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Pert Georgia teen has visions
of running in 1980 Olympics
By TOM SALADINO
AP Sports Writer
ATLANTA (AP) — Mary Rawe, a pert teen-ager who
holds state track records in Pennsylvania and Georgia,
has visions of the 1980 Olympic Games. But she has a
following she’d rather leave behind.
The 17-year-old runner says she prefers company when
she runs, but would rather it be something other than the
four-legged variety.
“I used to run in the streets but the dogs chased me all
the time,” explained the tiny native of Highland Heights,
Ky., who moved to the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain
last summer. She will leave soon to go to Penn State,
where she won a track scholarship.
Now, she trains mostly at the high school track or in her
back yard, where she figures 16 times around her split
level home is a mile — her specialty although she also
runs the 880-yard event and cross country.
As a long distance runner, her training is vigorous.
Mary has logged more than 5,000 practice miles since
running competively.
“I’ve never coached an athlete like her, said Mary’s
track coach Nita Anderson. “She has a lot of self
discipline, sets goals realistically and goes after them.
We’re going to miss her a lot. She put Stone Mountain on
the map as far as girls track.”
In her last race in Pennsylvania, Mary set the state mile
record and then was given the rare opportunity to run a
victory lap — the first by a girl in Pennsylvania high
school history.
She was awarded a trophy naming her the top athlete at
Stone Mountain for 1976-77, again the first time a girl had
ever achieved the distinction.
Her greatest thrill, however, was shattering the five
minute barrier in the mile, something she achieved twice
in 1976 while a junior at Camp Hill High School near
Harrisburg, Pa., where her parents and four brothers and
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Knocking hard
Griffin High Bears defensive back Tommy Joe Coleman
gets in some hard knocking with another of the Bears
during football camp this week at Indian Springs State
Park. The Bears donned pads this week to begin hard
r knocking in preparation for the first game on Sept. 2
against Central of Macon is Macon.
Yankees kayo
Tigers’ Arroyo
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
% AP Sports Writer
Milt May said Fernando Ar
royo “was throwing real good,”
which is a normal thing for a
' ' catcher to say about his pitcher
except that not too many of Ar
royo’s pitches got as far as May.
New York’s Mickey Rivers hit
Arroyo’s first pitch for a home
run. Roy White tripled on the
next delivery and Thurman
* Munson picked on pitch No. 3
for a double.
At that point, May had no idea
what kind of stuff Arroyo had.
** He hadn’t caught one yet. And
nine pitches later —a Reggie
Jackson strikeout and a Chris
, Chambliss triple — Arroyo was
gone, the losing pitcher as the
Yankees downed the Detroit
Tigers 7-5.
* Elsewhere in the American
League, the Milwaukee Brew-
ers cooled off the Boston Red
Sox 5-3, the Texas Rangers
inched into first place in the AL
West by nipping the Toronto
Blue Jays 6-5 in 10 innings, the
Seattle Mariners edged the
Minnesota Twins 3-2 and the
Kansas City Royals defeated
the Cleveland Indians 5-3.
After the Yankees kayoed Ar
royo, John Hiller yielded a
single to Willie Randolph for the
final run of the first inning.
“I thought he (Arroyo) was
throwing real good,” May said.
“He had good velocity. Fer
nando threw as good as he has
all year. You’ve got to give the
hitters credit.”
Mariners 3, Twins 2
Dan Meyer’s two-run single
through a drawn-in infield in the
seventh inning snapped a 1-1 tie
and gave Paul Mitchell his first
victory of the season.
sisters lived five years.
She still holds the girls mile record in that state with a
.4:55.9 clocking and has added state records in the mile
and 880-yard run in Georgia, running a 5:14.6 mile and
2:23 in the 880.
She was wooed by many colleges but chose Penn State
because of relatives and friends in the state.
Her achievements are even more remarkable con
sidering she only began running in the ninth grade after
being discovered by the high school coach during field day
events in grammar school.
“I like to run,” she said. “There’s a great amount of sat
isfaction in doing well. I run not only for myself but for my
school, too. But there’s a lot of pressure on me because of
the winning. You’re expected to win every time.” '
In addition, there’s the pressure of the 1980 Olympic
Games and she is constantly asked if she will make the
team.
“Everybody wants to go to the Olympics,” she said. “I
don’t know. I’ll just work hard and see what happens. I’ll
do my best.”
According to her parents, some people think Mary will
do just fine.
“Friends and relatives in Kentucky and Pennsylvania
have been saving their pennies for years now to go to
Moscow and see Mary run,” her mother said.
Miss Anderson envisions Mary as a top college
prospect.
“I’ve never coached an athlete like her. She has a lot of
self discipline, sets goals realistically and goes after
them. We’re going to miss her a lot. She left a lot with us in
one year. She put Stone Mountain on the map as far as
girls track.”
The vigorous training schedule of the long distance
runner — Mary has logged more than 5,000 practice miles.
Expos baffle Phillies
with performance
By TOM CANAVAN
AP Sports Writer
It may have been the law of
Sports World
An AP Sports Analysis
x ' ByWILLGRIMSLEY
X AP Special Correspondent
Majors in uncowed
It must be a bit alarming to move from the security of
the No. 1 position in college football to the bare-legged
jungle of the tough Southeastern Conference where his
Tennessee Volunteers are rated no better than ninth, but
Johnny Majors is uncowed.
“You always have some qualms about that first game, I
don’t care who it’s against,” the one-time triple-threat
Tennessee tailback said while preparing for his opening
against California Sept. 10.
“But once past that obstacle, you face up to the
challenge. We know we are in one of the toughest leagues
in the country. We know it’s dog-eat-dog and we haven’t
had time to build our own team.
“Our job is to work hard and win. Then it can become
fun.”
Majors is an architect of football success. Himself a
product of a winning tradition, he has turned football
sow’s ears into silk purses wherever he has gone.
At lowa State he took a team that was 2-8 and 1-9 the
previous two years and produced the only bowl teams in
the school’s history. In 1973 he took over Pittsburgh, a one
time Eastern power which developed a soft underbelly
with three consecutive 1-9 seasons. In four years, he
turned it into the best college team in the country.
Last year, with Heisman Trophy winner Tony Dorsett
serving as the sledgehammer, the Pittsburgh team
carved out an unbeaten record, smashed Georgia 27-3 in
the Sugar Bowl and won the undisputed national cham
pionship.
Majors was named college Coach of the Year, his
second such honor. Football people were stunned when
Johnny announced he was leaving such a bed of clover to
take up the cause of his floundering alma mater in the
Deep South where football, like the Baptist Church, is a
religion.
A glutton for punishment, they said.
“Not at all,” Majors said. “It was a fresh challenge, a
new opportunity. It promised to be exciting and fun. At 42,
I am not sure how many more of such opportunities will be
dangled in front of me.
Majors has found himself up to ear lobes in work. He is
jumping around the country, attending clinics, addressing
quarterback clubs and preaching the merits of a college
football and academic career in the Smokey Mountains.
“It takes four years to put your stamp on a team,” the
youthful Tennessee coach said. “However, I don’t think
this team, this staff or the 82,000 people who come out on
Saturdays to watch us play are willing to wait that long.
“Everybody will be disappointed if we don’t have a
winning season immediately. Not a perfect season, under
stand, just a respectable one. Our watchwords are
discipline, pride, conditioning and accent on fun
damentals.”
Majors grew up in a football environment. In high
school, he was coached by his father, Shirley Majors. He
was recruited by the late Gen. Bob Neyland, one of the
South’s legendary taskmasters, and developed into one of
the finest backs ever to perform in Dixie.
averages or it may have been a
touch of fate. Whatever it was,
it certainly confused Phila-
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Mary Rawe who holds track records in Georgia and
Pennsylvania, works out at Stone Mountain High near
Atlanta. (AP)
delphia Manager Danny Ozark.
“How can you account for us
losing tonight with our best
pitcher,” Ozark wondered fol
lowing the Philadelphia’s 13-0
drubbing at the hands of the
Montreal Expos.
Ozark may have been baffled
by the loss that snapped the
Phillies 13-game winning
streak, the longest in the majors
this season, but Expos’
Manager Dick Williams and his
Burrongh’s homer
breaks deadlock
ATLANTA (AP) - When a
pitcher makes seven straight
throws to first attempting a
pickoff, it makes a batter ner
vous.
At least, it made Jeff Bur
roughs nervous Wednesday
night and left the pitcher, Hous
ton’s Joe Sambito, wondering
why.
Sambito eventually threw to
the plate and Burroughs drilled
a two-run homer that broke a 6-6
deadlock highlighted an eight
run sixth inning outburst and
carried the Atlanta Braves to a
9-6 victory over the Astros.
“That guy made me nervous
throwing to first so many
times,” said Burroughs, who
sent the low-and-away fast ball
over the right-center field fence
for his 31st homer of the year, a
career high.
“What was he ner-
vous about?” Sambito won
dered. “I’ve got to go to him
eventually.”
Someone told Sambito that his
efforts at picking off Barry
Bonnell, who bruised a knee on
one slide back to first, and his
pinch runner, Junior Moore,
took about four minutes.
“You guys time things like
that, don’t you?” he asked.
“The fans do, I could tell.” He
BASEBALL
Baseball At A Glance
By The Associated Press
National League
East
~W L Pct. GB
Phila 72 45 .615 —
Pitts 69 51 .575 4%
Chicago 66 51 .564 6
S Louis 66 54 .550 7%
Montreal 53 65 .449 19%
NYork 49 69 .415 23%
West
Los Ang 72 47 .605 -
Cinci 61 59 .508 11%
Houston 57 64 .471 16
S Fran 55 66 .455 18
S Diego 54 70 .435 20%
Atlanta 42 76 .356 39%
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Expos seemed to have all the
answers — especially when it
concerned Steve Carlton’s
pitching.
In other National League ac
tion, St Louis blanked New York
2-0, Atlanta whipped Houston 9-
6, Chicago edged Pittsburgh 4-2,
San Diego defeated Cincinnati
7-4 and the game between San
Francisco and Los Angeles was
rained out.
was booed loudly.
“I wondered when I came to
Atlanta if I would top my home
run record and I did,” said
Burroughs, who had a previous
high of 30 at Texas. “It made it
better that it was the game
winning hit.”
Willie Montanez followed
Burroughs’ homer with his 16th
of the season, a shot over the
right field fence.
Rod Gilbreath, Pat Rockett
and Bonnell each had run-scor
ing singles in the big rally and
pinch-hitter Brian Asselstine
contributed a two-run double.
Sambito, 5-4, said, “I just
wasn’t into it mentally. I just
wan’t thinking. I was sort of in a
fog.”
The Astros had built a 6-0 lead
in the first five innings off
starter Preston Hanna and re
liever Buzz Capra, with the key
hit a two-run triple by Art
Howe.
Don Collins, 2-9, came on to
stop the Astros and Dave
Campbell retired the last six
Astros in order to end the game.
“When you get a big inning
like that it’s bound to spark up
your club,” said Atlanta Man
ager Dave Bristol. “When the
big three hits, we are a produc
tive club.”
American League
East
..W L Pct. GB
Boston 70 45 .609 —
Balt 68 49 .581 3
NYork 68 50 .576 3%
Detroit 54 63 .462 17
Cleve 53 65 .449 18%
Milwkee 53 70 .431 21
Toronto 40 76 .345 30%
West
Texas 67 50 .573 -
Chicago 66 50 .569 %
Minn 68 52 .567 %
K.C. 65 51 .560 1%
Calif 58 58 .500 8%
Seattle 50 72 .410 19%
Oakland 44 73 .376 23
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