European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 24, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse April 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary Reuss fhe mechanical Man the thing about Jerry Russ As a Pitcher you can never Tell from looking at him whether he has just Given up a base loaded Home run or has struck the Side he Doest look just sort of As if it were happening to someone the pitches Are served up with the kind of Deadpan detachment of a croupier at a As if the out come were of minimal concern to the his attitude seems to you win a you lose a he Doest Greet Success or failure with a shrug but neither does he show an excess of he is the arc typical Veteran the kind who would be grizzled on the sports if Only he had grading he is Blond and so far As to look bleached and so slender As to look like a in another life he might have been a potsdamer guard or a Hussar in the austrian the in their casual Call him his pitching is mechanical and analytic As he never he approaches the Job of pitching the Way a plumber might approach a he probes for exploits solves it is As impersonal As fixing a he is a his hours Are 7 in the morning to at his fees Are reasonable and his work is watching him pitch a game is like watching a Guy make a every piece he never seems to get excited even particularly you almost imagine him whipping put an order Sheet and giving this Guy ill strike this Guy will hit to this Guy might get a i would Esti mate i can get this Job done in 2 hours and 10 min with no More than seven hits or two sign nothing in baseball surprises he has pitched in 484 major league nearly he has thrown probably he knows he is probably never going to get to the Hall of although he has out dulled some who he is four no hitters behind Nolan Ryan but one no hitter ahead of such immortals As Grover Cleveland lefty Brown and dizzy none of whom had he is the consummate he gets people out which is what pitching is All his 178 victories put him in an Echelon of consistency not Many pitchers there Are pitchers at Coopers town with he is not Only right around the he is right around the the the the no one Ever had to hold any planes for Jerry Hes never missed the National Anthem or the team he gives up the Ball without a fuss when he Doest have his for pitching is not so much an Art As a it responds to to product control like any other when i first came Here to the i was a High fastball recounts i threw the Ball for and i had a Bunch of nearly 180 every i noticed 1 also had a lot of Well Over 100 every it was i had seven Guys standing around me with nothing to i was throwing 150 pitches by the seventh i would get nine strike outs and 50 foul i hey if i throw Low fast these Guys Are going to beat them in the ground and every body gets in the i can get out of some innings on three instead of Jerry Reuss became a full professional that the velocity of his pitches didst just the Phi a new a new Confidence took Reuss became a dealer out on that he was the he had the the deck was with like every Good he never blamed the just the when youre you figure nobody should hit Good he when you Settle you realize even poor hitters occasionally hit Good you realize the times Good hitters dont hit bad pitches and it evens How Many times you let go of a pitch you wish you had you say there goes a Gopher Ball and he the hitter pops it you learn to make the hitter hit your pitch the one Hes not looking the one he cant you do the hitters when Jerry Russ first came to the he was not the unflappable pro he he used to try to blow hitters that so Tough to do that his former the Pittsburgh wondered if he be better off in a capacity known As Long it is a kind of complicated rear guard action in which you attempt to hold the to keep a Fallback from becoming a rout and keep the game close until the real the the Short Relief Man can take it was kind of a demeaning task for a Guy who had won 18 games two seasons but baseball is a copycat when i told the in not a Relief in a starter they said yeah How come Pittsburgh didst Start a Reuss Reuss got his Chance when the staff grew thin at an Allstar break and the new Lowall lefty turned the league into a Congress of carpet beat swept to an 186 threw a had an earned run average of and finished second in the by Young he was almost the key in the world championship out dueling Nolan no to put the team into the and Ron Guidry to put the team into world championship for the Hes a pros to a Hes a to the Hes a ground Ball to or a Low to its a los Angeles times Vocus Barnett named Tulsa basketball coach up the basketball coach at Virginia common wealth last monday night was named coach of the University of announcement of the move was made by school president Paschal Twyman at a news Barnett replaces Nolan who resigned april 9 to become coach of Tulsa University has some very Fine players and a tremendous program that Nolan Richardson has Barnett it will be a Challenge for me to try main Taining and improving on his i feel the nucleus of a championship team is Al ready Here and a top level team might be one or two players had a 13248 record in six seasons at Virginia his rams were in the Mcaa tournament five Virginia Commonwealth went 266 this year and was the regular season and tournament Champion of the Sun Belt the rams were ranked As High As 11 and were the 2 seed in the West Barnett said ecu assistant coaches Kevin Eastman and Dave Hobbs will join him in Barnett told the Richmond newsreader he was taking the Tulsa Job because of More Money and better Job be fore going to Virginia bar Nett coached Louisiana tech for two Al file photo Barnett 13248 record at ecu from Page 21 homered along with Darryl Motley to Lead Kansas Dave Stieb went the distance for the Blue jays but took the i Brewers White sox 2 Chicago Bill schroeders two run Homer with one out in the top of the eighth snapped a 22 tie to carry Rollie fingers earned his second save in support of Winner Danny twins mariners 5 Minneapolis Kirby Puckett belted his first major league a three run and Gary Gaetti smacked a two run Homer to spark a 16hit attack that powered Ken i was the Angels As 1 Juan Beniquez and Doug Decinces homered and Jim Sla ton scattered three hits Over eight innings to Power the Crosby from Page 21 unavailable for immediate Nathaniel said he would not let them do that with his fathers Sullivan the first Crosby tournament was played in Rancho Santa in Southern califor with a Small group of pros competing for in prize Bing Crosby postponed the event after six because of world War and moved the tournament to the Monterey 100 Miles South of san Francis in the Crosby inaugural was a on Day affair won by Sam Snead with a 68 in snead1 won again in firing a score of 139 Rygr two the tourney continued As a two round affair until when de Furgol and George Fazio tied for the title with scores of 213 during three Days of play Over the three Crosby courses Pebble Cypress Point and Monterey the three Day format continued until when Billy Casper won the first 72hole Crosby with a score of Many of golfs biggest names won the Snead won it four Jack Casper and Lloyd Mangrum three Tom Watson and Cary Middlecoff Ben Hogan won in Art Wall won in 1959 on the Way to pea player of the year and an outgoing Fel Low named Tony Lema flashed into the Public Eye with a Champagn splashed Crosby win in one fellow who never did win the Crosby was Arnold who was often victimized by the weather lashed Seaside courses used in the Palmer once played himself out of Contention when he drove a Ball onto the Rocky Shore and then needed a Hal dozen shots to extricate Crosby personally managed the tournament until his death in since his wife and his son have hosted the Dick member of the executive committee of the said he didst know whether a Board member was receiving a finders fee from a potential he said that a month ago a representative from the Monterey Peninsula Golf found which governs the Crosby met with pea commissioner Deane Beman and cd St to discuss the at that time offered to cosponsor the tournament for he everything was on the up and Searle but then last he the Crosby family said they didst want the name stuck on the and they decided to pull he said spent million in advertising at the event this Harry president of the foundation at the May have invited to the meeting with the and i think that who Crosby is refer ring in her Searle said of Holmes said monday in a Telephone interview from his Home at Pebble Beach that he resigned As foundation president last asked whether he was receiving Money from while he was serving the foun Holmes i cant really respond to Holmes would not say Why he
