European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse May 1985 the stars and stripes Page 23 commentary rare Birds own baseballs Fop Perch the Blue jays play their own version of trivial Pursuit and play it better than any other see if you can stay even with the High flying Birds in what province is Toronto located in what year did Toronto join the Ameri can league literature when will Toronto begin printing press guides for the 1985 world series science and nature True or false olympic stadium has artificial turf sports and Leisure name four of the eight play ers in the Blue jays starting you know these Guys play a mean game when they answered that last anybody who could rattle off names like George Ernie Ranee Mulli and Lloyd Moseby knows his and when they tacked on Tony Jesse Dama so Garcia and Willie Upshaw for Good measure you know youre in so is the rest of the Al when Detroit offers players like Lou Alan Trammell and Jack Morris and still cant keep you know the Blue jays Are when with Cal rip Eddie Murray and Fred Lynn in the continues to fall farther you know the Blue jays Are one mean yet the Blue jays managed to reach the top rung without an not once since their inception in 1977 see history question has a Blue Jay been voted to the Al starting answering questions about the team whose Home Field can be found in Ontario see geography question used to bring some who was the last Al Pitcher to make the final out in an Allstar game Blue jays right hander Dave who accomplished that feat in the 1981 classic when the Al had no hitters left in the ninth or How about the last team to finish at the Bottom six straight years the last team in the Al East to fall victim to a perfect game the answers to these Are the team is Toron the same bal club that plays its Home game on the largest artificial surface in North see Sci ence and nature you could chuckle about their past answers to baseballs toughest but the 1985 Blue Birds Are no laughing Toronto is playing the Best Ball of any team in the despite using a lineup peopled by virtual the Blue jays pursue no theres nothing trivial about the 1985 Blue Power dont look for a Dale Murphy or a Tony armas in Toronto but the Blue jays can answer with Bell and Moseby All of whom hit at least 15 homers last and threaten to repeat those efforts this time if you think theres a weak Hitler on this think whats the Blue jays attack is double barrelled their eighties and lefties arc equally with Jim Doyle Alexan Der and Luis Leal handling the the Blue jays Are relievers with Bill Caudill and Gary Levells added to the the Blue jays filled the one Gap that existed last when the Blue jays finished at 15 games behind Jim key and Dennis lamp have turned things giving Toronto one of the deepest bullpen in All of trivia buffs insist theres no Hope of predicting a world championship for theres never been a world series in history no Canadian team has reached a world and theres no Way to prove at this Point that the Blue jays will remain the top team in base when youre playing As Well As the Blue the questions just get and As for world series press guide see literature question the answer is Early october after beating the Al wests representative four games to the stars and stripes Arkansas Mcaa track Hopes dimmed by qualifying failures Texas up olympic Silver medallist Mike Conley did his Best to keep Arkansas Hopes alive for the Mcaa track and Field team title wednesday but the Razorbacks failed to qualify five competitors who had been expected to win the opening Day of qualifying at the huge track carnival also saw Nawal Al Moutaw akel of Morroco and Iowa state fail to qualify for the finals in women 400 meter hurdles the event in which she won a Gold medal at the los Angeles olym there was Only one final conducted wednesday the women meter it was held late in the evening to escape the 90degree which baked the Region during the Iowa Nan Doak won the with a time of to easily defeat Christine Mcmiken of Oklahoma Conley was one of the chief reasons a Kansas was an overwhelming favorite to win the Mcaa outdoor title and thus Complete the triple Crown of College he led qualifiers in the Long jump with a leap of and rocketed to a time of seconds in the 200meter conveys 200 time was the Best clocking in that then Conley ran the third leg of the a Kansas sprint relay which made it into the but elsewhere the Razorbacks suffered Large scale both Joey Wells and Michael Davis failed to qualify for the Lon jump Mark Klee was knocked out of the pole Marty Kobza did not make it to the finals of the discus and Fred Cleary did not run a fast enough time to make it into the finals of the 400meter All of those Arkansas athletes had been expected to earn we still dont think we Are in bad said Arkansas coach John Mcdon whose team could now be threatened by either Washington state or Iowa but we thought it would be close the entire were obviously disappointed that Kobza and Cleary did not it puts More pressure on some of our other i feel sorry for he missed qualifying by just of a and it is the second year in a Row he finished ninth with the top eight making it to the in the women Competition olympian Jackie Joyner of who will take part in six qualified for the finals in the 400meter hurdles and helped her team win their heat of the 400meter but she missed out in the Long finishing 16th with a jump of 205 the leading qualifiers wednesday included defending Champion Danny Harris of Iowa state in the 400meter hurdles Kjell Bystedt of san Jose state in the Hammer throw Patrick Sang of Texas in the steeplechase Earl Jones of Eastern Michigan in the 800 Laura Desnoo of san Diego state in the women discus 185 Juliet Cuthbert of Texas in the Wom ens 200 and Leann Warren of Ore gon in the women 800 Al Moutaw akel underwent knee surgery earlier this year after winning the olympic Gold she had won the Only race she had entered this year in the Kansas re but her time of in the qualifying heats wednesday was the ninth Best and left her out of the Al a Sophomore from Casa Blanca who set an olympic record with a time of last summer in los finished second in her moving ahead to the final were the four heat winners and the next four fastest the fastest time in the heats was by Latanya Sheffield of san Diego her time broke the meet record of set by Al Moutaw akel last year and bettered the stadium Mark of also established by the olympic Champion last a photo Johnnie Lemaster unhappy in Cleveland indians Trade Lemaster to bucs Cleveland a the Cleveland indians traded Veteran shortstop Johnnie be master to the Pittsburgh pirates wednesday for a player to be named later or was acquired by the indians earlier in the month from the san Francisco he was placed in the teams lineup so Julio who was playing erratic defense at could move to second but the Experiment ended eight games with who never adjusted to play ing second moving Back to Lemaster went to the Bench and Tony Berna Zard returned to his Job at second Lemaster immediately said he wanted to be he appeared in 11 games with hitting no from Page 21 the blast tied Murphy with bos tons Tony armas for the major league Lead in the Host braves went ahead for Good in the with two Glenn Hubbard hit a grounder that took a bad hop Over the head of shortstop Ozzie Smith and went for a two run single that made it reds cubs 0 Cincinnati Mario mixing a Nasty Slider into his fired a two hitter and struck out nine for his first shutout of the was in trouble Only in the fourth a single by Keith More land and two walks loaded the bases with two but Steve Lake grounded into a Force in the Soto walked two More but struck put Ron Cey and Leon Durham to end the Dave Parker hit a sacrifice Fly in the third inning for the games Only it followed Gary Redus double off Dick astros pirates 3 Houston Jim Pankovits drilled a grand slam Home run that highlighted a seven run rally in the seventh inning to help Nolan Ryan beat Pittsburgh for the ninth straight Houston trailed 31 entering the Sev but exploded against starter Jim Winn and relievers Ray Krawczyk and John Pankovits greeted can Delaria with his first career expos padres 1 san Diego Andre Dawson led off the top of the ninth inning with a Home run that carried Montreal Over san Dawson connected for his seventh Homer of the season off Craig who had worked a 123 eighth inning after taking Over for starter Dave reliever Tim Burke won his first major league decision by pitching the eighth in Ning in san Jeff Reardon took Over to Start the ninth and earned his major league leading 14th it was also the 100th save of rear dons mets giants 3 san Francisco the held to one hit in the first seven innings by Dave rallied for four runs in the eighth inning to overcome a 30 Lapoint retired the first Batter of the but then yielded a Pinch hit double by Wally Backman and an rib single by cookie Mark relieved Lapoint and surrendered a single to Kelvin Wilson and Chapman then executed a double steal and Gary Carter hit a two run double to tie it
