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'K 4 -fr ffr ft i 'a 4 Sports Classified fonfreal Star FRIDAY JULY 29 1977 Section PAGES D-1 to D-8 is choice pionship team the other way and the end justifies the means He's the governing body and winning is what counts The role has changed One yar it might have been to get on base one yar it might have been to start a rally Now I hit fifth (instead of third) because Reggie (Smith) can do the job there and he's a switch-hitter And Tom felt Ron (Cey) would get a better pitch to hit this way with me hitting behind Garvey's best home-run yar before this wu 1974 when he hit 21 He drove in 111 runs that season but his current rate Yould take him over 13) "It taka for me a little longer he aid only until I have two strikes What he asked me to do wu See SHAMROCK Page D-2 printed on And this year more people punched the square beside his name than they did any other NL player ever He leads in more than punched squares He leads the Dodgers who are at the Olympic Stadium for the first of three games with the Expos tonight He may even lead the MVP lobbying again He may not be MVP this time but be close The Dodgers may not be in the World Series but they'll be dose 1974 all over are a lot of the same things" Garvey was saying last week at Dodger Stadium "But this is a better team We have more talent We score more runs We hit more home runs We have more game-breaking weapons This is the finest Los Angeles Dodgers team at least in my years here and from other teams when I was a student of the Dodgers Man for man this is the finest talent we've had Only the number of victories will bear it out" The Dodgers' club record for wins is 105 in 1953 The Los Angeles dub record is 102 in '82 and 74 The current team is on a pace that will take them to 100 victoria Garvey a student of old Dodger teams when his father drove the team bus at spring training in Vero Beach is a key reason While maintaining a near 300 average that has become his trademark Garvey already has more home runs (24) than he ever hit in one season and more runs batted in than he had last year when he had 80 There's a reason for the change manager Tommy Lasorda when he was still Dodgers' coach Tommy Lasorda bounced the idea off Garvey one day that he might consider going for the long ball in certain situations "I though he was too base-hit says Lasorda didn't ask him to change anything I just said that in certain situations I wanted him to try to hit the ball out Instead of wanting one run we wanted three Garvey has the They talked again during the winter more at spring training and Garvey agreed to try "When you start going for the home run you sacrifice somewhere Garvey said we weren't a cham- STEVE GARVEY Awesome Dawson hit tips Padres By BOB DUNN Star Staff Reporter SAN DIEGO You can look at the Expos' 10-game road trip two ways One they played well enough to be 6-4 which they were Two if they'd played the kind of baseball their fans watched for most of this month they'd be coming home today 7-3 or 8-2 or egad 9-1 Instead they needed a two-out two strike 400-foot home run by Andre Dawson in the top of the eighth inning Fan record expected When La Angela Dodgers move into Olympic Stadium this evening they'll probably help maid a three-game attendance record for the Ex-pa' home playpen Judging by advance sates fa the stand which embraca gama under the lights tonight and tomorrow plus a Sunday matinee Expa vice-president Harry Renaud expects an average of 40000 for the series That's 120000 for thru gama which wald wipe at the 83618 figure established when Cincinnati was in June 17-18-19 Advance sates of yesterday were in excess of 7000 over the similar day before the Reds came to town Cindy is Oft back9 and ifsjust in time By MIKE BOONE Cindy Shatto is back from sabbatical and just in the nick of time With Diane Jones married and therefore hart con-court Shatto has inherited the sacred trust of being the Dreamboat Annie of Canadian amateur sport In the post- Olympic return to business as usual there has to be at least one beautiful blonde competing if anyone is going to spend a Saturday afternoon watching amateur sports on television Cindy fits the bill perfectly and she will be in action this weekend in the Canadian diving championships at the Olympic pool For the daughter of Dick Shatto former CFL great and present Toronto Argonaut general manager this is the first major competition since a six-month leave of absence that followed last Gama "I felt a bit of a letdown after the she says was a physical letdown because been working so hard and all of a sudden there was nothing It wasn't too hard to take though because I was kind of looking forward to the finish of it "I started diving when I was eight" Shatto added I had never had more than three weeks off at a time I took six months off and just relaxed didn't set foot on a diving board I was working for most of it but I enjoyed just sitting Sitting around a common leisure time pursuit for mat people was a unique experience for Shatto Most of her 20 years have been spent perfecting her diving She left her Toronto home at 13 to follow coach Don Webb to Winnipeg and later to Pointe Claire Varied stops The odyssey has included competitive steps in Sweden the Soviet Union both Germanys Yugoslavia New Zealand Australia Finland Czechoslovakia Bulgaria Belgium and Italy and those are just the places she remembers off the top of her head Her education has progressed in fits and starts but Shatto has no second thoughts about the amount of time she has devoted to the sport "No regrets not she says "You get to travel a lot and meet a lot of neat people It's been It hasn't all been sweetness and light however Shatto had a poor 1975 season complicated by a back injury and did some soul searching six months before the Olympics I was on the verge of she remembers "I was ready to just throw in the towel and say it's not worth it I just wasn't diving well and I was quite depressed "All of a sudden it started coming again and I started working really hard Everything came back just in time I made the Olympic team in May and from May until July it was all on an upswing My progress never faltered it was all pretty steady" What followed was a fifth-place showing in the tower event at the Olympics "the best thing that's ever happened to says Shatto "I cherish that even more than the gold medal I won at the Commonwealth Games" Fifth place is not usually a cause for rejoicing but there were special circumstances in Cindy's case She had been a springboard specialist and the Gama were her first international tower competition Her 5850 score wu the best among Canadian divers With that experience behind her and the Moscow Olympia three years away Shatto is "just playing it by ear and looking toward the world championships next year" Her training consists of four or five liars a day running through her repertoire of diva "You do your whole list and try to get Shatto explains "Girls do 10 diva off the one- and three-metre boards and eight off the tower You just do your diva and you do them over and over until you can get them right every time "You iust go by what your coach says You can usually fat it whether it wu a good dive or not but sometima you can't and the coach is there to help you Unlike swimmers who tend to peak early divers can remain in active competition until their late 20s Shatto hasn't thought too much about Moscow and even leu about an eventual coaching career "I don't rally think like to she admits don't think I could handle it Watching coaches I don't know if I could do it I don't know if I could scream at people which you have to do or they wont do the diva they're opposed to You have to have a really outgoing personality which I don't" Cindy may very well have the chance to become an extrovert With her looks and ability she'll be the subject of interviews well into the next decade By BOB DUNN Star Staff Reporter SAN DIEGO Remember how it wu in 1974 for Steve Garvey? He wu iust another first baseman with a good half-season when It began Then he started hitting ami hitting and hitting More people wrote his name on more punch cards than any All-Star ever He became the people's choice He became a cover boy He rewarded them by being most valuable player for the All-Mar Game and for the season and his Los Angeles Dodgers made it to the World Series Now it is 1977 But really it is 1974 all over again Steve Garvey's name isn't written onto the All-Star ballots anymore It's Reuschel wins 15th for Cubs with bat Auociated Prest The game wu a strange one in many ways for Chicago Cubs Rick Reuschel normally a starter came on in relief and but Cincinnati Reds 16-15 in a wild National League baseball game yesterday He pitched two-thirds of an Inning singled and scored the winning run in the bottom of the 13th inning It wss his second victory over the Reds in their four-game series and his 10th without a loss at Chicago's Wrigley Field The game marked the return to duty after 12 days of ace reliever Bruce Sutter who pitched three innings allow a hit and struck out six The Cubs collected 24 hits and there were a total of 11 home runs tying a major league record in the game which lasted four hours and 50 minutes Chicago used 21 players the Reds 10 and three Cubs changed positions four times Outfielder Bobby Murcer even played shortstop and second for a while when the Cubs ran out of infielders Roving Rosello Dave Rosello shifting between second and shortstop depending on whether a lefty or righty wss batting drove in the winning run That made up for an error that had given the Reds a 15-14 lead in the top of the 12th Reuschel 15-3 who threw a five-hitter to beat the Reds 3-0 Tuesday said: "I'm not tired I got pumped up so quick the adrenalin was really flowing I'm Just trying to get down now" The Cubs hit six homers two in the first inning and the Reds had five three in the first inning The five homers in one inning by both teams also tied a major league record Bill Buckner and George Mitterwald had two homers each for the Cubs with Murcer and Jerry Morales hitting one each Ken Griffey Pete Rose Johnny Bench Mike Lum and Cesar Gerontmo homered for the Reds In other games Los Angeles Dodgers nipped Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 Pittsburgh Pirates beat Houston Astros 9-4 and St Louis Cardinals blanked Atlanta Braves 3-0 Pirates second Reggie Smith worked reliever Gene Garber for a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the ninth and Tommy John 11-4 scattered six hits to give Los Angeles three victories in its four-game series with Philadelphia Bill Robinson blasted a grand-slam home run the second of his career and Jim Rooker scattered nine hits as the Pirates extended their winning streak to eight games and moved into second place in the NL East Division Robinson's homer his 13th of the season was his second in two days Rookie John Urrea pitched a five-hitter facing only 29 batters and Garry Templet mi hit a two-run triple to lead the Cards to a sweep of their three-game series with Atlanta Reds are hard up on mound CHICAGO (AP) Although it's unlikely appear on the mound infieldtr Ray Knight has been recruited for the bullpen by Cincinnati Reds "I would only use Knight if it was a last resort-use him or ruin one of my said manager Sparky Anderson Knight who pitched briefly In the minors was far from Impressive in a workout Wednesday There was an unidentified batboy limping to prove it Working under the eye id pitching coach Larry Sheppard who had noticed Knight playing at pitching on the sidelines during practice Knight was asked to display his curve ball It sailed past the catcher and struck the batboy in the calf The Reds' pitching staff has been depleted with Tom Seaver ailing with the flu Pedro 13 or bon with an injured knee and Paul Moskau with a pulled from yuterday to bat the San Diego Padres 5-4 and to make the trip a success They're only three games under 500 now and they're llTfc gama behind Chicago Cubs who used to be the Expu' running mates When the Expos left town after the All-Star game last week they were five gama under 500 and 11 tk gama out i And the grind of 10 pma in eight days 4000 mites from home could have been better? It could For instance did anybody believe the Expos capable of a 64 road trip with Dave Cash hitting 150 Warren Cromartie hitting 122 and the RBI trio of Tony Perez Ellis Valentine and Gary Carter driving in leu than two runs a game? And shouldn't a team productive as this me expect to do better on a trip where their 10 starters average more than seven innings per outing and allow 314 earned runs per game? And look at the games they lost: 3-0 at San Francisco Make no complaints Jim Barr stopped them 5-4 at San Francisco They wasted a four-run lad 4-3 at San Diego A bad-hop single cat them three runs early 7-5 at San Diego Base-running blunders kept them from blowing the game open The fact is the three-game swap of the La Angeles Dodgers at the start of the trip wu their futball on the West Cast After that how could they lose? Bat gets well They won yesterday with a little help from the Padres who are still their running mates They won with Dawson who had a bad knee and an ailing bat as late as yesterday morning They won with Da Stanhouse who hu earned a job as a relief pitcher by being good not bad The 'Padres nicked Expos' starter Wayne Twitchell for all their runs in the sixth after Twitchell had no-hit them for five innings A single walk sacrifice and single produced one run then Wednesday night's slugger George Hendrick cracked a two-run double over Dawson's head in right-centre Two' more singles brought Hendrick home In the seventh the Expos rallied Carter stroked his second single of the day and after Cromartie popped up Dawson ripped a ball Into left field for a single Lariy Parrish starting with lefthander Bob Owchinko pitching for the Padres fell behind 0-2 but battled Owchinko impreuively and walked lading the bases Then the key It was a ground ball by pinch-hitter Jose Moralu who is only a shadow of the 1978 Jose Morales It bounced off third baseman Tucker Ashford chang-' ing direction enough to mlu shortstop Bill Alma and rolled Into left field Jerry Turner fielded it which wasn't a mistake and threw it which was Turner's throw was to third base Since umpire Jim Quick forgot his glove he let it go by The ball was fielded by ae of the Expa in their dugat The nearest Padre to third base was probably Turner Dawson scored on the error to Ashford and Parrish came in when the ball wand up in the dugout The play sent Morala to third but the Expa caldn't get pinch-ruaer Bill Atkinson home and the cause looked lost Until the eighth Perez singled Carter struck at Cromartie filed out Dawsa fell behind 1-2 then hit a hanging curve over the centre-field fence It wu an shot Dawsa woke up yesterday with a stiff knee It's an injury been troubling him for a caple of weeks and it goes without saying there are players who wald have scratched themselves from the lineup given the same discomfort Dawsa manwhile shows up at the ball park early for treatment He wants to play He insists a playing In the fifth he bats out an Infield roller In the seventh he hits the line drive to left In the eighth the home run It wu his first homer in almut three weeks and his 12th of the season The RBI pushed him to 42 fourth a the club Vintage Stanhouse After that it was Stanhouse'a game He came In because manager Dick Williams thought the far balls Joe Kerrigan threw to lead-off man Gene Richards were at least ae too many Stanhouse with a 150 earned run average a relief pitcher and a 507 ERA as a starter promptly got a double play Thro he got far more outs in the eighth and ninth The lut one wu a 390-foot job caught by Dawsa of cane just before he ran into the centre-field fence The Expu finished their seasa a the Wat Cast with a 104 record They're 25-27 in road gama and 20-25 against the mighty West Divisia clubs More significantly they're 184 In July matching their best win total for any math any seasa And yes any of them will tell you it could have hem better DIAMOND DUST Steve Rogers goes after his 12th win tonight against the Dodgers who are likely anxious to settle secants for last weekend Lefthander Will McKminey returned home to Springfield Ohio to be with his mother who Is seriously 11) Williams had a meeting with Vekntlne after the big outfielder's failure to slide Wednesday night the results of which will be known the next time EIHs has to slide Lefty Doug km goes far LA tonight also looking for his 12th win The Expa hit only 228 a the trip Rightholder Fred lloldswortb made his first appearance yesterday and retired the only hitter he fared Dawsa has ektht game-winning Bis and hu scared five ggmednumg hits Cindy Shatto prepares for warm-up dive Torrez ends month-long slide Associated Press Manager Billy Martin of New York Yankeu still believa the rote of his pitching staff will take a added significance with each game as the rare for the American League East Division title gets serious "I still think that my pitching will eventually overshadow Baltimore and Bata" Mid Martin after former Expo Mike Torrez tossed a four-hitter and beat Baltimore Oriola 14-2 yesterday for his first victory In more than a month "II Torrez comes along Iks ha Texas Rangers shut at Toronto Blue Jays 3-0 Boston blanked Milwaukee Brewers 12-0 Seattle Mariners downed Minnesota Twins 5-2 Kansas City Iloyals beat Cleveland Indians 5-4 In 11 innings and Oakland A's downed California Angels 5-4 Gaylord Terry 9-8 pitched an 1 1-hit shutout to hand Toronto its seventh loss In a Its tengost liming streak of the season Perry struck at eight in extending Texas' winning streak to six Rookie Mika Paxton a 23-year-old should it's going to be very important for The victory left New York two games behind the Oriola with the Red Sox ac game back Thurman Munson Graig Nettles and Roy White homered In- the Yankees' highest-scoring game of the season 1 Yesterday Torrez pitched no-hit ball for five innings and Chris Chambliss and White each had three RBIs Munson's homer was the 100th of his cawr In other American Lcaguo games right-hander called up from the minora May 22 tossed a four-hitter In his second major league start Jim Rice Bemle Carbo Butch Hobsa and Demy Doyle barked Paxton with homers In Boston's victory Paxton 4-2 struck at five and walked two Gary Whceiock 8-8 got the Seattle win with help from Bill Laxton and former Expo John Malaga Montague saw his league record-tying string of 33 retired batters end In the eighth when he walked Ci aig Kualck Geoff Zahn 94 who lasted just two brings took the loan.