Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 22, 1978 Page: 4 of 10
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Oklahoma favorite in Big Eight
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Oklahoma titans who ruled ear- time since he came to the Jay-
hawks in 1975, will not be using
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Cleveland at Milwaukee, (n)
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Iowa State this year than ever, two running backs at the same ning back Bo Robertson, who
And nobody in the Big Eight, time the caliber of Rick Berns ran for 1,399 yards last year,
after watching the Cyclones go and IM. Hipp. As a con- has a seven-yard average-per-
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CHECKING IN- Tarleton welcomed back its football players Monday as workouts for the 1978 grid
season began. Graduate assistant coach Johnny Gann (right) is shown registering two returning
lettermen: center Mike Whaley of Dallas and guard Randy Crook of Waco. The Texans went
through their annual 12-minute run Monday night and were to begin two-a-day practices today.
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TORONTO (AP) — Tmes the Cleveland Indiana, who re- run of the inning to score
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San Diego at Philadelphia
Saa Frannacv at New York
Los Angeles at Montreal. n
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Chicago at Houston, n
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Detroit 1, Minnesota 4
Baltimore 3, Oakland 1
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a Texas League baseball game, record drop to 55. John Littlefield, now 6-7, was
In other Texas League action, the winning Arkansas pitcher.
Jackson defeated Shreveport, 5- Two streaks came to an end in Mike Griffin now 5-18 was the
2, Amarillo edged Midland, 7-5, the Jackson Mets 5-2 victory loser.
and Arkansas beat Tulsa, 7-5. over Shreveport. Jackson broke
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new athletic directors and two Of greater significance is the more than 150 yards per game
have new head coaches, schedule, which includes eight last year and led the Valley in
Regardless of who winds up in home games and trips only to total yards with an average of
the Orange Bowl — and most Oklahoma State, Missouri and 170.
observers figure Oklahoma, Ne- Kansas State. Tulsa could compete if quar-
hraiiba , Iowa state and Color*. Kansas State, under new head terback Dave Rader stays
do have the best shots — the Coach Jim Dickey, will be healthy. Before he went down
trying to win its first Big Eight with a broken collarbone in the
game in three years. Missouri, third game last year, Rader had
under new head Coach Warren amassed 652 yards running and
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"If you didn't make Okla- rado, are the same ones who way around.
homa the favorite, everybody have their athletic directors West Texas State has about as
would collapse,” says the Iowa coming back. many returning starters as
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anyone but Oklahoma favored Not surprisingly, the top the Wishbone offense, deeming
this year in the Big Eight Con- teams in the league, Oklahoma, it wise to fit the plan to the
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Oliver a* Texas lost its third Dave McKay led off the To- Just got tired. It was Ms first
consecutive game. ronto fifth with a single off start since July 18,” Hunter
Horton, who lives in Detroit, starter Dock Ellis, and Tim said
was with the Rangers this Johnson’s ground-rule double Ellis retired the first eight
spring. But Just as training moved him to third. Mike Har- Blue Jays before Johnson’s two-
camp opened, he was dealt to grove’s error allowed the first out single in the third.
seasons, is arguing. « Veertype offense to supplant players.
The 17 starters who are back the I-formation so both can be Wichita State was a close
after leading Oklahoma to last on the field at the same time second in a pre-season poll of
year’s Big Eight title are logi- Colorado returns 13 letter- coaches and writers, mostly be-
Stupy’s double gave the a four-game losing streak and
Diablos a 6-4 lead. He scored the the Shreveport Captains broke
seventh run later in the inning a four-game winning streak,
on a single by Bob Slater. , x .__. ....
BiU Ewing’s 23rd homer of Jackson broke a.2 tie with
the year in the first inning gave three runs in the third inning
El Paso a 2-0 lead, but San An- when Captainsi pitcher Rafael
tonio bounced back with four Vasquez, walked four batters
runs in the third. The came on and Keith Bodie singled in two
Kelly Snider’s 13th homer and a runs., Jackson starter Jeff
double by Bobby Mitchell. , Reardon, now 164, was the
Ken Schrom, now 84, was the winning pitcher. Vasquez, now
14-8, was the loser.
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in the eighth in support of Tom
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Rangers over the final 42-3
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of Balor Moore. e
"On most days, four home cincinnati 27, Chicago 3
runs is enough,” said Texas Tampa Bay
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N* club drop seven games off Green Bay 23, St.Louis 17
the pace of idle Kanas City and Houston 2, Dallas 11
California. New York Jets 23, San Diego
“Dock pitched super for the Sunday’s Games
first three innings and then he , Ne" England 24. Kansai City
Oakland 21, San Francisco 14
Monday’s Game
Cleveland 14, Detroit 19
Tbursday, August 24
Chicago at Seattle
Friday, August 25
Atlanta at Washington
No* York Giants 19.
New York Jets at Phila-
delphia
Miami at Tampa Bay
San Fraaciseo at Denver
Saturday, Aagast tt
Cincinnati vs. Green Bay at
Milwaukee
St.Louis at Kansas City
Pittsburgh at Dallas
New Orleans at Houston
Las Angeles at Oakland
Sanday, Aagast 27
Cleveland at New England
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rally expected to <to it again men, including All-Conference cause of quarterback Jim An-
“I Just hope maybe I can fin- last Monday in exchange for Ashby’s bloop single to right
oh out my career here," the 35- slugger Rico Carty, scored two runs and put the mAm-AI a
year-old designated hitter said "I’ve felt comfortable since Blue Jays ahead 76. FUIBALL
after belting a two-run homer the first day I put on the (To-
and adding a run-scoring single rente) uniform," said Horton,
as the Toronto Blue Jays who went Mor-4 in his first
defeated the Texas Rangers 8-8 game before the Toronto fans
in a battle of the long ball, after hitting .125 in seven games
Alan Ashby also contributed a on the road. "It never takes me
solo home ran for the Blue Jays long to fit in. I never try to force
in the American League my ways on anyone."
baseball contest, played before The Rangers had built ups 6-2
li Canadian National Exhibition lead after 4% innings on the four
NATIONAL LEAGUE KEEPS HEAD STILL
Tarleton begins football practice
492 3, concentrates on keeping his There were some moans and potential gridders, just under Fornes said that conditioning
472 a "T fS । qaneyery swing, groans and more than one case the 115-head coach Buddy of the athletes was only one of
.424 14 Led Ett, „aL „canKeep my of blistered feet, but every Fornes preducted would come the goals of the first week of
403 16% spine win’staystPdprndrwiX player managed to pass the out for the team. workouts.
be able to rotate my shoulders arduous 12-minute run staged “For the freshmen, we want
59 and hips around it. If my head by the Tarleton football coaches The freshmen, over 70 strong, to get them oriented to our
560 J moves toward the target or Monday night. will work out at the practice system,” he said.
528 7 away from it, my spine will That means that the Texans field just north of Memorial "And in the varsity’s case, by
.454 it move. That makes it more dif- will open 1978 two-a-day Stadium at 8 a.m. and 3 p.m. the end of the week we want to
455 16 ficult to turn around it.” workouts today with 111 The varsity, made up of get them familiar with out
Monday’s Game* f , q returning players fromilast offense and defense again.
San Diejo 7 Philadelphia 2 season’s 7-3 squad, will hit the We’ve only made a few minor
Montreal 4, Lot Angeles 2 _ _ turf from 9:30-11:30 a.m.. changes since last vear so
San Francisco 4, New York 2, li in- . . . . . ..3. cnanges since last year, so
nings A.a.. . Mt a L A..L. 6.30-8.30 p.m. teaching them shouldn’t be that
Powers, will be trying to a wak- passing. Against Oklahoma SLousiCincinnat---ASTTOSCTUDLUDS All practices are operito the hard »
enthellumherind ciant nenni. State he threw for 212 and Houston 1, Chicago 3 public, and spectators are
XvaV^v. mimaig" Only games scheduled HOUSTON (AP) - Houston Run-scoring singles by Rich- invited to bring out a folding Defensive guard Steve
Tueaday’s Games right fielder Jose Cruz hopes ard and Sexton and Cruz’ two- chair or blanket. Fieszel, a second team all-
. San Diego (Rasmussen 12-9 at Phila recent history doesn’t repeat it- run single to right triggered a , „ .. . .. , conference choice last year,
--------------------------------------------------------------- “Pthtburghto.koninson"s)atAuantasef. . . . . four-run fourth inning explosion sL"Overalnthisissthebest was going to be limited in his
( m Mahler 4-7), n Cruz, who has been flirting as the Astros prevented'the shapea team has ever reported first workouts because of an
DOC THE CADDIE Earlier this year, Doug San Francisco (Halicki 6-6) at New with the .300 mark the last few Cubs from narrowing Phial- in while I ve been here, said arm infection. But the rest of
DURHAM.N.C. (AP)—Some Reintgen, a Duke University York (Espinosa 9-1),n weeks, knocked in four runs delphia’s three-game lead over Fornes, about to enter his sixth the squad was 100 percent
of thesbetter-known nicknames medical student, did some cad- St.Louis (Demy 10-8) at Cincinnati with three singles and a home second-place Chicago in the Na- season at th eTSU helm, “ready to go ” said Fornes
of caddies on the golf toir are dying for Arnold Palmer He (Seaver 11-12),n run to help pace the Astros to an tional League East “Almost all our guys reported
Creamy, Golfball and Rabbit, bad just become Palmers son- Chicago (Krukow 5-0) at Houston (Lem- •3 ldrilLing nt th Ci0o in tip-top shape and ready to aw,,, ,, 4. • ,
They can now make room for in-law, having married Amie’s ongello8-1),n r Jruhbing of the Chicago wrk» We 11 be hitting right from
Doc daughter, Peggy. Cubs Monday night to snap Crux drove in the Astros’final work. . N the first day. We’ve got a drill
Houston’s six-game losing two runs with his 10th homer of Linemen were required to run called the Texan Drill that is
streak. the season, a seventhinning sixlapsiat.the Stadium Monday designed to get the boys in and
“It seems like every time I blast over the right-field wall in the allotted tune, while backs out of the soreness stage in a
get close to .300, I fall back against Cub reliever Ken and ends had to make seven hurry. And with this many
down,” said Cruz, now batting Holtzman. (mile and circuits. players, we need to be able to
.302. “This wasn’t my best Richard, 13-11, ran into con- . find out in a hurry who the
game of the season offensively. trol problems in the eighth as he “Only eight of the guys players are.”
I had six RBIs in a game walked four and surrendered a missed their assignments, and
against Atlanta.” two-run single to Bill Buckner, they were all very close,” The two-a-days will continue
J.R. Richard and Joe Sambito Sambito, who signed his 1978 added the coach. “So we ran until August 28, when Tarleton
combined on a six-hitter as contract earlier in the day, them at 6:30 this morning to fall registration begins. The
Houston moved into a fifthplace uncorked a wild pitch to bring in give them a little extra Texans have a scrimmage set
tie with the Braves in the the Cubs’final run of the inning conditioning." here Sept. 2 at 6:30 p.m. against
National League West. before shutting off the rally by Defensive back Garry Wright Ranger Junior College.
Dennis Walling’s RBI single retiring pinch-hitter Mike Vail turned in the best effort, The first game has been set
and Jimmy Sexton’s run-pro- on an inning-ending grounder. completing eight and one for Sept. 9, when the defending
during double staked the Astros “That was some of the best quarter laps (over two miles) in Texas Intercollegiate Athletic
to a 2-0 second inning lead control I’ve had all year," the 12 minutes. Sophomore split Association champions will host
against losing pitcher Rick Richard said of his first seven end Sam Scott was next with conference opponent Austin
Reuschel, 12-11. innings on the mound. eight laps even. College at 7:30 p.m.
National Football League
By The Associated Press
Saturday’s Games
Philadelphia 24, Atlanta 7
Denver 23, Buffalo 12
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