European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 17, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes sunday september 17, 1978 yanks Widen Lead to 21/2 Gomes in Foss Guidry 2-hits Boston in 4-0 win by United press International the new York Yankees stretched their Lead to 2l/2 games in the american league East division with a 4-0 Victory Friday night Over the Boston red sox behind the two hit pitching of Ron Guidry and consecutive homers by Chris Chambliss and Graig Nettles. It was Guidry s second straight shutout Over Boston and the Victory was the Yan Al Roundup Kees 19th in their last 22 games. The sox who led the Yankees by 14 games on july 19, have dropped 13 of their last 16. Guidry struck out five and walked three in lowering his major league leading Era to 1.71. He allowed Only a double by Rick Burleson in the third inning and a single by Fred Lynn in the seventh. Miller cops 2nd-round Alamo Lead by Eric Prewitt Alamo Calif. A Sharon Miller hit a 300-Yard drive on the closing Hole Eagle it for the second consecutive Day and took the second round Lead Friday in the $100, 000 women s professional Golf tournament at round Hill country club. Nancy Lopez who has won a record $157,000 so far this season on the ladies professional Golf association tour moved into Contention for another title by posting a 3-under-Par 70, giving her a 36-Hole total of 145, three strokes off Miller s Pace. The 21-year-old Lopez has won eight tournaments this year. Miller 37, went one under Par for the Day with her Eagle-3 on the downhill 501 Yard Par-5 18th Hole and it gave her a one stroke Lead Over Roberta Speers Kathy Whitworth Betty Burfeindt and Donn Caponi Young. Miller had gone Over Par with a bogey-4 on the 16th, a Hole she also bogeyed thursday in route to an opening round score of 70. I Don t know what it is with that Hole. It owes me something but As Long As i keep getting eagles at the 18th, that s of said the Lyga Veteran who made her Best showing in several years with a second place finish in a recent tournament a Springfield 111. She reached the 18th Green with an 8 Iron and made a six foot putt for the Eagle. On thursday she got her Eagle with drive a 3-Iron and a four foot putt. Lopez Speer and Whitworth were among those posting 70s, the Best score Friday when Strong winds made the 6,324 Yard course play a lot tougher than a Day earlier. The leaders Sharon Miller Roberta Speer Kathy Whitworth Betty Burfeindt Donna Young Sally Little Jane Blalock Beth Stone Susan o Connor Nancy Lopez Joann Washam Murle Breer Pat Bradley Jan Stephen son Dale Lundquist Kathy Mcmullen Peggy Conley Joann Prentice Mary Mills a Juli Simpson Joyce Kazmierski Betsy Cullen Mary Lou Crocker sue Roberts Alexandra Reinhardt Amelia rorer Mardell Wilkins 70-72142 73-70-143 73-70-143 72-71-143 72-71143 70-74144 70-74-144 74-70144 71-73144 75-70-145 75-70-145 74-71145 75-70-145 76-70-146 75-71-14670-77147 73-74147 73-74147 76-71-147 74-74148 77-71148 76-72-148 74-74148 77-72149 76-73149 73-76-149 74175-149 the Yankees sent 10 men to the plate in the fourth inning and scored four runs off loser Luis Tiant 10-8. Mickey Rivers and Willie Randolph started the rally with sin Gles but Tiant appeared out of trouble when he got Lou Piniella to Bounce into a double play. However when first baseman Carl Yastrzemski threw Back to third base trying to Nail Rivers who had made a wide turn his throw was wild and Rivers score the first run. Reggie Jackson then walked and Chambliss and Nettles delivered their Home runs. It was Nettles third Home run in the last two games and his 26th of the season. Elsewhere in the american league Kansas City edged California 3-2, Detroit topped Cleveland 1-0, Baltimore stopped Toronto 8-3, Texas and Oakland split a double header with the a s winning the opener 1-0 and the rangers the Nightcap 5 0, Minnesota blasted Milwaukee 10-3 and Chicago downed Seattle 8-3 in 10 innings. Royals 3, Angels 2 Pete Lacock singled Home Clint hurdle with two out in the ninth inning to lift Kansas City to its Victory Over California increasing the royals West Lead to 4% games. Hurdle started the winning royals rally with a two out Pinch triple off loser Nolan Ryan 7-13. Tigers 1, indians 0 Dave Rozema s four hitter and Rusty staub s sacrifice Fly paced the tigers. Rozema 8-10, was helped by three double plays and allowed Only one runner to reach second base. Staub s Fly Ball scored Ron Leflore who beat out an infield hit stole his 63rd base of the season and moved to third on Lou Whitaker s sacrifice. Orioles 8, Blue jays 3 Gary Roenicke s bases loaded double and Lee May s two run Homer carried the orioles to Victory and gave Jim Palmer who went the distance his 19th win against 12 losses. Willie Horton hit a three run Homer for the jays. Athletics 1-0, rangers 0-5 Rookie Steve Comer 9-4, pitched a four hitter for his second shutout of the season in helping the rangers Salvage a split. Oakland won the first game of the double header 1-0 behind Alan Wirth 4-4, who also pitched a four hitter. Twins 10, Brewers 3 Dan Ford collected four hits including three doubles to spark an 18-hit attack that led the twins Over the Brewers drop Ping the third place Brewers five games behind the Yankees in the american league East. Rookie Roger Erickson scattered eight hits. Chison 8, mariners 3 Claudell Washington Mike Colbern and Rusty Torres hit run scoring singles in the 10th inning to key a five run rally that lifted the White sox past the mariners. The mariners tied the score 3-3 in the ninth on a Pinch hit Home run by Bob Robertson his seventh. Crenshaw s second round 63 nets two stroke margin in Texas open an Antonio Texas a texan Ben Crenshaw the 1973 Texas open Cham Pion carved out a 7-under-Par 63 in Fri Day s second round of the $200,000 Texas open to grab a two stroke advantage Over Lou Graham. Crenshaw 26, a former University of Texas Star who has played the 6,525-Yard Oak Hills country club course since he was a teen Ager had four birdies in his first nine holes and put together consecutive birdies on his last two holes to go 12 under. Graham shot a three under Par 67 Fri Day to go with his 63 in the first round. Bun Ched at 132 were first round Leader Hubert Green popular Lee Trevino and England s Peter Oosterhuis. Crenshaw s two round total of 128 ties the lowest score recorded on the pea tour this year. Phil Hancock had a 14-under-Par 128 after two rounds of the greater Hart Ford open in july. The 63 was Crenshaw s lowest round in his five year career on the Charles Coody Mark Mccumber Lon Hinkle Forrest Fezler George Burns Dave Eichelberger Jerry Mcgee Phil Hancock Homero Blancas Danny Edwards Don Pooley Parker Moore Jack Renner Bob Zender Bobby Wadkins Jim Colbert Howard Twitty Bob Murphy Bruce Fleisher Frank Beard Steve Veriato . Weibring fuzzy Zoeller Orville Moody Keith Fergus Dan Pohl 67-67134 66-68-134 68-67135 64-71135 69-66135 67-68135 69-66-135 71-64135 71-65-136 69-67136 69-67136 70-66136 70-66-136 67-69136 67-69136 68-68136 68-68-136 66-70-136 69-68137 71-66-137 65-72137 67-70137 70-67137 68-69137 70-67137 69-69138 Fred Marti de Sneed Jerry heard Wally Armstrong John Schroeder Eddie Pearce Wayne lev Travis Hudson Brad Bryant Tom Kite Grier Jones Gil Morgan Michael Booker Charles Gibson Rex Caldwell Larry Nelson Terry Diehl Lynn lot Bill Rogers Alan Tapie Bruce Lietzke Dave Barr Woody Blackburn Greg Powers Curtis strange Chris Clark 71-67-133 66-72130 73-65-138 69-69138 67-71-138 68-70-138 70-68-138 70-68-138 72-66-138 70-68-136 70-68-138 69-69138 68-70-138 69-70 1 a 69-70-139 73-66-13v 66-73137 69-70139 69-70-139 70-69-139 72-67-139 70-69-139 67-72-139 68-71-139 70-69139 68-72140 Green who blistered the course for a 62 thursday in his first time to play it soared to a 70 Friday. Oosterhuis matched Crenshaw s 63 to go with a first round 69. Trevino trailed by his usual huge Gal Lery birdied his last two holes for a 64 that shoved him into the third place tie. Trevi no had six birdies and a bogey for a 30 on his final nine holes. Crenshaw had fired a 65, despite two bogeys in thursday s round but was t pleased and spent some time afterwards on the practice tee. I made one Little change in my  m getting behind the Ball More he said. It s made All of the difference in the world. I had two stupid bogeys. You Don t like to drop shots that  it was Green however who was plagued with two bogeys Friday both of them coming on his last nine holes. It was very uneventful and unexciting said Green 31, of Birmingham Ala. I had it close enough today to break Par but i missed five or six putts i made yesterday. Plus i had two  the leaders . Team takes slim Lead in dressage championship Ben Crenshaw Lou Graham Hubert Green Peter Oosterhuis Lee Trevino Tom Purtzer Lee Mikles Leonard Thompson Tommy Aaron Ray Floyd Hale Irwin 65-63128 63-67130 62-70-132 69-63132 68-64132 66-67-133 47-67134 69-65134 68-66134 70-64134 67-67134 by Herbert Sparrow Lexington by. A Veteran rider Michael plumb came through under pressure Friday to record the Best dres Sage score in the world championship 3 Day event at the Kentucky horse Park and give his United states team a slim Lead Over West Germany after the first phase of Competition. When plumb 38, of Chesapeake City md., the third from last rider entered the dressage ring he knew it would take a Superior Effort to overcome the Lead built up by great Britain s team. He responded with a score of 50.2 penalty Points to take individual honors and give the United states a Lead that later with stood a top ride by Germany s Helmut re the Meir. Plumb s score combined with the scores of . Riders Bruce Davidson and James Wofford a Surprise last minute addition to the . Team to give the team a total of 173.8 Points. The . Team won the championship four years ago in England. Rethemeier s ride gave his team a score of 174.2 Points going into saturday s endur Ance test. The 80-degree heat and High humidity led event officials to shorten the roads and tracks Section of saturday s endurance test to allow the horses More recovery time before they begin the gruelling 4vz-mile Cross country Section. There were also some concerns expressed by meet veterinarians Over the difficulty of some of the jumps but no formal complaint was lodged and the technical committee made no changes in the jumps. Great Britain which had led the team dressage Competition prior to the rides of plumb and Rethemeyr finished the dres Sage phase in third place with 182 Points. Holland stood fourth with 197.6, led by a 52.4-Point ride Friday by Eddi Stibbe third in individual scoring. Following Holland was Canada with 204.4 new zealand with 209 and Argentina with 241.2. Great Britain s Jane Holderness Roddam was second to plumb in individual scoring with 52 Points aboard her horse Warrior followed by Stibbe. Rounding out the top five were Jane Starkey of great Britain with 54.2, and Otto Ammermann of West Germany the leading dressage rider in the 1976 olym pics with 55.2. Story Jenks 20, of the United states who had the top score in thursday s dres Sage Competition with 57 Points was in seventh place behind Rethemeyr who had55.6. The Competition will conclude with stadium jumping sunday. Davidson the defending individual Champion stood Lith after the dressage with 61.4 Points while Tad coffin also of the United states the 1976 olympic Gold medal Winner was 17th with 66.5 Points. The team standings were determined by combining the scores of the three lowest scoring riders on each team