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CHICAGO — Walter Payton’s
attorney said the Chicago Bears’
star running back would sign with
the Montreal Alouettes of the
Canadian Football league only if
the salary offer was “over
whelming.”
A Bears spokesman said the
NFL club expects to sign Payton,
whose 5-year contract expired at
the end of last season.
“Walter’s feelings are now —
and always have been — that the
people in Chicago, the fans and
the team, have always been first
class to him,” Payton’s attorney,
Bud Holmes, said by telephone
from Hattiesburg, Miss.
“And if for any reason some
thing worked out and he went to
Canada it would not be because of
any ill feelings for the club or the
town, because all he has is love for
both.
“It would have to be that the
amount of money would be so
overwhelming that good business
judgment would dictate that as a
professional person he would owe
his duty to himself to accept,”
Holmes said.
Payton is the Bears’ all-time
leading rusher and the NFC top
runner the last five seasons. His
contract expired at the end of the
1980 season when he was the high
est paid player in football at
$475,000.
Alouettes owner Nelson Skalba-
nia, who this week signed Bears
wide receiver James Scott and Los
Angeles Rams’ quarterback Vince
Ferragamo, told the Edmonton
Journal he planned to go after
Payton.
“I need one good running
back,” Skalbania said. “And to
give me twice as good a chance of
getting one. I’m going after Hers-
chel Walker and Walter Payton.
“I’ve offered Payton a contract.
I shouldn’t be saying this because
when you print it, the Chicago
Bears are going to realize the
situation and the price will go up.
“What are the odds of signing
him? About the same as Herschel
Walker. It depends on what I want announced he plans to remain in
to pay him. I think the odds are college.
good.” Payton was in Jackson, Miss.,
Walker, the University of Geor- working out with his brother and
gia’s freshman sensation, has other teammates.
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HOUSTON — The Houston
Rockets, making their First
appearance in the NBA champion
ship series, had been expecting to
the Philadelphia 76ers, but
ihey will have no trouble getting
up for the Boston Celtics instead.
“I’d rather play Boston,” Coach
Del Harris said. “If we had gone
up there and beaten Philadelphia
to win the NBA title, half of the
people would still be saying that
: can’t beat Boston. To be NBA
champion, you have to beat
Boston.”
Boston fought from a 3-1 deficit
after four games and beat the
76ers 91-90 in the seventh to take
the Eastern Conference cham
pionship Sunday. The first game
of the best-of-seven Houston-
Boston championship series is to
day in Boston.
The Rockets, who have not
beaten the Celtics in 13 games in
cluding four straight losses to the
13-time NBA champions in last
year’s Eastern Conference semi
finals, are clear underdogs.
But a team that finished 40-42 in
the regular season — while Boston
finished 62-20 — is used to the
underdog role.
“We’re back on old familiar
grounds, playing against a team
that nobody thinks we can beat.
That’s okay. We understand that,”
Murphy said.
Forward Robert Reid said the
Rockets should not be intimidated
and the Celtics should not be
overconfident.
“We are in the final series, you
know, and there has to be a reason
for us to get this far,” Reid said.
“The Celtics are going for a 14th
title and we are going to try to be a
thorn in their side.
“They’re talking like they’re the
champions already, but all they
are is the best team in the East.
We re the best team in the West.
If they beat us four times, then I’ll
say they are the best team in bas
ketball.”
Center Moses Malone said:
“We’ve got to stop Boston’s penet
ration and we've got to keep Bird
off the offensive backboards. I’m
convinced we can play with
them.”
Murphy said the Celtics would
be in trouble “if they pack in
around the basket against us like
they did against Philly. We’ve got
the outside shooters to kill them.
They’re going to have to find
another way to beat us.”
Reserve Major Jones said Hous
ton nevertheless faces a big chal
lenge.
“We’ve got to hit the boards real
hard on both ends of the court,”
Jones said. “If we can rebound,
we’ll be in good shape. We’ve got
to stop their running game, and
the way to do that is to not let
them bury us on the backboards.
“Also, we guys on the bench
will have to outplay their bench.
They’ve got a great bench. If our
bench can play as well as their
bench, we’ve got a good chance,
because our starting five is equal
to their starting five. ”
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By RITCHIE PRIDDY
Sports Editor
The Texas A&M women’s track
team competed in the TAIAW
state track meet in Houston over
the weekend returning with
seventh place finish.
Despite the poor finish the
Aggies did set several personal,
season and team records in the
meet.
The 800-meter medley relay,
made up of Sandra Cooper, Ellen
Smith, Jana Graves and Evelyn
Smith, set a school record with a
time of 1:44.3. Dena Spier, com
peting in the heptathlon, set
another school record with a score
of4,399 in the heptathlon’s seven
events.
Ellen Smith came back from the
BOO-meter relay and set another
school record in the 400-meter
hurdles with a mark of 60.00 and
returned once again for the 1600-
meter relay, along with Cooper,
Smith and Graves, to establish yet
another school record with a time
of 3:44.46.
Head coach Bill Nix said the
Aggies are in the midst of gearing
up for the SWC track meet next
week in Fayetteville, Ark. where
they will attempt to qualify the
1600-meter relay team for the na
tional meet May 27-30. Nix said
that although the team needs to
cut off about IV2 seconds off their
current time to make the qual
ifying time of 3:43.14 he feels they
have a good chance of making the
time.
“Our goal is to qualify our 1600-
meter relay team for the nationals.
We don’t really expect to win the
meet — Texas will take it hands
down — but we will battle Arkan
sas for second place. Of course, a
lot of it has to do with your
lineup,” Nix said.
Nix said that he plans to adjust
his sprinters where they won’t
have to be running so often, and,
therefore, can rest for the 1600.
Ellen Smith qualified two
weeks ago for the national meet,
held in Austin, in the 400-meter
hurdles in a blazing 60.0.
“I don’t know where that stands
as far as a record goes, but I do
know that that is probably one of
the top 40 times in the country —
ever,” Nix said.
Nix said that distance runner
Suzanne Sheffield and Vickilee
Cobern, discus, also had good
chances of qualifying for the na
tional meet.
Sheffield, a freshman, is a
strong runner, having run on the
junior national champion 4x800
team for the Metroplex Striders in
Dallas.
Nix said Cobern, a junior, has
qualified for the national meet the
last two years and is expected to do
so again.
Although the women haven’t
been succesful as far as winning
goes, they have set 12 personal
bests and 15 school records this
year. Coming from a team that has
no seniors that isn’t so bad.
“We haven’t won any meets this
year, but our lack of experience
has hurt us more than any team
did all year long. In track and field
you judge on the improvements
your runners have made.“
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