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Mavs derail Rockets 113-107
‘ Raines, J DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas-
limhefjBoiiston “Lone Star War” NBA
^■owdown lived up to its billing
I tnorar s : Wednesday night with fisticuffs and
kdoubleij;, ajcareer scoring performance from
ed. Oik Mavericks guard Derek Harper,
d in PaiifMHarper scored a career-high 31
Ground Jppints to carry the Mavericks to a
ebhardi,S| 1J3-107 victory.
relieitdWlt was the first meeting between
He two teams since Dallas Coach
tunlioitifHck Motta accused Houston Coach
'dandyBid Fitch of tanking games to avoid
airing i,fHe Los Angeles Lakers as long as
ssible in the playoffs. Motta was
suspended a game for the statement.
“It was a crazy game,” Harper
said. “The intensity came from the
words the coaches exchanged.
That’s why we were so emotional.”
Harper said he was proud of A1
Wood for standing his ground in an
exchange of punches with Houston’s
Steve Harris.
“I told A1 Wood he did a good
job,” Harper said. “I like to see that
kind of stuff. I wished I had been in
it.”
Wood and Harris were ejected
from the game at 5:22 in the second
period for exchanging punches.
Both benches emptied but none of
the blows landed. Both players will
get automatic fines from the NBA
office.
Motta downplayed the incident.
“I thought it was a very dull
game,” Motta said. “I expected some
real excitement.”
Fitch said little about the flying
punches.
“There were a few short tempers
out there but it wasn’t much,” Fitch
said.
CP wants more blacks
ired in top sports positions
^khlFM NEW YORK (AP) — The NAACP
•iJ .yM'HOunced Wednesday a national
y^lHmpaign to pressure professional
T|orts f ranchises to hire more blacks
in management, and promised
“iHiassive demonstrations” against
pnv that refuse.
JnstcooB We Lave millions of black young
People who need to see blacks in
cawEkH ese fr° nt °ffices. . . . Most newspa-
autfi oS rs d evote more space to sports
atandAM 311 to b us m ess >” said Benjamin
^ fHcoks, NAACP executive director.
,l,UHooks said local branches of his
r ^ Hganization would seek meetings
Jth their nearest teams, starting
with baseball and then extending
their efforts to football and basket-
franchises and to college sports.
[They will first seek information
Hit the teams’ minorities and then
Ml try to work with each team to de-
fvelop affirmative action programs.
In addition to field managers and
ht fij Hecutives, the NAACP will look at
‘Hang of vendors, ushers, reception-
lists and all other employees.
|Hooks said if the teams refuse to
iperate — a possibility that Hooks
jd was remote, because “I expect
fey are embarrassed” by the lack of
icks they employ — protests will
low.
We will demonstrate on the in-
le and on the outside” of sports
rthelai
arenas, he said. “We will do what
ever is necessary.”
Among the possible tactics, Hooks
said, are boycotts. He said it is possi
ble that athletes from the teams
would be asked to take part.
Hooks made his remarks at a news
conference a little more than a week
after A1 Campanis, a vice president
of the Los Angeles Dodgers, set off a
furor by telling a national television
audience that blacks “may not have
some of the necessities” to become
managers or general managers.
It was also 40 years to the day that
Jackie Robinson broke the color line
in baseball by making his debut with
the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Hooks said the NAACP had no
hard-and-fast goal of filling any set
percentage of front office jobs with
blacks. Nor did the organization
have a timetable in mind for comple
tion of its effort.
The national NAACP staff will
seek meetings with the baseball,
football and basketball commission
ers to talk about hiring in their of
fices. And Hooks said a committee
of former baseball players and rep
resentatives of the media and the
public will advise the NAACP in its
campaign.
The campaign announced at the
news conference was mapped out at
a meeting of representatives from
more than 20 local branches.
Hooks said he had talked with for
mer Atlanta Braves slugger Hank
Aaron, now an executive in the
Braves organization, weeks ago
about taking some action against
baseball — even before Campanis
made the comments that led to his
forced resignation.
Hooks said Campanis “probably
did those of us concerned with equ
ity and fair play an unwitting favor”
by calling attention to the fact that
“the ranks of managers, coaches and
front office personnel remain vir
tually all-white male preserves.”
In an initial look, the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People found that:
• In baseball, 25 percent of the
players are black, but only 17 of the
879 administrative positions are held
by blacks and 13 by Hispanics and
Asians. Fifteen of the 26 teams have
no minorities in management posi
tions.
• In the NFL, more than 40 per
cent of the players are black, but
only Five blacks are employed in the
league office and there has never
been a black head coach.
• In the NBA, where nearly 80
percent of the players are black, 25
of the 85 employees of the league of
fice are black and the coaches of
four of the 23 teams are black.
oeller to break in new putter at Heritage
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C.
IP) — Fuzzy Zoeller will take a new
|tter into the defense of his title
week in the $650,000 Heritage
ssic.
he old one, something of a prob-
for Zoeller this season, met a
ludden demise last weekend at Au-
psta, Ga.
in had just 3-putted from 10 feet
on No. 18” at the Masters, Zoeller re
called.
■“I’m walking off the green and
ne guy in the gallery says, ‘Hey,
|zzy, how about giving me that
tier. It’s not doing you any good.’
‘I figured, ‘what the hell.’ So I
Ptoke it across my knee and handed
jttohini in two pieces,” Zoeller said.
“So now I’ve got a new one, a ju
nior. It’s the same kind of putter.
Same thing. But it’s new. It looks dif
ferent. You look at it and you think,
‘hey, it’s got all those good putts still
in it. They haven’t been used up.’”
Zoeller, a two-time winner of this
invitational event, said he is “hitting
the ball well enough to win. It’s just
the putting.
“I’ve been working harder on my
putting than I ever have. And I’m
putting worse. Maybe I’m working
too hard. I don’t know. I just don’t
have the rhythm,” Zoeller said
Wednesday before a final practice
round on the Harbour Town Golf
Links for the tournament that be
gins Thursday. . ,
Among, his chief challengers for
the $117,000 first prize are the
newly crowned Masters champion
Larry Mize, and the man he beat in a
playoff last weekend, Greg Norman,
the current British Open champion
and the outstanding figure in world
golf the past year.
Other leading figures in the invi
tational 120-man field include U.S.
Open champ Ray Floyd, PGA ti-
tleholder Bob Tway and 1987 lead
ing money-winner Corey Pavin.
The final two rounds Saturday
and Sunday will be televised nation
ally by CBS.
America
remembers
Robinson
NEW YORK (AP) — The
hand-scrawled letters stood out
among the Jackie Robinson bats,
gloves, uniform and computer
generated statistics displayed at
the New York Historical Society.
“We have already got rid of
several like you. One was found
in the river just recently,” read
one, written during Robinson’s
rookie season in 1947.
“We are going to kill you if you r
attempt to enter a ball game at
Crosley Field,” said another, writ
ten on the occasion of Robinson’s
first trip to Cincinnati.
America commemorated the
40th anniversary of Robinson’s
first game as the first black player
in baseball’s major leagues
Wednesday, a commemoration
that in some instances seemed less
aimed at the threatening letters
and racial bias of 1947 than indi
cations of the subtle bias that ex
ists today.
It came a week after A1 Cam
panis, vice president of the Los
Angeles Dodgers — Robinson’s
Brooklyn team, transplanted west
after the 1957 season — was
forced to resign after suggesting
on national television that blacks
“may not have some of the neces
sities” for baseball management
positions.
Indeed, at ceremonies at the
New York Historical Society and
at Ebbets Fields Homes in Brook
lyn, the housing project that re
placed the site of Robinson’s ex
ploits, the name “Campanis” was
uttered nearly as much as “Robin
son.”
Rachel Robinson, Robinson’s
widow, was on hand at the Histor
ical Society to officially open
“Jackie Robinson: An American
Journey,” an exhibit on her hus
band’s life that will run from Sat
urday until July 15 in New York,
then move to Los Angeles, Wash
ington, Atlanta and Chicago over
the next two years.
Mrs. Robinson said she vividly
recalled April 15, 1947 as she
prepared to go to the ballpark
with her husband, who died at 53
in 1972, TO years after becoming
the first black elected to baseball’s
Hall of Fame.
Robinson went hitless in three
at-bats but reached on an errant
throw after bunting down the
first base line and scored one of
the go-ahead runs in the Dodg
ers’ 5-3 win over the Boston
Braves.
“That first day was a tense day,
but it was also a very exhilarating
day,” Mrs. Robinson said. “People
think of Jack as a martyr, but he
was also a pioneer.”
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