The Michigan Daily -- Sunday, July 8, 1984 - Page 15
Seattle grounds Blue Jays, 8-4
TORONTO (AP) - Al Cowens slammed a three-run
homer and Jim Presley hit a two-run double as the
Seattle Mariners snapped a six-game losing streak
yesterday with an 8-4 victory over the Toronto Blue
Jays.
The loss ended Toronto's win streak at four and
saddled starter Jim Clancy with the dubious distin-
ction of being the American League's first 10-game
loser.
Clancy, 6-10, who has lost his last four starts, ran
into trouble into the first inning when Jack Perconte
and Spike Owen singled, putting runners on first and
third. Clancy retired the next two batters, but Cowens
drove a 1-0 pitch over the right-center field fence for
his ninth home run of the season.
Orioles 6, Royals 2
BALTIMORE (AP) - Eddie Murray hit a grand
slam home run after Baltimore stranded three
earlier runners on third base and Scott McGregor
scattered eight hits as the Orioles defeated the Kan-
sas City Royals 6-2 in the opener of yesterday's twi-
night double-header.
With Baltimore leading 2-1, Murray connected for
his 17th homer of the season off Larry Gura, 9-5, in
the seventh inning after the Orioles loaded the bases
with two out on two walks and a single by Floyd
Rayford.
SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
Baltimore's first two runs scored in the second on a
two-out double by Benny Ayala after Murray singled
for the first of his three hits and left fielder Butch
Davis dropped Gary Roenicke's routine fly ball.
Braves 5, Phillies 2
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Claudell Washington hit
his 11th home run and scored twice as the Atlanta
Braves beat the slumping Philadelphia Phillies 5-2
yesterday.
Atlanta starter Rick Camp, 4-1, pitched 5% innings
and earned the victory with relief help from Gene
Garber and Donnie Moore. Shane Rawley, acquired
recently from the New York Yankees, suffered his
first defeat as a Phillie after winning his first start.
The Braves took a 2-0 lead in the first inning with
the help of an error by Philadelphia third baseman
Mike Schmidt, his 18th of the season. Washington
opened with a walk and Randy Johnson beat out a
chopper to third as Washington went to third.
Washington scored as Schmidt let Rafael Ramirez's
grounder roll through his legs for a two-base error.
Giants 7, Cubs 2
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Mike Krukow scattered
six hits in 82/3 innings and drove in the lead run with a
sacrifice fly in the third as the San Francisco Giants
ended a four-game losing streak by beating the
Chicago Cubs 7-2 yesterday.
The Giants took a 3-1 lead with two unearned runs
in the fourth inning off Cubs starter Rick Reuschel, 4-
5. Krukow's bases-loaded sacrifice fly field broke a 1-
1 tie and Dan Gladden followed with an RBI single.
Krukow, 5-7, retired 13 straight batters. after the
Cubs scored in the second on a triple by Thad Bosley
and a single by Ron Cey. Dan Rohn hit his first major-
league home run, a pinch-hit shot, in the eighth inning
for Chicago. It was his first at-bat of the season.-Gary
Lavelle got the last out for San Francisco.
Astros 3, Expos 2
MONTREAL (AP) - Harry Spilman singled past a
drawn-in infield with none out in the ninth inning to
score Terry Puhl with the go-ahead run as the
Houston Astros defeated the Montreal Expos 3-2 last
night.
Puhl opened the ninth with a walk off reliever Bob
James, 3-3. Mark Bailey followed with a sacrifice
bunt, but James, attempting to retire Puhl at second,
struck Puhl's leg with the throw, and Puhl raced to
third.
Spilman then bounced a single beyond the reach of
second baseman Bryan Little to make a winner of
reliever Frank DiPino, 2-5.
Biggs stops Payne in boxing trials
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - World
champions Tyrell Biggs, a super
heavyweight, and Pernell Whitaker,
132, made the U.S. Olympic boxing
team yesterday with narrow decision
victories, but 178-pound world cham-
pion Ricky Womack was beaten and
will miss the Summer Games at Los
Angeles.
Biggs, of Philadelphia, scored a 3-2
decision over Craig Payne of Livonia,
Mich., while Whitaker, of Norfolk, Va.,
outpointed Joe Belinc of Marysville,
Wash., 3-2. Biggs and Whitaker both
won titles at the Olympic Trials in June,
but needed victories yesterday to make
the team because they had lost Friday
night.
WOMACK, A Trials winner from
Detroit, lost a 4-1 decision to Evander
Holyfield of Atlanta. Holyfield had out-
pointed Womack 4-1 Friday night.
Others who made the team yesterday
were Meldrick Taylor of Philadelphia,
125; Jerry Page of Columbus, Ohio, 139;
and Virgil Hill of Williston-Grand
Forks N.D., 165.
Two world champions Mark Breland
of Brooklyn, N.Y., at 147, and Frank
Tate, 156, of Detroit made the team
Friday night.
BUT ANOTHER world champion,
Floyd Favors of Capital Heights, Md.,
failed to make the team when he was
knocked down twice and stopped in the
third round by Trials winner Robert
Shannon of Edmonds, Wash., in the 119-
pound bout.
Also making the team Friday night
were Trials winners Paul Gonzales, Los
Angeles, 106; Steve McCrory, Detroit,
112; and Henry Tillman, Los Angeles,
201.
Holyfield used a good jab and ac-
curate head punching to beat Womack
and make the Olympics.
It also was a left jab which paid off
for Biggs, who had lost a 4-1 decision to
Payne Friday night. Payne scored
some hard head shots early in each
round, but Biggs controlled the fight by
scoring often with hard jabs.
Norman leads
Western Open
OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) - Greg Nor-
man, the long-hitting Australian who
has dominated the PGA Tour in recent
weeks, overcame a slow start and shot
a one-under-par 71 to take a one-stroke =.
lead yesterday in the third round of the
$400,000 Western Open Golf Tour-
nament.
Norman, the man known as the
"Great White Shark," finished three
trips over the Butler Naitonal Golf Club
course in 209, seven shots under par.
"I'M A CONFIDENCE player," said
Norman. "When I win a golf tour-
nament I get more relaxed, maybe 10
percent more relaxed. Once I get that
confidence, I feel I can do anything with
a golf ball. And that's the way things
are going right now."
Norman, who has collected more
than 30 titles around the world, has won
twice in his last four starts, including
last week in the Canadian Open, and, in
the same period, lost a playoff for the
U.S. Open title and finished 10th in
Atlanta. In those four starts, he's won
more than $200,000. -
Spitting champ repeats
DETROIT (UPI) - World record
holder and defending champion Rick
Krause yesterday used the "curl-
tongue technique" to win the 11th an-
nual International Cherry Spitting Con-
test with an imposing 56-feet-i-inch
spit.
Krause, of Eau Claire, Mich. where
the contest is held, failed to beat his
own 65-feet-2-inches 1980 Guinness
World Record, but easily outspat
second-place winner Phil Douce, of
Berrien Springs, Mich., who shot his pit
50 feet 9 inches.
"I WENT WITH the 'curl-tongue
technique' this year," said Krause, 30,
a coach and teacher at Eau Claire High
School who said he likes eating
cherries.
The "Curl-tongue technique" in-
volves rolling the sides of the tongue in-
to a tunnel to shoot the pit, while a spit-
ter using the "roll-tongue technique"
must roll the.tongue back to use it as a
catapult, Krause said.
Krause, who used the latter method
to set his world record, said he switches
his tactics back and forth each time he
spits.
It's Kimball vs.
ouganis in platform
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - A BUT THE likelihood that both
raging battle from on high, a con- Olympic gold prospects will make
tinuing dogfight worthy of Snoopy the team hasn't dimmed their ap-
and the Red Baron, resumes today petites for their long-awaited Olym-
when Greg Louganis and Michigan's pic Trials battle.
Bruce Kimball tussle again for The bulk of the grandstand tickets
supremacy in 10-meter platform for the afternoon finals were sold out
diving. by Saturday afternoon, and officials
This time, both could be winners. were considering overflow seating
The top two finishers in the U.S. form what could be U.S. diving's'l
Olympic Trials will compete from largest crowd ever in bleachers on
the high tower in the - climactic the pool deck.
diving event at the Los Angeles "We'll be rested and ready to go,"
Games, said Louganis, tired and a tad shaky
in yesterday's prelims after making
Team USA in the three-meter
springboard event Friday night.
"We'll give one hell of a show."
LOUGANIS, a 24-year-old world
champion from Mission Viejo,
Calif., and Kimball, who dives for
his Olympic co-coach father,
Michigan diving coach Dick Kim-
ball, qualified 1-2 yesterday despite
rough spots in their 10-dive
programs.
- That's appropriate, because they
finish 1-2 just about every time they
compete off the 10-meter tower - a
concrete launching pad some 33 feet
above water level.
Louganis, a 1976 Olympic silver
medalist whose career-best 687.90 is
the highest score ever, has actually
lost from 10 meters in six of the last
Kim ball 11 major U.S. meets, including
... beaten Louganis three times April's indoor nationals in Florida.