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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 20, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday september 20, 1980 the stars and stripes Poge 21 Academy feels seasick As players ride Waves pleasant Bay. Mass. A Massachusetts maritime Academy football coach Don rugger has problem 42 of his players Are Board ship on the Atlantic Ocean and he won t gel them Back until the fifth of me of the season. I guess Yon have to Call this a unique situation rugger said in an interview in thursday s Boston Globe. As result our team now consist of six seniors and 31 freshmen. Prob lems Vou better believe  the football team rugger thought he was going to have if undergoing sea training aboard the buy slate the training ship of the Academy. Every Massachusetts maritime Stu Dent must Complete a 60-Day trip on the Bay state As part of the require ments to get a License As an officer in the . Merchant Marine. The Onilse was to have ended before football sea son started but mechanical problems with the ship delayed the Start of the voyage. Eighteen players on the ship were starters us year and rugger said he figured on daring a decent , the Only veterans on the team at present ire defensive end George Shaab guard Bob Long defensive Back Bill Poller right end Waller Cabuccio flanker Don Simla and split end Gery Beehan. Rugger said he Hopes o Hare Mike Quinn the school s leading running Back last year with the team on sat urday but Quinn who rained on a commercial ship has t had time to  started drills sept. 7 and we had to stress the basics says rugger. Now i know what starting from scratch Means. We might be the most inexperienced team in the  yanks Blue jays split orioles win by Fred Mcmane up sports writer Luis Leal was one member of the to Ronto Blue jays thursday night who re fused to be a Clay Pigeon for the new York Yankees. After watching his team squander a four run Lead in the 10th inning and lose 8-7 in 13 in the completion of wednesday Rogers Hont by great swingers one Way to appreciate the company Kansas City s George Brett Hopes to join is to note that the lowest lifetime average of any .400 bitter in this Cen Tury was .339 by both Cap Anson and Nap Lajoie. Tycobb beads the list with .367, followed by Rogers Homs by s .358. Both were .400 hitlers three limes. The last .400 hitter Ted Williams .406 in 1941was .344 lifetime. Up Breff s thursday average games left bad 2 for 3 .398 15 Al Roundup night s suspended game Leal was Given the Ball on Short notice in the second game and went out and stopped the Yankees on two hits 2-1. Leal was in command All the Way said Yankee manager Dick How scr after continued on Page i asses pass Freedom but wind wins by 101in Nelson Newport . A australian skipper Jim Hardy playing the role of riverboat card shark gambled in the America s cup thursday took a huge Lead Over is. Defender Freedom then lost his race to the elements. Unfortunately for Hardy. There was no wind into which he could throw caution. After grabbing a Lead of More than 300yards on the final leg of the six leg race the time limit expired and the second match Between Australia and Freedom was  abandonment left Australia trailing 1-0 in their Best of seven series with free Dom skippered by Dennis Conner who captured the opening match. It was the ultimate disappointment for the australians who have launched the past five America s cup challenges and Nave been swept 4-0 the past two times. Trailing at every Mark. Hardy gambled that the diminishing winds would favor his boat on the fifth leg a run with the wind at her Stern. Conner had steered Freedom straight downwind and when the winds died to nothing Freedom came to a abrupt halt. Hardy who had been steering a criss crossing course carried More momentum and when he lowered his Spinnaker sail and hoisted a Light air Jib Australia car ried on past Freedom. Hardy rounded the fifth Mark and headed kick toward the finish line but the fifth leg had taken so Long that time now loomed As the australian skipper s biggest  never got close to the finish line. Freedom never even bothered to round the fifth Mark so certain was her Crew that Australia would not be Able to beat the clock. After losing by 1 52 to Freedom on tuesday Australia called a Lay Day for wednesday. Thursday s Light air looked like it would Benefit Australia but her Crew had not bargained on no air. Freedom took the Start by 10 seconds and led at the successive Marks by margins co minute on Page 22 astros rip reds still lag by 1 As . Wins by Peter Finney or. Up sports writer this is very definitely a big win for us Houston manager Bill Verdun said after the astros whipped Cincinnati 10-2 thursday to snap a three game losing Streak and remain one game behind the first place los Angeles dodgers in the National league  s a big win because at this stage you can t stay Down too Long Virdon said. We re getting to the Point where you can t afford to lose very  Joe Morgan who turned 37 Friday delivered a two run Homer to highlight a three run seventh inning that broke open a2-2 game and kept the astros within strik ing distance of the  say we Don t have Power but on the Road we have just As much Power As no. Roundup anyone Morgan said referring to his eighth Homer r.r.6 another two run shot by teammate Jose Cruz. It s just the Ball Park we play in the Astrodome where nobody has any  the loss to Houston dropped third place Cincinnati 5v\ games behind the dodgers. Ken Forsch 12-12. And Joe Sambito combined to throttle the reds on seven  grabbed a 2-0 Lead in the first inning on Dave Concepcion s run scoring double and George Foster a groundnut. Houston pulled to within 2-1 in the fifth when Cesar Cedeno walked stole second and scored on Denny waiting s sin  the seventh Alan Ashby doubled sad was replaced by Pinch runner Scott Loucks. Who was doubled Home by Pinch hitter Dave Bergman two outs later. Mor Gan followed with his two run Homer to right Field to nuke it 4-2,Houston added a run in the eighth when Terry Puhl singled stole Ciccona went to third on Joe noun a passed Ball and came Home on Tom Hume i wild pitch the exploded for five More on Enos Cabell i rib single Puhl s two run single and Cruz s 11 the Homer. In other no games los Angela continued on Page 22  
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