Page 16 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 19, 1981
Sports
Malone, Rockets
'Bird talk’ in 106
avenge
104 win
Padres hope Williams can
reverse recent SD trend
I'nitcd Press International
SAN I)IECO — Dick Williams,
the guiding force behind the re
surgence of the Boston Red Sox
and Montreal Expos, has been
asked to perform another sudden
turnaround.
Williams, 52. fired Sept. 7 as
manager of the Expos, agreed to a
3-year contract w ith the lowly San
Diego Padres Wednesday. The
contract calls for an annual salarv
of Slot).000.
Williams became manager of
the Expos in 1977 after Montreal
lost 107 games the previous Sea
son. He guided Montreal to 20
more victories in 1977 than in
1970 and by the third year the
team was a contender in the Na
tional League East. This season
the Expos came within a game of
going to the World Series.
In Williams, the Padres get a
manager with 14 years of experi
ence in the major leagues. Before
taking the Montreal job. he man
aged at Boston, Oakland and Cali
fornia. winning two World Series
at Oakland and a surprising Amer
ican League pennant at Boston in
1907.
The situation here is similar to
what I found when I went to Mon
treal, Williams said. “The Padres
have an abundance of good young
players that need to develop. I did
some research on San Diego s
minor league talent and Tm im
pressed by what I see. I know the
organization is going in the right
direction by developing our own
talent. And we will start develop
ing a winning habit the first day of
spring training.
Williams said he would insti
tute a return to fundamentals for
the young Padres and would make
the game as simple as possible.
Tt means means execution of
fundamentals and using the statis
tics in a way to help the team ex
ecute, he said. “Come down and
watch us this spring. If it takes
walking every player to home
plate and saying, “This is home
plate, then we ll explain it that
way. We ll give them the ABCs of
baseball if we have to.
Padres President Ballard Smith
said the team has a proven winner
in Williams.
"We want to have a man who
had two (qualities — one, major
league experience, and two, a
proven winner, said Smith.
“ That’s what we think we have.
As recently as two weeks ago,
Williams said from his home in
Tampa, Fla., that he was ready to
“hang it up” because no club
seemed particularly interested in
naming him manager.
He also said that if a club did
offer him a managerial job, he
would insist on a multi-vear con
tract. He had only a one-year pact
with the Expos when they let him
K<>-
Williams, who had been re
ported in line for the New York
Yankee managership, said he was
not offered that job when he met
“socially with Yankee owner
George Steinbrenner at the De-
nver-Tampa Bay football game last
Sunday in Florida.
After being fired by the Expos,
Williams toured the country for
speaking engagements while also
appearing in television commer
cials and playing golf.
In 1973, he signed a three-year
contract with Steinbrenner after
resigning as Oakland A s manager.
But Charlie Finley, then owner of
the A s, said Williams had two
years to go on his Oakland contract
and sought an injunction to keep
the Yankees from hiring him.
United Press International
BOSTON — The Houston
Rockets believe in the adage, “If at
first you don’t succeed, try again.
The Rockets returned to the
Boston Garden Wednesday night
for the first time since their loss to
the Boston Celtics in the NBA fin
als and grabbed a 106-104 victory
from the defending champs.
The main force in the Houston
win was center Moses Malone,
who netted a game-high 37 points
while grabbing 11 rebounds. The
triumph had a particular sweet
ness for the 6-10 center. In a post
playoff public celebration last
May, Boston’s Larry Bird inferred
that Malone had strange dietary
habits which became the thrust of
a tasteless entrepreneur who sold
T-shirts bearing that infamous
quote outside Boston Garden
prior to Wednesday’s game.
“It’s always nice to come to Bos
ton to play, said Malone, “and it’s
nicer when you win. The Celtics
are the world champs and a classy
team. Bird should have more class
than he did, but he’ll grow up in
three or four years. Right now he’s
eating crow and there are a lot of
ignorant people who will have to
go home with Moses on their
chests.’’
Motivation aside, the Rockets
still had to overcome a 64-49 third-
quarter deficit and it was Malone
who did the lion’s share of the
work, scoring 14 points in each of
the final two quarters. He was
aided by newcomer Elvin Hayes,
who scored seven of his 18 points
in the second half
“We felt that in the third period
we had to make their defense
work. They had their big men in
foul trouble and we wanted to
work on them, so it was up to me
and Elvin and fortunately we were
able to do the job, Malone said.
For his part, Hayes felt reborn
with his new team. “It’s a great
feeling to be wanted and be back
in Houston where it all started for
me in college,” said the 13-year
veteran who was acquired from
Washington in the off-season. “I
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game any more. But the team can
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The role for Hayes was being
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a close game. He responded with
two key jumpers in the final two
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“It’s great having the ball at the
end, ” he said. “I’ve always wanted
the bull in those situations and I
was glad it came to me.
The loss was the Celtics’ second
this season and the first one in
front of their home crowd, but it
snapped an eight-game winning
streak.
Boston coach Bill Fitch said his
players took the loss hard. "I was
worried about how the team
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