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lloo! FRANK DOLSON not like a guy who loses his job and has no place to go, a guy who has to sit by the phone Frank won't be hurt. He's going to be another Danny Murtaugh Paul Owens July 13, 1972 "(Lucchesi's firing as scout) was fot the good of the organization Listen, did a little soul-searching on this loo. There's no one I'd rather have work for me than Frank Lucchcsi Paul Owens Oct. 13, 1972 17-Year Hitch Ignored as Phillies Bounce Lncchesi Section CINCINNATI FIRST THEY TOLD HIM NOT TO WORRY about the one-year contract. After all, the Phillies' brass explained to Frank Lucchcsi, Walt Alston had been working on one-year contracts for two decades.

Beautiful. Frank Lucchesi was going to be the Walt Alston of the Phillies. Only it didn't w(rk out that way. A day after his old friend and new Paul Owens, assured him that the rumors were false, that "there's nothing going on," Ut ftilalpfita Jnijuutr SPORTS Dial Score LO 3-2842 For Late Results Sunday, Oct. 15 the Phillies fired their Walt Alston.

It seemed cruel and inhuman treatment for a guy who deserved much better, but the Phillies' executives couldn't seem to understand what all the howl- i Tenace's Two Homers Decide, 3-2 ll in was aD0Ut- AIter au was -V I still a valued member of the organiza- f-V tion tliey arued. 11 wasnt as thev JJ were tossing him out in tne coia. r3fcifcV "It's not like a euv who tees his A's Beat Eedls in Seri job and has no place to go, a guy who has to sit by the phone," Bob Carpenter said a few days after the managerial es Opener pi ices were Ken Holtzman, a National League expatriate; Rollie Fingers, a sinkerball pitcher, and Vida Blue, the reluctant reliever. Holtzman, the lefthander who formerly toiled for the Chicago Cubs, got the victory over Nolan on the strength of five innings of work in which he allowed both Red runs. Fingers bailed Holtzman out of a mild jam in the sixth inning, and Blue hurried out of the bullpen he hates an inning and two-thirds later to put his lefthanded seal on Oakland's upset win.

Tenace's only previous publicity stemmed from a dropped ground ball in Game 4 of the American By BRUCE KEIDAN 01 The Inquirer Staff CINCINNATI. Gene Tenace arrived in town for the World Series with what is known in politics as a "low recognition factor." Any lower and he would have been invisible. That was before 26-year-old Fury Gene Tenace stepped to the plate against the Cincinnatti Red's Gary Nolan in the second inning of Saturday's opening game of the Series. One on. Two out.

A count of two balls and. one strike. BAM! INSTANT immortality. A two-run homer in his first World Series at bat. Let's see now.

Oh, yeah, here it is: Gene Tenace, catcher, sometime second baseman and utility man. Hit .225 with 5 home runs during the regular season. In the American League, yet. Obviously a fluke, right? Fifth inning. One out and none on.

Score tied at 2-2. And here comes Whatshisname, again. No balls, one strike. A fly down the left field line. Fair.

By inches, but fair. Home run. That is the way the Reds fell Saturday, bludgeoned into 3-2 submission by a guy who figured to be about as dangerous as a walk in the sun. A record Riverfront Stadium crowd of 52,918 and a national television audience swear it really happend. TENACE HAD some help.

His primary accom- change. "Frank won't be hurt. He's FRANK LUCCHESI 6oinS to be another Danny Murtaugh He would be Owt nsr righthand man in Philadelphia, just as Murtaugh is Joe Brown's righthand man in Pittsburgh. "1 think the very fact fiat Frank is going to remain my righthand man is evidence of my regard for him," Owens told the press. Maybe he was sincere.

Maybe thaey all were sincere. But they had a funny way of showing it. Lucchesi, a sensitive man, got the feeling that he had overstayed his welcome, that, after 17 years, the Phillies wanted to get rid of him. His feeling was right. The Phillies fired their Danny Murtaugh this weekend.

"General manager Paul Owens today announced that Frank Lucchcsi is leaving the Phillies organization by mutual agreement," began the first draft of the official statement the club asked Lucchesi to approve Friday night. Mutual agreement? Owens told Lucchcsi there was no longer a job foi him. That being the case, Frank agreed he had better leave. THE PHILLIES WILL SAY THAT LUCCHESI could have stayed, that they offered him a. job a few weeks ago.

But the salary they offered told Frank what his instincts had already warned him: the Phi lies weren't THAT anxious to keep hiin in their organization. "Paul offered me a certain figure (believed to be about Lucchesi said. "I told him, 'You got to come He said, 'We've checked with other organizations and that's what they're Temple Nips W. Va. On Late Punt Return '0 -Mimu jui' ii if in i tiiimai nmwiimmuTiw ir mncniii.

mi jinr'nnn" i 11 in 7'y'T'T'" I I 1 i M. ft I said, 'Yeah, but I've been here 17 years. Doesn't that mean Apparently not. Still, Lucchesi might have accepted the offer. If nothing better came along a big league coaching job, for instance what choice did he have? That's where things stood when Frank went in the hospital recently for minor surgery.

While there, he was visited by Stan Hochman, sports editor of the Philadelphia Daily News. "He asked me about the job," Lucchesi said. "I told him why should I lie? that my heart is on the field. I don't think I'll PAUL OWENS Continued on Page 2, Column 1 -A 5 be as happy being a special assignment guy That was no big secret, but you'd have thought Lucchesi had sold his snul to the New York Mcts, the way th Phillhs reacted when Hochman's column appeared. Once again, Paul Owens' timing left something to be desired.

He had been honored at a testimonial dinner last week and Continued on Page 2, Column 2 mww to Ky into- I fi i (Wi 00k WVFf wmm Pitcher Gary Nolan pounds lose by a sizable margin. The win was all the sweeter for the Owls because they appeared headed for their third loss in five games despite a great effort. "IT WAS FANTASTIC, super, great," said overjoyed Wayne Hardin, the former Navy coach now in his third season of trying to turn Temple into a big league eleven. "It ranks with any win I've ever had," said Hardin, who beat Army five times in his six years at the Naval Academy. "Like the rest of them," he added, "it was a team victory.

"A lot of the problems AP Wirpohoto Fucetola (66) drops ball completed 12 of 18 passes for 153 yards and two touchdowns and ran for an additional 71 yards in eight carries. OVERALL, HIS PLAY kept the Penn State offense in step with the Lions powerful defense for the first time this season the most crcouraging aspect of a game played in a gorgeous mid-fall setting. Paterno did not say flatly that this game marked the arrival of a team that has babied through a series of fum-b 1 interceptions and dropped passes. However, he obviously was pleased by Continued on Page 17, Column 4 By ALLEN LEWIS Of The Inquirer- Stuff Temple University's football rebuilding program took a giant step toward major league status Saturday night with what amounted; to a ninth-inning home run. After losing a 17-point lead, Temple came back to beat West Virginia, 39-36, on a 79-yard punt return by Paul Loughran with just over two minutes to play before 13,067 at Temple Stadium.

It was a thrilling finish to a game that saw neither team able to stop the other, particu- larly in the air, and it was a game Temple was figured to (88), hit by Temple's Frank 38-point lead. THE LIONS were prccision-ists on offense for the first time this season. They did not turn over the ball to the Army defense until reserve running back Carl Cayette fumbled deep in the third and by then, of course, it meant very little. Penn State's fourth victory in a row had quarterback John Hufnagel's stamp on it. He ran, threw and faked the Army defense into full retreat before turning over the game to his backup man, sophomore Tom Shuman.

Before he was lifted with 25 minutes to play, Hufnagcl we've had have been my fault," said Hardin aftar he and the rest of his coaching staff had been thrown in the shower during the lockerroom. celebration. TEMPLE, WHICH scored the first time it had the ball, rolled to a 17-0 lead in the second quarter and held a 31-21 lead when the final period began. But West Virginia, a 41-35 loser to Stanford but winner of its other four prior games, then almost duplicated last year's comeback against the Owls. Last fall at Morgantown, Continued on Page 10, Column 7 Penn Loses In Closing Seconds By JOHN DELL Of The Inquirer Staff ITHACA, N.Y.

They have this act up here that's been a gripper since footlights burned oil. The melodrama has the sun bursting through just as things look darkest for the forces of right and justice. They put the production on the Schoellkop Field sttage years ago, when Rick Furbush's third-and-18 pass in the waning minutes went 35 yards to John Bozich in the end zone to give Cornell a 32-31 victory over Penn. SATURDAY, they scarcely changed the script. Mark Allen tossed a 12-yard pass to John McKeown to wipe out a 20-17 Penn lead and boost Cornell to a 24-20 victory in the 1 final 36 seconds.

"It seems like we can't get out of these Penn games up here without sweating blood," whewed Cornell coach Jack Musick. It was a new act to Harry Gamble. The Penn coach was the Lafayette coach two years ago. He was learning first hand for the first time what can happen to a Penn coach's team up here after it wipes out a 17-0 Cornell lead. Penn's comeback seemed to be complete.

It provided enough drama for one given day. But Cornell had an encore for a crowd of more than 17,000. "IN FAIRY TALES you win these kinnd," Gamble said. "It was a great comeback. When a team comes back like that it deserves to win." Cornell turned cold, biased eyes on that philosophy.

The Big Red, now 3-0 in the season in which it was suppose to Continued on Paj 2 Maryland Humbles Villanova By CHUCK NEWMAN Ot The. Inquirer "If COLLEGE PARK, Md. Is single-platoon footDal! in Vil-Ianova's future? Eleven men playing both offense and defense? The idea may seen ridiculous in this age of complicated offense. But tie Wildcats don't have a complicated attack. In fact, according to Coach Lou Ferry, tley may not have an offense at all.

"WE DON'T HAVE any offense. We can move the football. I don't know if we can block or not," a distraught Villanova coach said almost inaudibly after Maryland bombed the Wildcats, 37-7, on Saturday. Ferry's reaction seemed natural. His team is 1-S with five games to play.

And the performance against the Terrapins was the depth of despair. For the second tine this season an opposing coach lamented the fact that trie Wildcats were able to ge' on the scoreboard. First it was Johnny Ray at Kentucky. Yesterday it was Maryland's Jerry Claiborne. THE WILDCATS' offense didn't get on the bo rd.

The defense put the sevei points there. On a 49-yard pass interception by Frank Polito. Miraculously, the ay put Villanova ahead, 7-6, with 1:46 played in third period. Then the offense comm- enced to put the game out of reach. The Wildcats nn three plays on their next scies and turned the ball over at the Maryland 41.

Eleven plays later Steve Mikj-Mayar kicked his third field goal of Continued on Page 17, Column 1 UPI Telephoto glove in disgust as A's Gene Tenace runs out 2d homer WVU's Nate Stephens wmmm COLLEGE FOOTBALL 9:30 A. M. Temple Highlights, Ch. 29 10:30 A. M.

Notre Dame Highlights, Ch. 29 1:05 A. M. Grambling Highlights, Ch. 10 1:30 A.

Football Highlights, Ch. 6 BOWLING Noon All-Star Bowling, Ch. 29 BASEBALL 1 P. M. World Series, Oakland vs.

Cincinnati, Ch. 3 PRO FOOTBALL 4 P. M. Dallas Cowboys vs, Baltimore Colts, Ch. 10 4 P.

M. Cincinnati Bengals vs. City Chiefs, Ch. 3 Penn State Crushes Army How the AP's Top Ten Fared 1. LSC (S-0) defeated California, 42-14.

Page 3. 2. Oklahoma (4-0) defeated Texas, 27-0. Page 3. 3.

Alabama (6-0) defeated Florida, 24-7. Page 7. 4. Ohio State (4-0) defeated Illinois, 26-7. Page 5.

5. Nebraska (4-1) defeated Missouri, 62-0. Page 5. 6. Michigan (S-0) defeated Michigan State, 10-0.

Page 5. 7. Notre Dame (4-0) defeated Pitt, 42-16. Page 5. 8.

LSU (S-0) beat Auburn, 3S-7. Page 10. 9. Auburn (4-1) lost to LSU, 3S-7. Page 10.

10. Washington (5-1) lost to Stanford, 24-0. Page 3. And the Inside StoYi) CAN FRESHMAN play college football? Can they! Page 4. EAGLES test a still-Fearsome Foursome today.

Page 6. DUANE THOMAS, set to be activated, disappears. Page 6. DELAWARE'S streak extended; Cheyney's ended. Page 8.

THREE PAGES of high school news. Pages 11-13. U. S. TAKES 2-1 lead in Davis Cup finals.

Page 18. By JOHN FLYNN Dl Thr tnquirrr fihiff WEST POINT, N. Y. -Mark Saturday, Oct. 11, as the day that Pcnn State became an imposing college football team.

The moment was not unexpected because the Nittany Lions had been ticking Jike a time bomb for weeks. Nevertheless, the explosion left Army's Cadeti and a Michie Stadium crowd of 42,352 helpless and silent. The final score was 45-0 due to the mercy of Coach Paterno who lifted his regulars early in the third quarter after they had stormed to a.