The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 35

San Francisco Examiner Ian. 1, 1978 P0 1 Section J. r- 1 GEftfe upset LSU 'i; -5 Jc -4 1 tCLJW By Glenn Srhwarz Assistant Sports Editor EL PASO, Tex Just getting to a bowl game was not enough for Stanford's football team. Its mission yesterday was to show and tell. "You can compare It to winning the Big Gan.e, but this felt even bigger," said linebacker Gordy Ceresino.

"Sixty million people were watching on national television. I know a lot of them think that Stanford players are intellectual, high-class pussycats, but we showed we can play great football. "With Bill Walsh and his super staff. Stanford football's going to be on the rise." The facts are that at least 30 million fans watched the exuberant Ceresino and his fellow tigers beat Louisiana State, 24-14, In the 4.3rd Sun Bowl. Thus did Stanford's seniors go out on the rise.

And, should the rumors be true and Walsh leave Stanford for a pro job, then the bead coach departed likewise. Ceresino played perhaps bis finest game' for Stanford, making 18 tackles and assisting on four more. But the junior middle linebacker, who was voted the game's most valuable lineman, was no greater than two players performing for the last time in a Cardinal uniform. Quarterback Guy Benjamin completed a Sun Bowl-record 23 of 36 passes for 269 yards and three touchdowns. Two were pitched to James Lofton, the lightning flanker who caught four balls for 79 yards.

The LSU defense, which was used to seeing the ball in the air maybe twice per quarter, trudged off the field slapping its collective helmets. Less predictable than Stanford's offensive air -Turn to Page 2C, Col. 1 y- r- Bears' Breech is hero as West breezes past East Stanford QB Guy Benjamin passes under heavy pressure of LSU's Lyman White By King Thompson Examiner Staff Writer It was supposed to be a battle of quarterbacks, but in the end it was the smallest man on the field who perhaps played the biggest role in the game. Jimmy Breech, the 5 placekicker from the University of California, booted field goals of 47, 41 and 32 yards yesterday as the West downed the East. 23 3, in the 53rd Shrine game before 65,000 fans at Stanford Stadium.

Neither Leamon Hall of Army nor Doug Williams of Grambling played poorly, but they didn't send the fans into paroxysms of ecstacy either. Williams completed 16 of 33 passes for 188 yards and one score, while Hall was 11 of 26 for 174 yards. "It wasn't one of my best games," said Williams, who threw two interceptions. "I've had way better games than today." It wasn't his worst effort, either. Although he, completed less than 50 percent, there was no question that he can throw with just about anybody.

On the first play of the game, Williams heaved the ball 70 yards in the air, Just over the outstretihed arms of Grambling teammate Carlos Pennywell. "He (Wllliamsi was sort of rushing," said Penny-; well, who caught six passes for 63 yards and one TD. "He had a lot of pressure on him most of the day. He played a good game, hut he's played a lot better than he did today. I've seen him just tear some teams apart" Williams may not have been at his best, but Breech was pretty close to his.

He did miss one field goal a 49-yarder in which he slipped on the soggy turf but otherwise he was perfect. His three field goals tied the Shrine record set last -Turn to Page 2C, Col. 4 Meadows harness meeting saved 7 with printing a racing program and the entry of horses on such short notice, Wednesday was the earliest possible time for Starter Gil Thompson to bring the drivers, sulkies and horses behind the mobile starting gate. (More racing, Page 8C). Commissioners instructed both parties to "reach an equitable compromise on respective shares of the new tax revenue as soon as possible." Because of holiday problems That Grambling connection 0 INN.

XWjiASv By Ed Romero Examiner Staff Writer The California Horse Racing Association ended the old year with a license to race and with the California Horse Racing Board's approval to start the New Year with a nine-race harness program Wednesday at 1 p.m. Agreement to get the delayed harness season at Bay Meadows underway after a loss of five racing days was reached yesterday during a five-hour emergency meeting before the CHRB in Sacramento. Loss of five of the originally scheduled 39 days will trim in excess of $200,000 from the state's tax share and more than $150,000 from the horsemens' share of purses. While a referee named by the state's three horse racing commissioners was unable to bring representatives of the Western Stan-dardbred Association and the CHRA to an agreement on the question of purse and new exacta tax percentages, both sides agreed to get back to racing and resolve their problems while harness fans do what they enjoy best. Accor ding to John Jenuine, the CHRA'S director of racing, the harness association responded the board's order "to show cause" under which loss of its license to race was threatened.

After hearing CHRA President William J. Ward's response, the harness group "ordered all charges and all notion of vacting previously allocated racing dates." The question of the division of revenue to be shared by horsemen and the association from the new three percent tax to be added to the exacta takeout which now jumps to 18 percent was discussed for almost four hours without solution. You can stop the Grambling connection occasionally, but' sooner or later It'll burn you. West QB Doug Williams gets! sacked by the East's Lyman Smith of Duke in 2d quarter, left, but below his old Grambling teammate, Carlos Penny-well, is seen clutching the first of two TD passes he caught! from Williams, as the West stars vanquished the East, 23-3. Examiner Lee Romeo Scathing indictment of football by wife who slew ex-Raider Gay Ui By Ewart Rouse Knight Ridder Newspapers CAMDEN, N.J.

"It's a terrible life A player goes through so much, has so much pressure on him to perform, to keep his job, to keep up a front for the public. If I had a son, I'd do everything in my power to stop him from playing football." Roxanne Gay was talking about a subject that she knows first hand the anguish of a football player. More specifically, she was talking about her late husband, former Oakland Raiders and Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Blenda Gay, and how in her view the intense pressure on him to perform had changed him from a gentle, devoted husband and father into a rage-filled man who sought to unleash his tensions by hitting her. She was talking about her fear of this 6-5, 255-pound athlete who wanted so much to be a star and of the emotion-charged confrontations between them that invariably followed each Eagles loss. She was talking about these things in trying to explain how it came about that at age 26, Blenda Gay 4 Ji f- 4 3 tX 2 ended up a year ago lying in a pool of blood in the couple's South Jersey apartment with a slashed throat, with Roxanne Gay accused of her husband's murder.

"I wish it didn't happen that way," she said in an interview in the women's wing of the Camden County prison. "I ish there were some way I could Her voice trailed off and she looked away to hide the hint of tears in her eyes. The case of the government against Roxanne Gay, 26, has aroused much public interest. The fact that her husband was a football player in a country that idolizes football players has made her a somewhat celebrated prisoner in the county jail. The prosecution in the case, which is scheduled for trial on Feb.

27, has portrayed her as a highstrun murderess who callously slit her husband's throat while he lay sleeping in their Gloucester Township, N.J. apartment early on the morning of Dec. 20, 1976. But various feminist groups, including the New-Jersey chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW), have rallied to her defense, contending that hers is a typical case of wife abuse. They hope to use the trial as a means of spotlighting the problem of battered women.

The feminists won her release from prison recently when they posted her bail. After a few weeks of freedom, however, she voluntarily asked the court to revoke her bail and she was put back in jail. Recently hen she again appeared in court to request release on -Turn to Page 8C, Col. 1 If 5 6. i iff I Ex? A Raiders-Broncos playoff, Page 5C.

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