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The Miami NewsCt XI Monday, September 8,1980 Section (4 i Injured hand halts Brett's hot streak Kansas City Royals third baseman George Brett, who missed 25 games earlier this year after iniurina his foot In a aama in Cleveland ha a J' left the city in less than perfect health once v. again, i ne not-hitting Brett, whose average stands at .396, sat out yesterday's 6-4 victory over the Indians after injuring his right hand Sat urday nignt. The hand was to be X-rayed today in Anaheim, where the Royals were sched 'J. i uled to open a four-game series against the Angels. Brett said, "I hope it isn't going to keep me out of the lineup for too long." He hurt the hand while reaching to swing at an outside fast ball fired by Cleveland's Len Barker in Saturday night's 8-3 Indians victorv.

Brett is attemrjtina to "9 become the first major league baseball player to nn over .400 since Ted Williams batted .406 in 1941. Veeck in good condition 4 Chicago White Sox President FN Bill Veeck remains hospitalized 1 in good condition. Officials at nois Masonic Medical Center In 'J Chicago said Veeck, 66, is suffer ing from respiratory problems, hut mau ha roloacaH latar thio ntmit, Xm. week. Veeck entered the inten- Vaeck sive care unit of the center Aug.

24 and was given oxygen, a spokesman said. He underwent inhalation thera py the next day. Veeck's hospitalization came two days after the White Sox board of directors approved the sale of the American League base- A 1 3. Dail club to Edward DeBartolo of Youngstown, Ohio, and DeBartolo's daughter, for an estimated $20 million. Yesterday, the club's board of directors reaffirmed its decision to sell the team to DeBartolo despite reports that American League 4 mi tii'1 owners would not approve the sale.

Qn the course i On his first visit to Pleasant Valley Country uud in button, Mass. two years ago, an aspiring young pro golfer wanted to hide after taking a whopping 8-over-par 1 1 on the first hole. Wayne vh Levi, now 27 and established on the PGA tour, was able to laugh about that today as the cham pion of the $300,000 Jimmy Fund Classic, victor over veteran Gil Morgan in a four hole play-off i no duck stops nere imrH.w,cK Buffalo fullback Curtis Brown is buried under avalanche of foreground; Bob Baumhower. left rear, and Ralph Ortega, Dolphins shirts, whose wearers are Vern Den Herder, right rear. Draw play gained three yards BoflphBinis wind up paying the BnOBs yesterday.

'I remember that hole very well," said Levi, a former small college All-American at Oswego State in New York. "My car was parked very close by and I wanted to jump right into it and drive out. The only reason I didn't is because I would have been fined." Levi had a pair of 71s CHARLIE NOBLES in the first two rounds, one stroke under the half Miami Nwi Rfwtr way cut and nine off the lead. Then, after a six-under-par 65 Saturday, he caught Morgan on the ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. Clearly, It was an his toric occasion.

71st hole with a three-foot birdie putt, forcing a As the buses carrying the Dolphin players and play-off as each finished 72 holes at 273 11 under regulation. The two rivals matched par coaches rumbled through the Rich Stadium parking lot yesterday on their way to the airport, hundreds of people lined both sides of the road, some who wanted to however crude, of saying go to hell. Dolphins, you're no better than we are now. This, of course, was after hundreds more of them perhaps thousands, among the 79,598 in attendance had raced onto the field and tore down each goalpost in celebration of Buffalo's 17-7 victory over Miami. "They all wanted souvenoirs I couldn't get the equipment trucks backed in there," Dolphin equipment manager Danny Dowe said of the near-melee outside the teams' locker rooms.

It was some way for Miami to begin the 1980 season, and Dolphin head coach Don Shula, for one, didn't appreciate it a bit. "We lose to a team that turned the ball over seven times," he said, referring to Buffalo's five interceptions for three extra holes before Levi pulled out the and two lost fumbles, "and has nine penalties. It's disheartening. With all of that, all we put on the board is seven points." Not only was it Shula's first loss to Buffalo as the Dolphins coach, but three of his players also had long personal unbeaten streaks against the Bills broken guard Bob Kuechenberg and strong safety Tim Foley (each 19-0) and defensive end Vern Den Herder (15-0). "Maybe I shouldn't have come back from retirement," said Kuechenberg, who rejoined the club three and a half weeks ago.

Added Kuechenberg, with several Buffalo writers present: "I'd call off work tomorrow if I was the mayor of Buffalo. School and everything else. My hat's Please see DOLPHINS, 6C rub in what had just happened. victory with a par-5 on the 547-yard 4th as Mor Whether they were high from beer, pills, hard liq gan was unable to get down in regulation from uor or just the auroma of the Buffalo Bills' first victory over the Dolphins since 1969 a period spanning 20 25 feet Beth Daniel set a single-season money-winning record by winning the World Se-. games one by one, men began turning their backs to the buses, bending over and exposing their rear ends.

rles of Women Golf yesterday, closing with a one-under-par 71 and a one-shot victory. Nancy The "mooning" seemed to be Buffaloans way, Lopez-Melton, who had set the previous record John Crittenden with earnings of $197,488 in 1979, also shot a 71 and finished second with 283, 5-under par for the Sports Editor new tournament at the Pepper Pike, OhioCountry Bills' victory brings sunshine to Buffalo Club. Daniel wound up with a 72-hole total of 282 and collected the first prize of $50,000. Of that total, $46,500 was official prize money after the LPGA took its 7 per cent fee. The biggest payday ever in the sport pushed Daniel's 1980 money total to $198,542.

3 Strikers on All-Select team have to play against the streak any more. We have been playing against the streak and against the Dolphins. From now on, we'll just be playing the Dolphins." Ferguson seemed to feel the same way. "The sooner it's forgotten, the better," he said. Ferguson has suffered against the Dol ORCHARD PARK, N.Y.

He was Buffalo's leading rusher and receiver as the Bills broke a 20-game losing streak against Miami yesterday with a 17-7 victory, but Joe Cribbs, the rookie from Auburn, wasn't ready for what hap Three members of the Fort Lauderdale Strikers soccer team have been chosen by Cosmos' fans to play in a Franz Becken- Crittenden pened at the end. I've played before some big crowds bauer testimonial match at Giants' Stadium Sept. 24. The game -will pit a group of North Cubillas before," said Cribbs, "but these fans acted like they won the game. These fans American Soccer League All- are nuts.

They're crazier than anything in the state of Alabama." Stars against the Cosmos, who At Rich Stadium, thousands of people ran onto the playing field when the game was over, carrying one goal post away, twisting the other into a knot of yellow scrap metal and tearing up a chunk or artificial grass at the 20-yard line. They threw confetti they'd been saving since 1970. It was the biggest celebration in northern New York state since A fan climbed through the window into Ralph Wilson's box. "Until he came in, I was just standing there, sort of overcome with feeling," said the owner of the Bills. "Can I have a drink?" the fan asked.

"Take anything you want," said Wilson. Some of the Buffalo players hugged will be playing with Pele. The Strikers selected were Teofilo Cubillas, Gerd Muller and Francisco Marinho. Beckenbauer, who has played for the Cosmos for four years, is returning to play in his native West Germany next season. The Strikers were the only team who had three players chosen.

Cubillas scored three of his 14 goals this season in a 4-1 victory over the Cosmos, the only hat trick that has been scored on them this year. Marinho, who has missed much of this season with an injury, played for the Cosmos in 1979. Mueller was Beckenbauer's teammate on Bayern Munich. Other members of the 21-man squad include forme Striker George Best, Tampa Bay's Oscar Fabbiani, Edmonton's Peter Nogly, Chicago's Karl-Heinz Granitza and San Diego's Leonardo Cuellar. Nice and easy does it For someone who felt no pressure to win, Britain's David Cannon put on quite a performance to capture the second annual Montreal International Marathon Elite race.

The 30-year-old lineman for an electrical company seemed content io stride along in third place for most of the 26-mile, 385-yard race Saturday. But at the last. Cannon shifted into high gear and slipped by leader Garry Henry of Australia, who finished second. The winning time of 2 hours, 11 minutes, 21.73 seconds was two minutes better than Cannon's best-ever marathon performance of 2.13:44, set earlier this year in Auckland, New Zealand. their way Into the locker room, wrapping club executives in sweaty embraces.

Quarterback Joe Ferguson, who had suffered through seven straight seasons phins as much as any of the Bills. The quarterback takes the blame and Ferguson came up many times as the goat. If Miami had won yesterday, Ferguson would have been the goat again. He threw five interceptions before Buffalo scored a toudchdown. His home fans booed him.

"Five interceptions, you get booed. I understand that," he said. "If we had lost, this would have been my worst day in football. Instead, it is my best. "But I had a feeling we would win, and I never lost that feeling," Ferguson said.

"Because we were never more than seven points away, never more than one play out of reach. When they got that touchdown in the third quarter to go ahead, there was not one of us who didn't say, 'Here we go But we came from behind to win, and that felt better than winning by four touchdowns." The game may have some ugly long-range omens for the Dolphins who were pathetic on offense. Buffalo's defenders dogged Delvin Williams' every step, and held Miami to 90 yards rushing. The Bills kept a heavy rush on Bob Griese all afternoon, and intercepted Don Strock twice in his fourth-quarter relief appearance. Miami's only touchdown followed a three-yard Buffalo punt, which put the Dolphins in position at the Bills 26-yard line.

But the Bills weren't looking for any signs which foretold sensational improvement. Just the pleasure of the day was sufficient. Reggie McKenzie, a ninth-year guard, limped to the showers on a heavily taped ankle. "Yeah, even that feels good," said McKenzie. "We've been talking about this since training camp opened." An interviewer with a microphone that identified him as a Buffalo radio sta-tio employe asked Wilson, the owner of the Bills, "What do you think of your Super Bowl chances?" Wilson shook his head.

"As happy as I am, I'm not going to answer a question like that." This was not a match between Super Bowl teams. With eight fumbles, nine interceptions and a three-yard punt, it was just another sloppy opener. But in Buffalo, it was Super Sunday. For a day, the skies were blue. of losses to the Dolphins, just walked through the mob.

"I was too tired to get excited then," he said. "But I got excited after I got into the locker room. There are not many of us old guys around any more. We've been through a lot." Said Ferguson: "Miami has always had its blue skies and its beaches and Buffalo has had its gray skies and its steel mills. -But today, the skies are blue in Buffalo." The Aiami Newt BOB MACK Crowd gives unanimous vote to refs' signals on Roosevelt Leaks' TD Perhaps the contrast between tne two cities Miami, the resort center in the subtropics and Buffalo, the snowfall capital of the east Is one of the things that has kept this rivalry so intense, de spite the Dolphin winning streak.

The losses by the Bins naa Decome a part of Buffalo's negative Image, like the city's high unemployment rate and killing winters. For a moment, yesterday's victory gave a whole city a lift. Question box 1 sity of Arkansas. "This was like the Arkansas-Texas game." The Bills had suffered at the hands of the Dolphins throughout the 1970s, but not these Bills. Cribbs was in his first NFL game.

So was Gregg Cater, the kicker who threw the pass out of punt formation that gave the Bills a new fourth-quarter life. Mark Brammer, who caught that pass, is also a rookie. Roosevelt Leaks, the former Colt who caught the touchdown pass that beat the Dolphins, is in his first year with the Bills. Said nose tackle Mike Kadish, in his eighth year in Buffalo, after being drafted by Miami; "A lot of these players don't remember much about the losing streak, but our fans remember. They've suffered through it all." Reserve receiver Lou Piccone spent most of the fourth quarter standing behind the Bufffalo bench waving to the fans to quiet down.

"The whole streak has been more of a hassle for the fans than it has for us," said Piccone. "I'm in no hurry to leave the locker room and go out there and try to go home. I know they're tearing up the place and I understand it." Truly, the fans seemed more excited than the players. "The only thing this means," said Kadish, "is that we don't Th Ntw York Timeil One local television station had been promoting the game as Super Sunday. As St absurd as that was, it had elements of reality.

What was Rocky, Marciano's usual weight in hfA heavyweight championship fights? MarcianrA. weight ranged from a low of 184 pounds to a high of 189. This was our big game. I have to go back to college to find a comparison," said Ferguson, who played at the Univer- -v.