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C4 The News-Journal papers Tuesday, Aug. 23,1988 Matt Zabitka Measuring up Dorsett set to pass Harris, Brown in rushing Tiger system's Mr. Fixit Wockenfuss does the job JS iff AP acceleration and his cutting ability. And he's a tough little guy. I have great admiration for those fast, shifty runners.

I wish him all the luck in the world. Brown believes Dorsett's true worth to the Broncos will be measured in the "valuable yards he gains, not the amount of yards." "The Broncos have one of the best quarterbacks in the game in John Elway. Tony will have to get the yards when they need them," he says. "That may be only 700 or 800 yards, but that would be a successful year for him." Dorsett, who at 34 still exhibits the quickness that has made him a breakaway threat throughout his career, believes moving past Brown "will be more meaningful when my career is over. It was more of a focal point for me last year.

I wanted to move into second place last year, but I wasn't given the opportunity." Dorsett lost his starting job to Herschel Walker midway through the season, and he finished with 456 yards, the lowest total of his career. As a result, he demanded to be traded, and he will be wearing orange instead of silver and blue when he overtakes Brown. "When I sit back 10 years from now," he says, "this will be something to look back on and cherish. It will be a milestone. I came into the league in 1977 and said I was going to play only five years.

I've stayed long enough to move into second place." JOHN WOCKENFUSS had good luck fishing the Hudson River early one morning last week. "Caught 33 bass," he said. The 12-year major league veteran 10 years with the Detroit Tigers, two with the Phillies has been experiencing good luck fishing and managing ever since the Tigers hired him as a minor league skipper in 1987. He's turning out to be the Detroit "mechanic." Last year, in his debut as a skipper in pro ball, the Tigers assigned him to do an overhaul on their Lakeland club, which, the year before, had finished dead last in the five-team Central Division of the Florida State League. Lakeland, in '86 ended 54-79, 29 games out of first.

Wockenfuss, a former four-sport star at Dickinson High, brought the team back. Lakeland finished in in second place in the Central Division with a 74-61 record, four games out of first, and qualified it for the playoffs, where it lost to ul-t i a Wockenfuss league champion Fort Lauderdale, a New York Yankees farm club. Wockenfuss' tuneup job at Lakeland earned him a promotion to the Class AA Eastern League this season, skippering the Tigers' Glens Falls, N.Y., team. Another gigantic overhaul job. Glens Falls in 1987 finished last with a 58-79 record, 28 A games out of first.

But Wock the Mechanic has done it again. Glens Falls is ft Broncos' Dorsett looks for daylight in preseason game. He retired after the 1987 campaign. Brown still holds a number of NFL records, including highest career average-per-gain (5.2 yards). By contrast, Dickerson has averaged 4.7 yards per carry.

After five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams and Indianapolis Colts, Dickerson stands 10th in all-time rushing with 8,256 yards. Brown respects Dorsett, who is 276 yards away from his standard. "Tony has been a great performer over the years," Brown says. "He's one of the greatest backs that ever lived. I've always enjoyed watching him.

I like his compiled from dispatches answers Mattingly outburst turning out to be the success story of the year in the eight-team league. Going into its Aug. 16 night game with the Reading Phillies, Glens Fall was tied for first place with the Vermont Mariners. With 17 games remaining, Wockenfuss is looking confidently to having his team among the top four in the postseason playoffs that start Aug. 30.

"Just about half of the team I now have is made up of players who played for me at Lakeland last year," Wockenfuss noted. "I've got three-four players I see as making the Tigers' roster in the majors in two-three years. One is outfielder Rob Richie of Nevada. He's having an MVP-type season. Leads the league in RBI and hits and is tied for most doubles and triples.

He played for me at Lakeland last year. "Catcher Chris Hoiles of Ohio is another player I see as a future major leaguer. He's batting .293 and was voted the league's player of the month for July. And third baseman Tony Lovullo of California, who's batting .315, is another hot prospect." At Lakeland, Wockenfuss had a 25-player roster. At Glens Falls, he has 22, 10 pitchers and 12 position players.

He goes with a five-man pitching rotation, using two left-handers and three righties. "Consistency has been the key to our success so far," he said. "That plus maturity and mental attitude." Glens Falls' longest winning Effect of Asian dominance debated true," he said. This year, managers agree Far East champion Tai Chung, Taiwan is the team to beat in the eight-team, single-elimination tournament that begins today. Since West Tokyo became the first Far East team to win the World Series in 1967, Asian teams have reigned.

The Far East has won the last four Little League World Series, outscoring their U.S. opponents 46-4 in the championship games. The Far East has won six of eight series in the 1980s. "They're always the favorites," said Merv Yoshimoto, manager of the Western U.S. champion, Pearl City, Hawaii.

"They play baseball all year round." Taiwanese youngsters excel in baseball because they play the sport as a school activity nine months of the year and play Little League during their summer vacation, Hale said. Unlike the Taiwanese, players on U.S. teams change sports with the seasons, playing football or soccer in the fall and basketball, wrestling or hockey in the winter, streak this season was nine, its'; longest losing streak five. 4f For the month of August, Glens Falls is 11-6. Wockenfuss has no assist tants.

"I coach third base and -have a player coaching at first," he pointed out The chartered bus his team rides to away games is better r' than the one at Lakeland, "but; the rides are longer," Wocken-'' fuss said. "Longest trip is six-hour ride to Reading. Shortest is a 45-minute ride to Al-; bany. "The umpiring is okay in the Eastern League, but I can't 1 the same for the maintenance 1 of the fields. It's inadequate.

At most fields, except 1 which is a class the ground crews are city workers. They quit exactly at p.m., no matter how much ad-!" ditional work is needed to put the field in top condition. They1 just drop everything and leave." Noted for his fiery, aggresi-)' sive play as a major Wockenfuss continues theH-same way as a manager. 'f So far this season, he has; been ejected from four games, the same number as last year r' with Lakeland. One opposing pitcher who has impressed him is Magee, Seaford High grad now; in his second year with Reading Phillies.

"He has a good fastball Could throw it right through a brick wall," Wockenfuss said of Magee. "If he can get control down, he could be a major league prospect." The majors is where Wock-; enfuss wants to return, as a manager of the Tigers. Matt Zabitka is a sports columnist for the News-Journal papers. TV event Yoshimoto and other U.S. managers and coaches said.

"We've got guys on our team that are better hockey players and better basketball players than they are baseball players," said Red Harris, a coach of the Eastern U.S. champion, Andover, Mass. Taiwanese Little Leaguers also tend to take the game more seriously, managers said. Marietta, was the last lS. team to win the series, with a 'S-l victory over the Dominican Republic in the 1983 championship game.

Hua Lian, Taiwan, won these-ries last year, drubbing Irvine, 21-1 in the championship. Correction Delaware defeated Pennsylvania 5-0 to win the 4.0 men's tennis Middle States title Sunday -111 Princeton, N.J. The Delaware team of Tom Eckman, George Simmons, Dave Wilhelm, Dave Mitchell, Joel Steinbrunner, Tom Miller, John Gose, Reggie Kru-szewski and Don Evans had 'a combined 18-2 record. Little League is big By John Mossman Associated Press DENVER At his current pace, sometime during a Monday night game against the Los Angeles Raiders on Sept. 26 Tony Dor-sett should dance and dart his way past Jim Brown into second place on the NFL all-time rushing list.

It is a moment Dorsett, the Dallas Cowboy-turned-Denver Bronco, will cherish, because Brown is, in Dorsett's words, "the standard we all measure ourselves against." Dorsett, traded to the Broncos in June, heads into his 12th professional season with 12.036 yards the fourth-best mark in NFL history. Ahead of him are Franco Harris, at Brown, at 12,312, and Walter Pay ton, at 16,726. And while Payton is the record-holder and Eric Dickerson is on a course to overtake them all, Dorsett believes Brown is the finest running back of all-time. "Jim Brown is the immortal running back," Dorsett says. "Walter Payton is on top, but if you're a runner, you compare yourself to Brown." Brown, the former Cleveland Browns fullback, established his NFL record in nine superlative seasons from 1957-65.

Payton, who played mostly 16-game seasons whereas Brown played in 12- and 14-game seasons, eclipsed Brown's mark in his 10th season in 1984. Sports briefs Steinbrenner NEW YORK New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner struck back at Don Mattingly Monday, saying the All-Star first baseman's blistering attack on him was triggered by frustration. "He's a young man who is upset and frustrated because he 'guaranteed a pennant' for the Yan- kees last winter, the team is playing very poorly, and he himself is having a disappointing year by his own admission," Steinbrenner said in a written statement. Following Sunday's 4-2 loss to Seattle, Mattingly said Yankee players "get no respect around here. They give you money, that's it.

Not respect. Money is not respect." Although Mattingly did not mention Steinbrenner by name, the owner was clearly the target of his outburst. Steinbrenner, referring to himself as "The Boss" in his statement, said he was confused by Mattingly's criticism because "I'm not making errors on the field, I'm not leaving men stranded in scoring position time and time again, I'm not carrying a 5.30 ERA since the All-Star break, and I was 2,000 miles away when we lost three out of four games to the Seattle Mariners, of all people." "I meant what I said," Mattingly said before Monday night's game with Oakland. "I don't regret it one bit." Samaranch in Coe flap LONDON Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee, is considering a unique "wild card" invitation that would allow two-time champion Sebastian Coe to compete at next month's Games in Seoul. The move came two days after British track chiefs "politely but firmly" rejected an unprecedented plea by Samaranch to select Coe, who was omitted from the country's Olympic roster after a dismal performance in the national trials.

Samaranch made a plea for Coe's inclusion in a letter to the British Amateur Athletic Board, describing him as a "great Olym Horse racing Monday's results Weather dear. Trad fast. 1st 43,000, 3YO UP, Liteitup (Burns) 8.80 4.20 2. Zachman (Velez) 3.60 3. Chris Jacobsen Allotment Off 3:20.

Time No Quarter, Twin Associated IVess WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. Teams from the Far East have won 17 of the last 21 Little League World Series, but the organization's president said Monday that television ratings prove interest in the championship hasn't waned because of the Asian dominance. "It's one of the highest rated sports shows in August, usually the highest, including major-league baseball and other events," said Creighton Hale, president of Little League Baseball Inc. Still, ratings for the Little League World Series have slipped in recent years, ABC-TV reports. Looking at the last 10 years, the series attracted 20 percent or more of the television viewers until 1985, when it dropped to 13 percent.

It attracted 15 percent of the viewers in 1986 and 14 percent in 1987. "It certainly hurts the World Series to have one team winning all the time," said Bob Carroll, manager of the Central U.S. champions, Tulsa, Okla. "We used to say that when I was growing up about the New York Yankees. It would hurt baseball to have one team win every year and that probably was pic champion." The Board described the request as extraordinary and said it could not find room for the 31-year-old middle-distance star.

The bypassing of Coe caused a major controversy following the British trials two weeks ago, where he finished fourth in his heat, failed to make the final, and then skipped the 800-meter event. Ben Johnson goes home BERLIN A little more than a month before the Seoul Olympics, 100-meter world champion Ben Johnson's hopes at the Summer Games are in doubt. With two consecutive poor performances in Europe his doctors have ordered him to return home. Last year in Rome, Johnson used a blazing start to blast his way to a record time of 9.83 in beating the United States' Carl Lewis. This year, Johnson came to Europe after recovering from a left hamstring injury that sidelined him for three months until August.

Then he came back to win a wind-aided 9.90 race at the Canadian Olympic trials, and returned to Europe to win a 9.98 legal clocking at an Aug. 11, high-altitude meet in Italy. But after less than two weeks, he returns to Canada with two consecutive losses to three members of the United States Olympic team. Cedarbrook pair wins KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -The Cedarbrook Country Club (Blue Bell, Pa.) pair of Gary Hardin and Roc Irey retained the Philadelphia PGA Ping Pro-Amateur Championship with a 7-un-der-par 64 Monday at the Kennett Square Golf and Country Club.

Hardin, the Philadelphia PGA Champion, earned $750 on a purse of $6,950. The Wilmington CC team of Tim Foran and Bucky Ehrhardt scored a 70, as did the Wilming ton pair of Doug Thompson and Randy Mitchell. The Brandywine pair of George McNamara and Blaise Giroso scored a 71; the Kennett Square pair of Harold Perry and Jon Snyder had 72; the Maple Dale pair of Joe Kriznuski and Steve Welsh had 72; the Wilmington team of Samuel Hodgson and Rick Holmes had 72; the Shawnee pair of Pete Oakley and Joe Bernhei-mer had 73; the Garrisons Lake tandem of Jim Matthias and Ron Beck had 74; the West Chester pair of Jerry Day and Tom Harned had 75: the Kennett Square duo of Tom Kelly and Scott Danby had 75, and the Penn Oaks pair of Mike Cole and Mike Robinson had 77. Sanders rejoins Seminoles TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida State All-American corner-back Deion Sanders joined the top-ranked Seminoles for practice after being notified he had successfully completed an algebra correspondence course.

Sanders, who spent much of the summer playing professional baseball in the New York Yankees' organization, missed nearly two weeks of the team's preseason practices while he awaited official notification that he had completed the necessary credits to retain his eligibility under NCAA rules. Elsewhere: Catcher Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati outfielder Eric Davis were named American and National league players of the week Gary Gaetti, one of the leaders of the Minnesota Twins' drive to their first World Series title last year, may miss the rest of this season after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery Tommy Barrett of the Maine Phillies was the International League all-star second baseman WBC super welterweight champion Donald Curry will defend his title against WBC welterweight champion Lloyd Honeyghan in Britain this fall. 4rh 13,000, 3YO up, M. Precious Sky 1)7 Slice OfDawn 122 Megan Two 122 OutduelM. 122 Color MeChry 122 Brandy Lea 122 Sez Belle 122 Fiereza 115 Nights ArBtr 117 LadyAnahid 115 LupyLu 122 WireBrearkr 122 7th $3,200, mdn 3YO up, lmi.

MyFrndBrnb 119 OneMrFrJm 114 HellamsEdtn 119 LotsOfTalk 117 StarOfEire 115 QuIRdgSprts 114 Charter Fight 119 Springbut 122 Mr. Smshngt 114 Baseball Shos 122 T.J.s Blake 117 Casey R. 122 Brevltree 119 Shiny Glass 117 Ith 14,000, 3YO up, if. TisHope 111 Tiny Tower 116 Sally MyLove 116 LadySherBrk 116 Legal Lassie 116 HighMnmms 112 Wedding Day 116 Up Close 11V fh $6,500, ale, 3YO up, 5U. Zamboui 119 Downsider 116 Caratex 116 a-DiplmtcWy 119 a-KIss MyTan 122 Two Pitch 116 Frighten 116 Marine Flag 116 Loud Plaid 122 Wyatext 116 10th 13,200, 3YO up, ll16mi.

Alpha Buck 116 Count Boots 116 HndsOnThHd 119 MidyerFrcst 116 Dall 116 WhatAMothfl 112 Rose Clipper 119 Ebny AndWht 116 Dial 573-2199 MINIMUM 1 YEAR CD BALANCE RATE YIELD $25,000 8.25 8.51 SECOND NATIONAL Jfl BANK OF DELAWARE 500 7.45 7.45 DELAWARE TRUST 500 7.40 7.40 WSFS 500 7.40 7.40 WILMINGTON TRUST 1000 7.45 7.45 (Burns) 5.20 3.40 (Fagerstrom) 5.00 1:12. Scratched-Give Little Never, College Education. Trifeda (3-8-11) paid 7th 13,000, mdn 3YO up, 6f. Ms. Chennault (Velez) 15.80 10.00 6.60 Schnauzer (Breedon) 12.00 6.80 Fanta Krystal (Hansby) 5.00 Off 3:49.

Time 1:13 25. Scratched Jolly Dolly, Princess Nice, Bend A Pole. Exacta (9-5) paid $247.20. $3 Twin Trifecta (9-5-10) No winners. Carryover: $25,451.00.

8th $6,700, 3YO up, lmi.tl. Clattering Mount (Lee) 15.00 11.00 6 40 Lazy Son (Kupfer) 20.20 8 60 Another Ripple (Jones) 5.20 Off 4:16. Time 1:36 45. Scratched Kissing Bandit, Alpha Buck, Hedge A Bet, Loud Plaid, J.D.'s oy Wonder, Storm Bell. Exada (B-)l) paid 1292.60.

Trifeda (8-11-6) paid 12.685.00. Wh 17,000, ak, 3YO up, M. Iron Minister (Ortiz) 6.60 3.40 3.20 Big Royal Bowl (Lizarraburu) 7.80 4.60 Welcome Weather (English) 3.40 Off 4.46. Time 1:11 15. Daily Double (8-7) paid $60.80.

Exada (7-1) paid $154.80. Trifeda (7-1-2) paid $574.80. lOtti $4,200, 3YO UP, 1 l-)6mi. BiddleStreetPete(Jons) 4.40 3.40 2.40 Quietus (Lee) 6.20 3.80 Virginia Peanuts (Reynolds) 2 60 Off 5:13. Time 1:47 25.

Exada (3-5) paid $29.80. Trifecta (3-5-1) paid $134.10. Attendance 2,882. Handle 1370,171. Wednesday's entries First post 1 p.m.

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WestSideBoy 6.60 3.60 Ron's Hour (Fagerstrom) 3.60 2.60 Iron Andy (Jones) 4.40 Off 1:28. Time 1:12 35. Daily Double (1-7) paid J83.00. Exacta (7-6) paid 158 00. 3rd 1X300, ale, 3YO up, M.

Arabian Mca Maariya (Pham) 22.60 7.40 4.20 a-Milraafi (English) 3.40 2.80 Alshias Shamrock (Adams) 2.60 Off 1:55. Time 1:22 45. Scratched Saahira. a-Coupled. Exacta (4-1) paid 154.00.

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