The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 211

STAR SPORTS II NCAA For better or worse Has the Chiefs offense shown improvement when compared to this time last year? Getting tough Walter Byers wants stronger policing measures Sunday October 14 mt Page 1 SPORTS Tigers level Padres with 12 punch Whitaker Trammel push Detroit's lead By Tracy Rmgobby Detroit Finally a player the World Series can be proud of stepped out frort- Sweep aside the walkafhons bed-hop singles and cameo appearances of the Kurt Bevac-yuas and Marty Castillos and rail out the red carpet for Alan Trammell a mod Euthanasia is fitting for Padres the Padres 4-2 taring a lead of three one in the 81st World Series got cm rigs want 'em" Sam Dick Wiliams declared alluding to the Padres' that enabled them to defeat Ctibs in the National After quietly compiling the rtatitfini of the post-season Trammell made the big noise Saturday in the Detroit Tigers' 4-2 victory over San Diego which gave the Tigers a 2-1 edge in the best-af -seven event Trammell hit two-run home runs in each of his first two the 36th player in World Series history to hit two home runs in a and with Jack Morris pitching a five-bitter for bis second complete game of the Series the Tigers moved within a victory of eliminating the Padres Trammell also added a fifth-inning stage in his third plate appearance and a sporting pdblic which has grown to appreciate the ikes of shortstops Rohm Yount of Mdwaidtee and Cal Ripken of Baltimore the last two Octobers now has a third shortstop to shout about The people who follow Urn league (the American League) know there migit be a couple as good as Alan but nobody is better' said Detroit Coach Dick Tracewsri himself a big-league shortstop from two decades ago Other people though don't realize what a good offensive player be is Now 1 think he will get some of the recongitioo he so richly deserves" See Series pg 7 col 1 TIGERS FIRST: WhMIier 0 and mt sale at aec-end on Wqpwr omit Trammel tnmaiad Tigers 2 Pa dresQ PADRES SECOND: MNh one out Kenned Tigers 2 Padres TIGERS THIRD: With one out WhilaMet went to second on Gmymi ertoi Tramme Ter 4 Padtei 1 PADRES NINTH: Wir one out Game doubted Nellies grounded out Garvey to third Monts mto peoh Gat-rey sooted Tigers 4 Padres 2 (left) waited to greet Trammell in the third inning after the second home run (Associated Press) Alan Trammell was all tiger Saturday as he tore into the Padres pitching Tigers catcher Lance Parrish Texas eying No 1 takes three and ties Oklahoma By Mike McKenzie sportswtnet slammed into the receiver tight end Jerome Johnson As they hit the ground the ball flew free and Oklahoma recovered We thought the game was won right there" Switzer said "It was right in front of me I saw it dearly The official took it away from us" The tie also was a gift from Switzer and a Large touch of irony the Sooner defense which otherwise had been magnificent Switzer looking at a 15-10 lead and 2:10 to play gave Texas a safety that made the Sooner catchabte by a field goal See Texas pg 3 col came on the play before the tying luck Television replays dearly showed that Oklahoma defensive back Terence Stan-berry bad an interception in the end zone but none of the officials saw that he had control of the hall before be hydroplaned out of bounds another play they took away from us" Oklahoma Coach Barry Switzer said Stanberry said "I intercepted that pass and way before I went out of bounds" Switzer was even more vocal about a play at the beginning of the tying drive On a Texas pass completion Oklahoma linebacker Paul Migliazzo a sophomore from Kansas City Rockhurst High blinked to zeroes on the dock "It was tremendous to salvage a tie under the conditions' Akers said understating his case The tie probably wont be enou) Monday to protect the No 1 ranking that Texas took into the game Look for Washington to move up a notch But when the final pod is registered in January if Texas' only blotch is a comeback tie against its harshest rival on a water -slackened day when Oklahoma was ranked No 3 Akers will look back with satisfaction on his October choice of tie over possible defeat He might anyway In many ways the tie was a gift The most ominous way for Oklahoma Texas Coach Fred Akers went for No 1 'long range) went for three and went straight for his sister proverbially speaking He played to and succeeded against the University of Oklahoma With 5 seconds left in the game Saturday at the Cotton Akers decided the fourth game of the season was too soon to risk a possible national championship Especially against a bedrock Oklahoma defense Akers called on kicker Jeff Ward for a 32-yard field goal as the final 5 seconds KEY SCORES Nebraska defense batters Adler jolts MU Then he smied a wan sort of anile and added things don't get better Sunday we wont let them go back to California with Four teams have come back to win the Series after being down 3-1 but none of them gouged out a hole as deep as the one into which the Padres have disappeared The difference between the Padres and the other team that eame back is the Padres starting pitchers who collectively have lasted for only 314 innings in nine post-season average of 8J3 and only one starter has gone past the fifth inning In the second game of the World Series Ed Whiteon did not get out of the first mrang Friday mghL Tim Loilar did not get out of the second Saturday Eric Show was led away in the third If a team with as many defects as the Padres comes back and wins the World Series baseball will have the worst image problem since the Edsel embarrassed De trod Beating the Cubs by sweeping three games is one thing After all the Cubs are a team with a well-established death wish To overcome the Tigers the Padres would have to defeat Dan Retry Milt Wilcox and Jack Morris who has beaten them two times This obstacle not wdhstandmg Williams has put together a scenario for success We re going to face a fellow already beaten Williams said referring to Petry We re going to face another fellow who hasn't been sharp The other one has beaten us twice but Rick Sutcliffe had beaten us three Detroit Manager Sparky Anderson says the Series will go to a seventh and after toe Tigers vktoty Saturday the stadium organist played "California Here I bid the Tiger players learned long ago not to believe everything that comes from the lips of The Great Exaggerator When an itinerary giving the details of the trip to San Diego was handed to outfielder Kirk Gibson be scowled and said "Hey is anyone here training a puppy? You can use this itinerary because we aren't going to need Marty Castillo seeing Gibson shouted "Get you- sleep tonight because we re going to party Catcher Lance Parrish wan positive but a little more restrained "You don't want to jump the he said like to think it will be over in five I think we have the ability and the emotional edge to wrap this thing up I have every confidence in Petry I think he is going to pitch a good game I don't want to go back to San Diego" Through the first three games this Series was an artistic disaster but Saturday the Tigers and Padres played honest-to-goodness major-league baseball The pitchers threw the ball over the plate the fielders fielded and the people who were supposed to hit home runs hit home runs Alan Trammell who is almost as good as Anderson says he is See McGuff pg 8 col I By Tom Shatel linings for Missouri which had hoped to beat the Huskers for the first time since 1978 and vault into the (diver 's seat for the bowl game Miami Instead it was a perfect day for "Nebraska's offense without a healthy senior I-faack Jeff South to leave die driving to the defense The "Black defense wheeled up the Salvation Army truck and popped in a safety an intercepted pass for a touchdown fumble and concussion of Marion Adler Mis-souri's quarterback who missed the second half "I don't know we were in a better position to play said Missouri Coach Warren Powers who has lost six straight to his alma mater since beating them in 1977 at Washington State and in 1978 at Missotri There are no excuses We were healthy We came up here in a good frame of mind about ourselves We just get the job done You have to give Nebraska a lot of credit They took ad vantage of our mistakes "We re evidently not as good as we thought we were At 24 not playing as The reality was as dark as HlaHt pants a new item on the road If nothing else the game proved two things: The Tigers who wore gold jerseys to honor former Coach Don Faurot two weeks ago can look lethargic in any color scheme and their No 2-ranked offense was no match for third-ranked Black Shirts Missouri averaging 4994 2918 rushing and 2076 were limited to 160 yards rustring and 258 total See Missouri pg 6 col 4 Lincoln Missouri wore the black pants but Nebraska had the black shirts and consequently Marlon Adler and the Tigers' offense blacked out All in all a black Saturday indeed for Missouri which tumbled to 24 after a 33-23 loss to the Buskers that was not as dose as Missouri's touchdown with 1 minute 9 seconds left made it out to be Nebraska is 24) and atop the Big Eight Conference Missouri's conference record was leveled at 1-1 not going to the Orange Bowl Missouri offensive coordinator Larry Beightol aid "We have to reset our goals" The cool overcast day had no silver Kansas wishbone beats clock and breaks Kansas By Steve Richardson at naming back gained 34 yards and scored a touchdown But it wasnt so much the number of yardf but when Witherspoon slithered through the boles "We finally found a naming back and he runs north-south not Dickey said On Kansas State's touchdown drive in the second quarter Witherspoon took a lateral for a 10-yard gain which helped keep the drive alive That drive later tied the score 7-7 And in the third quarter when Kansas State took a 17-7 lead on an WVyard drive Witherspoon picked up a first down on a foulh-down play at that after four losses in five games made for a wish come true Dickey needed something to gnaw on as well as something to keep the ball away from offense The Wildcats controlled the ball for more than 35 minutes in front of 42 250 fans "Obviously this probably ranks up with one of the greatest wins experienced as a head coach or as an assistant" Dickey said all know just how important this game was to us" Earlier last week Dickey bad been quoted in several newspaper stories questioning whether he would remain at Kansas State beyond this season if the Wildcats didn't perform better in the Big Eight Conference re Wishbone to the rescue Kansas State used it sparingly last week in a 49-17 loss to South Carolina but that wasnt a fair test The Wildcats fell behind 14-0 and had to change plans "Jerry Boyce (Kansas offensive coordinator) did a great job of putting the system in And Stan Weber is really a tough Dickey said Weber rushed for 63 yards and the Wildcats final touchdown in the fourth quarter He also completed 11 of 18 passes for 85 yards and made the pitches when he had to The other integral part of the wishbone was James Witherspoon a 5-foot-7 142-pound halfback from Liberal Kan Witherspoon making first appearance i anhattan Just when it looked as if the Kansas State I football program was down to the bare bones Coach Jim Dickey installed a wishbone It turned out to be a tough bone to crack Kansas couldn't break it and eventually choked on it Saturday as the Wildcats posted an emotional 24-7 victory at KSU Stadium No one would confuse this bone with Oklahoma's high-powered bone But it was enough to give Kansas State some offemive 235 yards rusb--for the first time this See State pg 6 coj: i.