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Cards bring back cardiac finish By DENNE H. FREEMAN AP Sports Writer DALLAS (AP) - The St. Louis Cardinals, back to their old cardiac finishes, unearthed 15-year veteran Jackie Smith for his first touchdown pass since 1975 Monday night to share heroics with Jim Hart and bury previously unbeaten Dallas 24-17 in high fourth-quar ter drama. “I think it’s obvious we’ve t Sports World An AP Sports Analysis By WILL GRIMSLEY AP Special Correspondent Blunted weapons FREEPORT, Bahamas (AP) — Hey, says Big Ben, what are they trying to do to pro football, anyhow —turn it into a patty cake game? If they keep on inhibiting players the way they’re doing, argues the Deacon, people will quit paying to see it — fans will be turned off by the millions. Two of the game’s most notorious head hunters of another era relaxed under the palm trees of the pic turesque Bahamas and deplored what they called the anti violence panic that has set in with Commissioner Pete Rozelle. “If the commissioner keeps calling in and disciplining every guy who gives another a shot in the head with a forearm, he will make everybody so cautious there won’t be any game left,” said Ben Davidson, the Oakland Raiders’ towering defensive end of a decade ago. “There has been violence in football since the first ball was put on the ground 100 years ago,’’ contended Deacon Jones, the tank-like anchor of the Los Angeles Rams’ “Fearsome Foursome” of the 19605. “Football is a violent game. We are taught violence from the time we start playing in grade school. Now they turn around and want to penalize us for using the techniques we are taught all our lives.” Davidson and Jones were two of the athletes competing in the veterans category of Superstars, filmed at the Bahamas Princess Hotel complex over the weekend for showing later over the ABC national television network. Both men said they felt the game was less rough than 10 years ago and that the concern over violence has been raised because of the increased exposure on television. “People see it on television and Rozelle feels he has to react," said Davidson, a 6-foot-8 giant with a mustache that once curled out of the protective bars of his head gear. “I think he is over reacting and the result can work to the detriment of the sport. This is a contact sport. Once you start trying to ease up on the contact, you don’t have football. You have patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man." Jones was sharply critical of rules changes which he said blunted the weapons of the defensive linemen and swung the pendulum in favor of the offensive unit. Jones is now vice president of a health care firm in Los Angeles. Davidson, father of three teenagers, lives in Oakland, races motorcycles and gets periodic roles in the movies. Neither is a football fan. Ernie and Bernie gone Vols given little chance to retain SEC cage title By MATT YANCEY Associated Press Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Its Ernie & Bernie show dis banded, Tennessee is given little chance of retaining the Southeastern Conference bas ketball title it shared with Ken tucky last season. The Vols have nary a senior on their squad after All-Amer ica forward Bernard King, the SEC’s leading scorer and re bounder last season, gave up his final year to turn pro under the hardship draft. As a rookie, King is now the leading scorer for the hapless New Jersey Nets and his Ten nessee teammate, Ernie Grun feld, is playing for the Mil waukee Bucs. But their success in the pros is little consolation to the star- IP’s top 20 I By The Associated Press The Top Twenty teams in The Associated Press college football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, season records and total points. Points based on 20-18-16-14-12-10-9-8-7-6- 54-3-2-1: 1. (58) 9-0-0 1,214 2. (1) 9-1-0 983 3.Oklahoma (1) 9-1-0 962 4.0hi0 St. 9-1-0 819 5. 9-1-0 655 6. Dame 8-1-0 639 turned our season around,” said Hart, who rifled a 49-yard touchdown pass to Mel Gray and lobbed a 3-yard scoring pass to the 37-year-old Smith with 3:10 to play for the game winner. Dallas’ record dropped to 8-1 and St. Louis put some suspense back in the National Conference Eastern Division race with its fifth consecutive victory for a 6- 3 ledger. depleted Vols, who will now have to rely more on teamwork and defense instead of their traditional run-and-gun ap proach. Tennessee also will open its basketball season for the second year in a row without head coach Ray Mears, who again is suffering from what his phys cian terms mental exhaustion. Mears, who underwent elec tric shock treatment this time last year for mental depression, was ordered home just prior to the first day of practice because of a recurrence. Taking over in his place, at least for the time being, is Cliff Wettig, a former fraternity brother and teammate when the two men attended Miami University in Ohio. “I don’t know what’s going to 7. (1) 9-1-0 548 8. 8-1-0 529 9. St. 9-1-0 458 10. 8-1-1 377 11. 8-2-0 306 12. Arizona St. 8-1-0 165 13. St. 8-1-0 162 14. Texas A&M 6-2-0 111 15. 7-2-1 86 16. Tech 7-2-0 59 17. 7 '2"® i3l 18. Carolina 7-2-1 28 19. 6-4-0 24 20. 7-3-0 21 “I never thought something like this would happen to me again,” said Smith, who was catching only his third pass of the season. “It’s great to be part of it.” Hart said “We usually throw that pass to the halfback and I think it surprised them.” Dallas, off to its best start in the 17-year history of the club, appeared to have the Cardinals well caged, building a 14-3 half time lead on Tony Dorsett’s 1- yard touchdown run and a 2- yard scoring pass from Roger Staubach to tight end Billy Joe DuPree. All St. Louis had to show for the first half of the nationally televised match was Jim Bak ken’s 26-yard field goal. But Dallas muffed a chance to blow the game wide open when Randy Hughes intercepted a Hart pass at the St. Louis 17 only to see DuPree return the favor with a fumble on an end around. St. Louis’ Wayne Morris scored on a 1-yard touchdown run after Benny Barnes was flagged on a 43-yard inter ference call and the Cardinals trailed only 14-10. Efren Her rera’s 21-yard field goal set the stage for Hart’s fourth-quarter heroics. He found Gray wide open be hind Aaron Kyle and Cliff Har ris for the game-tying touch down, then burned the jittery Cowboy defense with the pass to Smith. “We had the best feeling coming in here that we’ve ever had,” said Hart. “The Cowboys were riding high and we had never won here so we turned the negative points into positive points for us.” Cowboy Coach Tom Landry agreed. “We haven’t played good for the last three or four weeks and a loss was inevitable,” said Landry. “The Cardinals have made things interesting again in the division, particularly with us going to Pittsburgh next week.” Landry sounded like there might be some changes in store for the sputtering Cowboy of fense — like rookie Tony Dor sett moving into a starting posi tion. “We have to use Tony more because he is running good,” said Landry. St. Louis Coach Don Coryell, who had seen his team lose a 30- 24 heartbreaker to Dallas on Oct. 9, was euphoric. “I’ve never been as happy about a win like I was tonight,” said Coryell. “This was a great victory. We wanted it bad.” St. Louis intercepted Stau bach twice, and the Cowboy happen,” Wettig said of Mears. “He’s making slight progress, no more than that. Last year when this happened, we had several experienced people coming back. We don’t have that this year.” The Vols have two returning starters from last season, 6-9 sophomore Reggie Johnson at the high post and 5-10 point guard Johnny Darden, the play maker on Tennessee’s fast break. “Reggie’s going to be our next great, great player,” Wettig predicted. “He’s improved immeasurably from last season and I think he’ll make All- Friedlander bowls 218 James Friedlander bowled a 218 game Monday night in the Moose 1503 Bowling League. Other high game bowlers include: Dannie Hudgins 202, Leo Rothbauer 205, George Holmes 207, Bobby Folds 216 and Earl Cox 204. The Governors defeated the Outer Guard 3-1, the Junior Governors blanked the Sergeants at Arms 4-0, the Past Governors defeated the Inner Guard 3-1 and the Trustees beat the Prelates 3-1. quarterback said, “I can’t blame my injured hip or thumb. I threw well in practice. We just missed some big third-down plays and when we got up 14-3,1 guess we really got too con servative.” The game was a rough-and tumble affair, with both Barnes of the Cowboys and St. Louis’ Lee Nelson being ejected for fighting. “I just lost my cool and I shouldn’t have let my temper run away from me,” said Barn- es. Cardinal offensive tackle Conrad Dobler said, “We’re moving now. Dallas has some tough ones coming up ... If they have happen to give us the championship we’ll take it.” St. Louis halfback Terry Met calf said “The rest of the season looks good. We were just higher than Dallas. You know they were 8-0 and they weren’t up like the first game. “Beating them down here was great since it was the first time since I’ve been here that we’ve done it. We thought we got robbed in the first game.” Landry admitted St. Louis was hungrier. “We were asking for it because we hadn’t been playing well,” said Landry. And the Cardinals gave “it” to the last of the National Football League’s unbeaten teams. Rutledge and Plasketes share SEC ‘Player of the Week 9 honors ATLANTA (AP) - Alabama quarterback Jeff Rutledge to day was selected as the South east Back of the Week by The Associated Press, and defensive end George Plasketes of Mis sissippi was honored as the top lineman. Rutledge, a 6-foot-2, 200- pound junior, connected on nine of 14 passes for 165 yards and two touchdowns, adding 57 yards on nine rushed to guide the second-ranked Crimson Tide to a 36-0 triumph over Miami of Florida. Plasketes, a 6-foot-2, 218- pound senior, was the ringlea der of the Ole Miss defense that turned four fumbles into three touchdowns and a field goal in a 43-14 thrashing of Tennessee. Plasketes was in on 11 tackles and had eight solos, including two quarterback sacks, for 28 yards in losses and recovered two fumbles. Rutledge narrowly edged Au burn’s William Andrews for Back of the Week honors. An- American before his senior year.” Starting at the low post this year will be 6-6 sophomore Chuck Threeths. Terry Crosby, a 6-4 junior, and Bert Ber telkamp, a 6-3 guard will start at the two wing positions. “If we want to win big, a couple of our freshmen are go ing to have to move into the starting lineup,” Wettig said. “But we haven’t had anybody yet who really wants to take somebody else’s place from them.” Being groomed for one of the wing positions is James Ratiff, a highly touted 6-8 freshmen from Washington, D.C. Kevin Nash, a 6-11 freshman from Trenton, Mich., is behind Threeths at the low post. Wettig said his returning players have shown a lot of maturity since last season but he agreed with other SEC coaches that Kentucky is the team to beat. “We’ve still beat them five games in a row and we’re not about to roll over and give them a win now,” Wettig said of the Wildcats. “I think we’ll suprise a few people.” Tennessee plays an exhibition game against at national team from Czechoslovakia in Knox ville on Nov. 23. The Vols open their season Nov. 28 in Knox ville against Samford and play their first SEC game Jan. 2 in Knoxville against Florida. rTclOialK.' 1 A*® ; ■r Jrw I g • St. Louis Cardinals running back, Wayne Morris (24), lunges over the Dallas Cowboys’ defense in third period to drews, a 5-foot-11, 196-pound junior from Thomasville, Ga., ran for 142 yards on 25 carries, including touchdown runs of 32 yards and one yard in the Ti gers’ 33-14 route of Georgia. Others who drew support for back honors included: —James Storey, Ole Miss, who ran for 88 yards and scored three TDs on runs of seven, two and one yards. —Derrick Ramsey, Kentucky Yanks remember to share Series wealth with batboys NEW YORK (AP) - Thirty New York Yankees are $27,758.04 richer for their win ning efforts in the World Series. And this year, they shared the wealth with their batboys with out being reminded. According to figures released Monday by baseball Commis sioner Bowie Kuhn’s office, a full share for the losing Los An geles Dodgers was $20,899.05. The full shares for both teams set World Series records. The Yankees voted 30 full shares and 20 of those went to personnel who had received los er’s cuts of $19,935.48 after the 1976 Series. That two-year total of $47,693.52 went to 15 players, in cluding Ron Blomberg, who spent most of the period on the disabled list. Pitcher Ken Clay and desig nated hitter Cliff Johnson, who joined the team at mid-season, got $20,818.50 three-quarter shares. Outfielder Dell Alston, who shuttled between the Yan kees and their Syracuse farm club, received a two-thirds share of $18,505.33. Veteran Jimmy Wynn, released in July, received a half-share of $13,879. Basketball sign-ups scheduled The Griffin-Spalding County Recreation Dept, will begin Youth Basketball sign-ups Saturday and continue until Dec. 3. Sign-ups will be Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Three leagues will be offered: Tom Thumb, Rick Barry, and Junior League. The Tom Thumb League is for boys and girls ages 7-10; Rick Barry League for boys and girls ages 11-13; and Junior League boys 14-16 and girls 14-17. The age cut-off date is Nov. 30. To sign up for basketball, a parent must be present and the player must have a birth cer tificate. Registration fee will be $3. Page 9 quarterback, who ran one yard for a touchdown and ran for a two-point conversion while rushing for 55 yards and passing for 57 in the Wildcats’ 14-7 triumph over Florida. —Charles Alexander of Loui siana State, who ran for 136 yards, including a 43-yard scamper that set up the winning field goal in a 27-24 win over Mississi-i State. —Mike Wright of Vanderbilt, Elrod Hendricks, Mickey Klutts and Gil Patterson, who spent almost all season at Syr acuse, got one-third shares of $9,252.67. Six players, including Dave Kingman, who joined the club for the final three weeks of the season, received cash grants of S2OO apiece. The Yankees also voted $1,982.71 each to their seven-man ground crew, SI,OOO each to their two clubhouse boys, SSOO apiece to two special policemen and S2OO each to their two batboys. The Yankees neglected to pay their batboys after their run nerup finish in the Series last year, saying later that there had been a mixup. 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The Dodger cuts included a five-sixths share of $17,415.87 to Boog Powell, who was released in August; a three-quuarters share of $15,674.29 to pitcher Lance Rautzhan, who came up in mid-year, and a two-thirds share of $13,932.70 to outfielder John Hale, who left the club at about the same time. Al Downing and Stan Wall got $10,449.53 half-shares, while Jerry Grote, Vic Davilillo and Rafael Landestoy, who all joined the club in late August, received one-sixth shares of $3,483.18. The Dodgers also voted cash grants of $250 to SSOO —Barry Krauss and Rich Wingo, Alabama linebackers. Each had nine individual tack les and Krauss also picked off a pass. —Martin Cox, Vanderbilt split end who had 10 catches for 105 yards. —Willie Jones, Florida State defensive end who had seven individual tackles, including one quarterback sack, four as sists and two fumble recoveries. share to seven other players. The three Los Angeles bat boys each received SIOO. Kansas City’s American League West champions re ceived $9,797.73 apiece for a full share while the National League East champions Phillies got $9,661.37 apiece. Baltimore and Boston, tied for second and third place in the American League East behind New York, received a $41,674.51 total per team. Texas, second in the AL West, voted 34 full shares of $1,774.60 each. The Cincinnati Reds got $2,011.35 NL West second-place shares, a big drop from the $26,366.68 full shares the year before when the Reds won the series.