Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 121, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1984 — Page 10

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Both pro and amateur Gault hasn't given up hope of running for United States in Olympics

By Ron Rapoport (c) 1984 Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO The problem is not just missing the Olympics. The problem is that he loves it so. Why else would Willie Gault train with the University of Tennessee track team as if he were getting ready for the indoor season just as much as his former teammates are? Why else would he exult in the realization that he hasn’t lost so much as a step, that he can still beat all comers who might want to challenge him? Why else would he be excited about competing in a bulljive event here Sunday? It will pit him not against Calvin Smith and Harvey

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WILLIE GAULT: Professional football player

Sims is expected to follow Woolf in own defense

DETROIT (AP) - The Houston Gamblers say they will call their own expert sports agent to counter Robert Woolf, who testified on behalf of Detroit Lions All-Pro running back Billy Sims in his bid to break a contract with the United States Football League team. Woolf, a well-known Boston sports attorney, testifed Thursday in the U.S. District Court

Long jump narrowed to Lewis against Grimes

NEW YORK (AP) - Carl Lewis, competing less but enjoying it more, leads a field of the best United States long jumpers into tonight’s 77th Wanamaker Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden. Lewis led a 1-2-3 American sweep in the long jump in last year’s World Track and Field Championships at Helsinki, Finland, as Jason Grimes won the silver medal and Mike Conley took the bronze medal. Those three were scheduled to compete tonight, but Conley was a late withdrawal because of injury. In addition, the field will include Larry Myricks, the 1979 World Cup champion, and two of the nation's other leading jumpers. Ralph Spry’ and Vesco Bradley. “Those are about the top six in the country,” Lewis noted. The best, of course, is the 22-year-old Lewis of Willingboro, N.J. He is the world champion. He owns the best jump ever at sea level, 28 feet, 4 inches. He

Glance and some other top sprinters who will be in the Bally Invitational track meet, but against Philip Epps and Doug Donley and some other professional football players? “I like it for what the sport is, for what it’s meant to me,” says Gault, who was a worldclass hurdler right up to the time he signed with the Chicago Bears last year. So just as he has every year since he was in the ninth grade, Gault has put his running shoes on. “I’ve been training the last three weeks,” he says. “I wouldn’t know what to do with myself if I took the time off. I do the same thing the whole team does, the same as I did last year. I feel the same as I did then, too.”

trial of a lawsuit filed by Sims to break his contract with the USFL expansion team. Sims has signed contracts with both the Gamblers and the National Football League Lions, but has said he prefers to stay in Detroit. Woolf, who has negotiated more than 1,800 contracts for 400 athletes in virtually every sport in America, testified Thursday that Houston co-

owns the best jump indoors, 281. He owns the best long jump series ever indoor or outdoors with five jump 6 over 27 feet in last year’s Millrose Games. He is the indoor and outdoor national champion. And he is ranked No. 1 in the world. This is his first long jump competition of the season. He plans to compete in the event only twice more indoors this year, in the Vitalis-Olympic Invitational Feb. 11 at East Rutherford, N.J. and in the Michelob Invitational Feb. 17 at San Diego. Lewis, also the world’s topranked 100-meter runner, plans to sprint no more than three times during the indoor season. He finished second to Australia’s Paul Narracott in the 60-meter dash at Osaka, Japan Jan. 16. He will sprint again Feb. 4 in the Dallas Times Herald Invitational and might double in the 60 and long jump at the Olympic Invitational. “I probably compete less than anybody else in the world ... I rest my body,” said Lewis,

owner Jerry Argovitz had a clear conflict of interest when he continued to act as Sims’ agent after becoming co-owner of the Gamblers Houston attorney Stephen D. Susman conceded that Sims’ lawyers had scored heavily with Woolf. The Gamblers’ attorney said, however, that he intended to call his own expert witness Cleveland sports agent Greg Lustig next week.

who will be shooting for four gold medals in the 100, 200, long jump and 400-meter relay at the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Before concentrating on the outdoor season and the Olympics, however, Lewis said he has two goals indoors. “I would like to be the first to run the 60 under six seconds and I would like to put the long jump record into the high 285,” he said. “I don’t feel I’ve reached my potential yet,” Lewis added. There is the pole vault, with 19-foot vaulters Billy Olson and France’s Pierre Quinon, plus Jeff Buckingham, Mike Tully, Earl Bell and Dan Ripley; the 5,000 meters with Filbert Bayi and Juma Ikangaa of Tanzania, Geoff Smith of Britain, Hansjorg Kunze of East Germany, and Doug Padilla; the men’s high jump with Tyke Peacock, Dwight Stones, Franklin Jacobs, Jim Howard, Canada’s Milt Ottey and Poland's Jacek Wszola, and the mile, with Steve Scott, Tom Byers and Thomas Wessinghage.

He is also running the same. “I’m still beating them in the hurdles.” Gault says. “I’ve been running with Reggie Towns, who was second in the national indoors behind me last year. I’ve beat him every time I’ve run with him. It makes me feel good that I’m still quick and fast. I’m basically where I was last year.” Except in what he is preparing for. Last year, it was the world track championships at Helsinki. This year, it is the Haggar Pro Football 60-yard dash. “It might be an exhibition to them,” Gault says, “but I’m continuing as if I could run in the Olympics.” Faintly, so far off in the distance as to be all but invisible, there is still the hope that he might. Gault and his attorney, Everett Glenn, were rebuffed by the International Amateur Athletic Federation in their attempt to maintain Gault’s amateur track standing, but they are waiting for the chance to try again. At the moment, they are intently watching the attempts of the Canadian Olympic hockey team to add players under contract to the National Hockey League to its roster. If the International Olympic Committee allows a professional to participate in his OWN sport, Gault and Glenn wonder, how can they keep someone from competing in events for which he has never been paid? “If the goalie plays,” said Glenn, “we will consider filing a lawsuit.” It would be a scat-ter-shot action against the lAAF, the U.S. Olympic Committee and The Athletic Congress. Glenn says Renaldo Nehemiah, the world-record-holding hurdler who now plays for the San Francisco 49ers, is considering taking the same action. “It’s just a shame,” Gault says. “Football doesn’t have a thing to do with track.” In the meantime, Gault isn’t allowed to run against any of the top amateur sprinters or hurdlers for fear he might contaminate them with his Bear contract. Still, he should get a decent test Sunday from Epps, the Green Bay Packer wide receiver who, while running for Texas Christian, finished second in the 200 meters in the 1982 NCAA track meet. “Epps is really good,” Gault says. “I look for him or me to win.” Though the event carries a $7,000 purse with $3,000 to the winner, Gault will not accept any prize money. The minute he did that, his claim to be an amateur track athlete would be invalid. The race Gault will run here is the first of several involving pro football players that have been set up with the approval of TAC and the NFL. At a meet in Dallas, the big draw is expected to be Eric Dickerson even though the star rookie running back for the Rams didn’t compete in track when he was at Southern Methodist. But even if Gault gets nothing more concrete from his training than these payless exhibitions, it will not be a total loss. “Football and track are complementary,”

The contract tug-of-war over Sims was scheduled to continue today before Judge Robert E. DeMascio in U.S. District Court and Elbert Hatchett, the running back’s lawyer, promised to put the plaintiff on the stand. “Billy’s next,” Hatchett told reporters. At issue is whether Sims, the 1978 Heisman Trophy winner out of Oklahoma, will remain with the Lions or play for the

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WILLIE GAULT: Amateur in track he says. “The hurdles give me agility and stamina, the moves I need to get by big defensive backs. Football gives me the ability to be tough, to attack the hurdles the way you have to attack an opponent, the ability to run and be tough and be mean.” Gault insists he isn’t getting all teary-eyed as he sees his former colleagues starting to prepare themselves for their bids to make the U.S. Olympic team. “I understood my options when I chose to play football,” he says. “If I don’t get a chance to go to the Olympics, I won’t die. It’s just something I won’t accomplish.” Still, Gault will not be completely without emotion as he watches the likes of Smith and Glance and Mel Lattany for whom Sunday’s meet is an early step on the road to Lo 6 Angeles. “I’ll be running with them in spirit, if not in body,” he says. “Maybe after the Olympics, I’ll be able to run again. Then, the politics will be over.”

Gamblers. Hatchett got Argovitz to admit a day earlier during testimony that he failed to notify the Lions when Sims was getting ready to sign his July 1 contract with the Gamblers thus letting pass an opportunity to perhaps drive the running back’s price up even higher. The man Susman really wants, however, is Sims. “I think it’s time they call

Billy,” Susman said, lighting up a cigar in the corridor. “Bet you a dollar they don’t. “It looks to me like the Lions made a bona fide offer,” Woolf replied. “It’s obvious (from copies of the correspondence) they are coming together. They were quite far apart, then by June 22 they are quite close together and appear almost in agreement.

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