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Page 14 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, August 18,1977 ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ SPORTS ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Play Chiefs ’Skins to watch for flea-flicker By The Associated Press It wouldn’t be a bad idea if George Allen has his Washing ton Redskins wearing flea col lars tonight. Sports roundup By The Associated Press Golf Suderowf heads team SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. - Dick Suderowf, a 40-year-old veteran of intemaional match play, heads a team of 10 amateur golfers competing against the British in the Walker Cup Friday and Saturday at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. The Walker Cup, played every two years and alternated between British and U.S. courses, was won last by the United States in St. Andrews, Scotland. The Americans hold a 22-2-1 advantage since 1922. Swimming German set records JONKOPING, Sweden — Gerald Moerken of West Germany and Petra Thuwmwe of East Germany set world records at the 14th European Swimming Cham pionships here. Moerken broke the world 100-meter breaststroke record with a time of 1:0276 to win the final in that event. Thuemer broke her own record of 4:0989 in the women’s 400 freestyle with a 4:08.91 clocking. Yachting Squalls halt trials NEWPORT, R.I. — Squalls brought an early halt to America’s Cup defense finals with Courageous beating Independence by 50 seconds in a shortened race. Hockey WHA excludes Edmonton MONTREAL — The World Hockey Association is pre paring a 1977-78 schedule which will include seven teams and exclude the Edmonton Oilers. The seven teams presently involved in WHA plans are the Birmingham Bulls, Cincinnati Stingers, Houston Aeros, Indianpolis Racers, New England Whalers, Quebec Nordiques and Winnipeg Jets. Jodzio fined $3,000 QUEBEC — Rick Jodzio, the Calgary Cowboys’ hockey player who injured an opponent during a World Hockey Association game here in 1976, has been fined $3,000 in sessions court. Originally charged with assault with intent to injure, which carries a 14-year maximum term, Jodzio was fined after pleading guilty to a reduced charge of causing bodily harm, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Tennis USTA accepts Renee NEW YORK — The United States Tennis Association agreed to accept transsexual Dr. Renee Richards as an entrant in the U.S. Open Tennis Championships at Forest Hills. The USTA’s decision came a day after Dr. Richards obtained a preliminary injunction barring the USTA, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship Committee and the Women’s Tennis Association from excluding her because she had failed a chomosome test. Goolagong defeated TORONTO — West German Katja Ebbinghaus defeated Evonne Goolagong 64,5-7,64 in the first round for women at the Canadian Open tennis championships. Races Senoia Raceway Saturday Night Aug. 20 • late Model Sportsman • limited Sportsman • A&B Cadet Adults *4°® Children Under 10 Free Located 3 Miles W. of Senoia, Highway 10 The Redskins host the Kansas City Chiefs in a National Foot ball League exhibition game. The last time these two teams got together, during the 1976 regular season, the Chiefs caught the ’Skins off guard at the tail end and beat them on a flea-flicker play. “We’ll be watching out for that one again,” Coach Allen said. “I’ve had our people con centrating on stopping that sort of play.” The play is a handoff or pitch out, followed by a toss back to the quarterback, followed by a long pass. It was just that play that gave Kansas City a 33-30 upset victory last year. The Chiefs also defeated Wash ington 23-20 in the preseason a year ago. In tonight’s other game, Oak land is at Seattle. On Friday night, St. Louis visits Cleveland and Minnesota faces Baltimore. Saturday night’s games are Denver at Atlanta, Green Bay at Tampa Bay, Buffalo at New Orleans, Chicago at Houston, Miami at Dallas, the New York Giants at San Diego and Pitts burgh at the New York Jets. Cincinnati is at Detroit and Los Angeles is at San Francisco on Sunday and New England is at Philadelphia Monday night. It’ll be a battle of southpaws in Seattle. Oakland veteran Ken Stabler, who threw three TD passes in a 45-28 exhibition vic tory over the Seahawks a year ago, opposes second-year man Jim Zorn. The Raiders, who started off the preseason with a 404) shel lacking of Houston, came up short a week ago when the Chi cago Bears beat them 20-13. The Seahawks, an American Con ference team this year, have won both their games this exhibition season, over San Francisco and Dallas, the latter in overtime. The Vikings expect to have quarterback Fran Tarkenton in action for the first time since they lost the Super Bowl to the Raiders. He bowed out of the Pro Bowl game, the all-star get together in Seattle, a week after the championship game and missed the first two exhibitions. Tampa Bay, which may well wind up battling Green Bay for last place in the National Con ference’s Central Division, hosts the Packers, who were clobbered a week ago by New England. 5,000 meter race slated in Rockdale The Rockdale Optimist Club is sponsoring a 5,000-meter or 3.1 mile road race Labor Day. Runners wishing to par ticipate in the race should report by 8:15 for the contest which is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. John Fipps, Optimist Club race coordinator, said the race will be like the one recently run in Peachtree City only half the distance. He said prizes and T shirts will be given to par ticipants who finish the race. Participants will be required to pay $2 advance donation to run in the race and $3 on the day of the race. The proceeds will go to supporting activities of youths in the community. Persons interested in racing in the Labor Day event should contact Fipps at 1451 Oak Forest Way, Conyers, Ga. 30207 or call his telephone listing in Conyers. Mangrum named head coach at Fort Valley FORT Ga. (AP) - Leland Perry Mangrum, a sev en-year assistant coach at Fort Valley State College, has been named the school’s head foot ball coach, President W. C. Pettigrew said Wednesday. Mangrum, 40, coached foot ball at high schools in Monroe and Statesboro, Ga., before he became Fort Valley’s defense and wide receiver coach. He is a native of Washington, D.C., and succeeds Leon J. Lo max, who resigned earlier this year after a heart attack. If Gilreath signs Danny Gilreath, a graduate of Griffin High School, is shown accepting a baseball scholarship to Gordon Junior College. Looking on are Dean of Students Caywood Chapman (left) and Coach Andy Davis. Danny is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Shepherd, Route 2, Cain street, Griffin. Baseball owners renew Kuhn’s powers KANSAS CITY (AP) - The major league’s baseball meet ings have ended early with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn gaining renewed powers and major league franchises decid ing to keep all their minor league teams. A proposal to allow major league teams to drop support of their AA minor league club was defeated Wednesday “in a di vided vote,” Kuhn announced at a news conference following the day-long meetings. The defeat of the amendment was something of a surprise. As a cost-cutting measure, it would have left major league fran chises obligated to support only one AAA and one A minor league team. “Each team will continue support of AAA, AA and A clubs,” Kuhn said. By unanimous vote, the own ers changed wording in the Professional Baseball Rules to grant the commissioner’s office the power to take away a team’s draft choices and levy a fine up to $250,000 for tampering with another team’s player. The move was prompted by a recent court decision involving Atlanta owner Ted Turner, wherein a federal judge ruled that Kuhn could not take Atlanta’s draft choices because such powers were not spelled out in major league by-laws. In other action, the owners voted to: Switch the interleague trad ing period from Feb. 15-March 15 to March 1-April 1, retain the Youth football, cheerleader signups to end Saturday will be the final days for youth football and cheerleader signups for the programs sponsored by the Griffin-Spalding County Recreation Department. Signups will continue Saturday until 6 p.m. Signups will be conducted Friday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. There will be three leagues in the program: Pee Wee for boys 8 through 10; Junior for boys 11 and 12 and Senior for boys 13 and 14. The registration fee will be $7. Homer Williams wins tourney Homer Williams won first place in the championship flight in a mid week golf tournament Wednesday at Cabin Creek Golf Club. Mike Realis was second in the championship flight. David Lewis placed third and Wayne Harrison was fourth. Arthur Willis placed first in the second flight. Cecil Colbert was second, Carl Colbert third and Ralph Bozeman fourth. C. W. Sanders won first place in the second flight. Jack Jones placed second, Quincy Barton third and Albert Harrison fourth. The next mid-week tour nament is scheduled for August 31 at 1 p.m. ban on player incentive bonuses aid prohibit players from adding contract language that would obligate their club to pay their agent. The interleague trading peri od and the prohibition on clubs paying agent salaries will have to be approved by the Players Association. In league meetings earlier in the day, the National League, on a 10-2 vote, decided again not to adopt the designated hitter rule. The National League also adopted a resolution honoring the late P.K. 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(AP) - Without much fanfare, John Cappelletti has quietly become a solid running back for the Los Angeles Rams. Now the 1973 Heisman Trophy winner wants a little more. Cappelletti climaxed a brilliant career at Penn State four years ago by being selected as college football’s outstanding player. But like many National Football League rookies, he was a seldom-used reserve in 1974. The 6-foot-l, 217-pound native of Upper Darby, Pa., saw more action in 1975, being used pri marily in short-yardage situ ations. But his all-around ability earned him a starting job last year, and he responded by gaining 688 yards on 177 carries and catching 30 passes for 302 yards. In addition, his fine blocking helped running mate Lawrence McCutcheon rush for a team-record 1,168 yards. “I want to improve and just do as well as I can,” said the 25- year-old Cappelletti Wednesday at the Rams’ Cal State Fullerton training camp. “My goals are pretty basic: I’d like to play in a Pro Bowl game and make the 1 All-Pro team someday. “But the main thing is to im prove every year, to play as many years as I can and to do a consistent job.” As a Heisman Trophy winner, Cappelletti was closely watched as a rookie. He carried 55 times for 198 yards, being used mostly in games that were decided by the time he made his ap pearance. In 1975, he scored six touch downs while gaining 158 yards in 48 attempts. While he didn’t 1 carry the ball as much as he had in his rookie year, he was employed in important situ- 1 ations much more so than in 1974. Cappelletti earned his start- 1 ing position in the preseason last year, averaging 4.8 yards 1 per carry and leading the team < with 17 receptions. He gained over 100 yards in each of Los Angeles’ first two regular-season games, but took a back seat to McCutcheon sta tistically after that. McCut cheon not only set a team record for most yards gained in a season, but his 291 carries established another mark. As far as the current Rams team is concerned, Cappelletti Renee accepted for U.S. Open NEW YORK (AP) - The ac ceptance of 43-year-old Dr. Renee Richards into the U.S. Open Tennis Championships shouldn’t be taken as an omen for other transsexuals, says U.S. Tennis Association presi dent W.E. Hester. The USTA agreed Wednesday to accept the controversial Dr. Richards as an entry in the U.S. Open at Forest Hills, beginning Aug. 31, and Hester, president of the USTA, said, “I’m happy the matter is over.” The USTA made its decision one day after New York State Supreme Court Justice Alfred Ascione had issued a prelimi nary injunction barring the USTA, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship Committee and the Women’s Tennis Associ ation from excluding Dr. Rich ards from the major national tournament because of her in ability to pass a sex-chromo some test. “The judge’s decision was di rected only to Dr. Renee Rich ards and not as a landmark to apply to all transsexuals,” Hes ter said. In a separate statement, the USTA emphasized it had not changed its overall policy to ward transsexuals. Hester said he had been called by a number of trans sexuals about wanting to play, but none of them were as good as Dr. Richards. “For instance,” Hester said, “a 240-pound, 6-foot-8 trans- says, “It’s a little early to tell yet. We really haven’t come to gether because of some hold outs and some injuries. But there’s still a lot of time before the regular season starts.” It’s been a different kind of preseason for Cappelletti than his other three. Earlier, he was fighting for a job; now he has one. sexual called to ask permission to play in a county tournament in one of our Southern states.” Dr. Richards, the former Richard Raskind, has played in several tournaments since her sex-change operation in 1975. But she also has been denied entrance to several major events, including last year’s U.S. Open and the French and Italian Opens earlier this year. She did not try to enter the world’s other big tourney, Wim bledon. She has signed with the Cleveland Nets of World Team Tennis, but has yet to play a match. Nets owner Joe Zingale said he has received approval from WTT Commissioner Butch 1 Buchholz to let Dr. Richards play. This, however, will not be the first appearance for Dr. Rich ards at Forest Hills. Two years ago, then a male, she lost a close, three-set match to Gene Scott in the quarter-finals of the national 35-and-over cham pionships at the revered West Side Tennis Club. But she will become the first transsexual to participate in a major sports competition. After Ascione ruled in her fa vor Tuesday, the 6-foot-2, 146- pound ophthalmologist from Newport Beach, Calif, was quoted as saying:' “I feel ecsta tic. I can’t believe it. It’s really a vindication of everything I’ve tried to prove in the last year.
