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one above: they conclude spring' practices with the Blue-White game, tomorrow
at Hershey Park Stadiuni, starting at 2 p.m. •
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iN NATI (AP) It didn't take, ;which only 12, other major leaguers
Pe C teß C o 's quest for a 3,000 th hit to . • have .achieved. , • •
sell,-teamate Joe.'Morgan: on the ' ' He - got two hits Wednesday' night to
CneinnatOßeds' third baseniiiii.. ' . move to 2,998 and he was greeted with
"A , statistic is just ,a 'statistic. standing ovations, when he went to the
That's nat . what . Pete Itosnis tp the,'.', • plate and the chant of "Pete; Pete" as
Morgan- iaid. - "What" - makes'- Pete he stood in to 'hit.
Rose more special than any number , • • '
is that he's the only 'one --.the • only , , „ ."TheyAre got my revved . , up," he ,
one I've .ever known -- who plays
admitted.. "I'm scared I might just
every' day like it's Aiening day . ~ jump up' and swing at a pitch, I'm so
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"The man's more important to me exc it e d ., ,
than any.statistic." •' _ • • , The fans were screaming for Rose
Meanwhile, 1 the • Reds • third:• to get THE hit Wednesday night so
basenrian hiinself admits he's really -. • they could say -, they'
,were •at the
excited about reaching the milestone ballpark at the time .
Xentucky Derby duel : set
\Alydar,
• LOUISVI LE, Ky. (AP) Alydar arid
. Affirmed are set to duel in the Kentucky
Derby Saturday at Churchill ' Downs in
:what will be the seventh and by. far the
biggest battle of their exciting
,rivalry.
• .Sensitive Prince, Believe Wand seven
other 3-year 7 olds will try to make the
I 'expected even boped-fbr --•
frontation between Alydar and'Affiimed
in the 1 1 / 4 -mile, Derby anticlimatic.
:Alydar and Affirmed are each Un-:
'beaten in four' starts this year while
ISensitive' Prince has won all five of his
•,1978 races and also his only startas a 2-
,year-old: Believe It has, been beaten in
i three of five starts this year looked
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'Memorial April 22 and appears ready for
a big effort.
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1 .' Alydar was ma - de the early even
money favorite Thursday even-though
lelie was beaten by Affirmed four times in
"six meetings last year when Affirmed
' was voted the 2-year-old champion'. The
'Verdict still out on Butazolidin
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) If a human
athlete gets a headache, you give him a
~„ couple of aspirin. If he has an aching
;back you might give him a shot of 'ior
tisone. • - ' - ' • .- •
Hoiees;: especially: finely -tuned
thoroughbreds, are brittle creatures
:prone to injury and pain. So what do you
XI do about it? , .
You give them a little Butazolidin, or
• r, 'llute," and they won't feels thing ; until
• well after they have run .the race: •
- Almost certainly,: "Bute" will be
. ..flowing through the systems of some
not all - - of the 11 horses slated to go .to
ttfe piet In'Saturday's 104th Kentucky
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rivalry,was so intense that after a total
of 5 1 /B miles, Affirined holds an over-all
margin of only-about 1 length
. Affirmed was listed at 7-5, but is much
lurthei behind Alydar in the sentimental
sWeepitakes. Alydar was bred and is
k raced by ealumet Farm, a •Kentucky
institution Ahat has seen it's devil's-red
and blue silks carried by eight Derby
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Alydar, upset by Believe
. It in • the
Remsen in his final race as a 2-year-old,
-opened 1978 by winning a seven-furlong
\ allowance race in February. He then
won the' Flamingo and Florida Derby
, 'with identical 1:47 times for the 1 1 / 4 -mile
tests 'and won the Blue Grass by 13 1 / 4
lengths in his final Derby prep April‘,27.
:!I would prefer an outside post," said
John Veitch;trainer of Alydar who has a
one-run.style and won't be battling for
, the lead in theiong 'charge to the first
turn: Veitch got his wish as Alydar; who
Why not? It's ;perfectly legal here,
although it wasn't 10 years ago when
Dancer's Image was disqualified after
finishing first and the prize, money, and
trophy after a prolonged court fight
went to Forward Pais. ' • '
Forward Pass became the eighth and ,
last of the diStiguished line of champions
wearing the devil-red silks of Calumet
Farm. Calumet hopes to get No; 0 with
the co-favored ;Alydar.,
Alydar won't be buttressed with
"Bute" although Calumet'S
,young diuretics such as Lasix which drains the
trainer, John Veitch, sees no objection to• !. body of all fluids and enables one to ,
the drug. - i mask othei, .possibly illegal drugs.
"We don't need it," he said,' "because "I think we'd be better off if we stuck
of the size of • o - table, but lam suie 'to oats and hay." • •
Blue-White game to , be a
By GEORGE BERMAN
Daily, Collegian Sports Writer "
"Rerun" is a. word which haunts
modern day man. .
But, 'of course, not all reruns turn
man's stomach. Take "I Love Lucy," a
show that one can watch 15 times and
still howl in laughter. All winning shows
remain enjoyable.
For those heading to , the Blue-White,
gathe at Hersheypark Stadium this
Saturday (2 p.m. game time), they will
be in fora "rerun" of sorts a repeat of
last season's offensive game plan which
allowed the Penn State football team to
steamroll to a healthy 11-1 season.
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year," Lion's fine fullback Matt Suhey
said referring to the upcoming Spring
spectacle. "Chuck (Fusina) has thrown
.very well, we have great receivers and
our running game is doing pretty well. A
couple new plays here and there and a
couple new pass patterns, but nothing
drastic."
`3Ve might 'do a little more passing
because we have a couple backs hurt
Trackmen meet Maryland, - Pitt in showdown
By DARLENE HROBAK .
Daily Collegian Sports Writer
If a fOrtune teller gazed into her crystal ball regard
ing the men's track team's double dual meet Saturday
morning, she'd probably forecast a sight to behold.
• The Nittany Lions will meet Maryland and Pittsburgh
on the track behind the Westerly Parkway Junior High
School with field 'events beginning at 10 a.m. and run
ning events starting at 10:30 a.m.
Who the forecaster would predict to finish with the
most points, , however,, is anybody's guess. The
Maiyland Terrapins just happen to be the Atlantic .
Coast Conference champions.
"They . are so strong where they're strong," Penn
State coach Harry Groves, said., "They're awfully
loaded in sprints and hurdles and junips."
"Pitt isn't anywhere near as strong as Maryland, but
I don't think that means that you don't have to watch but
foithem." • • . ,
There actually will' be three separate contests taking
.place at once because each team will -be . scored
separately' against each other with points being
rewarded on a 6-3-1 basis.
"I don't think we will ,do' as well in a dual meet,"
Maryland coach Frank Costello said. "Our team is
",One guy yelled 'Get em' tonigh t, ! I
can't be here Friday!' And another
guy said' he'd miss it Saturday
because of the ,Kentucky Derby,"
Rose said. ' , •
• His next chance -to reach 3,000
comes • Friday -night ' against 'Mon
treal. • • : --, -
li:would mark one of the few times
Rose. has 'achieved a milestone' in
front of Cincinnati fans. His' 1,000 th;
and 2,000 th hits were on the road and,
last summer his '2, Ist hit which
broke Frankie Frisch's all-time
record for switch-hitters occurred
in St. Louis.. , . .
featured
will be ridden by Jorge Velasquez, will
start from the No. 10 post. - -
As for an off-track for the 104th Derby
it was a cold, rainy day here Thursday
Veitth said, "It doesn't affect 'me at
all. I don't think' it affects any of the top ,
four." Alydar, Affirmed, Senstive
Prince,and BelieVelt all have won on
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tracks that were not' fast.
Laz Barrera, trainer of Affirmed who
runs' for- Louis Wolfson's . Harbor View
Farm,, said he' wasn't concerned about
post or track condition. "It's the
only game in town," said the' Cuban
native who won the 1976 Derby with Bold
Forbes. "He's gOing to run. Why should I
. worry? My job`isdotie."
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Affirmed will start from the N'o. 2 slot
•in carrying, 18-year-Old jockey Steve
Cauthen on his first Derby ride. The colt
has good . speed and shouldn't be
bothered 'by the post position as' he
shoots' forkis sixth straight victory.
there are'little guys with hurting horses
that can use it to advantage. Some say it
is inhumane. I don't think ,it's nearly as
inhumane as what they do in New York,
Where Bute' is illegal. Up there they
freeze a horse's legs in a tub of ice."
- Jimmy Jonei3, 4 longtime trainer for
Calumet - befOre retirement, contends
, that Butazolidin, tc_pain-killer, has, its
value but only when used with restraint.
!"rhey're overdoing this diug,thing,"
he insisted. "Now- they're • coming up
( including Suhey)," Fusina added.
"There's been a lot' of key, players
. missing.. But besides that, I think: it's
going to be the same as always." * • •
Potentially the offense is,as good as
any in the country when healthy. So, Joe
Paterno isn't about to change a good
thing. • .
• Defensively, Paterno is • a little , bit
more concerned. End Bill Bank's, middle
guard Randy Sidler, linebackers
_Tom
,DePaso and Ron Hostetler, defensive
back Neil Hutton and safety Gary
Petercuskie all starters from the '77
squad are lost to graduation. But, in
particular the pass
,defense is a big
question mark.
"Otir secondary is kind of weak," Lion
outside linebacker Rick ponaldson said.
"We don't have anybody ; back there this
year that's started. Pete Harris started
a couple games but we don't have
anyone who's consistently started. So
we've moved a lot defensively to a more
split look to give these guys help." ,
To compensate, Paterno may or may
Constructed in such a way that we .do better in bigger
"I don't even know if we can beat Penn State."
A swift • glance down 'Costello's lineup of runners
might cause some eyebrows to be lifted at that remark.
Among others the list includes Renaldo Nehemiah, the
18-year-old freshman sensation who holds the world
indoor hurdles record ( :7.07) at 60 yards.
• "He runs outstanding in just about everything he
runs," Lion sprinter and hurdler' Paul Lankford said. •
"I've never run against him in intermediates (hurdles),
but the times I have run against him he' s
, beat me."
Other Maryland notables include Greg Robertson
(who is hot on Nehemiah's trail in - the, hurdles and
sprints), Bob Calhoun (a 26-foot long jumper), Dennis
(Ivory (who is the indoor and outdoor ACC champion in
the triple jump with a best leap of 53 feet) 'and Brian
Melly (another ACC champ' who is capable of high
jumping 7-3). But still Costello is'wary.
"Some of the guys are pretty beat, up," he said. +"I
can't run some of them in as many events as I'd like to."
One of the questionables for the meet is Calhoun. If he
is' absent Saturday from the long jump competition, it
surely won't bring tears to any of the Lions' eyes.
. "We are hoping to try to get some points in the field
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WASHINGTON (AP) =A special staff
task. force ' has' completed a 42-page
report on the testimony of the star wit
ness in the House investigation of the
National Collegiate Athletic Association.
One congressman said the report shows
the . witness was , "misleading - and
deceptive."
The three-member bipartisan task
force spent six weeks invesigating
charges made .by J. Brent Clark, a
former NCAA investigator, who, estified
(on Feb. 27 that the NCAA used bribery
and flesh peddling as a means to obtaiii
information against the association's
member colleges.
Clark, an attorney who worked for the
NCAA for more than two years before
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early even-money • favorite , to, win the 1I th Kentucky to the finish by Affirmed, ,
not throw some new defensive for
mations Saturday.
"I don't think they wanted to shOw a
lot of their different - (defensive) looks
because they had a lot of open prac
tices," Donaldson said. "But we've got
two new defenses we're going to try: I
don't know if we'll use them in the Blue-
White game even, but we've been using
them in the last week when practices
have been close."
Fusina, "who should know best, has
liked what
,he's seen defensively ,in
practice.
"I'm impressed in the way the
defensive backs have improved,"
Fusina said. "I think they've done a heck
of a job coaching them. I think they've
been a lot tougher to throw against. At
the beginning we were doing pretty well
against them, but right new, they've'
against them, but right now they've been
a lot tougher. •
"I'm just not thinking about offense,
because we're a team."
But Saturday, you Ran be sure Fusina
will be thinking of many ways to outwit
resigning and subsequently joining the
House investigations subcommittee,
testified : that
,athletes are "routinely
cajoled, or even
.bribed;, into sacrificing
their athletic careers." ,
' Pressed by Rep. Marc L. Marks, R-.
Pa., to be', specific about the words
"routine" and "bribed," Clark gave the
following three examples:
—James Delaney, a' current member
of the NCAA ' enforcement staff,
allegedly' stopped investigatiqg the
Mississippi football program after
James Jordan, an Ole Miss football
player, provided Delaney with "the
services" of a young woman. As a result,
Clark said, Delaney told Ole Miss Coach
.Ken Cooper he would not turn in the
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events," Groves said. "John Sallade is our co-captain
and main long jumper; I think our jumpers are capable
of doing well."
The jumps have been a thorn in the Lion's side all
• season, but it wasn't so in last year's 100-64 dual meet
loss to the Terps. Sallade outjumped three Terrapins
capable of leaping 25 feet by'jdnping 23 feet, five-ang
three-quartOr inches.
Another Penn Stater who did well in Maryalnd last
year was co-captain Mike 'Wyatt; who qualified for
national in the 1500 with his best time ever of 3:42.2. 4,
The Lion distancemen figure to, have the upper hand
Saturday. Robery Snyder and John Ziegler, who have
, both qualified for national at 5000 , meters lead the Penn
State harriers. Neither Pitt nor Maryland is reputed to
be strong in the distances.
One difference ihat the three teams will have to ad
just, to in the meet is the dual meet title. Up to this point,
they have been competing in larger events like the Penn
Relays and the Dogwood Relays. ,
"The difference is that we will be running against
mainly the same people in different events," Lankford
said. "The teams will just have to spread the wealth
around."
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the nemesis the Lion defense. Based
on the reports from the practice fields,
the defensive backfield will be digging
fox holes in anticipation of an "air raid"
for they say Fusina has never thrown
better. ' •
"They're not raving about running,
that's for sure," Fusina said.
• His main targets will be returning
wide receiver Scott Fitzkee —. who also
will do much of the, punting ToM
Donovan, and converted defensive
lineman Iry Pankey at tight end.. /.
"Irv's done pretty well lately," Fusina
said. "We're not sure who's going to be
the tight end next year. I'm not sure if
they're going to keep Iry there or not
' because Iry can play anyplace." ..
Donovan has a big chore ahead of him
replacing graduating senior Jimmy
Cefalo at flanker. ,
"Tom Donovan has really surprised
me," Donaldson said. "He's coming
back off injuries (an ankle injuty which
forced him to redshirt the '77 season):
He has a really, great pair of hands. Any
ball nat touches him, he catches."
athlete for violations "because he had
that inforniation on" the investigator.
—Wayne "Tree" Rollins of the Atlanta
Hawks, who graduated from Clemson
last year, was - offered legal representa
tion with pro basketball teams by for
mer NCAA investigator Doug Dunlop in
return for helping with an investigation.
Clark called this "flesh peddling," -:
—Bill Hunt, director of the NCAA
enforcement staff, allegedly offal:Xi
Major Jones, a former Albany, Ga t ,
State University basketball player, a
tryout with the Kansas City Kings of the
National Basketball Association in
exchange for information about rules
violation not necessarily concerned with
Albany State.
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