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The Montana Standard, Butte. Sunday, July 29, 199013 Blues LI Standard1 op Gapseco buoys boy 14 Kings by the numbers 18 muckers "fc 1 lir- Mh it if "it GLENDIVE The Scobey Blues spoiled the Butte Muckers' opener in the Class A American Legion LEGION BASEBALL state baseball tournament Saturday 8-1. The loss relegated the Muckers into a 9 a.m. Sunday loser-out game against the Missoula Reds, which lost to Vauxhall, Alberta, 14-1 Saturday. In other the two-time defending -champion Bitterroot Bucs downed Fort Macleod, Alberta, 11-4 and host Glendive edged the Billings Cardinals 7-6.

Other games Sunday will send the Cardinals against Fort Macleod in a 12:30 loser-out game, Bitterroot against the 28-26 Laurel Dodgers at 4 and the Central District champion Dillon Cubs against Vauxhall at 7: 30. Scobey used a two-run homer by Terry Farber in the three-run ninth inning to cement the victory over the Muckers. The Blues also scored three runs in the first as pitcher Mike Lee whacked a two-run double and two in the seventh on Ryan Linder's two-run single. Catcher Kevin Nelson had three hits, including a double, and Lee, Farber, Linder and Ken Meyer each had two hits for the Blues. Scobey won for the 21st straight time to stretch its record to 39-11.

The Muckers managed only five hits off Lee tfngfes by Shawn Ker, Brian Farren, Josh Vincent, Tim Byrnes and Paul Flynn. "We hit the ball, but at somebody," said Muckers Coach Mark Beckman. whose team slipped to 16-16. The Muckers stranded 10 base runners. Muckers starter Ryan Maloney fanned eight batters before being relieved by Flynn in the ninth.

Lee recorded five strikeouts. The Muckers scored their only run in the first inning when Farren singled with one out, Steve McGee was hit by a pitch and both moved up a base on a passed ball, and Vincent crossed the plate on a ground ball to first by Vincent. Vincent will hurl against the Reds, with Justin Henderson in relief, if needed. Scobey Blues 300 000 303 1110 Butte Muckers 100 000 000 1 5 2 Lee and Nelson. Maloney, Flynn (9) and Ker.

Lee. Maloney. Scobey Blues battino. Nelson 3 6. Fossum 0 2.

Meyer 2 5. Lee 2 4. Farber 2 5. Linder 2 6. Fladager 0 3.

Hoversland 0 2. Solberg 0 3. Tarum 0 3. Butle Muckers batting Ker 1 3, Farren 14. McGee 4) Vincent 14.

Salmonsen 0 4. Roesti 0 4, Maloney 0 3. Byrnes 14. Mischkot 0 2. Flynn 11 Extra base hits IB Nelson; Lee.

HR Farber. 'wm trJk sun nhrttuTHnrnT Copper Kings' Dave Hulse dodges inside pitch as Helena catcher Rob Beck reaches for it Sports off The Times Golf can be rescued from Shoal Creek New York Times In the ojd religion game, there is a saying that the most segregated hour in America is 11 o'clock on Sunday morning. By logical extension, the most segregated four hours in America are golf outings at private clubs. The golf course still has the aura of being the last place in America where a couple of pals can tell a joke on the fairway on Sunday morning and not be turned in to the company personnel officer for racism or sexism or any other kind of ism. The social structure of golf does not usually attract much attention Erw nudes CCoimgs 3 in the sports pages, where we By Bruce Sayler Standard Sports Writer 9 A George Vecsey speculate why there are not more black sports executives nearly half a century after Jackie Robinson Meanwhile, a major sport like golf, extremely popular with advertisers and network officials and equipment man 1 vX v.

igr '-7! Cm I 5 3 fJOfH-v If to, uh, "error" is human, then the Butte Copper Kings were a band of average Joes Saturday night at Alumni Coliseum. They committed eight errors, five of them on pickoff plays, in losing 4-3 to the Helena Brewers in a Pioneer League baseball game. "Eight errors, that tells the story," Butte Manager Bump Wills said. "Any one of them cost us the ballgame." The loss dropped the Copper Kings 1 1 2 games back of Southern Division leader Idaho Falls, which blanked Medicine Hat 2-0 Saturday night. But, Butte remained tied for second place with Salt Lake City, a 9-3 loser to Billings.

Five of the Copper Kings mistakes came in the fourth inning. The Brew's Mike Couture was a case in point. He traveled all around the bases during the inning on four Butte errors. He reached base when Copper Kings his ground ball scooted between the legs of Copper Kings shortstop Paul Matachun. Couture, seemingly caught off first base, got to second when first baseman Brian Mouton bobbled pitcher Terry Burrows' pickoff throw.

Burrows then threw wildly into center field trying to pick Couture off of second and the Brewer scurried on to third base. Matachun's boot of Tony Diggs' grounder let Couture score. Butte's fifth error of the inning proved harmless. It "was after a similar pickoff move on Randy Hood that Burrows attempted on Couture at first base. Mouton caught the ball cleanly, but his throw down to second was off target, allowing Hood to reach third base.

But, he was left there when Mike Carter grounded out for the third out of the inning. But, by that point, the Copper Kings had already committed seven errors and trailed the Brewers 4-1. The showing ruined a sparkling relief pitching job by Butte's Matt Whiteside. The right-hander worked five innings in which he allowed but one walk and one hit. He struck out three, hit a batter and shut out the Brewers the rest of the way after taking over for Burrows to start the fifth.

"Whiteside has been very consistent for us," Wills said. "He pitched outstanding." The Copper Kings took a 1-0 first-inning lead on Todd Guggiana's two-out double to left field that scored Dave Hulse, who had led off with a walk and strolled to second on a pass issued to Brian Mercado two outs later. Helena's Tony Diggs steals third ahead of throw to Miguel Castellano ufacturers, has got away with holding major tournaments at clubs that are segregated by race and maybe even religion and ethnic origin. Segregation at country clubs became a hot item this summer thanks to the Rev. Abraham Woods, president of the Birmingham, chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Woods noticed that the Professional Golfers' Association Championship, one of the four most important tournaments in professional golf, had been scheduled on Aug. 9-12 at Shoal Creek Country Club near Birmingham, a club that does not admit black members. Not only that, but the founder of the club triumphantly told the world that he did not intend to change that policy, touching off an old-fashioned 1960s' flurry of protests. After massive public pressure, companies like Lincoln-Mercury. IBM, Toyota and Honda backed away from their television sponsorships, while Delta Airlines cut back as much as it legally could.

These corporations and the networks recognize that they are part of modern America that at least pays lip service to equal opportunities. It's time for big-time golf to be brought into this fold. Golf has always had a very white image. Back in the '50s, Sport magazine ran an article about the lack of black players entitled "Please Go Away, Says the PGA." Golf has since had several prominent black players, but The Charlotte Observer has come up with a statistic that 17 of the 39 tournaments on this year's PGA Tour schedule are held at all-white clubs. One must assume this partnership with de-facto-segregated America has been done with the approval of the powerful companies that regulate sports business around the world as well as the news outlets that cover the sport.

Golf has the aura of where upscale America goes to play, and does a little business on the side. Some clubs have become a bit more open about guests since Japanese businessmen brought their corporate offices and their passion for golf to this country But many courses still have to be reminded that women work, also, and should have as much right to play on weekends as the big boys. It is often argued by people who belong to private clubs that they have the right to set their standards. Given favorable property taxes and writeoffs for memberships, private clubs are everybody's business. Rep.

Charles B. Rangel, is on the right track in introducing legislation that would ban tax exemptions for dues to segregated clubs. But there is a more immediate issue. The PGA should be pulled out of Shoal Creek. They would find another home for this tournament if the fairways were flooded, or a tornado tore up the greens.

Why reward Shoal Creek for being an outpost of intolerance? Make no mistake about it; sports are everybody's business. There is not one sport in America whose officials and broadcasters do not try to tell you that the great game is an embodiment of all the values we hold near and dear. Almost all professional teams use tax-aided stadiums. Many lege teams are tied in to state governments and corporations. We the people even pay for the barrage of advertising boomed at us over the airwaves.

Sport has been answerable to 'calls for justice since World War II, when it became obvious that people who took the chance of dying for their country had the right to work and live and even play in a more equitable society. Back in 1946, Branch Rickey recognized that his baseball team, the Dodgers, was part of a community known as Brooklyn, and a nation whose name had the word "United" in it, and he hired an in-fielder named Jackie Robinson. In 1968, protestors recognized that the all-white New York Athletic-Club was using the new tax-supported Madison Square Garden for a track meet. As a result of protests, that track meet is not held any more. Towns in Dixie that used to have all-black pavilions in deepest right and left field now have black police officers, black city managers, black mayors.

Desegregating the ballpark was often a symbolic first step. Golf has stayed almost totally white because the golf club is one of the last bastions of money and power and privacy. One might be tolerant of the good old boys at Shoal Creek enjoying themselves in private with their own kind. Not with our advertising and tax dollars, they don't. v-uj His status is day-to-day.

Wills said. But, Blevins and outfielder Mal-vin Matos are both recovered from injuries and ready again to play, the manager reported. Butte will host Helena again Sunday night at 7 at Alumni Coliseum. The Copper Kings' starting pitcher will be right-hander Danny Patterson, 0-1. HELENA ab bi bi 0 0 Hood cl MCarter ss 0 1 0 0 1 I 0 BUTTE ab Hulse ct 3 Castllno3b 4 Greer It 4 Mercado dh 3 Shave pr 0 Guggtana 4 Posey rt 4 Mouton lb 4 Matachun ss3 Penn 2b 3 Blevins ph I Totals 31 Helena tied the score in the top of the second on Leon Glen's solo home run with one out over the right-field fence.

The Brewers went ahead 2-1 in the third as Hood doubled into the left-field corner, was bunted to third by Carter and came home on Vince Castaldo's sacrifice fly. Then came the error-plagued fourth. Besides Couture's gift trip around the bags, Helena also got Diggs home as he reached on the second Matachun error -and stole second and third before going home on Hood's single to left. Butte scrapped back behind Whiteside's tough pitching. The Copper Kings got one run back in the bottom of the fourth as Marty Posey blasted his first professional home run a solo shot that soared over the right-field wall.

And. they scored one more in the fifth on base hits by Shannon Penn, Miguel Castellano and Rusty Greer, the latter driving in Penn and coming with two outs. But, Helena relievers Tim Wilson and Brian Souza quieted the Copper Kings the rest of the way, though Souza was forced to quell a Butte threat in the ninth to post his fourth save of the season. Brian Mouton lashed a one-out single to right field and Matachun walked, which put the tying run, Mouton, on second base. Greg Blevins was called on to pinch hit for Penn.

Blevins has more power than Penn, but bats right-handed and was facing the right-hander Souza, whereas Penn has better speed and -hits from the left side. However, Penn had sprained an ankle earlier by fouling a ball off of it. Wills said that wasn't the reason he summoned Blevins, though. He was playing a hunch. "It was my decision," the manager said.

"I'll live and die with it." Blevins, possessing the ability to now win the game with one swing, instead grounded into a game-ending double play. Regular shortstop Jon Shave missed the game, except for a pinch-running appearance, because of injury. He strained a ring-finger ligament on his left hand during Friday night's second game of a doubleheader sweep against Gate Castaldo 3b 2 TCarter dh 3 Beck 4 Edwards If 4 Glen lb 4 Couture rf 3 Piggs 2b 4 I I 1 1 I 1 I 0 I I 0 0 3 7 Totals 1J 4 i 3 Helena 01 1 200 0004 Butle loo 110 0003 Burrows 2. Penn. Matachun 2.

Mouton 2. Whiteside DP Helena 1 LOB Helena 7. Butte 6 2B Guggiana. Hood HR Glen 121. Posey (1) SB Diggs 2.

Hood MCarter lasraioo ER BB SO IP 2 5 2 Helena Brakely Wilson W.2 0 S.4 Butte Burrows L.2 3 Whiteside HBP TCarter by Whiteside Umpires Home, Ferris. Bases. I 2 79 A 47 Injured boy gets help from golfers tin so he can work on his golf game while recovering from surgery. In addition to the golf membership, Justin will be presented with a check from the Pryor Creek Junior Golf Club, Walker said. Golf is Justin's favorite sport, but last summer his right arm was caught in a combine and nearly severed at the wrist and below the shoulder.

After going through surgery for a second time to improve his ability to grip things with his right hand, Justin is practicing his golf swing agavp. And the motion needed to swing a golf club seems to be just the right therapy for strengthening Justin's injured arm, said his mother. BILLINGS AP) A Billings teen-ager injured in a farm accident js getting some help in his recovery from local golfers. Justin Pearce, 15, will be given a one-year honorary membership at Pryor Creek Golf Club. Golf professional John Walker said the club owner and members are giving the membership to Jus.