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Inside Moves Tom Archdeacon Lance Hudson: The day and night Marlin Lance Hudson admits he has been saddled with some uncom 14 fortable labels during his professional baseball career. As a shortstop in the Oakland A's organization, he was painted as a hot dog, a loud mouth and er advanced beyond Class A baseball in his six pro seasons. Before last night's game, he talked candidly about his situation but only after he slipped out of the dugout and found a seat in the stands. He didn't want his teammates to overhear a snatch of conversation and take it wrong. He didn't want anyone to think he was bellyaching.

Not again. "Bad raps," he said when he finally was alone. "I've had plenty of 'em. I won't lie, some of them I deserved. But some others, I didn't." The A's had signed him out of high school.

He was just 18, the Please see INSIDE MOVES. 6B sleep in the stadium, but they all bunk in an auxiliary clubhouse used each spring by the Baltimore Orioles. Hudson is more of a freelancer. He sleeps on a mattress in the office of manager Max Oliveras, and has what he calls "a ecret room" somewhere in the bowels of the old ballpark. All he'll say about that is it's equipped with a stereo and a typewriter.

"I'm writing my memoirs while I'm here," he said. "Sometimes I type at night. I breezed through my childhood days in California and I figure the ending will be when I hit the big leagues He grew quiet for a few seconds. He hopes his book doesn't grow as thick as "War and Peace." The way he sees it, he's already typed too many chapters from the minor leagues. Those in the know around Miami Stadium agree.

"It's obvious he doesn't belong here," said catcher John Wocken-fuss, a veteran of 12 years in the major leagues. "Lance Hudson isn't a Class A ballplayer." Oliveras agreed. "Lance is the catalyst for us," he said. "Right now he could be in Triple A baseball easy." Sonny Hirsch, the Marlins' executive vice president, recognizes major league talent and thinks Hudson has it. "Lance can play center field with anybody in baseball." he said.

With those kinds of endorsements, it seems implausible that the 24-year-old outfielder has nev and home runs and fourth in RBI. And his team-leading 45 steals are 32 more than anyone else has on the club. But there is more to this new tag than just seniority and statistics. When it comes to Lance Hudson, you've got a real day and night Marlin. The Miami club is his home literally.

During the games, Hudson patrols center field like a gloved gazelle. And afterward once the scoreboard is unplugged and the diamond goes dark, he scours through the old ballpark like that big fat raccoon that has called Miami Stadium home for three years. Hudson is the new kid on the block. He's lived there only three months. Five other Marlin players also seems like such a perfect fit.

The Ultimate Marlin. The sound of it will make Hudson wretch. Hang the mantle of Mr. Marlin around his neck and his shoulders will give an involuntary shudder, hairs on his arms will go rigid and his mouth will get pasty dry. The fleet-footed center fielder considers himself big-league material and yet there is no one more emersed in Miami's Class A club than him.

First of all, he is what you would call a Marlin letterman one of only three players who were on the team last year. And like last season, he is one of the club's few shining stars. He currently leads the Marlins in runs scored, is second in hits, triples Archdeacon worse. And soon after he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers, he said he got the bummest rap of all that of a drug user. For the past two years Hudson has played his baseball in Miami and that's why his latest label Section The Miami News Friday, July 18.

1986 The 12-minute test Survival game Brutal weather plays havoc with the British Open field turned pro after the United States Open in June, was one of six players at 72 along with a fellow Southern Cal alumnus, Ron Corn-mans. Gary Koch had 73. The biggest surprise of the day was provided by Deane Beman, the commissioner of the PGA Tour. The 48-year-old head of the American circuit has not played in serious competition for 12 years, but shot an outstanding 5-over 75, ending his round with three consecutive birdies. Seve Ballesteros, the pretourna-ment favorite, shot a 76.

The Spaniard is serving a one-year suspension from all but one tournament on the PGA Tour, and this has led to some hard words between Ballesteros and Beman. But yesterday Ballesteros said, "Good for him. He's winning off the course and now on the course." Mac O'Grady, another of Be-man's off-course antagonists, also finished a shot behind the commissioner with a 76. Raymond Floyd, who won the United States Open on a trying course at Shinnecock Hills in New York, shot a 78. This included an 8 on the par-4 14th hole that was playing directly into the gusty, 40-mph winds.

"Conditions played havoc with scoring," Floyd said, adding he could not remember when he last had an 8 on a hole. Most golfers agreed that par in this wind was something like 75 or 76. Based on that, Greg Norman did very well with his 74. Among his better achievements in this round was the way he reached the eighth green in two, something few golfers were able to accomplish at the 427-yard, par-4 hole. Golfers were exhausted after their long rounds.

Andrew Broadway, a club pro from England, was 18 over par after 10 holes when he stopped keeping track. He finished playing the round and withdrew by not submitting a card. Complete acores, 2B GORDON S. WHITE Jr. W.V.

Tlme Newt Siprvtce TURNBERRY, Scotland Chilly northwest winds churned up whitecaps in the Firth of Clyde before slamming into Turnberry's Aisla course and making a shambles of many players' efforts yesterday in the first round of the 115th British Open. "It's going to be a survival tournament instead of someone going out and winning it," said Jack Nicklaus after he shot an 8-over-par 78 that included an eagle. Not a single golfer broke par as Ian Woosnam, a 28-year-old Welshman on the European tour, shot par 70 for a 1-shot lead. Nick Faldo, another British pro who has played both the European and American tours, was at 71, along with Robert Lee and Gordon Brand of Britain and Anders Fors-brand of Sweden. The high numbers were the result of a simple equation: extremely narrow fairways plus knee-deep and dense rough just off the fairways plus wind blowing balls every which way.

The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, which conducts the British Open, dictated the narrow fairways some only 25 yards wide and the possessive rough, and knew full well such winds can, and often do, blow. Nicklaus, who shot 11-under-par on a dry and calm Turnberry in 1977 and lost the British Open by a shot to Tom Watson, indicated that 1977 might have had a bearing. "Some people don't like having their course shot up," he said. Watson, once again, was one shot better than Nicklaus as he had 77 yesterday.

Bernhard Langer of West Germany was tied with a half-dozen others at 72. "It's the toughest course under the toughest conditions," he said. Sam Randolph, last year's United States Amateur champion who Tht Miami Mewl PATRICIA COROfcLL Tommy Vigorito (left) and Jim Jensen struggle through the Miami Dolphins' annual 12-minute run yesterday at St. Thomas University. The object: To cover the most distance in 720 seconds.

The victor: Running back Lorenzo Hampton, who went 7 XA laps over the 474-yard course. Details: Dolphins notebook, 3B Feds may join state in charging Raff ield Former Florida Marine Fisheries commissioner Gene Raffield and his Raffield Fisheries in Port St. Joe were charged yesterday with various misdemeanors in connection with the catch of 100,000 pounds of redfish off Louisiana. Officials said the catch was made with illegal purse seine nets and believe the redfish were brought to Port St. Joe for processing.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials in Louisiana may also charge Raffield, a Florida Department of Natural Resources spokesman said. If convicted of state7 charges, Raffield would face fines of up to $50 and a jail term of as much as 60 days. The federal penalties carry fines of $10,000 or more. Raffield may also lose his fishery license if the state decides he violated an agreement not to break Florida fishing laws for one year.

That agreement grew out of a case earlier this year in which Raffield's son, Randy, pleaded no contest to possessing 4,000 times the legal limit of adult redfish. Have crutch, will travel It's going to be awhile before Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and owner of the California Angels, is back in the saddle again. The 78-year-old Autry broke his right hip yesterday when he fell, not into the tumbling tumbleweed, but onto the ground outside an Orange County (Calif.) Superior Court. Autry had finished testifying in his suit against the City of Anaheim a case that concerns development of land near the Angels' stadium when he bumped into another person and lost his balance. Autry was admitted to a nearby hospital in, what else, stable condition.

Hang down your head, Vince Here's a rule that wasn't made to be broken. The NCAA prohibits coaches from attending all-star games of any sort unless the game is played at his home school's campus. So when the Georgia high school football stars square off tonight at Georgia Tech's Grant Field, University of Georgia coach Vince Dooley won't be able to get any closer than a television at a nearby hotel. That wouldn't be such a big deal if Dooley's son, Derek, weren't playing in the game. But he is, and Dooley would like to watch him in person.

No way, answered the NCAA, saying there is "no waiver provision written into the rule" now and that it has "no authority to grant a waiver," not even with the younger Dooley having already committed to the University of Virginia. Coach Dooley doesn't like the ruling, but he isn't putting up much of a protest. It's Mrs. Dooley who's raising a stir. "This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," she said.

"I think there should be an organization called Mothers Against the NCAA and I'll volunteer to be the first president." 'Oil Can' ready for some body work Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd has taken himself into the shop for a comprehensive tune-up at the request of the Boston Red Sox. Boyd, suspended by the club for behaving like a two-year-old when not selected to the American League All-Star team, entered a Boston hospital yesterday under an assumed name for a complete workover that includes drug testing. The Red Sox said the idea was "mutually agreed upon" by the organization and the troubled pitcher. Whatever Boyd is cured of inside, he'll still face charges of assault and battery and disorderly conduct when he returns to the outside world. Boston police arrested Boyd outside his home Tuesday, during which time the pitcher told officers, "I have a gun.

I'm going to blow you're head off." Police found no gun. Quote unquote Shirley Muldowney, the first woman licensed by the National Hot Rod Association, on her goal as a top-fuel drag racer: "I want to be the fastest woman in the worid in a manner of speaking Extra points PGA Tour commissioner Deane reman will have to revoke his six-event suspension and $5,000 fine on golfer Mac O'Grady for at least two weeks as part of an agreement reached in the chambers of a District Court judge yesterday IThe Detroit Pistons have signed first-round draft choice John Salley to a contract that will pay the former Georgia Tech standout $16 million over five years BThe Washington Redskins have signed George Rogers and Monte Coleman to one-year contracts, but have made no progress in their negotiations with defensive end Dexter Manley BThe Gator Bowl and CBS have signed a one-year contract to televise trie Dec. 27 bowl game at trer 12 30 or 2 30 depending on the NFL wildcard schedule BOavid Robtnaon scored 17 points yesterday to help the United States defeat Brrt 96-60 and set up a gold-medal meeting Sunday with trie Soviet Union at the World BasfcetbaN Crsampton-ships Mad'id IMimi Donegal of M.aT ratted for a 4-6. 7-5. 6-2 victory over Carol Wood of RockviUe, Wd yesterday to gi tomorrow's fsna's in f-e SO-and-cver vcn ol te Tennis Association enor Women's gais couM at New Yrxn West Sde Tennis Dub There is probably no event in the world of American sports that receives as much media attention and world-wide recognition as the Super Bowl.

Many expert observers of this event, claim that there has never been in the 20-year history of the Super Bowl, a more perfect football game played than that of the Chicago Bears in the 1985 thumping of the New England Patriots in New Orleans. Individual players, who were both media stars and football stars by virtue of the excitement that they generated in the regular season, were somehow transformed by this game into a single unit that performed flawlessly in full view of millions of football fans. They were led, inspired and bullied to this unprecedented victory by their head coach. Mike Ditka. Sup! Bowl supremacy Bears answer all questions 1 i' 1 Mike Ditka gets a ride after Super Bowl XX victory fifth a MIKE DITKA with DON PUR SON from injury.

We pray as always in the name of Jesus Christ your son, our Lord Amen I et's go Mike Ditka's pregame speech. Super Bowl XX Pete Rolle came up to me on the Superdome field while we were warming up and said he was a Bear fan I said. "I don't think you're a Bear fan. but you ought to thank us We grrt the TV ratings back up" He said, "No. I've alwavs Iked the Bears I know I've been hard on you a little bit I got letters from him all year ahout players violating the uniform code and hitting late, fighting in Dallas, having a bounty on quarter backs.

They were on us for Xm McMahon's headband and the ROOS on Walter Payton's shoes, for our socks be- or whatever number we have in this room We are gmng to win it for each other. We are potng to play it for each other and re going to pick each other up That's hat it all about This is out of love for each other. This is your game. Any other intentions won't be accepted But you are going to win this game for each other. So let's go out there and plav our kind of football "Let's have the Lord's Prayer.

Heavenly Father, we are grateful for this opportunity and we thank you for the talents you have given us. the chance to prove that we are the very best lather, we ask that you ive us the courage and the commitment to use the talents to the best of our ability so that we may give the glory back to you Father, we aUi that you may protect the pUvers in the game so that they may the game free "OK. we've pot two minute You did all the talking last night. The only thing that I want to is you made your feelings tWar on what has to happen Everybody said it Gary. Walter, Dan.

Jim. ke You know hat it is gmng to take It is going to take your ffort on every plav Dedicate ourselves to that and should hae no problems. Go out and far foot Sail, smart and afeisive If something bad harpers, don't worry Why? fWause we re in this top ether at a football team and we are goirg to play for eaf ts other and we're g'HPg to win this game for 49, 50 DITKA. 3B B'uc Hwi.

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