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Home , Alberto Juantorena, Deby LaPlante, Dwayne Evans, James Robinson (runner), Matt Centrowitz, Renaldo Nehemiah

,elOA COLUMBIA MISSOURI AN. Sunday. August 19 1979 mmmmmmmmmmammmm -- mm. -- -- I Coe? Juantorena will skip World Cup JT in A NEW YORK (UPI) - Most of the world's greatest athletes can team, with the U.S. squad hoping to make up for a will gather in Montreal next weekend for the World Cup II disappointing showing at Dusseldorf in World Cup I two years Championships but current sensation ago At that event, the men's team placed second while the and Cuban star will not be women's team was fourth. onhand. The U.S. team was selected at the National AAU Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Walnut, Calif., with the Coe, the sightly-bui- lt British runner who recently set three world records in a span of 41 days, was on the ust of entrants winners of each event accompanying Head Coach Sam Bell ) to for the three-da-y meet which begins at Olympic Stadium (Indiana Montreal Fnda night and concludes with day sessions Saturday and Nehemiah, who said, "the World Cup will be the peak of my Sunday He was entered in the 800 meters, but has definitel season," ran a tomd indoor season earlier this year, setting counted himself out. records in the 110-met- er hurdles almost every time out Then, the man they call "Skeets" claimed the World, American and 'That's enough for the season," the 22- - ear-ol- d Coe said in Collegiate outdoor record for the race with a 13 0 tune at Los Zurich Thursday after setting the world 1500-met-er record Angeles May 6 He 12 91 to the NCAA title with a tune of 3 32 1 'Now I am looking forward to a good ran a win at long holiday " Champaign, IU , but that came with the aid of a strong wind. Coe's "Good long holiday " will probably extend through the trials for the 1380 Olympics he had indicated he HpBgHIHfiM)BEBHS iij- - jgySJBStijJMfeBSiiHBiffl wouldn't compete in Montreal, but meet officials had held out hope since his name appeared on the entry list 'The World Cup will be Coe's record 41-d- ay run wiped the names of three track legends Juantorena (800), (mile) and Filbert 9 Bayi (1,500) out of the record books as he became the first the peak of my season runner in history to simultaneously hold world records in the 800(1 4233)andl,500metersandthemile(3.48 95) Juantorena, defeated last month at the m bv Americans in the 800 meters and 400, the an ng in is resting injury Nebemiah's AAU-wuuu- tune was 13.19. He lost for the and probably won't run this year again first time this year ui Zurich lat week, finishing second to Entrants in the meet will be divided into eight teams Dedy Cooper. three "super teams" and squads representing the five con- Some of other names dotting the star-studd-ed U.S. tinents The the "super teams" are the , the men's roster are James Sanford (100 meters), and East Germany with the USSR other contingents (replacing in the 200), , who beat coming from Asia. Africa. Oceania, Europe and the Darden in the AAU 400), Robinson (800), Steve Scott (1,500), (excluding the U.S ) (5,000), (400-met-er hurdles), Renaldo Nehemiah, the Scotch Plains, N J. hurdler who Franklin Jacobs (high jump), Mike Tully (pole vault) and owned the track spotlight until Coe's - assault, leads the Amen- Willie Bank (a late replacement for Ron Livers in the triple jump) The U.S women's team is a strong one, headed by (100 and 200 meters), Francie Larneu (1,580 and 3,000), Deby LaPlante (lOOmeter hurdles) and Debbie Esser (replacing Edna Brown in the 400-met- er hurdles) Tully, who l-in- ch cleared 18 feet, to win the AAU title, and Moses, who Basso WslSSSSS,l'9itmFtfi ii'rrffiPTrfg - uE&FIljRf 'usVaHMLSiHLij!rffrfn wrffJJfcBifliJaHflWfer' ran a 47 89 in the hurdles, are defending World Cup champions while Scott will attempt to reverse a poor seventh-plac-e finish of two years ago Sanford defeated with an AAU record tune of 10 07 to qualify for the World Cup The men's team also should do better in the 10,000 meters, where placed sixth at Dusseldorf , who beat Shorter at the AAU championships with an American record of 27 9 4, will be one of the favorites in the 10,000 Ashford, the double threat who runs for the Maccabi Union Track Club, was fourth in the 100 meters at World Cup I following a fifth-pla-ce finish at the 1976 Olympics. Also held in Montreal's Olympic Stadium. Ashford's wind-aide- d tunes at the AAU championships were 11 01 for the 100 and 22 07 for the 200 She also captured both races at the Pan Am Games and set an American record of 27 27 in the 200 at Zurich, where she also won both races There are no heats scheduled for the meet, with only " - 3j s&k-BtgiS- SSKaKI Sk ism &V, HHHr championship finals being held in each event 5fSEaPplKK World Cup II officials have been disappointed at both ticket response and media coverage for the e'ent, which unofficially kicks off the final run at the Olympics There are still "plenty of good tickets available" and officials are hoping for better UPItdtfteU support as the Friday night opening ceremonies ( 8 p m EDT ) Renaldo Nehemiah, shown setting a Pan The United States team hopes to make up for a near American Games record in the 110-met- er poor performance in World Cup I, held two The meet will be televised nationally (ABC), including hurdles, will be one of the world-clas- s athletes years ago in Dusseldorf . IUPItefepfcetaAlberto Juantorena won't be in Montreal prime-tun- e coverage of the opening night at the World Cup II games, which begin Friday. -- Saints' Conrad Dobler still gets "- Ills kicks and a few jabs too VERO BEACH, Fla (UPI) - He's taken with more than considerable That was enough for Coryell He I been in more fights than fellow football skepticism Dobler stall gets his kicks issued an immediate plea for 1 play ers Ly le Alzado and Ed 'Too Tall" landing a jab or two peace "He told us at the end of the i Jones. bu a mellowed Conrad Dobler Earlier this week, Dobler was leading season we could all go out to midfield I say s it takes a lot more to provoke him a sweep around right end when strong and beat the hell out of each other," f

to-attem- these days safety Jimmy Stewart closed m pt Dobler said. ! That's my energy conservation the tackle Dobler flattened The ugly Thanksgiving Day free--f or-- plan," Dobler said Wednesday during a him with a block, and a 20-seco- nd all between the Cardinals and the break in workouts at the New Orleans wrestling and karate match ensued Miami Dolphins in 1977, which resulted E Saints training camp ' I'm just in fines for both teams, was the "most following President Carter's Stewart even used his left foot to exciting piece of advertising the NFL j well-protect- guidelines I'm trying to Wow off plant a blow to Dobler's ed has ever had," Dobler says I Safety Ray steam, but I don't want to get worn out ribs Brown broke up the "The fight didn't build up until it was tussle with block to by the 10th game It's a long season " a spearing Dobler's obvious they had won." Dobler said "It j For the self-styl- ed "meanest man in side was just verbal abuse. The back and I pro football," the statement should be "All I was doing was circling and forth banter happens all the tune But jabbing," Dobler said with a devilish you can't tell when people (are about grin. "(Stewart) always comes in to) stop talking and start kicking pretty hard to make the play, so I just "I'd just as soon go back to the put nun on the ground But I tell you, if huddle But I'm very seldom able to be you go around with a grudge then a spectator." you're in the wrong business " Dobler played only three regular-seaso- n games for the Saints last year Drafted by the St Louis Cardinals in after undergoing surgery for an injured f 1972, Dobler said his fights were a knee. Even though the former all-pr- o regular feature of practice, almost like guard is walking with a limp, he has yet calisthenics to miss a practice this year and he says j "I had very little social life that the knee will not hurt his game per-- j year," Dobler remembers I fought formance j every day. I just had to fight and die to -- "I don't think it will ever be back to j make the team. A lot of the other normal, but I conceive of myself j players didn't like it After I made the playing better than I had Taefore," j team, it went down to about every other Dobler said. "I used to go out and maul j day" people. Now I have to use more Dobler said one training camp tussle technique" f cost Cardinals coach Don Coryell a Dobler's perfect attendance at j broken nose practice reflects his yearning to tangle j "A guy took a swing at me and I with opponents j ducked," Dobler said "He hit Coryell "I really enjoy the heck out of it," he Coarad Dobler and broke his nose Cotton was hanging said. "It's my Saturday night at the I Still with a devtish gria out of his nose the rest of practice." pool hall." Group ays 'it' not ajoke ' Committee U.S. AM wants Senator 1 NEW YORK (UPI) An ad hoc The 12-mem- ber committee, which should run in by November. When . Listen to committee said it is organizing a includes baseball great Hank Aaron, asked if Ah was qualified-fo- r the job, j campaign to have former heavyweight heavyweight contender Jimmy Ellis Von Blaine pointed to Bill Bradley and champion Muhammad All run as an and Betty Shabazz, the widow of Gerald Ford as athletes who success-- j independent for theUJS Senate in 1S) Malcolm X, said it will collect $1 ccn-tnbutic-ns fully made the transition to elected a nationwide "peope's I "This not just a joke," said com- in office. is campaign." "He (Ah) will not be intimidated. mittee co-chairm- an Lloyd Von Blaine, Von Blaine said Ah had yet to endorse They will pull no woo! over his eyes," he of the Afro-Americ- an Ser- president the committee's work, but added, vices Inc. a food firm "I said. services think he will be responsive" "Why not shoot for the moon'" Von Blaine said there should be at Ellis told a neas conference that least cue Wad; in the Senate and based on the response of people to the whether Ah won or lost, it would make three-tun- e heavyweight champion on g easierfor otter blacks to run for the three world tours they made together, upper house. he thought AH could be elected. .The states being considered for a "He could draw people. They all possible ran are New York, California. come and listen," Ellis said. in ffee JUisam, Kentocky, Georgia and Pemv Von Blaine said the committee will fflmmsmm I j Wolfman pSays the make its decision on what state Ah current hits

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