22—The Daily Collegian Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1984
Steelers make move toward youth
By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) If the Pittsburgh Steelers have
a motto this season, now-departed wide receiver Greg
Hawthorne can be thanked.
“Youth is in around here,” Hawthorne said last week
after being traded to the New England Patriots and two
more Steelers’ veterans found out yesterday exactly what
Hawthorne meant.
Tom Beasley, a six-year defensive end from Virginia
Tech who started all but one game last season, and
second-year wide receiver Paul Skansi were released as
the Steelers reached the NFL’s mandated 49-man roster
limit.
Nine players were waived and two others, linebacker
L.E. Madison and offensive tackle Russell Graham, were
placed on the injured reserve list. Placed on waivers were
cornerbacks Lou Rash and Clemont Williams, tight end
Darrell Nelson, linebackers Terry Echols and Ike Gor
don, free safety Mike Sutton and running back Fernan
dars “Scoop” Gillespie, plus Beasley and Skansi.
Since training camp opened last month, the Steelers
have traded away or axed 13 veterans, including running
back Franco Harris. Eighteen veterans are gone since the
Steelers lost five of their last six games in 1983.
Harris, in a stunning development, was placed on
waivers last week during a month-long holdout and still
has not been signed by another team, despite being just
363 yards shy of the NFL’s career rushing record.
The wholesale roster shuffling came just weeks after
two more veterans, quarterback Terry Bradshaw and
cornerback Mel Blount, announced their retirements.
“This is a young football team with potential,” said
Coach' Chuck Noll. “Our whole problem is reaching that
potential. We have some young players who want to play
very badly and now we’re going to play the season to find
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The Steelers will take 12 rookies into Sunday’s opener
against the Kansas City Chiefs, including three free
agents.
Among the rookies who survived the roster cuts are
four running backs, draft choices Rich Erenberg and
Elton Veals and free agents Todd Spencer and Anthony
Corley, and two wide receivers, first-round draft choice
Louis Lipps and fourth-round pick Weegie Thompson.
“Frank (Pollard) and Walter (Abercrombie), at this
stage, will start (at running back),” Noll said. “But we
have no thoughts of not putting in the young kids. We have
confidence in them or they wouldn’t be here with us.”
Rookies were the Steelers’ top five rushers in the pre
season, led by Veals with 114 yards and Erenberg with 113'
yards. Erenberg will return kickoffs.
Spencer, a former Southern Cal back, ran for 110 yards
and a 5.5 average and had a long touchdown run last week
against the New York Giants called back by a penalty.
Corley, from Nevada-Reno, scored a pair of touchdowns
against the Dallas Cowboys.
Lipps was perhaps the Steelers’ most productive offen
sive player, catching nine passes for 115 yards and
returning 22 punts for a 12.2 average.
The drafting of Lipps and Thompson made expendable
Skansi, a fifth-round choice from Washington who landed
just three passes last season and averaged under nine
yards per return on punts.
But the departure of the 6-5, 250-pound Beasley was
somewhat more surprising, since he started all but one
game in the last two seasons. He didn’t play his way off
the roster, but didn’t make it because he couldn’t play
with a hamstring injury suffered on the opening day of
training camp.
“You can’t make the club in the tub,” explained Coach
Chuck Noll.
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NFL teams near 49-player limit;
Vikings cut veteran back Young
By The Associated Press
Veteran running back Rickey
Young, who chalked up nearly 7,000
yards in total offense in nine sea
sons with the San Diego Chargers
and Minnesota Vikings, was among
the victims yesterday as NFL
clubs continued to trim down to the
49-man roster for opening day.
Young, who accumulated 3,665
rushing yards and 3,285 on 408 pass
receptions, was one of eight Vi
kings players cut.
Also cut by the Vikings' were >
defensive lineman James “Duck”
White, kicker Rick Danmeier, de
fensive back Mardye McDole, free-
agents wide receiver Billy Waddy,
center Bob Sebro, offensive line
man Jerry Baker and rookie line
~ backer Eddie Simmons.
Danmeier, one of the last
straight-ahead kickers who had 364
points in five seasons, was beaten
out by 41-year-old veteran Jan Ste
nerud.
The Seattle Seahawks announced
10 cuts, including five veterans:
nose tackle Robert Hardy, offen
sive guard Bill Dugan, offensive
tackle Matt Hernandez, quar-
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terback Steve Wray and lirfebacker
Jerome Boyd.
The Cincinnati Bengals trans
ferred two active players to the
injured reserve list to recall two
rookie free agents who had been
cut Monday, linebacker Brian Pil
lman and wide receiver Clay Pick
ering. Strong safety Bobby Hemp
and offensive lineman Mike Obro
vac went on the injured reserve
list.
The Denver Broncos put veteran
linebacker Bob Swenson and re
cently acquired quarterback Scott
Brunner on the injured reserve list
and recalled two players waived a
day earlier running back Jesse
Myles and safety Roger Jackson.
The Washington Redskins placed
rookie defensive tackle Bob Slater
on the injured reserved list along
with veteran tight end Clint Didier
and safety Ken Coffey.
Slater, a .second-round draft
choice out of Oklahoma, injured his
left knee in the final exhibition
game against New Orleans. Slater,
Didier and Coffey will all be out of
action for at least four weeks.
Fourth-season quarterback Rus
ty Lisch and six rookies were
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among the roster cuts made by the
St. Louis Cardinals. Lisch, a prod
uct of Notre Dame, was picked up
by the Chicago Bears following his
release by the Cardinals.
Three players cut from the Mi
ami Dolphins were recalled Tues
day: safety Bud Brown, wide
receiver Fernanza Burgess and
linebacker Sanders Shiver. Brown
was an 11th round draft choice
from Southern Mississippi, Bur
gess was picked up as a free agent
out of Morris Brown College and
Shiver was a free agent signed in
Mpy after his release from the
Indianapolis Colts.
“We couldn’t let a hitter like that
get away,” said Miami Coach Don
Shula, referring to Brown. “It was
the longest of long shots but he kept
continuing to do things to get our
attention.”
The Philadelphia Eagles placed
tackle Rusty Russell on the injured
reserve list and recalled quar
terback Bob Holly, who cleared
waivers.
In Pontiac, Mich., the Detroit
Lions acquired fullback Mike
Meade on waivers and cut veteran
running back Rick Kane.
Upsets kick off U.S. Open
By 808 GREENE
AP Sports Writer
NEW YORK Sixth-seeded Manuela Maleeva of
Bulgaria and No. 10 Jo Durie of Great Britain were
upset yesterday on the opening day of the U.S. Open
Tennis Championships.
All of the other seeded players who saw action in the
$2.55 million tournament on the hard courts at the
National Tennis Center advanced into the second
round, although young Aaron Krickstein barely escap
ed an upset bid.
In a; late match, Chris Evert Lloyd, a six-time U.S.
Open winner who is seeded second in the women’s
singles this year, took on Sharon Walsh.
Maleeva, suffering from leg cramps, fell to Petra
Delhees of Switzerland 6-1, 5-7, 7-5, while Australia’s
Anne Minter ousted Durie 2-6, 7-5, 6-4.
Krickstein, who at 17 is the youngest player to be
seeded in the men’s singles since America’s premier
tennis event was opened to professionals in 1968, barely
squeezed into the second round when Bruce Manson
retired with leg cramps in the fifth set.
Manson quickly grabbed the opening two sets before
Krickstein rallied to win the third-set tiebreaker 7-1.
Eagles place Russell on injured list
PHILADELPHIA (AP) —The Phil- Carolina, broke his foot in training
adelphia Eagles yesterday placed camp July 19.
tackle Rusty Russell on the injured Because he was placed on the final
reserve list and recalled quarterback 49-player roster Monday, he can be
Bob Holly, who cleared waivers, a recalled at any time during the sea
spokesman for the NFL team said. son with one of the Eagles’ five free
Russell, a 6-5, 295-pound third- after he sits out at least
round 1984 draft pick from South four weeks, Eagles spokesman Ron
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The No. 8 seed from Grosse Pointe, Mich., then took
the fourth set 6-2 and had a 4-0 advantage when Manson
was forced to retire.
No. 5 Andres Gomez of Ecuador downed Israel’s
Shlomo Glickstein 6-3, 6-1, 6-3; No. 7 Johan Kriek.
stopped qualifier Glenn Layendecker 7-6,6-2,6-0; No. 9
Henrik Sundstrom of Sweden ousted Wojtek Fibak of
Poland 7-5,2-6,6-0,6-3; No. 10 Eliot Teltscher defeated
Switzerland’s Heinz Gunthardt 7-6, 6-2, 6-7, 6-3; No. 12
Vitas Gerulaitis easily crushed South Africa’s Derek
Tarr 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, and No. 15 Pat Cash eliminated 38-
year-old Ilie Nastase of Romania 6-3, 7-5, 6-1.
In the women’s singles, No. 3 Hana Mandlikova of
Czechoslovakia advanced to the second round by
downing Brazil’s Pat Medrado 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; No. 7 Zina
Garrison topped Sabrina Goles of Yugoslavia 6-2, 6-4;
No. 14 Carling Bassett of Canada ousted Australia’s
Elizabeth Sayers 6-4,6-2, and No. 16 Andrea Temesvari
of Hungary defeated South African Rosalyn Fairbank
7-6, 2-6, 6-3.
Durie was serving for the match at 5-3 in the third
set. But Minter broke the Brit’s serve at love, then
staved off three match points in the 10th game to hold
her own service. < i
Howard said.
Holly, who was put on waivers
Monday, was acquired by the Eagles
Aug. 14 from the Washington
Redskins for an undisclosed 1985
draft pick. He did not play in the
Eagles’ final two preseason games.
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Witherspoon threatens not to fight
By TIM DAHLBERG
AP Sports Writer
LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Tim With
erspoon, who said he received only
$43,000 for winning the World Boxing
Council heavyweight title and is now
broke, threatened yesterday to pull
out of his title defense Friday night
against Pinklon Thomas.
Promoter Don King, after meeting
with Witherspoon, said “everything
is resolved,” and added that the fight
will go on.
“Witherspoon has an inflated belief
of what he’s worth,” said King.
“We just explained to him what the
real basics of reality is,” King said of
the meeting. “I’m going into this fight
as a loser, I’m only doing this to help
these guys get known so they might
have some value to try and make
some money later.”
Witherspoon, who is scheduled to
receive $450,000 for his first title
defense, says he’ll be lucky to end up
with $50,000 of it once his manager,
King’s son Carl, and the Internal
Revenue Service get their cuts.
“If we don’t square it, I’m not going'
to fight,” he said before the meeting
with King. “I think he can’t afford to
let me walk away like this. It’s pen
nies compared to him. All I’m asking
for is to come out of this with
$250,000.” ,
Witherspoon said $50,000 of his
$450,000 purse will go for training
expenses, while the younger King will
get $225,000 under a contract he
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“My manager gets half of my pur- volving former champions Michael
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claimed. “I very rarely even see The promoter said he was paid a
him; I rarely talk to him. I even have total of $900,000 from HBO for the
an attorney and negotiate my own telecast rights and will have to have a
money. He doesn’t even do that.” $400,000 sellout of the Riviera Hotel’s
But King defended the practice of . convention center to even come close
splitting the purse between With- to breaking even,
erspoon. and his son, saying With- “Witherspoon is getting $450,000
erspoon would never have had a and Thomas is getting $200,000 plus
chance to fight for the title if it the money for the other fighters on
weren’t for him. the card,” he said.
“He got there because he’s got Carl But a spokeswoman for the Nevada
King as a manager and, since Carl is State Athletic Commission said the
my son, I have a preference for contract on file for Thomas shows he
dealing with him,” said King. “A is to receive only $lOO,OOO. The
year and a half ago, Timmy was spokeswoman, who asked not to be
starving. His manager sold his con- identified, said a contract for With
tract- to Carl and Carl paid him for erspoon was rejected by the commis
it.” sion because it was signed by Carl
The purse split came about, said King, who is not registered as With-
King, because he has invested money erspoon’s manager in Nevada. She
into Witherspoon and picked up the said another contract was expected to
fighter’s expenses while he worked be submitted today,
his way up the heavyweight ladder. Witherspoon, who won the vacant
“When a fighter has no name, the title in March in a 12-round decision
expenses are great,” he said. “Rath- over Greg Page, fought his way into
er than go through auditing of books, prominence in the division when he
you make a 50-50 deal and you pay all lost a controversial split decision to
his expenses. That way he knows Larry Holmes in May 1983, a fight
exactly what he’ll make when he goes many thought Witherspoon had won.
into the ring. That has been a prob- Witherspoon received $200,000 for
lem for many athletes already, as fighting Page for the crown Holmes
soon as they think they’re going to vacated when he resigned to fight for
make something, they don’t want to the International Boxing Federation,
pay.” but said after paying Carl King and
King said he stands to make no repaying loans to Don King he ended
profit off the 12-round title fight; up with $43,000 of it.
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which will also feature four other
heavyweight fights including two in-