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o) Thursday, July 7, 1988 The Pantagraph Cards' Smith top All SPORTSWATCH Stair Ail-Star AL Terry Steinbach, Athletics Mark McGwire, Athletics Paul Molitor, Brewers Wade Boggs, Red Sox Alan Trammell, Tigers Jose Canseco, Athletics Dave Winfield, Yankees Rickey Henderson, starters NL Gary Carter, Mets 1b Will Clark, Giants 2b Ryne Sandberg, Cubs 3b Bobby Bonilla, Pirates ss Ozzie Smith, Cardinals of Darryl Strawberry, Mets of Andre Dawson, Cjjbs of Vince Coleman, Cardinals More Bears stock for McCaskeys CHICAGO The McCaskey family moved a step closer yesterday to gaining complete control of the Chicago Bears in a dispute with two grandchildren of Bears founder George Halas Sr. Ed McCaskey and his son Michael, who is president and chief executive officer of the Bears, signed legal papers authorizing them to buy a 20 percent share of the National Football League team's stock now owned by Stephen Halas and bis sister Christine. The Halases lost their bid to block the sale of the stock Tuesday, when the Illinois Appellate Court rejected one of two appeals in a dispute over the estate of their father, George "Mugs" Halas the son of Halas Sr. "The closing will not occur until July 29 that's the target date," said Stephen Fedo, an attorney representing the McCaskeys. "Once the stock sale is closed that really does take care of the principal asset of the estate and that may sound the death knell for the rest of this proceeding." Teams pass up supplemental draft NEW YORK All 28 National Football League teams declined yesterday to select any of the 17 players available in a supplemental draft.

Former Tennessee State punter David Hood and running back Brian Davis, who flunked out of Pittsburgh, were the best-known of those In the draft. The process was for players not eligible for the regular college draft last April and was held as a weighted lottery, giving the teams with the poorest records the most chances. But no team wanted any. Most of the players were relatively unknown, in contrast to last year when Seattle selected Ail-American linebacker Brian Bosworth of Oklahoma. League outfield are New York Yankees Dave Winfield (1,737.729) and Rickey Henderson The AL catcher will be Oakland's Terry Steinbacb On getting the most votes in the AL, Canseco said, "It's special to be voted that by the fans, especially to get more than a guy like Winfield, who's been getting the highest average vote for 10 years." Third baseman Wade Boggs of Boston (1,252,976 votes) will be joined by Oakland first baseman Mark McGwire second baseman Paul Molitor of Milwaukee even though the designated hitter has not played an inning at that position this season, and injured Detroit shortstop Alan Tram-mell Trammell was placed on the disabled list Tuesday with a broken left elbow.

Winfield was named to his eighth All-Star starting berth, including six straight and seven overall as a Yankee. The former San Diego Padre is hitting .347 with 15 home runs and 62 runs batted in. Henderson has been named a starter four straight years and also was elected a starter while with Oakland in 1982. He is batting .318 with a league-high 42 stolen bases. A total of 6,146,477 votes were cast by fans this year, the most since 1984.

Several players will collect contract bonuses for being elected All-Star starters. In the American League, McGwire, the 1987 Rookie of the Year, gets $20,000, MoM" collects $25,000, Boggs $50,000, Canseco $20,000 and Winfield $50,000. In the National League, Clark gets $25,000, Sandberg $10,000, Bonilla $15,000, Dawson $50,000, Strawberry NEW YORK (AP) Ozzie Smith of the St. Louis Cardinals led all vote-getters for the second straight year, collecting 2,108,757 votes to become the National League's starting shortstop for the All-Star Game, the Commissioner's office announced yesterday. Smith will start at shortstop for the sixth straight year.

He is the first player to repeat as the top vote-getter since Rod Carew did It three consecutive years, 1977-79. Oakland outfielder Jose Canseco easily led the American League with 1,765,499 votes for the game at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium Tuesday night. Canseco was one of three Athletics voted to start. "It's really exciting for the fans to support you," Canseco said. "The fans, especially in Oakland, are backing up the players a lot.

Fans are a big part of the game. You always have to let them give an opinion. I think they evaluate the players just as closely as managers and coaches do. I think players should be chosen on a combination of two things, by fan evaluation and Joining Smith in the National League starting infield will be first baseman Will Clark of San Francisco second baseman Ryne Sandberg of the Chicago Cubs (1,196,386) and Pittsburgh third baseman Bobby Bonilla The NL outfield has New York's Dar-ryl Strawberry Chicago's Andre Dawson (1,124,694) and St. Louis' Vince Coleman The NL catcher is Gary Carter of the New York Mets, who got 825,407 votes and was selected to start for the eighth straight season, tying Philadelphia third baseman Mike Schmidt's record for overall starts.

Joining Canseco in the American McDowell stymies Orioles CHICAGO (AP) Jack McDowell came so close to his first complete game major league shutout that it turned out to be frustrating. "You don't get the opportunity that often," said McDowell last night after pitching the Chicago White Sox to a 4-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. McDowell had a two-hit shutout going when Fred Lynn hit his 15th home run with one out in the ninth. Cal Ripken then doubled and that was all for McDowell, a rookie who has had only one complete game. "I had good control," said McDowell, who walked none and improved his record to 4-6.

"It wasn't my best fastball but I was hitting the corners. You just don't get that close to shutouts. Greg Walker helped put the White Sox ahead when he homered to touch off a two-run second inning. It was his fifth of the season but first in Comiskey Park this year. "It was a big home run for Greg and a big home run for us," Manager Jim Fregosi said.

"Hopefully, he'll start swinging the bat like he can. I knew he would, hit a home run in this park this year. I just didn't know when." Baltimore manager Frank Robinson called it another tough outing for loser Mike Boddicker, 4-11. "We just don't seem to score when he's on the mound," Robinson said. "He would have needed a shutout to win tonight.

McDowell pitched a good game. He threw strikes and he didn't walk anybody." One out after Walker homered, Ozzie Guillen singled and scored on a double by Fred Manrique. Manrique also was involved when the $25,000 and Coleman $15,000. The acrobatic Smith long has been known as the game's premier fielding shortstop. His offense hasn't been bad, either, and he was hitting .281 with 27 stolen bases and 52 runs scored.

Clark was hitting .269 through July 5 with 19 home runs and 64 RBI. Sandberg was at .260, 10, 36, and Bonilla was batting .298 with 17 homers and 57 runs batted in. Coleman, the NL stolen base leader with 45, was hitting .285, while Strawberry was at .297 with a league-high 20 homers and 53 RBI. Dawson was batting .305, 14, 45. The struggling Carter, who wasn't even in the lineup for New York's game with Cincinnati Wednesday night, was hitting .243 with eight home runs and 32 RBI.

The veteran catcher has not hit a home run since May 16, when he got the 299th of his career. Canseco led the AL with 23 home runs, 69 runs scored and 65 runs batted in and was fourth with 22 stolen bases. Boggs, a four-time batting champion including the last three seasons AP Thompson signed into law before last night's game a bill providing the financing to build a new stadium for the Chicago White Sox. Sox make roster moves The White Sox announced last night they have optioned pitcher Joel Davis and infielder Russ Mormon to Class AAA Vancouver and purchased the contracts of pitchers Ken Patterson and Jon Davis. 7 fy Walter Davis signs with Nuggets DENVER Walter Davis, a six-time NBA all-star and the all-time leading scorer in Phoenix Suns' history, became the second unrestricted free agent to change teams when he signed a contract yesterday with the Denver Nuggets.

Pete Babcock, Nuggets president and general manager, made the announcement during a news conference but would not disclose terms of the contract, in keeping with the club's policy. Davis, a 6-foot-6 guard, has played his entire NBA career with the Suns. The 33-year-old Davis became an unrestricted free agent following the 1987-88 season and he signed with the Nuggets one day after forward Tom Chambers signed with the Suns after playing with Seattle for five seasons. Edwards to stay at Indiana BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Jay Edwards, the Big Ten Conference freshman of the year whose basketball scholarship was revoked for academic and disciplinary reasons, will stay at Indiana and try to rejoin the team in the fall, Coach Bob Knight said yesterday.

Knight met with Edwards on Monday. "He said he wants to stay here," Knight said. "He said he's going to stay and do what he has to do to be part of the basketball program." once again was on top in the American League with a 358 mark. Winfield was second In the batting race, while Trammell was seventh at .330 with 10 home runs and 40 runs batted in. McGwire has struggled In his sophomore season and was at .244 with 15 home runs and 47 RBI, while Steinbach, his Oakland teammates, was even worse with a .214 average in just 140 at-bats he spent some time on the disabled list this year.

Molitor has been used as a designated hitter by Milwaukee, but DH does not appear on the All-Star ballot. So Molitor was placed at second base and won, thanks to a .319 average. The closest voting in the AL was at catcher, where Steinbach had 84,266 more selections than Carlton Fisk of Chicago. The biggest margin of victory was by Molitor, who finished more than 245,000 votes ahead of New York's Willie Randolph. In the NL, the tightest race was at catcher, with Carter beating 1987 Rookie of the Year Benito Santiago of San Diego by 90,476 votes.

Dodgers blast past Cards, 7-3 LOS ANGELES (AP) Franklin Stubbs capped a seven-run eighth inning with a tie-breaking grand slam home run last night, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 7-3 victory over St. Louis and their fourth consecutive win over the Cardinals. Stubbs' winning hit came off reliever Todd Worrell, 44, the third St. Louis pitcher. The victory went to Tim Crews, 2-0, who relieved starter Fernando Disputed call highlights Cubs' loss to Giants.

See B3. Valenzuela, trailing 3-0 in the seventh. Crews pitched one inning, and Alejandro Pena finished up. Trailing 34 entering the eighth, the Dodgers mounted thier comeback. Pinch hitter Rick Dempsey greeted reliever Ken Dayley with a two-run double after singles by Kirk Gibson and John Shelby, bringing the Dodgers within a run.

Dempsey went to third on Worrell's wild pitch. The Dodgers tied the score when Dave Anderson singled up the middle to score Dempsey. An infield hit by Mickey Hatcher and a walk to Steve Sax loaded the bases. Then Stubbs lined a 3-2 pitch over the right field wall for his fourth homer of the year. The Cardinals had taken a 34 lead on homer by Tom Brunansky in the second inning and a two-run double by Tony Pena in the seventh.

Cardinal starter Jose DeLeon had a 3-0 lead, but had given up nine hits when he was taken out of the game with one out in the eighth. Former Illinois Wesleyan University standout Brett Robinson has a 3.82 ERA and a 5-6 record with Peoria, the Cubs Class A affiliate in the Midwest League. Robinson has fanned 69 and walked 33 in 92 innings. Ex-ISU players Frank Mustari and Chris Gurchiek, Roanoke-Benson High School product Curt Hasler and Maroa-Forsyth High School product Kevin Koslofski are also playing in the minor leagues. Mustari, platooning at second base for the Vero Beach Dodgers of the Florida State League, is hitting .181.

Playing for Boise, an independent team in the Class A Northwest League, Gurchiek is batting .304 in 56 at-bats as a centerfielder. Hasler is with the South Bend White Sox of the Midwest League. He has a 5-9 record, a 3.49 ERA, 69 strikeouts and just 17 walks. Koslofski, a leftfielder with the Baseball City Royals in the Florida State League, has a .274 batting Norman withdraws from British Open LYTHAM, England Australian Greg Norman reinjured his left wrist and withdrew from the British Open golf championship yesterday. Officials of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St.

Andrews said Norman told them by telephone that he would be unable to compete next week at Royal Lytham-St. Ann's. Norman, playing his first full practice round since withdrawing from the U.S. Open June 17, reinjured the wrist Monday in Orlando, Fla. The White Sox's Fred Manrique jumped over Baltimore's Pete Stanicek after throwing to first base as Stanicek slid into second during third-inning action last night at Chicago.

Freed pitching way up Expos' ladder in hurry White Sox scored a run in the fifth wen he walked and scored on a triple by Gary Redus. Singles by Steve Lyons and Harold Baines and a sacrifice fly by Dan Pasqua accounted for Chicago's final run in the eighth. Pasqua's 12-game hitting streak came to an end. Thompson signs bill In a ceremony behind home plate at aging Comiskey Park, Gov. James R.

pretty well." Freed's performance has not gone unnoticed by the Expos' organization. "The team's minor league pitching instructor (Rick Williams) has been here for my last two starts," Freed said. "He told me I would be ready to move up." The next step for Freed will be either Rockford of the Midwest League or West Palm Beach of the Florida State League, both Class A leagues. In the Expos' chain, West Palm Beach is considered a higher level of competition than Rockford. According to Freed, Williams told him he may be promoted to West Palm Beach, bypassing Rockford.

Freed said Williams has taught him a changeup. "He showed me the changeup," Freed said. "I've been throwing it, and it's worked well for me." Freed said it is a misconception that minor leaguers must endure difficult travel and living conditions. "So far it's been all right," he said. Christiansen gets Minnesota vote MINNEAPOLIS University of Minnesota interim President Richard Sauer said yesterday he will rec: ommend Holger Christiansen, associate athletic director since 1985, to become interim athletic director.

Christiansen would replace Paul Giel, who was fired Tuesday by Sauer in the wake of an investigation into allegations that athletes were paid money by a university official, as well as other problems. Sauer will recommend Christiansen to the Board of Regents, which is to vote on the appointment Friday. SIU sets up defense fund for women CARBONDALE The decision to pass over Charlotte West for the athletic director's job at Southern Illinois University triggered the formation yesterday of a legal defense fund for women employees at SIU. However, West said she has no plans to pursue legal action against the university, adding that her future at SIU will depend on how President John Guyon and new Athletic Director Jim Hart define her role in the department. Hart, a former quarterback for SIU and the St.

Louis Cardinals of the NFL, was named the new athletic director Tuesday. West has worked in SIU's athletics department since 1957 and has been interim AD since September 1987. Organizers of the legal fund say they want to combat a "hostile" environment against female employees at SIU, citing issues such as sexual harassment and limited opportunities for promotion. Compllad from Pantagraph wlra aarvlcaa "We travel in nice buses, and we stay in nice hotels." Freed's teammate this past season at ISU, Bruce Prybylinski, has also had early success in the New York-Penn League. Prybylinski, who left ISU after his junior season, is unscored upon in four relief outings as a member of the Oneonta Yankees.

Prybylinski has struck out 11 and walked two in 7 innings. Another former ISU player, Bryan House, is having a fine season with the Chicago Cubs' Class AA affiliate in Pit-tsfield, Mass. House, who has settled in the outfield after being switched around the diamond, is batting .336 and is one of the leading hitters in AA baseball. House has hit seven home runs, knocked in 30 runs and swiped 20 bases. Unfortunately for House, the Cubs are loaded with quality outfielders at the Class AAA level, and a promotion mav be tough to come bv.

By RANDY REINHARDT Pantagraph staff Dan Freed is enjoying his stay in Jamestown, N.Y., but he may not be in town much longer. Freed, the Lexington High School and Illinois State University product, is pitching so well for the Jamestown Expos of the Class A New York-Pennsylvania League that a promotion may be in the offing. Freed Freed has won all four games he has started for the Expos and has a min-iscule earned run average of 0.61. He has struck out 24 and walked just six in 29 innings. "I'm extremely pleased.

I've done about as well as I can expect," said Freed. "I've been pitching the same as I did in college and it's been working.

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