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73768 See 5 Davis' Score Gain Standoff i i 1 i if i mm 4 -i is I Pi til -tV vw, Iff 'Wh-X. I'lFMIWIIIII II 4- CC SECTION SUNDAY, SEPT. 20, JM MURRAY Crime Has Its Reward Of all the players playing the game of baseball now, only one is an absolute cinch to make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot when his eligibility comes due (five years after he has stopped playing) Willie Mays? Doubtless. Henry Aaron? Most likely. But the man I'm talking about? No question about it.

Cf nil tho nlavprs in the Hall of Fame, he'll be the only one who spem NINE, years in the minor leagues before he ever played a major league game. He is a lasting tribute to baseball's myopia. He is the only one of the active candidates will go into the Hall of Fame carrying an all-time single-season record in an important category (as opposed to a "most foul chances accepted by a first baseman," or "most years leading league in unassisted triple He is 697 career home runs behind Babe Ruth. He is 81 batting percentage points lifetime behind Ty Cobb's all-time winning percentage. He has 1,556 fewer career ba-ses-on-balls than Ruth.

He gets walked intentionally about as often as a bespectacled pitcher. He doesn't get walked unintentionally much more often. His 1,940 lifetime hits, laid end-to-end, wouldn't reach the parking lot. Baseball's Greatest Felon I guess what it comes down to is, Maurice Morning Wills makes the Jlllu TROJAN ROADBLOCK Halfback Jeff Kinney of Nebraska has no where to go as Trojan linemen wait. to wrap him up in first quarter Saturday night at Coliseum.

Kinney managed to make 6 yards on play, however. The Trojans had to score late to gain a 21-21 standoff. Times photo by Art Rogers BY WIGHT CHAPIN Tim Staff Writtr BY JEFF PRUGH Time Staff Writtr Did anybody say the Cardiac Kidsr have graduated? 4 Well, it. seems they've re-enrolled, at USC. They wrestled to a 21-21 drayr with Nebraska's aroused Cornhu--; kers Saturday night in a football game that kept everybody clinging to his seat and his heart until the final It ended dramatically, with a Jimmy Jones pass traveling half the length of the Coliseum field and glancing off the fingers of a leaping Sam Dickerson amid three defenders who draped all over him -at the goal line.

The scenario was right out of 1969, a year when the Trojans were out llth-hour victories, with the Jones-to-Dickerson bomb. But if this particular last-gasp play missed; the Trojans did not fail to keep their unbeaten, string of 23 re-, gularr-season games alive. Trojans Play Catch-Up They had to play catch-up all night against the tough, physical Cornhus-kers, tying the score for the third and final time with 6 minutes left when tailback 1 a 1 Davis crashed over right guard for 9 yards to climax ah 80-yard march. 1 A few minutes earlier, the crowd of 73,768 had all but written off the Trojans as Coliseum losers for the first time since the shellacking by Notre Dame four years ago. Nebraska had lined up for a 22- 1 i 1 jit.

1 1 it jrcuu iiciu guai vn tui-iuiu-i ilUIIl me USC 6, only for Paul, Rogers' kick to sail wide to the right, partly because of a fumbled snap. That gave the Trojans a fresh breath of life marching from their 20. But they were all but left for dead again moments later when two Jones passes fell incomplete, forcing them into a 4th-and-7 situation from the Nebraska 30 with 8 minutes left. Jones Gamble Pays Off Jones, however, gambled desper- ately and won. He nailed reserve flanker Mike Morgan, diving among three defenders, for 14 clutch yards, giving USC a first down at the Corn-.

husker 16. 'V: From there, the Trojans needed only three plays a smash by Davfs, then Sam Cunnineham. and finallv Davis to gain their third tie in three seasons (the. others: 21-21 and 14-14 against Notre Dame in 1968 and 1969). When it was over, Trojan coach 'John McKay was quizzed about predicament he has faced beforer-whether to go for the two-point conversion.

would haye gone for two," he said, "if there, were five minutes or less.1 As it was there still was time 6 minutes 44 'seconds if only the Trd-jan defenders could reclaim the ball again. Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 JohStepheri (75) of the Panthers. ltsecond straight victory of seoson. plav.

Dummit threw 27 yards to flanker Reggie Echols for a first down, on, the Panthers' 22. Sophomore Bruce Barnes came in to kick his first college field goal, from 39 yards away. That made' the halftime edge for, Pitt just five points instead of eight and both coaches, Tommy Prothro of UCLA. and Carl DePasqua of Pittsburgh, agreed that it was the game's turning point, "We lost our poise after the field goal said DePasqua. From then on, the only team to score was UCLA.

Credit Dummit, who completed only 3 of 12 passes in the first half, and Echols, a young man who was Bruin receivers were injured. PITTSBURGH--UCLA's Bruins trailed again after one half of foot hall Tiprf flat.iirHav-hnt. nnartprharlf -i Dennis Dummit's arm brought them back to a 24-15 victory over a Pitts- burgh Panther team that is suddenly snarling after many seasons of slumber. Just as they had last week' in their 1970 opener against Oregon State, the Bruins fell behind an inspired ri- val after two quarters. This time Pitt, on an impressive array of short and long passes, had moved to a 15-10 edge.

But the Bruins gpt a break just before halftime. Pitt had scored to go vln? Then, vith seven seconds to Gemenfe Return Sparks Pirates' 2-1 Wiatm-w Miixf. Maty- Over Mets LIU UVCl rlC 3 NEW YORK (UPD Roberto Cle-mente, playing for the first time in two weeks, doubled home one run and scored another and, Willie Star-gell collected his major league hit Saturday to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 2-1 victory over the slumping New York Five Pittsburgh pitchers combined on a five-hitter with starter Luke Walker receiving credit for his 14th victory, The triumph enabled the Pi- rates to mamtain a 112 game lead over iiicdgu 111 me 11 11 11 1 League's East race while the who lost their fourth game in a row, fell 3 12 games off the pace in third place. Pittsburgh scored both its runs-with two out in the third inning. Matty Alou singled with one out and following a groundout, Clemente doubled off the left center-field wall to drive in Clemente, who had been out of action since Sept.

4 because of a back injury, moved to third on his hit as Tommie Agee fumbled the ball and scored what proved to be the winning run on Stargell's single to right field. IMease Turn to Page 3, CoL I The Big Ones TEXAS 56, CALIFORNIA 15 Fullback Steve Worster scored three TDs and junior quarterback Eddie Phillips added two as the Longhorns stormed past the Bears, for their 21st straight victory. Story on Page 10 WASHINGTON 42, MICH. ST. 16 Sophomore Sonny Sixkiller broke Don Heinrich's school total offense record with 313 yards and threw three touchdown passes as the Huskies overwhelmed Michigan State.

Story on Page 12 NOTRE DAME 35, NWESTERN 14 Halfback Denny Allan scored two touchdowns as the Irish ground out 330 yards rushing to coast to an easy victory over the outmanncd Wildcats. Story on Page 11 In the first 2:44 of the third quar- ter. Dummit drove the Bruins 74 yards in eight plays for a touch down. The score came on an eight-yard down-and-in-curl pattern to That, and a Dummit pass to Bob Manning for the 2-poini conversion, put UCLA in front to stay, 18-15. Then came the knockout, On the following series, Pitt's Dennis Ferris fumbled at the Panther 37 and UCLA's Frank Jones re covered.

Dummit immediately went to the bomb, throwing long down the left sidelines for Echols, a 9.5 sprinter. Echols worked in behind defender Bryant Salter, then made a dazzling Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 2 tackles Lloyd Weston (66) and UCLA won the flame. 24-15. for Hall of Fame because he stole a million dollars.

He should wake the Hall of Fame wearing a mask and carrying a kit of burglar's tools. He is baseball's greatest felon. His arrest record is phenomenal, too. To give you an idea, the year of his greatest crime wave, 1962, when he came within an inning of stealing the National League pennant, he committed grand larceny 104 times in front of a million people and law enforcement caught up with him only 13 times. The man whose criminal record he broke, Ty Cobb, pulled off 96 thefts.

But HIS rap sheet shows 38 convic-tions (otherwise known as "thrown-out that year; Maury didn't even leave fingerprints. They're giving Baseball's fore- most burglar a "day" at Dodger Stadium today because he literally stole his way into the Hall of Fame. It's no achievement for a fish to swim, J. Paul Getty to make a million, an Italian to sing, a Texan to 1 brag. When you're born with something, you can take no bows for not losing it The only thing Maury Wills was born with, was daring.

He had the guts of a burglar and the feet to go with it The speed was not all that exceptional. There were a couple dozen guns in the minors faster than he was. So, he trained himself to cut the distance down between bases, so he would be getting, so to speak, a head start on everybody. He led so far off the bag because he had trained himself to be the best in the business at diving back upon one false move from the pitcher that his base steals were all 79 feet and under. Ho studied pitchers the way an astronomer studies stars and found out they were Just as predictable.

Please Turn to Fag 0, Col. 1 BRUIN ON THE MOVE Halfback Arthur Sims of the Bruins picks up four yards off tackle against Pittsburgh Saturday. Closing in are.