Simpson's Leader-Times from Kittanning, Pennsylvania • Page 9

ildcot Wrestlers Host Kiski Kitt aiming, Kittanning, Pa. Tuatday. OK. City Hope to Find Hospitality on Road Both Kittanning and Ford City are coming off tough losses on the road and are packing up the bags and going traveling once again. When Ford City takes on Ellwood City tonight, it will mark the fourth straight game the Sabers have played away from their Fifth Avenue gymnasium.

After losing at home to Aliquippa two weeks ago, Ford City won a squeaker over North Catholic, blew out Freeport and was nipped by St. Anselin Saturday night. Even Ihough it went down in the books as a loss, the game against St. Anselin had its bright spots, or rather bright spot Dave Lerner. The Sabers 6-4 center is now his team's leading scorer with a 14.1 average, replacing Brian Russell, who led Ford City throughout the early part of the season.

After tonight's game, the Sabers will return home against Hopewell on Dec. 28. Kittanning will have its hands full tonight when it travels to Riverside. Dave Sysyn's club lost its last game on the road against Punxsutawney, G6-65. Counting the previous game against Taylor-Allderdice, the Wildcats have lost two straight after winning their first four of the season.

"Our scouts say a Riverside is the quickest team they've seen all year," Sysyn bemoaned after losing to the Punxsy Chucks. "They're going to be really tough." KUtanning is currently led by Bill Henry, who has a 14 point per game average, but close behind arc Jim Haimlik and surprising sophomore Jim Eraminger, who has scored 31 points in the last two games. i a i returns home against Valley on Dec. 28. Leechburg and Freeport square off for the second time this season, this time at the Yellow Jackets home court.

The first meeting was won by keechburg, 59-54. Freeport is struggling right now. The Yellow Jackets, after beating Worthington 69-66 in the fourth game of the year, got blown out of their next two games against Ford City and Seneca Valley. Rich Hill and Jeff Coward have been doing their share of scoring, for Freeport but the Yellow Jackets have the highest defensive average in the area. Leechburg, on the other hand, is 2-6 on year and has been involved in a number of close games.

Though plagued by injuries, the Blue Devils have two of the too area scorers in Bill Cline and Brian Swartzlander. St. Joseph travels to Shannock Valley in another exhibition game for the Spartans who are coming off a big 16-point win over Slippery Rock. Shannock is currently 4-2 and is starting to put its offensive machine together. John Bodnar is the top Spartan scorer but the emergence of guys like Troy Alwine and Jim Rocco as.

potential scorers has lifted the Shannock offense In the past few games. In another exhibition game, St. Thomas travels to Apollo- Ridge, which has won just one game so far this season. North Clarion visits Redbank Valley in a Clarion County League regular season game. Redbank is looking for its.first win of the season.

The Bulldogs are 0-5 overall and 0-2 in the league. In another Clarion County League game, Union i hosts East Brady. Both teams are ahead of the area field with 5-1 records. And while the Golden Knights are leading the area in offensive average, the Bulldogs of East Brady are a close second. Union has Paul Vidunas and Jeff Harris, number one and two in area scoring.

Vidunas moved from seventh last week to first this week with two incredible scoring games. The 5-9 guard scored 28 points last Tuesday night in Union's 84-60 win over A-C Valley and poured in 23 more against Redbank Valley last Friday night. During the same span, Jeff Harris scored 17 and 21 for the Knights. Also in the top 20 is Jeff Rankin, one of the Golden Knights inside men. Jim Kelly of East Brady is his team's leading scorer and it appears that the Bulldogs will have to go inside in order to take the game away from Union.

In high school wrestling, Kittanning hosts always-tough Kiski Area tonight at 7:30 p.m. The Wildcats were supposfl to get their first test of th? year when they met Franklin- Regional last Friday night. The result was a 37-6 win, much easier than even Rich Boggs expected. But tonight should truly be a Top Scorers has always been a competitive opponent for the Wildcats, too competitive some years. But there's something special about this year's Kittanning wrestling team.

The Wildcats are 2-0 early in Hie Name P. Vidunas, J. Harris, G. Detwiler, R.Hill.F J. Kelley, EB B.

Cline, T. Simpson, EB B. Steffy, D. Lerner, FC B.Henry J. Jones, AR J.

Bodnar, SV J. Rankin, J. Hanulik, J. Coward, K. Bowser, B.

Swartzlander, L. Smith, RV B. Russell, FC D. Rowley, AR D. Murphy, avg.

6 121 20.1 6 113 18.8 8 150 18.7 6 111 18.5 6 109 18.1 7 124 17.7 6 9a 16.5 8 121 15.1 6 83 14.1 6 84 14 7 96 13.7 6 82 13.6 6 81 13.5 6 78 13 6 77 12.8 6 77 12.8 7 87 12.4 5 62 12.4 6 74 12.3 7 83 11.8 8 87 10.8 ai4U vj tonight. Here's how we see picks Team Union East Brady Kittanning Ford City Shannock Valley Leechburg Elderton Freeport Worthington Apollo-Ridge Dayton Redbank mis rvei 5 5 4 4 4 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 Ford City C5, Ellwoorf City 55 Itiverside 70, Kittanning 61 Valley 54, St. Jnsvyli 49 Leechburg 0:1. Freeport 54 Redbank CO, North Clarion 54 St. Thomas 70, Apollo-Ridge 0:1 Union 72, East Brady 66 Wrestling: Kittanning 31.

Kiski 16 Overall Record League Record Off. Def. 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 Avg. 83.3 70.3 68.5 62.8 50.5 49.7 54.7 52.6 50.1 54.2 44.8 53 Avg. 56.3 51.6 50.6 58.6 46.8 58.2 66.5 73.8 62.7 58.8 69.3 66.6 Noll Says Injur ion Just Plain Bad.

PITTSBURGH (UPI) The Pittsburgh 1 running backs will take it easy in practice this week due to injuries, but Coach Chuck Noll says that should only leave them "real fresh" for the game with Oakland on Sunday. When he was through joking with newsmen, however, Noll said the injury situation with Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier "doesn't look good right now it looks bad." Harris has bruised ribs which hurt when he breathes, and Bleier is using a cane because of a sprained right big toe, which he uses to push off on. Frenchy Fuqua has a pulled calf muscle, and rookie Jack Deloplaine definitely is out of the Oakland game due to a sprained knee. That leaves Reggie Harrison as the only really healthy running back. Harris was injured early in the second half of the Steelers' 40-14 victory over the Baltimore Coits Sunday, and Bleier was injured in the first few minutes of the game.

Neither man returned to action after he was injured. In addition, a groin injury which has bothered place- kicker Roy Gerela the past four weeks has been aggravated. Despite all this, Noll said, the team would be ready for the game with the Raiders in Oakland for the American Football Conference championship. "We can make adjustments," he said. The Raiders beat the Stee- lers, 31-28, in a fight-plagued opening game of the 1976 season, but Noll said, "I will not talk to the team about retaliation.

We plan to play football." "We will play the game the way we know how to play it. We don't want to fight," he said. Noll said center Ray Mansfield probably will handle the kickoffs in place of Gerela, who will kick extra points and field goals. Mansfield kicked in the second half of the Baltimore game and was successful on one extra-point attempt. "Once he (Gerela) kicks, he's spent and needs time to rest," Noll said.

Wide receiver Lynn Swann, who was injured in the first Oakland game, will continue to handle punt returns. Noll cited the offensive line and Fuqua for special praise in the Baltimore game. "He (Fuqua) played a fantastic game in spite of a calf muscle," Noll said. "But he probably won't be able to work out much either this week." "We will have a normal week with closed practices," he said. "Our club responds to a crowd, whether it's hostile or friendly.

The crowd gets the team excited. "As far as what we will we may go to a three-receiver offense or use one of our receivers (either Frank Lewis or Theo Bell) as a back." Madden Gives Raiders Message OAKLAND (UPI) After digesting Pittsburgh's surprisingly easy victory over the Baltimore Colts in the American Conference Playoffs, John Madden had a succinct message form's Oakland Raiders. "We've got a lot of work to do," Madden told his team Monday as they began preparing for Sunday's AFC championship game here against the Steelers. "The thing we have to do is play well. It always boils down to fundamentals and execution and that type of thing." Touching momentarily again on the Steelers' 40-14 rorrip, Madden added, "They looked awfully good, didn't they? It looked like they could do anything they wanted to do." Considering that the Raiders squeaked by the New England Patriots, 24-21, Saturday, Pittsburgh has been installed as a three to four-point favorite.

Madden, however, doesn't buy that. "It doesn't mean a thing," he said, adding that playing at home means two things--if one can follow his arithmetic. "It means we have the fans, which is a big part of the advantage because they're super, and we don't have to travel. Other than that, it won't mean anything." i elinemanDave Rowe had shoulder problems and linebacker Monte Johnson sustained an el bow. dislocation, but both are expected to be readybygame-time.

HONORED SABER--Ex-Ford City High School basketball standout Charlie Schmaus (right) receives a citation commemorating his induction into the Sports Hall of Fame at Virginia Military Institute where he was graduated in 1967. Schmaus, who is in his first year as head coach at VAAI, was the Keydets all-time leading scorer and Helms All- America selection ten years ago. Majors Selected PITTSBURGH (UPI) -Johnny Majors, who guided undefeated and top-ranked Pitt to the pinnacle of success was selected United Press International's college football of Year. SMajors chosen by a UPI panel of sports writers. "I'm very honored by this.

It's a pleasure for me to accept it," he said. But Majors, who led the Pitt Panthers out of the doldrums four years ago to the Sugar Bowl against Georgia on New Year's Day, and a possible national championship, said he wanted to share the honor. "I'd like to share this with a lot of people," he said. "You know, it was so gratifying this season to see the joy the players, the fans, the school got out of winning. This is a great program here now.

It will win some more, too. But to see them enjoy JOHNNY i winning so much, it's one of the rewards of this job." Now Majors has his mind only on the Sugar Bowl, where the Panthers (11-0) will play for him for the last time before he takes over as head coach at his alma mater, the University of Tennessee, Jan. 2. Majors, who led Pitt to regular-season records of 64-1, 7-4 and 8-4 after taking over a 1-10 team four years ago, said the Panther- program will not falter because he is leaving. "Well, this will be a fine football team next year," he said, "We're (Pitt) not gonna fold our tent, because we have some of the finest players that have ever played here coming back.

"Look at the quarterback, Matt Cavanaugh--he could be an All-America," he continued. "And Randy Holloway--next year he's gonna be the finest lineman they've ever seen around here, no question about 'it. There are a lot of others, too. This is a very fine football team." There's Just No Getting Away From Prejudice By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor NEW YORK (UPI) What constitutes prejudice? People hear the word and automatically associate it with race or religion. But prejudice can pertain to many other things.

The general definition is preconceived judgment or opin- ion, about anything, and in that context, I confess I'm guilty of prejudice every time I'm asked to vote for my selections for Baseball's Hall of Fame. Now I know I'm not supposed to allow my personal feelings to get the way. All-I'm being asked to do by Baseball Writers' Association of America Gay Stabbed to Death Authorities Hold Wife Colts Still Feel BALTIMORE (UPI) Colt linebacker Stan White minced no words about how badly the Steelers beat Baltimore in Sunday's 40-14 pasting. "This is the worst defeat I've ever playing in," said a White. "I feel thoroughly beaten." The Colts' humiliation before their hometown fans came as a surprise to many, including the Colts, who had lost last year to Pittsburgh 28-10 in a first round playoff game and were thought to have a good chance at winning this year's rematch.

"I had no inkling it would be like this," said wide receiver Glenn Doughty. "I thought it would be a dogfight, 21-17 or 1710, decided by a break. But never a blowout." But a blowout it was, and it all started with the third play of the game. With third down and eight yards to go for a first down, 1 quarterback Terry Bradshaw hit Frank on a 76-yard bomb as easily outraced Colt fety Jackie Wallace. Colt Coach Ted Marchibroda, in an uncharacteristic move, benched Wallace and inserted Bryant Salter as safety.

"There's no point in going into a discussion on that," said Marchibroda. "Whether Wallace or Salter was in there, it had no bearing on the outcome." But it did have a bearing on how the Colts played the game, according to White. "We were terribly excited at the start. Then the bomb exploded on us and we didn't recover," he said. "We were really smoking after those first three plays," White said.

"Then, the bomb. That was a long 70 yards to walk down field for the extra point. It seemed like 200 yards." The Colt linebacker added, "We just didn't come up with the effort needed to recover from that opening bomb." While the Colts were trying to overcome their shell shock, the Steelers took advantage, scor- ing five times three touchdowns and two field goals of the six times they got the ball in the first half to take an overwhelming 20-7 lead. Overall, the Steelers piled up 526 total yards, including 301 in the air. Bradshaw hit 14 of 28 passes for 264 yards before coming out late in the game.

"We didn't give ourselves a chance to said Marchi- broda. "We were never in it. I thought the team was ready to play, but we couldn't get into our game plan. BLACKWOOD, N.J. (UPI) -The wife of Philadelphia Eagles' defensive lineman Blenda Gay is being held on $100,000 bail on charges of stabbing her husband to death with a kitchen knife while their 3-year-old daughter slept nearby.

Police said Roxanne Gay, 26, was charged with murder and atrocious assault and battery just a few hours after her husband was stabbed in the throat and died at John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in nearby Stratford early Monday. The couple's ground-floor apartment showed signs of a struggle, including overturned furniture and large blood stains in the foyer and the steps. Camden County Prosecutor Thomas Shusted said the Gays' daughter, Fonda, slept in their S260-a-month garden apartment during the argument. Friends of Gay, a 255-pound veteran of-three years in the National Football League, said they were unaware of any domestic problems that might have led to the stabbing.

"He always seemed to be with his family," said a spokesman for the Eagles, who first signed the Fayetteville (N.C.) State graduate during training camp last year. Gay moved from the Oakland Raiders to the San Diego Charges and then to the New York Jets since he entered the league in 1973. He finally earned a starting berth on the Eagles. Coach Dick Vermeil described Gay as a "hardworking guy who was very much respected among the squad. He was a very warm person.

He gave a lot. It's just a shock." is vote for anywhere from one to 10 candidates I feel should be elected, but how would it be humanly possible for me or anybody else to vote for anyone without this preconceived judgment or opinion? -Prejudice has come to be a dirty word truth is nobody really ree from it. Everybody is irejudiced in some way or to some degree, whether he admits it or not. Put simply, I'm prejudiced in behalf of practically all 34 candidates eligible for the 1977 Hall of Fame election. I've seen them all play baseball, on good days and bad, and most them are personal friends.

Still I try not not to let that influence me more than I can help. The 1977 list of eligibles for the Hall of Fame is in front of me now and there are any number of candidates I'm tempted to vote for. Men like Don Drysdale, George Kell, Mickey Vernon, Harvey Kuenn, Vic Wertz, Roger Man's, Bill White, Ted Kluszewski, Elston Howard, Don Larsen, Walker Cooper, Alvin Dark, Dick Groat, Bobby Thomson, Richie Ashbum, Camilo Pascual and the late Gil Hodges. Frankly, I'm tempted to vote for as many as I can, all of them if I could, but I won't because in my heart, as well as in my judgment, I. don't honestly believe they are Hall of Famers.

I could easily be wrong--I haven't made a mistake in the last 30 seconds-but this is my feeling and, I'm stuck with it. Those I feel should be elected to the Hall of Fame next month are Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, the late Nellie Fox, Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider, and they are the five I'm voting for. It bathers me to leave off fine candidates like Kuenn, Vernon, Kell, Drysdale and Hodges because I'm completely familiar with all their credentials and I know an excellent case can be made for each of them. The voting rules do not define what constitutes a legitimate Hall of Famer. In one sense that's good because it gives the voter ample latitude to exercise his judgement.

In another sense it's not good because. some voters feel they need more guidelines to make a proper judgment. Ernie Banks is one of those appearing on the ballot this year for the first time. His 1,636 RBIs total more than any other candidate on the list and the only other eligible, who hit as many homers as he did, is Eddie Mathews. Both finished Only eight players have hit that many and five already are in Hall Fame, so that gives you some idea of the achievement.

Banks had 2,583 hits and Mathews 2,315, and there is no cpiestion in my mind that both belong in Cooperstown. Nobody among the present eligibles had more base hits than Nellie Fox. He had 2,663. Would you believe he had even more than Ted Williams'? He did, but that's not the reason he gets my vote. One of the reasons he does is because he got more out of his limited ability than any other ballplayer I can think of.

He made himself into a standout, the same way Rogers Hornsby diH. For years, every time you thought of the Chicago White Sox, you automatically thought of Nellie Fox. The records of Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider stand up to any inspection. To appreciate them to their fullest, though, you had to see them play. What a treat you missed if you never did.

Jefferson Street joe Appeals Prison Order NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) Street" Joe Gilliam, who started at quarterback as recently as three years ago for the Pittsburgh Steelers, has appealed an order that he serve 45 days in prison for parole violation in connection with an arrest on narcotics and weapon charges. GiHiam, placed on waivers by the Steelers earlier this year, was released after posting bond totaling $6,000. He was arrested and charged Saturday night with possession of a controlled substance for resale. Police said he had a quarter of an ounce of heroin.

Gilliam, who played his college ball at Tennessee State University in Nashville, waived a preliminary hearing on the heroin charge Monday before General Sessions Court Judge Lester Mondelli. He posted $5,000 bond on that charge and $1,000 for appeal of a 45-day sentence for violating probation. Earlier this year, Gilliam was convicted of a cocaine and weapon possession charges and placed on probation. General Sessions Court Judge Hamilton Gayden, who heard the cocaine and weaixm possession case, ordered him to serve a 45-day sentence for violating terms of his parole in that case. FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY 12 EXPOSURES only 2" 20 EXPOSURES only 3" DOES NOT INCLUDE FOREIGN FILM OFFER EXPIRES JANUARY 9, 1977 HILAND PHARMACY M.R.

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