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Spark Rams' Win i QB's Passes; 98-Yard Kickoff lilli Return Feature Season Opener BY BOB OATES Timet Staff Writer Roman Gabriel's passes and a 98-yard kickoff run by Alvin Haymond featured the Rams' home opener Friday night as the NFL's 51st reg" ular season dawned at the Coliseum before a crowd of 63,130., All 1 i VT The Rams defeated the Cardinals, 34-13. Gabriel's air attack developed two short-yardage Los Angeles touchdowns iri the second quarter to break up a 3-3 duel. On the- third pay of the game, Hart completed a -30-yixd St. Louis pass to John Gilliam, who fumbled; Jack Pardee recovering for Los An-i geles at the Ram 45. Gabriel "came out passing.

He reached Larry Smith with a screen', pass for .15 yards on the Rams' first regular-season play of 1970, then, using play action, speared Billy "ruax for 16 yards. And in the third minute of the game, the Rams were on the St. -Louis 24-yard line. They gained very little more ground on the next three plays, and at 4:22 Jim Ray came in to kick Los Angeles ahead from the 27-yard line, s-o. First Big One The lightning in the St.

Louis pass offense, which had flashed only once whea Hart had the ball the first time, was seen almost immediately the next time. Hart, dropping back on third and seven, easily passed to Smith, for 16 yards. Three plays the Cards got off their first big one. Gilliam, racing down the sideline in the company of Clancy held the bomb at the Ram 4-yard line for 41 net. Clancy had the play covered all the way, but Gilliam came up with the ball.

St. Louis, however, like Los An-; geles an instant earlier, ran out of punch right there and settled lamely or a field goal. Jim Bakken kicked it from the 9-yard line, and the 3-3 tie stood up until the end of the first quarter. A Ram touchdown drive had started, however, before the quarter Gabriel, opening up on the Ram 24, came all the way to the Car-dinal 3-yd. line on the last 10 plays of the first quarter.

On.the first play of the second quarter, he scored. The touchdown pass, thrown on second and goal from the 3, went to Ellison, who had run free into the end zone. A play-action fake by Gabriel, who made a pretense of slipping the ball to Tommy Mason, destroyed the Cardinals' short-yar GRIM GOING Head lowered end wincing, Cardinal quarterback Jim Hart drives toward Rams' Myron Pottios in first quarter of Saturday night's game, Hart moved, around for one-yard gain. Two plays later 75,000 TO SEE GAME Provide Touah ns Tonight BUSINESS FINANCE cc part nt SATURDAY, SEPT, 19, 1 970 dage defense. The man assigned to Ellison was looking elsewhere.

Safe-tyman Larry Wilson ran over as: Willie caught the ball, but was; too late to interfere. 1 Gabriel's 76-yard advance, one of the best of the year for the Rams, got under way with a bomb to Tuckr er. This brought a 37-yd. gain on first down. Tucker, sprinting to the post, had a shadow, Miller Farr but Farr was on one side of Wendell, and Gabriel's perfect pitch came in from the From the Cardinal 23, Gabriel needed five more plays to get in.

The most significant of these was the quarterback's 10-yd scramble on third and one. Rams Nurse Touchdown Edge The Rams nursed their 10-3 lead until just before halftime, when Gabriel took off on another march and kept it up for 57 yards. The last play, a 3-yd. pass to Truax, put Los Angeles ahead at the half, 17-3. Gabriel required 11 plays al-, together on this surge and most of Uhem were the specially-rehearsed patterns of the Rams' two-minute offense.

All were short-gainers as Gabriel threw the ball in front of the depth-conscious Cardinal secondary. Ellison was his weapon as Roman and the clock both moved along. Roman used him on both screen passes and draw plays to bear down oh the end zone a few yards at a time, Please Turn to Pago 6, CoL 2 imbalance of home runs hit (84) and home runs allowed (155) this year and the stolen base by Morgan underlined another weakness. It was the 97th successful stolen base in 114 attempts against the Dodgers, a percentage of .851. The Dodgers themselves have 131 stolen bases (the figure in the National League) but their percentage is .716.

Vance pitched exceptionally well after the first inning, yielding only three hits from the second through the sixth. Singles by John Edwards and Morgan in the fifth put the dangerous Wynn (26 homers) against the rookie right-hander in a two-out pressure situation. Bearing down, Vance threw nothing but strikes, getting Wynn on a short fly ball to left. The Dodgers advanced a baserun-' ner past first only once in. the first six, innings but the lone exception resulted in a run.

Please Turn to Page 3, CoL 4 DODGERS PROTECT GRIP ON 2ND WITH 3-2 WIN "1 right end from Rams' 3-yard-line the Cardinals kicked a field goal. Times photo by Art Rogers Homers Pace Burs' Win Over Metsr 3-2 NEW YORK UP) Bob Robertson and Jose Pagan drilled successive seventh inning homers Friday night as Pittsburgh edged the New York Mets, 3-2, and protected its lead in" the National League East race. The victory left the Pirates IV2 games ahead of second place Chicago, which swept a twi-night double-header Montreal, and 2V6 up on the stumbling Mets, who dropped, their third straight. Pirates' starter Steve Blass, (10-12), and New York's Jim McAndrew (10-12), each hurled six scoreless innings before Willie Stargell opened the Pittsburgh seventh with an infield single. Robertson's 27th Home Run Robertson, the Pirates' big-first baseman; then slugged McAndrew's first pitch over the left-center field fence for his 27th homer of the sea-; son.

It. was his 20th on the road. Pa-' gan then ripped a 1-1 pitch over the same fence for his sixth of the' season. i Robertson left the game In the eighth inning when he suffered an injury to his left ankle, joining Rob-. erto Clemente and Richie Hebner on the Pirates' injured list.

Blass, who scattered eight hits, ran into trouble in the eighth when Wayne Garrett opened with a walk and Cleon Jones stroked his third hit an infield single. Dave Giustl came out of the bullpen and was greeted by Art Sham-sky's run-scoring single. Then the right-hander gave up Dave Marshall's sacrifice fly and retired, the next two batters. Giusti breezed through the ninth for his 25th save of the year. i Boswell, who handled five chances flawlessly at second base, tied the major league mark for consecutive errorless games of 78 set by the late Ken Hubbs of the Chicago Cubs in Please Turn to Pcge 3, CoL 1 notably Jack Kramer, Ellsworth Pancho Gonzales and Dennis Rajston, among others.

He had served the past 16 years as president of the Southern California Tennis an organization, he joined in 1923 as chairman of the junior development committee, and last week he was Inducted Into the U.S. Tennis Hall of Fame at Forest Hills. Because of his falling health, he was unable to attend the ceremo- nies. In addition, he was non-playing captain of the U.S. Davis Cupuam led by Alex Olmedo, Barry MacKay and Ham Richardson which wrest-, ed the Cup from Australia in 1958.

The Australians won it back, howev- er, In 1959 before Mr. Jones stepped down as captain. But his biggest contributions' to the game were made as an adminis liiiiiii Robertson Pagan owned BY JOHN WIEBUSCH Titmt stiff wnttr as physical a team as USC has ever, faced, including Notre Dame. "In some positions," he said, "they're than? we are. This will be a game where we'll have to out-quick them, too.

USC's offensive line, which averages 243 pounds," outweighs Nebraska's by about 5 pounds per man, but the 'Huskers have bigger guards in 255-pbund Donnie McGhee and' 237- pound Keith Wortman, a. Rio Hondo JC transfer who along with tackle Bob Newton (6-4, 248), two years out of Cerritos JC, is one of several Cali-f ornians on the squad. Devaney's Record Best 1 Devaney, who brought football prosperity to Nebraska eightyears ago and now has the, highest winning mark (.787) of any active col- lege, coach in the land, admits the key tonight will be how well his team can stop USC's punishing of- fense. He will have to do it with a rebuilt defense that returns only three starters, one of them senior Jerry Mur-taugh, an All-America -prospect at' linebacker. "We're going to have to slow them down defensively to give our offense a chance," he said.

"And our offense that good." Huskers' Good And Past Actually, Nebraska's offense is quite good and fast but it may not be operating at maximum efficiency tonight. Quarterback Jerry Tagge, who almost rallied the 'Huskers to victory last year in a game won by USC, 31-21, at Lincoln, has been bothered by painful swelling in his left thigh, but is expected to start. replacement, Van Brownson, has what the team doctors call a "Sandy Koufax elbow." Still, the Cornhuskers may have the best offense that Devaney has fielded yet an attack with break-Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 2 Cubs Down Expos Twice, Take Over Second in NL East MONTREAL tf) Ron Santo ripped a lOth-inning single, scoring Don Kessinger with Chicago's winning run as the Cubs treaL'5-4, in the" second game to complete a sweep of a Friday night double-header and take over second place in the frantic National League East race. Ferguson Jenkins won his 20th game in the opener, shading the Expos, 3-2, with a five-hitter, It marked the fourth consecutive 20-victory season for the powerful right-hander.

The sweep moved the Cubs past stumbling New York and left Chicago VA games behind Pittsburgh in the NL East race. Double Starts Rally Kessinger doubled with one out in the 10th, moved to third on an infield out and on Santo's clutch single. Chicago manager Leo Durocher called on starter Bill Hands to nail down the victory in relief in the bottom of the 10th. The Expos had jumped off to a 3-0 lead in the first three innings of the nightcap with Rusty Staub driving in two of them on a sacrifice fly and a single. John Bateman's 14th homer accounted for the other.

But the Cubs bounced right back, jolting Mike Wegener for three in the sixth on Billy Williams 41st home run of the year. Kessinger and Paul Popovich both singled in front of Williams' shot his second homer of the night. The Cubs took the opener, breaking a 1-1 tie with two unearned runs in the second Inning. Bill' Stoneman had loaded the bases with three walks and then threw a third strike past Kessinger. But when the ball got away from Bate-man, the lead run scored.

Glenn Beckert followed with an RBI single for a 3-1 edge. Williams had homered in the first for Chicago and Jim Fairey tagged a Please Turn to Page 3, Col. 2 A'S WIN IN WALK AS ANGELS LOAD BASES IN NINTH OAKLAND (UPI)-Reliever Dave LaRoche walked pinchhitter Gene Tenace with the bases loaded and two out in the ninth inning Friday night to give the Oakland A's a 3-2 win over the California Angels. The A's picked up four walks In the ninth off a pair of Angel hurlers. Loser Ken Tatum (7-4) walked lead-off man Don Mincher, replaced by-pinchrunner John Odom, who eventually scored the winning run.

was batting for winning pitcher Chuck Dobson, who gained his first victory In five weeks and Improved his record to 16-13. He gave up only three hits, all singles by Tony Gonzalez. Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 4 Nebraska to Test for Troja How1 good: are the USC Trojans? vv Not even their coach, John McKay, knows" for sure, but he expects to find out tonight in a game matching two of college football's finest teams. The Nebraska Cornhuskers, who can throw their weight around against anybody, will be almost a two touchdown underdog against the Trojans in an 8 p.m.

home opener that will attract about 75,000 fans to the Coliseum. It will be a battle of heavyweights a confrontation between teams whose coaches, McKay and, Bob Devaney, are saying could be their best they have fielded yet in1 their distinguished careers. And it possibly will be a tougher fight for the Trojans than Alabama gave them last weekend. The Cornhuskers, say McKay, are UCLA Mere 7-Point Choice Today Over Panthers at Pitt BY WIGHT CIIAPIN Tlmt Staff Writtr PITTSBURGH Can that growl coming from the cage of the Pittsburgh Panther be for real? One wonders, in recalling the last four meetings of Pitt and UCLA. It was 57-14 Bruins In 1966, 40-8 Bruins in 1967, 63-7 Bruins in 1968 and 42-8 Bruins in 1969.

But then you see that UCLA is favored by only seven points over the Panthers today (10:30 PDT) at Pitt Stadium. The obvious question why? For one thing, the Panthers return 30 lettermen (including seven defen- give and six offensive starters) from a team that was only 4-6 but got better and better as the '69 season pro- grossed. Coach Confident There Is strength at the running backs in Dennis Ferris, Tony Espo-Rito and John Moss. The defensive line is stocked with veterans, including All-America tackle' candidate Lloyd Weston, and the linebacklng corps, led by All-America candidate Ralph Cindrich, is equally 6trong. Carl DePasqua, normally one of the most tight-lipped coaches extant, has been seen to smile this fall, ana even to say that his Panthers will be "a good football team." On paper and that'g all it can be at this point since this game is Pitt's season opener the Panthers are a much more experienced team than the Bruins.

It's expected that, like Oregon State a week ago, Pitt will do its best to put a heavy rush on Bruin quar riease Turn to Ptf 4, CoL 3 The Dodgers protected their slender hold on second place in the National League West by defeating Houston, 3-2, Friday night at Dodg-. er Stadium. The Astros took a two-run lead in the first inning, when Willie Davis could not grab a line drive that, in most instances, would have given him no trouble. The ball was hit by Denis Menke and, with runners on and third and two out, the result was another instant deficit. The Astros scored three times in the first inning Thursday night (two of them on a homer by Menke), and in the opening inning of all games this season Dodger opponents have scored the rather amazing total of 102 runs.

The early flurry Friday night was set up when Joe Morgan singled to center and stole second, his 39th theft of the year. Dodger starter Sandy Vance then walked Jim and both runners advanced on a wild pitch. The Dodgers have been hurt by an Dies as r. Tennis Perry T. Jones, Ren BY JEFF PRUGII Timn Itatt Writ Perry T.

Jones, known internationally as one of tennis' most controversial and dynamic figures, died of a massive coronary Friday morning at Good Samaritan Hospital, where he had undergone treatment intermittently for the past four weeks as a result of a heart ailment. He was 80 years old. His death came, Ironically, on the eve of a tournament he helped elevate Into worldwide prominence the Pacific Southwest Open, which starts today at the LA. Tennis Club. For years, Mr.

Jones was known affectionately as 1 "Mr. Tennis" of Southern California, an outspoken man who turned the Southland into one of the world'i premier proving ground3 for buddies tennis talent trator, as the paterfamilia of Southland tennis. He delighted in reciting his own mottos on the game: "Just hit the ball-don't think!" "Thinking reduces your game by 50 percent" "Wouldn't It be a great game if everybody called ALL the close ones good?" Kramer, now official referee of the Pacific Southwest Open, remembered Mr. Jones as "the finest tennis administrator anywhere." "I was lucky to be one of a long list players he befriended and helped climb up the ladder, said Kramer. "As an administrator, he set an example for the rest of the sectional organizations around the world.

His record for developing outstanding young players was so great that Please Turn to Page 7, CoL 3 rV Perry T.Jonei.