The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky • 25

Section junhmj Ifrralh-Ifoafor Sunday October 5 1980 'Viv-5 1 Win No 300 Sweet for Bear Sour for Curd By Mark Bradley BIRMINGHAM Ala It started as a trickle two early Reid goals For nearly a hall the Kentucky Wildcats scrambling scratching and flailing managed to plug the holes In time though the leaks became too many fingers too few Finally inevitably the dam shattered engulfing Kentucky in yes a Crimson Tide Alabama the nation's No 1 team drowned the Wildcats 45-0 yesterday at Legion Field in a watershed game for both teams For Bear Bryant the Tide's coach it yielded VictoiyNo worst defeat 300 for Fran Curd his as coach Crimson Hordes Those two benchmarks one sweet one hitter vividly captured the tone Alabama confident and deep kept throwing players at UK each group seemingly swifter than the one before: Kentucky withstood the blows early By the final quarter though sheer weigfit of numbers buried the Wildcats second half was a case of us having more people than they did" said Bryant who Joined Amos Alonzo Stagg and Fop Warner as the only coaches to win 300 games Just kept coming Jeff -Dennis a UK defensive end seemed to get all the breaks field position everything When a team keeps doing that all day got to snap" It did Trailing only 144) at halftime Kentucky surrendered 31 second-half points The Tide really rolling scored on five straight possessions The Alabama defense conversely never let the Wildcats score at all Only once did UK cross midfield on quarterback Randy 42-yard run late in the first quarter That play which Incidentally accounted for more than one-third ol total offense carried to the Tide SOL Three plays later the Wildcats had first-and-goal at the 7 the Tide's lead in jeopardy Firing Blanks On first down Charlie Jackson gained nothing On second Henry Parks made a yard (hi third Jenkins fumbled the center snap On fourth down UK sent in Tommy Griggs to try a 24-yard field goaL He never got the chance Center Mike Burford's snap bounced through 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scored a touchdown there" said Randy Brooks it would have been a very different ball game But you can always say offense so effective against Indiana and Bowling Green tailed to budge Alabama Jenkins who had passed for 545 yards in those two games managed only 31 yards against the Tide completing six of 15 passes (none to a wide receiver) He was sacked three times Against the Tide's maqy-splen-dored defense the Wildcats made only 128 yards and seven first downs That inefficiency sealed fate the UK defense forced to play almost non-stop finally wore out Early on defense stood its ground On its first five possessions despite being given splendid field position Alabama managed only two Peter Kim field goals Yet cracks were beginning appear Turn to BRYANT back page) Murray 10 7 7 0 30 0 0 MUR: David Tuck 35 FQ MUR: Kan Gowdy 22 run (Tuck kick) MUK Llndiay Hudapath 44 proHrorn Otno Gtbba (Tuck kick) MUM Anthony Robbina IS pro from Gibba (Tuck kick) MOR Damon Hurtar 1 run (pm Milod) MUR: Hudapati 10 pro tom Mika Dorowiak (kick Mad) MOIMWH STATimCS Hunan NudmMh 140k fltko Hurt 144k Vn 440 hok Mmy: Qm MM IM jodk Sa 44 hr II yOk 40 ta (Ortk Maa-1444-1 hr IMyadk Hunan HvOoMh 4-IOk A Mum 4 47k DaM 441 MUN MO 17 14 44137 42-124 144 IIS waw MLf 4MJ 1-4 M- Fanalllaa vandi 4111 4-M 1 li Vr Dawkins: al might try it' Larry Holmes Defense Cracks Offense Breaks Eagles receives congratulations from ors Montreal in 11 innings The New York Yankees claimed the throne in the AL East by winning the first game of their double-header against Detroit 5-2 thus eliminating Baltimore But perhaps the most exciting result of the day came out of Los Angeles where the Dodgers kept their hopes alive in the NL West by nfeping the Houston Astros 2-1 Steve Garvey had three hits In-his 26th home run and Jerry i scattered seven hits as Los An-prevented the Astros from clinching the division for the second game in a row Should the Dodgers defeat Houston a third straight game today they would conclude the regular season in a tie and force a playoff game here for the championship on Monday homer to lead off the fourth inning broke a 1-1 tie In the second Garvey led off with a bloop single and scored the first run on a twoout single by Derrel Thomas The Astros tied the score in the fourth when Jose Cruz singled stole second and came home on Art twoout single to center Reuss 126 matched his career-high far victories with his eighth win in 10 decisions The Los Angeles left-hander walked one and struck out a season-high seven Nolan Ryan 11-10 took the loss his eighth in nine career decisions against Los Angeles Ryan has not de- (Tum to PHILS 09) Special Rims By Stave Asch burner Darryl Dawkins' reputation has preceded him into Lexington Dawkins for the uninitiated is the 8-foot-UM starting center and destructive Ante behind the Philadelphia 76ns who visit here at 7:30 tonight for a National Basketball Association exhibition game against foe Milwaukee Bucks at Rupp Arena He is the NBA's version of the Big Bang Theory Sir Slam Dr Dunk the creator of such straight-down shots as the In Your Face Disgrace the Gorilla Heart Stopper Yo Mama Rim Wheeler and Look Out Below dunks In a league foil of skywalkers capable of otherworldly stunts he is the Sports Inside The Stars Larry Holmes and Muhammad AH both kept their Wes Thursday night Holmes still Is champion and AH still Is The Greatest Page 03 The Regulars Sports Digest Ct2 College Football: KyOVC SEC 04 Midwest C-5 South Plains C-7 Far West Summaries 08 Baseball Statistics 09 Calendar 010 Outdoors 010 Horse racing 012 Bowling 013 the country in Division I-AA had a 30-6 victory its fifth this season without a loss and a school record of 13 straight in regular season games Offense Comes Alive If this was a day when defense lost some of its mystic it was also a day when the Racer offense gained some respect Suspect all season for an apparent lack of offensive punch Murray piled up 17 first downs and 325 total yards agunst Morehead and produced its biggest print bap rage all season guys do what they have to do to win" said Murray coach Mike Gottfried frit like today that we were gonna have to open up our offense some because their defense is so big and strong and Just what our guys for tear of a normal basketball game they act like ordinary rims until something extraordinary comes along In other words until Dawkins Darryl Dawkins broke the two backboards we had to do something" said Suzanne Stinson an assistant to Joe Axrison the director of operations of foe delay caused by replacing a back-board and the chance of injury to players referees and tans we started to investigate the possibility of using fnllaprihlq Explaining all this hoopla Stinson said that the league eventually chose rims submitted by three manufacturers All three have been used throughout this exhibition season allowing an but one of foe 23 NBA teams to test Murray opened up by putting the ball in the air 19 times completing 12 tor 186 yards Starting quarterback Gino Gibbs completed six of 10 passes for 130 yards Yet most effective weapon was running back Lindsey Hudspeth who had played only spar ingly on offense in the first four games Hudspeth had been a regular in the Murray backfield last season but when safety Terry Love got hurt this year Gottfried moved Hudspeth to foe defensive backfield Love returned to action this week but starting tailback Nick Nance was injured ami Gottfried moved Hudspeth back to offense Hudspeth responded by rushing for 98 yards on 18 carries and catch- (Tum to 08) Two of the major league four division titles were decided yesterday while one remained up for grabs One division the American League West was settled several weeks ago as the Kansas City Royals ran off with the crown Yesterday Philadelphia clinched the National League East championship with a dramatic win over their only challenger for division hon TemperenceHill Wins Gold Cup Bid Scratched Spectacular Bid the top thoroughbred money winner was retired yesterday about two hours be- fore he was to run in the Jockey dub Gold Clip at Belmont Park because of chips in his left front ankle With Spectacular Bid the morning line 1-10 choice out of the way Temperance Hill romped to a 5-length victory far die $549000 Gold Cup a llfr-mile race a distance at which Spectacular Bid never won in posting 26 victories in 30 starts have scratched die said trainer Bud Drip is not 100 percent i decided that when I came back here (the bare) around 4 o'clock He is Drip who has called fo 4-year-old grey colt best horse to ever look through a said the injury was something that Just happened We worked to get him ready But I going to gamble I saw (Muhammad) Ali the other morning and I want Bid to wind up like him" Although Spectacular Bid won the Champaigne as a Syeardd he had much hick at Belmont Park He finished third in die 1979 Belmont States costing him foe Triple Crown and was second to Horse of the Year Affirmed in last year's Grid Cup Drip claimed the son of Bold Bidder stepped on a safety pin in his stall the morning of the 1979 Belmont a foot infection Spectacular Bid owned by the Hawksworth Farm had won 10 straight races including nine this year His last start was the Woodward rum to TEMPERENCE 012) By Mike Johnson Harold Aooiotint Sports Editor MOREHEAD OK the Murrey State defense is not invincible It can be cracked Morehead State proved that yesterday afternoon in Jayne Stadium When Dorron Hunter stretched his body as tar as it would go and crossed the goal line from 1-yard out wife 1:34 left in the tain! quarter he scored the first touchdown that Murray's defenders have allowed all season If the folks along the Murray sideline were disheartened by the end of the streak however they could take solace In the story the scoreboard tokL At the time Hunter was landing in the Murray end cone the Racers had an 18-point lead And at the final gun Murray the Not 1-nnked team in Are Ready only one to have his own planet Paradise where I am foe king Chocolate the only one who could turn teammate Julius Erring's assemblage of aerobatics into just so much stuff And he is the fellow with legs like missile silos and arms as powerful as the warheads within who broke not one but two backboards first in Kansas City then hi Philadelphia showering glass upon the courts and sending shockwaves all the way back to the league office far New Yak That is the reputation that has preceded Dawkins today in the form of two collapsible rims to be used in game: Attached to standard glass backboards they look like ordinary rims and against the wear and Thunder Tonight at Rupp rim The league will select one or two of the rims for use hi foe Continental Basketball Association this season then adopt the best as its own next year Mechanically the rims remain rigid throughout foe game But they contain spring-loaded hinges that allow the rim to flap down from the backboard when undue force is exerted then snap back up while play continues' Two of the rims are equipped with lights to show that foe mechanisms are working The league refused to say that the rims were created with Dawkins in mind but Stinson said the "breaking (Turn to DAWKINS back page) I -V-.