Thursday, June 21, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11
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I KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. — The
loctor heading the team investigat-
ng the death of Kentucky Derby
dmier Swale said Wednesday the
a use of death may not ever be
nown, but she wouldn’t completely
uleout the possibility of foul play.
Dy. Helen Acland, chief of the
.aboratory of Large Animal Pathol-
igy at the University of Pennsylva-
tia’s New Bolton Center, said tests
in tissues taken from the 3-year-old
olt did not reveal the cause of
ieath.
She said examination of the tis-
ues, taken during a necropsy (au-
ppsy) performed Sunday hours af-
er Swale collapsed and died at
Selmont Park near New York, sup-
lorted preliminary findings that
uled out a heart attack as the cause
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“We found enlargement of the
heart that is usually found in ath
letes,” Acland said during a news
conference at the rural facility, 40
miles outside of Philadelphia. “We
also found microscopic lesions of the
liver and kidneys but not severe
enough to contribute to the demise
of an animal.
“It’s possible we may never know
the cause of death. There are some
things that can cause death in horses
that don’t leave a trace.”
Acland said her “gut feeling” was
that the horse died of a “cardiac dis
function, but we may never be able
to confirm that. There are other
things that can make the heart stop
besides a heart attack.”
Acland did not rule out foul play
being involved in the death of Swale.
She said extensive toxological tests
would have to be taken to rule out
that possibility, and those still may
prove to be inconclusive.
“I’d be able to answer that better
in a few weeks after we’ve gone
through a range of chemical tests,”
she said. “Judging the history of the
animal, he seemed to be well taken
care of. The possibility (of foul play)
is small but I have trouble defining
small. I’d like to defer that question
until we’ve performed some testing-.”
Swale, the dark bay son of 1977
Triple Crown winner Seattle Slew,
died as he was being sponged down
in his barn following a workout. He
won the Kentucky Derby and Bel
mont Stakes, taking the latter race
just eight days before his death.
Acland said tissue of Swale’s brain
would be examined next. Those tests
would take anywhere from 10 days
to two weeks, she said.
Astros blasted again by Padres
United Press International
HOUSTON — Terry Kennedy
slammed three hits and scored two
runs and Tim Lollar and Dave Dra-
vecky combined on a three-hitter to
lead the San Diego Padres to a 6-2
victory over the Houston Astros
Wednesday night.
The Padres took a 1-0 lead in the
second inning off Mike Madden, 2-
2. Kennedy walked and scored on a
two-out triple to right by Garry
Templeton.
In the Astros’ third, Lollr walked
Madden and Phil Garner to open
the inning, Craig Reynolds bunted
the runners over and Jose Cruz
rapped a two-out, two-run single for
a 2-1 lead.
The Padres took a 3-2 lead in the
fourth inning. They chased Madden
by loading the bases with none out
on a single by Kennedy and walks to
Carmelo Martinez and Templeton.
With one out, Alan Wiggins singled
off reliever Bill Dawley to score Ken
nedy and Martinez scored on a sacri
fice fly to center by Tony Gwynn.
In other games, St. Louis shut out
Montreal 2-0, New York beat Phila
delphia 7-4, Atlanta got by San Fran
cisco 6-5, Cinncinati downed Los
Angeles 4-2.
Decker not sure if
she’ll run ’double’
Duran not listening to messages
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both the 1,500 and 3,000-meter
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[She added that it may be until the
|ial Olympic entry deadline before
she decides to double. In that case,
an alternate will have to train heavily
until she makes her decision, which
bothers Decker only slightly.
“I hate to do that to another ath
lete,” she said, “but to give myself
the best chance at the Olympics, I
have to do it.”
Decker has grown testy comment
ing on the potential Olympic mat
chups between her and teenage sen
sation Zola Budd, but Francie
Larrieu-Smith, who also qualified
for the 3,000 Tuesday, has been
watching Budd with interest.
Larrieu-Smith has been running
competitively since 1969, when she
was 16, so she feels for Budd’s vola
tile political situation; Budd, the
barefoot-running South African na
tive, was forced to gain citizenship in
Britain to enter the Olympics.
“She’s young, hungry and knows
no limit,” Larrieu-Smith said. “I re
member myself at that age. You’re
oblivious to everything around you,
and that includes politics.”
By MILTON RICHMAN
Columnist for United Press International
NEW YORK — Someone Up There is trying
to deliver a message to Roberto Duran, strug
gling to tell him something, and it’s probably a
big waste of time because when can you remem
ber anyone being able to tell Roberto Duran
anything?
Never in his lifetime.
You’ve heard of those guys who march to dif
ferent drummers, haven’t you? Duran doesn’t
bother marching at all. He moves strictly at his
own pace, and about the only thing he ever
bothers listening to is his heart.
That’s what helped make him the fighter he
was at his peak, a point during which he ranked
among the best there ever were in the history of
his craft and virtually assures him future instal
lation in Boxing’s Hall of Fame.
But with it all, he’s not getting the message he
should, the one clearly telling him to quit while
he’s still ahead. All he has to do to see the mes
sage once more is to look at the film of last Fri
day’s disaster at the hands of Thomas “Hit
Man” Hearns in Las Vegas.
I know he has seen that film at least once al
ready because I saw him looking at it in his tra
iler-dressing room not long after suffering his
second-round knockout. Maybe his head still
wasn’t entierely clear then.
He probably is mostly interested in seeing
how he left himself open to get hit the way he
did by Hearns’ knockout punch. But I’d call his
attention to the end of the first round when the
bell mercifully came to his rescue after he had
been decked twice.
That’s the part where he should pay the most
serious thought. If he does, he can’t help but
get the message.
He’ll see himself so confused, so disoriented,
so pitifully out of it, that he goes walking off
into the wrong corner. Stop and think now,
how many times have you ever seen Roberto
Duran in such bad shape that he has no idea
where he was going.
He did some other things, too, that should be
tipoffs to him this wouldn’t be a bad time to
hang ‘em up.
Before the fight even started, while the intro
ductions were going on, instead of bouncing
around the ring, throwing punches and breath
ing fire the way he always does, he simply sat on
his stool and looked gentler than a lamb.
That wasn’t the Roberto Duran I know.
Hardly anyone else recognized him that way, ei
ther.
I know it’s easy to tell someone else to quit,
but I’m not the only one who thinks the 33-year
old Duran should. Ray Arcel, boxing’s highly
respected octogenerian who handled Duran for
the better part of 10 years, told him the same
thing four years ago.
“I asked him to quit after the second (Ray)
Leonard fight,” says Arcel.
“I wrote him a letter in which I said that ev
ery book has a beginning and an end, and when
you finish reading it, you close the book and
put it away. I told him he had been an asset to
boxing and would be remembered as being a
great fighter.”
Arcel wasn’t in Las Vegas for Friday night’s
fight. He heard all about it and read about it,
though.
“Time is a killer,” he says. “Roberto has al
ways been self-destructive. He’ll put on 25-30
pounds between fights and then have to almost
kill himself taking it off. When you’re 20 or 21,
you can put your body through severe rigors
like that, but at Duran’s age, it’s a much greater
strain.”
Monetarily, Duran did much better than
Hearns in Friday’s fight.
His share was close to $2 million. Hearns got
a little better than half of that following a last
ditch negotiation session the day before the
fight during which it tottered between being off
and on.
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