Williams

With the appointment of Williams and, of course, anointment as media darling, many of us hope to see some meaningful changes. The first change I would like to see is a discontinuance of police-bashing by The Times, a policy that has gone on for far too many years. RON LESOVSKY Huntington Beach

Walter Ray Williams Jr. of Stockton, Calif., won the first six of his eight fifth-round games and took the lead in the Professional Bowlers Assn. $250,000 Firestone Tournament of Champions today. With one eight-game match-play round remaining tonight, the 1986 PBA Player of the Year had a total pinfall of 8,803. His pinfall included 30 bonus pins for each of his 10 match-game wins.

Quarterback Paul Foye passed for 200 yards and three touchdowns Saturday to lead Amherst to a 35-20 victory over Williams in the 100th meeting of their rivalry. Before the season's final game for both teams, played before 12,196, the players were read a letter from President Reagan which read, in part: "This rivalry, perhaps the longest-running in small college football, represents the best of this country's tradition of scholar-athletes." Williams (2-5-1) leads the series, 52-44-4.

Former Tulane basketball star John (Hot Rod) Williams was an essential part of a point-shaving scheme last year and was amused by his part in fixing a game, witnesses said Wednesday. The witnesses were three fraternity brothers testifying in a plea bargain in Williams' trial on sports-bribery charges--Gary Kranz of New Rochelle, N.Y.; Mark Olensky of Fair Lawn, N.J., and David Rothenberg of Wilton, Conn.

The Rev. Hosea Williams and seven other civil rights demonstrators were arrested today as they picketed a television talk show featuring residents of Forsyth County, which has no black residents. Oprah Winfrey, a black talk show hostess from Chicago, said she brought her program to the north Georgia county to find out "why this community has not allowed black people to live here since 1912."

Former Teamsters President Roy L. Williams surrendered Tuesday at a federal prison to begin serving a 10-year term for a 1982 conviction of conspiring to bribe a U.S. senator. The ailing Williams, 70, arrived at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in a limousine about a half hour before a 5 p.m. deadline and was taken into the prison in his wheelchair. Williams on Monday was ordered to report to the facility by U.S.

Los Angeles Police Chief Willie L. Williams on Thursday denied a published report stating that his 1988 transfer of Philadelphia police officers undercut a police sting operation. "I have no knowledge whatsoever of ever being informed . . . a pending sting or other actions on or about Oct. 13, 1988," Williams said in a written statement released by the LAPD. "If I had been so informed of such a plan, no movement of the targeted personnel would have been made." Williams was responding to a story in Wednesday's editions of the Philadelphia Inquirer.