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PAGE 6, THE HERALD, Tuesday, September 13, 1977

DEER LAKE, Pa. (AP) —
Muhammad Ali and Joe
Frazier got together
Monday and talked about
still another fight. .

It ‘all happened at a
restaurant.a few miles from

where Ali is training for his
world heavyweight title
defence against Ernie
Shavers on Sept. 29..

Ali poled his head into the
bar of a restaurant along
Route 61 in the Penn-

Chuvalo still the
champ, he says

TOTONTO (CP) —
George Chuvalo,
celebrating his 40th bir-
thday, announced Monday
he will again defend: the
Canadian heavyweight
boxing championship he has
held through most of his 21
years of professional

At a news conference
complete with . birthday
eake, Chuvato.said his next
opponent will be Earl
McLeay of Calgary, 11 years
his junior and ranked No. 1
for the title by the Canadian.
Professional Boxing
Federation. :

Chuvalo ended three
years of retirement earlier
this year by regaining the
vacant.Canadian crown with
a lacklustre ninth-round
knockout of Bob, Pretty
Boy, Felstein of Toronto.

He said the title fight on
Dec. 5, at the CNE Coliseum
will likely be bis last and he
wants to go out with the
Canadian public not
thinking of him as fat and
sluggish as he was for the
Felstein fight. He weighed a
hulking 250 for that

mismatch but hopes to go
into the McLeay fight at
around 225.

“| really want to go out

looking good,’’. he told |

reporters. “I didn’t look
good in.the last fight. I was
overweight by 20 or 25
pounds and I don’t want that
happening in this fight.”
* ‘The only thing that might
lure him out of retirement is
a fight with Commonwealth
champion Joe Bugner of
Britain, Chuvalo and his
one-time manager, Irv
Ungerman, tried un-
successfully for year, when
Chuvalo was a world-ranked
boxer, to arrange a Com-
monwealth title fight.
Negotiations are under
way now for a fight with

Bugner, but Chuvalo ad-:

mitted he’s not too excited

about the prospects of it.

coming off. —

The McLeay fight will be
Chuvalo’s 94th as a
professional. His opponent,
who didn’t turn professional
until 1972 after losing only
five of 7 amateur fights, has
won eight of 12 fights as a
pro, seven of those wins via
the knockout route.

Taylor field
gets expansion

REGINA (CP) —

. Saskatchewan Roughriders,
‘the city.of Regina and the

provincial government have

-When the project . is
finished, perhaps sometime
in the late 1980's, the
capacity is to reach about,

“agreed? in printipal to B7got 80,000.17 4° EES. F

‘million expansion of Taylér"
: Feild, home of the Canadian
: Football League club.

: The accord, which calls
‘for 8,000 sideline seats to be
‘added for the 1978 season
-and the installation of ar-
‘tificial turf for the 1979
‘season, Was announced
‘Monday at a news con-
‘ference in the legislature.

: Premier Allan Blakeney,
‘who prepesents the Regina
‘riding where.Taylor Field is
‘situated, said. the govern-
ment’s participation is
‘contingent upon the in-
‘volvement of city council
‘and the local government
‘board.

Mayor ‘Henry Baker said
the $4.5 million the city has
to provide. under the
‘agreement will be subject to
a bylaw vote this fall, but
plans for the expansion will
continue before the vote is
taken.

The first step of the
project will bring Taylor
Field’s seating capacity to
‘97,100. There will be about
95,000 seats between goal
lines.

Under” thé” proposal;
Blakeney said the city would
provide 50 per cent of the
financing and manage the
project. The football club
will begin a fund-raising
campaign with private
donations being matched
“on a dollar-for-dollar
basis” to a maximum of $1
million by the province, he

said, - oe

In addition, the province
would grant the city a
maximum of $2.5 million for
the remainder of the
project. ;

Bruce Cowie, president of
the football club, said ad-
ditional seating for the 1978
season is an urgent
business. ;

“The exciting thing about
the expansion is that for the
first time the Saskatchewan
Roughriders won't have to
bus to Taylor Field for home
games,” he said. .

The defending Western
Football Conference
champions dress in the
team’s locker. room at the
Regina exhibitlon grounds
and are bused about three
blocks to Taylor Field for

each «game.

Kickers get
even better

‘TOTONTO (CP) —
Kicking field goals is a
highly-skilled art that hasn't
changed much with the

years.

In fact, Canadian Football
League statistics show this
week the square-toed
brigade seems to be finding
more ways to boot the ball
with added proficiency.

: Last season only Montreal
Alouettes’? Don Sweet was
able to kick five field goals
in one game. There have
been two such performances
already this year just past
the halfway mark — Lui
Passaglia of British
Columbia Lions and Dave
Cutler of Edmonton
Eskimos.

There were eight games in
1976 in which a kicker was
good on four field goals — a
figure equalled in 1877.
Passejlia and Cutler each
has had four games in which
they successfully booted
three fieid goals.

The most proficient
among all the. kickers,
however,.is newcomer Nick
Jambrosic. The. Hamilton
Tiger-Cat rookei, who did
not even get into uniform in
his club’s first four games,
has been good on 12 of 15
field goal attempis.

between Ali, Frazier =~.

sylvania hills and shouted:
“Where's Joe Frazier? I
want Joe Frazier.’”

The purpose of the
meeting was a news con-
ference, arranged by
Madison Square Garden,
which says it is unhappy
about the number of days
Ali has been away from his
training camp.

Ali jolted Garden publicist
John F. X. Condon at the
very outset of the news
conference by saying he
planned to tour six countries
before the fight with
Shavers.

Most observers did not
take the champion
seriously. Neither did
Frazier, who also felt: the
and Ali would never meet in
the ring again.

“Pq come back for the —

title,” said Frazier. “I don't
want anybody else."

Someone asked. Joe,
“Don’t you think he’s
serious about fighting
you?’? = “Nope,” said

Penalty considered
for bad behavior

NEW YORK (AP) — The
United .States Tennis
Association ‘USTA). .is
considering taking punitive
action against Jimmy
Connors, who stormed off
the court after losing the
men’s singles final of the
U.S. Open tennis cham-
pionships Sunday without
waiting for the traditional
post-match presentation
ceremony,

“The tournament com-
mittee is looking into the
matter,’” a spokesman for
the USTA said Monday.
“But no decision has been
made, and I don’t know
when one could be ex-
pected.” ”

~ down to size a

Placekicker. Tom Demp-
sey and running back Jim
Bertelsen of Los Angeles
Rams and tight end Jerry
Smith and safety Brig
Owens of Washington
Redskins were among the
veterans placed on waivers
Monday as National Footbal
League clubs reached their
final cutdown date.

As the teams reduced
their rosters to 43 players,
other veterans dropped
included wide receiver
Larry Walton of Detroit
Lions and quarterback
Steve Ramsey of New York
Giants.

Dempsey, the Rams’
placekicker for the past two
seasons, made 17 of 26 field
goals Jast year but missed
eight of 44 extra point at-
tempts. In 1975, with New
Orleans, he kicked the
NFL's longest fleld goal, a
6a-yarder. He also played
for Philadelphia Eagles.

Bertelsen spent five
seasons with Los Angeles. In
1973, he gained 854 yards
and earned a Pro. Bowl
berth. He was hurt in 1973
and 1975 and later lost his
starting job.

Both Smith, a 12-year vet,
and Owens, an 11-year pro,
are 34 years old. Smith
caught 60 touchdown passes
for 360 points, the most by
any tight end in the NFL. In
1967, Smith caught 67
passes, the most by an NFL
tight end in one season, and
his 12 TD’s equalled Mike
Ditka’s season . record.
From 1966-69, he finished in
the top 10 in receiving.

or prize money of $16,500

receiver Freeman Johns of

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Frazier. ‘‘He shook. hands
with me. So that makes him
a bigger liar. Of course, we
already know he’s a phony.” -
Another former world
champion wes alse on hand
— Floyd Patterson, now a
New Ys State. athletic
commissioner. Patterson
was supposed to lecture Ali
on the evils of not preparing
himself for his fight. But Ali
never gave Patterson a -
chance. He launched into his
tirade about flying to
London today and then
visiting places like Hong
Fong, Egypt and Australia.

The champion then
worked 11 rounds in his
home-made gym, talking to
fans..and scoffing at
publicity people.

‘All these years I’ve come
this far and they got to tell ’
me to get ready to fight,”
said Ali, who then pointed
out once again: “I am the
greatest. I could be a male
model,’

Connors did not stay to
pick up his runner-up tropny

after he was beaten by
Guillermo Vilas of
Argentina 2-6, 6-3, 7-6, 6-0.
He bulled his way through
the 100 or more fans who
poured onto the court at the
end of the match and was
escorted to the clubhouse by
his mother, his two coaches,
his bodyguards and the rest
of his entourage. ‘They piled
into waiting cars and drove.

~ A Town
is a group
of people.

Tennis veterans said
Connors’ refusal to attend
the post-match ceremony
‘was unprecedented in the 96-
year history of the tour

SOBA ea,

press

Owens never missed. a

game since joining
Washington in a trade with
Dallas in 1966, His 36 career
interceptions make him the
Redskins’ all-time leader.
The Redskins also placed
defensive end Duncan
McColl, their No. 1 draft
choice, on the injured
reserve .

Walton, an eight-year
veteran with Detroit, caught \
20 passes for 293 yards and
three touchdowns.

Ramsey, whom the Giants .

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acquired from Denver lt is industry and jobs.
during the offseason, was a

starter with the Broncos last ~
seasou, but saw little action a Py a ‘
in this pre-season with New
pis ees Ne lt is retail businesses.
defensive end Rick Dvorak,
a three-year veteran, and :
defensive back Brent | oS
Mn. .
The Rams also asked They af have to work together.
waivers on rookie wide Al th th ort of th le

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veteran linebacker Mel
Rodgers. Rookie guard
Donnie Hickman. from
Southern California was
placed on the injured .
reserved list.

Offensive linemensKen
Long and rookie linebacker
Ron Crosby were placed on
the injured reserve ligt by
Detroit, which also placed
tight end Orlando Nelson
and placekicker Fred
Steinfort on injured
waivers.

Injured reserve players .
are. through for the season,
while injured waived
players may be reclaimed if
no team picks them up.

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