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fw i "rwcwNwrauiw ymxmnt rf" finals qMWI 7trr 4 ie! r- 4IIMMV nm jA )' Ihe Desert Sun Inside: GolfE2 Baseball E3 Scoreboard E5 FRIDAY July 28 1989 Clpavid Persons Executive Sports Editor: 3258666 SCORES Raiders Cowboys deny three way trade GETTING PHYSICAL: The Raiders and the Cowboys get emotional in scrimmage E2 and wide receiver Tim Brown to the Dallas Cowboys Two-thirds of that triangle deny that a trade is in the works "To be rich in the NFL is to be rich in quarterbacks and where we find ourselves Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Thursday after watching his team scrimmage the Raiders Jones was joined on the Oxnard sidelines by managing general partner A1 Davis of the Raiders Jones said they did not discuss a possible trade although he said the LA has no deal to acquire Mandarich from Green Bay By BILL PLUNKETT Stall writer OXNARD Wherever the Dallas Cowboys go talk centers on their overabundance of coveted young quarterbacks A quick look at the Dallas roster will reveal Troy Aikman (the No 1 pick in this draft) Steve Walsh (chosen In last sup- BASEBALL National League -Dodgers Houston 5 rnttaburgh 10 New York Cincinnati 6 Padres 1 10 San Franciaco 1 Only games scheduled American League Angela 8 Chicago 5 tQoston 7 Kansas City 2 Minnesota 10 Baltimore 6 Milwaukee 1 1 Detroit 1 -Only games scheduled California League 2 Angela 7 Modesto 8 ScortboardES Tr- Six-run inning propels Palm Springs past plemental draft) last starter Steve Pelluer (a holdout) and Scott Secules (a second-year player with respected skills but no pro experience) The latest rumored solution to that logjam would send Walsh to the Green Bay Packers offensive tackle Tony Mandarich (the unsigned second pick in this draft) to the Los Angeles Raiders MODESTO The Palm Spring Angels erupted for six runs in the inning and held on to the Modesto A's 7-6 Thun- Tday night Palm Springs' Claudio Carra-V "sco and Wiley Lee both had two- "run hits in the seventh inning The victory was the second in a row for the Angels who also got a solo home run from Edwin Marquez his fifth 1 Palm Springs which took two -out of three games from Modesto improved its California league record to 17-20 Cowboys are always willing to listen have a lot of needs" Jones said of a Dallas team that went 3-13 a year ago all times look at any trade in order to improve ourselves" The response courtesy of head coach Mike Shanahan sounded quite similar an organization that keeps in contact with everyone and tries to leave no stone Shanahan said after practice session "If any-Ses FOOTBALLE2 Auocialed Praia Davis hit a three-run homer in 5 win over Chicago Davis Howell slug home runs in 8-5 victory By MIKE TERRY Gannett News Service ANAHEIM Well Jim Abbott has done it He has now seen every American League team The Chicago White Sox were the last holdout Enjoying the second biggest night of support from the Angels had in his young career Abbott (9-6) and California slipped past the White Sox 8-5 before 31892 at Anaheim Stadium While California extended its American League West to 1 games over idle Oakland the White Sox the hottest team by winning 11 of their last 12 lost for just the second time since the All-Star break Now one win away from being the first first-year lefty to win 10 or more games Frank Tanana had a club record 14 in 1974 Abbott went seven innings and allowed 10 hits eight of which went to center field Three of the four Sox runs were earned Greg Minton who relieved Abbott with two on and none out in the eighth gave up the final Chicago run in the ninth Bryan Harvey came in and tucked away his 14th save Chicago starter Melido Perez (7-11) was shelled for all the Angels runs in five innings He allowed just four of the five hits but two of them were three-run homers by Chili Davis and Jack Howell both of whom have been struck by longball fever Each has hit three home runs in his last four games For Howell the power surge increases in importance when more numbers are examined In his first 53 games Howell the team leader had just four homers He has now hit 1 1 in the past 34 games Perez came into Thursday's game a beneficiary of the White Sox hot streak winning two of his last three starts and four of his last five since June 23 Perez and the Sox were shoved into a deep hole early when the Angels scored five first-inning runs JERRY JONES Dallas owner denies trade rumor Murray rescues Dodgers Pinch-hit home run in 9th beats Astros By STEVE DILBECK Gannett News Service HOUSTON For this the rarest of moments the Los Angeles Dodgers needed something truly special Lenny Harris budding prophet figured he had the solution in a 7-5 victory Thursday over the Houston Astros Heck he knew he had it Chosen Harris said confidently and repeatedly to Eddie Murray Harris referred neither to Scripture nor even to Murray himself but to a simple lightweight bat he had picked out for the first base-man to use prior to Thursday game Murray not in the lineup for the first time this season finally took the 32-ounce bat to the plate as much to shut Harris up as anything else and promptly delivered a pinch-hit game-winning three-run homer off Dave Smith in the ninth inning It was only the second time this season the Dodgers had rallied to win a game in the ninth It had plainly called for something unusual which is just what Harris presented "He'd been getting good pitches to hit but had been popping up a lot" Harris said picked out one of his light bats and told him Take this it's The Chosen One' "He said 'Get out of my He looked at me like I was crazy But 1 told him serious Use this bat It's The Chosen And he finally said me the The home run was Murray's 10th of the season but the first using one of his light bats instead of his usual 36-ouncer See DODGERSE3 MIGHT: Dale Murphy hits two homers and drives in six runs in a 10-run inning E3 TOM GORMAN US Davis Cup captain on he said not going to discuss that This is Saints Mets' fane boo Carter Gary Carter would like the next two months to prove he can itlll play baseball Fans at Shea Stadium needed much less Urns to decide Carter came off tbs disabled list Tuesday and hit into a doable play as a pinch Uttar In the eighth Inning On Wednesday night he started and was 6-for-l With each out Carter was booed Jnat a little louder Carter who sat oat game lo hitting 101 New stadium in ballpark SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco Giants owner Bob Lurie came out smiling with a sweet deal Thursday as negotiations ended on a downtown stadium but winning voter approval in November may prove tougher Mayor Art Agnos called the 40-year pact smart deal for the city" The plan calls for a 45000 open-air stadium on the waterfront in the China Basin section of the city Lurie has a backup offer on hold in Santa Clara 45 miles south of the city Difficult dive fails to help in US Festival OKLAHOMA CITY Mark Lenzi became the first American diver to complete a 4Vfc front tuck somersault in competition and lost at the US Olympic Festival Thursday Lenzi 21 of Fredericksburg Va received his second-lowest score of the day for the dive off the 3-mcter springboard and wound up seventh Mark Bradshaw of Columbia Ohio won the men's preliminaries and Wendy Lucero of Aurora Colo took the women's event Kathy Arcndsen pitched the first perfect game in festival women's softball then Peter Meredith threw one on the next field That brought the no-hitter total here to four Weaver retains title with split decision NEW YORK Mike Weaver former World Boxing Association heavyweight champion was far from happy after earning 12-round split decision over Phil Brown that enabled him to retain his WBA Americas' title on Thursday night Weaver 38 who improved his record to 33-14-1 was penalized a point in the 11th round by referee Joe Santarpia for a low blow He had been warned the previous round Brown fell to 30-52 Judge Marvin Goldberg awarded the decision to Brown 116-112 while Johnny Cola had it 117-108 and Tony Castellano 116-111 both for Weaver Staff wire reports TIGERS TUMBLE: Milwaukee's Rob Deer hit his fourth career grand slam to help rout Detroit E3 A HOT CHILI: California's Chili Davis (24) is congratulated by third base coach Moose captain not about to throw in the racket Stubing after Thursday's 8 disappointed we lost but we have nothing to be ashamed of Tom Gorman But neither Agassi nor Flach and Seguso could win and the United States lost 3-2 Agassi has received media criticism for not providing better leadership by winning one or both of his matches one in which he led Boris Becker the world's second-ranked Davis Cup By WARREN ETTINGER Stan writer The world's top doubles team Jim Pugh and Rick Leach would love to play So would the French Open champion and No 7-ranked player Michael Chang But Tom Gorman the US Davis Cup captain is noncommittal about possible changes in his team's lineup in the wake of its semifinal loss to West Germany last weekend too soon to say" said Gorman director of tennis at the Rancho Mirage Ritz-Carlton "You have to wait for the dust to settle so the objectivity comes The US regular lineup this year consisted of No 5 John player two acts to none and another that he lost in four sets to No 23 Carl-Uwe Steeb But Gorman defended Agassi previously unbeaten in Davis Cup play suggesting his young star didn't have the experience to step to the fore "Usually leadership comes with experience and I would not put that pressure on Andre" Flach and Seguso also suffered their first loss in Davis Cup play losing to Becker and Eric Jelen in what Gorman described as the pivotal point in a closely contested team match and Seguso happened to not have their best Gorman Sss DAVIS CUPE2 McEnroe who only played in one of the three team matches No 6 Andre Agassi and the former No 1 doubles team of Ken Flach and Robert Seguso It was a team that Gorman felt was capable of winning this year's title And it played like it at the start sweeping Paraguay and France in the first two matches by 5-0 scores with help from Chang Chang who won his singles matches replaced McEnroe in the Paraguay match after McEnroe had a scheduling conflict A shoulder injury forced McEnroe to also miss the West Germany match He was replaced by No 12 Brad Gilbert who also won both his singles matches TODAY Baseball: Dodgers at San Diego 7 pm Channel 11 KNWZ-AM (1270) (KCMJ-AM) 1140 Chicago at Angels 7:35 pm KDES-AM (920) US Olympic Festival: diving gymnastics track and field 1 pm ESPN diving gymnastics trick and field 7 pm ESPN Auto racing: American Racing Series competition 10 am ESPN Complete listingIS 4 much money and teams don't want to give USA Today has reported he is looking for a package that will bring him $10 million Finks mum on NFL Job President-general manager Jim Fisks was willing to talk about the New Orleans Saints on Thursday but he cut off any attempts to question him shout his status In the NFL's search for a new commissioner Asked whether he might withdraw his name from consideration if the search continued to drag Price must be right New York Mets manager Davey Joknon said Thursday he would like to have Minnesota left-hander Frisk Viola if the price too high Officially the Mets said they had no comment on the talks for last American League Cy Young winner The trading deadline Is Monday so the negotiations must get serious soon "We did not initiate the talks so in a position of listening" Twins general manager Andy MacPkail said Thunday Viola 8-11 this year I ind family back in New York Either way I cant lose because there aren't any negative points in the whole Atlanta pick axpacts to sign Deion Sanders said Thursday he expects to reach agreement on a contract with the Atlanta Falcons In two to three weeks "We're at a he aaid at a combination party and news conference at Indianapolis "We talked and the situation la not progressing HI probably be one of the list (first-round draft choices) signed I'm asking for so 4 JOHNSON SANDERS said "I've had eight glorious yean in Minnesota and I love it here but times change 1 have a lot of friends.