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Falcons cut
Tinker, Reed
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
Atlanta Falcons waived wide
receiver Gerald Tinker and
runningback Oscar Reed Tues
day and placed cornerback Ron
Mabra on the injured reserve
list.
The shakeup left the Falcons,
who have lost six of eight
games this season, with a
roster of 40 players.
Coach Marion Campbell said
he was looking for re
placements. A spokesman said
it was uncertain when or by
whom the three would be
replaced to get back to the
legal limit of 43 players.
Mabra, who played for
Philadelphia of the defunct
World Football League last
season, signed with the Falcons
as a free agent. He suffered a
knee injury last week and is
now out, probably for the rest
of this season.
Tinker, the Falcons’ second
round draft choice out of Kent
State in 1974, was rated the
fastest man on the Atlanta
squad, but had trouble hanging
on to the football. He caught
only three passes in eight
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games this year and only one
all of last season.
He served mainly as a kickoff
and punt specialist for the
Falcons.
Reed, an eight-year veteran
picked up in a trade with the
Minnesota Vikings, carried the
ball 14 times for a total of only
40 yards for the Falcons this
season. He also caught two
passes, but the net gain on
those was only one yard.
It had been disclosed earlier
that the Falcons were trying to
obtain fullback Willie Spencer,
who outrushed Larry Csonka
for the now-defunct Memphis
Southmen of the World Football
League.
Falcons General Manager
Pat Peppier said he has been in
touch with Spencer’s agent,
John Wooten.
“Os course we have to see
what the legal situation is,”
Peppier said. “There is some
question about that at this
time.”
He also said the Falcons
might have to compete against
contending teams that might
offer Spender “a lot of money.”
Wolverines now have an aver
age of 355.9 yards a game
rushing, while the Engineers
are running at a 350.4 clip.
All the other team leaders
remained unchanged, according
to figures released today by the
NCAA Statistics Service.
San Diego State is tops in
passing offense with 297 yards
a game, California is No. 1 in
total offense with 451.6 yards an
outing, Texas stayed ahead in
scoring offense with a 36.2
average and Texas A&M
remained No. 1 in total defense,
yielding only 173.7 yards a
game.
Texas, scoring 37 points
against Baylor, put some
distance between itself and
Ohio State in the scoring race.
The Longhorns now have 326
points, 11 more than the
runnerup Buckeyes.
Seaver wins Cy Young award
By BILL MADDEN
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) - Tom
Seaver, whose league-leading 22
victories and record-setting
strikeout performance in 1975
erased the stigma of his worst
season ever, was named today
the winner of the National
League’s Cy Young award for
the third time.
Seaver, the New York Mets’
ace right-hander who won the
award in 1969 and 1973,
outpointed southpaw Randy
Jones of the San Diego Padres
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Sandy Koufax of the Los
Angeles Dodgers had ever won
three Cy Youngs, awarded
annually to the leagues’ best
pitchers.
Seaver received 15 first place
votes, seven for second and two
for third, while Jones, the NL
earned run average leader, had
seven firsts, 14 seconds and
three thirds. The remaining two
first place votes went to St.
Louis Cardinals’ reliever Al
Hrabosky, who finished third
with 33 points. Voting is done
on a 5-3-1 point system.
“The big thing about winning
this award,” said Seaver, “is
that it puts me on a level with
Sandy Koufax whom I consider
to be the epitome of pitching
consistency. I’m just grateful
now that I have a chance to
win even more than three.”
After a recurring painful
spasms in his left hip curtailed
his effectiveness to a subpar Il
li record in 1974, Seaver, with
the help of a newly-developed
changeup, had a 22-9 mark this
year—the best won-lost percent
age in the National League—
and a 2.38 earned run average.
In addition, the 30-year old
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Seaver’s league-leading 243
strikeouts enabled him to pass
Hall of Famers Walter Johnson
and Rube Waddell as the only
pitcher in baseball history to
fan over 200 batters in eight
consecutive seasons.
“My changeup made
a difference,” Seaver said late
in the season when it was
apparent he was on the way
toward winning 20 games for
the fourth time in his career.
“The hitters have never seen
me with this pitch before, so it
gives me something extra
they’re not looking for.”
Seaver, who finished third in
the N.L. in three other
departments this year—com
plete games (15), shutouts (5)
and innings pitched (280), cited
a new-found maturity as a
pitcher for his successful
comeback.
“I always thought I would
come back,” he said, “but deep
down inside there’s that self
doubt—there has to be. I’ve
learned what to do when I take
the mound, but to tell you the
truth, I never thought it would
be like this.”