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2C Tue Aug. 11, 1981 ST. LOUlSPDST-DiSPATCH 'mebll Should leave 1M ks To Orwell bobbrpeg spftrts editor Ml. tenderness developed by Andyl Rmcon. Not only had the kid good before breaking his wrist early in the season, but he also had reached a point where, actually, he'd be able to go further in a game now-than more seasoned pitchers who-were on strike.

So, at least temporarily, Rmcon? might have been the anchor man of the mound among starting pitchers. Now? The hope is for even more staff steadiness and eventually longer front-line pitching to give the super. -Sutter and cagey old Jim Kaat chance to do the door-slamming that wrapped up another Ail-Star Game'! for the National League. Gosh, when Red Schoendienst. hit? that game-winner back in 1950, the -year George Orwell died, American League owned a 12-4 advantage in All-Star Games.

Since then, it's only 6-29, including 1-18 and 0-10. As for Orwell's gloomy prophecy of literature "1984" I hope the baseball players and clubowners don't cut each other's throats (and the Grand Old Game's) when they settle any differences three years from now. One 1984 disaster was enough even on paper. For the Cardinals, encouragement must be felt in the likelihood that the cream will come to the top again, meaning that two of the league's top hitters, Keith Hernandez and Garry Templeton, will hit for their usual and higher averages. If Tommy Herr can continue to bat with anywhere near the timeliness the second baseman of limited background showed in the first SO games, the last S3 could show the Redbirds with a brisk offense.

The attack would be evert more devastating if Dan-ell Porter were playing as a lefthanded hitter who showed himself as a tough out with a discriminating, eye even when he wasn't hitting for average. But Porter's apparent failure to himself available for medical attention throughout the strike was discouraging. After all, in the games played before baseball became Sleeping Beauty, the Cardinals had the majors' poorest record in flagging down enemy base-stealers. Another unfortunate twist just as the Cardinals prepared to head East and, as you've noted, they'll play more games on the road than at home the rest of the way was the shoulder So help me George Orwell) If the clubowners and ballplayers clash again in 1984, the year of their next confrontation, they'll probably wind up in a condition as chaotic and depressing as the one described In the author's famous satirical prophecy "1984." Orwell's name came into prominence with his literary fantasy, written in 1949, a year before he died. Orwell's prophecy, about as depressing as the American League must feel after having had to say to the National again, political dictators put the world perpetually to waste by constant warring.

If 1984, next time baseball's lords arid their rich subjects come to grips, produces another fiasco such as the one that ended with Sunday's delayed AU-Star Game in Cleveland, it could do in the Grand Old Game. I don't think the public will put up with another foolish interruption caused, as I see it, by what amounted almost a boyish flinch-test attitude by the two sides. The players, well-heeled, insisted on striking when they could have kept talking. And the owners apparently were determined to beat Marvin Miller regardless of the costs. They didn't, really.

At the worst, retiring from his role as executive director of the players' association, Miller will go to the Rose Bowl, figuratively, still unbeaten and only once tied. After all, nobody won this one. Gussie Busch isn't always the most patient person, though he certainly ranked once "with Boston's late Tom Yawkey as the most benevolent boss in the business that masquerades as a sport. But the Big Eagle was right in delivering a sharp rebuke to his fellow club operators for capitulating the other day. Still, some teams don't have the same resources of Anheuser-Busch, with dr without more favorable rental leases that led to the brewery's ultimate intentions to take over Civic Center Redevelopment Corp.

So the less financially fixed were as ready to settle as the players, who lost a little or a lot, fiscally and physically. i One of the most interesting aspects of the unexpected summer hiatus, for which the Chicago Cubs, New York Mets and other losing clubs probably should be grateful, will be to determine which players were hurt the most by insufficient time spent preserving and preparing their most John In Midseason Form Against i gar Compiled From News Services NEW YORK "Why shouldn't I be in midseason form?" asked Tommy John. "It's midseason, isn't it?" Whether it was midseason or the first game of the second season, John was at his best Monday night as he pitched the New York Yankees to a 2-0 victory over the Texas Rangers. John, who had defeated the Rangers on Opening Day in April, gave up only two hits in seven innings as he recorded his sixth victory in 10 decisions. "I'm just glad to get back to playing.

are," said John. "I thought I could go five innings without any sweat and I hoped to go six. But when I came in at the end of the sixth, Stick (Manager Gene Michael) asked me if I could go one more. I said yeah, but I started to labor a little bit in the seventh and there was nothing to be gained by going any further." A T-Shirt Night crowd of 40,373, almost 8,000 more than the average for the Yankees' first 26 home dates, welcomed the players back from their twmonth strike with louder cheers than usual. Home runs by Graig Nettles and Oscar Gamble provided the scoring for the Yankees, who matched the Rangers' hit total of three.

The homers were the only hits given up in five innings by Texas starter Danny Darwin. Billy Sample, Al Oliver and John Grubb had the Texas hits. h. 't Or it that seemed more ridiculous when Kubek, the excellent former New York Yankees infielder, tried on television to make an excuse when none was possible. The AU-Star.

Game, for which the Cardinals were given the back of Manager Dallas Green's hand, helped prove once again that the Redbirds will have a stern test in the second half or, more accurately, final third of the season. The Cards had misfortune of not winning a division even though they had suffered the fewest defeats (20) of any of the major leagues' 26 ballclubs. Now, they'll have to turn back world champion Philadelphia, for which Green thoughtfully avoided using pitching ace Steve Carlton on Sunday. And they'll have to try to stay ahead of Montreal's good young team that showed its muscle (if not speed) in Gary Carter's two home runs. Rangers runs each in a six-run fifth inning as Minnesota beat Oakland.

The Twins opened the fifth with consecutive singles by Danny Goodwin and Butch Wynegar. They advanced on a sacrifice by Ron Jackson, and Powell followed with a single to left, driving in both runners. One out later, Rob Wilfong singled up the middle, Mickey Hatcher reached first on an error, scoring Powell, and Roy Smalley Adams then singled to left, driving in Powell and Wilfong, and John Castino followed with a double to left, driving in Smalley for the Twins' final run. Tigers 4, Blue Jays 3 DETROIT Alan Trammell's single with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning scored Kirk Gibson from third base as Detroit edged Toronto. Gibson and Tom Brookens walked off losing reliever Joey McLaughlin and Lou Whitaker loaded the bases with a bunt single.

Trammell's hit sent the Blue Jays to their 12th straight loss. Mariners 5, Angels 4 SEATTLE Jeff Burroughs broke a 4-4 tie with an RBI single in the eighth inning and Tom Paciorek knocked in three runs with a home run and a single in leading Seattle to victory over California. in hits. I'm tied with Stan Musial for the most times leading, the league in hits. People get mad when I talk about statistics like that, but statistics are important to me.

There are certain statistics, certain goals that keep me going." "I can't stand here tonight and talk about Ty Cobb because I can't do it this year," added the 40-year-old Rose. "I can't do it next year. But it's definitely something worth thinking about. I probably know more- about Ty Cobb than any living player. I've studied his statistics.

I know how he played. I know all the Ty Cobb stories. "To be No. 1 In the history of your league is tremendous. To be No.

1 in the history of the game, well, I wasn't much in school so I don't know what the word is." Rose or Musial? "Musial was more of a national idol," said Cardinals Manager Whitey Herzog. "He was my idol. "Even when Rose was a young player, he was just a singles hitter in the shadow of (Johnny) Bench and (Tony) Perez in Cincinnati. He was never a very good defensive player wherever he played. But his desire is something else.

He's never cheated anybody on the ball field." Some figures: Rose batted 11,705 times for his 3,631 hits. Musial batted 10,972 times for his, a difference of 733 at-bats. Musial hit .300 17 times; Rose has done it 14 times. Musial walked more than 300 times more than Rose. Rose had 200 hits 10 times, Musial six.

Musial hit 475 home runs. Rose has hit 155. Musial laughed and said, "I was checking the scorecard of my last game, When I had two hits, and I saw that Pete had three hits. He was 1 gaining on me already." -f AP Ty Waller of the Chicago Cubs grimaces as he slides home safely during the major leagues' second-season opener Monday afternoon against the New York Mets at Wrigley Field. Catcher John Stearns awaits the throw.

The Mets won, 7-5, in 1 3 innings. ffigesit preckms products. Their bodies, of course. On the strength of the All-Star' Game, once again decided by long-ball hitting, some of the stumbling running nd defensive dalliance indicated that -the calendar should have been moved back from August to March for spring training. Even Dusty Baker's game-saving catch In left field in the Americans' three-run sixth was more a case of making an easy play look tough because of defensive indecision.

Although Mike Schmidt once more proved himself, to be the most consistently potent of the era's power hitters, teeing off for the two-run homer that enabled Bruce Sutter to wrap up another one, Schmidt was guilty of an error almost as embarrassing as Tony Kubek's. Schmidt, a master third baseman, kicked a garden-variety ground ball Baines also drove in a run with a first-inning double. Reliever Dennis Lamp earned the victory with four shutout innings in support of starter Rich Dotson. White Sox1 catcher Carlton Fisk, a former Red Sox player who had become a free agent, was greeted by boos and then a fastball in the back from Boston starter Dennis Eckersley in the first inning. It marked the third time Fisk has been hit by his former teammates this season.

Brewers 5, Indians 2 CLEVELAND Gorman Thomas, who singled home the first Milwaukee run in the first inning, singled home two more as the Brewers scored three runs in the 13th inning against Cleveland. Marshall Edwards opened the 13th with a single. Roy Howell put down a sacrifice bunt, and Edwards raced to third and Howell wound up on second when catcher Bo Diaz threw the ball into center field on an attempted force play. After Cecil Cooper was walked intentionally to load the bases, Edwards scored on Ben Oglivie's sacrifice fly. Both runners moved up on the long fly, and Thomas followed with a line single to center off Cleveland reliever Mike Stanton.

Twins 6, A's-2 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Glenn Adams and Hosken Powell drove in two Rose FROM PAGE ONE and Templeton. "If Tempy can't get it, nobody can," said Lit tell. Rose was relieved that the chase had ended. "I'm glad to get it over with," he said.

"I didn't want to let the fans down who came here." As Rose started for the plate in the eighth inning, he talked to his 11-year-old son, Petey, the Phils' batboy. "Petey, I want you to watch this hit, because I'm going to get it," said Rose. "I just felt I was revved up." The record earned Rose a gold ring with the No. 3,631 inset in diamonds a gift from the Phillies' management and a call from President Ronald Reagan. But while waiting for the president's call to come through, Rose dazzled his audience as a stand-up comic.

The red telephone on the platform rang. Rose deadpanned, "If that's the president, tell him to wait a minute." "Mr. Rose," a voice said. "Hold on a minute." A minute passed. "Maybe the operators are on strike," said Rose.

Another minute passed. "It's a good thing there lsnt a missile on the way," Rose said. "Mr. Rose. Hold on a moment." "Yes, sir.

(I say 'yes, sir' to "One minute, please, Mr. Rose." "I waited 19 years. I can wait another minute," Rose said. Finally, the voice told Rose that he would call back. Ring.

"Mr. Rose, one moment please." "I think they're calling collect," cracked Musial. Ultimately, the call came through. "We were going to give you five more minutes and then that was it," said Rose. -The president said, "I was a sports announcer long before I ever had any kind of job like I have now, but this is really a thrill and I know how everyone must feel about it after the long dry spell wafting for the season to get under way.

You've really brought It In in style." "Well, thank you very much," said Rose. "You play a good football player, too." Ahead of Rose, aftef he catches Hank Aaron with 3,771 hits, is the almost Impossible dream of passing Ty Cobb's major league record of 4,191. The 50-day strike meant possibly 65 or 70 hits to Rose. "I'm sure five, six, seven years from now, I'm going to look back and regret missing those 50 days," he said. "If I get that close to a record like that, I'll do anything to keep active.

"I've got three things on my mind right now the world championship, the batting title and leading the league Soccer Tryouts Saturday The Florissant Cougars Soccer Club will hold tryouts this Saturday and also on August 22 for boys born in 1970. Tryouts will be held at Manion Park beginning at 10 a.m. For further information, call 521-2794. amencan Box scores on Page 4 Orioles 3, Royals 2 BALTIMORE John Lowenstein says it isn't easy to hit the ball after a seven-week layoff. George Brett would be the first to agree.

Lowenstein, a lifetime .245 hitter, rapped a 12th-inning single that gave Baltimore a victory over Kansas City. Brett, who was hitless in three at-bats in Sunday night's All-Star Game, went zero for four Monday night and took a called third strike with two runners on base in the top of the 12th. "It's not easy to hit after being off seven weeks and then practicing seven days," Lowenstein said. "I didn't hit one ball during the strike a golf ball, baseball, or any kind of ball." Amos Otis' two-run homer accounted for the Royals' runs, and the Orioles countered with home runs by Ken Singleton and Eddie 'Murray. Lowenstein drove in pinch-runner Cal Ripken with the winning run off relief pitcher Renie Martin.

White Sox 7, Red Sox 1 BOSTON Harold Baines and Greg Luzinski hit two-run homers as Chicago pounded Boston. shot 76 and defending champion Audrey Hitch and former champion Lynette Chrenka each finished with 77. Play was scheduled to begin today in1 five flights of 16 players each, with championship matches in each flight scheduled for Friday. Cards FROM PAGE ONE bobbled a grounder hit right back at him. But Templeton helped snuff out the Phils' rally in the eighth when he went into the hole and turned Gary Matthews' drive into a While their hitting might have been at midseason form, the Cardinals' baserunning wasn't although second base umpire Eric Gregg might have contributed to that with at least one spurious decision.

Three Cardinals including Templeton twice were thrown out stealing and Iorg was nailed easily trying for a double when his shot into the left-field corner caromed off the box-seat railing right back to Matthews. "I was the most surprised guy in the stadium," said Iorg. Templeton, who admittedly does not like to steal bases, was thrown out for the ninth and 10th times in 16 attempts. "He's getting terrible jumps," said Herzog. "But I've got to let him go.

He's got to learn how to do it (steal) and he'll have the green light unless it gets too bad." REDBIRD NOTES: Herzog, an adamant opponent of the split-season format, accepted Monday's revisions of the plan as "more than fair." Those revisions would reward a champion of both halves by giving it four home games in a five-game playoff series and give the second-half champion, if it were a different team than the first-half champion, the first two games at home in a five-game series. Pitcher Andy Rincon, who missed his last start at Springfield with inflammation in the front of his shoulder, is not expected to pitch for five or six more days. Dan-ell Porter, meanwhile, may be ready to play by the end of the month, Herzog said. Activating Porter at any time would not be a problem, said Herzog, because when a player is taken off the disabled list, it is permissible to send a player to the minors, even this late in the season. For Pete's Sake CARDINALS (7) PHILA.

(3) ob bl ob bl Templeton ss Herr 2b 4 0 2 1 Rose lb 5 2 10 5 0 1 0 Trlllo 2b 4 0 10 5 2 2 1 McBrlde ri 3 0 0 0 Hernandez lb Hendrlck cf loro If Llttell Sutler Oberkfell 3b Lezcano rf Tenace Brummer For sen 4 111 Smith rf 1110 3 13 0 Schmidt 3b 4 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 Matthews If 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Maddox cf 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 Morelond 1 0 0 0 4 111 Bowa ss 3 0 10 4 111 Aauavo ss 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 Boone 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 Prolv 0 0 0 0 Landrum ph-lf 2 12 0 Davis ph 10 10 Christenson 1 0 0 0 Gross ph 10 0 0 Lvle 0 0 0 0 Unser cf 2 0 0 0 Totals 37 7 IS 7 Totals 3373 CARDINALS 100 201 102 7 PHILADELPHIA 100 000 W0 3 Templeton 2. Left Cardinals 5. Philadelphia 7. 2B Schmidt, Oberkfell, Londrum, Bowa, Davis. HR Hernandez (5), Hendrlck U), Lezcano 3), Tenace (2).

SB Oberkfell. Templeton. IP 5 2'3 1 5 2 2 ER BB SO Cardinals Forsch (W, 7-2) Llttell Sutter (S, 12) Philadelphia Christenson (L, Lvle 2-6) Prolv WP Forsch. 2:26. A 60,541.

How They Scored CARDINALS FIRST With two' out, Hernandez hit home run to right field. ONE RUN. Cardinals led, 1-0. PHILLIES' FIRST Templeton fumbled Rose's chopper for an error. With two out, Schmidt doubled to left center.

Rose scored on a wild pitch. ONE RUN. Score tied, CARDINALS' FOURTH Hernandez singled to left center. With one out, Iorg slngledjo center. Oberkfell doubled to left, scorind Hernandez and Iorg.

TWO RUNS. Cardinals led, 3-1. CARDINALS' SIXTH With on out, Hendrlck homered to right. ONE RUN. Cardinals led, 4-1.

CARDINALS' SEVENTH Londrum doubled to right center. Templeton singled to right, scoring Landrum. ONE RUN. Cardinals 5-1. PHILLIES' EIGHTH Rose singled to left.

With one out. Smith blooped 0 single to left. Schmidt singled to center, scoring Rose and sending Smith to third. Sutter replaced Llttell as the Cardinals' pitcher. Matthews hit Into a forceout, scoring Smith.

TWO RUNS. Cardinals led, 5-3. CARDINALS' NINTH Lezcano homered to left center. Tenace homered to left center. TWORUNS.

Cardinals won, 7-3. PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK: One of the top priorities for the people who determine which golf courses will be sites for the U.S. )pen is the degree of difficulty. They want a course that will challenge the golfers. There is just such a course in Midwest, an oil town with a population of 638.

Competitors at Salt Creek Country Club must contend with fairways that are mowed only once a year, or twice a year if it rains. Sagebrush and rabbi tgrass grow foot-high right up to the greens, which are made of sand. Further challenge is provided by a working oil well in the middle of the second fairway. Among the other hazards are antelope, deer, cattle and an occasional rattlesnake. According to Margaret Armann, president of the Midwest Ladies 1 Coif Association, the biggest problem of all is prairie dog holes.

"I "Wish I had a dollar for every ball I've lost down one of those holes," she said. 'J. Club manager Smokey Farris encourages members to deal with the bothersome prairie dogs by carrying a shotgun in their golf bags. The only break for the golfers is that the course is only nine holes. MONTREAL OR BUST: It's no wonder the Pittsburgh Pirates lost to the Montreal Expos in Monday night's game in Montreal, considering the Odyssey undertaken earlier in the day by the Pirates' four All-Star Game representatives.

After helping the National League win Sunday night in Cleveland, Dave Parker, Bill Madlock, Mike Easier and Phil Garner discovered Monday morning that their flight to Montreal was canceled because of the Canadian air traffic controllers' refusal to -handle most American flights. A jet owned by the Galbreath family, owner of the Pirates, picked up the four players and flew them to Burlington, where they rented a van for the remainder of the trip. Now that the Pirates are all in Montreal, they have only one problem. How will they get back to Pittsburgh? MIXED EMOTIONS: With crowds ranging from 4,773 in Cleveland to 60,561 in Philadelphia, it was difficult to gauge the reaction of fans to Monday's resumption of regular-season baseball. Although there were no reports of widespread booing, at least one fan said she was merely postponing her reaction to the players' seven-week strike.

"I don't care if they win or lose," Agnes Pleis said at the game In Philadelphia. "I've had season tickets for 11 years, but I'm not getting them next year. No In New York, where fans were welcomed back to Yankee Stadium" with a promotion for free T-shirts, William Guldy of Walden, N.Y., said "it was just like waiting for Christmas." Guldy was attired in a red, white and blue cape and a king's crown. A lone picketer in Baltimore tried to persuade fans not to attend the Orioles' game against the Kansas City Royals. "I won't be going back," said Bob Rutkowski, who then hedged a bit.

"I don't know if if 11 be forever, but it'll be years." Details Announced for Mini-Playoffs (U.S.TREASURY BOND FUTURES) FIIID OUT HOW INVESTMENT MAY EARN UP TO'. 17,000 halves, it would be paired in the division series with the team in its division that compiled the second-best record for the year. The opening game of the playoffs would be in the city of the second-best team, with the two-time champion being home for the remaining necessary games. The league championship series will begin Tuesday, Oct. 13, and the World Series will begin Tuesday, Oct.

20. The Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and Oakland A's were the first-half winners. NEW YORK (UPI) If any team should win both halves of baseball's split season, it would be rewarded with a possible four games at home in the mini-playoffs, it was announced Monday by Commissioner Bowie Kuhn and the two league presidents. All of the division series will be a best-of-five, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6.

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