PAGE, THE HERALD, Wednesday, September 34, 1977

Musical quarterbacks
game continues

TORONTO (CP) —
Toronto Argonauts con-
‘tinued their game of
musical quarterbacks
Tuesday, signing a recent
National Football League
cut, releasing another and
activating a third from the
injury reserve list.

Clint Longley, late of San
Diego Chargers and a
former Dallas Cowboy, is
the latest quarterback in the
camp of the Eastern
Football Conference club.
He began a five-day trial
Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the Argos
released rookie Dennis
Franklin and reactivated
veteran George Mira who
had been sidelined with a
sore shoulder.

Franklin, who began the
season at flanker, but was
moved into the backup
quarterback. position when
Mira was sidelined, joined
the Argos after one season
with Detroit Lions of the
NFL, He was shocked and
bitter when he learned of his
release.

_ “It sure has turned out a
lot different from what I
expected,” said Franklin,
who once starred at quar-
tervack with the University
of Michigan Wolverines.
“But everything tock a turn
in the preseason. I never got
a chance at quarterback.

“| wasn’t playing until
late in the game. 1 needed
work at quartervack and
they knew it, but they
moved me to flanker. Then

they expect me to comein at
quarterback and produce
miracles.”

One of the Argos key
problems this year has been
getting consistent quar-

-tervacking from No. 1

signal-caller Chuck Ealey or
assorted others who have
stepped into the role.

In addition to Ealey, Mira

and Longley, the team also
has Alvin White, a recent
eut of the NFL Heuston
Cilers, in camp ona five-day
trial.
Longely was the backup
quarterback to Roger
Staubach at Dallas in 1974-
1. He was invelved in a
fistfight with Staubach late
in the 1975 season and
subsequently was traded to
the Chargers.

Big names fall as
NFL cuts continue

By THE ASSOCIATED
. PRESS

. Big-name veterans, in-
eluding Bob Lurtsema, Bill
Bradley, Jim Kiick, Randy
Vataha and Steve Spurrier,
were cut Tuesday as
National. League Football
teams trimmed their rosters
to the 43 man limit.

Seattle Seahawks cut the
4 year old, 11 year veteran
Lurtsema, who started at
defensive end last year after
being oblained from Min-
nesota Vikings.

Vetaha, in his. seventh pro
season, was waived by New
England Patriots, but a club
spokesman said the wide
receiver already had been
picked up by another team
which he delcined to name.

Quarter bake Spurrier, a
10 year veteran, was
dropped by the Miami
Dolphins roster. The. 1966
Heisman Trophy winner
from the University of
Florida had played last year
with Tampa Bay but was

released after
disagreements with .coach
John McKay regarding his
play calling responsibilities.
The Vikings dropped
Bradley, whose injured
back prevented him from
removing veteran Paul
Krause at safety, Anall pro
for several. year with
Pheladelphia.’ Eagles
Bradley was acquire
furing the summer for a
future dreft pick. He was
injured early in training

camp., ;
Kiick, the running back
who defected from the
Dolphins in 1975 to the un-
successful World Football
League, was waived by
Denver Broncos after a year
in which he saw little action.
The Broncos had signed
him as a free agent. .
Oakland Raiders waived,
veteran defensive lineman
Bob Brown, the 37 year old
obtained on waivers earlier
this year from Cincinnati
Bengals. The Super Bowl

champions also waived
rookies Ted McKnight, a
running back, and Rolf
Benirschke, a kicker who
was claimed by San Diego
Chargers. .. Rookie cor-
nerback Mike Davis was
placed on.injured reserve.

Miami coach Don, Shula
also cut cornerback
fllis, a former all
acquired from Houston last
year, wide receiver Mike
Holmes, running back Stan
Winfrey and rookie wide
receiver Terry Anderson.

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pro

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Meanwhile, Baltimore
general manager Dick
Szymanski said he had
rejected contract demands
of holdout defensive end
John Dutton. Dutton,
Baltimore's No. 1 draft
choice in 1974, has played in
the Pro Bowl each of the
past two season.

The Patriots reached the
43. man limit by released
wide receiver Marlip
Briscoe,

tion to their broadcasts.

clus is in | last

return to.

year of four-year

— back again
TORONTO (CP) ~ Tom Cheek and Early Wynn will
be back as broadcasters of Toronto Blue Jays baseball
games next season, an official
League team’s radio network announced Tuesday.
“There has been some criticism, but I think it's just
jealousy,” said Lem Bramson, president of the

Hewpex network which owns the Jays radio rights.
“The letters we have received show a positive reac-

“T think their coverage has improved from the start
of the season. It isn't easy doing 162 games when the
place and losing often.”

Cheek, who lives in Burlington, Ont., will remain in
Toronto during the Off-season to do public relations
work, while Wynn — a Hall of Fame pitcher — will
his home near
Both Cheek and Wynn will be working on the second
contracts

of the American

Orlando, Fla.

next season.

Champ comes from
behind to keep title

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Welterweight king Carlos
Palomino scored a
unanimous decision over
Italy’s Elveraldo Azevedo
and featherweight cham-
pion Danny Lopez stopped
Jose Torres in seven rounds
Tuesday night in a World
Boxing Council cham-
pionshiip doubleheader.

Palomino, making his
third titile defence since he
won the crown last summer,
had a great deal of trouble
with Azevedo, the 33-year-
old ring veteran ranked as
the No. 6 contender.

RIVERS DRIVES WINNING RUN

Palomino was on the of-
fensive throughout the 15-
round fight, but was unable
to score any damaging
blows to his backpedalling,
then clutching, opoonent.

Azevedo built up a small
point lead on the champion,
in fact, through the first 11
rounds, as he was the more
effective counterpuncher in
an extremely slow-paced

ut,

But. Palomino, 28 of
Westminster, Calif., con-
trolled the fight from the
1ith round on, finally lan-

Yanks lengthen lead on Sox

NEW YORK (AP) .—
Mickey Rivers drove in the
tying and lead runs with a
two-run homer in the fifth
inning and Ron Guidry
checked hard-hitting Boston
on five hits, leading New
York Yankees to a 4-2
victory over the Red Sox on
Tuesday night in the opener
of a key three-game
American League baseball
series.

With 55,269 on hand, the
largest regular-season
crowd in the remodelled
Yankee Stadium, New York
ended Boston’s five-game
winning streak and_pulled
2% games ahead of the Red
Sox in the American League
East. Baltimore Orioles,
idle Tuesday night, are
three. games from the top.

Guidry, 14-6, fell behind 2-
@ in the second inning on
Carl Yastrzemski’s triple, a
wild pitch, two walks and
Butch Hobson's run-scoring
single. Boston starter Mike
Paxton, 9-5, blanked the
Yankees until singles by
Thurman Munson, Graig
Nettles and Lou Piniella
produced a run in the fourth.

Randolph's smash behind
the bag and beat Nettles
with a head first dive for a
force out that ended the

inning. . .

But in the fifth, Budky
Dent blooped a single to
centre and Rivers drilled his
11th home run of the season
over the fence in front of the
bleachers in right-centre.

Third baseman Hobson
prevented further trouble
when he speared Willie

. MAY HAVE BEEN INELIGIBLE

That put the Yankees on
top 32 and they added
another run in the inning on
Munson’s second single of

the game off Paxton, and a
two-out double by Chri’
Chambliss off Jim
Willioughby, a drive which
thudded off the right-field
wall.

Guidry, who walked three
and struck out nine, allowed
only one walk and three

singles after the second

inning.

Rivers, the Yankees fleet
centre fielder,
Guidry with his glove in the
tinth. Jim Rice opened with
asingle but Rivers, using all
his speed, raced to the edge
of the warning track, more
than 400 feet from the plate,
and caught Carlton Fisk's
line drive. Guidry then
struck out George Scott and
Hobson to end the game.

helped _

ding some punches as his foe

Palomino hurt the
Brazilian-born fighter who
now lives in Italy with a left
hook in the 12th round. But
Azevedo, ducking: and
grabbing his more
aggressive opponent, did not
go down.

Referee Dick Young, who
warned Azevedo repeatedly
about holding Palomino,
scored the fight 145-100,
while judges Vince Delgado
geored it 147-139 and John
Thomas 147-140.

Palornino now has a 23-1-3
record, while Azevedo is 8
12-19.

Lopez, making his first
title defence since taking it
from David Kotey, bounced
back from a second-round
knockclown to knock Torres
to.the canvas once in the
third round and twice in the
next round,.

Although Lopez was
unable to put him away,
Torres’s corner called it
quits after the seventh.
Torres did not answer the
elghth-round bell and Lopez
was given a knockout vic-
tory. It was the 33rd in 38
fights for the 25-vear-old
fighter from Alhambra,
Calif., now 35-5.

Battle continues over Trans-Am win

TORONTO (CP) — A
controversy surrounding the
winner of the Sports Car
Clubs of America Trans-Am
series remained unresolved
Tuesday following a
meeting between a SCCA
official and a canadian
Automobile Sports Clubs
representative.

SCCA statistics show
Peter Gregg of Jackson-
ville, Fla., a3 the Category 2
champion with 185 points,
compared with 162 for
Ludwig Helmrath of
Toronto,

However, Heimrath
appealed the eligibility of
Gregp’s Porsche 934 ata six-
‘hour endurance race in
August at Mosport Park, 56
kilometres, 35 miles, nor-
theast of here.

A five-member committee
appointed by the CASC
agreed with Heimrath, at an
Aug. 31 hearing, that
bumper brackets are part of
the chassis and Gregg was,
therefore, not entitled to
take them off to reduce his
car’s weight.

The. committee
disqualified Gregg and
awarded the 40 firts-place
points and prize money to
Heimrath, Under the CASC
ruling, Heimrath would
have 172 points, compared
with 145 for Gregg.

However, the SCCA
rejected the Canadian
decision, calling the appeals
committee a kangaroo
court. It claimed the
committee didn’t have
jurisdiction over the issue
and the hearing wasn’t
properly consitiuted

because an SCCA official
had, not been asked to at-
nd,

“77m .not going to
voluntarily change my
opinion,” CASC_executive-
director Bob Hanna said
Tuesday after meeting with
Burdette Martin, SCCA
director of professional
racing.

“Gregg can appeal the
decision to the Federation
Internationale de
L’Automobile if he s0
wishes,’ Hanna added.

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