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Giants 7, Astros 3
Chili Davis, Scot Thompson and
Bob Brenly each drove in two runs
' and Jeff Robinson won his second
straight game to lead the San Fran-
jdsco Giants to a 7-3 victory over the
Houston Astros Wednesday.
The Giants scored three runs in
the first to hand Mike LaCoss (5-1)
his first loss of the season.
Dan Gladden beat out a bunt sin
gle and stole second. Manny Trillo
blooped a single to right with Glad
den advancing to third on right
fielder Terry Puhl’s error. Davis
then drove in Gladden with hs first
of three singles. Thompson singled
in Trillo and Brenly scored Davis
with a groundout.
Davis beat out a bunt single and
stole second in the third inning and
scored on a single by Thompson.
Brenly then doubled in Thompson.
Davis singled in Gladden in the
fourth for the Giants’ sixth run and
Trillo had an RBI double in the
eighth to complete their scoring.
Houston manager Bob Lillis
noted the hits that produced those
first three runs were not hit hard.
“The Giants did the job,” Lillis
said. “They found some holes and
scored some runs. There were a lot
of groundballs that went through
the infield. That’s going to happen
when you keep the ball down like
Mike does. You just hope not as
many go through.”
Robinson (6-11) allowed nine hits
in eight innings for the victory with
Greg Hinton coming on with two on
and none out in the ninth and yield
ing a sacrifice fly to Mark Bailey for
the Astros’ final run. Jerry Mumph-
rey drove in two runs with an RBI
single and sacrifice fly.
Jose Cruz doubled in his final at
bat for Houston to increase his hit
ting streak to 12 games.
Cubs 9, Phillies 4
Leon Durham drove in three runs
with a homer and a double to lead
the Chicago Cubs to a 9-4 win over
the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday
behind the pitching of Dennis
Eckersley.
The victory kept the Cubs within
3 ’/a games of the first-place New
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’/a games off the pace.
Eckersley served up a two-run
homer to Juan Samuel in the first in
ning, then blanked the Phillies
through the seventh to pick up his
fourth victory in 10 decisions.
Durham followed a Garry Mat
thews single with his 14th homer to
give the Cubs a 2-0 lead in the first
inning. Greg Gross doubled and
Samuel connected for home run No.
7 to tie it in the bottom of the inning.
The Cubs jumped on starter
Charles Hudson (8-8) for two runs
in the third. Ryne Sandberg singled
and after stealing his 17th base of
the season scored on a single by Mat
thews. Matthews was cut down a sec
ond on the throw to the plate but
Durham walked and scored on a
Keith Moreland double.
Mets 9, Cardinals 3
At New York, Darryl Strawberry
hit his 16th homer and drove in four
runs to lead the Mets to their fifth
straight victory and 16th in 19
games. Rookie Sid Fernandez
pitched five innings and allowing
four hits for the victory. Ed Lynch
went four scoreless innings for his
second save as New York swept the
three-game series.
In late games, Pittsburgh was at
Montreal, Atlanta played in Los An
geles and Cincinnati visited San
Diego.
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i LOS ANGELES — The air quality
deteriorated slightly Wednesday and
; the International Olympic Commit
tee considered the iaea of sanctions
1 against boycotting nations, but just
! three days before the opening cere-
| monies of the ’84 Summer Games,
I the American contingent was wor
ried most about Mary Decker.
America’s distance running hero
ine, who won at both 1,500 and
; 3,000 meters in last year’s inaugural
World Track and Field Champion
ships, strained an Achilles tendon
during the Olympic trials last month
and her condition since then has
been a matter of concern.
Now, with the potential pinnacle
of Decker’s often troubled career a
little more than a week away, her
condition is a matter of debate.
A report surfaced in London this
week questioning Decker’s fitness,
but her coach in Eugene, Ore.,
promptly denied it.
“She is currently training well and
looking forward to the games,” said
Dick Brown, coach at the Athletics
West track club. “She is not taking
any additional treatment.”
Sources dose to the track and
field competition in Los Angeles
said, however, they felt Decker’s
training had been hampered by the
tendon strain and that tne injury was
at the core of Decker’s decision not
to try and run in both the 1,500 and
3,000 meters at the Olympics.
Decker and her fans, however, got
some good news Wednesday with
the announcement that there were
not enough competitors entered in
the 3,000-meter run to warrant an
opening round of heats.
That means Decker, who will not
come to Los Angeles until next
week, will have to run only two races
instead of three in order to go after
the gold medal. The 3,000 semifi
nals will be held at 8 p.m. (PDT) on
Aug. 8, with the finals set for 6:40
p.m. on Aug. 10. The heats had
been scheduled for Aug. 6.
Despite the boycott by most Soviet
bloc countries, Decker will have
plenty of competition in her race
f¥om South African native Zola
Budd, who will be running for Brit
ain, and from Romania’s Maricica
Puica, who has the best time in the
world at 3,000 meters this year.
Studley ‘immersed’ in Dolphin defense
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MIAMI — Chuck Studley isn’t
looking back. His dismal tenure af
ter he replaced Ed Biles as head
coach of the Houston Oilers last year
isn’t forgotten, but he doesn’t have
time to think about it these days.
Studley is immersing himself in
another challenge — replacing the
cerebral Bill Arnsparger as the de
fensive chief of the Miami Dolphins
under head coach Don Shula.
“There is nothing I look forward
to more than this season,” Studley
said.
Last year the Dolphins had trou
ble with “physical” teams who liked
to run up the middle. Now that
Arnsparger is gone to take the head
coaching job at LSU, Studley is tack
ling that problem.
“He wants to make offenses adjust
to our defense rather than adjusting
our defense to an offense,” said nose
guard Bob Baumhower. “He wants
us to challenge people, do what we
do best, and I really like what he’s
doing.”
Veteran safety Glenn Blackwood
also is pleased with what he has seen
in the first few days of the Dolphins
first training camp without
Arnsparger in nine summers.
“It’s unfair to compare two men,”
Blackwood said. “I’ll say this,
though, both of them love the game
of football and both are winners. I
think everybody on the defense is
looking forwara to this year because
we believe we’re going to have a
good defense.”
AN, Jenner
may bear
torch in LA
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LOS ANGELES — For an emo
tional few minutes Saturday, the big
gest star in this land of movies and
television will the person who bears
the Olympic torch the final mile.
At the Opening Ceremonies, an
unannounced person — or persons
— will accept the torch and end its
odyssey from Greece by carrying it
overhead and into the Los Angeles
Coliseum.
Imagine the swell of enthusiasm
in the 92,500-seat arena if the bearer
turns out to be Muhammad Ali,
three-time heavyweight champion
and a former Olympic gold medal
winner.
Other possibilities include Wilma
Rudolph, former Olympic sprint
star; A1 Oerter, three-time gold
medalist in the discus; two-time de
cathlon winner Bob Mathias, who
grew up in Los Angeles; world long
jump record-holder Bob Beamon;
Marx Spitz, who won seven gold
medals in Munich; another Califor
nian, decathlon gold medal winner
Bruce Jenner; and Rafer Johnson,
another decathlon gold medalist.
As a special guest, former Ruma
nian gymnastics star Nadia Co
maneci could play a part in the cere
monies. But if she nelped to carry
the torch, she would be the first non
native to do so.
Only once since the torch relay
from Olympia in Greece began has
more than one individual carried the
flame. Ueberroth himself has indi
cated as much, saying if the bearer is
a celebrity, no announcement will be
made. If the torch bearer is lesser
known, the identity may be released
in advance.
Comaneci, the 1976 Olympic
charmer, would carry special sym
bolic value in this year of the East
Bloc boycott. Honoring her would
also be a way of thanking the Ruma
nian team for attending the Games,
despite the Soviet-led Boycott. She
arrived in Los Angeles earlier this
week.
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