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M.Dama riranlnil Oa-aMa Saturday, August 11, 1979 Yankees on the verge off yielding AIL title American League Ford's homer In the bottom of that inning put the Angels back on top but the Mariners scored again in the sixth, chasing Angel starter Don Aase. Both teams were blanked until the 12th when with one out, Seattle's Larry Mllbourne singled off reliever Mark Clear. After Julio Cruz sacrificed Mllbourne to second, Rupert Jones singled htm home. Seattle finally won the game In the 14th by scoring three runs off loser Dave LaRoche, 4-10, whom the Angels acquired in the Bochte trade with Cleveland. Bochte singled to drive in the first run and scored the final one of the By Associated Press The Kansas City Royals are suddenly very much In the running for a fourth consecutive trip to the American League playoffs but the world champion New York Yankees appear on the verge of yielding their throne.

Although the Yankees have a better record than the Royals, they also are In a tougher division. And that's why third-place Kansas City (59-55) trails the California Angels by only five games in the AL West following Friday night's 7-6, 7-3 sweep of the Detroit Tigers. The fourth-place Yankees (61-53), who have taken the Royals in the last three AL playoffs, are 15 games behind Baltimore in the East after dropping a tumultuous 8-6 decision to the Ford also tripled and had another double later an the game to become the second Angel player to hit for the cycle double, single, triple and homer. Fregosl did it twice in his career. "It's probably one of the hardest things to do in baseball as far as an offensive thing," said Ford.

"But I didn't even realize It until someone mentioned It on the bench. I was too concerned about trying to take advantage of a chance to pick up some ground on the other teams In the race." The Angels broke a 3-0 lead In the first inning against Seattle starter Mike Parrott, Carney Lansford hit a two-run homer, and Joe Rudy's two-out single scored Ford. Seattle came back with a run in the fourth and Bochte tied it with a two-run homer in the fifth. behind the clutch pitching of Len Barker, who scattered 11 hits. Cleveland took a 2-1 lead in the fourth on RBI singles by Toby Harrah and Ron Hassey and sewed it up in the fifth.

League leader Fred Lynn cracked his 31st home run and Tom Poquetto belted his first but it was a soft double to short right field by Jim Rice that drove in the winning run in the seventh inning. Sixto Lezcano hit his 18th homer and Gorman Thomas added No. 29 for Milwaukee. Ken Landreaux run-scoring single with two out in the 12th Inning of the nightcap gave Minnesota its split. Oakland's Mike Heath forced the first game into extra innings with a pinch single in the ninth and then drove in the winning run with a sacrifice fly in the llth off Mike Marshall.

Kansas City's Hal McRae, whose leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth tied the opener, had three hits in the nightcap while Frank White socked an in-side-the-park homer and scored three times. Elsewhere in the league, Seattle outlasted California 8-6 in 14 innings, Boston edged Milwaukee 5-4 and Minnesota nipped Oakland 3-2 in 12 innings after dropping the opener 6-5 in 11. Toronto was rained out at Chicago. Eddie Murray greeted reliever Ron Davis with a game-tying two-run double in the seventh inning and scot ed on a single by Lee May as Baltimore withstood two-run homers by Oscar Gamble and Chris Chambliss. Andre Thornton's two-run double capped a three-run fifth inning as the Indians rolled to the victory Bruce Bochte has made it anything but pleasant for the Angels since they traded him to Cleve-land In May 1977.

Friday night the left-handed hitting first baseman, who spent parts of four seasons with the Angels, had a home run and two singles, the second coming to break a 5-5 tie In the 14th inning and boost the Mariners to a win over California. The loss, which left the Angels with a 34-game lead over second place Minnesota in the American League West, overshadowed the offensive efforts of California outfielder Dan Ford, who doubled, singled and homered in his first three at bats. It gave him eight consecutive hits and tied the club record set by manager Jim Frego-si when he was the team's starting shortstop In 1966. mission, the agency which will build the stadium. Chairman Dan Brutger agreed to throw in $1 million in donated funds to replace the Twins' current office space in Metropolitan Stadium.

He also agreed to either terminate the team's lease or Install air conditioning if attendance falls off because there Is no cooling in the stadium. Air conditioning is not now planned because engineers say it won't be needed. It would cost $2 million to install. The facility will have a fabric roof, similar to the Silverdome at Pontiac, and Is designed to seat 65,000 for football. Movable seats will expand the playing field for baseball and leave seating for 54,195.

Manager Ketch urn dies Fight manager Willie Ketchum, who handled seven world boxing champions in five divisions in a career spanning nearly 50 years, died of a heart attack at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was 75. Ketchum's first world champion was 1930s lightweight Lew Jenkins. He also managed lightweight Jimmy Carter, bantamweight Lou Salica, middle-weights Solly Kreiger and Marcel Cerdan, light heavyweight Ben Jeby and featherweight Davey Moore. McHargue suspended Darrel McHargue, leading rider at the current Del Mar meeting, was suspended Friday for five racing days, Aug.

13-18, by the Board of Stewards for careless riding in Thursday's ninth race. The 24-year-old Oklahoma native, who won the Eclipse Award as the nation's top rider in 1978, won three races on Thursday's program but was disqualified from victory in two others, the first on Mandy's Quack and the ninth on Eve's Image. Entering Friday's card at Del Mar, McHargue led Laffit Pincay by three winners, 22-19, and had scored a 3 '-length victory in the third aboard Stormy Prince to pay $6.60. Sports digest Seagulls' saga The Las Vegas Seagulls, who were near extinction last week, have apparently solved their legal problems, but the American Soccer League club's on the field problems persist. The Seagulls' record dropped to 7-12-3 after a 4-0 loss to the Sacramento Gold at Sacramento Friday night, but that was less than half the story.

The game had to be called off by referee Steve Verezcky in the 38th minute after an outbreak of fighting. With the Gold leading 4-0, Seagull midfielder Mio-drag Lacevic was kicked In the ankle and responded by attacking Sacramento's Danny Payne. Then, according to one newspaper report, Lacevic was chased around the field by the Gold players and their coach. Bill Williams. After Verezcky called the game, he left the stadium.

But most of the 5,028 fans waited for IV2 hours as Gold and Seagulls officials asked for a ruling from the ASL office in New York whether the game should be restarted or replayed at a later date. The ASL awarded the win to the Gold. Seagulls vs. Gold Chapter 2 is scheduled tonight when they play in Las Vegas' Silver Bowl. There had been some question last week if tonight's game would be played because the Seagulls' office had been padlocked for failure to pay the employers share to the Nevada Industrial Commission.

The money has been reportedly paid to pave the way for tonight's game. Rudy felt no threat Rudy Tomjanovich, the Houston Rockets star forward, said he felt no threat before a one-punch fight that crushed the front of his face. "I felt no risk at all," he said, when trotting over to a disturbance involving former Los Angeles Laker Kermit Washington and former Rocket Kevin Kun-nert. The punch he got knocked him out for the rest of year. Tomjanovich, who will earn $300,000 next season, is suing California Sports owner of the Lakers, for at least $1 million in damages suffered Dec.

9, 1977, when Washington slugged him. Rockets captain, now 30, suffered a broken nose, fractured skull and dental and facial injuries. Lakers waive Price Guard Jim Price, a seven-year National Basketball Association veteran, was waived Friday by the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers took guard Earvin "Magic" Johnson with the NBA's first draft pick this summer and chose Brad Holland, another guard, with their second pick. Norm Nixon, who'll be entering his third pro season, seems firmly entrenched at one Los Angeles backcourt position.

Price, 29, was originally a second-round Lakers' draft choice out of Louisville in 1972. After 2'2 seasons with Los Angeles, he was traded to Milwaukee for Lucius Allen in 1974. After two years with the Bucks, Price was dealt to Buffalo, then to Denver, then to Detroit. Shortly VtfJs''' SV vHf -v- -v-v. I AP photo High Pheasant, ridden by Rudy Rosales, recovered from a bad start and surged ahead at the half-mile to take a 2lk length victory in the $25,000 feature race Friday at Del Cincinnati Reds outfielder Ken Griffey will undergo surgery on his left leg in Los Angeles The City Council has given the Ogden A's Pacific Coast League baseball club an extension on its 1979 rent payments and promised to make more improvements to the John Affleck Park.

The council voted 3-1 Thursday night to lease the park to the club if the $6,500 in rent for this year is paid by the start of the 1980 A junior basketball team from Chicago dropped its first two games in the Soviet Union to the juniors of the USSR national team, 98-85 and 108-95, the Soviet news agency Tass reported Jimmy Certain averaged 225 in the second round to move from third place into a 40-pin lead after 12 games of the $70,00 Waukegan, 111. Open Professional Bowlers Association Colgate-Palmolive Co. is dropping its sponsorship of men's tennis events and some men's and women's golf tournaments, apparently to consolidate its resources behind ailing subsidiaries. The total cut comes to about $2 million, more than half the big corporation's 1979 expenditure on tennis and Former New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley almost totally paralyzed since a game injury a year ago has decided against any court action relating to his injuries. Stingley disclosed his plans in a statement released by the Patriots.

A final financal settlement was being worked out this week by Stingley's attorney, Jack Sands of Tom Okker defeated Owen Davidson 6-7, 6-2, 6-2 to gain the semifinals of the Tennis Legends Championship in Rolling Meadows, III. Lou Brock's two hits against the Cubs put him within six hits of 3,000 for his NL career. Astrodome is sweet home for league-leading Houston National League Twins sign dome lease The Minnesota Twins approved a 30-year lease for a downtown Minneapolis domed stadium Friday, virtually insuring that the structure will be built after years of haggling. However, the Twins extracted two key concessions in a final day of closed-door bargaining with the chairman of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Corn- and Los Angeles blanked San Francisco 9-0. Art Howe's two-run single in the eighth inning provided Niekro with the winning margin.

The Astros had only two singles off Atlanta starter Eddie Solomon until they chased him with three straight hits at the start of the eighth. Atlanta had taken a 1-0 lead in the first when Jerry Royster beat out an infield hit, stole second, took third on a fly ball by Gary Matthews, then scored on Rowland Office's single. Bud Harrelson's single with two out in the 12th inning drove in the winning run as Philadelphia defeated Pittsburgh in the rain-delayed first game of their twi-night doubleheader. Bill Robinson tripled home two fourth-inning runs and Bruce Kison pitched a three-hitter as the Pirates won the second game. Jerry Mumphrey smashed a three-run, inside-the-park homer, and Ted Simmons, Garry Temple-ton and Ken Reitz drove home two Silver Sox fall at Lodi, 7-0 "By Associated Press The Houston Astrodome seems to be tailor-made for the Astros, but the way they're going this year it realy doesn't matter where they play especially when Joe Niekro is pitching.

The major leagues' biggest winner posted his 16th triumph in a 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves Friday night, as the National League West-leading Astros improved their lead to 4Vfe games over Cincinnati, 3-2 losers to San Diego. "We've certainly got the kind of club that can win this division," said Niekro, who boasts a sparkling 16-6 record with his latest victory. Elsewhere in the NL, Philadelphia beat Pittsburgh 4-3 then lost in the second game of the double-header 3-2; St. Louis beat Chicago twice, 13-8 and 5-3; New York split with Montreal, winning the opener 7-1 and losing the nightcap 6-5; San Diego stopped Cincinnati 3-2 runs each, leading St. Louis over Chicago in the opener of their doubleheader.

Keith Hernandez hit a tie-breaking double and Bernie Carbo followed with a home run in the fifth inning to propel the Cardinals past the Cubs in the second game. Joel Youngblood and Doug Flynn drove in two runs each in New York's six-run first inning as the Mets beat Montreal in the first game of their doubleheader. Andre Dawson clubbed a two-run homer, and Larry Parrish added a solo shot to help the Expos win the second game. Paul Dade drove in two runs with a triple and Randy Jones tossed a four-hitter as San Diego edged Cincinnati. Dade's triple keyed a three-run Padres sixth off rookie Frank Pastore, who surrendered seven hits through seven innings.

iers and Bill Springman each homered and contributed half the winners' 10 hits. ab hoi LODI RENO Blakley rf Stevenson ss Hardy dh Parker If Alvarez 3b Putman lb J. Johnson 2b Richmond cf Martin 3 0 4 0 4 0 3 0 4 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 3 0 1 0 Garrison cf 0 0 Walker ss 0 0 Marshall lb 0 0 Holman If 0 0 Swoope rf 1 0 Villaescosa dh 0 0 Franjul ph 0 0 Landing 3b 1 0 Schulti 2b Martinson 3 0 Totals ab hbi 4 2 10 3 2 10 2 111 3 112 2 0 0 0 2 112 10 0 1 4 0 2 1 4 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 9111 000 -0 LODI The Reno Silver Sox fell another half game behind Modesto in the California League's North Division standings with Friday night's 7-0 loss to the Lodi Dodgers. The defeat left Reno with a 25-25 record as it opens a five-game home stand tonight with a 7:30 p.m. game against Bakersfield at Moana Municipal Stadium.

The Sox and Outlaws play again at 7:30 p.m. Sunday before the Stockton Ports visit for three days starting Monday. The second-place Sox trail Modesto by 1M games.Modesto, 26-23, was idle Friday. Reno got just three hits off Lodi's starting and winning pitcher Brian Baldwin. He struck out four and walked four.

Lodi scored five runs in the fourth inning on three singles, two hit batters and two doubles. Reno starting and losing pitcher Eric Show allowed five runs land six hits during Lodi scored twice in the seventh. In other Cal Leage games, Bakersfield scored 13 runs on 11 hits in the fifth inning Friday night in the Outlaws' 17-8 walloping of Stockton. Three men had two hits each during the big outburst and Mike Haley wound up with four of the winners' 20 hits. Dave Smith boosted his rec6rd to 13-5 in hurling San Jose to a 4-1 at Visalia.

He surrendered an unearned run in the ninth to lose the shutout. Battery-mate Orland Mercado's three-run homer led the winners attack. Jeff Conners, 5-4, hurled the four-hit blank job in Salinas' 8-0 win over Santa Clara. Daryl Scon- a Totals Reno 000 000 ore vn Lodi OP Reno 2. Lodi OOx -7 LOB Reno S.

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ACOUSTIC Sports line 323-4422 CEILINGS SPRAYED and Rosprayed bout will be shown live on KOVR-TV Sacramento, which is available to cable subscribers in Northern Nevada. It will also be broadcast about 2 p.m. PDT as part of ABC-TV's "Wide World of Sports." Leonard has said he intends to capture the welterweight crown, then move on to the junior middleweight and moddieweight divisions. And that's one reason for his busy schedule, said trainer Pete Jacobs. "One reason why we keep that pace is we know Ray is headed for the title," Jacobs said.

"I figure Ray, being young, has youth on his side so he can keep up the pace," he explained. "Each fight he has gotten stronger and sharper." Leonard of Palmer predicted a knockout over Ranzany but the 147-pound champion had different ideas. LAS VEGAS AP) A very busy Sugar Ray Leonard puts on the gloves for real for the 18th time in the past 19 months Sunday when he meets Pete Ranzany in a nationally televised fight. Leonard, the World Boxing Council's No. 2-ranked welterweight, already has a title shot lined up with WBC champion Wilfredo Benitez but denies Sunday's bout with Ranzany, the WBC's third-ranked contender, is just a warmup for his Dec.

1 title fight. Leonard, 23, has a 23-0 record with 14 knockouts. Veteran Ranzany has an impressive 45-3-1 record and holds the North American Boxing Federation's welterweight title. He made a bid for the World Boxing Council's welterweight title 11 months ago but was stopped by champion Pipino Cuevas in the second round. Sunday's fight, for the NABF title, is scheduled for 12 rounds at the Caesars Palace Sports Pavilion.

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