European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 13, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 b the stars and stripes sports Friday november 13,1992bowe out to shake quitter Label by de Schuyler or. Las vegas a Lack of heart. Its a charge Eddie Futch heard about Riddick bowl so he first turned Down a request to train the heavyweight contender. Rock Newman Bowce a manager then asked Futch to talk to bowl a talk that changed his mind. Quot he showed me he had character a the 82-Ycar-old Futch said wednesday. Quot he lived in one of the worst crack houses in Brooklyn. He did no to smoke. He did no to drink. He did no to do  a you had to fight your Way into the building and fight your Way out every Day a recalled bowl the 12th of 13 children who grew up in the Tough Brooklyn sections of Bedford Stuyvesant Brownsville and East new York. Quot he walked his Mother to work and picked her up a Futch said. A i walked her to work but i  pick her up because i was in school a corrected Bowe who graduated from High school. Lack of heart Quot labels Are hard to shake a said Bowe who now lives at fort Washington my. The Label of quitter was stamped on Bowe when he was stopped in the second round by Lennox Lewis in the super heavyweight final at the 1988 olympics. It has stuck with him despite a 31-0 pro record that earned him a Challenge of undisputed heavyweight Champion evander Holyfield on Friday night at the Thomas amp Mack Center. A i know i did no to quit a said bowl who weighed in wednesday at 235 pounds 30 More than Holyfield. A tape of the fight backs up bowl. Quot i realize he Hasni to been tested mentally for what is about to come a Holyfield said. A when 1 look at him 1 look at a Guy who does no to really know All about it yet. Every fight has to give you that but bowl Hasni to proved that  Bowe has not proved himself in the pressure cooker environment that a heavyweight title fight can be. The 30-Ycar-old Holyfield however docs not expect anything less than a top Effort from bowl. A Riddick Bowe wants to win not just go the distance a the unbeaten Champion said. A a it a a make or break fight for  Futch thinks that what was taken As Lack of heart by Bowe when he was an Amateur actually was Lack of concentration. A the was just a kid Quot said 1 Utch who has worked with 17 world champions. Quot he was 20 when i met him. At the olympics he was still trying to find out who Riddick Bowe was. He Hasni to shown any Lack of focus to me. Quot people attributed More maturity to him than he challenger Riddick Bowe left weighs in at 235 pounds 30 More than Champion evander Holyfield right. Had. He was 6-fdot-5, 235 pounds. They thought he was a Man. He was  it was quite an achievement for Bowe to even get to the olympics. He went to the olympic trials after surgery for a stopped Tendon in his right hand and he got beat by Lobert Salters of the army he was invited to Box offs As Salters most noteworthy opponent. Needing two victories Over Salters to make the team Bowe got them although he boxed with a hairline fracture of Fth right ankle and two collapsed Arches. During this period bowels sister Brenda was stabbed to death by crack dealers on a Brooklyn Street Corner. In Seoul Bowe almost failed to reach the Gold medal match. He was knocked Down by a body shot and also Given a standing eight count in his semifinal against Alexander Miron Silchenko of the soviet Union. Bowe rallied forced Michnit Chunko to take two standing eight counts in the third round and won a unanimous decision. Then came the final and the Label that has haunted Bowe. Quot in be watched the tape countless times a Bowe said. A a in a still trying to figure out How after four or five years of preparation referee could Stop a match like that. I worked so hard to make the team. The tape shows that Bowe won the first round at one Point shaking Lewis with three right uppercuts to the jaw. Early in the second round Lewis landed a left Hook to the head and followed with four punches which did not Apper to land cleanly. The East German referee stopped the action and Cave bowl an eight count. Bowl held his arms up and talked to his Corner during the count. The two boxers had a Brief Exchange before Lewis landed a right to Side of the head and a Short left to the face. The referee jumped in grabbed Bowe around the Waist then began an eight count. Bowl again held up his arms and bounced on his toes in the fashion of fighters. The referee reached eight and stopped the fight. A people said i quit Quot Bowe said. Friday night he gets a Chance to rip off the  sues baseball for $100 million newspapers from the cities baseball rejected a Tampa and is. Petersburg Fla. A reflect the bitterness of jilted suitors everywhere Tampa Fla. A Tampa businessman Frank Morsani rebuffed in his bid for a major league franchise in the 1980s, has filed a lawsuit against baseball for More than $100 million. The suit filed tuesday is separate from the City of St. Petersburg a impending lawsuit Over the National leagues decision to not allow the san Francisco giants to relocate there. Morsani head of the Tampa Bay baseball group names As defendants some 60 individuals including former major league commissioners Bowie Kuhn Peter Ueberroth and Fay Vincent team owners and representatives George Steinbrenner Fred Kuhlmann Jerry Reinsdorf Peter of Malley Bill Giles Doug Dan Forth and Wayne Huizenga and league presidents Bill White and or. Bobby Brown and the men who preceded them Chub Feeney and Lee Macphail. The lawsuits contends that its failure to bring a major league franchise to the Tampa Bay area Quot was due to the continuing interference breach of Trust and misrepresentations by various agents within major league baseball. The suit was filed the rame Day no owners voted to Block the proposed move of the giants. Morsani said he waited until tuesday to take the action because he did no to want to be Quot an impediments to the areas getting the giants