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aectioib Bill Lyon 3 Scoreboard 4 The Scene 7 High Schools 12-13 Horse Racing 18 ffe ttibbelrfe Inquirer sports V'- zi 0 cinnati Walt Cm ilJlf i 1 3osto Tiant 3-Hits A's, 7-1 By ALLEN LEWIS Inquirer Staff Writer BOSTON The first game of the American League's championship series yesterday at Fenway Park was a comedy of errors, but only 1 the winning Boston Red Sox and their rooters in the capacity crowd of 35,578 were laughing. Certainly the defending world champion Oakland A's, who con-; tributed four costly errors to their 7-1 defeat, didn't think it was funny. Losing pitcher Ken Holtzman, whose streak of 20 scoreless innings in playoff games ended in an error-, filled first, wasn't even smiling. The A's hitters never really had a chance to get back in the game, so overpowering was Red Sox pitcher Luis Tiant, who allowed just three hits and would have had a shutout but for two eight-inning errors. Apart from Tiant's performance the A's could not hit a single ground ball in the first seven innings it was not a game to remember.

"We played terrible today, didn't we?" said Oakland manager Alvin Dark. "Our ball club gives very few ball games away. Overall, we have played good defense, but we didn't today. There's a lot of balls we should have caught. We didn't catch too many." Dark plans today to pit lefthander Vida Blue, his 22-game winner, against Boston righthander Reggie Cleveland, a 13-9 performer during the regular season.

"We lost the first game last year at home against Baltimore," Dark said. "But I have always felt the second game in a five-game series is the most important. We'll do everything we can to win tomorrow." Tiant, the 34-year-old Cuban who didn't allow a hit until Joe Rudi lined a single off his glove at the start of the fifth inning, kept the A's off (See AMERICAN on 14-E) Defense By BILL LYON ttQinror Staff Writar UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Kentucky's football team was like a drowning man clutching at a razor blade. Six times the wildcats drove inside the Penn State 40 yard line.

Twice they were on the 9. They ilmped away with only 3 points and a gut full of frustration. "Inside our 40," said Greg Buttle, the leader of Penn State's rampaging defense, "you're playing in our tory." The Nittany Lions rode that defensive philosophy to a 10-3 victory here yesterday surviving three second- Don Gullett gets a hero's welcome from Sparky Anderson and Johnny Bench after the organ: Walk in By FRANK DOLSON Sunday. October 5, eners Gullett Stymies Pirates By FRANK DOLSON Inamrer Staff Writer CINCINNATI -They gathered to-. gether some of baseball's mast feared hitters for the National.

League playoffs. Bench Starv pell Perez Parker Morgan Oliver Rose And Don Gullett, who had never hit. a home run in his professional career, who had batted 340 times in the big leagues without clearing a the big bat yesterday as tha Cincinnati Reds whipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-3, in the opening game of their best-of-five championship series. The 24-year-old lefthander "the greatest individual I've ever TrTet; since I've been in sports," Reds' manager Sparky Anderson called, him brought a sellout crowd of 633 to its feet by slamming the! game's only homer over the left field; fence to cap a four-run fifth As the two-run shot cleared the 12-, foot-high barrier, Gullett leaped high; and waved a fist oyer his head. You' could hardly blame him.

"I rounded first, I looked at Zlsk (left fielder Richie Zisk), 1 saw the ball clear the fence and I kinda got carried away," the pitcher said. "It was a very exciting moment for me." And a very depressing one for the Pirates, who had an early, 2-0 lead with their ace, Jerry Reuss, pitching and wound up losing to the Reds and snarling at the umpires. "How can you let the two best teams in the National League play for the championship with six umpires who are not the best working the game?" asked Bob Prince, the Pirates' outspoken play-by-play man. Whatever Danny Murtaugh had to say on the subject apparently was said in person to plate umpire John Kibler and friends during a ninth-in-(See NATIONAL on 14-E) United Press Internatlonsl Mike Welch stop Bob McNamara got Penn to 19 and 27 in the first half. Soccer-style kicker Tim Mazzetti missed 32 and 44-yard field goal tries after Granstein set up the opportunities.

"The first time I was shaky," Mazzetti said about his hurried, wide kick. "The second time I thought I had it, but the ref didn't." By the time Mazzetti, who had kicked three field goals against, Lehigh, thought about questioning referee's judgment, Brown had a 7-0 (See PENN on 10-E) Carries Penn VILLANOVA loses to Boston College, 41-12. BELL defeats San Antonio Wings, 42-38 HOWARD beats Florida at the Vet. BELL defeats San Antonio Wings before 2,031. MICHIGAN STATE upsets Notre Dame, 10-3.

OKLAHOMA pulls out 21-20 win over Colorado. FLYERS play to 1-1 tie at Toronto. 76ERS win again behind George McGinnis' 25. the first time up. And once again Reuss threw ball four.

One hundered and thirty-two times during the season the little man with the astonishing speed and the explosive power had taken ball four. And now, as he tossed away the bat and ran to first he knew what was going through the pitcher's mind. If there was one thing Jerry Reuss didn't want to do with a one-run lead, it was walk Joe Morgan. "I was glad to watk," the Reds' second baseman said. "I would fancy," added defensive tackle Ron Coder, who had two sacks.

"You just dig in and fire out. It's a matter of being more aggressive. You don't lay back and read any more because down there the game is on the line." "We moved the ball up and down defense, "you're playing in OUR tern-the field but we couldn't get a break," said Fran Curci, the UK coach. It was frustrating. Before the game, Curci was talking like a man luring flies with sugar right into the spider's den.

"We're just a bunch of hillbillies. Some of my poor li'l ol' people might not want to even show up," he moaned. (See PENN STATE on 10-E) Sports on TV COLLEGE FOOTBALL 9 A.M. Notre Dame Highlights, Ch. 29.

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Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, Ch. 3. United Press International fifth inning homer rather walk (in that situation) than get a base hit. I think it makes a difference. The pitcher's saying, 'I shouldn't have walked that little He "ets mart.

If I get a hit all he's saying is, 'Well he hit .300 it Ke ss was angry then, Morgan saw to it that he was angrier moments later. On the lefty's first pitch to Johnny Bench, he stole second. On the pitch after that he stole third. "When he st61e third he was almost halfwav between second and third (See DOLSON on 14-E) Penn's Jeff Koury, John Petit and a yard for another in the second quarter. Then, in the third period, Jose Violarite probably set a field record for a collegiate field goal by placement with a 51-yarder.

Penn had its moments after that. First Penn put up a great gnal-line stand after Brown got a first down on the three. Then, it scored a touchdown. The six-pointer came on a long, throw-and-hope pass by Carl Smith, Penn's second quarterback of the day. Bob Graustein had started and Park i i CINCINNATI Joe Morgan didn't hit a ball out of the infield.

He struck out and he hit a couple of ground balls yesterday and he showed why he's the most valuable player in the National League. "Joe," said his teammate, Pete Rose, "is one of the very few guys who can stimulate a team without getting any hits." The Reds were trailing by a run in the third inning when Morgan turned it around. He worked the count to 3-and-2 against Jerry Reuss, as he had Page 4. Page 4. Page 4.

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ranked 8th in the nation, shut down a Penn State offense that still sputters because of youth and inexperience. But Penn State is 4-1 today because its defense acted very much like an offense it went on the attack. "Around our own 10, that's when we tee off," said Buttle. "It's not four times of that 80-yard drive, caught a pass for 13 yards and served as a valuable decoy on two more big completions. He scored the first two touchdowns of his Temple career.

He may have run like a Clydesdale before, but yesterday he was an Arabian thoroughbred. "Very definitely we wanted to go to Duff more," said Owl Coach Wayne Hardin. "He'd had two good weeks of (See TF.MPi half interceptions, and a bristling game that was played near the end under the shadow of their own goalpost. The Wildcats owned everything but the scoreboard. They had more first downs and more yards.

Their own rib-rattling defense, 21-17, before 10,163 fams at Veterans Stadium. Thus, they beat the team that beat the team ((Memphis State) that beat the Auburn Tigers. And, while it does not mean the Owls are good enough to crack the Top 20, it does show they can still kick up a little dust. Duff was doing most of that. He carried 27 times, and that is three mnre than he had made all year.

He "ained 114 vards. He carried the last Penn Streak Shattered Philadelphia Inquirer ALEXANDER DEANS Cincinnati's Lou West (left) makes sure back Bob Harris has no place to go but down at the Vet Duff Stars as Temple Wins 1st By JOHN DELL Inquirer Staff IVrtter The Penn football team is tearing through the season at a record-smashing rate. Penn rooters wish it would stop. Yesterday, Penn broke a record of continued success against Brown at Franklin Field thst had gone back to 1911. Brown won, 17-8.

A week earlier, Penn had broken its 34-game winning streak against Lehigh, which beat Penn for the first time in 87 years. The Red and Blue's reverse pace isn't making Harry Gamble, the Penn coach, stretch his memory quite that far. He looks back only to 1973, when Penn started by losing to Lafayette and played two poor quarters against Brown before winning the game and going on to a 6-3 season. This time Brown got two productive early quarters again. Bob Bateman, heralded transfer quarterback from Vermont, passed for one By BILL LIVINGSTON The coupon for the fourth week of The Inquirer's Football Sweepstakes appears today on Page 3 of this section.

The entry form will appear again each day through Thursday, with the winner of the third week's contest to be announced Wednesday. nouirer Stnff Writer Temple had spent three weeks wandering in the desert, losing by ridiculous spores and generally looking rather gruesome. But yesterday was midnight at the oasis. Behind the running of fullback Tom Duff and the clutch passing of Pat Carey, the Owls drove 80 yards in the last 71? inimitM to nnpt Cincinnati..