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Show V u w-- -W U ..', yu 'rrr,yrmrYt, .,', viHiuiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiNiiiiiiiniiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimniiiiiii By JOE CARCINELLI Southern NEW YORK -- I -- - - ' . California No. drew 11 rip . wm! Seven first m' and top' week, advanced place polling by earning seven national champion No. 1 votes. ranked last week, plunged all with a 13-- SI, j .Sbli SS This is not to pat myself on the back as being a great prognosticator . . , only to point out that sometimes we let past reputation fog the facts. On May 15 j after watching Utah States spring football frolic I predicted there was virtually no way the Aggies could set the football world on fire this fall. w 6 their "Despite victory over the State, Michigan the Trojans top captured ranking by the slimmest of 2i-1- True, has a few. outstanding young men like Bill Staley, MacArthiir Lane, Altle Taylor, Ocie Austin and some fine youngsters like sophomore Phil Olsen. U-St-ate 7 margins one point over town rival UCLA. But season in and season outrone comes to re- -, alize that it takes more than a sprinkling of candidates to make a great squad. It takes depth. Not necessarily depth at every position. But talented depth through two or over while points awarded 292 280, 253 4. rivrilh.ThWsb,;N,rO,wlm, 3-- 0 Board of Coaches. 1. UCLA (7) (Ml 3.. Houston (10) (3-- Purdue 7) victory 5. Georgia white Colorado, 6.7 Nebraska Notra Dame seventh last week, dropped to 6.8. Missouri ) Colorado 'ninth after- - being idle this 10 Alabama O-Second 10 drew 86 Texas .Tech wrpkpnd Mjssnuri . j to the No. 8 slot 6 51-2- 3 mmii!iiiijimiiiimiiiiiiiiijiiiii!iiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!inn!iiiiii Irish Tumble 2, ' Pace191 points while Nebraska, with"'ho 'lacf wwJrew 27 hrst h,? polled California and UCLA, baUots afterlll points, clung to sixth .place place vot and 3CT points. could ,T?2 uPlnts al West Coast foes, have only 91 points from the bombarding Washington State bv virtue o a 7.0 squraker- - over their heated rivalry to ..the for their tlurd consecutive Minnesota.- triumph. summit of collegiate football. Notre Dame, John- McKays explosive' the Ko. 3.. ranking. The high Southern California riquad vault-- i scoring Cougars boosted their ed past Notre Dame Into the record to Friday night by No. 1" position in college annihilating WakeN Forest 50-football, according to voting and earned top billing on 10 held Monday by United .Press coaches ballots,, compiling 280 Internationals " 35 - m e m b e r points. UPI)-ii- r,i"r'wyT , 7 first place votes, and compiled ,UPI Sports Writer s.jfcSv frf rrr r rryrry roTO' rr'inrryyv -- 7 n Ag Problems No Surprise .'-- A it Gcorgo Ferguson' ; V in- - 1M I 0-- 84 80 53 (); Colorado 80. Alabama, ranked ninth week, slipped a notch to loth despite a triumph pvor The Top Ten, with Southern Mississippi. Ttie Crini- - par,tn0'T,5'.5', a5,n 1rKOrd and 8 4j21 f son Tide, now .were t. southern ciifcm 5(20) " a'0 .awarded, 53 points to round out! 3 uciA r the top 10. 5 Georgia votes In po'"' w e 8. 0 iiidi) 551 -- Tuesday October 3, 1967 1. Southern C.l Notre Dmt Nebraska Colorado 9 Alabama ' 10 Texas Tech Others receivinn 428 3A8 0 .30 - 368 3S4 - ?n ? o 6. 7. 8. UPI Ratings !now2-0,complete- 6, (8); AP Ratings 25-- 1 Purdue, which pulled off the upset of the year Saturday by knocking off top ranked Notre Dame, gained enough prestige to move from eighth to fourth Boilermakers d the first c r PV- - Wvomren (tie) Fir Tor 15, Georgia (23; Was Oklahoma (15); 17, Syracuse eqon state (9); 19, Louisiana Sfa 30, North Carolina State (7). 11, 13, ii.i... 165 141 20 votes, listed iphheti. tr.- j ' 114 71 47 10-- (ill (Ml - By JACK HAND Associated Press Writer BOSTON (AP) The cold, unblinking eye of the computer gives the St. Louis Cardinals the statistical edge over the upstart - Utah An Example University of . Utah Coach Mike Giddings pointed this out when he (to amazement of most everyone) predicted rosier things for the Utes this year despite the fact that the ranks were riddled by graduation. Q-Ba- wide-ope- Jack Lamabe, Larry Jast-- i er, Ray Washburn, Joe Hoemer and Ron Willis complete a stron taff. W:ifflams will open with Jose Santiago, a Puerto Rican who has alternated between starting his and relief throughout career, and will follow with Jim winner Lonborg, the who pitched Sundays pennant e clincher. To date, the Aggies have had to depend on break-awalong yardage runs. They have been hard pressed to generate consistent T.D. drives which is the earmark of a solid football outfit. If a team has the ability to generate those drives, the touchdown runs good things in life come along more often. 54-ya- BOSTON (UPI) Pollowtno ft eomoarison o( the St. Cardinals and Boston Red Sox: BATTINO ' " - Sirs Basemen AB HR RBI PLAYER, CLUB PCT. Ceoeda. St. Lo. 543 25 110 32S Bo- 12 545 19 .303 44 o Sietoem, Bos 7 .205 Second Basemen Louii Javier, Sf , 80-ya- rd the importance Anyone who of an offensive line should chat with Wyomings Lloyd Eaton. While Eaton had praise for last yearls great defense, he lauded the offensive lines h performance as the real secret to success. Wyomings come-throug- will humiliate this aging Aggie have crew. They pride . . . they are improving in areas they will pull a surprise or two many .. . they have not lost three straight (or aix) as did last years touted squad. But theyll have to fight and scramble for the every inch . . . simply because they dont have do it to talent or manpower wealth of exceptional any other way. I think no one ... Bos. fov. Bos. Shannon, St. Lo Cardinals' Orlando Cepeda reads Bosox slugger Carl Yastrzemski's ... SLC 0. ... mine. Maybe Ill take him out to dinner. But Ill jpe trying to get him out in the game. At the same time. Bob Gibson will be trying to get the Red Sox put as the Cardinals' start- - in the second game and possibly Gary Bel or Lee Stange in the third. If the Red Sox are to upset the experts and win the Series just as they upset ev- er- eryone and soared from ninth to He was given that job Monday first in the American League by Manager Red Schoendienst,! this year those pitchers will who also named Dick Hughes have to muffle Cepedas guns, and Nelson Briles for the second; National League pitchers id and third games. very little muffling during the n Manager Dick Williams of ;season, and Cepeda is with ered a cinch to be named tha will counter winner Jim Lonborg leagues Most Valuable Player; PREMIUM GRADE Takes 'Break' MIRACLE EXTRA TRACTION D TRUCK TIRE SURE-FOOTE- ON HARD, SOFT OR PERY ROADS. MILLER of, the Minneapolis Twins, the kindly who tied with Carl Yastrzemski with 44 home rims e Ameribut whose Twins lost to Boston in the can League race Sunday, stopped in Salt Lake City Monday for lunch with a couple of friends. Big Harm was on his way home to Ontario, Oregon, and some big game and bird hunting this fall. He had nailed his spikes to the Twins dressing room wall and because of Bostons big bats had called it a season. Harmon Killebrew big man down-the-wir- Jack Staley, father to Bill, missed his lit his sons 23 out- . first attendance to a USU game there. was mother (Mary) togs. But Bills New Mexico State will host the NCAA golf tournament in 1968 on the college layout. ever. NMS lege officials say it will be the best new palace. hoop a also is building . . . Also present for most pf.the first half booster from Los Angeles, was another been under the weather. has Wilson. Jerry Jerry ... ty te A.L. FAVORED Harmon made his guess on the World Series, which starts Wednesday at Boston with toe Red Sox and St Louis doing ' toe final honors. I favor toe American League of course. The Red Sox have their momentum up. I know. I felt some of it. However, there is the matter of pitching apd if the Sox get beat it will . be because of pitching. What happened to the Twins? N GREAT THROW-OUWe went to Boston confident 'we had toe toe pennant e packed away. We always play good at Boston and with a lead it seemed that we stood the best chance.. But ' . , things went wrong. . Yes that was a greatthrow-ou- t by Cart Yastrzemski - ' , 2 : See KILLEBREW on Page ,; , - Still Ahead PALM 'BEACH - GARDENS T -- ..1-- 3 J -- 4,3 6 , that his earnlnp hf J182.393.96 Obituaries for tiie year left him first in the Weather Map, Action Ads --7,8 .8 .8-1- 5 SLIP- Deseret News Sports Editor . . . Palmer Sports consid-Bosto- ALL NYLON By HACK - one-gam- -- , Petrocelli, Bos. MoxvHI, SI. Lo. Flood. St. Lo. IKlarm New Mexico State freshmen beat Texas Western, 58-- The Aggie frosh were suited up and to the paraded before home town fans prior game . . . Utah assistants Max McCartney and Al from Prukop had to operate spotting procedure were . . interesting I . thought they the press box to listen to. So did the Memphis State scout took a week off from the links Financial to count his money and fourtd TV Highlights forecast. 14 .281 .263 .94 Basanwn J 414 at, 483 Shortstops 491 471 W 49 77 1 11 cj C-- t v : 'i ' Plus Excise Tax and exchange. OTHER SIZES AVAILABLE! Jose Santiago CLUS St. LO. 514 Ot .259 .227 1 S MtttfKi AB P 74 47 58 54 32 R PHcWrtf Records IP PlfCHBR, CLUB W .304 .29 .27 .741 .755 .253 41 .244 10 .723 12 .723 14 27 29 2 25 .295 .771 .199 .179 .121 .289 21 399 6 10 .213 .710 .154 1 RBI S4S CR 1,465 557 1,459 14 J3S SB 121 PttcMnd I St. LO. Bar. HR 1,459 914 Cl 251 .245 )7 1566 115 655 Bo. .773 Outfit! dors Curt Flood of the Cards has to backup men, Bob Tolan and Yastrzemski, Boo. 579 44 Gary Bell probably is the best second. 49 21 bet for the third game with Lee; Rico Petrocelll of Boston is a be the center fielder over rookie Alex Johnson, rate on a par Brock, St. Lo. Boo. 349 30 St. 410 Lo. Mori. al-f ; with Harrelson and TartabulL Stange a possibility. The big standout over Dal Maxvill at Reggie Smith of hie Sox 333 12 Harrelson, Boa. man in the Boston bullpen is shortstop. Flood has been is another though having. Catching big plus 247 so. John Wyatt who won 10 games Yastrzemski, St. Louis. Tim McCarver, everybodys trouble throwing since a mid-fo- r 175 Johnson, St. Lo. and appeared 60 times. best bet for Most Valuable season injury and Smith had a pressing Joe Torre fix the role Cal chon 471 Around the infield, the Cardi- - Player honors in the American good second half after a slow of No. 1 catcher in baseball, has R&etKrsrV lo.0' 99 Tib nals have the edge at first base League, must be ranked over start. been an Inspirational leader all SnB'nLBo 315 59 with Orlando Cepeda getting the any left fielder although the Roger Maris, both at bat and season and hit .295 with 14 horn- - Romano' utility call over George Scott and Ju-- j Cards Lou Brock combines in the field, has a wide edge in era and 69 runs batted In. None Jooeao 19 217 lian Javier ove r either Jerry speed and power, and carried right field over either Ken Har-- 1 of the Boston catchers can come Thom' b 99 105 Sofezto, St. Lo. Irelson or Jose TartabulL Maris-- close. Adair or Mike Andrews at the club in early season. Bressoud 6t. Lo. 67 PICKS BOSOX Las Cruces Notes 520 Third Adair, j under-estimat- Lo. Andrews, Bo. - Aggies meet a foe which can pretty well contain the explosiveness of Lane and Taylor (such as New Mexico State)) USU lacks the solidarity to sustained consistently generate those drives. pga list SUMMARY Boston's BOSTON (AP) Jose Santiago and St. Louis Orlando Cepeda may share a dinner table tonight, but when Wednesday comes it'll be like the old westerns., Fenway Park wont be big enough to hold them both in the first game of the World Series, and one will have to get out Santiago by way of the showers or Cepeda by way of a strikeout jor some such harmless maneuver. The showdown wont come at f They are not unfamiliar to high noon itll be shortly after each other, these two. Both arebut when it does occur itll be from Puerto Rico, Santiago: a very important one because from Carolina and Cepeda from Santiago and Cepeda are very .Guaynabo. vital to their teams. Orlando? I'v e pitched Santiago will .be Bostons against him in winter bail,, after going game pitcher while Santiago said opening workout is the Cardinals, prt through a Cepeda Monday. He's a good friend of mary slugger. It is no surprise to this writer than when the old CARD, SOX By MURRAY CHASS Associated Press Writer Lane, Taylor Contained (UPI)-k-Ara- (MST). ' Pace Santiago, Cepeda Tight y, 13,000-capaci- a.m. Thursdays coverage will be at the same time but then the action shifts Satur-'- . day to St. Louis where all games will start at noon right-hander- pin-poi- nt USU-NM- S Bos- line-up- Realistically, a coach can impose no more offense on a team than a quarterback can handle. n This is especially true of passing or systems which require smart execution and a certain on part of the amount of I have all respect in the world for the Utag quarterbacking when it comes to desire. Theyll give a coach 100 per cent effort. But natural ability is lacking. This produces inconsistency. While USU has a pretty fair crop of receivare no there ers, passers like Bill Munson or Ron Edwards to gear a consistent aerial threat. And to generate touchdown drives there has to be air and ground diversion . . . unless, that is, one team is capable of simply running over the other. le 10:45 at shortstop,' the Cardinals appear to have an edge at every The Key ck the the pre-gam- man-to-ma- n position going into the World Series opening Wednesday at Fenway Park. Third base could be a standoff, depending upon the whim of Dick Williams, the Boss ton manager who shifts with hunch touch. a by magic Lets start "with the pitching, for that is the department that usually decides a short series. In the best-of-- 7 competition, Manager Red Schoendienst already has announced he will use Bog Gibson, Dick Hughes and Nelson Briles in the first three gamew. All are The bullpen crew of Al Jack-so- The first game of World Series between St. Louis Cardinals and ton Red Sox will be broadcast in Utah over KUTV, Channel 2 starting with a . show at 10:30 a.m. and on radio station " KSXX, 630 on the dial at Boston RedSox in batting, compitching and parisons at most positions. The same chilling statistics do not take into account Boston's dramatic surge from ninth to first in one season and the Cardinals cakewalk to the pennant in a National, League that was supposed to be Except for. Carl Yastrzemski in left field find Rico 'Petrocelll Giddings pointed out that while the Redskins lost some supermen like John Stipech, they had come up with more adequate depth to draw from. Utah is proving that point. And while youngsters like Phil Olsen have that tag . . . they dont make the transition from .prep-an- d .college freshman football to major college wars overnight. No matter what their strength and ability, it takes a while to acquire that major college savvy which makes a mediocre soph great or a great soph In the Ag spring tussle, it was evident that they had overall depth problems. The critical headaches were quarterbacking, defensive secondary and effensiYJine. They had sorqe fine front line runners, but aderth of .back-u- p menu Fla. . uly . three spots. Series Action On TV, Radio 499 545 PCT. J63 5.36 RRA 5.05 3.39 SO RRA 1 7 43 52 130 v'.e. B 14 5 155 94 144 BrllM, St. LO. 3 1 64 39 2.53 Osinskl, Bos. 4 4 96 50 2 59 Hoornff, St. Lo. 10 7 93 68 2 61 Wvtt,; Bos 6 5 II 42 267 Willis, Sf Lo. 2 69 16 6 222 161 Huoos, St. Lo. I 10 182 101 2 77 Strange. Bos. 14 9 193 169 2 98 Carlton. St. Lo. X Gibson, St. Lo. 13 7 175 147 2.98 9 7 15? 97 3.02 Jaster, St. Lo. 27 9 273 246 3.16 l.onbom, Bos. 3 7 79 53 5 38 Lamebp, St. Lo. Bell ,Bot. 13 13 276 152 331 10 7 186 98 3.53 Washburn, St. LO. 12 4 145 109 2 60 Santiaoo. Bos. 1 3 40 74 3 83 Stephenson, Boa. 9 4 107 43 3 95 Jackson, St. Lo. 5 11 159 95 4 14 Brandon, Bos. 5 4 49 40 4 31 M or ahead. Bos. 7 1 42 20 514 St. Lo. WoodesHicfc, 1 0 29 73 5.19 Bos. Red Box? Gibson, CardlneJt listed as disabled with tHofol playen fist as released, by the commissioners office. XX Landis, Red Soar, listed as oflgfbio player ft now tn military service. |