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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, x978
Life a little different
for new champion
United Press International
NEW YORK — Mike Rossman
picks up things quickly. Five days
ago, he was just another fighter with
a good left hook. Now he’s the new
world light heavyweight champion
and he sees a big difference already.
“People are a little nicer to me,”
he said at the Friar’s Club Tuesday
during a luncheon thrown by Bob
Arum of Top Rank, to whom he’s
under contract. “My phone hasn’t
stopped ringing yet.”
It didn’t ring nearly that often be
fore last Friday night, which was
when the 22-year-old Turnersville,
N J., underdog pulled a major upset
by stopping Argentina’s Victor
Galindez in the 13th round and tak
ing the WBA title away from him in
New Orleans, just an hour before
Muhammad Ali beat Leon Spinks in
the same ring.
Galindez, with much more ex
perience than Rossman and a string
of 41 victories going into the fight,
was a lopsided favorite. He was
shrewder and stronger than
Rossman, he had a lot more going
for him and Rossman wasn’t ready
for him yet — that’s what most of
the fight people said anyway.
But it didn’t work out that way.
Rossman showed he was boss from
the beginning, opening a deep cut
alongside Galindez’ right eye and
punishing him so severely that the
referee finally stepped in and stop
ped the bout.
“They kept telling me how strong
he was,” Rossman said, “How he
was gonna take me out in a coupla
rounds. Well, I’m strong, too.”
Working in Rossman’s corner the
night of the fight was his father,
Jimmy, who manages him, and his
20-year-old brother, Andrew, acting
as one of his seconds.
“He kept telling us all during the
fight that he felt good and was sure
he could beat Galindez,” his brother
said. “He felt so good, he actually
ran out of his corner when the bell
rang for the 13th round.”
Rossman’s hither is Italian and his
mother is Jewish. He considers
himself Jewish and points out rather
proudly the last time a Jewish light
heavyweight won the title was 44
years ago when Bob Olin beat
Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom.
During Tuesday’s luncheon,
Rossman showed some impatience
over repeated questions about his
religion.
T m Jewish, he said curtly.
“Why does everybody keep asking
me that? I’ve been fighting profes
sionally six years and nobody asked
me that before.”
"You weren t the world champion
before,” someone reminded him.
Someone else asked him whether
he planned to get himself an apart
ment in New York City now that he
had won the championship.
“Why do I wanna do that for?” he
asked. “I live in New Jersey.”
You might want to find yourself a
girl friend,” it was suggested.
Rossman frowned.
“I’m married,” he said.
The truth of the matter is the new
light heavyweight title holder is bas
ically a young man with simple
tastes, who doesn’t run around
much, prefers to stay at home with
his wife, Maxine, and watch televi
sion or occasionally go to Veterans
Stadium in Philadelphia and root for
the Phillies.
Of Rossman’s 35 victories, 21
have been by knockouts. He has lost
four times and had four draws since
turning pro in August of 1973.
Unlike some other fighters,
Rossman isn’t puffed up by his own
importance. A few days before the
fight in New Orleans, for example,
he was working on the heavy bag
when technicians doing a TV special
on Ali and Spinks told Top Rank
aide Irving Rudd they were picking
up the sound of Rossman hitting the
bag.
“Would you mind shifting to
something else for a few minutes?”
Rudd asked Rossman.
“Sure” he said, moving off to
another corner where he busied
himself skipping rope instead of
punching the bag. Another fighter
might have gotten up on his high
horse and reminded Rudd he was
training for an important bout also.
The waiter serving Rossman at
Tuesday’s luncheon informed him
he was from Argentina.
“You don’t have to apologize, the
waiter reassured him. “You beat
him fair and square.”
Running the option
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Aggie quarterback Mike Mosley fakes a handoff to running
back Adger Armstron (40) and prepares to execute the option
against the Kansas Jayhawks. After beating the Jayhawks
37-10, the Aggies hope for success against the Boston
Eagles Saturday. The game will be broadcast from Bosti
WTAW-AM beginning at 5 p.m. CDT.
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By GARY TAYLOR
United Press International
HOUSTON — If he played for a
team which scored more runs,
record-setting pitcher J.R. Richard
would be a leading contender to win
the Gy Young Award.
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quietly wishes he and his teammates
were accorde^ more fame.
“The recognition has been very
slow in coming,” he said. "Very slow
for the Houston area. I’d have to call
it very poor. Guys like Cesar
Cedeno and Bob Watson have been
doing things over a period of years
that have gone unnoticed. And the
year I won 20 games, I didn’t get
much recognition.”
In 1976, Richard won 20 despite
the Astros suffering a losing season.
This year, with the Astros in fifth
place, Richard is 17-11 despite los
ing or receiving a no decision in
seven close games.
Said teammate Enos Cabell, "J.R.
deserves to be considered as one of
the best. He is. He has worked
hard. There is not a pitcher that bat
ters fear any more than J.R.
His teammates cheer him, but
local sports fans treat him for a
number of reasons with indiffer
ence. Only 5,710 spectators paid
Wednesday night to watch Richard
go after a prestigious pitching re
cord and, on top of that, to see il
39-year-old Jim Bouton of Atlanta
really threw his knuckleball as
slowly as reported.
Those who attended got every
thing they could have expected, un
less they were unrealistic and ex
pected a Houston win. Atlanta won
3-2 on Bob Horner’s ninth-inning
double off a relief pitcher. Richard
had taken himself out of the game
after his right forearm stiffened in
the eighth.
An inning before, his strike out of
Horner on a hard slider lifted
Richard to the top of a record Ixiok
heading which reads, "Most strike
outs, single season, right handed
pitcher, National League, since
1900. His 11 strike outs in the
game boosted his season total to
290, one better than Tom Seaver ac
complished in 1971.
Although accorded three standing
ovations and better attention than is
often received from Astros fans,
after the game Richard sagged as he
slumped his 6-8 frame into a couch
for a post-game interview.
“You can kill a horse if you work it
long enough," he said.
Of the performance, which drew
a large group of local sportswriters
and sportscasters, he said, “Maybe
people are beginning to notice.
“I worked for it. I ve earned ev
erything I've ever had. \
been given to me. But I Ik
been blessed — I was nei
black. I grew up middle-da
I've always been ambitii
to work hard.”
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Richard showed he
the list of the major
strike out artists.
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cord. I’m the first man.
black man, the first right)]
modern National League fa I
strike out 290,” he said.
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mound, and Iwal fans area
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A wild pitch in the serai:
against Atlanta Tuesday, I
inning he broke the record,)
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