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ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SUNDAY, AUGUST 8, 1976 SECTION 1-8C spore Look At Fergy! AM 7 them next year and you want to give them something to remember." REDBIRD NOTES Falcone, although he improved his record to 8-11, said: "I'm still not satisfied. I don't want to be a .400 pitcher. Here I've had two great games in a row and I'm still three games below .500." Ferguson has 17 hits in his last 52 at-bats, a .327 pace. Overall, he's at .234 At one point, Falcone retired 11 consecutive Phillies.

In Friday night's game, Keith Hernandez tied the major league record for most double plays started in a nine-inning game by a first baseman, 3. Those who did it previously: Luzerne Blue, Detroit, 1922; Frank Hurst, Phillies, 1930; Walt Judnich, St. Louis Browns, 1947; Vic Power, Philadelphia A's, 1954, and Tommie Aaron, Milwaukee Braves, 1962 The series, now led by the Cardinals 2-1, will conclude at 1:15 pjn. Sunday with Hrry Rasmussen going against the Phils' Steve Carlton. Fans with cameras will be permitted dn the field from 11:45 and 12:30 to take photos of the Redbirds.

The Houston Astros are in St. Louis Monday night. How They Scored CARDINALS' SECOND-With one out, Ferguson tripled to left-center. Anderson ttied to center, scoring Ferguson. ONE RUN.

Cards led, 1-0. CARDINALS' THIRD-Richard got on infield single and went to second on Falcone's sacrifice bunt. Mumphrey Hied out. Kessinger singled, scoring Richard. ONE RUN.

Cards led, 2-0. PHILLIES' FOURTH Schmidt walked. Luzinskl singled, Schmidt stopping at second. Brown lined out. Boone popped out.

McCarver singled, Schmidt scoring just ohead of right fielder Ferguson's strong throw. Bowa's single was stopped by shortstop Kessinger's dive, filling the bases, but Kaat bounced out. ONE RUN. Cauls led, 2-1. CARDINALS' FOURTHSimmons walked.

Ferguson tripled to right-center, scoring Simmons. Anderson tlied to right, scoring Ferguson. TWO RUNS. Cords won, 4-1. record against them is two victories, one loss, two saves.

Last season, in 10 games, he had held them scoreless in 15 innings with a 2-0' record and three saves. Hrabosky said he especially enjoys pitching against this season's Phillies, who have lost only 36 ot 108 games. "These guys are a super-phenomenal ball club they're in first place for a reason," he said. "It's a challenge to do well against a good club. "Hopefully, we'll be playing right with Sullivan's 'Secret' Is Out By Tom Barnidge and Doug Grow Of the Post-Dispatch Staff TEMPE, Aug.

7 Joe Sullivan, whose career has closely followed the career of George Allen, is beginning to act like the controversial coach and general manager of the Washington Redskins. Friday evening here, Sullivan, the football Cardinals' operations director, denied that he had traded linebacker Pete Barnes. "He has not been traded," Sullivan stated. Sullivan was asked two more times if Barnes had been traded. "Absolutely not," he said.

While Sullivan was denying a trade, which sent Barnes to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a deal that apparently is not yet completed (a safety, Johnny Fuller, is involved in the deal), members of the team were talking about their departed teammate, Barnes. Barnes apparently told his former teammates that he had been traded after practice in St. Louis on Friday. After the team arrived here Friday evening, for an exhibition game against the Oakland Raiders Saturday night, Coach Don Coryell called a team meeting. The players came out of the meeting room laughing and saying "trade, what trade?" One player said, "There's been no trade.

Pete's just taking a little vacation. Florida's nice this time of year." And while Sullivan was denying that Barnes had been traded, another Big Red official was saying, "It's a natural thing in an organization to replace personnel. This is a management decision." And while Sullivan was denying that Barnes had been traded, a Big Red player was saying, "I found it (the trade) unbelievable. I was shocked or surprised or taken aback, what have you." Late Saturday afternoon, four hours before taking on the Raiders, the Cardinals confirmed that Barnes had been traded. Details were not announced.

fcjjjpjj CKtiacL" 1 tsr StKJXF Jsw Js Sf I Joe Sullivan Why was Sullivan so vigorously denying a deed that obviously had been done? According to one administrator, there's more involved to the deal than the sending of Barnes, a three-, year starter, to Tampa Bay for Fuller. "The trade isn't over yet," he said. Most of the players seemed upset by the deal. Barnes was a quiet, yet popular, member of the team. "In my estimation," said one player, "he may have been the best player on the defense last year.

I just don't understand it. Pete was a nonconformist, but he was so in a quiet sort of way. He never said anything. And he was Don Coryell's type of player a real fighter." But a source with the Cardinals said that close study of Cardinal game films from last year would show that Barnes was "not a team man on defense." The source said that Barnes frequently would make the "big" play but just as frequently would be caught out of position. Whatever the reason for the trade, Sullivan, who worked with Allen in Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington before coming to St.

Louis, was. denying all. "There has been no trade," he said. "Pete just stayed back with some of the other players." That should come as a surprise to Barnes and everybody else "connected with the Big Red. the run when Lyudmila Bragina sheared nearly 17 seconds off the previous mark by Norway's Grete Andersen.

Her record-shattering time was 8 minutes 27.12 seconds, and her leammate, Raisa Katyukova, also broke the previous mark while coming in second. The other record was achieved by the Russina women in the jrtiile relay. The team of Svetlana Styrkina, Inta Klimo-vochev, Natalia Sokolova and Nadezhda Ilyina, was clocked in 3:29.06, betting the 3:30.30 set by a West German team. The U.S. men's mile relay team just missed setting a world record with a 3:02.64, just off the 3:02.4 set by an American quartet at Durham, N.C., last last year.

In scoring in the 400-meter hurdles, Moses and Mike Shine of Penn State duplicated their finish at Montreal, coming in 1-2 ahead of their Russian rivals. Moses' time of 48.55 seconds was See TRACK, Page 3 tesooGD Women OUT BY A MILE. Philadelphia catcher Tim Mc- Stadium. In the bottom of the eighth Kessinger Carver has the ball in plenty of time and waits tried to score from second on a single to right to tag out the Cardinals' Don Kessinger, at by Ted Simmons. But Ollie Brown's throw to home plate in Saturday's game at Busch home beat the Redbird shortstop by plenty.

By Dick Kaecjel Of the Post-Dispatch Staff It was one of those rare days when everything went right for the Cardinals. "We've been looking for some of those," said shortstop Don Kessinger, who contributed three hits to the Red-birds' 4-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Saturday at Busch Stadium. "Well, there's two months to go maybe we'll have more of them." Pete Falcone and Al Hrabosky combined their lefthanded pitching talents to work a five-hitter and give the Redbirds their second consecutive decision over the Phillies, who have made a joke of the National League Eastern Division race. And Joe Ferguson, who never got more than one triple in any previous major league season, whacked two in this one game. Each time, he scored on sacrifice flies by ex-Phillie Mike Ander-, son.

"A surprise attack," Ferguson called his two-triple blitz. His first three-bagger was a drive to the wall in left-center field. His second was a run-scoring liner over the second baseman that rolled and rolled and rolled to the right-center wall. On the latter, Fergie barely beat the throw to third. "What can I say?" said the burly Ferguson, laughing.

"I can run!" "You don't see too many triples in Dodger Stadium," said Ferguson, who came from Los Angeles in the Reggie Smith deal. "It's not conducive to extra-base hits the grass is so long. But here, on the AstroTurf, you hit the ball anywhere and you've got a double:" Falcone, who had shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates in his last previous start, twice wriggled out of bases-loaded situations in the fourth and eighth innings. In the fourth, he merely had to contend with opposing pitcher Jim Kaat, who, bounced out weakly. But in the eighth, after two singles and an error filled the bases, he had a tougher challenge Bob Boone.

Boone, who had hit a grand-slam against the Cardinals earlier this season in PhillyK made a strong bid for another but Anderson caught his drive in deep left. In the ninth, after Falcone walked Tim McCarver with none out, manager Red Schoendienst called on Hrabosky. The Mad Hungarian, who has a remarkable record against the Phillies, got Larry Bowa to take a third strike and pinch-hitter Jerry Martin to hit into a game-ending double Hrabosky, who now has 12 saves, also got the save in Friday night's 6-2 St. Louis victory. "This save goes to Zimmer," Hrabosky said, referring to bullpen coach Tom Zimmer, son of Boston Red Sox manager Don Zimmer.

"I was warming up in the eighth, throwing mostly forkballs, and Jim called me over. He said, 'What are you doing different? Those balls are "We talked about it and that gave me a different attitude toward my forkball ft helped me want to go ahead and throw it in this situation." So when catcher Simmons called for a forkball against Martin, Hrabosky threw with new confidence. Bing, bang, double play. Hrabosky said he began relying more on his forkball and curve when he had trouble with the location of his fabled fastball earlier. "Early in the season, I was getting it out over the plate and I was getting hurt by it.

I decided I had to do something different," he said. "But now I think my fastball has been getting better the last few days." Hrabosky this season has given up only seven hits and one run to the Phillies in 10 innings. In five games his goal with a little more than three minutes remaining in the contest. The Aztecs scored what appeared to be the tying goal with 23 seconds left but it was disallowed because of an off sides. The defeat left Los Angeles with an 11-11 record and in third place in the Southern Division behind the San Jose Earthquakes and the Dallas Tornado.

The Stars outshot the Aztecs 14-12 and had eight corner kicks to LA's three. Looking like anything but losers, the Stars matched the Aztecs kick for kick and shot for shot in the wide open first half. In face, St. Louis had a slight territorial edge, but wasn't able to cash in until the 32 minute 19 second mark See STARS, Page 4 baseball fA tydickkaelaV series with Philadelphia, the decision was made to operate to correct what now has been diagnosed as cartilage damage. McBride, who had a pin inserted in his left ankle in 1967 to correct a basketball injury, will continue therapy in St.

Louis during the offseason, working with the Nautilus machine at Busch Stadium. Gieselmann hopes to strengthen no only the knee, but the left shoulder that has troubled McBride for Ik PHILADELPHIA CARDINALS It bi 0 0 ab Mumphrey. cf 4 Cash, 2b Moddox, cf Schmidt, 3b Luzinski, If Brown, rt' Boone, lb McCarver, Bowa, ss Kaat, TDylor, ph Schueler, Martin, ph Totals 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 Kessinger, ss Hernandez, lb Simmons, Ferguson, rf Anderson, If Cruz, 3b Richard, 2b Falcone, Hrabosky, 32 1 1 Totals 27 i- 7 4 PHILADELPHIA CARDINALS 000 100 000-011 200 00x- Richard. DP Cardinals 1. Left Philadelphia 8, Cardi nals 3.

2B Kessinger. 3B Ferguson 2. Falcone. SF Andersoi 2. IP ER BB 4 4 1 0 0-0 1 1 4 0 0 0 SO 2 2 3 1 Kaat (L 10-7) 6 5 Schueler 2 2 Falcone(W8-ll) 8 5 Hrabosky 1 0 Falcone pitched to one hotter in ninth.

Save-Hrabosky (12). U-Stello, Quick, B. Williams, Wen delstedt. 1:. A 32,105.

how they stand National League EASTERN DIVISION Pet. GB 13 18 24 25 33 Philadelphia Pittsburgh New York Chicago CARDINALS Montreal 72 59 56 50 46 37 .667 .546 .500 .446 .434 .356 WESTERN DIVISION Pet. GB Cincinnati 71 39 .645 Los Angeles 59 49 546 11 Houston 56 56 .500 16 Son Diego 53 59 .473 19 Atlanta 50 60 .455 21 San Francisco 48 64 .429 24 (Prior to Cincinnati at Los Angeles and Houston at San Diego night games. SATURDAY'S RESULTS Cardinals 4, Philadelphia 1 Chicago 4-2, Montreal 3-7 Pittsburgh IJ-2, New York 3-4 Atlanta 4, San Francisco 3 SUNDAY'S GAMES Philadelphia (Carlton 12-4) ot St. Louis I Rasmussen 3-9), 1: 15p.m.

Chicago (Renko 4-6) at Montreal (Lang 1-1) New York (Lolich 710) at Pittsburgh (Rooker 9- 5) San Francisco (taiawen 0-1 ana Montefusco 1 1-9) at Atlanta Ruthven 12-9 and LaCorte 0-5) 2 Cincinnati IBillingham 8-8) at Los Angeles (Hooton 7-11) Houston (Richard 13-11) at San Diego (Freisle-ben 7-9) American League EASTERN DIVISION Pel. 64 42 .604 GB 10 12 12'; 14 16'-! New York Baltimore Cleveland Boston Detroit Milwaukee 54 52 52 54 52 55 50 56 47 58 .509 .491 .486 .472 .448 WESTERN DIVISION 66 41 56 53 55 54 51 55 47 60 48 62 Pet. .617 .514 .505 .481 .439 .436 Kansas City Oakland Minnesota Texas Chicago California 11 12 14'; 19 19' SATURDAY'S RESULTS Baltimore 7, New York 4 Boston 3, Milwaukee 0 Chicago 5. Kansas City 3 Detroit 6, Oakland 1 Oakland 9, California 1 Minnesota 3, Texas 1 SUNDAY'S GAMES California (Rvan 9-13 and Kirkwood 4-8) ot Oakland I Bosman 4 0 and Mitchell 8 51,2 Kansas Citv IFiUmorris 13 1 and Patlin4-9) at Chicago (Odom 2 1 and Brett 6 6), 2 Cleveland (Eckersley 7 8 and Waits -4 51 at Detroit Ruhle 6 9 and Bare Baltimore (Palmer 14 10) at New York (Hunter 12-111 Milwaukee (Travers 13 81 at Boston (Jenkins list Minnesota (Bane 4 3) at Texas (Umbaraer 79) Gateway Junior Golf Vfednesday The Gateway Golfing Society's junior championship for both boys and girls, aged 13-17, will begin Wednesday at St. Andrews and conclude Thursday.

The golfers have been divided into two age groups and each of these groups into two flights, based on previous performances, (jirls and boys are intermixed the pairings and will play from the same tees. i Stars Snap Skid; Trip Aziecs, 2-1 COLLEGE Aug. 7 (UPI) U.S. Olympic gold medalists Mac Wilkins, Edwin Moses and Arnie Robinson scored individual victories Saturday, but the Soviet Union won the fourteenth dual outdoor meet between the countries on a smashing performance by its women that included two new world records. However, Dwight Stones, the American who holds the world's high jump record, finished fourth when rain again plagued him, as it did in Montreal where he won a bronze medal.

He was outperformed by a pair of Russians and his teammate, Bill Jankunis. The Russians won the combined team competition, 211-157, with the Soviet women piling up 104 points to 42 for the Americans in winning every event during the two-day meet. The U.S. men's team won, 115-107, as the Soviets took their tenth meet against three losses and a tie. One women's world record came in Metcalf Pass Goes For ID By Doug Grow Of the Post-Dispatch Staff TEMPE, Aug.

7-Terry Metcalf-made his first appearance for the Big Red in the 1976 preseason an impressive one Saturday night and left a big impression on the Oakland Raiders. With the Cardinals trailing 7-0 early in the first quarter, Terry took a pitch from Jim Hart and headed around the right side of the Big Red line. Nothing different about that. The Oakland linebackers and defensive secondary moved up to stop the run. Terry stopped behind the line, however, and fired a long pass to Mel Gray, who was 15 yards See BIG RED, Page 3 St.

Louis baseball fans have had many disappointments this year and the latest is the loss of Bake McBride. It's a shame that no one ever will know just how great a season this could have been for the long-legged center fielder. But, with the Cardinals so far out of the race or non-race the club brass decided this was the time to have McBride's aching left knee fixed. Dr. Stan London, the team surgeon, will operate Tuesday at Jewish Hospital and then McBride will begin therapy.

"1 don't see any reason why he shouldn't be 100 per cent by next year," Gene Gieselmann, the Cardinals' trainer who will observe the surgery so he'll know precisely where the problem lies. McBride, bowing out with a .335 average, began bein bothered by the knee around the first of July. Season By Wally Cross Of The Post-Dispatch Staff The downtrodden St. Louis Stars, destined to finish last this season in the North American Soccer League's Western Division, made their final home appearance of the 1976 campaign an eventful one Saturday night at Francis Field when they upset Los Angeles, 2-1, and virtually killed the Aztecs' hopes of gaining a playoff berth in the Southern Division. A couple of St.

Louis veterans, Pat McBride and Al Trost, scored the goals that ended'the Stars' losing streak at eight games and improved their record to 5-18 and 57 points. Ron Davies got the lone Los Angeles STAR STRUCK. Part of Saturday's T-Shirt Day crowd pushes and shoves for Cardinal relief ace Al Hrabosky's autograph prior to the game. Hrabosky, who picked up a save in Friday night's victory, lator responded to the big crowd by recording another save as the Redbirds topped the Phillies, 4-1. (Post-Dispatch photos by Scott Dine) ver For McBride Waif 'Till Next Vear the last three seasons and put him on the disabled list in May of this season.

The 27-year-old McBride's frequent injuries have led to skepticism about his desire to play. That rankles his teammate, Lou Brock. "Bake had a bum rap attached to him," Brock said. "I was hearing that he only played when he felt like it and all that stuff. I've seen him in the outfield when he never should have been in uniform." In fact, Brock said he asked manager Red Schoendienst to take McBride out the other night in Pittsburgh when Bake's knee locked on him.

"He's been trying to beat that rap," Brock said, adding with a grin, "which was created by the media I admire the guy jor doing that. But because of that ki'J of label, it can be damaging to his career. He's trying to beat the rap "I don't even know how I did it," he said. "It just started hurting. I had Gino (Gieselmann) check it and he said it was probably just some ligament or something.

I didn't think anything about it, but it got worse and worse. It got to the point where it was unbearable. "I felt I had a chance to win the batting title, but that can wait. Right now, I have to worry more about my body than a batting title." Gieselmann tried everything heat, ice, rest, cortisone shots, oral medication. London ran tests that were inconclusive.

"The last road trip brought it to a head," Gieselmann said. "In Chicago, it wasn't too bad the natural grass seemed to buffer it. But in Pittsburgh, he told me, 'Gene, 1 can't even sleep at When the club returned home for its and, at the same time, damaging him-, self." As did McBride, his teammates expressed mixed emotions over the surgery. They hate to have him out of the lineup but they're glad the problem will be corrected for 1977. "It's just a shame he.

couldn't go from wire to wire," said Willie Crawford, "to see what he really could do. Bake is realizing he can hit more than .300. With his speed and if he stayed healthy all year, he might be one of those guys who can hit .400." Ted Simmons said, "I think he could lead the league. He hits the ball hard and balls he taps, he beats out. If he could stay healthy for 160 games, he'd get 200 its and probably hit .350." Maybe next year..