The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 60

Philadelphia Inquirer Sixers vote full shares to 13 players, 2 aides The 76ers yesterday apportioned most of their $330,000 in playoff earnings among the club's 13 players and two team officials, publicist Harvey Pollack announced. The NBA runners-up voted equal shares of about $22,000 each to the 13 players, trainer Al Domenico and ad-ministrative assistant Jeff Millman. Ollie Johnson was among the players sharing in the booty, although he was kept out of the playoffs by injuries, Pollack said. The team also voted to give an undisclosed portion of the money to against Los Angeles. Pollack said the 76ers earned almost as much as the Lakers, who got $372,500, because Philadelphia played four postseason series while Los Angeles played three.

NEW YORK The final game of the NBA championship series on CBS drew the second-largest audience ever for a pro basketball game on network television, according to figures released yesterday. The Los Angeles Lakers' 114-104 victory over the 76ers in Game 6 of the best-of-seven series Tuesday night gained a 16 rating and 28 share, the A. C. Nielsen Co. said.

A rating is the percentage of all sets tuned to a particular show. A share is the percentage of sets in use tuned in. The record for a network NBA game is 16.932, for the sixth game of the 1974 championship series between Boston and Milwaukee. For the four weeknight prime-time games on CBS this year, the average rating was 14.1, compared with 11.8 for the last previous prime-time se ries telecasts, between Washington and Seattle in 1978. LOS ANGELES The city of Los Angeles paid homage to the champion Lakers with a parade before an estimated 6,000 down one of the main downtown streets and an accolade at City Hall.

Although Kareem Abdul-Jabbar took part in the parade, a migraine headache kept him from appearing with the rest of the team at the City Hall, where acting mayor Joel Wachs gave the Lakers the official greeting. NBA the team's staff, ball boys and unidentified "special people," Pollack said. The Sixers' earnings accrued from appearances in two mini-series games against Atlanta; a six-game Eastern Conference semifinal against Miilwaukee; the seven-game Eastern final against Boston, and the six-game NBA championship series Ollie Johnson Reserve awarded $22,000 Friday, June 11, 1982 Jl 'Vv, i 5 I (r in i a on wins wasninffi Public League American League Red Sox lose, 5-3, to Yanks baseball Vv 1 t'-'-A -4'---- IMP-- X'J 'II I 1 SP itii in inn i ii ii in wiriTVi mil i no MWfiiwwiMiri'liiiflriiifiwrBiTllBriiiyriToilotTiiHMt'irr'fflrriiiM'llilirli liwyi'Tiiifnliiflinfrifriiffltfflf'illiwliltiiifhllplt United Pres Intarnational Milwaukee's Don Money slides past catcher Rick Dempsey to score in the big eighth inning San Diego's Curtis almost perfect National League By Daryl Bell Special to Tto Inquirer Washington High baseball coach John Hughes rewards good performances by giving out stars for his players' caps. Until yesterday, there were just six stars adorning Dave Shepard's cap. But after yesterday's Public League final at Temple's Erny Field, Hughes may be prompted to buy Shepard a whole box full of the little things.

Shepard pitched 4 inning of one-run, three-hit relief to push Washington to an 8-6 come-from-behind victory over Southern. The win gave the Eagles their third league title in five years. "I really didn't think that we had what it takes to win it in the beginning of the year and I told them that," said Hughes. "I felt that this was the poorest team that we fielded in six years. The turning point has to have been our game against Olney when we were down 8-6 with two out.

Steve Shonewolf hits a grand slam and we win. That changed everything around for us." Hughes went with Shonewolf on the mound in the final, even though he was pitching with only two days rest following a 5-3, 10-inning encounter with Bartram in the semifinal. Shonewolf struggled to get through a bases-loaded situation in the first and Southern scored once. After surviving the second, the Rams put the junior hurler out to pasture left field with a four-run, five-hit barrage. After Southern's Doug Marchunt blasted a two-run triple to give the Rams a 4-0 lead, Hughes went to Shepard, whose last appearance was against Roxborough a week ago.

Normally, Jimmy Janiczek would have been brought in, but the junior, who also doubles as catcher, was out sick. "I was nervous a little bit. I didn't think that he would go to me," said Shepard. "I was 1-0 during the season and really didn't see that much time, which was partly my fault. I wasn't pitching very well in the beginning of the season but I knew around playoff time I would be ready." After allowing Jim Orem to collect an RBI single, the 5-foot, 10-inch, 180-pound junior proceeded to strike out six consecutive batters, allowing the Eagles to regain their composure and, eventually, the lead.

Shepard ended the game with a strikeout, giving him eight in the game. "I was really surprised at them," Shepard said. "I thought they were a better hitting team than they were. I don't consider myself a strikeout pitcher. I wasn't able to get my slider over, so I mostly went with my hard fastball." Washington came back in the third with a four-run outburst, the big blow being a two-run homer by Scott Gisler, who is normally a singles hitter.

The Eagles tallied four more in the fourth as Rams starter Dan D'Ambro-sia threw two wild pitches to score Harris paces Buffaloes Associated Press TOKYO Vic Harris, formerly with the Milwaukee Brewers, hit two home runs to lead the Kintetsu Buffaloes to a 5-1 victory over the Nippon Ham Fighters in Japanese baseball yesterday. Harris now has seven home runs this season. Reds 3, Dodgers 2 Cincinnati's Eddie Milner's eighth-inning single scored Ron Oester to snap a tie at Los Angeles. It was the Dodgers' fourth straight loss. Jim Kern (1-3), who relieved starter Mario Soto, earned the victory by taming the Dodgers over the final three innings.

Fernando Valenzuela (8-5) absorbed the loss after three straight victories. Oester started the winning rally with a walk, one of five issued by Valenzuela. Dave Concepcion grounded out, Dan Driessen walked and Milner delivered his game-winner, a solid single to left-center. Valenzuela, who had allowed only four runs in his last 33 innings, gave up two runs in the seventh as the Reds tied the 2-2. Associated Press John Curtis pitched a two-hitter and faced only 28 batters one more than the minimum to lead the Padres to a 5-0 victory over the Houston Astros yesterday in San Diego.

"I'm not an overpowering pitcher," Curtis (5-3) said after his first shut-' out since July 19, 1979, when he was with San Francisco. "So. today, I just tried to work the hitters from the knees down. I don't think I had my best stuff, but I certainly had command of all my pitches." "When he missed, I was catching his pitches right on the ground," said Padres catcher Terry Kennedy, who drove in two of San Diego's runs with an opposite-field double to left in the fourth inning. "I told him: 'If you're going to miss, throw it below the It makes us all look good crown High schools Gisler and J.

J. McGee with the eventual winning runs. "All year long, we have been a team that has been able to come back," said Hughes. "We'll give up a few runs but what we try to do is stop the other team from having a big inning. We've always scored our runs in bunches.

We know that during the course of a seven-inning game, we will have at least one big inning. What Dave did today was incredible. I don't think that he has pitched more than four innings for us all season." Phoenixville rallies, gains state semis Phoenixville High scored six runs in the fifth inning yesterday and rallied for a 64 victory over Conesto-ga in the PIAA Class AAA baseball tournament at West Chester State College. The victory sent Phoenixville (20-5) into Thursday's state semifinals at Shippensburg State College. The championship game will be next Friday.

Conestoga (17-6) took a 3-0 lead in the first inning, capitalizing on three walks and a bases-loaded double by Dave Fazzini. Phoenixville pitcher Gary Supinski, who went the distance, gave up just three hits in the game, but survived the first inning and his own wildness. He allowed 10 walks. In the fifth inning, Phoenixville found some openings against Cones-toga starter Steve Toth, who developed arm soreness and left the game with the scored tied, 3-3. Paul Kraynak welcomed reliever Mike Fulwider with a three-run homer, giving the Phantoms their second win over Conestoga in a week.

Leadoff hitter Gary Dietrich collected four of Phoenixville's 10 hits. Softball Boyertown defeated District, 11 champion Parkland, 5-1, at Patriot Field in Allentown, and advance to Thursday's PIAA state semifinals at Shippensburg State. Track Martin Luther King High, sparked by sprinter Pam Copper's three victories, won the eighth annual Public League girls' track championship at Gratz. Copper posted the fastest times of the season in Southeastern Pennsylvania in winning the 100 meters in 11.9 seconds and the 100 hurdles in 14.1. She also won the 200 in 24.4 to help King score 129 points and easily outdistance runner-up William Penn (95) in the six-team meet.

In the field events, King's Clarissa Gregory won the high jump and long jump. South Jersey Cherokee defeated Pemberton, 10-5, to take a half-game lead over state Group 2 champion Moorestown in the Burlington County Liberty League baseball race. The Chiefs (20-3) got a triple, home run and four RBIs from Rich Howey. week," he said. But before they go, both runners want to honor Elliott, the Villanova track coach from 1935 until his death last year.

What did Jumbo Elliott mean to Maree? "In a sense, everything," said Maree, who plans to attend Villanova law school after the 1984 Olympics. "To me he was a coach and a parent figure. I was in a strange place. On the track, he taught me how to win and to lose and accept it. Off the track, he taught me to be successful at whatever I did and to uphold the name of Villanova." And does Paige have any thoughts about Villanova track now that Elliott is gone? "It's just not the same." The meet starts at 1:30 Saturday.

Tickets, which are tax deductible, are available at the Villanova ticket office and Ticketron outlets; $8 for reserved seats, $4 for adult general admission and $2 for students with IDs. Associated Press Southpaw Dave Righetti hurled hitless ball for 6VS innings, then needed relief help from Goose Cos-sage at Boston last night as the New York Yankees snapped a five-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the Red Sox. Righetti, who walked five and struck out eight, had his no-hit bid broken up with one out in the seventh when Glenn Hoffman lined a 2-2 pitch to right center for a single. Righetti (44) retired Gary Allen-son for the second out, but Reid Nichols doubled off the left-field wall, scoring Hoffman. Jerry Remy followed with an RBI single to left center and Gossage replaced Righetti.

Dwight Evans blooped a double to shallow right, scoring Remy with the third run, before Gossage settled down and earned his 12th save in 24 appearances this season. Righetti outdueled Boston southpaw John Tudor (54) who gave up four runs, two unearned, and seven hits in seven innings. White Shy 7. An pels 6 Steve Kemp slammed the first pitch in the bottom of the ninth inning into the left-field stands at Chicago to beat California; "I don't know whether it was a fastball, a slider or a breaking ball," said Kemp. "I was just trying to hit the ball hard.

It was Kemp fourth homer of the season and saddled reliever Dave uouz lu-u wun me loss. Kenever Barojas (3-1) got the victory. 1 Brewers 9, Orioles 7 Milwaukee outfielder Ben Oglivie hit a two-run, i tie-breaking double in the eighth inning to help beat visiting Baltimore. Oglivie's heroics spoiled a 17-hit Baltimore barrage that included four homers. The Brewers snapped their three-game losing streak and the Orioles' five-game winning streak.

"Any time you get 17 hits and four homers, you should win the game," said Orioles manager Earl Oglivie's hit came off Orioles reliever Tim Stoddard, who relieved loser Tippy Martinez after Jim Gantner led off with a single and was sacrificed to second. Stoddard and Martinez, who were expected to be a strong late-inning relief tandem, have both been struggling. "It seems like if one isn't giving it up, the other is," Weaver said. Twins 8, Royals 7 Rookie Kent Hrbek hit his first major league grand slam to help beat Kansas City at Minneapolis and snap Minnesota's five-game losing streak. The Twins' victory also ended an eight-game Royals win streak.

With Kansas City leading, 3-1, Royals starter Dave Frost gave up a single to Larry Milbourne to open the fifth inning, then was forced to leave with a sore elbow. Reliever Mike Armstrong (2-1) came on and walked Gary Gaetti and Tim Laudner to load the bases. Two outs later, Armstrong hit Tom Brunansky with a pitch to force in a run and bring Hrbek to the plate. Hrbek hammered an 0-2 pitch into the right-field bleachers for his 15th homer of the season, putting the Twins ahead, 6-3. It was the fourth consecutive game in which Hrbek has homered and the 15th straight game in which he has hit safely.

Hrbek earlier had a hitting streak of 23 games and has hit in 46 of the 49 games he has played this season. Veteran baseball executive Eddie Robinson, executive vice president of the Texas Rangers, was fired vesterdav. "Eddie Robinson is leaving the Ranger organization, as of today," team chairman Eddie Chiles told a hastily assembled news conference. 'I hated to lose Eddie. He's done a good job, he's a good personal friend of mine and will continue to be," Chiles said, adding that he would assume Robinson's general manager duties until a replacement is found.

Robinson was hired from the Atlanta Braves to run the Rangers' baseball operation in September 1976. Chiles, a Fort Worth oilman, said field manager Don Zimmer is not in danger of being fired. When the Rangers left spring training earlier this year, Robinson had engineered personnel moves that produced a new look for the team. Leading hitter AI Oliver and top base-stealer Bump Wills, plus the team's two top minor-league pitching prospects were gone. The players acquired to replace them including second baseman Doug Flynn and outfielders Lee Mazzilli and Larry Par-rish are struggling and the team is off to its worst start ever.

Trade deadline nears quietly, but Owens won't rule out deal when somebody pitches a game like that." Sixto Lezcano hit a bases-empty homer and knocked in another run with a single to back Curtis, who won his third game in a row. Curtis walked none and struck out two. He retired the first 11 men he faced before Ray Knight stroked a clean single to center with two outs in the fourth. The only other Houston hit was Alan Knicely's leadoff single in the fifth. Astros starter Bob Knepper (2-7), winless since May 19, allowed eight hits and four runs.

From starter to invisible than he did in 76 innings last year. And he has been so wild and ineffective, he is barely being used. But the Braves would like a starter back, and the Phillies don't exactly have extras tumbling out of their equipment bags. Owens isn't ready to quit on his present bullpen, anyway. "I don't think the bullpen has really jelled totally," he said.

"If they ever put it together, I think they could be a damn good bullpen." It's rare to find the Phillies this close to a trade deadline and not looking for starting pitching. But for the first time since maybe the Whiz Kids, there isn't a worry about a single member of the Phillies' rotation, unless you count Marty Bys-trom's health. Bystrom, Steve Carlton, Larry Christenson, Mike Krukow and Dick Ruthven are a composite 18-14, 3.30. And since May 1, they are 14-3, 2.93. "Bystrom was a big help," Owens said.

"If he can hold up, we're in pretty good shape in an area we were concerned about." i ll' jjflfc 4 Milers Paige, Maree only lukewarm rivals The only other deal Owens appears likely to make is one to give him more pinch-hitting power. When Ron Reed returns next week, Porfirio Altamirano is all but booked back to Oklahoma City. So that would open up a spot for another hitter. It's possible that Lcn Matuszck or Rowland Office could be summoned from Okie City to fill that spot. But there is another dilemma that could affect things.

That one is the serious unhappi-ness of Dick Davis, who went from starter to invisible man faster than anybody around here since Rudy Meoli. Davis has quietly suggested that he wouldn't mind if the Phillies traded him, and the club will quietly try to accommodate him. Before they do, however, they have to make sure they can find somebody to replace him. And Pittsburgh's Bill Robinson, whom they could have had for cash a few weeks ago. isn't so available anymore.

So Owens will keep the phone company in business in the next five days. But he isn't too sure what he will find on the other end of the line. "There's not much going on out there," he said. "You can tell just by the small number of clubs that are even calling. "But we'll keep listening and talking.

You never know what could happen. A week in this game sometimes can change your whole thinking." NOTES: The Phillies' starting in-, field (Rose, Trillo, DeJesus, Schmidt) has a total of 14 errors, not counting DeJesus' two errors as a third baseman. That's the best mark in the league for the four infield regulars. The Cardinals are next at 17, the Reds 18. Bo Diaz' current pace, projected over 162 games, figures out to 30 homers, 120 RBIs, 90 runs, 156 games started.

Matchups for the Pittsburgh series: Larry Christenson (3-3) vs. John Candelaria (2-3) tonight, Mike Krukow (44) vs. Manny Sarmiento (1-0) tomorrow, Dick Ruthven (5-3) vs. the early favorite for the comeback of the year award, Don Robinson (6-1). PHILLIES, from 1-D gestion that Twins owner Calvin Griffith be placed in a rest home, Davis has been openly campaigning to get dealt.

And he will no doubt get his wish. But the trouble is, Davis also plays in that other league. So for the Phillies to get him, Davis would have to slip through American League waiv-ers. And there is about as much chance of that as there is of Luis Aguayo being MVP. "They'd never get him out of the league," Owens said.

"You know somebody over there likes him and would take him, whether they'd want to move him here or not." Matter of fact, the Twins are holding a veritable auction over there among the Blue Jays, A's, Brewers, White Sox and even Davis' old club, the Yankees. Yankees vice president Bill Ber-gesch called the Minnesota press box twice last Sunday looking for his Minnesota counterpart, Howard Fox, while the Yanks were eetting rounded by the Royals, 14-L So don't bet against a Davis-for-Andre Robertson swap before the week is out. But that doesn't help the Phillies. It's no big secret what they would most like to deal for in the next week. "What would I like?" pondered Pat Corrales.

"How about Sutter?" Well, Burke Suter maybe, but not the real thing. Or even close. WWDB-Radio rumor-control monitor Howard Eskin reported the other day that the Pirates' Kent Tekulve was a possibility. Tekulve, however, is "having a better year than 79, if that's possible," said one man close to the Pirates. In his first 35 appearances, he got 118 of his 140 outs on ground balls or strikeouts, which means that submarine ball is submarining again.

"I don't see how they could afford to move him," Owens said. The most available National League reliever who has been great in the recent past is Atlanta's Rick Camp, who was 9-3, 1.78 last season and 64, 1.92 the year before. Camp (3-3, 4.59) already has walked more guys in 33 innings this year MAREE, from 1-D mile and then for his 3:47.52 victory in New York's Fifth Avenue Mile. Paige, a Baldwinsville, N.Y., native who also lives near the school now, is the big kicker, a holdover from his days as the world's top 800-meter man in 1980. In his first outing of the year as a miler, in the May 9 Pepsi Invitational, Paige finished second to Scott, turning in a personal best of 3:54.19.

Scott ran 3:52.68. "I don't like to make predictions," Maree, whose wife Lisa who also ran track for Villanova and 2-week-old daughter Natalya accompanied him to train Thursday. He's in good shape and hopes to better last week's 3:54.1 time in the rainy, chilly Prefontaine race, which nevertheless was his first sub4-min-ute mile of the year. Paige, who will run against Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe in France this summer, thinks 3:52 is not unreasonable. "We're both in -shape, ready for the American Championships in Knoxville Tenn.l next.