The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 207

"i MAJOR COLLEGE FOOTBALL Florida State 36 Ohio State 27 Mississippi State 3 Arkansas State Sunday October 4 1981 Page 1 SPORTS stymie bid for 2nd'half clincher For Kansas City win today go to Cleveland By Mike McKenzie porttwritar Expos Astro take NL playoff tpots Brewers ate By The Associated Prtt The Cineinnatfteds have the best overall recorin baseball but they won be invitd to the playoffs The St Louis Csdinals have the best overall record in he National League East but benubbed too The way the rtjor-league baseball playoffs are set this year not so much a matter of many you win but when you win tha When the baseball players went on stke June 12 the standings were frozen ith champions Everyonettarted from scratch when play started Aug 10 And the fistraton for Cincinnati and St Louis Kh of which narrowly missed first-halfltles and fell out of contention for secohalf playoff spots Saturday St Louis wendown swinging beating Pittsburgh 8-3 Mt the Reds eliminated themselves Th Atlanta Braves scored an unearned ru in the ninth inning for a 4-3 victory oveCincinnati That gave the National Leagt West second-half championship to Bis ton though the Astros lost 7-2 to Los ngeles Montreal clinched the NL East fcond-half title by beating New York 5-4 The final piyoff berth in the American See Races pg 14 col 1 The American leading home run-hitting team the Oakland A crashed the fences Saturday night in one of the stingiest homer parks anywhere Royals Stadium and cashed in an 8-4 victory Rookie Kelvin Moore hit his first major-league home run Tony Armas struck his 22nd of the season and the power supply took the West Division fight for first place to the last day of the season Maybe That is if the Royals win the final game today they win the second season and the division playoffs against the will begin with games in Royals Stadium at 2:10 pm Tuesday and 3:10 pm Wednesday However if the win today the although still in first place by percentage points (558 to will travel tonight to Cleveland and play one or two makeup games Monday The Royals are I1 games ahead of Oakland entering play today but winning not games is the decisive factor Two more losses in Cleveland would give first to the who won the first See RoyalSi pg 14 col 4 Willie Wilson runs for third as a pickoff throw gets by Oakland first baseman Kelvin Moore photo by Dan Peak Missouri steals defensive thunder from Mississippi State in 14-5 upset By Steve Richardson sports writer to win this Missouri defensive tackle Jeff Gaylord said a scrap- Ey together bunch We are no power-ouse Dut we play together and we play hard" Mississippi State 3-1 had trouble all day running out of their wingbone offense a variation of the wishbone The Bulldogs wound up with only 132 yards rushing as Gaylord end Ken Judd tackle Randy Jostes noseguard Jerome Sally and linebackers Van Darkow and Dave McNeal combined for possibly best defensive performance since a 3- 0 victory over Notre Dame that began the Warren Powers era in 1978 Darkow and Sally led the tackling chart with 15 each guy (in a betting -tip sheet) said we were the worst 3-0 team in the Darkow said guess this makes us the worst 4-0 team in the country Not many people give us much credit fine We will take of things ourselves We are young and hungry But for a young team we are very mature and Missouri 4-0 is off to its best start since 1973 when the Tigers won their first six games in a 7-4 season and an appearance in the Sun Bowl Besides the defense Missouri got a superb performance from senior running back Bobby Meyer Meyer a 5-foot-10 195-pound back from St Louis scored both Missouri touchdowns and gained 122 yards in 26 carries his most-productive game ever His previous best was an 85-yard game against Oklahoma State last year "This one was a great effort by our Missouri Coach Warren Powers said worked hard and had confidence in themselves We have been criticized for our schedule but they Jackson The signs around Memorial Stadium proudly proclaimed Bulldog the nickname for Mississippi rushing defense But Missouri before 40776 fans and a regional television audience did the blitzing and bruising Saturday The Tigers turned in a superlative defensive performance and defeated ninth-ranked Mississippi State 14-3 knew after last week we were going KU field goal at 0:09 keeps record clean ByJoeMcGuff Iris Star's sports adtor Lawrence Kansas tailback Kerwin Bell who suffered torn knee ligaments in the Kentucky fame underwent surgery Saturday in os Angeles and is doing well The Kansas offense is not The reality of playing the rest of the season without their star running back came home Saturday to the Jaynawks Kansas defeated Arkansas State 17-16 for its fourth straight victory but Bruce Kallmeyer had to save the Jayhawks by kicking a 38-yard field goal with 9 seconds left A hard rain was falling at the time and Kallmeyer kicked into a wind that blew in gusts up to 20 miles an hour The game was played before 32100 spectators and a regional television audience all of whom had reason to wonder how such a feeble offense could support such an imposing winning streak offensive problems were so acute that it took a crucial penalty as well as Kallmeyer gutty kick to keep the KU winning streak intact Kansas seemingly was one down away worry abot what other people "It wqs complete team victory I told them wkei they came down here to a big game the they would play well probably better torn they had ever played I told them to elax force it It will come naturslf Mississippi State was fired up in thescond half They were really coming atr us But we going to get cute dr defense did a great job of containing the wingbone inside and had great ursuit See Missouri pg 3 col i hiefs hope day comes later By bent Pulliam sports riter Fxboro It will happen one these weeks The New England 0-4 will quit making mistakes quit throwing interceptions and beat smeone badly Thehiefs hope not part of the inevitble at 12:01 pm Central time today wen they take their 3-1 National Footbd League record into Schaefer Stadiui for a game against the Patriots go into every game with great fear "Chiefs Coach Marv Levy said ire a lot better than their record They hve a lot of weapons good receivers god running backs You are always concered and have a great fear every week wen you play a team with as many weapon as they The do have some artillery Rookierony Collins is ranked eighth in Amerion Conference rushing with 226 yards nd he should be even more effective wit the return of fullback Sam Cun-ninghai Cunningham will start his first game sice December 1979 having sat out thel980 season because of a salary dispute Collin from East Carolina leads the Patriot in receiving with 13 catches for 130 yars Tight end Don Hasselbeck has steppedn where All-Pro Russ Francis (retirei left off catching 11 balls for 225 yards fide receeivers Stanley Morgan and Haild Jacksoh have nine reeptions each The dense is directed by quarterback Matt Cvanaugh replacing Steve Grogan Aer the four losses the Patriots nave Uicated they will turn to a ball-controkffense using Cunningham much of the tne and throwing under coverage to wid receivers in the 10- to 15-yard range have some awfully good players See Chiefs pg 17 col 1 See Kansas pg 3 col 1 Gary Coleman tackles Arkansas State's Maurice Carthon after an 18-yard run (photo by Orlin Wagner) ulsa trailing by two touchdowns overcomes K-State 35-21 ByRichSambol iports writer The loss was the third straight for the Wildcats since opening their season with a victory over South Dakota a Division II team Since then Kansas State has been beaten by Washington Drake and Tulsa Tulsa like Drake is a Missouri Valley Conference team and MVC teams are not supposed to put fear in the hearts of teams from the Big Eight Conference Even so Tulsa has beaten Kansas State four consecutive seasons Although he rant and rave there was a sting to the comments Dickey made in his post-game interview "We probably nad three four or five guys on each side of the ball who played hard enough and well enough to Dickey said was a good solid reason why we are redshirting so many of our players This is exactly why we are doing what we are doing "We just have some guys who play in this league (Big Eight-caliber football) and tired of standing on the field with them This way I can find out who can play and who We re going to get it over with in one year You can chalk it up to Dickey went into the season saying he would hold out eight senior players who were starters last year He also said he wants to hold back 10-12 underclassmen in an effort to build for the future Dickey might have to make a minor revision in the number of players he red-shirts if something is seriously wrong with Darrell Ray Dickey his son and No 1 quarterback Young Dickey entered the Tulsa game with a sore right shoulder See K-State pg 2 col 3 Tulsa Kansas State Coach Jim Dickey could have blown his stack in the dressing room Saturday and no one would have blamed him Kansas State was ahead of Tulsa by two touchdowns at halftime did not score again gave up two touchdowns in both the third and fourth quarters and was beaten 35-21 by the previously winless Golden Hurricane In Special Olympics it really matter whether you win or lose me win but if I cannot win let me be brave in the recited by athletes before Special Olympics competition said Nancy Liley publicity coor-dinat( for the Kansas City Special Olymcs talk about a mentally itarded kid It was something you just say" Galnt men and women have hacked a long ough path through a wilderness of prejiice fear and ignorance to make the SBcial Olympics one of the most tri-umplnt stories in the history of mentally hadicapped people Slat School No 9 2401 Iron St Even the See Extra pg 15 col 1 its area bowling tournament at King Louie East Lanes There were 534 entrants in this tournament up from 345 last year The local calendar will peak next spring with the track-and-field portion of Special more than 2000 volunteers will help put on that show But athletics for the mentally handicapped always such a smashing success In fact one can find the Dark Ages just 13 years ago that we were in an age when we were taught to lock these kids in a No records are broken in Special except those for courage determination and More than 2 million mentally handicapped children and adults in 40 countries and four US territories have participated in Special Olympics The movement is now a year-around program in 95 percent of 3000 counties This year marks the 10th anniversary for the Kansas City Area Four region of Special Olympics serving Jackson Platte Cass and Clay counties It began its 1961-82 sports calendar Saturday with grant from the Joseph Kennedy Jr Foundation is the largest program of sports training and competition for the mentally handicapped The heart and soul of the Special Olym- Rics is stated in its handbook entitled few Kind of Olympics is sport in its truest sense The goal is not to win but to try To experience not to conquer No time is too slow no distance too small to earn a ribbon a hug a cheer or a sincere ByGibTwyman sports writer Out of the mouths of these babes still comes this truth To many people it represents the vestiges of what is beautiful about sports in America: The Special Olympics The movement begun in 1968 with a.