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PAGE FIFTEEN Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, April 19, 1979 Decatur Daily Review Forrest R. Sports editor Z1979 Sea-to-Shining-Sea zzis over; winning car Cardinals' strategy nips Cubs By Fred Good all Chicago (AP) St. Louis Cardinals Manager Ken Boyer, not about to second guess himself, said he really hadn't noticed that the strategy he employed in the 14th inning of his team's 3-2 victory over, the Chicago Cubs had seemed a bit unusual. He explained that he simply did what he felt had to be done when he bypassed the opportunity to bring left-handed reliever Darold Knowles out of the bullpen to face left-handed pinch hitter Bobby Murcer with the tying run on second base with one out. "I wasn't sure if they (Cubs) really Photo by Ron Ernst MacArthur high jumpers, I to Eric Slider, Chris Allen, Todd Risley.

Prep high jump crop may be city's best Sports Sonics gain 2-0 lead over Lakers By Tony Baker Seattle (AP) As if the Los Angeles Lakers aren't in enough trouble, Seattle's John Johnson had to rub it in. "Gus (Williams) really gets keyed up when he goes down there (Los Angeles)," Johnson said Wednesday night after Williams led the SuperSonics to a wild 108-103 overtime victory over the Lakers in their National Basketball Association playoff series. The triumph before 26,862 Kingdome fans, the Sonics' largest crowd this season, gave Seattle a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference semifinals series. Game 3 is set for Friday night in Los Angeles. The 6-foot-2 Williams, a fourth-year pro who played college ball at Southern Cal, scored six of his game-high 38 points in overtime, including a 20-footer with 52 seconds left that broke a 103-103 tie.

Williams has scored 65 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, dished out five assists and made four steals in the series. "He wants to play better," Johnson said. "It'll be a great game. "It's going to be tough there. You've got to win on the road if you're going to go places.

It's that simple." Wednesday night's game was one each team thought it had wrapped up in the final, frantic minutes of the fourth quarter. "I feel good about all of my shots as long as they go in," said Dennis Johnson, who scored six of his 17 points in overtime. The other second-round series also resume Friday night, with San Antonio at Philadelphia, Washington at Atlanta and Phoenix at Kansas City. Islanders win on Bossy goal in overtime By the Associated Press There hadn't been a 1-0 overtime playoff game in the National Hockey League since April 11, 1954 just over 2Ms. years before New York Islanders right wing Mike Bossy was born.

But there was Bossy at the Nassau Coliseum Wednesday night, the puck at his feet and a bit of space behind Chicago goalie Tony Esposito. Well, now there has been another 1-0 overtime in the NHL playoffs, and the Islanders have won it thanks in part to Bossy's goal-scoring magic. At 2:31 of the extra session, the second-year sniper scored his 10th goal in the last four games to give New York a 1-0 triumph and a 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven quarter-final series. "At this stage of his career, his statistics say that he's the best and it's only the second year in the league for him," said Black Hawks Coach Bob Pulford after Chicago had been handed its 14th consecutive playoff defeat. "But you also can't forget the guy that plays center for him," added Black Hawks defenseman Bob Murray, speaking of the Islanders' Bryan Trottier.

"He's the best forward in hockey." In the other quarter-final contests Wednesday night, the New York Rangers hammered the Philadelphia Flyers 7-1, the Montreal Canadiens downed the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-1 and the Boston Bruins trimmed the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3. Meeks reduces Schwab's lead Percy Meeks knocked another chunk off of Ralph Schwab's lead in the. Pla-Mor Classic Singles Scratch League Tuesday night, reducing the leader's edge from 8-37 to 5-44 Petersen points. Schwab split two games with Jim Nevitt, rolling 719, while Meeks swept four from Bill Hodson, subbing for Laney Maulden. Meeks had a 762 series and now has 567-15 points to Schwab's 573-09.

High series honors went to fourth-place Fred Neilson with 789 while Wayne Hornbeck rolled a 764. High games were Phil Sturgeon's 232 and iNeilson's 226. jFriend holds 15-point lead over Maurizio i Mike Friend's efforts to win the ieighth and final round of the Decatur Men's individual Scratch League left Ihim with a 15-point lead over Terry Maurizio after Wednesday night's action at The Bowl. Friend tallied only 56 points as he rolled a 1,077 while Maurizio's 1,186 series was the basis of a 226-point night Friend has 678 points, Maurizio 663 for the season-ending eighth round. Don Adcock is third with 535 followed by Earl Gray Jr.

with 515. Gene Gowler, subbing for Kenn Thornton, had high series of 1,198 and high game of 237. Kyle trophy dash averages 85 mph the only other American to win the World Grand Prix driving championship. All kinds of salary figures and prize-money earnings are tossed around these days for the superstars of professional basketball, baseball, football, boxing and tennis, but little really is known of how much top race car drivers earn. Negotiations are done quietly and the outcome is a secret, even among drivers on the same team.

Hill, who retired in 1967, said he never won $100,000 in a single year. To which Andretti replied: "I'm going to tell you something that's incredible, because depending on how hard I want to work, how hard I REALLY want to work or take advantage of it, I can make $3 million a year." Andretti said if you're a world champion you start off with a contract for a million dollars or two, just to drive. Then there are all the fringe benefits. The harder you work at making them pay off, the more money you make. So far this has been a disappointing year for Andretti.

He's the defending world champion driver who has yet to win a race. It's as Roger Penske said: "It's tough. You're the World Champion driver from the last race until the first one the next year and then you have to start all over again on an even basis. It's going to be a hard grind for him (Mario) this year. But that's what's great about racing.

The calendar keeps turning and everyone keeps going back and starting equal again." Presumably, Andretti will be in the new Lotus 80 for the Spanish Grand Prix April 29. It was tested there last month but some changes had to be made and it wasn't ready for the recent race at Long Beach. If it's as great as advertised, Mario will get back in the running for a second straight championship. It would appear that the U.S. Auto Club scored a rather important point when the CART organization- submitted its entries for the Indianapolis 500.

CART had talked some of boycotting the Indy race and staging its own $1 million bash at some other track. It was pretty obvious you don't just up and plan, promote and stage such a major race in a short period of time, so the CART threat was taken lightly. The CART folks say they still will fight for more prize money, more say-so in technical inspections and more boost for the cars, but it appears they'll have to play by the Speedway's rules, which are pretty much the rules USAC wants. As regards less boost and, as a result, less speed, Tom Sneva and his car owner, Jerry O'Connell, couldn't have been more right when they said the spectators couldn't tell if cars were running 200 miles an hour or 175. If the competition is close, it's an exciting race.

The more the demand for high speeds to be competitive, the more attrition in the race and the fewer cars as the event goes on. The CART people might continue to go their own way through the 1979 racing season, but I'm afraid Indianapolis is one place they will play by the Establishment's rules or they won't play. Chandler overdue commissioner of the entire game and had an equal obligation to the players, fans and even the umpires. It's not hard to understand how old Happy would have acted in the current major league umpire stalemate, with the regular umps on the picket line asking for more decent wages while minor league pickups and amateurs are making field decisions in the multimillion-dollar business. "I don't want to critize the young man who is now the commissioner," Chandler, a strong supporter of Bowie Kuhn, said from his farm home in Versailles, Ky.

"He is doing a fine job. "But this thing has gone on too long. It ought to be settled now. I sympathize with those boys in blue. They don't get paid enough.

We can't have volunteers running the game. "I know the commissioner feels umpires are the league's responsibility and he doesn't want to interfere. But that's wrong. They don't belong to the leagues. They belong to baseball.

They belong to the fans. The commissioner could act in the best interests of baseball." Chandler, who once won 11 of 12 games as a pitcher and batted over .400 for Grafton, N.D., in the old Red River Valley League, resigned his Senate's seat in 1945 to succeed the legendary Kenesaw Mountain Landis as commissioner. He signed baseball's first big television contract, established the players' pension fund with a major part of the proceeds and weathered suits challenging baseball as a monopoly. He restored the score of players who defected to the Mexican League, suspended Leo Duro-cher and gave freedom to players unlawfully treated by owners. No one was too big to face his justice.

Owners ousted him at the All-Star game in 1951. There have been a lot of prep track seasons in Decatur yesteryears when none of the city's high jumpers managed to clear six feet. That has changed considerably in recent years and reached a high mark last season when MacArthur's Eric Slider soared 6 feet 7 to set a school record and a new standard of excellence for which city prep jumpers can aim. Following that up should be a banner season this spring, considering Mac-Arthur has an unusually fine trio of jumpers. With Eisenhower's Tom Hills added to that group, the city has a veritable bonanza of high flyers compared to most years.

They'll be going head-to-head Friday evening in the City quadrangular meet at MacArthur. Joining Slider at MacArthur are junior Chris Allen and sophomore Todd Risby, both of whom have cleared 6-2 this season and are capable of going much higher, Generals' Coach Bill Har-beck says. "The high jump is without a doubt one of the strongest, if not our strongest, event this season with these three young men competing," noted Harbeck. Slider's best effort this season was 6-4 to win the event in the Eastern Illinois University Invitational, but Harbeck says a knee injury is keeping him from approaching the 6-7 he achieved in the Area Best meet last spring. "It's an injury commonly called 'jumper's knee," which amounts to a strained tendon and some inflammation in the area," said Harbeck.

"It hasn't responded to treatment as well as we'd like, but Eric is jumping reasonably well considering." Risby cleared 6-4 last summer in winning the event in the Illinois Jaycees meet, but hasn't gone over '6-2 yet this spring. Allen cleared 6-2 in an indoor meet at the University of Illinois about a month ago. "Allen is one of the biggest finds of the season for us, a sleeper if you want to call him that. Besides the high jump, Allen also competes in the long jump and triple jump. He's gone better than There was mention herein a spell oack about the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, a completely outlaw race across, the na-tion, flouting all speed laws.

First run in 1971, the Cannonball is 'the brainchild of writer Brock Yates, who, rightly or wrongly, attacks what Lhe thinks are injustices in laws and against things automotive. He Chas been particularly against the 'double nickel" speed limit. This year's "race" was run earlier this month without any publicity in the '-daily prints because it's sort of a hush-hush affair. It started at the Lock, and Barrel restaurant in Darien, and ended in Redondo Beach, 3Calif. About the only people who be-' came involved in it, other than the driv- res, were the state police who took a dim view on occasion of cars whistling ralong 100 miles an hour.

The winners, Dave Heinz and Dave 'yarborough, drove a Jaguar VJS over the 2,800 miles in 32 hours and 51 min-utes, an average of 85 miles an hour. They beat the old record by three Ciours. Nearly 50 cars started and there was ionly one mishap. A Lotus car, trying to imake a shortcut over rough terrain, be-came a cropper because of a broken suspension. Yates and his crew Mrs.

Yates and movie producer Hal Needham didn't under their own power. They started out in a Dodge van decked out an ambulance and fooled a couple of lawmen along the way. But the trans-emission swooned in Arizona and they arrived at the finish line being hauled 1 on a flatbed truck. Yates and Dan Gurney do hold one The year they won in a Ferrari they were caught by an Arizona state policeman who ticketed them for going H65 miles an hour. No one since has ever been caught going faster.

The second place finishers this year, which included a Harvard psychology professor, had to post a $900 bond for 2 pushing their 6.9 liter Mercedes a little hastily while some folks in a Porsche 928 won six drag races with the gen-'darmes but not the seventh. They final- ly were bailed out of the jug and continued on. e-Z One of the cars carried George Willig, who climbed the World Trade Center building, and Sam Moses of Sports Illustrated. Presumably, SI readers soon -ill learn how this pair lost their brakes St. Louis but still covered the dis-Clance under 40 hours.

'Jfi "The Cannonball will never die," said tYates after the dinner in Redondo Beach. "We'll do it again next year." Movie producer Needham wasn't teamed with Yates just for the fun. jYates will write and Needham will a movie of the Cannonball. jjTT Mario Andretti fans who don't know Cabout it should track down the April is-sue of Road 'and Track, wherein the world champion driver is appraised by his peers and by himself, and he has a few things to say about racing personal-cities with whom he associates. Colin Chapman, Roger Penske and crew chief Clint Brawner all contribute Sio the appraisal and there's a revealing dialogue between Andretti and Phil Hill, i'Roast' for long Analysis by Will Grimsley Of the Associated Press 5 They're throwing a big bash for A.B.

'Happy" Chandler down in Lexington, May 18 a couple of months be-fore his 81st birthday and leading fig-ures of sports, industry and politics will gather to pay backhanded tribute to one pf the fascinating men of our generation. The occasion is a "Happy Chandler Roast," with Joe Namath as roastmas-ier, proceeds going to- the Kentucky Epilepsy Foundation. "Z'r Deserved awards and recognition finally are coming Happy's way after a fjjuarter of a century of virtual ostracism by baseball. He was principal luncheon speaker at the All-Star game in San Diego last year. In January, he received the Robert F.

Hyland Award St. Louis baseball writers for tZ'meritorious service to the game." But the telephone hasn't jangled with rpews of the big one: baseball's Hall of Fame. No one deserves the honor more. What's the hangup? What's the obsti-nacy in the Old Timers Committee, twhich has honored the late Ford Frick, Warren Giles and other administrators. Failure to induct Chandler is gross io- justice.

Onetime bush ballplayer, lawyer, Kentucky governor, I4J.S. senator and finally commissioner -Jit baseball, Happy left a long and impressive legacy as the man who guided -J the game through one of its most turbulent periods. Iron-willed, unbelievably honest, he Conducted his commissioner's duties fear of consequences. He re-fused to be a pawn of the men who "hired him, the owners a factor that proved his ultimate' undoing. He was "the players' commissioner" he felt he was ordained to be wanted Murcer' to hit," Boyer said Wednesday after relievers Tom Bruno, 1-0, and Knowles turned back Chicago's last threat in the 3-hour, 28-minute marathon.

"I knew he had been sick. I had no idea of how he was feeling, but I didn't want to take the chance of their sending a right-handed batter up there when we brought in the lefty," Boyer added. The strategy turned out well for the Cardinals although Murcer, who had missed Tuesday's game with the Cardinals because of an upset stomach, sent a fly to deep right field, allowing base-runner Tim Blackwell to advance to third base. Knowles, who earned his first save, then came on to retire Bill Buckner on a fly ball to deep left and nail down the victory for Bruno. "I had thought I might be called on to face Murcer because I knew they had two left-handed batters coming up in a row," said Knowles.

"But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying what he (Boyer) did was right or wrong. It's his decision to make, not mine. "Buckner gave me a scare. But I felt I had to put it in there. He's not a home run hitter.

I said to myself, 'if he can hit one out against the wind, then he'll just have to do Buckner said he was hoping that the ball would clear the fence, but never really expected it. "I hit it real well, but when you've got the wind blowing in, you've got to hit it extra well," said Buckner. "From the fifth inning on, the wind and cold were factors. But we can't complain, it was the same for both sides." The Cardinals snapped a 2-2 tie in the 14th when Tony Scott's single to left field scored Keith Hernandez who had doubled with one out and advanced to third on a fielder's choice. Scott's game-winning hit came off loser Donnie Moore, 0-1.

"I had in my mind to bunt, but didn't want to limit my options," said Scott. "I guess I was just looking for something to hit, hopefully a fast ball which is what I got." Moore said he threw the pitch where he intended away from Scott. "It was a good pitch. He made the adjustment and that's it," said Moore. Dave Kingman's run-scoring double in the third inning and RBI single in the fifth gave the Cubs a 2-0 lead.

The Cardinals tied the game in the seventh, however, on Ken Reitz's single and Mike Phillips slow roller down the first base line, both of which drove in runs. Gullikson twins to stage exhibition at -Millikin May 5 Two world class tennis players, Tim and Tom Gullikson, will play an exhibition match at Millikin's Griswold Center May 5 at 7:30 p.m. The twin netters are among the more interesting members of professional tennis. Tom is left-handed, while Tim hits from the right. Tom Gullikison played tennis at Northern Illinois University and was "athlete of the year" in 1970.

As a professional, he has had recent victories over Manuel Orantes, Bjorn Borg, Bob Lutz, and Jimmy Connors. In 1978 he was ranked 20th in the world. Tim Gullikson started on the professional tour in 1976 and he's making up for lost time. He has defeated Raul Ramirez, Sandy Mayer, John New-combe, and Bob Lutz. Tim's 1977 record earned him the Association of Tennis Professionals "newcomer-of-the year" award.

He was rated 11th in the world in 1978. The Gulliksons have done well in doubles, too. In 1978, they won the Hawaii Grand Prix, Hall of Fame Championships, and the Volvo title. The Gulliksons will play a two out of three sets singles match at Griswold and team with Don Maxa and John Worley of the Decatur Racquet Club for a 10-game pro set of doubles. The exhibition is sponsored by the Decatur Racquet Club.

Tickets, priced at 15, are on sale at the Decatur Racquet Club, Enloe's Southtowne Drugs, The Outlet, and Bachrachs in the Hickory Point Mall. St. Teresa coasts to 10-0 victory Mike McElroy pitched a four-hitter as St. Teresa won its third baseball game in four starts with a 10-0 decision over Warrensburg-Latham Wednesday at Hess Park. Tom Kershner was the loser in relief of Todd Harris held St.

Teresa ihitless over the first two innings and then went to the bench with a slightly stiff arm. The Okaw Valley Conference victory boosted St Teresa's record to 2-0. War-rensburg is 0-1 in the Okaw and 2-1 overall. Rex Spires Sportswriter 20 feet in the long jump and over 42 feet in the triple," said Harbeck. "In addition to high jumping, Risby is our top hurdler in both the highs and lows, so he and Allen are rather versatile," Harbeck added.

Eisenhower's Hills already has cleared 6-4 this season and figures to be the chief competition for the Generals' trio Friday night. A year ago, MacArthur dominated the City Quadrangular by winning 13 of the 17 events. With the loss of such outstanding performers as sprinters Derrick Green and Lenford McClain, long and triple jumper Lorenzo Cerletti, distance runner Quinn Batson, weightman Steve Miller and several others through graduation and attrition, MacArthur is not expected to come close' to that this time. Eisenhower, as a team, is expected to give the Generals a run for their money, although team scores are not kept. In fact, Eisenhower outpointed Mac-Arthur in the Chatham Glenwood Invitational earlier this month.

The Panthers totaled 19 points to finish fifth in the 23-team meet, with strong performances in the sprints and sprint relays. MacArthur was sixth with 18 points. Stephen Decatur and Lakeview appear to have the best chances to crack the Eisenhower-MacArthur stronghold in the distance events, the hurdles and the relays. Slider and Eisenhower's Greg Colling-wood, who won the mile in last year's meet, are the only returning individual champs. The meet begins at 5 p.m.

with the field events. Running events begin at 5:30. The Generals looked lethargic in the 11 a.m. game and Phillips would have looked better with an improved defense. The Generals took a 3-0 lead in the second when Bob Smith singled home two runs and another scored on an error.

It was Jeff's only shaky inning. The victory evened Eisenhower's record at 3-3, but Novak is confident his Panthers are going to improve on that mark. "We're starting to hit the ball like I know we can," said Novak. "I know Bob Williams is going to get his share of hits- and both Innis boys are starting to pick up. "I think Jamie Barr at the leadoff position is a big plus for us.

He has been getting on base one way or another and that really helps," said Novak, i Eisenhower's defense, according to Novak, will probably remain the Panthers' strong suit. "We tend to let up now and then with a lead," said Novak. "But, basically, we're a good ball club defensively." The Panthers have played their last three games without two-year starter iTim Smith who is hospitalized. "He may have mononucleosis, and right now we don't know when, or if, he will be back." Smith is a pitcher-outfielder and adds punch to the Panther lineup regardless of where he plays. Panthers' Jeff Innis is a nice surprise By Mac McGee The Eisenhower Panthers threw a curve at the MacArthur Generals Wednesday but it didn't resemble those thrown by winning pitcher Jeff Innis.

The Panthers handed the Generals their first baseball defeat of the spring season at MacArthur -5 and Coach Don Novak may have thrown the trickiest curve of all. "I figured MacArthur would be expecting Brian (Innis) to pitch against them," said the Panthers' boss. "So I threw Brian against Centennial Tuesday and gave Jeff his first start against MacArthur. "He's a fine pitcher and I didn't hesitate to change our rotation a little," said Novak. Novak might have added that Jeff also is a better than average hitter.

Jeff came through with a pair of doubles that drove in four of the Eisenhower runs. That was only four hits less than the entire MacArthur team could manage. Meanwhile, brother Brian moved over to second base and had a couple of hits iof his own. Brian, at 6-foot-5, looked like a youthful Marty Marion on the right side on the Eisenhower infield. The defeat was MacArthur's first after five victories.

The Generals' star southpaw, Steve Phillips, was tagged with the loss..