Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 27

Chicago Tribune, Monday, May 9, 1988 Section 3 3 TENNIS BASEBALL Mr 1 Sox gift-wrap Orioles' victory Sabatini battles back, wins in Italy Sox-Orioles, Ch. 32, 6:35 "The mound is real steep," Thigpen said. "There was a big hole, and I'm not used to striding that far. My warmup pitches were all over the place. I had a hard time getting used to it.

That's a terrible excuse, though." John Davis didn't use the mound as an excuse. He knew he was terrible in the seventh. Davis relieved LaPoint with a runner on first and the Sox leading 4-2. He fell behind nearly every hitter, as the Orioles banged him for three runs to take a 5-4 edge. The last run came on a wild pitch, when Davis nearly threw the ball back to Chicago.

"It was a fastball that got away," Davis said. "Davis did not do the job," Fregosi said. "His control was not good." The Sox offense also was not blameless. They banged out 15 hits, but left 1 2 runners on base. "We had our chances," Fregosi said.

"We were swinging at balls over our heads and in the dirt. They try to give us walks, but we don't want them." The Sox did rally to tie the game in the ninth off Doug Sisk. Greg Walker's single drove in Ivan Calderon to send the game to extra innings. Daryl Boston also had a couple of clutch hits. His two-out double drove in Dan Pasqua in the second.

Boston then connected for a two-out, two-run homer in the fourth. It was a rare start for Boston, and he made the most of it. "All I can do is try to be patient," he said. "1 haven't been coming up much with runners on base. It felt good to get some two-out RBIs." If a few more Sox had executed the way Boston did Sunday, they might not have executed themselves.

A) jum1 vi'mmmrmmammmmK ynmmmmmmmm i i jr i -mmmm From Chicago Tribune wires Second-seeded Gabriela Sabatini, coming to life after dropping a second-set tiebreaker, wore down No. 14 Helen Kelesi 6-1, 6-7, 6-1 Sunday to capture the Italian Open in Rome. The 17-year-old Argentine found the range with her deep topspin groundstrokes in the third set to win the $200,000 clay-court event. The tenacious Kelesi, a Canadian ranked 40th in the world, gave Sabatini all she could handle in ROUNDUP Results in Scoreboard the second set, but got tired and aggravated a groin strain in the final set. The match, played on slow red clay before a crowd of 8,000 at the Foro Italico, lasted 2Vi hours in 82-degrce heat.

It was the second tournament title of 1988 for Sabatini, who became the favorite after top-seeded Chris Evert pulled out in the third round with a heel injury. "I'm happy I won the tournament, but I didn't play very well today, or all week," Sabatini said. "Maybe because Chris wasn't playing I lost my motivation." The first set took just 25 minutes, and it looked as if Sabatini would breeze. "I thought, 'Holy crow, that was fast, just let me win a couple of more Kelesi said. "I was nervous, 1 was spraying balls all over.

"But in the second set, I just started concentrating on watching the ball, and it worked." Kelesi broke Sabatini in the sixth game for a 4-2 lead, smacking a low service return at the Argentine's feet at 15-40. But Sabatini broke back at love in the next game, held serve and then broke Kelesi for a 5-4 lead as the Canadian committed two groundstroke errors. But with Sabatini serving for the match, Kelesi held firm and scored another service break for 5-5 with a backhand smash. Each player held serve to send the set into the tiebreaker. Sabatini won the first point when Kelesi misplayed a low volley, but the Canadian got a break on the next point when her backhand nit the top of the net and fell over.

The two were tied at 4-4 in the tiebreaker before Kelesi won the next three points. Sabatini sailed a forehand long bn set point. Kelesi broke for a 1-0 lead in the final set, but she never challenged the rest of the way. Between points she gasped for breath and began limping. "My legs were pooped," she said.

"I've had a groin strain from sliding on the clay. At one point, 1 slid and 1 thought my legs were going to UPI photo Andre Agassi leaps the net after beating the final of the Tournament of Champions Slobodan Zivojinovic 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 in Sunday. It was his third title of the year. By Ed Sherman Chicago Tribune BALTIMORE The White Sox took charity a little too far Sunday. It's one thing to feel sorry for the plight of the Baltimore Orioles.

It's another to give them a game. A few more games such as Sunday's and the Sox might be in the Orioles' class. They piled one wrong on top of another, handing Baltimore a 6-5 victory in 10 innings at Memorial Stadium. Joe Orsulak's bases-loaded single off loser Bobby Thigpen was the winning blow. The Sox are 1-6 in extra-inning games, while the Orioles improved their dismal record to 4-25.

Sunday's game was the kind that really gnaws at manager Jim Fre-gosi. He saw his relievers walk lcadoff men in the late innings, his hitters leave runners on base and a key balk that he thought was caused by some confusion on a bunt play. The Sox shouldn't have any confusion on how to execute the bunt play Monday. Fregosi has called a mandatory workout before the final game of the series to give his infielders some reminders of what they did in spring training. "We worked on that play every day in spring training, and then when we get in a game, they forget how to do it," Fregosi said.

"We just have to remind them again." With runners on first and second and no outs in the 10th, Fregosi knew the Orioles were going to bunt. He wanted to set up a play where shortstop Ozzie Guillen would cover third. However, the Sox didn't appear sure how the play went. The confusion might have disrupted Thigpen. He moved his right arm as if to go to a set position.

Then he stopped and restarted again without taking his foot off the rubber. It was a balk, with or without the new interpretation. "The mixup on the bunt play caused him to hesitate," Fregosi said. "1 guess I moved my hand," Thigpen said. Thigpen then intentionally walked Keith Hughes, and had an 0-2 count on Orsulak.

He thought he had him struck out twice, but umpire Nick Brcmigan saw it differently. On a 2-2 pitch, Orsulak drilled a single to right. "Once again, two pitches could have gone either way," Thigpen said. "One inside and one outside." There was no doubt that Thigpen made four bad pitches to Cal Ripken Jr. to open the inning.

It was the third straight inning the Sox had walked the leadofT man. "You can't walk the leadoff hitter late in the games and expect to win," Fregosi said. "If he Ripken hits it out of the ballpark, that's better than walking him. If he hit 30 homers this year, that's one of every 20 at-bats. Maybe we got one of those 19 times when he doesn't do it." Thigpen thought part of his trouble was due to a high mound, a sentiment shared by starter Dave LaPoint.

split apart." Tournament of Champions Andre Agassi won his fourth match in 45 hours, beating Slobodan Zivojinovic 7-5, 7-6 (7-2), 7-5 in the final in New York. It was the third title of the year for the 18-year-old from Las Vegas, who also won last week's U.S. Clay Court Championships and the U.S. Indoor Championship in February. Because of rain delays, the fifth-seeded Agassi and No.

8 Zivojinovic each had to finish one match Friday night and play two more Saturday. "I was too excited to get tired," said Agassi, who has moved up to No. 15 in the world rankings. "I was a little fatigued, but I came out and gave it my best shot." Agassi, who didn't lose a set in the tournament, used his powerful groundstrokes to keep his 6-foot-4-inch Yugoslavian opponent on the run before a crowd of 12,898 at the West Side Tennis Club. Zivojinovic, who relies heavily on his booming serve, did not take advantage of his main weapon.

He had only three aces and was broken seven times while getting only 51 percent of his first serves in. Munich Open Argentina's Guillermo Perez-Roldan successfully defended his title, defeating Jonas B. Svensson of Sweden 7-5, 6-3 in the final of the $202,000 tournament. WHITE SOX brHM Baltimore bfhbl Boston 6 12 3 Stanlcek If 5 1 3 1 Guillen as 6 0 10 BRipken 2b 2 0 0 Balnes dh 3 1 2 1 Lynn ph 0 0 0 1 Calderon ft 5 12 0 Gonzales 2b 10 0 0 GWaker 1b 5 0 3 1 CRipken ss 3 2 12 Pasqua 5 110 Murrey lb 4 0 2 0 Salas 4 12 0 Gerhart cf 4 0 0 0 KWiVams 3b 5 0 10 Hughes ph 0 0 0 0 Hi 2b 4 0 10 Landrum rf 3 0 0 0 Uohnson pr 0 0 0 0 Orsulak rf 2 0 11 Manrique 2b 0 0 0 0 Sheets dh 3 0 0 0 Nichols 3 110 Kennedy 10 0 0 Schu 3b 3 110 Totals 43 5 15 5 Totals 34 9 5 WHITE SOX 010 210 001 05 Baltimore 200 OOP 300 16 COLLEGES None out when winning run scored. Game-winning RBI Orsulak (1) DP WHITE SOX 1.

Baltimore 2. LOB WHITE SOX 12 Baltimore 9. 2B Calderon, Pasqua. Boston, Stanlcek. HR CRipken (6).

Boston (1), Balnes (4). SB ID, Murray (2). Sf Lynn. A graphic warning to steroid users RER BS SO IP WHITE SOX LaPoint 61-3 5 JnDavIs 1 2-3 2 Thigpen 1 2 Baltimore Tibbs 41-3 9 Schmidt 31-3 4 SiskW.1-1 21-3 2 Thigpen pitched to 4 batters In the 10th. The only way totdlarna'eand female penguin apart is by autopsy After years of steroid may be true of nur nans.

WP Tlbbs, JnDavIs. BK LaPoint, TMcpen. PB Kennedy. Umpires Home, Bremlgan; First. Garcia; Second, Reed; Third.

Hirschbeck. 3:33. A 19.521. How they scored BALTIMORE FIRST Stanlcek singled. With one out.

Cal Ripken homered. Two runs. SOX SECOND Pasqua doubled. Salas singled, Pasqua moving to third. With two outs.

Boston doubled, scoring Pasqua. One run. SOX FOURTH Salas singled and went to second on a wNd prich. With two outs. Boston homered.

Two runs. SOX FIFTH Balnes homered. One run. BALTIMORE SEVENTH With one out, Nichols singled. Davts replaced LaPomL Schu singled.

Stanlcek doubled, scoring Nichols. Lynn hit a sacrifloe fly. scoring Schu. Stamoek advanced to third. Davis uncorked a wild pitch, scoring Stanlcek.

Three runs. SOX NINTH Calderon singled and went to second on a passed bait. Walker singled, scoring Calderon. One run. BALTIMORE TENTH C.

Ripken walked. Murray singled. Both runners advanced on a TMgpen balk. Hughes intentionally walked. Orsulak singled, scoring Ripken.

One run. By Andrew Bagnato If the University of Minnesota gets its way, weightlifters around the country will soon be ogling posters snowing a man with breasts and depicting a woman with what appear to be male genitals. The idea is to shock young athletes with the possible side effects of anabolic steroids. "We know we're talking to them about the kind of thing that will get their attention," said Patrick R. Fallon, whose Minneapolis-based advertising agency, Fallon McElligott, created the posters.

The Minnesota graduate athletes' club is financing the effort to place the posters in locker and weight rooms across the country. Lifters and other athletes use steroids, banned in most competitions, to increase muscle bulk or enhance performance. Creators of the posters say steroid users run a greater risk of suffering such long-term side effects as cancer of the liver and hardening of the arteries than some of the sexual problems shown in the posters. But they said the gross depictions of sexual dysfunction, another proven side effect of the drugs, might have more shock value with youngsters and college students than the dry written warnings issued by some medical and sports organizations. "The way we do our business is to grab people by the throat," said Fallon, himself a regular lifter.

"You can't reach their minds without getting their attention." The posters definitely do that. One shows a stocky woman with an obvious masculine characteristic. It reads, "Steroids: They'll make a man out of you yet." That sold-out poster is somewhat exaggerated, campaign coordinator Erik Mcints said, but it underscores the problem of enlarged genitals, which some women steroid users experience. Another poster displays a pair of naked breasts and reads, "The obscene thing is, this is a man." A third displays a jockstrap with a sagging support area and the words, "It's a myth that all the really big jocks take steroids." "You need something that will be somewhat provocative," said Gerald O'Dell, the Northern Illinois athletic director who helped start the campaign while working at Minnesota. "Provocative shouldn't have a negative connotation to it, but it should provoke thought.

If you're going to educate, sometimes you have to do that." O'Dell would like to place the ads in Northern's athletic facilities. Mike Bell, head trainer at the College of Du Page in west suburban Glen Ellyn, said he is going to order the posters, which he called "pretty graphic." Minnesota's Club for former varsity athletes will break even if it sells all 5,000 of the posters at $5, said Mcints, a former Gopher hockey player. Fallon McElligott donated its time to the campaign. So far, more than 500 sports doctors, trainers and school administrators have ordered the posters or have expressed interest in them, including Dr. Forest Ten- Sox notes Posters such as this one will be used to warn steroid users.

nant, drug adviser to the National Football League. "I just think they are very said Tcnnant, who plans to urge teams to place the posters in weight rooms. "What we need right now is for everybody associated with sports and drugs in this country to start educating people." He's the man behind Michigan's pitching success signed a 15-year lease with the city of Baltimore for a new facility, which is expected to be ready for the 1992 season. Several Sox players were surprised to learn that Memorial Stadium, completed In 1954, was going to become obsolete. "This is a great park," said pitcher Dave LaPoint.

"If they build a new stadium here, maybe they can fly this ballpark to Chicago." Bill Long was the unsung hero in the Sox's 11-f victory Saturday night. He pitched AV scoreless innings, allowing the Sox offense to go to work. Long, a starter his entire career, still is adjusting to being a reliever. "At first, I felt like I had to think like a reliever," he said. "I've changed a few things, and now I'm going back to the same kind of approach I had when I was a starter.

I know I can do the job." Jerry Reus goes for his 200th career victory Monday. If he wins, he ll become only the second pitcher to reach that mark without a 20-wln season. The other was former Cub Mill Pappaa. Ed Sherman Chicago Tribune BALTIMORE There's at least one general manager who doesn't want to see the White Sox move to St. Petersburg.

"I'd hate to see it happen," said former Sox boss Roland Hemond, now with Baltimore. "I'm a Chicago White Sox fan. I hope this possible move doesn't become a reality. It wouldn't be the same." Hemond Is familiar with the emotions involving a possible Sox move. He was on board in 1975 when the Sox appeared headed for Seattle.

At the last minute, Bill Veeck received approval to buy the team and keep it In Chicago. "I thought we were halfway to Omaha," Hemond recalled. "I remember the day Bill was awarded the club. We were in the Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Fla.j, and earlier in the day Bill had been turned down. Media people were coming up to me saying they heard rumors of a possible deal we had going with Philadelphia.

I told them that was the least of my concern. We're were trying to keep the team here." The Orioles have a firm handle on their stadium situation. This week, they Sox averages just waiting to see me hit," said Campbell, an outstanding defensive catcher. "So I worked hard hitting off the tee, and this year I've put the numbers up on the board." Campbell, who batted .286 and .289 in his first two years as a Wolverine, is hitting .375 this season. Going into this past weekend, he led all Big 10 batters with a .436 average in conference play.

The solidly built 5-foot-9-inch, 180-poundcr has hit a career-high six home runs, four in Big 10 play. Defensively, Campbell played 39 errorless games before he made an ofT-targct throw on a swinging bunt at Michigan State last Wednesday. Exceptionally fast for a catcher, Campbell has stolen nine bases in II tries this season, including two thefts of home. His main contribution to the Wolverines, however, is the way he handles the deep and gifted pitching st a If that gives coach Bud Middaugh'i Wolverines their best chance to become one of the eight teams in the College World Scries. Many fans arc familiar with Jim Abbott, the acc of the Michigan staff.

Born without a right hand, Abbott carried the U.S. flag in last summer's Pan American Games, became the pitching hero in a victory over Cuba and won the Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete. Michigan also has three excellent right-handers: Mike Grimes, Mike Ignasiak and Chris Lutz. They and Abbott were a combined 14-1 in their first 15 Big 10 decisions. In discussing his pitchers, Campbell sounded at times like their press agent and at other times like a keen-eyed big-league scout.

"Abbott is a legitimate high first-round draft pick," Campbell said. "He throws 90-plus miles an hour. Wednesday, he threw one they clocked at 95. He has a curve, a cut fastball and a change. He used to have trouble hiding the ball, because of his one hand, and hitters read him.

But he hides it real well now. "Grimes has four pitches, too: fastball, curve, slider and change. He's realized, after throwing 85 and 86 in high school, that you gotta have another pitch. Lutz is one of our few pitchers who has only three pitches, but he's big 3 or 6-4 and 200 pounds and he throws in the low 90s and has good location." Michigan, sporting a 39-13 overall record and a 17-7 conference mark, offers hitting and defense to go with its solid pitching. First baseman Greg llacgcr, outfielder Phil Price and third baseman Steve Finkcn are hitting over .300 in Big 10 play.

And the Wolverines are second to Iowa in fielding. Michigan also has an intangible asset: its rich baseball tradition. The Wolverines have won four of the last five Big 10 titles and nine of the last 13. They have claimed 24 league championships, tied for seven others and won NCAA titles in 1953 and 1962. "We live the tradition," said Campbell.

"We sing the alma mater for every game. After every workout in our indoor facility this winter, we chanted, 'One, two, three, Big 10 "When we go out on the field, we jump up and slap this 'Go Blue' sign. We're all part of the Michigan-Go Blue syndrome." Campbell hasn't always been a Go Blue guy. He grew up a Cleveland Indians fan and gasp! a big booster of Ohio State and Woody Hayes. "That's right.

I really liked oP Woody. But when it came time for college, Ohio State didn't offer me a full scholarship, and Michigan did." Campbell is trying to become the third Michigan catcher to win the Big 10 batting championship. Randy Wolfe won it with a .514 average in 1985, and former Detroit Tigers star Bill Frcchan set the school's all-time batting record of .585 back in 1961. By Bill Jauss When he attended St. Edward's High School in Lakcwood, Darrin Campbell bowled in a league, carried a 202 average and once rolled a 289 game.

Campbell never considered becoming a professional bowler, however. His future in sports was assured one day when he was a 4th grader at St. Boniface grade school in Cleveland. "A teacher there bought me a catcher's mitt," Campbell recalled, "and 1 was hooked on baseball. I was 10 years old, and from that time on, my mom called me, 'My little "I've always wanted to catch and go into professional baseball.

Maybe I'm a ham. I like to be in the spotlight, and a catcher touches the ball on just about every pitch." Campbell's career goals appear to be right on target. I lis immediate aims arc to help Michigan win a third straight Big 10 championship and a trip to the College World Scries and to take the Big 10 batting title. Then Campbell, a junior who is eligible for the major league draft in June, will seriously consider turning pro and finishing his college studies during subsequent offseasons. "The scouts all said they were t' Through Sunday Safllna, Avq, AS 2B 38 MR RBI OW SB GenRedus .345 13 29 10 1 10 1 0 3 0 Han) Bene 26 107 10 33 6 0 4 15 1 0 0 CerttmFitt 295 22 78 14 23 4 0 7 14 2 0 2 Mark SMn 276 11 29 310 1 4 0 01 Greg Wearer 2B3 29 114 17 30 6 0 2 16 1 0 2 Den Pmoua 247 26 69 13 22 4 1 29 1 00 tven Cameron 212 27 1 04 21 22 4 0 6 19 2 0 4 DrmnleHa 211 24 76 0 16 1 0 0 10 2 1 1 OrneOuaMi .210 26 119 13 25 2 0 0 4 0 3 4 Fred Manrique .206 21 24 4 5 0 0 1 1 0 2 0 Deryl Bnnnn 102 926253013000 Lance Johnson .190 2246 16 31031 42 Kenny WSkeme 176 27 5 10 16 2 6 1 3 3 12 Steve Lyons 000 20 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ToMM 3M 21 7J 12 2M 40 11 117 1) 1 2 Opponents .246 26 5 132 2W 45 21 119 1 24 20 HchtnaT ERA 0) OS CO) Dave LaPoint 3 2 1 76 7 7 2 0 51 32 13 10 15 29 John Davts 1 1 2 49 13 0 0 1 21 2 13 20 12 BIHong 11 2 53 12 0 0 1 21 1 23 6 10 13 BnnmrMgpen 0 3 3 93 15 0 0 5 202 16 9 9 10 9 Morton 3 4 4 30 7 7 1 0 46 0 52 25 22 11 Mesne Peret 2 0 4 45 0 0 26 1 25 14 14 13 21 Jerry Reuse 11 4 91 5 3 0 0 161 16 10 10 4 9 Jerk MnOowa 2 2 4 9 6 0 0 34 1 31 24 19 15 20 John PsMovnki 10 6589000 11 1 12 672 Jose Segura 0 0 3 0 0 0 6 0 11 12 12 7 8 Tetava 14 14 3 SO 27 77 I 7 29 0 tJS 1J2 114 107 1M Opponents 14 14 4 00 21 2 I I 2500 230 126 111 99 19 ii.