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Sports All the men are All Stars BARRY LEWIS change GARY LAWSON set a and Tulsa glows in the dark KEN MacLeod Drillers Stadium record with eight RBIs in an 18 6 victor oxer one short of all time sin gle game record of nine set by Wally Post on Sept 1 1950 Colon a 24 year old switch hit ter is eighth in the TL with a316 batting average Moody a 22 year old left hander who played for Oklahoma State University is 2 1 with a 186 earned run aver age and nine saves He allowed only one earned run in 39 in nings from April 27 to July 2 The Class AA All Star Game will come in the middle of a 10 game road trip for the Drillers Tulsa is scheduled to play the second of a five game series against San Antonio at 7 tonight Kurt Miller (6 6) is the probable starting pitcher BARRY LEWIS The Tulsa Sentinel TRACY RINGOLSBY Scripps Howard News Service Luce hit a grand slam homer during that inning it equaled his RBI total from the 27 games he had played since May 22 The lopsided victory gave Tulsa a confidence boost since it had lost 15 of 18 previous games against Jackson this season game and also winning 2 1 (Sunday) helped our morale because now we know we can play with said Cliburn Tulsa drew two crowds of more than 11000 during a three day period last week a no win battle man against age Reflexes diminish astballs fade Advil is not enough for all his aches and pains They hang on and haunt a war that Texas Rangers pitcher Nolan Ryan successfully waged for the better part of the past 26 years But this season which Ryan says will be his last has been far from a fond farewell No ecstasies Just agonies At the mid way point of the season the 46 year old Ryan has made three starts He has one victory He has suffered two dis abling injuries Torn cartilage in his right knee required arthro scopic surgery in mid April He has been sidelined since mid May with a pulled hip muscle al though he hopes to return to ac tion July 19 His return has been delayed by a foot injury suffered Link To The Links View On Sports play 25 of their final 40 regular season games at home Last year Rusty Greer had five homers and 37 RBIs as regular first baseman This year it took him only 81 games to ac cumulate eight homers and 40 The Drillers set a team record for runs in an inning when they scored 12 in the second of the 18 6 victory Saturday No team had ever scored 10 runs in an inning in Drillers Stadium history (since 1981) When catcher Roger andy Heckenkemper is the most prolific golf course architect in Oklahoma today In the past five years he has designed two courses in the Tulsa area (South Lakes and orest Ridge) and three in Oklahoma City (SilverHorn Golf Club and new 18s at the Lake Hefner and Earlywine public facilities He has also done redesign work at Sand Springs Golf Course and at Trosper Park in Oklahoma City But when Heckenkemper summer be touching up the work of a man who wrote the book on staying busy Pecan Valley was designed in 1955 by loyd arley who designed more than 200 courses Last game was so dreadftil the Democratic National Convention which was televised at the same time provided more suspense There used to be a time when the Major League All Star Game was guaranteed to be the top rated prime time show Now doubtftil that it will even win its time period next week when it goes up against a repeat The last really good All Star Game was in 1979 when Lee Mazzilli hit a game tying homer in the eighth inning and drew a bases loaded walk in the ninth to give the National League a 7 6 victory During the past decade pitchers have dominated and it looks like many players are just going through the motions League pride is gone All Star Game used to be the best of the four major sports Now it ranks third The National Basketball game is clearly No 1 with the National ootball game moving to No 2 Although the game is much maligned because it occurs after the season the games have been very exciting recently and with money at stake the players seem motivated The National Hockey game will surpass if checking is allowed next year as rumored Hall of amer Warren Spahn takes a bite before a recent visit to Drillers Stadium GARY LAWSON Roughnecks forward Ian Palmer celebrates his game winning goal against Austin Saturday in his distinguished career arley now 84 retired and living in Arizona was noted for designing par 70 courses with three par 3s and two par 5s per side Born in 1907 in Kansas City arley was a devotee of the style of design work favored by William Bell and Perry Maxwell which meant utilizing the lay of the land with little artificial contrivance Some golfers in the area may not recognize the name but they probably frequently enjoy his handiwork Among the more than 45 courses he designed in Oklahoma are Laortune Park Adams Course in Bartlesville Cedar Valley in Guthrie Earlywine in Oklahoma City Kickingbird in Edmond Sand Springs Golf Course Arrowhead State Park and Quail Creek Country Club in Oklahoma City where he retains a membership to this day He has also done redesign work at Spunky Creek on Woodbine at Mohawk Park and at Lincoln Park in Oklahoma City While work at Pecan See MacLeod B10 in a Memorial Day boating acci dent having what you would classify as a miserable said Ryan think one thing is behind you and something else jumps up and bites you You know coming out of spring training without any aches and pains I felt maybe I would get through this season without any major Well what he hoped at least He holds 52 major league records has 5678 strikeouts and has pitched seven no hitters He wanted to say good bye in the un derstated manner in which he has built his Hall of ame ca reer didatt want this to be a cir sara Ryan "I want any fanfare or pregame cere monies If the fans wanted to come out and watch me pitch fine One reason I an See Rangers B10 Baseball Sewhiel JULY 8 1993 Incentive is needed The only hope to make the Major League Baseball All Star Game exciting Is to provide incentive to its players Money might do it but doubtful because they already make millions An interesting plan would be to follow the lead of the Texas League which recently BARRY LEWIS announced it would renew its The Tulsa Sentinel annual All Star series with the Mexican League in 1994 after a Perhaps it was fitting that the lights went out 33 year hiatus during Iraj return as a Tulsa Rough Instead of an AL NL necks player Saturday night snoozer it would be much Danaifard 42 played the final 10 minutes of more exciting for the AL and 1 0 victory over the Austin Soccadillos at NL to join forces and play a Metro Christian The United States Interregional team of Japanese League All Soccer League game was stopped with 15:25 left Stars Or if the Japanese I when 25 percent of the lights went out After a 30 League reftises it would be I minute delay the referee decided to resume the great to see the Major League I game but Austin reftised and Tulsa was awarded All Stars meet the Cuban All the victory Ian Palmer scored the only goal Stars in Miami la Tulsa will carry a 9 4 record into its final regu With personal and national lar season home game at 7:30 pm riday against pride at stake the level of play the Oklahoma City Slickers in midsummer The victory over Austin was reminiscent of a classic would improve So North American Soccer League game the Rough would the TV ratings and that necks played against the Dallas Tornados on uly is the bottom line for major 181981 league owners these days Tulsa led 2 0 at halftime on a pair of goals by 1 Dean Neal when half of the lights went out at Skel ly Stadium The Roughnecks were awarded the victory because half of the game had been com pleted Ironically Danaifard who played for the Roughnecks in the NASL in 1979 and 1981 84 as sisted on a goal in that game Both of games against Austin this season had controversial finishes Tulsa lost 3 2 at Austin on May 15 on an overtime goal it felt should have been negated because of an offside violation Tulsa will try for a season sweep of Oklahoma City on riday The Roughnecks won both games of the Turnpike Cup exhibition scries and also won 2 1 at Oklahoma City on June 26 game has been designated reworks the Pecan Valley course Zone Dan Aykroyd co star of the upcoming at Mohawk Park later this an I 1 i i i iiiuvie vununeuus nus ueen nivuea lu me game Special Roughnecks team photos will be passed out at the game Oklahoma City game should be a blood said Roughnecks general manager Jon Terry Three members of the Tulsa Drillers will be live with Larry King on Monday Designated hitter Trey McCoy third baseman Cris Colon and relief pitcher Ritchie Moody will represent the American League in the third annual Class AA All Star Game at 7 pm at Memphis (cable 27) King who is the host of his own national radio and television shows will be a celebrity manager Exnect some fireworks with i Touring the past year King around I I major league baseball will play everybody Jhd do AX owners have discussed anything to said King changing many aSDects of their when it was announced he wnnlri product participate will be aggres Many of the changes such as sive and take no prisoners This adding another round to the is playoffs have been done with Another celebrity manager television in mind Viewer will be named later It has not ratings are down and as a been determined which team result television revenues are King will lead although it will going to dwindle probably be the AL since he is a Considering how concerned big Baltimore fan the owners are with TV This is the second consecutive ratings surprising that year that Tulsa will be sending they shown any the maximum three players to concern about the dwindling the game Last year Tulsa sec pqpularity of their ond baseman Jon Shave pitcher midsummer classic the Dan Smith and third baseman annual All Star Game This Jose Oliva played in the vic edition will be held at 7 tory and manager Bobby Jones pm Tuesday at was the third base coach Shave Jackson last Saturday He fell uamaen Yarasmurv oj was selected as the Texas There have been many great player of the game All Star Game moments since I McCoy a 26 year old right Babe Ruth hit the first All Star handed batter leads the TL with home run in 1933 Who can 18 homers and 63 runs batted in ever forget Pete Rose crashing He recently set a franchise into Ray osse to score the record with a 26 game hitting game winning run in 1970 or streak The streak which ended late inning batting heroics by Sunday tied Tulsa professional Stan Musial Ted Williams all time single season Red Schoendienst and Tony hitting streak of 26 set by Johnny Perez? Lane in 1948 streak Unfortunately there reached 27 when he hit in the been many magical All Star first game of the 1949 season moments recently In fact the has been All Star Game has become a said Tulsa manager Stan colossal bore in the past Cliburn surprise decade The top moment of the me if he started another 26 game past 10 years occurred early in streak the 1989 game when Bo McCoy Jackson mt a mammoth homer i in the first inning and Ronald Reagan stumbled through an inning of play by play on television I Worse than Democrats Mohawk ready for renovation GARY LAWSON Drillers second baseman rank Turco puts the tag on Jackson baserunner Ray Montgomery Tulsa will open a five game se ries at defending TL champion Wichita on Tuesday The Drillers have not won at Wichita since Aug 1 1990 Colon and Bobby Reed who was the start ing pitcher in that game are the only Drillers remaining from that 1990 club Tulsa went 0 5 at Wichita in both 1991 and 1992 NOTES: next home game will be July 21 against San Antonio on Tulsa SeritinelRiver side Chevrolet GEOKVOO amll70 Night The Drillers will Ryan losing battle with ather Time B8 1 MBr rfl tBE tp jxAi iBr Vk ftt SB I nMK lBB htfi UmmII Mra 'hl 1 I needs Bar Ok' jar 1 1 I i I KHMBMM' JflMCM i.