Moses Bows Out; He’s Not Ready to Compete

Hurdler Edwin Moses, two-time Olympic gold medalist, said Friday that he would not run in a weekend track meet at Trinidad’s National Stadium because he was not ready to compete.

“It’s simple. I’m not fit and just can’t risk injury,” said Moses, who won gold medals at Montreal in 1976 and last year in Los Angeles.

Moses mentioned “a bad cold which stuck with me for some two weeks, and the other situation.”

He was apparently referring to his trial earlier this year for allegedly soliciting a prostitute in Los Angeles, a charge on which he was acquitted.

Among the top athletes participating in the meet at Port-of-Spain are Calvin Smith, the 100-meter world record-holder, and Joaquim Cruz, the Olympic 800-meter champion from Brazil.

Larry Holmes will postpone his planned retirement and fight May 20, even if the opponent is not light-heavyweight champion Michael Spinks, an NBC-TV spokesman said.

NBC has been negotiating with Spinks’ promoter, Butch Lewis, to match Spinks with Holmes, the International Boxing Federation heavyweight champion. But NBC is also talking to three other fighters, because Lewis has balked at the May 20 date.

NBC is reportedly negotiating with heavyweights Carl (The Truth) Williams, Tony Tucker and Frank Bruno about filling the May 20 date against Holmes.

Ernie Camacho, Cleveland Indians relief pitcher, saw a doctor about a pain in his pitching arm and may have to undergo surgery.

Camacho, the hard-throwing right-hander who had a team-record 23 saves and a 2.43 earned-run average last season, will be examined in Los Angeles by Dr. Frank Jobe, who will determine whether surgery is needed to repair or remove bone chips in the arm.

Former winner Bill Rodgers said he will not participate in the Boston Marathon until the organizers change what he called their “old-fashioned ways.”

Rodgers said the race could return to its former glory only if it allowed for appearance fees or prize money, as do other major running events.

Rodgers set a record of 2 hours 9 minutes 55 seconds for the race in 1975. He won it again in 1978, finishing in 2:09:27 for another record, then finished first again in 1980.

NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle has scheduled a meeting of representatives of the four teams concerned in trades that involve University of Miami quarterback Bernie Kosar.

Kosar has not officially notified the league of his intention to make himself eligible for the draft April 30 but has said he will graduate from Miami after this semester.

“I have notified the four interested clubs--Minnesota, Houston, Cleveland and Buffalo--that I will hold a hearing and make a decision no later than April 23,” Rozelle said.

The board of directors of the Major Indoor Soccer League voted, by a two-thirds majority, to revoke the Cosmos’ franchise.

The move stemmed from the Cosmos’ decision Feb. 22 to discontinue operations as an indoor soccer team in the MISL.

The team’s principals requested a reconsideration and asked to be considered for inclusion in the league’s 1985-86 season after refinancing the franchise.

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Hurdler George Porter of Cabrillo High in Lompoc, Calif., and volleyball player Tom Duke of Dos Pueblos High in Santa Barbara have signed national letters of intent to attend USC, the school announced.

Wide receiver Cris Collinsworth will reportedly make $2.1 million in his new four-year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals, including a $400,000 bonus and $1.7 million in base salaries.

Former middleweight boxing contender Bobby Czyz was sentenced to a probationary term and ordered to undergo psychiatric examination in connection with burglarizing the home of his fiancee’s mother.

Bobby Chacon, former two-time World Boxing Council champion, has pleaded innocent to charges of possessing an ounce of marijuana and drunken driving.

University of Denver basketball Coach Floyd Theard, whose Pioneers had a 79-game home winning streak until the middle of last season, died of a heart attack at his home. He was 40.