Page 14 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1978
Guidry wins AL Cy Young
United Press International
NEW YORK — Ron Guidry of
the New York Yankees, the
“Louisiana Lightning” who elec
trified the baseball world by posting
the greatest winning percentage in
modern baseball history among 20-
game winners, Wednesday was
named the recipient of the Ameri
can League’s Cy Young Award by a
unanimous vote.
The 28-year-old left-hander, who
posted a 25-3 record with a sterling
1.74 ERA, became only the seventh
pitcher in history to receive all the
first-place mentions in the voting.
The only other unanimous AL selec
tion was 31-game winner Denny
McLain in 1968. It marked the sec
ond year in a row that a Yankee
pitcher has taken the league’s most
coveted pitching prize. Reliever
Sparky Lyle won the award in 1977.
Mike Caldwell of the Milwaukee
Cougars cannot take
Horned Frogs lightly
United Press International
HOUSTON — For the Houston
Cougars, this is the week that they
have to convince themselves they
have to play just as hard as they did
last week and just as hard as they
will next week.
The 8th-ranked Cougars played
Arkansas for the Southwest Confer
ence lead last Saturday and they
face Texas for the SWC lead Nov.
11. This Saturday, however, a game
Bill
Yeoman
against TCU falls in between the
two important games, but an on-
the-record discussion of the mis
match is not possible when talking
to University of Houston folks.
Cougars coach Bill Yeoman leads
the gloss squad.
“Yawl have been in this confer
ence a lot longer than I have,” the
coach told a group of reporters, “so
you should know that on any Satur
day anything can happen. And I
think our youngsters understand
that, probably as well or better than
any squad I’ve ever coached.
“TCU,” he continued,” will give
us everything we can handle and I
just hope we can play well enough
to be competitive and get the job
done. I think they are a dam good
football team.”
A coach’s unadulterated thoughts
have been spoken before, but in
rare instances and by other sources.
University of Texas Athletic Direc
tor Darrell Royal said before a game
with the Horned Frogs in the 1960s
that, “TCU is like a bunch of cock
roaches. It’s not what they carry off.
It’s what they fall into and spoil.”
Royal later said regretfully that
that statement was in the top three
of the ones he would like to have
back.
Houston quarterback Danny
Davis sounded convinced that the
Horned Frogs, 2-5 and 0-4 in SWC
play, were a threat to hand Hous
ton, 6-1 and 4-0, its first loss in
“People say we are just covering
up. But we are not,” Davis said.
“When you are going good and a
championship is in sight, you think
intensely about each opponent tak
ing the prize away from us. TCU can
do it just as well as Texas can.”
Meanwhile, the comments of
TCU coach F.A. Dry to a Houston
sportswriter appeared to be just as
colored.
“Tell Bill well start six freshmen,
including my 139-pound kicker. Tell
him not to start Hosea Taylor and
that big Leonard Mitchell and
Danny Davis and all those other
people,” Dry said. “We re so short
of personnel I might have to start a
coach against ‘em. I didn’t want
anyone seeing Houston before our
game. I’m just recovering now. I’m
in an iron lung.
“Houston needn’t worry about us.
Tell 'em to start getting ready for
Texas. ”
The matchup. Dry vs. Yeoman,
continues a wild series started when
the two coached independent
teams. Three of Dry’s Tulsa teams
played Houston before the Cougars
began playing for the SWC title in
1976.
F. A.
Dry
In Houston’s past independent
seasons, the Cougars often played
excellently against better oppo
nents, but they just as many times
fell flat against a poorer team. Al
ready this year Houston has beaten
three teams ranked in the nation’s
top ten, Florida State, Texas A&M
and Arkansas, but lost its opener to
Memphis State 17-3.
seven games.
“TCU,” Yeoman said, “is vastly
better than Memphis State. Better
in personnel, attack, defense and ef
fort.”
Champ returns:
Ali vs. Rossman?
United Press International
NEW YORK — Just when it
looked like Muhammad Ali had
fought his last his fight, up pops Bob
Arum of Top Rank Inc. to offer the
world heavyweight champion his
biggest purse yet — $6 million plus.
Ali, who beat Leon Spinks Sept.
15 to regain the heavyweight title
for an unprecedented third time,
has been offered that much to risk
his title once again by taking on the
new World Boxing Association
light-heavyweight champion Mike
Rossman. Rossman outpointed
Victor Galindez to win his title the
same night Ali regained his in New
Orleans.
According to Arum, the Ali-
Rossman fight will take place mostly
likely in Buenos Aires in either Feb
ruary or March of next year and is
contingent on Rossman defeating
European light-heavyweight cham
pion, Aldo Traversero, in Philadel
phia, Dec. 5.
“It’s very close,” confirmed
Arum. “However, there are still a
lot of details to be worked out. If it’s
going to happen we’ll know within
the next 10 days.
“Both fighters have expressed a
willingness to go forward with it and
we’re trying to work out the money.
I’m very optimistic, but no contracts
have been signed.”
Despite the physical disadvan
tages, the matchup of the 37-year
old Ali and the 22-year old Rossman
is otherwise a natural from a pro
motional viewpoint — especially for
a showman of Ali’s stature. Not only
does it pit a black and against a
white and age against youth, but it
also features a Muslim versus a Jew.
Rossman, who fights out of
Philadelphia and is of Italian-Jewish
parentage, has often billed himself
as “the Jewish Bomber. ”
Rossman, however, expressed
confidence he could beat Ali. In an
interview with Philadelphia Daily
News columnist Stan Hochman last
week, the light-heavyweight champ
said: “The weight won’t bother me
as long as he (Ali) doesn’t lean on
Brewers finished second to Guidry
with 25 second-place votes in the
balloting of 28 sports writers — two
from each AL city — and Jim
Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles, a
three-time previous winner, was
third. Guidry was the only pitcher
named on every ballot.
Rounding out the top vote-getters
were Dennis Eckersley of the Bos
ton Red Sox, Rich Gossage of the
Yankees and Ferguson Jenkins of
the Texas Rangers.
A skinny 5-foot-ll, 160-pounder
whose fastball has been clocked at
96 mph, Guidry established a host
of major league, AL and club rec
ords in 1978.
Among them were:
—Highest winning percentage in
major league history (.839) for
pitchers winning 20 or more games.
—Most strikeouts in history by a
Yankee (248).
—Most strikeouts in an AL game
by a left-hander (18 against Califor
nia).
—Second lowest ERA in AL his
tory.
—Most shutouts by an AL left
hander (9, tied with Babe Ruth).
In addition, he won his first 13
decisions and ended up leading the
AL in victories, ERA, shutouts and
fewest hits allowed per nine in
nings. He was second in strikeouts.
“I’m surprised that my record was
so great, but I wasn’t surprised at
the way I pitched,” said Guidry. “I
always thought I could pitch that
way. I could have lost 10 or 12
games that I won. I was fortunate to
pitch a lot of good games when we
were struggling. The club and I
worked pretty well together.”
Winning the Cy Young Award
came as no surprise to Guidry. He
has his sights set on the bigger prize
— the Most Valuable Player award.
“It’s between me and Jim (Rice),”
said Guidry. “One of us is going to
win it. Maybe they should give two
MVP trophies. He’s done some
thing no hitter has done in years and
I’ve done something no pitcher has
done in years.”
mind going back and forth between
New York and Syracuse, it’s all right
with me. I’ll give it one more try.”
Guidry got his chance in June of
1977 and over the last half of that
season was the Yankees’ top pitcher.
This year he became the Yankees’
“stopper.”
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Caldwell, the Milwaukee Brew
ers southpaw who earlier was
named UPI’s Comeback Player of
the Year, rebounded from a 5-8 rec
ord in 1977 to a 22-9 mark and a 2.37
ERA this year. Caldwell’s 22 wins
were surpassed only by Guidry’s 25.
“F.A. is a good, good friend of
mine,” Yeoman said.
Their personal record is 2-1 in
Yeoman’s favor.
Guidry’s rise to the top has been
dramatic, considering he was all set
to give up baseball only two years
ago. It appeared in 1976 that Guidry
didn’t figure in the Yankees’ future
plans and when they sent him back
to the minor leagues he balked at
reporting.
“I packed everything in the car
and told my wife I was going home,’
he recalls. “She just let me talk and
we re on route 80, heading South,
when she said ‘Do you really want to
quit? You know you won’t be happy
not playing ball. Don’t do some
thing you’ll regret the rest of your
life.’
“I thought about what she said
and I told her, ‘OK, if you don’t
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United Press International
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The
Razorbacks concentrated on goal
line situations for the offense and
defense and studied Rice’s passing
attack to prepare for a game Satur
day in which they hope to break a
two-game losing streak.
“On defense, we worked excep
tionally hard on Rice’s passing
game,” Coach Lou Holtz said.
“Randy Hertel (of Rice) can throw
well and David Houser is an excel
lent receiver. We have great respect
for their fine running backs. Their
offense can move the ball on any
body.”
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