Birmingham Post-Herald from Birmingham, Alabama • 9

Barons never erupt Mn loss to Columbus Charles could he new star If you gotten excited about the first Goodwill Games which began yesterday in Moscow you certainly alone Outside of Ted Turner and a couple of Russkies no one seems to be paying much attention to the event which is supposed to be the next best thing to the Olympics The Games which will run until July 30 are going to cost Turner 35 million for television production and another 15 million for promotions and travel Officials at cable network candidly admit they could lose as much as 810 million So taking that into consideration you wonder why they are doing it The major reason outside of ego is the competition between the -Russians and Americans More than 5000 athletes representing 58 countries will first inning a two-out double to Ricky Seilheimer in the seventh Friederich struck rat two and walked one Left-hander Tom Funk pitched the ninth to pick up his team-leading sixth save Burroughs the third pitcher was tagged with the loss dropping his record to 0-8 The Barons took a 1-0 lead in the first Ken Williams led off the inning with a bunt single and Mike Taylor lined a single to left Troy Thomas walked to load the bases Dave Cochrane singled to right to drive in Williams The Astroi west ahead 8-1 in the third on a walk to Mueller and two-run homer to left off starter Rich DeVtecenm The homer was sixth of the season The Barons tied it 8-3 on an unearned run in the sixth Williams was hit by a pitch to open the inning Williams who had been hit by a derich pitch in the third inning was ejected after arguing with plate umpire Robin Johnson Bailey was still fuming about the ejection after the game still trying to figure out how my man gets thrown out when he gets hit and charge the Bailey said unbelievable (Johnson) said he (Williams) cussed at him The gnys mad and he (Johnson) Mows him all the way up the (first base) Graytyn Eagram came in to run for Williams and went to third when Taylor reached on a throwing error by Columbus third baseman Ken CaminitL Taylor collided with Astros first baseman Mueller on the play and took a hard fall to the ground But he was able to continue playing Engram scored the tying run on By Rubii Grant I PMt-Hmld Rtpsrtv manager Bob Bailey figured hia tom was on the verge (dan eruption in the first inning Birmingham had a run in and the bases loaded with no outs thought we might have a big inning" Bailey said ask for two better Ky there than (Tom) Forrester and (Jim) But Forrester struck out and Winters I grounded into an inning-ending double play as the eruption turned into a lot of smoke I The first-inning fizzle proved costly when Columbus center fielder Joe Mikulik pounded a two-out run-scoring single to I left in the top of the ninth to give the Astros a 3-3 victory last night at Rickwood Field The third largest crowd 10523 since the Barons returned in 1981 watched Bir-mingham fall to 8-7 on the second half of the Southern League season I With the score tied 8-8 in the ninth Barons reliever Darren Burroughs walked Jeff Data to open the inning Jim reached on a choice when Datz was thrown out at second on an attempted sacri-f fice Pete Mueller ripped a single to right sending to third After Bobby Falls filed out to shallow left field Mikulik stroked his third single of the game past Barons third baseman Dave Cochrane to knock in with the winning run hit a good pitch a Bailey said- can you dor The Barms made a mild threat in the bottom of the ninth With one out Forrester reached on a broken bat single to right But Winters filed out to deep right and Manny Salinas also filed out to right to end the game Columbus right-hander Mike Friederich 5-7 went eight innings to get the win He allowed only four hits just one after the Columbus By Rabin Grant Port-Hmld Reporter Bo batting average 067 sounds more like a number hollered out during a game of bingo The much-publicized Jackson managed only one hit in 15 official at bats and struck out seven times during a four-game series against the Columbus Astros this week And the Astros in town to play the Birmingham Barons last night at Rickwood 1 Field say Jackson is in over his bead in the Double A Southern League now he sure is overmatched in this said Columbus right-hander Mitch Cook who was the first pitcher Jackson -faced Monday in his debut with the Memphis Chicks ball be too bad for him He needs to get his feet wet The ability is there but not ready for Double A ban Hell get lost in the shuffle and put up some bad Cook surrendered the only hit to Jackson Bobby Falls fires to first after ground out to second Birmingham wasted a fine relief perfor- mance from Dave White He worked five wy mnin npg forcing Barons' Dave Cochrane scoreless innings walked one and struck out three Please tan to BARONS page Bi i pitchers say Bo has a lot to learn vebailand the faribaU sald Cook who got good pitching on our staff and "lu fw the Astra tonight against the if like got too many hotes HoModa to Barons likes thebaU out over tha ptatMfc wdrifta a tew -like an power hitters I threw the curvebafi is a tot ofpressuroon him I to him and I was surprised ter the way he faow if hefe feeling it or not was adjusting He wasnt swinging at any bad ones he was guessing a lot and getting if feeling ft or not He too anxious But just like I said there were some good pitches thrown at him and some of the pitches he do anything Both Tuck and Kelley said it will take some time before Jackson becomes an effective hitter got the Tuck said just a matter of him being patient seemed real comfortable at the plate He came up there with the attitude going to be pretty easy and quickly found out that not that Kelley said get with it after feme work going to take a lot of work individually I fed once he gets comfortable and gets his confidence hell be a pretty good fitter" "-KfaV- behind On the count) He was taking a lot id pitches He showed good patience but too much He as aggressive as I thought he would Astros right-bander Anthony Kelley faced Jackson Thursday night striking him out twice west right at said Kelley who throws mostly fast balls and forkballs give anybody any respect until he deserves it I wanted to see what he had and if he took me out of the yard hey Fll go to something else I struck him out Kelley said be noticed several in hitting style it A Vviau tr VtWi'iViiV i I PAUL FINEBAUM participate in the Games and it will be the first time competitors from the United States and Soviet Union have met on a broad sports scale since the 1978 Olympics in Montreal "Not only will the participants compete together in the spirit of good says Turner audiences worldwide will be able to see the harmony that can be fostered among nations The games will be shown on TBS as well as an independent network of 85 stations Bob Neal will be the host of the games for TBS along with Mary Ann Loughlin and Nick Charles Some expect Charles to be the star of the show The tanner Washington anchor now co-fcoat of CNN admitted it will be a tough job terms of stirriag the imagination I drat have a guess going to said Charles in a recent interview I think it will very interesting me it was a wonderful thing how well we did in the 1984 Olympics But not many of our people would have won gold medals had the Russians been there not claiming that this will be the best But we bad anything like it in 10 Charles appears to be a rising star in broadcasting His "Sports Tonight" show is clearly best regular sportscast ESFWsr against CNN it looks pale want to sound flippant but I really watch them It should be very heated and competitive but I feel the competition because they are a sports network and we are an all-news network I want to be different than they are I want to necessarily enlighten but to stimulate I want to be able to affect someone who doesn't care for sports We -want your Aunt Mabel to Some say the most difficult thing for Charles must be waking for an egotistical boss such as Turner But Charles said Turner really doesn't interfere even when it comes to coverage of his two teams the Atlanta Braves and Hawks "There has never been anything implied about what can be said or what can't be People here have free rein to operate Now I haven't worked for any other network But I imagine the folks at NBC talking about the stupidity of the World Cup we want to talk about how the Braves stink we can do Charles who is of Italian and Greek descent is shy about his own success But be is quick to say that Bob Costas and Brent Musburger are the best in the business While Costas makes a half a million a year and Musburger brings home almost 3 million the pay is much less at the -notoriously frugal CNN more money out there but I really enjoy the professionalism at CNN We don't do everything right or first class But we approach it that Charles used to work in focal television He hopes he never has to go back are a lot of local guys who make more than I do But they are also told what kind of clothes to wear what kind of makeup They're told what to wear and what not to I like it here just an environment that brings out the best in me It allows me to prove myself without having to worry about 13-week Charles also dislikes the attitude in focal sportscastlng that the anchors are bigger than the events focal the guy always has to let the audience know where he is ridiculous On the focal level you have to be spectacular in everything you say You can be shallow and you have to know anything about sports or be able to write I see it differently A good comedian could do three minutes of Defending champ Becker faces No 1 Lendl for title a single to center on his first professional at bat the series But after that Jack-son went quietly reaching base three times on two walks apd anerror: a got one hit but other than that be touch the ban" Columbus manager rTucksaid (fetching him in batting practice got tremendous power and bat speed But obviously he played in a while and his timing was Tuck said the Astros devise any special strategy against Jackson the pitcher pitched we stayed with his game Tuck raid focus our game around him We have to We threw to him normal We threw the fastball by him the curveball slider cfaan-geup" The scouting report on Jackson said he would have problems with the curveball Cook agreed going to have trouble with the cur- it may take an hour it may take until tomorrow but give in because the guy got four straight points against "Lendl said That came in the fourth-set tiebreaker when Zivojinovic who also reached the semifinals of the Australian Open last year reeled of the first four points Then after Lendl won Ms first point of the tie-break the 6-foot-6 Yugoslav won the next three prints to take the set and level the match at two sets apiece In the seventh game of the fourth set Zivojinovic threatened to quit playing when David Howie overruled a line cau and gave Lendl an ace to pull the game to deuce know the umpire was not the Yugoslav said not saying anything bad about him Everybody makes a Referee Alan Mills and supervisor Ken Farrar went on to the court and trid Zivojinovic who had sat down in his chair to continue to play not angry with Zivojinovic said of Howie just disappointed It was bad Ia the other semifinal Becker broke Leconte at love in the seventh game and went on to take the second set But at the start of the ninth game a fa hollaed to Leconte in French your first serve The crowd broke into laughter when Leconte grabbed the head of his racket and printed the handle toward the tan a gesture that easily translated into do it if you Becker however had the aces in his hand and he used them to advantage never dropping his serve in the match only victory came in the third-set tiebreak which he wra 7-4 AwodatadPrM WIMBLEDON England Top-seeded Ivan Lendl fought off the upset bid of Slobodan Zivojinovic outlasting his Yugoslavian foe 8-3 6-7 6-3 6-7 6-4 yesterday to Sain the singles title match at limbledon 1 until playing his second straight five-' set match will face defending champion Boris Becker of West Germany tomorrow The 18-year-old Becker displayed his power game In his semifinal match when be stopped Henri Leconte of France 6-3 6-4 6-7 6-8 But it was the battle between Lendl reaching the final at Wimbledon for the first time in his career and the unseeded Zivojinovic that highlighted the long day on the All England Club Centre Court And it was Lendl a Czechoslovak known for his stoic expressionless on-court demeanor who lept for jov when he finally wrapped up the match to keep alive his rhentw of winning his second consecutive Grand Slam title He won the French (teen last month on the day courts at Roland Garros stadium had a hard time swallowing the fact today that I broke him five times and he broke me once and we went five Skid Lendl who served 18 aces in the match equaling the total of Zivojinovic With the victory Lendl erased more of the doubts about his ability to win close matches He had lost the first five Grand sum finals in which he played but has won two of the last three He captured the US Open crown last September to go with the French Open last month hard serve and all-around powerful game gave Lendl all he could handle But handle it he did although it took 8 hours 36 minutes to dose out the victory told myself may take a half hour.