European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 6, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I wednesday september 6, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 21 the franchise Guidry cops his 20th by Bill Madden up sports writer j thanks to some timely pitching from their cajun Southpaw who s become the franchise and the crowned jewel they let get away the defending world Champion new York Yankees Are for sure a team to once again be reckoned Al Roundup with in the american league East Pennant race. Ron Guidry the Yankees Louisiana born left hander became the major league s first 20-game Winner monday when he stopped the Detroit tigers on five hits in the first game of a double header won by new York 9-1. And even though the Yankees dropped the Nightcap 5-4, they still managed to pull within five games of division leading Boston when one of their former prize farmhands Scott Mcgregor helped pitch the Baltimore orioles to a 5-3 Victory Over the red sox. I cowboys Slaughter Colts 38-0 by Mike Rabun Irving Tex. Up the Dallas cow boys apparently thought they were playing the super bowl in september this year. Putting on one of the most overpowering performances in their 19-year history the cowboys crushed the crippled and ineffective Baltimore Colts 38-0 on the opening monday night of the nil season. It was every bit As bad As it sounded. Roger staubach and Tony Dorsett High lighted the one sided affair with a 91-Yard touchdown pass that was almost knocked Down at the line of scrimmage staubach threw four scoring passes in All and by the fourth Quarter fans were leaving Texas stadium in droves. It was the 14th consecutive season open c continued on Page 24 now that the cooler weather is Here i think i can pitch More often was Gui dry s bad news for the red sox after run Ning his incredible 1978 log to 20-2. Cool weather helps me most. As for pitching in Boston next saturday i m not concerned about the left Field Wall. If they hit the Ball Over the Wall it s 30 feet High and 320 feet away. It s got to be 360-370 feet in that Case and that would be probably be a Home run anyway. You be got to pitch them Tough anyway because the red sox Are Good hit ters. The Yankees who rallied for eight runs in the seventh inning to support their Ace lost the second game when right fielder Gary Thomasson dropped Mark Wagner s Fly Ball to allow John Wockenfuss to score the winning run in the eighth inning. But the yanks got an unexpected assist in Baltimore when Mcgregor once referred to by sex new York president Gabe Paul As one of the crowned jewels of the club s farm system stopped the red sox on six hits for 8 2-3 innings while the Ori Oles rallied for a pair of runs in the sixth continued on Page 23 National league Roundup Ron Guidry winds up for another hold that Tiger pitch. May pitch More often now that Cool weather s Here . Owes win to a feat of Myron by Ira Kaufman up sports writer Myron White s feet landed on los an Geles pavement monday morning. Less than 12 hours later they landed spikes first on flustered san Francisco second baseman Bill Madlock. White a 20-year-old outfielder called up earlier in the Day by the dodgers from their Albuquerque farm club broke up a potential double play in the crucial five run fifth inning monday night leading los Angeles to a 5-4 Triumph Over san Francis co that extended the dodgers National league West Lead to two games Over the giants. The giants grabbed a Quick 4-0 Lead off eventual Winner Don Sutton 13-10, but the dodgers routed loser de Halicki 8-7, in the fifth. Rick monday led off with his 16th Homer Johnny Gates followed with a single and moved to second on Pinch hitter Vic Dava Lillo s single. White ran for Dava Lillo and Gates came All the Way Home when Dave Lopes hit into a Force play and Madlock relayed the Ball wildly to first. Bill Russell then singled to score Lopes stole second and went to third on Marc Hill s throwing error before scoring on Steve Garvey s game tying double. Dusty Baker snapped the tie with a single to score Garvey. The key to the game was Myron White s slide said dodger manager Tom Lasorda. He Pinch ran for Dava Lillo and Slid hard into second on the fielder s Choice by Lopes. Id Lively lateral Gridiron action Baltimore linebacker de Simonini 56,left races up to lend a band but fellow defender Doug Nettles Bottom has Al ready stopped Dallas running Star Tony Dorsett and flipped him into the air during Early action in a National foot Ball league opener at Irving Tex.,monday night. Dorsett went on to have a big night by catching a 91-Yard touch Down pass from Roger staubach and gaining 257 Yards 147 of them on the ground. Dallas won 38-0. A photo his aggressiveness kept us in the inning. A double play Ball would have killed it right there Gates does t score and there s two out with the score still 4-1." giants All Star outfielder Jack Clark who had three hits remained unfazed by the Tough loss we re not supposed to be Here right now we re supposed to be 20 or 30 games out. If we win tuesday we re still Only one game out and we still have two More left with them in san Francisco Lance Rautzhan and Terry Forster combined to work four scoreless innings of Relief after the giants Early assault on Sutton. San Francisco scored three runs in the second inning on a double by Heity Cruz and singles by Terry Whitfield Roger Metzger and Madlock. A double by Clark and a single by Cruz accounted for the final giant run in the fifth. In other no games Pittsburgh swept a doubleheader from new York 7-4 and 7-0 Montreal took two from Chicago 5-3 and 6 5 in 10 innings Philadelphia split a pair with St. Louis losing the opener 3-2 but winning the Nightcap 10-2 san Diego beat Atlanta 8-4, and Cincinnati topped Houston 6-3. Pirates 7-7, mets 4-0 de Ott went 6-for-8 and drove in five runs to help the pirates sweep a doubleheader from the mets and move to within one game of first place Philadelphia in the no East. The twin victories gave the pirates nine straight triumphs and 19 of their last 21. Ott s two run Homer in the eighth inning of the first game capped the pirates scor ing after they rallied for three seventh inning runs to erase a 4-2 deficit. In the Nightcap Ott singled in the pirates first run in the first and doubled in two More in the third. Winner Jim Bibby scattered three hits. Expos 5-6, cubs 3-5 Pinch hitter Gary Carter s suicide squeeze scored Larry Parrish with one out in the 10th inning lifting the expos to a second game Triumph and a sweep of the cubs. Montreal won the opener when Tony Perez lashed three hits including his Lith Home run and scored three times. Warren Cromartie added a two run single drop Ping the cubs 4 /2 games behind the Phil lies. Phillies 2-10, cardinals 3-2 bake Mcbride tripled Home one run and scored two others and Jim Lonborg won his first game since june 28 to Pace the Phillies in the Nightcap. In the opener Ted Simmons came off the Bench to double Home the tying runs in the eighth and Tony continued on Page 26