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2C Saturday June 23, 1979 Holmes Continued from page 1C ALL-STAR WRESTLUUL 8:00 PM MINNEAPOLIS AUDITORIUM, JUNE 24, WORLD TAG-TEAM CHAMPIONS VEPWE fiAnWE A A mm NAD DOG VACHON fr tn, 1 i I ysimV i i UffiV DAfiVlliTITVPf fi. va. mvn uvvivYViiinuij BIG BAD BOBBY DUNCAM RAY STEVENS VS. GREG GAGNE VP SUPER DESTROYER MARK II VS. BILLY ROBINSON JESSE VENTURA VS.

PAUL ELLERING 4S PAT PATTERSON VS. DOUG GILBERT WATCH ALL-STAR WRESTLING EVERY SUNDAY AT 11:00 AM ON KMSP, CHANNEL 9 Tickets available at all Dayton'i stores, and at the Minneapolis Auditorium on the day of the match. 55j -gyrsoat. 'Associated Press Larry Holmes stood over challenger Mike Weaver after an 1 1 th-round knockdown in their World Boxing Council heavyweight championship fight. Holmes successfully defended his title with a 12 th-round technical knockout.

Duran decisions Palomino in 10 Jim Klobuchar's and former welterweight champ Carlos Palomino. Duran mixed boxing with pressure and punching power to knock down Palomino, 135, In the sixth round and pound his way to a one-sided decision. Then the crowd settled back to watch Holmes have his fight while awaiting a title defense against slugger Earnle Shavers on Sept. 14. Holmes, who enjoyed a 2-inch reach advantage, came out jabbing and Weaver was an easy target through the first round.

It seemed Just a matter of time before the champion got serious and finished the ex-marine from Los Angeles. The end apparently was at hand for Weaver when, with 1:24 left in the fourth round, Holmes blasted home 15 shots to the head that had Weaver In serious trouble. But to the amazement of the crowd and Holmes Weaver came back with three head punches. Weaver, at 26 three years younger than Holmes and at 202 some 13 pounds lighter than the champion, landed a hard right early in the fifth round and carried the round with his aggressiveness and a couple of more head punches. He continued to set the tempo In the sixth round as Holmes landed some jabs but was wild with his other punches.

Then Holmes resumed command In the seventh as he began to find the mark with his left hook and right hand. In the eighth, Holmes used his jab effectively and he also landed a crashing right to the jaw with 10 seconds left. In the ninth. Holmes hurt Weaver on two occasions. He delivered seven or eight head punches, including four solid left hooks, midway through the round and had Weaver In trouble with a left-right-left to the head later.

In the 10th round, Weaver rallied. He smashed home a right to the jaw with 10 seconds left that turned Holmes's legs to rubber. As Holmes staggered backward, Weaver landed anotner right to the head and Holmes answered with a wild right at the bell. Most of the 11th round was a duel of head shots, with both fighters, showing severe fatigue, lauching their best artillery. There were several exchanges and Holmes seemed to have the edge.

Suddenly, Weaver whipped home a left hook and Holmes backed into his own corner and appeared In trouble. Weaver followed and smashed home two rights to the face and the crowd was on its feet. But Holmes responded with a ferocious right uppercut that dropped Weaver and for all purposes ended the fight. Weaver bad gained his No. 8 WBC ranking by knocking out his last five opponents, but he had lost eight of 20 fights four of them by knockouts.

just -if 74. lookin' for trouble. Lettieri Continued from page 1C he's playing," Bongiorno said, "or whether he's playing well. He's always the same guy." One example: After that great finish last year Let- tieri came into 1979 with the inside "track on the Kicks' starting goal-1 keeping job. Then the Kicks acquired West German First Division goalkeeper Volkmar Gross, and Let- tierl again became second-string.

He was crushed. He talked of asking for a trade. "There's no athlete in the world who wants to sit on the bench," he said. But he never re-" quested that trade; he never threatened his employers. "I was willing to give Minnesota another year.

I want to play for the Kicks. And I've still got a lot to learn. I've got time." So Lettieri worked out, trying to stay ready. It was a difficult assignment an enthusiastic 21-year-old. "You cannot keep yourself mentally ready when you practice and sit on the bench," he said.

"You say you'll be ready in case the other guy gets hurt, but there's no spice in that. "When you know you're playing, you work harder, you get psyched up, you get nervous. It's a different thing altogether." Lettieri stifled his complaints. When Coach Roy McCrohan decided to change goalkeepers for last Wednesday's game against the Cosmos, Lettieri was ready. The Kicks won 3-2.

Now McCrohan must choose again for tonight's game against Dallas at at Metropolitan Stadium, as he must with several now-healthy players. "A nice problem," the coach said, refusing to name his line-up. Lettieri said he sympathized with the coach. "Roy decided to go with Volkmar," he said, "and the team was going well. It's hard to change when you're going well.

But I had enough patience to wait." While sitting on the bench, Lettieri sized up the other goalkeepers In the NASL and confirmed his thoughts that 5-foot-8 is tall enough for the position. "They're tall, but lack aggressiveness," he said. "What I've got to do is work on timing. I've got to get up to a high ball at the right second. I've gotten this far; I'm a professional goalkeeper.

I've proved I can play." Perhaps the best Indication of Let-tieri's maturation off the field is a modeling assignment he took at the end of last season. Undraped, he posed In the locker room for a potential spread In "Playglrl." He was told he might earn about $2,000 for such display. "Would you do that for two he asked. "How long does grand last you? And that photo spread would stav with you all your Lettieri, on second thought, rejected the idea. to earth.

'Quick Kicks: Dallas, second by 21 points to IvUtinesofa In their division, has won seven of its 1ot nine games, including a 2-0 derision over Kicks one week ago in Dallas The Tornado will he wiihout midfielder Wolfgang Ruusrh. who has a pulled must le The game will he followed by a fireworks display, because the Kicks won return to Mel Stadium until July 7 Dallas is tied with Tampa Bay for fewest goals-allowed in the NASL to Mils point with 20 Injured Kicks Are Nlsoe-Jengoe, Tim Twellman and Chlro Hamilton are to be ready, but Greg Villa Is still out with tendonitis In his ankle Ron Futrher is jrxpected bark In the Kicks lineup afler silting IM a one-game suspension All! ft t' A 4 There's trouble right here in Minnesota. It starts with 't' and that rhymes with 'e' and that stands for energy. But what are all the other troubles Minnesota folks are tackling every day? cante broke them from a clinch along the ropes, Duran dropped his hands to his sides, flashed a savage smile at Palomino, and then hit him with a left. Laie in the round, after Mercante broke another clinch, Duran almost ran the referee down trying to get to Palomino.

And when he reached him, he smashed home a right-left to the ht'ad that had the fans screaming "Duran, Duran, Duran" as the bell rang Palomino, 29, a Mexican-born U.S. citizen who lives in Huntington Beach, went into the ring with a 27-2-3 record with 15 knockouts and seven successful title defenses before he lost to Wilfredo Benitez last Jan. 14. Palomino never had a chance as Duran ran his winning streak to 36. "I wasn't training the way I was supposed to," the former lightweight champion said of his failure to knock out Palomino.

"I didn't feel like training in Panama. I was lazy." Palamino said he was surprised at Duran's speed. "I didn't feel he could be that fast at that weight," the former welterweight champion said. "But he was very strong, one of the best fighters I ever fought. 1 couldn't get my combinations together against him.

He was moving so well, It threw me off." Earlier, Jimmy Young, grossly overweight and ridiculed before the fight lor his lackadaisical training, knocked down young Wendell Bailey once In the third round and stopped him at 2:37 of that round In their heavyweight bout. That's what Minneapolis Star columnist Jim Klobuchar is looking to find out. He'll travel around Minnesota June 25-29 to talk to Minnesotans about their everyday troubles and how they cope with them. He may pass through your town to chat about food prices, the weather, the crops, your job, your health or the health of your old elm tree out back. Keep an eye on Klobuchar and his column the Associated Press New York, N.

Y. Roberto Duran knocked Carlos Palomino down in the sixth round, mixed boxing with punching and pounded out a unanimous 10-round decision over the former welterweight champion Friday night at Madison Square Garden. The fight was a preliminary to Larry Holmes' World Boxing Council heavyweight title defense against Mike Weaver, but it was the fight most of the fans came to see. Duran didn't disappoint them. The 28-year-old Panamanian, who gave up the lightweight title because of trouble making the 135-pound limit, showed he is deadly serious about becoming welterweight champion.

He feinted with his head and shoulders, he jabbed, he countered and, of course, he put on the deadly pressure that led to his nickname "Manos de Piedra" Hands of Stone. He especially put on the pressure in the second half of the fight, overwhelming Palomino for his tifith victory against just one loss in his legendary career. Referee Arthur Mercante and judges Tony Castellano and Harold Leder-man each scored it 99-90 for Duran. The AP favored Duran 98-92. At the beginning of the sixth round, Duran walked out and knocked down Palomino with a left-right.

Palomino bounced up immediately and took the mandatory eight count. He survived the round, but before it was over, he was cut at the corner of the right eye and under the left ear. Duran, who weighed 1 3i pounds less than the welterweight limit and 10 '4 more than the lightweight limit, rocked Palomino with a hard right 40 seconds into the eighth round and shortly thereafter ripped home two left hooks to the head and one to the body. In the ninth round. Palomino 14534 pounds the formtr WBC welterweight champion, was shaken on two occasions.

Duran clubbed him with five good rights during Ihe round, especially two consecutive rights with 1 20 left and a siziler to the jaw with 20 seconds to go. Early in the 10th round, after Mer- Sid Hartman week of June 25. You may see a familiar Minnesota place or face or a new way of looking at your own particular problems. Ihe Minneapolis Star (Editor's note: Sid Hartman Is on vacation. His column will resume Wednesday).

fAmrVWItnilWtlifllm4( 7 The 30-year-old Young, weighing 235 pounds and at least 20 pounds overweight, hit Bailey with a right to the jaw and sent him to ihe canvas for a two-count with about 45 seconds left In the round. Bailey, who had been hurt by a combination earlier In the round, staggered to his feet. Young immediately moved to the attack, landing several combinations, and after he landed a vicious right, referee Pillv Graham stopped the fight. Men down Blizzard 2-1 Associated Press Toronto, Ontario Midfielder Brian Alderson's goal with 3:51 to play Friday gave New England a 2-1 victory over Toronto in the North American Soccer League. Monday nvu Saturday 9am 10 1 1 NORTH: University Ava 694 SOUTH: 84th I Lyndale Av f.o uraay i lam no 7 Offer hmffr to quantriiaa of atocfc avartabM Lima rights Correct Wet Basement Problem Before You Build Recreation Room Can you afford to throw $1001), $1,000 to $2000 away? You may do just thut if you finish off 3 NO LAWN IS FINISHED I 'TIL YOU USE A GRASWIP from JP fire your basement 4 into a recreation' room or addi- 1i mm ii tional bedrooms without correcting your wet basement GOLF CENTER I HOLIDAY VILLAGE! 00 00 Bloomlngton Lyndale at 88m 884-8206 St.

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