NEW YORK AP-Earnie
Shavers has a puncher'’s
chance to win the
heavyweight cham-
picnshiop Thursday night,
uit in the end the finesses

Graceful, ring-wise champ

cher may beat Ali

Alfredo Evangelista, who
went after the title with
porgur . Shavers is a

mber, and it would be
foolish to pay too much
attention to the fact that

Sports

and experience of
Muhannad will prevail.

There's always a chance
this could be onetoo many
trips to the well for the 35-
year-old champion.

“He has had a
wars... fights,"
Shavers. ‘They start
take their toll.”

But this corner agrees
with the smart guys in Las
Vegas , who are are so sure
of Ali they re keeping their
bankrolls in their pockets.
There is no betting line.

However, Shavers is no
Jean+pierre Coopman or

‘most of Shaver’s 52

knockouts have . been
against less than top-qulaity
opporients. Three of his best
wins were a three-round
knockout of Jimmy Young
and a one-round knockout of
Jimmy Ellis, both in 1973,
anda bwa-rauing knockout of
Howard Smith last April 17.

Aplus for Aliis that he has
always been able to take a
punch, keeping his feet
against such bangers as
Sonny Liston, George
Foreman, Ron Lyle and Joe
Frazier. He has gotten up
from the four knowckdowns

he suffered in 56 fights, 50 of
which he has won.

Shaver's 60 fights hace
lasted less than 199 full
rouonds. He was tired in the
10th rovond whenhe out-
pointed Henry Ckark and
was neat exhaustidn when
he sto Roy Williams in
the 10th round, both in 1976.

There also is the question
of Shaver’s ability to take a
punch. Thtee of his five
losses have been knockouts-
in five round by Ron Stander
in 1970, one rounf by Jerry
Quarry in 1973 and six
rounds by Ellis before he
scored a knockout with a
right to the temple.

Shavers saiys he wont’s go
wild this time trying for a
knockout and that he won’t
fail into the trap of punching
himslef out. ’

Ali says he will knock
Shavers out. If he does, it
will be froma combination
of Shavers being tired and
the cumulative effect of
Ali’s punches.
Ali’s righ hand in recent
fights has not be much of
weapon except for scoring
points.

Consumer advocate goes
to bat for sports fans

NEW YORK (AP) —
Ralph Nader afnounced
today formation of a con-
sumer advocate group that
would try to give sports fans
a voice in such matters as
who plays for their favorite
teams.

Nader said one concern of
the organization would be to
influence owners in deals
such as the one that ended
Tom Seaver’s career as a
New York Met.

“When an owner, out of
pique, ean trade a Tom
ver to the Cincinnati
Reds, no wonder fans are
upset because they seem to
have no say,” Nader said.
He suggested that the new
‘oup, Fight to Advance the
ation’s Sports—FANS—as

~ the voice of organized sports °
, consumers,’ quid mount’a

ycott of a team’ and
“make owners everywhere
think twice’’ before trading
a popular player.

Nader and Peter
Gruenstein, who will be
executive director of FANS,

announced at a news con-
ference that the new group
will begin operating Nov. 1,
financed intitiaily by a
$10,000 personal loan from
Nader. After that, it will
have to make it on its own
through $9 yearly dues of its
members or else fold, Nader
said.

He called FANS “an ex-
periment to see whether
consumers of spectator

- Sports are willin i 7 to pay
each year. the price of an

average football ticket in
order to protect their rights
and interests.”
WILL BE ON BOARD

Nader said he will be on
the FANS advisory board
but will not make policy.

He said ordinary fans
subsidize sports through
their taxes.and this entitles
them to full accountings on
finances so they can
determine whether they are
being gouged at the box
office.

Nader, long-time con-
sumer advocate, and

Gruenstein, a 30-year-old
Washington lawyer, said
FANS will deal with such
issues as price of tickets to
sports events and
availability of tickets to
ordinary fans, as opposed to
celebrities, and it will act as
the voice of fans in the
“formation of policy and

FANS also will “insure
that food sold in sports
arenas is healthful and
reasonably priced and that
concessions are not rip-
offs,”” Nader said.

Gruenstein said FANS
also will involve itself in
what he called periodic,
fraud that occurs on the
sports scene. He mentioned
specifically the fight bet-
ween heavyweight cham-
pion Muhammad Ali and a
Japanese wrestler.

Nader and Gruenstein
also said they would put a

Spotlight on enlightened ©

owners and managements,

mentioning as an example

Bill Veeck of Chicago White
X.

Coach doesn’t know who
to thank for late score

CLEVELAND (AP) —
Forrest Gregg, Cleveland
Brown's coach, didn't know
who to praise first folowing
his team’s stunning 30-27
overtime victory over New
England Patriots in a
National Football League
game Monday night.

The Browns, who turned
intheir second straight NFL
upset, saw New England's

, John Smith tie the game
with no time remaining on a
i4-yard field goal. But the
Browns, 2-0, came right
back, taking the kickoff in
overtime and setting up Don
Cockroft's winning 35-yard
field goal with a 54-yard
march,

The winning score came
at 4:45 into the overtime on
a surprising second-and-
nine play, which Gregg said
was suggested by defensive
backfield coach Billy

Kinard. « - ;

“Billy said why not get it
now?” Gregg said. "I called
time out and Brian (quar-
terback Brian Sipe) didn’t
want to take it (the field

goal) then. But we decided
we would do it.”’
“We felt we have a field
goal kicker who can get it
rough the uprights,” he
ac gg, still smiling, put
regg, still sm pul
his herds to his head and
said, ‘This game had so
many ups and downs, my
head is still spinning.’
Sipe threw for a pair of
touchdowns, one of them to
‘Greg Pruitt, who himself

opened the Cleveland
-scoring with a fiveyard
touchdown toss.

PRAISED PRUITT .
Pruitt wound up with 15}
ards on 26 carries and his
ormer coach at Oklahoma
University, Chuck Fair-
banks, now coach at New
England, said, ‘“‘He is a
great player. He helped me
win a lot and now he helped
take one away from me."
The Browns apparently
had put the game away wit
55 second left on Cockroft’s
$7-yard field goal, a kick set
up by linebacker Charlie
all’s interception of a

Grogan pass at the New
England 27-yard line with
2:11 to play in the fourth
quarter.

it was a Seesaw game all
the way.

The Patriots charged
back to take a 17-7 lead in
the second on Grogan's six-
yard touchdown pass to
ruming back Sam Cun-
ningham, Smith’s 35-yard
field goal and Don Calhoun’s
threeyard scoring burst.

But Cleveland rebounded
in the third quarter, with
Sipe finding tight end Gary
Parris on a 27-yard scorin
pass play and Cockroit
sicki the fitst of his two

-yarders, tying things 17-
17 heading into the final
quarter,

Back came New England
again, with Grogan rifling a
sixyard TD pass to Francis.
But Sipe put the Browns into
a 24-24 tle with 3:02 left in
the fourth quarter, throwing
an eight-yard touchdown
pass to running back Pruitt.

DEFER RACE
DECISION
TORONTO (CP) — A
decision on whether to run
the 1978° Grand Prix of
a auto race on_cit

streets has been tabled
temporarily—until a
technical working com-
mittee reports back to city
council by Nov. 16, The
Formula 1 event requires
ees

Metropolitan Toronto
council approval to run the
race on Lakeshore
Boulevard and the Canadian
National Exhibition
grounds. .

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Shavers also says he
plans to work at Ali's body
and beat on his arms to
force down the champion’s
guard.

Two important areas in
which Ali has a definite
advantage are his ability in
the ring and his supreme
confidence in shi ability to
reach back and find what's
needed to win.

If there is a past fight
after which this would would
be patterned, it could be his
defence against Lyleon Ma
16, 1975. Lyle tried to pic
his spots and stayed in the
centre of the ring when Ali
to the ropes. At the end of
10mrounds Lyle was ahead
on two of three official cards
but was tiring. In the 11th
round Ali unloaded a flurry
of ansered pucnhes and the
fight was stopped with Lyle
still on his feet.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) —
In the opening round of a
$125,000 professional tennis
tournament here Monday,
fourth-seeded Dick Stockton
defeated Bob Carmichael 6-
8, 6-2. The tournament finals
will be played Sunday.

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