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Sports * | 8 THE GAMECOCK Wednesday, January 27, 1988 I Vanity shoulc judgment of e Larry should have remembered his boxing lessons. In a boxing match this past Friday, which was billed as a classic contest between youth and experience, present heavyweight champion "Iron" Mike Tyson pummeled former champion Larry Holmes into dreamland. Tyson knocked Holmes down three times in the fourth round before the referee stopped the fight. Holmes, 38, should never have been in the ring with 21-year-old Tyson. Tyson mercilessly pounded the former champion until Holmes dropped to the canvas at the end of the round. The referee halted the massacre without counting Holmes out, as the fighter was obviously unable to continue. The most troubling aspect of the story is that Holmes should have known better. After all, lie fought X 4 . I A 12 1 nOA ...I. A 1 : munamiiiau /\ii in i?ou wiicii aii was much too old to be in the ring. Ali was silly enough to fight when Holmes was near his peak as a boxer. Many observers at the time believed Ali boxed again because he needed the money. But that was a flimsy excuse. Ali was ? and still is ? one of the most famous sports figures in American history. He could have used his name recognition to endorse all types of EESHffiR M I We've bit: .j . The Gamecoc f ' -C I <-> 1 9 I EVERY LfiDI 7:< LflDIES Lays in I LADIES m Bll H I i m Talk y Jim Stuckey i not destroy 'x-champions products, making corporations pay him dearly for the privilege. Or he could have opted to use his renowned mouth to make a living on the lecture circuit. Instead, Ali wanted boxing fans to see the self-proclaimed "greatest of all time" win the heavyweight championship once more. Holmes battered Ali around the ring that night. Today, Ali has Parkinson's Syndrome, which slurs his speech and makes his muscle coordination virtually nonexistent. A direct link between his health and past boxing wars has not been established. But it's probably safe to say Ali is "punch drunk." Now, Holmes has to fear the same fate. Tyson's right hand did enough damage to give anyone health problems. Hopefully, Tyson will remember the lessons of boxing history when his time has passed. After the fight, Holmes said he is nninn t r\ tiln hie mnnPV nnH lniiotl ?V/nt?> iv/ tuixw iiu '"vi.v; "all the way to Lafayette Trust Bank." Holmes may have duped fans who expected him to fool Father Time, but he can't fool his body. One day soon, it will show the effects of getting hammered by Tyson's fists. Then he won't be able to laugh so hard. I I ! I I I I I n 'ljnjap |?| | | 1 yburbept', H j j . :k newspaper _j_ }.VA RESEN1 mn mm mm mm dm ho*. mm WEPN ES LO< V%#% 1 # %_ k/v- i v: FREE: FUZZY 1 wine r DRfiFT AT 10:00 D COVER Wll BC REGCIL01 ENFORCED I f I ( use tal By Associated Press Freshman guard Brent Price scored a career-high 29 points Monday to lead USC to an 80-72 Metro Conference victory over Florida State and lift the Gamecocks into a three-way tie for first in the league. Price, whose previous scoring best was a 19-point effort in a nonconference victory this past month over Alabama, matched a conference record with seven three-point field goals. He hit on 10 of 12 shots, including seven of nine from threepoint ranee, as the Gamecocks shot 61 percent for the game. "He's a chip off.the old block, a great shooter," said Florida State coach Pat Kennedy, referring to Price's brother Mark, a former Georgia Tech star now in the NBA. "The kid was phenomenal." Junior forward John Hudson added 15 points before fouling out for USC, now 12-4 overall. The Gamecocks, Southern Mississippi and Florida State all stand 3-1 in league play. Junior George McCloud scored 23 points, and Tony Dawson added 19 for Florida State to end a six-game winning streak as it lost for the second straight year at home to USC. Price's torrid first-half shooting, which included a three-point field goal at the buzzer, sent the Gamecocks into a 41-23 advantage at intermission. The 6-foot freshman from Enid, Valentines How about * Regional * JL ~ A I X m great seieci 7 <r*? sK Oo I * I ESDflY :00 I NflUCI C I OOLERSI fHTHISBD S hons I ces share Okla., drilled six of eight field/goal tries, including five of seven three pointers, in the tirst halt. "He can shoot it and, besides that, he's a competitor, and I like that," said USC head coach George Felton. "Any team who can get a couple of wins on the road in our conference will finish first, second or third." Florida State, now 11-5 overall, took an early 8-4 lead, but Price hit three of his three-pointers in a 21-6 USC spurt that gave the Gamecocks a 25-14 lead. Florida State could manage to get no closer than eight points, 29-21, for the rest of the half as USC riddled the Seminoles' zone defense, hitting 17 of 28 shots. "We probably stayed in our zone too long in the first half, thinking they'd miss a few of those long ones, but Price just kept putting them down, and we got further and further behind," Kennedy said. The Seininoles scored the first seven points of the second half to pull within 41-30 before USC answered with a 12-4 burst to go ahead 53-34. The Gamecock win was their sixth on the road this season. They are also 6-0 at Frank McGuire Arena and will attempt to keep that unbeaten streak alive when they take on Southern Mississippi aaiuraay. The Golden Eagles manhandled USC in their most recent meeting Jan. 9 in Hattiesburg. is round the < a sale-priced s COOKBOOK Junior Leaaue * Foreian Cuisi ion reduced up to (JSC ' UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE M M M N H X h N H m Wed. 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