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Mean Green Plans By MACK OWEN'S full of surprises this week he hopes! Grtn Sfe "SJTTM Texas State's Mean he SMU personnel the Wishbone offense The Ponies expect to utilize and has a speaking er Southern Methodist coaching staff. Most of the Mustang players know Coach Fry, too, because the from Dave Smith on down are more than familiar with the variety of surprises Hayden takes fiendish delight in springing on opponents, WHAT THE SMlfe don't know, though, is which way they will be attacked Saturday night in Texas'Sta'dium. Thai's why Fry and his Mean Green have' been conducting closed practice sessions. SMU is supposed to wonder a lot and 'worry a little. It's a promoter's dream come true that little Saturday night shindig down in Irving.

Hayden Fry coming back to haunt his old school; Little (Denton) against Big (Dallas); a fired head coach facing his former assistants etc. Fry's band of reckless youngster's muscled up now with a number of senior antf junior college transfers and three or four of the top freshmen prospects in the state most of them wearing handspme rings that loudly proclaim the co- championship the Mean Green won in the Missouri Valley Conference last season -in Coach Fry's initial year at North Texas. FOR THE LAST several weeks. Southern Methodist's once-trim ship has been sailing in troubled waters, but it rises won't be hard to get the Mustangs up to former coach. An SMU' triumph over Fry ami Nortlj'Texas'State uould be much more than just another opening win.

Also, this first major shooUut, both teams are experiencing similar problems with depth Charts. Dave Smith over the lack of depth in his entire Pony squad and Hayden Fry is still fretting over who wants to start at which position among his 90-odd candidates. The head expected to'reach conclusions on depth charts and two-three-deeps sometime today. Fry Fergie Tops A's ANAHIEM, Calif. Texas Rangers magic number is now 27.

A year ago, maybe even a week ago, such a thought as to the number of Texas victories or Oakland Josses the Rangers needed to win the American League West race was a laugh. But the Oakland A's aren't laughing anymore. But then again they aren't exactly running scared either even though Texas clipped them three times in a four-game series which ended Sunday and moved to wHhing 5 1 i games of the world champions. "There's still a long, lone way to go to catch the A's," said Ranger manager Billy Martin But you never know." "The Bible says worry about nothing but pray about everything," said Oakland's Alvin Dark. "I'm not taking anything for granted." Ferguson Jenkins stopped Oakland 5-1 on seven hits Sunday and missed a shutout because of the wild pitch in the ninth inning which allowed Reggie Jackson to move up to third base and score on a second out sacrifice fly.

The A's magic number for clinching their fourth straight division title stands at 16-the same number it has stood at since the opener of the, Texas series. "The only way can lose the division is beating ourselves," said Jackson after Sunday's game "If we had to face pitchers like Jenkins every day, though, we could lose 15 of our remaining games." Texas has 21 games left to 20 for Oakland Jenkins improved his record to 22-11 Sundax and struck out 10 He went thee distance for the 26th time in 36 starts. TEXAS Nelson 2b "Tovar If Burroughs rf FregosPlb Randle3b Harrah ss Cardenas dh Loyitto cf Sundberg Jenkins Brown 3b Hargrove Ib Spencer dh OAKLAND ab bi 4 0 0 0 Narthcf 5 1 2 0 Campnensss 2 1 0 0 "Bahdodh 4 1 1 1 Jackson rf 4 0 1 1 Rudi I 4'0 2 O.Tenacelb: 3 0 0 0 Fosse 4 0 3 0 Green 2 3 2 1 1 Garner 3 0 0 0 0 Hoftzman 2 0 1 1 Holt ph 1 0 0 0 Tnllo 2b 1 0 O'O CWshtonph Xubiak3b Parsons Knowles ab bf 3 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 4 0 0 0 4 1 1 0 4 0 2 0 4 0,1 0 3 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals Texas Oakland 37 5 11 4 Totals 33 1 7 1 200 010 101--5 000 000 001--1 Fosse Kubiak DP--Oakland 1 LOB--Texas 8, Oakland 7 2B-Fregosi" jovar, Campanens 3B--Tovar. HR--Sun dberg (3) SB--Tovar, Harrah. S--Sun dberg SF--Fosse.

Jenkins (W, 22-11) 9 Holtzmn (L, 17-14 7 Parsons Knowles HBP--by Knowles IP 9 7 1 1 (Nelson) 7 1 1 7 1 0 10 4 3 1 5 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 PB--Fosse. WP--Jen EVEL KNIEVEL AND CYCLE PLUNGE DOWNWARD Knievel Failed In Attempt To Span Snake River Canyon league iLlA National League East w. q.b. Pittsburgh 76 63 .547 -St. Louis 74 66 .529 2Vz 69 71 .493 New York 64 73 .467 11 'Montreal 61 76 .445 14 Chicago 56 81 -i09 19 West w.

1. ocf. q.b. Los Angeles 87 52- .626 -Cincinnati 84 56 .600 3V 3 Atlanta 78 63 .553 10 Houston 71 68 .511 16 San Francisco 64 76 .457 San Diego 51 90 362 37 Sunday's Results Pittsburgh 8 Montreal 2 New York 5 St. Louis 3 Philadelphia 11 Chicago Vfl Los Angeles 7 Cincinnati 4 Atlanta :5 San Francisco 3 Houston 3 San Diego 2 Today's Probable Pitchers (All Times'EDT) Pittsburgh-' (Demsry "6-4) at Chicago (Jones 6-5), 2:30 p.m.

Montreal (Blair 8-6) ar New York (Sadecki 7 7), 8:05 San (Frefsteoen 9-10) at Cincinnati (Norman 1011), 8:05 m. Philadelphia (Lonborg at St. Louis (Curtis 8-12), 8:30 p.m. Los Angeles (Zahn 2-4) at Atlanta (Capra 13-7), 7:30 p.m. San Francisco (Montefusco 10) at Houston (Dierker 9-83, 8:35 p.m.

American League East w. 1. pet. g.b. New York 74 65 .532 -Boston 74 65 .532 -Baltimore 73 66 .525 1 Cleveland 68 70 .493 Milwaukee 67 74 475 8 Detroit 65-75 464 9Vi West Oakland 80 61 "567 -Texas 75 67 .528 5V; Kansas City 70 69 .504 9 Chicago 70 :71 .496 10 Minnesota 69 71 .493 lOVj California 55 86 .390 25 Sunday's Results Cleveland 7 Baltimore 4 Boston 8 Milwaukee 6 11 New York 3 Minnesota 8 Kansas City 4 Texas 5 Oakiann 1 Chicago 1 California 0 Today's Prcbable Pitchers-- (A5i EOT) Texas (Brown-jj-n and Hanc 4 5 at California (Figueroa 2 7 -and Lockwood 2-5), 2, 7:00 p.m Kansas City (Busby 19-13 anc iplittorff 13-15) at Oaklanc -(Hunter 22-10 and Blue 14-14), 9:00 p.m.

(Johnson 7 3 al Minnesota (Goltz 7-8). 8-30 Balt'more CCuellar 18-10) al Milwaukee (Kobel 6-12), Detroit 0-3 or Lemanczyk M) at Clevelanc (Bosman 5-3), 7.30 New York (Medicn 17 12) ai Boston 7-8), arro Marshall Breaks Record, Reds By The Associated Press 1 hPalPIT nv inrJ expected to announce his Mean Gn ratter at first press conference at 10 a.ni. today, at Holiday Inn on Regal Row in Dallas. Meanwhile, ticket sales should soar this week at both schools. Denton and Dallas outlets and even in Lewisville, where another outlet opened today.

Advance ticket sales indurate a crowd of more than 30,000, with the more optimistic officials shooting at the 42,000 figure which, incidentally, would be another rather pleasant suprise a week full of 'em. Lfenton Record-dhronicle Section MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 9, 1974 Snake River Defeats Evel I TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) -Stuntman Evel Knievel says a weakness in the metal holding the parachute system in place was responsible for his rocket ride into the Snake River Canyon rather than over it. "There was a metal failure," Knievel told a news con-, ference Sunday night less than four hours after he was lifted by helicopter from rocks at the base of the 600-foot canyon. "To lose to a beautiful river and canyon like this to me is not a real loss," said Knievel. The chutes began deploying even as the red, while and blue Sky-Cycle cleared the launch ramp Sunday, pulling the missile back like a yank on a shirt collar.

The vehicle was halted before it had traveled half the needed distance, and seconds later Knievel was on the canyon bottom, the bloodied survivor of yet another fall. The steam-powered Sky-Cycle was to have traveled 3 000 teet at 300 miles per hour, enough to carry it well beyond the opposite canyon rim, 1,600 feet away. Eighteen seconds after launch, Knievel was to have thrown lever deploying the chutes to carry the missle earthward Instead, the vehicle lurched upward for nine seconds and veered to the right. Then, about 1,000 feet in the air, it turned downward and began the twisting, nose-first descent that hushed the thousands of onlookers Pushed by a brisk north wind, the cycle glanced off a canyon shelf and onto rocks about 20 feet from the Snake River, where it came to rest right side up. Even for skeptics, KmevePs attempt to hurtle himself over canyon was spectacular, dangerous and suspenseful And the Montana-born hucksterstuntman carried off the defeat with characteristically arrogant style.

By The Associated Press Mike Marshall, making his recordbreaking 93rd appearance of the season, came on in the eighth inning to snuff out a Cincinnati rally, then struck out the side in the ninth to preserve the Los Angeles Dodgers' 7-4 victory over the Reds. The victory gave the Dodgers two out of three in their weekend series against the Reds and put them 31 2 games ahead of the second-place Reds. Marshall pitched in all three games of the series to break his own recuru of 92 appearances in one season, set with the Montreal Expos last year. He also broke a record for innings pitched in one season by a reliever. He now has 180-2-3, sur-passing his former 179.

Elsewhere in the National League Sunday, New York beat Louis 5-3, Pittsburgh defeated Montreal 8-2. Houston edged San Diego 3-2, Philadelphia outscored Chicago-IMG and Atlanta beat San Francisco 5-3. Dodgers, chased, Cincinnati ace "jack Billingham, 18-9 fn IhVsixQi, taking a 4-3 lead on Dave Lopes' bases-loaded grounder. Bill Buckner then greeted reliever Pedro Borbon with a double off the right field wall for a three-run lead. Despite two stolen bases Lou Brock, who drew within one of Maury Wtils' single-season record of 104, St." Louis was beaten by the Mels and fell games behind Pittsburgh in NL East.

Wayne Garrett's three-run homer capped a four- run rally in the eighth inning that won the game for the Mets. Red-hot Pittsburgh posted its 13th victory in its last 15 games, exploding for five runs in the eighth inning, including a grand-slam homer by Dave Parker Montreal lost its sixth in a row, and starting pitcher Steve Rogers suffered his 20th loss against 12 victories. Wilbur Howard's first major league home run, in the seventh inning, lifted Houston to victory and handed Padres starter Randy Jones his 20th loss of the season. Jones, who allowed just, four hits, has won seven. Bob Boone's three-run-double seven- run inning for the Phils, who then held off repeated Cub -rallies.

Chicago's Jerry Morales accounted forJhe Cubs' final four runs in the ninth inning with the first, grand-slam homer of his major league career. Vic Cofretl drove jnthreerunswJthTdouble and a single and Ron ReedrlQ-8, scattered six hits for. the The Yankees Boston Red Sox, tied for firsUplace in the American League East with the perchedTm their shoulder, open an important series tonight in Boston. The Orioles, who stayed one game from the top after a 7-4 loss to the Cleveland Indians, visit Milwaukee tonight in the opener of a two-game series before playing the Yankees in Baltimore Wednesday and Thursday. In the other American League games Sunday, the Texas Rangers clipped the Oakland A's 5-1; the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals 8-4 and the Chicago White Sox defeated the California Angels 1-0.

Dwight Evans belted a tworun homer, Doug Griffin hit a key double and Dick Pole pitched sparkling relief ball to lead Boston over Milwaukee. Cleveland beat Baltimore on by George Hendrick, Tom McCraw and Charlie Spikes, stopping the Orioles' 10-game winning streak. Hendrick's homer put the Indians in front 2-0 in the first inning and McCraw's belt made it 30 Cleveland. Light-hitting Phil Roof, who came mtolhegame with a batting average and just nine runs in for the season, belted the first grand slam of bis major league career to lead Minnesota over Kansas City. Lee Richard's third-inning double the only hit off Andy Hassler ledlb the only run of the game as Chicago beat California QB Club To Meet Filmed highlights of the Denton Broncos' 21-20 win over Fort Worth Dunbar including Tony Castle's 69-yard touchdown romp will be featured tonight at 7 p.m.

in the Quarterback Club's weekly meeting (he Denton High School cafeteria. Head football coach Billy Ryan will be on hand to offer comments on the game He will also preview the Broncos' upcoming game i Haltbm City. Gamble, Quarterback Club president, reminds all members who have sold new memberships to the club to bring the names' in tonight The meeting is open to the-public. FOREST N.Y. (UPI) The throng at the Wim- bledon final in.

July rooted in vain for Ken Rosewall to beat Jimmy Connors. The throng at the West Side Tennis Club today will root for Ken again! For Kenny is its man. There are all the ahead for the brash, sometimes abrasive Connors, to win. here. But the 22-year-old American looks upon every match as a personal war to be won, be the surface grass, clay, or broken bottles.

The name the game to him is it matters not if the man on the other side of the net is iTi his words, "a legend like or another 22-year-old like himself, another-lefthander, this time Roscoe Tanner, Connors took out Tanner in straight sets Sunday 7-6 7-6 64. He took but the 39-year-old Rosewall in the Wimbledon final, 6-1, 6-1, 6-4. Today he intends taking out Rosewall again, as quickly as Connors is sorry his bride-to-be, Chris Evert, lost her chance to add the U.S. Open crown to her Wimbledon diadem, but his pride in her could not be diminished by Chris' valiant, "yet failing, effort here against Evonne Goolagong. Chris, down and a service break when rain halted play oh Friday, gave the record crowd of 15,402 Sunday an unforgettable match, fighting off two match points to win the second set in tie-break, then see it all get away in-a heart stopping third set when Evonne refused to crack and won it all, 6-0, 6-7, 6-3.

While Jimmy was consoling Chris, Rosewall was busy repeating his Wimbledon quarter final win over Forest Hills' defending champion John Newcombe. As usual, Rosewall dropped the first set. As usual, he came on to win 6-7, 6-4, 7-6, 6-3; For Evonne, today is her opportunity to pick up the only major crown she has missed, Winner in France and Wimbledon in champion of Australia this year, the 23-yearold Aussie now faces Billie Jean King for the $22,500 top prize and all the money that goes with the US. title. View Undefeated Opening Losses Plague South Zone Mean Green Boost! Don Boozer, right, Manager of the Metroplex Agency of Gulf Atlantic Life Insurance Co Denton, teams with North Texas State coach Hayden Fry to show off the two-color bumper stickers Boozer produced as one of the Mean Green's topmost boosters.

Although they're widely distributed, a few of the colorful bumper Serl are still available at the Gulf Atlantic Life off ice here in Denton. Ky KKX WILSON Staff Writer The football season is only one week old and Valley View is already the only 'undefeated team in District 7-ETs South -Zone. Valley View whipped Aubrey, but the rest of the zone all took opening night loses. Sacred Heart beat Era. zone favorite Lindsay fell to Muenslcr.

Saint Jo was ripped by Trinity Valley and Alvord was walloped by the North Zone's Chico In the North" Zone, both Paradise and Chico moved to the top of the pack. Paradise beat Windthorst and Chico topped Alvord. Perrin tied Woodson, Godley. fell Coppell, and Whitney tripped Masonic Home to complete the district's first week of play- The biggest game was probably Paradise and" i Paradise; tabbed to take it all in 7-B. uas facing a former Class power.

Paradise coach Larry Hargrove was pleased with his. team's played well," he said. "We showed improvement." I consider our defense closer to outstanding our offense, but defense is always ahead -this time of the season." Hargrove was also pleased with backs Bret and Steve Hensley. Gentry had 67 yards'and jSteve Hensley had 43 yards. Lawrence was successful his opener as head coach at Chico.

Baggelt, wary at first of how his team would said before the game that ii would. -win. He was Impressive for Chico were Doug Barnett and Tim Hand. Both had a good night. Barnett rushed for, 77 yards and two Ds while Hand ran for 82 yards.

Valley View's Mark Kuntz was probably the most impressive rusher of the first week. He got 166 of the 262 yards the Eagles made. He carried the ball 26 times and scored problem was first game nervousness," Alvord head coach Curtis Gilson said on his team's loss. "Also our quarterback was a late starter because of being sick. ''We'll work on what we did wrong, believe we'll bounce back, we just lack experience." The play of-Joey Parker, who gained 55 yards, kept Gilson optimistic that hisjr offense will begin to click-Defensively, Gilson was: with Foreman, Gary Simmons' and Donny Greenwood.

"We just fumbled it-- nvyay," -said about the loss to Sacred- 1 Heart. DISTR1CT7B NorthZone PA Valley V.ew 0 35 Lmdsay 0 0 14 AJyord i 634, Samt Jo 1 0- 6 2fr Era 0 1 0 0 3 Last Week's Results View 35, Aubrey Chic? 34, Alvord Sacred Heart 32 Era Muenster 18, Lindsay Trinity Valley 26, Saint 6 This Weft's Games Caddo Mills at Valley ViewiT Ub lvord; Perrfn al af "t' -Jo; Little EJrn at Era PF PA Parad.se 1 0 0 7 6 Chico i 0 34 6 Perrin 0 0 1-u Godley i 0 4 1 3 Masonic Home 1 0 15 20 Last Paradise 7, Windthorst Chico 34, Alvord Perrin-U, Woodson 14; Coppell 13, Godley Whitney 20 Masonic Home 15. Tfth Week's Games Miilsap at Paradise; Perrin at Saint Jo; Grandvtewat Godiey; Newcastfe at Masonic Home..