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THIMOLA KANSAS REGISTER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1973 PAGE 4 I Stunning upsef A good day for Yanks MOSCOW (AP) Dave Thompson led a scrappy, ball- hawking United States team to a 75-67 basketball victory over the Soviet Union in the World University Games Friday in a staggering upset that erased much shame of Munich in 1972. A packed crowd of in the main gymnasium of Moscow's Palace of Sports was transformed from a whistling, hooting mob into a houseful of somber believers. Not much more than a bunch of kids, two of them 18 and all averaging 19 years in age, the pickup band of collegians whip- -ped the Soviet's finest national stars on its home made them like it. The veteran Russian squad contained six of the players who ended America's 36-year Olympic dominance of the sport with a still controversial 51-50 triumph at Munich and several members who had made a successful swing afterward through the United States. "We beat a good team," head coach Ed Badger, of Wright Junior College in Chicago.

"We were better." "We're the best," corrected Tom Burleson, the 7-foot-4 center from North Carolina State." The basketball victory climaxed a star-spangled day for the Yanks, who swept five of the seven final swimming events, added a silver medal in women's basketball and a bronze on the high diving board. of the rare ones in these mini-Olympics for dents, dominated by the host Russians. The Russian men, looking supremely confident, stepped off to an early lead and it looked as if America's "Fuzz Kids" had stepped into a situation over their heads. Then it happened. North Carolina State's Thompson, who has U.S.

pro scouts drooling, started hitting from the outside and breaking under the basket for layups. State dove season near PRA'TT, Kan. (AP) Prospects for dove hunters are spotty and indications are pheasant and quail populations in Kansas are down from last year, reports the state Forestry, Fish and Game Commission. Dove-banding stations throughout the state reported difficulty this summer in finding enough doves to fill their quotas. Some areas reported young doves were much fewer than a year ago.

July counts by rural mail carriers showed 23 per cent fewer pheasants were sighted and 20 per cent fewer quail on a statewide basis, compared to last year. A commission spokesman said populations of the two species peaked last year are now on a cyclical decline. isSept: 30. Pheasant and quail seasons are Nov. 10-Jan.

31. OPEN 8:00 START 8:30 ONE SHOWING EACH EVENING 54 DRIVi-IN THEATRE PER ENDS TONITE llsBISPUS for magical mirth and musicl HILAfllOUS AU-CARTOON FEATURE a kr Ml Kn- tacd on book br H. SHOWN 8:30 ONLY AND WALT DISNEY'S x4 CT KIEM VS nsiiitinroi co. nc IS72 Watt Dtsntj PraAictiora SHOWN 10:00 11:10 SUN MON The Russians were dazzled. Suddenly a 13-8 lead had disappeared.

The Americans, with Thompson doing most of the damage, had reeled off eight points in a row. At the half, the Americans lead 39-25. The crowd was brash and boisterous at first, whistling and hooting every time the Yanks got the ball. Then, as the Americans stretched their lead to 21 points at one fans became somber. The Russians double-teamed Thompson but he still led the scoring with 24 points.

Burleson, who was on the Olympic team, played superbly as did Buckner, at 18 the "baby" and captain of the team; Kevin Stacom and Marvin Barnes of Providence College, Maurice Lucas of Marquette and the others. There was glory enough for all. Stram activates three KANSAS CITY (AP) Head Coach Hank Stram of the Kansas City Chiefs announced Friday he has activated corner- back Jimmy Marsalis, wide receiver Otis Taylor and center Todd Klein for Sunday night's National Football League exhibition here against Stram also said backup quarterback Mike Livingston would not play because of severely bruised ribs. Veteran quarterback Len Dawson still has a slight cold, and may not start. Stram said no decision on a starting quarterback would be made until just before game time.

He also has PeteJBeat- hard as a standby quarterback. In order to make room on the roster for Taylor, Klein and Marsalis, Stram said, he placed running back Claxton Welch on injured waivers and deactivated lineman Sid Smith, who is recovering from knee surgery. Stram also announced that regular centef Jack and wide receiver Andy Hamilton will not play against Green Bay. Linebacker Bobby Bell also will not start, Stram said, and will be replaced by Clyde Werner. Bell has been sidelined all -week with the flu.

A toe injury leaves offensive lineman Francis Peay a doubtful starter. said. Saturday's Probable Pitchers By The Associated Press League Milwaukee (Colbum 16-9) at Minnesota (Decker 7-5) Detroit (Perry 11-11) at Chicago (Bahnsen 16-14) New York (Dobson 7-4) at Oakland 14-7) Kansas City (Busby 12-11) at Baltimore (Alexander 7-6) Texas (Bibby 6-7) at Cleveland (Tidrow 10-12) Boston (Tiant 15-10) at Cal- forniaCRyan 14-15) National League San Francisco (Bradley 1011) at New York (Seaver 15-6) St. Louis (Wise 13-9) at Cincinnati (GuUett 14-7) Top rung advice Head coach Ray Houser gives football tips to a Mustang hopeful. Houser heads into the 1973 campaign with good team depth, but inexperience at several positions.

(Register Photo) From Middle Ages Red claim on baseball MOSCOW (AP) The Yuris and Vasilys along Moscow's Gorky Street never heard of Babe Ruth, but the Russians really did invent baseball, or "beizbol," as they call it. It says so on page 60 of the "Antriklopedia Sportvania" at the Lenin Library. The claim was confirmed by a leading member of the Soviet Committee on Sports. The ancestor of baseball, as well as English cricket, is a sport named "lapta" played by Russian peasants back in the Middle Ages. Nicholas Shartze, sports historian for the official Soviet news agency Tass, said there is proof that lapta was played in Russia, Romania and Finland in the Middle Ages.

"In Romania, they called it 'oina' and in Finland it was Stram looking over charges KANSAS CITY (AP) Hank Stram, the only coach the Kansas City seems to be new approach this National Football League season, but the goal is the same another world chainpionship. Stram is playing more players than ever in fiiis year's exhibition games, even, it appears, the risk of coming away second best. He let his old standby quarterback, Len Dawson, sit on the bench in the opening test with New Orleans, won by the Chiefs 12-6. Instead, Stram went with Mike Livingston, Dawson's understudy, and Dean Carlson, a second-year pro from Iowa State. Dawson played only the final six minutes in a 17-16 defeat by Detroit.

Pete Beathard, another veteran quarterback, directed the Chiefs the rest of the way. Stram inserted a barrage of rookies and reserves into both "We'have to see if we can win with these people as well as our regulars," Stram explains. "We are fortunate to have experienced people who have played in the NFL playing behind our regulars at almost every position. We will continue to play a lot of people in this preseason." Still, when the Chiefs, who won the Super Bowl in 1970, open their regular campaign against the Los Angeles Rams Sept. it 's a pretty safe bet that'most of the old hands, including Dawson, will be around for the first kickoff.

One notable exception might be Willie Ellison, a veteran running back acquired from Los Angeles. The Chiefs, lacking in running offense the past couple of years, went all out to obtain new rushers during the off-season, and one of them is Ellison. If, Ellison doesn't get the Stram may lean toward Jeff Kinney, in his second year, or Wendell Hayes. Ed Podolak, Kansas City's leading rusher each of three seasons, is certain to be one running back. Otis Taylor, a crack receiver, will be at flanker if he recovers from a leg injury in time.

'pallo' or Shartze said. "It is said that Anglo-Saxon tribes overrunning the Eastern continent became intrigued and carried the game back to the British Isles." That was before the English refined the game and called it cricket, in the 18th century, and hundreds of years before baseball was invented. Lapta is still its primitive the hinterlands of the sprawling Soviet Union. Lapta is played on a field 150 to 250 feet long and about half as wide, with two lines at each an extended batter's box, the other a base, or "house." Seven to nine players make up a pide. The batting is called "butsaia" and the team in the field "vodatsa." or "spade," is about 30 inches long and straight.

The ball is the size of a baseball or tennis ball, and soft, originally made of wound cord but now rubber. the ball has to be soft because the only way to get a ta player out is to bean him with the ball. There is no pitcher and no catcher. The batter throws the ball up and hits it with a bat- in the fashion of those old "one o' cat" kid he tries to run to the back before one of the fielders clips him with the ball. The batter alone may run for the base, or entire team may run, risking getting hit and out.

The batting team bats until all men are out. Then the "butsaias" become the "vodatsas." A run counts when a player runs to the house and back without being-hit with a ball. He may stay on base. The fielding team gets a run for every ball caught on the fly. A game lasts about 60 minutes.

Landry's hand is fitting pieces When someone knocks on your door and says THEMIRISCH CORPORATION MlEMMOIIJIIUErMIUS I COLOR by United Artists SUNDAY SPECIAL SUNDAY, AUGUST 26TH OFF ANY ITEM IN OUR STATIONERY DEPT 6m SHOWING EACH NIGHT! STARTING AT 8:30 SUNDAY ONLY DALLAS (AP) Retirements and off-season unrest shook the Dallas Cowboys like an earthquake, but there's every evidence unflappable Coach Tom Landry will have all the pieces in place for an unprecedented eighth consecutive trip Devaney's act tough to follow LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) There might be tougher acts to follow, but Tom Osborne would be hard put to think of one this fall when he takes over as head football coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers. In his first head coaching job, Osborne, 34, succeeds Bob Devaney, who retired as head coach following last season to devote full time to duties as Nebraska athletic director. In his 11 years as head coach, Devaney logged a 101-2022 record with nine bowl games and seven Big Eight titles. The Cornhuskers have been particularly strong the past four years, rolling to a 42-4-2 record, three straight Orange Bowl victories, two national championships followed by a fourth place finish in last year's final Associated Press poll.

The Huskers were 9-2-1 in 1972. Besides Devaney's retirement, slotback Johnny Rodgers and middle guard Rich Glover, the two brightest stars of last year will both be missing, to the pros. But Devaney left the cupboard far from bare, with 39 lettermen returning, including five offensive starters and four first-string defenders. Chief among the returnees is quarterback David Humm, the lefthanded ace from Las Vegas who threw for 2,259 yards and 18 touchdowns during his sophomore season last year. Although Humm can no longer throw to Heisman Trophy winner Rodgers, there are plenty of fleet receivers, split end Bob Revelle, who caught 41 passes a year ago, and Frosty Anderson, who caught 15.

The.irunning one of last year's few weak spots, should be improved by a pair of highly touted Tony Davis and John O'Leary. Maury Damkroger, a strong blocker, holds down the fullback spot in the Husker formation. Defensively, tackle John Dutton, a 6-7, 248-pound product of Rapid City, is being about as a strong candidate to become the third straight Husker to, win the Outland Trophy as the nation's outstanding lineman, following 'Glover last year and Larry Jacobson in 1971. The Husker "blackshirt" defense will be put to a strong test early when Nebraska opens the season Sept. 8 in Lincoln against UCLA, one of the nation's best wishbone teams and the club which snapped the Husker 23-game winning streak last year with a 20-17 victory.

to the National Football League playoffs. The Cowboys lost a staggering 65 years in NFL experience with the exit of seven key players off this Super Bowl VI end Mike Dit- ka, linebacker Chuck Howley, defensive end George Andrie, running back Dan Reeves, receiver Lance Alworth, defensive back Herb Adderley and center Dave Manders. The Cowboys also led the league in threatened retirements with defensive tackle Bob Lilly, quarterback Craig Morton, linebacker Lee Roy Jordan and others unhappy for one reason or another in hassles with Dallas management. Yet out of this storm of discontent, Lilly said he had found a "new spirit" on the "something we didn't have last year." To prove he was right, the Cowboys went out and destroyed Los Angeles 24-7 in the exhibition opener to show there was still some fire in the boiler. Despite the retirements, the Cowboys still have talent that has many an NFL front office drooling.

Quarterbacks Roger Staubach and Morton, who are again fighting for the No. 1 job, are among the tops in the league. Fullback Walt Garrison and 1,000 -yard rusher Calvin Hill are proven ground-gainers. The offensive line, behind allures Ray field Wright and John Niland, is among the finest. If the Cowboys have an offensive weakness, it might be at don't count on it.

Bob Hayes caught only 15 passes last year but could be in the best shape of his career because of extensive work in professional track during the off season. Otto Stowe, Paul Warfield's backup man at Miami, was obtained in a trade for Ron Sellers and has been nothing short of eye-popping in the early going. The No. 1 draft pick, tight end Billy Joe Dupreee of Michigan State, also hasn't disappointed. On defense, Lilly says-he is the.giant_fe»ckle says that, it can be a long autumn for opposing was plagued by injuries during the 10-4 Cowboy season last year and the pass rush suffered.

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