Banner Graphic, Volume 14, Number 95, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 December 1983 — Page 10

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The Putnam County Banner-Graphic, December 27,1983

Australia takes 2-1 Davis Cup advantage

MELBOURNE, Australia IAP) Paul McNamee and Mark Edmondson played some of the finest tennis of their careers in giving Australia a one-up advantage in the Davis Cup Final against Sweden at Kooyong. McNamee and Edmondson scored a 6-4,6-4,6-2 victory over Anders Jarryd and Hans Simonsson in the doubles Tuesday, moving Australia to a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five match. ! Australia now needs only to win one of the two reverse singles today to win the Davis Cup for the first time since 1977. The Aussies are bidding to Win the cup for the 25th time, while Sweden has won it only once before—in 1975. McNamee and Edmondson,

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who only came together this year following the retirement of McNamee’s long-time partner Paul McNamara, were in great form. Neither of them dropped serve in the contest and they continually pressured the young swedes, who went ino the match with a 6-1 da vis cup record “That was the match of our lives,” said the 29-year-old McNamee. “You spend your whole career waiting for a Davis Cup Final to come along.” Edmondson said: “We were aware that if we win the Davis Cup it will be the most memorable occasion for everyone involved. We’ve done our job, now it is up to the others.” Pat Cash plays Joakim Nystrom in the first singles

today, with John Fitzgerald then lining up against Mats Wilander. McNamee and Edmondson never were troubled by Jarryd and Simonsson and Jarryd looked particularly off his game. Jarryd dropped his serve in the third game of the first set and in the fifth game of the second the two crucial breaks and also had trouble with his grounds trokes. The Swedes’ best chance of a breakthrough came in the second game of the second set, when Edmondson was (MO on serve but survived. With the Australians tempering their power and aggression witn sensible tactics, Jarryd and Simonsson

were already beaten by the third set. The victory took McNamee and Edmondson just one hour and 43 minutes. Swedish captain Hans Olsson and both his players were upset by three doubtful line calls early in the second set. Olsson met Davis Cup referee Vic Seixas after the match to seek clarification on why the umpire had not over-ruled. Nystrom played woefully against Fitzgerald Monday, but defeated Cash 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 when they met in the semifinals of the New South Wales Open in Sydney earlier in the month. Nystrom went on to win that title, while Wilander won the Australian Open at Kooyong the week before.

Merry Christmas, George Steinbrenner hit with s3oo,ooofine, Gossagesnub

By DAVE ANDERSON c. 1983 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK brenner found two pieces of coal one a letter from Commisssioner Bowie Kuhn fining him $250,000, plus $50,000 in legal costs for his harangue following the pine-tar game ruling; the other a statement from Goose Gossage that the free-agent relief pitcher had no interest in an offer from the Yankees’ principal owner. Each slapped Steinbrenner across the mouth that has lately created more problems for the Yankees than it has solved. For the Yankees, the $300,000 really affects only Steinbrenner and his accountants. But the departure of Gossage not only affects the team and its fans, but is also the latest defection in a significant trend. When baseball’s free-agent auctions began following the 1976 season, it was fashionable for players to grab Steinbrenner’s millions. Reggie Jackson did, then Gossage the next year, just as Jim (Catfish) Hunter had for 1975. Bolstered by these “money players,” the Yankees won the World Series in 1977 and 1978. Flashing his World Series rings, Steinbrenner attracted more free agents Tommy John and Luis Tiant for the 1979 season, Bob Watson and Rudy May for 1980, Dave Winfield for 1981, Ken Griffey for 1982, Don Baylor and Steve Kemp for 1983. But in recent years, Steinbrenner’s boorish behavior has obviously begun to alienate his players. Jackson departed to join the California Angels, then John demanded to be traded and was (to the Angels). Now Gossage and his agent, Jerry Kapstein, are talking to seven teams, but not to the Yankees, who have not signed any of this year’s free agents. “I will not return to play for George Steinbrenner,” Gossage said last week. “I have no interest in any contract offer from George Steinbrenner.” Notice that Gossage did not say he would not return to pitch for the Yankees or that he had no interest in any contract offer from the Yankees no, he fingered Steinbrenner. A message is there if the principal owner is willing to acknowledge it. If. Gossage’s fastball is not what it was in 1978 or even in 1982, but he is still one of baseball’s premier relief pitchers, superior to any relief pitcher now on the Yankees’ roster. Until another relief pitcher of Gossage’s quality appears, the Yankees can’t possibly be the contenders in the American League East that they would have been with him in the bullpen. But several days before Gossage’s declaration of independence from Steinbrenner’s tyranny, the princial owner apparently wasn’t aware of the relief pitcher’s antagonism. “I’m very hopeful of signing Goose again, I think Goose belongs in New York,” Steinbrenner owner said at the news conference announcing Yogi Berra as the new manager. “I think Goose is a cinch for the Hall of Fame if he stays in New York.” Steinbrenner sounded as if he were trying to be nice to Gossage, trying to lure him into signing a new contract. But his reference to the Hall of Fame was more insulting than inviting as if whatever Gossage does for another team won’t be worth as many eventual Hall of Fame votes as they would if he were wearing Yankee pinstripes. That sort of New York arrogance is why New York and New Yorkers are so resented by many people in other areas of the nation. More of Steinbrenner’s money soon will be in New York, however the $300,000 that is due to be deposited in the commissioner’s treasury. In his 11 years as a Yankee owner, the principal owner has what a police sergeant would describe as a “long sheet,” beginning with his two-year suspension by

M.C. Rogers-Valpo tops high school card

By STEVE HERMAN AP Sports Writer The week between Christmas and New Year traditionally finds holiday basketball tournaments filling an otherwise light Indiana high school schedule, and the top matchups this week could be at Michigan City Rogers. The unbeaten, second-ranked Raiders take on N 0.4 Valparaiso, N 0.7 Michigan City Elston and unranked LaPorte in the two-day tourney Thursday and Friday. Even with LaPorte’s 3-4 record, Rogers Coach Earl Cunningham calls it the best fourteam field since the annual Hall of Fame Classic three weeks ago with Rogers, then-N0.3. Evansville Bosse, now-No.B Marion and unranked DeKalb. Rogers is still unbeaten after six games, Valpo is 7-0 and Elston is 5-1, with its only loss to No. 16 Elkhart Central. A year ago, Rogers won its own tournament, beating

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Valparaiso by three points and LaPorte by five for the championship. Elston finished fourth. Ten ranked teams are in tourney action this week. The only other site besides Rogers with more than one rated squad is at Munster, where N 0.6 Indianapolis Cathedral and No.ll Hammond Noll join Andrean and the host Mustangs Wednesday and Thursday. Andrean edged Munster by one point for third place in the Highland tournament last year. In other tournaments, No.lo Gary Roosevelt plays at Gary West; No. 14 Fort Wayne Northrop is in the Summit Athletic Corierence tourney at Fort Wayne; N 0.16 Elkhart Central is at Elkhart Memorial; No. 17 Warsaw is at South Bend; and N 0.19 Lebanon is at Canton, Ohio. Because of the Christmas holiday and a relatively light schedule of games last week, there’s no Associated Press poll this week and all of the Top 20

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Bowie Kuhn in 1974 for having pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to make illegal contributions to President Richard M. Nixon’s re-election campaign. Fifteen months later, the suspension was lifted for “good behavior,” a phrase not always associated with Steinbrenner’s style. Starting in late 1979, he has been fined a total of $370,000 (including legal fees) ments relating to the pine-tar game, $50,000 for remarks about National League umpires, $5,000 for remarks about the Chicago White Sox owners, $5,000 for tampering with Brian Downing of the California Angels and SIO,OOO for failing to report all of Dave Winfield’s contract. He also was supended for one week last season by Lee MacPhail, the American League president, for remarks about umpires. The $300,000 fine seems excessive but Steinbrenner has publicly accepted it in exchange for not being suspended Kuhn probably compromised, too. He knew that if he did suspend Steinbrenner, the principal owner might go to court, further confusing the commissioner’s office. Kuhn is scheduled to leave his desk March 1, whether or not his successor has been determined. But in one of his last acts, the commissioner put Steinbrenner on notice. “I must reiterate,” the commissioner wrote in his letter to Steinbrenner, “that any future improper conduct on your part or on the part of the Yankees may result in such other sanctions, including suspension, as may be within the commissioner’s authority.” Sooner or later Steinbrenner can be depended upon to do or say something that will require the commissioner’s inquiry, whoever the commissioner may be by then. That’s the toughest part about being the commissioner now. He can’t just walk away from Steinbrenner, as Gossage did.

teams derson Highland and Plainfield are tied for 20th will be unchanged until after the first of the year. At least 15 teams including 10 which are unranked —will go into the 1984 portion of the ’B3’B4 season unbeaten. The undefeated but unrated teams include Delphi, Manchester, Whitko, Oregon-Davis, Randolph Southern, Austin, Bed-ford-North Lawrence, Jimtown, Wapahani and L&M. The others, all idle this week, are No.l Anderson, N 0.3 Indianapolis Ben Davis, N 0.5 Franklin, N 0.9 Noblesville and N 0.20 Plainfield. Anderson’s Troy Lewis, coming off a career-high 47 points, has scored 298 points in eight games for a 37.2-point average. Rogers’ Delray Brooks has scored 217 points in six games for a 36.2 average and needs 82 points in the two tourney games this week to top

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Lewis. Anderson Highland’s Mark Gary is averaging 30 points . a game; Elwood’s Jamie Whetstone is averaging 28.8; and Tipton’s Kreigh Smith, who will be a teammate of Brooks’ at Indiana next fall, is averagirig 26.6. Coach Ron Heflin of Gary Roosevelt admits he’s a “hard guy to play for.” “Potentially, we’ve got as good a ballclub as there is anywhere in Indiana. The games we’ve got ahead, though, are very tough. “One criterion I try to set is to be as perfect as you can. That's only normal,” said Heflin. “1 don’t know of too many coaches who are always satisfied, do you? If a player of mine gets 18 points and 14 rebounds in a game, I tell him he should have gotten 20 points and 17 rebounds. Constant improvement. The kids understand, although the adults might get upset.”