Show — lOMWW '' 'IW)ii "If Sports Erving sparks 76ers by Hawks i ?: $ Monies Suns Rockets triumph ByTonyFavia scored 11 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter "The guard came to the ball with Bobby and then Bobby left The defense was concerned with the stack (on the inbounds play) Bobby had the side to himself and kept going He (Jones) had him (the Atlanta defender) beat by three steps easily It was more difficult to make the catch and then hit the layup" "Doc gave me a great pass” said Jones who chipped in with 21 points "I didn't think rd be that open but I was" Erving who aways manages to come play also hit two through in clutch bee throws to give Philadelphia a UPI sports writer Julius Ervinx remembered in detail each play he started part of the In fact he seemed to enjoy describing his game-clinchin- g pass to Bobby Jones with 20 seconds left in the game Sunday which led to a Jones dunk and gave the Philadelphia 4 76crs a victory over the Atlanta Hawks in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series "Bobby had the side to himself with a guard on the strong side” said Erving who court-lon- g 107-10- i 4 & i- ift - V7 : ? 105-10- : :' v - r: v- ' v'-- “t'C V 't "J" V v V V"' ’ Phoenix moved into the other Western Conference semifinal series against the Los Angeles Lakers starting Tuesday at Los Angeles Walter Davis scored 22 points Paul Westphal 20 and Alvan Adams had II points and a season-hig- h 20 rebounds for Phoenix Scott Wedman led Kansas City with 24 followed by Phil Ford with 20 nt & 'V ' 'V V Suu 114 Kings 80 nt v E8 c -- " The 7lers trailed 1741 with 0:02 left in the game before Erving and Steve Mix led a 0 tear Erving converted a three-poiplay and a dunk and Mix made a three-poiplay and a jumper to give Philadelphia a 1247 lead with 1:22 to play The Hawks cut the margin to 1044 on a jumper by Eddie Johnson who led the Hawks with 2tpoints ' dTJtefs -t L " v It v The Herald Journal 107-10- 4 ' v-v ' s' 7 1980 90-7- lead with 51 seconds left 0 T Logan Utah Monday April 82-7- post-seas- r 3F£T margin to 3 with 8:20 left in the game But Brown hit two long jumpers in an 84 Seattle surge that gave the Sonics a 2 edge with 8:31 remaining putting the game out of reach John Johnson added 18 points and Jack Sikma 15 as six Sonics hit double figures Rookie guard Billy Ray Bates picked up by Portland late in the season from the Continental Basketball Association led the Blazers with 28 points Bates was Portland’s leading scorer in the playoffs with 75 points in the three games ii 12-- v: MjM m MWW Phoenix took a lead early in the third quarter and the closest the Kings came after that was nine Kansas City which held a 5249 rebounding edge shot only 42 percent from the floor Phoenix which shot 54 percent from the field turned 20 Kansas City turnovers into 18 points and had only eight turnovers nt with 4:00 left 70ers Coach Billy Cunningham wasn't too cocky following the game in which neither lead team held more than a “It was the type of game we anticipated" Cunningham said "It’s just a war when you play Atlanta You cannot let up on them or they will take advantage The defense took hold in the second half and it was a typical Hawks game" "I thought it was an outstanding game for the national TV audience" agreed Atlanta Coach Huble Brown "There were many sensational plays a lot of creativity and great basic basketball" Game 2 of the matchup is scheduled for Wednesday afternoon at the Spectrum In deciding first-roun-d games Seattle eliminated Portland 10348 Phoenix topped Kansu City 11441 apd Houston ousted San Antonio 141-1six-poi- nt Rockets 141 Spurs 120 ' Center Moses Malone worked the inside for 37 points and 20 rebounds and guard Calvin Murphy poured in 22 points from long range to lead Houston The Rockets n advanced to a series against the Boston Celtics a team they have not beaten in six games this season best-of-sev- The Malone the NBA’s Most Valuable Player last season was devastating as he worked against the Spurs' two 84 centers He scored 10 points in each of the first two periods 13 in the third and four more before he exited with 7:37toplay NBA scoring champ George Gervin of Super leaks W Trail Uaaen 81 Gus Williams scored 21 points and Free Brown came off the bench to contribute 17 to lead Seattle which opens a Western Conference semifinal series with the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday in Seattle Portland went on a 1 tear to cut the San Antonio held without a field goal in the first 21 minutes came alive to score 37 points More than half of those however 6 lead came after Houston opened a early in the third quarter best-of-sev- Atlanta Head Coach Hubie Brown makes his feelings known 75-5- 1 25-1- J£ COLORADO SPRINGS Colo (UPI) -Under pressure from the White House to make its decision now the US Olympic Committee's House of Delegates convenes this week to consider President Carter's proposed boycott of the Summer Olympics In an election year overrun by international crisis the question of an American-leboycott of the Moscow Games remains a major priority with the Carter administration but it is also an Issue on which Carter appears to be losing ground Back in January when the president first unveiled the boycott plan as a tool to pressure the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan d : ‘ Philadelphia 76er forward Bobby Jones works inside for a bucket over Dan Roundfield of the Atlanta Hawks Jones scored and was fouled on this play in the second quarter of the Sixers' triumph Sunday (UPI telephoto) ouse pressure1 the idea drew considerable support from the American public Bnt time coupled with the strong showing by the US team at the Winter Games and the continued presence of Soviet troops in Afghanistan have an taken their" toU on the administration's position Lately both Carter and the USOC have stepped op their campaigns With reports that foe boycott proposal is losing its momemtum internationally Carter and the State Department want the USOC to take a stud now As State Department spokesman Harding Carter noted last week "We are positive that a number of other 107-10- 4 meet countries would publicly and privately enlist in this effort as soon as our (USOC) body makes its decision public and final" The USOC however has repeatedly avoided the confrontation and there is no assurance the House of Delegates indeed will vote on the issue now since the USOC has until May 24 to accept or decline the Soviet Union’s invitation to the major factor in the House of Deegates voting win be the delegates from the 21 sports governing bodies who control 1228 of the 2451 total votes within the body It is also from that group that most of the opposition to foe boycott A That militancy is fueled by the fear that this country may be the only major power that does not go to the Olympics this summer Miller last week met with National Olympic Committee members from 18 countries and reported that most of them favored going “The position taken by most was that they were going to go" Miller said "The only ony that appeared marginal was West Germany” Represented at the Brussels meeting were Great Britain Canada West Germanf France Spain Italy Ireland Sweeden Switzerland ud other nations is coming At a meeting this month with two White House representatives the leaders of the ' governing bodies voiced overwhelming ' Games opposition to any competition other than the Meeting in January just after Carter proposed the boycott the USOC grudgingly Olympics "The great majority of them have become voted to ask the International Olympic Committee to either postpone cancel or move very militant about the situation" noted F Don Miller executive director of the USOC the Games from Moscow this year i Stadler looks to Masters after Greensboro win GREENSBORO NC (UPI) -Craig Stadler had no reason to think he would play well in the Greater Greensboro Open based on his previous three weeks but now he cant wait to tee it 19 at Augusta Ga $ The pudgy California native missed the cut at last week’s Heritage Classic and had finished in 87th and 55th places respectively in the two previous weeks But he worked on his game and it paid off Sunday with a victory in the Greensboro tournament and a 845000 check “I'm to happy I can’t believe it" Stadler said after his 88 that gave him six-stro- ke a 275 total at the Forest Oaks Country Club Course “It’s nice to walk down those last two boles with lead My gosh you could a stumble your way in” Stadler’s check pushed his earnings for the year to 8U7A11 and put him second on tiie winnings list behind Tom Wasou who has two victories and six-stro- ke H40475 It was the second PGA victory for Stadler 28 in his fifth year on the tour His first came this year in the Bob Hope Clasrie the first tournament of the season "I was just trying to get as many Murray joins Herald Journal sports section (birdies) as I could'' said Stadler who opened Sunday's round with birdies at the first and second holes He bogeyed the third hole but breezed after the seventh hole with three more birdies on foe way home “Once I got to eight I played really good from there on” said Stadler who admitted he had trouble all week at the third fourth and seventh holes "I hit a real good shot on eight I said 'Hell go ahead and go after it'" There was a four-wa-y tie for second place at 281 including former US Open champion Jerzy Pate BQ1 Kratzert George Burns and Australian Jack Newton Pate had the best round of the day at 87 and said he thought he had a chance to win foe tournament until Stadler made a couple of late birdies He also admitted he let his mind drift to this week's Masters tournament which Pate has long wantedtowin "I started thinking about Augusta which was bad” Pate said "You ought to play one tournament at a time and one hole at a time" Bums who won his first tournament in February at the Crosby Pro-Afinished with a 89 while Kratzert had a 70 and Newton a 88 m Phoenix Open winner Jeff Mitchell was alone in sixth at 283 after a 71 Sunday and defending champion Ray Floyd led a group of four golfers at 284 Floyd was alone in second place at — three strokes behind Stadler — after seven holes but a late bogey and double bogey dropped him to 73 for the day Others at 284 were reigning Masters champion Fuzzy Zoeller Morris Hatalsky and Mike Reid Newton Mid he was pleased with his iron play but had problems on the greens "I was very happy with foe way I hit the ban” Newon Mid "I haven't been -- able to make my share of putts Maybe I’m saving them for next week” Although Tom Purtzer set the pace in the first round with a course-recor- d 84 Stadler moved out front after 38 e lead holes and maintained a going into Sunday's final round two-strok- Purtzer had rounds of 78 and 77 Friday and Saturday before recovering with a 71 Sunday to finish at 290 Stadler had a 89 Friday to go with an opening 87 and puUed two shots ahead of young Pat McGowan who finished at 293 The Jim Murray Column ‘An outstanding nonathlete of my time9 i : Jim Murray the man who was voted the No 1 sports writer in America by his contemporaries for 12 of foe past 13 years has arrived in Cache Valley Beginning today The Herald Journal will bring d column to its readers Murray's sports column is generally regarded Murray’s ‘ the best in syndication Editor and Publisher Magazine mice described Murray’s column as "the closest you'll come to a modem sports top-rate- u dynasty” s " The column made available by Los Angeles Times Syndicate may run as many as three times n week in The Herald Journal — one of more than 259 newspapers around the country which publish his columns Murray a Los Angeles Times columnist who has been inducted into the National Sportsc asters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame writes a punchy Higiwg ud humerous column despite waging a battle with failing eyesight two years ago V V -- By Jim Murray I was bom and raised in Hartford Conn a nice dean Utile city on the shores of the Connecticut River — except on thorn occasions when the river forgets its manners cRy I wfil be remembered them — if at an — m one of the outstanding nonathletes of my time Iwua a choke hitter (not the bat my throat) a Up fighter and a lonesome end — lonesome because I drifted AWAY from the play If them was one Mf I hated worm than tackling anybody ft wu being tackled by anybody I do bold foe listed world's record for the 4714 — yard run an unusual event whfck happens to be foe end distance between the telephone pole in front of my childhood home in West Hartford and the one WMI outfielder ic ieiihmh scatter-nrme- d WfK on the corner of Park Road I set the record under pressure from my kid sister who was trying to gd back a letter from her boy friend I had found There was a following wind but allowable The beauty of this particular course was that you also had to stop quick because when you hit an imaginary tape you went right out into Park Road where you might hit the imaginary trolley If you did you were disqualified Also hospitalized I played baseball with a deadly weapon called a "dime rockd’--' which wu a spheroid about the density and weight of a duckpia bowling baH We played' with tt so we could weed out the little kids — not by the ones who couldn’t hit it but the ones who couldn't lift iL I played freshman baseball at Trinity College in Hartford where I graduated anyway I wu uncertain outfielder and a tape-wrapp- ed but I was the MOST team VALUABLE PLAYER on the pin-ba- ll at foe college tavern because I set foe school record for getting the “tilt" sign oft without putting another dime in I never wrote sports until I was well into my second childhood which is just the right time for iL The first five years of my career I whiled away on police beats and rewrite in rs the company of assarted murderers divorcees politicians and movie stars It wu ideal training for sports I spent 12 years on Time magazine helped to found Sports Ulsutrated and later served as West Coast editor I hate to brag but I notice where foe Rams the Dodgers the Giants and smog all came to foe West Coast after I did I did little sports work in my eariy days on the Register a daily in New Haven where the sports editor Das Mulvey was a craven hitter wife-beate- 1 i i This newspaperman's newspaperman means he didn’t care who did his work for him I worked on the Los Angeles Examiner when I came West ip 1944 Time magazine hired me away from them in 1948 There is no record The Examiner put up much of a fight All I know about football is some expert told me years ago to "watch the guards” and I’ve been doing it ever since I haven’t seen a touchdown in years — since a guard fell on a fumble at Notre Dame As far as I was concerned the Galloping Ghost wu just thaL But I am a qualified sports expert in one major regard: I am an opinionated jerk Yon show the white feather in this business like see two sides to a story and you’re thraugh I ean promise you one thing That'll never happen to me See you 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