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Show Wednesday, December 24, 1975, THE HERALD, Provo, 9 Utah-P- age Writers Vote World Series As Top Sports Story in NEW YORK (UPI) - The exciting World Series seven-gam- e victory over the Boston Red Sox was voted the top sports story of 1975 by a wide margin in balloting by United Press International sports writers across the country. Of the panel, 16 writers naming the series as their first choice. Overall, the October classic drew 184 points on a basis, with every writer naming it on his ballot the only 1975 story so acclaimed. A considerably sadder event, the death of the great filly Ruffian following her match race with Foolish Pleasure in July, finished second with 128 points, 13 more than the Cincinnati Reds' heavyweight championship in Manila at the end of September. The sixth game of the Series, in which Carlton Fisk's home rui, in the 12th inning gave Boston a 6 victory, and Cincinnati's 3 win in the deciding seventh game, swung the vote in favor of the baseball classic. Ruffian had never lost before her match race and had the lead against Foolish Pleasure, the Kentucky Derby winner, when she broke her right foreleg in the backstretch. The 4-- filly had to be put away despite efforts by a team of doctors to save her. bout was the The third, and decisive, meeting between the two super heavyweights. The fight proved to be a bitter war, just as the two previous bouts in New York, but in the end Ali retained his championship when a Frazier was not permitted to answer the bell for the 15th round. The Pittsburgh Steelers' Super Bowl triumph last January over the Minnesota Vikings was ranked fourth, with 97 points, followed by John half-blind- 16-- 6 Wooden's retirement as UCLA's basketball coach and the Bruins' subsequent national championship in March, which drew 82' points. Rounding out the voting were: Fred Lynn's unique of being accomplishment named American League Rookie of the Year and MVP; the sagging sports economy which resulted in the folding of the World Football League and four ABA teams; the world recordbreaking mile runs of Filbert Bayi and John Walker; Golden State's NBA championship; second and Philadelphia's straight Stanley Cup. Wooden's Bruins sent their coach into retirement with sn 5 emotional triumph over Kentucky for the NCAA title, his 10th national championship 92-8- in 12 years. Lynn had a tremendous year for the Red Sox. He batted .331 and hit 21 home runs and 105 lefthand-e- d RBIs. The led the AL in runs scored, 103, doubles, 47, and in slugging .566. He also percentage, displayed superior defensive abilities. After Vk years battling indifferent support and financial woes, the WFL gave up the ghost, but basketball also had its casualties. The ABA lost the Memphis Sounds between seasons and, when they tried to reform as the Baltimore Claws, folded before the season began. The San Diego Sails and Utah Stars then dissolved in mid-se- a sot.. Air Bayi, the Tanzanian Force mechanic, had an unbeaten in w season before shattering Jim Ryun's eight h of a year old mark by second when he ran a 3.51.0 at Kingston, Jamaica. But three months later in Goteburg, Sweden, Walker, a barrel-chesteNew Zealander, ran 0 mile history's first when he clocked 3: 49.4. Golden State's championship e came in May with a 75 sweep over the favored Washington Bullets for the Warriors' first ever NBA crown, while the Flyers defeated Buffalo in six games for their second straight Stanley Cup, the first time an NHL club had scored back championships since the Montreal Canadiens in 1968-6- Other stories receiving support included the death of Casey Stengel and Archie Griffin becoming history's first Heisman trophy repeat winner. While the Series was the runaway winner for the top story, the AAU track team's visit to China was selected the " of year by a basis, large niargin. On a the CUna trip garnered 29 points against the 18 of Evel Knievel and "anything he did." Wilt Chamberlain's attainment of free agent status and his subsequent negotiations with the New York Knicks finished third in this category with nine points. tit "non-story- THE WORLD SERIES was voted as the top sports story in 1976 by a panel of writers for United Press International. Here Carlton Fisk jumps for joy after hitting the game winning home run in the 12th inning of the sixth Cincinnati dramatic game which gave Boston a triumph. came back in the seventh game to gain a 6 3 triumph. one-tent- d sub-3:5- four-gam- Texas Athletes Were Jobs Given Make-Wor- k By ANN ARNOLD AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) -University of Texas athletes were given make-worjobs in the Senate print shop at the same time regular employes were laid off, UPI has learned The athletes were hired under what some insiders refer to as a "quota system" for employing individuals referred to the Senate by the Texas athletic department. Although they benefited from ' of the athletes it, some were not even apparently aware they were given preference for summer jobs over other applicants and in some cases persons already employed by the Senate. Four athletes have admitted drawing unearned pay, however, for perixls of two to three weeks or longer when they were on state payrolls but did not show up for work. Taking unearned pay from the state is illegal. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules also prohibit athletes receiving unearned pay. k Senate Secretary Charles A. Schnabel hired the athletes, ordered pay raises for them in June and assigned them to the Senate print shop. But he said he was not aware they quit coming to work in August before they were taken off the payroll. "At the beginning of the summer they'd be there. Then when they started helping Mr. Schnabel at his ranch you couldn't tell if they were just absent or helping the old man," one print shop worker told UPI. "They're mostly just in the way. About the only thing you could get them to do was collating (arranging pages in their proper order). If you asked them to do any printing or cutting, they'd just mess it up. Nine out of 10 times they're just sitting around doing nothing." "We don't make jobs up there," said Sen. Don Adams, chairman of the Senate Administration Committee. "That is not the that policy of the Senate anybody comes up here and sits around. If we don't need the people we terminate them. We have a pdiry of no patronage." More than 100 ate employes were terminated at the end of the legislative session in June; two hundred more were let go during the summer in an economy move ordered by Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby and Adams. St Hobby and the administration committee chairman said they do not know why unneeded employes were being hired for the Senate print shop at the time of the layoffs. ' Quet thoughts turn to this j Dozens of athletes get summer jobs with the legislature ar J state agencies, but the only cas.s uncovered of athletes drawing unearned pay have been in the Senate. J. Neils Thompson, Texas Athletic Council chairman, said athletes who admitted to UPI they drew pay when they were not working may not have understood the conditions of their employment. a season when families and iff Christmas I Li " n Ih jji Mm hft ' WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE THIS PAST YEAR! 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