Kingsport Times-News from Kingsport, Tennessee • 35

ID Kingsport Times-News Sunday July 11 1982 i rocked by Elizabetbton Olsen Bob Rubin Garvey may be forced to leave released outfielder Leon Williams last night Rank and file must come together quickly It was the fourth Straight defeat and their 10th in 11 games Olsen who has had a highly successful career coaching baseball in California is disgusted with the anemic hitting The Mets ended the game with the bases loaded looked so bad at that said Olsen after seeing his team get four hits and Elizabethton 12 sicke-ning night after night this frustration showed After the score book held by pitcher Randy Myers and not being able to make anything out of it Olsen skyrocketed He unloaded on the table and papers went fly-' ing I His face was ready to pop book is going to be straightened out so I can read Olsen told Myers pitcher who leaves without gett ting this thing fixed is going to be fined" Until the ninth inning the Mets managed just two hits The Marc Page allowed a single and a double before leaving after eight innings was my first start this said Page who is 2-0' By KEN DATZMAN Tlmes-News Sports Writer Ed Olsen is probably the most powerful hitter on the Kingsport team He proved it last night But Olsen the manager can't bat He can swing his arm though An earthquake rocked locker room after the Elizabethton Twins defeated the Mets 9-2 The walls shook the table was dead and several Kingsport players turned pale Olsen is 6-2 and weighs 220 pounds He looks like a marine drill sergeant He stand to lose been a winner too long Olsen who threatened to start firing players last week other win also came against Kingsport I came in relief against Kingsport last Monday and then they put me in the Page a 19-year old from Sa-rosta Fla played in the Appa-' lachian League last year was with Elizabethton last year but hurt my arm at the start of the season and play at said Page a righthander Page who threw mostly fast-balls walked one batter The Dwight Gooden making his first appearance at home gave up nine hits six runs three earned He was relieved in the seventh by Scott Adams was getting the ball up high over the said Olsen about pitching usually has good Mike Moreno had three hits and three RBI to lead the Twins Herb Carter added two hits as did second baseman A1 Zappala Jeff Szczencinski scored three times for the Twins The Mets who fell behind 5-1 after four innings were led by first baseman Andy Lawrence Lawrence had two hits Lou Thornton and Cito Sanchez had the other hits Sanchez had the only extra base hit a double The Mets will host Elizabeth-ton at 2 today Myers will pitch for the Mets Steve Garvey always has bled Dodger blue has been as if I have an extra name Garvey of the he says of a 27-year association that began when Ire rode the Dodger spring training bus jlrivenby his father Munson Graysburg lead GKA en route to a 73 where he is tied with Rudy Hall Lonesome Richie Waugh and Cedar Randy Orick Poe and his Bays' Mountain teammates pushed the panic button but Poe says Graysburg's start definitely puts it in the seat will be tough to beat them now" says Poe if they play that well tomorrow it may be all over But we figured they'd be tough Munson got off to a bad start by making bogey on the relatively easy par five first hole and also bogied No 4 after running in a 40-foot birdie putt on No 2 But Munson said he worried despite the slow start been playing a lot of rounds here lately and shot anything worse than a 68 or said Munson knew I had some par fives ahead that I would birdie so I too concerned about Munson started his rally at No 6 a par five where he made an eight-footer He' followed with a four-foot birdie putt at No 7 and knocked in 10-footer at No 9 to turn in two-under-par 34 He added a birdie on No 10 after blasting to within three inches from out of the sand trap Munson added a two-putt birdie on No 16 and finished his round by making a four-foot putt for birdie on No 18 GKA notes: Ritz the Sullivan North baseball coach matched 33 on the back nine though played very little this summer been working full time at Eastman managing at Mickey Mantle League team and spending time with his two young children Stewart had the only eagle at No 16 today's round at McDonald in Rogersville begins at 8:30 am The last tee time is set for 11 am By RON BLISS Executive Sports Editor CHUCKEY The new kid on the block mugged the field yesterday in the first round of the Ninth Annual Greater Kins-port Amateur Graysburg Hills wasted little time in trading its darkhorse status for a tag by shooting a four-over-par team score of 436 on its home course to jump out to a 20-shot lead over Meadowview Tightly bunched behind Meadowview are Lonesome Pine (457) defending champion Warriors Path (458) Bays Mountain (459) surprising Cedar Hill (461) McDonald (466) and Moccasin Hills (478) Leading the assault for Graysburg was individual favorite Steve Munson who birdied four of five holes in one stretch to shoot a five-under-par 67 and take a five-shot lead in the individual race what we should have said Munson after his team took the big lead think we've got a pretty' good team and playing on our own course like this Can the Graysburg boys play as well elsewhere? we insists Munson going up to play Lonesome Pine The third round at Lonesome Pine his team figures is the key to Graysburg winning Few on the team have played the Course Today the tournament moves to McDonald Golf Club in Rogersville a course Munson says he played in three years just have to see how we do said Munson when asked about McDonald teammate Mark Stewart is one of three golfers at 72 Others are Warriors Bob Vick and Mike Ritz Defending champion Mike Poe had 15 pars r' i -X mtJt 1 4 A Garvey 32 dearly wants to keep his extra name until the end of his career which he projects will last five more years But the Dodgers may let him go to free agency when his six-year contract expires at the end of this season The unthinkable Steve Garvey at first base in another uniform is a very real' possibility The Reds let Pete Rose go so anything is possible At $360000 per Garvey is currently the most underpaid player in baseball Now seeking a five-year deal for -what he calls the amount other stars are getting for comparable production That roughly translates to $15 million annually There many comparable to Garvey who has a 303 batting average six 200-hit and five 100-RBI seasons home-run outputs of 21 33 21 28 and 26 four Gold Gloves and one MVP award (1974) with Los Angeles The brighter the spotlight the better Garvey has been His All-Star average is 409 his World Series average is 344 and his playoff average is 343 with seven home runs and 14 RBI in 17 games He is an iron man owning history's third longest consecutive-game streak (currently 1031) Handicapped by a pulled hamstring been playing only an inning or two lately to preserve the streak but Lou Gehrig had a few of those too Steve career has been a manual on how a major leaguer should conduct himself Yet the Dodgers may let him go How why It would be easy to cast management as the cold-hearted villain but it would be unfair As great as Garvey has been he may become a victim of two inexorable eternal baseball rules youth must be served and a dollar saved is a dollar earned The Dodgers have Garvey' heir apparent blooming on the vine at their Class AAA farm in Albuquerque Greg Brock 6-3 200 and 25-years-old is eating the Pacific Coast League alive with a 342 average 33 homers and 101 RBI in just 79 games no typo 79 through Wednesday Even in the ranfied air of Albuquerque those are awesome numbers The Dodgers are wrestling with two questions: Will Garvey be the player he has been for five more years? And if they sign him where will they put Brock? Tough call Money is another factor though presumably secondary to best for the team on the field Signing Garvey represents a five-year outlay of $75 million nr so Brock would earn relative peanuts over the same period of time Garvey was eager to sign before the season started but when management he decided to concentrate on baseball and let his agent Jerry Kapstein handle negotiations Garvey says there have been a few discussions since then nothing of Garvey might have strengthened his case if he were having a great year but he He slumped badly at the start of the year started to -overcome it but has been set back by the hamstring currently hitting 254 with 10 homers and 35 RBI Garvey says even if he goes on a tear the second half he sure it will mean stay a Dodger might make a business decision I have no control over the situation so all I can do is go out and do my very best and Whatever will be will be pretty much been able to block it out when I go on the field but to be truthful it does come into my mind from time to Ttmes New Ktn Murrov Steve Munson watches his putt on the No 2 green begin its 40-foot trip to the hole Munson sunk the putt to record his first of seven birdies on his way to a 67 and the first-round GKA individual lead for Georgetown-Virginia matchup may start new trend TTou be seeing the JL major sporting events on commercial television much longer because more money in pay television prediction by network official many Washington area fans be able to see the bothers me that we had so many empty seats at Capital Centre last said Thompson For part the Cavalier athletic braintrust has marketed Sampson well- In his three seasons Virginia has played regular-season games in New York New Orleans Honolulu Chicago and Washington A Virginia spokesman said the school is negotiating with the Meadowlands for a game there in late February A TV industry source puts his on worth to Virginia at $1 million annually More and more games especially those created for TV are being played off campus The schools have every right to go to the highest bidder for TV contracts and game sites They also have the right to spend as they see fit often by increasing recruiting budgets Spending money is easier than earning it The problem for college basketball looms down the road when the ratings drop and TV shuns of the sport vision moguls for the past few years be seeing the major sporting events on commercial television- much longer because more money in pay a network official said back in 1974 Check the calendar 1982 Surely that indicates something Virginia is essential to the show er game Sure Georgetown' has 7-foot center Patrick Ewing who helped the Hoyas to a second-place finish a 63-62 loss to North Carolina in the NCAA tournament Ewing will square off literally sometimes if last year was any indication against a lot of big men this year but for a real crowd attraction you need the biggest of the big men Virginia has him 7-4 Ralph Sampson This could be the all-time college basketball championship except that tickets are all covered nicely by the big-bucks donors Coach John Thompson directly responsible for the basketball upsurge (206-91 in 10 seasons) was asked if it you to know that so school spokesman an ambitious goal for a school with only 4000 seats for some games try to watch on television either unless you live in the less than one-third of the US that is wired for cable television Georgetown Athletic Director Francis Rienzo who put the game together sold the TV rights for a cool half million dollars to cable and pay television The part includes Washington even the Georgetown campus Only closed circuit television will be available including McDonough Arena since only small pockets of the Washington metropolitan area have cable systems Rienzo and Virginia Athletic Director Dick Schultz in announcing the game talked of and said it was that universities work together to present a game of this Public interest would be best served by playing the game at RFK Stadium very close to the inner city and giving the tickets away free This is no one-shot deal been warned by tele-' By DON CRONIN VPI Sports Writer WASHINGTON (UPI) Forget college basketball cheers like a Gimme an Gimme an etc Break out the new one a "Gimme another bundles of and make big Cheerleaders once got the fans going with the old got the It should be got the G-R-E-E-D" The school song might go something like you got the money buddy we got the Just the other day Georgetown and Virginia announced play perhaps the No 2 game of the 1982-83 college basketball season behind only the NCAA championship on Dec 11 The game will be played at 18000-seat Capital Centre not quaint 4000-seat McDonough Arena But try to buy a seat at least not for anything approaching face value The tickets 9000 each for Georgetown and Virginia to i hawk will go only to season ticket holders At Virginia that means those who donate long and hard to even get a season ticket will have the of purchasing tickets for this one The Cavaliers use Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament tickets as the lure for their donors Georgetown is hanging its season ticket sales campaign on this game The ads read vs Georgetown" hot season banking on selling 9-000 season said a i.