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P.S., TV Listings, D8 Fishing Report, D3 THURSDAY, MAY 6. 1982 SECTION The Post Strikers Fall to Rowdies flit fLK 1 1 i i A i A i Blizzard Beats Cosmos in OT, D9 By Jon Marmor Port SttH Writer FORT LAUDERDALE Brian Kidd has long said that a team revolves around one player. The Fort Lauderdale Strikers followed that philosophy, failing to recover after Kidd was ejected with 14:09 left in the first half, and fell to the Tampa Bay Rowdies last night 3-2, losing their five-game winning streak before a crowd of 15,205 at Lockhart Stadium. Kidd was thrown out 30 51 into the game, being called for a red card after an altercation with Rowdies' midfielder Pedro De-Brito, and the Strikers had to play the rest of the game with just 10 players, according to league rules. The Rowdies took advantage of their lion-10 advantage and wore down the Strikers, taking the lead for good at 78:50 when Marcelino Oliyeira weaved his way through a pack of Striker defenders and blasted a shot from 15 yards out into the upper-right corner of the net past Striker goalkeeper Jan van Beveren.

The Strikers had rallied to tie the game at 2-2 at the 66:40 mark on a penalty shot. Branko Segota was pulled down by the Rowdies' Mike Connell and Bernd Holzenbein ripped a shot off Tampa Bay goalkeeper Jurgen Stars' left arm into the net. Kidd, who gave the Strikers a 1-0 lead at the 13:42 mark when he headed a pass from Alexander Szatmari into the lower-right corner of the net, wouldn't comment about his red card, the first of his long career. He showered and changed after. being ejected and watched most of the second half in the box of team owners Joe and Elizabeth "I have nothing to say," Kidd said as he strode across the field after the game to the locker room.

"I won't comment on anything. I just absolutely have nothing to say." Kidd and DeBrito got into it pretty good about a minute before Kidd was ejected. Kidd was bringing the ball up the field when he was tackled hard by DeBrito. DeBrito threw an elbow and Kidd retaliated. But as play moved down the field, Kidd took a swing at DeBrito, appearing to catch him in the back of the head.

Both players got up and squared off, taking a few swings at each other before separating on their own. The ball was brought up field and after DeBrito dumped Branko Segota on a hard tackle, linesman Don Buslinger pulled referee Howard Krollfeifer aside and reported the altercation. Krollfeifer stopped play, walked across the field and pulled out the red card, much to the dismay of the fans and to coach Eckhard Krautzun, who walked onto the field to find out what was going on. DeBrito was given a yellow card for his participation. The play seemed to dictate the action for the rest of the game, ifn which three more yellow warning cards were issued.

"I didn't see the incident but I wonder when the referee doesn't see the play and palls a red card," Krautzun said. "The referee let it go out of hand and it got rough." But that didn't bother Krautzun as much as having to play one man short. "It is very difficult to play with just 10 men," he said. "I have to give the players credit for playing as hard as they did and after we equalized the score I thought we might do it. But we just got too tired." Krautzun said the Strikers' fatal mistake was trying to be too offensive with the score Brian Kidd given red card tied.

"We got carried away, we didn't maintain possession of the ball and we rushed when we shouldn't have. When we were not able to score, we were in trouble because we gave Tampa Bay good chances." Kidd will miss the Strikers' May 26 contest at Lockhart against Edmonton. A red card requires a play to miss the next home game, but a five-day grace period apparently will allow Kidd to play this Sunday against Seattle. Turn to STRIKERS, D9 ill v'- fir htniw4i StiH Photo by Don Preliler Rowdies' Terry Moore (left) battles Keith Weller for ball Steve Hummer Sports Editor At the Top Instead of Over the Hill I 71FV i -A If 1 1 J4 A The Met Look 'JJ Gaylord Perry does the watching when he's not it pitching, charting perfor- rt mances of his Mariner WT I T. i teammates (above), but he fT i "4 is the object of observation 7 1 -J by opponents and umpires V- a when he goes into his rou- fVV 1 1 tine on the mound.

X. I i I Th. Auociotod Pr.i. Even Reagan Makes Pitch For Gaylord SEATTLE (AP) Gaylord Perry exchanged breezy telephone greetings with President Reagan and told a news conference yesterday he was more excited than nervous about approaching his 300th major league pitching victory. I Perry, who picked up No.

299 last Friday in New York's Yankee Stadium, is scheduled to get his first chance tonight at becoming the 15th pitcher to reach the 300 mark. The Yankees again will oppose Perry and the Seattle Mariners, this time in the Kingdome. "I know it's just an ugly rumor that you and I are the only ones left who saw Abner Doubleday throw out the first ball," Reagan told Perry from the White House. Reagan, at 71 the oldest man to serve as president, told Perry, 43, the oldest player in the major "I don't celebrate birthdays anymore, I celebrate anniversaries of my 39th birthday." Perry told Reagan, "You're still a young man too," and sent his regards to Reagan's wife, Nancy. Perry campaigned with the Reagans when Reagan was seeking a second term as governor of California.

Reagan displayed familiarity with Perry's accomplishments, citing him as the only pitcher to win the Cy Young award in each major league. When the president hung up. Perry, a North Carolina peanut farmer in the off-season, said, "I forgot to tell him about the farm bill." As for his next victory, Perry said his teammates who aren't in the starting lineup have been coming to him to ask for a chance to play in his next game. "I tell them I'm just a player," he said. While Perry said he wasn't especially nervous about going for No.

300, he said he hoped the Mariners would score some runs early against the Yankees. Still, "I've always thought I pitched well under pressure," he said. "I've pitched pressure games and won." As for the Yankees, he said, "They have a powerful ball club. I hope I can get them to hit it at the guys." Perry, who pitched for the Yankees for part of the 1980 season, said he's sure the Yankees don't want to be the team that yields his 300th victory. Perry would become the first pitcher to reach the 300 mark since Early Wynn in 1963.

Perry was joined at the news conference by his brother Jim, who won 215 major league games. "He's in great shape. He's even lost a little weight," said Jim, who was Gaylord's teammate with the Cleveland Indians in 1974. Gaylord agreed. "I feel as good as I have in the last five or 10 years," he said.

"I throw just as hard. The ball just takes a little detour before it gets there." Perry says he's not much different from the 23-year-old rookie for the San Francisco Giants who faced the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 25, 1962. "They had some awful impressive hitters," said Perry, recalling the team he beat, 8-3, with a five-inning performance that night in Forbes Field. "They had some fellas like Dick Stuart and Roberto Clemente," he continued. "They could really hit the ball a long way." "The way I see it, baseball hasn't changed for me.

I'm still pitching, and there's still a lot of guys who can hit the ball a long way. Only the names are different." Things have changed, though. Perry wasn't good enough to stick with the Giants in 1962, pitching only 43 Innings before being shipped to the minors. The sad science of charting the decay and decline of the American male born before 1952 has reached a frightening level of sophistication. The daily reminders of a comb clogged with precious hair, a wardrobe that won't zip or button unless there is a signed agreement never to exhale, and a vindictive mirror aren't enough anymore.

They've gone and put the horrors of aging under a microscope. It can now be reported as it was in a recent edition of Esquire that a man certainly begins losing it after his 30th birthday. At 40, he will be one-eighth of an inch shorter than he was a decade before; nd each hair follicle will have thinned by two microns. At 30, he could inhale a robust 6.0 quarts of air into his lungs; but at 40 his leathered bellows will handle only 5.4 quarts. The pump doesn't work as effortlessly as it used to, either.

His metabolism has been slowing at 3 percent each decade from birth and at mid-life, it's beginning to show. Muscle is losing out to fat, a process that begins at 30 and ends at 70 with a total loss of 10 pounds of muscle fiber. If his reflexes were tested by telling him to press a button when he sees consecutive odd or even numbers flashed on a screen, he will react in .88 seconds when he's 30 years old. By 50, it will take .90 seconds, which is why flash cards for adults aren't particularly popular. Now, take those sorry stats and rip them to shreds.

That is if your flabby, middle-aged arms still have the strength. Pete Rose could probably distinguish between numbers as quickly as when he was a kid, as long as the list only included his past batting averages. Gaylord Perry doesn't need a young man's lungs as long as he has enough wind to spit. The capacity of Carl Yastr-zemski's heart is not to be measured by the amount of blood it moves. The easiest argument against the ravages of age are found in every day's box scores.

Old baseball players never die. They just move to first base, become designated hitters or develop a good off-speed pitch. The composite of baseball's seven warriors are numbers to ensure a younger man great wealth. The hitters are batting the pitchers are 4-2 so far with an ERA under 5.00. It is a race as to whether they will leave the game wearing spikes or a wheelchair.

Pittsburgh's Willie Stargell, 41, is the first of the bunch to show the years, hobbling about on a bum knee in the role of an occasional pinch hitter. There aren't many more home runs in the man who has hit 472. Then there is Yastrzemski, who seemingly has thrown the calendar into reverse. He will be 43 in August, but behind him is the best April of his 21 years in Boston. He is hitting .342 with a team-leading five home runs and 19 RBI.

Pete Rose may do commercials for a hair-darkener at age 41 and he may have begun Turn to HUMMER, D5 Rhodes' Reign at PB JC Ends With a Defeat 5-4 Inside The New York Yankees believe they got the left-handed power hitter they have been looking for, John Mayberry (right), in a trade for Dave Revering and a minor leaguer yesterday. Baseball Roundups: D5, D6 PBJC ends at 40-10, its eighth straight winning season, and advanced further than any previous Pacer team. Rhodes led PBJC to the state tournament one other time, when it finished fourth in 1979. The Pacers never had a winning season before Rhodes took over as head coach at the Lake Worth campus. PBJC began the tournament with a victory over Manatee, then lost to Chi-Turn to PBJC, D5 PBJC HX 100 131 Chipolo WO Ml 5 I 4 Rico, FlKher (5) ond Owon; Sauono ind Cooper.

chipoit ooo toe oio -1 i Manatoo 001 0M OW Jenkini, Robalr t) and Cooper; Chastaln and Spurred; IB Cletg (M), Hlggini (C); 3B St. Laurent (M). nament in Colorado Springs, Colo. After Tuesday night's action, PBJC, Chipola and Manatee -were alt tied with 3-1 records. So a coin flip decided which team received a bye.

Manatee, which PBJC had beaten 9-1, won the flip. Chipola, which had beaten PBJC 6-1 earlier, had lost to Manatee. "I wish you hadn't told me that," Rhodes said, when informed of Manatee's championship victory. ih the championship game, Manatee's Jim St. Laurent drove in two runs with a triple in the third inning and was driven home by Jody Reed's sacrifice fly.

Manatecjends the season at 38-8, while Chipola finishes at 46-9. important thing was not the players trying to win this thing for me, but trying to win it for themselves. Playing in the national tournament is a once-in-a-thousand opportunity. "It's funny, when something is over, you don't remember the bad times, just the good. The program, which was supported by the community, is in good shape.

It belongs to the community now." Chipola proceeded to lose to Manatee 6-1 in the championship game of this double-elimination tournament at Joker Marchant Stadium. Manatee advances to a regional tournament against Alrfcama and Georgia. The winner qualifies for the national tour LAKELAND Palm Beach Junior College lost 5-4 yesterday to Chipola in the next-to-last game of the state baseball tournament, ending the eight-year reign of Pacer head coach Dusty Rhodes on a rather disappointing note. Rhodes moves on to the University of Florida as an assistant coach in charge of outfielders, defense, base-running. Rhodes will also head recruiting efforts in the South Florida area for the Gators.

"We played tough today," said Rhodes, who drove back home to Greenacres City, passing up the final between Chipola and Manatee. '1 felt uMwe had the hittinto win, but we got beat by a good ball team. The Road to the States Story, D7 Bucks, Celtics Win NBA Roundup, D4.