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Show Timing Wrong for Rookie Pair By °4NDY MINKOFF UY) sports Writer CHICAGO (UPI) — Possibly in any other season the NBA's rookie of the year award would come down to a selection of either Chicago’s David Green wood or NewYork's Bill Cartwright Both are enjoying banner first seasons having said his major goal in his rookie season was to play on a playoff team ve really not thought a lot about winning any rookie-of-the year award this season d the 6 foot-10 forward. “I want to make the playoffs and] think this team can still doit Cartwright has filled the Knicks’ center void in an immediately brokeninto starting linevps and being among the team leaders in scoring But this is the year of Earvin “Magic” Johnson o! the Los Angeles Lakers and Larry Birdof the Bostor Celtics. So when the final voting takes place Greenwood and Cartwright will likely be also-rans impressive way His 23 points per game average has been good enough to rate in the top 10all season ano his 55 percent shooting averageis a mong the tops in the NBA Greenwood, like Cartwright a first-round draft choice, has averaged around 17 points per game for Partof the reason Greenwood and Cartwright have not received the attention of Bird and Johnson i: behind the more rublicized Johnson-Bird duo. the Bulls and leads the team in rebounding and blocked shots Both players said the major transition they have because they are playing with teams that are not leading their divisions. In addition. Greenwood anc Cartwright do not have the flashy movesof either nature of the NBA Bird or Johnson In other years. playing on teamsin the two biggest cities in the country like Chicago and New York probably would have worked to their advantage. But Greenwood and Cartwrightdid not playin thefinal fourof last season's NCAAfinals anddid not receive the media hype that both Johnson and Bird didin the Indiana State-Michigan State NCAA championshit finale. Neither rookie seems to mind playing in the shadow of Bird or Johnson. “As long as we maketheplayoffs, I'll be content with my season.” said the 7-foot Cartwright, whc played at the Universityof San Fransisco. ‘I can un- derstand that the other guys, playing on winning teams,are getting little more of the attention.”’ Greenwood. the former UCLA All-America, has played on a Chicago Bull team that hasstruggled tc avoid the Midwest Division cellar all season. But he Friday, January 11, 1980, THE HERALD. Provo, Utah—Page 9 had to make fromcollege basketball was the physical “It’s an obvious type vi transition the physical style of play in the NBA.” Cartwrightsaid. an adjustment at first. that way every night In college. “It was they don't play Greenwood agreed, noting the amount of elbowing and shoving underneath the basket in professional basketball is far different than the college game “It wasa difficult transition to make. It’s a rough physical type of game,” said Greenwood, wholike Cartwright was averaging nearly 40 minutes per game in his first season Plaving center or ‘‘big’ forward may take its to!l on the tworookiesatthe end of the season, but bott said playing every two or three nights comparec with only twice a week in college has not been dif. ficult for them. “Thetravel is the thing more than anythingelse.” Greenwood said. ‘I've always wantedtoplayprofes: sionalbasketball, so I’mnot going to complain about FBI Probes ASU for Mail Fraud TEMPE,Ariz. (UPI) — FBI agents areinvestigating Arizona State University for alleged mail-fraud violations committed in the courseof falsifying academiccredits for eight football players later ruled ineligible by the Pacific-10 Conference. The probe is seeking to determine whether the university violated federal mail-fraud statutes by falsifying documentsfor a California college-extension course. ASU last August enrolled eight players who needed credits to remaineligible for the football team in the Rocky Mountain College extension course in Gardenia, Calif. Daddyto Revisit Lake Placid Games The players who received credit though neverattending the class, later wereruled in: eligible by the Pac-10 and the ASU Sun Devil football team was forced to forfeit six victories Phoenix FBI a-sitant special agent-in-charge James Yelvington said Wednesday the investi- gation wasinitiated after the bureau “received allegations.'’ He refused to elaborate. FBI agents have interviewed former Athletic Director Frank Miller, Associated Athletic Director John Wadasand Rick Lynch, an employer of several ASU football players. within thelast few days. the three confirmed ante BYU'S DAVE MOREHOUSEtries for a spike over the outstretched arms of a pair of opponents during an intrasquad Cougars will battie Pepperdinein a 7:30 exhibition match in the Smith Fieldhouse. Wednesday. PROVO 374-1797 OREM 224-3300 PROVO 374-8182 OREM 225-1200 A Dale Reese Res, 373-4173 Leon Aiken Res. 224-3302 Ralph Benson Res. 225-0446 Doug Orton Res. 225-1406 Tonight the OREM SP. FORK 224-3400 798-7471 Gary Ferguson Garth Smith Res. 224-8860 Res. 798-9174 ALBANY, N.Y. (UPI) — At the 1932 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, Walter Elsroth Sr. of Yonkers was one of 53 New York State troopers to maintain crowd, traffic and crime control. At the 1980 Games next month, the 7/-year-old grandfather will revisit Lake Placid as a spectator, while two of his sons are on Olympic duty as state lice. Theyare John Elsroth, an investigator stationed at Peekskill who will probably be assigned to VIP security, and Walter Elsroth Jr., a sergeant at Albany headquarters who hasbeeninvolved in disaster planning. A third son, Thomas,is a senior investigatorat thestate policeoffice in Manhattan. The senior Elsroth, founder andstill president of the Troopers’ Alumni Association, recalls arresting three gamblers and twoprostitutes at a roadside house during the games. “It took methree daysof eating and playing poker with them to gain their confidence,”’ hesays. ‘‘Each dayI left a message for my sergeantin a tin can out- SP. FORK 798-3537 SANTAQUIN 754-3672 PLEASANT GROVE 785-3526 Ken England Cyrus R. Bylund Terry Aiken Res. 225-4515 OREM 226-6100 side the inn, and finally. after the third day, we ar- rested them in raid. “They called me every namein the book.” Elsroth had been tapped for plainclothes duty at the earlier Olympics because just before the Games he had tracked down a blackmailer by tracing the man’s typewriter. Gamblers and pickpockets were the greatest | problemsin the Olympics of 1932. Traffic, though heavy, posed little policingdifficulty. Elsroth said the crowded Olympic sites were generally orderly ‘except for a few individual shouting matches.’” The troopers stayed at various hotels. “We were lucky to have a place to stay,” he recalls. ‘There wasn’t a room available, and people sleptin cots in hallways and waited in line for meals. Everything wassold out."” Res. 798-3537 LEHI 768-3132 Res, 754-3844 PROVO 374-1797 3 Morris Haderlie Res. 225-1289 OREM 224-4200 OREM EIRay Mecham Tommy George Res, 465-9648 Res. 225-2784 225-3789 This year, troopers will stay at Camp Adirondack, a former tuberculosis sanitarium which has been refurbished and has a huge. 24-hour cafeteria operation for all state employees. * Temperatures dropped to 39 degrees below zero during the 1932 festivities. cats CaelaU le i= RTL “We had a fair, but tough captain who refused to let troopers wear ear coverings,'’ Elsroth says. ‘I got twoblisters on my ears.”” Thingswill be different this year. Theofficers will be issued frost-resistant garments, including ear protection. : Elsroth spenthis 15-year career with the forceattached to Troop B, which covers mostof the North Country. Grid Death Toll Lowest Since ‘31 NEW ORLEANS(UPI) — Three college and high schoo} football players died in 1979 as the direct result of on-field activity, the lowest number °* deaths since 1931, a physician told the American Football Coaches Association Wednesday. , Dr.Car! Blyth of the University of North Carolina said three persons died as a direct result of contact on the field, such as blocking or tackling. He said another nine persons died from ‘‘indirect’’ football activity such as heat strokes and heart attacks and during surgery. nS leds Blyth said seven persons died in 1978 from injuries directly related to on-field activity. F Heattributed the decrease in deaths to improved coaching techniques and rule changes that have sought to decrease blocking and tackling with the head and neck. Biyth, who has served for the last 15 years as head Ken D. 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