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18 Grand Island (Neb) Daily Independent riday August 25 1978 bRKk a lb vWKw IWW 'J' wA TftMflHH UM 2 i 2 THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Baseball players play all kinds of little games around second base In above photo Bobby Bonds of the Texas Rangers smiles after breaking up a double play in 4 1 victory over Minnesota Thursday night second baseman is Bobby Ran dall In photo below Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers appears to playing horsey back with Ted Sizemore Sizemore was safe on the play but LA whipped the Phillies 5 4 thanks to a three run rally in the eighth inning (AP Laserphotos) Royals 'hitless wonders' but no hit with Herzog nkpcnbcnt Spivitd By The Associated Press The Kansas City Royals are new hitless wonders But the real wonder of it all is that it until Thursday night that they dropped into second place in the American League West one half game behind the idle California Angels by losing to the Chicago White Sox 4 1 It marks the first time since July 16 that the Royals have been out of first place On July 28 they led by five games but have since dropped 15 of 26 just not playing well and not said Manager Whitey Herzog one of the weakest hitting clubs in the league We only have 70 home runs as a team and our leading RBI man has only In the only other AL games the Texas Rangers downed the Minnesota Twins 4 1 on Jim three run homer in the 10th inning the Cleveland Indians edged the Milwaukee Brewers 9 8 on Andre lOth inning homer and the Detroit Tigers ended club record five game winn ing streak by defeating the Blue Jays 5 2 Eric Soderholrq doubled twice and drove in three runs to lead Chicago the 1906 White Sox were the original hitless wonders over Kansas City Meanwhile rookie Mike Proly with last out help from Lerrin LaGrow out pitched 15 game winner Paul Splittorff despair Whitey Your Royals are hitting a decent 269 while those White Sox won the pennant with a 230 batting average lowest in the league And their top hitter was one William rank Isbell at 279 Rangers 4 Twins 1 Sundberg drilled his game winning three run homer off Dave Goltz after Al Oliver opened the 10th with a single Holtz had retired 16 batters in a row at that point and Bobby attemp ted sacrifice became a hit when first baseman Rod Carew missed the tag was a hanging said Goltz of homer do it on Indians 9 Brewers 8 Thornton led off the 11th inning with his 26th homer of the season on a 3 1 pitch from Bob McClure The Indians had rallied from an 8 3 deficit after four innings to tie the score on Duane RBI grounder in the ninth Six to grand slam homer helped Milwaukee to its big lead but the In dians pulled within 8 7 with four runs in the seventh on singles by Buddy Bell and Thornton Gary 23rd homer a double by Ron Pruitt and an error by second baseman Paul Molitor Tigers 5 Blue Jays 2 Rookie Lou Whitaker tripled home two runs and scored on an error as Detroit broke open a 1 1 game with three runs in the third inning Alan Trammell and Ron Lelore singled before tie breaking triple Meanwhile Milt Wilcox scattered 11 hits and hurled his 14th complete game Jason Thompson hit his 23rd homer in the sixth for Detroit's final run Phillies' lead dwindling Missouri's Winslow jAMMB ijB in t'i ws'i 1 K'k i i 4 Pirates win 10th BY DOUG TUCKER AP Sports Writer COLUMBIA Mo (AP) Standing feet tall and weighing close to an eighth of a ton Kellen Winslow hunched over a chess board must be an awesome sight act is hardly anybody will play him The last few games he found around the University of Missouri cam pus ended in just eight or nine moves pnd Winslow made the last move every time Big Eight linebackers and defensive backs knocked down and pushed around the past two years would pro bably find little consolation in the fact their tormentor is just as adroit in the cerebral arena of chess He was playing chess in the tough East StLouis ghettoes long before he took up football "I was in the eighth he recall ed Thursday during the Big Eight Skywriters stop they tore up our baseball field to build something else A bunch of us were just standing around With nothing to do when an older guy brought out a chess set He fell in love with the game at once and it turns out his strength was not all in his thin body 'He finally got around to football his senior year in high school and helped to lead his team to the Illinois state playoffs That same year he won a trophy in a state chess tournament But nobody offers chess scholarships so his attention has naturally focused bn football "But there is so much similarity bet ween the two games frighten ing "said Winslow As he blossomed into a consensus All Big Eight tight end he began to recognize parallels between bishops and wide receivers seems lik every player on a foot ball field has a parallel function with a chess piece Tight ends are knights The Big 8 Skywriters Tour quarterback is the queen Rooks are running backs Bishops are wide receivers and pawns the linemen The not worth So is the king the coach? Winslow cast a wary glance across the room toward Warren Powers Missouri's first year head coach say he said em phatically Winslow who blocks and catches with equal elan was probably the best player awaiting Powers when he made the controversial decision to buy out his Washington State contract for $50000 and replace the ousted Al Onofrio Winslow is obviously a premier tight Powers said kind don't come along very Getting the ball to Winslow and Leo Lewis the Tiger's tigerish wide receiver may be a problem Powers said four quarterback candidates have been running neck and neck with nobody threatening to break out of the pack would say our greatest concern right now is quarterebacks" Powers said all can do something well and they all have phases of the game to work on" The only one with experience is tough in sophomore Phil Bradley who stepped in for the injured Pete Woods last year but never threw the ball much The other three sophomore Jeffrey junior Paul Miller and senior Marte Montgomery would be strangers to Big Eight competition Powers also has little experience in the offensive line the third ingredient for a successful passing attack offensive line has to be a close knit group because they receive so little personal Powers said got to have a feeling of togetherness of pride of working as a unit And I believe we have that kind of feeling on our The Tiger attack also seems loaded with big fairly mobile running backs Senior Earl Gant 6 2 207 and Rich Bansdill 6 4 230 are battle tested task his first year seems hopeless faced with the murderous schedule he walked into Missouri opens at Notre Dame and then hosts Alabama and Mississippi before moving on to Oklahoma and the rugged Big Eight race 4 I 4 I By The Associated Press Maybe with a team like the Pirates more apropos In any case Manager Chuck Tanner is ready to assume Sparky Anderson's old role call me Admiral says the Pittsburgh skipper Ander son is known as Captain Hook but taken the title from Tanner's rise to the admiralty came after Thursday 4 1 victory over Atlanta in which four Pittsburgh pit chers held the Braves to one run on seven hits and extended the winning streak to 10 games The streak matches the National longest this year by San Diego from July 25 Aug 4 and moved Pittsburgh into a tie with Chicago for second place in the NL East 3 games behind the Philadelphia Phillies who lost to Los Angeles 5 4 Anderson the Cincinnati Reds manager earned the nickname Captain Hook for his reliance on the bullpen But this year it has been chess too Nevertheless Powers claims a cautious optimism really feel we have he said seeking gradual improve ment every day but how good be by the end of the year I As Winslow might put it Tigers will be all right if their pawns have a feeling of togetherness and the queen can hit the bishops and riday Iowa State Tiger Capsule Coach: Warren Powers 1st year 1977 record 4 7 overall 3 4 Big Eight 1978 schedule: at Notre Dame Alabama Mississippi at Oklahoma Illinois Iowa State at Kansas State Colorado at Oklahoma State Kansas at Nebraska Returing lettermen: 36 Returning starters: 14 Key players: TE Kellen Winslow RB Earl Gant WR Leo Lewis Pete Allard DT Steve Hamilton DB Russ Calabrese Ramirez upset BROOKLINE Mass Jose Luis Clerc of Argentina beat second seeded Raul Ramirez of Mexico 6 3 6 2 in the third round of the 51st US Pro Tennis Championships The electricity free water conditioner Uses your own water power not electricity Nothing to plug in nothing to shortcut or more information about this revolutionary new advance in water treatment call or visit NU WAY WATER SYSTEMS SERVICE 223 West 4th Phone 384 8832 Visit Our Booth at tho air Salos Parsons Wanted Information Available at Our Booth I reserves who have worn a path between the bullpen and mound Reliever Kent Tekulve who got his 25th save Thurs day night now has appeared in 72 of 125 games this season tops in the majors have one thing you have to have down the said Tanner pitching If you have pitching you can Dodgers 5 Phils 4 Bill Russell singled in two runs and pinch hitter Manny Mota delivered the winning score with a single as Los Angeles rallied for three runs in the eighth to beat Philadelphia The victory moved the Dodgers one full game ahead of idle San rancisco in the West Division Cards 4 Reds 3 Mike Phillips drove in two runs with a bases loaded single in the third inning and Pete Vuckovich 12 9 scattered Gilbert Pate tied for golf lead PINEHURST NC Gibby Gilbert fired a four under par 67 to share a two stroke lead with Jerry Pate after the first round in the $250000 Hall of ame Golf Classic Howard Twitty and Leonard Thomp son along with Tom Kite and Greg Powers were tied for third at 69 Cesar Sanudo had a hole in 1 on the sixth hole and headed a group of eight at 70 straight seven hits to pace the Cards past Cin cinnati RBI fueled a three run rally by St Louis in the inning Vuckovich walked three and struck out five and yielded all of runs on Ken third inning home run his eighth of the season The Cards also got a run in the first inning on George 15th homer of the year Mets 6 Padres 3 John Stearns and Joel Youngblood had two RBI each and rookie right hander Mike Bruhert 3 6 picked up the victory in his first start ever against San Diego The victory ended a four game New York losing streak The Mets scored three runs in the third taking a 4 0 lead on two run double and sacrifice fly Youngblood also doubled in a run in New two run fifth inning i Tanner has Bucs on move limp strike likely' Z' NEW YORK (AP) Bob Engel president of the Major League Baseball Um pires Association said riday there was a chance that the umpires go on strike prior to riday night's games Engel appeared on NBC's Today show along with Richie Phillips the attorney for the union will be a work stoppage probably said Phillips are poll ling our membership and will make a decision later I Phillips head of the National Basketball Association's referees' union when that "group went on strike a year ago met with American League President Lee Mac Phail and National League Chub eeney on Thursday to discuss the umpires' com plaints but said no progress had been made Another meeting was scheduled for riday BIG MAN rom Wrangler PRE WASHED JEANS 40 to 50 Waist I CORDUROY JEANS 40 to 50 Waist 36 Length Up to 42 Waist! 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