Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 218, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 May 1980 — Page 5
Jabbar-less Lakers call NBA championship 'Magic'
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DPU nominates three for honors DePauw University baseball coach Ed Meyer has nominated three players for the NCAA Division 111 District IV All-Star baseball team. Nominated by Meyer are sophomore third baseman Tim Meyer, senior center fielder Tim Werner and sophomore pitcher Stuart Ringel. WERNER, NAMED to the all-star team last year, served as team captain and was named most valuable player this season. Werner battled back from quadruple-bypass heart surgery in January to complete the season with a .306 batting average and a team-high five home runs. Meyer, a transfer from the University of Illinois, earned Rookie of the Year honors this season after leading the team with a .375 batting average. Meyer also led the team in runs batted in with 27. Ringel received the Bullpen Award after compiling a 7-0 record and an earned run average of 1.34. Giants, Cards, Yanks Little League victors The Giants beat the Tigers 14-6, the Cardinals topped the Dodgers 10-7 and the Yankees dumped the White Sox 9-3 in Greencastle Little League action this week. DAVID BOTTOMS LED the Giants with a home run, while Scott Rehlander connected for a triple on one of his two hits in the third victory in as many outings. Todd Bouslog also had two hits for the Giants. Paul Pearson and Matt Davis led the Tigers with a double each, while Torr had two singles. The Tigers are now 1-2. The Cardinals upped their record to 3-0 with the 10-7 win over the Dodgers. TODD SUTHERLIN, who had three hits in the game, ripped a home run over the centerfield fence for the Cardinals and Brian Durham, who also had three hits, connected for a double. Joey Franklin and Scott Dunn each had two hits. Andy Lewis and Chris Huff each had two hits for the 2-1 Dodgers, each connected for a double and a single. The Yankees and White Sox met with each team looking for its first victory and the Yankees came out on top 9-3. MIKE WELLS, who had three hits in the game, led the Yankees with a pair of doubles.
Lietzke in limelight at Colonial FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) With the finesse of a cat burglar, Bruce Lietzke has stolen the thunder of Lee Trevino and Tom Watson in the first round of the $300,000 Colonial National Invitational golf tournament. The onetime University of Houston sharpshooter took a 2shot lead today into the second round on the rose-ringed Colonial Country Club course and it might easily have been more. “It could have been lower,” the 28-year-old Kansan said Friday after firing a record-ty-ing, 7-under-par 63 in the raindelayed bottom half of the “Texas Bonanza.” “I’m pretty excited about the way I’m hitting the ball. I wasn’t too happy with some of the putts. I made a couple that I probably shouldn’t have, and I missed some very makable ones ...” Lietzke punctuated the sparkling assault on the normally treacherous Trinity River course with a hole-in-one at the 194yard 16th. “I saw the white of the ball, then saw it disappear,” he said with a grin. The 63 shoved him two strokes in front of Texan Jeff Mitchell, the Phoenix winner, who had it six under until he overshot and bogeyed the same hole Lietzke aced. Mitchell’s 65 was a shot ahead of Watson and Trevino
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Man was 3,000 miles away, nursing a sprained ankle in Los Angeles, but the Lakers still found the Magic touch they needed to win the National Basketball Association championship. “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the Man on this team.” said Lakers rookie Earvin “Magic” Johnson. “He wasn’t able to be here, so I knew I had to take over.” And take over he did, just as he took over last winter in leading Michigan State to the NCAA championship. With the 7-foot-2 Abdul-Jabbar nursing a sprained ankle in Los Angeles. Johnson took over center stage and shone in the spotlight. He scored a career high 42 points, grabbed 15rebounds and handed out 7 assists to lead the Lakers to a 123-107 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers Friday night and a 4-2 win in the best-of-seven championship series. “Magic played like Houdini out there tonight,” said Lakers Coach Paul Westhead “He was Mr. Opportunity himself.” It was an opportunity Johnson relished. “I love pressure," said the 6-foot-8 Johnson, a babe in the NBA redwoods at the tender age of 21. “Without Kareem, I knew I had to score, run things and get the job done. I’m glad I was in this situation. I think I proved a few things." One thing Johnson and the rest of the Lakers proved, in winning their first title since 1972 and only the second in the 20 years since the franchise moved from Minneapolis to Los Angeles, is that they are far more than a one-man show. Westhead likened them to a diamond surrounded by rubies, and Friday night they proved that even without the diamond, the rubies could shine. “That was the best basketball played against us all year,” said Philadelphia Coach Billy Cunningham, who escorted his en-
Cubs can't keep up with Jones' sinker
By KEN R APPOPORT AP Sports Writer The San Diego Padres will sink or swim with Randy Jones. Mostly sink. The pitcher with one of the best sinker balls in baseball continues to deal them down with some dazzling effects. San Diego’s star left-hander has pitched a club-record three straight shutouts, including a 30 beauty over the Chicago Cubs Friday night. “The key pitch is still the sinker,” said Jones after holding the Cubs to just three hits and lowering his earned rurvaverage to a sparkling 1.83. After winning the 1976 Cy
Brawl, homers spice Yankees' victory over Texas
By 808 GREENE AP Sports Writer Two home runs by Ruppert Jones and one by Reggie Jackson were more than Dave Rasjich could take. After Jones slammed his second home run of the game for the New York Yankees into the right field stands in the seventh inning, Jackson hit his eighth of the season, a tremendous shot into right-center On the next pitch, Rajsich hit Jim Spencer on the right arm. “I only meant to brush him back. I wanted to pitch him inside,” said the Texas Rangers’ pitcher, “but it sailed on me.” Spencer charged the mound and both benches and bullpens
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Young Award with a 22-14 record, Jones underwent shoulder surgery. But he seems to be regaining his vintage form of late. Friday night, Jones extended his streak to 392-3 innings without issuing a walk. In 1976 Jones tied the National League record of 68 consecutive innings without a walk. Jones, 4-2, struck out six and didn’t walk a batter during his glittering performance. San Diego took a 1-0 lead off loser Mike Krukow, 3-3, in the fourth as Gene Richards tripled and scored on a groundout by Dave Winfield. The Padres added a pair of runs in the sixth on an RBI triple by Winfield and
joined the fray. Plate umpire Larry McCoy, Texas catcher Jim Sundberg and Jackson combined to keep Spencer from reaching Rajsich. The brouhaha spiced the Yankees’ 6-2 victory over the Rangers as Tommy John increased his record to 7-0, tops in the majors. In other American League games Friday night, Toronto edged Oakland 1-0 in 11 innings, Boston nipped Cleveland 2-1, California crushed Kansas City 11-1, Minnesota slipped by Milwaukee 4-3, Baltimore edged Detroit 2-1 and Seattle defeated the Chicago White Sox 4-2. Jones’ second and third homers of the season increased
It does rain in Indianapolis, 500 race drivers finding out
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - It’s just a fact of life that championship cars wind up parked in a garage when the raindrops fall. But that didn’t stop rookie Billy Engelhart from lamen ting, “How do you find miles an hour sitting in a garage? ” Engelhart was fastest among the 20 non-qualified drivers who made it onto the track briefly Friday before the rain fell. The wet weather halted the last full day of practice prior to the final weekend of time trials for the Indianapolis 500 after just 66 minutes of action. And the National Weather Service was forecasting more of the same for today and Sunday. That prompted officials of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to announce that if the 33-car field is not filled by 6 p.m EST Sunday, when the time trials are scheduled to close, all those non-qualified cars in line at that time will be given one op-
tire team to the Laker locker room to congratulate the new champions. “They had a lot to prove,” added Cunningham. “Everyone said they were ‘Jabbar’s team,’ and they had nothing to lose, since they always had a seventh game to fall back on. But they proved they were not a one-man team. They put on the greatest performance I’ve ever seen.” Westhead moved Johnson from guard to center in place of Ab-dul-Jabbar, but really the Magic Man played all over the court. “We moved him between center and point guard on offense, and on defense he played some forward, too,” said Westhead. Cunningham put it more succintly, saying, “Johnson completely dominated the game.” The Sixers came out flat and the Lakers reeled off the first seven points. Los Angeles led 32-29 after the first quarter, fell behind by as many as eight but climbed back to a 60-60 halftime tie. Then the Sixers came out flat once again, and this time the Lakers scored 14 straight six by forward Jamaal Wilkes, whose 37-point night was overshadowed by Johnson’s heroics, and four each by Johnson and Michael Cooper. The Sixers, led by Julius Erving, closed the gap to two on four occasions during the final period but could never pull even. Instead, it was the Lakers who pulled away. “It was too much for us to come back,” said Cunningham. “When we got close, Wilkes and Johnson beat us.” Amazingly, the Lakers outrebounded the Sixers 52-36, nullifying Philadelphia’s inside game and forcing the Sixers to shoot from the perimeter. As a result, they outscored Philadelphia 33-13 from the foul line. “They had everyone under the basket and we had to go to a
Willie Montanez’s sacrifice fly. The game was marred by bench-clearing row in the eighth inning when Winfield was hit by a pitch from Krukow. Winfield charged the mound but was tackled by catcher Barry Foote. After order was restored, Krukow was replaced by Willie Hernandez. Expos 2, Reds 1 Warren Cromartie doubled home a run and Tommy Hutton hit a sacrifice fly in a two-run eighth inning to pace Montreal past Cincinnati. The Expos, held to one hit over the first seven innings by Tom Seaver, 2-2, began their
his RBI total to 22, the most on the Yankees, including eight in his last five games. Angels 11, Royals I Rod Carew chased home three runs with three singles and Larry Harlow and Bobby Grich each added two RBI as California crushed Kansas City. The Angels pounded out 16 hits and were aided by eight Kansas City walks. California errupted for eight of its runs in the third inning. Blue Jays I, A’s 0 Roy Howell’s run-scoring single in the bottom of the 11th inning backed up Jesse Jefferson’s four-hitter for Toronto’s victory. Bob Bailor, who drew a lead-
portunity to qualify when the weather permits. If that occurs, all those cars already in the field will be guaranteed a starting spot. Before the rain came, veteran Spike Gehlhausen, among the 19 entries already qualified for the May 25 race, topped the day’s speed charts with a fast lap of 184.843 mph. Three-time Indy winner A 1 Unser and rookie Don Whittington, the only other already qualified drivers to make it onto the 2'2-mile circuit, worked on their race-day setups. But they and the non-qualified drivers on the track during the short practice session were cut short in their efforts to come up with more speed for the last two days of qualifying. Engelhart was clocked at 183.936 mph. Veteran George Snider turned a 182.556 in fourtime winner A.J. Foyt’s backup car, while another rookie. Bill Whittington Don’s brother
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rally with a leadoff single by Gary Carter. Cromartie followed with a booming double that eluded center fielder Cesar Geronimo. After Cromartie took third on Geronimo’s throw to the plate, Hutton hit a fly ball to center to score Cromartie and make a winner of Steve Rogers, 3-4. Phillies 3, Astros 0 Del Unser tripled in the fourth inning and scored the gamewinning run on Mike Schmidt’s sacrifice fly and Dick Ruthven scattered five hits to lead Philadelphia over Houston. It was the Astros’ fourth consecutive loss, their longest los-
off walk in the 11th, scored on Howell’s hit to break up a pitcher’s duel between Jefferson and the A’s Mike Norris, 5-1. Howell’s blow was only the fourth hit off Norris and the first earned run the Oakland pitcher has given up in 352-3 innings. Jefferson, 2-1, struck out 10 and walked four in recording his first complete game of the season. Red Sox 2, Indians 1 Fred Lynn doubled home one run and scored another as Boston edged Cleveland. Chuck Rainey, 3-0, combined with Tom Burgmeier to hold the Indians to four hits, offsetting a sevenhit effort by Cleveland starter John Denny, 2-4.
was right behind at 182.297. Another veteran, Bill Vukovich. had a 182.039 lap. Among those hoping to qualify this weekend are 1979 Indy rookie-of-the-year Howdy Holmes, who used up two of his three qualifying attempts last weekend without making it into the field. He aborted each of the attempts after completing three of the four laps that make up a qualifying run. Veterans still hoping for a starting berth include Vukovich, John Mahler, Joe Saldana, Jerry Karl, Mike Mosley, Dick Simon, Vern Schuppan, Gary Bettenhausen, Salt Walther and Janet Guthrie, the only woman ever to drive in the Indy 500. There are also a large group of rookie hopefuls, led by Tim Richmond, who has the month’s top practice lap his credit. Richmond was unable to qualify last weekend, however, because he crashed during practice.
May 17,1980, The Putnam County Banner Graphic
perimeter game,” said Erving. "We lost patience and discipline. They beat us in every phase of the game. They anticipated our strategy, took away our inside game and took us out of our rhythm.” “Rebounding was the difference in the whole series.” said Johnson. “We controled the boards and played good defense And we had to keep offensive pressure on them. We had to push it up quickly, go in and keep coming.” Johnson made sure the Lakers did just that with a performance that earned him the series’ Most Valuable Player award by a 4-3 vote over AbdulJabbar. But Johnson’s play came as no surprise to Westhead. “I knew E.J. was going to be there,” said Westhead. who a year ago coached at LaSalle College, went to the Lakers as an assistant last summer and became head coach when Jack McKinney was hurt in a bicycle accident early in the season. “I didn’t know about the rest, but I knew that whenever we needed it, he’d give it to us. How? “A few months ago we went on a road trip to Kansas City and Milwaukee and he just cleaned house,” said Westhead. “He had a couple of great games. Our guys stepped back and said, ‘Young Buck has arrived He certainly has, joining Henry Bibby and Bill Russell as the only players to win NCAA and NBA titles in consecutive years How do the two compare? “This it it!” replied the ebullient Johnson. “This is the climax There’s no better championship than the NBA world cham pionship.” “We did it for him,” Johnson said of Abdul-Jabbar "He carried us this far. I’m just sorry he couldn’t be here.”
ing streak of the season, and the shutout extended the Astros’ scoreless string to 22 straight innings. Dodgers 8, Pirates 6 Gary Thomasson keyed a sixrun seventh inning with a tworun double, leading Los Angeles over Pittsburgh. The Dodgers’ biggest inning of the season came against John Candelaria and Kent Tekulve, two of the top pitchers on the Pirates’ staff. Tekulve. 5-1, suffered his first loss of the season. Jerry Reuss, 4-0, making his first start of the season in place of ailing Dave Goltz, pitched seven innings to
Cleveland’s lone run came in the seventh with Ron Hassey scoring on a check-swing groundout by Tom Veryzer. Cleveland’s Mike Hargrove failed to get a hit, ending a 23game hitting streak. Twins 4, Brewers 3 A run-scoring single by rookie Rick Sofield in the bottom of the eighth inning scored Roy Smalley as Minnesota defeated Milwaukee. Smalley had tied the game 3-3 with a runscoring double. The rally made a winner of Jerry Koosman, who pitched just two-thirds of an inning in relief but evened his record at 33. Ben Oglivie slammed his six-
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th home run of the year for the Brewers. Orioles 2. Tigers 1 Rookie Dan Graham singled home Ken Singleton with the winning run in the eighth inning as Baltimore nipped Detroit. The defeat snapped a five-game Detroit winning streak. Mike Flanagan, last year’s American League Cy Young Award winner, stopped the Tigers on five hits to hike his record to 4-2. Mariners 4, White Sox 2 Jim Anderson drove in two runs and scored another to lead Seattle to its victory over Chicago. The game was delayed by rain for 1 hours in the second inning.
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