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Petry-quiets Chicago bats
By JIM DWORMAN collected the 1,500th hit of his major league career, lashed a
SpecialtoteDaily grounder up the middle that knocked Petry off the mound.
DETROIT- A cool breeze blew through Tiger Stadium last But Tiger second baseman Lou Whitaker scooped up the ball
night. near second, stepped on the bag and fired the ball to first
It came not from the sky, rather from Dan Petry's fast ball baseman Rick Leach in plenty of time to nab the slow-footed
and the Chicago White Sox' flailing bats. Luzinski.
PETRY BREEZED through the Chicago batting order Whitaker gave his team the lead in the seventh when he sin-
allowing only four hits and giving the Tigers a 1-0 victor' gled home Leach from third base. Leach started the inning
over the White Sox. with a line single to left-center, his second base hit of the
The Tiger righthander struck out six and walked just two in game. Lynn Jones bunted him to second and one out later,
upping his record to 10-. Leach moved to third on Alan Trammell's infield single.
Only former teammate Steve Kemp gave Petry any Whitaker followed by slicing a LaMarr Hoyt delivery into
trouble. The Chicago left fielder riedleft field, scoring Leach.
trsl The a god fier ripped the ball in each of his The White Sox had their chance to tie the game in the
first three at bata, good for two singles. But the fourth time eighth but shoddy base running cost them the opportunity.
Kemp stepped to the plate, Petry was his master. With none With one out, Jerry Hairston pinch hit for Aurelio Rodriguez
out in the ninth inning and Tony Bernazard edging off first and popped a double down the left-field line, just out of the
base with the potential tying run, Petry blazed a two-strike reach of Tiger infielders Tom Brookens and Trammell.
fastball past Kemp and sent him back to the dugout shaking Bill o pi nch r s fo B ro n an d t heb e.
his head in disgust. Bill Almon pinch ran for Hairston and committed the boner
PETRY THEN induced Greg Luzinski to hit into a double of the evening. Almon left second too early on Rudy Law's fly Petry
play to end the game. Luzinski, who earlier in the game to right and was erased on the appeal play to end the threat. ... pitches shutout
Orioles' Weaver suspended
and fined for striking ump
BALTIMORE (AP)- American League Saturday night after a runner had been called
President Lee MacPhail yesterday gave out at first base.
Baltimore Orioles Manager Earl Weaver a one- DURING THEIR argument, some contact was
week suspension and fined him $2,000 for striking made between Weaver and Cooney. MacPhail
" Umpire Terry Cooney during an argument. made his ruling after reviewing videotapes of the
Weaver decided not to appeal the suspension, encounter.
which MacPahil said would begin tonight. "Umpire Cooney has reported that in the cour-
Orioles Coach Cal Ripken Sr. was appointed ac- se of an argument with Manager Weaver during
ting manager of the team, said John Blake, a the fourth inning of the game of Saturday, July
team spokesman. 17, at Baltimore, he was struck in the face twice
THE HEAD of the major league umpire's by Weaver," MacPhail said in a statement ac-
union said the penalty should have been more companying his decision.
severe, even though it was the stiffest in Mac- "Manager Weaver acknowledges that there
Phail's eight years as league president. was contact but that any contact was definitely
"We are extremely disappointed with the "A CLOSE review of the film shows that there
penalty that the league president chose to im- aco Ebreve' gt handlmsh ist tr
pose," said Richie Phillips, executive director of was contact by Weaver's right hand or fist to
the Major League Umpires Association. Umpire Cooney's face at least once.
"The association feels it was most severe con- "No one other than Earl Weaver can know if
duct to be dealt with in a most severe penalty" the contact was or was not intentional and I am
Phillips said. Phillips said Weaver deserved to accepting Mr. Weaver's solemn assurance that it
be suspended for the rest of the season. was not. In any event, I am convinced that there
was no real malicious intent to hurt Umpire
"BUT I CAN see where he (MacPhail) did not Cooney.
want to hurt the players, team and fans and in "Nevertheless, we have a situation where an
BALTIMORE ORIOLES' manager Earl Weaver tugs on light of that I think $10,000 and a 15-day suspen- umpire has been hit in the face. Anyone who
his cap while answering questions from reporters at a sion would have been appropriate." argues with an umpire in this fashion must bear
press conference in his office at Baltimore's Memorial The suspension involved an argument over a the consequence if there is physical contact.
Stadium yesterday. Weaver was suspended for one week play during Saturday night's contest between Although the umpire was not injured, the contact
and fined $2,000 for his part in an incident with umpire Baltimore and the Seattle Mariners. in this instance is more severe and culpable than
Terry Cooney last Saturday night. Weaver, who had been ejected by Cooney the unintentional bumping that is more often apt
during Friday night's game, ran onto the field on' to occur in arguments.
Owners adamant on drug testing
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NEW YORK (AP)- National Football League
owners would refuse to sign a collective bargaining
agreement without a provision for drug testing, their
chief negotiator saidyesterday.
If money and all other areaswere settled and drug
testing was the only issue remaining, Jack Donlan
was asked, would the owners refuse to sign a new
contract? "That's accurate. That's true. That would
be a stumbling block," replied the executive director
of the NFL Management Council.
ED GARVEY, executive director of the NFL
Players Association, brushed aside Donlan's com-
ment, calling the owners' stand on drug testing "a
public relations ploy," and said it would never come,
down to being the turning point in achieving a new
agreement.
The union has strongly opposed drug testing,
calling it dehumanizing and an invasion of the
players' privacy and has filed unfair labor practice
charges against Denver and Miami, two teams which
have said they spot-checked players for drugs.
"We're not locked into urinalysis as the only
solution," Donlan told The Associated Press, "but we
don't feel every player with a problem will come in
voluntarity until it's too late. We need a detection
device to catch the problem so we can begin
rehabilitation.. This is not a punitive thing we're
doing. It's more a humanitarian thing."
"We have the matter before the National Labor
Relations Board in terms of what has happened thus
far," Garvey told The AP. "We can't comment
specifically about what the NLRB might do. But they
(the owners) certainly don't have that right (to test
players for drugs) right now.
"As proof of that, Art Modell (owner of the
Cleveland Browns) and Eugene Klein (owner of the
San Diego Chargers) are saying they've favored it for
five years but that the union has always stopped it.
Now they claim they do have the right, and then
Donlan just adds fuel to the fire."