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Tough day on fop Surprise! No.3 N. Carolina falls to S. Carolina 3D Surprise! No.6 Iowa knocked off bytMinnesota 8D Surprise! No.1 (Penn State) doesn't lose 1 3D New and improved Giants want to beat a contender 4D 4 Tt alje Atlanta Journal the Atlanta constitution SECTION SUNDAY. OCTOBER 25. 1981 1" Furman Vv KiQhpr Journal Sport Editor (ofe(iji kefi LOS ANGELES illie Randolph, 166, no boomer he, backed Derrel Thomas up to the 385-foot mark in center field at the dimming hour of 5 clock Saturday By Tim Tucker Journal Staff i WHAT BALL, REGGIE? 17D GARVEY AND HIS TEENS BIG PLAYS IN OUTFIELD 170 0 THE SERIES afternoon, and only then could any of the 56,000 in the hysteria of Dodger Stadium be assured it was over.

That the Los Angeles Dodgers had tied the 1981 World Series with the New York Yankees at two games apiece. Even then, after three hours and 32 minutes of "Our Gang" and "Who's on First" baseball; some of the more fearful looked about to check for more. Randolph's drive- was all the park would hold, and there had been a series of other shots similar off Steve Howe that indicated Dodger Stadium had indeed been laid out to a preciseness for Tom Lasorda's relief corps. About three hours previous, Randolph had hit one over the same wall about the same place, and this is not the work of a power merchant The Yankee second baseman had never hit a home run in a World Series before, and had hit two during the season. This one, as it turned out, was only an introduction to a riotous afternoon of fun and frolics at the October follies.

Twenty-seven hits, 15 runs, 10 pitchers one more and they'd have tied a record set by the Cards and Red Sox in 1967 and once more the very average, Dodgers finding another diamond in the garbage. They were behind 4-0 in the third inning. They were behind 6-3 in the sixth inning. Gain a little, lose it back. It was a combination of the same old Dodger problems, the creaking infield and pitching that couldn't hold the "Bad News Bears." Their starter, young Bob Welch, came out of the game before he'd ever been in it officially, one way you look at it.

He never got any of the four batters he faced: A manager can't wait too long in a World Series, and Lasorda waddled out and excused Mr. Welch for thi rest of the afternoon. Once again that old exchange of the itinerant laborers, the migratory entertainer that the player has become, reared its intriguing noggin. You'll recall in New York the seven old National Leaguers in the Yankee lineup at one stage, and the last Dodger World Series Winner pitching against the Dodgers the second game and winning again. This time it was the Dodgers' chapter of old discarded Yankees that fired back.

A benchman, a seldom called-upon jester named Jay Johnstone, who batted only .205 in the season. It was the sixth. All seemed gone. The Yankees led 6-1 One of the Yankee flame-throwers, Ron Davis, was pitching and the other, Goose Gossage, as fearsome appearing as he is famed, was still in the bullpen. The Yankees could make their reservations back to New York Sunday evening, check off one more set of October victims and pack it in.

Mike Scioscia walked, the kid catcher from Penn State. Upon this calm scene strode the blue-eyed Johnstone, a vague remnant in the Yankee memorabilia from the World Series of '78. He pinch-batted twice. Here he was again, and his drive off Davis recharged Los if LOS ANGELES The game had been over for almost an hour, and there still was a look of bewilderment on Steve Gar-vey'sface. "Have you ever seen anything like that?" the Los Angeles Dodgers' first baseman asked, shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders.

"I know we won, but I couldn't begin to reconstruct the pieces. So many things happened. It was the type of game in which you had to keep looking at the scoreboard just to make sure you hadn't missed anything." When turned off late Saturday afternoon, the scoreboard showed the Dodgers beating the New York Yankees 8-7 in action-packed Game Four of the World Series. The Dodgers' win, their second after falling behind 0-2, evened the best-of-. seven series at two games apiece.

Game Five will be played here Sun-' 1 day afternoon (4:30 p.m., Ch. 2 in Atlanta), and regardless of the result, the teams will return to New York for Game Six Tuesday i Saturday's game removed all sense of reason and order from'' this series. This now is an utterly unpredictable and illogi- cal match in which anything absolutely anything might happen next. Game Four was delightful, if only because of its absurdity. Of the 10 pitchers used, only one was moderately There were more high-chop singles than you should see in a week.

There were so many stupid, silly plays by the Yankee outfield that you had to laugh. And so much was lost in the shuffle. But the overriding development was that the Dodgers proved, once again, that they will not be beaten easily. They came from an 0-2 deficit to win the National League West playoffs. They came from 1-2 to win the League Championship Series.

They have come from 0-2 to tie the World Series. And to do that, they had to come from deficits of 4-0 and 6-3 in Saturday's Game four. The Yankees knocked out the 4y A starter, Bob Welch, before he had retired a batter and should have knocked the Dodger team completely out as well. The Yankees led 2-0. in the first, 3-0 In the thin, 4-0 in the fourth.

And, as soon as the resilient Dodgers got within 4-3, the Yankees scored two more runs in the top of the sixth" to take a 6-3 "There were so many times we could have quit so many times that you look back on it and you look at what we did and you almost want to cry," said Tommy Lasorda, the Dodger manager. Going into the bottom of the sixth, the Yankees had the Dodgers right where they wanted them, down 6-3 and facing Ron Davis. Correction. The Yankees thought they had the Dodgers right where they wanted them. The Yankees did not count on Jay Johnstone driving a pinch-hit, two-run homer to right, making it 6-5.

They did not count on right fielder Reggie Jackson mis-playing Davey Lopes' fly ball into a dou- mi The Associated Press 18Di SEE Blsher 18Dt SEE Series, NEW LIFE: Tom Lasorda jumps for joy over Dodgers beating Yankees. il COMPLETE COVERAGE 10D By Sam Heya Constitution Staff Writer ATHENS As is customary when Georgia and Kentucky starving for it It came in the form of a pass from Herschel Walker to Lindsay Scott, except it didn't quite make it to' Scotf. Kerry Baird, who had Scott well covered, intercepted the pass and sent the play back to the playbook, where it belongs. Walker didn't have a great day rushing, either, at least not in relation to his usual, lofty totals. He gained 129 yards, but it took him 33 carries to get them.

He spent too much time looking for openings and running sideways, primarily because his offensive line seldom gave him enough room to run straight ahead. As Walker's coach, Vince Dooley, would say, "Kentucky's defense handled us very well, and their defensive line whipped us most of the For Georgia, quarterback Buck Belue had a good day. He was 12-of-17 for 133 yards against the SEC's top-ranked pass defense. He also ran very effectively when rushed hard by Kentucky. get together to play football and bore you to tears, there was a victory for the Bulldogs, but that's about all.

You could call Georgia's 21-0 victory decisive, or you could call it methodical, but you'd never call it exciting. That's not the 7 style of these two teams. Kentucky comes in fighting and Georgia comes in grinding. They did it again Saturday on a damp, cold San-ford Stadium field, and as a result, their game is a leading nominee for the Southeastern Conference's most boring afternoon for the third straight year. Georgia was just flashy enough to get by how can 12Dt you fault a 21-point victory? and actually had enough SEE Georgia imagination left to give some to Kentucky, which was it 1 Tedni THE MISTAKES CONTINUE 120 By David Journal College Editor i phases of the game in which Tech has played consistently well kicking.

1 Tech survived a blocked Jeff Pierce punt that set Tu-lane up at the Yellow Jacket 15-yard line late in the second quarter, thanks to a timely sack by linebacker Robert Jaracz. That forced the Green Wave to attempt a 40-yard field goal and Tony Wood's kick sailed wide i i'r However, the Yellow Jackets did not survive a fumble by freshman halfback Robert Lavette moments later. The fumble, recovered by Tulane linebacker Jeff Roberts at Tech's 44, led to a one-yard touchdown plunge by Greenie fullback Reggie Reginelli, giving Tulane a 13-0 i 1 ll.rs I 1 NEW ORLEANS The pattern in a 27-10 loss to Tu-lane before 37,431 at the Louisiana Superdome here Saturday night was all too familiar to Georgia Tech head football coach Bill, Curry. 1 "We fought hard but we are not playing smart football," Curry said after watching in horror as his team lost its sixth straight game in a season that started with such hope, the emotional victory over Alabama. The loss dropped Tech's record to 2-15-1 since Curry succeeded Pepper Rodgers after the 1979 season.

Themost glaring errors came in one tne 'ew CALVIN CRUCEThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution SEE Tech 12Dt SPRINGING THE TRAP: Ronnie Stewart (33) levels Kentucky defender and frees Herschel Walker. H' A mkmm Si.