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INDIANAPOLIS — Joan Benoit-
Samuelson, the Olympic gold med
alist in the marathon who set a world
record in her specialty last year in
the America’s marathon, was named
the winner of the Sullivan Award
Monday night as the U.S. Amateur
Athletic Union’s top athlete for
1985.
Benoit-Samuelson, 28, became
only the seventh woman in the
award’s 56-year history to receive
the award.
The winner of the prestigious
award, presented annually since
Benoit-Samuelson, of Freeport,
Maine, set a world record of two
hours, 21.21 seconds in Chicago last
year. She also won a 12-kilometer
race in San Francisco last May and a
seven-miler in Davenport, Iowa in
July. In August she returned to her
native New England to win the 7.1-
mile Falmouth Road Race.
Other finalists included Willie
Banks, who set a world record of 58-
feet-ll'A inches in the triple jump
during the national outdoor cham
pionships here last summer.
Sprinter Valerie Brisco-Hooks,
who set four world indoor marks last
year, and Benoit-Samuelson, were
Finalists for the second consecutive
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The group of finalists for the
award included:
• Swimmer Matt Biondi, who set
a world record in the 100-meter
freestyle twice at last year’s long
course national championships.
• Wrestler Mike Houck, the first
United States wrestler to win a gold
medal in the Greco-Roman World
Championships.
• Synchronized swimmer Sarah
Josephson, who swept national solo
and duet championships and earned
silver medals in solo, duet and team
World Cup competition.
• Diver Michele Mitchell, the
winner of every major national and
international platform diving com
petition in 1985.
• Scott Verplank, who became
the first amateur golfer to win a Pro
fessional Golfers Association tourna
ment since 1954.
• Charles “Karch” Kiraly, se
lected the most valuable player in
the World Cup volleyball competi
tion after leading an undefeated
U.S. team to its first championship
in the event.
• Cheryl Miller, the winner of the
1985 Wade Trophy symbolic of be
ing selected the most outstanding
player in women’s collegiate basket
ball.
Photo by GREG BAILEY
No. 1 singles player Vanne Akagi and the rest of the A&M women
netters begin Southwest Conference play against Houston today.
By KEN SURY
\ ss is Lint S/Mits Editor
1 he Texas A&M and Unr
ol Houston women’s tennis
open their Southwest Confer
seasons against each other ti
and l>oth will lx* out to prove
thing.
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the 1:30 p.m. matches at l Hs]
Hoff Courts close togetherir;
pie-season Head Intercollegiaielt
nis Standings (H.l.T.S) List.hs
ton is t anked 22nd, while A&K
No. 25.
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othei in the rankings, there will li
st ore I louston will be out toseiile
the No. 1 doubles match.
Houston's Stina Almgrem
Kathy Foxworth were ranted!!
in the nation in doubles, buiE:
consolation semifinals roundofi
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Intercollegiate Tennis Cham:
ships, A&rM’s Vanne Akagi and (i
Lynne Gensler handed the LH
a 6-3, 6-2 loss.
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Bobfn Kleinecke said it's impo
lot the Aggie women togetap
start in the SYVC race.
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nitely l>e a big one,” Kieineckes
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win. but the matches will probakt
5-4 one way or the other. It just
pends who plays better that dav
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selves similarly for tneSWCoja
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Antonio to play Tnnity, the Y
women’s team in the countn.
lost 9-0.
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and the Cougars didn’t fare an'
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Williams throws in towel with Padres
Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — What the San
Diego Padres brass couldn’t force 1 1
weeks ago, Dick Williams did volun
tarily Monday when he quit after
four years as manager of the Na
tional League team.
The often-gruff Williams said
goodbye to his fifth major league
managing job a day after he failed to
appear at the Padres spring training
camp to greet pitchers and catchers.
“For the past few weeks, I have
been asking myself, ‘Do I really want
to manage the Padres another year?’
My honest answer finally was ‘No,’”
Williams said at a news conference
where he appeared with team owner
Joan Kroc.
“When I shared that feeling with
Ballard Smith and Joan Kroc, we
agreed that it would be in the best in
terest of the club, myself and my
family that I not return to the
Padres,” Williams said.
“For the past few weeks, I
have been asking myself,
‘Do I really want to man
age the Padres another
year?’ My honest answer
finally was, ‘No.
— Ex-Padres Manager
Dick Williams
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Kroc last December blocked Presi
dent Ballard Smith, who is her son-
in-law, and General Manager Jack
McKeon when they attempted to
buy out the final year of Williams’
contract.
Padres pitching coach Galen Cisco
will be interim manager until a re
placement is named later this week
or early next week. Among those
mentioned as a possible replacement
was Steve Boros, who manages in the
Padres’ minor league systems and
previously managed the Oakland
A’s.
Williams in 1984 managed the
Padres to their only National League
pennant. They went on to lose in the
World Series to the Detroit Tigers.
Third-base coach Ozzie Virgil,
who also was missing when the
Padres early camp opened Sunday
in Yuma, Ariz., won’t be with tYie
team this season, Kroc said. He
long-time friend andaideto
hams.
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Williams’ Padres compiled an ow
record of 337-311. Last season,
were 83-79 and finished litd
third place in the NLWest.
I he saga of YVilliamsdatesio
eral confrontations he had'
Padre players during the 1985
son when the team squander#!
live-game lead in the NL hs
week before the All-Star Game
Based on his second straight'
ning season, Williams sought at
tension of his contract but
buff ed by Smith, who said
could serve out the last yearo(
pact for 1986.
In early December, published
ports hinted to a proposed WK ^
of Williams’ contract bv
That followed the unannounced®
ing of Virgil. Neither William ! j
Kroc was consulted before Virf-I '*
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NBA seeing closest scoring race in 8 years
Associated Press
Eighteen times this season Utah’s
Adrian Dantley and Denver’s Alex
English have traded the lead in the
closest NBA scoring race in eight
years.
English currently leads Dantley
29.1 to 28.9 points per game, but at
times this season, the two high-scor
ing forwards have been so close that
their averages had to be figured an
extra percentage point to determine
the leader.
The 18th and most recent switch
in positions occurred on Feb. 1,
when English scored 35 points
against Milwaukee to improve his av
erage from 29.38 to 29.50, surpas
sing Dantley’s 29.48.
In one 18-day stretch, from Nov.
24 to Dec. 11, English and Dantley
jumped over each other nine times.
But unlike other statistical catego
ries such as rebounds, assists and
blocked shots, where players can ex
press their desire to lead the league
without fear of being called selfish,
English and Dantley measure their
words more carefully.
“I’ve won it (the scoring title)
twice, and if I hadn’t, it probably
would mean more to me to win this
season,” Dantley said. “Now I’m
more concerned with winning. If
you really try to win the scoring title,
it takes too much out of you mentally
and physically.”
“I’ll do what it takes to help my
team win,” echoed English, the NBA
scoring champion in 1983. “If he or
I win the scoring title, fine.”
Dantley said his indifference
about winning a scoring title doesn’t
mean he’s unaware of the closeness
of the race.
“You’re not doing your job if you
don’t look at the stats to see who’s
doing what around the league,” he
said. “Besides, the press reminds you
of it all the time. You can’t escape it.”
While Dantley won’t, or can’t, say
openly that he wants towinM
ing title, Jazz Coach Frank!-’
says he would love toseeDanW
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“I’ll do anything I can tonfM
win,” Layden said. “Our ofM
geared for Adrian to havetke^j
his hands.”
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