European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 23, 1978 the stars and stripes Page 23 Hunter bags 11th Yankee hurler goes 6 frames in 7 win Over Blue jays red sox Romp by United press International perhaps the Only thing More surprising than the comeback of the new York Yan Kees this year is the comeback of Pitcher Catfish Hunter. Hunter first began having problems at the end of the 1976 season his second with the Yankees after 10 with Kansas City Oakland. He developed tendinitis in his pitching Arm and finished the year with a 17-15 record breaking a string of five consecutive seasons As a 20-game Winner. His ailments continued throughout 1977, when he sat out a Good portion of the season and contributed Little to new York s championship with a 9-9 record. And when tie developed yet another Arm injury at the Start of the 1978 season which placed him on the disabled list once again it looked like his Brilliant career was Over. But Hunter s return like that of his Yankee teammates has been just Short of miraculous. Since coming off the injured list on july 17, after receiving new treat ment on his shoulder he has won nine and lost Only two to run his record to 11-5. If it had t been for the doctor manipulating my shoulder i d be somewhere in North Carolina right now,1 Hunter said. Hunter s latest Victory came thursday night in Toronto when he pitched six Strong innings to Lead the Yankees to a 7-1 Victory Over the Toronto Blue jays. The win kept new York two games in front of the Boston red sox in the american league East. The red sox Defeated the Detroit tigers thursday night 5-1. Hunter one of the Premier control pitch ers when he is healthy limited the jays to four hits and one walk while striking out five. Toronto s Lone run came in the first on a Lead off Home run by Rick Bosetti. Evert Kiyomura Clinch title with doubles win strings rally beat lobsters 28 los Angeles a Chris Evert and Ann Kiyomura teamed for a 6-1 Victory Over Martina Navratilova Ana Anne Smith in women s doubles the final set of the match to give the los Angeles strings a 28-25 Victory Over the Boston lobsters and the world team Tennis title. The strings won the Best of five series 3 1 by virtue of the outstanding play of Evert and Kiyomura in doubles. Los Angeles women brought their team from a 24-22 deficit entering the final set for the Triumph. Boston started fast As its men s doubles team of Roy Emerson and Dale Collings Defeated Brothers Vijay and Ashok Amri tray 6-4 in the first set of the match. The strings narrowed the Gap to 12-11 As Ilie Nastase downed Tony Roche 7-6 in men s singles. The lobsters extended their Lead to 18-15 when their mixed doubles team of Roche and Smith topped Nastase and Kiyomura 64. Evert got a Point Back for los Angeles by defeating Navratilova 7-6 in women s singles setting the stage for the final set. With the Hometown crowd of 7,154 fans urging them on Evert and Kiyomura won the first three games of the final set put Ting the strings ahead for the first time 25 24. The los Angeles pair went on to capture two More games making it 5-0 in the set and 27-24 Overall before Navratilova held service. But Kiyomura accomplished the same feat to end the match. Yastrzemski to continue playing with botox until 1981, paper says Boston up Boston red sox Cap Tain Carl Yastrzemski will continue to play with the team for the next three years scrapping his original plans to quit after next season the Boston Herald american reported Friday. If Yastrzemski stays with the team until 1981, he will become the red sox s first 20 Fate of pats linked to raiders continued rom Page 21 assignments dropping passes Fairbanks said. They Are indications of Why we Are not scoring the Points. We re doing All right Between the 20 and 20 but we Are not break ing the scoring  the patriots Are hoping tight end Russ Francis who missed the Baltimore game with a pulled hamstring muscle will return against Oakland. He is listed As a probable starter. Doug Beaudoin again re places starting Strong safety Prentice Mccray out with a knee injury. Oakland 2-1, is coming off a 28-3 win at Green Bay in which the raiders rushed for a club record 348 Yards. Mark Vaneeghen keyed the raiders ground attack. The patriots will be playing Oakland for the first time since Stingley s injury. Tatum will be a focus of interest because of Stingley but also because Green Bay coach Bart Starr blasted the raiders vet eran safety for what he termed a cheap shot against running Back Terdell Middle ton last week. Oakland coach John Madden disputed Starr s charge and called it a cheap shot against Tatum. We be looked at the film and there s nothing there Madden said. I just think Cal wrestler 18, Dies of heart attack Berkeley Calif. A an 18-year old University of California freshman wrestler collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack thursday the University announced. He was identified As Eric Leaf of rho Nert Park Calif. The University s sports in formation department said Leaf had completed stretching exercises and was in the weight room when he collapsed. Leaf was pronounced dead on arrival at a Campus Hospital. The cause of death was tentatively diagnosed As heart failure the University reported. It s pretty cheap to take a shot at Tatum especially at this time. Jack is one of the hardest hitters in football. But he is not a dirty player. He does t need that to be intimidating. His hitting ability alone is  in other games sunday Cleveland 3-0 visits Pittsburgh 3-0los Angeles 3-0 is at Houston 2-1the new York jets 2-1 at Washington 3-0st. Louis 0-3 at Dallas 2-1atlanta 1-2 at Tampa Bay 1-2miami 2-1 at Philadelphia 1-2denver 2-1 at Kansas City 1-2green Bay 2-1 at san Diego 1-2baltimore 1 2 at Buffalo 0-3detroit 1-2 at Seattle 1-2new Orleans 1 2 at Cincinnati 0-3 and san Francisco 6-3 at the new York giants 2-1. Chicago 3-0 monday night. Hosts Minnesota 1-2 year Man and will be 42 years old when he retires. I was going to quit after next year but i talked it Over with my wife and decided to go at least through 1981," Yastrzemski said before wednesday night s game with the Detroit tigers. I really thought i would retire next sea son when i made the statement but that s All changed now he said. Right now i know i can play at least five More years the Way i feel but i m going to play in 1979, 1980 and 1981 and then Call it a  Jastrezemski a 15-time american league All Star selection broke in with the red sox in 1961 when he batted .266. He has compiled a .290 career batting Mark. He hit Over .300 six times and won the american league batting title three times. The highlight of his career came in 1967 when he led the red sox to their first league championship in 21 years and won the triple Crown. No player in either league has accomplished the feat since. At 39 and playing Over half the season with a bad Back and wrist Yastrzemski is the team s third leading hitter with a .282 average this year. Celtics sign draft pick Boston up the Boston celtics have signed second round draft pick Jeff Judkins to a Multi year contract. Comes from behind to Surprise favourites Happy escort captures Hunter left after six innings because of a Groin injury and Rich Gossage came on to record his 24th save. I pulled a Groin muscle about three weeks ago Hunter said and i Felt it coming Back. So i thought i better  the Yankees collected 10 hits including six extra base hits off four Toronto pitch ers. Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson each drove in two runs. Munson hit a Sacri fice Fly to drive in one run in the three run Al Roundup fifth inning and Jackson drove in the final two runs of the inning with a double. Munson picked up his second rib in the seventh with a single. Willie Randolph Lou Piniella and Chris Chambliss drove in the other new York runs in the seventh. The Yankees magic number is now eight but new York manager Bob Lemon said he is still not confident of his team s narrow Lead Over Boston in the american league East. Ill be confident when we sink it he said. There s nine games left and we be Only got a two game Lead. I be seen a six game Lead blown with 12 games left. I re member those  the red sox who know about blowing leads received a six hitter from Dennis Eckersley who won his 18th game. Butch Hobson drove in two runs with a single in a three run first inning and Carl Yastrzemski Carlton Fisk and George Scott each contributed an rib. Rick Burle son had four hits for Boston. The tigers who found out before the game that manager Ralph Houk is retiring at the end of the season scored their Only run in the seventh on Jason Thompson s 25th Homer. Elsewhere in the Al Kansas City beat Milwaukee 8-4 and Texas Defeated Minne Sota 6-3. Royals 8, Brewers 4 Kansas City reduced its magic number to five for clinching its third straight Al West title. George Brett drove in two runs with a Homer and a single and the royals added two More runs on Milwaukee throw ing errors. Dennis Leonard ran his record to 19-17 Andy rep Ogle dropped to 9-4. Larry Hisle set a Brewers single season record of 110 Bis with run scoring singles in the first and ninth innings. Rangers 6, twins 3 Al Oliver and John Grubb drove in two runs apiece and Jon Matlack 14-13, pitched a five hitter to Pace Texas. It was Matlack s 17th Complete game of the year. Willie Norwood drove in two Minnesota runs on a double and a triple. Gary serum 9-9, was the loser. Delaware Ohio a lightly regarded Happy escort came from behind in the fourth heat thursday to win the $186, 760 Little Brown Jug the Middle leg of three year old pacing s triple Crown. Bill. Popfinger winning his first Jug masterfully drove the most Happy Fella Colt from behind in a mile time of 2 00 4-5, stunning two of the pre race favourites fal con Alm Ahurst and flight director. Happy escort the first division Winner in 1 57 2-5, overtook flight director driven by Joe o Brien shortly before the first Quarter pole and then withstood the stretch challenges of his More heralded opponents at the Delaware county Ohio fair grounds. Popfinger a 41-year-old Journeyman from Garden City n.y., showed his emotions after crossing the finish line. He flipped his whip into the infield before a re Cord crowd of 40,896 and then doffed his helmet to the huge grandstand throng. It was the eighth Victory in 19 starts this season for the Colt owned by Keystone Arbor stables of Miami and the earnings of $49,491 pushed his 1978 Money total to $143,000. Happy escort s Victory was the sixth four heat Triumph in the 33 years of this event and was the first since Nansemond won in 1971. O Brien who guided flight director to Victory in the third heat almost pulled a Victory out in the final strides. Flight director came within a neck of catching the Winner at the wire. Falcon Alm Ahurst driven by Billy Haughton settled for third place 2v� lengths behind Happy escort. Falcon Alm Ahurst owned by Hill farm of Hilliard had won the second division in 1 55 2-5, the fastest time Ever for a pacer on a half mile track. The defeat of Falcon Alm Ahurst and flight director capped a Day of upsets. Ambro Tiger the Winner of the first leg of the triple Crown the Cane Pace finished a badly beaten sixth in the second division and did not qualify for the third heat. Ambro Tiger s defeat Means there will be no triple Crown Winner for the eighth straight pacing season. Abercrombie the 15 favorite in the Sec Ond division finished second and wound up last in the eight horse third heat. Still the pre race favorite picked up $14,007, mov ing his 1978 earnings to $528,307, less than $30,000 shy of Albatross single season Mark for a pacer. Flight director owned by Cleveland Coal Baron  Downing and Falcon Alm Ahurst each won $33,616