Cowboys trample Giants in warm-up for 49ers

	 IRVING, Texas (Reuter) - The Dallas Cowboys combined a
smoothly balanced attack with a rugged, stifling defense to rout
the New York Giants 38-10 Monday and improve their National
Football League best record to 8-1.
	 Emmitt Smith carried a club-record 35 times for 163 yards
and two touchdowns, and quarterback Troy Aikman threw for one
touchdown and ran for another in the romp over the Giants,
losers of six straight games after winning their first three.
	 The Cowboys showed they were not looking past the Giants to
next week's showdown with NFC West-leading San Francisco (7-2),
by outgaining New York 450 yards to 183, with most of New York's
total coming during garbage time at the end.
	 ``This is the kind of ball we want to play,'' Smith said.
''We were able to execute running the ball and throwing the
ball. It might be the best we've looked.''
	 Aikman was 19-of-24 with his passes for 241 yards as the
Cowboys charged to their sixth victory in a row.
	 One sour note for Dallas, however, was a knee injury
suffered by wide receiver Alvin Harper, who had corralled a
22-yard scoring strike from Aikman in the second quarter.
	 On the last play of the first half, Harper went up high in
the end zone for an Aikman pass, appeared to be hit before the
ball arrived and went down hard on his left knee.
	 No penalty was called, but the incident led to a massive
shoving match in the end zone between players on their way to
the lockerroom for halftime.
	 Dallas coach Barry Switzer said after the game that Harper
will undergo an M-R-I test on the knee and that he feared it
would reveal a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament, which
would likely sideline Harper for the season.
	 Fullback Daryl Johnston scored Dallas's last touchdown with
a nine-yard run with 29 seconds left in the third quarter.
	 Giants' starting quarterback Dave Brown was a dismal 4-of-17
for 56 yards and was consistently harried despite facing only
three rushing lineman on most passing downs.
	 Brown, who had taken every snap this season, gave way late
in the third quarter to Kent Graham, who finished 9-of-14 for 98
yards including a nine-yard touchdown pass to tight end Howard
Cross.