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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 < ? «H ' <1 • w ■ ' w V "■’ 1 “*? i 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- ■ 1 • 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% Page 15 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 — Griffin Daily News Thursday, Auaust 18,1977 : Cronic- Used Cars* : ★ 228-1326 ★ t k * £ 1973 IMP ALA - 4 door hardtop, power brakes, AC, power £ k steering, wwhlte-blue vinyl top. Blue vinyl seats. k k PII2A * * Was >2395.00 NOW $1995.00 J * . 1972 IMP ALA - 4 door sedan, auto trans., power steering, -jr * power brakes, air condition. k $ now $1895.00 * k 1972 CHEVROLET IMPALA - 4 door, auto, trans., power -K k steering, power brakes, air condition. Solid blue. k i Now $1895.00 * 1973 BUICK ESTATE WAGON ■ 3 seat, tilt wheel, cruise -k k control, auto., trans., air condition, AM-FM radio, power k k steering, power brakes. Light green, beige interior. 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