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    Page 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1981
Sports
Astros show ‘Howe’ to win
United Press International
NEW YORK — Art Howe is
finally shedding those “Art Who?”
jokes.
Howe, the third baseman of the
Houston Astros, is establishing a
reputation as one of the best hit
ters in the National League, and
manager joe Torre of the New
York Mets certainly isn’t one to
argue.
The Astros snapped a four-game
losing streak by beating the Mets
9-3 Wednesday night, with Howe
the catalyst by driving in five runs
with a sacrifice fly, single and dou
ble. It was the best single-game
RBI performance of his career and
it bolstered his confidence
tremendously.
“It’s about time I did some
thing,” said Howe, who entered
the game with a .302 average but
had only 19 RBI in 242 at-bats.
“These guys have been carrying
me since the strike. It boosts my
spirits quite a bit.
“I’ve always prided myself on
my ability to hit with men on base,
but for some reason I haven’t done
it this year.”
But Howe has slowly built a
name for himself as a tough out.
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SIZZLING
SUMMER
CLEARANCE
SALE!
During the first half of the season
he was the league’s leading hitter
for a long spell. However, since
play resumed he’s been fighting to
regain his swing.
“The first 10 days after the
strike I hit the ball well, but short
stops like (Ozzie) Smith of San
Diego and (Johnnie) LeMaster of
San Francisco picked me (robbed
him of hits) about six times,” said
Howe. “Then we went to Phi-
(ladelphia and faced (Steve) Carl
ton and he’s tough to hit hard. I
haven’t really been able to put
anything together.”
However, Astros’ manager Bill
Virdon knew it was just a matter of
time before Howe would start pro
ducing runs.
“He took some extra batting
practice and maybe that helped,”
said Virdon. “I think in general,
though, he was just due. He’s too
good a hitter to keep going like he
was going.”
Howe drove in the Astros’ first
run with a sacrifice fly in the first
to trigger a three-run inning
against loser Pat Zachry, 6-9, deli
vered a two-out RBI single in the
third and sparked a four-run
seventh with a three-run double
off reliever Ray Searage.
“It was just one of those games,”
said Mets’ manager Joe Torre.
“Zach didn’t have his control and
wlxen you get behind a team that
has pitching like they have, you’re
in trouble.”
Don Sutton scattered six hits in
five innings to notch his sixth vic
tory in 13 decisions with Vern
Ruble and Dave Smith holding
the Mets to just one hit over the
last four innings.
Major League Baseball
National League
American League
East
East
St. Louis
9
5
.643
—
Detroit
11
5
.688
Montreal
8
6
.571
1
Baltimore
9
6
.600
114
New York
9
7
.563
1
Milwaukee
10
7
.588
114
Chicago
9
7
.563
1
Boston
7
8
.467
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Philadelphia
6
9
.400
3V2
Toronto
7
8
.467
Wi
Pittsburgh
6
11
.353
414
New York
7
9
.438
4
Cleveland
6
11
.353
5Vi
West
West
Atlanta
11
6
.647
—
Los Angeles
10
6
.625
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Chicago
9
6
.600
—
Houston
8
7
.533
2
Oakland
8
6
.571
14
San F rancisco
8
8
.500
214
Texas
7
7
.500
114
Cincinnati
7
8
.467
3
California
7
7
.500
114
San Diego
3
14
.176
8
Kansas City
8
9
.471
2
Seattle
7
9
.438
214
Wednesday’s
Results
Thursday’s
Games
Minnesota
6
11
.353
4
Houston 9, New York 3
Houston at New York
Wednesday’s
Results
Thursday’s Games
Chicago 9, San Diego 7
Cincinnati at Montreal
Los Angeles 16, Pittsburgh 6
Chicago at Los Angeles
Chicago at Milwaukee, ppd.,
Texas at Milwaukee
Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 3
St. Louis at San Diego
rain
Kansas City at Toronto
Montreal 6, Cincinnati 0
Pittsburgh at San Francisco
Kansas City 6, Detroit 1
California at Baltimore
St. Louis 9, San Francisco 4
New York 3, Minnesota 2
Oakland at Boston
Seattle at Cleveland
Detroit at Minnesota
New York at Chicago
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The Astros took a 4-0 lead
against Zachry but the Mets came
back with two runs in the third on
an RBI single by Mookie Wilson
and a sacrifice fly by Frank Taver-
as and moved within 4-3 in the
fourth on a sacrifice fly by John
Stearns.
Houston, however, got an RBI
double from Tony Scott in the
sixth and then broke the game
open in the seventh with a four-
run barrage that featured five hits,
including Howe’s bases-loaded
double and an RBI single by
Ruble.
United Press International
NEW YORK — Mickey
McDermott had only one purpose
in mind.
He had to get up to his room
without anyone seeing him. Four
in the morning was no time for
him to be coming back to the
hotel. Not when he was expected
to be in uniform at the ballpark in
only a few hours.
He entered through the base
ment and looked around for the
elevator. As soon as it arrived, he
pushed the button for the fifth
floor, hoping he could make it
non-stop to his room.
The elevator stopped at the lob
by and when the door opened,
McDermott found himself face to
face with his New York Yankee
manager Casey Stengel.
It took two seconds for Stengel
to size up McDermott’s condition.
“Drunk again,” he growled.
McDermott gave the old man
an impish little-boy grin.
“Me too,” Stengel said.
That was in Boston in 1956
when McDermott was with the
Yankees after both the Red Sox
and Senators had given up hope of
straightening him out. Sometime
later, a friend of McDermott’s,
distressed by what he was doing to
himself with the bottle, suggested
to him:
“Mickey, why don’t you drink
Canada Dry?”
“I did,” was the cheerful re
sponse. “And a coupla’ other
countries, too.”
When he was 17, the skinny,
fireballing McDermott already
was making the covers of national
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Ocean was a chaser.”
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ferent Mickey McDermott
He has gone through an alcoho
lic program and hasn’t had adrinl
in two years. He’s excited aboul
the work he’s doing, represent
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tainment field as well as in base
ball. Barzie has been associated
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Tommy Dorsey and Jim®
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“Once you’re an alcoholic, you
know, you’re never considered
completely cured even though
you quit drinking, ” says the 52
year-old McDermott. “They call
you a ‘recovered alcoholic. Wei,
I’m a grateful alcoholic — grateful
to a man like Tino Barzie, whohad
enough faith in me after I cameoul
of the program to ask me what 1
wanted to do. I told him I d likett
handle ballplayers because I
thought I could and he said, At
right, we ll give it a shot.
Drinking, McDermott sal's,
cost him everything he ever had
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wagon, McDermott was in a V
bu Beach restaurant when a
woman asked him for his auto-
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drew back in his chair.
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“You mean I look that old? J e ^
he must be at least 90, isnt he.
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