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hi i 1 Vr 4 Liotzke ties Sindolar in B.C. Open McEnroe, IMavratilova march on in U.S. Open along with Evert Lloyd American League Yankees 10, Angels 4 Blue Jays 6, White Sox 2 Red Sox at Twins (2), night A's at Tigers, night Mariners at Orioles, night Royals at Rangers, night Indians at Brewers, night National League Giants 3, Mets 2 Cubs 5, Braves 4(11) Pirates at Reds, night Astros at Cardinals, night Phillies at Dodgers, night Expos at Padres, night Details, 4-C -Story, 3-C I un mcenroe -Story, 3-C section SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1985 ST. PETERSBURG TIMES anno ew tie gives in, returns to Dolphins 3(D) Q- bad Giants look tough, 1 1-C Auociated Press MIAMI Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino ended his 38-day holdout Saturday, saying he wanted to return to the team before the start of the regular season "to be fair to myself and to a lot of other people." It had been an acrimonious holdout with bickering in the media between Dolphins owner Joe Robbie and Marino's agent, Mar vin Demoff. "I am returning to the team as of today," Marino said at a Saturday afternoon news conference.

"I can no longer let these circumstances with Mr. Robbie affect my personal life. I want to return because I feel a strong obligation to my team im.iimi iiiiMi i hit ir MARINO team punched across an early game-tying touchdown, then squeezed in a safety and a field goal at the shank of the second quarter. Their confidence was mushrooming. The honeymoon lasted one half.

14-12 lead at intermission gradually and inevitably widened. "Lots of credit to Mack Brown," Bowden said. "We had so many more folks than he had, and the game was not broken open until the end of the third quarter." FSU was breaking in a fresh quarterback, untested tailbacks and a refurbished secondary. All three special interests scored well in Bowden's mind, though the ballcarriers received demerits for their fits of fumbling. Bowden gave quarterback Danny McManus a baptism of fire, and he scorched Tulane with two rapid completions and an FSU touchdown in a lickety-split 12 seconds.

"WE HAD to find out real quick: Are you a football player?" Bowden said. "I didn't want to wait to go to Lincoln (Neb.) to find out." McManus signed off with 14 completions in 19 tries for two touchdowns. He scored twice himself on a pair of 1-yard sneaks in the final period. "I feel much better about Danny McManus," Bowden said. Ditto with the defensive back- Except for basketball, Tulane's on fire, 7-C By MIKE TIERNEY St.

Petersburg, Times Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS Florida State took a Tulane highway to victory Saturday. The first half of the ride was fraught with sharp curves and potholes, but the road soon turned straight and smooth. At the end was a 38-12 win over rebuilding Tulane that satisfied the Seminoles in their 1985 unveiling. They were not moved, however, to go directly to the French Quarter for their own impromptu Mardi Gras parade. "We played good for our first football game," FSU coach Bobby Bowden said before launching into a series of buts.

Bowden knows the road heads abruptly uphill next week. The destination is Nebraska, a more formidable foe that FSU was grateful not to have encountered Saturday. "Absolutely," Bowden said. "We would have lost to them." The Green Wave is more on the level of Nebraska's championship intramural team. Twelve of 22 starters were either freshmen or at new positions.

For awhile, they were the New Wave under first-year coach Mack Brown. Tulane supporters among the Superdome turnout of 37,348 were delirious when their outmanned mates, my family and the fans of the Miami Dolphins," Marino said at a news conference. Marino walked out of camp July 24 to protest lack of progress in the renegotiation of his current contract, which still has two years remaining. He returns to the Dolphins without a renegotiated contract. "I WANT to help my teammates work to have another great season.

At this time I'm not being forced to return," Marino said. "This is totally my own decision. I expect a new offer from Mr. Robbie shortly, now thats I have returned to the team." Coach Don Shula said he was glad to have Marino back in camp, especially after Joe Pisarcik, the only backup quarterback on the team at the time, suffered a sprained shoulder during Friday night's 19-17 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. Please see MARINO.

11-C AP Please see SEMINOLES. 7-C FSU's Cletis Jones rambles around end before being tripped up by Tulane's Burnell Dent. Aborted trip to Tulane turns into FSU, hurricane watch SPORTS EDITOR HUBERT ITIIZELL a field goal before halftime and it was 14-12. On through the breezy, drippy afternoon the TV mixture of football and Hurricane Elena went on. FSU was sailing down the Superdome turf early in the third quarter in search of an insurance touchdown when Channel 10 barged in for storm news.

A justifiable intrusion a barge had just banged into the Gandy Bridge. When TV returned us from the barge to the football game, the screen was decorated with statistics on an FSU scoring drive. The Seminoles had made good on that drive while we were away. It was now 21-12. At the beginning of the fourth period, Cletis Jones ran for major yardage.

FSU seemed about to bury the Greenies. But, just then, there came another bulletin on the hurricane. This would be a long one. Shelters were filling up across the Tampa Bay area. New facilities were being opened.

Streets were flooding. Channel 10 was doing its civic job, keeping a wide-opened public advised. Finally, TV returned us to New Orleans the Seminoles were on another march. But what was the score? Did FSU make a touchdown after the Jones run? McManus passed to Herb Gainer at the Tulane 1-yard line. A quarterback sneak followed touchdown Seminoles.

And, yes, as we were then to learn, FSU had indeed score during that latest storm-news interruption. The count was up to 38-12. Tulane was dead. Elena, unfortunately, was still alive. black-and-white with double images.

My only chance to cover the game. It would be stormy. Florida State bounced to a quick 7-0 lead on a Danny McManus pass, but underdog Tulane was driving back gallantly. Just then, Channel 10 broke in for a report on Hurricane Elena. When the game reappeared on the screen, the score was 7-7.

Tulane, we had to presume, had scored on that march. FSU had begun to move. Chuck Wells made a dandy, twisting run but, on the next play, fumbled the football away at the Tulane 11-yard line. Using Wells' miscue as its cue, Channel 10 interrupted for more emergency news. Several minutes later, viewers were sent back to the game and bingo! the Seminoles were promptly fumbling at the Tulane 7.

To a Pinellas County refugee marooned at a Tampa motel, it was beginning to seem like football in the Twilight Zone. After another McManus touchdown pass put Florida State ahead 14-7, tailback Sammie Smith, the most celebrated football pupil in the Seminoles' best-in-the-nation freshman class, fumbled inside the FSU 10 during the first half final minute. A remarkably alert play by quarterback McManus, slapping Smith's bouncing football through the end zone for a safety, allowed the 'Noles to escape with a 14-9 lead. However, after the ensuing free kick, Tulane squeezed out TAMPA My flight to New Orleans was to depart at 8:45 Saturday morning. Only a kamikaze would've taken off.

Barometers fell, tides rose. Hurricane Elena was holding west Florida hostage. I ran for high ground. Writing my Sunday newspaper column on Florida State's football opener against Tulane, a long-scheduled intention, would now become an improvisational act. Our house sits just across a mangrove forest from Tampa Bay, in one of the first zones designated for mandatory evacuation.

We fed the cat, secured the patio furniture, loaded the van and joined a wee-hour eastbound crawl across the Howard Frankland Bridge. Forget New Orleans. There'll be no gumbo tonight. No jazz. First things first.

Touchdown passes, somersaulting cheerleaders and locker room drama seem less important when you're trying to avoid drowning. Lines at gas station pumps were six-deep. A pickup truck was nose-down in a watery ditch. At Albertsons, baskets stacked with canned goods and bottled water were queued up halfway across the market. Shelves were emptying.

I Customers pawed futilely at a counter where batteries are sold. Not a D-model in sight, the type used in flashlights. Only thing remaining were batteries, which fit into toys. And nobody was in a mood to play. After our family van negotiated an overtaxed bridge, we saw traffic jamming both right onto Interstate 4 toward Orlando and left to 1-275 and the north.

Motels were filling almost as fast as the area's rain-swamped gutters. We got the last available room at a Ramada Inn. Before I could sign the register, eight persons came through the front door and were turned down. We wondered if we'd done the right thing, leaving our house untended, bailing out of the neighborhood. Maybe our designated shelter, Pinellas Park High School, would've been a better idea.

But, enough second-guessing. At 2 in the morning, we had to do something, and we did. Along with half-a-mil-lion other lowlanders on a quite-undesirable night. It's done. We're safe.

We're dry. We've got electricity, soft drinks, munchies and, at midday Saturday, both the telephone and television set are still working. Let's make the best of it. Play ball! My motel wasn't wired for cable TV. We could pick up 2'2 channels, one of them in semi-color.

FSU-Tulane football was on Channel 10, in unscheduled -X- -BBfc v. The post-mortem on Buc preseason is not promising Gooden's hot streak ended by Giants 3-2 0 Late statistics, 2-C By DAVE SCHEIBER St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer Associated Press Bucs closed the '83 preseason with a 4-0 record and a 41-21 rout of New England. That promising start became the gateway to their infamouB 2-14 campaign. Last year, Tampa Bay cappec a 3-2 record with an inspiring 14-13 victory over the eventual AFC champion Miami Dolphins.

That, TAMPA Signs of trouble littered the path of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Friday night in their 1985 preseason finale. There were interceptions, botched assignments, in- V- fk 'k Sf a. i ir 'rv ill1 1 1 however, was quickly nnnlnplii forgotten in a new land- UnUly3lS slide of losses and a 6-10 eHpaBpBeeB showing in '84. juries and general ineffectiveness, all of which blended into a 20-7 loss Perhaps the dismal 5-; SAN FRANCISCO The San Francisco Giants snapped Dwight Gooden's 14-game winning streak Saturday with a 3-2 victory over the New York Mets. Gooden (20-4), who had not been beaten since May 25, allowed single runs in the first and second innings and went six innings, giving up six hits and striking out seven.

His major league-leading earned run average climbed to 1.81 and he now has 219 strikeouts to lead the majors. Meanwhile, the Giants' Jim Gott and Mark Davis combined on a six-hitter. Gott (5-10) snapped a personal five-game losing streak with seven strong innings. He yielded one un-. earned run in the seventh, and Davis worked the last two innings for his seventh save.

The Giants opened the scoring in the first on Manny Trillo's one-out Please see GOODEN, 4-C IIS to the Washington Redskins. So much for momentum. The Bucs had a chance to enter the regular season with a two-game exhibition victory streak or at least with solid back-to-back performances. Instead, they'll visit the powerful Chicago Bears next Sunday on the heels of a 1-3 preseason record and a particularly poor final It's hard to tell exactly how much that means. Remember, the exhibition wrap-up Friday hints at a change in the regular-season pattern.

Don't bet the mortgage on it. For starters, the Bucs and new leader Leeman Bennett open against a Chicago team that (1) made it to the NFC championship game last year and (2) has beaten the Bucs four straight times, outs-coring them 122-33 in the process. Then there's the matter of the Please see BUCS. 5-C St. Petersburg Times MAURICE RIVENBARK Dean Hamel leaves scene of teammate's crime a sack of Buc quarterback Alan Risher..