European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 12, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 12, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 21 is lose remain half game Back lodgers rap giants 12-2, tie them for West Lead by Ira Kaufman up sports writer Ito los Angeles dodgers have finally Ali the top spot in inc National uts wild. Wild West. And. Following indent tradition a child is leading into the promised 1-and of the playoffs. Xie Bob Welch allowed Only five hits l innings thursday night As trounced the san Francisco o move into a share of first i in the my West for the first time in s meant an awful lot to our team. That said los Angeles manager Tom Sorda of Welch the 21-year-old right hander who raised his record to 4-0 and beat the giants for the second time in six Days. Nil Roundup the dodgers who have not led the Divi Sion since May ii. Routed giant Ace Vid Blue in the fourth inning. He had an off night and he deserves said Sim Francisco manager Joe Altobilli. Huluc. 16-5. Who had a personal 10-Gamc winning Streak broken was rocked for nine hits and seven runs in just 3 2-3 in Smith was the dodgers Offen Sive hero with four hits including his 22nd Home run. And five Are Home runs that feel better than others and this is one of said Smith who tagged Blue for a 435-foot shot that landed in the Back of the dodger Bull pen. You Don t get Many where you gel everything. I got he accepts slanders Vamp plan Montreal up the National Idey league announced thursday that tin accepted the new York islanders do reorganization. 1 sore june the islanders have been oper _ to under a league order that required blander transactions to be approved by i president of the league. The order fur to required that the islanders furnish a Uncial reorganization plan acceptable to inh aboard of governors. Nth the approval of this plan the nil Trhas been withdrawn. Full president John a. Ziegler said us islander organization was faced with herculean reorganization task. John rat and Bui Torrey have worked Eon a sly in obtaining new capital in re 5 liabilities and laying out a sound term financial plan. They Are to be rounded for the Job that has been done. To league is very pleased that one of finest teams on the ice is now on a firm a off the ice. Lam also quite pleased on behalf of the a Loyal supporters. They can now Forward to a very solid organization to up this Young and competitive team. To who support the islanders and the serve this kind of Roth still leads Money winners Ohio a Mark Roth of in n.j., continues to Lead the _ _ bowlers association stand a earnings of j103.000. According to " released Here. On the Money list is Earl Antho Jurna wash., with j71.188, followed i Holman Medford ore., with Larry Lai ebon i. 19, Kingsport tenn., in year on the tour took Home $6, his first win at Sarasota Victory earned him a place in Jar 1150,000 tournament of Cham Larry Laub san Francisco $46, Burton jr., St. Louis signs 2 swedes n. Minn. Up swed per 01 a Brassar and Kent Fon have signed Multi year he Minnesota North stars tin announced. Same old result Pittsburgh s coach Joe Lonnett left in top photo John Mliner and manager Chuck Tanner protest a Call by plate Umpire Joseph West that saw Muner out at the plate in a game against the cobs at Chicago. They should have known better As West s gesture throw ing Tanner out of the game lower photo proves. The pirates lost the Point but won the game 9-5. Up Ron Cey added a two run Homer for los Angeles and Steve Garvey chipped in with a bases loaded triple to highlight a 16-hit attack. Jack Clark and Bill Madlock homered for the giants who have led the division most of the win will show what kind of club the giants said Smith. It should t be any Factor because of the pitching staff the giants have but we Hope tonight s Vic tory will affect them because they arc a Young in other no games Philadelphia topped Pittsburgh 3-1 and san Diego beat Cincin Nati 15-3. Phillies 3, pirates 1 Larry Bowa involved in a pregame shoving match with two Philadelphia writ ers doubled in one run. Singled and score another and contributed three outstanding defensive plays to help Dick Ruthven to Victory Over the pirates. Since joining the Phillies Ruthven 10-8 on the year has won eight of 10 decisions. Padres 15, reds 3 Gene Mcnace drove in five runs with a Homer and double and san Diego took advantage of 12 walks in route to an easy Vic tory Over the reds. Tenace hit his 13th Home run with two on in the sixth As the padres broke a five game losing Streak. Connie Mack Roberts voted Philadelphia up Philadelphia fans have voted Robin Roberts and Connie Mack into the Philadelphia baseball Hall of Fame. Phillies executive vice presi Dent Bill Giles said induction ceremonies will be held at Home plate Between games of the double header against the St. Louis cardinals sept. 8.Roberts, the baseball coach at the University of South Florida played for the Phillies Between 1948 and 1961. He holds Philadelphia pitching records for games Complete games innings pitched strike outs runs losses and hits As Well As win Ning a club High 234 member of baseball s Hall of Fame Roberts is second Only to Graver Cleveland Alexander in shutouts for the Phillies. The right hander also posted six 20-game-win Ning late Connie Mack managed the Phil Adelphia a s for 50 years a record for major league managers. He holds the All time record for managers in games with 7,878 wins 3,776, and losses 4,025. Mack elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1937, won nine american league pennants and five world championships. He retired As manager of the athletics after the 1950 season upon reaching age 88. Connie Mack or. Will represent his father who died in Philadelphia feb. 8,1956. But if Only contained water he says Spinks admits Little Black bottle new Orleans up world boxing association heavyweight Champion Leon Spinks. Withdrawing his original denials of to Little Black bottle thursday said he did drink from the Palm sized bottle during his first fight against Muhammad a. Spinks had denied drinking from the Small bottle that Ali claimed contained stimulant to help Spinks finish the 15-round i Ain t denying there was t no bottle Spinks said on a local radio talk show thursday night. I m denying there was dope in the when asked what was in the bottle plainly visible in videotapes of the fight. Spinks promoter Butch Lewis said Spinks had been Given a urine examination both be fore and after the fight and showed no signs of Check whatever goes in the ring and they even give the fighter a urine test to make sure they Are not taking any Stim ulant during the fight Lewis said. Tak ing drugs Only happens on the late show. We called spinks1 Little Black bottle the Spinks Jinx " Spinks earlier denied even drinking from the Small bottle Between the 12th and 13th rounds and 14th and 15th rounds of the first fight even though videotapes aired thursday night plainly showed one of Spinks seconds pressing the Small bottle to the fighter s lips. When Spinks was pressed on the Issue wednesday he appeared annoyed and said Well you Ain t seen no bottle Man. You better show me. There was no bottle period. The Only bottle that was there was continued on Page 221
