career. A i Hope nobody a silly enough to ask me if this is it because yes it is a he said. Haugen improved to 30-4-1 with his 15th knockout. On the under card Mark Gastineau the football player tuned fighter raised his knockout record and his boxing record to 9-0 by stopping an inflated cruiserweight named Lon Liebergen at 2 minutes 38 seconds of the first round. Gastineau a Victory was the Good news for the 6-foot-5-Inch, 256-Pound former new York Jet defensive end. The bad news was that Gastineau a $40,000 purse was garnished earlier Friday by the internal Revenue service. In another bout Roy Jones jr., knocked out Art Serrano at 1 40 of the first round of a scheduled 10-round middleweight bout. Jones is undefeated in 17 fights All of which he has won by knockout. Serrano a a record is 175-1 with nine gives up Aba title Panama City Panama a Iran Barkley said Friday he would give up the world boxing association Light heavyweight title he won in a bout with Thomas Hearns March 20, so he can keep his super middleweight International boxing federation Crown. Spartans pick woman East Lansing Mich. A the Michigan state Board of trustees voted Friday to hire merrily Dean Baker an assistant executive director of the Mcaa As athletic director the first woman to head both menus and women a athletics for a big ten school. In hiring Baker by a 6-2 vote the University a Board of trustees apparently ended a two year controversy Over football coach George Perles holding both jobs. Only one other woman holds the Post at a major University Barbara Hedges at Washington. Baker 49, said Shell get a Small salary increase when she Steps into the $118,000 Job on May 15 with a five year contract. Baker handled research drug testing and enhancement programs for minorities and women with the Mcaa. She was athletic director of women a programs at Minnesota from 198/ to 1988 and president of the association for intercollegiate athletics for women from 1982 to 1983. In january 1990, the Michigan state trustees went against the wishes of president John Dibiaggio and voted to give Perles the athletic directors Job. At the time Perles was talking to the new York jets of the nil about their vacant coaching Job. Dibiaggio a stand was that one person hold both jobs. The november 1990 election changed the makeup of the Board and tilted the balance of Power in Dibiaggio a favor. Although Perles got High Marks for his first year is athletic director the Board voted last fall that one person hold both positions. Dibiaggio then offered Perles a 3vi-year contract As athletic director but Perles decided to stay with coaching. He has a $137,000-a-Ycar coaching contract with the University that runs through 1997. Perles remained As interim athletic director during the search process. Baker said she Wasny to worried about taking Over after that Long running dispute. A there obviously has been some pain connected with that controversy. We need to move on from Here a Baker said. Perles said he would work with Baker but wished the Job had gone to assistant athletic director Clarence Underwood. A a in a sure it s a great disappointment to him and its a great disappointment to me that he Wasny to selected because he is so Well qualified Quot Perles said adding it is immaterial whether he thought Baker was More qualified. Underwood who is Black was among the five finalists submitted by the search committee to Provost David Scott. The candidates weren to ranked and Baker was selected by Scott and Dibiaggio who made the recommendation to the Board. Perles declined to Rule out Legal action. A i always keep All my options open for anything a he said adding he is satisfied being football coach but a once an and always an Maine Wing collects Baker Albany . A Scott Pellerin who overcame a severe knee injury to Lead Maine to its fourth straight 30-win season won the Hobey Baker award on Friday As the country a Best College hockey player. Pellerin a senior left Wing from Shediac new Brunswick had 32 goals and 25 assists in 36 games. In four seasons at Maine Pellerin had 106 goals and 116 assists in 166 games. His coach Shawn Walsh said Friday that scoring is Only part of Pelle rings game. A Scott Pellerino a a Complete play pee predicts Success for cup or a Walsh said. A a he a a Complete person. He a a role Model in the state of Maine. He a a ferocious hitter. He plays the game very very physically but very last Spring Pellerin 22, considered signing a contract with the new Jersey devils who drafted him in the third round in 1989. He said the Prospect of playing on a National title contender at Maine was a big Factor in his returning for a senior season. A i knew the Type of team that we were going to have How Strong we were going to be and i wanted to be part of it he said. Maine the hockey East regular and tournament Champion finished 31-4-2, but was upset in the quarterfinals of the Mcaa tournament by Michigan state. The Hobey Baker award named for a Princeton hockey player who died in world War i has been awarded annually since 1981 by the decathlon athletic club of Bloomington Minn. The award was announced in Albany where Lake Superior state and Wisconsin were to play saturday night for the Mcaa division i hockey championship. By Barry Wilner new York a once considered the Savior of soccer in the United states Pele now is merely a spokesman. Except that Pele never is merely anything. Two years away from the first world cup to be staged in this country Pele already is anxious for the most popular sporting event in the world to get started. And what a tournament he expects it to be. To Pele bringing the world cup to the United states not Only makes sense for soccer it will make headlines throughout the one month schedule. A a in a sure it will be a big show in the cities that were chosen a Pele says. A a in a sure it will be a big Success because the american family likes soccer. A it is the biggest event in the world and just like with the 1984 olympics at los Angeles the people will come out. The local committees will make it like an olympics. A big event. Remember the soccer at the olympics got very big crowds some with sellouts. And that was amateurs this will be professionals. A i done to worry about the world cup. I know it will be successful and fifa will be very Happy to bring it to the . I think the world cup will get the big crowds no doubt. The american people like to see the Best they like the sport and they like a Pele bases his optimism on the grassroots strength of soccer which ranks Only behind basketball in participation by . Youngsters in organized sports. The Boom began in the mid-1970s, when Pele came to the new York Cosmos and was asked to lift soccer a popularity to the Heights it enjoys elsewhere. A More than 20 million kids play soccer Here a Pele says. A the soccer family in the . Is very big. The parents get involved on the youth level by coaching and volunteering and giving their time. A i think that shows there is the popularity for soccer. When you talk on the professional level maybe not but the interest in playing and participating is so How much cultivation of new fans must Pele do and How will he publicize world cup �?T94 As a spokesman Tor Mastercard one of the events sponsors a anything they want me to do i will do a he says. A i will always be Pele is intrigued by the idea of playing world cup games indoors at the Pontiac Silver dome and on grass placed Over artificial turf which must be done at giants stadium and the Cotton bowl As Well As in the dome. A this is very exciting a he says. This surprised me choosing an indoors stadium but i like the change. Life improves people have gone to the Moon. This is the proper thing. A this is the reason people want to see the world cup in the . It will be a different show. You never Are supposed to have a stadium with 70,000 people and air conditioning. This is fantastic and could Only be in America. A i wish All the stadiums could have been like that when i played. You done to worry about the Sun Ana the i 4-i soccer great Pele Hopes the .-staged world cup will boost american popularity. File
