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Page 18 I—Griffin1 —Griffin Daily News Thursday, October 6, 1977 Royals 7 9 Yankees 2 KC gamblers play confidence game NEW YORK (AP) - The Kansas City Royals, those Mis souri riverboat gamblers, are playing a confidence game that they think will make them the first American League ex pansion team to float into the World Series. The Royals, rolling an unbe lievable string of winners since mid-June, continued the fun Wednesday with an easy 7-2 victory over the New York Yankees, those big-money sharpies from the East Coast, to take a 1-0 edge in the best-of-five al playoffs. The Yankees’ also lost starter Don Gullett because of an in jured shoulder and New York Manager Billy Martin said he doesn’t expect his ace left hander to pitch again this year. The Royals, who raced to a 6-0 lead in the third inning, got a big lift when leadoff batter Freddie Patek walked to open the game and Hal Mcßae followed with a home run over the left field wall. “It helped to get off in front Laurel signs with Hawks ATLANTA (AP) - Rich lau rel, the 1977 first-round draft choice of the Portland Trail blazers, has signed a multiyear contract with the Atlanta Hawks, a spokesman for the National Basketball Association team announced Wednesday. The 6-foot-6 rookie was the 19th player chosen in this year’s draft. He led Hofstra College to a 23-7 mark his senior year, averaging 30.3 points and 7.7 rebounds a game. After it became apparent that laurel could not come to terms with Portland, former Hawks General Manager Mike Storen acquired rights to the 190-pound guard-forward. Hoople’s college picks Texas, Sou. Cal favored to whip Sooners, Tide By Major Amos B. Hoople Upset Specialist Egad, friends, 1977 has in deed been the “Year of the Upset” in college football and this week will be no exception. In fact we have such a startling prediction for you that we will move right into it without further ado! The Tex as Longhorns will stun the Oklahoma Sooners by storm ing to a 35-24 victory before a packed house in Dallas. The Texas attack shaped by new coach Fred Akers and spearheaded by Earl Campbell will outscore the po tent Sooner offense in a real old-fashioned cliff-hanger which will keep everyone glued to their seats until the last whistle. Jove, who will ever forget the Sooners - win ning field goal against Ohio State with only three seconds remaining on the clock — um kumph! Oklahoma under coach Barry Switzer has won three and tied one with arch-rival Texas, but this is the “Year of the Upset” and Texas will do it — har-rumph! The Hoople charts show another upset in the offing as Pitt travels to Gainesville to meet the Florida Gators for the first time. Bouncing back from their early-season loss of quarterback Matt Cavanaugh, the Panthers have put it back together behind freshman quarterback Rick Trocano and All-America fullback Elliot Walker and will prevail, 36-22 - kaff-kaff! Some other big ones on this week's card find a full-slate in the Big Ten with Michigan visiting Michigan State: Ohio State hosting Purdue; Minnesota taking on lowa, Illinois at Wisconsin, and In diana journeying to Northwestern. In the Big Eight, it will be Colorado vs. Oklahoma State; lowa State vs. Missouri, and Nebraska vs. Kansas State. A trio of good ones. Here s how the Hoople System calls 'em: In their 70th renewal the Wolverines will edge the Michigan State when Mcßae hit it out,” said the speedy little Patek. “We re alized we could score off Gulv lett. The adrenaline was flowing and our confidence was flowing.” The confidence has been building for the Royals since June 17, when they began an amazing streak of 68 victories in 92 games, a winning clip of .786. Along the way, they had stretches of 21 victories in 22 games and 32 in 36. Last year, the Royals were an uncertain club when they met the Yankees in October and lost the AL playoffs in five games. They had lost seven of their last eight regular-season games and 22 of their last 35. “The difference was like night and day,” said Mcßae. “Last year we were terrible in the second half. This year we had a terrific streak in the sec ond half. It’s better to win. It builds your confidence and gives you lots of momentum.” Wednesday, they played with the assurance of a card shark As his last official act with the Hawks, Storen announced he had reached a contractual agreement with Laurel’s agents. Storen reportedly also had agreed to give Portland two No. 2 draft choices in 1978 as compensation. But Hawks owner Ted Turner fired Storen a short time later and called off the deal. laurel’s agents complained to NBA Commissioner Larry O’Brien that their client had been caught in the middle of a front-office power play. In announcing the signing, the Hawks said Portland would receive one No. 2 pick in the 1978 draft and “future consider ation.” Spartans, 24-14; Ohio State will win a bruising battle with Major Hoople’s t Football Forecast Purdue, 32-28; Minnesota will romp over lowa. 41-7; Wiscon- Georgia 8 Mississippi 7 Tennessee 21 Ga. Tech 20 Auburn 18 N. Carolina St. 14 sin will slip by Illinois, 31-28, and in-and-out Indiana will take Northwestern, 30-20. The Big Eight contests will go like this: Colorado 25, Oklahoma St. 15; lowa State 28. Missouri 21, and Nebraska 42. Kansas State 18. Out on the west coast. Southern California will enter tain Alabama in what should be a very close contest. The home field advantage will carry the Trojans to a six point margin over the Tide in a free-scoring affair. We make it Southern California 38, Alabama 32 — har-rumph! Now go on with my forecast: Saturday, Oct. 8 Arizona 27, Texas Tech 13 (N) Army 21, Villanova 17 holding four aces, adding power to their game of speed, timely hitting and effective — if not spectacular — pitching. They profited from three homers, two-run shots by Mcßae in the first, John May berry in the third off releiver Dick Tidrow and a solo blast by Al Cowens in the eighth. Patek’s two-run double down the third base line in the second knocked in the only runs not scored on homers. Thurman Munson’s two-run homer for the Yanks was all the AL East champions could manage before a home crowd of 54,930. "We hit with authority,” said Kansas City Manager Whitey Herzog. “But we’re still a run ning ball club.” The man most responsible for the Royals’ increased home run production is Al Cowens, who has gotten Herzog’s vote for the Al’s Most Valuable Player. “He’s the best defensive right fielder in the league,” said Her zog. “He batted a steady .300, had 23 homers and more than 100 RBIs (112).” Cowens, in just his second full season in the major leagues, said he wasn’t going to worry about the MVP Award. He also said he wasn’t concerned that, coming from the Midwest, he and his teammates were un derpublicized, despite having the best record in baseball. “The lack of publicity won’t keep me from playing hard ev ery day,” Cowens said. “But by winning, we’ll make things change.” Cowens did some changing himself this year. Moving into the cleanup spot, he clubbed 23 homers in 606 at-bats. Last sea son, in 581 at-bats, he had just three homers. Cowens, who pulled his homer to left field, also beat out an infield single before Mayberry’s third-inning homer and singled in the first. He made three fine plays in right field, including one in which he reached over the wall to rob Mickey Rivers of a homer. Auburn 18, No. Carolina St. 14 Baylor 36, SMU 14 Boston College 28, Tulane 21 (N) Bowling Green 18, Toledo 7 Clemson 35, Virginia 15 Colorado 25, Oklahoma St. 15 Rutgers 24, Conn. 22 Cornell 23, Harvard 21 E. Carolina 39, So. 111. 25 E. Michigan 33, Ohio U. 27 Pitt 36, Florida 22 (N) Florida St. 26, Cincinnati 24 (N> Georgia 8, Miss 7 Colgate 21, Holy Cross 14 Minnesota 41, lowa 7 lowa St. 28, Missouri 21 Nebraska 42, Kansas St. 18 Kentucky 32, Miss. St. 21 (N) Louisville 24, Tulsa 20 Maryland 15, Syracuse 13 Kansas 22, Miami (Fla.) 17 (N) Miami (O.) 35, Marshall 6 Michigan 24. Mich. St. 14 Navy 20, Air Force 14 Arizona St. 36, New Mexico 7 (N) No. Carolina 23, Wake Forest 16 Indiana 30, Northwestern 20 Ohio St. 32, Purdue 28 Texas 35, Oklahoma 24 Washington 27, Oregon 10 Brigham Young 21, Oregon St. 6 Penn State 44, Utah St. 12 Brown 28, Penn 17 Columbia 24, Princeton 13 TCU 22, Rice 12 (N) San Jose St. 42, Santa Clara 13 (N) Duke 25. So. Carolina 21 Idaho 21, Idaho St. 17 (N) So. Calif. 38, Alabama 32 No. Tex. St. 26, So. Miss. 18 (N) Stanford 33, UCLA 27 Tenn 21, Georgia Tech 20 Grambling 31, Tenn. St. 21 (N) Colo. St. 27, UTEP 14 (N) Wyoming 24, Utah 6 (N) Vanderbilt 28, LSU 21 Richmond 14, VMI 13 Calif. 22, Wash. St. 21 (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN » ' * w- 'v.. *■ I ■ Manager Tom Lasorda, left, hugs Dusty Baker after grand slam. Atlanta tennis Shaw, Newberry win doubles match ATLANTA (AP) — Renee Richards, the victim of a with ering on and off the court attack by Dianne Fromholtz earlier, and her partner Paula Smith lost 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 to the doubles team of Kristien Shaw and Janet Newberry at the Atlanta Women’s Tennis Classic Wednesday night. In singles play, second-seeded Martina Navratilova soundly defeated Wendy Turnbull 6-2,6- 1 to advance to the quarter-fi nals. The former Czechoslovakian used a strong serve and volley game to defeat Miss Turnbull, who was the Forest Hills run ner-up this year. In another action, fourth seeded Betty Stove of the Neth erlands easily beat South Afri can Marise Kruger 6-2, 6-4. Seventh-seeded Kerry Reid, a former Australian living in Greenville, S.C., beat Betsy Naglesen of Winnetka, 111., 6-0, 3-6, 7-6, and Dianne Fromholtz, the sixth seed, defeated Mary Hamm 6-0,6-1 in the only other singles matches involving seed ed players. In doubles play earlier Wednesday, Billie Jean King and Rosie Casals defeated Ka thy Kuykendall and Candy Reynolds 6-2, 6-2. Francoise Durr and Virginia Wade beat Magelsen and Virginia Ruzici, 7-5, 6-3. Wendy Overton and Julie Anthony defeated Ilana Kloss and Linky Boshoff 4-6,6-4 and 6-1. On Tuesday, Miss Fromholtz eliminated Miss Richards from the singles in what observers felt was the transsexual’s first real test in major competition. After her 6-1, 6-3 victory Tuesday over the 43-year-old former New York eye surgeon, Miss Fromholtz gave Miss Richards a verbal drubbing, calling her a “sideshow.” Pacers defeat Hawks LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - John Williamson scored 17 points Wednesday night to lead the Indiana Pacers to a 121-98 victory over the Atlanta Hawks in a National Basketball Associ ation exhibition game. The Pacers, relying on a fast breaking offense and balanced scoring, ran out to a 60-40 half time lead. Reserves Billy Keller and Bobby Wilson scored 16 points each for the winners, Dave Robisch scored 15 and Mike Flynn and Mike Bantom added 12 apiece. John Drew led the Hawks with 14 points. The match was part of a six game exhibition package de signed to showcase Louisville as a possible NBA site. “Something like this is against human nature and takes away from the tour,” Miss Fromholtz said. “It gives us a bad image with the general public. “The people, the general pub lic, are lauguing at us. At the way she (Richards) walks on and acts like a female.” Miss Fromholtz also com plained that Miss Richards was receiving “all the publicity” while many superior young women players “can’t get any where.” £ ./B| IT " nk YI I /• y / -7B .IB /* CS oKr. Hi BDL Deluxe This Week's $ 239 95 111 Regular $277.95 WB . 3x-9x Widefield AMMO 9 s 0 $4«9 ■ Bn 2x-7x Regular Scopes ’84 s 0 30 , 6 T.? Free Parking Griffin Hardware Co. 405 South Hill Street - Griffin, Go. Open All Day Wednesday Dodgers 7, Phillies 1 Baker’s grand slam ties National series LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Los Angeles Dodgers and Phila delphia Phillies are tied at one game each in the National League championshi series to day because of a pitch that was described as three feet too high, a foot and a half too far inside and hit 390 feet too far. The picturesque description was made by losing pitcher Jim Lonborg, who threw the pitch to the Dodgers’ Dusty Baker with the bases loaded in the fouth inning and the score tied 1-1. Baker hit a grand slam home run to put Los Angeles ahead 5- 1, a lead righthander Don Sutton protected as the Dodgers went on to a 7-1 victory that squared the best-of-five series at a game apiece. So the series shifts to Phila delphia, where Burt Hooton and his knuckle curve will go for Los Angeles against power pitching Larry Christenson for the Phillies on Friday afternoon. The second game simply nar rowed down to that fourth in ning after Bill Russell and Reg gie Smith had singled and Ron Cey sacrificed. Then Phillies’ Manager Danny Ozark took a slow walk out to talk to Lon borg. “I had made up my mind to intentionally walk Steve Gar vey,” Ozark was to say later. “I just wanted to talk about how we would pitch to Baker.” Ozark said he reminded Lon borg to keep the ball down, so the infield could get a ground ball and bail out of the one-out jam.” “It was sound logic,” said the crestfallen Lonborg, who threw a sidearm curve on a 1-2 count to Baker that the Dodger slug ger hammered into the left field seats, the second grand slam in two games for Los Angeles. “Danny didn’t know I was go ing to hang a curve ball,” said Lonborg. “I knew when the pitch was 10 to 15 feet toward the plate that I had made a mistake.” Baker said he wasn’t insulted when the Phillies elected to walk the clutch hitting Garvey to get to the former Atlanta Brave who hit 30 homers during the regular season, one of four Dodgers to do that. “I knew it was a good per centage play,” Baker said. “I just tried to remain calm, not to get too excited. I wasn’t trying to hit the ball out of the stadium. I just wanted to hit it hard and not into a double play.” Ozark and Lonborg knew that Baker was 0-for-7 against Lon borg this year, including a fly out in the second inning. Baker, of course, was elated after the game. “When I was a kid playing in Flames defeat Houston Aeros HOUSTON (AP) - Houston Aeros Coach Bill Dineen and Coach Fred Creighton of the Atlanta Flames both agree the team that has already played a few preseason games has the advantage over the one just starting. The National Hockey League Flames, now 2-3 in preseason play, defeated the World Hock ey Association Aeros, 5-3, Wednesday night in an inter league exhibition contest. It was the first exhibition start for the Aeros. “The Flames having already played four games helped them immensely,” Dineen said. “I knew we’d be a little rusty early but I thought we’d put more pressure on them in the third period. “We had them on the run at 3- 2 but they came back strong. Our real breakdowns came in the backyard in Riverside, (Ca lif.), I used to pretend I was the hero in a big game,” said the Dodgers’ left fielder. “I guess all kids play pretend games like that. But I never dreamed it would come true.” After Baker’s big hit, the Dodgers turned the job over to Sutton, the right-hander who posted a 14-8 record in Los An geles’ drive to the West Division championship. “I’d give myself a seven or an eight on a scale of 10 for my performance” said Sutton, who gave up nine hits, including a third-inning home run to Bake Mcßride. The Dodgers tied the game in the third on Rick Monday’s double and a two-out single by Davey Lopes. front of the net. That’s how they scored their last three goals.” Creigton said he thought the Aeros played “pretty well” for their first game. "We’ve been making costly defensive mistakes and we did it again,” Creighton said. “We just score enough to offset our mistakes.” Ken Houston scored a pair of goals for Atlanta and Bobby La Londe added a pair of assists in the Flames’ victory. Houston, Eric Vail, and Tom Lysiak each scored first period goals for the Flames. Andre Lacroix scored a first period goal for the Aeros. The Aeros cut Atlanta’s lead to 3-2 in the second period but markers by Houston and John Gould put the Flames ahead, 5- 2. Terry Ruskowski also scored a second period goal for the Aeros.
