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SPORTS CooAtujclcs (Times San Diego County Saturday, July 28, I9M CCTart 3 5 -4mm- ll an Diego portscene I 4 i I ml ht 1 1 Gwynn, Garvey Gang Up to Pace Padres to Win By STEVE DOLAN, Times Staff Writer SAN DIEGO Steve Garvey has 12 more years of major-league experience than Tony Gwynn, but he can still learn a few things from the youngster. Friday night at Jack Murphy Stadium, Gwynn had three hits for the Padres. So what did Garvey do? He followed suit with three hits of his own. Gwynn and Garvey's tag-team act led the Padres past Houston, 7-3, before 28,868. The win increased San Diego's National League West lead to eight games over Atlanta and games over the Dodgers.

The three-hit game was nothing new for Gwynn. It was his second in a row and 14th of the season. He is 10 for 13 the past three games, raising his league-leading average to .366. Garvey has gotten three hits in a game nine times. Two of his hits Friday drove in runs against the Astros.

"People say that hitting is contagious," Gwynn said. "If somebody is swinging the bat well, it usually picks up the rest of your teammates." Nobody has picked the Padres up more than Gwynn. "A few guys have been saying that they never shook hands with anybody as much as they have with Tony," Manager Dick Williams said. "You can never tell when he's hot. He went 0 for 8 earlier this week and got mad.

Since then, he's had a month's worth for some of us." The Gwynn-Garvey combination inspired their teammates Friday. Kevin McReynolds hit a two-run homer in the seventh that reached the second-deck in left field. It was only the sixth time in 16 years that a home run has traveled that distance in San Diego. "I don't think I've ever seen one hit that far," Williams said. "I know I haven't here.

They should find that seat and mark it." McReynolds: "I don't know if I have ever hit one any longer. It's one of those that you want to watch." Luis Salazar had tied the game, 3-3, with a two-run homer in the fourth. Craig Lefferts earned his fifth save with four shutout innings of relief. The win went to Ed Whitson (12-5), who allowed three runs (one earned) on seven hits in five innings. Lefferts recorded his save on a night when the Padres gave away "Bring on the Goose" honkers.

The honkers were easily heard in the later innings, but Rich (Goose) Gossage didn't need to respond. Gossage told Lefferts that the Goose Honkers reminded him of something out of a science fiction movie. "I kind of zoned them out at first and forgot that Please see PADRES, Page 12 Chargers' Joiner Showed Class Even While Holding Out By DAVE DISTEL, Times Staff Writer Once in a while, a headline comes leaping off a page and strikes me as being completely illogical and probably an embarrassing mistake. "Joiner," this one proclaimed, "Fails to Report With the Veterans." My initial reaction, of course, was that Charlie Joiner had retired. But it puzzled me.

It didn't say he had retired. It said he had failed to report. The Joiner I know would not simply fail to report. A smaller headline provided further explanation; "Prolific Receiver Still Negotiating Contract With Charger Management." By now, you are all familiar with these "holdout" situations. The athlete -in -question stays wherever home might be and plays golf and assures inquiring writers that he is staying in shape.

Meanwhile, the athlete-in-question's agent shows up with an attache case full of statistics and proposals and ends up in a screaming match, which causes his client to be traded to one Bay or another. This, I thought, is not a fate deserved by Charlie Joiner. To begin with, Joiner does not employ an agent. He is an exceptionally bright player who works as an accountant in the off-season. He does not need any help with numbers, thank you.

Joiner doesn't need to pay someone 10 of the bottom line to find out what the bottom line is. I am sure he keeps his checkbook as meticulously as he runs his pass patterns. Of course, Joiner is something of an anachronism. Most athletes have agents before (and after) they have wives. And Joiner did not exactly make himself hard to find.

He was not home in Houston, hiding behind one of those tape-recorded answering machines. Joiner may not have reported to camp, but he did report to San Diego. He checked into a hotel and probably figured his stay would be a short one. I imagine he was paying on a day-to-day basis. He probably didn't even send his laundry out.

I called him Thursday. It was a brilliantly sunny day, so I was afraid he would not be in his room. The telephone almost got all the way through its first ring before Joiner answered. Please see DISTEL, Page 16 UQ JO i) 'A lf VINCE COMPAGNONE Los Angeles Times Padres' Luis Salazar gives Kevin McReynolds a high-five after his two-run homer Friday night. Fifth Charger Ducks Out of Training Camp By MIKE HISERM AN, Times Staff Writer He Figures His Years With Wooden Have Prepared Him for His Opportunity at UCLA LA JOLLA Bobby Duckworth, a big-play receiver who caught five touchdown passes last year, became the latest Chargers player to bolt from camp, Coach Don Coryell reported Friday.

Duckworth left the Chargers' UC San Diego training site early Friday morning without stating his reason to anyone. "I really can't tell you anything other than he is missing," Coryell told members of the media, Friday. "I know that he had a bad day yesterday, and that he dropped two out of the four passes to him, but before that he had been doing very well." Wes Chandler, Duckworth's roommate in camp, said that he believed that the third-year player from Arkansas was suffering from a virus. "He hasn't been feeling well. I know that," Chandler said.

"He woke up in a cold sweat one night." Chandler said that he could not explain why Duckworth would leave because of an illness and not tell one of the coaches. Duckworth caught 20 passes for 422 yards as the team's third wide receiver last season. His 21.1 yards per catch was best on the team. He is the fifth player to leave Chargers camp for at least one day and the second to leave without notifying Coryell. The other was defensive end Kenny Neil, who returned Thursday.

A knee brace designed by Chargers team doctor Gary Losse has been given credit for stopping Please see CHARGERS, Page 16 ANDRE McCARTEM. Illini, White Both Given Punishment From Times Wire Services The University of Illinois was put on probation for two years Friday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and the school froze the salaries of Coach Mike White and one of his assistants because of violations in the school's football program. The school is prohibited from playing in postseason bowl games after the 1984 season and from appearing on live telecasts during the regular 1984 season, the NCAA said in Mission, Kan. At Champaign, 111., the university said it was punishing White and assistant coach Max McCartney in connection with the violations. John Burness, associate vice chancellor for public affairs, said that White's salary would be frozen for the 1984 calendar year, and that McCartney's would be frozen through March, 1987.

White, a California native, played and coached at California, both as an assistant and head coach. The university's disciplinary actions also included the reduction of football grants-in-aid from 30 to 20; the prohibiting of White and McCartney from off-campus recruiting during the 1984-85 academic year, and the prohibiting of five other institutional representatives from recruiting for two years. The NCAA's Committee on Infractions listed 24 violations of NCAA rules by the university. Most concerned improper recruiting inducements, improper transportation, improper use of coaching staff members, improper extra benefits, improper offers, improper entertainment, unitemized expenses and unethical conduct. "Although many of the violations concerned actions involving previous coaching staff members, Please see ILLINOIS, Page 7 Reds Shake Their Slump and Beat the Dodgers, 4-0 By GORDON EDES, Times Staff Writer McCarter has such unwavering respect for John Wooden.

There are many fans who believe that if there is any player who was ruined by Wooden, it was Andre McCarter. McCarter came out of Over-brook High School in Philadelphia with glowing reviews. He had been a superstar guard and was expected to follow in the tradition of other Overbrook luminaries who went on to fame in the National Basketball Wilt Chamberlain, Wally (later Wali) Jones and Hazzard. McCarter was entertaining, flashy and flamboyant. Wooden toned him down.

He instilled discipline and insisted on control. When McCarter did get to the NBA, he was no sensation. He was with the Kansas City Kings for parts of two seasons, 1976-'77 and 1977-78. Then he played Please see UCLA, Page 8 McCarter is confident, but he also is a realist. He will need his confidence, his court sense and his street sense in the months ahead.

McCarter has been hired as an assistant to Walt Hazzard, UCLA's new basketball coach who faces the twin challenges of fielding an NCAA title-contending team, and checking the erosion of fan support. Of his new job, McCarter said, "This is a dream come true for me. It's unbelievable." McCarter is one of the many former Bruins who still have the respect for the school that they had when Wooden presided over a dynasty, when UCLA's name had a mystical quality. To those Bruins, there is no greater honor than to coach basketball there, to follow in the heritage of the man McCarter calls the master. It's interesting, though, that By TRACY DODDS, Times Staff Writer Andre McCarter is known as a man with a knack for seeing things in perspective, almost at a glance.

He seems to know or sense, really what is going to develop even as it develops. In basketball, that's called court sense. That gift made him an outstanding point guard. McCarter was the guiding force on the UCLA basketball team that won the national championship in 1975. That was Coach John Wooden's 10th, and final, National Collegiate Athletic Assn.

title. UCLA hasn't won one since. These days, McCarter isn't playing much basketball, but he still can size up situations as they are, rather than as he might hope they were. That's called street sense. That's the opposite of starry-eyed.

shall's first-inning double and Candy Maldonado's infield hit in the third. It was Price's first big-league shutout, and his first complete game in 20 starts this season. He also recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts, getting Mike Marshall three times, once with the bases loaded. The Dodgers, who have now scored five runs in four games on this homestand, dropped 10VS games behind first-place San Diego. Only the most wildly optimistic historian could see anything positive in that fact: Two years ago on this date, the Please see DODGERS, Page 10 So they say you can't make anyone blush anymore in Los Angeles, a city where they've seen it all? Try Dodger Stadium, where the Dodgers who already have been embarrassed more times than they care to remember this season suffered perhaps the ultimate indignity Friday night.

The Cincinnati Reds, losers of 16 of their last 19 games, a team that ranks last in the league in hitting and last in pitching, made it look easy before a crowd of 37,091, shutting out the Dodgers, 4-0. Joe Price, a 27-year-old journeyman left-hander, limited the Dodgers to two hits Mike Mar Cos Angeles (Times OLYMPICS A Change for Boxing Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York has signed a bill giving doctors authority to stop a fight when a contestant has suffered serious punishment. Please see Page 6.

Mets Increase Lead Rookie Dwight Gooden struck out eight Cubs as the Mets scored their seventh straight win and increased their NL East lead to AV2 games. Please see Page 4. Please see Part VIII..