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stuns Cuba on dramatic homer Pan American Games 1987 1-N By Skip Myslenski Chicago Tribune INDIANAPOLIS They were tied at 4 entering the bottom of the ninth, and Cuba's Pablo Abreu trotted in from the bullpen to face the United States. Abreu is his country's finest pitcher, a lithe left-hander who threw a one-hit shutout against Puerto Rico in his only other Pan Am Games appearance, and he quickly struck out designated hitter Rick Hirtensteiner and third baseman Scott Livingstone with sharp-breaking curves. Center-fielder Larry Lamphere, the ninth hitter in the U.S. lineup, came to the plate and immediately fell behind in the count 0-2. that urday, first base was his.

Ty Griffin, the switch-hitting second baseman, now set himself in the right-hander's box. In the seventh, batting left-handed, he had pulled the U.S. to within a run of Cuba with his second home run of the Games, yet here he thought only of keeping the inning going. "But, Lamphere said, "we call him 'Wily Cat' because we don't know what he'll do." What Griffin did to Abreu was jerk a curveball far over Bush Stadium's left-field wall to give the U.S. a dramatic 6-4 victory over Cuba in front of a standing-room-only crowd of 12,500.

"No," Griffin said, "I didn't know it was out. In fact, I wanted to stand there and and here he started mak ing blowing motions "I knew I was going to have to run Lamphere since I knew Ty wasn't going to hit one out," interrupted U.S. coach Ron Fraser, with a smile. "But Abreu-Jcept throwing fastballs out, so I didn't. Good coaching." "I was looking for a fastball in since it seemed I had a slow bat all day," continued Griffin.

"Surprisingly, he came in with a curve across the plate. I wasn't expecting it, but I adjusted to it." His adjustment gave the U.S. a victory it appeared intent on giving away before Griffin's heroics. In the first inning, Griffin and shortstop Dave Silvestri opened with singles, Continued on page 14 4' i Pan Am Games, Ch. 2, 11 a.m.

point," he said afterward, "I was looking for any way to get on base." Then Abreu threw a curve that kept riding in on the right-hander, and Lamphere rolled into the pitch and took it on the left elbow. A day earlier, in a game against the Netherlands Antilles, an umpire would not give Lamphere first base after he got hit in the same manner. But on Sat raj' UPI photo Ty Griffin is welcomed at home by Tino Martinez (left) and. ta sprague arter nis nomer gave me u.o. a 0-4 victory.

Dcrnio Lihcicome In the wake of the news Botsori digs fan, grounds Jays a. Unloved Robbie gets last laugh Chicago Tribune MIAMI Nothing is wrong, I guess, with the Bears' dedicating a new stadium, except that it is named after Joe Robbie and not after George Halas. It's kind of like the Pilgrims coming back to sail on a boat called the Condominium. The Bears open the preseason Sunday night as props in the celebration of the unsoiled Joe Robbie Stadium. They will shed the first blood there and maybe break the first bone.

Possibly they will even find a quarterback. Or eliminate one. But nothing that happens is more important than the fact that it is happening in Joe Robbie Stadium, the new home of the Dol- f)hins, a future Super Bowl site and, with a ittle tinkering, maybe even a major-league baseball team. If baseball should arrive, Robbie is expected to be the principal owner and incumbent The 'new' Mike Tomczak has a new goal: starting. And the Bears explain why they don't want Cris Carteri Page 6.

By Ed Sherman Chicago Tribune TORONTO Richard Dotson's memory stirred just before he left the dugout to pitch the ninth inning Saturday. He tried to block out any thoughts of deja vu. "I told Bill Long that just once I'd like to win a close one," Dot-son said. Dotson did. For a change, the pitcher's mound wasn't heartbreak hill for Dotson, who pitched bril-, liantly in the White Sox's 1-0 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium.

Dotson outbattled Jim Clancy (10-10), who gave up only two hits in eight innings, in one of the best pitchers' duels of the year. The Sox nicked Clancy for a run in the first, and Dotson made it stand up to record his second shutout of the season. The victory made Dotson forget some of the nightmarish defeats he has suffered this year. Probably the worst one occurred on Aug. 5, when he was dealt a crushing defeat by Toronto.

Ernie Whitt came through with a two-out, two-run double in the ninth to give the Blue Jays a 3-2 victory. So as the game rolled, into the Sox-Blue Jays, Ch. 32, 12:30 ninth Saturday, with the Sox nursing one lonely run, Dotson could be forgiven if he had a few bad thoughts run through his mind. But he eliminated them by making a pleasant memory for himself. He avoided the nightmares by getting Jesse Barfield and Ranee Mulhniks on grounders and striking out Willie Upshaw.

"It's nice to win one like this," Dotson said. "I had lost a couple of tough games. You try to block that out of your mind. I was just looking to get them in the ninth." Dotson (10-8) had the Blue Jays' number all afternoon. He allowed only six hits, gave up two walks and posted six strikeouts.

Even when the Blue Jays did hit the ball well, it usually found a Sox fielder. Toronto had five flies caught on the warning track. "You always get away with a couple of mistakes in a game," Dotson said. "They hit a couple of balls good to center. But that's where you want them to hit it, in the deepest part of the ballpark." Dotson also made excellent Continued on page 3 jf i -I Jf J' Cart Lewis flies through the air during long- Games Saturday in Indianapolis.

He quail-jump qualifying at the Pan American fled for Sunday's finals with a leap of 26-5. Carl Lewis loosens up j' .1.4 Track star tries to shake bad image namesake, surpassing even the Wrigleys and Comiskeys of Chicago, whose teams at least existed before their parks were named after them. Halas may get his monument, of course, eventually, as befits a founding father of professional football, maybe in another 20 years and depending on how many of his grandchildren remember his surname, but Robbie came to football 40 years late and got his while still conscious. That is to Robbie's great credit, for in only one other place in the National Football League is a stadium named after the team owner, that being Sullivan Stadium in Fox-boro, and the name was only recently changed from a beer. Who knows how long the present name will last, because the Sul-livans are trying to get out from under the Patriots.

Thepoint is, none of the other raging egos of NFL proprietorship has managed to erect the kind of monument to himself that Robbie has. First, the new arena was to be called Dolphin Stadium, after the pastel team of the same name, the five-time Super Bowl entry and most common word association with "Miami" after "Vice." But Robbie's children, handfuls of them, insisted that the place be named after Dad. CThere is nothing quite so touching as family loyalty, and Joe, too moved by the gesture to reruse, modestly agreed to allow his name to be placed alongside Doral, Tamiami and Or-Contlnued on page 8 By Phil Hersh Chicago Tribune INDIANAPOLIS Car! Lewis learned during the 1984 Olympics that even if your name becomes one for the books, it can still be mud. Lewis, who has made history, is now trying to change the way it looks at him. The scene was set at Los Angeles for him to become one for the ages, not to mention rich and famous.

The way it acted out, he was a poor player who strutted and fretted his hours Trlbun photo by Bob FM Control was the key for the Cubs' Jamie Moyer, who walked none in his 7-3 victory over the Mets Saturday. He worked 7 Aggressive Martinez, Cubs tee off on Mets upon the stage and then was heard no more. '1 INSIDE Tough talk at Pan Am Games Cuban officials promise to counter any aggressive behavior on the part of anti-Castro forces In Indianapolis. Page 16. Full coverage of the Games on Pages 14 and 15.

Ducky's managing just fine Former White Sox shortstop Bucky Dent Is making baseball people take notice as he keeps the Yankees' Columbus farm club In the International League race. Page 2. Western Open appears safe Although much of Butler National Golf Course was flooded during Friday's storm, officials expect the Western Open to go off on schedule Thursday. Page 9. Lewis won four track gold medals in 1984, matching the previously singular achievement of Jesse Owens in 1936.

So surpassing was Lewis' talent, his performance was unfairly dulled by its apparent inevitability. Yet it was tarnished more by letting the inevitability make packaging it seem more important than doing it. In victory, he ran around the track with an American flag roughly the size of the contiguous 48 states. He also disappointed a sellout crowd by taking only two of six long-jump attempts, the good reasons for which he did not deign to explain in advance. Had he not remained as distant as Garbo, Lewis could have let the public know he was trying to save his body for the demands of 1 1 races and two jumping competitions in nine days.

When he did meet the press, he was late. He was aloof from the other athletes. His clothes the all-black outfits and the rest-were less striking than battering. He did not Jbecome the glittering multimedia star that was to be part of the package. The wrapping was too gross.

The alchemy was all wrong. Instead of gold, Lewis turned into brass. Or dross. Or worse. Some of this, Lewis brought upon himself.

Some of it was caused by mismanagement of his relations with the media by an overprotec-tive adviser, Joe Douglas. All of it has made Lewis, 26, less than the sum of his parts. "I've definitely he said. "I'm a little bit older. I'm more mature.

I'm a little more confident in myself. Most of all, I'm happy. I'm a little more open probably ByBillJauss Billy Williams, the instructor, and Dave Martinez, the prize student, can get somewhat technical in discussing the fine art of striking a baseball. But when a 24-mile-an-hour wind is blowing out at Wrigley Field, one simple axiom supersedes all the esoteric stuff: "Get aggressive! Swing the bat! Don't take too many good pitches." The Cubs followed this advice to a tee Saturday the batting tee Martinez used in his latest lesson from Williams and the result was a 7-3 victory, their third straight over the New York Mets and the first by any club this season over Terry Leach (10-1). The free-swinging Cubs lashed out 17 hits, including home runs by Martinez and Leon Durham, and six doubles, two apiece by IcadofT man Mavtinez and No.

7 hitter Luis Quinoncs, plus three singles by Ryne Sandberg. This made things easy for Jamie "Slugger" Moyer, who now has a hitting streak of five games and a pitching string of one straight victory. Moyer contributed an RBI BCubs-Mets, Ch. 9, 1:20 double and a single. And he made a key fielding play, springing off the mound and firing to third for a for-ceout when Rafael San tana tried to move runners to second and third with nobody out and Cubs ahead 4-3 in the seventh.

This set up a nifty double play started by Keith Moreland on pinch-hitter Lie Maz-zilli's hard drive to third. But Mover's biggest contribution was his sharp control. Plagued by walks in recent setbacks, the slender left-hander walked nobody and threw just 21 called balls in a 73-pitch, seven-inning stint that made him a 10-game winner for the first time. "I've been pitching a little too fine," said Moyer. "Today, I turned things around for myself They're good hitters, but if you walk two or three ahead of a home run, it's a grand slam." Frank DiPino was excellent in relief.

He set down all six Mets he faced, striking out four of them. Moyer (10-9) felt the Mets may have been trying too hard to take Continued on page 3 Lmnnww Lewis opens up with reporters during a press conference at the Pan Am Games. little more low-key." He showed up a day too soon for a scheduled oress conference at the Pan American Games, where this weekend Lewis will compete in the long jump and the 4x1 00-meter relay. He came back the next day, arrived early and stayed an hour. His manager, Douglas, was not in sight.

Neither was the usual retinue. He came only with his coach, Tom Tcllcz, and he wore a tan silk shirt, brown pants and brown shoes. What price a good name? In life as in art, the wages of win can be heavy. "If I had been with Carl at all his press conferences in Los Angeles, it wouldn't have turned, out this way," Tellcz said. "Joe Douglas wasn't ready for all that." Tellcz is a forthcoming man, coach of the U.S.

men's team at these Games and coach at the University of Houston. He has known Continued on page 15 AL NL Cubs 7, Mats 3 WhlteSoxl.BlueJaysO Yankees 11, Indians 2 Tigers 8, Royals 4 Giants 6, Dodgers 0 Expos 8, Pirates 3 Twins 14, Mariners 4 Red Sox 7, Rangers 6 Phillies 8, Cardinals 2 Astros 8, Braves 0 Roundups, Page 4 Orioles 2, Brewers 1 Athletics 13, Angels 3 -J-.