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Sports THE BATTALION FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1981 Gourmet, ie and a St ding a moving ki through tit cream pii : shop, imthe nts - and the mployment from tk e who stO{ ville, Com is his civi tertainmeil ' residents. lependena liggest fire- houn Coni' a Dixiek: ipe playeis i showed n[ ration. ille 76, a mai: k care oft ; arrested, ■as “the am re of the he ecked others ste 'SK..AH SURE, AND ..NO.. (WASN'T LEAVINO- YET/ I REMEMBERED THE TRACK TEAM THE SWC CHAtAP\ONSHIP MEET; NEXT WEEK/ >19&I Rangers take White Sox TANK MCNAMARA ^ I* IT (AIR 1UATA BASEBALL FWER S SETS. $400,000 KK PIAYIK1G GAM6& ANP A CANJCER RE?€APCi4ER G6T& ^l&OOO FOR. ‘90METAIM& TUW REALLY COUNTS? Page 13 by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds Rockets even series United Press International BOSTON — Walk the ball up. Slow it down. Take a time out. Don’t run. Be patient. Take another time out. That what’s the Houston Rockets wanted to do to he fast-breaking Boston Celtics before their NBA ate with Championship series began. And Thursday night they played the slow-down game and half-court offense well enough to beat the Celtics 92-90 and even the best-of seven series at 1-1. covering h They also broke a 14-game losing streak against Boston. “Don’t call what we play out there a slowdown 5ame,” said Houston coach Del Harris. That’s what he Celtics were calling it. itners sir s ] owc ] own j s impossible with a 24-second clock. 1 ul ^°ll e 8 es P^y a slowdown when the players stand a legal aci. at h a lf cour t and talk about what they did over heard of l, e weekend” Harris said. But Houston refused to run with the Celtics, sev- i’s residents! tral times stalling even on what appeared to be ics. Ranik potential fast-breaks. tes a service: i Boston, which loves to run and play a transition 1 not eontri# game from defense-to-offense, was frustrated all night trying to increase the pace. “They controlled the tempo of the game all night,” laid Celtic guard M. L. Carr. “That’s why the tempo k pas so sporadic. ” Knepper hurls Astros past Cubs RS. Celtic forward Larry Bird, who had 21 rebounds, 14 defensively to start some fast breaks, said, “We ran pretty good in spurts but we couldn’t continue it. We slowed the game down ourselves.” Celtic coach Bill Fitch said, “We re a fast break team. We should make five or six turnovers a game more than a team that plays a slowdown.” The Celtics though had 22 turnovers to Houston’s nine, disgruntling Fitch so much he broke a black board in the lockeroom at halftime. Celtic guard Chris Ford said, “I don’t think their slowdown and working for the shot disrupts our shooting. We turned the ball over too many times in our backcourt.” Rocket guards Tom Henderson, Calvin Murphy, Mike Dunleavy and Allen Leavell took turns setting up Houston’s offense. Thursday night that was most ly dumping passes into Moses Malone in the low post and letting the bullish 6-10 center roll for layups. The deliberate offense worked. Malone had 10- for-24 from the floor and went to the free throw line 18 times, sinking 11. Boston, suffering in the slow down, outrebounded Houston 48-35 and outscored the Rockets from the floor 41-34. But the Celtics had only 13 free throws, hitting eight. United Press International ARLINGTON — The word was out last year: If you want to beat the Texas Rangers, throw a south paw at them. But opposing teams may be ready to revise their thinking. The Rangers, who failed horr ibly against left-handers last sea son, have defeated seven of the last nine they have faced, includ ing three straight Chicago White Sox starters. “We’ve played well against left handers,” Texas catcher Jim Sundberg said following Thursday night’s 9-4 triumph. After Harold Baines gave Chi cago a 3-2 lead with a two-run tri ple in the sixth inning the Rangers came back to score seven times in the eighth to sweep the three- games series. Sundberg cited two other im provements in the team’s current success — a “positive attitude” and a stronger bench. “I’m pretty pleased with the progress of the team. We have a lot of confidence right now, ” he said. “Everybody has been doing the job — even guys who weren’t star ters — like (Bill) Stein and (Leon) Roberts. We aren’t playing with pressure this year.” Three Rangers starters, Buddy Bell, Billy Sample and Mickey Rivers, have been sidelined with injuries, but Stein has hit .444 (8 of 18) in five games and Roberts has supplied a home run, double and four RBI the last two nights. Texas took a 2-0 lead after four innings, scoring once in the second when Mario Mendoza singled home John Grubb, who had doubled. Grubb, who went 2-for-5 and scored three runs, tallied in the fourth on a Bump Wills single. “This team is more exciting than last year’s,” Sundberg said. “We have a chance to win more games than any other year. There is a great atmosphere and we are get ting that feeling about winning — that things can get better.” . OBVIOUSLY, MO. BUT WUY frAKte BALLPIAYER&' 7 HEY, YOU CANCER RE9EARCH&E& OUGHT TO HIRE MARVIN MILLER. WORK IT RIGHT ANT? YOU &UY£ COULP GET THIG COUNTRY OVER AgARREL Murphy's agent demands opportunity to renegoiate United Press International BOSTON — Calvin Murphy’s agent, Tom Woolf, says the Hous ton Rockets’ unwillingness to negotiate a new contract for his client before the NBA playoffs will cause them to pay more to keep him. “Calvin’s value has risen con siderably as a result of the Rockets’ success in the playoffs,” Woolf said. “But aside from the dollars and cents, there’s a goodwill aspect to be considered.” Murphy, who will be 33 Satur day, becomes a free agent at the end of the Rockets’ current NBA championship series, and Woolf said he will actively seek offers from other clubs. The Rockets can retain Murphy by matching another offer. For most of this season, the 5-10 guard with the feather shoot ing touch has performed as the Rockets sixth man. He lost his starting job early in the season. He has consistently come off the bench to add an offensive lift, and in one playoff game he scored 42 points. The agent said he had wanted to deal only with the Rockets but that the team forced him to shop his client. THE FIRST TIME WAS ONLY A WARNING PIRANHACON II coming May 8 Open ’til 8 p.m. through Finals We give 20% more in trade on used books! r ▼ TV WEL DFIT m ’ERIENCE CEMENT United Press International CHICAGO — While Los Ingeles’ Fernando Valenzuela has een grabbing all the early season leadlines, Houston’s Bob Knep- )er has quietly been pitching ihutouts of his own in relative obscurity. His latest gem came Thursday iftemoon at Wrigley Field when the veteran southpaw hurled a six- litter to lead the Astros to a 6-0 riumph over the hapless Chicago 2ubs. Knepper’s shutout was his third )f the season and lowered his iarned run average to 1.00. “There are no superstars on this team,” said Knepper, acquired rom San Fransisco in exchange or Enos Cabell. “We’re all a regu ar group of guys here. I don’t nind working in some obscurity. ” Knepper, who walked only two and struck out five, credited his umaround — he won only nine md had an ERA of over four last year —- to his ability to relax. “The biggest thing is to relax nd try not to throw harder than I lave to,” Knepper explained. m not trying to kill myself out there. Besides, it’s nice to have an iarly lead.” '3! Office Houston, winner of eight of 10 on its current road trip and 16 of its last 18 against the Cubs, staked Knepper to a 2-0 lead in the first. Terry Puhl, who scored three times in the game, led off with a walk off Chicago starter and loser Randy Martz, 1-1. Puhl stole second and scored on Craig Reynolds’ infield single and a throwing error by Chicago third baseman Ken Reitz. Danny Keep singled Reynolds to third and Jose Cruz’s sacrifice fly scored Reynolds. “I’m sure it makes a pitcher more relaxed to have the early lead,” Puhl noted. “But, in Wrig ley Field, even with the wind blowing in, you need all you can get.” Houston added two runs in the second on Cruz’s second sacrifice fly and an RBI single by Art Howe and two more in the sixth on an RBI triple by Reynolds and an RBI double by Heep. “We sure could use the com plete game,” said Houston mana ger Bill Virdon. “We’ve used our bullpen a little more than we had wanted lately, so this came in handy.” The only serious threat the Cubs had was in the sixth when they had runners on first and third. But Knepper struck out Scot Thompson and got Bill Buck ner to bounce into a double play. We Gets What Ya Likes In The Way Of Bikes! Takara - Ross - Campagnolo Cinelli - Shimano and much more Cycles, Etc. 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