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r5 Section 4 Thursday, July 7, 1988 andberg, Dawson voted NL Stars All-Star Game starters National League Pos. Player Team Gary Carter Y. Mets 1B Will Clark San Francisco 2B Ryne Sandberg CUBS SS Ozzie Smith St Louis 3B Bobby Bonilla Pittsburgh OF Parry! Strawberry N.Y. Mets OF Andre Dawson CUBS OF Vince Coleman St. Louis American League Pos.

Player Team Terry Steinbach Oakland 1B Mark McGwire Oakland 2B Paul Molitor Milwaukee SS Alan Trammel! Detroit 3B Wade Boggs Boston OF Jose Canseco Oakland OF Dave Winfield N.Y. Yankees OF Rickey Henderson N.Y. Yankees will be first baseman Will Clark of San Francisco Sandberg (1,196,386) and Pittsburgh third baseman Bobby Bonilla The NL outfield has New York's Dar-ryl Strawberry Dawson (1,124,694) and St. Louis' Vince Coleman Sandberg was delighted by his selection. It's the fifth straight year he has been on the team.

"It's still a good honor. It's still an elite group that gets to go to the All-Star Game," he said. Sandberg is the first Cub to start three All-Star Games in a row since Ernie Banks in 1958, 1959 (both games) and 1960 (both games). Before Sandberg, the last Cub to make the All-Star squad five straight years was Don Kessinger Dawson felt honored, but a little tired. "You look forward to the extra break period, but if you're voted in, you just go and try to enjoy the game," he said.

All five of Dawson's All-Star appearances ('81, '82, '83, '87, '88) have been as a starter. At 34 (as of Sunday), he'll be the oldest Cub starter since Billy Williams (35) in 1973. The NL catcher is Gary Carter of the New York Mets, who got 825,407 votes and was selected to start for the eighth straight season, tying Philadelphia third baseman Mike Schmidt's record, which ended with Bonilla's selection this season. Joining Canseco in the American League outfield are New York Yankees Dave Winfield (1,737,729) and Rickey Henderson The AL catcher will be Oakland's Terry Steinbach See All-Stars, pg. 11 From Chicago Tribune wires The votes are in and the Cubs will play two.

Cub second baseman Ryne Sandberg, outfielder Andre Dawson, two New York Mets and two St. Louis Cardinals will start for the National League in Tuesday night's All-Star Game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium. No White Sox player made the American League starting lineup, although shortstop Ozzie Guillen is expected to be invited by AL manager Tom Kelly of the Minnesota Twins. Ozzie Smith of the Cardinals led all vote-getters for the second straight year, collecting 2,106,757 votes, to become the starting shortstop for the National League for the sixth straight year. He is the first player to repeat as the top vote-getter since Rod Carew did it three con- Ryne Sandberg Andre Dawson secutive years, 1977-79.

Oakland outfielder Jose Canseco easily led the American League with 1,765,499 votes. Joining Smith in the NL starting infield V-" I Joromo Holtzman On baseball paces Mr Weyer had ball calling ballgames Orioles fall to rookie Coach Mike Ditka keeps a close eye on rookies at Wednesday's workout in Lake Forest. By Ed Sherman The greening of Jack McDowell continues. He's still not ready to fully blossom yet, but his roots now are firmly entrenched. "This year is a learning process year for him," said Sox manager Jim Fregosi.

"He's really taking training on the major- league level. But he's progressing very nicely as a pitcher." McDowell has learned his lessons well of late. He passed every test Wednesday in leading the White Sox to a 4-1 victory over Baltimore in front of 10,066 fans at Comiskey Park. McDowell was brilliant, allowing only four hits and no walks over E'h innings. The only real blemish came in the ninth when Fred Lynn ruined his shutout bid with a one-out solo homer.

Cal Ripken then ended McDowell's evening with a double. Rick Horton came on to get the final two outs and post his first save of the year. "I was looking for the shutout," McDowell said. "I knew Mayor tries to placate Sox neighbors. Sec.

2, pg. 1. Lynn was looking for a fastball. I said, 'Here it He beat me with it." That was one of McDowell's few mistakes. He raised his record to 5-6 and lowered his earned-run average to 3.98, the first time since his first start that it's been under 4.

McDowell has made an impressive turnaround from his low point at the beginning of June. Back then, his arm was sore, and his confidence was severely tested. And he was 2-5 with a 5.73 ERA. But since June 10, McDowell has won three of his last four decisions, and the Sox are 5-1 in his last six starts. "I'm learning what it takes to win games up here," said the 22-year-old right-hander.

"It's tough to win here. A combination of things are clicking for me now. My arm feels much better than it did at the beginning of the season. I'm gaining some confi- See Sox, pg. 6 If just a warmup for Bears Managers and players test young umpires to determine how much guff the umpire will take, how much they can get away with.

It's an accepted and harmless practice, part of the big league experience, and so when the late Fred Hutchinson came out to dispute a call at home plate, Lee Weyer was prepared. "When he finished, he dragged his foot and covered the plate with dirt," Weyer once recalled. "And he told me I was just a young rookie punk." Hutchinson was correct. At 25, Weyer was among the youngest, if not the youngest, umpire in National League history. The rookie held his ground and told the menacing Hutchinson: "I might be young, but I'm going to run my ballgames." And he gave Hutchinson the thumb.

It was Weyer's first ejection. "I don't think I ever threw him out after that," Weyer explained. "That was the first and only time." Lee Howard Weyer, who died Monday night of a heart attack, lived to the age of 5 1 not a long life. He would have been 52 in September, three years short of his planned retirement. He may have had a premonition of death.

Two weeks ago, he told his best friend, fellow umpire Ed Montague, "If I died today, I've lived a full life." Montague agreed: "Yeah, you've lived a full life. Enough for three people." Some years ago, Jerry Dale, then an NL umpire, for his master's thesis at Cal Poly, did a character study and statistical analysis of the personality of major league umpires. Dale discovered that umpires, as a group, are aggressive, assertive, argumentative, extroverted and, like policemen, would get high marks in handling difficult situations. To survive, Dale concluded, the professional umpire learns early that he must be forceful and grow a thick skin. Weyer was among the exceptions.

As it is with so many big men he was 6-feet-6-inches and about 250 pounds he retained a gentle and kindly nature. He never provoked or prolonged arguments. He was involved in his share of rhubarbs but, in the main, was a peacemaker. "Okay," he would say, "That's enough. Let's play ball." "We called him the Jolly Green Giant," umpire Terry Tata said Wednesday.

"Everyone in the ballparks knew him, from one end of the league to the other. He liked people. And he had time for everyone. We've had some stormy union meetings, where there was a lot of disagreement, a lot of shouting. Lee would get up and say, 'C'mon, you guys, let's get I never See Holtzman, pg.

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7- it 1 i i i 1 mni-idli, lilW uTTtf" iiiniiiiaMf III Jim McMahon, one of the veterans who showed up, shares the spotlight with son Sean. Enjoying the best part of the hot day, the water break, are (below, from left) tight end Cap Boso and hopefuls Brent No-voselsky, David Lilja and James Thornton. Story on Page 3. Tribune photos by Bob Langer Reuschel, ump's miss trap Cubs showed the ball hit a foot in front of Butler's glove. "In my judgment, it was a catch," said the man who made the call, third base umpire Larry Poncino.

One of three roving National League umpires who fill in during vacations and other emergencies, Poncino was working the game because of the death Monday of regular umpire Lee Weyer. "I never saw the ball bounce," he said. "I saw the ball go directly into the glove." Poncino was told that replays showed a clear bounce. "A clear bounce? Well, I didn't see a clear bounce." Zimmer did, and told Poncino. "'I got it said Zimmer, quoting the umpire.

"That's all I ever get. 'I got it Butler? "He's gonna say he caught it," Zimmer said. "He's See Cubs, pg. 7 By Alan Solomon Chicago Tribune SAN FRANCISCO Rick Reuschel pitched another great game and won. Jamie Moyer pitched another great game and didn't.

But all that greatness was diminished by a call that wasn't great at all. It came in the ninth inning of the Cubs' 2-0 loss to the San Francisco Giants here Wednesday afternoon. Ryne Sandberg was on first base with one out when Darrin Jackson, the potential tying run, sent a line drive toward the gap in left-center. Brett Butler, who entered the game as a pinch-runner in the seventh before taking his usual spot in center field, raced to his right, dived and the ball wound up in his glove. The only question: Did the ball hit the grass first? The only answer: Sure did.

Some TV replays arc inconclusive. This TV replay conclusively v. INSIDE Blazer official: Sabonis at risk Soviet star Arvydas Sabonis risks a career-ending injury if he plays in the Olympics, says the Trail Blazers' physician. Page 13. aa.iwiMt-1 --iBiiilWiiiiI(Wiiiiriiii lifrfiTiMirtim1 tf itfliM ti trm i wnntrT i ii --r ri if mtjmt (3 I Bullets won't sign Malone Moses Malone doesn't fit into the plans of the Washington Bullets, who want a "young, developing team," and will not be offered a multiyear contract, according to owner Abe Pollin.

Page 13. One loss can't spoil what this Chicago kid has achieved Moses Malone AL severed, and now on a warm night in northern California he found himself facing a banger named Bomani Parker in the U.S. Olympic Boxing Trials. "If I hadn't stayed with boxing, I wouldn't have found myself dead, but I would be locked up someplace," he said 24 hours earlier. "I wasn't into violence seriously.

I just did things to impress people. But to find myself here is a big surprise. I never dreamed I'd be a boxer. I never dreamed I'd be here." McGroom was here as the National Golden Gloves champion at 178 pounds, as one of this country's top eight amateur boxers in that division, and that alone represented a triumph over a background that rarely breeds success. For it meant he had survived the teeming streets and the gangs that plunder them, the lure of drugs and the siren song of an easy buck, and that he was here only to add an ending to the fairy tale he had already authored.

That began in 1982 when his mother moved her family from Ft. Wayne, to an apartment in Cabrini-Green, and he enrolled as a freshman at Wells High. He was then a tall and gangly youth and, as a newcomer to the neighborhood and the school, a target to be tested and challenged by the gangs that infested them. His response mirrored the scene that surrounded him. "I tried," McGroom recalled, "to be Mr.

Cool Dude. I tried to say by Sec Boxing, pg. 6 differently as well. Six years ago, when he was a freshman at Chicago's Wells High School, Terry and Vernon and Wolf had rolled into the Northwestern University Settlement House to check out its boxing program. Vernon would abandon the sport, and end up cut down by bullets sprayed from a car speeding by his home in Cabrini-Grccn.

Wolf would abandon it as well, and end up fatally shot while dealing drugs on alien turf. But Terry McGroom had per By Skip Myslenski Chicago Tribune CONCORD, Calif. The sport of boxing sneers at the conceits of romantic scriptwriters, offering up instead sudden judgments often as cruel and as vicious as a Philadelphia left hook. Reality reigns inside the ropes that frame its rings, and only rarely docs it permit the intrusion of fairy talcs or fairy talc endings. If it were any different, then Terry McGroom's Tuesday evening would certainly have fnded NL Giants 2, Cubs 0 Mets 5, Reds 4 Expos 4, Astros 2 Dodgers 7, Cardinals 3 Braves 3.

Phillies 2 White Sox 4, Orioles 1 Indians 8, Athletics 6 Twins 6, Red Sox 1 Tigers 7, Mariners 6 Angels 5, Blue Jays 4 Brewers 4, Royals 2 Yankees at Rangers Roundups, Page 6.