Tucson Daily Citizen from Tucson, Arizona • Page 55

THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1977 A I I I 'AGE 9D Sports Capsules Cardinals sign Hoopes ST. LOUIS (AP) Mitch Hoopes, 23, former University of Arizona punter, was among four free agents signed Wednesday by the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League. Also signed were Jeff Blanc, 22, a running back from Brigham Young; Wayne Carmody, 23, a defensive back with no college football experience, and David Headstream, 22, a linebacker from Southern Methodist University. Hoopes was drafted by Dallas in 1975 and was traded to San Diego before the 1976 season.

He was released before mid-season. Sea-Port, collide SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Chris Evert leads the Phoenix Racquets in a lie-breaking battle against the Sea-Port Cascades in World Team Tennis play at the University of Utah tonight. The teams, with -2 records, are tied for the Western Division lead. Phoenix is defending division champion. In the singles match, Miss Evert faces The Netherlands' Betty Stove, who beat Miss Evert in World Team Tennis action last year.

Miss Stove is the top-ranked women's doubles player in the world and Miss Evert the top ranked singles player. Guthrie crew racing INDIANAPOLIS (AP) "We're working like crazy on my car and Janet's car," said Dick Simon about the Vollstedt Team entries assigned to him and Janet Guthrie for the May 29 Indianapolis 500. Neither car has yet qualified for the field, and neither is likely to without nearly around-the-clock work by the drivers and crew members between now and this weekend the last chance to qualify for the 33-car field. Fastest of the handful of cars that took to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on the hot muggy day was Johnny Parsons, at 189.90 miles per hour. Tucso- nian Roger McCluskey, already qualified, ran his car at 183.337 mph.

Bayi kicks past Briton LONDON (AP) Filbert Bayi of Tanzania needed a finishing kick to sweep past Britain's Steve Ovett and capture the 3,000 meters in an international track field meet at London's Crystal Palace. Bayi, the world 1,500 meters recordholder, nipped Ovett by less than one-tenth of a second, covering the 3,000 meters in 7 minutes, 53.29 st-conds. Jamaica's Don Quarrie was the meet's only double winner Wednesday, capturing the 200 meters in 20.7 and the 100 meters in 10.52. Kenya's Wilson Waigwa captured the 1,500 meters in 3:41.7. Finley keeps A's dynasty going somehow By FRED ROTHENBERG AP Sports Wriler Oakland A's owner Charlie Finley is such an excellent judge of horseflesh that you can cut off the team's head and it still will grow back.

The resilient Mr. Finley, whose team was beheaded in Year One of baseball's free-agent player revolution, is surviving thanks to some shrewd wheeling and dealing. "I think we will win our division championship in 1977," i i Finley predicts. "Our players have made look aood Dantley honored and feel happy." And they also have made him laugh a lot because the After a season spent proving to the NBA what he knew all along, Adrian Dantley of the Buffalo Braves can forget his detractors. "They were looking at inches, not the player," said the 6-foot-5 Dantley of the five teams that ignored him in (he draft.

He had the last laugh, being named the NBA's rookie of the year. ASU loses another grid aide TEMPE (UPI) Arizona State has lost its second assistant football coach since the end of last season. Butch Melcalf, offensive line coach the past two seasons, disclosed he would step down in order to enter private business in the valley. Metcalf, a graduate of the University of Oklahoma, previously was an assistant at Texas-El Paso and the Air Force Academy. Defensive line coach Jerry Thompson previously resigned to coach in the Canadian Football League.

A's, dubbed the Triple A's during the preseason, are not the league's laughing-stocks. As they begin a stretch of six straight games against expansion clubs Seattle and Toronto tonight, the A's are in fifth place in the AL West, one game below .500. They are ahead of two clubs, which gives Finley the last laugh because those teams are the California Angels and the Seattle Mariners, "You know what made me laugh myself silly?" Finley said by phone from his office in Chicago. cowboy (California owner Gene Autry) steals two of my players, he literally takes them away from me and makes them instant millionaires. Then we play them and win six of seven.

Boy, did 1 love that." The Angels signed free-agent A's Joe Rudi and Don Baylor. They were just two of six top Oakland players who jumped the A's to sign with other teams for multi-year packages totaling $9.2 million, leaving behind five straight West Division flags (1971-1975) and three world championships (1972-1974). With the wholesale defections, people said the AL would have three expansion clubs in 1977 Toronto, Seattle and Oakland. Finley's first shrewd deal was gelling starting catcher, Manny Sanguillen, and $100,000 from Pittsburgh for Oakland Manager Chuck Tanner. "Thai was one of my better trades," Finley says.

"Good managers are a dime a dozen. Starling catchers are harder to find." Sanguillen is batting .309. The biggest part of the completed puzzle was accomplished through the Gamer trade to Pittsburgh for, among others, rookie outfielder Mitchell Page and starting pitchers Doc Medich and rookie Rick Langford. "That was the best deal I ever made. It overshadows Sanguillen," Finley crowed.

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