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Oregon Ducks Have Weathered The Storm Sixth In A Series EUGENE. Ore. AP By all appearances. Coach Rich Brooks has weathered the storm in the University of Oregon football program. There is little talk of bogus academic credits, theft charges and bowl ineligibility and all the other problems that plagued the Duck program last year.

A National Collegiate Athletic Association investigation has yet to produce a penalty for the Ducks The NCAA won't act until after the season is over. Oregon's one year of ineligibility for the Pacific 10 Conference title is over Of the handful of criminal charges that arose from the probe of the Oregon football program, there have been no convictions. "That's a closed closet That stuff's been put quarterback Kevin Lusk said of Oregon's past problems. "That's not even in anybody's mind." The Ducks have no clouds hanging over them and there is straight-faced talk of Oregon as a contender for the Rose Bowl Oregon hasn't played in the Rose Bowl for 23 years. "Why not think about the Rose asked tailback Reggie Brown, the chief ground weapon of the Oregon offense.

We've got the players to do it. I'd love to go to the Rose Bowl. That's my dream." The 5-foot-ll, 209-pound Brown gained 775 yards in 171 carries last season, and doesn't hesitate when asked to compare himself with Southern Cal's Marcus Allen. "I don't like to brag," Brown said, "but I don't think he's as good a back as I am. If you have holes three or four cows could go through, it's easy to make big yardage.

He doesn't have breakaway speed There is no doubt that, despite his problems. Brooks has turned the Oregon program around. The Ducks have had back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in 17 years. They were 6-3-2 last season, including road victories over UCLA and Pac-10 champion Washington and a 7-7 tie at home with Southern Cal. The problem was inconsistency.

The Ducks also were Fullback Vince Williams, who gained another year of eligibility because he missed most of last season ith an injury, is taking last-minute makeup courses to correct academic deficiencies in time for Oregon's opener at Fresno State Sept 4 He has been held out of practice in order to complete the work on time, and he said Thursday he is confident he will make it The big question marks are the offensive line, which lacks depth, and the quarterback, where option quarterback Reggie Ogburn must be replaced. Lusk. a junior, completed 46 of 72 passes for 573 yards and four touchdowns as a backup to Ogburn and moved the Oregon offense effectively against Stanford and Southern Cal But he injured his right knee in the spring game and has yet to have any contact in practice. Still, Brooks said Lusk has regained nearly all his strength in the knee and will be ready for the season opener Behind Lusk are untested sophomore Edmund Rivera and freshmen Mike Owens and ike Jorgensen Brooks praises both freshmen and says Owens, from Van Nuys. is the best freshma quarterback he's ever coached.

The only other big worry is at punter, where three players are battling for the job. Brown said he expects the team to have at least an 8-3 record. The schedule certainly is conducive to a good mark The Ducks' nonconference foes are Fresno State. Kansas. Pacific and Air Force They don't play Southern Cal and they face Pac-10 powerhouses Washington and UCLA at home.

Brooks was uncharacteristically optimistic when he said the team has a chance to beat every team it plays this season, but he and his players know that football talk is cheap in August. "I've always said that the bowl games and stuff like that will take care of themselves," Lusk said. "If we don't take the games one at a time, we won't have to worry about a bowl game." tied by Kansas and lost badly to California. You need to be lucky, you need to be good and you need to be consistent," Brooks said in explaining the ingredients of a successful season to the touring Pac-10 Skywriters Thursday The team's main strength is its defense, which is loaded with veterans, led by linebackers Chris Cosgrove. Ed Hagerty and Andy Vobora.

The veteran corps of defensive backs is headed by Steve Brown. Brooks said the replacements for several departed defensive linemen are inexperienced but talented. On offense, there is great depth at running back and at receiver. The returnees include Greg Moser. who led the team with 32 receptions and averaged 19 yards per catch.

Sunday, Aug. 30, 1981 Santa Cruz Sentinel 57 McEnroe Aiming For Third Consecutive U.S. Open Crown NEW YORK (AP) John McEnroe takes aim at an achievement unmatched since the legendary Bill Tilden won his third consecutive United States tennis championship in 1922 And Sweden's Bjorn Borg and 126 other players take aim at McEnroe. On Tuesday. McEnroe, the cocky New Yorker who won Wimbledon this year, begins his quest for a third straight U.S.

Open crown, opening against Juan Nunez of Chile The tournament marks the centennial of the American national championmhips. Borg is seeded second and will not learn until after this weekend who his opponent will be Seeded third is Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovkia, who is to play Hans Simonsson of Sweden. Chris Evert Lloyd is the top-seeded woman. She has won five of the last six singles crowns, her string being interrupted only in 1979 when Tracy Austin took the title Lloyd won Wimbledon this year. Austin.

19. is seeded third this year, with 16-year-old Andrea Jaeger the No 2 seed. McEnroe ended Borg's Wimbledon title string at five in a row when he defeated the Swede at the famed All-England Club, appropriately enough, on July 4. The victory capped a tumultuous two-week period in which McEnroe fought bitterly with officials and was threatened with default by the Wimbledon brass. Borg has never won the U.S.

Open in nine attempts. He lost to McEnroe in a thrilling five-setter last year on the hard, fast courts at the National Tennis Center. For four years in a row, he came in as the No.l seed "I'm as eager as ever," Borg said last week "But if I don't win the Open this year or next year, it won't make any difference." Borg has had a history of injuries at U.S. Open time. In 1976, he had a pulled stomach muscle.

In 1977, it was a strained shoulder muscle. In 1978, it was a blister on the thumb of his racket hand. Last year, he suffered a knee injury three weeks before the U.S. Open. This year.

Borg came down with strep throat But he says he's completely well now. "He's had some bad luck, being hurt," McEnroe said of Borg "Everybody thinks he's terrible (in the U.S. Open) but he's been to the final three or four times That's not terrible." The seedings were made on the basis of the Association of Tennis Professionals and the Women's Tennis Association computer rankings. This is the first time in more than IVt years that McEnroe. Borg and Connors have not occupied the top three spots in the world At 26.

Chris Lloyd is one of the older players in the women's field. A large group of talented youngsters has risen rapidly to the top in the last three years. She plays Kathrin Keil in her first-round match, while Jaeger meets a survivor of the qualifying round and Austin takes on Anne Mobbs of Britain Seedings were controversial at Wimbledon this year, and are again for the Open, though for different reasons. Wimbledon unexpectedly seeded Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia second, although she was ranked lower. Wimbledon has always reserved the right to seed independently.

And true to her seeding, Mandlikova made it to the final, which she lost to Lloyd. Now the USTA has followed the WTA computer and seeded Mandlikova fifth, angering those who feel she should be seeded higher. Mandlikova was a finalist in last year's U.S. Open, losing to Lloyd, and won the Australian Open in December and the French Open this past June. Seeded fourth is Martina Navratilova, who won Wimbledon in 1978 and 1979 but who has never made it past the semifinals here Navratilova, a native of Czechoslovakia who recently became a citizen, will play Nerida Gregory of Australia in her first-round match, while Mandlikova faces Mary Lou Piatek.

A record 400,000 spectators are expected to attend the 23 playing sessions as the U.S. Tennis Asociation celebrates its centennial with its showcase event. By Sept. 13, champions will be crowned in five events men's and women's singles and doubles and mixed doubles. There also will be a record $1 million in prize money.

Cecil Nabs Championship Sports Digest High Drama In Speedway Finale Giants Recall Five Players WATSONVILLE It would have been difficult to write a better script than the one that unfolded Friday night in the season finale of racing at the Watsonville Speedway There was high drama, bitter disappointment and just the right touch of human interest. The Sportsman Division track championship took the full 21 weeks of the season, and, in true storybook style, the full 20 laps of the final feature race to decide the champion. It was Jerry Cecil emering the winner, taking his fourth consecutive feature race and an unprecedented fourth driving title at Watsonville. For Rich Johnson, the runaway State of California champion, runner-up is what he'll have to settle for in this the final year of Sportsman racing at Watsonville since the division will be disbanded next year. A cruel twist of fate highlighted the running of the 2nd Annual Tim Williamson Classic Friday night.

Track Champion Ray MOrgan suffered a flat tire on the 85th lap of a race he had led for 82 laps, and had to sit by and watch Merced's Ralph Beck take the checkered flag. John Brazil Jr. finished second, after a third-place finish in an earlier stock car semi-feature' won by Morgan Beck, 58, was making only his second appearance of SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The San Francisco Giants Friday recalled five players from their Phoenix, Triple A roster, effective Tuesday. The group includes four players who have played previously with the Giants: infielder Guy Sularz, outfielder Max Venable and pitchers Al Hargesheimer and Mike Roland. The fifth player promoted is catcher Jeff Ransom, who will be making his major league debut.

Major league clubs are allowed to expand to 40 players on Sept. 1. The five wil be in uniform against the St Louis Cardinals here that night. Roland, a right-hander, has a 15-7 record at Phoenix. The right-handed Hargesheimer is 6-7.

Sularz is batting .327 and Venable's average is .276. Former Raider In Drug Bust SPRINGFIELD, 111. I API Twenty-one alleged drug dealers, including former Oakland Raider Herb McMath, were arrested Friday and charged with selling cocaine, heroin and marijuana, officials said. I'd consider these people middle-level dealers. We the year at Watsonville He had come out of a three-year retirement this year to race at Merced where he has two feature wins and he hadn't raced at Watsonville for five years.

"It's a big win for mis," said Beck. "But I doubt I would have caught Morgan (had he not had the flat). It's good when you can beat the Sportsman." The Williamson race pits the top Sportsman division drivers, a quicker class of race cars, against the Winston Racing Series Stock Cars. But the race the fans filled the seats for Friday night was the show down for the Sportman championship between Cecil and Johnson. Going into the night's racing, Cecil held a two-point lead over Johnson, adding another point with a third-place finish in the Trophy Dash.

With Double Points on the line (56 for first, 52 for second, Johnson needed a win to take the title. With Cecil starting in the seventh row and Johnson in the eighth, the early lead belonged to Steve Hyland and Ron Gravelle. Cecil was able to move through the pack and by the 9th lap was in the lead. Johnson meanwhile had trouble and could not get out to challenge until the 12th lap of the 20-lap showdown, when he pulled by Glen Silva into second place. On the 13th lap a yellow flag set up a restart and Cecil chose the outside.

Johnson took the green flag and sprinted ahead, though the two raced side by side and then bumper to bumper until lap 17 when Cecil moved back into the lead, the crowd rising to the occasion. The dramatic race reached a climax brought on by a yellow flag on the 18th lap. The two lined up side by side, with Cecil on the inside this time, for the final two-lap sprint. On lap 19 the two were dead even. When they came by the grandstand for the white-flag on the last-lap, Cecil edged ahead on the first turn, a little further on the second and by the back stretch, his lead was one length.

Turns three and four were pure excitement with Cecil holding tight and Johnson waiting for a miracle that just didn't happen. The figure-eight was a clean sweep for the Keldsen Klan, as Ken Nott decided to enjoy the action from the grandstands on the final night. He had wrapped up the championship a month ago. John Keldsen won the feature followed by his father Lloyd and his brother Raymond. The final Street Stock feature was won by Jeff Tracey of Capitola, follwed by Dave Ferracane and Bob Large, both of Watsonville.

Cubs' Sale OK'd The National Tennis Center, which opened in 1978 and seats more than 19,500 spectators at center court, is a far cry from the first U.S. National championship held in 1881 when 26 men played on the grass courts at the Newport, Ft I Casino It was not until 1968, when the International Lawn Tennis Federation permitted professionals to compete with amateurs, was it known as the U.S. Open Women were not allowed to compete, so they began their own championship in 1887, which was played at the Philadelphia Cricket Club Today, the field consists of 128-player fields in both the men's and women's singles. Fifth-seeded Jose-Luis Clerc of Argentina will play Australia's Brad Drewett, and No. 6 Guillermo Vilas of Argentina plays Drew Gitlin of Encino, Calif.

Vilas won the U.S. Open in 1977, beating Connors. The only other former champion in the men's field is Stan Smith, who won in 1969 His first-round opponent is John Sadri. By Stockholders CHICAGO (AP) Chicago Cubs' stockholders voted Friday to sell the National League baseball team to the Tribune Co for $20.5 million. The final vote was 9,207 in favor of the sale and 141 against.

Among the stockholders voting was William Wrigley, chairman and owner of the Cubs, who holds 8,139 of the club's 10,000 shares. The vote followed the earlier approval of the sale by the NL owners. During the vote, one stockholder suggested that the sale be delayed until the end of the season in case the Cubs should win the NL Eastern Division second-half title, thereby increasing the team's market value. The motion was opposed by Wrigley, but approved by a voice vote. However, it was later reversed when club president William Hagenah ruled the voice vote out of order.

A ballot vote based on number of shares owned was then taken and. with Wrigley voting against it, the motion was easily defeated. Disgruntled shareholders claimed they were "railroaded" by Wrigley and threatended to take legal action, contending that the voice vote should have been considered valid. The Tribune Co. is the parent company of the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, WGN-TV in Chicago and other holdings.

hope to disrupt drug traffic in the area." said agent Jim Burke of the state Department of Law Enforcement. McMath, a defensive lineman, played with the Raiders in 1976 and 1977. His pro career ended when he injured his back in a car accident after being traded to the Green Bay Packers in 1977. Kramer Suffers Knee Injury MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minnesota quarterback Tommy Kramer injured his knee in the Vikings' 34-31 loss to the Los Angeles Rams and was listed as doubtful for the National Football League team's regular-season opener Sept. 5 at Tampa Bay.

Kramer, who suffered a sprained left ligament Thursday night, was examined by team physician Donald Lannin on Friday. "All we know is that he hurt his knee," said Coach Bud Grant after the game. "I'm not a doctor. There's very little swelling in fact, no swelling at this point. There's nothing that's obvious.

It's something that we're going to have to watch and look at, but there's nothing that's obvious." Annual Salinas Tourney Set SALINAS The annual City of Salinas Par-3 Golf Championships is scheduled to begin Saturday and last through Sundayat the Sherwood Green Golf Course. 1050 North Main St. The 36-hole tournament will be kicked off each day with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. There wil be trophies for low gross and low net scores. There will also be a daily close-to-the-hole contest and a sweeper.

Anyone (all ages) who can play golf is invited. The entry fee is $3, plus green fees. For more information, call 758-7333. Santa Cruz Sports Practices Practices start Monday at Santa Cruz High for athletes involved in four separate sports. The sports are girls' swimming (10 a.m.

at the pooli. water polo (4-6 p.m. at pool), cross-country (3-5 p.m. at the track) and volleyball (3-5 in the gymnasium). In girls' swimming, returners are requested to show up at 11 a.m.

(newcomers at 10 a.m.). The practice schedule will not change until school starts on Sept. 10. Athletes should come with insurance papers and pay-to-play fees. For more information, call Marie Ishida.

the school's athletic director, at 429-3964. West Covina Wins Pony Series WASHINGTON, Pa. West Covjna, coming out of the loser's bracket, defeated Miami, twice in a row earlier this week to win the Pony Baseball World Series. West Covina. which had earlier lost to Miami in the tournament, avenged the setback with a 16-10 victory in the tie-breaker final game.

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