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Tor USC, Starting at Quarterback, Rob Hertel It's Taken a While for the Senior From Los Altos to Get Where He Always Wanted to Be If -X r--rW mi Ji'ia "All things come round to him who will but wait." LONGFELLOW BY MAL FLORENCE Timis Staff Writer Rob Hertel has played the waiting game at USC since 1973. Not in baseball, in which he achieved distinction as an outstanding infielder, but in football. He has always wanted to be USC's No. 1 quarterback but fate has conspired against him. He almost had the job in 1975, but a broken ankle removed him from consideration.

Then, because he missed spring practice last year to play baseball, and Vince Evans im proved remarkably, he was relegated to a backup role again. But Hertel now is USC's acknowledged No. 1 quarterback', and head coach John Robinson and quarterback coach Paul Hackett believe that the 22-year-old senior could be the best at his position in the country. "He has the arm, the intelligence, the poise and the leadership ability to be outstanding," Robinson said. "He's flat out one of the coolest competitors I've ever been around and I doubt very seriously if anybody will ever confuse or intimidate him." Hackett, who coached Ail-American quarterbacks Steve Bartkowski and the late Joe Roth at California and helped convert Evans from a wild-throwing passer to an accurate-throwing leader of USC's Rose Bowl-winning team last season, smiles broadly and winks when Hertel's name is mentioned.

"Last year we completely changed the pass offense and it was very important that the quarterbacks understood what we were doing," Hackett said. "Rob missed spring practice and was understandably behind the others. But by our second game, he was knowledgeable. "It's different this year. He has had a job at the school all summer, has studied film, worked out every day and got other players to work out with him.

He has a great working knowledge of what we want to do. Why, sometimes we had to kick him out of the film room because he was spending too much time there." Several months ago Hertel wasn't sure he'd play football for USC again. He was anticipating the college baseball season and possibly a major league career. He missed 21 games because of a pulled hamstring muscle and hip injury but still managed to bat .329 and get a school career record of 188 hits. "There was always the possibility of pursuing a baseball career," Hertel said in an interview between practices at USC, "but in the back of my mind I'd always wonder how it would have been to be USC's No.

1 quarterback. So I decided to play football again. "I was drafted on the 28th round by the San Diego Padres, but I made it clear that I would have to get a pretty good bonus or I wouldn't sign. If I only had baseball going Please Turn to Page 11, Col. 1 Rick ReuschePs 19th Interrupts Dodgers um mim i iimmmwjii umn.pi iimip.

ym 1.1 mmmumiymmti'i'mjm' mmgammwmmivm fr lf msmWw 'm jpwsisfeTO? a -------r- ft sg Four-Game Winning Streak Ended, 4-1; Rau, Lasorda Tiff BY ROSS NEWHAN Tlmtl Staff Wrltir While Rick Reuschel continued his bid for a Cy Young Award Tuesday night, Doug Rau went down to a defeat of the type that has turned his second half into one sigh after another. A Dodger Stadium crowd of 40,663 saw Reuschel improve his record to 19-5, scattering five hits before Bruce Sutter came on in the ninth to save Chicago's 4-1 victory over the Dodgers. The loss reduced the Dodgers' lead over Cincinnati in the National League West to bVz games and while Reuschel was primarily responsible for snapping the home team's four-game win streak, he received valuable assistance from ex-Dodger Bill Buckner, who drove in one run and scored two, collecting a double, a single and a sacrifice fly. Buckner is batting .311 against the league and .404 against the Dodgers, having driven in 10 runs with 17 hits in 42 at-bats. His work in this one helped make a loser of Rau, who is 2-4 with two no-decisions since the All -Star break, when he was 11-1.

The southpaw could easily sue for nonsupport. In those four defeats of the second half, the Dodgers have scored two runs. The scores of Rau's losses have been 1-0, 2-1, 4-0 and 4-1. In the two no-decisions, Rau led each 3-1 after sue only to have the bullpen dissipate the advantage. Rau gave up a run in the fourth Tuesday night when Buckner doubled from the outfield but he landed too late to tag HIGH FLYER Catcher George Mitterwald of the Chicago Cubs leaps high to catch throw out the Dodgers Davey Lopes Tuesday night.

JIM MURRAY Let's Have a Party! The year 1984 has a kind of infelicitous ring to it. Thanks to George Orwell, it conjures up a society in which Big Brother watches over all things with hidden cameras and visible machine guns, in which the Ministry of Truth is in charge of lies and the Ministry of Peace wages the wars, in which the populace is tranquilized and conditioned to believe black is white and night is day and people take their pills and live unhappily ever after. That is the year Los Angeles is supposed to have the Olympic Games, but already the petitioners are in the streets. We don't need any Orwellian Olympics, is the burden of their complaint. Let some other suckers take them.

Why, look at the money we'll be saving! Bah! Is this country getting so old and sclerotic we can't throw a party anymore? What are we, a nation of sit -by -the -fires, string -savers, penny-pinchers? We're getting to be a bunch of bores, is what we are. We've got a whole bunch of self-appointed watchdogs, latter-day Calvin Coolidges with a "they hired the money, didn't they" approach to living. Los Angeles used to be a much gutsier place. It put on the 1932 Olympics in the midst of the Depressionand made money out of the deal! It pioneered the Olympic village idea, which has been copied by every Olympic host since with the possible exception of postwar London. It was a great party, that year, good for Los Angeles, good for America, good for the world.

Remember when you were a kid how you used to look forward to the county fair, or the state fair, the NRA parade, a World Series some civic function to lift life out of the humdrum, to create a municipal or state festival? Remember how the Century of Progress World's Fair at Chicago elated the whole country? We've got these bloody Puritans griping even about Christmas nowadays! Some society dowager wants to give a party which will give work to 100 waiters and 50 florists, hat-check girls, parking attendants, bus-boys, bartenders and she gets more public obloquy than a bank robber. What's wrong with a little track meet? The Olympics are too expensive? Don't buy that drivel. The Olympics aren't expensive. What happens what happened at Montreal, Mexico City, Munich, Tokyo is that the politicians seize the Olympics as a tool for getting new subways built, new monorails, new expressways, airports and apartment buildings. They lump the cost onto the Olympics.

It's an old trick. Hollywood used to load the cost of a picture with brother -in -laws' salaries, a mogul's race horses and the director's European vacation with his mistress, and put as much more of the studio overhead on as the traffic would bear. As early as 1960, the late Avery Brundage was urging prospective Olympic hosts to cut down on the gaudy overhead, to stop building grandiose stadia. After all, all the games really need is a high jump pit, a track, and an estuary to row boats on. Hitler is the guy who took the Olympics out of the fun -and -games category and made them into a breast-beating show to promote a deranged political philosophy.

The IOC was never able Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 3 Rams Place Willie Miller, Scribner on Injured List BY BOB OATES Tlm Stafl Wrlttr los3ngflfS Cirrus BUSINESS FINANCE CC PART III WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1977 and scored on a single by Gene Clines, the run getting the Cubs even after the Dodgers had scored in the third on Davey Lopes' bunt single and a hit-and-run double by Bill Russell. It was still 1-1 in the sixth when the Cubs loaded the bases on Jose Cardenal's double, Buckner's single and a walk to Bobby Murcer. Sacrifice flies by Clines and Steve Ontive-ros put Reuschel ahead, 3-1. Rau departed in the eighth when a sacrifice fly by Buckner scored Ivan DeJesus, who had walked and moved to third on a single by Cardenal, the third hit for the ex-Angel.

Chicago players told reporters after the game that Rau and manager Tom Lasorda had engaged in a dugout shouting match following the starter's removal but Lasorda said there was not that much to it. "Doug was frustrated," Lasorda said, "and when he came into the dugout he broke the arm rest next to Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 3 in his first season here, dislocated his left elbow Saturday night in Kansas City. Miller previously played with Cleveland. While prone after being tackled, Miller was speared piled on head first by a Kansas City rookie trying to make the team.

The rookie, a defensive back named Ricky Wesson from Southern Methodist, only weighs 163 pounds but that was enough to possibly end Miller's football career. Wesson was penalized 15 yards. A Vietnam war veteran, Miller, who will be 31 in April, can't have many years left. He had been the club's most useful wide receiver this summer. The coaches had said he was a cinch to be a member of the roster.

He had played his college football at Colorado State after returning from the war. The Rams placed several other athletes on waivers Tuesday presumably enough to reach the 52 -man limit on a cutdown day but made no announcement to that effect. Please Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 playing. And he wanted assurance that he wouldn't be traded, because of his Los Angeles business connection.

"But they (the Rams) didn't want to talk about it for months and months," he said. "And, finally, I had to make a definite commitment. So I retired. The Rams thought I was playing games but I wasn't." Klein was reminded that management often gets "retirement" announcements that prove spurious. "I don't blame them for that attitude," said Klein, a low-key type who was never in any controversy in his eight Ram years.

"But you'd think when you've been with a team as long as I'd been with the Rams they'd get to know the individual and Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 ports Erny Pinckert, in 1930-31, Is Blocking Back Was All-American Twice Erny Pinckert, two-time All-American halfback for USC in 1930-31 and a member of the college football Hall of Fame, died Tuesday at his home in West Los Angeles. He was 69. Pinckert, a bruising blocker whose rugged play epitomized the famed Thundering Herds of Howard Jones, also was employed as a running back at USC and was named Player of the Game in the 1932 Rose Bowl when he scored two touchdowns to lead the Trojans to a 21-12 win over Tulane. Pinckert, who went on to play for the Washington Redskins, also starred in the 1930 Rose Bowl, catching a touchdown pass in a 47-14 romp over Pittsburgh.

He said his greatest thrill, however, was playing in USC's 16-14 win over Notre Dame in 1931, ending a 26-game unbeaten streak by the Irish and clinching the national championship for the Trojans. In that game, the Trojans, trailing 14-0, scored 16 points in the fourth quarter, culminated by Johnny Baker's game-winning field goal. The team was accorded a ticker-tape parade on Broadway following its return to Los Angeles. Pinckert, 5-11 and 194, was an outstanding high school running back at San Bernardino but at USC Jones installed him at the blocking back position, where he cleared the way for such oustanding tailbacks as Russ Saunders, Marshall Duffield, Gus Shaver and Orv Mohler. In the 1932 Rose Bowl, however, AP Wlreptioto Palmer Defeats Angels for 1 7th Time in Career BALTIMORE iW-Eddie Murray's two-run single snapped a 2-2 tie, capping Baltimore's four-run sixth-inning rally, and the Orioles went on to defeat the Angels, 8-2, Tuesday night as Jim Palmer scattered seven hits.

Loser Ken Brett (11-10) and two relievers issued seven walks during Baltimore's final three turns at bat and five of the runners scored. Al Bumbry singled home two Baltimore runs in the seventh and stole another run by scoring from third on a foul pop when the Angels left home plate unguarded. Brett had a 2-0 lead and was working on a one-hitter when he walked two batters to open the sixth inning. He was lifted when Bumbry followed with an RBI single. The second run of the inning scored on a bases-loaded grounder by Andres Mora and Murray, hitless in his last 15 trips, singled off reliever Dave La Roche with two out.

Palmer (14-11) allowed a fourth-inning run on Don Baylor's sacrifice fly following singles by Bobby Bonds and Tony Solaita. The Angels made it 2-0 in the fifth on a double by Andy Etchebarren and Jerry Remy's single. The victory by Palmer, who has a 17-7 lifetime mark against the Angels, was only his second since July 31. He had lost three of his last four decisions. The veteran right-hander, a 20-game winner in six of the past seven Please Turn to Page 6, Col.

2 team leader and now his job is in jeopardy. J' played behind Bob for four years fn Los Angeles," Curran said at the Chargers training camp at UC San Diego, "and now it's only right that he play behind me." Curran was jesting but you knew he meant it. He said he isn't about to surrender without a fight to his friendly rival but realizes that the odds are against him. For one thing, Klein will reportedly make $125,000 a year with the Chargers, compared with $75,000 with the Rams. Highly paid players don't usually sit on the bench.

Klein said he wanted to remain in Los Angeles, but it cost him money to USC Star Dead at 69 Erny Pinckert as a 1931 All -American Jones pulled a switch on the Bernie Bierman-coached Tulane team, sending Pinckert on reverses around the flank of Tulane All-American end Jerry Dalrymple. Pinckert scored twice, on runs of 30 and 23 yards, both times going all the way untouched. He also saved a touchdown early in the game when Tulane halfback Wop Glover broke loose and galloped 59 yards before Pinckert brought him down from behind. "It was Pinckert's last game and he went out in glory," Paul Lowry wrote in The Times. Pinckert played professional football for nine years, starting with the Boston Braves in 1932.

He played Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 1 he was definitely retired until his old and new clubs worked a deal. So, for a second-round draft choice in 1980, the Chargers now have two accomplished tight ends in Klein and ex-Ram Pat Curran. The Rams figure they're well fixed with Charles Young and Terry Nelson. But Curran says that Young and Nelson aren't in Klein's class as blockers.

"I don't see how Carroll Rosen-bloom (Rams' owner) could let Klein slip through his fingers for a draft choice," said Curran, who isn't enthralled that Klein has joined the Chargers. Curran, temporarily sidelined with a knee injury has been the Chargers' starting tight end since 1975 and a The Ram careers of halfback Rob Scribner and split end Willie Miller were interrupted Tuesday when both were placed on the National Football League's waived-injured list. They were hurt in the first month of the preseason and, when well, one or both might return. They're on no-recall waivers and their future depends partly on whether they're picked up today by another NFL club. As a rule, waived-injured athletes aren't claimed because of uncertainties about their physical status.

In the meantime both will remain on full salary with the Rams, and, as veterans of a hazardous business, they're likely to replace other Ram wounded this year somewhere down the road. Scribner, a five-year Ram from UCLA, hurt a thigh opening night and was hospitalized with what Dr. Clarence Shields, a club physician, called the worst charley horse he's seen. Back on his feet now, Scribner hasn't practiced since he was hurt. Miller, a three-year NFL veteran play.

As a partner in a real estate firm, Klein said he had to pay a replacement during the football season to wrap up some deals that he initiated. He explained: "What would happen in the past is that I would drum up some business in the off-season and it couldn't be consummated while I was playing. I'm on a retainer with one company where they would pay us a certain amount of money. So I had to find someone to complete the work, and the money came out of my pocket. For example, it cost me $50,000 last season, and that's expensive." Klein said he asked the Rams in the offseason to arrange it so he would be compensated for money he lost while BOB KLEIN'S A CHARGER BECAUSE OF DOLLARS AND SENSE Rams' Veteran Tight End Comes Out of Retirement When He Finds the Price Is Right in San Diego BY MAL FLORENCE Tlmtl Staff wrlttr LA JOLLA Bob Klein was in a Costa Rican jungle when the phone rang and he got word he was no longer a retired NFL player.

The former Rams tight end said there was a radio phone in the fishing village of Paraisimas, where he was quartered while filming a segment of television's American Sportsman series. A nine-year veteran regarded as one of the league's best blocking tight ends, Klein now is a San Diego Charger and will play against his former teammates Thursday night at the Coliseum. The 6-5, 245-pound ex-Trojan, a first-round draft choice in 1969, said.