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inTf'Xtplr10'-''t- Section 3 Monday, 27, 1987 Fanfare for a quiet mm Cubs' Williams takes his place in the Hall of Fame Ocrnio Lincicomo In the wake of the news Sports heroes go by the book By Jerome Holtzman Chicago Tribune COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. Billy Williams, the Cubs' silent slugger who never played in a World Series, and Jim "Catfish" Hunter, a comparative Series regular, marched arm and arm Sunday into baseball's Hall of Fame. Also enshrined was Ray Dan-dridge, a third baseman who spent most of his career in the obscurity of the Negro leagues. The two-hour ceremony took place on the vast lawn at picturesque Cooper Park, in the middle of Leather-stocking i lM careers come to an end. It was an emotional and Uncharacteristic speech.

During his distinguished 18 years in the big leagues, Williams was the Cubs silent hero who rarely spokeon such matters. "This ceremony today reason to celebrate," Williams said. "But it is also a time for reflection, a time to examine the game's strengths and weaknesses by improving what is good and correcting what is bad. "The road is rocky and long, but the time has come for true equality. The next courageous Continued on page 5 Williams wasn't always a silent leader.

Holtzman, Page 5. Williams in his speech thanked his family: his mother, who is dead; his father, Frank Williams, 83, who was ill and unable to make the trip here; his sister, Vera; and his brothers, Clyde, Adolph and Franklin, all of whom sat in the first row on folded chairs. Williams also made a plea for himself and other blacks and minorities, with the hope they will be offered management positions in baseball when their playing AP Uurphoto Billy Williams offers his thanks, and his views on minorities in baseball, in his acceptance speech Sunday at the Hall of Fame. Iniperf ectioii suddenly-tutg Gone is the time when the arrival of a new sports season was preceded by nature. The leaves changed for football.

The snows came for basketball. The robins arrived just in front of baseball. Such an age is no more, gone like the butter churn and curb feelers. But we need not regret its passing. Weather is undependable and birds can get lost We now enjoy a more perfect method of knowing the next sport up.

It is noisy and arrogant and self-indulgent and passes more quickly than the season it anticipates. I refer, of course, to the sports autobiography. If Lawrence Taylor, the National Football League's Most Valuable Player, is confessing to using drugs, the professional football season cannot be far behind. The obligation to admit things that just months before were considered nobody's business comes with winning a championship, the more provocative the better. I recall Martina Navratilova objecting to rumor, innuendo and the frequent direct question about her choice of living companions.

Her reaction ranged between sobs and shouts. When she became famous enough to confirm in her own words everything that was said or thought, she was then no longer a If Lawrence Taylor is confessing to using drugs, the professional football season cannot be far behind -wl If By Ed Sherman Richard Dotson went from heart-stopping perfection to heartbreak in a heartbeat Sunday. The White Sox right-hander was nursing a perfect game and a 2-0 lead for 7' innings against the New York Yankees when his dream day turned into a nightmare. History wasn't to be his destiny. Neither was victory.

Dotson lost it all in a sudden flurry of Yankee power. Mike Pagharulo singled to break up the perfect game. Mike Easier followed with a double. Two batters later, Dotson lost his shutout, and the game, when pinch-hitter Dan Pasqua rocked him for a three-run homer. Gary Ward and Dave Winfield added homers off Dotson in the ninth to give the first-place Yankees a 5-2 victory that snapped their four-game losing streak and kept them a game ahead of the surging Detroit Tigers.

Afterward, Dotson was disconsolate about only one thing only. "I'm disappointed that I lost the game," he said. "As far as what I had going, it was no big deal." But it was at the time. Dotson had the Comiskey Park crowd of 22,762 whipped into a frenzy as he mowed down the Yankees. The crowd exploded when he struck out Winfield to open the Sox-Tigers, Ch.

7, 7 eighth. "He had some nasty stuff," Pagharulo said. "He was doing what I call painting the corners." Dotson appeared to have painted black with his 0-2 pitch to Pagharulo. But it barely missed low and away. Pagharulo then lined the next pitch to right for a single.

"I hit a sinker," said the Yankee third baseman. "The way he was pitching, I just went up there trying to stay aggressive and make contact" The hit flattened the crowd, but Dotson had other things to think about. "I might have felt differently if we were leading 8-0," he said. "But we were only leading 2-0. 1 wasn't thinking about a perfect game.

It was a tight game, and I just wanted to keep them off base." Dotson's worst fears were confirmed. Give the Yankees a crack, and they'll turn it into a canyon. Easler's double to right sent Pagharulo to third. DotsoV then struck out Mark Salas for, the second out. J.

With first base open? he thought about walking the, left-Continued on page 6 V) victim but an author, not that the two aren't often the same thing. After years of keeping secrets she bragged of her confession's climb up the best-seller list. The best of the Bears' books was Mike Singletary's, and it also, caused the least commotion. It is hard to remember now which Bears are published and which are private, though I don't recall the life story of the punter being made public, either singly or in installments. My copy may have been borrowed.

Two boasts that should never be made are how complete your sports library is or that you know how to score bowling. Revealing either one leads inevitably to the question, why? I have lost track of New York Mets who published, before and after winning the World Series. Used lives became new with a bit of updating though no tactless rededications to Bill Buckner and we knew in the spring that baseball was again upon us. 1 am eagerly awaiting the third edition of Dwight Gooden's life story, the one called, "Dr. The Sober Years." Golf is perpetually played and hence perpetually published.

The best golf confessional ever written was "Teed Off" by Dave Hill 10 years ago and reads as well today as then. I nave always been grateful that most golf books are about such esoterica as swing planes and addressing sidehill lies, rather than the mirthful lives of men who never grow old enough to wear belts. When his autobiography was still being proofed, Taylor admitted to a group of school children that he had done drugs. He said it was not up to him to tell them how to live their lives, leaving them with the obvious warning, "Just say maybe." It was no secret that Taylor used drugs. He had submitted himself to rehabilitation after his wife threatened to tell his mother, every linebacker's weakness.

Only Taylor knew how severe was his addiction. Taylor refused all inquiries about his use or cure, even during the Super Bowl when no question is too personal to ask. Taylor tells us now how he beat the drug testing system. He simply borrowed another man's urine, the modern proof, I guess, of a true friend. Any other message escapes me.

Trtbun photo by Ed Wagntr Jr. Richard Dotson gets a pat of consolation from more Yankee homers in the ninth followed the manager Jim Fregosi as he leaves after two shattering of his perfect game in the eighth. Dick Allen returns with all his old intrigue mi.ni I i r. Dob Verdi baseball. But, you know, I signed last season to work here for two seasons.

Roving instructor, minor leagues, and then they had the change upstairs. Hawk Harrelson gone, and me, too, but no money. That's the way it goes. Might pursue it Not a lot, but don't know many people who don't want what's due them. Upstairs, which is Dick Allen's euphemism for ownership and management, ownership and management weren't so sure about that Harrelson, the former Sox master planner, confirmed from his perch in the New York Yankees' broadcast booth that, yes, Allen had a contract for 1987.

But the folks who still operate the White Sox well, what about that afternoon in Continued on page 6 He showed up promptly and dressed to kill, too, in a natty dark blue suit. But when Dick Allen discovered that he'd be playing as a bygone member of the White Sox in Sunday's Old-Timers game at Comiskey Park, the big guy froze for a moment before his locker. "Brought a Phillies uniform with me," he said, staring at his duffel bag. "That's where I learned to play, Philadelphia. Thought I'd be with the National League today.

How many times they gonna run me out of this town, anyway? But Allen smiled and acquiesced, stripping down so as to don Chicago spangles. A couple of contemporaries who have grown since retirement stopped by and marveled how Dick still looked lean and strong, an athletic frame from the waist up at age 45. But Allen corrected them, patting his tummy where "a few Heinekens" were resting comfortably. "Not that I got anything against this town," Allen went on. "No, this is the best town of all to play in.

That one year here, 1972, was the most fun I've ever had in Trfbun photo by Ed Wtgntr Jr. Dick Allen was back playing first base and driving in runs again at Comiskey Park in Sunday's Old-Timers game. INSIDE Festival will stay but how? AL Yankees 5, White Sox 2 Blue Jays 4, Twins 2 Tigers 6, Angels 2 Red Sox 11, Mariners 1 Rangers 11, Indians 3 Royals 4, Orioles 0 Brewers 7, Athletics 4 rfliif I Mi 'VP fei II ill i 'r l. Charlie Lelbrandt of Kansas City throws a two-hitter to snap Baltimore's 11 -game winning streak. Allen, I lanssen win In triathlon Denver's Kirsten Hanssen (right) crosses the finish line to win the women division of the Chicago triathlon.

Californian Mark Allen won the men's division. Page 12. Cubs end road trip with loss Steve Sax's double is the difference as the Dodgers win 7-6 to give the Cubs a disappointing 4-6 mark on the road trip. Page 5. Ex-Purdue C3 considers Former Purdue University quarterback Jeff George Is reportedly considering a transfer to Illinois and not to Miami.

Page 8. Rain halts Women's Open The U.S. Women's Open ends Monday after a rain day Sunday. Page 3. Ireland's Roche wins Tour Stephen Roche becomes the first Irishman to win the Tour de France.

Page 9. Festival. The exposure, including 44 hours of TV coverage on ESPN, can be invaluable to the athletes and the sport A sport like swimming, which gets virtually no national attention between Olympic Games, needs to make better use of the Festival, held since 1978 in all but Olympic years. Instead, it almost ignores the P.R. value of an event that this year had 1,300 accredited media (450 national, 850 from North Carolina), not including ESPN's staff.

"Swimming used to be a frontpage, headline sport," de Varona said. "We need to impress people at events like the Festival." The swimming federation has. chosen since 1984 to send only' younger athletes to the Festival. Its. best will be at the national championships the selection meet for the Pan Pacific and Pan Am teams Monday ByPhilHersh Chicago Tribune DURHAM, N.C.

Once again, the U.S. Olympic Festival has been a success. It closed a 14-day run Sunday with record attendance and ticket sales. Its future seems assured. The question, until the ninth Festival takes place in Oklahoma City in 1989, will be: Where does it go from here? Even as the eighth Festival was further adding to the appeal for the sporting press and public of this multisports event, the U.S.

Olympic Festival remained thousands of characters in search of a plot. Should the Festival continue to be primarily a development meet, where athletes' like 12-year-old rhythmic gymnast Julia Rowell get a chance to compete and 13-year-old cyclist Jesse Grieco win two gold medals? Or should the governing bodies, for each Sport play to the Results in Scoreboard ever-growing Festival interest from national media and use this as an opportunity to grab headlines by showcasing their best athletes? "Hopefully, in the future, this unique Festival will become the most important summer competition for all federations," said TV commentator Donna de Varona, winner of two swimming gold medals in the 1964 Olympics, in her induction speech to the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame last week. "The federations should think of this as the Super Bowl of amateur sports." The attention lavished on wrestling and boxing, both of which used this competition as part of their trials for next month's Pan American Games in Indianapolis, is evidence of the public relations value of bringing the top athletes to the NL Dodgers 7, Cubs 6 Astros 5, Mets 2 Expos 6, Reds 0 Phillies 7, Braves 3 Giants 6-5, Cardinals 3-2 Padres 7, Pirates 4 The Giants take two from the Cardinals to sweep the series. Tribune photo by Bob Fit Roundup, Pag 7 Continued on page 8.