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Walter Daniels (15) of the University of Georgia stops and heads back out to mid court as
the Bulldogs and the University of Kentucky opened their Southeastern basketball schedule
Monday night in Lexington. Watching Daniels are Larry Johnson (12) and Jack Givins (21)
of the Wildcats.
Cats beat Dogs 64-59
in overtime battle
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -
“This was a key game for us
because it was the first time
we have played against a slow
down,” Kentucky Coach Joe
Hall said after the Wildcats’ 64-
59 overtime basketball victory
over Georgia.
“I thought we did what we
had to do,” added Hall, after
the Southeastern Conference
opener for each team.
Frustrated by the Georgia
stall, Kentucky was behind for
most of the first half and trail
ed by four points with 5:12 left
in regulation. Kentucky center
Rick Robey took charge in the
next three minutes, lifting the
Wildcats into a 53-53 tie at the
end of regulation.
After the Wildcats used their
own brand of stalling tactics to
open the overtime, Robey hit a
layup to put Kentucky ahead
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6 1 9 m just trying to put some life back in the game. If I 9 m going to lose
$2-million a year, I 9 m going to do it with a laugh. What baseball needs
is more fun and less jealousy and hatred. 9
By TOM SALADINO
AP Sports Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Who is Ted Turner, the colorful At
lanta Braves owner who is suspended from baseball one
day and buys a basketball franchise the next, wins
yachting races in exotic places and enters bathtub races
at home?
“He’s a sensational, enthusiastic guy and one hell of a
man,” says former Brave Jimmy Wynn. “This is what
baseball needs, a man like this.”
Bowie Kuhn, commissioner of baseball, disagrees.
Kuhn suspended the 38-year-old Turner Sunday for one
year for the way he handled the acquisition of free agent
outfielder Gary Matthews, who signed with the Braves
after playing out his option with San Francisco.
Although disturbed by Kuhn’s ruling, Turner, who
makes most of his money from an outdoor advertising
company and two television stations, went out Monday
and purchased a controlling interest in the National
Basketball Association Atlanta Hawks.
“I’m told no basketball owner has ever been suspen
ded,” he quipped afterward.
Turner had a feeling he was in trouble with the com
missioner at last month’s winter baseball meetings in Los
Angeles.
“Commissioner Kuhn and his lawyer, Sandy Haddon,
looked at me as if I’d already been convicted,” he said. “I
feel like a dead man. I double-locked my door last night.
I’ve got as much chance of winning this case as
Czechoslovakia had against Hitler.”
Turner, a world champion yachtsman and the first
and sank a free throw with 2:06
to go in the extra period, giving
Kentucky a 56-53 lead.
James Lee, the Wildcats’ top
substitute, converted a steal
into a layup and two free
throws after an intentional foul
by Georgia’s Pete Fusi for a 60-
55 advantage. Lee added two
more free throws 30 seconds
later.
Hall said he was surprised at
Georgia’s stall, “but it served
its purpose for them in that we
sort of got lulled into a slow
down.”
Mike Phillips, who averages
more points per minute than
any Kentucky player, was lifted
in the first half and never re
turned to action.
“We didn’t play Phillips in
the second half beceuse we felt
we needed more quickness to
combat their forwards,” Hall
said. “He played well in the
first half but we felt it would be
better for us to go with the
quickness.”
That meant a lineup of Rob
ey, who scored 16 points, at
center; Jack Givens, with 17
points, and Lee, with 10, at for
wards; and Jay Shidler, with
11, and Larry Johnson, with
two, at guards.
Shutouts
rule night
Holiday Inn, Quail Lake and
Spalding Amusement Company
won shutout victories in the
Monday Night Bowling League.
Holiday defeated Griffin
Industries, Quail Lake held off
Tommy’s Used Cars and
Spalding Amusement stopped
Lewis Trucking.
Reeves Cleaners defeated
Women of the Moose 3-1 and
Dundee defeated C. C. Dickson
Co. 3-1.
Nellie Pitts posted a 544 series
and a 200 game. Fab Manning
had a 541 series and a 192 game.
Annette Rothbauer posted a 531
series and a 201 game.
Other scorers were:
Gail Bush 192, Wanda
Huggins 184, Jerry Vaughn 184,
Barb Stinson 187, Shirley
Stinson 187, Ann Flournoy 173,
Mary Reed 165, Linda Keen 181,
Lora Doster 183, Jimmie North
177, Linda Whidby 194, Annette
Lloyd 180, Cheryl Fields 177,
Betty Hollis 177, Chris Hudgins
167, Tonya Presley 187, Carol
Cox 195, Faye Bevil 197, Jeanie
Jones 170, Rosa Callaway 173
and Agnes Deßenedittis 176.
American to win the Sydney-Hobart race in Australia,
purchased the Braves Jan. 14, 1976, for a reported sll
million.
He spruced up Atlanta-Fulton County stadium with
eight different paint colors, dressed the players in new
pin-striped uniforms and brought enthusiasm to the job.
On opening night, he told the 37,973 fans he bought the
club “for a neckel down and a niclel when they catch me.”
On a serious note, he said: “As an investment by itself,
anybody that goes into pro sports with the idea of making
money is crazy.”
He has been called that by many.
But he continued to have fune all season despite the
Braves’ last-place finish and the club wound up drawing
818,179 fans, an increase of nearly 300,000 over the
previous season.
During the opener, Turner, who has five children, got so
excited, he bolted the stands and ran onto the field to
shake Ken Henderson’s hand after the outfielder boomed
a home run.
That was to be the first of many warnings he would raw
from baseball’s hierarchy in his rookie season as owner.
He drew another reprimand for playing poker with his
players and yet another for an incentive bonus.
It became more serious when Turner was fined SIO,OOO
by Kuhn, who charged the Braves with tampering in the
Matthews case before the outfielder was a free agent.
Turner also has been labeled a maverick because he
rides the team bus and sits in the stands with the fans.
He also engaged in bathtub and ostrich races at the sta
dium, and once served as bat boy in a nationally televised
Sports world
How’ll he
do in shoes?
An AP Sports Analysis
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES — Pro football scouts are drooling
over the barefoot place-kicking exploits of collegian Tony
Franklin but their eager anticipation is tempered
somewhat by a touch of reality plus a measure of un
certainty.
As a sophomore at Texas A&M, the shoeless wonder has
two more seasons before he puts himself on the money
block. Also, nobody knows how well he might do if his toes
are cramped by a tight leather shoe.
“When he goes to the pros, he will have to wear shoes,”
warned Jim Kensil, executive director of the National
Football League. “League rules — everybody’s equip
ment has to be the same.”
Also in the NFL, Franklin will have a narrower
crossbar target — an 18.6-foot crossbar instead of the 24.6
used by college teams — and will have to do his stuff
without the benefit of a two-inch tee, barred by the pros.
None of this may matter. Franklin’s forte is un
believable pedal power. He banged a 62-yarder in the Sun
Bowl Sunday as Texas A&M beat Florida 37-14. During the
season he exploded a boot of 65 yards — an NCAA record.
Franklin’s Sun Bowl field goal sailed 10 or 15 yards over
the bar, giving rise to speculation that he probably would
have hit from 10 yards farther back.
“I think I’ll get that 70-yarder some day,” the youngster
said confidently.
Franklin is a soccer-style kicker, meaning he belts the
ball with his instep. With or without shoes, he looms as a
future redhot commodity in a game which glorifies its
quarterbacks but subsists on podiatry.
The all-time leading scorer of the NFL is not one of the
glamor touchdown makers such as Jim Brown or Gale
Sayers but the old field goal kicker, George Blanda with
2,002 points, followed by another placement specialist,
Lou Groza, with 1,349.
The 1976 scoring champion wasn’t Pittsburgh’s Franco
Harris or Minnesota’s Chuck Foreman, but Baltimore
kicker Toni Linhart, 109 points, with 20 field goals and 49
extra points.
Harris and Foreman tied for ninth with 84.
Franklin is not the first or only player to succeed with
an unorthodox technique. Michigan State turned up about
10 years ago with a barefoor kicker out of Hawaii named
Dick Kinney but Kinney flunked his pro tryout with the
Philidelphia Eagles. Texas Tech currently has a young
man who does extra point and short yardage assignments
with a wooden leg.
The NFL is finnicky about equipment and no one is
more demanding on proper uniform attire than Min
nesota’s Bud Grant, who sends his Vikings against
Oakland’s Raiders in the Super Bowl here Sunday.
Before playing Washington in the divisional playoffs,
Grant complained that the Redskins’ kicker, Mark
Moseley, was using an illegal kicking shoe with lead in the
toe. The NFL investigated and found no hidden ballast.
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game.
On occasion he has grabbed the broom from Suzie the
Sweeper and cleaned the bases during the fifth-inning
break and when Atlanta was in the throes of a 13-game
losing streak, he stretched out atop the Pittsburgh dugout
like a man in a coffin.
“I’m just trying to put some life back in the game,” says
Turner. “If I’m going to have to lose $2 million a year, I’m
going to do it with a laugh. What baseball needs is more
fun and less jealousy and hatred.”
Turner, born in Cincinnati, started in business with his
father in Savannah, Ga., after graduating from Brown
University. The Turner Advertising Co. was struggling
when Ted became account executive.
In 1971, he purchased a Charlotte, N.C., television
station and saved it from default by featuring old movies
and sports events, the same format he has used to attract
viewers to his Atlanta station. He also owns two radio
stations in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Turner will meet with Kuhn Jan. 18 in New York to find
out exactly what his role with the Braves will be in the
next year.
“I’m not really sure what the suspension means,” said
Turner. “Does it mean I can’t go to the games? Is he
(Kuhn) going to take away my television set? Maybe I can
make the hot dogs.”
Despite it all, Robert Edward “Ted” Turner, has not
lost his sense of humor. He probably wishes Bowie Kuhn
had one.
Panthers rated best;
Dogs slump to 10th
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
AP Sports Writer
The Steelers failed to bring a
football title to Pittsburgh this
season but the Pitt Panthers
did.
Barely one week after the de
fending pro champion Steelers
were eliminated from the Na
tional Football League playoffs,
the unbeaten and untied Uni
versity of Pittsburgh Panthers
were named today as winners
of college football’s national
championship.
Pitt, which wrapped up its
first all-winning season in 58
years Saturday by routing
Georgia 27-3 in the Sugar Bowl
for a 12-0 record, was an over
whelming and near-perfect win
ner in The Associated Press’
national championship poll.
The Panthers received 59 of
62 first-place votes and 1,234 of
a possible 1,240 points from a
nationwide panel of sports
writers and broadcasters. It
was their first national cham
pionship in 39 years and second
since The AP poll originated in
1936.
Pitt, ninth in the preseason
poll, moved up to third place
by winning its opener handily
against Notre Dame on the
road 31-10. The Panthers then
climbed into second place be
hind Michigan on the third
weekend of the season and took
over the top spot when the Wol
verines were upset by Purdue
16-14 on Nov. 6.
Southern California, which
won 11 games in a row — in
cluding a 14-6 triumph over
Michigan in the Rose Bowl —
after dropping its opener to
Missouri 46-25, finished second
in the final rankings. The Tro
jans received the other three
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points in moving up from third
in the final regular-season noil.
Michigan, which was No. 1
for the first eight weeks of the
campaign, slipped from second
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Flamboyant Ted Turner enjoys
a cigar.
| Final ratings
By The Associated Press
12-0-0 1,234
11-1-0 1,118
10-2-0 847
10-2-0 804
9-2-1 638
9-2-1 51C
10- 487
11- 445
9-3-1 422
10-2-0 388
9-3-0 331
9-3-0 321
10- 276
9-3-0 190
9-2-1 172
8-4-0 52
11- 50
8-4-0 30
8- 14
9- 11
l.Pitt (59)
2.S.Calif. (3)
3. Michigan
4.
s.oklahoma
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7. A&M ]
8.
9. Nebraska
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11. Alabama
12. Dame
13. Tech 1
14. Oklahoma St.
15.
16. Colorado
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18. Kentucky
19.10wa St.
2O.Mississippi St.
Others receiving votes, listed
alphabetically: Baylor, Florida,
Penn State, Wyoming.