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Show aseball Brass Fires Arbitrator, Vows Fight Messersmith's and McNally's contracts last season, was careful in his appraisal of the players' victory. "It's important we keep some perspective," Miller said. "This is only a portion of the NEW YORK (UPI) -S- tung for the second time in less than a year with the freeing of pitchers Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally, baseball's beleagured brass has struck back by firing the principle arbitrator "emancipator" gratified the owners, they cannot fire Marvin Miller, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association who now will use the landmark I sw f uf JF a v M -- 4 A i Messermith-McNall- iKi? J - I M against the Detroit Lions, has played a vital reserve role for the Raiders' this season and ended up leading the Ralston Raps Davis Timing PORTLAND ormer (UPI) -F- Davis Cup Team coach and captain Dennis Ralston said Monday the Davis Cup competition needs a better time schedule. here for an Ralston, exhibition, cited Arthur Ashe as an example of the effects of the time schedule on players. "The players weren't told until about a month and a half ago when the match with Mexico would be," Ralston said. "Arthur had a business commitment that he couldn't get out of. "That's the way it is with a lot of players. They play this sport for a living and have to make certain commitments. They might make expenses and a little bit more playing Davis Cup but not that much." He added, "If you are going to another country to play you need at least two weeks to prepare for the match. A team has to become acclimated to the surroundings." Ralston declined comment on use of Brian Gottfried, who lost in the first round of Davis Cup play last week, in place of Harold Solomon. "I wasn't the coach," he said. Ralston, Roscoe Tanner, Bob Lutz and Tom Gorman drew a crowd of 2,500 for their exhibition. Tanner and Gorman downed Lutz and Ralston in doubles. Ralston defeated Luza and Tanner downed 2 in singles. Gorman 6 8-- 3 6-- Sooners Suspend Runner Okla. iL'PI) -Oklahoma fullback Horace Ivory, the Orange Sooners' No. 2 ground gainer, has been dismissed from the squad, coach Barry Switzer confirmed today. Switzer declined to elaborate on Ivory's dismissal but other NORMAN. Bowl-boun- sources reported Ivory team in rushing. Banaszak and his Raiders meet Cincinnati in the first round of the NFL playoffs this Sunday. The picture was voted as one of the best sports pictures of the year by UPI. 8anasza( Leads Raiders Against Bengals Sunday - OAKLAND (UPI) Every great basketball team has a sixth man who comes off the bench to recharge the offense and the NFL Oakland Raiders have the same kind of guy in veteran halfback Pete Banaszak. He wasn't a starter this season.yet he led the team in rushing yards gained with 672 and tied Buffalo's O.J. Simpson for most touchdowns rushing with 16. Ali's Laugher - LONDON (UPI) Muhammad Ali's plans to defend his world heavyweight title against e s Belgium's Tuesday drew both amused and incredulous comment from European boxing officials and newspapers. Coopmans, 29, is not only the reigning Belgian heavyweight boxer, he is the only ranked Belgian heavyweight. He has won 20 and lost three of his fights since he turned from stone cutting three years ago. Jean-Pierr- Coop-man- The pressure will be on Banaszak and the other healthy Raiders Sunday when Cincinnati comes to the Coliseum for the AFC conference playoff battle. Defensive end Tony Cline will miss the game, although it was announced Tuesday that his knee injury is not as serious as first feared. He won't need surgery and could even be ready for a second playoff battle providing the Raiders get by a Bengals team which 0 in a edged them battle in Cincinnati earlier this season. The Raiders are down to only four healthy defensive linemen, with no spares and the league prohibits them from adding replacements at this stage of the season. But they have four top linebackers in strong shape and may use a lot of their first-roun- d "orange," Houston-styl- e 4 defense Sunday. There are other injury problems. Wide receivers Fred Biletnikoff and Mike Siani are battling a knee problem and hip bruise respectively. The Raiders need at least one of them in the lineup to take the heat off Cliff Branch on the other side. Cornerback Willie Brown is also doubtful because of a thigh injury but the Raiders are deep at his spot.- Banaszak is ready for a full go but minimizes his own contributions. "I have had a lot of opportunities to score, more than anybody else on the club," he said Tuesday. "Anyway, it's e a team effort in those situations. If everybody does his job and I do mine, CITY (UPI) -Cecil Samara's loyalty to the University of Oklahoma will last even after his death when he will be embalmed with a finger pointing up in the fashion of a football fan shouting, "We're No. 1!" Samara, full of life, disclosed his funeral arangements Friday on the eve of his sixth trip to the Orange Bowl in his wildly decorated 1923 Model-TFor- "Big Red." He has been driving the Model-to OU football games since 1950, including junkets to the Bluebonnet Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Gator Bowl, Chicago, South Bend and Pittsburgh. He wears red and white cowboy boots, a red leather belt, watch and red and white glasses and hat. "I didn't know there were any other colors," he said. red-face- d passed we'll score." Many wondered if Banaszak would play much this season, or even stick on the squad, when the Raiders brought a herd of running backs to camp. But Charlie Smith and James McAllister were traded and highly-rate- d rookie Louis Carter wound up on injured reserve. Then fullback Marv Hubbard missed several games with a recurring shoulder injury. Tuesday as a wedge in the upcoming basic agreement negotiations. According to Seitz' ruling, both Messersmith, the Los Page structure of Bengals Defeat Uintah, 34-2- 6 - SALT LAKE CITY The defending state wrestling champions of Brighton High hosted the defending state champions from Uintah "I want everybody to pmy for me for a safe trip in ihe car," Samara said. "I'm not really worried but every prayer helps." RickMasseyat 200-30- 0 to arrive in He will pull a carry clothes, pounds of auto parts. Bill Shreve, an OU fan from Dallas, will accompany Sama- ra. 34-2- 6-- 76-7- victory. Pepperdine has no reputation 8-- 0. Fifth-ranke- d 72-7- 2 6-- 5 layup. But Leite tied the game again with a pair of free throws to set the stage for Miller's game- - 20 TEMPE, Ariz. (UPI) -AState and Nebraska scored 683 points between them this season, but their Fiesta rizona Bowl game Friday just might turn out to be a defensive struggle. "On paper you'd have to say that it may not be a high scoring ball game," Tom and Osborne, coach of the Cornhuskers, said. And, ASU mentor Frank Kush is not about to argue as it was defense that carried the Devils much of the way en route to an 0 season and a seventh-plac- e national ranking. "I think we have as good a defense as we've had for three years," Osborne said, "but, you can have a bad day defensively." And, the speed of the ASU offense, which rolled up 330 points, also scares Osborne. "The thing we're worried about is Arizona State getting the big play. We feel that they've got some real home run threats with their wide receivers and we think they've got a back or two that can break one." Kush called the Devil defense "one of our assets." The Devils surrendered only 13 points and did not give up a rushing touchdown until the ninth game. "Looking at it realistically, we have our better athletes on 10-- 1 fifth-ranke- d 11-- 1 Kush said, as opposing directed their victory. The Dons easy outrebounded St. Peter's, for their eighth win in nine games this season. Freshman Wilfred Boynes was USF's top scorer with 22 points. South Carolina won its own Carolina Classic with a victory over Oklahoma State. Mike Dunleavy scored 24 points to lead the South 86-7- 1 1 teams Carolina Virginia scoring. defeated Yale, in the consolation game. Oregon lost four players to personal fouls at Providence and dropped a 8 decision to the Friars. Bruce Campbell led Providence with 21 points. Ron Lee was Oregon's top scorer passes 72-6- d 76-6- with 19. In he said. Samara, 59, known as OU's No. fan, does not expect to die 1 Butterfield, who led his team with three interceptions, may nave the toughest task, covering ASU's prime receivers, John Jefferson and Larry Mucker, who hauled in 86 passes between them. Kush said his team is not "physical enough" to challenge the Cornhuskers head-on- . "What we're going to do is use as much offense as possible, throwing the ball, the reverses, running the counters and the whole doggone bit to keep them off balance," Kush said. The offenses will be run by a pair of quarterbacks who started the season as 104-8- clobbered Cornell excellent skiing despite the fact there has been no new snow for several days and the runs are getting pretty packed down. There will be night skiing tonight at Park City only and Beaver Mountain and Snow Basin will be closed on Christmas Day. Area total snow tv ; V" CECIL SAMARA, known as the University of Oklahoma's o. I lootnall fan, takes up his "we're No. 1" pose. He says he II be buried with his right forefinger pointing up. " :.V" ... ' t n.. Samara left Oklahoma Citv last Saturday fur tho Bowl in his 1923 Model T with a plastic oranee tree Iront. The Sooners meet Michigan on Jan. 1. nn thi 94-5- 87-7- 94-6- 77-7- 7 Mary's87-71- . 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Brian Head Brighton Nordic Valley Park City Park West Powder Mtn. Snow Basin Snowbird 74 South By United Press International Utah ski areas report gwd to Alta Southern LSU beat Memphis State Iowa downed Benedictine Santa Clara edged Drake beat Long Beach State and Stanford defeated St. Connecticut Ferragamo Good Skiing ' Glenn games, 75-6- Vince I other Mosley returned after a suspension to lead Seton Hall to a 6 win over St. Francis, Fordham edged Vermont 6946, ISalle topped Maine Georgetown 8. Nebraska and Dennis Sproul for ASU. Ferragamo finally beat out Terry Luck, hero in last season's Bowl Sugar victory over Florida, while Sproul moved past two other Devils who knocked him out of the first string job he had held as a freshman in 1974 "I want everyone to stand up and sing 'Boomer Sooner' (the OU fight song at the funeral," a points. San Francisco, ranked 16th, demolished St. Peter's (N.J.) under the backboards for an elsewhere. Gordon, speedy for a athlete, topped the Devils in defensive statistics with 132 tackles. Nebraska's defense, which bent for only 120 points (35 of those in the loss to Oklahoma ), sports such names as monster back Wonder Monds, end Bob Martin, tackle Mike Fultz and cornerback Dave Butterfield, picks in the Big for fund. s 28 specifically pointing out cornerback Mike Haynes and linebacker Larry Gordon. Both came to ASU as offensive players, Haynes as a wide receiver and Gordon as a tight end, but were quickly switched to defense. Haynes led the nation in interccntions in 1971 ui;h 11, but dropped off to just two this season Nevada-La- d 101-8- 3 bench-warmer- s .... points. Vegas also had an easy time Tuesday night, rolling toa victory over California-SantBarbara. Eddie Owens led the undefeated Rebels with Defense May Rule in Fiesta He said he will have a red and white casket and wear one of the several red and white suits he owns when he dies and w ill ask that donations be made to the OU scholarship athletic recently had a girl in his soon. dormitory room and became "But if it happens they can involved in a heated argument say I died a very happy man," with a counselor over the he said. "The greatest compenincident. sation is the wonderful, Ivory, contacted at his home wonderful sports fans I have in Ft. Worth, declined met from coast to coast. comment except to say he left "When my number h up I school Friday night and hope I'm in the stanns with arrived home early Saturday. Oklahoma ahead." Ivory averaged 6 4 yards per For the trip to the Orange carry for the Sooners this year, Biiwl where OU will play gaining a net of 655 yards on 102 Michigan New Year's night, carries. He was second in yards Samara decked the front of the an Model-- with a gained to AIM plastic orange halfback Joe Washingu. mio tree which has been used for had 947 yards on 171 totes. previous Orange Bowl trips. "Horace Ivory has been "I predict we're going to beat dismissed from the Oklahoma Michigan by at least 20 points," football team for personal said Samara, a flag manufacreasons," Switzer said. turing company owner. "It's a bad time for us and a Samara recently had a" bad time for Horace with the dentist make a full set of upper Orange Bowl coming up so teeth with six teeth bearing one soon, but it was a decision that raised, red letter each. Now could not be delayed. when he smiles his teeth read 1975 winning tap at the buzzer. Miller finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds as Cincinnati improved its record to The loss was Pepperdine's first in eight games. Dennis Johnson scored 21 points to lead Pepperdine, while Leite had 14. UCLA had little trouble in improving its record to The Bruins' front line dominated visiting Baylor and the Bruins coasted to a victory. Marques Johnson was the Bruins' top scorer with an excellent team, a combination coaches of ranked teams usually avoid at all costs especially on the road. Fortunately for the Bearcats, Miller had an outstanding game against Pepperdine's Marcus Leite, the star center of the Brazilian national team. with 90 The score was tied seconds left when Miller put Cincinnati back in front with a Eighth-ranke- defense," 138. Wednesday, December 24, and Press International ninth-ranke- iy. one-ye- Provo, Utah, d Cincinnati The Bearcats, who loaded their early schedule with home games against unheralded opponents, planned to meet one more patsy Tuesday on their way to Hawaii for the Rainbow Classic and almost paid dearly for the excursion. d Cincinnati needed a in by tap sophomore Robert Miller to 4 escape Pepperdine with a Seitz took his firing and the obvious immediate affect of his decision philosophical- "My job was simply to look at the contract signed by the two parties," the arbitrator said. "The clubs said the players' contract can be renewed repeatedly while the Players one year Association said no is all it can be renewed. "That was the case on its merits. I'm no Abraham Lincoln." Meanwhile, Miller, who sought the arbitration when the Dodgers and Expos invoked the renewal clause on - By United organized baseball." 6- Cincinnati Escapes With Last Second Win Over Pepperdine, 76-7- 4 year. But while Hunter was ruled a free agent because of a breach of his contract by Oakland A's owner Charles O. Finley, Messersmith and McNally have been awarded their free agency on the basis of having played out the duration of their previous contracts and not signing new ones with their respective clubs. The owners, of course, see the latest Seitz ruling as a potential death knell to the reserve .clause and thus a serious jolt to baseball's basic foundation. Shortly after the decision was announced, they fired Seitz, saying they "no longer had confidence in the arbitrator's ability to understand ihe basic Tuesday night and the Brighton Bengals gained their seventh win against no losses, The Utes jumped off to a 26-- 6 lead on the strength of their four lower weight state champs by taking six of the first seven matches, then Brighton took over and won with five pins in the higher weights. Winners from Brighton included Manfred Lassig at 132, Keith Gardner at 145, Glen Mclntyre at 155. Jim Tennart at 167. Mark West at 185 and heavyweight Cal Perrenoud. Uintah's winners were 98 pound Kevin Huber who is undefeated and Robert Bia at' 112 as well as the Utes' four deending state champs, Jim Tnpp at 105, Eugene Woody at 119, Scott Ruppe at 126 and Samara plans Miami Dec. 28. small trailer to flags and P12 decision down short-yardag- Loyalty Spans Eternity OKLAHOMA y Seitz simik , paw, are free agents to Catfish Hunter whom Seitz freed for different reasons last ) here fall which Angeles Dodgers' ace righthander, and McNally, recently retired Montreal Expos south- a OAKLAND RAIDERS' PETE BANASZAK, shown scoring a touchdown in an exhibition game this g for Unfortunately if I if ufHlUr J fJU'iF I if system. We are that the chairman reserve Peter Seitz. with the New York Yankees last December. However, it is not likely such a bidding war will take place this time since the owners are united in their disavowal of the Seitz ruling and are appealing in a federal district court in Kansas City to have the case overturned. agreed with our view that the clubs may renew a player's contract for one year and one year only." Technically, Messersmith and McNally can now sell themselves to the highest bidder as Hunter did when he signed a $2.8 million contract St St iCalifl 75 Sacramento 71 78 |