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Olympic basketball tryouts Page 2 Derby hopefuls race today Page 3 NBA, NHL playoff results Page 5 Wisconsin State Journal Saturday, April 21, 1 984, Section 2 lo) isinewceirs (scuwuiffliyj mm. I looked at the board" The board says Milwaukee is in a tie for fifth place, seven games out of first and one game out of the cellar. MrkM arM Jome Cf (III ill I 1 Sill Vmmt llll Kit Cmt 4 I lilt Owi III! A Omt By BUI Brophy Slate JmtuI sports reporter MILWAUKEE This is a Ule of two teams. One is an early-season contender, which is getting good pitching and hot tutting and moved into first place Friday night at County Stadium. The other is falling toward the cellar because their bats are as cold as the weather.

Hot-hitting AMn Davis slugged a three-run home run and former Brewer Gorman Thomas drove in two runs to help Seattle pitcher Jim Beattie coast to a 5-0 victory over the Brewers. Seattle yes, the Ms became the best in the American League West by beating up on the team that was one game from a world championship two years ago. The Mariners are 9-5 on the year, their best start in franchise history. Four of the victories have come against their former manager, Rene Lachemann, who has directed Milwaukee to a 4-9 start Lachemann claims the slow start hurts him much more than losing every game to the team that fired him last June. "The frustration comes in being 4-9, not in losing four games to Seattle," Lachemann said.

"I'd feel the same way if the four losses came to Baltimore." The Brewers have II hits in then-last two games and have scored only one run in the last 20 innings, due to the pitching of Beattie, who had a six-hit shutout and Chicago's Richard Dotson, who handcuffed the Brewers on five Thursday. "You could say it's a slump when you only score one run in 18 innings, but the way Dotson threw and then the way Beattie threw today, a lot of teams are only going to score one run," Lachemann said "We had our chances early, but after he got out of that, he locked us out well'" Milwaukee's best chance came in the second inning hen it loaded the bases with one out, but Beattie. who had nine strikeouts, fanned rookie Dion James and got Jim Gantner on a fly ball The Brewers didn't get a runner past first the rest of the night. "If (Beattie) has stuff like he had today, you're talking one or two runs at best," Lachemann said. Even that wouldn't have been enough, because the Mariners got to Milwaukee's Don Sutton (1-2), who hasn't lasted past six innings in his first three starts.

Sutton, 39, had a two-hitter after five innings, but again he ran into trouble in the sixth. With one out, Barry Bonnell singled and Davis sent a bouncer up the middle that hit the rubber and bounced up off Sutton's fmger. "I picked the ball up and wasn't sure if I had it or not, because my finger was numb," Sutton said. Sutton couldn't make the throw and Davis had an infield hit Pat Putnam singled to load the bases, then Sutton issued his only walk of the game to Thomas, which forced in a run. In the seventh, things got worse.

Bob Kearney blooped a single to right and Spike Owen bunted over third baseman Randy Ready's head for a single. Two outs later, Sutton tried to run a fast ball in on Davis, but got it out over the plate and the left handed hitter smacked the 1-2 pitch well over the right-field fence for his fourth home run since being recalled from the minor leagues in eight games ago. Davis, who played one game at Salt Lake City before getting recalled, is tied for the league lead in borne runs, has hit in every game he has played in, and has driven in 12 runs. His home run sent Sutton from the chill of the night and brought in Bob McClure, who allowed a double to Putnam and a run scoring single to Thomas, who was greeted with applause on each appearance. Beattie (2-1) had little trouble protecting the five-run lead, and Sutton had only the consolation of being told Lachemann thought it was his best outing of the year.

"It was one of those games where I pitched just well enough to lose." Sutton said. "It reminded me of those summers in the South when you go diving off the tree into the water on a belly flop. The whole thing is great until you hit the water. That's the way tonight's game was. It was great until it 4 1 1 1 now mm I 1 1 Meare 4 I 4 I Ixmrl llll cl 1 1 1 1 Door, 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 lilt tilt TM llll Ml Ml I mm- IJ LOI GmMMMJ Sit Seattle 1 Milwaukee MU A.

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Mike Manfre led off the fourth inning with a home run over the center field fence to give the Reds a 3-0 lead. The Muskies scored their first run in the bottom of the fourth on a walk to Mike Wilder, a double by Jim Jones, a walk to Rob Nelson and a double-play grounder by Dave Wilder. The Reds added their final run in the sixth as Danny LaMar singled, went to second on a wild pitch, to third on a balk and home on a passed ball Mike Fulmer pitched the last three innings for the Muskies and allowed no hits or runs. "Fulmer threw real well again," Fischer said. "And Hallas didn't throw that badly.

That one inning (the third) I thought he sort of lost his rhythm and the next inning he got that one pitch up for the home run. Other than that he threw a good ball game. "If we get pitching like we have been, we're going to be successful" Muskies note The Muskies and Madison Area Technical College played to a 2-2 tie in a 3-in-ning exhibition before the regularly scheduled game. Steve Roscoe hit a home run in the fourth to give MATC the tie. buff the stiDB hcos co slhoke By John Hughes State Journal sports reporter Ask Cedar Rapids pitcher Mike Konderla about his knuckle curve.

It's clearly one of his favorite subjects. He talked at length about the pitch Friday after he had used it to help the Reds beat the Madison Muskies, 4-2, at Warner Park. "I was invited to the major-league camp, mainly because of that pitch," said Konderla, a right-hander who struck out nine batters in four innings of relief work. Konderla's performance overshadowed that of starter Ted Lang-don, who wasn't doing too badly himself until the sixth inning. Langdon (1-0) struck out eight in five innings, but needed help in the sixth when he gave up a single and two walks to load the bases.

Konderla entered and struck out three of the four batters he faced. He hit the fourth, Dave Wilder, on the foot with one of his few errant knuckle curves to force home the Muskies' only run of the inning and their last of the game. But more about the knuckle curve. "There aren't too many guys in single-A that throw that kind of pitch," Konderla said. "What I'm nervous about with that pitch is the umpiring.

A lot of single-A umps, they'll miss that pitch. This ump did a good job, but he saw me last year." The Muskies got two runners on base in the seventh inning, on an infield single and a walk, but Konderla again escaped by getting an inning-ending strikeout. He then breezed through the eighth and ninth, striking out the side in the ninth. Overall, it was an impressive pitching performance. Konderla didn't disagree.

"If I wouldn't have gotten out of that bases-loaded jam, the game could have been theirs easily," he said. "That was the turning point in the game. That's going to break a team's back and that was my whole purpose for coming in there fired up I could break the team's back right there. Either you're going to do the job or you're not." Obviously, he did the job. The defeat for the Muskies, in front of 1,160 spectators, was then-first this season in five games.

"It's disappointing," Muskie Manager Brad Fischer said. "But I guess the biggest disappointment was all the called third strikes we took. The Reds took the lead in the third inning with two runs off Muskies starter Bob Hallas (0-1). Dexter Day singled, Dave Haberle walked and both moved up on Kurt Stillwell's sac- Brewer notes Friday's results AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle 5, Milwaukee 0 Kansas City Cleveland 4 California 10, Toronto 6 (13) Boston 3, Oakland 1 Detroit 3, Chicago 2 New York 4, Texas I Baltimore 4, Minnesota 2 (10) NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 4 (10) Atlanta 8 Houston 7 New York 3, Philadelphia 1 Los Angeles 8, San Diego 2 San Francisco 6, Cincinnati 4 Montreal at St. Louis, rain Today's games, pitchers AMERICAN LEAGUE Seattle (Young, 2-1) at Milwaukee ICaldwell, 2-1), 1:30 p.m.

Kansas City (Jackson, 1-0) at Cleveland (Blyleven, 2-1), 12:35 P.m. California (Romanick, 1-1) at Toronto (Gott, 0-0), 12:35 p.m. Texas (Tanana, 1-1) at New York (Fontenot, 0-2), 1 p.m. Minnesota (Smithson, 3-0) at Baltimore (Flanagan, 0-2), 1:05 p.m. Oakland (Warren, 1-2) at Boston (Brown, 0-1), 1:15 p.m.

Chicago (Hoyt, 2-0) at Detroit (Roze-na, 0-0), 1:15 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE New York (Torrez, 0-1) at (Denny, 1-1), 2:15 p.m. Pittsburgh (McWilliams, 0-2) at Chicago (Reuschei, 0-0), 2:20 p.m. San Diego (Hawkins, 1-0) at Los (Reuss, 1-0), 2:20 p.m. Cincinnati (Price, 1-1) at San (M.

Davis, 0-2), 3:05 p.m. Montreal (Rogers, 0-0, and Palmer, 1-0) at St. Louis (Stuper, 0-0, and Forsch, (2), 4:30 p.m. Houston (Scott, 0-1) at Atlanta McMurtry, 1-2), 4:40 p.m. 'A CEDAR RAPIDS ob ab bi MAOISON bl 0 1 0 Pofonla cf 0 0 1 M.

wilder 2b 0 1 1 Jones 4 110 ing, you have to shine your own shoes. It's nice to be back where someone shines shoes for you." Lachemann said Waits will spend at least the next two weeks in the bullpen. Chuck Porter, who was in the starting rotation the last half of last season, will be the Brewers' fifth starter. The right-hander will get his first start Monday against Oakland. Cecil Cooper extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a first-inning single.

Mike Caldwell (2-1) pitches against Matt Young (2-0) at 1:30 p.m. today in a game that marks the 1984 debut of Paul Molitor as a third baseman. Molitor has been unable to play in the field because of torn ligaments in the right elbow. He says the elbow has shown little improvement, but wants to play. Doctors gave him the OK Thursday.

If the elbow acts up, surgery is still a distinct possibility. Lachemann also will give catcher Jim Sundberg a day off. Bill Schroeder will catch. By Bill Brophy MILWAUKEE The career of Jerry Augustine, a pitcher who has dodged bullets in each of the last three years to stay in Milwaukee, ran out of luck Friday. The Brewers designated Augustine, 31, for assignment after taking left-hander Rick Waits off the disabled list.

That means the American League team has 10 days to make a decison on Augustine. Their options are threefold. Augustine has been asked to report to Vancouver, the Brewers' Class AAA affiliate. If he doesn't, the nine-year veteran can be released or traded. Augustine, who has a career record of 55-59 in Milwaukee, reportedly was asked to go to the minor leagues at the start of the season.

He refused, causing the Brewers to put Waits on the disabled list April 2 with what they said was a shoulder injury. Augustine, who hadn't allowed an earned run in 5 innings this season, received the word of the latest move 90 minutes before the Brewers' game with Seattle, but did not talk to reporters. Manager Rene Lachemann said it was a tough decision to make, but he, 1 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 Stillwell ss Harris 3b Henlko lb LaMar Manfre ff Beroe If Glddens 2b Day cf Haberle dh general manager Harry Dalton and the coaching staff feel Waits will be more valuable as the Brewers' left-handed middle reliever than Augustine. "I told him (Augustine) before the season he was my left-handed short reliever, and he felt he didn't do anything to make me feel different," Lachemann said. "It was the opinion of the staff and the organization that we were better off with Waits." Both pitchers are on the last year of guaranteed contracts, but Waits, 31, makes $450,000 per year.

Augustine makes $225,000 per year. Waits, who came to Milwaukee with Rick Manning last June in the Gorman Thomas deal, pitched six innings of one-hit ball against a group of rookies last Monday and said he felt good. Waits said he has experienced no problem with the shoulder and doesn't have a preference whether he pitches as a starter or reliever. "It's really just great to be back," Waits said. "In extended spring train 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nelson lb D.

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The other officer was body-slammed. Reinforcements arrived and Sgt Wayne Dussault sustained an ear injury when he was butted by Mr. Saito's head. An estimated 15 police officers backups from the Waukesha force, from the sheriffs office, from the State Patrol eventually filled the Holiday Inn room and subdued the wrestlers. A preliminary hearing on the case is scheduled to be heard May 14 in Waukesha.

The wrestlers, released on $7,500 bail, face seven felony charges and three misdemeanors. The last of the police officers has left the hospital. There is no moral to this story, only the bottom-line professional wrestling truth. Which is? The truth is that even villains have to eat. trash.

They were refused. They walked back to the Holiday Inn. "Mr. Patera did not throw a rock through the window," Al Ugent, lawyer for the two men, said. "He left.

Somebody else threw the rock. Mr. Patera simply returned to the Holiday Inn. He even had told the people at McDonald's he was staying at the Holiday Inn. Why would he do that if he were going to throw a rock?" At any rate, the wrestlers returned to the Holiday Inn.

The police were called. The alleged trouble really began. "A male and a female officer were sent to their room," Lt. Giese said. "They were greeted at the door by Mr.

Saito. They asked to see Mr. Patera, but Mr. Saito said he was alone in the room with a girlfriend. The officers returned to the front desk where they were told Mr.

Saito had checked in with 'a man named They returned to the room, where Mr. Saito threatened the female officer with head butts. The officers already had requested assistance." Again, there is a difference to the stories. The wrestlers say the two officers appeared at the door to the room and overreacted. Each of the wrestlers weighs more than 300 pounds.

"The woman officer is 19 years old," attorney Ugent said. "Apparently she must have been unsettled by such large men. They are law-abiding people. If the police had phoned, they would have come to the station. There wasn't any need for trouble.

The woman officer sprayed Mace in Mr. Saito's face. Apparently when you're shot in the eyes with this stuff, it's instantly blinding and it really stings. There was a lot of confusion after this." Officer Jacalyn Hibbard apparently was "Fine with me," Mr. Saito replied.

(Or something like that.) The two wrestlers walked to McDonald's. The alleged trouble began. "It appeared that when the two wrestlers arrived at McDonald's, they found it closed, although there still were people inside the restaurant," Lt, Gordon Giese of the Waukesha Police Department "They were refused service. "Mr. Ken Patera became upset and lifted a 33-pound boulder over his head and threatened to throw it through the window if they were not served.

They were not served and he threw the boulder through the window. The wrestlers tell a different story. They say they went to the restaurant and found the door closed, even though customers still were eating. They pleaded to buy some food, even asking to purchase a tray of perfectly good hamburgers being thrown into the By Leigh Montville Globe The night was one of those grim nights on the professional wrestling road. This was an-Hother Holiday Inn in another town on an- other highway.

The town was Waukesha, 'Wis. The highway was Highway 18. Ken Patera and Mr. Saito were hungry, "Shall we dine?" Ken Patera said 10 days -ago to Mr. Saito.

(Or something like that) "It would be a pleasure," Mr. Saito re- plied. (Or something like that.) Ken Patera and Mr. Saito, two of the ''more famed Midwest villains, went to the iHoliday Inn coffee shop. The coffee shop -was closed.

"I believe I saw some golden arches down the road," Ken Patera said. (Or something like that.).