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4 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1981 r-i a- 1 -v it ers give IBourbons split com JL 1 Vv Annual Percentage Rate Of AUGUST DELIVERIES SAM SWOPE PONTIAC-HONDA-BMW Has All The By JOHN McGILL Caurtar-Journal Staff Wrltar Until Bill Gatti, Dave Whitlock and Rick Wilson the Boom Brothers turned things around, the Kentucky Bourbons performed last night as if they'd sampled too much of their nickname. Staggering through three errors and numerous mental mistakes that didn't dent the box score, the Bourbons pirouetted into a 16-10 swan dive much to the delight of the visiting Cincinnati Suds in last night's first game of a double-header at Bishop David Field. "Lord," said Whitlock, whose two homers in the nightcap helped Kentucky to an 11-4 rebound, "we've never played so bad than we did in that first game. I don't know what it was. It might have been that this was a work day." Whitlock was among several Bourbons who got away from work just minutes before the opener began.

"I'm a beer salesman," said Whitlock. i'fle smiled. "I drink beer, too." wasn't, however, a case of too much suds. Cross his beer can and hope to die, Whitlock said he hadn't partaken during his long day's work. It; "was more a case of too many Suds.

For all the Bourbons' reeling, it was still a payload of 20 hits delivered by the Cincinnati team that won the opener. Avenging a double-header loss to Kentucky on Wednesday, the Suds broke open a 9-9 tie with a seven-run sixth inning. Enter the Boom Brothers. CGatti, Whitlock and Wilson moved to the 2-3-4 spots in the batting order for the nightcap responded with consecutive homers in the; second inning, and the Bourbons wfcre off to an 8-0 lead. 'Gatti, who had spent most of the night walking to first (in eight plate appearances, he was walked five times), started the splurge with a space-shuttle shot over the fence in left center.

It came with the bases loaded. Whitlock, whose two-run homer in the first inning was a monster that crashed halfway up the scoreboard in right-center field, followed Gatti with his second shot of the game. And Wilson immediately followed with a searing liner that cleared the fence and nicked the Scoreboard's corner. Boom-boom-boom. Out go the lights.

And up went the Bourbons' hopes of keeping the heat on their '1981 Pontiac T-1COO ffir0r Per Mo. Staff Photo by Jay Mathar Rick Wilson (7) was congratulated by team- home runs last night for the Kentucky Bour-mate Bill Gatti after hitting the first of two bons in the first game of a double-header. 1982 Pontiac J-2COO "I'm glad I'm staying hot," Wilson said. "I feel real good up there real confident" Wilson got a taste of what Gatti the league leader in home runs (30) and walks (27) has experienced most of the season. After his third homer of the night, he was twice walked intentionally.

"I didn't have any idea they'd do that," said Wilson, who had glared at the offending pitcher who walked him. At the time, however, Wilson hadn't been aware of his homer streak. "That might have had something to do with it," he said, laughing. Whitlock ran his season home run total to 13, second best on the team. Wilson, who has played in less than half as many games, jumped his total to 10.

weren't even in that first game. Everybody was just lax. And it turned out well. We've got to get somebody who can hit behind Bill (Gatti) and somebody in front of him, too. It's nothing permanent.

But you've got to shake up the lineup sometimes." Yes, but given these statistics for the night, Gatti had three hits in three at-bats and four runs batted in; Whitlock was four-for-four with six RBIs; and Wilson was four-for-six with three RBIs and three homers isn't that too torrid a lineup to touch? "I'll put it this way," said Harrison. "The first four hitters are pretty well set." When Wilson sidelined for two weeks until Wednesday night at Cincinnati hit his second-inning blast in the second game, it marked his fourth homer in his last seven plate appearances. rivals in the Western Division of the United Professional Softball League. In splitting last night, Kentucky (27-19) remained five games behind the Suds (31-13) and the Milwaukee Schlitz (32-14), who invade Louisville for a four-game weekend series that begins with a 7:30 double-header tonight. Player-manager Cobbie Harrison, who had a home run himself in the opener, was obviously pleased with the change he'd made in the batting order.

Wilson, who had batted seventh in the opener, shifted to cleanup after hitting a pair of homers in the first game. Gatti moved from third to second in the order and Whitlock from fourth to third. Whit-lock's brother Greg, meanwhile, moved from second to leadoff. "I just wanted to put a little fire in the team," explained Harrison. "We All-Star Game to kick off baseball's 'second season' 1981 Pontiac GRAND PRIX fans picking the eight starters and league presidents and the rival managers Philadelphia's Dallas Green for the NL and Kansas City's Jim Frey for the AL choosing pitchers and reserves.

More than 3 million fan votes have been cast for the teams, although no tabulation has been announced since just before the strike began June 12. Sugar Ray Leonard last November, facing Nino Gonzalez at Public Hall. Rosters for the National and American league teams will be increased from the usual 28 to 30 players for the game, with pitchers limited to two innings instead of the traditional three, commissioner Bowie Kuhn said. Kuhn said the teams would be selected in the normal manner, with scheduled game will cap one of the most star-studded sports weekends the city ever has had. On Saturday, Aug.

8, the Cleveland Browns host the archrival Pittsburgh Steelers in a National Football League exhibition game. The following afternoon, former welterweight boxing champion Roberto Duran returns to the ring for the first time since losing his title to Attaclatad Prat CLEVELAND Baseball officials agree, nothing could better inaugurate baseball's "second season" than the All-Star Game. But reduction of the contest to a one-day affair on Sunday night, Aug. 9, likely is to cost the host city's economy several million dollars. Still, neither the Indians nor city officials are complaining.

The re Baseball looks ahead to peace after strike settlement Payments based on 60 mo. financing, at 17.66 ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE, 25 down cash or trade equity, DEFERRED PAYMENT PRICE T-IOOO $6,948.75, J-2000 $9,683.06, Grand Prix $10,098.75. If You Think You Can't Afford A New Car, You Haven't Been To Continued from Page One why this happened without emotion and venom. We need the additional time to reorient our thinking and our structure so these earthquakes don't have to occur again." "It is clear that both sides lost," said Jerry Reinsdorf, co-owner of the Chicago White Sox. "The strike was senseless." The strike, which both sides continually insisted was unnecessary, will leave scars.

There already is talk that officials on both sides will be different the next time around. Management sources predict both commissioner Bowie Kuhn and the owners' chief negotiator, Ray Gre-bey, will be replaced. Marvin Miller, the executive director of the Players Association, said, "I have a strong feeling I won't stay around fot future negotiations." The additional year on the contract, Miller said, would make that transition easier for everyone. The strike may represent the end of an era in baseball's 100-year labor war. New owners, such as Eddie Chiles of the Texas Rangers, may reflect a new attitude toward the "new" players.

Chiles said he was proud of those players for the dignity with which they handled themselves during the strike. "They hung tight, they hung tough; they're made of strong stuff," Chiles said. "You gotta be proud of them. If we run our business right, (putting) the higher-class people on the team losing a ranking free agent to receive, at the most, the 25th man off the other team's roster. Ranking free agents are defined as those in the top 30 percent of performance statistics based on a two-year average (those with 12 or more years in the majors and those who have been free agents are excluded from the rankings).

Players in the top 20 percent of the statistics are considered Type or premium, free agents, the signing of whom may require professional compensation. The number of Type A free agents requiring professional compensation is determined by the number of teams contributing to the pool each year. According to the agreement, as many as five teams each year may elect not to participate in the pool. Those clubs may not sign or select a Type A free agent for three consecutive years. If all 26 clubs participate in the pool in 1981, there will be a maximum of eight Type A free agents.

If only 21 teams participate, there will be a maximum of seven. At no time during the life of the agreement can there be more than nine Type A free agents in any one year. A team that participates in the pool but does not sign a Type A free agent will be able to protect 26 men in its organization. All others go into the pool. A club signing a free agent will be able to protect 24 men in its organization, with all others going into the pool.

However, no club can the field, the better the game is going to be. If we know they hang tough, that they know what they want and will do what is right to get what they want, then the owners will be obliged to work on an equal basis with them. "I'm not saying, 'Give 'em every-' like a spoiled child. But give them what is fair and equitable and what they need to have." The players, who regarded this strike as a "take-back" negotiation, in which they had to give back some of the rights they have had since 1976, were not jubilant about the terms of the settlement. Dick Moss, a consulting attorney for the Players Association, said he expected the agreement to be ratified, although not unanimously.

Mark Belanger, the player representative of the Baltimore Orioles, said, "It's a good agreement. I don't consider it great. But you have to weigh it against the real possibility of the loss of the 1981 season and the irreparable damage to the game in 1982." When the strike began on June 12, the owners were still asking for compensation that, in many cases, would have given a team losing a free agent the 16th man off the other club's roster. On June 7, the players offered a proposal for pooled compensation that stipulated for the first time that each team would designate one man off its 40-man roster for the pool. The proposal that the two sides settled on provides a pool.

It allows lose more than one player a year as compensation. If a team signs no Type A free agents, it can lose only one player as compensation over a three-year period. If a team signs, for example, three Type A free agents in 1981, it can lose one player a year off its 24-man protected list over the three-year period. Free agents participating in the draft may be selected by any number of clubs. Previously, a free agent could be selected by only 13 teams.

The team losing the player will receive as compensation $150,000 from a fund created by equal contributions from each club. However, a team can receive that payment only once over the three-year period. The agreement on the compensation issue, which had proved so intractable for so long, "provides us with what we wanted, and what they needed," according to Grebey. Once the compensation issue was resolved, the only thing that remained was full service credit. The negotiators did what baseball always does: They traded for it.

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