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June 11, 1984 13 THE DAILY DISPATCH, Moline, Illinois Sports 670 9 ubs steal win in S. JTO rea. Unltid Press International N.L. roundup popped to center, leaving the runner stranded. Rainey, 6-4, allowed five hits and struck out three over seven Innings.

Smith picked up his 11th save in relief. Durham led off with a double, and with two outs, and Durham now on third the Cardinals in-tentionally walked Davis and Bowa to load the bases and bring Smith to the plate. With Andujar pitching from the wind-up, Durham stole home, sliding under Porter's tag. ELSEWHERE, San Diego beat Cincinnati 7-5, Montreal beat New York 3-2, Pittsburgh beat Philadelphia 12-6 in 12 innings, Los Angeles beat Atlanta 3-2 and Houston beat San Francisco 7-4. At San Diego, Craig Nettles went 3-for-3, including two home runs, and drove in four runs Sunday to spark a San Diego 7-5 victory over Cincinnati.

Floyd Chlffer, who relieved starter Andy Hawkins In the second inning, allowed only three hits in five Innings to get the victory. Dave Dravecky went the final 3 1-3 innings for his sixth save. At Montreal, Tim Raines and Jim Wohlford each singled home a first-inning run to help the Expos snap the Mets' six-game winning streak. Dan Schatzeder, 2-1, relieved starter Bryn Smith and went 2 2-3 innings for the victory, with Jeff Reardon pitching 1 1-3 innings for his ninth save. Walt Terrell, 4-8, was the loser.

At Philadelphia, Marvell Wynne's two-run single broke a 12th inning tie and triggered a seven-run uprising that lifted the Pirates. All the Pittsburgh runs In the 12th came off reliever Jim Kern, who was signed as a free agent a week ago. Lee Lacy homered for the Pirates in the 12th. At Los Angeles, Ken Landreaux hit his third homer in three games and Burt Hooton pitched out of a ninth-inning Jam to lead the Dodgers to their third straight victory. Alejandro Pena, 7-2, picked up the victory with the help of five relievers as Atlanta failed on two occasions to score late in the game with the bases loaded.

At San Francisco, Jose Cruz's three-run homer highlighted a five-run first that carried the Astros. St. Louis Cardinals manager Whltey Herzog has seen enough of the Chicago Cubs to figure they're for real. "They're the best team we've faced this year," Herzog said after the Cubs took a 2-0 decision Sunday, at St. Louis, "and they've got great pitching.

That's the best I've seen Ralney (Chuck) pitch." Ralney and reliever Lee Smith combined on a five-hitter to give first-place Chicago its second straight victory over the Cardinals. The Cubs picked up Sunday's win in an unusual manner. With the game scoreless in the eighth, Jody Davis singled with one out off starter Joaquin Andujar. Larry Bowa followed with a double down the first-base line and the Cardinals gambled by Intentionally walking pinch hitter Jay Johnstone to load the bases. Bob Dernier popped up for the second out, but Andujar hit Ryne Sandberg with the first pitch, forcing Davis home with the go-ahead run.

The Cubs added another run in the ninth when Leon Durham stole home. "You have to give credit to both pitchers," said Chicago manager Jim Frey of Andujar and Rainey. "They both pitched an outstanding game, but I think he (Andujar) was tiring." Andujar, 10-5, has been wild of late. He's been ejected from two games this season for hitting batters, and in his last two starts has hit four batters. Sandberg said he was surprised at being hit by a pitch.

"I was going up there to swing the bat," he said. "His pitch Just sailed in and hit me in the forearm." THE CARDINALS threatened twice. With two out in the fourth, Willie McGee tripled and Porter hit a long fly to center field, but Dernier made a leaping catch at the wall. With two out in the sixth, Ken Oberkfell hit a fly to left field that Mel Hall misjudged, allowing Oberkfell to wind up at third. But McGee LEON DURHAM home Sparky says: Ask not whom Tigers can bea United Press Intarnatlonal wiS if A.L.

roundup- ly walked and Johnny Grubb was hit by a pitch, forcing in Trammell. Johnson singled home a run against Tom Underwood in the sixth and run-scoring singles by Tom Brookens and Gibson keyed a three-run eighth against Bill Swaggerty. ELSEWHERE, BOSTON nipped Milwaukee 5-4, California blanked Kansas City 2-0, New York topped Toronto 5-3, Minnesota hammered Chicago 12-5 and Texas downed Oakland 3-1. Cleveland beat Seattle 3-1 then lost 4-3 in a double-header. At Boston, pinch hitter Rick Miller's eighth-inning triple scored Bill Buckner to break a 4-4 tie to give the resurgent Red Sox their 10th win in their last 12 games.

Rich Gale, 1-0, called up Thursday from Pawtucket of the International League, got the win in relief. Rick Waits, 0-2, took the loss. At Kansas City, Geoff Zahn, 7-3, tossed a six-hitter and outdueled rookie Mark Gubicza in going the distance to notch his second straight win since returning to the lineup June 5. The left-hander struck out three. Gubicza fell to 3-5.

At New York, Oscar Gamble's two-run sixth-inning homer and a two-run third-inning shot by Don Mattingly lifted the Yankees to a sweep of their three-game series. Reliever Clay Christiansen, 2-2, was the winner. Doyle Alexander, 5-2, took the loss. Dave Righettl earned his seventh save. At Chicago, Tom Brunansky hit a three-run homer and Mickey Hatcher also had three RBI to help Minnesota snap a seven-game road losing streak.

Brunansky's blast, his seventh, off Britt Burns, 2-6, came In the first. Ed Hodge, 3-2, worked 6 2-3 innings to get the win. At Arlington, Texas, Larry Parrish hit two homers, including one back-to-back with Pete O'Brien, and Charlie Hough pitched a seven-hitter for his fourth straight victory to lead the Rangers. Hough, 6-6, who notched his 33rd career complete game and his sixth of the season, struck out seven and walked four. At Cleveland, Ken Phelps belted his eighth homer of the season to help Seattle snap a six-game losing streak and stop the Indians' four-game winning skein in the nightcap.

Carmen Castillo hit his fourth homer to help Cleveland win the opener. You can't blame Detroit manager Sparky Anderson for feeling on top of the world after sweeping the Baltimore Orioles. But he sounded positively presidential. "Let's not ask the question can we play with them, the question is can they play with us?" Anderson said Sunday after the Tigers swept a twinbill from Baltimore 10-4 and 8-0. "I believe the Orioles are outstanding, but we are the ones who are out in front by 12 games in the loss column." In the opener, Kirk Gibson and Alan Trammell drove in four runs apiece and Lou Whitaker scored five times.

Gibson drove in two runs and Dan Petry pitched a three-hitter in helping the Tigers complete the sweep. "Taking three out of four here Is great," said Trammell. "This is how we started off the season, but I'm sure it's going to come down to September. I wouldn't be surprised if Baltimore is in it in September. We're excited, but we realize there's a long way to go." Gibson's two-run single in the fifth inning of the first game off Mike Boddicker, 7-5, broke a 3-3 tie and made Doug Bair, 3-0, the winner in relief of Glenn Abbott.

Willie Hernandez earned his ninth save. TRAMMELL'S BASES-LOADED double keyed a four-run eighth inning off Sammy Stewart. Ken Singleton and Mike Young slammed solo homers for the Orioles and Eddie Murray added his 12th homer of the season, a two-run shot. In the nightcap, Petry, 9-3, allowed only a fifth-inning double to Wayne Gross, a seventh-inning single to Cal Ripken and a ninth-inning double to Floyd Rayford. Petry, who struck out five and walked one, received help from two double plays as Detroit won three of five games in the series.

"I get great defense, so I'm not taking any credit," said Petry. "Give it to the rest of these guys. But the Orioles have great hitters and I have respect for them because they lose about two games in September while everyone else is beating each other." Howard Johnson led the Detroit attack against Dennis Martinez, 1-3, with his fourth homer and two singles. Johnson's homer started a three-run third inning. Whitaker walked, took third on Trammell's single and scored on Gibson's single.

Darrell Evans was intentional- A iii ii 4 jt a mm fc. -v Da venport 's Nunn upset Boxing picks step away A I AfeWt 4 1 -United Press International Los Angeles (106-pound division), Steve McCrory of Detroit (112), Pernell Whitaker of Norfolk, (132), Frank Tate (156) and Ricky Womack of Detroit (178) and superheavy weight Tyrell Biggs of Philadelphia. All are expected to survive the box-offs, as did all of the Olympic trials winners in 1976 and 10 of the 12 Pan American Games trials winners last year. Davenport's Michael Nunn, the favored middleweight, was upset Sunday by Virgil Hill of Williston, N.D., in the middleweight finals. Nunn will go to Las Vegas box-offs.

Other winners Sunday included Robert Shannon of Edmonds, Wash, (at 119 pounds and the only member of the 1980 Olympic team represented at the trials), Andrew Minsker of Milwaukie, Ore. (125), Tim Rabon of Broussard, La. (139), Hill (178) and Henry Tillman of Los Angeles (201). SHANNON ALSO PRODUCED a large upset, surprising Jesse Benadives of Corpus Christi, Texas, with a unanimous decision. Two nights earlier Benavides had beaten three-time world champion Floyd Favors.

Whitaker, the world champion at 132 pounds, joined Breland in saying the box-offs were not needed. "They had the best fighters at these trials they possibly could," said Whitaker. "Why do we need to prove ourselves again? "But that is their policy, then that is what we have to do." FORT WORTH, Texas (UPI) A dozen of the nation's best boxers moved to within one step of the Olympics Sunday and, predictably, they were wondering why they were not already members of the squad heading for Los Angeles next month. "It's all done for television money," said Mark Breland, one of those 12 winners. "That's really all it is." Breland is the next thing to a cinch to make the Olympic squad and will be an overwhelming choice to win a gold medal in the 147-pound division.

But some of the fighters who won championship bouts at the trials Sunday may not be so fortunate. Each of those 12 must take part in the "Olympic box-off" in Las Vegas, early next month, the event which Breland says is designed to attract more television dollars. They, will face an opponent selected by the U.S. Amateur Boxing Federation on July 6 and if that challenger wins the two boxers must meet again the next day to determine the Olympic team member. "If someone beats you by a fluke and gets to the Olympics and then loses, it looks bad," said Breland, who won a unanimous decision over David Gutierrez in the trials finals Sunday.

Box-offs, however, have traditionally been used to select Olympic and Pan American Games teams. BRELAND WAS JOINED by favorites Paul Gonzales of Above a groping Larry Bird, Kareem Ab- game Sunday. The winning Lakers got the dul Jabbar gets his hands on a rebound dur- ball Jabbar's hands. He scored 30 points, ing action in Game 6 of the NBA champion- The Celts didn't get the ball to Bird late. They ship series Sunday.

That was the story of the lost- Celtics go 'Clang; 9 playoff goes seven By BOB RYAN Boston Globe JU7V PkJTJ Bird: NBA had way i INGLEWOOD, Calif. It was a game decided by 'I ivo sounds, the first being "Swish," and the second eing "Clang." LJ I y3; For two and a half periods the Celtics were groov- fig to the swish sound provided by guards Dennis ohnson and Gerald Henderson. The Los Angeles lefense is predicated on double-teaming Boston's big Iien, leaving the Lakers vulnerable to the outside hot. With 4:59 remaining in the third period, the 'eltics were sitting atop an 11-point (84-73) lead, and ad been the recipients of 12 perimeter baskets Boston Globe INGLEWOOD, Calif. Larry Bird hinted quite strongly that the Celtics were in a "no win" situation Sunday.

One of Bird's first comments after Boston's 119-108 Game 6 loss to the Lakers Sunday was, "(Commissioner David) Stern told a fan that the NBA needed a seven-game series, that the league needed the money. When the commissioner makes a statement, like that to a fan, you know it's going to be tough." Bird's declined to say who told him about Stern's alleged statement, but his inference was clear: The league didn't want the Celtics to win Sunday's game. Bird reiterated the comment at least twice, saying, "When Stern makes a statement like that, things are going to happen. You just don't make statements like that and expect anything out of it. He's the commissioner and he shoulldn't be saying anything like that." The NBA wanted a seventh game because they wanted to make more money and they got their wish." Stern was on a flight to Dallas and unavailable for comment.

League spokesman Brian Mclntyre said, "I think it's ridiculous. If In fact he (Stern) said it, it was a throwaway line. I'll try to reach him tonight, but he'll laugh." -'f seven by DJ and five by Gerald) from their starting uards, each of whom was en route to a 20-point after-oon. All in all, the Celtics' offensive life had been ather idyllic. But for the rest of the contest all the Celtics heard vas the clang of the basketball making contact with he rim.

In the final 17 minutes of the game, the Celtics made just six field goals, and only one of them vas from longer than two feet (a Johnson three-tointer after the game had been decided). Worse yet, hose misses were coupled with a sudden inability to et back on defense, thus triggering the dreaded Los ingeles fast break, which had been vacationing in uerto Vallarta since the first quarter of Game 4. Desperate times, we are told, call for desperate pleasures, and thus at that precise 84-73 juncture Pat Itiley made the substitution that helped decide the ame in favor of the Lakers. He took out Magic One streak came to an end and another continued in the men's finals of the French Open Sunday. Ivan Lendl, left, finally won a major tournament, besting John McEnroe, above, trying to become the first American male to win the torunament in 30 years.

French Open 'Czech-mate9 PARIS (UPI) It was a French Open made in Czechoslovakia. Martina Navratilova, a Prague native turned American, twice made tennis history and Ivan Lendl of Czechoslovakia finally won a major tournament. Lendl, a loser in four previous Grand Slam finals, shook off the runner-up image with a grueling five-set victory over top-seeded John McEnroe Sunday, spoiling the New Yorker's bid to become the first American since Tony Trabert in 1955 to win the French title. "It feels great to be answering different questions for a change," said Lendl, who earned $131,250 for his dramatic 3-, 2-6, 6-4, 7-5, 7- 5 decision over McEnroe. "I guess the best thing is to win a tournament no matter who it's against.

But once you win one, it's good to have won it against McEnroe. I had to wortk hard for it, that's for sure." Navratilova earned $1.12 million by completing the Grand Slam cycle with a two-set triumph over Chris Evert Lloyd Saturday and the doubles Grand Slam with partner Pam Shriver Sunday. A iohnson and replaced him with rookie Byron Scott, Ivhose previous final series contributions had been negligible. SCOTT QUICKLY BECAME a major factor. Fifty- Iwo seconds after stepping on the floor he started the breaking two of the game's final three ties.

The first came at 87-all, when he made a spectacular left hand fast break reverse lay-up. And the second came at 93-all, when he broke the game's last deadlock by calmly drilling a corner three-pointer. But inserting Scott wasn't the only important change Riley made. "We made three adjustments," explained Riley. "First, we simply rotated our guards more to stay (Please see 'NBA, page 15) I.

A. comeback by taking an inside-out pass from (areem Abdul-Jabbar and burying a corner jumper. le followed that by stuffing a sneakaway after a DJ urnover. In the fourth period, he merely had the honor of -United Press Intarnatlonal.