THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1979
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flSBURGH — That first shock
ways the most severe one and
tome of the initial numbness
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SchrothwiiL”Die said to her. “If you think
ing toanimiMter I stay with you, I will. ’
ch he toldlltnne Tanner regarded her oldest
could be Aiin mure disbelief,
ting to tlepn t you worry about me one
jvenile iftb I’l) be perfectly all right,” she
under 17ttlured him. “I have everything
ilm. 11 need. You can’t do anything
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jtly after Anne Tanner suffered a
■at her home in New Castle,
and sacrilea a bout 70 miles from here while
igh I m Bj; Pittsburgh Pirates were finish-
it would It out the season in a series with
low the It Chicago Cubs two weeks ago.
iPirates were still battling the
meal Expos for the National
fife s Eastern Division title and
ling had been settled yet.
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Anne Tanner settled one thing at
least, though. The oldest of her four
sons, or “Junior,” as she always
called him so as to differentiate be
tween him and her husband whose
name also is Chuck, would stay with
his team. He had a job to do, and in
the Tanner household, you stuck
with a job until you finished it no
matter what.
And that was the way they left it,
although a day never passed be
tween that time and Sunday that
Chuck Tanner didn’t either speak
with his mother over the phone or
visit her personally in the hospital in
Greenville, Pa., to where she even
tually was moved.
After the Pirates nailed down the
division title on the final day of the
season and then went on to beat the
Cincinnati Reds in the playoff for
the pennant, Tanner was cheered
even more by the report his mother
had apparently taken a turn for the
better.
“We re in the World Series, Ma,”
he greeted her with that happy,
laughing way of his in the hospital
after the Pirates had polished off the
Reds. “You better listen to every
ball game now. If not, I won’t go.”
“What are you talking about?” she
chided him the way only a mother
can. “You know I watch and listen to
the games all the time.”
She was telling him the truth.
Anne Tanner was a fan in the stric
test sense of the word. She not only
followed the Pirates religiously but
the Pittsburgh Steelers as well. As a
matter of fact, during one of his
visits, Tanner found her eyes glued
to the TV set where one of the
Steelers’ games was in progress and
she startled him a bit by letting out
with a sudden, “C’mon, Bradshaw!”
When the Pirates’ manager ar
rived at Three Rivers Stadium for
the fifth game of the World Series
with the Baltimore Orioles Sunday
morning, the first thing he did was
put in a call to his mother in the
hospital.
A girl at the hopital told Chuck
Tanner she was deeply sorry, but
she had some bad news for him. His
mother, who was 70, had passed
away only a couple of hours before.
Tanner thanked her and hung up
the phone. He spoke with his father
and some of the other family mem
bers, and torn between staying at
the ballpark where his team was one
game away from extinction, down
three games to one to the Orioles,
and rushing off to the hospital,
where there was nothing more he
really could do, Tanner remem
bered what his mother had said to
him only two weeks ago.
“If something happens to me, I
want you to go manage. You re a
manager, you know.”
Before the game began, the
50,920 fans in the ball park all
marked a moment’s silence for Anne
Tanner and for Edgar Speer, a di
rector of the Pirates, who had also
died Saturday. Practically all of
Tanner’s players had come to him
individually to convey their sym
pathy and Baltimore Manager Earl
Weaver also made a point to extend
his condolences.
“It was tough,” said Tanner after
his Pirates beat the Orioles 7-1 to
stay alive in the Series, and he was
talking not so much about the ball
game as he was about the thoughts
he had of his mother during it.
“I think about her a lot but I think
what she wanted me to do. You
gotta be strong and I can be strong
because the people around me are
strong. My players, they’re the ones
who motivated me today.”
Tanner never shed any tears. He
didn’t have to.
“If I haven’t shown my love for
her all my life,” he said to a long
time friend talking about his
mother, “then there’s something
the matter with me.”
The fact is there’s nothing the
matter with Chuck Tanner at all.
Big D has weekend crowd
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IRVING, Texas — The biggest
football weekend of the year in
the Dallas area concluded at
Texas Stadium Sunday night
with more than 200,000 people
having sat in on three big games.
The annual Texas-Oklahoma
battle at the Cotton Bowl, the
SMU-Baylor game in Texas
Stadium and the Dallas-Los
Angeles affair all drew sellout
crowds.
A total of 201,595 people saw
the three games.
The Texas-Oklahoma game
played to a sellout crowd for the
34th consecutive year and the
sellout for the SMU game was
the first for a Mustangs’ home
contest in 30 seasons.
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They beat Snyder more than we
did. Anyone in the district is capa
ble of defeating anyone else this
year. I just don’t see anyone going
through the season undefeated.”
Among UPI’s top 40 high school
teams — the top 10 rated teams in
each of Classes AAAA, AAA, AA and
A — there were only three defeats
last week. And one of those involved
two ranked teams as Class AAAA’s
No. 2 Plano blanked No. 10
Richardson Lake Highlands, 30-0.
The top-rated teams all won —
Class AAAA’s Abilene Cooper
downed Odessa, 21-0; Class AAA’s
Jasper whipped Silsbee, 26-0; and
Class A s China Spring edged out
Waco Moody, 7-6. Kenedy, No. 1 in
Class AA, was idle last week.
“It was a hard-hitting football
game which either team could have
won,” Whitehurst said of Pecos’
narrow victory. “They were right
down at the goal as the game
ended.”
Snyder had moved from their
own six to the Pecos four-yard line
when a pass fell incomplete in the
endzone and the Eagles took over to
run out the clock. Until the final
seconds, it was either team’s game.
“We penetrated five times and
just couldn’t get in the end zone,”
Whitehurst said. “Snyder pene
trated our end of the field twice —
and came away with no points. It
was just one of those West Texas
shootouts where either team could
win — and that’s the type of ball we
expect the rest of the year.”
Sixth-ranked Houston Stratford,
the defending Class AAAA state
champion, was upset by Houston
Spring Woods, 9-0. Idalou, ranked
sixth in Class AA, was the only other
top 10 team defeated last week. The
Wildcats fell, 21-15, to Muleshoe.
La Porte, No. 3 in Class AAAA,
beat Pasadena, 27-15, and fourth-
ranked Conroe continued to roll,
defeating Cypress-Fairbanks, 56-6.
Fifth-ranked Temple downed
Round Rock, 27-0; seventh-ranked
San Antonio Judson outclassed
Laredo Martin, 48-0; eighth-ranked
Midland Lee blanked San Angelo,
14-0; and ninth-ranked Killeen
edged past Waco Richfield, 22-21.
In other Class AAA games,
second-rated Paris defeated Liberty
Eylau, 42-14; third-ranked Kerrville
beat Carrizo Springs, 42-7; fourth
rated Beaumont Hebert downed
Beaumont South Park, 35-7; and
fifth-ranked Huntsville rolled over
Houston King, 47-0. No. 6
Gregory-Portland beat Corpus
Christi Calallen, 27-6; No. 7 San
Angelo Lakeview beat Odessa Ec
tor, 18-14; No. 9 Lubbock Estacado
blanked Lamesa, 35-0; and No. 10
Cuero outclassed San Antonio
Southside, 55-0.
Pittsburg, ranked second in Class
AA, shutout Hooks, 40-0; third-
ranked Breckenridge defeated
Comanche, 26-7; fourth-ranked
Childress blanked Tulia, 35-0;
seventh-rated Wylie beat Coahoma,
22-14; and tenth-ranked
Whitehouse blanked White Oak,
33-0. Fifth-ranked Hays Consoli
dated, eighth-ranked Hallettsville
and ninth-rated Littlefield all had
open dates.
Haskell, No. 2 in Class A, con
tinued to roll, defeating Crowell,
54-0. Fourth-ranked Hawkins
downed Sabine, 23-12; fifth-ranked
Seagraves downed O’Donnell, 41-0;
seventh-rated Rotan beat Jim Ned,
38-9; and tenth-ranked Dilley beat
Three Rivers, 14-6. Third-rated
Glen Rose, sixth-ranked Troup,
eighth-rated Mason and ninth-
ranked Flatonia all had hope dates.
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