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The Belleville News-Democrat from Belleville, Illinois • 31

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Belleville News-Democrat Thursday June 27 1985 i i -v THURSDAYS' Homers carry Phillies 6-4 Cubs finally win CHICAGO (AP) The standing room crowd of delighted the Chicago Cuba a five-mfoute ovation Wednesday Their heroes had just snapped a dub-record tying 13-game toeing streak by beating the New York Mets 7-3 Chico Walker caught the final out in left field and as he approached the dugout he flipped the baseball into the stands got It! I got it! Wowl" said a woman in a purple polo shirt who was clutching the tall like it was a World Series souvenir Those in the Chicago dugout had raced onto the field to congratulate relief pitcher Lee Smith and other Cuba In the clubhouse Manager Jim Frey said the weight of tte world was off his should-era The todng streak tad said Frey who the Cubs to the National East title last season and SeeCUBS5D Baseball ballet Nawt-Oamocrat Mailt Wakafonf I ft 1 i i East St Louis second baseman Leon Milton ond in the first Inning of East St 7-6 (left) and shortstop Rodney Lofton leap togeth- eight-inning victory Wednesday at Longacre or for the wild throw as Fairview Park East St Louis scared the winning run Denny Calahan (bottom) steals sec- on a two-out double steel From wire reports Ossie first home run in more than three weeks a two-run sixth-inning shot and his RBI single in the eighth Wednesday night carried the Philadelphia Phillies to a $-4 National League baseball victory over the St Louis Cardinals at Philadelphia The Phillies who won their fifth straight game trailed 4-3 when Glenn Wilson opened the sixth with a single Virgil worked loeer Danny Cox (9-3) to a 2-2 count and hit the hsll over the center Held fence for his ninth homer Cox who tad three straight complete-game victories workled six innings Right-hander John Denny (5-5) worked six innings Kent Tekulve the third Phillie pitcher worked the last inning for his sixth save Juan Samuel led off foe Phillie first with his sixth triple and scored on Greg sacrifice fly The Phillies boosted it to 2-0 in the second on Garry second homer of the year SL Louis scored in the third when Ozxie Smith led off with a single and moved to second on a one-out walk to Cox After Vince Coleman struck out Willie McGee stroked an RBI single to right Mike Schmidt hit his eighth homer in the Philadelphia fourth The Cardinals went ahead 4-3 in the fifth as Coleman stole two bases to boost his major league-leading stolen base total to 50 Tom Nieto opened the inning with a single After Cox struck out Coleman hit into a choice He stole second as Willie McGee walked Coleman and McGee executed a double steal and both scored on Tom single Herr took second on the throw home and scored as Jack Clark singled PIRATES 11 EXPOS 2: Rick Retw-chel considered retiring earlier this year but he's done nothing but retire hitters since Joining Pittsburgh last month Bill Almon tad three hits and ignited a six-nm Pittsburgh second inning with a run-acoring double as the Pirates hit eight doubles en route to the pounding of first-place Montreal Reuschel (4-1) scattered nine hits in continuing his comeback following three seasons of arm problems He tad seven strikeouts and tiro walks for his first complete-game victory since beating the Cleveland Indians 6-1 on Sept 23 1981 for the New York Yankees done an Job for said Pirates Manager Chuck Tanner was disappointed he make the team in spring training but be flew north with us and I told him he should go to Hawaii (the AAA farm club) I told him if he did well there were 25 other major league teams out The Chicago Cuba failed to re-sign Reuschel after a 5-5 season in 1984 and he didn't sign with the Pirates in late February He was 8-2 at Hawaii and been tattered in a single Wimbledon match surprises Wilander Baseball Padres may trade Wiggins to Orioles SAN DIEGO The San Diego Padrea and Baltimore Orioles have worked out a deal that would lend drug-troubled aecond baaeman Alan Wiggina to Baltimore but the trade atill moat be approved by baaeball officials Padres president Ballard Smith said Wednesday Baseball Notebook Page 5D Davis to leave hospital tonight CHICAGO(AP) Catcher Jody Davis who has missed eight games because of gastrointesiiial bleeding was expected to be discharged from a hospital tonight the Chicago Cuba announced Wednesday Davis is to fly to Pittsburgh with the team Friday morning for a weekend series with the Pirates the club said Soccer Panagoulias fired as national coach NEW YORK (AP) -Alkis Panagoulias whose teams wen eliminated from the Olympics and World Cup qualifying in early rounds will not have his contract renewed as the United States national team's soccer coach the US Soccer Federation announced Wednesday Page ID Golf Yorktownace count BELLEVILLE Betty Robinson shot a most peculiar hole-in-one Wednesday night at Yorktown Golf Course Even more peculiar it didn't count Robinson hitting her tee shot on the 15-yard fifth hole struck one of the two light poles on either side of the green the ball caroming directly into the cup Yorktown rules however state that a ball hitting the light pole on the fly must be re-teed Robinson didnX but only because the outcome did not affect her score in the Wednesday Night League Bowling Chicagoanwins Kessler Open DUBLIN Calif (AP) Tbny Cariello of Chicago knocked off top seeded Mark Baker 204-154'to win the $125000 Professional Bowlers Association Kessler Open Wednesday night It was the first PBA title for Cariello who earned $18000 and a trip to next year's Firestone Tournament of Champions i 1 Scoreboard Baseball National League PhHa 6 St Louis4 Chicago 7 New York 3 Pittsburgh 11 MtJ2 Cincinnati 6 SF 4 Atlanta 3 Houston 1 American League Oakland 1 0 Chicago 0 Seattle 5 Texas 4 (1 0) Milwaukee 5 Toronto 4 Detroit 3 Boston 0 Minnesota 2 KC1 NY 4 Baltimore 3 WBGD start since Joining the Pirates on May 21 He has a standout 202 earned run average Marvell Wynne had a pair of hits and drove in three runs as the Pirates snapped a four-game losing streak with a 14-bit attack REDS GIANTS 4: At Cincinnati Eddie Milner drove in three runs with a pair of singles as Cincinnati handed San Francisco its sixth consecutive loss Gary Redus led off the Cincinnati first with a first-pitch homer his fourth off toeer Mike Krakow (5-5V single highlighted a three-run aecond inning that began with a leadoff triple by winning pitcher Tom Browning (7-5) Redus walked and stole his 23rd base and Milner lined a single to center for both runs BRAVES 2 ASTROS 1 (11): At Houston pinch hitter Albert Hall lined a run-acoring triple in the 11th inning to spark Atlanta over Houston one-out triple drove in Glenn Hubbard who led off the inning with a single off loser Dave Smith (4-1) Hall then scored on Claudell sacrifice fly to center off Jeff Calhoun who came oo in relief of Smith PADRES IS DODGERS 4: At San Diego Tim Flannery and Steve Garvey hit three-run homers and LaMarr Hoyt (10-4) tossed a seven-hitter for his eighth straight victory as San Diego getting 13 hits beat Los Angeles Pedro Guerrero tied a National League record with bis 14th home run In the month of June a solo blast leading off the fourth faming shocked because they never said anything about signing me wheal left It was really exciting because I've always dreamed of playing pro And a couple of days later the 18-yearold DeLoach signed with the rookie league team In Johnson City Tenn for the rest of the season that ends Aug 30 DeLoach who Joined the dub Monday and has started two games as an outfielder hopes to be derated to the farm system by that time Though DeLoach made his name in the area as an outstanding control pitcher the Cardinals wanted him for his hitting prowess and DeLoach has no problem with that said they liked the way I hit See DELOACH3D In his first Yugoslav By BOB GREENE Associated Press WIMBLEDON England Yugoslavia1! Slobodan Zivojinovic ducked Mata Wilander and Barbara Potter upset Catarina Lindqvist ending two aeeded players from Sweden tumbling out of the rain-sodden Wimbledon tennis championships Wednesday Also falling was Aaron Krickstein the No 10 seed who was ousted by Bud Schultz 3-5 7-8 6-4 Third-seeded Jimmy Connors seeking a third Wimbledon title in the twilight of a long career battled past Sweden Stefan Simonsson while West Germany's Boris Becker considered a possible future champion on these famed grass courts had hia match against American Hank Pfist-er halted by darkness Becker led 4-0 For the third straight day rain interrupted play but on this day it was only briefly Three other Swedish seeds won Na 5 Anders Jarryd No 7 Joakim Ny-strom and Na 14 Stefan Edberg It was the first time in five years that Jarryd has survived the first round at the AH England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club Bathed in warm sunshine a rarity so far this year Zivojinovic created Bobby DoLoach Jason Goods 11 $-3 $-3 $-0 and Edberg stopped Peter Dooban of Australia 5-2 $-3 $-4 Connors playing his usual attacking game easily cruised past Simonsson $-15-3 $-4 The 32-year-old left-hander who now lives in Sanibel Harbor Fla won seven straight games to close out the first set and grab a 3-0 lead in the second Although he lost his serve in the second game of the third set he quickly broke back then broke again in the seventh game to seal the victory winning on his second match point with an overhead smash weather is a problem Connors said after his victory you had to play two or three days in a row it would be Another match that was halted by darkness was a first-round battle between Vitas Gerulaitis and Peter Fleming It had begun on Tuesday but was stopped then by rain The match is scheduled to be the second one on Court 13 on Thursday Other seeds advancing into the second round were Na 9 Johan Kriek $-4 $-0 4-5 7-5 over Victor Peed Na 11 Yannick Noah $-4 3-5 7-6 $-7 $-3 over Brad Gilbert No 13 Eliot Tei-tacber 5-7 7-6 7-6 $-0 over Italy's See WIMBLEDON3D change seemed like as soon as I got home the (Cardinals) catted me up and said they wanted to sign me I was kind of shocked because theyneversaid anything about signing me when I left It was rewy exciting because always dreamed of playing pro baH Booby DeLoach turn out tte way they did last said DeLoach who starred as East Side's pitcher the past two seasona Besides the rangy B-foot-2 175-pounder already bad accepted a baseball scholarship at Utica Junior College in Utica Misa His idea was to How seeds fared Jkasiv Cowwn (S ban ft-irtt4 MsH WndwHItottl (4) totfto Modan Zwoftno- vfcft-2 ft-77-0 Jsafclwi Myaessi (7) HMM Jobaa Krtah (ft) baal Victor Rsed ft-4 S4 4474 Mfen Rrtekalaia (10) toatlo Bud ftowa 0404 7-ft(7-2Lft4 VoMdek Meab fill baal Brad Qftbart 04 us isesanarnsoai vss mmfwm iaj i Women'eSinglee On OantoM (S) SM Bna Mnseh S-1 the biggest sensation of the tournament when he shocked Wilander the Na 4 seed and the reigning Australian and French Open champion $-2 5-7 7-5 5-0 It waa the first match the 21-year-old native of Belgrade has ever played at Wimbledon and only his second grass court tournament Potter whose serve-and-volley game is perfectly suited for grass crushed the 12th-seeded Lindqvist $-0 7-5 In other matches Jarryd outlasted Italy's Claudio Panatta 4-6 3-6 6-4 $-4 6-1 Nystrom downed Britain's By BRIAN JONES News-Democrat After Bobby DeLoach went through his first major league baseball tryout camp last summer at Fairgrounds Park in St Louis the East St Louis High School senior-to-be remembered departing somewhat disillusioned didn't sign anybody (to a contract) from that DeLoach said of the local scouts from the Cincinnati Reds organization Just figured after that that not too many people get signed that So when the St Louis Cardinals sent DeLoach an exclusive invitation to its two-day tryout camp last Wednesday and Thursday at Busch Stadium DeLoach originally had reeervations -about going just kind of thought things would of heart pays off spend his last two collegiate years at Grambling where high school teammate and buddy Rodney Lofton has earned a baseball scholarship But spurred by a little coaxing from Flyers Coach Art May DeLoach had a change of heart and decided to accept the Cardinals' Invitatioa He learned in surprising fashion that he had underestimated the benefits of these campa DeLoach put on a dazzling two-day offensive display collecting six hits in eight at-bats Including two homers a triple and a double He played flawlessly as an outfielder He also made quite an impression seemed like as soon as I got home (Thursday) night they called me up and said they wanted to sign DeLoach recalled was kind of.

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