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SECTION Scoreboard2 Pro Baseball6 Business7 9 4 Saturday, May 51984 a. i m- A A ti OA teroy Full "off ehfucky'y ysrenes mint iiiiiummmngu 1 jlOth Kent ticky Derby Saturday Ayem JOHN BIBB Soorfi Editor ODDS 45-1 60-1 7-1 5-2 70-1 9-1 7-1 7-1 7-1 POSTHORSE ta-Afthea ZRaja's Shark iBearHunt)' 4.f-So Vague 5.a-tife's Magic 6.FightOver 7.Falt Time fiJ-Bedouin Hope laTaylor's Special ItSilant King 12.b-Vanlartdingham 13. f-Secret Prince 14. At The Threshold 15. $wale 16.

f-Majestic Shore 17.f-Biloxi Indian 18. b-Pine Circle 19. f-Coax Me Chad 20.Gate Dancer JOCKEY McCarron Wilson MacBeth Cooksey Brumfield Vergara Hawley Sibtlle Gaffglione S. Maple Shoemaker Day Perret E. Maple Pincay Lively Patterson Smith McCauley Delhoussaye 4ff 1 Specifically Silent King 9-2 9-2 7-1" 35-1 7-1 7-1 7-1 9-2 7-1 18-1 a 0.

Wayne Lukas trained entry, Shug McGaughey trained entry. f-Mutuel FiekJ I OUISVILLE The idea works in every other J-i sport, so why not the Kentucky Derby? '4 mean, if servicing your territory includes mak- ing guesses as to which team is going to win an event, the first thing you look for is strength up the middle. CATCHING, pitching, turning the doubleplay at second and an outstanding centerfielder are musts in championship baseball. You think the same way in 1 football, with center, quarterback and fullback. I So, if you take a look at the middle of the track I this afternoon when the 20 Kentucky Derby chal-.

lerigers are in position in the starting gate, this i 1 10th renewal of America's premier horse racing classic may be remembered for its strength in the middle. Weights: Althea anJ Life's Magic. 121 pounds; others, 126 pounds each. Distance: 1Vi miles. Purse: Althea Remains The 5-2 Favorite TENNESSEAN News Services LOUISVILLE, Ky.

The 1 10th Kentucky Derby today shapes up as extremely competitive, missing some of the top horses and offering more plots than a cheap detective thriller. DEVIL'S BAG, Time for a Change and Dr. Carter, who were prime Derby contenders, did not make the race, but it's difficult, perhaps impossible, to detract from a race that has become a piece of Americana. Besides, there is quality in what will be the richest running of the l'i-mile classic at ChurchiU Downs with a purse of $712,400 and a winner's share of $537,400. Post time is 4:38 p.m.

CDT, and the race will be televised in the Nashville area by WKRN-Channel 2 begin ning at 3:30. The weather forecast for today calls for increasing cloudiness, a 20 chance of afternoon showers and temperatures in the low to mid 70s. "It's a good field," Jack Van Berg, trainer of Gate Dancer, said yesterday. "THERE IS NO super horse in there we know of yet, but it is a very competitive field. You can pick 10 or 12 horses, and any one of them could win." i There is genuine speed in the race, and there are some good one-run horses, whose jockeys will try to move at the right time and hope their mounts can sustain a winning drive to the wire.

One of the speed horses is the filly Althea, who beat colts in the Arkansas Derby, while one of the stretch runners is her entrymate Life's Magic; also a filly. TWO FILLIES have won the Derby Regret in 1915 and Genuine Risk in 1980. Other contenders who figure to. be on or near the pace are Taylor's Special, Swale, Fali Time and Vanlandingham. Three other stretch runners to watch are Silent King, Gate Dancer and Vanlandingham's entry-mate, Pine Circle.

The Derby field in post position order is Althea, Raja's Shark, Bear Hunt, So Vague, Life's Majic, Fight Over, Kali Time, Bedouin, Rexson's Hope, Taylor's Special, Silent King, Vanlandingham, Secret Prince, At The Threshold, Swale, Majestic Prince, Biloxi Indian, Pine Circle, Coax Me Chad and Gate Dancer. So Vague, Bedouin, Rexson's Hope, Secret Prince, Majestic Shore, Biloxi Indian and Coax Me Chad are coupled as the mutuel field for betting purposes. The last member of a mutuel field to win a Derby was Canonero II in 1971. This Derby has a full field of 20 3-year-olds and even (Turn to Page 4, Column 1) $712,400 if 20 start. First place: $537,400.

Second place: $100,000. Third place: $50,000. Fourth place: $25,000. Post time: 4:38 p.m. CDT.

Television: Channel 2, 3:30 p.m. We're talking about post positions 9 through 12. -There you'll find, in order, Rexspn's Hope, Taylor's Special, Silent King and Vanlandingham. While most of Ihe attention is being centered on the filly Althea arid Woody Stephens' SWale, I'm picking one of those four in the middle, specifically, Silent King, to be the winner, with Taylor's Special and Rexson's Hope running 2-3. AS A MATTER of fact, it will be interesting to see! if the ourjmid-streamers might get into a race of their own, right there in the middle of the Derby.

Taylor's Special and Silent King have had a furious rivalry underway for quite a spell. Right now, Taylors Special holds the upper hand, having fought off Silent king's stretch rushes in the last two battles. But, stick fast-starting and fresh Vanlandingham and late-running Rexson's Hope in that four-horse wad in the middle of things, and this could be-'come one of the more memorable finishes in Derby history. Interestingly, enough, a couple of the the ABC isolated cameras are expected to be aimed right there, too. (Turn to Page 4, Column 3) Peshaies Hurls jjOijTrri' vi V'fr' i Sirs Nd-Hitfer or Nashville By TOM SQUIRES 4 I V.

"AhJ- i' ifSltiiMiiiiiiiiiii.ii mtmwmiitam lliSHill iWMtltrrttrtiiiilliwwi Jf Staff photos by Robert Johnson Lipscomb maintenance worker Steve Swann, left, retrieves the. baseball Philip Dickens hit onto the McQuiddy Gym roof beyond the right field fence at Ken Dugan Field, and Dickens smiles proudly with the ball after the contest. Left-hander Jim Deshaies made Nashville Sounds' history last night, hurling the club's first no-hitter in a 5-1 seven-inning victory over Co-' lumbus. The feat came in the second game of a double-header before 4,402 fans at Herschel Greer Stadium. Nashville also won the first game 3-1 as the Sounds' winning streak extended to five in a row.

THE 6-FOOT-6 Deshaies walked four and hit a batter, but struck out 'eight in tossing Nashville's first complete game this season. It was his third win against one loss-. The hit batsman and three of Deshaies' walks came in the second inning when Columbus scored its lone run "of the game. And, except for a one-out walk in the fifth, the Astros never really came close to spoiling the "I hated to give them that run in the second, but a no-hitter is a no-hitter and 111 take one even with a few walks," said an elated Deshaies amidst congratulations in the Sounds' lockerroom. IN THE bottom of the seventh, Deshaies got the first two Columbus hitters on pop flys, the first of which one he! caught on the mound.

After just missing on a 1-2 pitch to Ty lanky southpaw then fanned the' Astro outfielder on a pitch low and away. "I couldn't help but think about it when I went to the mound in the seventh," explained Deshaies. "I made sure I stayed away from the radio Inside the clubhouse because I thought they might be talking about it But, things were just too quiet on the bench. I could sense everyone thinking about it figured then that I would just go strictly with the fastball," con- tinued theMassena, N.Y. native'It had worked all night I knew the hitters would be looking for it, but I Ihrpur it anvwav for most pitchers but not Jim.

He has a great fastball that really rises. "He really didn't have much when the game started and then he had some problem with his location in the second inning. But, after that he started bringing that thing. By the fifth inning, it was humming," said Lindsey. Deshaies said he had never even been close to throwing a no-hitter since he was picked by the Yankees in the 21st round of the 1982 free agent draft "I THINK my previous low-hit game was about three," he said.

"I lost one in a seven-inning college game with two outs in the last inning and I thought about that tonight. I've lost chances at some on some chink hits so I'm glad to see one go in my favor." Deshaies' no-hitter overshadowed another outstanding performance by Sounds' leadoff hitter Tommy Barrett who had the game-winning RBI in both contests. For the two games, he drove in four runs with three singles and a sacrifice fly. The Sounds' victory in the first game was the completion of a contest suspended by rain Thursday night with Nashville ahead 1-0 in the bottom of the fourth. RELIEVER Kelly Faulk picked right up where Bob Tewksbury had left off and blanked Columbus for the next four innings while the Sounds stretched their lead to 3-0.

A walk, an error, and a single finally chased Faulk from the mound in the ninth after Columbus scored its first and only run of the series. Newcomer Randy Graham then made his Class AA debut ind retired three of the next four batters to notch a save and preserve Faulk's first victory: "I thought I was going to need some braces to keep my knees from shaking," said the right-hander Graham, who was 3-1 with six saves at Fort Lauderdale. "I think it was just pitching in my first game after moving I -think it's behind me now." Bisons Enjoy Record, Dickens' Blast By MIKE MORROW Leave jt to Phillip Dickens to steal the show even on the day when David Lipscomb breaks the NAIA record for consecutive victories. Dickens, the NAlA's all-time home run king, slugged a home run to the roof of McQuiddy Gym a mammoth 500-foot shot in the first of two Bison victories in the Volunteer State Athletic Conference tournament at Lipscomb's Ken Dugan Field- poles in center field. But those are the only ones close I can remember." DICKENS RAISED his fists in jubilation after the blast "I was surprised it went that far," said Dickens, a Goodlettsville product "My dad was here and he had been wanting me to put one up there or at the windows on the side.

I'm just astonished that it hit up there. All I know is I want that ball." He got his wish. A school maintenance worker retrieved the ball and Dickens was presented the prize after the game. "THEY HAD hit Benton Patton just before I came up. I don't think.it was intentional, but I was upset that tian Brothers and Tennessee Wesleyan, which eliminated Lincoln Memorial yesterday 8-2.

Today's action marks the end of the tournament plagued by rain on Wednesday and Thursday. If Lipscomb wins its game today, the Bisons will be VSAC champions. If its Opponent wins, co-champions will be declared rather than play an extra day. DICKENS, WHO hit another soaring blast to center field in the second victory yesterday, slugged his McQuiddy Gym shot to right in the third inning of the morning contest It was a two-run rocket which hit a slanted portion of the gym roof and bounced back into a gutter. Dr.

Ralph Nance, physics and engineering teacher at Lirjscomb. cal be at least 495 feet figure is at minimum Nance said. "You could estimate it up to 540 feet" NO PLAYER has ever hit a ball onto the gym roof before. Lipscomb coach Ken Dugan, veteran of 25 years at the helm of the team, said it was the farthest home run he could remember. "Of course it's hard to calculate homers hit here in left and center fields," he said, referring to the more spacious area beyond where the current fence stands.

"I remember Bill Banowsky, now the chancellor of the University of Oklahoma who played here, hit one onto a tent that was on the embankment way out in left field in about 1956. Mark Carter hit one up between the two levels of lights on the e. THE WINS 12-2 over Lincoln Memorial and 20-5 over Christian Brothers gave Lipscomb an, NAIA record of 30 wins in a row, breaking the old mark of 28 which the Bisons tied last week. Lipscomb will play today at 3 p.m. against the winner of a noon "1 GUESS he threw 85 fast-' balls," said catcher Bill Lindsey, who also caught Deshaies last year a Fort Lauderdale "That's unusual IT I mi (Turn to Page 4, Column 6 culated the distance of the homer to elimination" game between Chris (Turn to Page 5, Column 1).

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