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54 Santa Cruz Sentinel Sunday, June 17, 1979 Still Unrecognized, Unheralded In U.S. dwin Moses Best In The World At What He Does across the hill from the engineering firm where he works in Pomona. "Do people notice me?" he repeated, the question rather increduously. "No, there may be a few joggers around, but they don't pay any attention." Moses is, of course, more recognized at track meets, but he still marvels at the difference between track athletes' reception in the United States and in Europe. "When you compete here, people are aware of who you are and what event you're in, but that's about it.

In Europe," Moses said, "I've had small children come up tome and reel, off my stats. They're just crazy about track, and it's not unusual to compete before crowds of 30,000 or 40,000 there. In America, nobody cares about anything but pro' WALNUT, Calif. (AP) There can be endless debate about who is the best first baseman in baseball, who is professional basketball's finest center, or which hockey player is the best around. But the status of Edwin Moses is unquestionable.

He's the best in the world at what he does. Moses, the 1976 Olympic champion in the 400-meter hurdles and a threat to rewrite his world record every time he steps on the track, nevertheless generally goes unrecognized. Articulate, sensitive and soft-spoken, Moses does not complain against his lack of recognition. But it's obvious he's a little bitter. "I come over to the track in the mornings to run," said Moses, who's competing in the AAU National Track and Field Championships at Mount San Antonio College just sports." Moses, a 25-year-old whose current world record is 47.45 seconds, seems to finds some distaste in being used to make money for the people who operate track while, as an amateur, he of course realizes no benefit.

"Meet officials have told me that they wouldn't even hold the 400-meter hurdles if I didn't show up," he said. "They want me to run because they want to draw crowds to meets and collect a lot of money. That's the name of the game." Moses and his event suffer in the United States in one regard. His excellence is so far above any other American in the event that he virtually has to run on his own with no pressure from competitors. Heading into Sunday's final in the AAU meet, he ran a leisurely 49.70 in his heat, then breezed to a 48.75 in the semifinals.

Although both times were far off his world record, he was all alone at the finish in both qualifying races. "When I can run two seconds slower than normal and still win, that's not good," he said. "It makes one lackadaisical." Moses made it apparent that the gold medal he won in Montreal was very meaningful to him, and that a gold medal won by a friend of his in the 1972 Games was perhaps even more meaningful. Via correspondence and phone calls, he has become good friends with Uganda's John Akii-Bua, the Munich winner in the 400 hurdles and former world record holder. "I guess the gold medal kept him alive while Amin's purges against his tribe were going on," Moses said.

American league Roundup Pinch-Hitters Lift Angels, Tribe Past Foes Hurdlers Flash To Solid Times In AAU Nationals By The Associated Press Pinch-hitter Joe Rudi and Tom Donohue delivered eighth-inning singles off Detroit relief ace John Hiller Saturday, giving the California Angels a 4-2 victory and sending winless Sparky Anderson down to his third defeat as manager of the Tigers. Willie Aikens singled with one out in the California eighth and went to second as Downing walked. Hiller relieved starter Jack Morris, 4-3, and Rudi, batting for Larry Harlow, singled on Killer's first pitch to score Aikens. After a wild pitch advanced the runners, Grich intentionally walked to load the bases and Donohue singled to score Downing. Dave Frost, 4-3, allowed five hits in 81-3 innings before Dave LaRoche got Jason Thompson to hit into a game-ending double play following a single by Steve Kemp.

Thompson hit solo homers in the fourth and seventh innings for Detroit's runs. They were his seventh and eighth homers of the season. The Angels took a 2-0 lead in the third after Dan Ford drew a two-out walk and Don Baylor doubled. Anderson ordered Aikens passed to load the bases but Brian Downing spoiled the strategy with a two-run single up the middle. Downing, the Angels' designated hitter, extended his hitting streak to nine games.

He has driven home 36 runs this season, 14 in the last 10 games. Grich extended his hitting streak to 17 games, longest for the Angels this season, with an infield single in the sixth inning. The victory was the first for Frost over the Tigers in three career starts. California has won four of its five games against the Tigers over the Kansas City Royals. The Royals took a 2-1 lead against Jim Slaton, 6-3, when Amos Otis led off the sixth with his sixth home run of the season.

Willie Randolph slashed a lOth-inning single to score Bucky Dent from second base and the New York Yankees inflicted a loss on former teammate Sparky Lyle by beating the Texas Rangers 3-2. Dent led off the 10th with a single off Lyle and moved to second on a sacrifice by Mickey Rivers. Randolph then greeted Texas relief ace Jim Kern with a single to right field to deliver the run that ended the Yankees' three-game losing streak, The Rangers took a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning on Pat Putnam's seventh homer of the year. The Yankees tied it in the fifth when Bucky Dent hit his first homer since his three-run blow in last season's American League East playoff game in Boston. Rick Burleson's inside-the-park two-run homer and a two-run upper deck shot by Jim Rice powered Dennis Eckersley and the Boston Red Sox to an 11-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

Burleson's fourth home run of the season capped a three-run third inning. It came when right fielder Claudeli Washington's attempted a diving, one-handed catch of a line drive. Washington, who suffered a groin injury on the play, remained sprawled on the ground as Burleson circled the bases. The Red Sox added three runs in both the fourth and fifth innings, with Carl Yastrzemski's two-run double keying the fifth. It was the career extra-base hit for Yastrzemski, the 15th player in major league history to reach that mark.

Rice's 14th homer came in the sixth after Burleson singled. this season and four in a row overall. Besides Thompson's two homers and Kemp's ninth-inning single, the Tigers' only other hits were singles by Ron LeFlore and Alan Trammell. Trammell opened the eighth with a single but pinch-hitter Phil Mankowski grounded into a double play. Morris allowed six hits and six walks in 71-3 innings.

Following Donohue's RBI single off Hiller, Dave Tobik came on and prevented further scoring while leaving two runners stranded. Ted Cox delivered a run-scoring pinch single with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Cleveland Indians a 4-3 decision over the Seattle Marinerst. Toby Harrah led off the ninth with a single off John Montague, 4-1. Bobby Bonds walked and Rick Manning hit a fly ball off reliever Byron McLaughlin that sent Harrah to third. Mike Hargrove was intentionally walked to load the bases before Cox came through with his game-winning hit.

Winner Sid Monge, 6-5, pitched the ninth inning for the Indians and gave up only an infield single. The Mariners took a 2-0 lead in the first against Eric Wilkins, the runs scoring on a single by Bruce Bochte and Willie Horton's fielder's-choice grounder. The Indians cut it to 2-1 on Toby Harrah's RBI infield single in the third off Seattle starter Joe Decker. The Indians tied it with single runs in the fourth and seventh. Ron Hassey singled home Cleveland's second run off Decker and Rick Manning's two-out RBI single in the seventh came off Montague, who replaced Decker at the start of the sixth.

Robin Yount's eighth-inning single scored Ben Oglivie with the winning run, lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-2 victory National League Roundup Kingman's Homer Paces Chicago Bair's head for a single, Trillo advancing to third. Bob Boone then walked, loading the bases. That brought up Rose, who after 16 years played out his option in Cincinnati last season and signed with the Phillies. Bair threw four straight balls to Rose, forcing home Trillo with the winning run. Cincinnati took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on George Foster's 14th home run of the season.

The Phillies tied it in the bottom of the inning when Bake McBride stroked his third triple in two games and scored on a wild pitch by Paul Moskau. The Phillies took the lead in the third on Garry Maddox's RBI triple. In the fifth, Johnny Bench led off with his sixth home run to tie the game and the. Reds went ahead 3-2 on doubles by Paul Blair and Moskau. Ellis Valentine clubbed a two-run homer and Ross Grimsley got eighth-inning relief help from Elias Sosa as the Montreal Expos defeated the Houston Astros-4-2.

hitting streak in the National League this season and the longest of his career. Welch worked seven innings, giving up six runs on nine hits while striking out eight. It was his first appearance in 10 days when he lost to the Pirates in Pittsburgh 5-4. Lerrin LaGrow took over in the eighth and allowed singles to Bill Robinson and Phil Garner to lead off the inning. But Ott grounded out, Stennett hit into a fielder's choice and Don Robinson flied out.

After Ferguson's fourth-inning homer, Don Robinson did not allow Los Angeles a hit until Vic Davalillo's pinch double in the seventh. Manny Trillo, playing for the first time since fracturing a wrist bone May 5, doubled to open the last of the ninth and scored on a bases-loaded walk to Pete Rose as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-3. 'After Trilfo's double, his first hit of the night, pinch-hitter Greg Gross' sacrifice bunt attempt bounced over pitcher Doug By The Associated Press Dave Kingman knocked in two runs with his 22nd homer and a double and Ken Holtzman allowed just three hits in 71-3 innings as the Chicago Cubs beat the San Diego Padres 5-2 Saturday night. Holtzman, 5-5, allowed the Padres just singles by Gene Tenace in the first and eighth innings and a third-inning single to Gene Richards before getting relief help from Bruce Sutter in the eighth. Loser Gaylord Perry, 6-5, was battered for 10 hits and issued three walks in the seven innings he worked.

The Padres staked Perry to a 2-0 lead in the first. Tenace singled in one run and Paul Dade, making his first appearance as a Padre since being obtained from Cleveland, hit a sacrifice fly. But the Cubs came back with a three-run third. Ivan DeJesus walked and Mick Kelleher singled to start the rally. With one out, Kingman doubled to center to drive in DeJesus and send Kelleher to third, where he scored on Scot Thompson's groundout.

The Cubs went ahead on Jerry Martin's RBI single that drove in Kingman. Chicago took a 4-2 lead in the fifth when DeJesus singled, was sacrificed to second, moved to third on a groundout, and scored on a passed ball charged to catcher Fred Kendall. Kingman gave the Cubs a 5-2 advantage when he belted a towering bases-empty homer off Perry with two outs in the seventh, to give him 52 RBI this year. Omar Moreno slugged a three-run homer and Don Robinson pitched a five-hitter as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3. Moreno homered in the third when the Pirates batted around against loser Bob Welch, 4-4, making his first start since May 1.

After Pittsburgh took a 4-0 lead in the third, Joe Ferguson hit a three-run homer in the fourth, his 10th of the season, as the Dodgers closed to within a run. Ott started the Pirates' third with a single and Rennie Stennett walked. One out later, Moreno hit his fourth homer into the right-field seats. Pittsburgh then belted Welch for successive singles by Tim Foli, Dave Parker, Willie Stargell and John Milner for another run. Davey Lopes' 18-game hitting streak was stopped by Robinson.

The Dodgers' second baseman had the second longest WALNUT, Calif. (AP) Deby LaPlante rebuffed the challenge of teenager Candy Young in the women's 100-meter hurdles and Renaldo Nehemiah continued his domination of the men's 110-meter hurdles Saturday at the National AAU Track and Field Championships. The 26-year-old LaPlante won her event for the second straight year in 12.86 seconds, shattering the American record of jl3.07 she had set in Friday's semifinals. However Young, the 17-year-old high school junior from Beaver Falls, certainly was not disgraced. She finished second in 12.95, smashing the world junior record of 13.13 she had established in Friday's other semifinal.

1 Young, from the hometown of former pro football star Joe Namath, 'was out very fast in the final. But LaPlante, a freshman at San Diego State University, passed her at the fourth hurdle and held the advantage to the finish. As she crossed the finish line, the exhilirated LaPlante, a 1976 Olympian, clenched her fists, jumped up and down, then raised both hands in the air. "I was the last one out of the blocks; I stumbled coming out," explained LaPlante. "After my bad start, I decided there was not way I was going to get beat.

I wanted this one bad." The victory earned the veteran LaPlante a berth on the United States for the World Cup meet at Montreal in August and a place on the U.S. squad for the Pan American Games at San Juan, Puerto Rico next month. Nehemiah, the brilliant University of Maryland sophomore, also gained a place on both American teams by winning the men's high hurdles easily in 13.19 the third fastest time in history. Nehemiah also holds the top two marks 13.00 at Los Angeles last month and 13.16 at San Jose, Calif, in April. The 20-year-old sensation from Scotch Plains, N.J., won handily despite hitting four hurdles.

As usual, he was quick out of the blocks and led all the way en route of breaking his meet record of 13.28 set last year. "There was a lot of pressure for a world record, but I didn't want to put any pressure on myself," said the self-assured, confident Nehemiah. "I just wanted to win the race. don't feel I ran the race 100 percent," he added. "I led after the first five hurdles and I let the field try and catch up.

"It was not like I was running in the Olympics," said the youngster who is considered one of the United States' best hopes for a gold medal at the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. While the hurdlers were exciting the fans at Mount San Antonio College, so were several other performers. One event that especially caught the fancy of the crowd was the men's discus. Mac Wilkins, the 1976 Olympic champion and American record holder, won the highly competitive event with a toss of 231 feet, 10 Inches third best In history behind the world mark of 233-5 by East Germany's Wolfgang Schmidt and Wilkins' 232-6. "I knew I was capable of throwing that far, it was just a matter of when I was going to do it," said Wilkins, who has been experimenting with a new technique this year.Tm still playing with new form, but it's still ragged and inconsistent." Ken.

Stadel finished second at 227-3, his personal best, Finland's Knute Hjeltnes was third at 226-0, John Powell, the fourth-place finisher in the Olympics, took fourth at 220-11, and four-time Olympic champion, 42-year-old Al Oerter, placed fifth at 217-8. The 100-meter races also grabbed the interest of the crowd. In the men's sprint final, Jsmes Sanford, a sophomore at the guniversity of Southern California, streaked to a frontrunning victory in 10.07, the best in the world this year and a meet record. Harvey Glance, the standout from Auburn University, took second in 10.15, edging Emmit King, a junior college student, who was timed in 10.16 and Olympic veteran Steve Riddick, fourth in 10.19. The women's 100 was won by Evelyn Ashford of UCLA in 11.01, who rallied to catch pacesetting Brenda Morehead at the halfway mark and sped to a convincing victory.

However, Ashford ran an even faster time in the semifinals, 10.97, breaking her American record of 11.07 set last month at Kingston, Jamaica. Morehead, from Tennessee State University, was timed in 10.96 in the semifinals, but her performance was accompanied by a strong wind and will not be eligible for a record. The field events produced some notable performances in addition to the Maren Seidler, the nation's outstanding woman shot putter, broke her American record of 62-3V4, winning in 62-7. The hefty Seidler, the only 60-iooter in American history, passed that mark on each of her first four throws, before fouling on her final two attempts. Scott Neilson, the four-time NCAA hammer throw champion and three-time NCAA weight throw titleholder from the University of Washington, captured the hammer at 236-5, a meet record.

Franklin Jacobs, the junior from Fairleigh Dickinson University who had been struggling this year, got off his best outdoor high jump of the season, winning at 7-44, the same height cleared by Benn Fields. Jacobs won on fewer misses, then barely missed 7-7, nicking the bar on his way down on his first attempt. "I feel 7-9 is within my reach, possibly this year," the 5-8 1 Jacobs said after winning his first AAU title in six tries. "I'm very happy right now," he added. "I did not think I was ready for 7-5 today.

I have developed major tendinitis and have been experimenting with a new technique, which I don't want to discuss at this time." The victory was retribution for Jacobs, who had finished 13th the worst performance of his collegiate career at the NCAA Championships two weeks ago in Champaign, 111. Larry Myricks, the NCAA Division I and II champion and the AAU indoor winner in the long jump, continued his domination of the event this year, winning with a wind-aided 27-2. High school sensation Carl Lewis of Willingboro, N.J., placed second at 26-6 '4, also wind-aided. Matt Centrowitz, former University of Oregon long-distance standout, scored a surprising victory in the men's final. He surged into the lead with 300 meters remaining and won comfortably in 13:40.8.

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