Woody Hayes in Good Condition After Slight Stroke

Woody Hayes, one of the most colorful and controversial coaches in college football history while at Ohio State, suffered a slight stroke Friday at his home in Columbus, Ohio.

However, officials at Ohio State University Hospital said that Hayes is in good condition.

Hospital spokeswoman Nancy Grover said Hayes, 72, was admitted to the hospital at 8 p.m. Friday. She said Hayes became ill Wednesday in Vancouver, Canada, where he was speaking. Hayes saw a physician there and was allowed to fly home Friday.

Grover said the former coach has weakness on his right side but is alert and moving his right side.

Hayes coached Ohio State for 28 years before being relieved of his duties the morning after the 1978 Gator Bowl. In his last game as coach, a 17-15 loss to Clemson, the frustrated Hayes slugged Tiger linebacker Charlie Bauman in front of the Buckeye bench in the closing minutes after Bauman intercepted a pass to seal the Buckeyes’ defeat.

Undefeated heavyweight champion Larry Holmes filed a $2-million suit against one of Gerry Cooney’s managers, claiming he was slandered by false accusations that he used an illegal drug during his 1982 win over Cooney.

The suit named Dennis Rappaport as the source of the allegations, which Holmes claims were made to force him into a rematch with Cooney.

Rappaport’s comments were carried in newspaper stories last November, quoting him as saying that Holmes asked for “the smell,” a reference to some form of illegal stimulant, between rounds of the bout.

Former Tulane star John (Hot Rod) Williams, one of several persons indicted for point-shaving in Green Wave basketball games last season, signed a $15,000 contract with the Rhode Island Gulls of the United States Basketball League.

The 6-11 Williams, who averaged 17.8 points per game last season, is scheduled to go on trial the first week of August.

Tulane dropped its basketball program after the scandal.

The Chicago Cubs became the first major league team to support a strike authorization by the Major League Players Assn. executive board, voting, 25-0, in favor. American League President Bobby Brown disallowed a Milwaukee Brewers’ complaint that Tony Bernazard of Cleveland used an illegal bat last Wednesday night. Brown said it had been cut open, and “all they found in Bernazard’s bat were base hits.” Boxing manager Lou Duva appealed the $5,000 fine levied against him by the Nevada Athletic Commission when ephedrine was found in a urine sample of his fighter, World Boxing Assn. lightweight champion Livingstone Bramble. Bramble successfully defended his title Feb. 16 in Reno with a 15-round decision over Ray (Boom Boom) Mancini. Julius Erving, whose Philadelphia 76ers were eliminated from the NBA playoffs, said he will play just one more season.

In the wake of Wednesday’s 102-100 loss to the Boston Celtics, Erving, 35, said he is not ready to formally announce his retirement but admitted that he can’t imagine he will play more than one more season. Names in the News

(BLOCK)

Former Utah Jazz forward John Drew was arrested and jailed in Salt Lake City on a felony warrant charging him with issuing bad checks. Drew was waived by the Jazz early this season after a recurrence of a drug problem.

Jennifer Schwartz of Azusa Pacific won her second successive NAIA heptathlon championship when Carrie Tucker of Southwest State, who was leading the event, pulled a hamstring and missed the final three events.

Defensive end Ross Browner, who played out his option last year after seven seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals, signed a contract with the Houston Gamblers for the rest of the United States Football League season. The Gamblers have a one-year option they must renew by July 31.

Mike Jarvis, Patrick Ewing’s high school coach in Cambridge, Mas., was named to succeed John Kuester as head basketball coach at Boston University.

The World Boxing Assn. warned Marvelous Marvin Hagler it would strip him of his middleweight title if he does not fight the top available contender in his next bout.