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By BRUCE LOWITT AP Sports Writer The National League East appears to be turning into the race nobody wants to win. "This just gives you an idea of how much balance there is in this division. We're losing, but so are Philadelphia and Montreal and St. Louis," Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner said Wednesday night after the Pirates were beaten for the sixth time in seven games and still remained within one-half game of first place. While Chicago's Chuck Rainey was no-hitting Cincinnati for 8 2-3 innings losing his line in the record book when Eddie Milner singled and finishing with a one-hit 3-0 triumph for the second-division Cubs' second victory in three games under Manager Charlie Fox, the teams at the top continued to stagger.

The Pirates' 10-4 loss to Houston permitted Philadelphia to retain its slender division lead, even though the Phillies were stung 5-3 by San Francisco. Second-place St. Louis and third- place Montreal fared no better, the Cardinals losing 11-3 to Atlanta to stay two games back and the Expos falling 3-2 in Los Angeles to stay the seventh and hit a two-run they might have the best bullpens tm five runfifth in the division." inning. Dickie Thon and Bill Doran each homered and Jerry Humphrey and Phil Garner had two doubles apiece in the Astros' 16-hit assault. "Everybody's in it and there's a lot of baseball left," said Tanner.

"One reason why everybody is doing so poorly is there's so much balance in this division. Just look what this "division has done the last four years (three World Series winners). "Everybody is tough and one-hit there's only from too to irmin and doubled to spark a sl mn 77 he leftafter bottom in the division. No oSer third inning that enabled "You could say we're still really lucky to be in it," said Pirates relief ace Kent Tekulve. "You could say we should have been out of it by now.

another game tomorrow and we just have to hope for the best." And third baseman Bill Madlock predicted: "Any team that wins five games hi the last week will probably win Braves 11, Cardinals 3 In St. Louis, Phil Niekro scattered seven hits in seven innings and doubled to spark a Sentine giving up Pittsburgh's second hit, Dave Parker's two- run homer in division is like that. Chicago and New York are fifth and sixth and a I.WV 1U11 IJUlli GRIMSLEY'S SPOR TS WORLD: Drug Cries Nothing New By IVILL GRIMSLE AP Special Correspondent The first cry of alarm about steroids and other drugs in Olympic sports was sounded by Bob Hoffman 31 years ago in the Games at Helsinki, Finland. Hoffman was a hulking man in his 70s, straight as an oak's trunk and just as hard, out of York, the bar-bell capital of the world! It was his equipment that turned those skinny, sniffling softies you saw in the pulp magazine ads into veritable Tarzans who got even an army tank, easy winner of one of the Soviet's four weight- lifting golds. The U.

S. also won four. In subsequent years, Hoffman never relented in his charges that the Russians were utilizing steroids and other illegal drugs. Others picked up the chantj pointing particularly to the Soviet's rugged women athletes. The Press sisters, Tamara and Irina, a miner's daughters from the Soviet outlands, aroused notice because they had the strength and muscles of men.

The the country's weightlifters and, as coach and overseer of the sport, on hand for the '52 Olympics, the first to host a team from the Soviet Union. As Yankee musclemen grunted and sweated in efforts to lift heavier loads than the Russians, Hoffman became increasingly outraged. "They're on drugs," he stormed, pointing at the Russians. "Look at them. I know they're taking that hormone stuff to increase their strength." The louder Bob Hoffman yelled, the less indent he made on the ears of the authorities.

Nobody paid any It. was a period of mutual suspicion. The Soviets were a mysterious giant coming put from behind the Iron Curtain. They had refused to live in the sister Irina in the hurdles and pentathlon, winning five gold medals between them in 1960 and 1964. In the late 1960s, the International Olympic Committee instituted sex tests for women athletes.

The Presses quit competition, never taking the test. The tests were initiated at the Winter Games in Grenoble, France, in 1968, provoking jests among the young Alpine skiers and figure skaters. "Do we look like men?" they asked, giggling hilariously. It was no giggling matter this week when the steroid mess broke into the open at the Pan Am Games in Caracas. Eight weightlifters including an American had medals taken away because of positive steroid tests.

Eleven other Americans Eastern sequestered themselves many miles from the city. They wanted nobody spying. Also, Americans thought every Soviet newsman who had steel teeth and wore a black hat worked for the KGB while undoubtedly the Russians saw a CIA agent in every red, white and blue sweat suit. Russia's super heavyweight champion at the time was the great Vasily Alexeev, built like to the United States without competing in track and field. The circumstances were suspicious if not condemning.

Questions, as well as eyebrows, were raised. "What's going on'" "Why?" The answer is simple. Ours has become a loose, anything- goes society. Baseball players in growing numbers are confessing to alcohol and drug addiction. Pro football is said to be saturated with cocaine sniffers -Fullback Set For Job on Steelers By RALPH BERNSTEIN AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) -Philadelphia Eagles fullback Hubie Oliver remembers the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the memories aren't too good.

It will be somewhat the same scene for Oliver when the Eagles meet the Steelers tonight in the final National Football League exhibition game for both teams. Last year, Oliver, a 10th- round draft pick in 1981, had won the starting fullback job. But against Pittsburgh in the last exhibition game he went down for the season with knee ligament damage. Oliver says he's not going to let the memory affect his play. "I'm just going out and play my game," said the 212-pound fullback, after a final workout Wednesday.

"I'm not thinking about what happened to me. I've just got to go out and do my job." Oliver appears to have recovered from his injury, and has shown the form that enabled him to start 10 games as a rookie two seasons ago. He's gained 70 yards on 13 carries for a 5.4 average in limited duty as the Eagles won three previous exhibitions. The Steelers, 3-1, will be without nose tackle Edmund Nelson and defensive end John Goodman, both injured. Cliff Stoudt will be at quarterback in place of Terry Bradshaw, still recovering from offseason surgery.

Franco Harris leads the runners and wide receivers John Stallworth, Calvin Sweeney and Greg Hawthorne are the top pass catchers. In other games during the final weekend of the preseason, it will be Baltimore at Atlanta, the Los Angeles Raiders at Cleveland, Miami at the New York Giants, New England at Tampa Denver at Minnesota, and the Los Angeles Rams at San Diego on Friday, with Seattle at San Francisco, Washington at Buffalo, Cincinnati at Detroit, Green Bay at St. Louis, Kansas City at Chicago, the New York Jets at New Orleans, and Houston at Dallas on Saturday. Elsewhere, Bears General Manager-Vice President Jim Finks resigned Wednesday. The Cowboys traded linebacker Danny Spradlin to the Buccaneers for an undisclosed draft choice.

The Oilers released their longtime star receiver Ken Burrough, who combined with Pastorini to form one of football's most feared pass- catch combinations in the 1970s. Burrough, a 12-year veteran, was hampered in preseason by a back injury. He was Houston's all-time yardage leader with 6,907. The Chiefs were busy, acquiring fullback John DeGruttola from the Giants for a draft choice, and halfback Lawrence Ricks from the Cowboys, also for a draft pick. The Rams placed veteran wide receiver Drew Hill and place- kicker Mike Lansford on injured reserve and reactivated defensive back Henry Williams from that list.

San Diego obtained wide receiver Roger Carr from Seattle for several draft choices.The Buccaneers waived quarterback Jeff Quinn. Holdout R. C. Thielemann, Atlanta's starting right guard for the past six seasons, reported to camp after agreeing to a one- year contract with an option season. one estimate placed the number as high as 50 per cent.

But these abusers are professionals. They march to their own drum beat. The Olympics involve the cream of the world's supposedly untarnished talent, amateurs in name if not in fact. What drives them to such infractions? Atlanta to snap the Cardinals' six-game winning streak. Glenn Hubbard and Rafael Ramirez each homered and Terry Harper and Randy Johnson had three hits apiece.

Indians 1-4, A's 0-2 Neal Heaton hurled a five- hitter in the opener and fellow rookie Julio Franco doubled and scored in the fourth inning. Heaton struck out four and walked one while pitching his third complete game and second shutout. Only three runners reached second base against the left-hander, who has won his last four starts, compiling a 1.29 earned run average in 35 innings. By DAVE GOLDBERG AP Sports Writer CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) The cockiness of a U.S. boxing team that had predicted a gold- medal sweep in the IX Pan American Games is gone and so is its perfect record.

Wednesday was a bad day generally for the U.S. athletes in the drug-marred games, with the boxing team, at the top of the list of disappointment. There were no new revelations eliminate him from the 1984 Olympics, in which he is one of the best American weightlifting hopes. After Paul Gonzalez of Los Angeles ran the U.S boxing record to 12-0 with an easy victory that put him in the finals of the 106-pound division, three U.S. boxers two of them world champions in their weight classes came crashing down.

One world champ, Steve McCrory of Detroit, lost 3-2 in the ui i Twinvivjiia VM. vi lost 6-6 in tne of athletes using steroids or other 112-pound class because he could sru tetances. But Jeff not counter the inside flurries of Micnels of Chicago, who lost his Dominican Laureano Ramirez gold medal in the 243-pound and another champion, pounder Floyd Favors of Capitol Heights, was beaten 4-1 as he tried to knock out Manuel weightlifting class when tests revealed he had steroids in his system, learned he would be im banned for a year. That would Vilchez of Blue Jays Fall Off Guard By HERSCHEL NISSENSON AP Sports Writer With infielder Lenn Sakata behind the plate and outfielders John Lowenstein and Gary Roenicke playing second base and third, respectively, after a series of pinch hitters, the Baltimore Orioles appeared to have their defenses out of sync. Instead, it was the Toronto Blue Jays who got caught with their guard down.

"In a pennant race," said Baltimore reliever Tippy Martinez, "you've got to do things GB 2 Baseball Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST DIVISION Pet. Milwaukee 72 53 576 -Baltimore 7o 52 574 Detroit 70 54 565 Toronto 70 56 .556 York 68 56 348 Boston 60 .480 12 Cleveland 54 73 425 19 WEST DIVISION Chicago 70 55 560 KansasClty 60 63. "488 9 Oakland 62 67 481,, 10 Texas 5 9 66 111 California 59 67 .468 Minnesota 55 72 433 16 Seattle 48 78 .381 22 2 Wednesday's Games Baltimore 7, Toronto 4, 10 inninos New York 6, Seattle 3 Minnesota 8, Boston 7 Detroit 5, Texas2 Cleveland 1-4, Oakland 0-2 Milwaukee 1, California 0, innings Chicago 4, ansas City 3, 10 innings Thursday's Games Oakland (McCatty 4-6) at Cleveland (JeffcoatO-1) Boston(Eckersley7-9)atMinnesota(Viola6- Seattle (BeatMe8-10) California (John 9-10) at Milwaukee (Can- diottil-o) Texas (Matlack 2-3 and Stewart 1-0) at 10-15) 2 (t-n) Toronto (Stieb13-11)atBaltimore(DavislO- 5), (n) Chicago (Burns? -7 atDetroit(Berenguer6- 4). (n) Friday's Games Minnesota at Baltimore, (n) Toronto at Detroit, (n) Boston at Chicago; (n) Texas at Kansas City, (n) New York at California, (n) Cleveland atSeattle, (n) Milwaukee at Oakland, (n) Pittsburgh Cleveland Cincinnati Houston Denver Kansas City San Diego Seattle N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Dallas Louis Washington Tampa Bay Chicago Minnesota Detroit GreenBay L.

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Sent Tony Brizzolara, pitcher, to Richmond of the International League. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association SAN ANTONIO SPURS--Signed Kevin Williams, guard, FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS--Announced the resignation of Jim Finks, vice president and general manager. DALLAS COWBOYS--Traded Danny Spradlin, linebacker, to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for an undisclosed draft choice HOUSTON OILERS--Cut Ken Surrough, wide receiver. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS--Acquired John DeGruttola, fullback, from the New York Giants for an undisclosed draft choice Acquired Lawrence Dallas Cowboys for an undisclosed draft choice. Cut Herb Christopher, defensive back and Ted Sample, running back LOS ANGELES RAMS--Placed Drew Hill widereceiverandMikeLansford.placekicker, on the mi ured reserve list.

Reactivated Henry Williams, defensive back, from the injured reserve list. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS-Cut John Rico, wide receiver.Acquired Roger Carr, wide receiver, from the Seattle Seahawks for an undisclosed draft choices. United States Football League HOUSTON GAMBLERS-Signed Robert Thomas, fullback and David Hardv kicker JACKSONVILLE BULLS-Signed Wilfred receiver and Mike Rodrique, wide receiver- quarterback. PITTSBURGH MAULERS-Announced their nickname will be the Maulers. NFL Exhibition American Conference East Baltimore N.Y.

Jets Buffalo Miami New England 0 1 2 0 .333 6 2 5 0 National Conference East 3 0 0 1.000 7 2 4 3 3 0 0 1.000 6 9 5 1 2 1 0 .667 57 1 2 0 .333 53 69 1 2 0 .333 4 4 7 4 Central 3 0 2 1 2 1 1 2 0 3 0 West L.A. Rams 2 i New Orleans 2 2 Atlanta i 2 Francisco 1 2 Thursday's Game New York Jets 20, Cincinnati 17, OT Friday's Games Miami 38, Washington 7 Minnesota 19, Seattle 17 Saturday's Games Philadelphia27, Green Bay Detroit 16 New Orleans 20, Houston 13 Tampa Bay 17, Atlanta 6 New York 27, Baltimore 14 Kansas City 17, St. Louis 16 Pittsburgh 24, Dallas 7 Denver 19, Cleveland 10 San Diego24, San Francisco7 Los Angeles Rams 13, New England 7 Chicago 27, Los Angeles Raiders 2J Thursday, August 2s Pittsburgh at Philadelphia Friday, August 26 Baltimore at Atlanta, (n) Los Angeles Raiders at Cleveland, (n) Miami at New York Giants, (n) New England at Tampa Bay, (n) Denver at Minnesota, (n) Los Angeles Rams at San Diego, (n) Saturday, August 27 Seattle at San Francisco Washington at Buffalo, (n Cincinnati at Detroit, (n) Green Bay at St. Louis, (n) Kansas City at Chicago, (n) New York Jets at New Orleans, (n) Houston at Dallas, (n) PCL Standings 0 1.000 60 33 0 .667 78 65 0 .667 54 37 0 .333 50 51 1 .000 55 86 0 .667 54 57 0 .500 70 77 .333 29 48San .333 47 65 that a lot of people have never seen before." Cliff Johnson homered off Tim Stoddard in the top of the 10th to give Toronto a 4-3 lead and when Barry Bonnell singled, Martinez took over. Martinez caught Bonnell off first and he was tagged out by first baseman Eddie Murray after he ran almost all the way to second.Pinch hitter Dave Collins walked and was picked off.

Willie Upshaw beat out an infield and was picked off. "They seemed to be pretty anxious to 'get off the bag," Martinez said. "I could see in their faces and their movements that they were raring to go." "Tippy is not foolish," said Lowenstein, who had played 70 games at second base, but not since 1975. "He threw to Murray because he was the only man he recognized in the infield." In the bottom Cal Ripken Jr. led off with a solo homer and Sakata slammed a three-run shot with two out, giving the Orioles a 7-4 victory and keeping them one-half game behind Milwaukee in the American League East.

The Brewers nipped the California Angels 1-0 in 14 innings. Elsewhere, the Detroit Tigers downed the Texas Rangers 5-2, the New York Yankees defeated the Seattle Mariners 6-3, the Chicago White Sox edged the Kansas City Royals 4-3 in 10 innings, the Minnesota Twins edged the Boston Red Sox 8-7 and the Cleveland Indians swept a doubleheader from the Oakland A's 1-0 and 4-2. Sakata hit his second home run of the season off Randy Moffitt, but Joey McLaughlin, who surrendered Ripken's homer, was the loser. After Ripken tied the score, Murray walked and took second on Lowenstein's grounder. McLaughlin was lifted following an intentional walk to John Shelby and Moffitt fanned Roenicke for the second out before Sakata connected, snapping Toronto's 12-game winning streak.in extra-inning contests.

The Orioles, held to two hits for eight innings by Jim Clancy, tied it 3-3 in the ninth on RBI singles by pinch hitter Benny Ayala and Al Bumbry off Dave Geisel. Brewers 1, Angels 0 Robin Yount singled with the bases loaded and none out in the 14th after Don Sutton and Jim Slaton held the Angels to 10 hits. Andy Hassler relieved to start the 14th and gave up a leadoff double to Jim Gantner. After a wild pitch, Paul Molitor and Charlie Moore were walked intentionally and Yount lined a 1-2 pitch into center field. Tigers 5, Rangers 2 Lou Whitaker hit a tie- breaking, three-run inside-the- park home run in the top of the ninth to give Jack Morris his eighth consecutive triumph, tying him with Chicago'sLaMarr Hoyt as the winningest pitchers in the majors with 16 apiece.

Morris scattered seven hits and struck out nine. Bill Stein's two- run pinch homer put Texas ahead 2-1 in the seventh. Detroit tied it in the eighth inning when Alan Trammell singled and scored on Lance Parrish's double. Yankees 6, Mariners 3 Omar Moreno's three-run homer, his first home run in 443 at-bats this season, capped a four-run sixth inning and Ron Guidry scattered nine hits in pitching his 15th complete game one short of his career high -and eighth in a row. After Bert Campaneris' RBI single made it 3-2 and chased Seattle starter Bryan Clark, Moreno greeted Ed Vande Berg with a line drive that barely cleared the right-field wall.

The Yankees added a run in the eighth 0 in Brief U.S. Scores Drop At Pan Am Games By The Associated Press PAN AMERICAN GAMES (AP) Leon Wood triggered the U.S. fast jbreak in the early minutes as the Americans rolled to an easy 81-68 victory over Mexico to remain unbeaten at the DC Pan American Games Elsewhere, Judi Brown captured the United States' first track and field gold medal when she won the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and Paul Gonzalez of Los Angeles advanced to the finals of the 106- pound class in boxing as Americans also earned three silvers and three bronze for a total of 201 medals, 76 ahead of runner-up Cuba. SWIMMING ROME (AP) West Germany, sparked by Michael Gross, broke the world record in the men's 800-meter freestyle relay in the 16th European Swimming Championships. The West German team covered the distance in seven minutes, 20.40 seconds, eclipsing the record of 7:20.82 set by the U.S.

team in West Berlin in 1978. TRACK AND FIELD ZURICH, Switzerland (AP) American veteran Edwin Moses won the 400 meters in 47.37 seconds, his 84th consecutive victory in the event, to highlight an international track meet at Letzigrund Stadium. In other events, Mary Decker of the United States took the 3,000 and Calvin Smith outran Carl Lewis to win the 200 meters. TENNIS MAHWAH, N.J. (AP) Candy Reynolds upset fourth-seeded Claudia Kohde 6-7 (17), 6-4, 7-6 (7-4) in the second round of the $150,000 Virginia Slims of New Jersey tennis tournament.

Other winners included Switzerland's Christiane Jolissaint, Andrea Leand and Rosalyn Fairbank of South Africa PORT CHESTER, N.Y. (AP) Pat Cash of Australia upset Sweden's Henrik Sundstrom 6-4, 6-0 and American Rodney Harmon ousted Mike Bauer 6-3 to advance to the quarterfinals of the $50,000 Head Cup USA terinis tournament. Other first-round winners included Shlomo Glickstein of Israel and Tim Gullikson of the United States. YACHTING NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) Defender, 2-7 in the August trials and 15-19 overall, managed a split against Liberty, 9-2 and 17-21, in the only two races of the day at the America's Cup.

Men's Softball During the men's Softball league tourney games Wednesday, Footwear Gallery downed Coast Guard 6-3 and Larry's Carpets beat Bailey's Marine 5-4. Elks and Pioneer Bar will play at 6:30 p.m. tonight and Footwear Gallery and Bailey's Marine will play at 7:45 p.m. Rock Rack Wins Tourney Sitka's Rock Rack women's Softball team took the 1983 Southeast Fastpitch Tourney championship this last weekend in Wrangell. Rock Rack defeated the Wrangell Allstars 8-2, the Ketchikan AUstars 3-1 and during the championship game lost to Ketchikan 10-18 then defeated them 4-2 in.

eight innings. All tourney members selected from Rock Rack included Mary Lou Colliver and Tammy Johnson. Sitka's other team, Howey's Nuggets, placed Cheryl Westover on the all tourn ey team. CLASSIFIED ADS' 03 CO Portland Edmonton-y Salt Lake Vancouver Tacoma Hawaii Albuquerque LasVegas-y Tucson Phoenix NORTH Pet. GB 35 28 .556 -32 32 .500 3V 2 32 32 .500 3V 2 26 37 .413 9 26 37 .413 9 SOUTH 38 26 .594 -38 26 .594 -35 29 .547 3 30 34 .469 8 26 37 .413 UVj Wednesday's Results Edmonton 8, Hawaii 7 Salt Lake Portland6 Tacoma 8, Tucson 2 Albuquerque 13, Phoenix 2 Las Vegas 14, Vancouver Thursday's Games Salt Lake at Tacoma Vancouver at Portland Phoenix at Tucson Albuquerque at Las Vegas Hawaii at Edmonton Baseball Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE BATTING (300atbats): Boggs, Boston, 368; Carew, California, Trammell, Detroit McRae, Kansas City, Whitaker, Detroit, .322.

RUNS: E. Murray. Baltimore, 83; Molitor, Milwaukee, 82; R. Henderson, Oakland, Toronto, 8); Ripken, Simmons, Milwaukee, 85. HITS: Boggs, Boston, 169; Whitaker, Detroit, 157; cooper, Milwaukee, 156; McRae, Kansas City, Ward, Minnesota, 147.

DOUBLES: Boggs, Boston, 39; Parrish, Detroit, 36; McRae, Kansas City, 36; Ripken, Baltimore, 34; Hrbek, Minnesota, 33; Yount, Milwaukee, 33. TRIPLES: HOME RUNS: Armas, Boston, 29; Rice, Boston, 28; Cooper, Milwaukee, 25; Kittle, Chicago, New York, 25. STOLEN BASES: R. Henderson, Oakland, 89; R. Law, Chicago, 59; J.

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