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3 imzm lugaMgg Dayton Daily News Sunday, December 3, 1978 Page 1-1) 'Raid edskiiis, 64-6 Si Burick ers rail Wright St. 61, Miami 63 "1 PF Pis Job security not even assured for some champion managers 4 7 6W neb 7 10 10 2 3 2 0 2 0 41 ORLANDO, FLA. So, as if baseball, especially Cincinnati Reds baseball, hasn't been in the news, upcoming in this town of Disney and 1. -V WRIGHT ST. Carter Schaefer Pinkev Cook Wilson Zimmerman Husiuely Martina Sriivetv TOTALS MIAMI Jones Lanli Brady Goins Dunn Bays Allen Lisath Harkine Wilhitt Sweigert TOTALS FO 1- 5 HI I- I J- I- I- 5 3 4- 10 1 F6 3- 4 J- I- 5- 15 7-12 0- 1- 2 I- 0- 4- 5- 20-M FT 3 7- 4- 4 0- 2- 4- 4- 4 2- 0- 3 M- FT 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 0- -1 9- 0 1- i 0- 2- 2 o- a 0- 2 1- Reft FF Fit 3 4 t.

fc-sae. i si I oranges ana and retired pensioners is a solid week of the same. This is the scene of the annual "winter meetings," which is how this convention of minor and major league baseball executives always, has been described. The firing of Sparky Anderson by the Reds after the best nine-year recordof the 70s in both majors was the main early topic, even beyond the defection of Peter Edward Rose. 1 By HAL McCOY Daily News Sports Writer OXFORD With Jimmie Carter on one team and Steve Allen on the other, one wondered if the Wright State-Miami basketball game Saturday afternoon would be a presidential debate or a comedy routine.

What transpired on a glossy Milieu Assembly Hall floor was no debate. And when it was over, Miami found no humor in it. Wright State, playing basketball since 1970, took a mammoth gulp and swallowed Miami, playing basketball since 1905. THE SCORE WAS 64-63, Miami's first loss to a non-major basketball school since losing to Franklin (Indiana) College during the 1949-50 -708 games ago. Bill Wilson plopped in two free throws swish, swish with four seconds remaining to give Wright State a three-point lead and assure the Raiders their No.

1 victory in history. "We almost beat them last year, but lost by four," said WSU assistant Jim Brown. "That's what scared me. How many opportunities do you get?" Foul-happy Miami gave WSU the opportunity, and the Raiders took charge of the backboards to make it happen WSU's first win over 'i--r 4 Hornsby MaHltme Scerr Miami 34, WrigM SI. It Sheeting Percentages: Miami 44.1, Wright St.

31.1 Technical Feuls: none OtBclaK: Noei Temple, Jim Van oeGrifl Attendance: 4,244. Miami after five defeats. THE RAIDERS were outgoaled, 30-19, but made 26 of 38 at the line to 3 of 9 as the Redskins were whistled for 30 personals. "No excuses and the game was well officiated," said Miami Coach Darrell Hedric. "They kept their poise, we lost ours.

They made the big plays, we didn't." Then displaying the class he always displays, Hedric walked into the Wright State dressing room and delivered a message. 4i So, a man professing shock from another big league organization, also suggested, "On second thought, at least Sparky wasn't pitched after win. ning a pennant. This happened to some others, you know." I hadn't thought about that. The man reached Into his ample memory for some examples.

Proving that he has been around, the first case offered was Rogers Hornsby's, 1926. Hornsby won the pennant as a playing manager for the Cardinals, then led St. Louis to a dramatic World Championship over the Yankees. lateaiaVw4i-i mt Sheoherd'Oaily Newt Sheoherd Oaitv News See WSU, Page 5-D. Skins' Totld (R) makes two Miami's Hetlric makes a jKint cNeese it lye Witt's loss makes title rs cms 4 BW sweet for 1 1uUt- i i lift Viv By GARY NUHN Daily News Sports Writer The University of Dayton Flyers had a tough time most of the first half, but eased into the lead before controlling the second half for an 85-75 basketball victory at UD Arena Saturday night.

The victory was the second in a row for the Flyers, who next play at Eastern Kentucky Monday. Jim Paxson led UD with 31 points after closing the first half with only six points from the field. THE FLYERS LED, 43-41, at the half after trailing most of the way. McNeese rushed to a 12-4 lead as the Flyers began exactly as they had in their opener against Wittenberg uncoordinated. Dayton was 2-for-8 from the field.

Jack Zimmerman was frigid agan from the outside, l-for-5 by the time Coach Don Donoher sent Doug Harris in at 9:58. Dayton chopped the lead to 16-15 once, but McNeese pulled it back to seven at 22-15. UD cut it to 28-27 and McNeese answered again by prying it back to seven, 36-29. Finally, the Flyers came ail the way back. With 1:12 to go, McNeese guard Ray Bag-- gett, nicknamed "Radar" for his outside accuracy, bombed one from 20 feet to give the Cowboys a 4 1 37 advantage.

BY THAT TIME, Dayton had already gone through two centers trying to guard McNeese's 6-10 Dave Lawrence. Richard Montague and George Morrison were both on the UD bench with three fculs and Lawrence was In the game with 16 points, 10 of them free throws. UD's third center, Mike Gorney, hit both ends of a one-and-one to bring the Flyers to within two. i IT iilinllilli1- jA By DAVE LONG Daily News Sports Writer PHENIX CITY, Ala. Baldwin-Wallace defensive tackle Chris Zito just grinned as he held the NCAA Division III national championship football trophy.

"Winning the national title is great," said the 5-10, 195-pound junior from the Cleveland suburb of Fairview Park. "But it means even more because we beat Wittenberg. We're great rivals, and it seems like they're always coming back on 'us. Today they ran out of breaks." Indeed, Zito was right. Wittenberg didn't get any breaks Saturday in a 24-10 loss to Ohio Conference rival Baldwin-Wallace Saturday afternoon, And the Tigers would have needed a great many breaks to beat a splendid BW team in the seventh annual Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl.

THE DIVISION III championship is the first for BW, which finished with an 1 1-0-1 record. Wittenberg, which ended 10-1-1, was looking for its third Division III title in six years. 1 he Tigers took home the championship rings in 1973 and 1975. Baldwin-Wallace totally dominated the game, recovering four of six Wittenberg fumbles and smothering the Tiger offense save one scries late In the game. The game was played before an estimated 6,100 persons on a cold, overcast day.

Over 9,000 tickets had been sold. "They deserved to win it," said Wittenberg Coach Dave Maurer. "They played almost a flawless game and we made the mistakes. We didn't get the breaks we needed and didn't make things happen. They did." BW utilized one big break on the second play of the fourth quarter.

Wittenberg quarterback Chuck Delaney, a junior from Centervilie, dropped back to pass, but fumbled the ball. Zito recovered it on the Wittenberg 44. BW DROVE the 54 yards in six plays with quarterback Joe Surniak scoring his second touchdown of the day on a four-yad run. Tim Robinson's extra point made it 17-3 with 11:43 to play and it appeared the game was over. See BW, Page 6-D.

wepnerilDaay Newi UD PaxfrOH (C), scores in a crowd FG MCNEESE Ross Lawrence Baggell Jones rVatkins Faggi FT 1- 2 (r 0 U-23 2- 2 0-0 -0 i o-1 McKechnie dropped to minors For this, he was traded to the New York Giants for Frankie Frisch. "That created some furor," my old friend laughed. "Hornsby had been given stock in the club by the owner, Sam Breadon. Now it had to be disposed of at a reasonable price. That's when they wrote in a rule that no manager or player could own stock in a ball club.

"Mr. Breadon was the owner of the Pierce Arrow agency in town. His wife drove downtown in her fancy car and it was stoned." Example No. 2 was also from the Cardinals. Bill McKechnie won the pennant in 1928.

The next year he was dropped to the St. Louis farm i Yilub at Rochester. The fact that St. Louis lost the Series to the Yanks in four games presumably was held against Deacon Bill. i For a later example, there was Yogi Berra, whose 1964 Yankee team won 99 games to nose put Chicago, whicM won 98, for the pennant.

But the Yanks lost the Series to St. Louis in seven games and Yogi was sent bye-bye. Know who replaced him? Johnny Keane, the winning Cardinal manager; that's who. Keane said no to Cards Keane had fallen into disfavor with the St. Louis management before the season was over.

Then the Cardinals won the pennant on the last day of the season. After the Series in fact, that day the Cardinals asked Keane to stay. He told them he wasn't interested. He took the Yankee job, left early In 1966, and died in January, 1967. Some suggssted death was the result of a broken heart.

There have been other instances, presumably, but these will do to demonstrate the point that, unlike Vlnce Lombardi's line, winning is not necessarily everything, or the only thing. I researched the firings of past Cincinnati managers. Warren Giles canned Chuck Dressen after the 1937 season, but for logical reasons. He was a loser with a lousy team. The '37 club won 56, lost 98.

Nobody complained. McKechnie replaced Dressen and stayed nine years. He won two pennants and the 1940 World Series. The Reds went to pot during the war years and after. Tebbetts quit after 5 years Giles said he wept when he fired McKechnie.

Bill, a teetotaler, accepted his fate and joined a certain reporter in a drink of brandy. He understood. The Reds hired Johnny Neun, who had worked in a winning system with the Yanks for years, believing some had rubbed off on him. Neun was canned after two losing years. Next, the Reds went to an "alumnus" leader the righthanded pitcher, Bucky Walters.

He failed and Giles confessed crying again when he had to can him. Luke Sewell was hired because he once won a pemnant with the St. Louis Browns. He was a loser; "too nice a guy." Tough guy Rogers Hornsby replaced him as a disciplinarian. He wasn't and was bounced.

Birdie Tebbetts stayed longer than most, five years, then quit without rancor. Mayo Smith replaced him, lasting a half-year. The poor fellow got no respect from the players. Fred Hutchinson's career was interrupted by terminal cancer. Dick Sisler had a contender, failed, and was sacked after a year.

Don Heffner lasted a half-year and ran away from society for a while. Dave Bristol had three winning (but not pennant) years and lost out because he "refused to accept organization suggestions." Then came Sparky for nine seasons with the greatest record ever for a Cincinnati manager. He has gone now, showing no bitterness, taking his pain like the man he is. McRevraUi 1-1 ream TOTALS B-S ll-lf 44 FF Pis 1 3 2 UD's press forced a turnover and Paxson fired from the corner. He missed, closing out a terrible half for him, 3-for-ll.

But Dave Abel grabbed the rebound and hit a turnaround, lean-in 12-footer to tie it at McNeese gave the ball away again, this time on an offensive foul and Zimmerman bombed from 25 feet at 0:04 to give UD the lead. Zimmerman finished the half with 12 point on 6-for-12 shooting despite his bad start. FC 1- 2 4-11 2- 7 1H 13-24 4-6 0- 1 1- 1 1-1 0-1 FT t-2 1- 3 4- 4 frO 5- 0- I 0-0 0- 0 2- 2 1- 2 DAYTON Pontrw Kameclil Momague TJrnnierman Paxson Abel Harris Morrison Gorney Jonnson Lee Team TOTALS HeMftmt Stale 41 SnMtint McNe Si. 11-22 41 25 IS Sctrr Dayion 43, McNeese Percentages: DaylM 41. Ki, 412.

Teclwical FOMUUO-Kamecki. Inside Sports 'Togetherness'' is key Navy rips Army, 28-0 iVum honored RECORD CONTRACT First baseman Dan Driessen signs a club record six-year contract with the Cincinnati Reds, Page 2D. Dayton Daily News sports writer Gary Nuhn has won first, second and third places ROSE AND HORSES Roaming free agent Peie Rose and Pittsburgh Pirate owners meet and talk horses in Lexington. Page 2D. in a national writing contest sponsored by the United States Basketball Writers Association.

Nuhn's story on last year's Mideast Regional finals at UD Arena, in which Kentucky beat Michigan State, was judged first in the morning newspaper category. He also took third in that category PENN STATE NEXT Alabama erases Aur-burn, 34-16, to win the Southeastern Conference crown and set the stage for the big showdown against Penn State in the Sugar Bowl. Page 2D. turned to form and recorded its fourth shutout of the season. That left in question the future of Army Coach Homer Smith, who had saved his job last year with a 17-14 victory over Navy.

"The story Is In the dressing room with the boys, not with my future," said Smith, who had received a one-year contract extension after last year's victory. Smith said that his status "has been talked about too much too soon." For Navy, the future includes a Dec. 22 Holiday Bowl game against Brigham Young at San Diego. "I'm glad we're going to a bowl. It's the first time since 1963, and we should have no trouble getting up for it," said who passed only nine times in Navy's 77 See NAVY'S, Page 5-D.

By FRANK EROWN PHILADELPHIA (AP) Navy Coach George Welsh was very concerned. His Midshipmen had lost three games in a row and the defense after permitting only 35 points In Its first seven games had given up 85 in the last three. "They were down," said Welsh, "but we had good practices and built our togetherness again." That togetherness, combined with an awesome rushing attack and the quarterbacking of Bob Leszczynski, carried Navy to a 28-0 romp over outmanned Army in Saturday's 79th meeting of the armed forces academies. LESZCZYNSKI RUSHED for two short-range scores and set a Navy record with a third-period touchdown toss to Steve Callahan. At the same time, the Navy defense re Nuhn JOHNSON CHAMP Marv Johnson of Indianapolis stops Mate Parlov of Yugoslavia in the tenth round to capture the WBC light heavyweight championship, Page 5D.

for his story on UD's victory over Notre Dame. His story on Notre Dame's regular-season victory over UCLA won second place in the afternoon paper division. The first-place award was Nuhn's third in national contests in the last three years. The two previous years, he won first places In the Golf Writers Association of America contest. KN'IGKT TALKS Reds' utility man Ray Knight oparky Anderson "didn't talk much to the extras." Hal McCoy, Page 3D..