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n.fi tfwltfj LJ LJj fcli V. -y, airfj dub gnill Jor.c 10 iU(tl) wl Rolen's ni homer in ill 'j Jol 9th tops Brewers AY v- li'i'-I" jr 19 i'w f. By Jim Salisbury INQUIRER STAFF WRITER uro'l As Scott Rolen ambled to the'io plate with two outs in the bottom ofou the ninth inning, the last thing hw needed was to be reminded that hew was hitless with two strikeouts inill his previous foutf9' Brewers 4 at-bats. Phillies 5 Way up yonder; high above left' field, a dozen or so fans who calp" themselves the Wolf Pack decided'u' that Rolen needed to be reminded that his bat had been pretty quietivil "Scottie's due. Scottie's due.

Scot''9 tie's due," the Wolf Pack chanted.ink With one swing of the bat, Rolens transformed the Wolf Pack's chants'o into cheers. He turned on a 1-1 fast-" ball from Milwaukee Brewers reliever Bob Wickman and launched-it like a missile into the 400 level above left field to give the Philliesa dramatic 5-4 win at Veterans Stadjh urn last night. The breathtaking victory improve l) the Phils to a season-best seven( games over .500. The last time the'yj'p breathed that kind of air was Aug. 1995, when they were 48-41.

Rolen said he heard the chants the Wolf Pack, a spirited contingent of fans that turns out whenever Ratif," dy Wolf pitches. How could Roltm not have heard them? The announced crowd was just 16,593 aritf it had thinned considerably by th''a time he came to the plate. "It sounded like the whole town Jasper was up there," Rolen said, re ferring to his hometown of Jasper111 Ind. "I thought my mom was up It took me a second to figure out See PHILLIES on E5 VO'ICJ ItlvV nLl RON CORTES The Philadelphia Inquirer Geoff Jenkins is tagged out at the plate by Phillies catcher Mike Lieberthal to end the Milwaukee ninth. In the bottom of the inning, Scott Rolen ended the game with his blast to deep left field.

Oil I Baseball Byjayson Stark M-stars: Schilling, Byrd and Lieberthal tion here. It's just an unbelievable story." As he stood there in front of the microphones yesterday this unbelievable story happening to him, Paul Byrd, 11-game winner he had this overpowering urge to thank everyone in the world. He thanked the National League manager, San Diego's Bruce Bochy, "for not letting the big names enter into this." He thanked his father, Larry, "for catching me endless hours as a boy." See ALL-STARS on E6 would sculpt their careers in a very different shape. Forever. Ask Byrd.

You think he thought a year ago he was bound for an All-Star Game? Junior Griffey plays in All-Star Games. Tony Gw-ynn plays in All-Star Games. Randy Johnson plays in All-Star Games. Guys like Byrd merely do their best to survive. "Just last year in August, I really didn't have a job," Byrd said yesterday.

"I was told, politely, by the Braves, 'We don't need you And one year later, I'm in the rota three days off. Curt Schilling. Seven years ago, the Astros were willing to trade him for Jason Grimsley. Now Schilling has done something no Phillies righthander has done since Robin Roberts make three straight all-star teams. Maybe it doesn't mean anything to Juan Gonzalez to make an all-star team.

But real men know an honor when they're handed one. And yesterday, Byrd, Lieberthal and Schilling didn't need a phone call from commissioner Bud Selig to know this was a moment that Just as we expected in March, more Phillies were named to the all-star team yesterday (three) than Braves (two), Mets (one) or Dodgers (one). Hey, never in doubt. Paul Byrd. Greatest waiver-wire claim in Phillies history.

Now he's an all-star. And Kevin Brown, Greg Maddux and Roger Clemens aren't. Mike Lieberthal. Once an oft-maligned, 155-pound No. 1 draft pick.

Now he's an all-star, too in a year when Javy Lopez, Charles Johnson, and Sandy Alomar have THE WOMEN'S WORLD CUP Start of women's pro soccer league not just around the comer Hit HI Enthusiasm over the World Cup is hard to translate into weekly attendance. Planners are facing a delay until after next year's Olympics. he said, the real test will be "to put in significant crowds in stadiums week after week after week" when a women's league is launched. Rothenberg, a key player involved in the founding of MLS who is now involved in the planning for a women's league, said the timetable for its debut is still after next year's Olympics, when the U.S. women presumably will have raised soccer consciousness one' more as they defend the gold medal i they won in Atlanta in 1996.

tma The large crowds that have atwg tended the World Cup have donpda nothing to discourage league orgttrfi nizers. Before the World Cup, women's team had been averagings only about 9,000 fans a match. TheO MLS game was originally added iff See SOCCER on E2 tin up at Stanford to see the U.S. men lose to Brazil on the Fourth of July at the 1994 World Cup. Former United States Soccer Federation president Alan Rothenberg, who was standing at a corner of the stadium after Sunday's looked out toward the stands and acknowledged there are plenty of obstacles ahead.

"As great as this tournament is," Jsi' By Mike Jensen INQUIRER STAFF WRITER crowd of 73,123 had come to see. United States women's national team at Stanford Stadium on the Fourth of July. Period. Many of theiians probably weren't even aware they were paying for a right after the U.S. women knocked off Brazil to reach Satur It served as a none-too-subtle reminder: Just because the U.S.

worn-, en are packing them in this summer, that may simply reflect Americans' fascination with big events. MLS, with an average game crowd of around 16,000, is still losing money in its fourth year. And launching a women's professional league will be no easy venture. Remember, 84,177 people showed day's Women's World Cup final, two men's professional teams from Major League Soccer trotted out on the field. One was D.C.

United, the top team in MLS, and the other was the hometown San Jose Clash. By the time the men began playing, the vast majority of fans had left the stadium. All the noise and passion of the day left with them. Moroccan sets mark in mile with 3:43.13 Eddie Jones is suing his ex-agent, others LfiB il'Mfi 31, 'J2 V.i "Tr4 A former administrative assistant- and bookkeeper, stole money frortuia Jones by depositing it in the acrlw counts of two other professional basketball clients of the cnmnanvir The clients were Aaron McKie andi.rj Marc Jackson, both former Tempieor! players. gm "Of course, Aaron didn't knojv about it, Eddie didn't know about Marc didn't know about it, I didnlt in know about it," DiFazio said yestey- day.

The suit stated that Atlantic Sports and DiFazio had paid $960,000 to Jones, but adds "Mr. Jones believes the money st-() len is in excess of $1,500,000." DiFazio, who said that he undeifr stands he hail until July 19 to file SetWONES on E7 The former Temple star claims that a past employee of Sal DiFazio took money and failed lo repay it. By Mike Jensen INQUIRER STAFF WRITER Former Temple basketball star Eddie Jones, now with the Charlotte Hornets, has filed a lawsuit against his former agent, Sal DiFazio, alleging that a former employee of Di-Fazio's stole over $1 million from Jones and has not repaid all the money. The suit, filed in April in United States DistricJ Court in Camden, alleges that the employee, Debi Donnelly, described by DiFazio as his El Guerrouj, 24, won the 1997 world outdoor 1,500 championship and the 1995 and 1997 world indoor 1,500 titles. When he set the outdoor 1.500 mark of 3:26.00 at last year's Golden Gala meet, he erased another of Morceli's records.

Meanwhile, Marion Jones extended her four-year unbeaten streak in the women's 200 meters, and world-record holder Maurice Greene set a meet record in the men's 100. Jones, undefeated in the 100, 200 and 400 this year, easily won the 200 in 22.18. Greene, the 1997 world champion, won in 9.85, only .06 seconds off the world record of 9.79 he set last month. See MILE on E7 Hicham El Guerrouj broke Noureddine Morceli's world record in Rome. Marion Joues won again in Lite 200.

By Piero Valsecehi ASSOCIATED PRESS ROME Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco smashed the world record in the mile yesterday with a time of 3 minutes, 43.13 seconds at the Golden Gala track and field meet. El Guerrouj, also the world-record holder for the indoor mile and the indoor and outdoor runs, broke the record of set by Noureddine Morce-li of Algeria on Sept. 5, 1993 at Ri-eti, Italy. FERDINANDO MSjZZELANI Associated Press Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj reacts while he crosses the finish line of the men's mile competition during the Golden Gala meet in Rome..