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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1981
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MONTREAL — Jose Cruz
Inds it hard to explain why he
lays superbly against the Mon-
eal Expos.
Cruz, Houston’s left fielder,
apped a two-run homer in the
ixth inning Thursday night, lift-
jig the Astros to their eighth win
a row, a 2-1 victory over the
ontreal Expos.
With the two RBI Cruz now has
| career total of 49 against Expos’
itching.
“I can’t explain why I do so well
‘Cruz’ to 2-1 victory,
skein to eight straight
against Montreal,” Cruz said. “I
just go out there swinging and he
(Scott Sanderson) gave me a high
fastball. ”
Cruz now has 12 home runs for
the shortened 1980 baseball sea
son but feels he is pressing into his
pre-campaign predicted goal of
20.
“I think I still have a shot at 20
but it sure took me a long time to
get my first home run in the
second season,” he said.
Before the strike in June, Cruz
had 11 home runs. But even more
important, Cruz feels the Astros
are on the way.
“We are just starting an impor
tant road trip. It’s always good to
win the first game of a road trip but
we are hot right now.”
Astros’ right-hander Vern
Ruble worked the first six innings
and brought his record to 3-3.
Dave Smith tossed the final three
innings to get his sixth save of the
year.
“This is the kind of a game we
have to win if we are going to get
the pennant,” said Ruble. “We
know we have a job to do and we
have to prove ourselves. There is a
lot of character on this team. ”
Sanderson’s record fell to 7-5
and Larry Parrish hit his fifth hom
er for the Expos in the fifth inning.
Montreal manager Dick Wil
liams felt that Sanderson did an
excellent job.
“Sanderson pitched an out
standing game,” Williams said.
“He only gave up four hits. We
had our opportunities but we
failed to capitalize on them.”
Rangers’ comeback falls short, 8-5
United Press International
ARLINGTON — The Detroit
h Tigers seem to own the Texas
langers this season, but Tigers
nanager Sparky Anderson can’t
'xplain why.
The Tigers, riding an uncharac-
eristic display of offense, rolled to
an 8-5 victory Thursday night,
TexasA4 sparking their seventh win in nine
;ames with the Rangers this year.
Anderson, whose team has won
5-4,235,) 26 of its last 36 games and sits atop
he st with a 16-8 second
1-3,240,Si ;eason mark, said there was no
5-2,245,ji jarticular reason for Detroit’s
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did offer some insight.
“Our pitching has been the key
all year,” he observed.
But it was the Detroit hitting
that pleased Anderson Thursday
night.
“Our offense has not scored
many runs. This was our biggest
night in a long time,” he added.
Jack Morris, 11-4, baffled the
Rangers for six innings, yielding
just three singles in giving the Ti
gers their fifth straight win.
Morris lost a shutout bid in the
seventh when Texas scored three
runs. Morris, who has won 10 of
his last 11 starts, left in the ninth
after giving up another run.
“I thought I was running out of
gas in the fifth,” said Morris, who
was touched for three straight hits
in the ninth before being relieved
by Dave Tobik.
Kevin Saucier relieved Tobik to
earn his 13th save by getting pinch
hitter Bill Stein to ground into a
game-ending doubleplay.
“Our bullpen has been out
standing all year, but I was ner
vous from the first pitch to the
end. I never thought the game was
in the bag. Too many things can
happen — like Texas scoring five
runs in the last three innings,”
Anderson said.
The Tigers pounced on Texas
starter Jon Matlack for a 5-0 lead
after three innings.
Mick Kelleher singled in Tom
Brookens to make it 6-0 in the
fifth. Detroit’s last two runs came
on a two-run single by Whitaker in
the eighth.
Bump Wills’ single drove in two
Texas runs in the seventh and
another scored on an infield
grounder by John Ellis. Jim Sund-
berg singled in a run and Ellis
added another RBI grounder in
the ninth before Saucier stopped
the rally.
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Baltimore
Milwaukee
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Cleveland
Toronto
Kansas City
Oakland 11 11
Chicago 11 12
California 10 11
Texas 10 12
Minnesota 10 15
Seattle 8 15
Thursday’s Results
Detroit 8, Texas 5
California at Cleveland, ppd.,
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Seattle 7, Boston 7, susp., 19
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Chicago 4, Toronto 3
Milwaukee 4, Minnesota 3
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Friday’s Games Thursday’s Results Friday’s Games
Detroit at Texas
Milwaukee at Minnesota
Oakland at Baltimore
Seattle at Boston
California at Cleveland
New York at Kansas City
Toronto at Chicago
Houston 2, Montreal 1
Pittsburgh 7, San Diego 3
San Francisco 12, Chicago 0
Cincinnati 9, Philadelphia 3
St. Louis 5, Los Angeles 3
Houston at Montreal
Pittsburgh at San Diego
Chicago at San Francisco
Cincinnati at Philadelphia
Atlanta at New York
St. Louis at Los Angeles
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SIGNAL HILL, Calif. (UPI) —
ree months ago, police re-
iprted college football star Ron
tiles hanged himself in his jail
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256>Sop jng His parents never believed
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roner’s inquest ruling, Donnel
d Helen Settles filed a $50 mil-
|n claim against the police,
leusing them of killing their only
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KyleVjstrangled or choked to death in
DavidHi some manner by Officer Jerry Lee
Brown (the arresting officer) and
several other officers of the Signal
Hill Police Department, thereby
resulting in his death.”
I The city has several weeks to
I r\ either pay the claim or reject it,
L V B 1 ^ wou ld open the way for a
lawsuit.
« I Police claimed Settles, 21,
hanged himself with a mattress
ver three hours after his arrest
last June 2 for allegedly assaulting
an officer during booking. He was
ppped in his car for speeding and
came violent while in the police
station, officers reported.
But Wednesday, a coroner’s in
quest jury ruled, 5-4, that the
Long Beach State running back
died “at the hands of another,
other than by accident.”
The district attorney’s office!
said after the verdict the investiga
tion is continuing but no decision
had been made on whether the
officers involved, all white, or any
one else would be charged in Set
tles’ death.
Relatives and friends testified
Settles was looking forward to a
football career and was not the
type of person who would kill him
self. Signal Hill police officers
cited their Fifth Amendment
rights and refused to testify at the
inquest, which is not legally
binding.
In their claim, Settles’ parents
said their son’s death was caused
by “the negligent hiring and re
tention of Brown, as well as Offic
ers Steven Owens, John Parker,
Patrick Shortall, cadet Jerry
Fleisher and all members of the
department including Chief
Gaylord Wert.”
According to the claim. Settles
died because of “the negligent
conduct of Brown and the other
officers in applying a police
carotid or choke hold on Ron Set
tles.’’
The police would not comment
on either the verdict or the claim.
The Bryan Golden Gloves Boxing
Club has started training for the
fall boxing season, and coach T.J.
Watt hopes to attract many people
from the Bryan-College Station
area to participate in the club. He
says the club is open to anyone
intersted in learning the skills of
boxing and in competing with
other boxers in the same age
group.
The organization currently has
only eight members, but Watt
says “the ideal situation” is to have
fighters in the 11 boxing weight
groups, including heavyweight,
lightweight and featherweight
classifications. He wants the club
to begin participating in boxing
tournaments by October or
November. Although the club
isn’t in a particular region of box
ing teams, Watt says: “If we can
work up a team with good enough
boys, we ll participate in a re-
gion.”
Watt, who has coached profes
sional and amateur boxers for a
number of years, says the club
contains three college students,
and he hopes that several more
will join the club. He has coached
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about a year, and the club has
been in existence for a year and a
half.
As the only coach of the club,
Watt trains all the boxers. And he
says that he enjoys coaching his
club members, and that he likes to
handle their training without out
side help.
“If I take a boy (to train), I don’t
want anybody messing with him, ”
Watt says.
The club practices Monday-
Friday at the Haswell Park gym in
Bryan at 6 p.m.
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