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United Press International
CINCINNATI — John
McNamara was abruptly fired
as manager of the slumping
Cincinnati Reds Wednesday
by the club president, who just
weeks ago had asserted that
his job was secure.
Reds’ President Dick. Wag
ner, who announced the fir
ing at a hastily called news
conference, said veteran Cin
cinnati coach Russ Nixon
would replace McNamara as
manager.
“The bottom line in this
case is, I feel we are a better
club than our record of 34-58
indicates,” Wagner said, “We
have 70 games remaining in
the season, and our work is cut
out for us. I’m not going to say
a lot more than that.”
The Reds are mired last
place in the National League
West with the second-worst
record in major league base
ball.
Wagner, who only a couple
of weeks ago stated McNa
mara’s job was not in jeopar
dy, said he had only made the
decision to dismiss McNamara
Wednesday morning.
“This was just something I
felt was necessary now,” he
said. “I certainly hadn’t plan
ned to do it during the All-
Star break. If I had, I would
have done it then.”
McNamara, who became
manager of the club prior to
the 1979 season and led the
Reds to a division title that
year, was unavailable for com
ment.
John McNamara
Wagner said he does not re
gard Nixon as an “interim”
manager.
“I told him if he does a good
job,” he said, “it will still be his
next year.”
The firing of McNamara
follows a public disclosure by
the Reds’ manager earlier this
week Wagner was dictating
lineup changes opposed by
McNamara.
McNamara confirmed that
Wagner had ordered rookie
Tom Lawless, called up from
the club’s Indianapolis farm
team, inserted at second base
with regular second baseman
Ron Oester moved to third
base.
That move took veteran
Johnny Bench, who had been
playing third base this year
Russ Nixon
while slumping at the plate,
out of the starting lineup.
Nixon, queried about the
Reds’ infield situation, said he
hoped to get Bench back into
the lineup “as soon as pos
sible.”
Asked what will happen to
Lawless and Oester, Nixon re
plied: “I think both will get
enough playing time.”
The Reds, whose record is
better than only the Minneso
ta Twins of the American
League, have benn struggling
since the start of the season.
Last year, the Cincinnati
club compiled the best record
in both leagues during the
strike-shortened split season
but didn’t make the playoffs.
Bradshaw, Louganis top
efforts at Sports Festival
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United Press International
INDIANAPOLIS — Diver
Mark Bradshaw is a perfect 10.
Bradshaw, 20, Columbus,
|0hio, was the only competitor in
theevent to capture a perfect 10
score during diving preliminar-
jes Wednesday at the National
Sports Festival.
“I always feel confident with
that dive,” he said, “so that’s why
I saved it for last. I didn’t know it
yersingilwas going to be a 10, but I
highligiii
and
his firsts* sa-half in a tuck position, earned
he A’s.
him 72.90 points with a difficul
ty rating of 2.7.
Greg Louganis, 22, Mission
inski'sK [Viejo, Calif., topped the list of
asolosli® eight U.S. men whose prelimin-
12th tis ary diving scores qualified them
to go to the World Aquatic
Championships in Ecuador next
week.
Louganis clinched the top
spot with a score of 668.01 after
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Bill Caul
thought I did the dive well.”
His dive, an inward two-and-
pionships team. She captured
the top berth with a score of
509.58 after 10 rounds of di-
ving.
Other U.S. women making
team were: Wendy Wyland, 17,
Mission Viejo, Calif., 482.23;
Chris Seufert, 25, Ann Arbor,
Mich., 481.65; Carrie Finneran,
26, Columbia, S.C., 455.31;
Michele Hain, 22, Oklahoma
City, Okla., 454.02; Tristan Bak
er, 20, Mission Viejo, Calif.,
451.02; Mary Fischbach, 17,
Fort Dodge, Iowa, 449.64, and
Kelly McCormick, 22, Col
umbus, Ohio, 440.82.
Neyer, undefeated this year,
said capturing the top spot
doesn’t make festival competi
tion easier because preliminary
meter dives in his first national
meet since he injured his shoul
der several months ago.
Other competitors making
the eight-member U.S. men’s
world championships team in
clude: Dave Burgering, 28, Mis
sion Viejo, Calif., 614.16; Ron
Merriott, 22, Ypsilanti, Mich.,
612.09; Kevin Machemer, 23,
Mission Viejo, Calif., 592.50;
Ron Meyer, 20, Fayetteville,
Ark., 591.48; Rob Bollinger, 21,
Rockford, Ill., 580.20, and Len-
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Rainbow Futurity
Two likely favorites in Sunday’s 19th running
don’t feel more pressure, but I
don’t feel any less pressure,
either.”
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RUIDOSO DOWNS, N.M. —
With Kansas Futurity winner
Chicks Etta Wind out of the
lineup, Mr. Master Bug and Glo
Billy Sims appear to be the likely
favorites for Sunday’s 19th run
ning of the Rainbow' Futurity.
Ten of the nation’s fleetest
2-year-old sprinters will dash
400 yards for the $253,000 win
ner’s share of the $728,000
C urse and a place in the record
ooks as winner of the second
jewel in quarter horse racing’s
triple crown.
Chicks Etta Wind won
$254,000 in the first of the three
races that constitute the sport’s
triple crown, but failed to qual
ify for the second. The third of
the triple crown events is the All-
American Futurity.
Jack Brooks will saddle Mr.
Master Bug for the futurity,
along with tw'o fillies — Miss
Azure Te Bug and Miss Squaw
Hand. Brooks has never saddled
a winner for the Rainbow,
although he has won most of
quarter horse racing’s other ma
jor events.
Always ranked among the
leading quarter horse trainers,
the 46-year-old Edmond, Okla.,
horseman said: “I still get a thrill
out of qualifying for a major
race.
“You’re always looking to
qualify one horse to the finals,
let alone three. It’s just about the
best thing that could happen be
sides winning it.”
Brooks compares Mr. Master
Bug favorably with another of
his charges — 1978 All-America
winner Moon Lark.
“I believe Mr. Master Bug is in
the same category as Moon
Lark,” he said. “It’s hard to com
pare horses of different years,
but Mr. Master Bug is the kind
of horse, when you lead him to
the gate, you feel with any racing
luck at all, he’ll be right there.
That’s the way I felt with Moon
Lark: I feel the same thing with
Mr. Master Bug.”
Despite comparison with one
of the champions of quarter
horse racing, Mr. Master Bug
and the rest of the field will have
to contend with fastest qualifier
Shaken Not Stirred.
Trainer Nerrel Bruney of
Texas has sent the Raise Your
Glass filly off four times — to
four victories. She blistered the
400-yard course in 20.09 to win
her trial heat by 1 'A lengths July
9. She won her elimination trial
by almost three lengths.
Here is a rundown on the
complete Rainbow field:
— Shaken Not Stirred: Raise
Your Glass filly; qualifying time
20.09; owned and trained by
Bruney; has won $7,125.
— Mr. Master Bug: Master
Hand colt; qualifying time
20.22; owned by Marvin L.
Barnes, Ada, Okla.; trained by
Brooks; has won $20,824.
— Glo Billy Sims: Little Glo
gelding; qualifying time 20.23;
owned by the Urschels, leased by
the .Blodsetts; trained by J.B.
Montgomery; has won
$116,891.
— Speedy Hemp: Hempen
colt; qualifying time 20.23; own
ed by Richard H. Clarke, Kings
ville, trained by Jesse L.
Yoakum; has won $16,075.
— Miss Azure Te Bug: Azure
Te filly; qualifying time 20.24;
owned by Barnes; trained by
Brooks; has won $8,432.
— Miss Squaw Hand: Master
Hand filly; qualifying time
20.24; owned by Barnes; trained
by Brooks; has won $2,770.
— Fayre Game: Game Plan
filly; qualifying time 20.24; own
ed by McCracken Farms, Inc.,
Lexington, Ky.; leased by Jamfes
Unrein; trained by Don Drake;
has won $2,081.
— Yankee Win: Windy Rydn
filly; qualifying time 20.27; owfi-
ed by Jerry A. Rheudasil, Lewis
ville, trained by C. Dwayne Gil
breath; has won $89,231.
— Bartendress: Beat A Na
tive filly; qualifying time 20.27;
owned by Sam F. Henderson,
Odessa, trained by Clifton
Dean; has won $11,272.
— No Tell Motel: Truckle Fe
ature colt; qualifying time
20.28; owned by McDermott
Ranch, Madisonville, trained by
Thomas Zarate; has won
$11,688.
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