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CATEGORIES: - Animals _ Landscape _ General _ Animate Black & Inanimate Black White & White PRIZES: S50 for Best of Show Also: poster enlargement 8’’X10” enlargement 4 rolls of film (two prizes) gift certificate CORPORATE SPONSORS Quick As A Flash Ritz Camera Campus Photo Bell Fast Photo One Hour Auto Photo Blackman confident of shooting skill DALLAS (AP) — Rolando Black man has the kind of confidence in himself as a shooter that Jack Nick- laus does in himself as a putter when he needs a five-footer it championship. “I shoot jumpers,” Blackman will often shout at nobody in particular after he makes a critical shot during a Dallas Mavericks’ basketball game. Blackman hit two free throws in Sunday’s 37th annual NBA All-Star game after regulation time had ex pired to send the game into over time. Blackman’s West team even tually won 154-149, and the Dallas guard came off the bench to score 29 points for his team. Blackman’s role with the Maver icks is an off-guard. He’s one of the best drivers and jump shooters in the NBA. “It was just a great thrill to suc ceed in that spot,” Blackman said. “With the Mavericks, I’m usually successful in that situation.” Riley's decision to start Chambefs pays off for West All-Star squad Blackman finished second in the Most Valuable Player balloting be hind Seattle’s Tom Chambers, who scored a game-high 34 points. “Tom deserved it, although I would have liked to have the tro phy,” Blackman said. Players from the East squad yelled everything they could at Blackman, in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to mis the basket, including “choke”, “sissy” and “punk.” “It’s not a happy situation to be in,” Blackman said. “Anybody who says they love that situation is crazy. But it happens all the time. If you can’t handle it, you’re out of it.” SEATTLE (AP) — In the begin ning, Pat Riley didn’t have to worry about his starting lineup as coach of the West squad for the 37th NBA All-Star game. Until Houston’s Ralph Sampson injured his knee last week, and NBA Commissioner David Stern chose the Seattle SuperSonics’ Tom Chambers to fill in. So Riley was faced with starting one of the original reserve players, or Chambers — the only All-Star from the game’s host city. He chose Chambers. The upshot was a delighted King- dome — a game-high 34 points for Chambers and recognition as the game’s Most Valuable Player. “Starting Tom was a great coach ing move,” Riley jokingly said after the West beat the East, 154-149 in Chambers’ 34 equaled George Ger- vin in 1980 and Julius Erving, who played his final All-Star contest Sun day, in 1984. overtime Sunday. “I didn’t want to be booed in front of 40,000 fans be fore the game started.” “I could have done things differ ently, but Tom showed for himself “Today I’m the best in the world,” Chambers said. “It’s unfathomable, me, Tom Chambers, can be that. It means everything. It’s just a tremen dous thrill. I’m as excited as I can be.” He also gave credit to Dallas' Ro lando Blackman, who sent the game into overtime with a pair of free throws with no time left in regula tion play and was runner-up for the MVP award. In the overtime, Black man and Chambers each scored four points as the West won for only the second time in eight games. “My award wouldn’t have been possible if Rolando had missed one least part of the credit. He and Thomas held a quick summitai time, deciding on plans topid the tempo in the second h “ That first half was kind of ing,” Thomas said. “We wants raise the game to a higher bd wanted to make the place ek Bring it to the top and let it but of those free throws,” Chambers said. Blackman returned the compli ment: “He’s a great player,” he said of Chambers. “He’s a devastating Mark Aguirre, the other Maverick in the game, couldn’t watch. He put his hands over his eyes while Black man shot the free throws. Chambers received eight of the 15 votes for MVP. Blackman got six and Moses Malone got one ballot. Blackman was asked what would have happened if he had had such a remarkable game in Dallas last year at the All-Star game. He just smiled. and for the Sonics today,” added the type player who can blow out a game Los Angeles Lakers coach. for you/’ The game was fun for the other The 6-foot-10 Chambers hit 13 of players, too. 25 field goal attempts, including two “It was magic,” Magic Johnson They did, including out stretch in the fourth quartet the teams combined for 13 1 minute, 9 seconds. “Everything was happer. last. It was like we wereinjiii Johnson said (Chambers’ performance mat erase a reputation for dimensional player interested it) scoring. On tnree occasi day, he was on the floor send for loose balls. “I hope this brings mealti of respect,” said Chambers, his sixth NBA season. “Iak f jives the Seattle SuperSonbii > hit of respect, too of three 3-pointers. He had 27 of his said. “It was just so sweet. This was points after halftime. He also pulled down four rebounds and had two as sists. The only players to score more points in an all-star game were Wilt Chamberlain, who had 42 in 1962 and Rick Barry with 38 in 1967. by far the best game. It was the Doc’s (Erving’s) last game. We came back from 12 down in the last seven min utes. The hometown hero was the MVP. What more could you ask for?” Johnson may lie able to lake at Chambers credited Johns® had 13 assists, for direct^ West's comeback victor). In voting by a national| panel. Chambers had eight and Blackman six. Mosesltt Washington had one. “It’s always been mvdream on the same team with Map | Th( facing the re deficit ketfo ^dollar son,” Chambers said. "It w: j 0 || a] thing that I dreamed of." America’s Cup arrives at White House WASHINGTON (AP) — The Stars & Stripes crew brought the America’s Cup to the White House on Monday, where President Rea gan ribbed a triumphant Dennis Conner as the first man to lose sail ing’s prized trophy and praised him as the first to win it back. A beaming Reagan and skipper Conner hoisted aloft the 136-year- old, ornate silver prize as Conner’s 11-man crew and Vice President George Bush looked on. “Today the cup that went Down Under has come back up,” Reagan boasted of the Feb. 4 recapturing of the trophy Conner lost to Australia in 1983. The president, sporting a bush- man’s hat won in a bet with Austra lian Prime Minister Robert Hawke, called Stars 8c Stripes’ '4-0 win a vic tory for American technology and competitiveness. Reagan also praised the crew, which clocked some 1,800 hours of sailing on their quest to restore the cup to its namesake nation. “No matter how sleek the yacht, it still comes down to what the skipper and crew do with her in the open ocean,” Reagan said. Conner — assured behind the helm, but shy before a camera — was not at a loss for words in the room packed with press, dignitaries and supporters waving tiny American flags. “It’s really a victory for the Ameri can spirit,” he said of the two-year, $20-million quest. Reagan, too, appeared robust a little over a month after his success ful prostate surgery. The president and Conner traded quips, after Reagan reported Con ner’s cool-headed response to a crit ical sail failure in a crucial race. “You only said, ‘Hey, that’s too bad,’ ” Reagan said. “That’s not all I said,” Conner confessed, interrupting. “ . . . All you said that’s printable,” Reagan retorted. Conner presented Reagan with a model of Stars 8c Stripes’ novel keel, which champions and challengers credited for giving the 12-meter yacht its speed. Conner also hand-delivered a note to Reagan from Hawke. “My dear Ron,” Conner quoted the prime minister, “It’s only a temporary pos session and we’ll be back to get it in 1990.” The ceremony was attended by F. Rawdon Dalrymple, the Australian ambassador to the U.S. Reagan f traised the Australians as “open, riendly and sportsmanlike.” Conner and crew members were here on a victory junket that began last week after the regatta in Fre mantle, Australia. “It’s a great way to begin our trip back home to America,” the skipper told District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry earlier Monday when the mayor presented a ceremonial key to the city to Conner and crew members. 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