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REPUBLIC MAIL Offense leaves defense up creek at Tontozona fSPORTS The Arizona Republic Wednesday, August 23, 1978 "This is why our linemen call their blocks during the season. People in the stands have little idea of how much signal calling is done by line-, men who, in effect, change the blocks, for the backs. That's why offensive football is so difficult to learn. Defenses can cheat, but our offense has to execute. There's no other way.

"We're not like many of the schools with wave after wave of big people who just physically beat you play after play. "We get by on finesse and technique. And you don't learn those things overnight." However, the Devils did learn that Tontozona is a football camp that could quickly be converted into a fight camp in case they decided to change scholarships. After the first bout, Rush's message came across. He cancelled the remainder of the card.

On the next play, he unburdened his frustrations on defensive end Al Harris with a block that uprooted the Sun Devils' premiere end. While Kush remained silent, defensive coordinator Larry Kentera came unglued as his unit took its licks. "I saw it coming," he said. "They whipped those guys for two days and came out here today with the idea they had it made for the season. They got whipped and whipped badly, but they're going to pay for it.

"I know it makes Frank happy to see that offense click, but it doesn't thrill me. Let him be happy at someone else's expense." Karmelowicz knew the offense would start hearing from Kush again soon. "We've just faced the basic defensive stuff, but it's great for us to work against all those things they do. By the time we leave here, our guys will have teen every angle of attack. "I've been in his doghouse since I became ineligible because of grades," said Chambers who sat out last season.

"When you get in, there's only one way to get out play your way out. "I know I was really watched during the spring drills. It was like either produce or leave. I made mistakes, but I progressed. I'm making mistakes here, but I think I'm eliminating some.

"I have enough to worry about without worrying about him. It's up to me. I'm just going to have to show him I'm ready to play." Allen's son Bruce can't figure firing WHEN LOS ANGELES Ram's owner Carroll Rosenbloom recently dropped the bomb that coach George Allen had been fired, the explosion was heard around the country But nowhere did it strike closer to home than with a member of the Arizona State football coaching staff, 21-year-old Bruce Allen. The youngest of three sons of Allen, Bruce just recently joined the Sun Devils' staff as a graduate assistant. Naturally, the son is a little bitter about the whole thing and can't believe that his father was let out after just two preseason games.

"I just can't believe the preseason (firing)," he said, during a break in the According to offensive line coach Bob Karmelowicz and receiver coach Richard Mann, the turn around was right on schedule. "The defense is always ahead early in pre-season drills," said Karmelowicz. "Our defense does so many things that the offense is at a disadvantage. It's difficult for offensive linemen to know who to block with the other guys jumping around and coming at them from all angles." Offensive tacKle Steve Chambers, honed down to 250 pounds and stronger than ever because of an offseason weight program, was a study in desire Tuesday with blocks on the line and downfield. One block unleashed running back Arthur Lane on a 57-yard touchdown run.

Another, some 20 yards downfield, turned wingback Chris DeFrance, loose for another score on a pass play. Karmelowicz is impressed with Chambers. Kush still has to be convinced. Take that TTiniM X. Pawl Another lineman, tight end Marshall Edwards, isn't worrying anyone but the worried defenders who have to cope with him.

"He's going to give us punch at that position," said Mann. "He's not only a threat on the short patterns, he's a deep threat as well. He has size and speed." Edwards also more than enough spirit when riled. After being 'speared' by a defensive back, he had to be sat on by all of the secondary and some of the linebackers to keep him from doing battle with all takers. Baseball standings National League I St 61 62 66 72 7S Pel.

541 .496 .472 .424 .400 Philadelphia Chicago Pittsburgh Montreal Si Louis New York 66 63 61 59 a 50 5i l.i 14 1 I7'l WEST Los Angeles 7 52 SM San Francisco 73 53 579 Cincinnati 70 55 560 3 San Dleeo 66 60 524 Vi Houston St 61 .460 Atlanta 56 61 .452 Late same not included Tuesday's Results Philadelphia 5, San Dieeo 3 Pittsburgh 3. Atlanta 1 San Francisco 7. New York 4 St Louis at Cincinnati Houston 2, Chicago 1 Only games scheduled Twvhf i Games San Olego (Jones ll-lli at Philadelphia ILerch 5-6) 1235 p.m. San Francisco (Knopper 12-9) at New York (Hausman 2- 2) 2:05 p.m. Los Angeles (Hooton 13-91 at Montreal (Rogers 13-11 7.35 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Candelarla 111 al Atlanta (Solomon 3-41. Chicago (Lamp 5-12) at Houslon IK. Forsch 6-4) or (Ruhle p.m. Only games scheduled American League Associated Press Slightly resembling a strange musical note on sheet music, a twisted ana broken tennis racket hanging from electrical wires high above a Mankato, street seems to indicate a final note in someone's frustrated attempts to play the game. By DAVE SPR1GGS Republic Sports Writer CAMP TONTOZONA The sun shined on one side of the scrimmage line Tuesday and the Arizona State University offensive unit finally got to enjoy the silence of Frank Kush.

After two days of getting their tails kicked by the defense, the offense caught up with the stunts and slants and handed out some punishment of its own. By sunset the two units were at each other in near free-for-all action. The routine almost became run-a-play-and-break-up-a-fight. Kush finally ordered boxing gloves to be brought from the equipment room and began announcing post-practice bouts. Four fights were scheduled within the next ten minutes.

Even without the services of quarterback Mark Malone, who was held out because of a slight knee injury, the offense had its day. IOC nixes disclosure of LA's pact Associated Press LOS ANGELES The president of the International Olympic Committee refused Tuesday a request by Mayor Tom Bradley that the text of a proposed new contract between the city and the IOC for the 1984 Olympics be made public. Bradley, who spoke with IOC president Lord Killanin by telephone, said the Irish lord told him he had just received the text of the contract by cable and would study it while he is in Berlin for the World Aquatic Games this week. The delay is considered something of a blow to the timetable planned by Olympic organizers here. They had hoped to present the text to the City Council Tuesday for approval by the end of this week, in time for the IOC's executive board meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland next week.

Bradley said Lord Killanin did not rule out the possibility that the contract will be released before the executive board meeting. But, the mayor said, the council will be unable to act on the contract before the board meeting unless it is released in the next day or two. The council could consider the contract after the board meeting. But Killanin has said that unless the council approves a contract by next Tuesday, the executive board will re-open bidding for the 1984 Games to other cities. John C.

Argue, chief negotiator for the private organizing committee seeking the Games for Los Angeles, said he was somewhat unhappy at the latest turn of events because he did not feel the City Council should be rushed into making a decision. "I don't worry about ultimatums." said Argue of Killanin's statement regarding re-opening of bidding. "The (Aug.) 29th deadline doesn't mean anything. Deadlines can be erased. "But I do not think the delay is a good thing," he said.

"We want to avoid any last minute rush for the City Council." "I should know better by tomorrow," Argue added, saying that hopefully Killanin would by then have read the proposal and been in touch with Bradley with his reaction. "If I were a betting man, I'd say that he (Killanin) will take it before the executive board (before releasing the proposal publicly)." Los Angeles Olympic negotiators and representatives of the U.S. Olympic Committee said last week that they were nearing an agreement with the IOC by which the city would not have to accept financial liability for the Games despite an IOC rule requiring host cities to assume such liability. Killanin called the report inaccurate, but IOC Executive Director Mo-nique Berlioux said it was "on the line" and that Killanin meant only that the proposed contract had not been finalized in every detail. Cannon to coach Baltimore BALTIMORE (AP) The newly formed Baltimore Metros will begin operations in the up-coming Eastern Basketball Association season with former American Basketball Association star Larry Cannon as general manager and coach, the team said Monday.

Cannon was the EBA Coach of the Year in 1975-76 when he guided Lancaster, for the first of two seasons. Last year he coached in the college division of Philadelphia's Baker League playground competition. Sports today RADIO Pro Baseball San Francisco at New York, KCKY (1150) 11 a.m.;. Los Angeles at Montreal, KTAR (620) 4:15 p.m.; New York at California, KXTC 7:10 p.m. Single, 2 -run shot back Gura, Royals Associated Devils practice at Camp Tontozona.

"I just don't understand it, unless Mr. Rosenbloom thought it was going to go that way through the whole season. And he must have. Then, I could understand it." The University of Richmond graduate also can't understand the near-rebellion of Rams' players over Allen's strenuous two-a-day workouts. "Ill tell you what," said Bruce, "If a guy like these young, three-year veterans, 6-4, 225, and in excellent shape, can't take it and Ron McDole can and Billy Kilmer (both veterans at Washington, where Allen coached last year) had trouble walking the next morning, then there's something wrong with (LA's) organization.

"Billy Kilmer never complained about two-hour practices and there were times when he should never have been out there. Eddie Brown pulled a hamstring last year, but he never missed a practice. "I don't understand anybody rebelling against my dad, for he was a player's coach. He would do anything for them. He might get on you, for he was very discipline-oriented.

But when it came to management, he would fight for you. He never thought of training camp as an easy thing." It was not by accident that the younger Allen wound up in ASU's camp. Bruce, like his father, always wanted to be a coach and planned for it. "I made a list, when I was in my second semester at Richmond, of schools at which I'd like to be on the coaching staff," he recalled. "When I showed it to my father, he cut it down to about five.

"On top of both of our lists was Arizona State. I decided that if I had an opportunity to get a job h-re, I was gonna' grab it. "First, you want to get under a good head coach. That goes without saying as one of the reasons I came here. But, two, I like their offense because I had studied pro offenses such a long time.

I really don't think I could have helped a wishbone team as much as one that runs a pro offense like Arizona State." Although a kicking specialist in college, the 6-0, 183-pounder was a high school quarterback and works with ASU's QBs. "I'm just a part-time coach," said Bruce. "I want to do the best I can and see what happens. I have two people (Kush being one) looking at me. My dad isn't going to have any team to watch, so he'll be looking at those Arizona State statistics and yelling at me if the quarterbacks don't produce." The elder Allen may have been the finest coach in the National Football League, although Don Shula, Bud Grant and Tom Landry fans would probably argue the point.

But he unquestionably has made a science of defense. "I think," said Bruce, "That he was the first coach ever to make defense an exciting game to watch. People in Washington all of a sudden started realizing what a great thrill it was to CHICAGO Al Cowens drove in three runs with a two- run homer and a single to lead left-hander Larry Gura and the Kansas City Royals to a 6-3 victory Tuesday night over the Chicago White Sox in a game played under protest. The White Sox filed a protest in the fourth inning, contending Hal McRae was using a bat with cork impacted in the tip, thereby making it illegal. The claim came after McRae had singled to score Frank White, who had tripled.

Immediately after the protest, Cowens slugged his fifth homer to Verne Boatner Sports Director watch a good defensive team. They gave them standing ovations every time they came out. Hell, when the defense gets the ball back, it's good as a 35-yard completion. It switches momentum. "And my dad was also the originator of special team play.

He had Dick Vermiel, now with the Eagles, Marvy Levy, now head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs and brought the best one (for special units) in the league, Paul Lanham, out to LA." Bruce also revealed that it was a family decision that the elder now 55, would sit out the rest of the current season. "My brother (George Jr.) flew in from Virginia after dad got fired and we decided no more coaching for him this year," said Bruce. "The only way he's going to take a head coaching job again is as general manager-head coach with a chance to be part-owner. "I told him to retire last year (after a falling-out with Washington Redskins' president Edward Bennett Williams). I don't want him in there again.

He's got eight offers and it's tearing at him. He's healthy as an ox. But he doesn't need the frustrations and he doesn't need it financially. "He'll never be out of football completely. As a consultant, he has too much to offer.

Maybe we can put him up in the pressbox and let him second-guess the reporters. Or shut up Howard Cosell. There's been so much wrong stuff written about him that I quit reading the papers long ago. I wrote an editorial to a paper once contradicting a wrong quote." So does Kush remind him of his dad? "Yes, in that he demands 100 per cent of everybody all the time. And that's the way it should be in football.

It has to be total concentration. And they both believe in discipline. "But dad got hand-picked players. They were more mature men. I'm sure that when he was in college he was more of a holler guy, like coach Kush.

But in the pros, you don't have to yell at 'em. They know what you want." So has his dad's treatment disillusioned Bruce, who had a tryout in Baltimore's camp this summer cut short by a leg injury, about the coaching profession? "A little bit," he said. "I think to myself, 'If a great coach like that is fired by people who don't think he's worth his money and question his ability, how is an upstart like me going to be able to make it in this prepare Sun Devil fans for this exciting new season by introducing you to the PAC-10 Conference, its members and their policies. This in-depth look at the academic and athletic makeup of the Pacific Athletic Conference can be found in a special souvenir section entitled Sun Devil News The Pac-10, coming in the August 27 edition of The Arizona Republic. Evans' three-run homer boosts Giants by Mets EAST IN I Pet.

G5 Bostoh 71 45 .634 Milwaukee 70 S3 .569 New York 69 53 566 I'J Detroit 69 54 .561 9 Baltimore 65 St .521 13 Cleveland 54 69 .439 24 Toronto 49 76 .392 30 WEST Kansas City 61 55 .553 California 69 57 .541 Texas 60 63 .411 I Oakland 62 65 .468 1 Minnesota 56 70 .444 Chicago 51 72 .415 17 Seattle 47 77 .379 2IVj Late games not Included Tuesday's Remits Press score McRae and cap a three-run rally which kayoed starter Ross Baumgarten (1-1). The Royals earlier tagged Baumgarten for three runs in the third inn-ning on a walk to White and singles by George Brett, Cowens, John Wa-than and Darrell Porter. Gura (11-3) had a three-hit shutout going into the sixth when the White Sox scored on a double by Don Kess-inger and a single by Lamar Johnson. Chicago kayoed Gura in the eighth when Ralph Garr walked and Kess-inger singled before Johnson drove in another run with a double. The Giants took a 1-0 lead in the first inning.

Terry Whitfield led off with a bunt single and advanced to second on Jack Clark's one-out single, the first of three consecutive hits for the right fielder. McCovey walked to load the bases and Evans' sacrifice fly scored Whitfield. The Mets took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first but Espinosa blew it in the third. After San Francisco's five-run third, the Mets put runners on first and second in the bottom of the Inning before Mazzilli struck out to end the threat. The Giants, with every member of the starting line-up getting at least one hit, blasted three New York pitchers for 13 safeties.

The hot-hitting Clark led the attack with three singles while Evans added a double, sacrifice fly and walk to his three-run homer. The Giants added a run in the eighth. Jim Dwyer, who was robbed of a grand slam homer in the third by right fielder Bruce Boisclair, tripled and scored on a sacrifice fly by McCovey. In the New York ninth, Halicki retired Doug Flynn and pinch hitter Ed Kranepool and then ran into trouble. Lee Mazzilli and Tim Foli singled and Henderson walked.

After Montanez greeted Curtis with a two-run single, Raniy Moffitt retired John Stearns on a fly to record his 11th save. NEW YORK Darrell Evans hit a three-run homer in the third inning and rookie John Tamargo followed with his first career home run, leading the San Francisco Giants to a 7-4 victory over the New York Mets Tuesday night. The triumph moved the Giants within one-half game of the idle first-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West. Evans, who also drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the first inning, hit his 12th home run of the season in the third inning after Jack Clark and Willie McCovey singled off loser Nino Espinosa, 9-12. That gave the Giants a 4-2 lead and Tamargo, acquired from St.

Louis last month, then homered. The Giants rocked Espinosa for five straight hits with two out in the third. After Roger Metzger doubled and Rob Andrews walked, Dwight Bernard relieved Espinosa and surrendered a run-producing single to Giants starter Ed Halicki before retiring the side after 11 Giants had batted. Halicki, 7-6, allowed two first-inning runs on an RBI triple by Steve Henderson and Willie Montanez' run-scoring grounder. He was relieved by John Curtis with two out in the ninth and Willie Montanez delivered a two-run sin lie.

Toronto 3. Tens! 1 Milwaukee 3, Cleveland 2, lsl game Cleveland at Milwaukee, 2nd game Kansas City 6, Chicago 3 Detroit 7, Minnesota 3 New York at Caiilronla Baltimore at Oakland Boston at Seattle Tenietifs Games Toronto (Underwood 6-10) and IJetferson 7-10) at Detroit (Roiema 6-71 and (Sykes o-S) 2, 5:30 p.m. Cleveland (Wise 9-16) at Milwaukee (Sorensen 15-t) 8:30 p.m. Kansas City (Gale 13-5) at Chicago (Kravec 9-11) 1:30 p.m. Texes (Comer 5-3) at Minnesota (Ertckson 13-7) p.m.

New York (FHueroa 12-1) al California (Aase 1-7) 10:30 p.m. Baltimore (Palmer 14-12) al Oakland (Renko 6-8) 10:30 p.m. Boston (Torre; 15-6) or (Wright 7-2) at Seattle (McLaughlin 1-4) 10:35 p.m. Pacific Coast League East 61 67 64 63 SO West 73 71 70 56 Pet. .540 .532 .504 .391 Salt Lake AibuQuerque Phoenix Tucson San Jose 1 4V 6Vi 19 51 54 51 70 Pet .519 .561 .547 .444 .402 Tacoma Portland Vancouver Spokane Hawaii J' 5 It 23'i Mondavi Results 51 76 Albuquerque at Phoenix, suspended, power failure Salt Lake 5-0, Spokane 4-3 Tucson 14, San Jose 9 Tacoma 3, Vancouver 0 Portland 7, Hawaii 4.

second game rained out Tuesday's Camel Albuquerque at Phoenix San Jose at Tucson Spokane al Salt Lake Vencouver al Tacoma Hawaii al Portland Wednesday Albuquerque al Phoenix Vancouver at Tacoma Hawaii at Portland San i 1 at Tucson Sookt7r4l San Lake. Pac-lO edition planned After all the research, planning and preparation, the time has come for Arizona State University to take that giant plunge into the sea of Pacific-10 competition not only on the athletic fields but also in the classrooms, laboratories and administrative offices. The Sun Ansel Foundation and he Arizona Republic would like to.