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PUTT POWELLS PUTTING AROUND Reddell Tells Why 5-AAAA Better; Will Longhorm Start Walk-On Would Be Starting At UT Why ire the District S-AAAA football teams stronger than the ones in District 3-AAAA? Midland High and Odessa High arc usually second-division clubs in 5- A.AAA. Midland High has just won its fourth straight game from Tascosa. Odessa High has just won five out of the last six from Amarillo High. Tascosa and Amarillo High are the two largest schools in Amarillo and District 3-AAAA. John Reddell was head coach at Palo Duro for 11 seasons starting in 1955.

He has just finished coaching Midland High the past three seasons. He Is now at Trinity High of Euless. Reddeil was asked why the S-AAAA teams are better than than the 3- AAAA teams? "The teams in District S-AAAA take a lot of pride in being in one ol the tougher districts in the state," said Reddell. "It's a challenge to the head coaches to be in that district. "It's a challenge to be a member of a coaching staff in District 5-AAAA.

Many coaches are anxious to get in that district. "The fans in the various cities encourage the players to do well. The fans take a lot of interest in the players. "There's just a lot of interest in football in District 5-AAAA." The Amarillo Sandies will have another shot at a District 5-AAAA team when the Odessa Permian anthers invade Dick Blvlns Stadium Friday night. Permian blanked the Sandies, 43-0, last season.

John Wilkins is the head coach at Permian. He used to be a member of the Palo Duro staff. Get ready to hear a lot about Mike Cordaro. He's due to open at quarterback when the Texas Longhoms open the season against Boston College Saturday night at Boston. Ted Constanzo was supposed to be the starter, but Dan-ell Royal has given the nod to Cordaro as this edition went to press.

Constanzo ami Cordaro are both sophomores. Constanzo came out of Churchill High of San Antonio as a bluehip pissing quarterback. He didn't play much as a freshman last season except when Marty Akins was sidelined against Texas AM. UT had little offense without Akins. But there have been many stories written about Constanzo since last teason.

Cordaro didn't even make his Highlands High School team at San Antonio as a quarterback. He was moved to the defensive secondary. Cordaro didn't receive any football scholarship offers from any large schools. His best offer was a baseball scholarship at a junior college. Cordaro went out for football on his own at the University of Texas.

He was placed on the defensive team of the scout team. He requested to be moved to the offensive team and caught the eye of some of the coaches with his passing. IB desperation, the coaches have been giving Cordaro a chance at the itarting quarterback post on the varsity team. Cordaro first attracted serious attention by completing 8 of 11 passes for 1S5 yards in the final spring game. He completed 4 of 6 for one team.

He switched over and completed 4 of 5 fur the other team. Cordaro seems to hold an edge on Constanzo because of his speed. That might be the deciding factor. Royal Co. always make a big deal out of the passing of the quarterback, but don't pass much out of the wishbone formation.

The big thing about a wishbone quarterback is how well he can stand being blasted time and time again during the games. It takes an especially tough player also a fortunate one to keep go- Ing game after game. That's the reason the pros won't use a running quarterback. The Longhoms are loaded with veteran players at every position except quarterback. This Is the season the Longhoms are going all cut to stop the winning ways of the Oklahoma Sooners at five in a row.

UT will lose most of its defensive team and most of its offensive line after this season. The Sooners have a young team that is pointing to greatness in 1977 and 1978. The 1976 Sooners have an outstanding quarterback prospect in Dean Blevins, junior from Norman. 1 don't think the Longhoms stand any more than an even chance against the Sooners right now. The chances will be determined by how well the UT quarterback situation looks at game time.

On having a walk-on quarterback. Royal says Cordaro hasn't started yet "It would be highly unusual," added the mentor. "If we quit recruiting and just relied on walk-ons, we'd go broke. We can't wait and let 'em come to us." If a walk-on quarterback like Cordaro guided the Longhoms to the national championship this season. Royal would be hailed as the all-time super genius.

It's really not too unlikely with veteran players at the other positions. Rodney Allison, Texas Tech junior quarterback from Odessa High, is bound to be thinking about his fate if he had become a Longhom instead of a Red Raider. He wis among the bluest of all blue-chip prospects. He made a last- minute decision to take Texas Tech over Texas. Without question, Allison would be given the starting nod at Texas right now.

He Is an outstanding runner and his passing has been just average -that's a typical DarreH Royal quarterback. Allison has played well at Texas Tech, but hasn't been able to beat out Tommy Dunlven. The senior from McLean it an outstanding passer and just average as a runner. Instead of being the starting quarterback on a team that might be ranked No. 1 in the nation like Texas, Allison Is the No.

2 quarterback on a team like Texas Tech that Is picked to finish in the second division of the Southwest Conference. Title Series To Open Gold Sox Averages By I ES GILES so pen The Captains' team Globe-News Sports Writer batting average was only .255, while SHREVEPORT, their team ERA was 3.25, lowest in the its first ever Texas League league. thampionshlp, and Shreveport, hoping "Based on record), I'd have to say to win its first Texas League title since Amarillo is the favorite," Upon noted. J955, open a best-of-five series for the "But, in a short series you can virtually league banner at 7:30 p.m. today here eliminate that as a I think in SPAR Stadium.

pitching and defense are what wins in The first two games in this year's TL this kind of series." championship series will bB played Leftfieldcr Don Reynolds and first here. The teams have an off day -Friday, before returning to Amarillo to a 8 complete the series. GLOBE-TIMES Gold Sox manager Bob Miller has 0 named left-hander Roger Coe as his Wednesday, September 8, opening-game pitcher. Captain Skipper Johnny Lipnn has named southpaw Doug Nelson as his club's starter. Coe, who faced Shreveport three times this season without gaining a decision, brings a 7-3 record into tho playoffs.

His 3.73 earned run average ranks fifth on the ball club. Nelson is 10-7 with a 3.46 ERA. He had five complete games among his 26 stare and registered one shutout. Based on overall records this season, the Gold Sox rank as favorites to win the league title. Amarillo logged an 8451 record, compared toShrevpport's 7085 mark.

Both teams won their division titles in the final week of the season--the Captains waiting until the final day of the regular campaign. Against each other, the Gold Sox enjoyed a 6-4 edge. Amarillo won three of five games in each series. Amarilo's success this season was due largely to a pitching staff which recorded a league-high 47 complete games and a team batting average of .292. Shreveport's success in a close Eastern Division race could be attributed to a balanced attack and a basemen Gene Delyon were Amarillo's offensive leaders this season.

Reynolds hit .333, slugged 19 homers and drove in 86 rum. Delyon batted .331, hit eight homers and had a club-high 92 RBI's. Two other Gold Sox regulars wound up over the .300 mark. Second baseman Gene Menees hit .314, while center fielder Jim Wllhelm hit .309 with seven homers and 77 RBI's. Right-fielder Final Hilling Reynolds Delyon Mcncci Wilhelm Slirnac Mitchell bwoul BaKcr Asnlord Hamilten Craig Altano Allen (7-4) a 2 i i 2 Coo (7-3) 8ernat(S-7l Bulcher 15-1) AllanoU-l) a i (7-b) JoseptilQ-ll Gerhard! 128 111 13! 30 til 122 93 VI 13 ISI 15) 117 UJ 25 143 116 75 HB RBI -13J 131 .311 309 07 70 3i II 291 .770 15 19 13 20 44 73 27 1 7-1 133 91 123 68 50 4fi 8 us es 133 86 13ft 6S 16 $1 6 140 55 3ft 62 30 76 7 5 3 7 5 1 3 r.

3 31 65 77 37 SB li JA 1 S7 2.1 3 7 5 Bobby Mitchell and catcher Rick Sweet hit .285 and .283, respectively. Both produced runs well--Sweet driving in 66 and Mitchell 58. Shortstop Chuck Baker was perhaps the club's hottest hitter over the final two months of the season. He raised his average nearly SO points during that span and wound up hitting .271. Third basemen Tucker Ashford was second on the dub with homers with 12 and drove in 67 runs.

He hit .270. Shreveport's leading hitter going into the playoffs is second baseman Mike Edwards. He joined the Captains after the season's midway point and wound up hitting .321. He is the only Captain regular over the .300 mark. Outfielder Frank Grundler hit .275 and shortstop Gary Kargis .271.

Hargis was the Captains' hottest down the stretch. During one 10-game period, he went 18-for-38. Paul Djakonow and Ron Mitchell were the Captains' top run producers during the season. Djakonow (third baseman) hit only .243, but led the club in homers with 17 and RBI's with 80. Mitchell (first baseman) batted .249, hit 11 homeruns and drove in 58.

Miller said his club was ready for the playoffs, following an off day Monday. "I feel if we play well we have a good chance to win. In a short series like this, team records don't mean much. They (Shreveport) have some different people than when we played the earlier, and so do we. Our pitching rotation is completely different than when we played them early in the season.

That could be an edge for us. "However, we're still going to have to do the things we've done that got us this far. We got here with good pitching, good defense and timely hitting." Grueling Tennis Match Leaves Nastase Winner Over Tanner on Con Call FOREST HILLS, N.Y. (AP) Chris late, cruised through the first two sets Evert did it the easy way. She always against a sluggish Orantes.

But the does it the easy way. Spaniard came to life in the third set, Bjorn Borg and Manuel Orantes did won the fourth-set tiebreaker with a it the hard way. Borg and Orantes are brilliant lob and coasted through the used to doing it the hard way. final set against the sagging Smith. And Ilie Nastase did it his way, com- "It hasn't been easy, that's for sure," ing through in a storm of controversy, said Orantes, "but I'm still alive.

The Nastase is always surrounded by con- way I was playing in the first two sets 1 troversy. thought 1 was going But one way or another they all did Miss Evert, who doesn't waste time it. They all advanced to the quarter- haggling about line calls or staging finals of the U.S. Open Tennis Cham- heroic comebacks, prefers to beat her pionships. They started playing tennis opponents quickly and decisively.

She at the West Side TetiniB Club at 11:30 in overwhelmed British blonde Sue the morning Tuesday and they didn't Barker 6-1, 6-0 In a tidy 45-minute of- get done until after 1 a.m. And they fair. Miss Evert has played three saved the best match for last. matches so far and has lost just two Nastase, the temperamental Roma- games. nian who terrorized officials, fans, Miss Evcrt's opponent in.

the ballboys, cameramen and Hans-Jurgen quarters Is Russian teen-ager Natasha Pohmann earlier in the tournament, Chmyreva. The other women's of squared off against muscular Roscoe Tanner in the final match of the evening session. They played for 3 hours and 15 minutes. It was grueling tennis, pressure tennis, brilliant tennis. And when it was over, after all the iboomlng serves and searing forehands land crackling volleys, it came down to "whether one tennis ball landed a half- inch this way or 3 half-inch that way.

The sets were even at two each and the games were even at four. Tanner, the handsome, blond southpaw, was serving at 30-40. Nastase hit a forehand volley and the ball flicked close to the line. The linesman called it out Nastase cried out in disbelief. The umpire overruled the linesman.

The referee was called. Finally, with both players agreeing and the linesman still dissenting, the ball was ruled in and Nastase had his break. He won his service love to take the match 7-fi, 8-4. quarters match Mima Jausovec Yugoslavia against Virginia Ruzici of Romania, Evonne Goolagong of Australia against Rosie Casals and Australian Dianne FromholU against virtual unknown Zenda Liess of Daytona Beach, Fla. Miss Jausovec beat Marcle Louie 6-0, 1-0, retired; Miss Ruzici eliminated Beth Norton 6-3, 6-3; Ms.

Casals downed Terry Holladay 7-5, 6-1; Miss Fromholtz whipped Janet Newbcrry ft- 2, 6-4 and Miss Liess got by Wendy Overton in Tuesday's action. The day-night sessions drew 3 combined crowd of the largest one- day audience for a tournament In U.S. tennis history. And they saw a lot of tennis. WRESTUNG ws, ke the match 7-t, 8-4.

fir TIJC JPTIflN CPflBK "I never even thought ball would OF SPORTS -AFWIrcpUl. Top-seeded Chris Evert makes if look easy as she returns a shol to Britain's Sue Barker Tuesday night during the U.S. Open Tennis Championship at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, N. Y. Evert won easily, 6-1, 6-0, ond moves to the quarterfinals.

Rangers Hire JEcfdie RobinsoK ARLINGTON, Ta. (UPI) The former general manager of the Atlanta Braves lias been named executive vice president of the Texas Rangers. Ranger owner Brad Corbett said Tuesday he had hired Eddie Robinsoa so he could disengage himself from the team's daily operations. Corbett said he felt Robinson could work well with Ranger general manager Dan O'Brien and field manager Frank Lucchesi. Corbett said Robinson would handle the same duties as former Rangers president Bobby Brown, a Fort Worth heart surgeon who returned to private practice.

"Danny wUl still make the final decisions on players. But, yes, Danny will be working for Eddie. 'Corbett said Robinson received a three-year contract. Robinson, a native of Paris, was moved out as general manager of tke Braves last May when John Alevizos was brought in. More Veterans Cut By The Associated Prea The swooping blade of The Turk has made ib final slashes of the summer.

His work done, the mythical murderer of football careers has gone to his winter home to kill time until training starts again next July. He claimed his final victims Tuesday, as National Football League coaches swept their desks and slates clean in preparing for Sunday's start of the National Football League's regular season. He had started the day in the East, where the New England Patriots cut tight end Dave Windsor; made his way west to Minnesota, where veteran quarterback Bob Berry was released to make room for veteran wide receiver Ahmad Rashad, who was acquired In a trade with Seattle. Cnstsing south with the speed of a kick returner, he claimed wide receiver Elmo Wright and kicker Bobby Howfield, then moved on to Denver to collect quarterback John Hufnagel and wide receiver Fair Hooker. There were those who escaped his spidery grasp.

The Seattle Seahawks picked seven players off the waiver lists, replacing the seven sacrificed io make room. Among them was Cornelius Green, the former Ohio State quarterback who was being given a trial as a defensive back. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who like Seattle have two wreks to trim their roster to 45 players, selected five from the ranks of players left in The Turk's wake. The 34-year-old Berry had been with the Vikings for a total of six years, starting his career with them in then spending five years in Atlanta before returning to Minnesota. Rashad, 27, had been signed as a free agent by the Scahawks after playing out the option year of his contract with Buffalo last'season and spending most of it injured.

He had led the 1974 Bills in receptions with 36 for 433 yards and four touchdowns. The Oakland Raiders lost Tony Cline on waivers to iijje Safi Francisco 49crs, then declared defensive starters Horace Jones and Art Thorns out for the season by placing them on the injured reserved list along with fullback Man' Hubbard and two others. Windsor, a nine-year veteran, had relegated to backup duty by the Patriots for most of the preseason. Wright and Howf ield both had played previously for New Orleans Coach Hank Stram. Wright had starred for Strsm at Kansas City in the Chiefs' Super Bowl days as an American Football League team.

Stram had discovered Howfield eight years ago, when the kicker was a soccer player in Britain. The Atlanta Falcons claimed seven- year veteran lineman Jim Bailey from tire Cleveland Browns. To make room lor him on th? roster, the Falcons dropped 12-year veteran defensive end Hoy Hilton. y. be called out," said the 24-year-old THURS.

SEPT. 8TH Tanner. "I definitely saw the ball in. It bounced half on the line and ns I see the rules that is in." I AWIAKILLCI "We are friends," said Nastase before bolting out of the clubhouse and into the night. "We helped each other throughout the match." Naslasc didn't stay around long enough to comment on Hie crowd which was noisy and pro-Tanner.

But Tanner did. "We were completely frustrated out there," he said. "This is not a baseball game, a basketball game, a football game. We weren't going to play with all the noise out there." Nastase's victory boosted him into the quarters against Dick Stockton of Dallas, a 5-3, 7-5, 6-4 winner over JairoiX Velasco. The oilier men's quarters match Borg-Orantcs, Jimmy Connors- Jan Kodes and Guillenno Vllas-Eddic Dibbs.

Borg, down two sets to none and 0-2 in the third, rallied to beat dogged Brian Gottfried 67, 64, 5-2 in a torturous SVi-hour match. And Orantes, the defending champion, overcame arm problems to survive a 2:45 marathon with Stan Smith Gottfried played brilliantly against the second-seeded Borg for two sets In the afternoon before fading before the speedy Swede's sharp passing shots. jCOWBOY SWEDE pSEH RIP HAWK Gottfried had success at the net in the first two sets but was passed repeatedly! in the final three. "I never saw Brian play like this before," said Borg. "It was un- believable.

But I thought there is no way he can play like this lor three BMJSKNUCKS BOIES MATCH DORY FUNK, JR. vs BENNIS STAMP OTHER" quarter-finals I will play very well." Jf "Smith, the former champion who has 1 been making a startling comeback of CALL 374-2525 I.