ursday, August 11, 1977 THE MICHIGAN DAILY onvicted gridders get year By The Associated Press IAMI - Two former Mia- Dolphin players were sen- sed yesterday to a year in for selling cocaine, but were left some hope of Erning to pro football once y are free. tandy Crowder and Don' ,se, who admitted selling a iid of cocaine to an under- er policeman, pleaded no test and Circuit Judge Jo- h Durant withheld adjudica- as part of a plea bargain- agreement. The five felony charges Tied maximum 25 year- ntences. Instead, Durant ire the two defensive tack- I a year in the Dade Coun- ty Stockade and five years probation. "If you get in trouble, you are going to the penitentiary," Durant warned Reese and, Crowder. "If you do anything wrong,' you will be letting me gown. I won't forget it." Durant withheld adjudication under a state law allowing judges to impose jail sentences as a condition of probation on uncontested charges. Tne Dolphins suspended the twc defensive tackles after their May 4 arrest, and later waived any claim to them. No team has picked them up, but NFL officials have said it might be possible for them to play again if they weren't con- victed. The judge's decision to withhold adjudication means that Crowder and Reese will have no felony convictions on their records, Dolphins' owner Joe Robbie said later that pleading no con- test "is the equivalent of plead- ing guilt,. I am disappointed that Reese and Crowder still give no explanation of their con- duct. "They deserved no special treatment than anyone else would receive under the same circumstances. The least that should be required of them is to help bring everyone to justice who had any part in the events leading to their arrest." Defense attorneys contended that sending Reese and Crow- det to prison might eventually lead them to crime by closing forever the gates to pro foot- ball, the only work either man knows. Neither player spoke dur- ing the hearing. The sentence had been worked out ahead of time with the judge, but Durant gave the prosecutor ad a Miami detective a chance to object to the agree- ment. "Anyone who sells that amount of cocaine - for pro- fit - should go to prison," As- sisthnt State Attorney George Yoss said. Yoss said football players are Doge Eleven 'in jail looked up to by the public and should be held to high stand- areis of conduct An undercover policeman paid Reese and Crowder $20,- 000 for the cocaine after be- ing introduced to the play- ers by an informer, a ivoman named Camille Richardson. P o 1 i c e said the cocaine weighed slightly more than one pound and was of such high- quhlity it could have brought $23#,000 if diluted and sold in retail quantities. DH leader By The Associated Press NEW YORK-Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox leads American l.,eague desiganted hitters, ac- cording to statistics released yesterday by the league. Rice has a .321 batting aver- age with 25 home runs, 63 runs batted in and 56 runs scored, topping all Dlls in those cate- gories. Toronto's Ron Fairly is second in batting at .299, fol- lowed by Kansas City's Htal McRae at .298, Texas' Willie Ilorton at 291 and Oscar Gam- ble of Chicago at .276. Welcome Students TO THE DASCOLA HAIRSTYLISTS ARBORLAN--971-9975 MAPLE VILLAGE-761-2733 E. LIBERTY-668-9329 E. UNIVERSITY-662-0354 Our place is COOL and so are the games BILLIARDS AT THE Union IIAMI DOLPHINS defensive tackles Don Reese (left) and Sandy Crowder (right) leave Dade County court yesterday accom- anied by attorney David Goodhart (center). Dade County Circuit Court Judge Joseph Durant sentenced the two former Dolphins i a year in jail for selling cocaine, and five years probation. Watson, Floyd, Player discover they've been using illegal clubs PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - The irons used by Tom Watson in his dramatic triumphs at the Masters and British Open were declared illegal after an examination by PGA officials yesterday. The victories will stand, however. No reto- active action against Watson is indicated. The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. An- drews, governing body for the British Open, issued a statement saying Watson's victory Will not be effected. AS FAR AS the American tour events are concerned, "when a competition is closed, the comperition is closed," said Clyde Mangum, deputy commissioner for the PGA Tour, who rMled on the eve of the PGA national cham- pionship, that Watson's clubs were illegal. "He was a victim of circumstances," Man- Kum said. "There was no effort on his part to alter the clubs in any way. Hte brought the clubs to me this morning to have them checked." Clubs belonging to Ray Floyd and Gary Player also were found to exceed U. S. Golf Association specifications concerning the Width and spacing of the grooves on the club faes. Clubs belonging to "about seven or eight players" were examined, Magnum said. In every case, the deputy commissioner said, the plyers brought the clubs to him. "IT IS INDICATIVE of the integrity of our game and our players that they brought the clubs to me for check," he said. "They did it voluntarily. They did not want- to use il- legal clubs. They did not want to have an advantage, an edge, on other players." Watson called his home in Kansas City and arranged for an old set, which he has used previously, to be flown to him for to- day's first round of the PGA on the Pebble Beach Golf Links. The whole matter was prompted by George Burns' action in the Greater Hartford Open last week. After playing two rounds with a new set of clubs, Burns began to suspect the groovings were tno wide H took them to Mangum, who examined them with a magnifying device and found them in excess of the USGA specifica- tions. SINCE WATSON, Player, Floyd and others were using clubs produced by the same manufacturer, they asked that their clubs be examined, too, Mangum said. -AP A Public Service of this newspaper & The Advertising Council We'6re counting Red Cross. The Good Neighbor. . "ar,. wrJy.;!r {."r.... .%"v.. ;! if. r 1:{;r!"!! lJ. :.+f .r "":r.,.""!r.: ..;..;:!o!..,;.,. rr!,.t";;i"; ';r>:tr;:;;,: -: ;?, :r:":u .rf "t'^.'">;:r.: i '4: r : ":l ."_c?.i:>n" .vi. L dre'r"'x''.?iis!"a vP!!:? _r."r..:! .t".v 5 ; .' vc , .f.:.,...t,%.>.,<': ,.i .... . . m,...;:"_ .<5::1ri...... ...r ..,,.,r..