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wry Jones near ready for what? Lynn Jones is bicycling and hopes to play on his newly operated knee in about three weeks, but Tiger platooning is filling his old spot well. Details are on page 3D. Thursday, July 3, 1380 scoreboard For the complete sports rundown. Page 4. SPORTS PEOPLE HORSE RACING TELEVISION IttOO 3 9-11 COMICS DETROIT FREE PRESS Trammell and Parrish All-Stars -swank, ff' i) Fidrych were chosen in 1977, but The Bird had to bow out because of injury.

Neither Trammell nor Parrish will be in the All-Star starting lineup. Trammell finished only seventh in the punch-card balloting by fans, although he has been among the league's leaders all season. The 22-year-old shortstop, in just his third full season in the majors, is recognized by baseball experts as one of the outstanding men at his position. Trammell has completed a string of 45 consecutive errorless games. BUCKY DENT of the New York Yankees will be the AL's starting shortstop.

He led the balloting despite a batting See ALL-STARS, Page 3D celebrated their selection by crashing home runs off Tribe lefthander Rick Waits. Trammell's solo shot was his fourth and Parrish's two-run blast was his 1th, best on the club. "I'm glad it's over," said Trammell, "because I've been thinking about it too much in the last few days." i BOTH TRAMMELL and Parrish are natives of southern California, and will have large contingents of relatives and friends at the 1980 classic. The selection of the young Tigers will give Detroit two representatives on the All-Star team for the first time since 1976, when Ron LeFlore, Rusty Staub and Mark Fidrych were in the starting lineup. Steve Kemp was the club's lone delegate last season, and Jason Thompson made the trip alone in 1978.

Thompson and By BRIAN BRAGG free Press Sports Writer Shortstop Alan Trammell and catcher Lance Parrish have been named to the American Leape All-Star team for the first The official announcement will be made Thursday, but the two Tigers already have been told of the honor and are preparing to join the league's other stars in Los Angeles for the July 8 contest at Dodger Stadium. Earl Weaver, manager of the defending league champion Baltimore Orioles, made the selections Wednesday and the league office informed Tigers officials. Trammell and Parrish were notified shortly before they went out to play Wednesday night's contest against Cleveland. And in the sixth inning of the game, both young Tigers 1 Alan Trammell Lance Parrish 7S hold off Indiums? Tigers (r- Hai'Jliins ii Parrish, Trammell homer, Whitaker's catch in 9th saves it By BRIAN BRAGG Free Press Sports Writer The Tigers nearly let another one get away Wednesday night, but second baseman Lou Whitaker's game-saving catch in the ninth inning shut down the final threat of the pesky Cleveland Indians and sealed a 7-6 decision. The Tigers had seen a 7-3 lead dwindle, but bullpen ace Aurelio Lopez trundled out to save starter Jack Morris 10th win of the season.

The Tribe had two runners aboard with one out in the ninth, but Lopez fanned pinch-hitter Del Alston and then Whitaker snared Tom Veryzer's potential game-tying line drive in the webbing of his glove to send 25,981 Tiger Stadium fans homeward in a happy mood. The win was. the Tigers' 1 8th in their last 23 contests, and it kept them in fourth place in the American League East, 8 games behind the New York Yankees. Just before the game began, shortstop Alan Trammell and catcher Lance Parrish were informed that they have been selected to the AL All-Star team as reserves, and both celebrated by crashing home runs off Cleveland starter Rick Waits in a three-run sixth inning. The two Tiger All-Stars each had a single apiece in addition to the home runs.

MORRIS CERTAINLY wasn't in peak form Wednesday night, but he reached double figures in the win column with his fifth consecutive victory. He gave up 10 of Cleveland's 12 hits in the 6 innings he worked, and he was charged with all six of the visitors' runs five of them earned. The Tribe chipped away steadily at Morris all evening, and the visitors got at least one hit off the righthander every inning that he worked. Cleveland took a 1-0 lead in the second when Morris issued a base on balls and then was ripped for a three-base hit by See TIGERS, Page 3D Enberg is left with dreams about once-in-lifetime trip Dick Enberg had planned to spend Wednesday packing, preparing for the trip of a lifetime. He was going to Moscow.

He was going to become a TV superstar. NBC had named Enberg its No. 1 sports announcer, the network's main man in the USSR for the 1980 Olympic Games. He was going to be on the air for four prime hours every evening for 17 consecutive days. One hundred million Americans would see his face and hear his voice each night.

In addition to anchoring the daily coverage he was also going to personally provide the play-by-play at the most glamorous events. It was to be an unprecedented opportunity for a sportscaster. Move over, Howard Cosell. Step aside, Jim McKay. Sorry, Keith Jackson.

Make room for Dick Enberg, the farm boy from Armada, who made it big. "It would have been tremendous exposure," Enberg wistfully admitted Wednesday. No announcers9 insurance It would have meant fame and fortune. It would have altered the course of his career. Then the Soviet soldiers strutted into Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter put his foot down and NBC told Enberg to stay home.

NBC already had invested more than $87 million in preparations for the coverage of this summer's global athletic extravaganza. It was to be the biggest venture that network had ever undertaken a chance to dethrone ABC as the premier provider of TV sports. So the boycott was a bitter blow. But insurance and tax breaks will reduce the network's financial loss to about $22 million, soothing some of the pain. There is, however, no insurance to compensate for the losses Dick Enberg, Bryant Gumbel and the other, announcers have suffered.

Free Press Photo by AL KAMUDA Stan Papi forces Mike Hargrove at second on Joe Charboneau's grounder to Alan Trammell. DRC stewards call 3 jockeys in perfecta probe "When you add it all up, the thing that disappoints me most," said Enberg, "is the same thing that makes it so disheartening for the athletes them-' selves: That is, the fact that someone has stolen from us the opportunity and the challenge that went with it. "I think we would have By comparison, the 5-3 perfecta with the favorite, Stevie's Wonder, on top and Touch of Velvet second was worth an inflated $104.70 at race time. THE DRC official, who asked to remain anonymous, commented: "It's obvious the perfecta payoff was out of line based on the odds of the race and that somebody had better information than the average fan." State racing commissioner Fedele Fauri said Wednesday that he has asked to be kept briefed on the investigation. Fauri asked that if any jockeys were found to have been involved in fixing a race, it could result in a lengthy suspension, possibly as long as two or three years.

Wednesday's turnout at the DRC of fewer than 5,000 fans was one of its poorest of the meeting for a Wednesday, especially coming on the heels of one of the best Tuesdays in weeks. low $3 perfecta payoff of $59.10, and touching off a loud, sustained chorus of boos from the patrons. JIM HIGGINBOTTOM, state deputy commissioner of thoroughbred racing, said Wednesday, "The stewards are studying the race and we're looking at the mutuel play. If we find something was wrong, we'll carry it as far as we have to." A study of the mutuel department printout of the race revealed that an unusually large amount of money was bet on the winning perfecta combination of "4-3" just minutes before posttlme. At 4:29, the 4-3 perfecta would have been worth $160.20.

One minute later at 4:30 p.m., the 4-3 pairing was worth only $70.80. Parimutuel records show that during this period of time an unidentified bettor wagered $600 in one transaction on the winning combination. By the time the race got off at 4:33 p.m., 4-3 was worth only $59.10. By GENE GUIDI Free Press Racing Writer Three jockeys involved in Tuesday's highly suspicious fourth race at the Detroit Race Course will be ordered to bring attorneys and attend a hearing conducted by the DRC stewards. The action came as a result of questionable riding performances in the race and after a racing commission study Wednesday identified an unusual betting pattern before the race.

The stewards declined to specify the hearing date or identify the three riders pending their notification. In Tuesday's race the three betting favorites Stevie's Wonder, Our Moontrip and Foxie Pleasure, ridden by Jeff Anderson, Richard Strauss and John Rupert, respectively failed to run as expected. Cotton Up, of at 4-1 and the longshot Touch of Velvet crossed the finish line one-two in the slow time of 1:15 15 for the six furlongs, combining for a surprisingly with our coverage," the 45- Tracy, Billie Jean fall in semis at Wimbledon Friends start drive to help a troubled NASCAR star 1 I typical manner, saying: "That was the biggest Choke in the world. 1 choked. You've got to make it happen." Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe, the top two seeds, had a relatively easy passage into the men's semifinals, where they are joined by a Dick Enberg enlrai Michigan un di versity alumnus declared.

"We were ready, just as the athletes were ready. "But now we'll never know how good we would have been. We'll never know if we would have won a gold or a silver or a bronze from the American audience. "I have a lot of ambivalent feelings about the boycott," he admitted. "On the one hand, this country had to take some stand and show we weren't going to take this crap anymore.

On the other hand, it seems to me we just threw a couple of jabs. It's time the United States threw some heavy body punches and went for the knockout. "We've nicked the Soviets' feelings a little bit. But we really haven't done a whole lot to get them out of Afghanistan. I think in some ways, we just made ourselves feel better because at least we've done something.

"I know this much," Enberg added. "When the Games come, there are going to be a lot of folks at 30 Rockefeller Plaza (NBC's New York headquarters) who are going to have the same empty feeling in their stomachs that the athletes TV movie close as he'll get Several weeks ago, Enberg was in Los Angeles to participate in the making of a TV movie entitled "The Golden Moment." It was the story of two athletes who fell in love during the Olympic Games. Enberg and decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner played themselves, two announcers. Their job was to pretend they were in Moscow, describing the excitement and emotion of the run as it unfolded before them. In fact, they were in a sound studio at the corner of Hollywood and Vine and the race they were watching had actually been filmed on location in Moscow several weeks earlier.

When the race ended, and the cameras stopped rolling, Jenner turned to Enberg and announced: "That's it, big boy. That was your trip to Moscow. That's as dose as you're going to Smile, Dick. I know exactly how you feel. surprising survivor, Brian Gottfried, seeking to become the first unseeded player ever to win a singles title here.

Borg rang up his 33d successive victory at Wimbledon by beating No. 6 seed Gene Mayer, 7-5, 6-3, 7-5. McEnroe, despite serving 12 double faults, ousted his doubles partner, seventh seed Peter Fleming, 6-3, 6-2, 6- WIMBLEDON (UPI) Evonne Goola-gong Cawley, changing her strategy at the start of the final set, crushed Tracy Austin's Wimbledon dream Wednesday and gained the women's final for the fifth time. Abandoning baseline tactics to take an aggressive stance at the net, Goolagong confused her younger rival sufficiently for a 6-3, 0-6, 6-4 victory, ending Austin's bid to become the youngest Wimbledon champion of the century. "I really got mad at myself at the end of the second set and thought something would have to change," said Goolagong, herself a teen-ager when she won Wimbledon for the only time in 1971.

"No tears, I'm just disappointed," said the 17-year-old Austin. "I had my chances in the third set but Evonne played real well." In Friday's final, Goolagong will meet the winner of Thursday's other semifinal between top seed Martina Navratilova and No. 3 seed Chris, Evert Lloyd. Navratilova, the defending champion, had to struggle for an hour and 53 minutes before subduing Billie Jean King, 7-6 (8-6), 1-6, 10-8, in a thriller carried over from Tuesday night. THE 36-YEAR-OLD King fought off eight match points and at one time was serving for the mates.

She summed up her effort in DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (UPI) A group of friends of former stock car racing star LeeRoy Yarbrough have set up a fund to get him psychiatric help. Yarbrough, NASCAR's driver of the year in 1969 when he won seven races, was committed to the Florida State Hospital at Chattachoochee in March after being charged with trying to strangle his mother, Minnie, and with battery on a police officer who tried to arrest him. The career of Yarbrough, 43, (no relation to driver Cale Yarborough, whose name is spelled differently) went downhill following auto racing accidents in 1970 and 1971, and he says he has no memory of the incident at his mother's trailer in Jacksonville on Feb. 13.

Doctors who examined him at Chattachoochee after Circuit Judge Hudson Olliff declared him incompetent to stand trial concluded he has "chronic brain syndrome (caused by) numerous head injuries from auto accidents." But a group of friends, including former driver Junior Johnson, who owned Yar-brough's 1969 car and was his crew chief, dispute this findg and want Yarbrough His friends want to see if LeeRoy Yarbrough (above) can be helped "through medication or therapy." examined at the private Salem Psychiatric Associates in Winston-Salem, N.C. "The people in racing don't buy it," said the Rev. Bill Baird, NASCAR chaplain. "It's probably an alcohol and drug-related problem. We want to see if he can be helped through medication or therapy." Yarbrough's racing friends have contributed $5,000 to pay for two weeks of "exploratory tests" at Salem, and Baird said a nationwide fund-raising effort would begin treatment is longer.

Billie Jean King 2, and Gottfried upset No. 13 Wojtek Fibak, 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2. In five matches Gottfried has yet to drop a set, a feat unequaled by any other man, and he credits his drastic improvement in the last two months to more positive thinking. ,4 See WIMBLEDON, Page 5D.