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A Decatur, Illinois, Wednesday, April 24, 1S8S B. Herald Review Sports. A Betelilrf MIai(E(Dim Unsas IlcBsadl Jkow steals the Van Slyke lifts Cards ST. LOUIS (AP) Andy Van Slyke tripled and doubled to power the St. Louis Cardinals to an 8-3 victory Tuesday night Lonnie Smith added two singles and stole three bases to aid St.

Louis. St. Louis broke 2-2 tie in the inning against reliever Tom Gorman, 1-1. Smith led off with a walk, stole second and took third on a single by Tommy Herr. With Jack Clark at the plate and a 2-2 count, the game was delayed by rain for 68 minutes.

When play resumed, Clark bounced into a forceout at second that allowed Smith to score. Kurt Kepshire, who entered the game with a 15.63 earned run average, pitched seven-plus innings to get the victory and improve to 1-2. St. Louis' rookie Vince Coleman had a run-scoring single in the fourth, and Slyke cracked an RBI triple in the fifth and scored on the play when San tana, the Mets shortstop, let the relay from center fielder Mookie Wilson get past him for an error. Mike Lavalliere singled home two more Cardinals runs in the seventh.

Ray Knight had a sacrifice fly for the Mets in the ninth. PITTSBURGH (AP) As long as Rick Sutcliffe is around, don't expect the Chicago Cubs to endure very many losing streaks. The Cubs, losers of three of their previous four games, got an eight-hitter and a home run from Sutcliffe while Ryne Sandberg, last year's National League most valuable player, homered for his first run batted in of the season Tuesday night in a 5-0 blanking of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Sutcliffe, 3-1, who had won 16 straight regular-season games before losing his last start in Montreal, did not allow a Pirate past second base while striking out seven and walking one. "He pitched great tonight and that home run looked like a Willie Stargell shot," said Cubs Manager Jim Frey.

"He really looked determined before the game. He had that special look on his face. He didn't want to talk to anybody." Asked why he seemed especially determined for an early-season game, Sutcliffe said it was a combination of the way he pitched in his previous start and the Cubs' recent inability to score runs. "We're not playing the way the Chicago Cubs can play," he said. "The only thing we've been doing is playing good, solid defense.

I was just mad. I wanted to get things started because we needed to get going." Sutcliffe did just that by triggering a two-run third inning with a single off loser Mike Bielecki, 1-1. Bielecki then contributed to his own downfall by ill-advisedly throwing to second base too late to nail Sutcliffe on Bob Dernier's sacrifice bunt. Gary Matthews drew a one-out walk before Keith Moreland lined a two-out, two-run single to give the Cubs a 2-0 lead. Sutcliffe, hitless in seven at-bats 4A i i i ii.

i By REX SPIRES Herald Review Sports Writer MACON Jeff Query sighed with relief. It had been a long and difficult ordeal. "I don't mind telling you I'm tired," he said after he cruised to victory in the 300-meters low hurdles in the Macon County track and field meet Tuesday. Query pulled away from the rest of the competitors in the final 50 yards to win handily. As soon as Query crossed the finish line, a rainstorm struck, accompanied by lightning.

That forced the final three events to be postponed until 2 p.m. today. Despite Query's performance he also won the long jump and was second in the 110 high hurdles and 100 dash Macon appeared to be en route to the championship. Macon leads with 67 points. Argenta-Oreana remains in a challenging position with 60 points.

War-rensburg-Latbam has 44, followed by Maroa-Forsyth 36, Niantic-Harristown 17 and Blue Mound 14. Query accounted for. the bulk of Maroa's points, collecting 20 of bis team's 36. "It feels a lot better to finish on a winning note," said Query after recovering from the gruelling low hurdles race. After winning the long jump with a leap of 9 feet 3, Query competed in the 110 hurdles race moments later.

Argenta-Oreana's Larry Holloway edged him out at the tape after they cleared the final hurdle neck-and-neck. Then, with hardly time to catch his breath, Query had to come right back and compete in the 100 dash. Again, he was edged out at the finish line, this time by Macon's Vic Levandoski. Macon piled up its point lead by virtue of winning six events, placing second in three others and third in four events. In addition to winning the 100, Levandoski was second in the long jump and ran the anchor leg on Maroa's third-place 400 relay team.

Macon was leading the relay up to the final exchange when the baton was dropped by Levandowski. "It was my fault," he said. "I didn't have a very good grip on the baton when I took off and when I raised my hand to begin pumping, it flew out. Luckily, I was able to pick it up in time to finish third." Joining Levandoski as event winners for Macon were Dave Hackl in the discus with a throw of 121 feet 6V4, Todd Pritts in the triple jump with 40 feet 2, Scott Shasteen in the pole vault with 12 feet 5, Tony McEvoy in the 400 race in 56.4 seconds and Jeff Peterson in the 800 in 2:07.37 minutes. The high jump was expected to be one of the highlight events because of the presence of Warrens-burg's Jerry Giberson, who cleared 7 feet in the Pana Open Saturday.

However, because of the extremely windy conditions, the event was moved indoors and Giberson won with a routine 6 feet 3 Expos 5, Phillies 4: At Montreal, Vance Law walked with the bases loaded in the 10th inning Tuesday to force Andre Dawson home as the Mon- treal Expos snapped Philadelphia's three-game winning streak. After giving up a lead-off single to Dawson, Phillies reliever Charlie Hudson, 0-2, struck out Hubie Brooks and then walked three straight batters. Jeff Reardon, 1-0, pitched three innings of scorless relief to earn the victory. Philadelphia scored in the fourth off Philadelphia starter Steve Carlton when catcher Darren Daulton, up from Portland to replace the injured Bo Diaz, singled home Mike Schmidt for his first run batted in in the majors. Giants 2, Dodgers 1: At San Francisco, Mike Krukow scattered seven hits as the San Francisco Giants 'ended a seven-game losing streak.

Fernando Valenzuela, 2-2, allowed four hits while striking out eight and stretching his streak for innings without an earned run to 33 even though he was saddled with the loss. Braves 4, Padres 2: At San Diego, Rick Mahler won his major league leading fourth game and Terry Harper lined a three-run double Tuesday night to lead the Atlanta Braves. Mahler, 4-0, won his fourth start of the season by going seven innings and allowing five hits. Bruce Sutter pitched the final two innings for his third save. The loss went to Mark Thurmond, 0-2, who lasted only three innings and gave, up all the Braves' runs.

Astros 6.. Cincy 4: At Houston, Kevin Bass homered and drove in four runs and Ron Mathis pitched Houston to victory. Bass, who cracked run-scoring singles in the first and third innings, belted a two-run homer in the fifth inning off Cincinnati starter John Stuper, 2-1. It was the second home run in two nights for Bass, and his two homers matched his 1984 total. Mathis, 1-u, took a two-hitter and a 6-0 lead into the eighth before running into problems.

The Reds chased him with a walk and three hits, including a two-run single by Gary Redus, and Frank DiPino took over for Mathis. Dave Parker's run-scoring double and a wild pitch by DiPino allowed Cincinnati to pull within 6-4 in the eighth. Dave Smith relieved to start the ninth and got his third save as Houston won its fourth straight game. fourth. "I just swing hard up there and sometimes I make contact," Sutcliffe said.

Sandberg followed two batters later with his home run into the left-center field seats. He was batting only .143 with just two extra-base hits in 49 at-bats this season prior to the home run. ju iui lu me game, uiuuaueu uie uiira home run of his career counting one in last season's NL championship series into the right field seats to start a three-run Cubs' Photo by Jan Abbott Triple jump winner Todd Pritts of Macon. Gamble pinch hit powers Sox line for a 5-4 Kansas City lead. Orta then drilled his first home run of the season into the left-f ield bleachers, sealing the Royals' third.consecutive victory.

Twins 4, Mariners 2: At Minneapolis, Tom Brunansky slammed a two-run homer and Frank Viola fired a six-hitter Tuesday night to pace the Minnesota Twins. Brunansky's home run was his fourth, of the year. The first-inning blow came after Kent Hrbek walked with two outs. Viola, 2-2, limited the Mariners to two hits through the first seven innings. He struck out four while walking none in his second complete game of the Minnesota has won three straight after losing nine in a row while Seattle has lost three in a row and seven of its last eight games after winning its first six games of the season.

i A'S 14, Angels 9: At Anaheim, Dusty Baker drove in five runs with a three-run homer and a double and Carney Lansford added a three-run homer Tuesday night as the Oakland A's romped. Trailing 7-1 after 3V6 innings, the Angels hit six solo home rups, two of them by Reggie Jackson. Dave Kingman led off the Oakland second with his third home run of the season off rookie Bob Kipper, 0-1, a 20-year-old left-hander making his first major-league start. Keith Atherton, 1-0, the second of four Oakland pitchers, worked 2 1-3 innings for the victory and Jay Howell went the final 2 1-3 innings for his fifth 1 Loser Frank Tanana, 0-3, retired the first seven Baltimore batters before Young, who was 4-for-5 and drovein three runs, singled with one out in the third. Dempsey followed with his third home run of the season and Ford, the next batter, made it 3-1 with his first homer.

i ii The Orioles added two runs off Burt Hooton in the sixth when pinch hitter Wayne Gross walked and Young homered. They broke it open with six runs on seven hits in the eighth. Tigers 4, Indians 3: At Cleveland, Kirk Gibson collected three hits, including a two-run double to snap a fifth inning tie and lead the Detroit Tigers to victory. Dan Petry, 3-1, 'gave up six hits while striking out two and walking one over the first 6 2-3 innings. Cleveland's Bert Blyleven, 0-2, yielded nine hits while pitching a complete game.

Royals 7, Blue Jays 6: At Toronto, George Brett put Kansas City in front with a three-run double and Jorge Orta added a two-run homer as the Royals rallied to victory with a five-run ninth inning. Bill Caudill, who came on in relief of Doyle Alexander after seven innings, breezed through the eighth but got in trouble in the ninth when Jim Sundberg and pinch hitter Dane lorg opened with singles and Willie-Wilson was hit by a pitch to load the bases. One out later, Brett ripped his double down the right-field Schroeder hit his second home run of the game and fourth of the season in the sixth but the White Sox scored twice to tie it in the bottom of the sixth. Hill beat out an infield hit and Greg Walker doubled. Both runners scored on a single by Hulett for his first major-league run batted in.

The game was delayed for an hour and 11 minutes by rain in the first inning. Boston 5, Yankees 4: At New York, Dwight Evans drove in his second run of the game with an 11tti-inning single and the Boston Red Sox scored two unearned runs to beat' the New York Yankees for the fourth straight time this season. Marty Barrett started the inning with a single off New York relief ace Dave Righetti, 1-1, and Jackie Gutierrez sacrifced. Wade Boggs beat out an infield single up the middle as Barrett went to third and Evans' single to left broke the tie. The winner was Bobby Ojeda, 2-0, who allowed one hit over the final 1 2-3 innings.

Until the Boston run, Righetti had posted an unblemished record with four saves plus a victory, accounting for all five of the Yankee triumphs. Orioles 11, Rangers 1: At Arlington, Texas, Storm Davis pitched a three-hitter and Rick Dempsey, Dan Ford and Mike Young homered Tuesday night to lead the Baltimore Orioles to victory. Davis, 1-0, entered the game with an 8.31 earned run average, having lasted only 1 3 innings in his three previous starts. He retired 19 batters in a row after the Rangers loaded the bases with no one but in the first inning but managed only one run as Larry Parrish grounded into a double play. Davis walked four, and struck out four.

CHICAGO (AP) Pinch hitter Oscar Gamble's bases-loaded single capped a two-run rally against Milwaukee relief ace Rollie Fingers in the bottom of the' 10th inning Tuesday night that gave the Chicago White Sox a 6-5 victory over the Brewers. After Milwaukee had gone ahead 54 in the top of the 10th, Fingers took over from Bob McClure, who retired all 10 batters he faced, striking out four. But pinch hitter Rudy Law doubled and Luis Salazar sacrificed him to third. Harold Baines singled to tie the score and went to third when Daryl Boston singled. Carlton Fisk was intentionally walked to load the bases but Gamble, batting for Marc Hill, singled to hand the Brewers their fourth setback in the last five games.

Paul Molitor opened the Milwaukee 10th with a single, stole second, went to third on Rick Manning's long fly and scored on Simmons' single off reliever Bob James. Bill Schroeder gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead in the second inning with a home run but Chicago tied it in the fourth when Baines walked, went to second on a wild pitch by Teddy Higuera, who was making his major-league debut, and scored on a single by Hill. Singles by Randy Ready and Jim Gantner and Ed Romero's two-run double gave Milwaukee a 3-1 lead in the top of the fifth. Chicago came back with a run in the bottom of the fifth when Tim Hulett doubled and scored on a single by Ozzie Guillen. REMINGTON TIRES GIVE YOU WORE TIRE FOR YOUR MONEY CARDS ROAD HAZARD WARRANTY Mileaae Warranties As Listed 3 Free Expert Installation! Bob Fallstrom Commentary REMINGTON TIRES FOR THE ROAD AHEAD 13 1 CUSTOM-AIRE RADIAL Two full-width steel belts Two polyester cord body plies All-condition tread design White sidewall styling NOKOMIS Joe Kempe was hoping for three people.

About a dozen showed up. "Make that 15," he insists. Kempe is publicity directorparty coordinator for the Bottomley-Ruf-fing-Schalk Baseball Museum on Spruce Street in Nokomis. On Tuesday morning, Kempe kept torturing himself like this: "Suppose you gave a party and NOBODY came." At 9 a.m., Kempe positioned himself a foot inside the entrance of the Round Table Cafe the party site and greeted everybody who came in, whether they knew about the party or whether they were merely seeking coffee and doughnuts. Among the first to arrive were Gladys L.

Bottomley and Lucille McE- nary, cousins of Sunny Jim Bottom-ley. Each donated a check to the museum, causing Kempe to beam. By the time I arrived, the old timers were congregating. Kempe's worries had vanished. After all, he had modest hopes.

He knows that the museum has not generated intense curiosity. He knows that Sunny Jim Bottomley is not exactly a household word. He also knows he can count on a dozen or so old timers to respond. The party was in observance of Bottomley's birthday. Bottomley MQnn.1Qttl is th first hasnnan whn P15580R13 P17580R13 P18580R13 Billie Marley, a relative.

"The man she married was jealous of Jim. He wouldn't allow Lela to listen to the Cardinals' game on the radio." Seeing Bottomley was better than listening, Ralph Scheller points out: "My folks used to go see the Cardinals in St. Louis on Sunday (St. Louis is 84 miles from Nokomis). I got to go along, even though I was 5.

One day Jim hit a home run to win the game. We were waiting for him outside the dressing room. He picked me up and put me on his shoulder. Gosh, I thought I was the king of St Louis." Bottomley closed out his major league career by managing the St. Lotus Browns during the last half of the 1937 season.

"He invited the Eastern Illinois University team to come to Sportsman's Park," Kessinger recalled. "We had free tickets. He told us he would play if we were there. Yes, he played. He hit two home runs might have been his last two." A few months before he died slumped over the wheel of his car in a downtown St.

Louis parking Bottomley confided to Jack Marley that his heart was acting up. It was a premonition, Marley believes. While Bottomley is long gone, Charles "Red" Ruffing, Bottomley's major league contemporary as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees, is still living. His birthday is May 3. Yes, there will be a Raffing birthday party.

Yes, Joe Kempe will fret about the' possibility that nobody will come. Yes, the old timers will be there. Now that Kempe knows how many to expect he can order a medium-size cake. After all, the cake was missing this time. What's a birthday without a cake? P18575R14 P19575R14 P20575R14 P21575R14 $37.95 42.95 46.95 47.95 48.95 50.95 53.95 53.95 54.95 58.95 60.95 $75.90 85.90 93.90 95.90 97.90 101.90 107.90 107.90 109.90 117.90 121.90 $151.80 171.80 187.80 191.80 195.80 203.80 215.80 215.80 219.80 235.80 243.80 P20575R15 P2157SR15 dinals News and recalled Bottom-ley's feat of driving in 12 runs in a September 1924 game with Brooklyn.

"The paper that night had a front page headline 'Bottomley 12, Brooklyn What a feat that was! It's still a major league record. I expect it always will be." Tosetti was also impressed with Bottomley's influence with the Nokomis youngsters. "I had him over to the house to talk to my son Jack. Whatever he told Jack, it worked." Dave Kessinger rates Bottomley as one of the nicest guys who ever lived. "In 1927 when I was 12, he took me quail hunting," Kessinger said.

"It was my first hunting trip. I lived across the street from him. His brother, Ralph, had been killed in a coal mine. When Jim reached the Cardinals, he bought his parents a house and a car and made sure his father nevef had to work in the mines again. That's the kind of guy he was considerate.

"He was so considerate he didn't get married until after his playing days. He told his wife-to-be (Betty Browner) that being a ball player's wife was no life for her too much traveling." Before Betty, Bottomley courted Lela Ernst "She went to Chicago to school and didn't marry Jim," said P23575R15 ROCKER TIRE SERVICE 110 North Cedar Shelbyville, IL (217)774-5711 REST TIRE SERVICE 727 VY. Van Buren, Rte. 10 W-Clinton, IL (217)935-2176 ROLOFSON'S GARAGE ArgentaIL (217)795-2117 PALTCER TIRE SERVICE 3091 N. Water Decatur, IL (217)875-4266 escaped the Nokomis coal mines to achieve Hall of Fame recognition.

The party was Kempe's idea to draw attention to his uphill battle to achieve attention for the museum. The wall of the Round Table Cafe was decorated with a "Bottomley Day" banner. Kempe had information sheets to hand out and reproductions of a 1931 St. Louis Cardinals News pamphlet to hand out Elio Tosetti glanced at the Car-.