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8-D Monday. Nov. 28. 1983 Philadelphia Inquirer SporteEdra Toronto edsres British Columbia and captures CFL championship iinripr-nar 71 to win the $297,900 Sports in brief won the TAC Cross Country Championships on Saturday in a record 29 World Open by two shots over Tsun-, cyuki Nakajima of Japan, who also shot 71. Langer, winner earlier this year of the Italian Open and two; other European championships, had an aggregate 287 for his first victory in Japan, which netted a check for 555,000.

Miscellany Michael Gross of West Germany clocked 1 minute, 56.1 seconds to improve his own world-best short-course time for the 200-meter butterfly by .08 seconds during a West German swimming clubs competi-tion in Schwabisch Gmund. Austrian Klaus Heidegger overcame rain on his first run and billowing snow to win the men's special slalom, the final event of the five-day Ski World Series, with an aggregate time of 1:44.78 in Bormio, Italy. minutes, 18.6 seconds for the course, well ahead of Sampson Obuacha, a native of Kenya running with Converse West, who finished in 29:32.7. Betty Jo Springs of Braden-ton, set a course record in the women's senior division. Springs, also running with Athletics West, finished a course in 16:30.7, Tennis JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -South African-born American Johan Kriek won the South African Open, finding his form in the final two sets and edging unseeded Colin Dowdes-well of Britain, 6-4, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5, 6-3.

Compiled by The Inquirer Stall VANCOUVER, British Columbia -Quarterback Joe Barnes came off the bench yesterday to lead the Toronto Argonauts over the British Columbia Lions, 18-17, for their first Grey Cup championship in 31 years. Toronto captured the Canadian Football League championship at B.C. Place, a new domed stadium, in the first Grey Cup game to be played indoors. In the second half, Barnes, a former Texas Tech star, flipped a 3-yard touchdown pass to running back Ce-dric Minter just as Minter stepped into the left corner of the end zone. Earlier in the half, Hank Ilesic booted two singles kicks that went into the end zone and were not returned by the receiving team, worth one point each and a field goal to draw the Argos within five points at 17-12.

Toronto went for a two-point, conversion after its winning TD, but Barnes' pass fell incomplete. BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana State University athletic- director Bob Brodhead yesterday denied a report that he had offered Miami Dolphins defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger the Tigers' head football coach's job, now held by Jerry Sto-vail. Television station WBRZ quoted unnamed sources Saturday night as saying that Brodhead had offered Arnsparger the job and had given him until early this week to accept. 1981 TONY AWARDS BEST MUSICAL ITONIOHT 8 PMl "A MUSICAL MADE IN HEAVEN!" -KMC MflU.

The sixth seed's aggressive play and strong service though he made 13 double faults were the key to his pocketing the $40,000 winner's check. SYDNEY, Australia Britain's Jo Durie, despite a painful back injury, won a $150,000 tournament in White City, Durie underwent 30 minutes of treatment on a pulled muscle before defeating Kathy Jordan of King of Prussia, 6-3, 7-5, for her second major title of the year. She earned $27,500. MELBOURNE, Australia The start of the $1 million Australian Open was called off after heavy weekend rains left courts drenched and unplayable. Tournament director Colin Stubs said that thunderstorms yesterday left the grass courts at the Kooyong Stadium saturated and that the opening matches would have to be rescheduled.

Golf KAGOSHIMA, Japan West Germany's Bernhard Langer shot a one- 1 "BROADWAY'S BRASSIEST HIT!" -PEOPLE MAGAZINE dttld IHJIf TICKITRON outlet ORDER TICKETS BY PHONE Call: TELE-CHARGE Associated Press Houston cornerback Orsby Crenshaw (right) spoils a pass intended for SMU's Marquis Pleasant Southern Methodist wins in Japan? BU tops Eastern Kentucky, 24-20 Boxing PATTAYA, Thailand Thailand's Payao Poontarat, displaying a powerful attack, won the World Boxing Council super-flyweight championship from Venezuela's Rafael Orono on a majority 12-round decision. It left Orono's record at 28-2-1 and Payao's at 9-1. Cross-country STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Pat Porter of Alamosa, and Athletics West (213) 238-9030 Phone cells accepted I AM to midnight I even aeys ween. EVGS.

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14 1 1 1 4 Wolnul St (PHIIA Prwne 1 5) W3 1 51 College football i go before halftimc. The Mustangs opened the second half with an 11-play, 87-yard drive that culminated in a 9-yard touchdown pass from Mcllhenny to tight end Rickey Bolden. Boston University 24, Eastern Kentucky 20 Jim English passed for two touchdowns and Paul Lewis ran for another as No. 13 Boston University defeated defending champion Eastern Kentucky (7-3-1) in the first round of the Division l-AA playoffs in Richmond, Ky. unawiMt Plymouth Associated Press TOKYO For Bobby Collins, coach of Southern Methodist's sixth-ranked Mustangs, the key to victory was defense.

"I think our defense is as good a defense as I've ever been around," he said after SMU had beaten Houston, 34-12, in the Mirage Howl early yesterday to run its record to 10-1. "I think, right now, we're very close to being as good a football team as wc were last year." The Mustangs, who were 11-0-1 last season, forced a series of turnovers in the second quarter to break the game open. They led by 24-6 at half-time in the annual game to which two NCAA teams arc invited before the start of the season. Lance Mcllhenny's two touchdown passes, plus scoring runs by Heggie Dupard and Jeff Atkins, gave SMU an easy victory in a game played before 62,000 spectators on a chilly afternoon at Tokyo's National Stadium, the site of the track-and-field events in the 1964 Olympics. SMU opened the scoring in the first quarter.

Houston punter Robert My- Boston University, the Yankee Conference champion, will meet Fur- man in Greenville, S.C., on Saturday crs lost his grip on a snap and was tackled at his 3-yard line. Atkins pushed into the end zone from 1 yard out, and the extra point made the score 7-0. Houston (4-7) scored on a 1-yard run by Donald Jordan in the second quarter, but Myers' extra-point attempt was blocked, leaving the Cougars one point behind. That was the closest Houston came. SMU retaliated with an an 80-yard drive that was capped by an 11-yard touchdown pass from Mcllhenny to wide receiver Ron Morris.

Safety Kusscll Carter intercepted a Gerald I.andry pass at midfield 6 minutes before the end of the half, and the Mustangs capitalized when Jelf llarrell kicked a 28-yard field goal for a 17-6 lead. After Houston fullback Dwayne l.ove had fumbled the ball away at his 15, SMU went ahead by 24-6 on Dupard's 1-yard run with a minute to in inc second round ol the playoffs English hit Bill Brooks with a 31- yard touchdown pass that proved to oe ine game-winner with 1 minute, 57 seconds left in the second quarter, That put the Terriers up by 21-10. English's first touchdown pass, a 4-yard throw to T.J. Hartford, put the Terriers up by 14-7 with 8:45 remaining in the second quarter. Lewis' 1-yard run had tied the game at 7-7 with 58 seconds left in first quarter.

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wins over Temple and Rutgers, gained momentum with a last-second upset of then No. 3-rankcd and undefeated Alabama and crested with a victory over Syracuse and a sound thrashing of then No. 4-ranked and undefeated West Virginia. Some of the discontent that had rpto WHY PAY MORE? is00' PAY POTAMKIN A VISIT. FINANCE MAN ON PREMISES FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY POTAMKIN'S VOLUME PHILOSOPHY wle (VIM mgil IM ran trvrki Tim it Ml, ww or to rhi cne mimenul IMr DioIiiiii 40 OOO ran 4 null W.

Sri Ihil rail all btvi rouww vuul surlaced after the loss to Cincinnati a week in which the players held a cot it long and fruitful gripe session among themselves seemed to re turn when the five-game winning streak was snapped decisively by Boston College, 27-17, and a lacklus way 860 BALTIMORE PIKE cmrysler1 SPRINGFIELD, PA. wrin I wie-l-rw (Aro From Strawbridg. Clothier) ter showing against Brown followed Prompted in part by the lineup reshuffling the most recent of OPEN MON. THRU FRI. 9 10.

SAT. 96. CLOSED SUN. 544.8000 PENN STATE, from 1-D Year's Day circus, having paid for those seats with four losses. There was, during the 0-3 streak that began this season, a superstitious fan in State College who contended that Penn State's woeful start was not attributable to inexperience at quarterback, the lack el a running game, shoddy defense or a lackluster olfensivc line.

The reason for the awful skein, said the fan, was a phenomenon in sport called the "Sports Illustrated jinx," a sort of photographic voodoo that casts its whammy on the magazine's cover subjects. Penn State's punishment was harsher and more enduring than most, said the fan, because a State College man had bought the rights to the Sports Illustrated cover that followed the Nit-tuny Lions' national championship and had enlarged it into a poster, which was displayed defiantly throughout State College. "It's those posters," the fan said. "The SI jinx." Those who are more logical than superstitious tend to believe that Penn State's season had been doomed from the moment the players voted to play Nebraska in the Aug. 29 Kick-off Classic at the Meadowlands.

The defending national champion versus the prognosticates' preseason pick as the No. 1 team appeared to be a tantalizing matchup, but in the nine months since they had secured a national title, the Lions had lost 13 starters including Todd Blackledge and Curt Warner and most of their roar. The defending national champions were paper Lions, young, green and tentative. They lost that game, 44-6, and that led to the two subsequent losses to Cincinnati and Iowa, the worst start for a Penn State team since 1964. Toward the end of the season, Pa-terno blamed himself for those three losses, for playing quarterback roulette in his attempt to stabilize the offense.

Doug Strang started the Nebraska game but lost his starting position to Dan Loncrgan, who subsequently was benched against Cincinnati and replaced by Strang, who was benched with 10 minutes left in the game in favor of freshman John Shatter. Finally, on the Tuesday preceding the Iowa gsme, Paterno named woridSrgist1 Strang his starter. The Linwood, N.J., junior threw for 254 yards and three I Ds, but he was outgunned by Iowa quarterback Chuck Long's 345 yards as the Hawkeycs won. Still, a new phenomenon was introduced to Penn State fans, that of the "moral" victory, for the Nittany Lions had battled the llawkcyes (then ranked No. 13 by AP and No.

12 by HIM) until the fourth quarter, when two bombs by Long gave Iowa the victory. Paterno had predicted before the season that "we should have a pretty good offensive unit after the Nebraska and Cincinnati game." "If wc don't," he had said, "we arc not going to have a good offensive team. If you can't make strides going into your second game, then you are in a bind. "I'm a firm believer that you improve more between the first and second games than at any other time during the season." That Penn State's offense perhaps displayed its most marked improvement between the second and third games was attributable to Patemo's finally settling on one quarterback and on the emergence of freshman D.J. Dozicr, who rushed for 102 yards in that third game and exceeded 100 yards in each of the following three games.

It was also during the Iowa game that the focus turned from the offense to the defense, particularly the pass rush and the defensive secondary, which had been exploited during the three losses. Before the Temple game the following week, Paterno reshuffled his secondary, moving all-America safety Mark Robinson to one cornerback spot and Mike Zordich to the other and installing freshman Darrell Giles at safety. However, spurred in part by Robinson's season-ending injury in the Alabama game, Paterno eventually re which was the benching after the Boston College game of senior co-captain and offensive tackle Ron Heller the seniors held a meeting before the final home game of the season against Notre Dame, a meeting in which they aired frustrations that had built during the difficult season. "If Ron was benched, we started thinking that no one's job was sale," said one player, who asked not to be identified. "We just decided the hell with the coaches, they'd be here long after we left.

Wc decided to go out and play for ourselves and leave Beaver Stadium with a win." Thanks to Strang's last-minute touchdown run, Penn State was able to eke out a 34-30 victory over Notre Dame, and the next week via last-minute heroics for the third time during the season the Lions salvaged the tie with Pitt. Though the tie left a bitter taste in the mouths of Pitt's players, to Penn State's players it was more like a sip of nothing and hardly enough to quench their thirst to prove that they, finally, were a good team, The Aloha Bowl, then, is their chance to wash away the taste of this season with a thirst-quenching, season-ending victory. I 'hhoL 'limmli ZZXm. avc 7FM' ESS" ST- $13,995 '4995 3795 83TOYOTACRESS1DA '0 MERC. COUCU 81 OOBEE OMNI '77 CHRV.

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