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I For 59 Minutes USC Isn't Even No. 1 in Baton Rouge McDonald -Wlams Pass Saves the Night, 17-12, After White Gains 185 Yards Cos Anjjeles States CC PART III SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1979 BY RICHARD HOFFER ThnM Staff Writer BATON ROUGE, USC, which had a fair amount of trouble just getting off the line in the first half, got into the end zone with a fair amount of ease in the fourth quarter Saturday night, scoring twice in the final 10 minutes to come from behind and beat LSU. 17-12. It was never, the Trojans admitted later, a question of what they could do with a football. It was instead a question of getting their hands on one.

For a variety of reasons, this proved difficult in the early going. USC, playing before a near-record crowd of 78,322 in dreaded "Death Valley," could not complete a snap without some snafu developing. Three times in that first half, the Trojans were penalized for delay of game. It happened once in the first quarter, twice more to kill a long drive in the second. Altogether, the normally efficient Trojans committed six penalties and allowed two turnovers in that first half.

The net result was a 9-3 deficit at the half. This was unexpected. In two previous games, the bench had been emptied before the band was allowed to take the field. The Trojans had never trailed in their three previous games. "We may not yet be championship caliber," USC coach John Robinson said after Paul McDonald had thrown an 8-yard scoring pass to Kevin Williams with just 32 seconds left "But to come back after as ragged a first half as we played, that at least shows we've got the heart of a champioa" "Heart of a champion" is not the kind of thing voters take into consideration when constructing a top-20 poll.

"Heart of a champion" doesn't even get you out of Baton Rouge, much less into the end zone. It's always good to have someone like Charlie White or "55 double-rollout" to go along with it White, USC's Ail-American tailback, had a season-high 185 yards Ohio St. Goes by UCLA in the Passing Lane into the flat in front of the split end (Ray Butler in this case), who is doing all kinds of damage to a goal line man-to-man coverage. If Williams isn't open, it means he broke both legs at the line of scrimmage. McDonald, who ran his TD-toss streak to eight games and USC's win streak to 12 with the pass, said the play was practically fail-safe.

"Kevin just runs away from his man," he explained. "You can't defend him man-to-man on that play." Robinson, who called for the play after a time-out at first didn't want to identify it "Let's just say it's called 'a-when-we-really-need-a-TD Please Turn to Page 17, Col. 1 of Ohio State UCLA, 17-13, Irish Ride 2 and Emotion at the Coliseum pass from (0 Of I j7 IV C) -i lft 1 mmmm itr mmm, -ifc' rushing against LSU, the nation's toughest defense against the run going into Saturday night's game. A hundred of them were wasted in the first half, when USC could achieve nothing more than Eric Hipp's 32-yard field goal But the senior Heisman Trophy candidate put together three modest runs in an early fourth-quarter drive to take USC to its first TD of the game. It was a 4-yard plunge that narrowed LSU's lead to 12-10.

"55 double rollout" is the heretofore secret name of a goal-line play that rescued USC. Sprint star Williams, who converts (on the average) each two receptions into a score, runs GAME-WINNER Paul Campbell scores the touchdown that beat Fregosi Names Rookie to Start Anderson Gets Word; Angels Fall Again, 6-3 BT MARK HEISLER TltiMt Staff Wrttar ARLINGTON, his own inimitable way, Jim Fregosi told Jim Anderson, boy shortstop, that he was going to get to open the playoffs Wednesday in Baltimore. The Angel manager sidled up to Anderson before Saturday night's game and asked Anderson if Ranee Mulliniks was on the eligible roster for post-season. Mulliniks started for the Angels five shortstops ago and the only playoffs he was eligible for this year were played in the Pacific Coast League. Fregosi then watched his players charge out and lose their third straight post-clinching game, 6-3, to the Texas Rangers and Dave Rajsich, who pitched 5 innings of shutout relief.

Fregosi, asked for" the second straight night if he was concerned, said: "Are you?" The only thing," Fregosi said, "it messes up my lifetime record as a manager. I want to grow up to be like Weaver (Earl, of the Orioles), lose for two straight seasons and still be a .500 manager." Writers desperate enough for an angle to ignore the fact that there were only four days left, asked Fre-Please Turn to Page 12, Col. 2 ninth, it left the possibility that the regular season might not end today as scheduled. The results Saturday made it possible for the Expos, if they beat the Phillies today, to play their makeup doubleheader with Atlanta Monday. In case of a tie for the division title, the Expos and Pirates would play a single playoff game at Montreal Tuesday and the championship series would begin Wednesday.

Mick Kelleher opened the 13th for the Cubs with a single up the middle and was sacrificed to second by winning relief pitcher Bill Caudill. Jerry Martin grounded to Bill Madlock, who bluffed Kelleher back to second, then threw Martin out at first. Kelleher, knowing that Stargell ltvjTw Schlichter Hits 6 for 6 in Late Drive, 17-13 BTMAL FLORENCE Times Stiff Wrtttr The scene has been set many times. There's a Big 10 team, usually Ohio State or Michigan, trailing a Pacific 10 team with only a few minutes left in the Rose Bowl game. A comeback must be made by passing, and of course, the Big 10 team can't pass.

It's a foreign method of moving the ball for them. Times have apparently changed because Ohio State quarterback Art Schlichter, with his team trailing UCLA, 13-10, with 2:21 to play Saturday, beat the Bruins on his passing. A Coliseum crowd of 47,228 and a national television audience saw the sophomore quarterback complete six passes without a miss on an eight-play, 80-yard drive climaxed by a 2-yard toss to tight end Paul Campbell with only 46 seconds remaining. So the Buckeyes won, 17-13, and remained undefeated (4-0). The Bruins are 2-2 and frustrated.

They could have beaten Houston in the opener, losing 24-16, and then they couldn't defense a Big 10 passer in the closing minutes. But Schlichter, like Purdue's Mark Herrmann, isn't an old-fashioned Big 10 quarterback. UCLA cornerback Phil Hubbard, assessing Schlichter, said, "He's more physical than Herrmanna better runner and just as good a passer." Because the Bruins lost, coach Terry Donahue probably will be second-guessed for a conservative game plan. UCLA chose to stay on the ground most of the game, shunning passes. Quarterback Rick Bashore attempted only 12 passes, completing six for 89 yards and one touchdown.

The Bruins were particularly predictable on first down, running 24 of 26 times. And in the fourth quarter 20 straight rushing plays were called with some success. But Donahue maintained that his Bruins lost because of two critical penalties in the fourth quarter. Please Turn to Page 16, Col. 1 The Big Ones NEBRASKA 42, PENN ST.

17 Nebraska rallied from a 14-point deficit for the second week in a row, scoring 28 points in the second quarter to become only the third team ever to score 40 points on Penn State's Joe Paterno. Story on Page 8 ALABAMA 66, VANDERBILT 3 Alabama, the nation's No. 2-ranked team, amassed 601 yards and held winless Vanderbilt to only 200 in a Southeastern Con-7 ference game at Nashville. Story ob Page 10 OKLAHOMA 63, RICE 21 1 978 Heisman Trophy winner Billy Sims scored a touchdown on each of Oklahoma's first three possessions in rushing for 103 yards on 12 carries and then retired to the sideline before halftime. Story on Page 8 Saturday after taking 2 -yard Art Schlichter with 46 seconds left.

Times photo by Ben Olender SNUFFED LSU defensive end John Adams (86) gets up on his tippy -toes and does his Bill Walton imitation, blocking a pass by USC's Paul McDonald (16). USC rallied to win, 17-12. APWIrephoto BT BOB OATES Tlmts Stiff Wrtttr Ferguson TDs to 27-3 Win quarter, when Ferguson raced 24 and 48 yards to the touchdowns that made it an easy 27-3 win for the Irish. With 169 yards on 28 carries, Ferguson overtook George Gipp to become Notre Dame's No. 2 all-time ground gainer as coach Dan Devine extended his record against the Big 10 to 21-4-1.

"We played a tremendously emotional game," Devine said of his young team which rebounded from a 28-22 defeat to Purdue last week after beating Michigan 12-10 in its opener. "Knute Rockne once said you could only play a few emotional games a season, but with us every game is emotional. "I'm proud of the way the team bounced back from last week's loss. But I'm disappointed, as I'm sure the team is, that we're not 3-0. I don't want to sound contradictory, but realistically I'm pleased to be 2-1 even though we hoped and expected to be 3-0." Michigan State, ranked sixth by UPI and seventh by the AP, lost quarterback Bert Vaughn to an injury (back or kidney) in the first quarter when the score was only 7-0 and couldn't keep up thereafter.

Vaughn was driving the Spartans toward the would-be tying touchdown and had reached the Notre Dame 12-yard line when he under-Please Turn to Page 7, Col. 1 ill faced as the Cubs' sixth pitcher in the four-hour battle. Caudill came into the game with an 0-7 record and a 5.03 earned-run average. The hard-throwing right-hander struck out Stargell in the 11th with two men on and again to end the game with two men on. It wasn't a good day for Stargell, but a guy with 18 game-winning hits has a right to an off day once in awhile.

Stargell did single with the bases loaded to drive in two runs in the first inning, but the hitting stars were Dave Parker with five hits, and Madlock with two doubles and two runs batted in. It was Madlock's second double Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 1 SOUTH BEND-Whenever Notre Dame takes possession these days it hands the ball to halfback Vagas Ferguson on one play after another. Against Michigan State Saturday this simple strategy paid off in the third DODGERS LOSE 11 TH STRAIGHT TO J.R. RICHARD BT MIKE LFTTWIN Timet Staff Wrttw Overheard in the Dodger clubhouse before Saturday's game: "I've only got an hour to develop an injury." Must be James Rodney Richard pitching.

The Dodgers would rather face a pay cut than Richard. Ron Cey (who's protecting a fielding record) played a half inning in the field before retiring for the day. Burt Hooton dubbed Cey's performance: "A half and a bath." But Cey didn't have to face Richard. Some other Dodgers did, and predictably, Richard and the Houston Astros won, 3-0, before 20,647 at Dodger Stadium. Today at 1 p.m., the Dodgers play Houston in their last game this season.

Saturday, Richard pitched seven Please Turn to Page 14, Col. 1 doesn't have a strong arm, broke for third. Stargell threw high and wide, off the glove of the leaping Madlock and Kelleher easily ran home with the winning run. "It was an awful throw," Stargell said. "I felt like a monkey." It took a spectacular play by Bill Buckner, one of the players blasted by Franks, to prevent the Pirates from winning in the 10th.

Among other things, Franks said Buckner wouldn't dive in the dirt for a ball. But with Pirate runners on first and second and two out, Buckner dived into the dirt to grab a wicked smash by pinch hitter Rennie Stennett and turned it into the inning-ending out. Stennett was the first batter Caud Was a Lady II captain's table would serve canned tuna fish? You think the captain has to prepare it with his own hands? How can- there be a greater thrill than being upside down in the Pacific Ocean 1,300 miles off the coast of Chile while the seas around you look like the Rocky Mountains with foam on them? What greater fun can there be than to have a pod of whales nudging the side of your ship in the dark? Who would not yearn for the thrill of seeing a giant ocean liner knifing through the waters and aiming directly for your hull because its radar can't detect your tiny sailer? Naomi James is the only woman ever to sail around the world alone. She broke Sir Francis Chichester's speed record for the same by going from England to England around the great capes in 271 days 19 hours and some minutes. She wasn't exactly alone when she started out She had her black cat, Boris.

But Boris put to sea somewhere in the southern latitudes, probably because he couldn't stand the thought of all that tangy tuna fish out there not in cans. Naomi James was born Naomi Powers on a dairy farm in New Zealand. She was a daydreaming little girl who thought fairy tales were documentaries and the world was full of dashing cavalry captains, fairy princesses and Strauss waltzes. She left the blue-green hills of her native island to migrate to Vienna, a city filled with dashing street car Please Turn to Page 13, Col. 1 JIM MURRAY The Captain There's really nothing wrong with a young woman wanting to take a voyage around the world.

You know how it is, dancing in the ship's salon under the chandeliers nightly, dinner at the captain's table, long romantic walks on the promenade deck, shuffle-board, swimming in the pool, squab under glass and an occasional heave-to off the Greek Isles. Moon over Manakoora. Naples in the sunset. Flowers in the stateroom. Champagne out of a slipper, confetti at the dock, Suez by sunlight The "Love Boat," right? Shipboard romance, right? Moonlight and roses.

Well, Naomi James, age 29, dined at the captain's table every night, all right. She was the captain. She danced a lot She had to dodge the flying tins of food as they cascaded off the shelves when her love boat hit the Roaring Forties. She was also the cook. Her crew was occasionally mutinous.

Her crew was she. The voyage of the SS Express Crusader was as historic as any of Sir Francis Drake's, or even, for that matter, the Titanic's. I mean, how many ocean liners capsize just west of Cape Horn? What fun is it dancing on the waxed floors of a Cunard White Star liner when you can spend the time instead up in the rigging looking for a crack in the mast in heavy weather? Who wants to sit in a steamer chair under a warm rug reading a book when you can be training a flashlight on the bilges to check for leaks while a force-10 gale howls around you? You think the Queen Elizabeth PIRATES LOSE IN 13TH AND RACE GOES TO WIRE It seemed a terrific spot to be in. All the Pittsburgh Pirates had to do to win their sixth National League East title in 11 years was beat the Chicago Cubs twice in Pittsburgh. The Cubs, a team in turmoil even before manager Herman Franks ripped several players when he resigned early in the week, had lost six of their last seven.

But the Pirates couldn't do it. In a game that saw their leader, 38-year-old Willie Stargell, become the goat, the Pirates were beaten in the 13th inning, 7-6, Saturday, sending the race down to the wire-and maybe beyond. With Montreal beating Philadelphia on a pinch single by Dave Cash in the.