Hoping to Terminate Inner-City Trouble : Arnold Schwarzenegger does an auctioneer act--and gives the clothes off his back--to raise funds for at-risk youth.

“Don’t be stingy”--when Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Terminator himself, uttered those words at a recent Celebrity Memorabilia Auction to benefit inner-city youth, people automatically reached for their wallets.

Schwarzenegger led the auction at Planet Hollywood in Santa Ana, selling off some of his hand-me-downs, including an outfit he wore in “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” The $125-per-person benefit drew a sellout crowd of more than 300 and netted more than $100,000 for the Inner-City Games Foundation of Los Angeles.

Auction Hero

Schwarzenegger was the star of the benefit from the moment he stepped out of his limo wearing a leather Planet Hollywood jacket and wielding a cigar.

He had just come from a quiet dinner with his brother-in-law Anthony Shriver at nearby Antonello Ristorante to face a swarm of screaming, camera-wielding fans. After pressing the flesh with the crowd outside, he retreated to a far corner of Planet Hollywood to face an onslaught of party-goers.

“I’m sorry my wife [Maria Shriver] isn’t here,” he told the crowd. “She told me she thought the Kennedys weren’t allowed in Orange County” because they are Democrats.

With Planet Hollywood president Frank DiBella and chairman Keith Barish to egg him on, Schwarzenegger pumped up the bids on the celebrity items--even mimicking the auctioneer’s trademark patter.

“I want to sound like a professional auctioneer,” he said.

He held up a violin he played in the 1976 film “Stay Hungry,” one of his first pictures.

“I played the fiddle in this movie. I’ve had it in my office ever since,” he said. It fetched $5,000. A stack of his old T-shirts went for $500.

“I’m getting a lot of stuff out of my closet,” Schwarzenegger said.

Two walk-on parts on Schwarzenegger’s upcoming movie, “Eraser,” went for $4,500 each.

“I can promise you it will be a love scene,” he quipped.

Getting Physical

Items jumped in value when Schwarzenegger either tried them on or signed them.

“Take your shirt off!” yelled Tina Schafnitz, voicing the sentiments of many women in the crowd when Schwarzenegger went to model the brown leather jacket he wore in “Last Action Hero.” The jacket sold for $2,500.

Schafnitz was one of the few guests who managed to get a few words with the star. She took his picture with her 5-year-old son, Alex.

“One of Alex’s favorite movies is ‘Twins,’ ” she said.

The Inner-City Games Foundation offers Olympic-style sporting events to urban youth as a way of deterring their involvement in gangs and drugs and encouraging them to succeed.

“This makes them feel a part of the system they’ve felt left out of,” said Daniel Hernandez, who founded the Inner-City Games in 1989. “We feel if we can get them into a sporting event, we can teach them other successes.” Plans are under way to bring the program to Santa Ana by 1996, he said.

“This is a way of saying no to gangs, no to guns, no to violence,” said Schwarzenegger, who has been known to pump iron with the kids. “It’s our answer to our problems in the inner city.”

Faces in the crowd included actress Rebecca Carlton-Luff, John Giordani, Mike Nicole, Antonio Cagnolo, Frank and Betty Arciero, David Tabb, Terry Antonelli and David Maffei.