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02 Genuine Risk retires 3 Weekend college preview 4 Briefs 6 Inside Football FRIDAY, SEPT. 4, 1981 THE In all, 13 new faces dot Don Coryell's '81 roster for season opener BOB GREGOR land, will get his chance to play when the Chargers need to bang out a yard for a first down or touchdown. DWIGHT SCALES WIDE RECEIVER You cant help but admire Scales determination. After playing three seasons with the Rams and one with the Giants, Scales was waived by New York last year and was out of football. He made an impression on the Chargers, though, catching 10 passes for 259 yards in the pre-season.

He will start in John Jeffersons spot at wide receiver. PETE HOLOHAN TIGHT END The Chargers went with two tight ends last year and it hurt them. Holohan, a seventh round draft pick out of Notre Dame, is the No. 3 tight end this season, but he will get a chance to play. He may Join Sievers and No.

1 tight end Kellen Winslow to block on short-yardage downs. But, Holohan is also the Chargers insurance plan in case Winslow is hurt. BILLY BROOKS WIDE RECEIVER In a little more than three seasons in the NFL with Cincinnati, Brooks has 93 catches for 1,683 yards. He missed most of the 79 season and all of 80 with a severe knee injury, though. Hes healthy now, however, and was spectacular in the pre-season, catching 11 balls for 314 yards.

The Chargers got him on waivers from the Bengals last year. GEORGE ROBERTS PUNTER All through the pre-season the Chargers searched for a punter. At the end of the exhibition games, all the men who had been brought to camp were found to be wanting and the Chargers traded a sixth round draft pick to Miami for Roberts. He averaged 42.6 yards on 77 punts last year. Thats better than any Chargers punter since Dennis Partee averaged 43.5 in 1971.

The 13 new players had to take the place 13 old players. Here are the moves the Chargers made in order to accommodate the new players on the roster: DAN AUDICX OFFENSIVE LINEMAN was traded to San Francisco for a third round draft pick. GREGG McCRARY TIGHT END was traded to Washington for a draft pick. JOHN JEFFERSON WIDE RECEIVER is holding out in a contract dispute with management. JOHN FLOYD WIDE RECEIVER was traded to Washington for a conditional draft pick.

He was released by Washington, but signed with St. Louis. BOOKER RUSSELL RUNNING BACK was traded to Philadelphia for a conditional draft pick, but was later waived by the Chargers after failing to go to the Eagles. MIKE THOMAS RUNNING BACK was waived. JOHN LEE DEFENSIVE LINEMAN is on the injured reserve list.

WILBUR YOUNG DEFENSIVE LINEMAN was traded to Washington for offensive lineman Williams. MTiCTC FULLER DEFENSIVE BACK was waived and later claimed by Cincinnati CHARLES DeJURNETT DEFENSIVE LINEMAN is on the injured reserve list JOHN LEE DEFENSIVE LINEMAN is on the injured reserve list CARL McGEE LINEBACKER was waived. HAL STRINGERT DEFENSIVE BACK was waived. GLEN EDWARDS DEFENSIVE BACK was waived. SCOTT PERRY DEFENSIVE BACK was waived.

In addition, the Chargers traded kicker Mike Wood, who was on the injured reserve list last season, to Baltimore for a sixth round draft pick. By JOHN MAFFEI T-A Sports Editor SAN DIEGO With NFL training camps finally shut down, the pre-season games ever at last and the countdown underway for Mondays opener between the San Diego Chargers and Cleveland Browns, its time to review San Diegos player moves. The Chargers will open the 1981 season with 13 players who were not on the teams active roster last year. Thats not a team record, but it is a high turnover in personnel for a championship caliber team. Here is a look at the new Chargers: JAMES BROOKS RUNNING BACK Brooks played collegia tely at Auburn and was the clubs first round draft pick in 81.

Hell be used mainly on long-yardage situations as both a running back and pass receiver. He is also the top punt and kick returner. IRVIN PHILLIPS DEFENSIVE BACK Phillips played at Arkansas Tech last season and was San Diegos third round draft selection. He will play some at corner when the Chargers are in their long-yardage defense. WYATT HENDERSON DEFENSIVE BACK A year ago, Henderson was in the Rams camp as a wide receiver.

He was later cut and signed with San Diego where he was shifted to cornerback. He has also played safety and wide receiver for the Chargers in the pre-season. Monday will be his first regular-season game in the NFL. He played his college ball at Fresno State. BOB GREGOR DEFENSIVE BACK Last year Gregor spent the season on the Chargers injured reserve squad with shoulder and ankle injuries.

This year he could start against Cleveland at free safety. He has never played in an NFL regular-season game. He was a fourth round draft pick out of Washington State in 1980. DON REESE DEFENSIVE LINEMAN Here is a man who has been at the top and the bottom in the NFL. Originally a first round draft pick of the Miami Dolphins in 1974, Reese later spent a year in Jail on drug charges.

He spent the last three seasons with the New Orleans Saints after his release, but was waived by New Orleans at the end of the 80 season. The Chargers signed him as a free agent in the off-season. With only six defensive lineman on the roster for Mondays game, Reese is a valuable mag because he has played both tackle and end in his career. JEFF WILLIAMS OFFENSIVE LINEMAN The Chargers traded defensive end Wilbur Young to the Washington Redsksins in order to obtain Williams. As a member of the Redsksins, Williams started 38 of the last 39 games at either guard or tackle.

He is listed as a backup to Ed White at right guard on the San Diego roster. KEITH FERGUSON DEFENSIVE END It appeared from the time be was drafted that Ferguson had a chance to make the San Diego team. He was taken on the fifth round of the 81 draft as a linebacker, but the Chargers had no intention of playing him there. He is one of only two defensive line reserves for Mondays game. Ferguson played his college ball at Ohio State.

SAM CLAPHAN OFFENSIVE LINEMAN Cla-phan is no stranger to the Cleveland Browns. In 79 he was Clevelands second round draft pick. He spent that season on the injured reserve list, but was released by the Browns in the 1980 pre-season. He was out of football last year, but won a Job with the Chargers as a backup to Billy Shields at left tackle. Claphan has never played in a regular-season NFL game.

ERIC SIEVERS TIGHT END Last year the Chargers felt they lacked some blockers on short-yardage situations. Sievers, a fourth round draft pick out of Mary JAMES BROOKS (With hand raised) What's happened to the Lumber Padres. Then well be playing within our division, which will help. Meanwhile, despite the losses and despite the doubts, the mood on this team remains the same as it always has, which in a word, is light. The Pirates are the Pirates, said Bill Robinson.

The mood is still the same. We play our music before the game and we talk our mess, which is loud. If you hadnt read a paper youd think they were five games in first, said a Buc official. Minutes later Parker came walking around a corner talking to no one in particular. Who they going to trade me to today? one of the best players in the game, he said.

When youre playing, piped in another Buc. And so it goes for Pittsburgh in 81. Lots of humor and too few wins. rate, the Pirates figured the loan would cost them $2.6 million. That same day reliever Grant Jackson was traded to Montreal for a player to be named later or cash.

And its not exactly a well-kept secret that the Bucs are shopping Parker around. Observing the trades and rumored trades, Bill Madlock, the Bucs third baseman and the leagues leading hitter, said it appeared Pirate management was writing off 1981 and building toward the future. Not so, said Tanner. The manager pointed out that the Bucs almost made up 12Vi games in the final month of 1978 before falling Just short of Philadelphia. If we can go home five games out I think we can win it, said Tanner, whose club returns to Pittsburgh after its four-game series with the Less than two weeks later, Dave Parker jammed his throwing thumb while trying to make a catch.

Parker made his first start in nine days two nights ago against the Dodgers. He went one-for-three, but had to be taken out of the game and yesterday he said he thought the thumb was broken and that he wouldnt be able to play again this year. Even before the injury Parker was suffering from bruised stats. A .314 career hitter going into this season, Parkers presently hitting .251. Reliever Enrique Romo, the team leader in saves with nine, was put on the disabled list the day Robinson came off the list.

Romos infirmity was a sore shoulder. The injuries were just a carryover from the first half when Stargell, Phil Garner, Parker and Bill Robinson all spent time of the disabled list. Its been rediculous, said Bill Robinson, who was sidelined until the second half because of an Achilles operation. Tanner wont use the injuries as an alibi though. I dont like excuses, he said.

Whcevers out there has to perform. When you lose, you lose and when you win, you win. The other team has been better than us 17 times and weve been better eight times. Thats what it comes down to. Were Just going through what every club goes through, said Stargell.

What the Pirates are going through i right now, it would appear, is a acel-" ift- Three days ago. Gamer, the teams starting second baseman the past five years, was traded to Hous-' ton for a minor leaguer and two players to be named later. Gamer was eligible to become a free agent at the end of the season. The Pirates tried to sign him, but were unable to. Among Gamers requests was an interest-free $1 million loan, not to be paid back for five years.

Given todays 20 percent interest ByDGNNORCROSS T-A Sports Writer SAN DIEGO Hey. you. over there at the bottom of the National Leagues Eastern Division. Arent you the Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1979 world champion Pittsburgh Pirates? Yeah, thats them alright, eight games behind first place St Louis with an 8-17 record, worst in all of baseball right now, except for you know who, the 7-18 San Diego Padres. How, did the We Are Family Bucs get there? Chuck Tanner, their polite manager, said theyve worked very hard at it.

Were right where we should be, said Tanner. We Just havent played good baseball. We havent hit it, we havent caught it, we havent pitched it But as much as anything we havent played well enough defensively in the second half. Its the weakest defense weve played since Ive been here. Before slugging their way past the Padres yesterday, 7-1, with their 15 hits the Bucs actually looked like the Lumber Co.

of old, Pittsburgh had lost nine of its last 10 games. During that skid the team was out-scored, 64-30, and had made 18 errors. But not only have the Pirates been bad, theyve unlucky as well. Injuries have hit this team harder than the Pittsburgh Steelers. Consider the following: Four days before the start of the second season Don Robinson suffered cuts on two his pitching fingers in an automobile accident.

He had to be placed on the 21-day disabled list. In the teams first series of the second half captain Willie Stargell who played very little the first half because of aq arthritic knee, suffered a bruised heel. He was put in a cast for a week to immobilize the foot and hasnt start-' ed since, having made' just a couple of pinch-hit appearances. Stargell has now been to the plate only 51 times this year. El Tiante gets his first NL victory at Padres' expense ing the Padres four-game winning streak.

Tiant began the 1981 season at Portland of the Pacific Coast League and was called up by the Pirates on Aug. 11. After 16 years in the American League, where he posted 225 victories and three 20-win seasons, he began his National League career with three consecutive losses. I think I could help the Pirates if they give me a chance, but they have to make up their mind. Manager Chuck Tanner, jubilant after the injury-riddled Pirates second victory in 11 games, was noncommittal.

He pitched well, but were going to wait until the end of the seson before we make an evaluation, said Tanner. SAN DIEGO (AP) At age 40, Luis Tiant is a realist. He sees the youth movement in the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse and knows what it will take to weather it. When youre my age, you either win or you go home, said the veteran right-hander after registering his first National League victory a 7-3 triumph over the San Diego Padres yesterday. Scattering five hits over five innings, Tiant was a big league winner for the first time since Sept.

24, 1980, when he was with the New York Yankees. I felt like I was never going to win one. We havent been scoring any runs lately, but today we made the hits count, said Tiant, 1-3, after end Associated Press Photo Luis Tiant winds up on way to his first win in the NL.