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THE ARGUS Rock Island 111 Thursday May 17 1979 22 Bullets' Motta: we don't deserve seventh game Black Hawks to tour Europe Carlton almost blanks Cubs shuts press out completely By MURRAY HURT (Argus sports editor) The Quad-City Black Hawks made it official today: they'll embark June 22 on a five-city 16-day tour of Europe playing games in Brussels Belgium Antwerp Belgium Rotterdam Holland Mamheim-Ludwigsha-fen Germany and Cologne Germany The Indianapolis Caps a new member of the Northern States Football League will provide the opposition traveling with the Black Hawks throughout the tour Jim Foster director of the Black Hawks made the announcement this morning at a press conference at the Italian Village Restaurant in Davenport FOSTER WHO joined the Black Hawk organization last fall after serving in the same capacity with the Newton Nite Hawks another Northern States League entry has been working on the idea since last September It will be the first time that sports fans in Holland and Belgium will witness American professional football In 1977 Newton and the Chicago Lions of the NSFL took the game to France and Austria Drawing on lessons learned in that initial appearance in Europe Foster has drawn up a strong program for the June tour The most reputable firms have been contracted to handle tours details such as lodging meals tax payments and ticket revenues accounting and pre-game promotion and sales A limited partnership composed of prominent Quad-City businessmen and one from Indianapolis has been fanned to fund and organize the tour The two clubs themselves have no financial involvement in the tour A NUMBER of activities have been programmed into the tour such as exchanges of city keys official state receptions and the attendance of United States Embassy CHICAGO (AP) No runs no hits no words For six innings Steve Carlton pitched perfect ball against the Chicago Cubs Then for 49 minutes he shut out about 10 reporters waiting anxiously for his comments The silence of the Philadelphia left-hander came on the heels of his 13-0 three-hit complete-game victory Wednesday AT 3:53 PM the game ended At 4:25 Carlton took his shampoo from his locker and brushed by hovering reporters and into the training area At 4:37 he returned to his locker game a reporter said Carlton collected his clothes and did an about-face back to the training area At 4:40 he left the locker room fully clothed with reporters in hot pursuit "Nice talking to said one you got a few asked another Silence At 442 he strode out of Wrigley Field and down the street In other National League games Ted Simmons' two-run double in the fifth inning gave Bob Forsch all the runs he needed to record hits first victory (2-0 over Montreal) in 12 starts dating back to last September Pittsburgh stopped the Mets 4-3 Atlanta beat Los Angeles 3-2 San Francisco defeated Houston 8-4 in 10 innings and Cincinnati ripped San Diego 7-0 Carlton's silence paralleled that of the Cubs' bats Thanks to two sparkling plays by third-baseman Mike Schmidt that lumber failed to get a man on base for six innings But leading off the seventh Ivan Dejesus looped a clean single to left field He was wiped out on a double play In the ninth Barry Foote tripled but was pegged out at home on two-out single to center fielder Greg Gross Carlton three excellent a fastball slider and curve ball said Tim McCarver returning as his catcher after regular Bob Boone replaced him in his previous two starts to get more hitting into the lineup Phils Manager Danny Ozark said he would have liked Carlton 4-5 to get a perfect game but long as we won it much affect me With the kind of stuff he had I thought he had a DeJesus ended that chance "I just waited for the ball real good and made he said was an excellent pitch The guy just hit it They do that sometimes McCarver said of the slightly outside 3-2 slider The Phillies took a 2-0 lead in the second on Rudy two-run double Meoli went into the game with three hits and one RBI but kept hitting in the third when his two-run single increased the lead to 7-0 Rick Reuschel 2-5 was charged with all seven runs color guards at the games And it be all business for the teams either Several optional side trips to Paris England via hovercraft over the English Channel and a scenic boat trip up the Rhine River have been planned Fans from the Quad-Cities and Indianapolis making the trip will receive complimentary reserved-seat tickets to all five games There be any lack of American-type cheering at the games either The Honey Hawks a disco-type dance troupe which cheers at all Hawks home games will also make the trip GIRLS INTERESTED in trying out for the 24-girl troupe which will accompany the teams are asked to appear at tryouts Sunday at 3:30 pm at Dance Studio 37th Street and 14th Avenue Rock Island Girls should come dressed in leotards swimsuits or similar suitable attire For further information call the Black Hawk office at 793-0033 Last game in Seattle on Friday SAN ANTONIO Texas (AP) Even Dick Motta will admit the tenacious Washington Bullets who are growing accustomed to showing more lives than a ghetto alley cat probably deserve a decisive seventh game at home with the once comfortable San Antonio Spurs "I feel good about the seventh game a life that we didn't probably deserve said the Washington Coach after the defending National Basketball Association champion Bullets upended the Spurs 108-100 here Wednesday night to knot the Eastern Conference finals at 3-3 AND THE dogged Bullets who once trailed upstart San Antonio 3-1 in the series will host the seventh game Friday night on their home court in Landover Md In their three years in the NBA the Spurs have won there only once 118-97 on May 4 to open this series rather be us than added Motta Forward Bobby Dan-dridge playing out of position at guard when Motta used an oversized fourth-quarter lineup and reserve forward Greg Ballard keyed a late flurry that enabled the Bullets to put away the Spurs before a stunned sellout San Antonio crowd of 16055 Ballard got nine points and Dandridge had 10 in the final 10 minutes of the game The Spurs staged a brief third quarter uprising and had tied the Bullets 82-82 two minutes into the fourth quarter But Elvin Hayes converted a three-point play with 9:53 remaining to snap the tie and the Bullets had built up a 103-92 margin seven and a half minutes later Big contingent of Q-C area girls ready for state track Steve Trout teams the 440 and 880 medley with Moline cracking the state meet in the mile relay Barb Bogard Knoxville i and Julie Wil-dermuth (Riverdale) are third and fourth respectively in the discus standings Bogard has a recorded throw of 117-3 while Wildermuth comes in to the finals on a 116-2 Rockridge High School sends an eighth ranked mile relay squad to Charleston JANET TURNER of Abingdon will be in the field for the Class A long jump sporting a 16-7 measurement A pair of local officials will work the state meet Moline's Delbert Moore will serve as head discus judge while Monmouth's William Davis will officiate in the shot Sherrard High School sends three entrants to Charleston Theresa Nelson a senior qualified for the finals with a discus toss of 1064 Vi Sophomore Gail Holliday cracks the dis- Head 1 110 for State tance events (two and one mile) while Ml- chell Harris will compete in the 440-yard dash Rock Island's hopes in Charleston this weekend Orta lifts Sox Trout earns save OAKLAND (AP) "I have no excuses I just been swinging the bat admitted Chicago White Sox shortstop Jorje Orta struggling through the worst slump of his career Orta a lifetime 283 batter came to the plate Wednesday night in the eighth inning with a 179 average two runners on base and his team trailing the Oakland 1-0 Matt Keough searching for his first victory since Sept 1 worked the count to 3-2 before Orta drilled a two-run double He then scored on Bill single and the White Sox rolled to a 3-1 victory "I'm just trying to meet the Orta explained "I talked with Ted Williams last week in Chicago and a little more relaxed at the plate In other American League games Ron Guidry outdueled Mark Fidrych as the New York Yankees tripped Detroit 6-2 Baltimore outscored the Red Sox 10-6 California nipped Milwaukee 4-3 in 11 innings Texas beat Minnesota 8-4 Toronto tripped Cleveland 4-3 and Kansas City edged Seattle 4-3 Adams signs with Argonauts KANSAS CITY Mo (AP) Quarterback Tony Adams the former Utah State star who was mostly limited to backup action in four years with the Kansas City Chiefs has signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League Eric Soderholm triggered the winning rally with a one-out single and was replaced by pinch-runner Joe Gates who stole second Alan Bannister walked and Orta belted the game-winning hit off Keogh 0-6 Right-hander Francisco Barrios 4-1 was heading for his first complete game of the season when he was replaced by Steve Trout following Mitchell two-out single in the eighth told me he was a little said Manager Don Kessinger Trout son of former major league pitcher Dizzy Trout retired the only four batters he faced for his first major league save good to get the first one under your said Steve who eventually hopes to be a starter A host of area girls will represent the Quad-Cities and Western Illinois in the seventh annual IHSA Girls State Track and Field Meet at Eastern Illinois University this weekend The Charleston 111 gathering will be for both Class A (small schools) and 2A (big schools) and draws nearly 1200 girls from 350 schools to Stadium for the openingrounds Friday morning THE AREA standout heading into the two-day Class 2A affair is Lisa Allen listed as the top 110-yard low hurdler with a clocking of 141 in the event Miss Allen is also ranked third in the 220 lows sporting a time of 0 Another Oakland scored its only jj fied in tworun in the fourth on Miguel Galesburg Uilone leadoff triple andj dashes sacrifice fly Page in United 5-for-37 slump added sin-Vjj compete iflfas in the sixth and eighth state finals Like Orta Page receivedga tion from tpome advice from an old master Prew (A television an-tn-dler (shot Pn0uncer) told me to keep by ad ranked in ancjs farther away from nt UTHSinimJjjy bo(jy when bat- explained Mitchell MEANW page the only 80 and 880 mbatter having his problems st Moline wayne Gross is 3 for 19 The MonMarrio Guerrero and Duane ja dies in ClaMurphy are 2 for 20 Dave mouth seniiRevering is 3 for 28 and jn the 100-yarcLarry Murray is 1 for 18 But Oakland kept Keough Jane Broqn the game with some is presently raffy fielding Although heig jump havinbianked the White Sox for Aledn Sprseven innings the right- dasfaandnder was in troublem the state survlvin8 ant tne state lin exodus only because Rock Islaiof three double plays vidual events wnn Nancy Burkert (880 run) from Rock Island High School and Terese Schwartz (two mile) from Alleman Burkert is presently fourth in the half mile timed in 2:197 while Schwartz ranks 10 in the two mile with a clocking of 11:324 GENESEO ADVANCES two relay AN ENRAGED San Antonio Coach Doug Moe claimed the Bullets had a little fourth-quarter help from the referees namely Ed Rush and Joe Gushue "The refereeing was too one-sided Rush and Gushue never made a call for ranted Moe "Every time they (the Bullets) went to the hoop in the fourth quarter they'd get the foul called not a whole lot we can do about Only two NBA teams the 1968 Boston Celtics and the 1970 Los Angeles Lakers have come back from 3-1 playoff deficits to win a seven-game series the girts state track meet at rest with these seven performers who qualified for the meet with top marks in district action last week Kneeling in front Is Mindy Bibee while in the second row from left to right are Nancy Burkert Shelly Rohr Cathy Decker and Lisa AUlson At top left to right are Kathi Kean and LeMyra Graves (Argus Photo by Pat McLaughlin) AUTO INSURANCE PROBLEMS? 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