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June 29, 1985 Asbury Park Press q) 3 Baseball Scoreboard i 8 Recreation Comment Tedlor, Cards handcuff Mets earned runs for a 1.34 ERA. He has 26 strikeouts to just eight walks. "Sure, I'm sorry to see June end," Tudor said. "It's been a nice month. Things have been working out for me.

"I can't really expect to be perfect in July but I hope to pick up where I've left, off and just do the best I can. When reminded that Tudor was 6-0 for the month, Cards manager Whitey Herzog cracked, "Maybe I can use him Sunday (June 30 and the last day of the month)." Actually, Tudor is not scheduled to pitch again until July 4 for St. Louis, which remained a half-game behind first-place Montreal in the National League East. St. Louis struck early against Mets starter and loser Ed Lynch, 4-5.

In the second inning, catcher Tom Nieto came to the plate with runners on second and third, two outs, first base open and the pitcher on deck. Nieto stroked a two-run single to left-center to put the Cards ahead. "In that situation, Clark told me I should widen my strike zone," the Cardinal catcher said. "He said the pitcher might make a mistake and seemed to be the games I was pitching." Then, a telephone tip from a high school teammate in Massachusetts turned things around. "It was a minor change in my delivery," the 31 -year-old bachelor said.

"It's not easy to explain it would take a couple of paragraphs." The change may have been minor, but the results were major. His victory over New York made him 6-0 in six starts during the month of June. In that span, he has pitched 47 innings, permitted 30 hits and just seven even if it's not a strike, it might be a pitch I can just what happened." Lynch threw a chest high breaking ball and Nieto smacked the pitch to left field to give the Cardinals a 2-0 lead. "I know he (Lynch) didn't want to throw it where he did," Nieto said. Tommy Herr, the leagues' RBI leader with 60, socked his third home run of the season in the third inning See CARDS, page B3 Press Wire Services ST.

LOUIS One month ago, John Tudor was a frustrated man. The left-handed pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals was 1-7 and struggling. "It was a tough time," Tudor said last night after earning his sixth straight victory in the Cardinals 3-2 win over the New York Mets at Busch Memorial Stadium. "I saw the ballclub on the move but I wasn't a part of it," Tudor remembered.

"The only games we were losing i i 4 V. rs ij TIM MC CARTHYAsbury Park Press Howdy Holmes in car No. 33, the Jiffey Mixes Lola T-900 takes his car through a practice session in preparation for the United States Grand Prix at the Meadowlands yesterday. Right behind him is Mario Andretti, who won the provisional pole position during yesterday's qualifying. Andretti wins provisional pole Kiner-isms liven dull moments By STAN ISACCS Ralph Kiner is entering that rarefied Casey Stengel atmosphere as a man who has been around a long time, seen many people and remembered many things.

A few stories illustrate the similarity. Stengel's awareness of so many apsects of life in and out of baseball was a source of amazement to those around him. One day, the Mets and the state of Maine staged a "Carlton Willey Day," honoring the former Met pitcher who was a native of that state. Now, what could be more backwater than Maine? It was assumed this was one subject foreign even to Stengel. So a casual, sly question was addressed to Stengel to see if there was one subject upon which he could not discourse.

"Casey," he was asked, "did you ever play in Maine?" "No," he ar -wered, "but I remember that fella who came out of there, Chief Sockalexis." Stengel proceeded to tell a story nobody had ever heard about Louis (Chief) Sockalexis, a ballplayer from Maine who played with Cleveland of the National League from 1 897-99. He was the inspiration for the Cleveland club's nickname: the Indians. On a recent Met telecast, Tim McCarver got onto the subject of a Norman Rockwell painting called, "Game Called Because of Rain," which had appeared on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post on April 23, 1949. It shows three umpires standing in the infield at Ebbets Field, considering whether to call a game because of rain. When McCarver guessed Hall of Famer Bill Klem may have been one of the umpires pictured, Kiner informed him the umpires were John (Beans) Reardon, Larry Goetz and Lou Jorda.

Kiner said one of the figures also in the drawing was Pirate manager Bill Meyer. And that Rockwell had used Kiner's own Pirate uniform as a model from which to sketch Meyer's uniform. "It was the offseason," Kiner recalled recently. "I was living outside of Pasadena in Alhambra (Calif.) at the time. Rockwell was working on the West Coast.

He must have heard that I was there because he came over and looked at the uniform. I had it with me because I had played on an exhibition-game tour after the season. Rockwell was very nice. He later gave me an original drawing of his." Conversations with Kiner uncover rich lodes. The talk got around to movies.

Kiner said he liked "The Natural," particularly because Robert Redford looked like a ballplayer. "He played ball in high school with Don Drysdale, I understand," Kiner said. It was agreed that Gary Cooper did not swing like a ballplayer when he played Lou Gehrig in "The Pride of the Yankees." Kiner said, "They used Babe Herman for the long shots of Gehrig swinging in that movie. I knew Herman and visited him at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, where they shot that movie. "That was the only time I ever met Babe Ruth, he was in the movie playing himself, you'll remember.

Herman introduced him to me. He was taking batting practice on the set and he could still bang them out of there. I was a high school kid at the time. It meant a lot to me to see him." The twists and turns associated with one story about Kiner may indicate he is approaching Stengelian legendary status. There is a wine story that has been so embellished in the retelling it almost takes on a dimension of its own.

This version has Kiner visiting the French wine country shortly after his divorce from his first wife, tennis player Nancy Chaffee. While he is looking at bottles in one of the wine cellars, the owner bursts out, "Ralph Kiner." Kiner is amazed he was known in France, but the man tells him he has spent time in the United States and became a baseball player and Kiner fan. He bestows a bottle of wine on Kiner that the owner says is worth $5,000. Kiner says, "When would I ever find an occasion to drink a bottle of wine worth The Frenchman answers, "When Nancy remarries so Ralph can stop paying alimony." The true story from Kiner himself: "We were sitting around reading about a wine bottle that was auctioned for $5,000. Some of us were trying to name an occasion when we might open a bottle worth that much money.

And I said, 'When your ex-wife Kiner tells a lovely story about the only time he had ever defeated Nancy in a game of tennis. They were playing. No, we'll let him tell it one of these nights between dropping Kinerisms on a Met telecast. Stan Isaacs is a writer for NeWoday. By JOE ZEDALIS Press Staff Writer EAST RUTHERFORD If there is one four-letter word you never hear around automobile racing tracks, especially road course circuits like the one being utilized at the United States Grand Prix at the Meadowlands, it's rain.

Precipitation is a no-no all right. 1 4 'v. 'i'3 conventional racing slicks. Otherwise, things went pretty much according to script, right down to the first of two qualifying periods for the Indy cars where defending champion Mario Andretti set the pace. Andretti, driving the Newman-Haas Beatrice Lola T-900, covered the 1.68 mile, turn race course in 1:01.504 seconds which translates to 98.452 mph.

Borders hopes in By STEPHEN EDELSON Press Staff Writer EAST RUTHERFORD Building a solid reputation on a major road racing circuit without the benefits of corporate sponsorship is something akin to the proverbial ant and the rubber tree plant. But Farmingdale resident Bob Borders has high hopes for his future in the Kelly American Challenge Series which makes a stop at the Meadowlands this weekend, despite the limited expenses his unsponsored crew must work with. The Kelly Challenge, a road race for American sports sedans contested on tight road circuits throughout the country, offers some $35,000 in prize money in today's finals. "It's very tough out here without sponsorship," said Borders. "Basically, the sponsored teams have an unlimited expense account.

If they want a part they go out and get the best. I have to bring friends and relatives to work in the pit crew." Driving a Chevrolet Camaro, Borders turned in the 17th fastest time in the opening practice session with an average speed of 62.893 completing a lap over the 1.682 mile course which twists its way through Lloyd scores nipset By BARBARA MATS0N Press Staff Writer WIMBLEDON, England Every year, The All-England Lawn Tennis Club becomes a stage for an English tragedy. Year after year, the English have pined desperately for a tennis hero to take the Wimbledon stage and change the predictably gloomy script. Fred Perry, who won three men's singles titles from 1934 to 1936, was the last Englishman to win a singles title. Perry is so revered that Wimbledon erected a statue of him last year at the Club.

So when John Lloyd, the last Englishman left in the men's singles championship after the first round, won his second-round match yesterday, there was heartfelt rejoicing. Centre Court was the stage for Lloyd's dramatic five-set victory over No. 13 seed Eliot Teltscher. Lloyd won, 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 3-6, 7-5 as the crowd rose from its seats and applauded warmly. It was a difficult day for the Lloyds of London.

John preceded his wife, Chris Evert Lloyd, on Centre Court. Chris had no trouble dismissing Susan Mascarin, 6-3, 6-0, but the match against Teltscher was probably as hard on Chris as it was on John. Up in the torture chamber, er, members' box, wife Chris looked on, mentally biting her nails as John struggled with Teltscher and with himself. "It was so emotional watching John play and then having to play myself," Chris said. "Hopefully John doesn't have any more cliffhangers before one of my matches.

"It was completely nerve-wracking the whole experience. If he had lost it would have been difficult for him to live with it." But before the matches began, it was John whose nerves needed steadying. "I think I was more edgy than Chris," John said. "My match was a 50-50 chance but I had a very good shot. "It was a big opportunity for me." Lloyd began superbly, rushing to a two-set lead, helped by an excellent serve.

But then, as has happened so often in the past, Lloyd mis-hit a shot or two, began thinking about why he was mis-hitting all of a sudden, and confused himself. Teltscher won the next two sets and the Centre Court spectators, and all of England watching the BBCs television broadcast, began to shake their heads. Here he goes again, they thought. "For a second I suddenly started worrying about things," Lloyd admitted later. "Why am I not hitting the ball like I was in the first set? And you just can't afford to do that" To Lloyd's great good luck, a brief rain shower halted play with Teltscher leading three games to two in the fifth set.

It was less than a 40-minute delay but it was long enough for John to catch his breath. And to receive a handful of pep talks, first from Chris, then from his brother David and then from coach Bob Brett. "I was really down for a couple of minutes," said Lloyd, who is genial See LLOYD, page B2 Brewers for at least one homer in 12 of his last 13 starts. "I wasn't trying to throw the pitch for a strike," Darwin said. "I was just trying to brush him back off the plate and it caught the inside part of the plate.

See YANKS, page B3 3 1 1 i 4 Should Andretti win the pole position it would be the 53rd of his illustrious Indy car career, tying him with A.J. Foyt for first place on the all-time list. Andretti's effort yesterday topped both his qualifying (96.012) and average winning speed (80.742) of a year ago. And if the weather stays dry See ANDRETTI, page BS has high Kelly the Meadowlands Sports Complex. "We blew a transmission at Lime Rock," said Borders.

"We rebuilt it, but it kept popping out of third gear and sometimes fourth gear. So I was driving some of the tough parts of the course with only one hand on the wheel. That can get a little dangerous, one mistake and it gets expensive." After a quick change of gear boxes, however, Borders took the track for the final qualifying for today's two heat championship format. Tom Rig-gins in a Buick Somerset turned in the fastest qualifying time and will sit in the pole position in today's first heat. Positions in the second and deciding heat will be determined by the order of finish in the first heat.

The event is only Border's third ever in a Kelly car after spending over ten years racing on the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) circuit. "The rules are a lot more flexible with the Kelly's as far as inspection goes, which makes it easier on the owner," noted Borders. "You can make the cars faster with the tube frame design and the location of the motor can be changed. The people are also more professional on this circuit. What I mean is the officials are all See BORDERS, page B5 hit in 39 at-bats.

"You don't know how you're going to hit, what's going to happen," Winfield said about the lack of batting practice. "That ball was hit on a line and put us right in the game and Guidry took it from there." It was the v7th home run yielded by Darwin, 6-7, who has been tagged 1 r. 'if 1 i Rain is a promoter's nightmare, a driver's dilemma. And while rain dampened the track yesterday it did not affect the spirit as the preliminary festivities to tomorrow's 4 p.m. race began.

The only thing the semi-inclement weather did was force the delay of events approximately one hour. Indy car racers began their morning practice with treaded racing tires but after only a few laps most switched to the York Yankees defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 5-2, at Yankee Stadium. Because of the rain, neither team took batting practice. And when New York's Dave Winfield came to bat in the bottom of the first inning, the Yankees trailed, 2-0. The first pitch from Danny Darwin was strike and the second one, a fastball, became Winfield's "first ij ify tf- i DAVE MAYAsbury Park Press Bob Borders of Farmingdale buckles up before going out for a practice session in preparation for 'today's Kelly-American Challenge.

Yanks recover from shaky start to defeat swing of the day." He has seldom had a better one. The ball sailed on a line and cleared the 411-foot mark in left-center field for Winfield's ninth homer run of the season and first in Yankee Stadium since May 31. The two-run homer tied the score two outs afterhot-hitting Rickey Henderson led on with a double, his 23rd The Associated Press NEW YORK It rained periodically during the afternoon, as well as during the game. "Sloppy conditions sometimes lead to sloppy games," Ron Guidry said after recovering from a shaky first inning andt recording his eighth consecutive victory last night as the New.