Johnson City Press from Johnson City, Tennessee • 9

Agony of defeat kicker Mark Mosely bows his head after a missing a tying field goal in game with Denver For a story on the close game see page 10 JOHNSON CITY PRESS-CHRONICLE Tuesday Evening October 14 1980 Rookie faces veteran as World Series begins bullpen "Sometimes I try to overpower the Kansas City A sparse but boisterous group of fans gathered at the stadium to greet their Phillies who are participating in their first World Series since losing in four games to New York in 1950 The Royals bom in 1969 are in their first-ever World Series going to be a good said the AL batting champion George Brett "I can tell you PHILADELPHIA (AP) Darrell Porter the Kansas City All-Star catcher contends he is not much of a baseball fan but he knows what makes a pitching rotation go around-A consummate handler of pitchers Porter believes the bulk of the work in the 1980 World Series against Philadelphia will have to be assumed by right-hander Dennis Leonard and lefty Larry Gura DENNIS LEONARD starter hitters I try to pitch them too fine and I get into trouble' said Walk who saw no playoff action nervous and excited about starting the World Series but no more than games started before I know how feel tomorrow The Royals arrived in Philadelphia from New York early Monday morning after taking a day ofT from travel and then awaiting the outcome of the Phillies-Astros game at Newark Airport Porter said he had not seen the scouting reports on Philadelphia and know too much about the team not really a baseball fan I like to play the game but I know much about the National Porter said "I have to rely on the television and scouting Frey did not want to watch Sunday night's NL finale at the airport so he played cards "I played hearts with a bunch of cowboys Jamie Quirk Dave Chalk and the two Bretts (Ken and the Royals manager said "I want to root for either team too superstitious I thought it might come back and bite Kansas City went through a full workout at Stadium here Monday afternoon The Phillies meanwhile get back into town until about 3 pm Monday came straight to the ballpark and worked out for only about a half hour after Tennessee students form Cyclones Longhorns retain places in poll either way and it's not straight too Philadelphia Manager Dallas Green more or less was forced to go with the 23-year-old Walk in Game One "You people asked me last night if I was going to start and I thought 'Why said Walk who did not learn he would start today until Monday afternoon "Then all of a sudden it dawned on me We had used all our other starting pitchers in the last game of the In order to win Sunday Tennessee students form a long line long line for KNOXVILLE (AP) Two hours before closing time Monday University of Tennessee officials told several hundred students waiting in line for Tennessee-Alabama football tickets to try again today "If it closes and still said freshman Bill Irwin of Mount Pleasant Tenn who joined the rear of the line at noon at least five hours from a ticket makes it worth it all the Tennesse students began their wait baluiday afternoon game to be shown on national televison It took some students as long as 15 hours to move from the end of the line to the ticket booth after the window opened Monday morning And they were the lucky ones "Our staff goes out and assesses the said Tennessee Dean of Students Philip Scheurer "That way we can warn those who might be too far back I suppose I would get mad if I were not Scheurer said when he toured the line at 3 a Monday he found that some students having a party "Our students always get up for the Alabama game as you Scheurer said "and a few years ago they started waiting up all night to be right by the ticket booth become an event and this year right on got to rely on Gura and Leonard simply because of what they have done for us all year Porter said Leonard the Royals' only 20-game winner will oppose Philadelphia rookie Bob Walk 11-7 during the season in the opening game of the best-of-seven World Series here tonight (starting time 8:30 pm EDT) Royals Manager Jim Frey tabbed Leonard in an effort to negate the Phillies right-handed swinging power of Mike Schmidt Greg Luzinski Garry Maddox and Bob Boone "Dennis is probably the hardest thrower consistently on the Porter said "His fastball is the key He throws a hard slider a curveball and a changeup His slider and curve are both good pitches when Porter said Leonard gets into trouble if he gets in a groove spotting his fastball in the same place all the time Gura 18-10 with a key victory in Game One of the American League Championship Series against the New York Yankees probably will start Game Two of the Series with Rich Gale starting the third game Frey Paul Splittorff Kansas fourth starter will be used as an emergency starter "Gura is not an overpowering Porter said "He relies more on finesse control and mixing speeds Gale is a power pitcher with good movement on his fastball It moves Eagles collected eight first-place votes and 164 points to outdistance No 2-rated Maryville 6-0 which attracted four first-place mentions and 151 points A first-place vote is worth 10 points a 10th place vote one Rounding out the Class AA top 10 are defending champion Humboldt Milan York Institute Kingston Memphis University School Hickman County Knoxville Rule and Johnson County Undefeated Lake County which de- Ciass A play for the fffrh straight week with 12 first-place ballots and 172 points Gordonsville 6-0 wound up second with four first-place votes and 142 points while Nashville Goodpasture 6-0 replaced South Pittsburg as No 3 in the polls with one first-place mention and 132 points Completing the Class A top 10 are South Pittsburg Lewis County Meigs County Seymour Sweetwater Halls and Forrest 1 1 Oak Ridge 2 Warren Ctv 3 Gallatin 4 Bradley Central 5 Father Rvan 6 Morristown West 7 Elizabethton 8 Chattanooga City 9 Rhea Cty 10 Franklin Cty Also receiving votes: 5-0 9 169 8-0 141 8-0 2 130 6-0 117 6-0 113 6-0 72 6-0 1 60 6-0 1 54 6-0 50 6-0 34 Dickson Cty Mt Juliet Mem- phis Melrose (one 1st place vote) tral-Merry CLASS AA 1 Brentwood Acad 2 Maryville 3 Humboldt 4 Milan 5 York Institute 8 Kingston 7 Memph Univ School 8 Hickman Cty 9 Knox Rule 10 Johnson Cty Also receiving votes Lake Citv Douglass Lexington and Giles Cty CLASS A 1 Lake Co 2 Gordonsville 3 Nash Goodoasture 4 Pittsburg 5 Lewis Co 8 Meigs Co 7 Seymour 8 Sweetwater 9 Hails 10 Forrest end Jackson Cen- 6-0 8 164 6-0 4 151 6-0 121 6-0 3 112 6-0 1 93 6-0 1 90 W) 1 82 6-0 54 5-1 52 6-0 21 Ripley Memphis 6-0 12 172 6-0 4 142 6-0 1 132 5-1 1 110 6-0 92 5-0 83 6-0 1 64 5-1 63 6-0 43 6-0 34 Also receiving votes: land and McEwen Alcoa Marion County Hunt- Henry 2 Jenkins Lx sic and the New York Yankees took four straight from them in Pitcher Grover Alexander and outfielder Gavvy Cravath were the standouts on the 15 team Alexander won 31 games 12 by shutouts and Gravath was the league's home run leader with 24 After Alexander beat the Red Sox 3-1 in the opener the Red Sox came back to win the next four The sene marked a first the first time that a President of the States had attended a World Series game Wood roe Wilson was in Philadelphia for the second game The Whiz Kids well not many of the present members of the Phillies remember them maybe Pete Rose who was nine years old Home run Deaf fullback player of week By The Associated Press Brentwood Academy is the No 1-rated Class AA high school football team for the second straight week in the Associated Press statewide poll Lake County continues its season-long dominance of Class A football teams while defending champion Oak Ridge continues as the No 1-ranked Class AAA squad for the fourth consecutive week Elizabethton and Morristown West held their positions in the AAA poll although both teams won their sixth straight games The Cyclones are ranked seventh and the Trojans are at No 6 Brentwood Academy behind quarterback Kent four touchdown performance lifted its record to 6-0 with a 53-12 victory Friday night over Nashville East Depite recording their fifth shutout in six games the Johnson County Longhorns could not move up in the AA rankings They are ranked 10th for the second straight week In balloting by a panel of Tennessee sportscasters and sportswriters the Mitchell honored for SC play CHARLOTTE NC (AP) Steve stepped in as starting linebacker for the injured Bruce Gheesling and keyed a Paladin defense that helped throttle East Tennessee 33-21 For his performance in the game Saturday was named today as the defensive football player of the week in the Southern Conference Tailback Stump Mitchell of The Citadel was named earlier as the offensive player of the week The Bulldog senior rushed for 180 yards and scored two touchdowns as the Cadets beat Western Carolina 28-21 game in Houston 8-7 in 10 innings Green had to use starters Marty Bys-trom a rookie Larry Christenson and Dick Ruthven Only left-hander Steve Carlton who pitched the night before and Walk were unused Carlton will start Game Two of the Series here Wednesday Walk also is a power pitcher with a slider curveball and straight changeup which he says he probably does not throw often enough Walk got off to an 8-1 start this season before control problems sent him to the J9 SfS for tickets to game AAA honors because pf his five touchdown performance Friday night over Chattanooga Howard Also receiving week: CLASS A Henry Latham of Sweetwater Mike Wilson of Meigs County Gerry Mills of Middleton Dale Wood of Elliston Pat Rooke of Jackson Old Hickory Academy and Jimmy Leake of Lake County CLASS AA Don Rhodes of Lexington Sanford Ballou of Ooltewah Greg Capshaw of Ridgeway and Jonathan Turner of Union City CLASS AAA Jeff Chandler of Jonesboro Daniel Boone Bert Scott of Clarksville Tim Cooper of Jackson Central-Merry Jeff Chaney of Clarksville Northwest Doby Boseman of Morristown West and Curt Page of Father Ryan Academy twice The World Series be anything new for Rose and Carlton however as both have been there before Carlton was with the St Louis Cardinals in 1967 and '68 when the Red Birds went against Boston and Detroit He appeared in three games and came out with a 0-1 record Rose played in four World Series with the Cincinnati Reds BORG BEATS ROSE Tennis champion Bjorn Borg was voted the overall winner as top athlete in the American Cancer Society Athlete of the Decade 1970-801 award IN a poll of 635 sports writers editors and broadcasters Borg captured the prize by accumulating 4791 votes in a close battle with Pete of the Philadelphia Phillies Borg received 179 first place votes Rose had 138 and Abdul-Jabbar was third with 112 Simpson pulled down 83 votes for fourth place BOB WALK starter Tide tickets One student waiting within striking distance 200 yards passed his time by polling motorists stopped in traffic on Cumberland Avenue "That guy says gonna a voice yelled from the line "He even The students who pay a $25 activities fee each academic quarter receive their tickets free when they present their university identification cards They must show their ID's at Neyland gate to be admit- mil- age scalping Officials said they had no idea how many tickets were distributed Monday but said there would be more wnen tne student center ticket office opened today At times the line stretched at least a quarter-mile winding its way from the ticket office on Stadium Drive along the Cumberland Avenue sidewalk around the front of the student center and down Volunteer Drive Neyland Stadium with its 95 000-seat capacity loomed nearby Tennessee 3-2 and Alabama riding a 26-game win streak enter their Southeastern Conference showdown after victories against underdogs last weekend Alabama fell behind before carving'h 17-13 win over a pesky Rutgers the New Jersey state university which beat Tennessee last year The Vols defeated Georgia Tech 23-10 Majors said concentrating on improvement with each game and try to cut down on Tennessee 3-2 erased an early 10-10 tie with a young Georgia Tech squad and dumped the Yellowjackets 23-10 last Saturday Last week Alabama with a 25-game winning streak at stake pulled out all the stops to turn back Rutgers 17-13 A WELL nown former ex-Tennessee Tech head football coach Wilburn Tucker died last Monday at 59 years of age He was a Tech coach and faculty member from 1946 to 1967 and was head coach of the last 14 years of those years He stepped down from the coaching profession with a record of 70 wins 65 losses and five ties As a baseball coach his teams won 70 games and lost 39 Tucker was a member of the university's Golden Eagle Sports Hall of Fame THE MARYVILLE Fighting Scots are getting tougher and tougher to beat at home Saturday's 24-7 victory over Hampden Sydney was their 2)th consecutive victory on Honaker Field Maryville has a 4-1 overall record and a 2-1 mark in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference Majors hopes Vols can improve World Series features former Appy managers By The Associated Press A tackle converted to fullback at Tennessee School for the Deaf a signal-caller from Brentwood Academy and a quarterback from Chattanooga Kirkman have been named as Associated Pr high school football Players of the Week Tony Hunter was instrumental in extending his Class A 1980 unbeaten string to six games in Friday 38-15 win against Virginia School for the Deaf Hunter 6-1 and 220 pounds rushed for 159 yards in 21 carries scoring touchdowns on runs of 17 and 30 yards He made 14 tackles while playing defense Kent Austin whose Brentwood Academy team is No 1 in Class AA play for the second consecutive week went eight for 11 in passing the Eagles to a 53-12 victory against Nashville East Chris Graham of Chattanooga Kirkman was singled out for Class hitter Greg Luzinski was born a month after the series that season and Manny Trillo two months after it was over Bake McBride Garry Maddox and Mike Schmitz were one year old Bob Boone was two years old and Steve Carlton was five years old and Larry Bowa was four years old Therefore the National League representatives and predeessors of the group know little lonly what they have read' about the celebrated Whit of '50 Roberts won 20 games and lost 11 for the '50 Phils which was managed by Eddie Sawyer The Phillies prior to this season had won three Eastern Divisional titles 1976 77 and 78 but lost in the playoffs to the Reds and Dodgers KNOXVILLE (AP) Tennessee football Coach Johnny Majors says he hopes his Volunteers can live up to their share of the bargain when they are host to top-ranked Alabama Saturday afternoon for a nationally televised game "I just hope we come through with our end of the deal and make a game out of it and have a chance to Past winners of the award were Muhammad All for the decade spanning 1968-1978 and golfs Jack Nick-laus for the 1969-79 period EAST TENNESSEE State next three opponents won games Saturday and their last two foes went down in defeat Eastern Kentucky the Bucs' Saturday opponent in Richmond Ky swept by Middle Tennessee in an Ohio Valley Conference game 24-0 UT-Chattanooga the Oct 25 opponent in Chattanooga crushed VMI 55-10 and James Madison won its second game in a row beating Liberty Baptist 30-14 Western Carolina dropped a 2-21 Southern Conference encounter to The Citadel and Marshall lost to Miami 'O' 34 6 Eastern's win over Middle Tennessee ran the Colonels' record to four wins and one loss Saturday game in Richmond is set for 1 pm THE 1980 WORLD SERIES should be a good one a first ever for the Kansas City Royals and the first for the Philadelphia Phillies in 30 years Remember the Whiz Kids of 1950? This is the first World Series since that season Remember Andy Seminich Robin Roberts Granny Hamner and Jones? They were members of the Whiz Kids Seminich the older member of the team had played for Hobe Brummette in the early 1940s in Elizabethton Other members of the club were Ed Waitkus Dick Sisler Richie Ashbum Goliat and Del Ennis This season a feather in the hat of the Appalachian League in that both managers passed through this circuit Jim Frey at Bluefield and Dallas Green at Pulaski This is the third World Series 1915 1950 and 190 They have won only one series game as Boston beat them 4-1 in the clas.