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CLASSIFIED ADS section WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1979 E) ST. PETERSBURG TIMES Vv Qt a. 0 4 7 ('- St Ptfburg Timat RlCAHDO FtRRO Cards' catcher Terry Kennedy displays the ball after tagging out sliding Lonnie Smith in eighth inning. Super Bowl sun warms Snow Belt Cardinals erupt in fifth to stop 'no-pitch' Phils By RON MARTZ St. Ptarsburg Timsi Staff Writar Today's Al Lang game: Expos-Mets, 1:30 p.m.

By BOB LaNOIR 8t PtsBburgJimt Staff Wntr to Tr Jk't I i i 'X 1 It doesn't require genius to recognise pitching as the nearest thing the Phillies have to an Achilles' heel. For one thing, the starting rotation is starting to show signs of mileage. Ace Steve Carlton, now 34, struggled to a 16-13 won -lost ledger last summer following two straight 20-win seasons. Jim Kaat, at 40, has become a spot starter. And Larry Christenson, a 19-game winner two years ago, broke a collarbone in an off-season bicycle accident.

He's out for at least the first month of the season. Eastwick, the ace of the Cincinnati Reds' relief staff during the Big Red Machine's glory days, may have his best years behind him. He's worked for four teams in the past two seasons, and his earned run average for the Phillies in 1978 was a hefty 4.05. His ERA Tuesday was an even heftier 22.50. Lou Brock began the Cardinals' colossal inning with a sharp single through the middle.

After Tommy Herr walked, Keith Hernandez loaded the bases with a sinking single to left. Ted Simmons eased the traffic jam by hooking a two-run single to right, then scored on Dane Iorg's double. Iorg came across on a fielder's choice, beating the throw from second baseman Todd Cruz. All that commotion served to wipe away a 5-2 lead the Phillies had built. They started in the first inning Sea CARDS.

6 To the surprise of many and the delight of a few, the Super Bowl has escaped what seemed to be a southern stranglehold. Meeting in Honolulu Tuesday, the National Football League owners agreed to play Super Bowl XVI (Jan. 24, 1982) in the Pontiac Silverdome. It is the first time in the game's brief history that a city outside the Sun Belt has been awarded a Super Bowl. The owners chose two other sites for future iSuper Bowls, but both of them are in traditional warm-weather cities.

They include New Orleans, where Super Bowl XV will be played on Jan. 25, 1981, and Pasadena, where Super Bowl XVII will be played on Jan. 30, 1983. Super Bowl XIV on Jan. 23, 1980, will also be played in the Rose Bowl.

ANOTHER NORTHERN CITY Seattle was among the eight cities bidding for a Super Bowl and the resulting economic impact, which has been estimated at $50-million. The others included Los Angeles (Coliseum), Dallas (Cotton Bowl), Houston (Rice Stadium) and Miami (Orange Bowl). Miami, the host for five previous Super Bowls, including Super Bowl XIII this year, appeared to be the big loser in that group. NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle reportedly was unhappy with the manner in which Miami handled its role as host this year. Among his complaints was price-gouging by hotels and restaurants.

Tuesday's vote by the owners was seen as a warning to cities seeking to host future Super Bowls that they must have the support of their business communities, something which the Detroit-Pontiac group apparently has. The group making the pitch for a Super Bowl in Pontiac included Michigan governor William G. Milliken, Detroit mayor Coleman Young and Pontiac mavor Wallace Holland. Sea SUPER BOWL. 8 The Philadelphia Phillies, in what might prove a preview of the summer to come, showed up at AI Lang Stadium Tuesday afternoon to blast out 14 hits, four of them for eitra bases including a Mike Schmidt home run that threatened to knock down the Bayfront Center and still managed to lose.

The 7-6 setback came at the paws of the St. Louis Cardinals, not exactly the current equivalent of "Murderers' Row." But the Cardinals hit the Phillies with a five-spot in the fifth inning before a crowd of 6,173, stringing together four hits and a walk before reliever Rawly Eastwick managed to get the first out. And the out was a routine 400-foot fly ball that centerfielder Lonnie Smith managed to catch up to at about the same time he was running into the fence. The Phillies are a team that might have the best eight-man lineup on the globe today. They have enough power to blow the rest of the National League East into next season.

But there is a suspicion that the Phillies might be a team that can't do much more than hold its own serve. They don't always seem to play both ends of the court. Six runs, after all, is enough to win most baseball games. l- 18 It )- 1- 'z Tom Herr (28) watches as Kennedy sprawls for catch. TV Napoleon plots network invasion of Moscow SPORTS EDITOR IIUDERT miZELL IIS n-s-ke e- ns 18- an In l't LONGBOAT KEY Sitting in Florida's capitalistic sunshine, NBC Sports' man in Europe spoke of Red Square, red tape and red caviar.

Geoff Mason absorbs a dose of each on monthly visits to Moscow to prepare for the telecast of the 1980 Summer Olympics. "Thank God, I love caviar," he said. "In the Soviet Union, a visitor's worst experience will be eating the food. But, even so, there are exceptions. Caviar, red or black.

The Chicken Kiev at the National Hotel, across from Red Square, is excellent And they have ice cream that's better than Baskin Robbins." Now there'i a diet. Mason is based in Paris, and his parents live amid the Florida quiet of Casey Key. He commands all NBC sports coverage in Europe. On Sunday, Mason was in Inzell, West Germany, producing an NBC Sporttworld segment about motorcycle racing on ice. USSR riders dominated.

By Tuesday, he was in short pants and poolside at a spiffy Longboat Key resort NBC was taping promotional Collins. Robert Conrad, the actor with the battery on his shoulder, came thumping up after a four-mile run. Conrad is short and fullback-like. A thick body you might associate with an ex-boxer. Which is what NBC would like me to say, since Conrad plays a former pug in his new series The Duke.

Conrad fit in well with the jocks. NBC is a network trying hard in sports. NBC is trying to chase ABC. Don Ohlmeyer, formerly of ABC, now runs NBC Sports. Ranking close behind in muscle is the 38-year-old Mason, whose baby for more than a year has been the Moscow Olympics.

The Olympics, NBC's ultimate chance to shine. "We think NBC will cover the Olympics better than ABC did," said Mason, the former ABC producer. "In some instances at Montreal (1976 Olympics), ABC didn't prepare Sea MIZELL. 8 '(The Soviets) are not dumb. They know this is their one great chance to shine before the world.

I think they will do everything to make the best of it' Geoff Mason ads for several of its affiliated stations. You know, the local channel having Joe Garagiola say to its viewers, "Hi, be sure to watch baseball this summer on Super Magic Channel 55." Dick Enberg was there, clutching a raw throat from weekend coverage of NCAA basketball. Garagiola was there, the sun reflecting spectacularly off his roof. Joe's baseball partner, Tony Kubek, taped plugs. So did golfer-announcer Carol Mann, ex-quarterback-announcer John Brodie and tennis writer-announcer Bud 1 I.