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Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, May 26, 1982 Section 4 '3 Baseball Horse racing Arlington president asks board to reinstate drug "I am certainly puzzled by the quick change in attitude," said Dave Hooper, the board's executive secretary. "Ron Jensen, a state veterinarian, has reported to us that he has seen one horse bleed after a race in Arlington's first week. "And, at Downstate Fairmount Park where the same rules apply, they have had only two bleeders in the first five days. And their fields are larger than ever despite the tougher rules." MOONEY SAID Arlington's continuing struggle with smaller than normal race fields wasn't the reason he has asked for Lasix's return. "But there's no question the absence of Lasix has kept our fields smaller," he addei.

Officials of the Chicago division of the Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association dispute the statistic that only a single horse came back bleeding to the Arlington barns last week. "Our count is 17 bleeders through Monday's racing," said HBPA secretary and treasurer Leilani Reynolds, whose husband Ed is the organization's president. "Horsemen aren't reporting them to the state vet because it won't do them any good now. "The horse will go on the vet's list and be unable, to race for 17 days. In the past, they reported it because they had some solution Lasix.

If horses bleed a second time in a race they are ruled off the track for three months. Six months for a third time bleeding." "The number of bleeders on the state vet's list in Illinois is higher than I have seen anywhere else. We have 300 horses on it out of the more than 2,000 horses stabled at the track." The Racing Board originally was, willing to extend the horsemen's phase-in period for no medication on race day through Arlington's meet, which would have allowed controlled use of Lasix. But the commissioners were stopped from doing that because of Mooney's dramatic outcry against medication. "I have never been in favor of medication to race horses," the new Arlington boss stated.

"It leads to further abuses. Trainers will have to learn to train without it." "I STILL AM against medication," he reiterated Tuesday. "And I still hope some day that we can race without it. But I'm willing to agree with horsemen that they need it for now." Perhaps some of the commissioners will wonder if Mooney and the horsemen aren't being hasty in saying that they can't live without Lasix. After all, Arlington has been open only a short time and an experiment can hardly be judged in so short a time.

One of the major reasons the commissioners wanted to ban Lasix is because their laboratory chemists complain that the drug makes it harder to spot illegal substances in a horse's urine. Lasix makes a horse produce more urine and dilutes the sample. By Mike Kiley ARLINGTON PARK president John Mooney, who asked to be the first track manager in the Chicago area to run a thoroughbred meet under Illinois' new ban on using medication on race day, has reversed his position after just eight days of the tougher rules. Mooney said Tuesday that, as a result of horsemen's pleas to him to reconsider his stand, he has petitioned the state. Racing Board to, reinstate a medication named Lasix, which is a treatment for horses that bleed.

These horsemen wanted Lasix administered on a controlled basis on the day bleeders race. Mooney and a horsemen's representative said they won't ask for Butazolidin, an anti-inflammatory medication, to be reapproved at its old level. Under the new rules, Bute is permitted in small amounts supposedly making horsemen stop using it 24 to 48 hours before a race. If the Racing Board, which is expected to meet in emergency session soon to consider the Lasix petition, gives its approval, horsemen may again be allowed to have vets doling out Lasix five hours before a bleeder is scheduled to race. Lasix is permitted solely for training, not racing, in the current rules.

"I DIDN'T AGREE readily to the horsemen's request to me that they have Lasix again," Mooney said. "But they feel they have a difficult financial situation on their hands with bleeders. Tfibuna pnolo by Edward Wagner Jr. Sox shortstop Bill Almon experiences that helpless feeling while trying to flag down Mike Squires' throw Tuesday night Kison lets Angels soar over Boston From Trtbunt Wtra Service IT HAS BEEN a long road back from arm surgery for Bruce Kison, but he never doubted his chances, And the Boston Red; Sox can be added to the latest list of believers. Kison, in his first complete game in two years, pitched a four-hitter Tuesday night in leading the California Angels to a 10-2 romp over the Red Sox at Boston and back into first place in the American League West.

Kison's former Pirate teammate, Tim Foli, supplied Basketball A. Roundup "It's not always necessary for me to put numbers on the board. I know that now. I'm going to have the time, the opportunity, to come on. Now I know I can ao throuah a Quarter If sSllWWfeft ijafj and nnt tskfi a Rhnt and still hn I a tremendous factor." Julius Erving New 'baby' delights Einhorn By Robert Markus WHITE SOX President Eddie Einhorn was like a father watching his child take its first steps Tuesday when SportsVision went on the air in an estimated 10,000 Chicago homes.

Einhorn said that, with orders coming in at the rate of about 1,500 a week, "we have about 11,850 orders now and about 85 per cent of those have been installed. We've got 220 bars hooked up and ready to go, and there are a lot of people hooked up we don't know about, but we're trying to find out about them." "I'm very pleased," Einhorn said. "There's probably been more heat on me for this deal than anything else I've ever done. I'd say I'm probably two years ahead of my time with this project. We took a bold move early in the Einhorn is the father of SportsVision, but the Sox aren't the only team involved.

Bulls, Black Hawks and Sting games also will be carried on the subscription service. THE FIRST presentation for which customers had to pay was the Sox-Royals game Tuesday night. Einhorn admitted he didn't know how many SportsVision subscribers, who pay a basic $21.95 a month, stayed home and watched the redhot Sox. "The big question now is how many will watch he said. "I don't know." But he said there was no question that a continued strong showing by the Sox would boost sales, especially now when the service is new.

is designed, however, to be year-round sports entertainment," he said. "It's beyond buying an individual team's situation. But right now, it's like running Rocky every night. There's no questioning the fact that if your product is good it will help your sales. "The Black Hawks getting hot was the biggest boost we got." EINHORN IS PLEASED that his concept of a sports network owned by the teams themselves finally got under way after two weeks of giving the product away as a sales incentive, but he sounded Tuesday as though he enjoyed the effort as much as the result.

'Dr. J' dazzler as leader, too By Fred Mitchell Chicago Tribune Prew Sarvic PHILADELPHIA Whirling, soaring, double-pumping, jamming, head-faking, leaning in, fading away: Julius Erving does it all. "The things that Doc used to do in the ABA American Basketball Association would simply dazzle you," recalls Bulls general manager Rod Thorn, an assistant coach when Erving played with the New York Nets. "You'd see it right in front of you 360s, shots from behind the glass. But then you'd ask yourself, 'Was that for But Erving is demonstrating a leadership that extends beyond his physical skills as he leads the Philadelphia 76ers against the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association championship series, which begins Thursday.

After five years of notoriety and championships in a lesser league, Erving is out to grab his first NBA title after six seasons with Philadelphia. He doesn't leap quite as. high anymore or change directions quite as abruptly, but he is still a dominating force on the court. And he has become an eloquent force off the court for a league whose public image needs sprucing up. "I ALWAYS HAVE to start trying to put things in their proper perspective," Erving said.

"I have a very long list of things I have not done and do not have. And a very long list of things I have done and do have. "Projecting myself out into the rest of the world, the same applies to all people. Am I going to spend four runs batted in on a homer, a single, a sacrifice fly and a squeeze bunt as the Angels snapped the Red Sox five-game winning streak. "I know it has been a while since my last complete game," said Kison, who walked three and struck out four in raising his record to 4-0.

He lowered his earned-run average to 2.06 and retired 17 of the last 19 Boston batters he faced. Orioles 10, Rangers 3 Gary Roenicke hit two home runs and John Lowenstein added a homer at Arlington, to help Jim Palmer 2-2, who hadn't started a game since May 6 when he left In the first inning with a stiff neck, to his 250th career victory. He's the 32d major leaguer to reach that milestone. Yankees 8, Blue Jays 0 Tommy John pitched a five-hitter and Roy Smalley and Oscar Gamble hit home runs at New York to lead the Yankees to their, sixth consecutive John 4-4 recorded his second shutout of the season and didn't allow a runner past first base. A's 10, Brewers 5 Dan Meyer, who entered the game batting .230, triggered a 16-hit attack with three doubles and a single and contributed a squeeze play at Milwaukee in helping Oakland snap a six-game losing streak.

The game featured 13 extra-base hits. Including 11 doubles, by the two teams. Dodger 5, Pirate 2 Steve Garvey drove in the go-ahead run with a double In the sixth Inning to break a 2-2 tie and bring Los Angeles back to .500 at 22-22. Garve'y's double scored Pedro Guerrero who had tripled. Fernando Valenzuela 6-4 had his 5th complete game in 10 starts, stopping Pittsburgh on five hits.

He struck out seven and didn't walk a batter. 'Cardinal 8, Giant 3 San Francisco's Reggie Smith hit his 300th major league home run, but it came in a losing cause as St. Louis struck with a pair of three-run innings. Ken OberkfeD and Glenn Brummer were the hitting stars for the Cards with Oberkfell driving in three runs with a triple and a single, while Brummer drove in two runs. Braves 10, Met 2-Oale Murphy hit his 14th home run and Glen Hubbard added a three-run blast in an eight-run second inning at Atlanta.

The Braves sent 14 batters to the plate in the second and collected five extra-base hits and four singles off starter Mike Scott 3-4 and reliever Tom Hausman. Red 4, Phillies 3 Dave Conception singled home two runs and Dan Driessen added a run-scoring single to fuel a four-run eighth Inning that rallied Cincinnati' at Riverfront Stadium. The Reds chased starter Larry Christenson with one out in the eighth when Wayne Krenchicki and pinch-hitter Larry Biittner singled and Eddie Milner doubled in a run. Reliever Ed Farmer 1-3 walked Alex Trevino to load the bases, and Conception slapped a two-run single to left to tie the game. Expo 8, Astro 1 Andre Dawson hit two home runs and drove in four runs and Gary Carter also homered at Houston to back David Palmer's first major-league victory in 1Vi years.

Indian 7, Twin 0 Von Hayes hit a three-run homer and Ron Hassey and Alan Bannister each hit solo shots to support the seven-hit pitching of Lary Sorensen at Minneapolis. Sorensen 4-3 handed the Twins their seventh consecutive loss. Mariner 7, Tiger 8 Cave Henderson's run-scoring single with two out in the ninth scored pinch-runner Joe Simpson with the winning' run. Bill Caudilt pitched the final inning for Seattle to gain the victory and run his record to 6-2. The Mariners had overcome a 6-3 deficit with three runs in the eighth.

my time and energy concentrating on what I haven't done and let that dictate how I live my life, how I view the world, how I want to view the 32 years I've lived? "If I ask myself that question, I say, 'No, definitely not. "As much as I want to win a world championship, realism tells me there are a lot of other things more important. Things I can touch, see, feel. Things that make up the very existence of my spiritual, mental and physical well-being." ERVING, THE NBA'S most valuable player last season and the fifth-leading scorer 24.4 points per game in the league this year, dedicates most of his effort to his wife and sons Cheo and Jay. "You're not living to work.

You're working to have a better living," he said. "I defy anyone to look at me and call me a basketball player or a basketball junkie." Still, teammates and opponents sense a special intensity as Erving strives for the elusive goal of the NBA championship. After the Sixers lost the sixth game to Boston in the semifinals, Erving said: "If we're going to go down, I'm not going to go down passing the ball." Then he scored 29 points in the seventh game, hitting on 10 of 21 field-goal attempts and 9 of 9 foul shots. "I could see it in Doc's eyes when he first came out on the court," said Boston's M.L. Can after Philadelphia clinched a spot in the finals.

"He looked like he had that old fire in his eyes, like he was in a trance and nobody was going to stop bim from achieving his mission and goal. I knew then that we were in trouble." "Doc is still Doc," said 76er guard Maurice Cheeks. "But he helps more than on the basketball floor. He instills that leadership and direction. I don't know where we'd be without him." Erving, despite having the eighth-best scoring average in NBA history, said he is concerned not with scoring points but with winning.

"It's not always necessary for me to put numbers on the board," he said. "I know that now. I'm going to have the time, the opportunity to come on. Now I know I can go through a quarter and not take a shot and still be a tremendous factor. "I don't know if I'll play average, great or poor against Los Angeles.

But I know I want to be in the thick of things." Eddie Einhorn "The whole story of how we put it together is more exciting than putting it on the air," he said. "They said it would take a year, and we did it in six months." He admitted that, until two weeks ago, he wasn't even sure it was going to work. "This is the first time in history that a two-channel box has been used," he said, referring to the fact that subscribers have the option of also paying for ON-TV's programming. The basic cost for the combination, after installation, is $37.90. "OTHER CITIES HAVE a little box thats says Off and ON-TV," Einhorn explained.

"Ours says SportsVision-Off-On-TV. You press Channel 3, and if you dial ON-TV you get that, and if you dial SportsVision you get ours. "That's what we've been sweating out. This is brand new technology, and until two weeks ago we didn't even know if it would work. "We've been running tests in the homes.

We couldn't use the ball games because they were unscrambled for Channel 60, so we used old baseball tapes for two hours a day." The latest figures show that 69 per cent of SportsVision subscribers are also taking On-TV. Installations are running about a week behind, according to a SportsVision spokesman, who added, "We can install about 300 a day." mm a CHICAGO'S CHAMPION STING HOSTS THE 1S82 TRANS-ATLANTIC CHALLENGE CUB White Sox knuckle under to Royals' Quisenberry Tonight, 7:30 PM FAMILY NIGHT Head of household pays full price for $5.00 Reserved Grandstand OR $3 00 General Admission ONLY and rest of family admitted for 12 price. Join the Designated Sifters In one of three choice reserved grandstand locations ALL SATURDAY SUNDAY GAMES NOW THRU END OF SEASON Includes "Designated Sitter" T-Shirt and playoff-World Series priorities. Continued from page one Baines' run-scoring triple and a two-run homer by Carlton Fisk. So they had a chance, trailing only 5-4, even if Fisk's homer was the signal for Quisenberry to appear.

But, again, a walk hurt them. "A key play was walking Aikens in the seventh," said LaRussa. Amos Otis followed with a single, but Hickey got Hal McRae to pop out to short. THE ROYALS brought in Jerry Martin to pinch hit, giving LaRussa the opportunity to switch to a right-handed pitcher If he chose. "But I'd decided if Hickey got McRae, I'm going to.

let him face Jerry said LaRussa. "We just didn't make the pitch to him we wanted The ex-Cub lined it into the left-field corner for a double that brought in the final two runs. The way Quisenberry was pitching, they could have stopped the game right there and awarded him the game ball. The only hit was a single that Greg Luzlnskl bounced up the middle in the eighth, and the Bull was immediately wiped out in a double play. Quisenberry threw, "maybe a half dozen" knuckle balls, according to LaRussa, who added it was the first time the Sox had seen the flutter pitch from the Royals' reliever.

That's because Quisenberry just started throwing It on the Royals' Japan tour last winter. "THE ONLY PROBLEM It that most of the time I have trouble throwing It for strikes," said Quisenberry. "But when I fall behind I know I can throw a sinker for a strike. I get that over 90 percent of the time." Dotson had a no-hitter going for three innings, but the Royals went ahead in the fourth when Otis singled to right with one out. Dotson caught him leaning on a but Mike Squires, in the game because Tom Paciorek had pulled a leg muscle in the second, threw the ball over Bill Almon's head at second.

Two scratchy hits followed, with Geronimo getting the RBI by blooping the ball over Almon's head. The Sox tied it with just one hit against Creel In their half, but Dotson, the only losing pitcher among Sox starters, again couldn't stand prosperity Willie Wilson beat out a hit to short before Dotson walked John Wathan. There was one out when Aikens boomed the ball over LeFlore's head. ALTHOUGH toe center fielder had to make a long run to catch up to the ball, It appeared he had a chance when he finally got there. Le Flore was incensed that anyone would even ask the question, and LaRussa, who earlier had admitted LeFlore is pressing, said: "That wasn't an example of him pressing.

In my opinion, the ball was not catchable." In any event, that put the Royals In command. LaRussa stayed with Dotson, who got out of that Inning without further damage. "He's struggling," LaRussa said of Dotson, "and I've got to get him over the hump. We need him if we're going to win this thing." COMINQ ATTRACTIONS: June 7, -Oakland June 10, 11, 12. 13-Calllomla SEE SOME v0F THE BEST PLAYERS IN THE WORLDt SOUC Call 924-1000 Tickets at Box Ollice and Ticketron Dial C-A-L-L-S-O-X to charge on Bankcardl Follow the White Sox on SportsVision: To order call 693-9200 STINGVS.NACI0NAL(URAGUAY)THU.MAY277:30PM.C0MISKEYPARK STINGVS.ECNAP0LI(ITALY CALL' 558-KICK F0H TICKETS KOW.TICKETS ALSO AVAILABLE AT TICKETROH AND STING OFFICE, 333 ILMICHIGAN, SUITE 1525..