European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 16, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August 1976 the stars and stripes Page 23 Mcaa to expand Cage meet from 32 to 40 teams crashing into an express demur Varteer of be part Underdale strike into Ian Davies of the de troit express in a North America soccer league quarterfinal the Host strike edged the in a Boot out after the teams tied at the cad of regulation play and two Over on the express will Host the second game in the two game american conference up Roth ties Aba gets close to a second i ill a hark Roth one professional bowlers association Neon and moved to within striking Dis of another when he came from be find to win the top prize in the m new England open monday Roth of North finished fee 42game grind with a 234 average and a 174pin margin Over nmn nip Palmer fal the Victory was his 15th Over an career and the seventh of a record held jointly by Billy hard and Earl Hie dust prize gave Roth for the leaving him just Short single season record of both is now 5 on the Aba career earnings list with passing Jim he ankh to the to top it Roth fired his third perfect game of a game that put him into the Lead Over who led after each of the previous three who shot 801 for his first three never let up after he took the Fallgren  catch up but he managed to hang on to second place by 10 pins Over John Johnny Petraglia and Rick Finier rounded out the top i didst Start thinking about winning until i shot that 300 but it took a lot out of me because i had to get the first strike in the 10th Frame to Pete couture had shot a 278 against so i needed the after that i got my hand Hurt a the Aba tour moves to for a Tom is the defending Champi by Doug Tucker a the Mcaa basketball tournament has been expanded from 32 to 40 teams beginning with next years in there will be several other significant changes in the which has become increasingly popular with College basketball fans and lucrative for participating Tom director of Champion ship said monday the Caas executive committee voted to enlarge the Field at the request at the division i basketball Remstedt said 23 automatic invitations will be extended and 24 teams will draw first round Twenty one automatic qualifications were extended for the 1978 the Sun Belt and Southland conferences will be the new automatic sixteen of the first round byes will go to the 16 conferences with the Best wort loss tournament record Over the past five the basketball chaired by big 10 commissioner Wayne will decide who gets the other eight byes based of their performance in the past said Remstedt these eight will come from three differ ent pools the other seven conferences which automatically qualify their Champi independents and second conference teams selected by the committee As at Large the committee will make its choices in March when it sets the bracket and seeds for the the simplest Way to explain it is that the eight winners of the first round will move into what had been the regular 3t team Remstedt the tournament was expanded to 32 teams in the Mcaa also voted to allow teams from the same conference to play in the same bracket we will attempt to keep teams in their natural geographic Remstedt but it will still be impossible for teams from the same conference to meet for the tournament this years under the old had big eight Champion Kansas playing in the West regional while Missou which finished in the lower division of the big eight conference but won the leagues postseason played in the Midwest the basketball committee also will have the added pressure of choosing 17 at Large entries instead of Remstedt said the added Gate receipts were expected to generate More Revenue for the competing this years tournament netted More than for each first round Partick for those reaching regional Competition and for the four i in addition to travel and per diem in another departure from be ginning with the 1979 event the Mcaa will use three officials for All tournament this was one of the most hotly debated Remstedt it was Felt by Many that the Mcaa tournament should not be the proving ground for such an sex but As a result of our using three we believe Many conferences will install a third official during the 197879 the following conferences will receive automatic qualifications and first round byes this year Atlantic Eastern athletic Assoc Southern and Recac new England in the East Region the big Sun Southeastern and mid american in the Mideast Region big metropolitan and Missouri Valley in the Midwest Region and the Pacific coast athletic Western ath Letic and West coast athletic conference in the West other conferences receiving automatic qualification for the tournament bracket to be considered As a Large teams for first round seeding Are Recac upstate new Recac metropolitan new Yor knew the Ivy East Ohio Southland and big state qudies in car crash up freshman quarterback Doug Thompson was killed and Star running Back Willie Gittens was injured when the car they were driving to Arizona state overturned on interstate 10 Early was pronounced dead on arrival at Palo verde Hospital was listed in stable condition with Moder ate the who each starred for three years at Fountain Valley High school a Southern were both ejected from the a school spokesman said the two were driving to to report for fall football the cause of the Accident was under officials Thompson threw for 27 touchdowns and Gittens tallied 52 ids during their High school surging Parker paces bucs past slumping reds Cash need from Page 21 them two games behind san fran no Way you can expect us to wore runs when weve got Johnny Bench m Joe Morgan on the Bench with injun Rose h other no Chicago blasted at 137 and Houston blanked Louis 6 parkers opposite Field Homer second inning helped give Pittsburgh Lead off Paul it was the Homer this season for match total for All of last he added single in the Moreno doubled and scored a run in Pittsburgh three run first he had a Tingle in the second before parkers Home run and he singled and scared again in the pirate starter Jim yielded a pair of runs in the sixth before leaving the game with tightness in his pitching Shoul ground Rule doubles by George Foster and Dave Conception and a single by Ken Henderson produced the two runs off and Ken Griffey singled Home an other Cincinnati run in the seventh off Grant Conception added a Solo borne run in the Kent Tekulve made his 63rd appearance but his first in four Days and stopped a base loaded reds rally in the eighth to pick up his 19th save of the prompt ing Chuck Tanner to say he was a Little Rusty out he  find the cobs braves 7 Dave Kingman smashed three doubles and drove in three runs and Mike Vail added three scored three runs and drove in a pair As Chicago routed Atlanta despite consecutive Home runs by Gary Jeff Burroughs and Bob the cubs 13 runs and 16 hits were both highs for the the braves consecutive Home run bar rage came with two out in the second and fell one Short of the major league record of four by the Milwaukee braves in the National league in Cleveland did it in the american league in 1963 and Minnesota equated it in Art Howe drove in three runs with a Solo Homer and a two run single to Back the four hit pitching of Tom Dixon As Houston blanked Louis and snapped the red Birds three game winning struck out three and walked three in snapping a personal losing while Howe homered in the second and added his rib single in the eighth when the astros scored three