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I Marvin Hagler takes the world middleweight title from Englishman Alan Minter and has to leave the ring under a barrage W' WL Jk Sunday, September 28, 1980 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER ZLJ from angry British fans. Page C-13. ff, Astros Blank Reds; Elimination Looms Fading A way CINCINNATI HOUSTON abrhbl abrhbi Collins cf 4 0 0 0 Morgan 2b 4 0 0 0 Griffey rf 4 0 2 0 Landsty 2b 0 0 0 0 Cncpcnss 4 0 2 0 Cabel3b 40 10 Foster If 4 0 0 0 PutH rf 3 0 0 0 Driessn lb 3 0 0 0 JCrul If 2 0 0 0 Bench 3 0 0 0 Cedeno cf 3 0 0 0 Knight 3b 4 0 0 0 Waling lb 3 110 Oester 2b 1 0 0 0 Bergmn lb 0 0 0 0 Solop 2 0 0 0 Ashby 2 10 0 Nolan ph 1 0 0 0 Reynlds ss 2 0 12 Humep OOOOJNiekrop 2 0 0 0 DSmith 10 0 0 Total 30 0 4 0 Total 14 2 3 Cincinnati 000 000 000- Houston 000 020 Ota- I i 1 f)W 6 II vrw- nil Buckeyes Pass ASU Art-fully BY DICK FORBES Sports Reporter COLUMBUS, Ohio-Art Schlichter's arm and legs were good for 310 yards In total personal offense Saturday, but Ohio State called on a play called "Adam 28" on the way to a 38-21 victory over Arizona State to finally break the spirit of the dogged Sun Devils. It came midway In the second period of what, to that point, had been a stern, physical struggle with the Buckeyes clinging to a 3-0 lead on the strength of Vlade Jana-klevskl's 19-yard first period field goal. It was second down, 10 yards to go on the Buckeye 24, when Schlichter called on senior tailback Cal Murray to run up the middle on "Adam 28." "The play is really designed to go to the left," Murray remembered after Ohio State's third consecutive football victory, "but I ran smack Into the linebacker and he stung me.

I saw the way the flow of the offense was going, and I just spun off and started running (to his right). "Tim Spencer (the fullback) hit the first linebacker hard, and the backup linebacker hit me head on, and I bounced off. We always talk about You're never down until they throw you on the and I didn't hear a whistle blow and Just kept running." By the time Murray was knocked out of bounds on the Sun Devil 23, he had gained 52 yards, and on the next play Schlichter unloaded a 23-yard touchdown pass to Doug Donley. Janaklevskl's extra point made It 10-0, and the Buckeyes were off and running. It was a 76-yard march taking Just three plays.

BY HALFTIME the Buckeyes had a 24-0 lead, and although previously undefeated Arizona State out-scored OSU, 21-14, In the second half, the outcome was never seriously In doubt. "Frankly," a disappointed ASU coach Darryl Rogers said later, "Ohio State Just has a great, great football team and to beat them you must play a perfect game." A crowd 88,097, sixth largest in OSU history, saw an all-out offensive show. Arizona State threw 49 passes, 38 In the second half, and in the end piled up 440 yards, more than any Ohio State team has allowed in a long while. But the Bucks, with a more balanced attack, fell Just 9 yards shorts of piling up 600 yards, and ran through the Sun Devils for 351 yards. "They Just got the big play after the big play after the big play," Rogers reflected later.

"Everything we tried to avoid, we gave up. Ohio State Is much better this year than last because of more experience with the system." After their first touchdown, the Buckeyes administered the coup de grace quickly. They covered 50 yards in 10 plays the next time they had the ball, with Spencer leaping over a pile In the middle of the line for OSU's second touchdown BY RAY BUCK Sports Reporter HOUSTON There's an unmistakable tension following a give-away game that differs from conventional defeat. The Cincinnati Reds experienced it, 2-0, Saturday afternoon Inside the Houston Astrodome losing despite three-hit pitching by Mario Soto (10-7) and Tom Hume. Both runs were unearned.

Give-away defeat Is the most dastardly kind. Hot showers won't wash it away. Cortisone can't budge It. Even over-sized gobs of Hungarian goulash on a picnic plate can't satisfy the emptiness inside. Saturday afternoon, give-away defeat struck the Reds at the worst possible time of the season with a National League West pennant only a miracle away.

Now It will take an act of Congress. FOR THE division-leading Astros, their magic number Is six. For the third-place Reds, now 4Vi games behind with six to go, their tragic number Is three any combination of Houston victories and Cincinnati defeats totaling three spells elimination for the Reds. Dave Collins raced into the fringes of right-field to call for a one-out fly ball off the bat of Alan Ashby in the fifth Inning. He called for It while Ken Griffey called for it neither hearing the other and the ball fell ker-plunk to the Astro-Turf for a two-base error on Collins.

Denny Walling, who had singled up the middle moments before, pulled Into third. Ashby held second. Craig Reynolds followed with a two-run double down the right-field line. That was the game. "I was standing there when, all of a sudden, he (Collins) came out of nowhere full bolt," said a surprised Griffey.

"By the time the ball was only 10 feet In the air, I heard him. I was camped under It and beginning to turn my body to make the cut-off throw. You hate to lose one like that." Tension. "He (Collins) was trying to tver-hustle," Griffey added. "That was his mistake, I guess.

That (play) beat us." Collins was stamped a defensive liability In spring training but answered the criticism with speed and aggression. He has made only five errors all season the last faux pas occuring 58 games ago on July 26. Ironically, speed and aggression betrayed him this time. "The ball was easily catchable for Griffey," said manager John McNamara in his tyical Rock of Gibraltar style. "It's the center field er's prerogative to call for a ball.

He (Collins) called for it, then didn't catch it" COLLINS FINALLY responded to questioning after momentarily Ignoring the initial query with an emotional glare off Into space. "I should've had the ball. It's as simple as that," said the 27-year-old center fielder whose gut-wrenching day was compounded by an 0-for-4 at the plate. Did crowd noise affect the lack of communication between him and Griffey? "I can't use that as an excuse," Collins replied. "You simply can't take your eye off the ball.

Griffey started under the ball. At the last second, I saw him and took my eye off the ball and I missed It. "The only thing that bothers me," he added voluntarily, "Mario pitched a helluva game and I should've made the play." No alibis. No excuses. Just ten sion and anguish.

It was the Reds' second straight 2-0 loss Inside the Dome. They out-hit the Astros, 4-3 In each game, only to strand a total of 13 base-runners In double-defeat. On the replay of THE play, Col lins is seen calling and calling and calling for the ball. His cap flies off. Griffey, also calling, senses a collision.

Both players stop, and the ball drops between them. Soto hurled six superman in nings before leaving for a pinch-hitter, reducing his ERA from 3.12 to 3.02-down from 5.02 less than 10 weeks ago. E-Collins DP-Cinclnnatl 1, Houston 1. LOB Cincinnati 7, Houston 3. 2B Griffey, Conception.

Cat Reynolds. SB Bench, Driessen. Reynolds. IP ER BB SO Cincinnati 6 3 2 0 2 Hume 2 0 0 0 0 1 Houston 7 2-3 4 0 0 4 4 DSmith S.9 1 1 3 0 0 0 0 3 WP-JNiekro. PB-Ashby.

A- 40,305. George Foster, a .500 hitter in the Astrodome prior to a pair of 0-for-4s In this series, stranded four of the six Cincinnati baserunners against Joe Niekro (18-12) and Dave Smith. "I HAD the most chances (to drive In runs)," said the Reds' leading RBI man. myself, wasn't seeing the ball well here. You have to give Niekro credit.

He threw me more fastballs than usual and got the outs when he needed them." First inning: Griffey doubled with one out. Davey Concepcion flew out and Foster grounded out. Second inning: Johnny Bench and Ron Oester walked with two outs. Soto fanned. Fourth inning: Dan Driessen walked, stole second and moved to third on a passed ball.

Knight struck out. Sixth inning: This was the biggest letdown. Griffey and Concepcion opened with singles. Foster grounded into a double play, Griffey moving to third, and Driessen whiffed. Eighth inning: Concepcion ripped a two-out double and moved to third on a wild pitch.

Enter Smith. Foster fanned. The loss left the Reds in a precarious position. They are on the brink of getting ready for next year. It's grim, awfully grim.

"Awfully grim?" Bench challenged. "It's very, very awful. Plays like that today are what happened to us this year." It's not over, but the epitaph has gone to the printers. Henderson Ties Cobb's Theft Mark OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)-Oakland left fielder Rickey Henderson stole four bases Saturday against the Milwaukee Brewers to tie Ty Cobb's American League single-season stolen base record.

Henderson's performance boosted his total to 96, a record that Cobb established in 1915 In 156 games with the Detroit Tigers. Henderson tied the mark In his 152nd game. Henderson stole bases In the third and fifth Innings and tied the record with two steals in the The A's had scored four runs in the inning to take a 7-3 lead when Henderson lined a two-out single. Running on catcher Buck Martinez with Dwayne Murphy at the plate, Henderson stole his 95th base sliding into second well ahead of Martinez's throw. On the next pitch, Henderson tied the record sliding into third base well ahead of the throw.

Henderson has been successful in 96 of 126 steal attempts this season. Lou Brock holds the major league record with 118 steals set during the 1974 season with the St. Louis Cardinals. A 1st For New Hampshire HANOVER, N.H. (AP)-Jim Quinn ran for more than 100 yards and two touchdowns to lead New Hampshire to 24-7 upset over Dartmouth Saturday.

The victory was the first for the Wildcats in four games. New Hampshire's Jeff Belmont Intercepted a Joe McLaughlin pass early in the fourth quarter and returned it 58 yards for a touchdown to give the Wildcats an insurmountable 21-7 lead. Dartmouth is now 1-1. mm Oier Carpenter Real-Life Study In Blood, Guts "Yeah, I've cried," Rob Carpenter says. "You can do that, very easily, Football Is a human same.

Most of the time when I cry, I do It back In the huddle, when I lean over and no one can see. What you try to do Is get two minutes of crying over In two seconds." It Is comforting to know that Rob Carpenter can Indeed weep, as the rest of us do. He Is a running back for the Houston Oilers, and he has achieved most of his renown for being Earl Campbell's stand-in, a role Carpenter will perform again today at Riverfront Stadium. When his history Is written, however, someone had better put in a chapter about the way Carpenter has declared a personal war on pain and earned a unanimous decision over it. All football players find ways to suffer with the soreness that visits their lives every weekend, but Carpenter could lead seminars.

At every stop, his passion for the game has overcome the hurt In his limbs. Last year when the Oilers met the Chargers in a playoff game, Campbell had a groin Injury and Carpenter was supposed to start. He sprained his ankle during practice, though, and when he went to breakfast the morning of the game, he was on crutches. A few hours later, he gained 67 yards on 18 carries, and the Oilers beat the Chargers. Carpenter did It without taking any Injections.

"I'VE ALWAYS felt you have to block out pain with total concentration," Carpenter says. "I feel the pain when I walk out of the huddle. When the quarterback starts calling signals, I begin to blot it out. When the ball is snapped, I don't feel it. It's kind of like those highlight films, where there's no crowd noise, and you get the ball and you're moving and you can see the defensive players' eyes as they're moving toward you, you're concentrating so hard." He has had plenty of experience at this sort of concentration.

In high school, at Lancaster, Ohio, he hurt his left knee early In his sophomore year. The doctors told Carpenter he might need surgery, might have to miss the rest of the season, might want to think about quitting football forever. "I thought they were crazy," Carpenter says. He refused surgery, kept playing, and Lancaster High finished the year ranked eighth In the state. At Miami University, there was a similar scenario.

During Carpenter's Junior year, he bruised a thigh muscle In preseason practice. The Injury grew worse as the season progressed. The thigh began to bleed internally. His upper leg started to swell. Normally, the circumference of his left thigh is 29 inches.

Some days that season, It measured 34 or 35 inches. The worst afternoon of all came at Bowling Green, when Carpenter's thigh was so heavy with blood that the doctors told him It needed to be drained at halftime. "I remember them sticking a needle In the thigh, and the blood erupting out of it like a volcano," Carpenter says. "They must have taken a pint of blood out of the thigh that day, right there In the locker room." IN THE second half, Carpenter went out and finished up a 100-yard day. Miami won the game, 20-17.

"I Dacked the thigh in Ice that night, stayed off It and was back practicing Monday," he recalls. "At Miami, if you didn't practice, you didn't play." Carpenter says that none oi these Injuries Including a knee operation in his second year with the Oilers has caused any permanent damage. But someone wondered what It would be like In 15 or 20 years, when his ankle starts throbbing every time the weather changes. His answer was the only one he could give: "I guess in this game you aon i think 10 years down the road. It's always next season, what you're going to do next season.

You think no, you won't have any pain after you retire. I don't know what I'll do when I get older and my knee or ankle could start acting up. It might make me feel good. I mean, it might make me remember the days when I was playing." index Sports Editor FRANK HINCHEY Tel. 369-1917 (After 4 p.m.) Scores 369-1005, 369-1006 (24 hours) BASEBALL C-6-7 AP Laserphoto BUCKEYE SAFETY Bob Murphy, No.

28, applies his own brand of Murphy's Law, breaking up pass play to Arizona State split end John Mistier in first half at game in Columbus Saturday. SOON AFTER, cornerback Rod Gorley picked off ASU quarterback Mike Pagel's pass that bounced off Jerry Bell's hands, and Ohio had the ball on Its 47. This time the Bucks took four plays to go 53 yards with Murray going over the right side on another 1-yard touchdown burst. The frustrated Sun Devils, still unable to get on the board when Scott Lewis missed his second long-range field goal in the third period, finally got It working late in the quarter. They manufactured a 75-yard drive in eight plays with Pagel, an outstanding passer who had 24 completions of 49 attempts (with two interceptions), throwing on almost every play.

He climaxed the march with a 4-yard pass to to Bob Weathers who made a diving catch In the end zone. Back came the Buckeyes to go 75 yards In 12 plays, Schlichter hitting Doug Donley with his second touch- down catch on a 10-yard throw to make It 31-7. ARIZONA STATE scored on the second play of the fourth quarter when Bryan Caldwell blocked Tom Orosz' punt, picked up the ball and ran 46 yards to a touchdown. Gary Williams of Wilmington, Ohio, made a diving catch of Schlichter's third touchdown pass of the day, good for 13 yards, putting the Bucks up, 38-14, and Arizona State wound It up with Pagel's 12-yard touchdown pass to split end John Mistier. "If you take away that blocked kick, I'd be happy, Ohio State coach Earle Bruce laughed afterward.

"We played exceptionally well in the first half. "Our defense maybe tired some in the second half. No, change that, make it may be they (the Sun Devils) got stronger In the second half. "We played exceptionally well In the first half, and I've got to say we're far ahead of where we were at the same time last year. "When they got tough in the second half, we had to throw to loosen them up.

That didn't make Art (Schlichter) unhappy. He's thinking all the time about the ass, and when they overcommitted to stop the run, he had an advantage." But in the end, It was the run, and especially "Adam 28" that broke this one open. Good name for a television show. Airborne With Art Arizona Slate 0 0 7 14-21 Ohio Stale 3 21 7 7-31 Ohm-FG Janakievski 20 Ohio Dontey 23 pass from Schlichter Janakievski kick Ohio Spencer 1 run (Janakievski kick) Ohio Murray 1 run (Janakievski kick) Arii Weathers 3 pass from Pagel (Lewis kick) Ohio Donley 10 pass from Schlichter Janakievski kick Arii-Caktwell 46 blocked punt (Lewis kick) Ohio Williams 13 pass from Schlichter (Janakievski kick) Ariz Mistier 12 pass from Pagel (Lewis kick) UC's Victory Quest Blunted In Final Minute, 13-8 BY CINDY MORRIS Sports Reporter Twice In the closing moments Saturday night, the University of Cincinnati reached for victory at Nippert Stadium. First, the Bearcats came away with two points.

The next time they came away with heartbreak, an Interception In the end zone ending all hope with the clock showing 40 seconds to play. It left wicnita state a 13-8 conqueror oi the Bearcats. 61 yards on 10 carries in the first half, led the drive with two explosive runs of 10 and 15 yards. UC scored a second field goal 1:45 Into the second period, this one a 33-yarder by Karlls. The Shockers, who had 210 yards total offense to UC's 111 In the first half, rebounded with 55-yard touchdown drive culminated by a 37-yard touchdown pass from McJunkins to tight end Kurt Vestman.

Vestman eluded a diving Robert Glbbs on the play, and Glbbs was left writhing on the ground and holding a knee. Glbbs and Broolns, who also injured a knee, in the second half, did not return to the game. WSU's Doug Schroeder kicked the extra point, putting the Shockers ahead, 7-6, with 10:22 remaining in the half. The Bearcats, who fell victim to a fake punt last week, learned again the hard way late In the half. On fourth down and 14, at the WSU 46, punter Mike Milnick faked and handed off to Billy Wilson, who then scrambled 29 yards to UC's 25 forVthe first down.

caught the ball in the air for a gain of one. With fourth and two, UC called time out. But the respite didn't settle UC's nerves. Going for the touchdown, Moeschl fumbled and fell on the ball for a loss of two. and WSU took over.

WSU subsequently returned the favor. Wide receiver Steve Hammond fumbled the ball after making a 20-yard reception, and Bearcat linebacker Mike Gates recovered on WSU's 49. UC drove to the 27, was shoved back and, on fourth and 26, was given a first down on a pass interference penalty against WSU. The Bearcats couldn't score, however. Two times Larry Carthan was denied from the one, and WSU took over six inches from its goal line.

UC still wound up two points, richer, however. WSU gained no yards on three plays, and freshman Andy Orak blocked the Shocker punt, which went out of the end zone for a safetyvWith 4:14 to go, UC trailed. i-8. WICHITA STATE boosted Its lead to 13-6 on Its first possession of the second half, setting up a 24-yard Schroeder field goal with a 58-yard punt return by Wilson. Defensive back Errol Bebly finally brought Wilson down on UC's 13-yard line.

Again UC's defense held firm, allowing WSU only six yards on Its next three plays, and the Shockers settled for another field goal. Near the end of the third quarter, La-mont Patterson, replacing Gibbs at corner-back, came up with one of the biggest plays of his career at UC, Intercepting a McJunkins pass at WSU's 38 and returning It two yards to the 36. UC drove for two first downs and was at the Shocker three with third down and three. Then, the Bearcats' hearts seemed to freeze in their throats and, after not fumbling once up to that point, they fumbled twice on the next two plays and were denied a score. On third and three, tailback Dwayne Chi-sholm fumbled apd tackle Karl Yli-Renko The Bearcat defense picked up where it left off last week at Rutgers, snuffing a tifully engineered 57-yard Wichita State opening drive with an Interception by beau took a 14 yard linebacker Mike Brookins.

Brookins Prince McJunkins pass at his own line and returned It 20 yards to start UC on its way to the game's opening score, a 22-yard field goal by barefoot kicker Rich Karlls, with 8:57 remaining In the first quarter. COLLEGE FOOTBALL HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS C-14 HORSE RACING C-15 SCOREBOARD C-2 'UC TAILBACK Jim Bettis, who rusfted for 3.