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Griffin Daily News Sat, and Sun., Dec. 4-5,1971
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Namath faces
the Cowboys
By VITO STELLINO
UPI Sports Writer
Joe Namath seemingly can
never dodge the spotlight.
By a quirk in the schedule,
the flamboyant quarterback’s
first start in almost two years
will be on national TV
Saturday.
Namath, who came off the
bench last week to throw three
touchdown passes in his team’s
24-21 loss to San Francisco, will
make his first start in 20
regular season games Saturday
when the New York Jets travel
to Dallas to meet the Cowboys.
Namath hasn’t started in a
regular season game since the
fifth contest of last year when
he was injured in a game
against the Baltimore Colts and
sidelined for the rest of the
season.
He was healthy and looked
sharp in the first half against
the Detroit Lions in the first
exhibition game this season but
he injured his knee when Paul
Naumoff crashed into him on a
fumble recovery play.
That left Namath sidelined
Dodgers have renewed hopes
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until last Sunday when he was
activated. He was scheduled for
only a token appearance but
Bob Davis was injured in the
second period. Since Al Woodall
had been put on the move list,
Davis’ injury left Namath as
the team’s only quarterback
except handyman John Docke
ry, who is mainly a defensive
back and hasn’t played quarter
back since high school.
Namath, even though he
iiowed signs of his long layoff,
was equal to the task as he
completed 11 of 27 for 285 yards
and three touchdowns. He
almost beat the Forty-niners
but an intercepted pass in the
end zone on the final play of
the game saved the game for
San Francisco.
The national TV audience
today will get a chance to see
Namath throw against the
tough Dallas defense in a game
that could have a key bearing
on the NFC’s Eastern Division
race.
The Jets, killed by a host of
injuries this year, are 4-7 but
they could be spoilers in the
winter baseball meetings are
over and out of them came
renewed hope for the Dodgers,
Reds, Astros and White Sox
that 1972 indeed may be their
year.
Those four clubs made the
most significant trades during a
week marked by a flurry of
action unmatched in several
years.
The Giants, A’s, Yankees,
Tigers, Orioles, Cubs, Indians,
Twins, Angels, Brewers,
Braves, Rangers, Royals and
Padres also got into the act,
but it was Los Angeles,
race. Dallas is 8-3 and just a
half-game ahead of Washington.
A Jet victory combined with a
Washington triumph over the
New York Giants on Sunday
would vault the Redskins back
into first place.
Dallas, of course, will be
going with Roger Staubach at
quarterback. After a half
season of indecision, Dallas
Coach Tom Landry finally
decided on the scrambling
Staubach as his top quarter
back and he has led the
Cowboys to four straight
victories.
Besides the Washington-Giant
game, there will be 10 other
games on the Sunday schedule.
Miami is at New England,
Minnesota goes to San Diego,
Oakland is at Atlanta, Buffalo
is at Baltimore, Cincinnati is at
Cleveland, Pittsburgh is at
Houston, New Orleans is at Los
Angeles, Philadelphia is at
Detroit, Chicago is at Denver
and Green Bay is at St. Louis.
In the Monday night TV game,
Kansas City is at San
Francisco.
Cincinnati, Houston and the
White Sox who made the best
moves.
A total of 52 players changed
uniforms since Monday, two of
them (bpth minor leaguers)
twice as every big league club
sought to get into the act.
Meetings Successful
If baseball people can be used
as judges of their own actions,
then these meetings were
highly successful. Ted Williams,
the Rangers manager, hit it
right on the head when he said
of the heavy trading:
“I think it’s great when you
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Edward Ford, who will mount the huge rack. The deer weighed and estimated 300 points. His
weight and rack will be entered in the state’s big deer contest
can make ’em (trades). It
creates a little positive think
ing. You’re going to be wrong,
or you’re going to be right
when you trade, but you’re
accomplishing something be
cause you’re stimulating the
player and the manager.”
The Dodgers went to the
meeting looking for another
pitcher and a slugger and they
came home with both. They
picked up Frank Robinson, the
only man in baseball history to
win MVP awards in both
leagues, from the American
league champion Baltimore
Orioles and lefty Tommy John
from the White Sox.
“We’ve done what we wanted
to do,” said Vice President Al
Campanis, “and we’ve done it
without giving up the kids we
feel will help us next year.”
Reds Cleaned House
One of the players the
Dodgers gave up—to the White
Sox—was slugger Richie Allen,
but Campanis said picking up
Robinson more than makes up
for Allen’s departure.
The Reds literally “cleaned
house.”
They shipped first baseman
lee May, second baseman
Tommy Helms and outfielder
Jimmy Stewart to the Astros
and reliever Wayne Granger to
the Twins. In return they
received Dennis Menke, who
will play third, Joe Morgan,
who will take Helms’ spot,
outfielder Cesar Geronimo and
pitchers Jack Billingham and
Tom Hall.
“We’re more than satisfied,”
said a Reds official. “Now, we
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play day in and day out on
artificial turf. You could say we
have tailored our club in that
direction.”
The Astros further bolstered
their club by picking up
pitchers Dave Roberts from the
Padres and Jim York and
Lance Clemons from the
Royals. Many observers rated
Roberts as the best lefthander
in the N.U last season. He
probably was because he won
14 games for the lowly Padres
and posted an earned run
average of 2.10 in the bargain.
The Dodgers, Reds and
Astros all now feel that they
can make a solid run at the
Giants, who won the N.L. West
in 1971 in a struggle.
Charlie Fox, the Giants
skipper, thought so anyway.
“AU the clubs we have to
beat improved themselves,”
said Fox, who started the flurry
of trades on Monday by picking
up lefty Sam McDowell from
the Indians.
Sports Briefs ||
By United Press International
ILLIOPOLUSTO COMPETE
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (UPI)
—Kula Illiopolus, Greece’s 200-
yard backstroke champion, is
competing in this weekend’s
Pepsico’s Westchester swim
classic. The amateur athletic
union-sanctioned event is for
teenage swimmers.
LAVENDER RETURNED
ST. LOUIS (UPl)—Brian
Lavender ended his three-game
INBA
standings
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Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Boston 14 10 .583 ...
New York 13 11 .542 1
Philadelphia 12 13 .480 2%
Buffalo 10 14 .417 4
Central Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 10 15 .400 ...
Cleveland 9 15 .375 %
Cincinnati 8 14 .364 %
Atlanta 6 17 .261 3
Western Conference
Midwest Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Milwaukee 22 4 .846 ...
Chicago 17 6 .739 3%
Phoenix 12 11 .522 8%
Detroit 10 14 .417 11
Pacific Division
W. L. Pct. GB
Los Angeles 22 3 .880 ...
Golden State 16 10 .615 6%
Seattle 16 10 .615 6%
Houston 6 20 .231 16%
Portland 4 20 .167 17%
Friday’s Results
Seattle 117 Baltimore 106
Detroit 113 Houston 112
Milwaukee 120 Cincinnati 82
Los Angeles 131 Phila 116
Buffalo 91 Cleveland 90
Chicago 122 New York 96
Portland 115 Golden St. 107
(Only games scheduled)
Saturday’s Games
Buffalo at New York
Houston at Boston
Seattle at Cincinnati
Chicago at Milwaukee
Philadelphia at Atlanta
Phoenix at Golden State
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GOULD’S NEW RECORD
SYDNEY, Australia (UPI)—
Shane Gould, a 15-year-old
Australian high school student,
set a new world record of eight
minutes, 58.1 seconds Friday in
the women’s 800-meter frees
tyle. Miss Gould and Ann
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Miss Simmons’ time of 8:59.3
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