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HOUSTON — Houston Oilers
Coach Hugh Campbell had al
ready said it in his own calm, mat
ter-of-fact way.
“Larry Moriarty is very impor
tant to our football team,” Camp
bell deadpanned.
But Oiler running back coach
A1 Roberts, observing Campbell’s
pre-training camp news confer
ence from the back of the room,
thought more emphasis was
needed.
“Hugh doesn’t say things quite
as excitably as I do,” Roberts said.
Flailing his hands above his
head, Roberts said, “I’d have
done a John Madden and said,
‘WE NEED LARRY MORIAR
TY!”’
With Mike Rozier safely signed
away from the United States
Football League and ready for his
second pro season of the year,
Oiler coaches have turned their
concerns to the unsigned Mo
riarty.
The Oilers finished 3-13 last
season, the first for Campbell and
Roberts as Oiler coaches.
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Campbell hopes the addition
of Rozier, who signed a four-
year, $2.25 million contract on
June 24, and the return of Mo
riarty will boost the Oiler running
game, ranked 23rd last season
among the 28 National Football
League teams.
Moriarty will become a holdout
if he doesn’t report to the team’s
training camp at Angelo State
University by Sunday.
Moriarty, the Oilers leading
rusher last season with 785 yards
in nine games, is represented by
Howard Slusher.
Despite Rozier’s credentials,
Roberts isn’t even pretending the
Oilers could get along without
Moriarty.
“The thing that pulls the trig
ger, that gets the gun off is that
power speed back and that’s
Larry Moriarty and I want to say
that 1,000 times,” Roberts said.
“Larry gets us started. He’s 240
E ounds, he runs a 4.6 40, he
ench presses 500 pounds and
he’s the powder.”
Roberts thinks it will be impor
tant for all the working parts of
the Oiler running game to get ac-
qauinted early.
“The First 10 days of camp, it’s
very important for Mike Rozier to
meet Larry Moriarty, for Larry
Moriarty to talk to Butch Wool-
folk and Willie Joyner, Stan Ed
wards, Arthur Whittington,”
Roberts said.
Roberts and Campbell also
want Moriarty on hand to take
some of the pressure off Rozier,
who will be trying for a rare dou
ble 1,000-yard performance in
the same year.
“It’s going to be tougfoon him
physically, but more tough on
him mentally,” Roberts said of
Rozier.
“He may not burn out physi
cally, I don’t expect him to, but
mentally he’ll get tired of going to
camp, tired of the weekend trips,
the travel.
“The only thing that will keep
him from breaking down is if he
keeps his goal in mind.
“He’ll have to keep that in
mind. The goal pushes out the
burnout.”
The Oilers obtained Woolfolk
from the New York Giants in the
off-season and Roberts expected
the former Michigan All-Ameri
can to be a key to the Oiler back-
field.
“Larry makes us physical,
Woolfolk makes us fast and Ro
zier is the savvy football player.
He’ll catch a little, block a little,
he’ll Fight a little. He’s every
thing.”
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SANDWICH, England — The
massive withdrawal of American
stars from the British Open Field
continued Tuesday with Johnny
Miller and Fred Couples among the
latest to pull out of the 114th rene
wal of golFs oldest championship.
Neitner Miller, a former British
and U.S. Open titleholder, nor Cou
ples, a former winner of the Tour
nament Players’ Championship,
gave a reason for their actions in
telegrams to the sponsoring Royal
and Ancient Golf Club of St. An
drews.
Earlier, Curtis Strange, Ray
Floyd, Hale Irwin, Calvin Peete and
U.S. Open winner Andy North all
withdrew — for one reason or an
other — from the tournament that
begins Thursday at the Royal St.
George’s Golf club on the coast of
Kent.
Among other major absentees are
former U.S. Open champions Hu
bert Green and Jerry Pate, both of
whom withdrew, and Wayne Levi,
who scored his eighth career victory
earlier this season. Levi did not en
ter.
And Arnold Palmer 55, who
scored consecutive British Open vic
tories in 1961-62, declined a special
invitation to compete.
North had made a number of
commitments for this week prior to
winning his second U.S. Open title
last month. Floyd declined to qual
ify. Irwin simply decided not to com
pete. And Peete said he did not want
to subject an ailing back to the long
flight.
The absense of Strange, the lead
ing player on the American tour this
season, served as the principal sub
ject of pre-tournament conversation.
Strange, the only three-time win
ner in the United States this year, al
ready has won more than $520,000
and is within sight of the all-time sin
gle season money-winning record of
$530,808, set by Tom Watson.
“He should be here,” said Sevvy
Ballesteros of Spain, the defending
title holder and pre-tournament fa
vorite.
Watson, whose career has cen
tered round his Five British Open
triumphs, agreed.
“Curtis should be here,” Watson
said. “The way hes playing he’d have
a good chance to win.”
Bill Rodgers, -who won this tour
ney in 1981 said:
“I wish (Strange) were here. I
think he’d have an excellent chance
to win the Open.”
Pitching power
lets NL rain on
AL hit parade
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS — So much for American League power, even in the
Homerdome. The National League still reigns.
Castoff American Leaguer LaMarr Hoyt of San Diego kicked off a
pitching display that held the AL to just five singles Tuesday night as the
Nationals bounced to a 6-1 victory in baseball’s 56th All-Star game.
It was the Nationals’ 13th victory in 14 games and extended their series
mastery to 36-19, with one tie.
This time, it was the NL No-Stars —- men like last-minute roster replace
ment Terry Kennedy, first-time All-Star Ozzie Virgil, maligned Darryl
Strawberry and fleet Willie McGee — who took the spotlight along with the
league’s pitchers.
And when it was over, there had not been a single home run in a park
reputed to be a home-run better’s paradise. The only extra-base hits were
four NL doubles, and three of them were on high bounces off the artificial
turf.
Hoyt and Houston’s Nolan Ryan pitched three innings apiece, each giv
ing up two hits, while Fernando Valenzuela of Los Angeles, Jeff Reardon of
Montreal and Rich Gossage oFSan Diego finished with one inning each, the
only other hit coming off Reardon in the eighth.
“I was surprised there were no home runs, yes,” said National League
Manager Dick Williams of the Padres, who won his first All-Star Game af ter
three tries with Oakland in the American League.
“Everybody in the American League lineup is a home run hitter,” he
said.
With the loss, American League Manager Sparky Anderson failed to be
come the First skipper to win in each league. Anderson won three times with
Cincinnati in the ’70s. ,
“Our pitchers were pumped up to the max about pitching in this game,”
said Hoyt, who got the victory and was voted the game’s Most Valuable
Player.
“After I got out of there, and they hadn’t hit any home runs off me, I
wasn’t surprised they didn’t hit any,” Hoyt said. “I didn’t think they’d get
any off the rest of those guys we had pitching.”
The play of Strawberry, whose selection was critized becaused of a .229
batting average and seven weeks on the sidelines with a thumb injury, was
an example of the way the Nationals won this game — with speed, deter
mination and a few people who didn’t really seem to belong here.
“I have a serious injury and that held me back this year,” Strawberry
said. “The fact that the fans voted me on anyway made me feel like playing
1 10 percent tonight.”
Jack Morris, the American League’s starting pitcher from Detroit, lasted
just 2 2-3 innings, giving up'two runs before he left in a jam.
While Hoyt, Ryan and crew held the American League’s powerful
lineup at bay, Virgil and McGee each drove in two runs.
Before the game, George Brett of Kansas City had said this was the best
assemblage of AL All-Stars ever put together.
But San Diego’s Hoyt, selected the game’s Most Valuable Player after his
three innings’ work, held the Americans to just two singles, by Rickey Hen
derson of the New York Yankees and Harold Baines of the Chicago White
Sox.
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