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soetloiiQ Thursday, June Tt 1978 Dave Bean became interested in coaching wrestling as a way to keep his football players in shape. Now he's an assistant coach in the East-West all star series. Page D-6. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER ill U.S. Open GolfMattcr Of Survival I 11.1 ii II fill ill I LI II 1 I LI If I I 1 1 1 1 Enquirer photo By FRED STRAUB DENVER, understand PETE ROSE stretches futiley for ball, twists to throw out Cubs! Manny Trillo left, then Reds' shortstop Dave Concepclon cuts over behind Rose, center, to make at first base in sixth inning Wednesday at Riverfront.

stop and, at right, Sarmiento Cains MVP Plaudits From parky III WWC-iju-MJ immmM m-xtmmnn r- iiiiaiu BY BOB HERTZEL Enquirer Sports Reporter Nearly every season, give or take a year here and a year there, the Cincinnati Reds are the team that gives you the most valuable player in the National League. The names are familiar now George Foster, Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, Pete Rose. These are the men who have won the award and they are surrounded by a cast of thousands that are "could be" MVPs, like Tom Seaver, Ken Griffey, Dave Concepcion and Dan Driessen. So, you ask Sparky Anderson, who has beem his Most Valuable Player in 1978. The answer is a shocker.

"Manny Sarmiento has been our MVP so far," he said after Sarmiento pitched five innings in a starting role as the Reds defeated the Chicago Cubs, 3-1, Wednesday afternoon. Manny Sarmiento, Sparky? "He's bailed us out when we needed bailing," said Anderson, as only he can say it. "I don't know what we'd have done if Manny hadn't done what he did." AND WHAT did Sarmiento do when it was so badly needed? Well, he has come out of the bullpen and won a couple of games as a starter when the Reds were groping around in the darkness to find someone who could do Just that. "Look at his innings pitched," said Anderson. "He's pitched 57 innings.

There are some starters in this league who haven't pitched that many innings. He's pitched 25 games. That's Just two less than Doug Bair. He's won six games." Sixvlctories. Now there is a statistic, Tom Seaver has seven, Fred Norman has seven, Bill Bon-ham has seven.

Those are the three top starters on the staff. Next comes Sarmiento, the skinny Venezuelan, who has six. What Sarmiento did on this clear, crisp Wednesday can't be underrated. The Reds were playing with a thrown-together lineup that included Don Werner behind the Anderson did not know when he would recall Sarmiento but, after talking to Larry Shepard, the pitching coach, the decision was reached to do it right away. "He's not getting anyone out in the minor leagues but he always has gotten out the big league hitters when we've asked him to," said Shepard.

"Let's take a chance." THEY TOOK a chance and Sarmiento pitched well for the remainder of the season. Still, he had to make the club this spring, something he did only because Moskau had such a rough go of it that he had to be shipped out. It proved to be a blessing for the Reds, who suddenly are getting more pitching than they've had since the days of Bucky Walters and Paul Derringer. In the three games against Chicago, the team that is leading the Eastern Division, the Reds allowed three runs and 14 hits. "When was the last time you ever saw us score six runs in four games and win two of them?" asked Anderson.

"Last year we scored 15 in one game and lost." The Reds, in reality, were lucky to win this one, even though Pete Rose did break out of his slump with two hits and Dave Concepcion did record hit No. 1000 of his career. They bunched all three runs in the first inning against Dave Roberts, who received such miserable support that he was moved to say, "Thank the Lord I was able to play San Diego to prepare for days like this." ROSE, HIS average down to .267 with a seven-for-50 spell, opened with a single and went to third on a double by Ken Griffey. Concepcion's Infield grounder got the run home. Now came the fun and games.

George Foster was walked intentionally to get Dan Driessen to the plate. He lofted a short fly to center that might not have scored a run. However, centerfielder Greg Gross Reds All Business, 3-1 Chicago DeJesus ss Gross cf Kngnon ph DMoore p' Bucknr lb Murcer rf Biittner If Ontivrs 3b TriHo 2b Rader Roberts HCruz cf Total Cincinnati abrhbi ab bi 4 12 0 0 0 0 0 4 12 0 3 0 11 2 10 0 3 0 11 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 3 4 3 4 0 10 3 0 10 Rose 3b Kninhl 3b 10 0 0 Griffey rf 0 0 0 0 Cncpcn ss 4 0 0 0 3 10 0 4 0 2 0 Foster If Driessn lb Kenndy 2b Geronm cf Werner 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 Sarmint Aorbch ph Tomlin Bair Total 32 1 4 0 Chicago Cincinnati Concpcion, LOB-Chicago 6, 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0-1 30000000 x-3 Tomlin. DP Chicago Cincinnati 2. 2B Griffey.

Chicago Roberts L.3-1 DMoore Cincinnati Samnient W.6-3 Tomlin Bair Save-Bair (11). 149 ER BB SO 7 1 5 31-3 2-3 WP- 2 4 0 0 0 0 T- Sarmiento. plate and Junior Kennedy at second base, Joe Morgan's groin Injury having benched him for the game. "We just don't have the firepower right now to score runs," said Anderson. THAT MEANS he needed tight pitching.

But Paul Moskau, who was scheduled to start, is hurt. So it fell upon Sarmiento to do the bailing out and ball he did, holding the Cubs to a run and two hits through five innings. "Sparky Anderson, he give me the confidence I need," said Sarmiento. It all goes back to one year ago today, to the exhibition game played between the Reds and the -Indianapolis Indians. Manny Sarmiento, who had been hospitalized earlier in the year with a nervous disorder and who owned a 6.69 earned run average, struck out six Reds in three innings.

After that game Anderson went into the minor leaguer's clubhouse. He told Sarmiento to stick in there, that he would be coming back to the big leagues. RELIEVER DOUG BAIR finished up, retiring the final two Cubs in the ninth inning, as he did in Tuesday night's 1-0 victory. slipped and fell and it went as a single, a run scoring. Next Roberts got Junior Kennedy to bounce a double play grounder to Steve Ontiveros at third.

He, however, elected to go to the plate to nail the lead runner rather than take the DP. Wrong. Dave Rader, the catcher, the United States Open, one must understand the United States Golf Association, which is impossible to understand, though easy to describe. The USGA Is a society of prosperous-looking men who are graying at the temples anand who smoke pipes. No matter how hot it gets in June, these men wear long-sleeved, white shirts with buttoned-down collars and narrow striped ties and, on their chests, tarnished silver medals with violet ribbons.

What the decoration signifies is unclear, but it's worn with at least the haughty bearing of the Croix de Guerre. One gets the impression, when the medal was originally pinned on, the recipient was surely kissed on -both cheeks. Vaguely, the USGA function seems to be to safeguard the rules of golf, although a foremost consideration is to make sure nobody wins the U. S. Open.

As Hubert Green, last year Open champion, put it Wednesday: "It's not who wins. but who survives. Lee Trevino, who survived in 1968 and 1971, said: "In the end, the golf course always wins." Not really. In the end, these pompous, perspiring pipe-puffers always win. That is, almost always.

At Oakmont (Pa.) in 1973, they were confounded by an act of God and gardener. Four hours of rain made Sunday's greens mushy enough, but then an automatic watering system went berserk, and then Johnny Miller went berserk. Miller played just horrible enough In the first three rounds to start early enough in the fourth to derive maximum benefit from the moisture. He threw darts at the pins, shot 63 and won. VF.NfiF.ANCE WAS swift.

At Winged Foot (N.Y.) the following year, Jack Nicklaus tapped an 18-foot putt toward the first hole and watched his ball roll 28 feet past. Miner ponaerea in a ounner at No. 7 how to devise any sand shot del irate enoueh to hold the class green. He attempted four kinds. and ended up taking a seven on the hole, a par-3 noie.

Eventually, with a seven-over-par total of 287, Hale Irwin survived Winged oot. In Open golf courses, the officials of the USGA aDDear to envision their own daughters. They are more tnan jusi protective when young men come around with ideas about scoring. Botn for Kaipn uuiaani upen in 1938, and Arnold Palmer's in 1960, Cherry Hills had been a min hip without being a pushover. But her personality, some say ner cnarm, nas oeen altered, partly with the help of Palmer, who really is getting old.

Her fairways have been tightened into thin strips so she is practically choking in a matted rough. No less a conservative than Lou Graham (survivor, 1975) predicted: "Ninety per cent of the time you drive into the rough, you'll have no chance then to reach the green." Besides the fairways being skinnier and the rough being rougher, the greens are lightning, cut and double-cut to the point some could wither this week in 90 degree temperatures. Palmer drove the first green in 1960 to begin a final 65 that really began everything. But Palmer, himself, has moved the No. 1 tee, back out of range.

Sandy Tatum, one of those long-sleeved guardians, said Wednesday: "It is my feeling that this green, in all its history, should only have been hit once." THIS WAS not Jack Nicklaus' and Tom Weiskopf's feeling. They wanted to go for it when the Open opens today. "Athletes have improved in every other sport," Nicklaus reasoned. "The players are bigger, stronger and better. But we're still shooting the same scores.

Why are they making the golf courses harder? Why is it a crime to shoot lower scores in an Open?" The mile-high altitude makes Cherry Hills a club or two shorter every shot, and Trevino even wonders if hitting a driver would be smart on more than four holes. But he still picks the course to win because he suspects those USGA medals have something to do with diabolical achievements in double-bogeys. (c )1978, Combined News Service index Sports Editor JIM MONTGOMERY Tel, 721-2700, Ext. V4U tAner a p.m.) Scores (24 Hours) 721-0600, 721-0616 Bengals Sign Vincent, Law The Cincinnati Bengals came to terms Wednesday with third-round defensive tackle Ted Vincent and fourth-round wide receiver Dennis Law, bringing their total of signed draftees to 13. Vincent is a 6-foot-4, 265-pound-er from Wichita State who was re-1 cruited as an offensive guard by Dallas, Pittsburgh, Detroit and New York Jets.

The Bengals plan to keep Parochial, Private School Division Split Countered figured for sure Ontiveros would go for two and broke to backup trst base. -V No one was covering the 3ate. Another run scored and IVJvas enough to make Sarmiento a winner with relief help from Dave Tomlin and Doug Bair, who notclWoVhis 11th save. him at defensive tackle. He signed a four-year contract for an undisclosed amount.

Law, a 178-pound sprinter from East Tennessee State, was the fastest player in the Bengals' recent rookie camp, covering 40 yards In 4.35 seconds. He will be utilized as a punt return specialist, a position of concern for the Bengals last season. RAY BUCK The Great Whisky Made Like Great Wine. No other whisky in the world is made like Old Forester. That's why no other whisky in the world tastes like Old Forester.

It gets its flavor and color solely from the maturation process itself. Its made naturally, like Great Wine. Slow and natural. That's how some wines become Great Wines. And how Old Forester becomes Great Whisky.

LUNSFORD REASONED that a stiff, standardized rule would be "clear cut, with no human element involved," and no longer would it be necessary to interrogate coaches, players and parents as to recruiting violations. "If we separate," Lunsford warned, "it's almost a certainty that a law suit would be filed. We'd go from one problem to another. "Besides," he added, "separation might intensify recruiting, who knows?" Not everyone in the room expressed himself, however, the general sentiment seemed to lay with Lunsford. That is, give the principals in December an alternative to voting either yes or no on separation.

"As best as I could tell," he said, "the majority wished the OHSAA, would make a counter proposal which would deal more with boundaries and recruiting than with separation." Recruiting is a term tossed around rather loosely Inside high school athletic circles. Who are the violators? Who are the players involved? "NO ONE ever has the guts to name names; no-one really knows," Lunsford said. "I certainly can't say Jerry Faust (Moeller football coach) recruits. I told the group today that if I knew for sure that someone in the room was guilty of recruiting, I wouldn't go to the newspapers or to the OHSAA. I would go straight to' the team and tell it to clean up its house." On the subject of Faust, Lunsford sympathized, "Often, it has a reverse effect.

A kid might say, 'Boy, I'd like to play for So, in order to make himself look better in the eyes of his peers, he announces, 'Moeller is looking at He inflates his ego and Jerry Faust beepmes the big, bad villain." Monday's meeting lasted two hours. It reportedly went without incident. "It was a general discussion," Lansford described it. "No animosity was thrown around." BY RAY BUCK Enquirer Sports Reporter A plan has been set into motion by the Southwestern district of the Ohio High School Athletic Association to counter a proposal to split public and parochial-private schools into separate divisions, before it goes to a vote in December. "I would hate to see a separation." said Bob Lunsford, coordinator of athletics for the public schools, speaking before nearly 100 athletic directors and principals both public and parochial assembled Wedn.es-day morning at Howard Johnson's, Sharonville.

There has been some question as to the reai reason behind a proposal to split the 661 OHSAA schools into divisions of 564 (public) and 97 (parochial-private). "I KEEP hearing that when football playoffs come along, the parochial-private schools dominate," Lunsford told the group. "Well, we have beaten this horse of playoffs long enough. Let's face the real issue; the real problem is recruiting." Lunsford later recalled, "No one refuted that." The.argument that public schools must obey boundaries, not required of parochial-privates, is as old as the Institutions themselves. One public school administrator, according to Lunsford, asked, "Is it fair that kids from Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio can compete on St.

Xavier's swimming team when we draw from our little 40-block city area?" So, before a state-wide vote is put to OHSAA principals in December, the Southwestern Board agreed Monday to submit to the state board a counter proposal standardizing student transfers and eligibility. "We're in the business of kids," Lunsford. "But somebody has got' to be hurt. Let's say when a kid transfers, that kid has to lay out one year or two years. That has some merit." BASEBALL Ol P-4 DEMERS HIRED DJ MULDOWNEY'S WOES T7 RACE ENTRIES, RESULTS D-10-11 WORL6 CUP SOCCER D-8 U.S.

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