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April 5 Indiana falls to Bird, Celts United Press International Wednesday night might have been the perfect time for Larry Bird to enter a trivia contest. “No matter what we did, he had an answer,” Indiana coach Jack McKinney said after Bird scored 53 points to lead the Bos ton Celtics to a 142-116 victory over the Pacers. “He was so quick and he got his shot off so many ways, it was phenomenal,” said McKinney. “No it wasn’t, it was Larry Bird, that’s phenomenal enough.” It was the most points ever scored by a Celtic in a regular- season game and it came a night after the Celts were embarras sed 130-101 by the Pacers. Bird’s performance, which included outscoring the Pacers’ team 18-16 in the first quarter, shattered the previous team high of 51 points by Sam Jones at Detroit on Oct. 29, 1965. John Havlicek had 54 points in a play off game against Atlanta on April I, 1973. “There was no doubt in my mind that this was going to be my night,” said Bird. “Last night I had a tingling feeling leaving the arena in Indiana. I let my people down, 1 let my team down.” Bird, who played 33 minutes, also shattered the team record for most points in a quarter, scoring 24 in the third period to break the previous mark of 23 held by Tom Heinsohn. His 21 La field goals tied Jones’ 1965® and he was 2 l-of-30 fronii; floor, including 12-of-16in second half. The Celtics showed li signs of a slump that has them lose 13 of their last With Bird scoring 18 poi Boston took a 37-16 i quarter lead and the Facets 1 * never in the game. It was not until 2:15oft second quarter that Indianai Bird, who by that time h points. Indiana needed more minutes before it so more than Bird, 26-24. “There’s no other teamtlia( like to score against more it Indiana,” said Bird. “Lastni really hurt. You don’t kno« til you live there. Ifsabasketlj lowers city and those people kno», The Celtics led 62-40atlif time and 79-59 in the period when Bird scored ||im (Houst points in a 19-2 burst WjBailey),” sail Boston a 98-62 lead. ||ig all 9 o: Robert Parish added 21 Boston and Quinn Buckner Billy Knight led Indiana will points while Herb Wii added 18. In other games, Utahtrii Dallas 117-103, Philadelp|nocked d< outlasted Atlanta 12 Cleveland defused H United P RICHFIE h; ■rove. I “I had t edeem my: 102-95, Washingtontippedl llowers, a Jersey 100-97, Seattle ovetj wered Detroit 135-124 andi Diego clipped New York 97. lurth peril in spark the to a 102-9. lockets. J “I just It rid In offense. 1 k (Bailey) star er at me, iame. I Bailey k the floor a: |>ul at 7:5C |ith the t hirteen se ink an 8-fc jeconds lau College athletes ej n seen as pawns looter from was bo e fouled m land forwai lext guy wl Ind I guess flowers. “1 nd I’m ju United Press International Big-time college sports took a drubbing when Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advance ment of Teaching, put them through his wringer. It happened at the Sport and Higher Education Conference in mid-March at Skidmore Col lege, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. What Boyer, of Princeton, N.J., said is of interest to parents of kids warming up for Little League, peewee football, or playtime basketball. The same for high school sports stars with hearts full of hope for athletic scholarships to college. “Today, gambling, television and professional sports have their own agenda,” Boyer, for mer U.S. commissioner of edu cation, said. “And it’s money. Students are simply used as raw material for the profit makers. And the na tion’s campuses have become the farm clubs of pro football and basketball. “The situation can only get worse.” It will get worse, Boyer said, because the United States Foot ball League’s now on the scene. “What was once an autumn- winter sport will now go into spring and summer,” he said. “Pressure to recruit players be fore they graduate will get more intense. And the likelihood of abuse will increase.” Boyer deplored gambling that goes on in concert with big- time sports on campus. The Chronicle of Higher Education recently estimated wagering on college sports annually tops $ 1 billion. “The truth is that a small but influential core of the nation’s colleges and universities are caught in a corrupting web of activity that deceives students, distorts priorities on campus and connects higher education to professional athletics, gamb ling and vice,” Boyer said. “The greatest tragedy is the terrible disservice to youth. Big- time sports is depicted as a way to fame and riches.” That’s off the mark, he said, for the following reasons: —Only a tiny fraction of those who compete in big-time college sports make it to the pros. And only a fraction of those who do will earn astrono mical salaries of top stars. —Just being in the race to stardom academically di minishes many. In 1982, for ex ample, only about half the col lege seniors who competed in major college basketball confer ence throughout the nation graduated in four years. —In the Big Ten conference, whose membership includes some of the most prestigious public colleges and universities, less than one-third of the basket ball dribbling stars were able to score with a diploma on time. In the southwest, only 17 percent of those playing graduated in four years. T he majority who I poured their energies sports often find themsd I consigned to a life of frustil and failure for playingiiw of learning. Boyer said there is “sa thing disgraceful” about ki ing athletes on campus Flowers flutes of a< “Students are sinij used as raw inateriii the profit makers.! the nation’s campi World B P°] aliv win United ] I I L rj MONTE have become the l* orn Bor clubs of pro /bot6all2 ) '| llljrsda y t< basketball.” — £i4u ar te r fina Boyer, president oil | llx tenni: • 77 F5,000 IW Carnegie Foundr arty anoth The 26-' for the AdvancemenBH retire ai Npset Jose-l pnaWedne Teaching. years to use up their eligih and then letting them their failure to make acadfl Jlird seed pund. Borg, w u arlo, wil [tench Da jeconte, a | pent is sii progress He finds somethingdisj ful, too, about college coai flying in university-ownedji swoop down on recruitsandt them before the compel gets there. “There is also something graceful about a university cial screaming to his plf from the sidelines and his abusive language and dish tantrums reported in local press,” Boyer said krgentine; It playing 1 “It was 1 lie tennis r a net [The press ;teat.” With a ] fbwd behi attery of hotograpl 'ccasion, C fented him and he wet “All of this goes on wliilfj defeat, older generation wonders' 1 "I was a has happened to the mors: 1 'asy it was our youth.” 1 Wore the Boyer noted that scandl (xpect too college athletics have been* percwass posed and reforms proposed* ew games almost 100 years. Yet ^ Neb.” grow. ,.^ or g pi Though pessimisticabo«i[ cent scene in general, he appla® 1 Tuesday’: recent action by the Nad* “’nan cc Collegiate Athletic Associa* Wterican 1 The NCAA approved ton? 11 Wednes academic standards for pi*' 1 L Leconte and more rigid recruitt 1 5or S> but rules. I u er hh te “But more than 5 ? e l “ e pla changing and tinkemp 1 |° l ‘ rn amer needed,” Boyer said. | ° (>r g. c “Reduction of sports^ l oesn ’t ex will come only when a wa' (l | U1 jber re moral indignation sweeps 1 * p ains tLe« puses. i! ve 1 “Perhaps the time hast 1 for faculty at universities gaged in big-time athletic organize a day of protest amine how the purpose® universities are being sub« and how integrity is lost.” Boyer favors an iron-i approach when serious all* ^ secc of violations are discovered __ “The accreditation sta® jA c hoslo the institution should I* Ur sday" voked — along with theei? ; 0U P mat ity status for NCAA,” heS ' eecl Yam l 8 ai n$t p c tlayer a l 8 ai «st on ~ Mats ' undstror* nother se Only rh he toL. ound, ]y