European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 21 sports Upshaw single lifts Blue jays Over tribe from press dispatches Cleveland Willie Upshaw stroked a two run single in the ninth inning thursday rallying the Toronto Blue jays to a 65 Victory Over the Cleveland with Cleveland leading 54 in the Tom allowed Lead off singles to Lloyd Moseby and George putting runners at first and after Moseby was thrown at the plate trying to score on Jesse bar Fields grounder to third baseman Brook Bryan Clark relieved and got Pinch hitter Ron Sheperd to ground with both runners moving Upshaw then stroked a single to Cen Ter to make a Winner of Dennis Bill Caudill pitched the ninth to record his eighth won for the fourth straight game and improved its win Ning percentage to the Best in Toronto took a 43 Lead with four runs in top of the sixth on Bells two run Ernie Whites rib grounder and Pinch hitter Ranee Mulliniks in the Bottom of the Blue jays starter Jim Clancy was relieved by Jim Acker after walking Lead off Batter Andre one out Acker walked Mike after Joe Carter struck Tony Bernazard singled Home Thornton As Hargrove took Pat Tabler batted for Butch Benton and to scor ing Cleveland took a 10 Lead in the first up photo Willie Upshaw cinches Toronto 4th straight win on Jacobs fielders Choice Carters rib single and be tons sacrifice Fly gave the indians a 30 advantage in the Bells his eighth of the was the first off Cleveland pitching in 58 Kansas cites George Brett had homered in the first inning on May As orioles 2 Dave King mans two out single in the sixth inning see Al on Page 26 oilers even series Philadelphia a Wayne Gretzky scored the 50th playoff goal of his National hockey league career and Willy Lindstrom got the game Winner thursday night As the Edmonton oilers evened the Stanley cup finals with a 31 Victory Over the Philadelphia the built on a persistent fore checking Effort for which the flyers Are usually ended Edmonton nine game 801 wingless Streak against Phila the defending Champion oilers will Host the next three games in the Best of seven series beginning with game 3 on saturday hockey most dominant Offen Sive and fellow centers Mark Mes sier and Kevin Mcclelland led the Stellar defensive performance by the Edmonton didst allow the flyers to gather any momentum by checking Philadelphia puck carriers All Over the Gretzky got the Only goal of the first period at when he skated around the Philadelphia net and backhanded his own rebound into an unguarded Edmonton defens Eman Paul Coffey had taken the puck around the net and sent a pass out front to whose Backhander was blocked by goalie Pelle but the puck squirted Loose and Gretzky pounced on it for his 11th goal of the play the flyers tied it at of the second period when Tim Kerr sent a wrist shot through the legs of goalie Grant Coffey had displayed the puck deep in the Edmonton allowing Dave Poulin to grab it behind nil playoffs the net and feed Kerr in the at Lindstrom a third line for Ward converted a 15foot wrist shot from the Slot after a perfect setup by Mike the loss was Only the second in the last 25 Home games for the Edmonton last beat Philadelphia on the flyers pulled Lindbergh with 54 seconds but Edmonton Dave Hunter hit the empty net with 27 seconds left to Clinch the oilers held the flyers to just four shots in the third period and 18 Edmonton had a game total of As in game the oilers had to kill off a woman advantage in the first but it lasted Only 14 though Fuhr made two Tough saves on Brian Propp in that Fuhr stopped propps snapshot from Clos Range with a sliding leg save and Propp shot the rebound into furs the second period was More with both goalies once again the flyers didst get a shot at Fuhr for the first nine but when they did the Edmonton net minder was Quick to foil Mark Howes snapshot and Murray Cra Vens Backhander on the Lindbergh made a sliding skate save on then got his stick on Charlie Hud Dys Lee Fogolin also hit the Cross bar from Long Edmonton coach Glen Sather shuffled see nil on Page 23 players of strike vote if necessary Chicago a the executive Board of the major league baseball play ers association thursday unanimously authorized its leaders to take a strike vote by the players if they feel it necessary during negotiations with the club acting executive director Don Fehr said no deadline had been imposed be cause we want to get input from All the play and he said no strike would be called before july Fehr said conduct sessions with All 26 teams beginning Friday in Chicago and he estimated it would take him two weeks to Complete the its but some of us have been through this Fehr refer ring to a 1981 strike that shut Down the game for 50 we have a terrible feel ing weve seen All this but it seems that nothing else matters to the owners unless deadlines Are Fehr said owners should realize the authorization vote was the consequence of their continuing the same Type of posture they had shown the Union since negotiations began last Fehr said the eight Point proposal Mon Day from the club owners had the effect of destroying free they want to turn Back the clock and deny to players Funda mental economic he also said the owners proposal contained no substantive offers on any key is sues being negotiated television the players Benefit salary minimum salaries and the expansion of major league Fehr said the owners claim that they were facing dire economic conditions that were getting worse is without he said he had reached that conclusion after a preliminary study of financial data supplied by the baseball commissioner Peter Ueberroth had said thursday that a strike authorization would be a serious in to discuss the lights Issue of Chicago Wrigley told reporters his role would be to keep the rhetoric Down and keep the two sides at the the commissioner i dont agree with All the items the players association has put on the and i dont like every thing the owners have put on the on the owners proposed a modified salary Cap that would limit the amounts teams could pay free agents and players acquired in the payroll plan put Forth by the owners would not affect salaries of those on the existing 40man Fehr said the proposal would limit the players ability to bargain in an open mar restrict their Freedom to move from one club to another and thus wipe out gains the had made in free the owners have said their payroll plan was necessary to slow the climb in salaries and allow their Revenue to catch up with their the owners have said their aggregate losses for last year were Between and they projected that the losses would reach million by the Union viewed those numbers with calling them essentially mean there Are All kinds of ways to show said Hebert passes invaders Over Denver Denver a Bobby Hebert threw four touchdown passes and the Oakland defense chalked up three leading the Western conference leading in vaders to a 3116 Triumph Over the Denver Gold thursday night in United states foot Ball league the playing before Only spotted the invaders a 140 first Quad Ter Lead and  falling Ivi games behind Oakland As the playoff race winds raised its record to 10 while Denver fell to Hebert got his team on the scoreboard hooking up with wide receiver Gor Liefl Roundup Don Banks on the invaders second play from scrimmage for a later in the opening following an interception of Denver quarterback Bob Gagliano by cornerback Ito Hebert beat the Blitz and flipped a 17yard to pass Over the Middle to running Back Albert Denver Drew within 147 Early in the second after Lonnie Harris re turned a punt 44 Gagliano passed 22 Yards to Leonard Harris and backup full Back Todd Gerhart ran the final seven Gerhart was replacing Bill the a sols second leading who suffered a Groin injury just before the to and did not the invaders countered with a 99yard scoring drive to go up Shawn Faulk ners Fumble on a Kickoff return was recovered by the invaders at their own 1yard Bentley got his team out of the Hole with a 52yard and seven plays later he Bert passed two Yards to Steve Wright on a tackle eligible play for the Denver got within 2110 As the half expired on Jim Asmus 35yard Field novo Bojovich 20yard Field goal capped a 90yard Oakland drive to Start the third and the invaders expanded their Lead to 3110 when Hebert lofted his fourth touchdown an 11 yarder to Derek Holloway with to helped by two pass interference penalties against invader safety John the Gold scored with Gagliano passed two Yards to Brad Calip for the but Gagu Anos pass on the two Point conversion attempt was