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HISTORIC RALPH HANOVER Ralph Hanover wins the Little Brown Jug competition and becomes the seventh 3-year-old to claim pacing's Triple Crown. Story on 2D. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23. 1983 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTION 2D SPORTSCOPE 3D GAMEPLAN 4D HIGH SCHOOLS 5D HORSE RACING 6D STOCKS 8D BUSINESS Democrat antJ (fbronirk 1 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST NATIONAL LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE EAST GOLF SPORTS QUIZ DETROIT 5. BALTIMORE 4 (10) PCT.

GB PITTSBURGH 8. CHICAGO 2 PCT. GB LaJET COORS CLASSIC Name the two coaches who MILWAUKEE AT CLEVELAND Baltimore 94 58 .618 CINCINNATI 6. ATLANTA 4 Philadelphia 82 70 .539 ANDY BEAN 33-3467 have coached college football MINNESOTA 2. KANSAS CITY 1 Detroit 87 66 .569 7V4 PHILADELPHIA 9, MONTREAL 7, 1ST Pittsburgh 80 73 .523 2Vi REX CALDWELL 35-3368 at Division 1-A schools for 20 TEXAS 5.

SEATTLE 2 ST. LOUIS 3. NEW YORK 2 Montreal 79 73 .520 3 KEITH FERGUS 34-36-70 seasons? CHICAGO AT CALIFORNIA LEETREVINO 34-36-70 ANSWER 2D TERRY DIEHL 34-4074 6 Australia ties 'Liberty So knots DAVE ANDERSON America's Cup series down to one race after Aussies' resounding victory bined 8 minutes, 26 seconds, Liberty's by 3 minutes, 26 seconds. Both sides forecast a tough race for tomorrow. "It will not be easy," said Alan Bond, the Australian millionaire making his fourth and possibly final Cup challenge.

"We've all along said we would win four races. I'm confident that we will win it," Tomorrow's race will be tough. "Anything will go," said Bertrand. "I'm a little concerned, but it made me feel better today when Alan Bond called a lay day just to savor being tied, 3-3. Somehow I think we'll pull it out," Conner said.

The coveted silver trophy has been bolted to a table in the host New York Yacht lians requested a lay day for today to relax and check their boat from stem to stem. "Obviously, it couldn't be better for the script writers," Aussie skipper John Ber- trand said. "It's a great finale to the summer. "I'm as confident as I can be that well win," said Bertrand. "We've learned how to sail against Liberty." U.S.

skipper Dennis Conner didn't exude such enthusiasm. "It's going to be very exciting to be involved in the race of the century," added Conner, one loss away from being the first American to lose the Cup. Yesterday's margin means that Australia II's three victories have come by a com Club's Manhattan mansion since the U.S. won it from Britain in 1851. The Aussies are ready to take it home.

Bertrand already has a huge glass case in which to carry the Cup to Perth, and Bond has a gold-plated wrench to free it from the NYYC's showcase. Yesterday's victory, the worst defeat ever for an undamaged defender, was the second straight for the Aussies, who had been down, 3-1, in the best-of-seven series just three days earlier. Their three victories are the most ever by a foreign boat in 25 American defenses of the Cup, the only international sports tro- TURN TO PAGE 2D Tigers deny O's chance to clinch tie Whitaker's hit in 10th drops Baltimore, 5-4; magic number still 3 United Press International and Associated Press Associated Press and United Press International NEWPORT, R.I. The America's Cup, symbol of sailing supremacy and sports' lon gest winning streak, rests on a single race. Australia II assured that yesterday by swamping Liberty by a record 3 minutes, 25 seconds on Rhode Island Sound, evening their series at 3-3.

The Aussies finished in 3 hours, 31 minutes and 15 seconds. Thus, three years' preparation and a summer of sailing come down to an unprecedented seventh and final race: Liberty, which relies on seamanship, against Australia II, which relies on speed, in the most dramatic finish in the 132-year history of yachting's most prestigious event They will decide it tomorrow. The Austra- Phillies push NL East lead to 3 games Pirates jump to second after Expos lose twice at home to Philadelphia Associated Press Len Matuszek drove in two runs and rookie Charles Hudson tossed a four-hitter last night, helping the Philadelphia Phillies complete a sweep of their doubleheader against the Montreal Expos in Montreal The Phillies won the second game, 7-1, and extended their winning streak to seven games. Mike Schmidt hit his 38th homer and Joe Lefebvre delivered a bases-loaded triple to help the Phillies to a 9-7 triumph in the opener. The double victory boosted Philadelphia's lead in the National League East to three games over the Pittsburgh Pirates and to four games over Montreal.

The Pirates beat the Chicago Cubs yesterday afternoon, 8-2. Philadelphia scored twice in the fifth inning of the second game off loser Steve Rogers (17-11). Greg Gross led off with a single and stole second. Consecutive singles by Bo Diaz and Ivan DeJesus made the score 1-0 and Joe Morgan, 13-for-18 in his last four games, singled to load the bases. Matuzsek then grounded out to second, scoring Diaz.

Hudson (8-7) walked four and struck out five in completing his third game of the season. The only run off the right-hander came in the sixth inning, when Tim Raines singled, stole his 83rd base of the season and scored on a single by Al Oliver. In the opener, Schmidt snapped a 1-1 tie in the third inning by blasting a 1-2 pitch from Charlie Lea (15-11) over the left field wall. With two out in the fourth, Morgan, who went 3-for-3 with three doubles, walked and Matuszek doubled. After Schmidt was walked intentionally to load the bases, Lefebvre tripled down the right field line to make the score 5-1 and make a winner of John Denny (17-6).

Denny worked six in Mike Schmidt nings and gave up 10 hits. In Chicago, Johnny Ray drilled a triple, double and two singles and scored three runs to lead the Pirates past the Cubs. The victory was the Pirates' first in Chicago after 10 straight losses. The decision went to Lee Tunnell (10-5), who yielded six hits in a complete-game performance. Rick Reuschel (1-1) took the loss.

The Cubs took a 1-0 lead in the second on a triple by Jody Davis and a single by Larry Bowa, but the Pirates went ahead to stay with four in the fifth. With one out, Marvell Wynne doubled and scored on Ray's triple. Walks to Dave Parker and Jason Thompson filled the bases. Mike Easier then grounded to second and, when the Cubs failed to turn the double play, Ray scored the lead run. Tony Pena singled, scoring Parker, and Richie Hebner singled to score Easier.

I i rU -7 For Steve Carlton, tonight's game will be his major-league record 462nd straight start. This season he leads the National League in innings pitched, 268, and in strikeouts, with 256. Carlton hopes to deck Cards, collect No. 300 Associated Press ST. LOUIS Steve Carlton, who through the years has made St.

Louis pay dearly for trading him, will try to add to the retribution tonight. The 38-year-old Philadelphia Phillies' left-hander, baseball's all-time strikeout king, is seeking career victory No. 300. If he succeeds, he would end the Cardinals' last hope for repeating as World Champions, as they would be mathematically eliminated from the National League East race. "At least it will be something to create a little excitement, something to get pumped up for," said Ozzie Smith, St.

Louis' All-Star shortstop, yesterday. "It hasn't been a year with very many highlights. There have been a lot of disappointments," Smith said. "It might be kind of nice to put the shoe on the other foot for a change and spoil something for someone else." Like the Cardinals, who traded him to Philadelphia before the start of the 1972 season, Carlton has struggled in 1983. He has a 14-15 record.

Still, he was able to deal his former team a stinging setback last Sunday. In a game St. Louis needed desperately to win, he beat them, 5-3, with relief help from Al Holland. Carlton's mound victim as the Phillies capped a three-game sweep of the Cards, was Joaquin Andujar (6-15), whom he will face again tonight. Carlton already has won a record four Cy Young Awards.

Earlier this year, he passed Walter Johnson as the game's all-time strikeout king. Carlton's 3,690 career strikeouts is tops in baseball history. It's one race, one winner, and one cup NEWPORT, R.I. In the morning, two men in crewneck sweaters were leaning against a marine art store only a block from where the America's Cup yachts are docked. "Are you going to watch the Cup race?" one asked.

"No," the other said. "I really don't care." Until now, millions of Americans probably didn't care either. But tomorrow that casual Newport citizen will care, and so will many Americans who think a tack is something you hammer into. wood. Tomorrow, out on Rhode Island Sound, the America's Cup will go to the winner of a decisive seventh race between Liberty, suddenly the embarrassed defender, and Australia II, the controversial challenger.

What has evolved here is similar to the seventh game of the World Series or to a Super Bowl showdown. One game, one race to the winner belongs the silver cup. UNTIL NOW the America's Cup competition always was too one-sided and too snobbish to enter America's psyche. But if it's coming down to a seventh game, so to speak, it must be competitive. And if it's known as the America's Cup, it must be significant.

In a real sense, tomorrow's race surpasses the tension of decisive seventh games for the World Series, the National Basketball Association championship or the Stanley Cup. For the first time since the schooner America won the America's Cup trophy in a race off the Isle of Wight in 1851, the Cup final has melted into one race that will either prolong or end a 132-year winning streak. have a great tradition going for us, and a courageous crew, and somehow I think we'll pull it out on Saturday," said Dennis Conner, Liberty's skipper. GREAT TRADITION, certainly. Courageous crew, no doubt.

But not the faster boat The cruel truth looms: Unless Liberty is sailed much faster than she was yesterday, outclassed in a race without any mechanical problems for either boat, the America's Cup appears to be on its way to Australia. Not right away, of course. Not until the New York Yacht Club unscrews the cup from its mooring on a thick wooden table inside the club itself in midtown Manhattan, a yacht club with a sidewalk, not a dock. In other sports, the championship cup always is at hand on the day of decision, to be presented to the winner, to be used as a chalice for champagne. But not only is the America's Cup not here, it wouldn't even be possible to present it to the Australians until it was removed from its trophy table in the New York Yacht Club, at 37 W.

44th an 82-year-old building with three bay windows above the sidewalk. DOWN A blue-carpeted stairway and surrounded by red-velvet upholstered wooden love seats and armchairs, the America's Cup glistens atop red velvet inside a four-foot-high glass case perched on a wooden octagonal table. High on the beige walls with mauve paneling, two church-type windows create the atmosphere of a shrine. The America's Cup is 27 inches tall and has the names of the early winners engraved on it; on a relatively new seven-inch base are the names of the winning yachts since 1958, the start of the 12-Meter era. Barely visible at the top of the trophy, a 40-inch bolt descends inside the cup into the wooden table, anchoring it there as if the NYYC considered it to be on permanent display.

"If we win the cup," Alan Bond, chairman of the Australian syndicate, has joked, "we'll run over it with a steamroller and turn it into the America's Plate." If the Australians win, of course, the Cup probably will be put on display at the Royal Perth Yacht Club on Pelican Point, Crawley Bay, with slips for nearly 300 yachts. Perth, in western Australia, would be the site of Australia's defense of the Cup. YESTERDAY, as Australia II sailed away from Liberty in rolling seas, Ben Lex-cen, the designer of the challenger from Down Under, stood alone in a green sweater on the bow of Black Swan, a 50-foot cruiser. His arms crossed, Lexcen had the look of a conquering admiral. Not far away, on the Fox Hunter, a 75-foot motor yacht, the nine members of the NYYC's America's Cup Committee at first stood on the bridge in their blue blazers, peering through binoculars.

But after Liberty had quickly fallen far behind, they disappeared into the main salon for their buffet lunch and remained there. On a nearby boat, an onlooker smiled. "Have you heard about the New York Yacht Club's new rule change?" he said. "You've got to win by two races." Dave Anderson writes for The New York Times. DETROIT Lou Whitaker singled home Enos Cabell from second base with ktwo out in the bottom of the 10th inning last night to give the Detroit Tigers a 5-4 victory over Baltimore and prevent the Orioles from clinching a tie for the American League East title.

Cabell singled off Sammy Stewart (9-4) and, one out later, Stewart wild-pitched Cabell to second and Rick Leach was walked intentionally. Dan Morogiello relieved and retired Lynn Jones on a pop fly before Whitaker delivered a line single to left for his fourth hit of the game. A Baltimore victory would have assured the Orioles a tie for the AL East title. Instead, the Orioles' lead over the second-place Tigers was reduced to 7 Vi games and the magic number remained at three. The Orioles are in Milwaukee tonight, while the Tigers host Boston.

Scott McGregor (17-6) is the scheduled starter for Baltimore. The Tigers tied the score in the ninth on a one-out walk to pinch hitter Johnny Grubb, a passed ball and a single by Whitaker. The Tigers loaded the bases with one out, but Stewart came on and struck out Lance Parrish and Kirk Gibson to end the inning. Eddie Murray Eddie Murray clouted a pair of tape-measure homers to stake the Orioles to a 4-3 lead. Murray, hitting .424 over his last 14 games, gave the Orioles a 2-0 lead in the first inning when he followed a walk to Cal Ripken with a 450-foot homer over the center field fence.

Baltimore trailed, 3-2, when Murray came up with two out in the seventh and he lofted another homer into the third deck in right, some 340 feet from home plate and 90 feet off the ground, to tie the score. John Lowenstein beat out a single down the first-base line, Ken Singleton walked and Joe Nolan delivered a single to put the Orioles ahead, 4-3. Mike Flanagan held Detroit hitless until Tom Brookens singled to left with one out in the third, was wild pitched to second and scored on Whitaker's line single to right. Flanagan struck out two and walked four in seven innings. Detroit starter Milt Wilcox struck out seven and walked eight in the seven innings he worked.

Wilcox gave up six hits. One-out singles by Cabell, Chet Lemon, Glenn Wilson, Brooken and Whitaker in the fourth inning gave the Tigers two runs. Lemon, however, was thrown out trying to go from first to third on Wilson's hit for the second out. Doug Bair (6-3) worked the final three innings for Detroit, allowing just two hits, to earn the victory. the injuries of two points of the "Bermuda Triangle," Shane Nelson and Jim Haslett.

Only Parker was considered a returning First-string player, based on the fact he had started all nine games last year. "When you have three changes in your defense from the previous year, and we consider three of our four linebackers Chris Keating, Eugene Marve and Lucius Sanford changes from a year ago, that's a big change for a team," Zeman said. "It not only affects the linebacking positions when you've got new people, but it also leaves you kind of stretched out in the places those players have come from," he added. Keating, a part-time starter at an inside position last year for Haslett, has continued his "special" play though he no longer plays on the spe- cial teams. TURN TO PAGE 5D -vvjyrilif VICTORIES Pitcher Wins 1.

Cy Young 511 2. Walter Johnson 416 3. Grover C. Alexander 373 Christy Mathewson 373 5. Warren Spahn 363 6.

Pud Galvin 361 Kid Nichols 361 8. Tim Keefe 343 9. John Clarkson 327 10. Gaylord Perry 314 11. Charles Radbourn 308 12.

Mickey Welch 307 13. Eddie Plank 305 14. Lefty Grove 300 Early Wynn 300 16. Steve Carlton 299 'Active pitchers Bills' reconstructed linebacking corps hopes to turn into wrecking crew Parker, Keating, Marve and Sanford impressive after early-season games By Mitch Lawrence Democrat and Chronicle ORCHARD PARK As a rule, Ervin Parker doesn't like to see anyone traded. An exception was Dave Casper.

When the five-time Pro Bowl tight end was shipped from the Houston Oilers to the Minnesota Vikings with Archie Manning this week, the transaction brought a smile to Parker's face. "I'm never happy to see a guy get traded, but now I'm glad I won't have to look across the line and see Casper," said Parker yesterday. Parker is a Bills outside linebacker whose major assignment is to cover tight ends. Instead of the "Ghost" haunting him Sunday at Rich Stadium (Channel 3 Syracuse and WBBF-950 radio), Parker wants to scare the daylights out of two Oiler rookies, Chris Dressel and Mike McCloskey. "Casper's a real good blocker, he runs good routes and he's got the experience," Parker added.

"He's tough to handle. But with him gone now and two rookies taking his place, it's going to make my job a whole lot easier." Parker and the other three linebackers in the Bills' 3-4 defense have anything but simple jobs. But so far they've made them look easy. "They're doing OK, probably a little better than OK considering all the changes we've had, and they're getting more consistent, which is what we're after," said Bob Zeman, Bills defensive coordinator and linebacker coach. Zeman had a major reconstruction job on his hands this year.

The second line of defense was gutted by the retirement of Isiah Robertson and Ervin Parker.