Corvallis Gazette-Times from Corvallis, Oregon • 17

Goratfr-Tinwt, Corvollii, Ofqon, Soturdoy, Auguit 20, 197717 Reiber missing as Oregon State Corvallis clips Roseburg; one game from state title gridders report i or ROSEBURG Rlchey'i Markets of Corvallli moved within one game of the state championship In. American Legion baseball last night, defeating Dr. Stewart's of Roseburg, 4-2. Corvallis holds a lead In the best-of-flve final series and could win the state title tonight at o'clock at Roseburg's Legion Field. If Roseburg wins tonight, a deciding game will be played at Roseburg at I p.m.

Sunday. The winner of the series will advance to the Western Regional i at Klamath Falls next week. Steve Blnns pitched a one-hit shutout for Corvallis for four In By Roy Gault Sports Editor Dave Reiber, the Junior college ail-American tackle who was to have helped Oregon State rebuild its offensive line, did not report to OSU's fall football camp yesterday. Reiber, a $-6, 260-pound Junior, instead was attending picture day at Iowa State University Reiber, from Ellsworth (Iowa) Junior college, will play this fall for the ISU Cyclones. OSU head coach Craig Fertig said be was In terribly disappointed," Fertig said.

"But you can't stand between a boy and his. family." Fertig said the Reiber family operates a large farm. He isn't sure what crops the Reibers grow "because it was snowing when I was there." Veteran Craig Splegelberg, who Fertig said has reported at almost 270 pounds, will be the No, 1 strongside tackle when practice begins Monday, Fertig said. Vera Ward will be listed No. 1 at the weakside tackle.

Other tackles are Dan Schulti, a Junior college transfer who was a second-team ail-American, and Gordy Neumann. Carl Knotts, a sophomore tackle, has decided to discontinue playing football, Fertig said. The only other scholarship player who has decided not to report Is fullback Mark Moser, who played at South Salem High and Mt. Hood Community College. Fertig said that the biggest change brought about by the departure of Reiber will be that the Beavers will be asking freshman tackle Rich Humphreys to be ready to play soon.

Humphreys is a 6-6, 250-pound tackle from Borah High of Boise, Idaho, where be was named Idaho's lineman of the year. Fertig's emphasis in losing Reiber Is that "one guy is not going to make a football team. This happened when I was playing (at Southern California) in 1962. We got in a big all-American from Nebaraska, and he quit, and we still won the national championship." Fertig had said in February that because Reiber couldn't sign a letter of Intent he would fly to Iowa City "to shake his hand. A handshake is good enough for This time it wasn't good enough.

"That's what I said," Fertig remembers. "Even so, I'll always shake hands. I still believe in it." Offensive coordinator and offensive line coach Tony Kopay echoed Fertig's feelings. "It would have been a pleasure to have had (Continued on page 18) formed by Reiber early last week that the big tackle had changed his mind about coming to OSU. Reiber had been at Oregon State in June and had worked about 1V4 weeks In grounds maintenance for the OSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics when his father had reoccurrence of a heart attack.

He returned to his home at Iowa Falls, Iowa, and decided to attend Iowa State, which is a 45-minute drive from the family farm. "He was concerned about bis dad when he left," Fertig said. "I told him that if he wanted to sit out a year and redshirt it would be all right." But Reiber decided be wanted to play. OSU and ISU had recruited Reiber heavily, but Reiber announced Feb. 18 at a news conference that he would attend OSU.

Fertig flew to Iowa Falls for that news conference. Reiber was able to change his mind, however, because be did not sign a letter of intent with Oregon State. He had signed a letter of intent with the University Iowa when he graduated from high school but left Iowa during his freshman year. He then competed at Ellsworth Junior College. Because he had previously signed a national letter of intent with Iowa, NCAA rules do not permit him to sign a second letter of intent.

"I really think he's a good player. I'm i irw 1 Ganffv-Tmwt pholo by Tom Wamtt Paul Pinkston earn on in relief last night to preserve a 4-2 for Corvallis in the state American Legion finals. nings last night but needed relief help in the last two Innings from Paul Pinkston. Ricbey's Markets scored a run In each of the first three innings to take a 3-0 lead. Blnns had to snuff bases-loaded rallies In fifth and sixth Innnlngs and escaped still holding a 3-1 lead.

Corvallis scored a fourth run In the top of the eighth, then Pinkston relieved Blnns with no outs In the bottom of the eighth. Roseburg scored once in the bottom of the eighth, making the score 4-1. and led off the ninth with two singles. Dr. Stewart's had runners on second and third with one out, but Pinkston pitched retired three straight batters to end the game.

Blnns was credited with the win, improving his record to 9-2. Pinkston, who bad pitched 10 Innings In a 7-0 victory in the first game of the series, would not have been allowed by American Legion rules to have pitched had last night's game gone into extra Innings. Legion rules permit a pitcher to throw 12 Innings In three days. Dr. Stewart's threatened to win the game In the bottom of the ninth when Rusty Evans beat out an infield hit and Brodie Guthrie singled to rtghtfleld.

Pinkston then struck out Bruce Swearlngen, but the runners advanced to second and third on a wild pitch. Bill Sechler, who had slammed a two-run borne run to give Roseburg a win Thursday night, then grounded out to second base and Greg Admire popped up to third base. Roseburg had also threatened to to ahead in the eighth when Sechler led off with a single. Blnns then threw two balls to Admire, af which time Corvallis Coach Lonnie Keeter elected to bring in Pinkston, who has a 13-2 record. Admire walked, then Pinkston got Mitch Hanan to ground out and struck out pinch-hitter Dan Buchhelt.

But Toby Keady looped a run-scoring single Into Shallow centerfield before Pinkston ended the Inning by striking out .380 hitter Tom Rose. Roseburg loaded the bases on single and two walks with two out in the fifth Inning, but Blnns ended that rally by getting Rusty Evans to ground out. Guthrie and Swearlngen each singled and were sacrificed to second and third by Sechler to begin the sixth inning, and Admire knocked In a run with a single. Blnns then hit Hanan with a pitched ball, loading the bases, but he struck out Dave Bird and got Keady to ground out to second base, ending that rally. Binns had allowed only one ball to be hit out of the infield a pop-up to shallow centerfleld in the first three Innings and pitched a one-hitter through four innings.

In seven innings he allowed six hits, struck out three and walked six. Mike Hearing and Harold Reynolds gave Corvallis a 1-0 lead In the first Inning when Hearing led off with a double and Reynolds followed with a single. John Pinion walked for Corvallis In the second inning and scored after singles by Blnns and Tun Bucy. A threat of a bigger Inning was wiped out when Hearing missed an attempted squeeze bunt and Blnns was trapped between third base and home plate. Hearing then grounded out to end the inning.

Corvallis took a 34 lead in the third when Jeff LongUin beat out a bunt for a hit. Mike O'Donnell then singled to rightfield, moving Longtaln to third, and Longtain scored on a wild throw by the rightfielder. The final Corvallis run was scored in the eighth when, with two out, Pinion was safe on an error on the shortstop. He scored on a single to centerfleld by Blnns. Lloyd Anderson, who brought an 8-1 record and 0 90 ERA Into the game, was the starting pitcher and the losing pitcher for Roseburg.

He has had a sore arm and had not pitched In two 'weeks. Corvallis had base runners against Anderson every inning, but reliever Dave Bird set Rlchey'i Markets down 1-2-3 in the sixth and seventh innings. He retired seven straight men before Rlchey'i rallied for a run In the eighth inning. "Anderson did a commendable Job, and when be left the game It should have been 1-0," said Roseburg Coach Dan Withers, who was displeased with his team's defense. "The problem was that we didn't make a couple plays," he said.

"Corvallis got three runs mainly due to our physical mistakes, and you simply cannot give them something like that. We created opportunities for them." A walk contributed to one Corvallis run and errors contributed to two other runs. "We Just didn't generate a big inning of our own," Withers added. "We didn't get the two-out hits. We had opportunities, but maybe tomorrow (Saturday Twill be a different day for us." OSU ticket sales up from last year r- Corvallis GacneHmev Sports general public.

The 8.662 seasons tickets sold in 1968 followed a 1967 season in which 4,170 had been sold. Parker Stadium was expanded from 33,000 capacity to 41,500 capacity for the 1968 season. The number of season tickets sold in other years includes 6,444 in 1970 (including 5,059 to the general public), 6,607 in 1971 (including to the general public), 6,738 in 1972 (including 5,464 to the general public), 6,401 in 1973 (including 5,089 to the general public), in 1974 (including 5,311 to the general public), and 5,466 in 1975 (including 4,495 to the general public). Cowan said that this season will be at least the third-best season ticket sales season in the school's history. He expects to exceed 6,000 in sales to the general public and to exceed 7,200 total season tickets.

OSU is offering family season tickets and other reduced-price season tickets this season. Cowan said that ticket sales are normally higher on even-numbered years, when the Beavers play northwest rivals Oregon and Washington at Parker Stadium. On odd-numbered years OSU travels to Eugene and to Seattle and season tickets sales are lower. This year OSU plays Washington in Seattle Oct 22 and plays Oregon in Eugene Nov. 19.

OSU's home games are Sept. 10 against Syracuse, Sept. 17 against Southern California, Oct. 8 against Brigham Young, Oct 29 against Stanford and Nov. 5 against Washington State.

Season ticket sales for Oregon State University football games are up from last year. The Beavers will have at least their third-best year in history in season ticket sales, said Hal Cowan, director of public relations and promotions for the OSU Department of Intercollegiate Athletics. Cowan said that figures compiled through Wednesday show that 8,698 season tickets have been sold. He said several tickets have been sold since Wednesday and that sales will probably pick up in the two weeks before the beginning of the football season. OSU opens its season Sept.

10 at 6 p.m. at Parker Stadium against Syracuse. Cowan said OSU has sold 5,593 Season tickets to the general public, 68 more than the total of 5,525 sold last year. He said 1,105 faculty and staff tickets have been sold, which is down from the 1,303 sold last year. He said that faculty and staff season ticket sales are expected to increase when more OSU faculty and staff members return to Corvallis from summer vacations.

The record for OSU season ticket sales is set in 1968, Cowan said. That total included 7,300 tickets sold to the general public. The 1968 ticket sales came on the heels of a 1967 season which produced a 7-2-1 record by the team that was knows as the Giant Killers. That OSU team defeated top-ranked Southern Cal and second-ranked Purdue, and tied second-ranked UCLA. The second-highest ticket sales in history was 7,806 season tickets in 1969, Cowan said.

That figure included 6.505 tickets sold to the Steve Humphrey will pitch tonight for Corvallis. Keeter will use Lou Tanselli in relief, if necessary. If a final game on Sunday is necessary, Keeter will come back with Pinkston. Pinkston threw 175 pitches In the first game of the series, but he threw only 18 pitches last night and said his arm felt Tine. "He had good stuff.

Good heat," said Keeter, "and by Sunday he will have bad three total days Keeter said he replaced Binns because Binns was beginning to let his pitches get too high. "In a situation like that, when we're ahead 4-1, 1 can't think of any pitcher I'd rather bring In than Pinkston," Keeter said. "I can't think of a better man in the whole state in a situation like that. He throws strikes, he makes people hit the ball, and he's an excellent pitcher with men on base." Keeter was extremely pleased with the way Binns had pitched. Blnns also pitched the deciding game of the state semifinal series against Hillsdale Merchants of Portland "I can't say enough about him," Keeter said.

"He won his second pressure game in a row. We had to win this one. We all knew that." Binns was spiked in the second inning when he was trapped off third base. He was to visit a physician today. "He has a pretty deep cut on the knuckle of the index finger on his right hand (his pitching hand)," Keeter said.

"He was (Cootlnaed oa page It) Coast sports talk They're paying not to see the Los Angeles Rams and neither does Haden, who says he's been assured that the one playing best in the exhibitions will start called the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl was not ex- actly what NU fans had in mind. Worst of all, the Cornhuskers were favored last year in the Big Eight and wound up 4-3 and tied for fourth with Iowa State. They said spring practice was the most rugged in years at Nebraska, but a very strong Oklahoma and rising Colorado are tabbed ahead of NU this year. Tbe July-August Nebraska Alumnus, in its alumni association promo for Big Red Football tours, words it this way: "We're going to the Orange Bowl if the Huskers go. If not, we'll follow the Huskers to whatever bowl they accept Reserve your space with a ISO deposit which is refundable in full if NU does not go to a bowl or if you desire to cancel after the bowl is announced." Positive thinking with a bit of reality as an afterthought, a local NU alum observed.

a disappointed Joe was to say, "I Just couldn't get it going when I was in there." PAT HADEN came in and guided the team to a 20-3 win, but without much excitement The advertised "I'll show 'em" return to LA by Jaworski, dealt to Phllly last winter by the Rams, was a bust. The confident-talking Polish Rifle started the game and completed only 2 of 11 for 23 yards. It was a case of "thank heavens for WENDELL TYLER," the 188-pound rookie from UCLA has speed and open-field moves not possessed by such bull Ram veterans as LAWRENCE MCCUTCHEON and JOHN CAPPELLETTl. His 59-yard run was the big play of the winning but dull night Melvin Durslag. LA Herald-Examiner columnist on the who had tickets and stayed home or on tbe beach: "If the vulgarians who purchased tickets, and then stayed away from Namath 's first start, want to regain a vestige of class, they will send a check to the Rams for the hot dogs and the programs they didn't buy.

It must be understood their obligation doesn't end merely" with tearing up their tickets." By Check Bolce For The Gatette-Ttmes Many sports fans are much smarter than they're usually credited with being. Some also have more money than they need. The Los Angeles Rams have sold 53,000 season tickets and those all are for the entire season. Including the exhibition games. So, the other night Ram officials thought they were adding to the fare by announcing that no less than JOE NAMATH would start at quarterback against Philadelphia, first time ever as a Ram.

The weather was excellent The crowd was 48,571. One must consider that this throng Included many non-season ticket purchasers. There were those holding comps or playing in the pickup band, there were Joe's girl friends, some were relatives and friends of Coach DICK VERMEIL and quarterback ROMAN GABRIEL and RON JAWORSM. back la town as Eagles plus the tourists escaping the freeways. The figures mean that upwards of 10.000, maybe considerably hid paid between $9 and 18 a seat for tbe right to see the contest, chose not to do so.

And they chose not to burden friends with the tickets. They read the fine print in the season ticket offer and found they could be spared such well-named "exhibition games." They pegged this one very well. Namath played a quarter-plus. He elected to throw twice. Once be was sacked.

The other time wide receiver RON JESSIE dropped the ball, something he's been doing this summer. Later season (and discourages season ticket holders) the way JOHN MADDEN does and that was his approach again in the loss to Seattle. Larry Felser, Buffalo Evening News sports columnist and pro football writer, summed it up for Street and Smith's Pro ear-book: "The Raiders have more of everything receivers, versatile defense, ground game, special teams and, most Important of all, a superb quarterback In KEN "Stabler, who compiled the most accurate passing record since the days of SAMMY BAUGH, is the brightest of many Oakland stars. The Raiders also have the most dangerous deep receiver in the NFL in CUFF BRANCH, plus the reigning most valuable player in the Super Bowl, wide receiver FRED BILENTNIKOFF." It's a long time until January, but those looking that far ahead see the Raider Super Bowl competition as being those very same Rams with Namath carrying the load most of the way. Doug Knkofian 61 the Herald-Examiner: "There's a strong belief among some observers that, no matter how well Hades performs during the preseason, Joe Namath will start ahead of him during the regular season.

"The feeling among these thinkers is that owner CARROLL ROSENBLOOM, at a considerable expense to himself, hasn't brought Namath 3.000 miles to languish ingloriously oa the bench." Writer Krikorian doesn't go along with this Coast college football leaders sometimes look at the Big Eight powers with a touch of envy. They like all those bowl dates, all that television money and tbe fan enthusiasm of the midlands. For example, they say nothing, absolutely nothing, is allowed to get in tbe way of Big Red football in Nebraska. The Nebraska Department of Roads declared it will halt any construction projects on Interstate 80 that might delay football traffic from Omaho to Lincoln. The Cornhuskers open against Washington State, Sept 10.

District construction engineer DON COVE: "If the construction isn't done by then the. company has to quit, clean everything up and finish it next year." The fans coming from Omaha will have their tickets and getting them wasn'i all that, easy. 'The Cornhuskers have seven borne games and are sold out for their 76.500 stadium the 16th consecutive standing-room-only-year. But the highway construction contractor doesn't sound as nervous as Coach TOM OSBORNE and his staff. Such interest doesn't come without its pressure.

True, tbe Huskers went to their eight straight bowl game, but a loss to Arizona State year before last in the Fiesta Bowl and a narrow win over Texas Tech la something JIM KOVACH. a Kentucky linebacker, when asked what he would do if be were head coach: "Stop spring football and replace it with tennis." NORM EVANS, Seattle Seahawk veteran offensive tackle, on preseason practice: "Those two-a-days get you into a 'sheep You just plod along wherever the sheep flock goes, that's where you go. You 'baab' every once in awhile and listen." The Super Bowl will be an all-Coast affair this year, they're saying. The champion Oakland Raiders figure to start putting it together once the chips are down in regular season play and make it back to the Super Bowl. No coach in the business gives a rookie a chance In the exhibition.