Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 19

Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, August 2, 1937 Page B2 Sports- St. Louis signs No. 2 selection from Washington; wide receivers James Brim from Wake Forest and Russell Evans from Northeast Missouri, and linebackers William Altena from Eastern Washington and Octavian Sharpe from Memphis State. The team also waived defensive backs Mark Mathis from Liberty and Struggle Smith from Appalachian State; kicker Richard Spel-man from Hawaii; punter Kelly Hollodick from North Carolina State; running back Derrick Thomas from Arkansas, and defensive lineman Curtis Anderson from Central State. Cardinals Coach Gene Stallings expects to have cut the roster to 45 bySept7.

Meanwhile, progress was slow in contract negotiations for the No. 1 draft pick, quarterback Kelly Stouffer. Stouff er's agent said Friday his client and the National Football League team remained more than $1 million apart Bauer and Stouffer have shaved their asking price $800,000 since early July and now are seeking $2.7 million over four years. The Cardinals' opening contract figure was $1 million over the same term, and the team upgraded the amount to $1.58 million about two weeks ago, Bauer said. WW; Safe at second CHARLESTON (AP) Safety Tim McDonald, the St Louis Cardinal's No.

2 draft pick, signed a three-year contract with the NFL team Saturday and was expected to begin practicing here in training camp today. The contract calls for an estimated $750,000 a year and no options, said Leigh Steinberg, McDonald agent He said that as part of the contract McDonald would set up scholarships at his alma maters, Edison High School in Fresno. and the University of Southern California, and donate $200 to St Louis area charities for each Cardinals victory. "Tim is very excited to be signing and for the opportunity to play for the Cardinals, Steinberg said. "We were pleased," Steinberg said.

"It's a lucrative contract and a very fair contract" Earlier Saturday, the Cardinals released 14 free agents, including Illinois star running back Thomas Rooks, reducing the roster to 87 players. Rooks holds Illinois' career rushing record. He was the sixth-round pick of the Minnesota Vikings last year. The Cardinals also waived offensive linemen Jeff Rehban from Indiana State, Navy Tuiasosopo from Utah State and Mark Larsen West Ail By REX SPIRES Herald Review Sports Writer NORMAL Rod Wooters put it best "We got beat up pretty good. Their line controlled things both ways offensively and defensively," said Wooters, Macon's standout offensive lineman.

"We just never seemed to get anything going the way we thought we would," continued Wooters, a member of the East team in the 13th Illinois High School Association All-Star football game at Illinois State University Saturday night Terry Lawrence ran for two touchdowns and Barry Reade kicked a 50-yard field goal and Matt Allen of Decatur's Thompson Kramer Music tournament game for 9-and 10-year-old boys at waits for the throw as Antonio Taylor of St. Louis South Shores Park. The double-elimination tourna- hustles back to second. Thompson Kramer lost to the ment concludes today. Thompson Kramer plays St.

Louis team 16-6 In a Knoury League national again at 10 a.m. today. Photo by John Walbaum Stars roll over East, 38-1 0 age. That contrasted sharply with the 38 yards rushing and 56 passing the East struggled to obtain. "They were good, real good," said another St Teresa product olaying for the East Bill Hen- "I spent the whole game trying to make the adjustment to a new Sosition, but I enjoyed it," said ienkel, who played more than half the game at outside linebacker.

He played inside linebacker at St. Teresa. Argenta-Oreana's Jeff Watson was another disappointed member of the East squad. "We could have played better," be said. "We didn't capitalize Combs does it again By CHUCK CARLSON Herald Review Sports Writer.

The Decatur Pride has been doing its level best to make its newest addition, pitcher Mike Combs, feel at borne. It has succeeded. Combs ran his Pride record to a downright comfortable 84 Saturday night with a 4-2 win over the Aurora Coors Silver Bullets at Bore-Warner Field. The Pride completed the dou-bleheader sweep as Brent Stevenson struck out 11 on the way to a 3-2 win. After bis victory, Combs fairly gushed about how excited be was to be playing for the Pride.

"You know this team can score at any time," said Combs, who came to Decatur three weeks ago after pitching for Tulsa, Okla. "Even when I pitching mediocre, I know they're going to score some runs." He was and they did. Combs admitted he wasn't in top form, walking four and surrendering six hits. He also struck out eight "I went kind of crazy in a couple of innings," be said. "I tend to do that I get lackadaisical when I get a two-or three-run lead." The Pride, which improved its record to 54-20, gave Combs that lead in the second inning, denting Aurora starter and loser Chris Nicholas for three runs.

But even with that 3-0 lead, Combs struggled. In the fifth inning, be walked No. 9 hitter Scott Ruddy and gave up back-to-back singles to Terry Muck and Tod Stevenson, cutting the lead to 3-1. After walking Gary Hunley, Bill Pfeiffer lifted a sacrifice fly to center, scoring Muck. But Stevenson was caught off second base and was tagged out in a rundown.

"I lost my concentration," Combs said. "I do that sometimes. I walked the No. 9 hitter twice to get to the top of the order. That's stupid." But not fatal, as he would learn.

The Pride regained a two-run cushion in the bottom of the fifth when Steve Kerian, trying to steal second with two out, came all the way home when the throw from catcher Mark Agnew sailed into the outfield and all the way to the -centerbeld fence. The Pride finished with eight hits, two apiece for Place and Binkley. In the nightcap, the Pride posted single runs in the first second and fourth innings and then hung on. Schmidt scored in the first when Aurora shortstop Gary Hunley bobbled Kerian's bases-loaded, two-out grounder. Aurora, which slipped to 47-24, scored single runs in the sixth and seventh.

Bell wins mini-stock feature MACON Points leader Barry Bell won the feature race for the mini-stock divison Saturday night at Macon Speedway. Bell, of Windsor, was also the fastest qualifier. Art Lynch of Irving set a track record while qualifying in the sportsman divison. Lynch's time was 12.613 seconds. Decatur's Dave Crawley, however, won the feature race.

Joe Ross Jr. of Mechanicsburg won the late model feature. Jim Leka returned to the track after a two-week suspension for his actions after the Herald Review 100. Leka won the Busch Dash for Cash for the third time this season and also was a heat winner. Meanwhile, in the bombers divison, Rick Alwood of Clinton made a clean sweep.

Alwood won the first and second heats, then captured the feature race. All Mike Shula wants is a chance p. i. "WMWWI L't'l Vfmmummmmmm "III Tj TAMPA, Fla. (AP) As a 12th-round draft choice Mike Shula would be a longshot to make any NFL team, let alone a squad that has an llth-year pro as its No.

1 quarterback and an $8.2 million rookie behind him on the depth chart Nevertheless, the former Alabama star was happy to receive a late-night call from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers this spring. Coach Ray Perkins couldn't guarantee him the Bucs would carry more than two quarterbacks this season, but it didn't matter. "Going into the draft all I was hoping for was just a chance, regardless of if I got drafted, or where, or if I had a chance to be a free agent," Shula said during a break last week in three-a-day practices at the University of Tampa. "I just wanted to have an opportunity to play in the NFL," the son of Miami Dolphins Coach Don Shula added. "Now I have that opportunity.

Now I feel like it's up to me to do the best that I can with that chance." Two weeks into training camp, Perkins is no closer to deciding if he'll carry two quarterbacks or three. He left Alabama in December to take over a team that has lost 52 of its last 64 games, and says he doesn't know if his rebuilding project can afford the luxury of three quarterbacks this year. Steve DeBerg, the veteran quarterback who's started 26 games over the past three years, is No. 1 on the depth chart, and Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde, the franchise's hope when we had the chances and they did just about every time." MacArthur's Eric Smith had similar thoughts. "Their defensive line was the key.

They shut us down on just about everything," said Smith, who rushed twice for 12 yards and caught two passes that resulted in minus yardage. "We knew we were going to have our hands full and it sure turned out that way," said Dale Patton, former St Teresa coach who will be at Pekin next fall. Patton and Macon's Dennis Gatchel were assistant coaches for the East Mike Shula for the future, is second. Geoff Torretta, Testaverde's college backup, is battling Shula for the No. 3 job that Perkins could decide to eliminate because Don Smith, a college quarterback drafted as a running back, could be moved behind center in an emergency.

"Right now Steve DeBerg and Vinny are getting a lot of repetitions in practice. Coach Perkins is trying to prepare them as much as he can for the season," Shula said. "We don't know if there's going to be a spot for a third quarterback, but I have to prepare myself like there is." free throws. Indiana's Dean Garrett then went inside and Kentucky's Rex Chapman got not from the outside as the two scored 21 of their team's next 30 points. Chapman's jumper from the top of the key gave the Pan Am team a 38-37 fead with 5:55 left in the half.

But the All-Stars answered with a 12-4 scoring run of their own, capped by McCray's inside shot, to grab their largest lead of the game at 49-42 with 2:28 remaining. The Pan Am squad outscored their opponents 11-1 the remainder of the first half to take a 530 lead at intermission. Chapman scored 20 of his game-high 22 points in the first half. Navy's David Robinson added 19, while Garrett had 14 and North Carolina's Jeff Lebo had 10. McCray, a forward for the Houston Rockets in the NBA, led the All-Stars with 21 points and Wiley Brown added 19.

came on Steve Henrlkseh's 33-yard field goal in the first quarter. St Teresa's Tom Rayhill joined White in providing some of the kickoff return fireworks for the East Rayhill had three returns for 64 yards, including a dazzling 35-yar-der that put the East at midfield and led to its first-quarter field goaL "I wished we could have done everything as well as we worked the returns" said Rayhill, who also caught two passes for 23 yards to round out his performance. With White and Rayhill doing the most damage, the East rang up 201 yards in kick return yard- AP LaserPhoto Clever Secret finished fourth, 12 lengths behind Lost Code, and Born To Shop was last Despite the narrow loss, Alysheba proved trainer Jack Van Berg right in saying his colt did not need the anti-bleeding medication Lasix to run welL Alysheba had won the Derby and Preakness on Lasix but was not allowed to use the medication in New York for the Belmont Stakes. Alysheba finished fourth in the Belmont spoiling his bid to become the 12th Triple Crown winner in history. "I think the colt ran absouln-tely super.

He ran his eyeballs out," said McCarron. The win was worth $300,000, increasing Bet Twice's bankroll to $2.6 million. He is owned by Blanche Levy and the Cisley Stable. Bet Twice and Alysheba each carried top weight of 126 pounds, two more than Lost Code. five extra points to propel the West squad to a 38-10 victory.

Lawrence played at Roxana, Reade at Geneseo and is the son of Augustana Coach Bob Reade. Naturally, he will be kicking for Augustana next season. Reade's kicking was so sensational he was selected the West's defensive player of the game. He punted four times for an average of 45.5 and drove his kickoff attempts deep into East territory. Strangely enough, kickoff returns represented the East's best offense.

Lamont White of Bolingbrook ran back the second half kickoff 95 yards for the East's lone touchdown. The East's other points came charging on the outside, only to be dealt his second straight loss to Bet Twice, who had won the June 6 Belmont Stakes by UVt lengths. Bet Twice, a son of Sportin' Life-Golden Dust was timed in 1: 47, equaling the time set by Majestic Light in 1976. The clocking was one-fifth of a second off the track record set by Spend A Buck in winning the Monmouth Park Handicap. "These two horses fight; every-time they come on they fight," said Perret.

"There's not three-quarters of a length difference every time we race. I like that tbey nave a chance to compete for thepublic" Bet Twice, now unbeaten in four starts at his home base, was sent off as the favorite by the crowd of 33,836 and paid $4.60 and $2.60. Alysheba paid $3. There was no show wagering. Bet Twtce defeated Atysheba and equaled a track record in the Haskell Invitational Saturday.

FueiTuUalicGn Bet Twice beats Alysheba by a neck Pan Am team wins LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -Ricky Berry scored 12 points during a decisive 24-9 run in the second half that carried the VS. Pan American basketball team to a 111-89 victory Saturday over an All-Star team consisting of former collegiate standouts. Leading 65-60 with 14:21 left in the game, Berry scored inside to start the run and ended it more than six minutes later with a three-point goal to make it 89-69 with 8: 05 remaining. Berry, who finished with 14 points, also hit a jumper, a dunk and another three-pointer during the spurt The Ail-Star team, made op of former University of Louisville and University of Kentucky stars, could get no closer than 13 after that The Pan Am team, now 2-0 in exhibition games, got off to a slow start as the All-Stars jumped out to a 15-8 lead with 14:35 left in the first half on Rodney McCray's two Macon Speedway Sportsman Fastest qualifier Art Lynch, Irving, Trail (new trick record) UkesMe Motor Otsh Bract Ltnon, Decatur First heat Rgow Ater, Mowaquf Second heat Dave Crawley.

Decatur Feature I. Dave Crawley, Decatur 1 Jerry Peters, Decatur; 1 Roger Ater, Mow- aqua; 4, Scott Poiei Craham, Steninolon ocott raen, iwcanir; a. lom Fastest wanner Jim Marter, Mechanic- rtvrg Busch Dash tar Cash Jhn Leka, IIKopoUl -First heat-Dan Mahnke. Decatur Second heat Jim Leka. Iltiopolis Feature 1.

Joe Ross Jr4 Msctenksburg; 1 Marly fiber. Decatur; 1 Greg Babb," Decatur; 4. Brian Ater. Macon; i. Jim.

Hamr MacnaMcsDwrg Fastest aualrfier Barry Bell. Wtndftar Trophy Oash Bob Z1U Oecehr First heat -Fred Kuru.Oecatvr Sccond heat John VWfierford, Decatur Feature 1. Barry Beit, Windsor; 2. Ron Wool 5uMvan; Bob Zllx Dectnjr: 4. Demit UUns, Decatur; 9.

Fred Hum, Dec- First heat Rick Alwood, Clinton Second heat. Rick Ahwod. Clinton Feature Rk Ahwod, Clinton OCEANPORT, N.J. (AP) -Belmont Stakes winner Bet Twice withstood a closing rush from Alysheba Saturday to win the $500,000 Haskell Invitational leap by a neck in stakes-equaling Hrn at Monmouth Park. Another neck back was Lost Code, who led most of the way but bad bis seven-race winning streak broken in his first meeting with the two horses who dominated the Triple Crown series.

Bet Twice, ridden by Craig Per-ret had to overtake the front-running Lost Code, who was put on the rail by jockey Gene St Leon. Lost Code, Bet Twice and Alysheba were close together at the top of the stretch. But McCar-ron, unable to get past Lost Code on the rail, swung Alysheba wide in the upper stretch, and Bet Twice pulled slightly ahead with about an eighth of a mile to go. Alysheba, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner,.