European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse June 1977 the stars and stripes Page 25 still seeking Deal for As baseball trading deadline nears new York a the hours before the baseball trading deadline at Midnight wednesday continued to tick away with Tom Saver still a member of the new York mets pitching but no one was quite sure How Long he would remain in that nothings said a a missed general manager Joe Mcdon Ald at the acts Shea stadium its exactly where it were still talking to we Haven closed any thing urged by local broadcasters to Call the club and Regis Ter their were doing just swamping the stadium switchboards with support for the Star Pitcher in his Long running dispute with chairman of the Donald the weekends hot Rumor had Saver going to Cincinnati but it was still just a Seavor admitted talking to Bob president of the the same Day he spent an hour on the phone with part of any Deal for Seaver with the reds reportedly would include unsigned Cincinnati reliever Lawley but Eastwick added another wrinkle to the if a Saver Deal depends on my signing a ill mess it i wont sign a when he talked with Saver asked for renegotiation of the three contract he signed in the Spring of Grant steadfastly re fused to consider that the Mots position is that Seaver is forcing them to Trade in a pre pared statement the club repeated that it did not want to Deal the three time by Young award Winner who has been one of baseballs finest pitchers for the past but then it mentioned the pitchers renegotiation request which it said had been the contract is the fundamental Cornerstone of our country and baseball As the statement it concluded by saying thai the acts had no alternative but to Trade we Are still trying but have not completed a satisfactory Deal at Unis it nil clubs select 185 in drafting Montreal a High scoring Center Dale Mccourt of the Catharines selected As Canadas top player in the Ontario hockey association major Junior was selected tuesday by the Detroit red wings As 1 in the National hockey leagues Amateur it took 5 hours for the 18 teams to Wade through 17 rounds with the red wings the Only team picking in the final two and gobble up 185 each club paid per selection with the defending Stanley cup Champion Montreal Cana Diens leading the Way with 27 Many gained on it is generally conceded beyond the first two rounds 36 draft choices have Little Chance of making an nil most arc invited to training Camp on a look see Mccourt is delighted the red wings obviously liked what they saw in Mccourt and Mccourt is Delight the 180pounder from Sud had 60 goals and 79 assists in 66 games with Catharines this he finished his Oha career with a record 477 paints on 194 goals and 283 i have often thought about playing in the Mccourt said from his Home in a i could do was wait for this Day and now it is Mccourt said he had been told by the red wings monday that he would be the Choice in the and he added he was not considering any offers from the rival world hockey the pick belonged to Colorado and the defensively weak Rockies snapped up Barry a 215pounder from the new Westminster Beck had 16 46 assists and 167 penalty minutes in 61 games for new this years memorial cup champions after taking the Western Canada hockey league capitals pick Picard the Washington capitals then took Robert Picard of the Montreal one of the few Good players on Montreal Quebec major Junior hockey league the Vancouver canucks selected High scoring left Winger Jere Gillis from the Sherbrooke beavers and the Cleveland Barons chose Mike Crom bean of the Kings Ion canadians of the defens Eman Doug brother of Murray Wilson of the Montreal was the sixth player taken by the Chicago Black the Minnesota North stars followed with the selection of Brad a de Senseman from new Lucien Dewilms of the Sorel Black Hawks was continued an Page 271 Tumble at second Pittsburgh Phil Garner 117 and Gene Tenace of the san Diego padres take a Tumble after Tenace was out at second base on a Force play in the third inning of a National league game at Pitts neither was up chargers get Harris from rams los Angeles up the los an Geles who recently acquired Veter an Joe Namath from the new York jets As a free traded quarterback James Larris to the san Diego chargers tuesday night for an undisclosed number of future draft the Trade leaves Young Pat i who replaced Harris As the starting Quarter Back in the final games of last As the 1 quarterback on the nil National conference Western division besides Laden and the rams also have Nebraska quarterback Vince their fourth round selection in this years College player i appreciate the Effort and the Job James Harris has coach Chuck Knox since i have been associated with the rams Hes done an outstanding Job and i wish him the Best of Luck with the were sorry things did not work out for James in ios rams owner car Roll Rosenbloom we respect him As an individual and a football player and we wish him the Best in san a seven year nil Veteran out of grumbling joined the rams in 1972 after being released by took Over in 1974 he played behind John Hadl in 1973 and started most rams games for the past three seasons when he took Over in becoming the first Black starting Quarter Back in nil the rams traded Hadl to the chargers for five future draft last season he suffered several injuries including a broken thumb and a bruised but still finished As the leading passer in the pfc with a rating of in the leagues complicated formula for rating his 1976 statistics included 91 comple Lions in 158 attempts for he threw for eight touchdowns and had six in Ron who also started several games at quarterback for the rams the past two was traded to the Philadel phia eagles earlier this Utah 5 tops zealand new zealand a raw Lee Perkins plasma Keg and Mike Santos scoring led Utah slates basketball team past new the Ameri cans overcame an Early 18fi deficit to Lead 3932 at the in Pursuit of the dodgers Bench leads reds Over Phillies by Fred Down up sports writer Johnny Bench says the Cincinnati reds formula for catching the los Angeles dodgers is really quite simple and Hes doing his Best to prove our goal is to make up one game a said that not too much to expect and if we do Well pass pm and win another Pennant no National league team has won three straight pennants since the 194243m Louis cardinals and the two time world Champion reds got off to a faltering Start this they were 12i games behind the dodgers As recently As May 28 and seemed to have Little Chance to make up that much but now they Are Only seven games behind the dodgers and Are gaining ground fast with 12 victories in their last 16 including a 32 Triumph tuesday night Over the Philadelphia despite the aches and pains of 10 seasons of catching which have caused him to talk about an Early has played a major role in the reds Hes hit four homers and driven in 10 runs in Cincinnatus last 10 games seven of them Bench drove in All three Cincinnati runs tuesday night with a a single and a my Roundup fielders Choice As Fred Norman pitched a six hitter arid raised his record to 72 Jim Kaat suffered his fifth loss against one Vic tory for the homers by Jerry Mir to and Mike Schmidt accounted for he Philadelphia we know there looking Over their said referring to the who edged Pittsburgh 32 tues Day they had to be thinking they might be Able to win it now they know were going to Challenge them weve got 10 games left with them and there probably going to decide the elsewhere in the san Francisco Defeated Louis Houston beat Montreal Atlanta topped new York and Chi Cago nipped san Diego dodgers pirates 2 Pinch runner Johnny Oates scored from third base on a passed Ball As los Angeles rallied for two runs in the ninth to take Lee Lacy singled Home the tying run before pirate Catcher de Ott let Rich Gossage pitch get past him Ott and Bill Robinson homered for the pirates while Steve Garvey connected for the cardinals 1 de Halicki pitched a three hitter and struck out six to win his sixth game for the Gary Thomasson drove in two san Francisco runs with a double and Derrel continued on Page 261
