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Moses enters ranks
of good turned bad
United Press International
NEW YORK — Edwin Moses is the
fifth famous athlete to run afoul of
the law in the last 18 months.
He joins baseball’s Willie Wilson
and Vida Blue, football’s Billy Can
non Sr. and baseball’s Denny Mc
Lain as athletes once held in high es
teem who have seen their star status
lose some luster after being arrested
and charged with a crime.
Cannon, a former Heisman Tro
phy winner, was sentenced to jail for
counterfeiting in July of 1983; Wil
son, an American League batting
champion, and Blue, a former AL
Cy Young Award winner and Most
Valuable Player, both spent time in a
minimum security prison for drug
possession last year and McLain,
twice an AL Cy Young Award win
ner and former MVP, is currently
standing trial on charges of extor
tion, racketeering, gambling and
drug possession.
But, of the five, Moses’ case has
created the biggest shock..
News of Moses’ arrest for solicit
ing a prostitute and his being given a
citation for possession of marijuana
was like being told that Santa Claus
had been arrested for child molest
ing or that Steve Garvey had slapped
a baby.
What was it the kid said when
Shoeless Joe Jackson was implicated
in the notorious Black Sox scandal of
1919?
Well, say it ain’t so. Mo.
Like the Biblical Moses, Edwin
Moses has always been revered by
those who know him.
Dignity, integrity, maturity, class.
Those are words used to aescribe
the Olympic champion and world
record holder in the 400-meter hur
dles. Not only is he a dominant force
in his track specialty, but he has al
ways championed tne cause of ath
letes’ rights in his chosen sport.
It was Moses the U.S. athletes
chose to present the Oath of Alle
giance at the Summer Olympics and
last summer he became the first
American athlete ever elected to the
International Amateur Athletic Fed
eration’s Board of Directors.
Many in track and field circles
considered Moses to be the ideal role
model for the youth of America.
While Olympic champion Carl Lewis
projected an arrogant image to the
general public, Moses was the anti
thesis.
His election as co-Sportsman of
the Year, along with Mary Lou Ret-
ton, by Sports Illustrated had fur
ther enhanced his reputation as a
man of outstanding character.
His “crime,” if you can call it that,
is not a serious one. In fact, it carries
only a misdemeanor penalty. Yet, he
may suffer far more than those ath
letes who went to jail for far bigger
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NEW YORK — Inevitably, following
the kind of year he enjoyed, John
McEnroe and superlatives usually
come flowing out in the same
mouthful.
For the moment, no one can come
close to McEnroe with a tennis
racket. His closest rival is Ivan
Lendl, and the powerful Czechoslo
vakian is becoming so frustrated in
his futile pursuit that he has gone on
a diet, losing 15 pounds and is ex
perimenting with his style of play.
For the seventh time in their last
eight meetings, and 10th in the last
12, McEnroe defeated Lendl on
Sunday, this time on the strength of
a crushing 7-5, ()-0, (i-4 victory in the
final of the $400,000 Masters
Championship. In the process of
routing Lendl for the second consec
utive time in the Masters final,
McEnroe put together a string of 1 1
winning games.
Afterwards, adjectives such as
“best” and “greatest” were liberally
thrown out in McEnroe’s direction.
To his credit, he wasn’t ready to ac
cept all he heard.
“It’s a great thing for people to
say,” he replied to a query about his
thoughts to being called tne greatest
tennis player ever. “I think what I do
speaks for itself. I don’t need some
person to tell me what he thinks. It
was a nice thing to say, and I don’t
complain about it, but you can’t com
pare me to someone who played 50
years ago.
“There are so many things that
are different. It’s impossible to make
a statement like that. You give each
champion credit, but the whole idea
of sports is to improve upon it.
“/ think what l do speaks
for itself I don’t need
some person to tell me
what he thinks. It was a
nice thing to say, and l
don’t complain about it,
but you can’t compare me
to someone who played 50
years ago. ”
—John McEnroe
I here are going to be better and bet
ter athletes coming into the sport.”
McEnroe’s only immediate con
cern is to continue to work on his
game and improve it, ideas that are
frightening enough to those who
must play him. By sweeping through
the Masters, McEnroe closed his
1984 account with a match record of
82-3 and earnings for the year of
$2,026,109.
He also joined with Peter Fleming
to win the Masters doubles crown for
the seventh consecutive year, beat
ing Sherwood Stewart and Mark Ed
mondson, 6-3, 6-1, in Sunday’s final.
The tournament was known as
the Volvo Masters.
What aspects does he think he can
improve on?
“Concentration level, physical
condition, careless shots,” McEnroe
said. “There are some technical
things I need to work on.”
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USFL post
^ United Press International
NEW YORK — Chet Simmons,
commissioner of the U.S. Football
League since its inception, re
signed Monday.
No reason was immediately
given for the move, A. Alfred
Taubman, chairman of the spe
cial committee for the commis
sioner’s office, announced in a
statement.
The league did not name a re
placement and said a search has
begun for a successor with the
new season to begin Feb. 23.
Simmons, former president of
ESPN and NBC] Sports, was
named USFL commissioner in
June 1982, one month after the
league was formed.
“As we move into our third sea
son, I’m confident the USFL’s fu
ture has never been brighter,”
Simmons said in a statement.
“The recent consolidation to 14
teams and an exceptionally
strong collegiate draft will fur
ther strengthen the league’s posi
tion.”
Harry Usher, a former Olym
pic executive and Florida busi
nessman, is said to be the strong-
est candidate for the
commissioner’s post. Usher was
the executive vice president-gen
eral manager of the L.os Angeles
Olympic Organizing Committee.
“A successor will be announced
shortly,” said Miles Tanenbaum,
owner of the Baltimore Stars,
from a reception in Annapolis,
Md.
“I think there are some things
Chet wants to do that are per
sonal to him and I wish him the
best of luck. He gave our league a
good start and we’re going to
have to take it from there.”
Wadkins worked
hard for Desert win
United Press International
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — When
Lanny Wadkins went home from the
PC}A Tour last fall, he thought for a
long time about his future.
“I thought I played well last year,
especially m the second half,” Wad
kins said of 1984, “and then I went
over to Japan and won a big one (the
World Nissan Championship).
“Still, I turned 35 in December, so
I knew I couldn’t be looking at an
other 20 years out here on the Tour.
That’s when I decided to work as
hard as I could to get my game in the
best shape possible so that I could
have a big year in 1985.”
True to his word, Wadkins left
Dallas for Los Angeles on Jan. 1 to
begin practicing with an eye toward
getting off to a fast start in the new
year’s first event — the $500,000
Bob Hope Desert Classic.
All the hard work paid off be
cause while others staggered in the
90-hole, five-day Hope, Wadkins
was nearly as fresh when the tourna
ment was over as he was when it
started, and he played 95 holes.
Adding to his exhiliration was a win
ner’s check of $90,000.
Wadkins, who had won 12 tourna
ments coming to the Hope, put on a
strong finish Sunday, birdying the
last three holes to tie front-running
Craig Stadler at the end of regula
tion, then beating the burly Califor
nian on the fifth hole of a sudden-
death playoff.
“I’m proud of the way I played
and the way I hung in there,” said
Wadkins. “I never gave up and that’s
the kind of attitude you have to have
out here if you expect to win. You
also have to work hard and I think I
did that, too.”
The victory boosted Wadkins’ ca
reer earnings to $1,967,439 and
pushed him into ninth place on the
all-time list ahead of Arnold Palmer
and 1984 Masters champ Ben
Crenshaw.
There is a bit of irony in Wadkins
moving ahead of Palmer, because
Wadkins was the first recipient of a
Palmer scholarship at Wake Forest
University where he turned out to be
one of the best amateur players in
the country in the early 1970s by
winning the U.S. Amateur
Championship.
Wadkins had to be at his absolute
best to beat Stadler, and he was. He
eagled the par-5 14th at Indian
Wells in regulation, then birdied the
last three holes for a 65 to Stadler’s
66 to force the playoff. The two
played 90 holes in a record 27-un
der-par 333.
Wadkins saved himself twice in
the playoff but also missed twice
when he could have ended the
match a lot sooner.
“I know some of Craig’s shots
don’t always look pretty,” Wadkins
said, “but he is a tough competitor.
I’ve played enough times against
him to know you never count him
out.”
Stadler made two fine saving shots
in the first four holes of the playoff
and another on the fifth when he
came out of a bunker to within five
feet of the pin. But on that hole, the
par-3 15th, Wadkins hit a 6-iron to
within 20 feet of the cup and then
made the putt to end the marathon.
From here, the Tour moves to
Phoenix for the second event of the
new season and Wadkins will be
there in a field that includes
Crenshaw, Hale Irwin, Johnny
Miller, Calvin Peete and Lee Tre
vino, among others.
Speaking of his Hope victory,
Wadkins said, “I’ll have all of one
day to enjoy it. Starting on Tuesday,
it’s back to work. And after Phoenix,
I plan to play in the Los Angeles
Open and the Bing Crosby National
Pro-Am, so I’ll be out here four
weeks in a row. I’m serious about
wanting 1985 to be my best year
ever.”
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not gotten tired of his endless win
ning, explaining, “I never get bored
when I’m playing like that,” and he’s
not particularly concerned about the
absence of a strong challenger.
“If it means me being No. 1 for a
couple of years, no, I’m not con
cerned,” he said. “If suddenly the
level of tennis improves, and then it
brings out better tennis in me, then,
yes.
“But if I’m able to continue to im
prove on my own terms, then no, I
wouldn’t want to see it for a while.”
About the only aspect of his ca
reer that displeases McEnroe is the
image he has created, one of a whin
ing, immature complainer who feels
that everyone is against him. Try as
he might to refine his court man
ners, he is unnaturally tense when
he plays and his temperament
usually gets the better of him.
He wishes that people would re
spect him more for his abilities as an
athlete, rather than always look for
an excuse to demean him-:
“It gets a little frustrating when
people don’t consider you like a per
son,” he said. “People don’t care
about you. They think you’re some
sort of animal, and they treat you
like dirt.”
A few minutes later he renewed
the theme, saying, “I feel that people
like to take pot shots at me, and I’m
an easy target. Anyone can say any
thing they want about me because of
my past reputation. I think I deserve
a hell of a lot more respect than I
get.”
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