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Page 10 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1979 Birds need one more; Bugs clinging to hope United Press International PITTSBURGH — As Jim Palmer headed down the runway toward the clubhouse after Sunday’s loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates, he smiled and said to no one in particular, “Okay, we ll do it at home. We owe it to our fans.” Doug DeCinces followed closely, proclaiming, “Just one, gentlemen, we need just one. They still have to win two.” Even though the Pirates had just closed the Orioles’ lead in games to 3-2, the Birds figure they have them right where they want them — on their way back to Baltimore to end the 76th edition of the World Se ries. “We have our pitching rotation just the way we want it. The big con fidence factor on our part is we have Palmer to pitch after me and Scott McGregor after him,” said Mike Flanagan, the winningest pitcher in the major leagues who left Sunday’s game on the short end of a 2-1 score. “In the kind of Cinderella year we’ve had, it’s only right we win it at home. “It would have been nice to do it today, but with our next-best pitch ers ready to go, I’ve gotta like our chances.” The optimism was still there, as it should have been for a team need ing only one more victory to lock up the world championship with two games left at home, if needed, be ginning tonight. But it wasn’t as rampant as Saturday, when the Orioles bunched six runs into the eighth inning en route to a 9-6 victory over the Bucs. “There’s always a possibility they can come back and get us,” said right fielder Ken Singleton. “But we’ve come back from losses all dur ing the playoffs and the World Se ries. I would say that our comeback Saturday was more confidence- inspiring than Pittsburgh’s today because we had to score six runs in one inning to win it. Catcher Rick Dempsey acknowl edged that the pressure is still on the Pirates to come back from their 3-1 deficit. But he also admitted that the Pirates are the type of team that could pull off a comeback. “For us today it was Hang in there and see if we could get them, ” he said. “Now we go back home with a definite advantage be cause we get that ninth-inning chance. Pittsburgh is a great hitting team and we have a great defense, but you can’t hold a good team down forever. You’ve got to respect that team. “We’ve all gone through a tough thing mentally, and I think Monday’s rest will give everybody a whole new look at everything.” DeCinces was disgusted by all the talk of the home field advantage for Baltimore in the Series’ final stretch. “Everybody’s been talking of that but it’s all overplayed,” said De Cinces. “It’s a bunch of bull because the only time there’s an advantage is when you’re tied in extra innings. “Both teams came to this thing knowing how to pitch, hit and field and how to do it anywhere. We just came in to win and that’s all we re worried about now.” Tonight’s sixth game in Baltimore is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. (CDT). The seventh game will be played in Baltimore Wedenesday night if Pittsburgh wins tonight. Becky eyeing the guard United Press International ST. LOUIS, Mich. — The newest addition to the St. Louis High School freshman football team is Becky Humphrey, a 5-foot-5, 155- pounder who has no intention of being a bench-warmer. Becky got her first taste of out door practice Monday — two days after a Midland County Circuit judge issued an order requiring the school to allow her to play football with her male teammates. It has been Becky’s dream for years to play football. “When I was in sixth grade, my brother was in ninth grade and played on the team,” she said. “That’s when I really got interested. When he went out and made a play, I’d be watching him. I thought it looked like fun.” School officials did not want Becky on the team, however, saying they feared she might be injured. So Becky’s father, Marvin, took the matter to court. The high school is located in Gratiot County but Humphrey filed suit in neighboring Midland County, partly, he said, because he believed the judges there would be more liberal. On Wednesday, Judge Tyrone Gillespie ordered St. Louis school officials to give Becky a chance with the freshman team, rejecting argu ments she should not take part be cause she might be hurt. “Many decisions of the modern courts reject the notion that women are delicate creatures in need of male protection,” Judge Gillespie ruled. “The only valid criterion for discrimination is ability.” For now, Becky has her eye on a position at guard. “I don’t really like handling the ball that much. When I get a little better I’d like to be a fullback or wide receiver,” she said. Next summer, she said, she plans Battalion Classifieds Call 845-2611 to go to a football camp at Central Michigan University to brush up on technique. She hopes to win a col lege scholarship and, perhaps, a chance to play for the National Wo men’s Football League, which is based in Toledo, Ohio. “I think that if a girl wants to play she should be able to,” Becky said. “It doesn’t make her a boy.” Becky worked out with the freshman team indoors Thursday because of bad weather. The situa tion was a bit awkward, she admit ted, because members of the varsity squad came over to watch. But the discomfort quickly wore oft, Becky said — especially since she’s a better football player than some of the boys. Barcelona APARTMENTS NEWLY REMODELED ! ALL UTILITIES PAID and... Individual Heating and Air, Cable T.V., 3 Laundry Rooms, Swimming Pool, Security Guard, Party Room, and Close to Campus. 693-0261 700 Dominik, College Station Ti’x.i-, \v<’. A.-.N Col ! Com i'.AKCE LOS A * K- hIm; ! !•«.! ^ Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With * These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods. I C r # ♦ • 7 Each Daily Special Only $1.99 Plus Tax. 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FRIDAY EVENING SPECIAL BREADED FISH FILET w/TARTAR SAUCE Cole Slaw Hush Puppies Choice of one vegetable Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee SATURDAY NOON and EVENING SPECIAL Yankee Pot Roast (Texas Style) Tossed Salad Mashed Potato w/ gravy Roll or Corn Bread & Butter Tea or Coffee “Quality First’ taHMH SUNDAY SPECIAL NOON and EVENING ROAST TURKEY DINNER Served with Cranberry Sauce Cornbread Dressing Roll or Corn Bread - Butter - Coffee or Tea Giblet Gravy And your choice of any One vegetable Bobo, Forrest awaiting trial United Press International LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Supreme Court heard oral argu ments Monday concerning the admission of evidence in the first- degree rape trial of former Arkansas Razorback football players Donny Bobo and Micheal Forrest. The high court did not issue an immediate ruling. Bobo and Forrest, both 22, were charged with rape following an incident with a 21-year-old university coed in the Wilson Sharp ath letic dorm on the university campus Dec. 12, 1978. Their rape trial, scheduled for May in Washington Circuit Court in Fayetteville, was delayed when defense attorneys appealed a ruling by Circuit Judge Paul Jameson concerning the admission of evidence. The trial now is tentatively set for Nov. 13. The defense wants to be allowed to introduce testimony regarding the woman’s alleged sexual relationships with athletes. The defense also wants to be allowed to introduce an August 1977 edition of Gallery magazine, a girlie magazine that allegedly contains apt graph of the woman with a caption about her sexual preference athletes. Jameson had ruled such evidence could not be allowed in theti Jameson, however, has allowed the introduction of evidence cerning the woman’s alleged prior sexual relations with Bobo Forrest as well as evidence concerning the woman’s alleged sc relations with a current Razorback football player on the same ning the alleged rapes occurred. A state statute, known as the rape shield law, prohibitsattons from inquiring at a trial about the past sexual activities of a cm who alleges she has been raped. However, another state statute allows a woman to be quest about previous sexual activity with the accused if the judge mines, after a pretrial hearing, that the testimony is relevantto Player dies of mono, injuries United Press International LITTLE ROCK — A 17-year-old high school football player who complained of dizziness and quit a Friday night game has died of what his doctor describes as a combina tion of mononucleosis and injuries suffered in the game. Russell Gordon Bagwell, 17, a three-year starter at strong safety for McGehee High, died Saturday night at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital from injuries that appar ently were suffered in the Friday night game between McGehee and Dumas. Bagwell, who had mononucleosis, underwent surgery twice but died of internal bleeding at 10:24 p.m. The attending physician, who asked that his name be withheld, said Bagwell s death was probably due to a combination of an injury to the spleen and the mononucleosis, which complicated surgical proce dures. 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