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Show THE HERALD. Provo, Utah,' Sunday. November 8 Page 18, 1979 Jim Murray's Column: Galloping tor Votes By JIM MURRAY (c) 1979, Let Angeles Timet LOS ANGELES Usually, when a sports writer receives a press kit with a picture of an athlete on the cover and a - slugged "For your con sideration, it is a from a Stitch sports information director trying to get the Heisman Trophy for some quarterback from Auburn or halfback from brochure The candidate, you see, has four legs, and a blaze on his nose. You don't expect a horse to have a press agent. Unless he's got Roy Rogers on him. I mean, to give you an idea, what was the name of Lady Godiva's horse? "The Carpenter" is a racehorse getting a publicity buildup that Teddy Kennedy could use. He doesn't appear on talk shows or cut supermarket ribbons or show up at World Series, but he's running for office all the same. His people want him elected colt of the year, a office which is primarily Cornell whose credentials are, honorary. The Eclipse Awards are horse racto say the least, ing's version of the Oscars and, like suspect Or, it may be from a major league their theatrical counterpart, which are front office promoting some designated convertible into cash later at the bos hitter for MVP or some infielder it is office, these honors are redeemable trying to unload in exchange for one later at stud fees. The Carpenter is a prime candidate who can bend down. for the honor except for one thing, But the press kit this time was extollall right, a candidate geography. He comes from the wrong ing an who can run the 100 in 8 flat, weighs side of the tracks. He's apt to make 1,100 pounds stripped and, while he noise eating his oats, or tell dirty can't conjugate Latin verbs, neither stories at the White House. He comes can anyone who will be in the Rose from a section of the country where, the Eastern Establishment Bowl this Jan. 1. knows, eye-open- Skyline, Bountiful Claim Grid Titles they have no manners, and, besides, they can't go a mile and a quarter on anything but roller skates. the rest of the country is not too fond of California anyway. The last two Presidents who came from here failed to go the distance, so to speak. One quit and the other failed in the reelection stretch. It is the notion on Long Island and in Kentucky that you keep anything and anybody from California locked away when company calls. Like our irrigated fruit, they contend, everything out here is big but tasteless. New York City may be broke, but it still has a carnation in its buttonhole every day, and doesn't go around in shirts open to the waist and with thongs for shoes. games were played at the 1976 and - Before the hestarthad Anderson of the set season, Ottis thought reasonable goals for his rookie year with the St. Louis Cardinals. But 11 games into the season, Anderson is finding he miscalculated a bit: he didn't see his sights high title. "I want to get the team noticed for something," he said. "We've had a lot of key people hurt. If they were healthy and in condition we wouldn't have lost a lot of the games that we've lost." Anderson has been one of the few bright spots for the 8 Cardinals this year, and he concedes with the playoffs an impossibility, he might turn his attention toward personal goals including the Rookie of the Year award. "It dawns on me every once in awhile," he said, "but quite frankly I don't think I'll win it. There are a lot of good backs around the league. There are a lot of great guys. I'm just one of many trying to achieve the same thing. "Anywhere else I might not have had the opportunity that I have here. But the Cardinals needed a running back of my caliber to start right away. I was blessed to come to St. Louis. "If I can survive the last five games it will be tough for someone to take it (the rookie award). I've also got a shot at the rushing title. It's going to be tough but it's possible. has established himself as the Cardinals' best backfield threat since Terry Metcalf left for Canada and in his pro career already as rewritten most of the team's offensive records. the 6foot-l- , The Cardinals ir? Anderson their No. 1 oun choice from the University of Miami (Fla.), where he broke all of Chuck Foreman's records. Already he has set Cardinal club marks by rushing 1,105 yards this season and going over the mark six times. He trails Chicago's Walter Payton by 49 yards for the NFL rushing lead and is less than 350 yards with five games remaining from breakaway ing the league record for rushing by a rookie set last year by Earl Campbell. n Anderson refuses to Still, the acknowledge he is a leading contender for the Rookie of the Year award or that his accomplishments have been something special. "I'm doing what any running back could have done if he'd come here," he said. However, he had an idea of what he wanted to do before the start of the season. "I wanted to come into the NFL and make a name for myself," he said. "I wanted to be a success and end the season with some notoriety. I didn't get publicity in college like a lot of people and then all of a sudden I'm drafted and a lot of people thought the Cardinals had made a big mistake. They had never heard of me. But I'll let my actions speak for me. "I wanted to get 1.000 yards. I got off to a good start but then I had three weeks in a row where I didn't get 100 yards and I began thinking that I might not make it. But I stayed in there and kept going." With both of his goals already in hand, Anderson wants to catch Payton and win the league's rushing 210-pou- 100-yar- d " soft-spoke- - Quarterback Roger yards Randall passed for 221 and four touchdowns Saturday to lead Morgan High School to a 4 victory over Millard High and the Class prep state 26-1- 2-- A football championship. Hawks Blitz Eagles (UPI) - Dallas leftwinger Brad Smith scored a hat trick lead Black DALLAS the Friday night to Hawks to 2 Central Hockey League victory over the Salt Lake Golden Eagles. The Black Hawks jumped off to a 0 first period lead, and extended that to 0 in the second period before Salt Lake got on the board. Bob Murdoch hit a wrist-shfrom the left side 11 : 17 into the second period to make it 1 at the end of 40 minutes of play. 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"At the end of the season I can sit back and say, 'What did I do?' If I have achieved some of those goals that I wanted to achieve, then I must have had a pretty good year. But that's the only time I can come to that conclusion." St. Louis Coach Bud Wilkinson, who has seen his share of great running backs in his time, acknowledges Anderson is one of the best but refuses to compare him with other backs. "He's a great athlete," Wilkinson said. "I think the one thing that all great running backs have to have is durability. And he's got that. He's just going to get better and better." Beaver High knocked off twotime defending state chamchampion South Summit 24-- 9 for the pionship, in a second game at the University of Utah. Millard, the defending champion, was first to score with a touchdown in the second quarter. But Morgan led 12-- 7 and 19-- 7 at the beginning of the fourth quarter. Dave Buck of Morgan was the leading rusher in the game, carrying the ball 25 times for 101 yards. The two teams have been the best in the divison for the past four years, trading the championship back and forth. Millard was the 1976 champion. Morgan defeated the southern Utah team to win the 1977 title. Millard beat Morgan in the 1978 championship game. Kelly Smith lead Beaver to the win, scoring a pair of touchdowns, kicking three extra points and one for 18 points in the game. It was field goal Beaver's first state title since 1975, ending South hold on the Summit's two-yechampionship. cars. with Ma of LnM 552 BUY Morgan, Beaver Earn Grid Titles SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) cor with SSI BEAT THE WINTER TIRE HUSH 3-- enough. Anderson f sharp angina ana A mm mi mm Cardinal Rookie Setting Records ST. LOUIS (UPI) TDEOD 77 0 rying the ball. Berntsen went over with the winning score with 19 seconds left. Bountiful broke the game open in the third quarter with a double pass play. Quarterback Kevin Kott tossed a lateral pass to Jim Perkins who then threw 44 yards to Mike Haslam. . . rd A 12-- Skyiine won the game with a sustained drive in the final minutes with D.J. Wilson and Eric Berntsen taking turns car- 17-1- THIS WEEK'S SPECIALS! 54-1- races this year. The Carpenter, of course, doesn't know he's a California horse. He doesn't wear sunglasses, he's never ridden a surfboard, shopped at Gucci's, eavesdropped at the Polo lounge, trailed Brighton 10-- 7 at the half, but tied it late in the third quarter on a fieki goal by Paui Putnam. Brighton's Phil Swan then pushed the Bengals ahead 0 run for a with a touchdown early in the fourth quarter. Skyline tied it again when Tony Swenson rcovered a Brighton fumble on the five yard line and Craig Angelos pushed across for the score. 24-1- - CEDAR CITY, Utah (UPI) Charlie Thompson passed for 254 yards and three touchdowns and rushed for another 83 yards and a fourth score in Western State to an powering NAIA easy 4 win over Southern Utah State Saturday. Ahead just 0 at halftime, Western State scored five touchdowns in the third quarter to turn a close game into a 49-- rout. Running back Ron Linsacum also go into the Mountaineers' scoring blitz with two touchdowns. blue-blood- 1977, era when a Pole can become Pope, a Southerner President and a woman the prime minister of England, what's wrong with a Hollywood wise of the year? I guy maki: mean, the last one to make it from here was Shirley Temple. (c) 1979, Los Angeles Times In an West States Crushes SUSC The Eastern voting bloc is probably going to nominate an animal called Rockhill Native, who has won six of his nine races, but never at a mile or more. The Carpenter has won five of seven, and at a mile once and 1116-mile- s another. His sire, Gummo, is enough, and sired Ancient Title and Golden Act, the horse who was in the money in all three Triple Crown "They think it's 'Oi' out here," grumbles the Racing Form's locally based Don Page. No California colt ever won the On the Eclipse Award as 1 other hand, no colt of any origin ever 4-- started his own religion or booed the Rams. He does have his moments, though. He thinks he's Errol Flynn. He's what they call around the race track "studdish." In other words, don't go on any yacht trips with him. He's not chauvinistic, at all. hence the advertising campaign on his behalf. "G.U.," or Geographically Undesirable. They are particularly certain that our horses are right off a carousel and can only run in one direction downhill. And that they start to back up when they go around two turns or hit level ground. SALT LAKE CITY. (UPI) -Skyline High School won its third football championship state in the past four seasons Friday, 7 with a beating Brighton winning touchdown scored just 19 seconds before the clock ran out. Bountiful also won its first ever state championship, shutting out division. Both West 14-- 0 in the University of Utah. Skyline, the champs in won that award without first winning a race at a mile or more. Only one of the prime candidates, this year. The Carpenter, fcas satisfied that requirement. It's the notion of his owner, Fred Sahadi, that if The Carpenter doesn't get the Eclipse this year it will be the biggest injustice since Jim Brown didn't win the Heisman. Like girls who live off the paved road in the country during Prom Week, he is considered Most Pass. 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