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Royals nip
By, MARK MIHANOVIC
Specialto the Daily
DETROIT - The Tigers came up just.
short last night and dropped their third
straight game to the West division
front-running Kansas City Royals, 5-4,
before 29,115 George Brett-haters at
Tiger Stadium.
Trailing 5-3 in the ninth, the Bengals
bounced back as Lance Parrish drew a
one-out walk to ignite a rally. Pinch hit-
ter Champ Summers followed by boun-
cing a ground ball far to second
baseman Frank White's left, but, the
agile infielder made the play and threw
Summers out, allowing Parrish to move
on to second.
RICHIE HE1iNER, pinch hitting for
Tom Brookens, then lined a single just
over the outstretched glove of White in--
to right field. The base hit scored
Parrish and cut the Royal lead to 5-4. A
third pinch hitter, Tim Corcoran,
followed with a line-shot single that
blazed right past reliever Dan Quisen-
berry's glove, and Dave Stegman, run-
ning for Hebner, legged it all the way to
third.
The comeback was not to be,
however, as Lou Whitaker popped up to
centerfielder Willie Wilson to end the
game.
The Royals put a mark on the board
right away against Detroit starter Jack
Morris. The speedy Wilson led off the
game with a triple, and Brett, booed
loudly by the Tiger partisans as a result
of Tuesday night's skirmish with Milt
Wilcox, brought home Wilson with a
sacrifice fly for a 1-0 Kansas City ad-
vantage.
THE TIGERS turned it around
quickly in their first, though, by
tallying three runs on only one hit, a
410-foot John Wockenfuss round-tripper
to left center field. With one out, Alan
Trammell caught a Larry Gura
delivery on the hand and trotted to first
base. Steve Kemp followed with a walk,
setting up Wockenfuss' three-run blast.
The Royals put their first two runners
on base in the second with nobody out,
but Morris escaped unscathed, and he
then coasted through the next two
frames before encountering trouble in
the fifth inning. White walked, moved to
second by Wilson's sacrifice bunt, and
sprinted home on Jamie Quirk's single
through the box.
The red-hot Brett then lashed a liner
off first baseman Wockenfuss' glove for
a single, and Royal catcher Darrell
Porter followed suit with a ground
Tigers,
single right past Morris into center,
scoring Quirk and knotting the game at
3-3.
WILLIE AIKENS' sacrifice fly to
center field put Kansas City in front, 4-
3, and that brought Sparky Anderson's
white mane out of the Tiger dugout to
remove Morris in favor of Roger
Weaver, who put out the fifth-inning
fire.
The Tigers announced last night that
Mark Fidrych will be brought up from
Evansville and will be given the star-
ting assignment against the Boston Red
Sox next Tuesday.
Orioles 4, White Sox 1
BALTIMORE (AP) - Ken Singleton
and Eddie Murray hit home runs and
Mike Flanagan and Tim Stoddard com-
bined on a five-hitter as the Baltimore
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Orioles defeated the Chicago White Sox
4-1 Wednesday night.
It was the fifth consecutive victory
for the Orioles, matching their season
high, and the 12th triumph in their last
14 games.
FLANAGAN, 12-8, struck out a
season-high eight batters while not-
ching his fourth straight victory. He
worked the first eight innings before
giving way to Stoddard, whg recorded
his 16th save.
Indians 5, Blue Jays 2
CLEVELAND (AP) - Rick Waits.
and Victor Cruz combined to pitch a
five-hitter and Mike Hargrove drove in
the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded
walk in the seventh inning as the
Cleveland Indians edged the Toronto
Blue Jays 5-2 last night.
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SPORTS OF THE DAILY
61Jojo-fi'les for di
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Professional their marriage faced challenges due to
ice skater Jo Jo Starbuck has filed for life in the limelight and separate
divorce from Pittsburgh Steeler quar- careers.
terback Terry Bradshaw, saying their The divorce petition asks the court to
four-year marriage is "irretrievably determine the marital property and or-
broken." der a fair distribution. The couple had
No further detail was offered in the no children.
petition filed Tuesday in Allegheny An ace for Jack
County Court, but an impending split has
been rumored in gossip columns and on ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Jack
television talk shows for several years. Nicklaus made a hole-in-one Wed-
Bradshaw, who will be 32 next month, nesday during a practice round for the
and his wife have candidly admitted 62nd PGA Championship beginning
ivorce.
Thursday at the Oak Hill Country Club
course.
Nicklaus, winner of 16 major
professional victories including this
year's U.S. Open, used a four-iron for
his ace on the 178-yard par-three fif-
teenth hole.
D.H. for N.L.?
ATLANTA (AP) - The National
League will vote during a league
meeting next week in Detroit on
whether to adopt the designated hitter
rule, The Atlanta Journal reported
yesterday.
The newspaper said at least five of
the 12 clubs are firmly behind the
proposal.
Seven teams must vote in favor of the
rule to enact it, but the newspaper said
its survey of team executives indicates
four clubs are against the proposal
while three are undecided.
The Journal said the five teams
favoring use of designated hitters are
the Cardinals, the Atlanta Braves, New
York Mets, San Diego Padres and
Houston Astros. Certain "no" votes
were listed for the Chicago Cubs, Cin-
cinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies and
Pittsburgh Pirates.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, San Fran-
cisco Giants and Montreal Expos are
undecided about the proposal, the
Journal said.
Baseball executives said support for
the designated hitter rule seems to be
growing in the National League. After
being defeated 9-3 in 1976, the rule was
defeated by an 8-4 margin in an unbin-
ding straw poll at the 1978 winter
meetings.
SCORES
American League
Kansas City5, Detroit 4
New York 2, Texas i
Baltimore 4,Chicago 3
Oakland 3, Minnesota 1
Cleveland5.Toroio2
National League
Pittsburgh 9-2,Chicago7-0
Cincinnat4,Ssan Diego3
St. Louis 14,.Philadelphia 1
Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 2
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Put 'em up, Larry
Former heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, left, clowns around with fight promoter Don King, center, and
current heavyweight champ Larry Holmes, yesterday at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. King announced that Ali will fight
Holmes on October 2 in Las Vegas, where Ali will be attempting to win the title for an unprecedented fourth time. The fight
will also be seen on closed-circuit television in selected locations.