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Page 22 Southern Illinoisan, Friday, July 24, 1987 Dougherty shoots am 0m uuUUlLM is 64 early Magrane delivers one-liners and victories I i nings of work going into a contest Wednesday night. In the year of the home run, he has allowed only four homers. Magrane probably would have better numbers had it not been for some time spent on the disabled list because of a strained ligament in his left elbow. "I'm still throwing with some discomfort," he said Wednesday. "I'm just hoping it'll go away.

It's getting progressively better." Magrane. who attended the University of Arizona, was the 18th player selected in the June. 1935 big-league draft, meaning it took him less than two years as a professional to reach the majors. "I never had a timetable or placed a timetable on myself," he said. "It's like setting goals, I don't believe in that.

Setting goals, in a way, is like setting limits. I know it's a cliche to say this, but I just want to go out and do the very best I can on everv pitch." The Cardinals have a comfortable lead in the NL East despite the fact that they've had several players, including Magrane, sidelined at various times this year because of injuries. "It's got to be attributed to the sorcerer we have as a manager," Magrane said, referring to Whitey Herzog. "We have the best manager in baseball." LOS ANGELES (AP) It hasn't taken left-hander Joe Magrane of the St. Louis Cardinals long to establish himself as a colorful character.

But he's not sure he's worthy of such a description. "Just because I'm left-handed and I say something that's maybe a little different, I'm called a flake," he said with a smile. "Baseball has kind of a stuffed-shirt mentality. When someone strays a little Actually, Magrane doesn't seem to stray too far. It's just that every once in a while, he has a way of saying something that's off-center.

For example, on Wednesday, the 23-year-old resident of More-head, was asked if earning National League Rookie of the Year honors was important to him. "I don't sit around thinking about winning Rookie of the Year or MVP or Miss Congeniality," he said, the words flowing quickly. Then, realizing what he said, he laughed, as did those around him. More seriously, he added, "I'm just a rookie who's trying to learn as much as I can in as short a time as I can. My real focus is doing the best I can for the Cardinals.

I'd like to be considered a quality starter who can win 20 games, keep my team in the game every time I pitch. "If I should be fortunate enough I don't sit around thinking about winning Rookie of the Year or MVP or Miss Congeniality. Joe Magrane 99 to win Rookie of the Year honors, that would be great. But it's not something I'm thinking about. Getting to the World Series would be the greatest." Magrane said he's known for most of his life that he wanted to be a big-league baseball player.

He achieved such a goal in late April, and it appears, barring serious injury, he'll be around for quite a while. "When I was young, I didn't watch games for the enjoyment," he said. "I watched to study the pitchers, gather all the knowledge and information I could. "Ever since I can remember, I wanted to play baseball. From a very young age, I always thought I would play in the major leagues." The 6-foot-5, 230-pounder has made 12 starts for the Cardinals since being recalled from the minors in late April.

He has compiled a 5-2 record with a 3.20 earned run average in 81 2-3 in GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) Ed Dougherty, trying to re-establish himself on the PGA Tour after working for several years as a club pro, set a first-round tournament record Thursday with an 8-under-par 64 for a one-stroke lead in the $600,000 Buick Open. Dougherty, playing in the morning, had seven birdies, one eagle and one bogey in his round over the par-72 Warwick Hills Golf and Country Club course. Dewey Arnette, Jay Haas, Bob Murphy and Robert Wrenn were all at 65. Arnette, a PGA Tour rookie who has made the cut in only six of the 12 tournaments this year, had a chance to break Dougherty's record with a red-hot start.

Arnette, 28, playing in the afternoon and starting on the back nine, birdied holes 12 through No. 1, equalling the PGA Tour record of eight consecutive birdies shared by Bob Goalby in 1961 and Fuzzy Zoell-er in 1976. "When I had five in a row, I started getting nervous," Arnette said. "I didn't get to enjoy the 29, though, because I was trying not to make a 45 on the front side." Arnette, a former Ail-American at Georgia Southern who now resides in Jacksonville, also birdied No. 5, a 437-yard, par-4, to go nine under with four holes to play.

However, he bogeyed Nos. 7 and 8. Al Geiberger's 59 at the Danny Thomas-Memphis Classic in 1977 is the best 18-hole scored in a PGA Tour event Dougherty, who used a long 3-wood and an 18-foot putt for an eagle 3 on the 490-yard, par-5 13th hole, carded nines of 33-31. "I putted a lot better than I have the last few weeks," said the 39-year-old Doughtery, whose best finish on the tour was a tie for third at the 1976 Greater Jacksonville Open. "My head was moving on my putts and John Traub helped me out.

"I made some putts I haven't been making lately. Everyone who plays out here has to make more putts." The old first-round record of 65 was shared by seven others, including Davis Love III and Billy Pierot, both of whom did it last year. Defending champion Ben Crenshaw, also playing in the morning, was at 68. Paul Azinger, the leading money-winner on the tour and runner-up last week at the British Open, shot a 3-over 75. The low scores were prompted by hot, humid weather and perfect greens.

Doughtery joined the tour in 1975 but gave it up after winning only $138,208 through the 1982 season. AP photo Winning way: Joe Magrane has given the Cardinals a lift. Taylor says Giants looked the other way Former Nugget atteimots suicide 1 4 the league would have no comment until officials had seen the excerpts. George Young, the Giants' general manager also had no comment, adding: "I tend not to read sports books." "We're told all the time about confidentiality in dealing with players," Young said. "We're also in the rehabilitation business, not the punitive business." Taylor, who has had little to say about his drug experience since leaving the clinic, said he tested positive for drugs in a minicamp before the 1985 season.

But he said he subsequently fooled the team by sneaking a samples from unnamed teammates into the testing room and passing it off as his own. Nonetheless, he said, the team and league were aware of his problem. NEW YORK (AP) Lawrence Taylor, the NFL's Most Valuable Player last year, says in in a soon-to-be-published book that both league and team officials knew of his drug use before he entered a clinic early last year. In excerpts from "LT: Living on the Edge," published in the September issue of Sport Magazine, the star linebacker of the Super Bowl champion New York Giants said he used cocaine from 1932 to 1985 before seeking help. He also said he used cocaine's powerful derivative "crack" before deciding with the help of his wife Linda to enter a Houston clinic.

"I did crack too many times to count, more times than I can remember," he wrote. "Two times a month became three times a week." NFL spokesman Joe Browne said BOULDER, Colo. (AP) Former Denver Nuggets forward Glen Gon-drezick was hospitalized in serious condition Thursday with a bullet wound in the chest after apparently trying to kill himself, authorities said. "By his own admission, it was a self-inflicted wound. He did say it was not an accident," said Boulder County Sheriff's Sgt.

Ernst Little. However, detectives were unable to establish a motive. A rifle was recovered from the scene. Gondrezick. 31, was at home Wednesday night when he suffered a single gunshot wound that entered the left side of the chest.

A spokesman at Boulder Community Hospital said Gondrezick was in the intensive care unit. Sheriff's deputies said they re ceived a call at 6:03 p.m. Wednesday about an unknown medical problem in the Orange Orchard subdivision of Boulder County. When an ambulance arrived, authorities found Gondrezick lying on the porch. Gondrezick had been scheduled to play for a Gasomat-sponsored basketball team in a Pro-Am game Wednesday night in Denver.

The former National Basketball Association player, who was known for his breakneck stvle of plav, starred at Boulder High School and then went on to the University of Nevada -Las Vegas. He was a second-round draft pick of the New York Knicks in 1977 and played with the Knicks until the 1979-80 season, when he was cut. Gondrezick was signed by the Nuggets in November 1979, and played in Denver for four years. AP photo Off coke: Lawrence Taylor says he has cleaned up his act. "The Giants knew who on the team was into drugs," Taylor wrote with co-author David Falkner.

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Elliott ignored the heat that reached into the high 90s by the time he drove his Ford Thunderbird onto the 2.C6-mile, high-banked oval. "It don't matter whether its 92 or 94 or 96, it's just hot," Elliott said. "Keally, the track felt pretty good." Spain's Delgado holds lead in Tour de France MORZINE, France Pedro Delgado of Spain on Thursday retained the overall lead in the Tour de France cycling race following the 22nd stage, a 115-mile Alpine course from La Plagne to Morzine. Countryman Eduardo Chozas won the stage after a solitary breakaway. Stephen Roche of Ireland, in second place overall, reduced Delgado's lead from 39 to 21 seconds in this final mountain stage, leaving him in a positionto pass Delgado in Saturday's 24th stage time trial encircling Dijon.

Cowboys' coach doesn't want player to be The Kitchen' THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. The Chicago Bears may promote William "The Refrigerator" Perry, but the new offensive coach of the Dallas Cowboys is not too fond of Nate "The Kitchen" Newton's nickname. And Newton, the offensive guard who showed up at training camp with a shaved head and 40 pounds trimmed from an off-season peak of 349 pounds, says he doesn't want to become a carnival sideshow. "I want people to stop looking at me as some fat guy and start looking at me as a competitor," said Newton, who at 6-3 can dunk a basketball and bench press 490 pounds. "I think the nickname is demeaning," said offensive line coach Jim Erkenbeck.

"The Kitchen' gives him the image of a slovenly fat guy who only wants to eat. I want Nathaniel to be thought of differently." By The Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. The long-awaited matchup between John McEnroe and Boris Becker will come quickly when the two tennis powers meet in Davis Cup play beginning today. McEnroe and Becker, who between them won four consecutive Wimbledon titles, will clash in Friday's second singles match in this three-day, five-match competition between the U.S. and West Germany.

"I'm happy I can play him on the first day because it would have been easier for him on Sunday after he had a match under his belt," Becker said. McEnroe, who hasn't played since his first-round loss at the French Open in May, would have preferred playing Becker in the "reverse" singles on Sunday. The United States is playing at home for the first time since 1984, when it lost to Sweden. McNary warns St. Louis not to file lawsuit vs.

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Southwest Baptist competes at the NCAA Division II level in the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association Conference. Fischer to coach baseball at Nashville High School Former Nashville High school basketball coach Dave Fischer was hired as the school's baseball coach at the school board's monthly meeting. Marilyn Taylor has been chosen as the school's softball coach. Wendy Schwehr was selected to coach girls track and Bruce Reeder, the varsity football coach, was named boys track coach. Richard Ruggles will be his assistant.

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