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News-Press WORLD SERIES .3 COLLEGE FOOTBALL .4 SUNDAY NOTEBOOK 6 PRO FOOTBALL 7 CLASSIFIED. 12 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1984 p)0S 4-2 win puts Padres on critical list Gz3 Five pitching matchup Detroit' San Diego Dan Petry (righty, 18- Mark Thurmond (lefty, 8, 3.24 ERA) 14-8, 2.97 ERA) The rest of the Tigers were a little quieter in confidence. Manager Sparky Anderson maintained his public stance: "We're planning for a seven-game Series." San Diego Manager Dick Williams hadn't yet lost his humor, even as his team loses its Series. What did he think the odds were for his team today? "Probably better than you think they are." Did he plan on making any changes in his lineup, or did he want to sleep on it Saturday night before making up his mind? "I'm going to drink on it, and then sleep on it" While he's at it, maybe he can save a glass of sake for Thurmond. He's the next San Diego starter, which is this World Series' answer to a kamikaze mission.

Thurmond went five innings in See TIGERS, page 3C this time, gone in the third after Trammell deposited his second two-run homer of the day In the left field stands. And, honestly, with Dan Petry, going again Mark Thurmond in Game Five today (4:45 p.m.), there aren't many signs of hope for the Padres. Only four teams have ever come back from 3-1 to win the Series, Pittsburgh against Baltimore in 1979 being the last. The show may not be over until the fat lady sings, but she may do the national anthem today. Tiger outfielder Kirk Gibson thinks so.

Just after the game, somebody in the Detroit clubhouse was passing out itineraries for the trip to San Diego for 'Game Six that the Tigers will have to make if they lose today. "Anybody got a puppy?" Gibson said. "You can use these itineraries on them. We're not going to need them." TV: Channels 8, 20, 4:30 p.m. Radio: WINK (1240-AM), 4:30 p.m.

By MIKE LOPRESTI Gannett News Service DETROIT They have certainly shown who has the best team. Isn't everybody convinced? The two MVP candidates have been determined, one by longball, one by forkball. So what else is there left to do in this so far rather forgettable World Series? End it. And the Detroit Tigers could well do that today. The Tigers moved to within one game of their first world championship in 16 years Saturday, taking a 3-1 game lead by beating San Diego 4-2 behind Alan Trammell's two home runs and Jack Morris' five-hit pitching.

Another day, another shellacking for a San Diego starter. Eric Show 1 1 A. i I if Trammell, Brown study jn contrast I i it World Series, and hitting .500 in the postseason. There was a time Trammell thought there wouldn't be any season. Like In June.

He blew out his throwing arm in Texas Just before the Ail-Star game, July 9. He was on the disabled list for 15 days and not back at short until Aug. 17. The Tigers need Trammell. He's their Cal Ripken.

"I've had numerous X-rays," he said. "All negative. Right now the shoulder feels pretty good. I heat it up before games and ice it after." He had an MVP-like year, nonetheless, hitting .314 with 14 homers and 69 RBIs. He was born with a Gold Glove in his crib, too.

He's not the type to flaunt his ability, however. Trammell's shy, reserved. A lot like Ripken all baseball. He didn't blow kisses to anyone after each homer. He reluctantly made a curtain call out of the dugout for the fans.

Mention Trammell, and you men-See TRAMMELL, page 3C beating the Padres. Trammell's a Tiger, but his roots are back west, on the beaches of San Diego. He grew up there. "I lived two miles from the stadium," he said. "At 3 o'clock, the doors would open and I'd sneak in." He always kept a general admission stub in his pocket, just in case.

He sat in the boxseats, but rarely would anybody bother him. "In those days," said Trammell, "they were just glad to have anybody in the ballpark." Later, he served as a vendor at Jack Murphy San Diego Stadium. "I hawked Cokes in the upper deck," he said. It was the lowest job on the totem pole. "I never got to peanuts," said Trammell.

Now, he's beating his hometown club, the same club who lets him use their facilties in the off-season. "I don't think Dick Dent (the clubhouse attendant) will let me in there now," said Trammell. He said that with a smile. You'd be smiling too if you were 9-for-lS with six RBIs and two homers in the By GREG BOECK Gannett News Service DETROIT This Is a tale of two ballplayers, one in the World Series penthouse, the other in the October outhouse. Alan Trammell, the Tigers shortstop, and Bobby Brown, the Padres center fielder, have about as much in common as the citizens of Detroit and San Diego.

When last seen Saturday, after his two-home run afternoon, Trammell was waving his cap tb cheering, adoring Tiger fans. When last seen, Brown, hitless in the postseason, was sitting at his locker, and shaking his head. There was Trammell, in the clubhouse, talking about his four-RBI day and nursing a sore right shoulder. There was Brown, mumbling about his cruel fate and nursing a bruised ego. Ah, the irony the San Diegan basking In the limelight, and beating the Padres; and the Padre wallowing in the frustration of It all, and 1 I UPI ALAN TRAMMELL SALUTES THE TIGER FANS ON A POST-GAME VICTORY RIDE Trammell pounded 2 two-run homers, leaving Detroit one win away from a world championship Heartbreak! Auburn tops I I I I I 1 I 1 4 till 11 m-mL.

Ui cn4 'y- Bombs away! Gators burn Vols 43-30 By NICK MOSCHELLA News-Press Sports Writer KNOXVILLE, Tenn. It's finally over. The bombs have stopped bursting in air. Send for the women and children. The Florida Gators survived, the Tennessee Volunteers didn't.

The Gators still are unbeaten in the Southeastern Conference and Galen Hall's stock continues to rise. Florida 43, Tennessee 30. It wasn't easy, it was exciting and it is Florida's fourth straight win. After crossing the state line to play for the first time this season, Florida's players probably kissed the Sunshine State soil when their charter brought them back to Gainesville Saturday night with a 4-1-1 record. Neyland Stadium, jammed with 94,016 spectators, Is not a nice place to visit if you don't bleed Tennessee orange, and the Vols, crippled though they've been by injuries, proved that they aren't ready to throw in the towel any time soon.

"They fought hard all day," Hail, Florida's interim coach, said of the Vols. "As everyone knows, it was a game that wasn't decided until the clock ran out" Indeed, the Volunteers went down shooting as quarterback Tony Robinson, an electrifying junior from Tallahassee Leon High School, threw his 43rd and final pass of the day into the arms of freshman defensive back Ricky Knight on the game's final play. Robinson, who passed for a touchdown and fired at will to set up another in the last seven minutes to nearly catch the Gators, had driven the Vols to the 7 in the final desperate seconds before misfiring to Knight in the end zone. See GATORS, page 5C few FSU 42-41 By DICK SCHNEIDER News-Press Sports Editor TALLAHASSEE When it ended, and Florida State confirmed the loser by a clock that had struck none, many stood in disbelief, staring out at the field where only moments before one of the greatest games ever to shake Doak Campbell Stadium had been played. One second is all they wanted.

One more second. And one more chance. They never got it. Auburn 42, Florida State 41. Before 58,671, the largest crowd ever to watch the Seminoles at home.

"Just like last year (a 27-24 Auburn win), they just came back and snatched that victory," said FSU Coach Bobby Bo wden. "We had the game won, but in the last two minutes they got us again." The final damage, a 4-yard touchdown run by Auburn's Brent Fullwood the man who would replace Bo Jackson with just 48 seconds remaining, a score that capped a 77-yard furious War Eagle rally. The game was won with the touchdown, for Auburn's two-point conversion attempt failed. But that is how this game was played with a preponderance of fury. "There was no way they were going to stop us on that last drive," said Auburn quarterback Pat Washington.

Auburn was less a winner, more a survivor. It was a team that overcame a Florida State offense that crackled with energy. FSU finished with 591 total yards. Auburn was a team that rose above one of its touchdowns being negated first by a clipping penalty, then consecutive unsportsmanlike conduct fouls, penalties that moved See FSU, page 11C 14 I -mm Cot8" I rfi i. AP FLORIDA'S LORENZO HAMPTON HURDLES OVER THE TENNESSEE LINE the Gators piled up 509 yards In total offense in the fres-wheeling victory Kosar rewrites record book as 'Canes roll Inside How AP's Top 20 fared No.

1, Texas (3-0-1) tied No. 3 Oklahoma (4-0-1) 15-15. No. 2, Washington (6-0-0) beat Stanford 37-15. No.

4, Boston College (4-0-0) beat Temple 24-10. No. 5, Brigham Young (6-0-0) beat Wyoming 4 1-38. No. 6, Nebraska (5-1-0) beat Missouri 33-23.

No. 7, Southern Methodist (4-0-0) beat Baylor 24-20. No. 8, Ohio State (5-1-0) beat Illinois 45-38. No.

9, Florida Stat (4-1-1) lost to Auburn (4-2-0), 42-41. No. 10, Miami (6-2-0) beat Cincinnati 49-25. No. 1 1, Penn State (4-2-0) lost to Alabama 6-0.

No. 12, Louisiana State (4-0-1) beat Vanderbllt 34-27. No. 13, Oklahoma State (4-1-0) was idle. No.

14, Purdue (4-2-0) lost to Iowa 40-3. No. 15, Georgia (4-1-0) beat Mississippi 18-12. No. 17, South Carolina (5-0-0) beat Pittsburgh 45-21.

No. 18, Florida (4-1-1) beat Tennessee 43-30. No. 19, Kentucky (5-0-0) beat Mississippi State 17-13. No.

20, Georgia Tech (3-1-1) tied with Virginia 20-20. College roundup, page 4C cord with his seventh touchdown catch of the season. Brown finished with five catches for a game-high 1 36 yards. Kosar also ran one yard for a touchdown to help the defending national champions improve to 6-2. Cincinnati fell to 1-4 with its fourth straight loss.

Kosar got Miami rolling on its second possession, hitting flanker Stanley Shakespeare with a 40-yard touchdown pass for a 7-0 lead. Fullback Alonzo Highsmith bolted 2 yards for another touchdown when Miami got the ball back again. Kosar's only interception set up Troy Bodine's 1 9-yard scoring toss to wide receiver Deno Foster to trim the lead to 14-7. But the Hurricanes retaliated two plays later with the first of, the game's record-setting plays. A wide-open Brown took a pass across the middle from Kosar and outraced the Bearcats' secondary for an 85-yard scoring play, longest in Miami history.

With that catch, Brown also surpassed Joe Schmidt's single-season school record of 651 yards receiving, set in 1969. Kosar hit Smith with a 23-yard scoring pass for a 28-7 halftime advantage, then scored on a 1-yard quarterback sneak in the third quarter for a 35-7 lead. The Bearcats rallied with touchdowns on Reggie Taylor's 6-yard run and Bodine's 37-yard TDpass to Foster in the fourth quarter, but Kosar's passing deflated the comeback and handed him two more school records. fee 'CANES, page 5C By JOE KAY AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI Sophomore passing sensation Bernie Kosar assaulted the Miami Hurricanes' record books Saturday night, then viewed his new school marks with understated satisfaction. Kosar passed for five touchdowns and 373 yards, taking a part in four Miami records as the lOth-ranked Hurricanes overwhelmed the University of Cincinnati 49-25.

"We were obviously a better team, so it was good to come out here and do what we should today," Kosar said, downplaying the most productive passing performance of his college career. Kosar set school records with five touchdown tosses and 373 passing rds, hooked up ith split end Ed die Brown on a school-record 85-yard TD pass play, and broke George Mira's school record with the fifth 300-yard passing game of his career. "Bernie Is an exciting person. He can put points on the board," Brown said. "I don't think setting records is his priority.

"Bernie's not that excited about it, but everybody is excited for him." Cincinnati Head Coach Dave Cur-rey was impressed and wondered what heights the sophomore from Boardman, Ohio, will reach in coming years. "He's a young quarterback. He's a sophomore so he'll get better," Curreysaid. Kosar deftly dissected the Cincinnati secondary, completing 23 of 32 passes. He tossed two scoring strikes to tight end Willie Smith and two to Brown, jio set another Miami re.