European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 16, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                22 the stars and stripes May 1985 2forj baseball bargain growing scarce by Randy Minkoff Chicago up remember in the Good of Days when you could look Forward to going to a double Cadar at your favorite Ballpark Tor those who  afford or  make time to go to the Park regu the doubleheader was a fans dream two games for one Chicago cubs Hallof Famor Krnic Banks probably earned More Fame for saying lets play two today than he did slugging More than 500 Home but double headers the scheduled at least Are becoming a vanishing item in baseball and with the unbelievably dry weather during april and Early there have been no ram outs to create those july and August twin teams used to try to schedule about a half or so usually on but in the National you Are going to have to wait until june in riverfront stadium in Cincin Nati to see your first regularly scheduled and that wont be a Day doubleheader its a some teams Arent scheduling any doubleheaders this Houston and los Angeles plan to play the Maxi mum amount of dates the and reds Promise just one twin the defending no Champion san Diego padres and san Francisco giants list two things Are not much different in the american Kansas Balti the new York Yankees and Boston have no doubleheaders Only Cleveland and Toronto Promise one on the there of reasons for the disappearance of scheduled Doublehead the growth of the players association through the years has helped curb the which most players dont care the players argument can be based on the lengthening of single last the average time of american league games was 2 37 minutes and in the National league it was 2 35 that quite a jump from the 10minute average of 25 years ago when doubleheaders were More like the White sox Tony also have another berlins Yzaguirre wins at interservice Chanute two time Usa eur Champion Yackie Yzaguirre of Berlin swept Jane Vigie of the air Force 157 As the interservice racquetball championships continued the air Force led through the second Day of the five Day the air Force had 58 Points to take a big Lead Over which stood second with Navy was third with 23 Points and the marines last with in the mens open us Afes Frank Pruitt of was Defeated by Lou Souther of the air Force in seniors safes Willie minor of Hahn Defeated Angel Sandoval of the marines Cleveland municipal stadium is scheduled for Only one doubleheader in up photo youll find that by and More of the doubleheaders Are Larussa and that also Means you Are using your pitching staff and in some going right through a pitching in one it May be True about the but in the National league last year 22 double headers were swept by one team the cubs won tops in the league while Only 15 were expansion has also diluted the number of when there were Only eight teams in each doubleheaders could be scheduled comfortably because of the Shorter distances that needed to be it is hard for some people to re member that major league baseball once was never farther West than there Are economic says White sox president Eddie the More dates you have the More Revenue that can come in from conces Sions and the by scheduling single you have less flirtation with the Weatherman who can be very unfriendly to major league you can run the risk of raining out a scheduled Einhorn then you Are talking about not just Mak ing up one game but that never seemed to deter the teams in the old but Einhorn Point is a Little More germane in the american where each club makes Only two trips into each City each in the National clubs make three intr division trips each year and two to the other As a the Only reasonable time to schedule doubleheaders would be for National league teams that play division no radio hockey Stanley cup playoffs que Bec Nordques at Philadelphia followed by Edmonton oilers at Chicago Black from Page 17 but Samuel followed with a two run single As the Phillies went on to score three Samuels second Homer of the season broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning against loser Tom in other no games tuesday giants pirates 1 san Francisco Mike Krukow tossed a clubbed two doubles and drove in two runs to Lead san Francis lowered his earned run average to in pitching his third com plete game of the the giants pitchers have four Bis in their last two Jim Gott hit two homers Pittsburgh manager Chuck Tanner expressed concern Over Larry who hit two batters in a three run second his Arm Felt a Little he thought it would go but it were going to have him checked out when we get Tanner mets braves 1 Atlanta Roger Mcdowell was perfect in pitching 4 innings and combining with Calvin Schiraldi on a three hitter As new York won for the seventh time in eight replaced Schiraldi after Claudell Washington Schiraldi left with pain in his right which was struck by Washington infield single in the first the winners of 11 of their last 15 Learned after the game that Schiraldi toe was broken by the the braves lost their sixth game in Rick Mahler lost his second straight after a 70 Dale Murphy lost his hitting Streak of 15 he went witless in four at and struck out astros expos 0 Houston Jerry Mumphrey had three hits and drove in three runs and Craig Reynolds had four hits and drove in leading a 17hit Houston attack that crushed Ron Mathis combined with Mark Ross to six hit the went seven surrendering five of the who was called up from the Pacific coast league earlier in the also batted in a padres cardinals 2 san Diego in not As Good As that 70 said Andy Hawkins after pitching five innings to gain the Ltd not making Many Good in very hit table but Ive got Guys Back there who can make the Hawkins gave up five including homers to Andy Van Slyke and Darrell before departing in the Mark Thurmond earned his first save with four innings of two hit Hawkins benefited from a three run Homer by Kevin after get Ting off to a slow Start this Mcvey nolo has hit in nine straight driving in 10 runs Over that Kevin Mcreynolds cracked a three run Homer and Andy Hawkins struggled to his seventh straight Victory As san Diego unloaded on won even in his weakest Outing of the he pitched five innings and gave up both runs on homers by Andy Van Slyke and Darrell Mark in his first Relief appearance of the gave up two hits the rest of the Way for his first cubs dodgers 3 los Angeles trailing Chi Cago sent 10 men to the plate in the second inning against Fernando who had wild pitched Gary Matthews Home from third in the first issued base loaded walks to Ryne Sandberg and Keith Moreland after Chi Cago starter Rick Sutcliffe rib an error by dodger shortstop Mariano Duncan brought the fourth run gave up six hits and four striking out in his fourth com Plet game Victory of the in happier with the Way i swung the Bat than i am with my Sutcliffe