Hall of Fame Directors Will Not Bend Rules to Admit Nellie Fox

The board of directors of baseball’s Hall of Fame refused to change its rules so that the late Nellie Fox, who recently missed election by four-tenths of a percentage point, could be admitted.

A candidate is required to be named on 75% of the ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America. Fox, who had 2,663 hits during a career in which he set several fielding records for second basemen, received 295 votes or 74.6%.

Chicago Tribune sportswriter Jerome Holtzman asked the board to reconsider the voting on the basis of the fact that baseball routinely rounds off batting and earned-run averages to the highest number, which would give Fox 75%.

“The . . . board of directors expressed its sympathy in the Nellie Fox situation but did not feel that it was proper to change the rules . . . ,” Hall of Fame President Ed Stack said. The recent election marked Fox’s 15th and last year of eligibility for election by the writers. Fox’s name cannot go before the Hall of Fame veterans committee for three years.

A municipal court judge turned down a request by Edwin Moses’ attorney that would have made prosecutors turn over clothing worn ay a female police officer when the track star was arrested.

Judge David M. Horwitz, in a pretrial discovery hearing, instead ruled that the prosecution should provide a photograph of the officer as she appeared when Moses was arrested Jan. 13 during a police crackdown on prostitution.

Moses, 29, has pleaded innocent to one charge of soliciting for prostitution, a misdemeanor offense that carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail, a $1,000 fine, or both. Trial has been set for Feb. 8.

Medvene made 31 separate requests for items, including--in addition to the policewoman’s clothing--arrest records of others taken into custody for the same offense on the same day, and training records of the officers involved.

The New York Knicks’ Bernard King, who leads the NBA in scoring with a 31.5 average, was among 14 players selected by conference coaches to fill out the rosters for the NBA All-Star game Feb. 10 at Indianapolis.

The East reserves also include Boston’s Robert Parish and Dennis Johnson, Milwaukee’s Terry Cummings and Sidney Moncrief, Washington’s Jeff Ruland and New Jersey’s Micheal Ray Richardson.

Selected as West reserves were the Clippers’ Norm Nixon, Houston’s Akeem Olajuwon, Seattle’s Jack Sikma, Denver’s Calvin Natt and Alex English, Phoenix’s Larry Nance and Dallas’ Rolando Blackman.

The wife of Irish soccer star Mickey Walsh gave birth to test tube quadruplets at a London hospital. A spokesman said the three girls and a boy were doing well after Caesarean delivery.

Mile relay teams from El Camino, Long Beach, Mt. San Antonio and Glendale, competing at Cal State Long Beach, qualified for the community college event in the Times/Kodak Indoor Games Feb. 8 at the Forum.

Officials of the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals said a trade that would send Giants’ outfielder Jack Clark to St. Louis has not been consummated. The deal, they said, hinged on a medical examination of Clark’s right knee, which underwent arthroscopic surgery last June. A San Francisco team doctor was scheduled to examine Clark Monday afternoon and then confer with a Cardinals’ team doctor.

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Jim Ringo, a former head coach of the Buffalo Bills and most recently offensive line coach of the New York Jets, was named offensive coordinator and line coach of the Bills.

Veteran linebacker Willie Harper was among 21 players released by New Jersey of the USFL. Harper signed with the Generals last season after 10 seasons with San Francisco.

Veteran right-hander Craig Swan, has arrived in Arizona a month early to get his ailing arm ready for spring training and a tryout with the Angels. Swan, 34, underwent surgery twice this winter after coming back from a rotator cuff operation in 1980.