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Saturday, July 10. 1982 Part III 11 Cos Angeles CTlmea LONG BEACH' CYCLING: Buchan Critically Injured in Collision Own on Naples Island for 5105,000... Honest! The I'luzu ocr un unhtvnln inwsliiiciil iipniiunii I bedroom conJos, many luur leaiuics, scvmiiy buildingsublet rancan parking, rooltop suiukk garden. Some marina pp. or ocean vievts.

I "Seeing the Nationals really got me pumped about riding." she said. "I've been so gung ho with cycling that I've been in college for five years and still haven't finished." That's right, Rebecca Twigg entered the University of Washington when she was 14. the product of an honors program in which she didn't attend high school. "It just sort of happened, taking one test after another and passing them all." said Twigg. "All I know is.

I'll never get to attend a high school class reunion." Once the two of them reached the bottom of the hill and started the more level ride along the shores of scenic Lake Sherwood, with its weeping willows, past the thoroughbred farms and neatly painted white picket fences, the race had all the makings of a classic finish. i i td Shorl walk to beach. Open rrkrnd noon tub p.m. PLAZA I annus liiujtH iiitt pkjns CONDOMINIUM muMl K9H Naples I'laa Continue) from Firtt Tut sprint because of a Carpenter flat tire three miles from the end. Twigg.

19, of Seattle, the U.S. junior road-racing champion, won by several minutes over Carpenter. 25, of Boulder, Colo, the U.S. senior road-racing champion, who had to wait for a new wheel. They were so far ahead that, despite the wait, Carpenter came in nearly five minutes in front of three Northern Californians, Cindy Olavarri of Pleasant Hill.

Madeleine Roese of Berkeley and Rebecca Daughton of Santa Cruz, who were third, fourth and fifth, respectively. The race was the third of a four-race Southern California series sponsored by Self Magazine to determine the U.S. women's road-racing team to ride in the world finals in England in September. The final race is the Manhattan Beach Grand Prix Sunday, a 30.8-mile crttenum starting at Live Oak Park at p.m. Carpenter, four-time U.S.

road-racing champion and one of America's most accomplished female athletes, twice had to stop for a new wheel during the hot and grueling course through the mountains. The first time was at about the eight-mile mark, when her wheel was damaged in the accident that injured Buchan. Carpenter did not fall, but her rear wheel was damaged so she had to stop. Her Puch club teammate, two-time world sprint champion Sue Novara-Reber, stopped and gave her a wheel so Carpenter, a superior climber, could chase the leaders. Novara-Reber, who is making the transition from track sprinting to road racing in hopes of making the 1984 Olympic team, waited for a support vehicle to get a new wheel.

It is an accepted part of cycling for riders, though riding as individuals, to sacrifice themselves for the good of the team's best rider. "I guess the delay cost me a minute and a half," said Carpenter, a speed skater in the Tokyo Olympics at age 14. a national bicycle champion in 1976-77-79-81 and an Olympic rowing candidate before the Games boycott of 1980. "I caught the girls up front just as we started up the hill and Rebecca (Twigg) and 1 jumped the others before we got halfway up." The accident occurred on the inside of the road and Twigg, riding on the outside at the time, was not involved. The race started from Tapia Park, midway between Malibu and the Ventura Freeway, and looped around Cold Creek before heading toward Ventura County on Mulholland.

Pat Hines, another mullisport athlete from Pacific Palisades, and Patty Taylor of Menlo Park were the first to break way during the early stages. But by the time the riders reached Cornell Road, the pack had reeled them in. For most of the next few miles, Twigg. Daughton, Roese, Ann Chernoff, Olavarri and Sue Leggett-Pierson were riding in front up one hill and down another as they approached the long climb to the summit, with Carpenter doggedly closing the gap to join them. Pedaling laboriously up the steep switchbacks where Mulholland looks down on the community of Cornell, the superior mountain climbing ability of Twigg and Carpenter began to take effect.

When they crested the top, they were about a mile ahead. Descending, they increased the lead by pedaling. Most of the others coasted along the zig-zagging downhill. "I didn't think it was all that difficult, no more than the Coors races in Colorado," said Twigg, who looked fresh enough to ride another 32-mile stage after she finished. The precocious Seattle teen-ager first rode when she was 11 or 12.

touring through the Cascades with her family. When she was 14, the U.S. championships were in Seattle and she was a spectator. P1 Ma W4 lime io fi ay i rz "1 was thinking about where to start my sprint and what to do against Connie when she suddenly started slowing down," said Twigg. "I was sort of looking forward to the finish and then 1 was all alone." Carpenter had run over a sharp rock and cut her tire.

Close behind was a motorcycle rider with new wheels for just such an occurrence, but the minute or so lost as a new wheel was snapped on was enough to let Twigg get away. The finish reversed the results of the Laguna Niguel race last Saturday, in which Carpenter was first and Twigg second. Carpenter, who also finished second to Novara-Reber in the flatter race through Griffith Park last Monday, is far ahead in the series with 39 points to 27 for Twigg, who did not place at Griffith Park. "The course (32 miles with five distinct climbs) was really more severe than we had hoped for." said Olympic Coach Cliff Halsey. "This was good for the climbers, but killed off the sprinters.

In England (for the world championships) the course is mostly rolling hills with speed more important than endurance." mm in vine: LaROCHE: His Lobs Leave Hitters Up in the Air An Arcade Game On Your Wrist! Specially only $39.95 Watch Feature: Tcm Continuous Read Out 1 rJ of HoursMinutes, with PM indicator 24 Hour Musical Alarm supposed to play, hurt my arm three days before. But the American League was winning, 8-0. It was kind of boring. The manager, Charlie Grimm said to me, 'Rip, won't you go in there and wake the crowd up before it fixes to ask for its money "Well, I didn't have to warm up to throw the blooper, just shake hands with the catcher was all I needed. First batter was Ted Williams.

He shakes his head no. I shake my head yes. It's a 2-2 count and I throw him my super -duper. He walks up 2-3 steps-which of course was illegal in a real game and swings from Port Arthur and it was a home run. The crowd woke up.

Then I threw it to Keller and he popped it up five feet in front of the plate. Catcher liked to have dropped the ball from laughing. "Anyway. I got a standing ovation for 15 minutes. Later, I was told that my one pitch had saved the All-Star game on account of it being in danger of being discontinued out of boredom.

I don't know if it was that good a pitch. Was a pretty good pitch, though." Two out in the third. Lopez calls for the blooper. This Wakefield started to swing, stopped, started to swing again, stopped and missed it by three feet. "Everybody came down after the game, all the newspaper men.

'What is that pitch?" Now, I didn't name it. But Maurice Rocbush says. 'Why. that was the ephus pitch. A ephus ain't nothing.

And that pitch was Sewell used it that year to win 17 games and then 21 the next two years. "I never had any problem with it," he says. "I threw it all day long and never got tired. Your body was made to go forward, you know, not sideways with your fanny sticking out. Going forward helped the pitch, too, because it would come out of the background.

Couldn't see it." Sewell made quite a career out of the blooper ball. Still, the most famous one he ever threw was one that didn't work. "The 1946 All-Star game," he says. "I wasn't even PacMan" Game Features: PacMan'" Muncher, Ghost Monsters, Energy Food Dots, Ma3ic Fruit Electronic Sound Effects Mute Function for Silent Game Playms Progressive Degrees of Difficulty High Game Score Automatically Recorded Sporty Black Plastic Case with Matching Band For your Atari- Video Computer'" Great Cartridges from SPECTRAVISION ss PLANET PATROL Vr GANGSTER ALLEY 25 OFF on all ODYSSEY4" Cartridges' Also sloe an tie new Atari Intelbvtsion -r Odysseyfi'' carrndqps ana a arqe spec'ior commercial electronics games. San Fernando Valley: (113) 781 1300 Lot Angeles: ABC i 'ffi'j A.

S'r ir a- i t13'03O3 Orange County: TON I 's A Sou Say: (813)530 7905 (714)64-t711 "W9 A Continued from First Pa(e suit of a LaLob didn't name it that, incidentally. But you know those New York Last week, the Yankees trailing by five, he tried it on Milwaukee's Gorman Thomas. Tried it seven times, as a matter of fact. Thomas, who had 18 home runs at the time, fouled off the first LaLob for strike two. Then a fastball.

Then six La Lobs in a row. Thomas fouled off four, took one for a ball, lined the last to left field for a single. Well, wasn't it only last year LaRoche had struck him out on a LaLob and Thomas, in frustration, had tossed his helmet in the air, shattering it with his bat on the way down? It was. "I felt I owed him that one at-bat after last year," LaRoche said. LaRoche says that, as much of a crowd pleaser as it is, the LaLob serves an important purpose.

"It has been an effective pitch for me because I've never had a change-up," he says. "It throws hitters off a little bit, breaks their concentration. Most of the guys end up laughing. Most have said they really like it, it's one of the funniest things they've ever seen. Then they'll add, 'But don't ever throw it to Developed Pitch on His Own He says he developed it on his own, there not being a fraternity of blooper pitchers anymore.

"I started messing around with it in the bullpen two or three years ago," he says. "I was just standing down there, trying to stay loose. I was goofing around with it and found I was pretty accurate. My last game as an Angel I finally used it. "A pitch like that definitely comes by accident.

But once it comes, you need a combination of courage or stupidity to use it in the game. It sort of leaves you open to second guessing. But, for now, I like to use it in a game that's sort of lopsided or getting boring. A little excitement for the fans." Funny, but that was the originator's attitude toward the blooper pitch, too. Truett (Rip) Sewell, who won 143 games as a Pirate in the '30s and '40s, says the only time he used it was when he thought the fans wanted to see it, which was all the time, of course.

Says Sewell, 75: "I threw it whenever the crowd wanted it." Sewell, who is living in retirement in Florida, where he golfs daily despite being a double amputee in the high 80s, hasn't seen LaRoche's LaLob but is supportive nonetheless. "I tried teaching it to about 50 pitchers," he says. "Nobody ever did get the idea." Just Horsing Around Sewell, it turns out, developed his blooper in about the same way LaRoche did. Out of boredom. "It was 1941," Sewell begins, "and the winter before I had gotten hit with 1 1 pieces of buckshot in a hunting accident.

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