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r7 vroTrrnnrryvvsr ywywyi ''yvyy yr-v yumnom wn 1 -vr ww-vr-w-yw Hereto help you Sell Star Retail Advertising 255 5720 CTp XITX Py The Windsor Star SSJllS -fes- It's thoond of tho line For Windsor CD loti, it was anothor aaason of lata disappointments, a repeat of itTt when may lost in ttie Canadian championships then got knocked out of Inter-County Maor Baseball League playoffs. Sea paga 44. Pages 43 to 54 Sports News September 2, 1980 12 Tigers? Cowens, Chisox Farmer agree to bury the hatchet Star Staff and Wire Services Detroit outfielder Al Cowens and Chicago pitcher Ed Farmer publicly ended their feud Monday night at home plate in iger Stadium. Cowens and Farmer each brought the lineup cards to home plate for the traditional pre-game ceremony usually performed by the managers. The two men, ho have been embroiled in a running feud for over a year, looked tensely at one another for a moment and men reached out and shook hands.

The feud between Farmer and Cowens began in 1979 when Cowens was playing for Kansas City Royals and Farmer was a pitcher for Texas Rangers. Cowens suffered a broken jaw when hit by a pitch thrown by Farmer. On June 20 of this year, during a Tigers-White Sox game in Chicago, Cowens hit a ball to shortstop but instead of running to first charged Farmer and started a bench-clearing braw I. Afterwards, manager Sparky Anderson barred po- lice from the iger clubhouse, preventing the arrest of Cowens. American League president Lee McPhail suspended Cowens for seven games for the attack.

Farmer swore out a warrant for Cowens arrest in Illinois following the incident, in which he suffered a bloody nose, and the Detroit nghtfielder didnt make the trip into the Windy City for a two-game series between the Tigers and White Sox last week. he was dropping all charges against Cowens. I was never out to get Al Cowens for that incident, Farmer declared. I now consider the matter dosed. Joe Falls came in here before the game and asked me to meet with Al at home plate and have a mutual understanding.

We apologized to each other. Thats just about all there was to it." In the Tiger clubhouse after the game. Cowens disclosed that I had intended to talk to him (farmer) tomorrow (Tuesday) and offer my apologies. But, Sparky (Anderson) called me in just before the game and told me what had been arranged for tonight. 1 as happy to go up there (to home plate) and meet with him.

I hope this matter goes into File 13 now. that nothing more will be done about it." Farmer told Detroit New scolumnist Joe Falls before Mondays game that he would drop charges if Cowens would offer his hand. Falls said he passed the word on to Jim Campbell. The Detroit president and general manager quickly relayed the word to Anderson and the home plate meeting was arranged. A chorus of boos rang down from the stands as Farmer came up the dugout steps and trotted toward home plate.

But the boos quickly turned to cheers when the fans saw Cowehs emerging from the Tiger dugout and it became apparent what was happening. After the White Sox destroyed the igers 1 1 -3 in the first game of their four-game scries, Farmer said that While McCurdy mines silver, Crapper suffers blown hopes By Mary Caton Star Staff Reporter SUDBURY Cindy Crapper lay on a wooden bench, tears in her eyes and ice packs on her right ankle. Alone with her thoughts, the frustration and disappointment of the past three days was crashing down around the 18-year-old LaSalle girl as the Pan American junior track and field championship ended Sunday. She came to this mining city in search of gold but found only an unsatisfying silver medal in the shot to go with fourth-and fifth-place finishes in the discus andjavelm, respectively. Her disappointment was felt by many of her teammates who met the grim reality of American athletic supremacy head-on for the first time in their lives.

As expected, the United States team dominated these first-ever junior (under 19 years) Pan-Am games at Laurentian University. Over three days, the Americans collected 22 gold, 1 8 silver and 10 bronze medals. Canada finished a distant second with seven gold, 14 silver and 19 bronze to its credit. The remaining 25 medals were scattered among 10 ofthe other 16 teams. More than 400 athletes from north, south and central America came to test their skills at the international level and Linda McCurdy was among those who did not come away with dashed hopes and hurt pride.

McCurdy, who starts grade 1 3 at Windsors Lowe Secondary this week, matched her personal best high jump of 1.76 metres Saturday to take a silver medal in that event. Argentinas Liliana Beauriz Argent ran off with the gold when she cleared 1.82 metres. Wallaceburg's Lisa McCarron bowed out of the competition early when she failed to make the second jump at 1.70 metres. "This is such a big letdown, said Crapper in assessing her performance. "Im going to wipe this track meet right out of my mind just like it didnt happen.

Prior to this competition she expressed hopes of winning the shot and possibly javelin. She wanted to do well for hercoun- Martina No will, noway NEW YORK (AP)-During the first week of the U.S. Open, Martina Navratilova said she would "avoid this tournament at all costs if I could." Since the Open is one of the world's two most prestigious tennis events, Navratilova has been unable to skip it. Instead, she finds ways to missout on theOpcn finals. This year, it was a fourth-round 7-6, 6-4 loss to 1 8-year-old Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia, Navratilovas native land.

Once more, Martina couldnt find happiness at the National Tennis Center. "1 finally felt I played better than 1 had been," said the second seed, who was the biggest name of the four women's seeds to fall Mon-day. No.6 Dianne Fromholtz of Australia was eliminated by, No. 1 3 Pam Sjinver 3-6, 6-1, 6-1: Tracy Austin, the top seed, booted No. 10 Virginia Ruziciof Romania 6-4, and No.

1 1 Kathy Jordan was beaten by Mima Jausovec of Yugoslavia 7-5, 6-3. No.3 Chris Evert Lloyd blasted JoAnne Russell 6-2, 6-1 "But 1 still was out of it on some volleys, Evert said. "I feel good about my game for the rest ofthe year." The men also got into the upset act as Wojtek Fibak of Poland, seeded 14th, ousted No.4 Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. Top seed Bjorn Borg of Sweden blew out No. 15 Yannick Noah of France 6-3, 6-3, 6-0 and Roscoe Tanner, No.

11, outlasted Brian eacher 6-3, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. Mandlikdvas victory was her second over her idol in two weeks. She beat Navratilova at Mahwah, N.J. prior to the Open, then topped Jaeger in the finals. "I beat her last week and thought this would be harder," said the No.

9 seed. "Sometimes Martina gives ou the ball, isses shots. "She's not like Tracy or Chris, where you must win every point." Navratilova lost to Shriver in the 1978 semi-finals here, then to Austin in the semis last vear. try and for herself, seeing this meet as a stcppmg-slone to big-gcrand better things. Visibly favoring her ankle on the final day, Crapper only mustered a throw of 45.06 metres in the javelin, well off her personal best of 49.74 metres.

That left her fifth out of six girls ith only an outclassed Suriname thrower beh ind her. Crapper also had marks of 4 1.38 and 43.98 metres She deliberately scratched her last three tosses by stepping across the runway line. The Sandwich Secondary grad struggled ith a bad ankle all weekend. The first injury occurred last July when she twisted her ankle while jogging and damaged some ligaments. It was coming along fine until two weeks ago when a teammate inadvertently stabbed the same ankle with a javelin.

Fortunately, no tendons were hit but all the work of building up strength in that ankle was lost. She has been unable to workout since the second injury. Even in top form, Crapper wouldve had a fight on her hands against the stronger and seasoned American throwers. Three such girls swept the weight events. Up for first one American Lynda Hughes shaded Londons Martha Hart for the gold medal in javelin when her fifth toss went six centimetres farther than Harts 51.62 metre throw.

The grade 12 student at Saunders Secondary school broke 50 metres on her first throw ofthe day to hold first place for most ofthe event. "Im always up for my first throw, said the 17-year-old Hart who improved on her old personal best toss by 1 .56 metres. Hughes, a freshman at Florida State, has sent the javelin out over.54 metres in past meets. Sonya Smith collected Bermudas only medal with her 49.50-metrejavehn toss, good for third. Crapper compared favorably with the two American entrants going into the shot put Saturday.

She and Californian Susie Ray battled for top spot with Ray leading after four throws with a 13.35 metre mark. Crapper was a "blade of grass away with her fifth toss of 13.33 metres but Ray, a heptathlon specialist, sealed the win when her final throw landed 13.82 metres from the ring. Crap-pers last ditch effort to beat her came up short and even before they measured off the 1 3.46 metres she shook hands with Ray saying you got it. Both girls have thrown the shot well over 14 metres in the past. "We both threw bad, acknowledged Crapper.

"I think it was just that we both wanted to beat each other so bad, I know I tensed up. That last throw I finally cooled off. I should have done that earlier. Rays teammate, Kam Johnston took third with a put of 13.02 metres. Crapper wont have much time to dwell on the weekend now that the games are history.

She left from Sudbury for Lexington, Ky where shell attend the University of Kentucky on a track scholarship. McCurdy, on the other hand, wont mind lingering on the memory of her performance for a while. She wouldn't admit she was hoping for a medal until after the silver prize wasaround her neck. I didnt want to be too confident but yes, I was pretty well going fora medal, she said. Once again, Americans Melinda Morris and Sue Lind, as well as Argent, were favored to place with best performances of 1.80 metres under their belts.

But the Americans jumped poorly with Morns going out at 1 .73 and Lind taking third at the same height. McCurdy had an early scare herself when she missed twice at 1.70 but she cleared it easily on her third attempt, made 1.73 first crack and then 1 .76 on her second attempt before missing three times at 1.79. Photo by CANADIAN PRESS An agonizing porformanco, but Linda McCurdy has a slivar-madai jump Game of giveaway proves deadly turnovers against Winnipeg, two intercep-tionsandtwofunbles. The margin of victory was Trevor Kennedy's 14-yard field goal, his third of the night, with 1 :09 left in thegame. Winnipeg got its touchdowns from Richard House, Joe Poplawski and Mike Holmes.

Greg Fieger, Joe Barnes, making his first start for Regina since being traded -by Montreal, and Bill McBride scored for the Rough-riders. Lions 14 Alouettes6 The Alouettes might have won the game from a statistical standpoint, totalling 342 yards to British Columbias 223, but Montreal head coach Joe Scannella said thegame boiled down to the Lions making big plays when they needed them. Brights (Leon) 93-yard return on McGrathss missed field goal was a huge play forthem," Scannella said. The runback helped set up a 36-yard Lui Passaglia field goal that put the Lions ahead 8-6 at halltime. Passaglias field goals came from 14, 36.

33 and 42 yards out, while his two singles came from 39 and 40 yards. In the other game, British Columbia Lions outkicked Montreal Alouettes 14-6. Eski mos38 Stampeders 23 The loss for the Stampeders all but ends their hopes of overhauling the Eskimos in regular season play. It left them in a tie for third spot with Winnipeg, both clubs at 4-4. The Eskimos have lost just once in eight games.

Warren Moon tossed three touchdown passes for the Eskimos, two to Tom Scott of 23 and 43 yards and a 17-yard strike to Neil Lumsden. Lumsden also ran for a touchdown from six yards out. Dave Cutler added 13 points on the four converts, two field goals and three singles. Tiger-Cats23 Argonauts2 Hamilton's win was an upset in that both their regular quarterbacks, Dave Marler and Bruce Lemmerman, werent even suited up. Retreaded Charlie Weatherbie went the distance fortheTicats.

The Ticats also displayed a find in running back Obie Graves, who rushed for 146 yards in 33 carries in hisCFLdebut Bombers 32 'Riders 29 In all the Roughriders committed four Canadian Press Turnovers, the bane of all head football coaches, are the real killers. The turnover can stop any team's momentum dead; stop any would-be upset or rally in its tracks. Take the Labor Day action in the Canadian Football league for a case in point. At Calgary, Edmonton Eskimos forced the Stampeders into turning the ball over on six occasions and four of the times they converted the turnover into points in their 38-23 victory. At Regina, the Roughriders had visions of an upset but Winnipeg struck for two quick touchdowns in the second quarter, one after a Roughrider fumble in the Blue Bombers 32-29 victory.

At Hamilton, the Argonauts were trailing 9-0 in the third quarter and were closing in for a touchdown from the 20-yard line when Tiger-Cats Jerry Anderson intercepted a Mark Jackson pass and raced 90 yards into the Toronto end zone. The Argos never recovered in a 23-2 loss. i With Staubach gone, Cowboys become sleep-inducers It must have been exactly one year ago. Returning from a vacation in New Hampshire. I checked into a motel near Buffalo, turned on the television.

and tried to go to sleep watching the Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboy play an exhibition game. It didnt work. A lot of football games ill put you to sleep, especially National Football League pre-season games. But this one was Terry Bradshaw against Roger JACK Bradshaw and Staubach were to face each other only once more. That was in a regular g3me last October, the Steelers winning, 14-3.

The Steelers and Bradshaw went on to wm another Super Bowl, but Staubach retired after Los Angeles Rams knocked out the Cowboys in a divisional playoff. Same teams, lousy same Last Saturday Im back in the same motel. I've got Thruway Foot, and my eyes are revolving like hub caps again. And sure enough, the Steelers are playing the Cowboys again, only this time. Bradshaw is on the field, and Staubach is in the announcing booth.

Staubach is a very good announcer, perhaps because he knows what hes talking about, and certainly because his articulation is several ards ahead of How ard Cosells. Roger talked about what Bradshaw was doing, and that kept me aw ake for a while even though Bradshaw wasn't doing much. At halftime, the score as 3-3. This was a regular exhibition contest a sleep-in-djccr. With Staubach in the TV booth.

Bradshaw was not inspired. Neither as I.I got out of bed and turned off the tube and went to sleep. Later, I learned that Pittsburgh prevailed. 31-10, and that Bradshaw withdrew in the second half in favor of a backup quarterback. contract worth S3.6 million, or at a rate of 5600,000 per year.a salary reported to be hockeys best.

At roughly the same time. Jim Campbell of the Tigers signed Alan Trammell, 22. in his third full year, to a seven-year contract worth S2.8 million, or at a rate of S400.000 per year. Different talk Talking differently. Trammell says he loves Detroit and loves the Tigers.

The long-term contract will keep Trammell off the free-agent market until he is 30, prompting Campbell to say: Alan will have another chance when hes 30. He should be in the prime of his career then, and really able to find out his worth." If Trammell at 22 equals what Dionne was worth to the Red Wings at 24, which is arguable, but possible, then onecould conclude that Campbell is smarter than Ziegler, and Dionne sharper than Trammell. Baseball is a no-compensation sport, meaning that Campbell made a shrewd deal. Some baseball clubs, unable to sign their imminent stars to long-term contracts. have resorted to paying astronomical salaries in order to keep them around.

Trammell did not get an astronomical salary, and is hooked for seven years. It is virtually impossible to imagine any NHL club, apart from the Red Wings, accepting for Dionne what they got The club owner, Bruce Noms seems to hafte seen the light He has placed one of his corporation experts. Louis Risi charge of contracts. The whole thing served to remind that we are not again going to see Bradshaw and Staubach fencing and fighting on the same football field again. It a loss.

They were the best, and when they went at one another, they were better. Dionne, Trammell compared Five years ago, when he was 24, Marcel Dionne became a free agent, left Detroit Red Wings and signed with Los Angeles Kings. For reasons best known to themselves, the Red Wings d.dnt think much of Dionne, in part at leas! because he had said some unkind things about the city of Detroit, and a few more about the amount of sweat some of the Red Wing play ers ere show mg. It was obvious then that Dionne was an exceptional player who might one day lead the National Hockey League in scoring, hich he has just done. At that time, NHL president John Ziegler was the fellow in charge of major Red 5k mg contracts.

Ziegler told rr.e that he as prepared to pay Donne S250.000 a year, and no more. 5k hen Dionne departed, the Red 5k ings were satisfied to receive in compensation Terry Harper and Dan Maloney, and Los Angeles second-round draft choice of 1 975, ho turned out to be Jim my Roberts ho as transferred to Minnesota. With Donne, the Kings obtained Bart Crashlcy. It develops that the new owner of the Los Angeles Qub has signed Dionne, who is now 29, to a six-year OH SPORTS Aw DULMASE Staubach, and it was obvious from the beginning that the engagement mean a great deal to them. They were the best quarterbacks in the business.

They play ed the en tire game. It got late, and my eyes were rolling around like bent hub caps after 300 miles of staying awake on the New York Thruway. But Bradshaw and Staubach wouldn't let me go to sleep. Exhibition or not, this as one of the best games I had seen cn a television set. Staubach and the Cow boys finally won by twopoints in the last minute..