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JQ-Ioclif Mount, N.C, Teleyai July 30, Hit Moclzy: Mom. Moes Whiteville a A 11 11 i Rocky Mount Post 58 i HITTING (Overall) AB II lb 2b 3b HR KBI BB SO Avg. Anthony Brown 103 27 24 2 0 1 32 12 15 13 .261 Sbelton Grant 114 33 23 6 2 2 36 16 18 13 .289 John Adams 104 48 36 9 1 2 34 28 15 4 .462 Donnie Bobbitt 108 43 31 5 0 7 31 38 10 15 .398 MikeDavis 75 30 26 2 1 1 22 19 6 7 .400 Hank Jones 107 28 21 5 2 0 22 22 15 11 .262 Jeff Morgan ill 32 26 3 2 1 22 15 7 12 .288 Morris 63 22 16 5 1 0 19 14 17 17 .349 JerryLdwards 64 14 9 4 0 1 7 9 10 17 .219 Phil Bryant 18 5 0 0 0 2 9 4 3 .278 Tim Wilson 59 20 16 2 1 1 9 11 4 8 .339 Jeff Carter 42 7 7 0 0 0 9 5 7 7 .167 Mark Worsley 40 6 5 1 0 0 10 2 9 14 .150 KellyMurray 10 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 4 7.100 JosephHill 7 3 2 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 .429 TotaU 1025 319 248 44 11 16 257 203 142 151 .311 (Playoffs 10 games) Anthony Brown 45 11 9 1 0 1 17 4 5 7 .244 SheltonGrant 40 10 6 2 1 1 16 6 9 6 .250 John Adams 45 19 15 2 1 1 13 12 4 1 .422 Donnie Bobbitt 41 16 11 3 0 2 10 17 3 3 .390 MikeDavis 29 10 8 1 1 0 6 6 1 3 .345 Jones 39 10 6 3 1 0 7 7 4 4 .256 Jeff Morgan 38 15 13 2 0 0 2 5 2 1 .395 MikeMorris 24 10 730056 27 .417 Jerry Edwards 14 4 2 1 0 1 3 3 1 7 .286 PhilBryant 7 2 20001 3 2 1.286 Tim Wilson 20 7 4 1 1 1 4 3 0 1 .350 Jeff Carter 9 3 3 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 .333 Mark Worsley 26 4 4 0 0 0 4 0 4 8 .154 KellyMurray 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 Totals 377 121 90 19 5 7 94 73 40 49 .321 PITCHING (Overall) IP II ER BB SO W-L ERA TimWuoon 67.3 10 47 17 10 26 69 8-0 1.34 PhilBryant 57 8 55 45 28 22 48 4-0 0 .42 Donnie Bobbitt 50.6 8 39 22 14 37 60 5-1 0 2.49 John Adams 32.3 7 25 15 9 13 27 2-1 2 2.51, Hank Jones 32.3 9 42 25 20 15 18 3-3 2 5.57 Jeff Morgan 10 6 10 7 3 3 7 0-0 4 2.70 KellyMurray 2 1 3 4 1 1 1 0-0 0 4.50 Totals 251.3 27 221 135 85 117 230 22-5 8 3.04 (Playoffs 10 games) Tim Wilson 24 3 17 7 4 10 23 3-0 0 1.50 PhilBryant i8 2 12 10 7 6 14 2-0 0 3.50 Donnie Bobbitt 18.6 3 14 7 4 8 21 2-0 0 1.93 John Adams 12.6 4 9 3 3 5 9 1-0 2 2.13 Hank Jones 12.6 3 21 17 14 6 8 1-1 0 9.95 Jeff Morgan 4 1 5 4 0 0 2 0-0 1 0.00 Totals 90 10 78 48 32 35 77 3 3.20 58 players said at the time that they felt it would do no good. Rocky Mount went out the next night with the cloud over its head and got beat 13 5 to supposedly end the series 4-1. The national committee, however, did overturn Tyson's ruling saying the penalty was too severe.

The committee also said it was the responsibility cf the Whiteville scorekeeper, since he was the official scorer at the time, to inform the umpires before the violation occurred. The two teams got back together and played the last inning of Game Four which Rocky Mount held on to win. But Whiteville won Game Six 5-2 over a mentally and physically drained Post 58 club to win the series. Last year's series did indeed make an impact on all legion ball. Because of the protest there has been a rule change.

There can no longer be any appeal to the national level during state play. The final appeal is at the state level. So whatever Tyson says is the gospel this season. The teams are quite different this year although there are several key figures still in uniform. Rocky Mount will have six starters on the field that started in the series last year while Whiteville will have four.

Post 58 would have had seven starters back but catcher Jerry Edwards had an appendectomy two weeks ago and can't play. One big difference is that Rocky Mount was the underdog last year but this season Post 58 was expected to do well and has responded with a 22-5 mark. "Sometimes it's more difficult to produce when you are favored than when you are the underdog," Carter said. "I'm pleased we've got the opportunity to keep playing." Carter stopped short of calling Rocky Mount the favorite over Whiteville. However, Whiteville, which lost several key players in-.

By CLIFTON BARNES Sports Editor Oh, no. It's Rocky Mount against Whiteville again this year in the American Legion state semifinals. It was a strange, emotional, heartbreaking series last year but the Rocky Mount coaches want their players to forget about it before this year's series begins Thursday in Whiteville. RM assistant coach Moe Bauer said he wants his players to show no antagonism towards Whiteville. "What is past is past," he said.

"That's over; we have to look ahead." RM head coach Jerry Carter said it doesn't make any difference that Post 58 is playing Whiteville again this season. "I guess it's still fresh in everyone's mind," he said. "But last year has no bearing on this year except in someone's mind." Carter hopes his team just plays its normal consistent ball and forgets about last year. N.C. American Legion commissioner J.C.

Tyson will have a tough time forgetting last year's series. Tyson was right in the middle of the controversial series which saw Whiteville advance to the state finals by winning four of six games. While Rocky Mount coaches Carter and Bauer are playing down last year's bitter series, many fans in Rocky Mount and Whiteville are still talking about it. Whiteville led last year's series two games to one but were losing 6-4 at home in the ninth inning of Game Four. Whiteville protested the game because Post 58 pitcher Phil Bryant exceeded 12 innings pitched in 72 hours, which is against legion rules.

Tyson upheld the protest and awarded Whiteville the victory. But Rocky Mount protested the protest by appealing to the national committee. Many of the Post Pitcher Ken Nance, who was 11-0 during the high school season, is 4-2 with Post 167. It's been just the opposite for Northern Nash product Tim Wilson, who did fair in high school but has come on strong in legion ball. Wilson, now 8-0 on the mound, is scheduled to start the first game in Whiteville Thursday.

Phil Bryant, a Southern Nash product, is set to go Friday in Whiteville. John Adams, Donnie Bobbitt or Hank Jones will start Game Three in Rocky Mount Saturday at 8 p.m. "This earn has more pitching depth than others we've had over the years," Carter said. "That really helps when it gets to this level. We've scored a lot of runs in some games too but I'd have to say the key to our team has been good, consistent defense." There was a streak of bad defense midway through the season.

Rocky Mount did not seem mentally into baseball during a one-week period that saw Post 58 lose four of six games. "That was a low point," Carter said. "But we bounced back and started winning again. That's when we started playing consistently." The only loss since that skid came in the Area I best of seven championship series against Cary. Rocky Mount, which received a bye in the first round, has won nine of 10 games in the playoffs.

"The high point of our season is right now," Carter said. While many teams would be happy with a split in two games at Whiteville, Rocky Mount would not. "You always want at least a split on the road," Bauer said. "But we've been a good road club all year. If we play the kind of ball we've been playing, I don't see why we can't come home with two wins." Barring rainouts or more strange occurrences, games will be played in Rocky Mount Saturday, Sunday and, if necessary, Monday.

eluding Patrick Lemon who signed a pro contract, has done better than many expected. "Everybody says Whiteville's young team this year," Bauer said. "Cut they've got a pretty good nucleus back from last season." Whiteville, 19-10 overall, got second place in its conference but came back to play well in the series behind that nucleus of players. Post 167 trailed 2-0 in the series against Wilmington Post 10 before winning four straight. Whiteville trailed 2-0 in the series against Hamlet, tied it 2-2, fell behind 3-2 before winning two games in Hamlet for the title.

The top player back is third baseman-pitcher Jody Sykes, who is batting .460 on the season with six home runs. He is 8-2 on the mound during the season with a 6-0 mark in the playoffs. Chris Threadgill, a speedy outfielder who ran down a line drive in last inning of the last game against Hamlet to. give Whiteville the series, Is back and he's batting .375. Tim Hooks, who was out part of the year with mononucleosis, is back healthy at first base and is batting .290.

Robbie Watts, a pitcher and right fielder, is back and is hitting .320. Joe Reeves, who played sparingly last year, can be long ball hitter. He's batting .285. Reeves hit two homers, including a grand slam, in the N.C. State games earlier this summer.

New catcher Brian Eichorn has done a solid job. Considered a scrappy defensive player, Eichorn has a .300 batting average. Herman Jones, only 15 years old, is starting at shortstop taking the place of Lennon. Jones, who bats .270, is fast on the basepaths. the face? USFLgets Chicago, Cowboys begin workouts in Ron Dowhower, coach of the Indianapolis Colts, said there would be little impact on his team should the USFL fold.

"A lot of the top players are already spoken for. It's not as if most of the players. in the USFL are the top-caliber players we're looking for, either," Dowhower said. "There aren't a lot of top draft picks or top players that are there." One top draft pick who was threatenirig to join the USFL might have second thoughts now. The agent for quarterback Jack Trudeau of Illinois, the Colts' No.

2 draft pick, had threatened that Trudeau might sit out the year or play in the USFL. "I'm not sure that's the real issue (over deadlocked contract talks), but Km sure it hurt his bargaining power. Eliminated it, anyway," Dowhower said. Dallas Cowboys majority owner H.R. "Bum" Bright speculated that the end of the USFL "may put us in the position where more layers are available and we can ave more selection of players and possibly carry a bigger squad at about the same cost." Jim Finks, general manager of the New Orleans Saints, said his club is exploring the possibilities of getting some of USFL players slap should that league go under.

The -Saints have NFL rights to running back Mel Gray of the Arizona Outlaws and linebacker YaugT Johnson of the Jacksonville Keith Millard, who played in the USFL before joining the Minnesota 1 Vikings, said he was "glad I got out of the league in time. I guess they thought spring football wouldn't work because people don't want-year-round football. But going in1' the fall wasn't very smart Atlanta Falcons center Wayne Radloff, who spent two years in the USFL, said the USFL "did a lot for; players from an opportunity standpoint and from a money stand-u point. I came out of there with ex' perience and, as a free agent, I had contact with 15 to 20 teams. Indefinitely was better off because of; it.

"I have mixed emotions. I'm aju NFL guy now, but I feel bad for the I USFL." Falcon guard Jeff Kiewel, whoI played with the Arizona Outlaws, said, "I really had some mixed ex- -periences in that league. As far as management is I1; couldn't have cared less what hap-i, pened to some of those people. But the players, it's going to be a tough time. There's a lot of money owed some guys." -f 'v 1 1 I f-" I 1 1 in rn 11" I Mot Summer cvings on EDUTUEiSDIP 's By The Associated Press Jim Kelly, the top quarterback in the United States Football League's brief history, said he was pleased when he heard the league had won its suit against the National Football League until he heard what the prize was.

"From what I see, it's not a win, it's a loss. It's a slap in the face," Kelly, who quarterbacked the Houston Gamblers before that club merged with the New Jersey Generals, said after the USFL was awarded $1 Tuesday. The league had hoped the federal court jury would give it some or all of a requested $1.69 billion antitrust settlement from the NFL. Football players in both leagues found themselves in jeopardy of losing the rivalry that had served to increase salaries. "The whole key is that with competition, the salaries escalated.

Now they're going to be rolled back," Los Angeles Rams defensive back Johnnie Johnson said. "We're going to be back where we were before the league (USFL) came about. It's always great to have another league because it creates more jobs for fellow players. And it's a better position to bargain with for better contracts. It sounds like we're no longer going to have The USFL, which estimated its losses in three spring seasons at $150 million, had hoped a huge jury award would clear the way for a TV contract that would make Ik-league viable in the fell.

Now players are wondering whether the fall season will ever open. Agent Bob Woolf, who represents New Jersey quarterback Doug Flutie, said, "Right now we want to maintain our composure and see what it means. "We're under contract to Donald Trump, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens and see what are the ramifications of the decision." $90,000 first prize. Other major figures include Hubert Green, who will defend his PGA championship next week; Hal Sutton, Andy Bean and Calvin Peete, each a two-time winner this year; and Scott Verplank, who won this tournament last year as an amateur and now is a pro. tl 64 Seafood Sleak Barn Cno-we.

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(AP Laserphoto) LONDON (AP) The Super Bowl champion Chicago Bears and the Dallas Cowboys have begun workouts for Sunday's "American Bowl "86" game at Wembley Stadium, with their head coaches claiming that the trip to London was "disruptive." The clubs flew into the British capital Monday for the game that has been sold out since May. Some 80,000 fans from England, Scotland and Wales are expected. Bears Coach Mike Ditka and his opposite number with the Cowboys, Tom Landry, aren't too happy about having to travel to England in the middle of their preseason training camps. "It really is disruptive," Landry said Tuesday. "It breaks down the momentum.

What you try to do in training camp is build up to a high level to start the season, and this is kind of a vacation for us. "You almost have to make it a vacation to come all the way to England. We have to make time for the players and their wives. There's a lot of distractions. That's not like training camp." "It doesn't help our preseason build up much," Ditka said, "but it's kind of nice to be part of the American Bowl here in London." It was dull and cool Tuesday and a light rain fell before both teams got down to some training at the Crystal Palace's National Sports Center south of the city.

But the conditions didn't bother either coach. "It's been cool in California at our training camp, the team won't mind it at all," Landry said. As for the Bears, Ditka said the London weather was "pretty much like Chicago rain one minute, sun the next, and then snow." It is a nostalgic trip for Landry. The last time he was in England was 1944 when, as a 20-year-old bomber pilot, he flew 30 missions over Europe. Redskins Washington kicker Steve Cox is going through an identity crisis this summer.

Is he a placekicker? Is he a punter? By the time the Redskins -open their season Sept. 7, the five-year veteran is hoping the answer will be, all of the above. Cox, incumbent Mark Moseley and three others are competing for the piacekicking chores this season. The early returns were inconclusive, as Moseley made 6 of 8 field goals from distances ranging from 40 to 47 yards, Steve Willis hit on 5 of 8 and Cox converted half of his 8 attempts. Patriots Tony Eason threw six passes, all incomplete, before being benched in the second quarter of New England's 46-10 loss to Chicago in the Super Bowl.

He was also sacked three times in the game, but Eason wasn't about to let all that keep him down for the next six months. "Every game is a big game," he said. "The Super Bowl was no different than the opener to me." Lions Efforts to sign quarterback Chuck Long, Detroit's No. 1 draft choice, ended after management and Long's agent couldn't agree on where to hold a meeting. P20540K13 a lift for Crenshaw (-OZ7JVXOJF SP4 IS5R13 BW 145R13 BW 17570R13 BW 18570R1J BW 185R14 BW 18570R14 BW 19570RU BW 31 35 39.

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"I feel like my tempo and timing are good. My confidence is up. I'm hitting the ball well. VI don't see any reason why I can't do this week what I did last week," Crenshaw said before a practice round over the Butler National Golf Club course. But he'd be just as happy if he doesn't have to do it in precisely the same fashion.

Crenshaw broke a two-year non-winning string last week in the Buick Open, snapping the slump that had extended since his 1984 Masters triumph. His victory was built around an extraordinary left-handed 9-iron shot from under a small tree on the 13th hole. He got the unorthodox shot to within three feet of the flag for the birdie that put him in front to stay. "When things like that happen, you just Know it's your week," Cren- shawsaii. The victory gained Crenshaw $90,000.

But it was worth much more than that. "The memory will last a lot longer than the money," said Crenshaw, one of the game's more popular v) P15580R13WW players. "This means that I am competitive again." For almost two seasons, he was not; He went into a decline shortly after winning the Masters two years ago. Last year he suffered an alarm-ing loss of weight. His game in tatters, he missed the cut in 14 of 23 starts.

ty "The worst part was not knowing what was wrong. I'd lost strength. I was two clubs shorter than I had been. It was a struggle to swing the clubt My nerves were shot," he said. It wasn't until last December that Crenshaw discovered his problem was a hyperactive thyroid.

The condition was brought under control by medication. regained weight and, in the process, his golf game. "1 saw some really good play early in the year, but the scores weren't that good. Now the short game is coming back and I'm seeing-some results and I've got some confidence back," he said. Crecshaw is one of three players in the 156-man field who come into the Western off wins in their previous start.

The others are Greg Norman, the jaunty Australian who won the British Open, and Isao Aoki, winner cf the Japanese PGA. Norman, who has taken three titles this year and already has set a single-season money-winning record on the American tour, is the probable favorite in the chase for a mm FRONT -WfALiGrlMEriT Mm.