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Cards' Andujar blanks Giants on four-hitter
By The Associated Press Joaquin Andujar said he didn’t pitch any differently than in his 6-16 season last year. But he’d better not tell that to his manager, Whitey Herzog. The St. Louis right-hander, one of the heroes of the Cardinals' World Series victory in 1982, shut out San Francisco Giants 3-0 on four hits Friday night as the Cards won their second game in three starts. “Maybe people will believe now what I’ve been saying,’’ Andujar said. “The Giants hit some balls hard, but they were caught. Last year, when ball were hit hard, they were doubles, triples and homers.” But Herzog was more cautious, pointing out that Andujar won his first two decisions last season: “Joaquin got off to a good start, then had a little tough luck and then started pitching bad.” In other National League games, New York topped Houston 8-1, Pittsburgh beat Los Angeles, 3-1; Montreal beat Atlanta 8-5; San Diego topped Chicago 3-2 and Philadelphia beat Cincinnati 8-4. In San Francisco, the Cards got the only run Andujar needed in the first. Lonnie Smith led off with a single off Bill Laskey, stole second and scored on Ken Oberkfell’s single. Andy Van Slyke lined a home run, his first, over the right field fence in the fourth. Meanwhile, Andujar was in complete control, allowing only one runner past first Johnnie Lemaster, who singled to lead off the first and stole second. ; “I just kept my head up and worked hard,” Andujar said. Pirates 3, Dodgers 1 John Tudor, making his first NL start, pitched hitless ball for 6 2-3 innings, but needed last-out ■help from Cecilio Guante to clinch Pittsburgh’s first win of the season. Steve Yeager got the first hit •off the former Boston lefthander. But Tudor, who surrendered four hits in all, had to Jeave in the ninth after Pedro
Seven former winners entered for 'soo'
: INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - 'Defending Indy 500 champ Tom 'Sneva will be back this year and so will sue other forma: winners. r They are among drivers Inamed for the 103 entries .'received so far for the May 27 -race. I Entries postmarked before the Friday midnight deadline will be accepted by the Speedway, which expects the final total to top the record 109 cars entered in 1982. .* “We’re sure there are sane in the mail,” Speedway Vice President A 1 Bloemker said Friday. “I would guess 10 or 11 more. I think we’re going to surpass the 1982 record. “I’m still getting calls asking how to get the entry forms and checks in,” Bloemker said. Last year’s total was 93 entries.
Girls choose church over chance for title DANVILLE, Ind. (AP) Five Hendricks County girls are giving up a chance to win a state championship to attend church services Palm Sunday. The five, who represent the Hendricks County Gymnastics Team, will not participate in the State Amateur Athletic Union Class 4 Gymnastics Meet in Pendleton April 15. “We believe that our talents were given to us by God, and we intend to glorify Him with our gifts,” said Betty Wright, who coaches the girls ranging in age from 10 to 14. “Competing at the time of church services on Palm Sunday wouldn’t be right. We can’t praise God and glorify Him if we’re missing church on one of the holiest days of the year . ” To participate in the all-day meet, the team would have to leave before 7 a m., making it impossible for the girls to attend church services, Mrs. Wright said. “Parents of the team members complained to me (about the timing of the meet),” Mrs. Wright said. “We thought we had to take a stand for our beliefs. The kids should not have to choose between their love of sports and a Palm Sunday service.” Mrs. Wright had tried to avoid disappointing the team members who have been practicing and looking forward to the meet for months. But when she approached officials of the Amateur Athletic Union, “they said they had no control over whether the meet should be held on Palm Sunday. ”
Guerrero walked and Yeager singled. Pinch hitter Rick Monday singled home Guerrero, but Guante retired Greg Brock on a fly to center. Johnny Ray and Jason Thompson led a 10-hit attack for Pittsburgh. Ray had a double and two singles, Thompson a double, single and an RBI. Phils 8, Reds 4 The defending NL champions did it with 15 hits, all singles, and some help from late-inning defensive replacement Greg Gross and pinch hitter Len Matuszek, who played a key role in a four-run eighth that put the game away. The Phillies were helped in that inning by two Reds errors on the same play. “We showed how versatile we are,” said third baseman Mike Schmidt. “We used everybody.” Charles Hudson struggled through five innings for the win, allowing seven hits and surrendering four walks. Kevin Gross pitched two scoreless innings and A 1 Holland pitched the final two, giving up a two-run eighthinning homer to Nick Esasky. Joe Price was the loser. Padres 3, Cubs 2 Pinch hitter Champ Summers doubled into the left-field corner to score Garry Templeton from first base with one out in the ninth to give the Padres their third win without a loss. The Cubs had tied it in the ninth when reliever Sid Monge, who eventually became the winning pitcher, walked pinch hitter Richie Hebner with the bases loaded. The winning run came off reliever Lee Smith, who gave up a single to Templeton before Summers lined a 1-1 pitch just inside the leftfield foul line. Templeton slid in ahead of the relay throw. “For me, it’s like with the Goose (Gossage),” Summers said.“He sees 40,000 fans out there and it adds five miles to his fastball. The same thing happens when I hit.”
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Suit over Colts blocks release of NFL schedule
BALTIMORE (AP) A Baltimore City Circuit judge has issued a 35-day restraining order keeping the National Football League from handing out a 1984 season schedule, which league officials said was to have been released by the end of next week. Circuit Judge Martine B. Greenfeld signed the injunction, which prevents the NFL from transferring the Colts “certificate of membership” from the city, late Friday afternoon. Last week, Colts owner Robert Irsay moved the team from its Baltimore home to Indianapolis, sparking a string of litigation over rights to the team that some say could last for years. The injunction also prohibits NFL officials from approving any contracts or broadcast sponsors and accepting television income “unless and until” the “home territory” is the city of Baltimore. While the order is in effect for 35 days, it can be extended for “good cause.” The league is entitled to a hearing within two days of requesting one. Joe Browne, an NFL spokesman, said the league had planned to announce the season schedule by the end of the week. But, he said the league would not comment until it reviewed the court papers. The league did not present legal arguments on the city’s request for an injunction since it would “have an opportunity for a hearing as soon as we review the court papers,” Browne said. He added that officials would again peruse court papers before deciding whether the Colts games would be listed in Baltimore or Indianapolis. Last week City Circuit Judge Robert L. Karwacki, signed a 10-day order preventing anyone with formal ties to the Colts from doing anything to move the club out of town. That suit was part of a formal condemnation proceeding by the city to acquire the football team under legal principles generally using used to obtain land for public use. However, the previous suit did not
brother who once was Indy rookie of the year. Cars were also entered for veteran driver Dennis Firestone and rookies Ken Schrader and Sandy Rochelle. Jerry Sneva, rookie of the year in 1977 after finishing 10th, is seeking his sixth start in the world’s richest automobile race. He crashed in practice last year and did not make the starting field. Now he’s driving for Timberwood Racing Team of Indianapolis. Firestone, 1979 U.S. Auto Club Mini-Indy champion, has driven in the past four Indy 500 s. He will pilot a March-Cosv/orth for Purcell Racing of Vincennes, Ind. Schrader, USACI9B3 sprint car champion, will be Firestone’s teammate. Rochelle, who has gained most of his racing experience in stock and sprint car com-
Indians lose opener
DENVER (AP) - Mike Sodders rapped out a pair of doubles and sparked a five-run fifth inning for Denver with a two-run single as the Bears rolled to an 11-5 opening night victory over the Indianapolis Indians in American Association baseball Friday night. Sodders’ base-loaded single helped snap a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the fifth inning. Starter Bob Fallon scattered seven hits over 5 2-3 innings to earn the victory and reliever Bert Roberge held the Indians
Ex-Reds blast homers
By The Associated Press Wayne Krenchicki set the stage for Wichita as he blasted the first of three consecutive fif-th-inning home runs Friday on the opening night of the 1984 American Association season in Des Moines. Skeeter Barnes and Alan
specifically mention the NFL, which is apparently why the city sought another injunction Friday. Meanwhile lawyers for the football franchise have requested the suit be moved to U.S. District Court since, it involves parties from more than one state. Baltimore officials also appeared in federal bankruptcy court to testify before Judge James F. Schneider that the city will be irreparably harmed if it cannot pursue its eminent domain proceeding against the football team. Officials told Schneider that with each passing day, the team gains more room to negotiate ticket sales and other efforts to promote the football season in Indianapolis. Jurisdiction on all suits involving the team and the city would come under the bankruptcy court’s jurisdiction if it decides to rule on the case. The legal manuevering late Friday afternoon followed a move by Colts lawyers in U.S. District Court in Indianapolis that resulted in a temporary restraining order blocking the city’s lawsuit. The suit was filed on behalf of the “Indianapolis Colts” against Baltimore’s mayor and city council. The order by U.S. District Judge William E. Steckler prevents the city from pursing its eminent domain suit in city or federal court or trying to get Karwacki here to extend his injunction. In Indianapolis William M. Evans, a lawyer for the Colts, called the city’s seeking of the injunction against the NFL “incredible.” Evans said Friday, “it shocks me they would take action that appears to be in violation of Steckler’s” injunction. But Max O. Truitt, a lawyer representing the Baltimore Football Club, Inc. the team’s formal name told Schneider the city’s maneuver was “an effort to gain an unfair advantage over a business that does not want to be in Baltimore anymore by preventing it from conducting its business.”
petition, will drive a MarchCosworth owned by Scott Cole of Roseland, N.J. Regardless of previous experience, a driver here is considered a rookie until he has competed in the 500. This year’s rookie orientation program, giving first-year drivers a head start on the 2Vi-mile oval, is scheduled April 27-29. Regular daily practice begins Saturday, May 5, with qualifications May 12-13 and May 19-20. The fastest 33 qualifiers will start the race. Earlier entries included cars for four-time Indy champion A.J. Foyt, three-time winners A 1 Unser and Johnny Rutherford, two-time winner Gordon Johncock and single winners Mario Andretti, Rick Mears and Tom Sneva. Also entered is rookie Desire Wilson, who practiced here in
to one hit the rest of the way to earn a save. The losing pitcher was starter Greg Bargar, who was shelled for seven runs over 4 1-3 innings. Daryl Boston rapped out three hits, including a pair of triples for the Bears, and Joel Skinner had a double and a homer to drive in three runs. The Indians got two hits and a pair of runs from designated hitter Ron Johnson and Mike Gates, a former Bear, rapped out two hits, and scored twice against his former teammates.
Knicely followed Krenchicki’s performance with solo homers of their own as the Aeros gained a 5-0 advantage on their way to an 8-4 victory over the lowa Cubs. Barnes and Knicely each topped off their season debuts by scoring insurance runs off RBI singles in the eighth inning.
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Devil's Bag back to Kentucky after Gotham Stakes scratch
NEW YORK (AP) - Devil’s Bag’s trip to New York, which was designed to prepare the 1983 2-year-old champion for the Kentucky Derby, was a bust. While Secret Prince and four other 3-year-olds were to contest the $150,000-added Gotham Stakes over one mile, 70 yards today at Aqueduct, Devil’s Bag was set to be vanned to Kentucky. Following his upset loss in the lVs-mile Flamingo March 3 at Hialeah in which Devil’s Bag finished fourth, trainer Woody Stephens said he hadn’t changed his mind about the colt’s ability, and he thought Devil’s Bag would redeem himself in the Gotham and the lVsmile Wood Memorial April 21 at Aqueduct. But Friday, Stephens scratched Devil’s Bag from the Gotham, saying he didn’t want to risk running him on a possible off-track. There was hard rain in New York Wednesday and Thursday, and when Stephens declard Devil’s Bag out of the Gotham at 10:15 a.m. EST, there was a possiblity of more rain Friday. Stephens said he conferred with James P. Mills, in whose name Devil’s Bag races, and Seth Hancock of Claiborne Farm, who put together the $36 million syndicate that purchased the colt. “We don’t think we have to chance it (racing the colt on off track) now,” said Stephens. Devil’s Bag did win on a sloppy track in his second start of 1983 a six-furlong allowance race Aug. 28 at Belmont Park. Devil’s Bag, who has won six of seven career races, now is scheduled to make his next start in the seven-furlong
Doc's second-half house call lulls Pacers into anesthesia
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - It seemed as if there were two games when the Philadelphia 76ers met the Indiana Pacers in National Basketball Association action Friday night. Indiana dominated the first half, hitting almost everything in sight. But the final half belonged to Philadelphia, and the 76ers made it count. “It was the first game when we had 12 players together again,” said Julius Erving, whose 39 points three short of his season high and the most by one player against Indiana this season keyed a 112-106 Philadelphia victory. “It was like beginning again,” said Erving. “We had a lot of adjusting to do after the first half.”
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A groom exercises Devil's Bag as the 1983 two-year-old champion prepares for his next start April 19 in the sevenfurlong Forerunner at Keeneland. The colt was scratched Friday from today's Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct and prepared to be transported back to Kentucky. Devil's Bag is an early favorite for this year's Kentucky Derby. (N.Y. Times photo)
Forerunner at Keeneland April 19. The lVs-mile Blue Grass Stakes will be run at Keeneland April 26, but Devil’s Bag is not nominated for that race, which does not accept supplemental nominations. Stephens said Devil’s Bag will follow the Forerunner with a start in the one-mile Derby Trial on opening day at Churchill Downs April 28, then run in the iv 4 -mile Derby. The Gotham originally was scheduled for March 31, but it
That first half saw the Pacers net 11 of their first 13 shots and outrebound the 76ers 19-11 to take a 64-53 lead. Indiana was ahead by 12 twice during the half. The other game started in the third quarter. There was Moses Malone scoring 14 of his 23 points and hauling down six rebounds as Philadelphia dominated the boards 14-3 in the quarter. And there were Maurice Cheeks and Bobby Jones, both coming back off injuries that had sidelined them for at least two games, putting the defensive pressure on the Pacers. Malone’s three-point play put the 76ers up 85-84 with 46 seconds left in the third quarter, and they never trailed. “Their offense was awesome, but it was their excellent defen-
was postponed when snow, freezing rain and high winds hit New York for two days before that date. Besides Elaine M. Brodsky’s Secret Prince, high-weighted at 126 pounds and ridden by Jerry Bailey, the Gotham field was made up of Taylor Purchase Farm’s Bear Hunt, 114, Don Macßeth; Cedar Copse Stable’s Lt. Flag, 123, Jean-Luc Samyn; Caesar P. Kimmel’s On the Sauce, 114, Angel Cordero Jr., and Buckland Farm’s Restless Meteor, 114, Jimmy Miranda.
se that beat us,” said Indiana Coach Jack McKinney, who took a walk after the game before talking to reporters. “We missed open shots and that really hurt us. We’ve played very well the last two games, which was encouraging. I am not upset with how well we’ve played lately. I’m upset simply with losing...We played right into their hands.” “We made some changes starting the second half, particularly picking them up full court,” said Philadelphia Coach Billy Cunningham. The 76ers, who want to finish at least second in the NBA Atlantic Division, behind Boston, could nail down that spot with a victory over New York on Sunday, Cunningham said.