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JMJFlVMIK'l 'l II I I I ll III II III III I I II III II I I I I II I I III II I I I I I I II I I I III I I I I I THE COURIER-JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3. 1981 3 Betting on the Derby at other tracks hailed by Stone as a success Revering's homer for Yanks in 11th dooms Orioles 5-3 HORSE RACING AMERICAN LEAGUE lW iiifci If ttx- v' 1V'W lui.mii 1 ZJ tf Jfi I Aswclattd Pra Dave Revering's first home run in a New York uniform, a two-run shot in the bottom of the 11th inning, gave the Yankees a 5-3 victory over the visiting Baltimore Orioles last night. Rick Cerone opened with a single off Sammy Stewart (2-2), the fourth Baltimore pitcher, and was sacrificed to second by Graig Nettles, who had singled home the" tying run in the ninth. Revering, who hit two home runs with Oakland this season before the Yankees acquired him two weeks ago, then unloaded a 400-foot shot into the right-center-field bleachers. The victory went to Rich Gossage (2-1), who pitched the last 3l3 innings and worked out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the 11th.

The Yankees sent the game into extra innings with a run in the ninth on a walk to Dave Winfield who homered and knocked in two runs earlier a single by Reggie Jackson off reliever Tippy Martinez and an RBI single by Nettles off Stewart. The Orioles had shrugged off six perfect innings by Yankees starter Ron Guidry to tie the score 2-2 on Eddie Murray's two-run homer in the seventh. They went ahead 3-2 in the eighth when Gossage walked Terry Crowley with the bases loaded. Dwight Evans hit his 13th homer and doubled in a run to support Dennis Eckersley's four-hitter as the visiting Boston Red Sox blanked the Cleveland Indians 4-0. Eckersley (5-4) pitched his second shutout and fifth complete game of 1981.

He retired 19 of the last 21 batters he faced in besting Bert Blyleven (6-3), who went the distance for the seventh time. The Milwaukee Brewers' Gorman Thomas knocked in four runs with two homers, giving him an American League-leading 14 for the season, and Mike Caldwell and Rol-lie Fingers combined on a five-hitter Associated Pros From Special and Af Dispatches Churchill Downs first try at permitting wagering on the Kentucky Derby at other tracks allowed the three tracks that participated almost to double their handle and attendance, according to track president Lynn Stone. Stone said he was very pleased with the track's experiment. The Longacres and Yakima Meadows tracks in Washington state and Centennial in Denver have indicated interest in participating again next year, he added. The three tracks had a mutuel handle of more than $455,000 on the Derby itself.

Because of legislative problems in many states, the three tracks were the only ones to conduct the betting. Longacres and Yakima Meadows were handicapped in having only 36 hours to promote the venture after receiving legal clearance. "Hopefully, the states that had legislative problems will have those' solved prior to next year, allowing more tracks to participate," Stone said. Centennial nearly tripled its record one-race handle with $233,479 wagered, while Longacres handled $184,276 on the race. Yakima Meadows general manager Paul George said attendance was up more than 100 percent and the handle rose 60 percent.

Favored Manny saddled by the meeting's leading trainer, Dave Vance, and ridden by the top rider, Dave Whited, caught Bold Performer at the sixteenth pole and drew away to a nine-length victory in yesterday's $11,515 Behave Yourself Purse before 7,344 fans at Churchill Downs. Dan Lasater's 3-year-old son of What a Pleasure sprinted the six furlongs in 1:11 on a drying track OUR TOUGH LITTLE Compare IMt Mtlntata 10 th 'tlmatetl mpg' ol m.4 i. in than tna 'asitmatod highway lual aconomy'." Oakland manager Billy Martin White Sox in Chicago last night and fine he drew for bumping an enth complete game and the 32nd by the Oakland staff in 52 games as the first-place A's opened a two-game lead over the White Sox and Texas in the AL West. Dave Frost, whose last major-league victory had been over the Toronto Blue Jays exactly a year ago, stopped them on four hits for 6y3 innings as the visiting California Angels achieved their second consecutive shutout with a 3-0 victory. Frost (1-0), coming back from elbow surgery performed Sept.

17, outdueled Luis Leal (3-6), also the loser in Frost's victory on June 2, 1980. Leal limited the Angels to five hits. Nine-run fourth makes Reds reel of instructor waits to hear Unser appeal that had been rated slow when the program began. Scoring his second victory in four in-the-money finishes at the meeting, Manny T. paid $4.

$2.60 and $2.40. Bold Performer, with Mike Bryan up, saved second by four lengths and returned $2.60 and $2.60. Marshall's Back was third under Martin Arnold and paid $5.60. Members of the British royal family will join hundreds of thousands of racegoers at Epsom Downs today for the 202nd running of the ll2-. mile Derby Stakes.

The race, first run in 1780, when it was won by Diomed, is for 3-year-old colts, each carrying 126 pounds. Nineteen horses are expected to start. The royal party will be cheering on the queen's entry, Church Parade. Victory for the queen also would mean a third straight win for trainer Dick Gern and jockey Willie Carson, following their Derby victories with Troy in 1979 and Henbit in 1980. No trainer ever has saddled three straight winners.

Signs for the royal entry aren't good. Church Parade is listed at odds of 25-1. It has been nine years since the favorite won the Derby, but in that period no horse has arrived at Epsom with such credentials as Sher-gar, the Aga Khan's colt. Shergar likely will go off as odds-on favorite in the $312,000 classic. American jockey Steve Cauthen will ride Kind of Hush, listed at 40-1.

Lester Piggott will be aboard Shotgun, the second choice at 8-1, in seeking a ninth Derby win. TRUCK MAZDA B2000 $5695 EPA EST Hwy other cars. You may got dlftaront mllaaga. dapandlng on 1 luuiih Vaih 1 i I HlnHi mllAaaA iwlll arnbablv laaa rrom uxmoor YOUR PICK 37 DON CORLETT IMPORTS 8013 SheiDyviiie hj. Across in a 5-2 romp past the host Detroit Tigers.

The game was marred by a bench-clearing melee in the third inning after Detroit reliever George Cappuzzello's first pitch beaned Ben Oglivie. The Brewers outfielder, a former Louisville Colonel, charged the mound and was ejected from the game after wrestling with the pitcher. Cappuzzello suffered a cut near his left ear and was relieved by Aur-elio Lopez, who retired 16 straight before yielding an eighth-inning single to Cecil Cooper. In the bottom of the second, Caldwell's head-high pitch knocked down Detroit's Lynn Jones, whose first-inning single was his 17th hit in his last 36 at-bats. The Brewers scored four runs against loser Dan Petry (2-5) in the first inning.

Detroit's Steve Kemp tripled home Jones and Alan Trammell in the first inning for the only runs off Caldwell (6-4), who was relieved in the eighth by Fingers. The righthander earned his 10th save by retiring the last six batters. Shooty Babitt's two-run triple capped a five-run first inning to lead Steve McCatty and the visiting Oakland A's past the Chicago White Sox 6-2. The game marked the return of Oakland manager Billy Martin pending a hearing on his appeal of a seven-day suspension and $1,000 fine by AL president Lee McPhail for a run-in with umpire Terry Cooney in Toronto on Friday night. Four of the five runs off loser Ross Baumgarten (5-5) in the first inning were unearned as a result of three White Sox errors.

McCatty (6-4) turned in his sev- May 24 race will begin Thursday. Reached yesterday in Indianapolis, USAC publicist Bill Marvel also said he was unaware of why King chose Render. "I don't know how he was arrived at," said Marvel. "But it is supposed to be a nonpartisan committee." Render, who was reluctant to talk about the situation, also said he didn't know the procedures that would be used in the hearing, nor what his precise role although he's been named chairman and chief judge of the panel would be. "I'm not going to talk about the damn thing at this point," he said.

"It would be inappropriate for me to comment on the case. It has the potential to get a little hectic." Roger Penske, owner of the Unser car, has already complained in writing of the appointments of Brockman and MacDon-ald. Penske, one of the organizers of Championship Auto Racing Teams, a rival of USAC, said MacDonald was on the USAC board that threw out two of his 1979 Indy 500 entries, later reinstated in a federal court trial. Marvel said today's meeting will set the ground rules for the hearing and include consideration of a request by Penske that the hearing have an open-door policy for media coverage. Wilcher team, didn't sound as disappointed.

"I was pretty pleased that our team could compete against teams loaded with those home-run hitters," Higgins said. "You either set it up for home runs or you don't, and whether you say 'pro' or not, it's still softball. We made a mistake in the pros by over-compensating after that first season (1977), when there were so many home runs. They got a very dead ball and moved the fences back at the same time." Bob Brown of Detroit held administrative positions in both the UPSL and North American pro leagues before he became NSPC executive director this year. In-fighting, Brown suggested, has left the pros behind a giant eight-ball.

"They were so afraid of losing credibility by losing teams that they let some owners get off cheap," Brown said. "John Korinek is the first strong guy they've had running it, and he might be what they need. But the basic problem is the financial imbalance. You've got owners who will pay for top players, good facilities and promotion, and owners who aren't able to." Ironically, Rardin said, it may be Ted Stepien, the multimillionaire owner of pro basketball's Cleveland Cavaliers, who puts the UPSL on a sound footing by managing to entice several of the better amateur teams and players into the fold. Stepien nearly wrecked the UPSt in 1980 when he quit the league and By JOHN McGILL Courier-Journal Staff Wrltar Why was a University of Louisville law professor chosen to head the U.S.

Auto Club panel that will hear Bobby Unser's appeal to be named winner of the Indianapolis 500? Even the professor says he doesn't know. "I have no idea," said Edwin R. Render, who has been at of since 1968. "I don't know how it happened." One thing seems clear. Render's selection was not based on any intense interest in auto racing.

Asked if he was a race fan, Render said: "No I haven't followed racing closely. I've probably read stuff about of basketball more closely than auto racing." Render, a graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the American Arbitration Association, said he was first contacted about sitting on the three-man panel by USAC president Don King. King was unavailable for comment yesterday. Render and the other members of the panel comprised of former USAC officials Charles Brockman and Reynold MacDon-ald will conduct a preliminary meeting at 1 p.m. today in Indianapolis.

The hearing on Unser's appeal of a decision that named Mario Andretti the winner of the was in uniform against the after appealing the suspension umpire in Toronto last week. Al Oliver and Buddy Bell delivered run-scoring singles in the eighth inning to lift the visiting Texas Rangers to a 5-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Mark Wagner tripled against loser Jerry Koosman (3-7) with one out in the eighth and, one out later, Bill Stein was walked intentionally. Oliver followed with a sharp single up the middle to snap a 3-3 tie, and Bell then laced a hit to center to score Stein from second base. Jim Anderson hit a double and two singles, scored one run and drove in two to lead the Seattle Mariners to a 4-3 victory over the host Kansas City Royals.

The Reds lost three of the four games with Los Angeles. Foster, who batted in 27 runs in May, thinks his occasional inability to score runners from third has been felt. "The runs that I didn't drive in right then meant the difference between winning and losing the games," Foster said. "I've thought about it a lot. I think more about what I didn't do than what I did do." Still, Foster hasn't been a failure with men on base.

He is hitting over .300 with men in scoring position, and 30 of his 39 RBIs have come in Reds' victories. As his hitting improves, Foster figures, the game-winning hits will multiply. He had 16 game-winning RBIs last season, and he thinks he'll top that mark this year. "I haven't been able to get that many key hits," he said. "I haven't had many game-winning RBIs.

But I know by the time the season's over I'll be up there around 18 or 19. I'm starting to hit the ball harder and farther." Pitchers have tried to work the outside part of the plate against Foster to counter his power. Foster has three opposite-field homers this season, one of which was wiped out by rain. "I know I'm able to hit the ball out that way, and I don't feel that I'm giving up a whole lot going that vay," Foster said. th Is A New aOTKfl New List Price SALE PRICE SAVE ALL LOADED CHARGE IT! VISA OR MASTER CHARGE GREENTREE MALL NOW THRU JUNE 9 302 PEARL ST.

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By comparison, Concepcion has eight. "I've driven in a lot of runs this year, but I've been leaving too many men on base, especially on third base with fewer than two outs," Foster said. "I have a tendency to be able to drive in the run from second with two outs easier than the man on third with one or no outs. I've kind of been psyching myself out." A good example came in the Reds' four-game series with Los Angeles in Cincinnati. Three times he failed to knock in the man from third with one out, striking out twice and popping out.

"Instead of trying to get a base hit, I'd start thinking about hitting a fly ball, and I couldn't get one," Foster said. "It happened so many times in succession that it really stood out to me." amateur? founded the North American circuit, in which he owned 6y2 of the eight franchises. He currently has a team in the NSPC, although he may reenter the UPSL in 1982. "I think Ted's sights are set on converting some of these amateur owners who are operating with quarter-million-dollar budgets," Rardin said. "They're doing it for the tax writeoff and love of the game.

Ted might convince them that they can at least get some of their money back by playing home dates instead of going everywhere for tournaments." But, Brown pointed out, the surviving NSPC franchises aren't hurting that much. "Don't forget, four or five of our teams have lucrative endorsement contracts for bats and balls," Brown said. "The general economy cost us some members. But the quality of the teams we have left is better than ever. If one of our owners joins the UPSL, suddenly he has.

to lease a field. Now he just has to host one tournament." "They've always wanted us," Earnest said. "We'd like to see Milwaukee and Louisville in our conference. And they'd like to see Howard's-Western Steer (of Denver, N.C.) or Snyder's-Stroh's (of Detroit) coming to their parks." Bourbons owner Larry Gatti says that by 1983 "this thing (the UPSL) will be so big you won't believe it." Right now, the biggest thing is the size of the deficits. Softball 'bigs': pro or Ifey to Your Grod's Hscrt CX5 New '81 Toyota TOYOTA TAKE '81 Toyota COROLLA 2-Door Sedan PICK-UP Vi Ton-Deluxe Long Bed -5054 WITH OPTIONS SAVE Continued from Page One of ball, and I'm downgrading it.

I probably shouldn't. But I kind of expected it to be the way it is. You've got guys who are overweight, very non-athletic ballplayers, who get up there and hit home runs. "I saw a guy who hit a ground ball and was so disappointed he walked to the dugout. I was very disillusioned.

I thought the amateurs had changed their thinking, but they haven't. It really hits you when you see it. I hate to be so blunt, but I tell you, it's frustrating to pitch against these baboons. The umpire doesn't help you much. He wants you to lay it in there.

"When I was playing second base, I stood for 35 minutes in one inning watching balls go over the fence. I felt I wasn't participating or helping the team. I wanted to be at home sleeping, and I never thought the day would come when a softball game would bore me. "Don't get me wrong. You've got guys like Bruce Meade, who is probably the greatest slo-pitch softball hitter who ever lived.

But some other guys shouldn't be on the field. There are hundreds of amateur players out there right now who are no doubt good enough for the pros. The ones I'm doubting are the ones who can't play defense or run the bases." However, Higgins, now a team mate of Rardin's on the G. B. 632930 565230 MODELS TO CHOOSE FROM 1 1 Strtlrir'.