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Guidry’s 3-hitter overpowers Royals By FRED ROTHENBERG AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Yankees, led by their stopper and their starter, won the game they had to win, evening their American League playoff series with the Kansas City Royals at one victory apiece. The stopper was Ron Guidry, who overpowered the Royals with a tidy three-hitter. The starter was Cliff Johnson, who ignited the Yankees’ dormant bats with a home run and a run scoring double. The efforts of the slender Guidry and the massive John son propelled the Yankees to a 6-2 triumph Thursday night and turned the best-of-five AL pen nant series into a two-out-of three affair. The first of those three games at Kansas City’s Royals Stadium is tonight, with right hander Dennis Leonard, Kansas City’s 20-game winner, against Mike Torrez, 17-13 this season. Guidry, the ragin’ Cajun from Carencro, La., almost didn’t make the Yankees in spring training, only going north with the team because New York didn’t have any other left handed relievers. At one point in spring training, Yankee manager Billy Martin joked to the 27-year-old: “If there’s any body in the American League you can get out, tell me and I’ll let you pitch to him.” Once the season started and Guidry was forced into the Central’s Parker coaches team to win from press box By BILL EICHENBERGER The Macon Telegraph MACON, Ga. (AP) — Coach Larry Parker may have made Georgia high school football history two weeks ago in Warner Robins, Ga., when he directed his Central team from the press box. His innovative head coaching effort worked. Parker’s Big Orange upset Northside of Warner Robins, 7-0, for its first win after three consecutive defeats. “To my knowledge, it has never been done before in Georgia,” Bill Fordham, executive secretary of the Georgia High School Association, said from his office in Thomaston. And, as long as Coach Parker uses only the press box phone to communicate with his assistants on the sideline, it is perfectly legal, Fordham continued. “Only when Coach Parker begins using special video equipment and the like while in the press box would it become illegal,” he said. The decision to abandon the sidelines for the press box during the game was one Parker had been considering since the day in the spring of 1976 when he was hired to head the Central football program. He ruled it out last season, his first at the Central helm, and stayed on the sidelines. But with his team losing its first three games this I&PEDMHI ***'%'% 'I ' : : *„*%** • I • Brown ::: /SRs. 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He had great stuff, a great breaking ball,” said Her zog, whose club was limited to Frank White’s single in the third, Freddie Patek’s double in the sixth and George Brett’s single in the ninth. “He’s a really good pitcher.” Although the Royals never went after the 6-foot-4, 225- pound Johnson, they would have preferred if he played for somebody besides the Yankees. Called “The Monster” by Martin, Johnson creates ex citement at the plate, swinging from the heels on every pitch. The only thing that keeps his body from toppling over is the contact of bat and ball. With the Yankees trailing 1-0 in the fifth, Johnson hit a tow ering pop behind home plate which catcher Darrell Porter misplayed, giving the Yankees designated hitter a second life. Several pitches later, Johnson hit the ball in the opposite di rection, more than 430 feet to straightaway center field. Not only did he have to battle one of starter Andy Hassler’s fast balls, Johnson had to squint through tearing eyes that were irritated by the wind. Johnson also laced a tie breaking double in the sixth in ning, prompting a standing ova tion from the crowd of 56,230 — largest in Yankee Stadium this year — when he went to bat in the eighth inning. ★★★★★★★★ SPORTS ★★★★★★★★ Tennis Classic quarter-finals open today ATLANTA (AP) — Seven top women’s tennis pros and unher alded Ann Kiyomura begin quarter-final play today in the $75,000 Atlanta Women’s Tennis Classic. Miss Kiyomura downed fifth seeded Rosie Casals Thursday 7-6, 6-3, to break up the procession to top seeds into the final eight. In other Thursday matches, top-seeded Chris Evert eased past Kathy Kuykendall 6-3, 6-1; Virginia Wade took Janet New berry 6-3, 6-4; Billie Jean King defeated Francoise Durr 6-2, 6- 4, and Kerry Reid beat Virginia Ruzici 6-3, 6-3. season, Parker changed his mind. “I’d spent the first eight years of my coaching career spotting from the press box during a game,” Parker said of his days as an assistant coach under Nick Hyder at West Rome. "My first game at Central last year was the first time I’d ever spent a game on the sideline as a coach. I was never comfortable there. I’d get too involved in the game and would forget and overlook things I shouldn’t have.” Parker continued: “Coach Hyder (now head coach at Valdosta) always felt that your best coach should be in the press box spotting. And I agree with him.” Parker said he has able assistants, but all except offen sive coordinator Gary Phillips are first or second-year coaches. “They just didn’t have the experience to do the job in the press box,” he said. “And I really enjoyed it. I find myself concentrating better. I could, of course, see much more clearly what was going on down on the field below.” Parker plans to stay in the press box indefinitely. “I feel at home there. And I think my being up there makes us a better football team,” he said. Central will need every advantage it can muster for its next outing. The Chargers face unbeaten Warner Robins, the top-ranked team in Class AAA, tonight at Porter Stadium. SEC Tide challenges nation’s No. 1 By The Associated Press Alabama challenges the na tion’s No. 1 team, Louisiana State attempts to end a long winless tring out of its state and Kentucky launches a bid for a title it can’t legally hold in key Southeastern Conference action Saturday. Alabama, ranked No. 7, visits Southern California in a game that will be televised nationally (ABC) beginning at 3:50 p.m. EDT. The SEC also sees action against the school that finished No. 1 in last year’s ranking — the Pittsburgh Panthers, who provide the opposition for Flori da’s home opener. LSU, ranked No. 18, is a solid favorite to dispose of Vanderbilt at Nashville, but the Bayou Bengals have not won a game outside Louisiana since a 51-14 conquest of Mississippi at Jackson in 1973. The string since then includes 12 defeats and a tie with Rice. Kentucky, coming off an im pressive 24-20 upset of fourth ranked Penn State, entertains Mississippi State in one of only two SEC night games, with the other being the Pitt-Florida clash. It will be the conference opener for Kentucky, which, like its foe, has a 3-1 overall record. The Wildcats are not eligible to win the league title this year because they are on NCAA probation. There is one other league bout on the day’s agenda, sending Mississippi to defending Mb -- jEL. J r - v Ik. IHR| Yankees’ Ron Guidry hurls against Royals Face Tennessee Jackets will try to avenge loss KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Each coming off their first con vincing victories, Tennessee and Georiga Tech battle Satur day in a game that may decide which one finishes the football season on the plus side of the won-loss charts. champion Georgia, with each seeking its first SEC victory. In other games, North Carolina State is at Auburn and Georgia Tech is at Tennessee. The schedule for area inde pendents has Cincinnati at Florida State, Kansas at Miami of Florida, Tulane at Boston College, Tulsa at Louisville, north Texas State at Southern Mississippi, California State- Fullerton at Northeast Loui siana and Northwestern Loui siana at Nicholls State. Mem phis State has an open date. A crowd of 71,000 is expected for seventh-ranked Alabama’s match with southern Cal, which holds the nation’s longest win ning streat at 15 games. The Tide has a 3-1 edge in the series, including an upset victory in Los Angeles in 1971 that propelled Alabama on a five year domination of SEC foot ball. The Tide is 3-1 this year, the Trojans 4-0. Coach Bear Bryant likes to display his Tide before a na tional TV audience, saying, “I do know that anybody who won’t lay their ears back and show off that day should quit playing.” Approximately 30,000 fans are expected at Nashville where LSU enters with a 2-1 overall and a 1-0 league mark com pared with Vandy’s 1-3 and 0-1. Kentucky is a slight favorite to dispose of MSU, which has won 11 of its last 13 games. A sellout crowd of 58,000 is ex pected. Coach Pepper Rodgers’ Yel low Jackets will be trying to avenge a 42-7 loss to Tennessee last year. In addition, Rodgers will be trying to even at 3-3 the record of encounters between his teams and those of Ten nessee’s coach, Johnny Majors. Rodgers was 2-1 against Ma jors when the Georgia Tech coach was at the helm at Kan sas and Majors was at lowa State. Majors’ Pittsburgh team, however, defeated Rodgers’ squad at Tech in two encoun ters, including a 42-14 victory last year. Both teams are 2-2 but neither has been able to put two vic tories together so far this season. “I’m anxious to see what we can do,” Majors said. “I want to see if this team can handle the modest success it has had, how well it will build on the positive factor of last week.” CRONIC CHEVROLET, ■«. Invites Everyone To Our New Car Showing & Sale Now! FREE Candy & Balloons For Everyone! Drive a 78 Away Today AT CRONIC CHEVROLET WE CARE PHONE 228-1326 Highway 41-19 North Griffin, Ga. Page 13 Phillies’ Ozark expects center field headache PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Philadelphia Phillies Manager Danny Ozark was expected to have a double-barreled center field headache today for the third game of the best-of-five National League championship series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Phillies and Dodgers are 1-1 after splitting the first two games in Los Angeles. The ac tion resumed today at the Phillies’ Veterans Stadium be fore a sellout crowd of more than 60,000. Ozark has had to go the first two games without his secre tary of defense in center field, angular Garry Maddox, who hit .293 during the regular season Cooper’s only thoughts are on ‘Dogs ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Coach Ken Cooper of Mississippi says his thoughts are on the Univer sity of Georgia football team, not some reports that Rebel alumni are pushing to have him fired. “The only thoughts I have at this time are about beating Georgia, and that’s not an easy assignment,” said Cooper, who sends his Rebels against his alma mater Saturday at 1:30 p.m. EDT in a Southeastern Conference game. The Rebels are 2-3 overall, including a victory over Notre Dame, and 0-2 in the confer ence. Georgia, 2-2, is favored to rebound from last week’s con ference-opening loss to Ala bama. Georgia captured the SEC title last year and finished sec ond in the previous campaign, losing once each season — both losses coming on the artificial surface at Ole Miss where the Rebels scored comeback vic tories. “I’m sure they haven’t for gotten who won the last two games,” Cooper said. “Georgia has a very good defensive team. They are young on offense and have not been scoring as many points as they scored the last couple of years.” —Griffin Daily News Friday, Ocfober 7, 1977 and ran down everything hit in side the stadium. Bake Mcßride moved from right to center and Jay Johnstone and Jerry Martin platooned in right in the games at Dodger Stadium. But now, not only was Mad dox questionable for the third game, but Mcßride was limping with an injured big toe on his left foot. The toe was Xrayed Thursday night, but the results wer inconclusive. The X-ray technicians want to take a better look. Maddox took batting practice Thursday and ran at full speed in the outfield, but Ozark still wasn’t satisfied that it was worth the gamble to play his regular center fielder. “We can win this thing with out Garry Maddox,” Ozark said at a partial team workout Thursday. “I’m more inter ested in Maddox being ready for the World Series.” Mcßride, who was 4-for-9 in the first two games, with two runs scored, a home run and one run batted in, injured the toe when he crashed into the center field wall in the second game trying to grab a drive by Reggie Smith that went for a triple. At first he complained of a shoulder problem. But later the toe began to throb. He ap- Rtoew Smith. RACING EQUIPMENT High Falls Road Griffin, Ga. 30223 227-0778 Late Model Comoro L-88 Hoods $ 138 50 L-88 Scoop s ss°® Pro-Stock or Eagle Headers $ 57 50 Black Jack Appliance Headers *69 S 0 Super’ Stock Plug Wires S IO SO Motorcycle Goggle And Face Shields s 2°° And S 3 OO parently kicked the wall. Despite trainer Don Seger’s optimism about Maddox’ condi tion and a tentative okay from the team doctor, Ozark said, “I would think he couldn’t play. At best I would use him only as a pinch hitter.” But Ozark may have had to take a chance with Maddox if Mcßride can’t make it. However, if these cases ran true to form, both Maddox and Mcßride were expected to be in the lineup against Dodgers’ starter Burt Hooton, 12-7. Hooton, 0-2 against the East Division champions this season, nonetheless had a 2.40 earned run average against the Phils. In addition to Mcßride, Hoo ton had to check Richie Hebner, hitting .400 in the series, and Greg Luzinski with a .286 mark, one homer, two RBI and two runs scored. Slugging Mike Sch midt had just one hit in seven at bats. Ozark started Larry Christenson, 19-6, who won 15 of his last 16 starts, but had trouble finishing because of a blister on his pitching hand that breaks and bleeds after six or seven innings. The blister is particularly aggravated by the slider pitch.
