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The Darnell E. Sanders
may t be ho bold name or
orne, but for others, Sanders i
nown for her out t nding �
compl n a tennis player
durin time wh n there ere very
few Blac women players.
Sanders will be recoglzed for her
accompli hm nts by being inducted
into the Afro-American Sports Hall
of Fame, Monday, March 2, 6:30
p.m., at th Riverside Ballroom in
Cobo Center, Detroit.
, Her accomplishment include
N tional Tennis As ociation's
Champion for two year, the
American Tennis Association'
Stngle and Double winner,
ichigan's YMCA Women's
Champion in 1987, and nomination
for the be t female athlete of CSU's
Marauder Athletic Hall of Fame in
1990.
: Sanders, born in Hamtramck, i
one of even girl from a family of .
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: "ALL OF US could play tennis
and me and my lster, Marlene
Woodford attended Central State
Uruversity (CSU) in Wilberforce,
ohio on tennis scholarship ," she
said.
: While attending school Sanders
n over 100 tournaments. She was
also Ohio's state champion for three
years and was runner up one year.
In addi lion to tennis, Sanders said
he was a staner on CSU' basketball
team the four years she attended the
University. .
: According to Sanders, when she
completed school in 1962, she didn't
tUm pro because there wasn't any
money in it for Black women then.
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, Today, at 51, Sanders limits her
I nnis to teaching the youth and ail
occaslonal game.
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DARNELLA ANDER
"We have plenty courts in
Detroit, but the kids need sponsors
and their parents to work with them, "
she said. "Black parents don't push
thei� kids, they just don't take an
interest," he tated.
SANDERS SAID tennis i good
for your mind and body, it gives you
self esteem.
Sanders volunteers her services at
Detroit's Southeastern High School
because she wants to get Black kids
involved.
She doesn't have that "SO mile an
hour" serving speed anymore, and
she is not as "Swift" as she once was,
yet she is mentally tough and willing
to work with anyone who wants to
play tennis.
Also to be inducted into the Afro-
American Sports Hall of Fame are:
Lem Barney, Dave Bing, Archie
Clark, Willie Horton, Ferguson
Jenkins, Levi Johnson, Bob Lanier,
George (Kirk) Scott, Thorn (Eddy)
Tolan, Andrew Walls and Emanuel
Steward.
In' addition, honore Cheryl,
Daniels and Spencer Haywood will
pay peeial tributes to Ernie Harwell,
Paul Carney and Dr. Stuart
Kirschenbaum during the $50 a plate
dinner and ceremony.
The Afro-American Sports Hall
of Fame, founded in 1982 by Elmer
Anderson and �hur Finney, was
designed to preserve the history of
Blacks in ports from the 18008 to
the present.
·Walker loses bobsled
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LA PLAGNE, France (AP) -- It
might not matter that Chris COleman,
not Herschel Walker, is pushing the
top u.s. four-man bobsled team this
weekend. After all, Olympic history
has been pushing against U.S.
bobsledders for nearly four decades.
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I Americans helped invent the
port and won three' of the first five
sold medals in the four-man. But
they haven't stood on the medal
tand since claiming the bronze in
1956.
: They haven't stood by idly,
either. The team had a second
shakeup in a month when USA I
4river Randy Will dropped Walker
s his brakeman Wedne day,
replacing him with Coleman for the
�o-day competition starting Friday.
We're more than ready," Will said
Thursday, declining to elaborate on
Wednesday's change.
: The flap over Walker is the latest
in a series of controversies involving
the United States Olympic
�bsleding team. Willie Gault, the
pro football player, went to court in
1988 to be placed OD the team and
"on his lawsuit, but did not compete,
t Calgary.
This winter, Greg Harrell, a pro
football player, Edwin Moses, the
I ck tar, and Gault went to court
after the da of the bobsled mall
I been changed and won the right
40 challenge for berths 1 t month.
Harrel then made the team, Gault did
not and Harrell passed up the chance.
I Walker was at the track Thursday
helping USA I.prepare for its two
practice runs.
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; "THI IS OMETHING that I
saw coming a loin mid-Januarr,
Walker aid. "Randy wanted Chri
on the led at that time. It's good that
'they are togeth r because if Randy's
goin to perform better I think that's
what it' going to take.
"Whoever you're comfortable
with, that's who you go with. I think
the timing is bad, but it's not timing
for me, it's'timing for everybody,"
said Walker, who finished seventh in
the two-man last weekend as
brakeman for Brian Shimer.
Coleman said he had a long talk
with the deposed Walker, and was
pi cd to see the Minnesota Vikings
runbing back at the track 1b�y.
"It means an awful lot We're a
team united. It's notj t Raody Will
going out to get a medal, it's the
whole team going out and getting a
medal," said Coleman. It's all of
working toaether one unit"
BIL WAL R A a
virtual bobsled rookie, Coleman
won the brakeman competition at the
National Push Championships three
of the t four years.
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Also ready for the two-day
competition is USA II driver Chuck
Leonowicz, who opened the World
CUp season as the top American pilot
before he was supplanted by Will.
Leonowicz posted faster times than
Will during two of the four training
days.
Leonowicz had to deal with a
per onnel move in mid-January
when he 10 t long-time sidepusher
Todd Snavely after court-ordered
y pushofIs resolved a grievance filed
by sprinter edwin Moses, Los
Angeles Raiders wide receiver
Willie Gault and ex-NFL tight
end Greg Harrell. Snavely w
replaced on l..eonowicz's sled by
Robert Weissenfels. "It's a
bobsled team, it's not a 'bobsled
person. One person doesn't make or
break it," said l..eonowicz. "It' four
people. I belieVe you've got to run it
that way."
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LANSt o-It may mean more
or for local c rter bo t cap­
tin, but eeping fi h-catch
record could help tncre e the
popul tion of their prey and, in
tum, their b i
A bill requiring Great Lakes
charter operators to report their
monthly fi h-e tch total w
by the House I t July, and
been in Sen te committee
since then.
The commit pi to review
the bill during i next regular
meeting thi month (Febru ry).
Sen. Gilbert J. DiNello, D-East
Detroit, chairman of the commit­
tee ee no problem with p sing
the bill, aid his pokesperson,
Wes Thorp.
The Michigan Carter Associa­
tion (MCA) initiated the bill in p rt
a "response to a recent deere e
in the Lake Michigan fi h popula­
tion.
CHINOOK, A TYPE of sal­
mon, used to be in abundance in
Michigan. But due in part to a
b c ri I di ,t number of
t e h caught dropped from 5
millionio 1 5 to BOO,OOO in 1991.
"We felt n obli tion, .. id
Denny Grinold, former p ident
ofMCA.
Charter operato are in a uni­
que position to provide v ble
information, at minimal cost, he
said.
Thi program cos the te
about $10,000, aving thousands it
ould to ther the data in
other w ys, said Jerry Rakoczy, a
flsheri biologist for the Depart­
ment of Natural Resources.
The DNR been importin
disease-free Chinoo eggs from
Ontario and planting them in the
Great Lakes, R koczy aid.
"WE'VE GOTTEN AN i n-
c e in the number of smaller,
younger fi h," he aid.
"(Without the report) we
wouldn't have that information."
By tracking fish through
monthly record, the DNR can
evaluate how well their programs
are doing, he aid.
"We'll know were the
LAW ould allo
the DNR to revo e a delinquent
ngIer's state inspection certifi­
cate. program been "very
succ:eufulso far" but every month
about 25 percent of charter
operators rau to tum in records,
Rakoczy said. Threatening
punishment ill help prompt
charter operators to comply, he
ide
This la affect Western
Michi n Charter operators molt
heavily inee 71 percent of 11
charter trips take pI ce on Lake
Michigan.
Ludington is the bigge t charter
port in the state, reporting 1,765
trip la t year. Frankfort and
Manistee rank fourth and fifth in
charter trips with 1,296 and 1,028,
respectively.
urya Bonaly,� French
with pun if no .g�ld
In a sport domin ted by whites and
Orientals, Surya Bonaly had a lot to
overcome.
African by birth - she was born on
an j land off the coast of Madag -
car-she i the adopted daughter of
a French bureaucrat and his wife.
Though the Albertville games was
her first Olympic outing, Bonaly
threatened to steal a little of the
Olympic figure skating spotlight
centered almost exclusively on Kris­
ti Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan
from the U.S., and Midori -Ito of
Japan.
A controversy-related to Bonaly's
background arose at the practice
before the final competition.
Bonaly, who eats only natural foods,
travels with her dogs in a van and
preaches environmentalism, was a
gymnast and world junior tumbling
Champion in 1986, before narrowing
her focus to figure skating. By 1989,
she finished tenth at the world cham­
pionships and in 1990 won her first
of two European championships.
Her gymnastic bent shows in her
routine. She is the only woman who
has landed a quadruple toe loop and
with Ito and Tonya Harding of
Portland, Oregon, are the only
women to master a triple axel in
competition.
It is just this jumping that unnerved
her competitors.
Bonaly's mother, Suzanne, had been
told by competition referee, Ben
Wright of the United States, that
Swya could do no more backflips in
practice. It eems that Bonaly was
doing the O�ps during practice just a
few feet from Midori Ito who was
also practicing.
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"To do it at that timC is to UDDClVe
Sueya," the 'mother said of Wright's
dmonition. "It made her very
upset"
Bonaly bad more pressure than some
in the highly emotional field· of fig­
ure skating. As European champion
and the bome-country ravorite,
Bonaly would have been the first
medal winDer for France in women'
figure skatiDg competi tion since ·
195L .
Bonaly did not earn a medal this time ,
out. She is looked upon as a strong;
. contender for the games which wID, .
for the first time, be held again in two
years.
Rising to the levels be bas afteronly
three yem of figwe katiDg com- .
petition, Bonaly should be an in- :
timidating name in the 1994:
competition.
Surya B�naly of France during her original program on .
Wedn. day.
Inasmuch as backtlips are not al­
lowed during competition, the
referee saw the move intiJDidat­
ing.
"Of course, it was iDtimidatiOn,"
Wright told the New York Times.
"Whether or not it w intentional, I
don't know. But these people have
enough problems putting their men­
tal state in order without this kind of
buhing going on."
Given the number of spills that af­
flicted sntelS in the figUre skating
ranks, Wright might have been right.
But intimidation is a two-edged
sword for Suzanne Bonaly anyway.
She saw Wright' interference as in­
timidation of ber own daughter and
an effort to keep the two U.S. figure
skaters closer to the gold.
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