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Steelers win, 27-0
Harris outgains
49er offense
By GARY MIHOCES
Associated Press Writer
PITTSBURGH (AP) - The
television viewers who saw
t Sports World
An AP Sports Analysis
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
Weekend headlines
Catching the week-end sports headlines on the first
bounce:
“Courageous Sweeps Australia to Retain America’s
Cup.”
This is the costliest, most one-sided and most futile
competition in sports.
The natural question is: why carry on?
For 107 years, yachtsmen of the world have strained
their brains and fortunes in an attempt to win the SSOO
silver pitcher which the crew of the schooner America
first won by beating a whole British fleet in 1851.
First, the proud British sought revenge. Tea tycoon Sir
Thomas Lipton himself spent S2O million in a personal en
deavor. The aviation giant, T.O.M. Sopwith, squandered
almost as much. The Canadians got into the act, then the
Australians, French and Swedes.
Altogether, close to SIOO million has been spent building
and racing the sleek, stripped down ocean craft which
immediately become obsolete. The boats are half-million
dollar toys that wealthy sportsmen play with in the giant
bath tub that is the Long Island Sound.
In the 80 individual races covering 23 series, the
challengers have managed to win only seven. Seventy-five
meetings have been shutouts. Yankee ingenuity and racing
skills — plus the advantage of always racing on home
waters — have turned the America’s Cup into a travesty.
No one else is close.
Asked if he didn’t think America’s continued domina
tion would mean the death of the competition, Ted Turner,
the victorious skipper, replied:
“Certainly not, you’ve always got people who want to
climb Mt. Everest.”
“Forego Wins Woodward, Makes Bid for Horse of Year
Honors.”
Hey, whatever happened to Seattle Slew?
While the 7-year-old Forego was streaking to victory in
the Woodward Handicap and pushing toward a record $2
million in prize money, the year’s Triple Crown winner
was munching oats in Bam 54 at Belmont Park — victim
of one of the biggest tactical blunders in racing history.
After Slew had swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness
and Belmont Stakes, owners of the 3-year-old speedster
spumed a possible $lO million stud syndication and
decided to let him continue his racing career. Race track
buffs licked their lips at thoughts of the Forego-Seattle
Slew duels in the fall.
Over the protests of trainer Billy Turner, who urged a
summer’s rest, a jaded Slew was shipped to Hollywood
Park in July for the Swaps Stakes where he was beaten by
16 lengths. It was an ego trip for the young owners — Dr.
Jim Hill and the Mickey Taylors — and a shot at what
looked like easy money.
The colt’s campaign was wrecked, his marvelous
record tarnished. Now the question is: how and when can
he recoup?
“Rams Bow to Falcons in Joe Namath’s Debut”
Broadway Joe under the looking glass. Every time the
Los Angeles team sneezes this fall in the National Football
League everybody will be looking in direction of the 34-
year-old quarterback retread from the New York Jets.
It’s unfair pressure. In the Rams’ 17-6 loss to Atlanta,
Joe more than held up his end, completing half his passes
for 141 yards, converting five of 15 third down tries,
playing poised, heady football. The Rams were flat, not
Joe.
As one who regretted Namath’s determination to carry
on, we salute his fierce pride and and urge that he be given
the full year to prove himself.
“Ole Miss Shocks Notre Dame, Alabama Upset by Ne
braska.”
Them ain’t upsets, just a bunch of zealous kids doing
what comes naturally. Soon as those Yanks from South
Bend hit cotton country, the Rebels got out their Con
federate flags and started boning up on the deeds of
Stonewall Jackson. In Lincoln, the Nebraska red terrors
were itching to get even with Alabama’s Bear Bryant for
his Sugar Bowl “slight” of 1975.
Aw, college football. Emotion and unpredictability.
That’s what separates it from the stylized, choreographed
professional game.
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Franco Harris outgain the
whole San Francisco 49er of
fense had to include some of the
guys who will be here next
Sunday — the Oakland Raiders.
“Oakland is heralded to be the
best football team in the NFL,”
Harris said Monday night after
he and a totally dominant
Pittsburgh Steeler defense
combined to crush San Fran
cisco 27-0.
“So here we are playing the
best team in the NFL,” Harris
added.
“And I dont think we are sec
ond to anybody, so something
has to give.” The Steelers did
little giving at all Monday night,
yielding 101 net offensive yards
— 82 by the run and 19 by the
pass.
Harris, who scored a pair of
Steeler touchdowns, rushed for
100 yards himself and added
nine more on a pass reception.
“I’ve always scored points in
my career, always," lamented
49er quarterback Jim Plunkett
who hit three of 13 passes for 30
yards, all of which were erased
by Steeler sacks for minus 30
yards.
“We couldn’t pass. We
couldn’t rush,” said new 49er
Coach Ken Meyer, whose team
scored just three points in its
last three preseason games.
“But I dont think many people
are going to move the ball up
and down the field on Pitts
burgh.”
Oakland did just that against
the Steelers in the AFC title
game last season and the victo
ry helped the Raiders to the Su
per Bowl title that belonged to
Pittsburgh the previous two
years.
Harris gave Pittsburgh all the
punts they needed against San
Francisco in the second period
when he broke two arm tackles
and ran 14 yards for a touch
down.
Roy Gerela added a 49-yard
field goal to give the Steelers a
10-0 half time edge, and he
added a 47-yard scoring kick
that made it 13-0 in the third
period.
In the last quarter, Harris ran
seven yards for another touch
down and quarterback Terry
Bradshaw hit John Stallworth
with a 15-yard scoring pass.
“Their defense was tough and
physical. They gave us a beat
ing,” Harris said after the best
opening game of his career.
“But they just got let down by
their offense,” he added.
The 49ers did not cross mid
field in the first half. They vis
ited Steeler territory only three
times in the second half, once
via a Harris fumble.
Turner, Courageous
may try again in ’BO
By GREG MacARTHUR
Associated Press Writer
ATLANTA (AP) - After
beating the yacht Australia in
the America’s Cup races and
tangling with the white-flan
neled sailing set at Newport,
R.1., Ted Turner says he and
Courageous may be back.
The 38-year-old Atlanta com
munications millionaire came
home Monday night and told a
crowd of wellwishers and news
men he “might like to try it
again with the same boat” dur
ing the next scheduled Amer
ica’s Cup trials in 1980.
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Miami Dolphin quarterback Bob Griese, who earlier this season had problems with his
contact lenses while playing, donned a pair of glasses with windshield wipers Monday night
as a joke while appearing on the Don Shula Show on Miami television. Griese seems to have
solved the problem with regular glasses as he showed Sunday as the Dolphins defeated the
Buffalo Bills. (AP)
Dodgers hope to clinch
division crown tonight
By ERIC PREWITT
AP Sports Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -
The Los Angeles Dodgers’ pen
nant-clinching party has been
moved to the visitors’ clubhouse
at Candlestick Park.
“It’s inevitable,” said third
baseman Ron Cey as the Dodg
ers headed into tonight’s game
with the San Francisco Giants
needing just one more victory —
or a loss by the Cincinnati Reds
— to clinch the National
League’s Western Division title.
They will be facing the Gi
ants’ Ed Halicki, 14-11, who is
always tough on them. But
they’ll go with 18-game winner
On his way to a 4-0 sweep of
the best-of-seven series against
the Australian challenger,
Turner’s brash approach to the
competition offended some of
the more staid yachting crowd.
On Monday, Turner conceded
there had been “a little” ani
mosity between himself and
some members of the sailing
establishment. But he added,
“the people in Newport are like
the people everywhere else.
They got 10 fingers and 10 toes.”
He accused the press of over
playing some of his more color
ful pre-race and post-race an-
Tommy John in the opener of
the two-game series at Candle
stick, a ballpark which has been
very good to them this season.
The Dodgers are unbeaten in
seven games here. On the last
visit, Cey totaled 11 hits and 10
runs batted in over four games.
“It’s a shame we couldn’t win
at home,” Manager Tom
Lasorda said after the Dodgers
ended a homestand with a 9-8
loss to Atlanta Sunday.
There were 32,209 fans at
Dodger Stadium hoping to help
the team celebrate the clinching
of the division crown. The
fourth-place Giants had cooper
ated by beating the defending
tics.
“A lot has been written that’s'
not true,” Turner said. “But I
don’t want to say what or by
who.”
Turner, who was referred to
as “the mouth” by some of his
Newport detractors, added, “I
don’t think I’m a loudmouth. I
don’t mean to be a loudmouth. I
try to be good, but sometimes
it’s hard.”
Turner is owner of the Atlanta
Braves baseball team and the
Atlanta Hawks of the National
Basketball Association.
He was welcomed home by a
brass band, a city proclamation
designating Monday “Ted
Turner Day” and banners
celebrating the 23rd successful
defense of the 126-year-old
yachting cup.
Turner told Atlanta Mayor
Maynard Jackson he plans to
expand his sporting success.
“I’m really taking forward to
winning some championships
that will really mean something
to this city. Sailing at Newport
isn’t exactly like winning the
World Series,” he said.
Finley
CHICAGO (AP) - Charles 0.
Finley, owner of the Oakland
A’s baseball team, is reported
doing “quite well” at North
western Memorial Hospital in
recuperating from open-heart
surgery, a hospital spokesman
says.
Finley, 59, was moved to a
post-cardiac ward Monday and
is eating regularly but receiving
no visitors other than members
of his immediate family.
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world champion Reds, who
moved on to San Diego where
they begin a series tonight 11%
games behind the leading
Dodgers.
The Reds, despite the acquisi
tion of pitcher Tom Seaver dur
ing the season, were never able
to seriously challenge the
Dodgers who got off to a 17-3
start in April under their new
manager and had few bad spells
over the summer.
The pitching staff, led by John
and Don Sutton, has major
league baseball’s best earned
run average, and the batting
foursome of Cey, Steve Garvey,
Reggie Smith and Dusty Baker
is within range of a home run
record. If Baker, who has 28
home runs, can hit two more,
the Dodgers will become the
first team in history to have
four players finish a season with
30 or more home runs each.
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SPORTS
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Bosox counting
on win tonight
By BARRY WILNER
AP Sports Writer
The Boston Red Sox may have
gotten themselves back in the
American League East pennant
race with a 6-3 victory over the
first-place Yankees. But few of
the participants were dwelling
on Monday’s game.
“We’ve got to win tomorrow
night,” Boston catcher Carlton
Fisk said after his three-run
homer in the third inning pow
ered the Red Sox within 3%
games of New York and into a
tie for second place with Balti
more. “Pretty soon you run out
of tomorrows.”
“If we win tomorrow night,
it’s going to be an interesting 11
days after that,” added Boston
manager Don Zimmer.
And Yankees manager Billy
Martin chipped in by saying,
“I’ll be very satisfied if we win
tomorrow night. A split is all we
need here.”
Reggie Cleveland hurled a
seven-hitter and received sup
port from Carl Yastrzemski,
who smashed his 24th homer in
the eighth inning after New
York had moved within 4-3 on
Dave Kingman’s third home
run in three games as a Yankee.
“I got a few breaks and there
were some good plays behind
me,” said Cleveland, 10-8, who
pitched eight shutout innings
against New York last Wednes
day before losing on Reggie
Jackson’s two-run homer. “I
also made some good pitches
when I needed them.
“The fifth inning was the
key,” added Cleveland, who got
out of a jam after Graig Nettles
and Lou Piniella opened the
inning with singles. “In every
game, there’s a time when you
get out of trouble in one inning
and you’re okay. The fifth was
the inning for me.”
BASEBALL
Baseball At A Glance
By The Associated Press
National League
East
..W L Pct. GB
Phila 93 56 .624 —
Pitts 86 65 .570 8
Chicago 78 72 .520 15%
S Louis 78 72 .520 15%
Montreal 69 80 .466 24
NYork 60 91 .397 34
West
Los Ang 91 59 .607 —
Cinci 80 71 .530 11%
Houston 75 74 .503 15%
SFran 69 82 .457 22%
S Diego 65 86 .430 26%
Atlanta 57 93 .380 34
Thurman Munson also hom
ered for New York. Ed Fig
ueroa, 15-10, took the loss.
Yaz’s homer was Boston’s
200th of the season, making the
Red Sox only the fifth team to
hit 200 or more home runs in a
season twice.
Baltimore lost a chance to
gain ground on the Yankees as
they lost to Toronto 3-1, Chicago
shutout Oakland 8-0, Detroit
beat Cleveland 6-4 and Texas
topped California 6-1.
There was no action in the
National League Monday.
Blue Jays 3, Orioles 1
Jerry Garvin tossed a nine
hitter, working out of jams in
the eighth and ninth innings, to
hurt the Orioles’ pennant
chances.
Garvin got Lee May to hit into
a double play with men on first
and third in the Orioles’ eighth,
then retired three straight
batters with men on first and
third again in the ninth.
White Sox 8, A’s 0
Ken Kravec hurled his first
shutout in the major leagues, a
four-hitter, and struck out eight
as Chicago topped Oakland. La
mar Johnson and Jorge Orta
each knocked in two runs and
Eric Soderholm slammed his
23rd home run for Chicago.
Tigers 6, Indians 4
A two-run single by Ben Og
ilvie in the eighth inning was
decisive for Detroit. Rusty
Staub hammered his 22nd home
run of the year for the Tigers
and Andre Thornton had No. 28
for Cleveland.
Rangers 6, Angels 1
Doyle Alexander outpitched
Nolan Ryan and Toby Hartah
slammed a three-run homer for
Texas. Ryan was attempting to
become the first 20-game win
ner in the American League but
had to leave in the sixth inning
when his arm tightened.
American League
East
W L Pct. GB
NYork 93 58 .616 -
( Balt 89 61 .593 3%
Boston 89 61 .593 3%
Detroit 70 81 .464 23
. Cleve 67 84 .444 26
■ Milwkee 63 89 .414 30%
Toronto 52 97 .349 40
West
K.C. 93 55 .628 -
Texas 84 66 .560 .0
■ Chicago 84 67 .556 10%
. Minn 80 71 .530 14%
. Calif 71 78 .477 22%
■ Oakland 58 90 .392 35
Seattle 58 93 .384 36%