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Daylight Creeps Into Pittsburgh, But It's on Coast By Associated Press There was a bit of daylight in the whacky National League East race Thursday, thanks mainly to the pesky Montreal Expos and powerful Bob Gibson. Pittsburgh's front-running Pirates took advantage of help from both those sources Wednesday to open a two-game gap over both Chicago and New York as the season swings into Us final two weeks. The Pirates needed five pitchers three of them in the ninth inning but held on to whip Philadelphia, 5-3. Meanwhile, Montreal jolted New York, 4-2, and Gibson pitched St. Louis to an 8-1 victory over Chicago.

In other National League action, Cincinnati clinched a tie for the West Division title by nipping Houston, 3-2, while San Diego was stopping Los Angeles, 4-0. Atlanta whipped San Francisco, 10-7. In the American League, Baltimore clinched a tie for the East Division title even though Washington blanked the Orioles, 2-0. Boston's 3-1 victory over New York made it mathematically impossible for the Yankees to any more than tie the Orioles for the division crown. Detroit ripped Cleveland, Oakland took Milwaukee, 4-1, and California tripped Minnesota, 5-1.

Chicago's doubleheader at Kansas City was rained out. Manny Sanguillen ripped two singles and a double, and scored twice to pace Pittsburgh over Philadelphia. Richie Hebner also had three hits for the Pirates. Bob Moose went the first five Innings, drove in a run with a single and earned the victory. Mudcat Grant, making his first appearance for Pittsburgh worked until the ninth and then Dave Giusti, Joe Gibbon and John Lamb weaved their way out of a Phillie rally to preserve the victory.

Gibson made it easy for the Cards, cruising to his 22nd victory and 11th in his last 12 decisions on a six-hitter. Ted Simmons cracked a fourth inning home run touching off a three-run Cardinal rally that put Gibson in control. Joe Torre tagged a two-run homer in the ninth, wrapping it up. Ron Santo's 26th homer accounted for Chicago's only run off Gibson. The Expos beat the Mets for the 10th time this season and moved into fifth place in the East Division on Steve Renko's five-hitter.

Two of the hits were homers by Art Shamsky, accounting for both Met runs. Tom Seaver absorbed the loss, seventh in his last nine decisions, with RBI singles by Marv Staehle and Jim Gosger keying a three-run third inning for the Expos. Donn Clendenon's two-base throwing error put Montreal in business and Seaver wild pitched another run home. The Mets were off Thursday while the Cubs played the Cardinals and the Pirates met the Phillies. The Reds had a chance to wrap the West all up Thursday night without even stepping on the field.

Cincinnati had the day off but if the Dodgers lose to Houston, it'll be all over. Cincinnati moved closer to the inevitable on Gary Nolan's 17th victory with Clay Carroll's ninth inning relief help. Nolan contributed a run-scoring triple to a three-run Reds' rally in the fifth inning and then scored on Bobby Tolan's single. Jimmy Wynn ripped his 26th homer of the year for the Astros in the ninth. Clarence Gaston hammered his 27th homer and Ivan Murrell singled home two runs and made a spectacular catch as Dave Roberts pitched San Diego past LA.

Murrell's tumbling catch over the left field fence robbed Jim Lefebvre of a home run and preserved the shutout for Roberts, who pitched a seven-hitter. Rico Carty ripped four hits including a single that drove in Atlanta's winning run in the eighth inning as the Braves bested the Giants. Carty increased his National League leading batting average to .362. Of eGame Alton's Summer Spent Watching Horror Movies USC Films Not Rated 'GP iimtnmi i mm mm mmm Pa I jjN Tody Smith jp! LINCOLN, NEBRASKA SEPT. 37, PAGE 15 Jones has game-breakers Sam Dickerson and Bob Chandler at the wide receiver spots and Gerry Mullins back at tight end.

Veterans Clarence Davis, Lou Harris and Mike Berry are platooning again at the tailback spot. They shared almost equally 38 carries against Alabama and produced 201 yards. That's adequate testimony to the effectiveness of the interior line, which excels despite the presence of three sophomores Dave Brown (6-0, 227) at center, Allen Gallahcr (6-3, 245) at left guard and Pete Adams pi I Sam Dickerson ft. vt-vi Weather Big Concern Prior To Initial Intra-City Battle Musical Chairs At Quarterback By DON FORSYTHE No matter how you slice it, the Van and Jerry show is going to be a tough one to follow when the time comes for a new quarterback act at the University of Nebraska. The Brownson-Tagge script last year had the pair coming to one another's rescue at the most opportune moments to keep the Cornhuskers from teetering over the brink of disaster.

And so it went Wednesday as Brownson came off the injury list just after Tagge had been sidelined by a broken blood vein in his leg. Van hadn't been scheduled to give his ailing elbow a passing test until Thursday, but it felt so much better that he, coach Bob Devaney and the team's medic decided a test was in order. Two-Week Layoff Ends It was his first concentrated dose of throwing the ball in two weeks and he showed only a few signs of rustiness. His performance rekindled spirits of teammates which had dropped considerably when Tagge didn't show up for practice'. Jerry was confined to the Student Health Center Tuesday night after the vein broke as he was walking to class.

"The doctors are optimistic that he'll be ready to go by Saturday, but the best cure for him is complete rest of the leg," Devaney said Wednesday. Devaney was greatly encouraged over Brownson's return Wednesday. Only Tuesday it had been thought that he had little chance of being ready for the Southern Cal game Saturday night. "We'll just have to wait and see how bis elbow reacts, but it was encouraging to see him throwing the ball again," said Devaney. Brownson and sophomore Bob Jones shared the signal calling duties with the No.

1 offense Wednesday. A proposed Thursday night workout at Seacrest Field hinged on the weather. Devaney said if the weather remained a problem the Cornhuskers would skip the night workout and drill again on the AstroTurf. The synthetic turf has allowed the club to get in three good workouts despite adverse weather conditions. Is Okay By BOB MUNGER Elmer Schlaphoff, director of the State Dept.

of Agriculture, noted in a news conference Thursday at the Statehouse that the decision of a locker plant of whether or not it would process wild game was strictly up to the operator. The news media was Invited to the conference by Gov. Norbert Tiemann, but Schlaphoff ran the meeting without the benefit of the governor's presence. Also in attendance were Frank Foote, assistant director of the Game and Parks Commission; Ken Johnson, assistant chief of the Commission's Division of Game; and a number of members of the State Agriculture Dept. Problems of whether or not to process deer and antelope seemingly arose following the passage of LB1367 (the Nebraska Meat and Poultry Inspection Act).

The restrictions seemed so severe that many processors subsequently refused to handle wild game. In Thursday's conference in the Governor's Hearing Room it was brought out that the restrictions were not so severe after all, rather that it was a matter of misunderstanding on the part of the processors. Bill Jones, assistant director of the Ag said he felt the problem was largely one of poor communications between the department and the processors. Schlaphoff said that it was his opinion that many processing plants "did not want to bother" with processing deer, and that they blamed the state regulations as an excuse to their regular customers. Foote pointed out that there would be in excess of 16,000 deer and antelope killed in the state in 1970, and that a definite problem existed because of a shortage of locker plants to process them.

He suggested a return to pioneer skills, where a hunter killed, skinned and processed his own animal. Dr. D. C. Breeden of the Ag Dept.

noted that there were three major conditions by which a plant could process wild game. These were (1) the segregation of wild game and domestic livestock carcasses, (2) -a retention room in which the wild game could be kept until ready to be butchered, and (3) to suspend part of the domestic operation to allow for the processing of deer. "In my opinion," he said, "this law and these regulations will keep wild game cleaner and more edible, and will make the hunter a lot more popular with his wife." Stander To Fight Omaha The waiting game is over for Council Bluffs heavyweight boxer Ron Stander. Brought along slowly against a not too imposing list of 13 opponents, Stander puts an unblemished record on the line against Mexico's Manuel Ramos at Civic Auditorium Thursday night. The ring-wise Ramos has faced some of the top heavyweights in the world and owns victories over such well-known contenders as Eddie Machen and Ernie Terrell.

The heavyweight battle is scheduled for 10 rounds, but neither camp expects it to last that long. To date, Stander has had the reputation of being a strong puncher. Ramos' handlers figure the Mexican's ring savvy will pay off wih a KO. The main event Is supported by four round welterweight bouts matching Omaha's Clem Tucker against Fred Jimlnez of St. Paul and Omaha's Chuck Hernandez against Frank For-maro of Des Moines.

Six-round tests will send welterweight Dick Pelster against Cleveland's Willie Wil liams and heavyweight Morns Jackson acalnst Harold Carter of Cleveland. The opening 'bout is set for 8 p.m. By DON FORSYTH Nebraska linebacker coach John Melton had a bad summer. It was John's responsibility to sift through Southern California football films to devise means of attacking and stopping the Trojans. His findings were confirmed last Saturday night when the No.

3-ranked Trojans blasted Alabama, 42-21. "Offensively, they're well set with almost the same club we faced last year. Defensively, they lost a few people. But they're pushing four of their 11 defensive players for all-America and that's not too bad," he claims. "It's a real explosive ball club which can score from any place on the field," he summarizes.

Last week the Trojans just hammered away at Alabama, rolling up 485 yards on the ground as they unveiled a new running star in sophomore fullback Sam Cunningham. Sam carried the ball 12 times for 135 yards. Starter Charlie Evans toted the leather just six times, but picked up 53 yards. "Alabama keyed on our tailback so it made it possible for our fullback to run," explained Southern Cal coach John McKay. That's not the complete story.

McKay had stated earlier that the Trojans' fullback situation with Evans and Cunningham is better than at any time since Ben Wilson was at the spot on the 1962 national championship club. It's about that way all over the backfield and receiving spots with a whole cast of veterans. Game-saver Jimmy STANDINGS American East Division Won Lost Pet. GB Baltimore 6 52 .649 New York 83 66 .557 13V Detroit 76 72 .514 JO Boston 76 73 .510 JO'j Cleveland 72 77 .483 2' Washington 69 78 .469 26' a West Division Minnesota 88 60 .595 Oakland 83 68 .547 7 Calltornla 79 69 .534 9 Kansas City 58 88 .397 29 Milwaukee 56 92 .38 32 Chicago -363 34 Wednesday's Result! Washington 2, Baltimore 0 Boston 3, New York 1 Oetroit 6, Cleveland 3 Chicago at Kansas City, 2, rain Oakland 4, Milwaukee I Calltornla 5, Minnesota 1 Thursday's Games Kansas City (Bunker 1-10) at Milwaukee (Downing 4-12), night California (Murphy 14-12) at Minnesota (Perry 22-11) Detroit (Nlekro 12-12) al Cleveland (McDowell 19-101. night Boston (Pelors 14-11) at New York (Keklch 6-3) Only garnet scheduled Friday'! Games California at Oakland, night Kansas City at Milwaukee, night Minnesota at Chicago, night New York at Oetroit, night Cleveland at Baltimore, night Washington at Boston, nighl National East Division Won Lost Pet.

GB Pittsburgh 7 68 5 3 7 Chicago 77 70 .574 2 Nw York 78 71 .573 2 St. Louis 71 78 ATI Montreal 66 82 .446 Wft Philadelphia 6 13 .44) 14 West Division Cincinnati 94 57 .62 Lot Angelas 80 68 .540 12" San Francisco 79 70 t4 Atlanta 73 78 .48 3 71 Houston 71 77 .480 21' San Diego 59 01 .39) Wednesday'! Result! Montreal, 4, Now York 5 Pittsburgh 5, Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago I Atlanta 10, San Francisco 7 Cincinnati 3. Houston 2 San Diego 4. Lot Angeles 0 Thursday's Oemet Pittsburgh (Vale I-1S) or Ellll 12 9) al Philadelphia (Short 8-151, nghl St.

Louis (Reuss ill al Chicago (Jenkins 19-13) Houston (Bllllngham 127) at Lot An. oelet (Foster 9-12), night San Frescltco (Robertson If) at tan Diego (Donun 12-14), nighl Only garnet scheduled Priday't Oamet Chicago at Montreal, 1, twl-n'ght Pittsburgh at New York, nigh! Philadelphia at St. Louis, night Cincinnati at Atlanta, night Houston at Lot Angeles, night San Francisco at San Diego, night IViinant Hare At a Glance National League let' Wan Last PCI. 0 1. Ta Play Pittsburgh 61 .517 'It Chicago 77 It H4 New York ..71 71 Mi 2 I) Pllitburul At IxxTie (71, Mttil 4, New York It (way (I), Philadelphia NewYork 4, St.

Loult Chicago At homo (1) Wonlreali away (14), Montreal St, Loult I Phllerteiphia 3, New York 4. New York-At home (I), Pilttbufh 4, Mr oo 4, away (i), Phiiertipn a 7. Plftsburgn (6-3, 255) at right tackle. "Our young people played well," McKay claimed after the rout of Alabama. The young linemen were good enough to permit the shift of 1969 starter John Vella, a 6-4, 256-pound junior, to defensive tackle to shore up the holes left by graduation.

Vella and running mate Tody Smith (6-5, 250) offer formidable inside strength and ends Charlie Weaver (6-2, 210) and Willie Hall (6-3, 217) are rated as excellent pass rushers. Linebackers Jim John Papadakis and Greg Slough have been through the mill before. If there is an area of concern It's the defensive secondary. Right cornerback Tyrone Hudson (6-1, 182) is an all-coast veteran, but rover Mike Haluchak, left cornerback Bruce Dyer and safety Ron A a 1 a haven't proven themselves yet. The great rush offered by the front four takes a lot of pressure off the backfield, howpver.

Briefs Other Sports Dick Florin of Atlanta scored an ace on the first sudden death hole to win the $15,000 first prize in the World Putting championships. Florin edged 21-year-old defending champion Rick Smith of Purdue. Tommy Fultz, a favorite In the 1970 Gold Cup Hydroplane championships, died when he was thrown from his speed boat during a trial run. Pershing Has Many Tickets Tickets remain on sale at Pershing Auditorium for two major sports attractions here this month and next. There are still plenty of seats available for the NBA game Sept.

29 between the Cincinnati Royals and Phoenix Suns. At the same time, ducats may be purchased for the Oct. 10 hockey exhibition between the Central Hockey League champion Omaha Knights and Kansas City Blues. The Knights opened with a 25-19 victory over the Platters. "For the most part I was pretty satisfied," Solich says, "though after watching the films there were some things I thought we should have done better." Though Northeast suffered a 12-2 setback to Fremont in its first encounter, Els says neither he nor the players are discouraged.

"We moved the ball very well between the 30s," he says, "We just need to acquire a little more consistency in the offense so we can move it on in." Solich, who watched Northeast in action, said he was particularly impressed by the Rockets' defense. "Fremont is big, but that didn't hurt Northeast. If it weren't for a couple of big plays that Fremont broke loose it could have easily gone the other way." Seacrest Field will also be the site of a Saturday night clash as Hastings returns to the Capital City for the second straight week. A 28-0 victim of Lincoln High last week, the Tigers will be hosted this time by East. Coach Lee Zentic's Spartans will be trying to rebound from a hair-raising 33-28 defeat at Grand Island.

Lincoln High makes the long trek to Scottsbluff Friday in quest of another triumph, while Pius a first-week winner at Beatrfce, has the weekend off. By VIRGIL PARKER Prep Sports Writer Lincoln's first intra-city high School football game, pitting Northeast and Southeast at seacrest Kew Friday night, has both coaches keeping a wary eye on the weather. 'Tin afraid that even if It doesn rain any more," Northeast maris Flu sav -7 1 C.fl "that It Will Still be pretty sloppy out there. There was so much Precipitation early in the week that the ground must be saturated. Els expressed concern that the field might get torn up and be ruined for the rest of the Season.

"Our practices this week lvp n4prclv nr nave a'so oeen adversely ai- fected," the Rocket mentor added. "Getting the proper the j3 almost impossible If the qugrterback tas the mU(1 everv time he tries to eveiy imie lie uita id pivot. sou a coach Frank Solich echoed the complaint. r. We JUSt Skipped going OUtSlde early in the week," he says, didnt mUCn done.

Snlich said that he would oOui sam nidi lie wuuiu normally insert some new ti. plays each week. "The limited number lhings we uscd atrainst North Platte last Week iinu Tin pretty Well," he admits, "but wc 8 outside, we'll just have to be content with trying to perfect those things even more without adding anything new. Solich was' particularly i- "i TlllirStlay Baseball Kansas City at Milwaukee, 7:40 p.m. (KLIN).

(725 Saturday BaM-ball Pittsburgh v. New York, 1 p.m. (3). Wide World of Sports Stock Car, Boat Races, 1 p.m. (7).

College Football Minnesota v. Missouri, 2:45 p.m. (7). Baseball Kansas City at Milwaukee. 1:10 p.m.

(KLIN). Pro Football HiKhlluhts 11 a.m. 3. postt.mb Whirl Ago Lima (Armstrong) lis Moon fox (Barnes) its second race, purs. $600, i.y.ar-o.d,.

maiden allowance five furlongs. Pair Me (J. Rettele) 117 Don Trouble (Coleman) 117 01 Apple Tree (No Boy) 1)7 uSSsSZ Writ Third race, purse $600, three-year-olds, maidens, claiming five J.url0,n" a.N?K?-::::::::::::::!. Ponnero (No Boy) 114 Fourth race, purse $600, three-year-olds, maidens, claiming iiv uriongi. fMiTJffl VriSJ Bob's Traffic (Barnes) lit Pumper (U.

Turner) 1U PHth race, purse $500, -yar-oldi and up, claiming i furlongs. Lin Pat (Ray) IIS Pnd'utt't 'A0. Rose o'Mahmoud (Ray) tie Big News (Barnes) 121 Star Bubble (Armstrong) 121 Sixth race, purs. $.00, l-year-elds, Claiming furlongs. Fairish (No Boy) in Bill's Gold (Barnes) Ill go casey (u Turner) lu One Feather (Coleman) in smokeon (no Boy) ii Rating Orb (Ray) 120 Seventh race, purse $100, Jhree-year- elds, claiming five furlongs.

Sister Sasa (L. Turner) 113 syTnei) mm Mike's Gai (King) TooBoMNoy) Eighth race, purse $500, four-year-eld. nd up, claiming one miie TerToVrbXTurnfr) 114 O-Flanlgan (Barnes) t4 Anllas (Ray) 119 Maluba Vay (Stalllpqs) ilj Cora's Reward (Andfson) 114 Prince (Coleman, 1.9 Feature Races At Hawthorne Felonious JIM .0 Mr. Gemini 12 60 4 00 Hook It Up Beauty's Son 10 At Belmont Park Deceit i.20 4 1 Make Me Laugh 160 4.60 Bonnie And Gey 3.60 At Atlantic City Fort Mercy 00 1 20 Fiddle Ilia J. 00 2 40 Mr.

Leader 3.00 SE running back Doug Deetcr pleased with the performance of junior transfer Egbert Thompson and senior fullback Doug Deeter. "They each gained over 100 yards," he says. "That's the first time we've ever had two backs show that well in one game." SPORTS Sports Football Former Ncbrask'a tight end Jim McFarland has been acquired by the Buffalo Bills after being placed on waivers by the St. Louis Cardinals. Among players cut in the NFL Wednesday were former Kansas grfddcr John Douglas, let go by the New York Giants; former Olympic sprinter Tommy Smith, dropped by Cincinnati and Frank Emanuel, a $250,000 linebacker from Tennessee, cut loose by Miami.

Bascl.all The Chicago Cubs have ac-quired outfielder Tommy Davis from Oakland. Itookie hurler Bert Blylevcn of Minnesota tied a major leaRuc record by striking out the first six California batters he faced Wednesday night. Blylevcn tied Detroit's John Hiller, who achieved the feat In and Boston's Ray Culp, who did it last May. All events tree unlcs fallowed by ail times a.m. unless boldfaced lor m.

SLATE Prep Football Southeast v. Northeast at Srocrest Field. 70th and (KLIN-KFORi. State Horse Racing Madison, 3. Prep Football Llneoln High at Scottsbluff.

7:30. Prep Tetania Lincoln High at Hastings; Northeast at Grand Island. Prep Cross-country-Pius at York. ThurMlay State Hone Racing; Madison, Friilay Local Prep Tennis Fremont a East. Prep (i ninaslU fr-GranfJ Island at Nonheasi.

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