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Sports
Holmes punishes Ali for TKO in 10th
By United Press International
LAS VEGAS, Nev.—The fans who for three decades could find no wrong in Muhammad Ali, booed him for his pathetic performance in the ring last night.
His friends and enemies had told him to quit. He and the gang and the ego still at their peak, didn't listen.
It ended after 10 rounds when Angelo Dundee, eye
solenoid and purple, came out for the 11th round.
Finally, Larry Holmes told All in the only way it was possible, it was all over. The era had come to an end.
Holmes, 30, battered the 38-year-old Ali from the first round to the victory, which kept his World Boxing Council heavyweight championship intact.
Ducking the few punches Ali bothered to
in the ninth, the round Ali had predicted he'd knock Holmes out, "his behind will be mine by nine." Holmes opened up with both guns, battering a badly bruised Ali against the ropes with punishing rights and lefts. The beating continued in the 10th round, but still, despite Ali's sagging legs and apparent inability to protect himself, many people still believed.
throw, Holmes hurt All in the seventh with five straight punches. In the eighth, the thundering punches from Holmes continued to find their target. In the three-time champion law against the ropes.
The celebration-filled crowd of 24,000 at the new Sports Arena at Caesars Palace which paid a record live gate for the fight, waited for him to arrive. The crowd, blistering barrage of punches aimed at Holmes.
But it never happened. As Ali struggled back to his corner at the end of the 10th round, Dundee, his longtime trainer and friend, signaled there would be no more. There was a brief argument,
because Ali's other cornermen, Bundini Brown
had been Muhammad, couldn't believe it
could end like this.
But, Dundee and common sense prevailed, and referee Richard Green raised Holmes' arm in triumph as Ali remained slumped motionless on the wooden stool. He did not argue.
When the shock had worn off, Holmes walked
daily into a news conference, saddened by the outcry.
"We all come and we all go," Holmes said when he met Larry Holmes won't be around forever, ever.
He had learned, finally, what many others before him—including Joe Louis, Jack Sharkey, Jack Dempsey—all learned. Old Man Time doesn't give in to anyone.
"When you have to fight a friend and a brother and you do what it takes, don't feel too sure that did what I had to do."
Holmes, 36-0, then said what everyone who witnessed the fight suspected.
"I felt I hurt him a few times and I pulled back," Holmes said. "I don't think the referee stopped it soon enough. He was taking to much with that, and I'd say he would see me to it. But I just did what I had to do.
"It was a sad night, a night I'm sure people will remember for a long time."
For Holmes, it was the eighth successful defense of his title and it ended the way the Hive had done.
"But I'll tell you one thing, I hit him with some punches that no one else who has ever fought me could take. He tried to smear that right hand in on me. When he found out early that it wan't going to work
oule severer by blanchant.
All was taken to his hotel room immediately after the fight, and did not appear before the press.
It was only the fourth loss for All in 60 fights,
and lost both lost decisions to Ken Norton, Joe Frazer and Jake Nelson.
The knockout was the first in Ali's pro career,
which began in 1960. The only other times he was been stopped in the ring came in February 1958, in an amateur bout in Chicago when he was beaten by Kent Green.
On the night which the man who took his title,
suffered the worst beating of his 21-year
professional career, Leon Spinks surged back into
the heavyweight title picture.
Spinks, outpointed Ali over 15 rounds for the world heavyweight title in February 1978, lost it to Ali in September of the same year. But last night at Caesars Palace, Spinks earned himself another probable title shot shortly before Holmes sent Ali.
Spinks, who was ranked fourth in the World Boxing Council ratings, stopped No. 1 ranked Bernardo Mercado of Colombia at 2:52 of the ninth round with a relentless attack.
Spinks went after Mercado from the opening bell and didn't let up the pressure until Mercado was on the ropes helpless in his own corner late in the ninth round of the scheduled 12-rounder.
Absent offense puts squeeze on Jayhawks' upset hopes
By GENE MYERS
Sports Editor
The witless Kansas Jayhawks have played their first three games shorthanded.
One one patient has been missing. Eleven have.
Those 11 comprise the offensive unit.
The offense has sputtered and fluttered in KU's two losses and one tie. In tomorrow's game with Syracuse, Head Coach Don Fambrough will attempt to get the ball in the most, the quarterback and the center.
Junior Steve Smith will replace freshman Frank Seurer at quarterback and junior John Prater will replace senior Bob Fiss at center. Juniors, Fambroug hopes, will make the offense go.
"SEUER IS BACK and ready to play, but we'll start Smith." Fambrough said after play yesterday. "We're searching for somebody who has some offense generated. But they'll both play."
KU is going to need an offense tomorrow
because Syracuse, 21, is a high-scoring team. KU is low-scoring, averaging 6.1 points a game.
Syracuse, however, could have to play without running back Joe Morris, who has 482 yards this season. The entire KU team has only 504 yards this season.
Searer suffered a bruised left leg in last
intervention and also suffered five intersections and a fumble.
"Nobody beat anybody out," Fambridge said. Whoever is moving the ball on Saturday will be the first to score.
MORRIES, WHO HAS a badly bruised right shoulder from hitting a concrete wall in a game last week, is listed as at an extremely doubtful performer. Fambrough says he expects Morris to play, nevertheless. Syracuse coach Frank Maloney says he will announce Morris' status just before tomorrow's noon kickoff in Syracuse's Carrier Dome.
“On films of last week's game, they took Morris off the field on a stretcher,” Fambrough said. “I thought he was dead. He comes back missing a series of downs. I expect him to play.”
Morran ran for 252 yards against KU last year, using a simple football play to turn the Jayhawks into a simple team. The play is the spirt draw, and the Orangemen are its experts.
"The sprint draw was what got to us last
SYRACUSE LINES up in the I-formation, quarterback Dave Warner drops back quickly and sneaks the ball into Morris' belly. Morris, four yards behind the line of scrimmage, picks his hole. Against KU last year, he had many holes to choose from.
year," KU linebacker Chris Tobursen said. "It's the ib of the linebackers to stab that tain."
While KU worries about the sprint draw and the option-oriented Syracuse offense, the Orangemen are concerned with flanker David Verser and tailback Kwin Bell of KU.
Bell, a freshman from Huntington Beach, Calif., had his first 100-yard game last week. Verser, a senior from Kansas City, Kan., passed 2000-yard mark in career receptions last week.
"WE'VE MAINLY got to be more consistent," verses 18 and 20 say, "have the con-
cussion on others we don't."
"We should be able to move the ball and keep moving the ball."
Verser's problem this season is a defensive straight-jacket that the opponents tie on. His every move is shadowed by at least two defenders.
The orangemen won last year's game in Memorial Stadium 45-27. KU led at one time 21-7.
"I expect the double coverage all the time now." Verser said.
The Pigskin Oracle by Joe Bantos
In the first three games, he has only nine receptions for touchdowns, touching the KU offside.
The Orangemen pulp KU 28-7
Kansan Predictions
| | Arnold | Bertels | Lewis | Myers | Seeley |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Kansas at Syracuse | Syracuse 24-10 | Syracuse 30-7 | Kansas 21-14 | Kansas 24-17 | Kansas 10-3 |
| Colorado State at Iowa State | Iowa State 7-3 | Iowa State 10-7 | Iowa State 24-7 | Iowa State 5-3 | Iowa State 25-8 |
| Kansas State at Tulsa | Tulsa 14-10 | Kansas State 21-10 | Tulsa 16-13 | Tulsa 16-10 | Tulsa 31-15 |
| Penn State at Missouri | Missouri 24-17 | Missouri 28-10 | Missouri 17-16 | Penn State 21-3 | Penn State 17-13 |
| Oklahoma at Colorado | Oklahoma 52-0 | Oklahoma 60-0 | Oklahoma 42-0 | Oklahoma 72-14 | Oklahoma 73-7 |
| Florida State at Nebraska | Nebraska 45-7 | Nebraska 17-10 | Nebraska 27-13 | Nebraska 24-21 | Nebraska 6-3 |
| Washington at Oklahoma State | Washington 10-7 | Oklahoma St 7-3 | Washington 20-13 | Washington 14-13 | Washington 17-16 |
| UCLA at Ohio State | Ohio State 21-17 | Ohio State 21-7 | Ohio State 21-6 | Ohio State 28-17 | Ohio State 10-9 |
| Air Force at Yale | Air Force Zzzz | Air Force 7-0 | Yale 14-3 | Yale Ivy power! | Yale 12-10 |
| Houston at Baylor | Baylor 14-10 | Houston 20-10 | Baylor 13-11 | Baylor 21-20 | Houston 35-28 |
| Season Totals | 22-7-1 | 21-8-1 | 22-7-1 | 21-8-1 | 20-9-1 |
The predictors are Patti Arnold, Kansan associate sports editor; Kevin Bertelis, sports writer; David Lewis, editorial editor; Gene Myers, sports editor; and Mate Seley, sports writer.
Reprieve spurs on Tumpich
By TRACEE HAMILTON
Sports Writer
Last May, the NCAA and the Big Eight granted Joe Tumphich a reprise.
Tumpich had been sentenced to a year at KU without football. But a rule change, made retroactive by the NCAA, allowed Tumpich of year of eligibility and another year of football.
"I was pretty happy about it," Tumphich said.
He organized teamwork, organized football. "I be pretty largely without it."
Tumpich was injured in the third game of the 1978 season. During a pile-up, a ligament on his left thigh broke.
"I played the entire half," he said. "I didn't know it was torn until I asked at halftime.
"They told me if I could run on the field I could
have to play and of mudo, I had
surgery the next morning."
TUMPICH WORE a full leg cast for 10 weeks. After the cast was removed, Tumpich went through rehabilitation and did not play again until the middle of last season.
Meanwhile, the coaching staff under Bud Moore applied for a hardship ruling. A hardship ruling allows a player injured early in the season to receive another year of eligibility.
Tumpich thought he had been granted an extra year until the fall of 1979, when at a football banquet, he was introduced as 'senior Joe' by the team. He found that his hardship case had fallen through.
Tumphick saw plenty of action during the 79 season. He piled up 47 tackles, 24 of them unassisted. That mark put him third among defensive backs, behind Leroy Irvin and Frank Wattelte. He also intercepted two passes for the Jayhawks.
This season, Tumphip leads the defensive backs in tackles with 25 in three games.
Tumpich, who played junior college ball at Valley Community Junior College in Los Angeles, said he came to KU because of the tough challenge, the Big Eight Conference, and the former players he admired, including Gale Sayers, former Chicago Bears running back.
Tumpich, who Fambrough described as an
beginner, said that he hated the night before
the game.
"I think of friends, anything but the game."
TUMPICH ALSO said he thought of former football greets. His boyhood idols include Sayers, Dick Bautus and Jack Tatum. He handed him the autobiography, "They Call Me Assassin," like a Bible.
"He's one of my heroes," Tumpich said. "He's
long like I am."
Tumpik intends to use his 5-feet-10, 185-pound frame to stop the Syracuse Orangemen tomorrow in Syracuse, N.Y.
"They're a good team. They average 33 points a game," he said. "They'll run the ball and won't throw until you stop their run.
"But they could be beat."
The 22-year-old Tumiph that after that college introduction, as it comes," he played football in perspective.
"One day last week after practice I was feeling the weight of the world on my shoulder. I had the weight of the world on my shoulder."
"I walked to Towers and saw this guy
and I saw the woman, and I
thought What if I was born like that?"
"I thought about how lucky I was."
Martin's pitching fails to earn starting playoff spot
By MATT SEELEY
Sports Writer
KANSAS CITY, Mo.-Renie Martin pitched well enough to beat the Seattle Mariners last night, but apparently not well enough to earn a starting role in the coming playoffs.
Martin hurled 6% innings of five-hit ball to pace the Kansas City Royals to a 6-8 victory over Seattle. Despite the victory, which event Martin's record at 10-10, Manager Jim Frey said he would start Rich Gale if for a fourth game was needed in the playoffs.
"Yes, I想 about it, and it's nice to be known as a Yankee killer, but things are pretty much set," Martin said. "I know the decision was made to start Gale so I just wanted to go out there and throw my best. My 10-10 looks better than 9-11."
Martin got all of the offensive help he needed in the oval innering when the Royals pushed across four
MARTIN, KNOWN as a Yankee killer for his
batters, acknowledges and accepts his
batter.
Joe Cardenal's bases-loaded sacrifice飞 off loser Floyd Bannister, 9-13, scored Dave Chalk to give the Royals a 1-0 edge. After a walk to the 2nd hole, Joe Cardenal, Hal McRae doubled to drive in three runs.
Kansas City added another run in the fifth when Brett lifted a sacrifice fly, scoring Willie Wilson from third. Bretf, in his quest for the 400, was hitherto in control at st-buts, and his elbow led to 389.
Seattle scored its pair of unearned runs off Martin in the seventh on an error by shortstop Onix Conception. With two out and men on second and third, Conception booted a routine grounder, allowing two runs to score. That was all for Martin, who gave way to Ken Brett.
"I WAS FEELING confident about it. It's the first time in a while," McMae said of his two-out-call. "The past couple of weeks with the race had been very good, but well, I knew it was time to turn things around."
"THERE WAS NO limit on how many pitches
we wanted to let him throw," pitching coach Billy Connors said. "We wanted him to get control of his pitches and let him go."
THE VICTORY game the Royals, who had dropped eight straight games on the road before coming home for the final six games of the season, a three-game sweep over the Mariners.
"I think it is obvious by the way we're running the bases and going about the job that we’re playing better baseball all around." Frey said. "We got a little lazy in our attitude because the games didn’t mean much. With this six-game stretch it appears we have our concentration back."
Three games, a weekend series with the Minnesota Twins, remain in the season.
Former coach dead at 85
Adrian H. "Ad" Lindsey, 85, head football coach at 1923 to 1930 and did yesterday his first game as head coach in 1942.
Lindsey was a KU graduate in engineering in 1917 and a letterman in football, basketball and baseball. He was captain of the football team in 1916.
From 1927 until he moved to Lawrence in 1932, he was the head football coach at Oklahoma. He was an inductee in the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame.
memorial services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Raleigh, NC.
The victory gave the Yankees a three-game lead over idle Baltimore with three games to play. Any New York victory or Baltimore defeat would send the Yankees into the American
New York. Houston clinch division ties with 1-run victories
Reggie Jackson hit a towering drive to right centerfield last night to lift the New York Yankees to a 3-2 victory over Detroit and clinch a tie for the American League East title.
By United Press International
The Astros, who beat Atlanta 3-2 to open a three-game lead over Los Angeles, will play the Dodgers in a three-game weekend series in Los Angeles. The Dodgers need a sweep to force a playoff.
The Yankees were not the only team to clinch a tie last night. In the National League West they lost to the Chicago Cubs.
The Los Angeles, which was two games back
League championship series for the fourth time in fye years.
before last night, dropped a 3-2 decision to San Francisco.
In the NL East, Philadelphia downed the Chicago Cubs to pull even at the top with idle Montreal. The two leaders meet each other for in-game. The two leaders meet each other in series.
Jackson's home run followed Oscar Gamble's solo shot that highlighted a big fourth inning for the Yankees. Ron Guidry, 17-10, won his fourth straight.
"I felt good, but I still have a touch of the flu," Jackson said. "I'm glad there's three games to go and we only need to win one."
Jackson's homer, his 40th, tied him for the league lead with Milwaukee's Ben Olgivie and marked the second time in his career he has hit at least 40 in a season.
Gamble hit his 14th homer of the season, but was even proumer of a snake dance he performed to avoid getting hit by a line drive off Jackson's bat. Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson
protested the call and was ejected from the game. Gamble later scored the winning run.
The Montreal Expos and Philadelphia Phillies, with sellout crowds north of the border ready to watch every move, will settle the National Championship game, winner-take-all series tonight beginning tonight.
"They've had a lot of momentum, but I'm glad we played today." Pete Rose said.
"When a team like Montreal wins five in a row, you like to go to the ballpark, not sit at home."