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J-0 TH5TMNESS EA OctoW M. IW7 t( 1 n.u" v'v-? .5 Oh. it Variety Spices Local Scene Yesterday was day for the local sports as evidenced in these three photographs. From left, its was cricket action between Vanderbilt and Ole Miss on the campus intramural field; Nashville Aquatic Club was host for the Southeastern Water Polo championships as Greenville, S.C battles Hunrsville, and Sherry Malloy returns a serve in the City Women's Racquetball championships at Centre Court. YirW-n rut -1 1 1 'ii" ilr i win mil it mn Patterson Passes Spark Tiger Romp Wins Come For Nashvillian Sloan Strikes Twice In British Invasion Jy TOM WOOD a resounding phrase being bantered around the English countryside these days.

It rings throughout the counties and boroughs, and is echoed in the pubs. But whenever riders at the steeplechase courses hear "The American is coming! The American is coming! they know it is time for the battle of their lives. THE PHRASE IS IN REFERENCE to 38-year-old Nashvillian George Sloan's one-man invasion of the British Isles where he is seeking to become the -first non-Briton to ever win the British Amateur steeplechase championship. Sloan, who is quite popular with English fans and the press, has already struck twice in his quest to claim the crown as his own. In only his eighth ride of the English National Hunt season, Sloan took top honors at Cheltenham the shrine of English steeplechasing Sept.

21 when he scored a short-head victory on Con Hurley. Then, Oct. 14, Sloan earned his second win of the season on Captain George in a 2-mile chase at Kempton. At the time of his win at Cheltenham, Sloan beamed, "I guess this is what you call a dream beginning. Cheltenham is the greatest course in the been pretty lucky there." NEEDLESS TO SAY, Sloan's "dream beginning" is fast becoming reality.

For although it looks as though Sloan is getting off to a somewhat slower start than his 1976-77 campaign (13 wins in less than 30 starts before a broken leg sidelined him), it should be noted the season is just beginning to get in full swing. "Racing picks up in the winter when the ground gets softer," Sloan said, "and beginning in November, there will be six days of racing a week until April. After that, the Hunt races begin." That adds up to approximately 150 races to be run before the season ends with the Grand National race in June, giving Sloan plenty of chances to win against the tough competition provided. Ambassador Travel Service, by the way, is making plans for a trip to England and the Grand National. "IT'S GOING TO BE HARD work all the way," admits Sloan.

"I guess the top amateur will have to ride at least 30 winners to earn the title this time. But I have never been more determined about anything in all my life." Sloan returned to Nashville over the past weekend to rest up for the hard winter campaign ahead. So how did he spend his time? At the hunt, of course, with local steeplechasers. MASTER OF FOX HOUNDS Hen7 Hooker, spokesman for the "Jubilee Sportsmen' syndicate which has supplied Sloan with a dozen of the 16 horses he races, said the syndicate remains optimistic despite the slow start. "We're all tremendously excited," Hooker said yesterday.

"We're looking for a good winter of racing because George's horses like the soft winter ground to run on, not the hard, dry tracks they are running on now. "If we have 10 wins by Christmas, we can win it going away. That is the goal right now 10 wins by Christmas." Hooker and fellow syndicate member Jack McKinney traveled to England the first week of September to follow Sloan progress. Hooker will be going back Nov. 5, while Sloan mother recently returned.

Sloan's chief competition comes from Dick Saunders, who has four early-season wins. Other riders making victory noises are Nick Henderson and New Zealand's Dennis Gray. WHETHER SLOAN CAN ACHIEVE his elusive goal remains to be seen. One thing English race fans can be sure of though, is that George Sloan will not go down without, in that American tradition, scraping all the way. i ftM Harpeth Haii Cops Regional Cross Country Harpeth Hall won another TSSAA Regional cross country championship yesterday, rolling to the girls title with just 29 Points at the Percy Warner Park Steeplechase.

The Honeybears had two of the first three individual places as Sloan Burton finished second, just ahead of JeanieBass. Harpeth Hall also had Katie Groos and Kathy McPherson sixth and seventh, respectively. TULLAHOMA'S Phyllis Hines won individual honors with a time of 8:06 in the mile and one-half run. Her team finished third with 76 points, just behind HillsWo (60) which was led by fourth-place finisher Elizabeth Jenkins. Brentwood's Van Wad-lington and Clarksville Northwest swept the boys' honors.

Wadlington took the individual award with a winning time of 14:55 for three miles. Northwest finished first in the team race with 54 points. Murfreesboro Oakland and Lipscomb tied for second with 86 apiece. BGA'S MARK Webb was runnerup to Wadlington, followed by Lipscomb sophomore Jack Burton, Carey Waldrip of Manchester, and Sander Williams of Northwest. The top three teams and top three finishers on nonqualifying teams earned spots in next week's TSSAA state meet at Percy.

Father Ryan's Tari Steiskal and Vicki Kohl ana McGavock's Vicki Wells were among the individual girls qualifiers. BOYS DIVISION TEAM: Northwest 54, Oakland 86, Lipscomb 8, Brentwood 157, McGavock 159, MBA 162, Tullahoma 251, Ryan Dupont 274, BGA 292, Overton 296, USN 310, Goodpasture 340, Bellevue 354, Smyrna 413, North 446, Webb 458, Dickson 481, East 492, Gallatin 556, Clarksville 560, Sparta 635, Gainesboro 729, MTC 730, Castle Heiflhts 732. INDIVIDUAL: Wadlington (Br). Webb (BGA), Burton (L), Waldrip (Man). Williams (Nw), Bowman (Oak), Ross (Nw), McGee (Oak), Irick (McG), Todd (L), Hubbard (L), Foster (T), McConnico (Gp), Christoffer (Nw), McMurry (Oak), Roberge (Nw), Sims (Nw), Stokely (WH), Nash (L), Davis (North), Taylor (MP), Libell (S), Mea-dor (USN), Russ (T), White (MBA).

GIRLS DIVISION TEAM Harpeth HaU 29, Hillsboro 60, Tullahoma 79, Nyan 84, Dupont 187, Dickson Co. 214, Bellevue 215, Overton 223, Lipscomb 226, Oakland 275, Gallatin 278, Sparta 361. INDIVIDUAL: Hin-s (T), Burton (HH), Bass (HH), Jenkins (Hb), Stejs-kal (R), Groos (HH), McPherson (HH), Baiid (Hb), Hudson (Hb), Marshall (T), Glasgow (HH), Wells (McG), Schell (T), Storey (HH), Kohl (R), White (HH), Sharp (R), Weathers (Hb), Adler (L), Church (Dp), Harris (Hb), Flowers (L), Thoni (R), Herbert (R), All (T). TEMPLE HILLS Two-man Scramble Jack Hanson-Jay Hanson 69; Wally Parker-Bill Savage, Porter Parrish-Ray Catin, Martin Gilmore-Joe Watte 74. Past Cornell The victory keeps Yale on top of the Ivy League with a 4-1 record, 5-2 overall.

Cornell, before a homecoming crowd of 13,000. dropped its seventh straight contest this Hi rir ft'- "i offensive output of the season. Patterson and Gray, both juniors, connected on touchdown tosses of 64 and 55 yards, the second on a thrilling over-the-head catch by the split end that Willie Mays would have enjoyed. Although the game was well in hand when Orians came up with his interception with 3:03 left in the game, it brought the crowd of 28,420 to its feet with the loudest ovation of the evening. Orians, the leading tackier for the Tigers, was one of 19 seniors making their final appearance before the home crowd.

The crowd rose with applause again with two minutes left in the game, when the public address announcer called out the five new individual records that were broken in the contest. The offensive records were falling as fast as the Tigers were moving down the field. PATTERSON, the nimble signal-caller, scrambled his way to become the all-time MSU offensive leader, with 3,481 yards. Gray, who had 119 yards receiving, became the all-time Memphis State leader with 1,266 yards. Rusty Bennett, the freshman placekicker who kicked four field goals against North Texas State last week, kicked two more last night to give him a record-breaking total of 10 for the year.

Defensively, linebacker Keith Butler broke the record for assisted tackles in a career with 150. The Tigers, who held a 20-0 halftime lead, fought off a third-period threafby the Eagles, now 5-4, and raced with three touch-downs in the final quarter. MEMPHIS STATE opened the scoring with Bennett's first field goal, capping their first possession. It was a 23-yarder with nine minutes left in the opening period. Later came Gray's first scoring jaunt.

On a third-and-nine situation. Patterson scrambled, broke a tackle and found Gray at the Southern Mississippi 35. Gray turned and raced untouched for the touchdown with 1:14 left in the first quarter. Bennett kicked his 27-yard effort with 13:44 left in the half. The Tigers chewed up six of the final seven minutes of the half before freshman fullback Richard Locke of Cookeville scored from a foot away, giving Memphis State its 20-0 halftime advantage.

THE EAGLES showed signs of a comeback and indeed put a scare into the Tigers the third quarter. They struck for a pair of touchdowns under the "IT m- rrr leadership of reserve quarterback Dane McDaniel. McDaniel scored on a four-yard run with 7 20 left in the period and later hit tight end Marvin Harvey with a 47-yard touchdown pass. The two extra points By Randy Boyette narrowed the MSU margin to 20-14. But the Tigers had seen enough.

With 13:54 left in the game, Patterson hit Gray with second bomb of the night, which Gray clutched over his shoulder and lunged into the end zone. Tailback James King, who led the Tigers with 110 yards rushing, scored with 7:49 left on a 12-yard run. ORIANS turned in his interception when the Eagles went to the air in an effort to close the Memphis State margin. Keith Wright hit Leo Cage with a conversion pass. There was one bad episode for the Tigers.

However, as sophomore defensive back Bill Crumby had to be taken from the field by ambulance just before the end of the first half. Crumby received a neck injury following a Memphis State touchdown. Action was delayed several minutes as a team of doctors worked over Chumby, but he was reported con-scionus and had movement in his arms and legs. He was taken to nearby Baptist Hospital. Patterson hit nine of 17 passes, with one interception, for 215 yards.

Wright had six receptions for 89 yards. Southern Mississippi's Ben Garry led his team with 95 yards rushing on 18 carries. McDaniel was of 12 of 23 for 160 yards. Southern Mississippi travels to Texas- jlington next week. S.

Minlwraoi 14 -H MrtitkM Suit II It B-U MSll-FG BfflWtt MSU-Gray 64 pass from Patterson (Bennett kick) MSU-FG Bennett MSl'-Locke 1 run (Bennett kick) So. 4 run (Boyette titkl So. Miss -Harvey 47 pass from McDaniel (Boyette kirk) MSU-Gray 55 pass (rom Patterson (BcnncU kick) MSU-King 12 run (Bennett kick) MSU-flnans 91 pass intercepuoo (Cage pats from Wright) So. Miss. 16 41164 181 10 14-27-1 5-49 2-2 2-20 Memphis St 25 54-248 241) 119 1IV2M 111 2-1 3-25 First Downs Rushes-Yards Passing Yards Return Yards Passes Punis Fumbltt-Lost Arizona State Smacks Utah SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Quarterback Dennis Sproul pitched two long scoring passes to split end John Jefferson and scored twice himself in leading Arizona State to a 47-19 Western Athletic Conference football victory over Utah yesterday.

Arizona is now 6-1 for the season and 3-0 in conference play. Utah dropped to 1-3 in the WAC and 2-5 overall. By MIKE MORROW TeuetteM Sports Writer MEMPHIS In a game of statistical milestones by Memphis State football players, the Tigers used a pair of "home run" pass plays from Lloyd Patterson to Ernest Gray and a 91-yard interception return by Bob Orians to spark a 42-14 victory over Southern Mississippi here last night. It was the final game of the season for the Tigers in Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium and leaves them with a 5-3 record, going into their game against Tennessee in Knoxville next week. IT WAS THEIR biggest I Football i 1 Scores I SEC Auburn 29, Florida 14 Georgia 23, Richmond 7 LSU 28, Ole Miss 21 Kentucky 32, Va.

Tech 0 Alabama 37, Miss. State 7 ovc MTSU 15, Austin Peay 6 Tennessee Tech 63, ETSU 20 Murray 24, Eastern Ky. 20 Morehead 20, Westers Ky. 20 LOCAL COLLEGES Knoxville 43, Fisk 0 TSU 15, Southern 7 STATE COLLEGES Memphis State 42, So. Miss.

14 UT-Chattanooga 21, Citadel 14 Sewanee 34, Principia 6 Southwestern 28, Maryville 21 UT-Martin 31, No.Ala. 13 EAST Army 48, Holy Cross 7 Colgate 43, Boston U. 22 Brown 20, Harvard 15 Dartmouth 14, Columbia 7 Yale 28, Cornell 0 Penn 21, Princeton 10 Penn State 49, Miami, Fla. 7 Pitt 48, Tulane 0 Syracuse 8, Virginia 3 VUJanova 41, West Va. 36 SOUTH Ball State 38, Appy State 7 Clemson 26, Wake Forest 0 S'W La.

9, East Carolina 7 Fla. State 35, N. Tex. St. 14 Presbvterian 13, Furman 13 Duke 25, Georgia Tech 24 La.

Tech 34, 12 Louisville 56, Marshall 0 No. Carolina 16, Maryland 7 N.C. State 7, So. Car. 3 VM 21, Davidson 0 Rutgers 22, William Mary 21 MIDWEST Cent.

Mich. 35. Bowling Green 28 Temple 17, Cincinnati 17 Missouri 24, Colorado 14 Drake 43, Lamar 21 Indiana 34, Minnesota 22 Iowa State 41, Kansas 3 Oklahoma 42, Kansas Slate 17 Northern Illinois 21, Kent State 18 Miami, Ohio 27, Toledo 3 Michigan 23, lowa 6 Purdue 28, Northwestern 16 Notre Dame 43, Navy 10 Western Mich. 28, Ohio U. 22 Ohio State 42, Wisconsin 0 Nebraska 31, Oklahoma State 14 Wichita State 35, Long Beach State 21 Mich.

St. 42, Illinois 20 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 30, Rice 6 Texas 26, Texas Tech 0 Texas 38, SMU 21 Houston 35, Texas Christian 14 W.Tex.State 31, Indiana State 20 FAR WEST Boston College 36, Air Force 14 Brigham Young 34, Arizona 14 California 17, Southern Cal 14 New Mex. 35. New. Mex.

State 19 Stanford 26, Oregon State 7 UCLA 20, Washington 12 Arizona State 47, Utah 19 Boise State 23, Utah State 16 Weber State 30, Idaho 27 Wyoming 29, Colorado State 13 Wash. St. 56, Oregon 0 Montana St. 24, Montana 19 More Scortt on Page 4 Last-Second Duke Rally Tops Georgia Tech 25-24 two interceptions of South Carolina quarterback Ronn Bass by Wolfpack defender Woodrow Wilson and was followed by a scoreless second half. South Caroina's hopes for a touchdown and a victory died with a third interception, when the Wolf-pack's Richard Carter caught a Bass pass in the end zone with 2:44 remaining in the game and ran it out one yard.

The victory ended a two-game losing streak for North Carolina State and insured that the Wolfpack, now 6-3, will have a winning season. Independent South Carolina dropped to 4-5. Yale Rambles ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -Halfback John Pagliaro rushed for 174 yards and two touchdowns to lead Yale to a 28-0 shutout over winless Cornell in a college football game here Coast "Conference football victory yesterday afternoon. In between Ariri's kicking spree, an unrelenting Tiger defense led by tackle Archie Reese and linebacker Bubba Brown dismantled Wake Forest's offense.

The victory raised Clemson's record to 7-1 overall and 4-1 in the conference. Wake is now 1-7 overall and 0-5 in the ACC. With his four field goals, Ariri, a Nigerian-born soccer-style kicker, set a new Clemson school record for the most successful field goals in a game and his 57-yarder tied the ACC record for distance. S. STATE RALEIGH, N.C.

(AP)-North Carolina State's Ted Brown romped six yards for a touchdown in the first half and the Wolf pack held back a stubborn South Carolina rurining attack to take a 7-3 football victory yesterday. Brown's second quarter touchdown followed one of N.C.-MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) North Carolina tied the score on a 36-yard pass by Matt Kupec late in the third quarter and then added three Tom Biddle field goals following Maryland turnovers to beat the Terps 16 7 in an Atlantic Coast Conference defensive struggle yesterday. The victory left the Tar Heels atop the ACC standings with a 34 record and dropped Maryland's three-time champions into third place behind Clem-son, which beat Wake Forest 26-0. Clemson is 4-1 and Maryland 3-2.

North Carolina is 6-2 after winning its fourth in a row. Maryland is now 44. W. FOREST-CLEMSON CLEMSON, S.C. (AP)-Clemson placekicker Obed Ariri kicked the Demon Deacons of Wake Forest into submission with field goals of 49.

26, 24 and 57 yards and led the nationally 16th-ranked Tigers to an important 26-0 Atlantic ATLANTA (AP) -Quarterback Mike Dunn passed seven yards to split end Tom Hall in the left corner of the end zone with 13 seconds left yesterday to give Duke a 25-24 comeback victory over Georgia Tech in college football Dunn, who ranks fourth in total offense in the Atlantic Coast Conference, fiassed for 35 yards in the ast-ditch drive, hitting Hall three times for 17 and 11 yards, then the touchdown. Dunn completed 17 of 31 passes for 185 yards and rushed for 24 yards in 15 tries to offset 100-yard-plus performances by Tech's Rodney Lee's, who gained 171 yards in 20 carries, and Eddie Lee Ivery, who ran for 102 yards in 13 carries. Lee scored two touchdowns and Ivery one as the Yellow Jackets built a 24-9 lead at the end of the third quarter, but the Blue Devils were in complete control the rest of the.