SPORTS
Friday, July 19, 1985
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The Michigan Daily
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Rangers edge
Tigers, 3-2
By LAURA BISCHOFF with relief ace Willie Hernandez.
Special te the fDaily Hernandez proceeded to blow the 2-1
DETROIT - The Detroit Tigers Tiger lead with only a few pitches. He
gave up a close game to the Texas allowed two consecutive line shots to
Rangers last night, losing 3-2. center field which in turn drove in
Detroit pitcher Frank Tanana held Rangers'runs two and three.
his own for 723 innings, giving up the H s a
gm'nyhmerntRngret-Hernandez settled down and retired"
gamesonly home run to Ranger left- six of the following seven batters.
fielder Gary Ward in the second in- In the ninth, Lou Whitaker and Tom
ning. Brookens struck against Ranger
THE FINE pitching by Tanana and relief pitcher Greg Harris, letting
Ranger Charlie Hough kept the game down a sparse hometown crowd.
very tame until the seventh inning Many fans gave up early and headed
when Detroit manager Sparky Ander- for the parking lots.
son pulled Tanana, replacing him Tiger shortstop Alan Trammell let *
it come down to the wire with a full
, count, but he popped out to center-
field.
The Tiger bats were cool and quiet
and likewise was true for the Associated Pr
o Rangers. The offense on both teams Foot in the m itt
failed to provide any excitement. The
Tigers ended up with two runs and six New York Yankee Ron Hassey tries to reach the plate in the fourth inning yesterday, but he runs into catch
. '83 Models hits. Ward's homer was the only extra Mark Salas mitt instead. The hot Yankees were cooled off by the Twins, 8-4, but remained 2 games behi
fromm4995 base blow for Texas. the first-place Toronto Blue Jays, who lost to Oakland.
'82 Models SPORTS OF THE DAILY:
- - From $4495
rm4A'8 AZDA 81 ModSAre owners making profit
TRUCK '80 MODELS aed
OLDER FROM $995 NEW YORK (UPI) - A Stanford profit last year. MacPhail said. "You have to do a lot yesterday en route to a r
University economist hired by the "It takes either extravagant of work in different areas. I think we breaking score of 64 and a fo
60DAY OLD baseball players' union says while management or a poor team in a weak did accomplish some of that today- lead after the opening round
LEFT some teams have financial problems, market to lose money," Noll said. Openlo British Open.
the overall industry is "experiencing Playing in the morning be
OVER robust growth," a published report Strike talks SANDWICH. England (PI) - heavy rainstorm helped was
said yesterday. Christy O'Connor Jr.. carrying on the the chances of defending ch
NEThe analysis of the 26 clubs' finan- NEW YORK (UPI) - Negotiators tradition of a proud family name. sank Seve Ballesteros and Jack Ni-
'85 MAZDA cial statements by Roger Noll, an for major league baseball players and a record seven successive birdies O'Connor had 10 birdies for the
GL economics professor at Stanford, was owners met for three hours yesterday believed to bef another Open
DELUXE 4 DR. 1 $4 ,S distributed Monday to members of the but made no significant progress There were five menrepre
executive board of the Major League toward a settlement before the five countries, tied for second p
RAE AMPLE: Baseball Players Association. The players' threatened Aug. 6 strike 68, including international v
board voted at that meeting to strike date. David Graham of Australia an
$ Aug. 6 if no agreement is reached in "No new ideas came forward," said dy Lyle of Scotland. Along wit
the long-stalled contract negotiations Donald Fehr, acting exeutive direc- were Philip Parkin of Wales a
,T77J l Hwiththeowners. tor of the Major League Baseball Johnstone of Zimbabwe,
NOLL'S analysis was expected to be Players Association. "We still don't qualifiers. and Robert .
a .k Ke presented to the Player Relations have an offer, for example, on the~ England, playing in his first Op
'85 MAZDA ~29,11 ~ Committee, the owners' negotiating pension plan," the primary stumbling -The 64 tied Craig Stadler's
626Coei'tno n p r bT tr6team, at yesterday's bargaining block of the 9-month-old talks. for the first round in the Open-
* session. THE PLAYERS are seeking one- four-shot margin equals the
DELUXE 2 DR. The New York Times obtained a third of the owners' national pionship 18-hole record, last a
LL:g--1 copy of the report from an uniden- television revenues - about $60 by Henry Cotton in 1934 atR
tified member of the Players million a year - for their pension and George's. In that same year.
! # ! Association executive board and other benefit plans. set the course mark of 6
reported in yesterday's editions that The next negotiating session was set O'Connor broke yesterday.
Noll, as expected, disagreed with the for Monday. Yesterday's session at now 7, was one of the I
owners' claims of severe economic the owners' Player Relations Com- congratulate the Irishman ye
s. me ON THE SPOT FINANCING problems in the industry. mittee offices was the first since the f as he jokingly asked him. "I
'Basea on Baseball "seems simultaneously to Players Association set the Aug. 6 playal18?"
48 Mo Lease * be experiencing robust growth and strike deadline at a meeting Monday For two of the more ill
declining increases in player in Chicago. names in the field of 153. thi
salaries," the Times quoted from Lee MacPhail, the owners' chief day of disaster: Ballesteros b
OPEN SATURDAY Noll's report. negotiator, said the two sides five of six holes from the 8th
Noll did not offer a combined 1984 discussed the union's benefit proposal r a 7.N Nicklaus. after miss
TRADEPINS profit or loss figure for the clubs, but but spent most of the meeting going o rnaor Is. pen cut last month fiui
ACCEPTED the Players Association has estimated over about 25 non-economic issues. self in similar jeopardy here fo
the teams accumulated a $9 million "I-'s hard to measure progress," conquering Open sj
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