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Giants Top Braves Again 22 Pro, Amateur Scoreboard. 22 Junior Girls All-City 23 Bronco Dusters Want More 24 t2xGreat Ken Boyer Dies. 2C WEDNESDAY Page 21 i 1 A- twork TV obk Now Points At He EC's i 9 year, ironically in a game with Georgia. But, it was a rare appearance the Commodores' fifth in history. Vanderbilt head coach George Ma-clntyre agrees with Cook that the slap at Vandy's standing in the SEC is less damaging to Commodore recruiting than the lack of video exposure which the giants of college football enjoy.

"I think the remark he made probably was passed off as just halftime conversation everywhere except around Nashville," said Maclntyre. "I don't think the remark will have any adverse effect on our recruiting. It's on a more solid base than that. JIMMY DAVY While still somewhat unrepentant for slur tossed at Vanderbilt on national television, ABC's Beano Cook yesterday said that network TY may be part of he problem which prevents true collegiate football parity. During the halftime of the game Monday night, Cook his first on-camera network appear-' ance said that there has been no parity achieved and as an example re-'marked that "for Vanderbilt to go to the Sugar Bowl, the other nine Southesastern Conference teams would have to be on probation." HIS REMARK, used to explain why in about as authoritative as my evaluation -of television," the Vandy coach added.

"I just don't know why, among all the: teams in the country, he picked us ouV' "Vanderbilt is not the only team with problems and what I say won't have any, effect, on recruiting. Vanderbilt is high-class insitution and whether they; win in football is not as important as" that," Cook said. Irate callers to the newspaper, the Vandy athletic offices and to WLAC's talk show disagreed. Most took exception to the fact that Cook, in his remarks, indicated that Vanderbilt would not only never win (Turn to Page 26, Column 1) One of the reasons for the difficulties, the ABC commentator said, is that the Vanderbilts and Northwesterns seldom, if ever, get on network television where a tradition of winning is implanted in the minds of the viewing public. Including, of course, the nation's best high school athletes.

THE SOUTHERN Cals and other winners year-in, year-out have tradition. One of the reasons they have it is that they get the television exposure. Network TV may be part of the problem (of a lack of parity). Vanderbilt and Northwestern never get on," Cook said. "We only put on the teams that win." Vandy was on regional television last his the 30-scholarshlp limit would never put a team like Vanderbilt on the same plateau with the likes of Georgia and Alabama, incensed Vandy fans in this area.

Irate calls came to The Tennessean and Vanderbilt's athletic offices were swamped yesterday with requests for the phone number and the address of the ABC off ice in New York. In a telephone hookup over WLAC radio, Cook conceded that "maybe I was wrong to pick out Vanderbilt and Northwestern. But they are the only private schools in those major conferences (SEC, Big Ten). I wanted to point out Vanderbilt has difficult problems (in winning)." -1 "HIS EVALUATION of football is finer ting attack against distance-' League championship series here last night. THE TEAMS meet again here at Wolfson Park tonight for Game 2 of the best-of-f ive series, beginning at 6:30 (CDT).

A crowd of 1,014 saw last night's game. It was an unfortunate case of one bad pitch, which ironically came on a night when the pitching of Lein and Sounds starter Sheldon Andrews was outstanding. In; fact, it was some sloppy Nashville defense and a weak hit- By MIKE MORROW Tennessean Sports Writer JACKSONVILLE, Fte. It was 'a knuckleball that, didn't knuckle. It was up, spinning, right where Jacksonville batter Jim 'Atkinson wanted it, and right where Nashville pitcher Chris Lein didn't.

"Atkinson hammered a one-out solo home run in the eighth inning on the delivery, leading the Jacksonville Suns a 3-2 victory over the Nashville Sounds in the first' game of the Southern going Suns hurler Danny Jackson, which looked the, worst. Atkinson's homer just sealed the disappointment. "I HAD been very confident in my knuckleball," said Lein, who worked two innings in a relief role behind Andrews. "He hit a knuckleball, but it was spinning like the deviL" Atkinson gave a similar account "I know that's the timeliest hit I've ever had," said the Suns designated hitter. "It wasn't knuckling and he got it up.

I'm sure the pitch was not where he wanted it to be." Sounds manager Johnny Oates had praise for the Andrews-Lein pitching duo overall. But the de- (Turn to Page 25, Column 1) it 1 1 St ft! 1 oooooooooooooooo by F.M.Williams The Grab Bag v. i WHAT SENT Tennessee's defensive coaches scrambling for linebackers so quickly after the Duke debacle Saturday night Could have been a review of the defensive statistics They showed that Jeff McMichael, Carl Zander and Reggie McKenzie, the three. used at that spot by the Vols, totaled 11 individual while Emmett Tilley alone had 12 for the Blue Devils Undoubtedly too, the promotion of Lavoisier Fisher to the first unit, and Joe Cofer, to second, was an effort to get more speed For a couple of weeks, fans around here have been hearing that the two freshmen would be the first string linebackers by mid-season Now the schedule appears to have been accelerated. Passing teams aren't going to overlook the startling fact that in the last scheduled game of 1981, and the first schedule game of 1982, and Duke had combined total offenses of exactly 1,100 yards The biggest problem is lack of a rush on the passer Duke's quarterback was sacked three times and there were only five other plays that their ball carriers were thrown for losses So Photographer Set To Sue Navratilova NEW YORK (UPI) A freelance photographer, said yesterday he plans to sue Martina Navratilova for grabbing his camera and removing some film.

Art Seitz of Fort Lauderdale, said he was taking pictures of Navratilova and her adviser, Nancy Lieber-man, following her loss at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships. Seitz said Navratilova called out "no pictures" and took the camera from him. The photographer said the top woman's seed removed the film while she walked away. Navratilova had just lost a quarterfinal-round match against Pam Shriver, 1-6, 4 I if i 1 MI -UPI Telephoto The Agony Of Defeat FLUSHING MEADOW, N.Y.

Top-seeded Marti-1 her match with Pam Shriver in the U.S. Open, na Navratilova winces after misting a shot during I Shriver upset Navratilova in three sets. Tennessee had to do something defensively, and quickly, to keep the 1982 season from becoming a disaster. I DONT KNOW what other sports writers covering the Vols have been hearing this week, but I've talked with about 10 fans Eight of them aren't going back, they say, to the Iowa State game, so it will be interesting to see how many seats are cupied this week Vol fans have stayed away from games before and some did it in protest of inept performances, but this will be the first time they've ever done it in the second game of the season I somehow doubt they'll go through with those threats mi uuwn nuwi uii.miiiuii -i iniinlf- Shriver Pulls Open Upset Sick, Be fe mononucleosis, is called toxoplasmosis, an infection that ap-' parently attacks the nervous sys- tern and results in muscle fa-; tigue. "This is going to sound filce sour grapes and people who know me know I don't make excuses," she said.

"But it certainly didn't help I couldn't run for the ball or if I could, I couldn't do anything when I got there." this time, too The first of what will be a Jackie oeard number of derogatory cartoons about the Volunteers has appeared It's a blue devil and the caption says 'Would You Be Terribly Upset If You Were Asked Not To Talk About Coach Majors Or U-T Football?" STve seen Herschel Walker in the opening game three straight years now, and on television against Clemson he was a shell of himself compared to those against Tennessee in 1980 and 1981 He ran tentatively, not like his old self But his mere presence on the field no doubt served as an inspiration to the Bulldogs Twenty yards on 11 carries will not help his chances of winning the Heisman Trophy this year, and that will be a shame So much depends on early impressions, national exposure, and Walker didn't look like the best football player in the country Monday night The thing that won the Heisman for. Marcus Allen, of Southern California, last year was a string of 200-yard performances early in the season Herschel couldn't overcome that, even though he wound up having a sensational year. and Wimbledon on grass which entitled her to half of the bonus money, or $500,000. "The money is the last thing that enters my mind," Navratilova said. "Losing the U.S.

Open will hang over my head for another year. It hurts bad when you try for something so hard." Navratilova blamed her loss on a virus which she said she contracted from a friend's cat during the Federation Cup in late July. THE DISEASE, similar to NEW YORK (AP) Martina Navratilova's hopes for a Grand Slam were shattered yesterday by Pam Shriver 1-6, 7-6, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open tennis championships, the missing link" in Navratilova's quest for greatness. "It was the most disappointing loss, but not the most bitter," said Navratilova, who walked off center court in tears for the second straight year.

"I'm glad it was Pam and not anybody else. If I have to lose, I prefer it to be to Pam." IT WAS only the second loss in regular tournament play this year for Navratilova and stopped a 41-match winning streak. The loss, which came at the hands of her doubles partner, also ended her chances of winning the $1 million Playtex Challenge, which was to go to the winner of four selected tournaments on four different surfaces. She had won the first three tournaments the U.S. Women's Indoors on carpet in Minneapolis; the Family Circle Cup on clay at Hilton Head Island, S.C., Jack son State Shriver, making her best showing in America's top tennis event since 1978, said she had mixed emotions over her victory.

"I'm thrilled for myself, but sad for Martina," the winner said. "She reminds myself a little. She's emotional She's a good friend and? she' was going for the Grand SHRIVER SAID the impact of Navratilova's loss did not occur to her until it was match "That was the only time; I thought of it," she said. "I was so pumped up on some kind "of cloud. I knew what I had to do," When the match ended, Shriver said she apologized to Martina.

"I said I was sorry. I don't know lodges -Official7 Protest IN A POLL taken by the New York Daily News there were 22 percent who favor Billy Martin returning as manager of the New York Yankees next season, and 14 percent who favor George1 Steinbrenner taking over the job "Sign him for three years," one fanreplied to a questionaire "By May he'd be fired and given a easy job scouting the sandlots of South Dakota and for 2 years' he wouldn't be able to meddle with the tem" Another voted for the owner because "the jerk deserves himself. Jackie Beard, the youngster from Jackson, will make his Madisbn Square Garden debut in a 10-rounder on the Juan LaPorte-Mario: Mirander card on Sept. 15 Beard, with one year of professional fighting under his belt, has a 14-1 record and he's being hailed as one of the hottest young fighters around Jackie has aligned himself with the stable of Tommy Hearns. GEORGIA TECH pulled off the greatest upset of the 1981 football season when it knocked off Alabama in the opening game last sea- son That ought to be all the incentive Paul Bryant needs to gain the 316th win of his career when he sends the Tide against the Jack-ets at Grant Field, Atlanta, Saturday afternoon But Alabama Assistant Dee Powell sees last year's game as helping Tech "because they know they can beat us" He also points out that Tech has 58 returning lettermen and 18 starters What he doesn't mention is that the Jackets did not win another game after the Alabama upset: only game that marred the Southeastern Conference record on opening day was Tennessee's loss to Florida, Georgia, Ole Miss and Mississippi State all won Ironically, the Atlantic Coast Conference, once a patsy.for any team in the SEC.

ljad a perfect record against outside foes on opening day, until Clemson losfcMonday night to Georgia-v- night's TSU-Jackson State game at Vanderbilt's Dudley Field. "THE U.S. government has had a change of the guard during -the last few years with the election of a Republican president and a lot of Republican legislators taking office. I'd like to see the same kind of change in' the officials Tennessee State uses for its football games. "I've been seeing the same faces out there on the field for the last 15 years.

It makes you feel a little depressed when you walk out there and see those same officials. You feel like you have to play 12 men. "Tennessee State has too good a football team to need those kind of people calling the game for them." Gorden's point of contention centers around TSU's usage of the Mid-Western Officials Association, an independent group based in Louisville. Other opposing coaches have voiced similar concern during the last few years. AS IS ORDERED in the con-(Turn to Page 24, Column 1) By DAVID CLIMER Jackson State coach W.C.

Gor-den says he likes almost everything about the series with Ten-nessee State. He says he looks forward to the annual game, that he enjoys making occasional trips to Nashville and that he is hopeful a new, long-term contract will be signed between the schools. "I just wish they'd do something about those officials," Gor-den said yesterday, creating the first spark at an, emotional fuse which will burn until Saturday Navratilova said, "We were ready to cry." In another upset, Rodney Har--mon shocked eighth-seeded Eliot Teltscher 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 ini a men's quarterfinal.5 THE DAY'S "final match be-! tween defending champion Tra-, cy Austin and fifth-seeded (Turn to Pge 24, Coluip Si nmmi umm i i ft Ak dm mf Mti Hi iimiik.