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1 ense ajors BY JIMMY SMYTH 1 Executive Sports Editor KNOXVILLE (or lack of it) still bothers head coach Johnny Majors as the 1978 football season approaches 5 The Volunteer defense great last season as Tennessee posted a 4-7 the first losing season for a Big Orange gridiron outfit in 13 years Majors mentioned the Vol defense here yesterday on Press and Picture Day prior to the concentrated three weeks of work before the Vols take on dangerous UCLA at 7 30 pm on Sept 16 in Neyland Stadium And the fact that the toughness of the- schedule is also on Johnny's mind was shown by his reference to two of the next four foes he Auburn (Sept 30 in Birmingham) and Alabama (Oct 21 in Knoxville) And of course defending national champion Notre Dame on down the line Nov 11 in South Bend Ind The Vol defense seemed improved the latter part of the 1977 campaign particularly against Kentucky and Vanderbilt However the Vols lost such standouts as Danny Jenkins of Elizabethton Greg Jones of Bristol and David Barron of a tackle linebacker and end like very much to still have around this their charges on the artificial four opponents' passes broken turf of Neyland Stadium for up pictures and interviews Clark Ikmcan sophomore defensive bock from Unicoi County High School echoed the optimism radiating from this squad feels real good about this Duncan said as be made the rounds from one photo session to another think the spirit is there and we're hopeful of having a good Duncan as a freshman made a solid contribution last season including 13 tackles and four assists plus an interception a fumble recovery and If the defense poses a problem the offense helps the sometimes pessimistic Majors smile a little Jimmy Streater is returning at quarterback with every indication that the 161-pound junior from Sylva is being depended upon heavily this season When it was mentioned that Streater might be injured and need a replacement Majors all but groaned but regained his conwosure to (See Vols page 36) Although Majors never claimed greatness for the Vol defense in 1977 he did feel that people like Jenkins Jones and Barron provided great leadership that kept the season from being more disastrous than it was Following a press conference at Stokely Center yesterday the Vol coaches assembled Sports JOHNSON Sports uiuat tue utAki MAUif iraiAisi lil I unw WHAT non I Will THC KNOW MUST THtM SUNDAY AUGUST 27 1978 Yarborough wins Volunteer BY JIMMY SMYTH seeking an unprecedented four-Executive Sports Editor th victory on Labor Day in the BRISTOL Cale Yar- Southern 500 at Darlington borough driving an Old- Cale explained that he is one of smobile successfully defended three drivers to wm three Clark Duncan seeking to have big year with Tennessee Vols The capacity crowd Public Relations Director Ed Clark announced 30000 was treated to spin out after spin out dunng the first two-thirds of the 500 lapper There were 10 caution flags covering some 70 laps dunng the first 330 laps True to the demanding past of the 533 high-banked short-turned oval relief dnvers were changes like Buddy Baker for Benny Parsons Lenme Pond for Richard Petty among others After the top five finishers came Richard Childress in sixth place and Dave Marcis seventh Childress was dnving an Olds and Marcis a Chevrolet Parsons and Waltnp drove Chevrolets and Brooks a Mercury There were 16 lead changes among seven drivers in the 2665 run with the temperature cooling to a 69 degrees at the finish of the race Yarborough took the lead for keeps at the 302nd lap and held it for the remaining distance For winning the race Yarborough took home a check for 61301000 The win also put Yarborough off to a good start on the third and final leg of the National points chase as he gathered 185 points at the beguihing of the last leg lap for the second cuation 69 laps later Four yellow flags followed with even more frequency Pole winner troubles started on the third when Waltrip spun in the No 2 turn When Pond tned to dodge lum they tangled briefly and Pond spunt out too Later Pond described the accident in more detail had a tire going down the first time and I spunt out in the third turn Darrell and I had touched before then but he didn't cause me to spin out1 1 expected them to throw the cuation but they didn't really messed me up was when I came off No 4 Cecil Gordon didn't see men and he put me up on the wall on the front grandstand Then Darrell and I tangled in the second turn I reckon the times at the stoned old track in South Carolina After Yarborough and Parsons the finish Waltnp Dick Brooks and Petty com- pleted the top five Yarborough said he very hard dunng the and wondered aloud what the 500 laps would have been like on a usual hot afternoon here ui Bristol Asked how he can go without a relief driver When so many other drivers here call for help Yarborough quipped was just an old plow boy Cardinals sweep pair from Braves 3-1 5-4 his Volunteer 500 title here last night at Bristol International Raceway beating Benny Parsons In the 18th running of the event Hie 38-year-old Yarborough averaged 88 628 miles per hour in warning the his fifth victory in the last six starts here at BIR Yarborough won four consecutive races here before Darrell Waltnp took the spring Southeastern 500 In victory circle later Yarborough praised the Junior Johnson crew doing a fantastic and said he was Bill Green in his first appearance on a track in two years brought out an initial caution on the second lap when a nght real tire blew on his Chevrolet coming off the second turn Darrell Waltrip spun on the front straight-a-way and lost a on five bases on balls and an Infield hit the two teams settled down with no threats until Johnson City's seventh Then Jeff Gowan led off with a walk stolesecond base and took third on a wild pitch by By DON ARCHER Sports writer The strategy was sound It just didn't work After all Kingsport manager Eddie Haas wasn't figuring on a balk throw to third in an attempt to pick off Hickman But he didn't throw Balk Hickman romped home with the winning run to give the Cards a sweep of the doublcheader The Cardinals had taken a 1 lead in the second and third behind the mules and used to going the eagerly looking forward s'-s-iA Brave reliever TomRandolph balked in the winning run-in (Siwan holding afEveren rtiiw artvAAffisfhomei-the bottom of the seventh Haas ordered Randolph in the second Kelly Miller also" to intentionally walk Jim Hickman and Richard Murray The strategy looked good when speedy Gotay Mills hit a one-hopper to Randolph who threw Gowan out at home on a force play But then with David Kable pinch-hitting for Claudio Brito Randolph made his mistake' He went into his stretch looked home and started to inning of the second game as surging Johnson City crept to within a percentage point of second place in the Appalachian League The Cardinals won Saturday night's first game 3-1 and then used the balk to take the second 5-4 before 625 fans at Cardinal Park After Kingsport tied the second game 4-4 the fourth had a run-scoring single In that inning and Brito brought in a run In the third with a-sacnfice fly Kingsport's first Tun came in the first Inning when Ron Rudd singled stole second and came all the way home on catcher Jose Caraballo's overthrow Dennis Cadowski and Mark David teamed up to hold the (See Cardinals page 36) i Klnospart (1) Rudd If Scanlon 2b- VArgus cl lemrv Atfefmy lb bl 4 0 0 0 10! 0 40 0 4 0 0 0 300 0 lilt JO 0 Twins edge past Paintsville 3-1 Loom rf Lowe dh Matthews 3b Baldwin Millar Totals Jahnsan City (3) lilt I 3 I ab no too 0 2 110 3 110 3 0 1-2 300 0 30 2 1 3 0 0 0 Smith 2t Gowan If HIcK! rf Hickman lb Muellar Murray 3b Mill! cf Taeda tfh Millar at Total! 3c ora by Inning! Kingsport 201 0 22 30 3 000 100 0-1 000 003 11-3 Johnson City Kin LOS wall had to park the car because of the damage under the car after I got up on the Most of the drivers quened said the lights did not create any problems Pond said could see alright but the biggest problem was so many cars were so awfully -Richard Childress was running third and in the same lap with the leaders when he made an unscheduled pit stop before the 10th caution McDuffie the fifth fastest qualifier had some blistered tires earlier in the race that threw him behind Petty needed relief primarily because of a rib rnjury suffered last week at Michigan International After Pond parked his car he gave Petty relief The Chevrolet-driving Petty stuck out his tongue and grabbed his side as he emerged from the vehicle I'm going back into' the and he did Petty was also complimentary of the lights real good he says" Under the Ferrell Harris cuation Petty replaced Pond in the No 43 Chevy Petty was in the same lap with the leaders when he was relieved by Pond lost a lap on the Pond said seat was hurting my side but the real reason is that the brakes went down I want to take any chances in Richard's There were some good racing match-ups sprinkled among the numerous caution flags with defending champion Yarborough and Waltrip and Pond and Waltrip in some duels during the first 100 laps Parsons soon got Into the thick of the action leading at the 300-lap mark followed by Yarborough Childress Dick Brooks and Petty but the Ellerbe driver lost the lead six laps when Yarborough passed him on the track cw- no wort 9 Johnson City DP Johneon City I Ktngiport 1 2B turned out to be the winning run Elizabethton scored another run in the fourth on a walk to Alex Dovalis a walk to Bo Holden a wild pitch and Joe Jfirver's infield hit that plated Dovalis Bruce Haines executive vice president of the Minnesota Twins watched the game Robbie Howard of Erwin played second base for the Hilanders but went hitless in four times at bat The third game of the series is tonight at 8 30 Mtttiltr HR Lowa SB Smith ip ar bb ta 1 13 3 2 33140 lit Ryan (U Gora Gadowtki W) David By HENRY JENKINS Managing Sports Editor ELIZABETHTON The Elizabethton Twins rode the five-hit 13-strikeout performance of Ken Angulo and the home run bats of Paul Croft and Ron Grout to a well-played 3-1 Appalachian Summer A League victory over the Paintsville Hilanders here Saturday night at Riverside Park Angulo recording his eighth victory of the season made one mistake and that was serving up a home run to Frank Williams his first of the season in the second inning He struck out the side in the bottom of the ninth and whiffed eight of the last 17 batters he faced 00 0 1 0 1 22 HBP by Gadowskl (Lowe) I Spinout SBCOND OAMI Speedway Both cars survived the action and continued racing (Staff photo by Alan Broyles) Dave Marcis (2) and Benny Parsons (72) tangle in turn three to bring out the fourth cuation during Saturday actionpacked Volunteer 500 at the Bristol International PabitsWIla AB 3 Irwin clings to Classic lead 4WAi If 4 i I I i Gat! rf Howard 2b Kokas 3b Locklear 1b Chantflar Ob Dixon cf Cadahia Williams lb Wiibui cf Rodriguez Totals liiusibba Paintsville righthander John Chowin pitched well also by limiting the wins to just four bits walked four and struck out four AB 3 4 PINEHURST (AP) -Defending champion Hale Irwin had to fire a 2-under-par 69 Saturday to hold off Tom charge and retain a 1-stroke lead the third round of the 6250000 Hall of Fame Golf Score by innings Kingsport Johnson City CAroballo 100 300 03! 000 )- Adeimy LOB Watson gunning his fourth victory of the year and the leading money-winning spot had a second consecutive TENNESSEE GOLFERS Gibby Gilbert 67-77-69-213 Greg Powers Lou Graham 74-70-78-22 Skeeter Heath 76-72-79-227 67 including a 30-foot birdie putt on the final hole He was a angle shot back at 206 made everything I looked Watson said Kite put on a birdie-birdie-birdie finish for a 70 that left him in strong title-contention at 207 only 2 back going into Sunday's final round of the chase for a 650000 first prize being almost out of contention I put myself right back in Kite said It was another 3 shots back to Curtis Strange in fourth at 210 after a 69 Howard Twitty had 73-211 and Bill Kratzert and Jerry Pate at 212 were the only others under par after three trips over the famed old course in the Carolina sandhill country Pate had a third-round 72 while Kratzert closed up with a 67 Arnold Palmer shot 69-215 Irwin who had taken the lead Friday with a brilliant 63 bogeyed two of his first four holes a id had to birdie the seventh to regam a share of the lead put myself against the wall with that kind of a start but fortunately everyone else was making bogeys then Kingsport 7 Johnson City 9 Kingsport 2 2B Harris Miller Mill! I DP Cannon cf Taiver If Nelson 3b Grout tb Beoitet 2b Croft rf Dovalis 0h Brannecka ss Holden Totals Scora by innings Pamtsvttla EMzabattitafi til 0a-4 Nonas Rodriguez Paintv viile 9 Elizabethton i DP Paints villa HR Williams Croft Grout IP SR BB SS Chow in (L 5 2) 1 4 3 3 4 4 Chowin (L 5 2) 143344 Anguto IWI4) Mil 13 WP Chowin 2 10 a S34 first home run since returning to the Twins came in the second inning and tied the game at 1-1 and Grout playing before his parents Mr and Mrs Don Grout of Winston-Salem and his girl fnend fouled off five pitches on a 2-2 count and ripped his ninth homer over the left field fence in the fourth inning It Irwin tied first by Tom Kite and later by Watson in the hot humid weather birdied two of his last three holes for a 54-hole total of 205 8 shots under par on the famed No 2 course at the Pmehurst Country Club HR Smith SP Brito Sac Harr! SB Rudd Smith Gowan 2 tphrerbbso Porsyfh 9 94 4 4 2 Randolph (L) 12-301131 Thomas 1 1 3 3 4 3 4 4 Lombardo 13 I 0 0 0 I Varana (W) 3 13 1 1 1 HBP by Forsyth (Hickman) WP Randolph Balk Randolph 2 12 A Bench Views had 313 The Bear being pressed by fourth-place Woody Hayes who trails Bryant by 42 wins What better way to get the 1978 college football season started than with an Alabama -Nebraska game? THE APPALACHIAN Summer A League baseball season will be winding up Thursday night with one of the best finishes in the loop in a long time The league has been characterized this season by spurts with Johnson City being overtaken by Elizabethton July 13 when the Twins took a lead they have never relinquished Before the Johnson Clty-Ellzabethton battle for first Joe Bristol Tigers had been on top Elizabethton swept a three-game series over the Cardinals with an awesome display of offensive power to take the lead back in July and seems beaded for its first league championship since rejoining the circuit PAUL (BEAR) Bryant will have a little pre-retirement skirmish in Birmingham Saturday playing Nebraska on national television at 8 pm in Birmingham Of course the Just means that the game comes exactly nine days before Bryant becomes 65 years of age It has nothing to do with retirement because Bear thinking that way at alL Instead Bryant is looking for another national collegiate football title and his fourth national Coach of the Year honor The Cornbusken kept Bryant from winning the national crown last year with a 31-24 victory over the Tide in Lincoln Neb It came in the second game of the 1977 campaign Nobody much challenges Bryant as the best college coach in America not even Joe Pateroo of Penn State A poll of bead coaches at a golf tournament last summer resulted in 17 of the 30 naming Bryant as the best active coach in America Pateroo bad the next highest four A bead coach for 33 yean record is 273-76-16 with an average of 8 3 wins a season pretty far above required to keep a job these days At Alabama Bryant has beea the bead roach for 26 yean with a 183-37-8 worksheet The last seven yean be has avenged 16 1 wins a seasoa (74-11) Right now Bryant Is the third wlnningest coach in history behind only Amos Alonzo Stagg and Glenn (Pop) Warner Bryant hopes to be able to stick around four or five more yean to make up that 41-victory deficit to Stagg who has 314 wins to Bryant's 271 Warner doubleheader Wednesday (6 m) and a single game Thursday 4 SUCCESS continues to follow Cale Yarborough on the NASCAR trail Yarborough who recently won the second leg of the Grand National point chase (another 610000) is assured of going over the 6300000 winning mark for the third straight year To illustrate the mushrooming success of the South Carolinian just look at the 6557002 he won in the combined years of 1973-74-75 and the 61115291 be has won in the period 1976-77-78 There are nine more races on the 1978 schedule (after last Volunteer 500) and It appears a fair conclusion that Yarborough is going to at least approach the 6447496 he won In 1977 Final results of the second legal Yarborough 1670 (2) Marcis 1441 (3) Waltrip 1400 (4) Allison 1391 (5) Parsons 1388 (6) Petty 1387 (7) Pearson 1297 (8) Brooks 1227 (9) Scott 1219 and OO) Pood 1200 Money standings: (1) Yarborough 6280820 (2) Waltrip 6207015 (3) Parsons 6195845 (4) Allison) 6190545 (5) Petty 6138413 (6) Pearson 5118245 (7)Marcis 6112480 (8) Bonnctt 5102240 (9) Pond 690800 and (10) Brooks 677796 The second race of the third and final leg Is scheduled on Labor Day (Sept 4) In the running of the Southern 500 SIGN ON a motel In and get a road off your and get out of life what yon put tote minus (See Bench Views page 36) JOHNSON CITY meanwhile continues its heavy home schedule as the end of the campaign looms The Cardinals are siated to be borne again today against Kingsport with Camera Day siated Fans are invited to brin their cameras and take pictures of the Red Birds between 1 15 and 1 45 Gametime is 2 The Braves who have been moving up In the standings of late will also be here tomorrow night at 730 Paintsville will help the Cards close out the season with a single game Tuesday a By Jimmy Smyth Executive Sports Editor.