Winston-Salem Journal from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • 51

Winston Salem Journal Sports Thursday October 6 Page 51 I Columns Scores Standings LA Evens Playoff 7 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) Dusty grand slam homer powered the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 7 1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night squaring the National League championship series at one game apiece Strategy backfired for the Phillies in the fourth inning when starting pitcher Jim Lonborg intentionally walked Steve Garvey to fill the bases with one out hoping for a double play with Baker at bat But Baker who in the final game of the regular season became the fourth Dodgers player to hit 30 home runs this year blasted a 1 2 breaking ball over the fence A 3 near the 370 foot sign It was the second grand slammer for the Dodgers in the first two games of the best of five series Ron Cey had hit the first grand slam in the nine year history of the National League championship series Tuesday night but his blast couldn't prevent the Phillies from winn ing 7 5 homer broke a 1 1 lie and paved the way for right hander Don Sutton to coast to the victory A record championship series crowd for Dodger Stadium of 55973 saw the Phillies take the lead on a DAVID PEARSON third inning homer by Bake McBride that landed just in tv IllfHIW ft 3 ''A jyXffjMBf z4J MtagMMT ex sBf Jr nrr: 1 rn ruiT'J WWlMillJi JliMlliIHllllIlllll i swwJtAJfew wm ftaiSsOBSia UPI Telephoto Pearson Edges Allison By Mike Mulhern Staff Reporter CHARLOTTE A wrecker carried a 10 foot shark with a chicken in its mouth onto pit road at Charlotte Motor Speedway yesterday just prior to the first round of National 500 qualifying But the psych job on Cale Yarborough enough and David Pearson beat Donnie Allison and Yar borough by three tenths of a second to win his ninth con secutive pole here AJ Hoyt who had been ex pected to challenge Pearson for the $10000 first starting position my worst lap of the and ended up a dis mal ninth Earlier oyt announced it was likely" he would my USAC license expire at the end of this season" and run at Indianapolis and other USAC championship car events with his 1A inter national license The move he pointed out would be in response to a recent USAC decision to levy a $5000 fine on any driver running in a NASCAR race instead of a race scheduled the same day The shark and chicken stunt apparently rigged by speedway promoter Humpy Wheeler played on the continuing verbal war between Darrell Waltrip and Yarborough who is sponsored by Holly arms my snapped Waltrip little thing is okay as long as they keep it Poor taste? know about the taste but it sure didn't smell so cracked Waltrip "The smell was pret See Pearson Page 58 Umpire Marty Springstead signals that red grounder down the third base line is fair as Yankee third baseman Graig Nettles gives chase Power Beats Yankees 7 2 See foimula for Johnson Gave Offense Deacs a Lift Jelled Against Purdue Wtiitirt stopping the Royals keeping their speed men off the bases Gullett walked the Royals' first batter of the game Patek and McRae followed with a home run which just cleared the 387 foot sign in left fipld made a note in my Yankee folder the last time we were here that Gullett is a high ball pitcher and reddie is only 5 foot 4 and I should have him leading said Manager Whitey Herzog want to make myself out to be a genius but reddie walked on four straight pitches and Hal came up and hit a home Gullett retired the first two Royals in the se cond inning before disaster struck again Darrell Porter walked and rank White had an infield single Patek then hit a hard smash over third base against the stands along the left field line Porter scored easily and left fielder Lou Piniella thinking the ball had been touched by a spectator nonchalantly lobbed the ball back to the infield allowing White to keep right on churning around third and score the second run of the inning for a 4 0 lead Gullett finished the inning but he was also finished for the game and maybe even for the remainder of the playoffs "He came in and told us to get him out of there after the second said Yankee st DOOLEY NEW YORK (UPI) The Kansas City juggernaut which stormed through the American League at a 786 pace after June 17 struck swiftly Wednesday with two run homers by Hal McRae and John Mayberry and a two run double by red Patek to shock the New York Yankees 7 2 in the first game of the league championship series The Royals who had hoped for at least a split of the two games at Yankee Stadium in their best of five series wasted no time in that effort by scoring six runs in the first three innings Don Gullett the $19 million southpaw was the victim of most of the damage oksn kz 1 I'll rH trt ill Hl hie nun Manager Billy Martin said his arm is hurting the same thing been bothering him all successor Dick Tidrow was more successful in calming the rambuctious Royals who led the major leagues in victories with 102 but not until first allowing the second of three hits by Al Cowens and 400 foot rocket into the right field exit ramp which made the score 6 0 in the third The Yankees after being foiled by Paul Split torff in the first two innings finally got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third when Mickey Rivers who had three hits led off with Royals Page so By Bill Cole Stiff Reporter CHAPEL HILL Bill Dooley says football is a game of inches Against Texas Tech last Saturday it was a matter of yards for North Carolina in critical situations The Tar Heels had three delay of game penalties in the first quarter of their 10 7 loss all on the same series Receivers dropped passes after working themselves open or let them slide through their hands or bounce off their chests strong defense pressured quarterbacks Clyde Christensen and Gay and the bread and butter tailback runs sometimes became no gains and tive yaro losses By Robert Noel! Staff Raportar Ronchie Johnson the guy with the most discussed nickname in the Atlantic Coast Conference and one of the most unusual backgrounds finally got his chance to play Saturday Wake orest had fallen behind Purdue 20 0 in the first half and James McDougald went to the sidelines with an ailing leg just before intermission At that time it looked as if the Deacons might be trounced Without their star tailback any prospects of a comeback were dim Johnson got the call when McDougald went out and his play had a lot to do with success in the second half final margin might have been significantly greater than 26 17 if Johnson hadn't chipped in with 44 yards on 12 carries plus two pass receptions The chance to play had been a long time coming for Johnson a resident of Lothian Md who got no grant offers at all after high school Initially he enrolled at Tarleton State a small college in Texas which he literally selected at random had a big book a guide to Johnson recalled opened it up to a page and closed my eyes I put my finger down on the page and that's where it landed He only stayed at Tarleton State for one semester and played in two games was too far from Johnson said they have the kind of program I thought I could fit in The main thing was the coaching staff I think I got a fair So Johnson went back to Maryland enrolled in a small com munity college for a semester and began writing letters Hoping for a chance to play big time side the right field foul pole 340 feet from home plate The Dodgers tied the score in the bottom of the third when Rick Monday doubled and a single by Davey Lopes The fourth inning uprising enabled the Dodgers to even the series at 1 1 with the teams going to Philadelphia for the next two games riday and Saturday and a Sunday game if necessary Bill Russell started the fourth inning with a single to left Reggie Smith then singled to center and the power hitting Cey sacrificed advancing the runners Phils Manager Danny Ozark's strategy called for an intentional walk to Garvey loading the bases and setting See Dodgers Page 55 staff photo by Charlie Buchanan Phil arris (45) had only eight yards in eight carries for UNC last Saturday Defense has carried Carolina so far Opponents are averaging less than seven points and no one has scored more than 10 in a single game But the offense is un settled It seem to have the edge it had last season when Mike Voight playing on a bad leg ran for 1400 yards behind a veteran line seems the operative salzano worci Matt Kupec is probably the best voung quarterback in the ACC but the rest of the backfield is inexperienced and hasn't ad justed yet The offensive line is still building around junior Mike Salzano and is pointing toward its league season In its two most important games Kentucky and Texas Tech Carolina has scored only 14 points Those teams have strong defenses Kupec thought the Tar Heels gained confidence in their See UNC Page 53 4 IK ML S' nSr i 'JKytva' a'''''' kA I z' A 4 A 's 'Ht 0 '5 hV zy I zl 1 I lx Ig 31 zm IL JL I 'Jtwa ZV I SS ZMMHraMMa gla fes 'V i Billv Barnhill Wolfpack play iviury uann 'HAkl I k' Biggest an With a Radio RALEIGH Billy Barnhill rarely misses a North Carolina State football practice and he hasn't missed a home game since 1974 But Barnhill has never seen the Wolfpack play He is blind Barnhill would dispute the contention that he has not seen State he sees them every day in his mind and in his heart And he can sit in the stands at practice and keep up a running commentary on what is going on on the field His accuracy is amazing He made one error last Wednesday afternoon mistaking the sounds of the cleats of a track man for those of a football player Barnhill did identify players by their voices and called the scrimmage plays distinguishing between a pass and a run He carried on conversations with his friends in the stands calling each correctly by name Barnhill is 31 years old works in the Workshop for the Blind and lives at the YMCA here He came to Raleigh from Greenville when he was 10 years old to attend the Gov Morehead School for the Blind where he was on the wrestling team got interested in State back in Roman Gabriel's 1959 61) Barnhill said used to listen to the State games with Bill Jackson and Wally In 1974 Barnhill met Lou Holtz the former State coach at the YMCA and the two started talking about State football Holtz was impressed with Barnhill's knowledge of and interest in State football and invited him to come to practice So every afternoon as aoon as he gets back to the YMCA from work Barnhill walks several blocks to the State practice field Using his white cane as a guide he crosses streets walks across campus goes down the steps of the stands around a wire fence and over some rough terrain to the sidelines He stands there well out of the way and watches prac tice He is a respected member of the hard core regulars who watch the Pack work out every day Last Wednesday he arrived about 5 He was greeted by the regulars Bubba Green State's in jured defensive tackle was sitting in the stands and spoke to Barnhill Barnhill said immediately your Green told him he would be operated on the next day and Barnhill expressed his concern Barnhill sat in the stands to talk to a reporter about his interest in State football He said he does miss practice occassionally Some Tuesdays he plays beep baseball (a baseball game for the blind where the ball is wired to make a beep ing sound) and some days he has to go get a haircut Can he really get anything from practice? Barnhill smiled at the ignorance of sighted people who don't realize how much blind people can see scrimmaging Barnhill said as the Pack began scrimmaging really hitting live Johnny Evans is at quarterback There was a running play and face lit up with a broad smile he said was a good hit That play came this It did was a running he reported And it was See Barnhill Page 53 football he wrote to Clemson North Carolina State North Carolina Virginia Tech and Wake orest The most favorable response came from Wake said get an equal shot at making the team and that was all I asked Johnson said just wanted a He came to Wake last fall with no athletic grant relying on student aid and a loan The Deacon coaching staff was sufficiently impress ed to award Johnson a grant at the end of the year No rose garden materialized for Johnson even then Before the start of this season most of the talk about Wake offense concerned McDougald and how he might carry the ball 35 to 40 times a game That leave much room for a reserve tailback was getting down before the Johnson ad mitted then I said to myself proven good It's up to me to prove how good I am and if both good both physique is similar to McDougald He is 5 10 and weighs 190 but there the similarities end describe his style See Johnson Page 53 i.