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Ncwijornal, Mawfield, O. Sports 3-c Digest. Packers rip LMI Flair keeps world wrestling title with controversial win By Larry Wade Net Journal By Steve Eighinger News Journal Pizza Brothers scramble MANSFIELD The first Pizza Brothers four-man scrambles will be held at Coolridge Golf Course Sunday, Aug. 11. Tee times start at 8 a.m.

Entry fee is $80 per team plus green fees. Each entry must be accompanied by at least $50. Call 522-1452. Arnie Adams Memorial MANSFIELD The Arnie Adams Memorial golf tournament, a four-person best ball event, will be held Aug. 1 and 9 at the Possum Run Golf Course.

The men's division will be contested Thursday, Aug. 1, with the women playing Friday, Aug. 9. All proceeds will benefit the Richland-Mansfield Unit of the American Cancer Society. The tournament is co-sponsored by the Spalding Co.

Entry fee is $50 per woman, $60 per man. The entry fee includes green fees, prizes and lunch. Entry blanks are available at all area golf courses or at the Richland-Mansfield Unit of the American Cancer Society, 182 Lexington Ave. Winners in the handicap and scratch division will advance to the regional tournament at Sawmill Creek in Huron, Ohio, Sept. 2-3.

The state tournament will be at Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio, with the national event at Doral Country Club in Miami, Fla. Minnesota Wrecking Crew. They are the reigning NWA national tag team kings. Sawyer emerged victorious in the half-hour brawl in which the only rule was there were no rules. Both wrestlers faces' resembled bloody pulps by the end of the slugfest.

Other matches saw: The popular Dusty Rhodes (a.k.a. "The American defeat Tully Blanchard in a battle for the NWA national television title. Rhodes also kept the services of Blanchard's valet, Baby Doll. He "won" her services in a recent match. Black Bart outlasting Ronnie "Hands of Stone" Garvin and keeping his NWA national heavyweight title belt.

Manager Jim Cornette's Midnight Express tag team upending Pistol Pez Whatley and the Italian Stallion. Whatley is a former Southern heavyweight champion. Dirty Dick Slater and Kevin Sullivan battling to a draw outside the ring. Thunderbolt Patterson pinning Rock and Roll RPM-DJ and Brett Wayne Sawyer downing Bob Roop in a pair of preliminary yawners. Roop and Sawyer are The NWA will return to Battelle Hall Aug.

17 with the featured match finding World tag team belt holders the Rock and Roll Express meeting Krusher Kruschev and Ivan Ko-loff. COLUMBUS, Ohio National Wrestling Alliance superstar Ric Flair continued his stranglehold on the world championship Wednesday night with a controversial win over Magnum T.A. Magnum T.A., the reigning NWA United States heavyweight champion, had apparently wrestled the title from Flair via a pin, only to have the decision reversed immediately following the three-count. Magnum was disqualified for somersaulting Flair over the top rope moments before the (apparent) pin. Such a move is prohibited by the NWA.

Flair is a three-time NWA world champion. The current reign of the self-proclaimed "Nature Boy" has lasted 13 months. He regained the NWA championship belt last summer before 43,000 fans at Texas Stadium when he pinned the "Modern Day Warrior," Kerry Von Erich, son of the famed Fritz Von Erich. Last night's 30-minute Flair-Magnum T.A. clash highlighted an eight-event card at Battelle Hall atop the Ohio Center in downtown Columbus.

Two other championship bouts were presented. The most entertaining contest of the night, however, was a non-title affair pitting Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer and Am Anderson in a Texas Death match. Anderson is the younger brother of Ole Anderson, who together form the Toronto's bullpen falters again Baseball Deal for Bell close CINCINNATI (AP) Cincinnati Reds officials hoped today to clear up an apparent last-minute snag holding up a trade to acquire third baseman Buddy Bell from the Texas Rangers. Bell said he flew to Cincinnati Thursday morning and agreed in principle on a contract with the Reds. Reds player-manager Pete Rose evidently thought the trade was completed late Thursday night when he told outfielder Duane Walker he was part of a trade for Bell.

It's believed the Reds also were ready to give up a minor-league pitcher in the deal. However, Reds General Manager Bill Bergesch later said the trade wasn't completed, and he'd have no further comment until noon today. The Rangers also declined comment. Bell is in his 13th major-league season, having split time between the Cleveland Indians and the Rangers. He hit .315 last season with 83 runs batted in, but has slumped badly this season, hitting .235.

He drove in a run Thursday night to help the Rangers record a 3-2 victory over Detroit. Bell grew up in Cincinnati, attending Moeller High School and Xavier University, as well as Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His father, Gus, was a popular outfielder for the Reds from 1953-61. Ferragamo sent to Bills ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Quarterback Vince Ferragamo, who holds a number of Los Angeles Rams' passing records, has been traded to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for tight end Tony Hunter, the Rams said Thursday.

Ferragamo, 31, became expendable during the off-season when the Rams signed Dieter Brock, who formerly played in the Canadian Football League. Hunter, 25, is a former Notre Dame All-American who was the 12th player taken in the National Football League draft after his senior year. The 6-foot-4, 237-pound had 69 receptions in two years with the Bills. Tht Auoclsitd Prtu The Blue Jays' bolstered bullpen has been blistered this week, and it's left first-place Toronto with four straight losses. Alfredo Griffin's tie-breaking triple highlighted Oakland's three-run ninth inning and sent the A's to a 6-4 victory over Toronto Thursday night.

It was the Blue Jays' third straight loss in their opposition's last at-bat and Gary Lavelle, 3-5, has been tagged with each setback. Lavelle was acquired in the off-season along with Bill Caudill to strengthen Toron-. to's relief. Mike Davis started the rally against Lavelle with a single to right. Mike Heath laid down a sacrifice bunt, but catcher Ernie Whitt's throw to second caromed into left field, sending Davis to third.

Davis came home to tie the game 4-4 on pinch-hitter Steve Henderson's groundout, then Griffin stroked his triple over Lou Thornton's head in right field. Griffin scored an insurance run on Dwayne Murphy's safety squeeze bunt. "I went back as soon as it was hit and then lost it in the lights," said Thornton, a ninth-inning defensive replacement for right fielder Jesse Barfield. "When I picked it up again, it was over my glove." Toronto Manager Bobby Cox saw the play in a different light. "If he stays put he makes the catch," Cox said.

"That was an out. It was right at him." In American League day games, Minnesota beat New York 8-4 and Chicago defeated Cleveland 10-0. At night in the AL, it was Texas 3, Detroit Baltimore 8, Kansas City mer in the first, then completed it with his 20th homer of the season, again with the bases clear, in the ninth. Giants 1, Cubs 0 Mike Krukow scattered seven hits and Jeff Leonard brought home the game's only run with a double in the bottom of the ninth inning. Padres 3, Pirates 2 Carmelo Martinez's 12th home run, with two out in the bottom of the eighth inning, broke a 2-2 tie.

Expos 3, Astros 0 Joe Hesketh, 6-4, allowed seven hits in 8 innings for his first victory in nearly two months. Mets 7, Braves 6 Darryl Strawberry keyed New York's five-run fifth inning with a two-run single and New York won for the fourth straight game. Rick Mahler, 13-8, was the loser, but he was victimized by four Braves errors that led to six unearned runs. Phillies 6, Reds 3 Juan Samuel had three hits and knocked in two runs as Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing streak and beat Mario Soto. Soto, 8-11, has lost eight straight decisions, the longest losing streak of his career.

Dodgers 2, Cardinals 1 Bill Russell raced home on pinch-hitter Len Matuszek's sacrifice fly in the seventh inning to break a 1-1 tie. Mike Scioscia led off the seventh with a double off loser Bill Campbell, 2-2. Steve Sax sacrificed pinch-runner Russell to third and Matuszek, batting for winner Orel Hershiser, lifted a fly to left to score Russell. Hershiser, 9-3, scattered six hits over seven innings, striking out five and walking two. Boston 10, California and Seattle 5, Milwaukee 2.

In National League day games, San Francisco beat Chicago 1-0 and San Diego nipped Pittsburgh 3-2. In NL night games, it was Montreal 3, Houston New York 7, Atlanta Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati and Los Angeles 2, St. Louis 1. Twins 8, Yankees 4 Kent Hrbek hit a grand slam that broke a 4-4 tie in the seventh inning. Frank Eufemia, 3-0, pitched three shutout innings in relief as Minnesota snapped the Yankees' six-game winning streak.

Rangers 3, Tigers 2 Run-scoring singles by pinch-hitter Buddy Bell and George Wright keyed a Texas rally with two out in the seventh inning. The Rangers snapped a four-game losig streak. Gary Ward hit his sixth homer in the second for Texas' only earned run. Orioles 8, Royals 3 Cal Ripken, Mike Young and Wayne Gross hit bases-empty home runs and Eddie Murray rapped a two-run double. Red Sox 10, Angels 1 Jim Rice and Bill Buckner powered an eight-run third inning with two hits and two RBI apiece.

The Red Sox had 15 hits in the game, three each by Rice and Buckner. Wade Boggs extended his hitting streak to 21 games, tops in the major leagues this year. Mariners 5, Brewers 2 Jim Presley hit two home runs, Bob Kearney hit one and Mike Moore scattered seven hits. Presley opened the scoring with a bases-empty ho Jones, Tway card 64 COAL VALLEY, 111. (AP) Steve Jones and Bob Tway, relative newcomers to the PGA tour and once college competitors, each eagled to tie at 6-under par 64s Thursday for the lead after the first round of the $300,000 Quad Cities Open.

The pair's showing erased an early lead by Texan Dave Eichelberger, whose hole-in-one on the 17th, after a 20-yard chip-in on the 16th, put him two strokes off the pace at 66. Jack Nicklaus meanwhile, son of the all-time PGA money-winner Jack Nicklaus, shot a 75 11 strokes back and worrying about making Friday's second-round cut. Nicklaus, an amateur in his first Professional Golfers' Association tourney, birdied once, but double-bogeyed once and suffered four bogeys. MANSFIELD Thursday night's Division I Softball action could easily be Jabeled The Good, The Bad and Vern Cole. The Good being two tightly contested games pitting the News Journal's top-ranked Division I team, Drywall, against Galion KFC, and, the Budweiser-Manpower clash.

bad to rally to down the Colonels 10-8, while Manpower used a Jive-run seventh to subdue Bud 10-9. The Bad was played by Galion Neff's, crushed by Galion Red's 15-2 in a shortened five-inning affair in which Jimmy Quaintance's crew pounded out 19 safeties. And the Ugly er, Vern Cole well, was the bloody way Shelby Packing dismantled Lumber-mens Mutual Insurance 20-7 in a six-inning affair. Last night's action was the first set of games in the second round. LMI won the first round.

Cole, who piloted his first game for was thrilled following the game, but he promised there's more to come. The Packers, who just two days ago, were beaten by LMI down at Wayside 18-5, had revenge on their "They just beat us bad the other night," Cole said, "so this was just a kind way of paying them back. The only thing we said before the game was that we owe them one." 'Cole, who by his own admission, will be handling the managerial -chores from here on out due to the absence of first manager, Buck Dials, who stepped down following Tuesday's game. "We played well. That's all.

I'll have more to say next week after we beat Cole finished with a whisper; jumped out of the gates early, pushing across five runs in the first and eight more in the third. Brian Larrick paced the Pack attack with four hits, including a double, while Ted Iceman, Joe Weirick (two doubles) and Clyde Fultz had three each. Mike Brubaker and Jeff Baldridge added two hits apiece. Junior Chinn, Derek Smith and Bruce Cloes had two LMI hits each, one-of Cloes' being a ringing three-run homer. Like Red's exploded for a big first inning, scoring seven runs.

The first seven batters hit safely and scored. Red's also tallied seven more -times in the third to make the game a rout. Lynn Huffman, Ron Nelson and Darrell Poole all had three hits for Reds, while Mike Hauck, Larry Atkinson, Jeff Poffenbaugh and Paul Campbell all had two hits each. Randy Krebs' second hit of the game scored Dave Kuelling from second for the go-ahead run in come-from-behind win over the Colonels. KFC led 5-2 in the third frame, before scored six unanswered runs for an 8-5 sixth-inning cushion.

KFC tied it in the bottom of the seventh, before Krebs nailed the game-winner. Rick Brand counted four hits for while Ken joined brother Randy With two hits each. Ed Haas, Doug and Jim Streeter all had three KFC hits. Dave Bogner slapped three hits, Gerald Oates, Craig Hunt, Vaughn Ford and John Banks had two each in Manpower's exciting triumph. Bruce Hollar led Bud with three hits.

Dan Armstrong, Greg Loch, Jack Oberlin and Tim Knofflock had two each for the hard-luck losers. ANOTHER JOHNSON Joe Johnson, whose home run-hitting brothers, Brad and Brian, wear the colors of Acousti Clean RichlandLumber, made some thunder of his own in Thursday Division II action with his first Softball home run. Joe, who resembles a Isuzu pickup with feet, is an offensive lineman at Ashland College. Clippers win COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) Juan Bonilla belted his first home run of the season in the bottom of the 12th inning Thursday to give the Columbus Clippers a 4-3 International League baseball victory over Richmond. The victory was the Clippers' 10th in their last 11 games against the first-place Braves.

Torrez retires CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) Former major league pitcher Mike Torrez retired from baseball Thursday night after hurling more than seven innings for the Miami Marlins in a Class A Florida State League game against the Clearwater Phillies. Torrez, who signed with the Marlins! with hopes of making it back to the-majors this season, ended his comeback attempt with a 7-8 record and a 2.85 earned run average. Torrez, 38, compiled a lifetime record of 185-160 in 18 major league seasons. Baugh's 67 leads DANVERS, Mass.

(AP) Laura Baugh, a nine-time runner-up but never a winner in 12 years on the LPGA tour, sank a hole-in-one and grabbed the first-round lead at the $225,000 Boston Five Classic with a 5-under-par 67 Thursday. Baugh, who also had six birdies and three bogeys, had a one-stroke edge over Therese Hession, another non-winner. Hession finished at 68, one stroke ahead of Silvia Bertolaccini, Rosie Jones and Myra Blackwelder. UiiL-S 'ULfLJa Stihl Guides blank Rochester Tht Auoclatfd Prtu Maine's Reggie Ritter came within four outs of a perfect game Thursday night. And the way his opponent, Joe Kucharski, was pitching, the Guides needed Ritter's effort.

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