European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday october 10, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary nobody told Stieb he could t win so much for form. Everybody knew Dave Salieb had been struggling Toronto s $25 million Man who signed one of Sec Ball s richest contracts last Spring had won just one of his last sin starts hardly the Way to prepare for the Pennant playoffs. Everybody knew Charlie Leibrandt had been hot Kansas lilys 17-Gamc Winner was he american league Pitcher of the month in september winning four of five games and posting an 0.91 Era everybody knew stick could t solve the royals this season he was 0-3 against Kansas City everybody knew the Blue jays could t hit left handers. They were 24-26 against southpaws in i hair 99-62 East division championship season. So left hander Leibrandt lasted just two plus innings suffering his fastest knockout of the year Stieb meanwhile solved his pc phobia with a Brilliant three hitter Over eight innings and Toronto routed the royals 6-1 in tuesday night s american league playoff opener. There arc you Sec no sure things in this absorbing sport called baseball. That s Why they play the games. Toronto ganged up on Leibrandt for nine hits and five runs. The Blue jays pecked away at him with an assortment of hits that fell Here there and every where eventually driving him to cover broken bats and seeing Eye hits Kansas City manager Dick Howser decided. But they re still hits. I Don t think Leibrandt s stuff was bad. They re a Good hitting club. They just found some  stick. Armed with an Early Lead coasted in s big Gest problem came not from the Kansas cily batters but from an adventurous Young lady who decided the playoff opener would be a Dandy Lime to pay him an Impromptu visit. The Toronto Ace was warming up for the second inning when the blonde fan hopped Over the Low in acc in right Field and sprinted for the Mound like a Relief Pitcher on a Rescue Mission. The crowd realized immediately thai her Black miniskirt and Matching Garter Bell did not begin of resemble the Standard Blue Jay Issue and responded with a Roar. Salieb guessed too late that something was cooking. "1 heard the crowd gel excited he said. I looked up and she was right on top of  Surprise there was no formal introduction not even any Small talk by the Canadian version of Morganna baseball s celebrated kissing Bandit. This miss merely delivered a kiss. A most enthusiastic kiss. The enthusiasm however was All one sided. Stieb was not amused. I just tried to gel her away from  he said quite sensibly. The episode ended quickly almost As quickly As stick dispatched inc royals. He was so shaken by the interruption Hal he simply retired inc Nam seven batters in order and 22 of the next 25 before leaving in the eighth inning. He had thrown 101 pitches and manager Bobby Cox decided that was enough. The Only Kansas cily Hitler to solve stick As George Brill. Who drilled a first inning double and singled in the fourth. Bui inc at Bat both he and the Pitcher remembered Best came in the sixth when he was called out on strikes. He struck me out on five pitches Brill said. I never swung the  the last strike was a Nasty Slider that tied Kansas City s Best hitter into an embarrassing knot and sent Stieb sprinting to the dugout. I was pretty pumped the Pitcher said. I started running before it broke. It was a Back door Slider probably the Only pitch he could t  Catcher Ernie White was impressed not Only with that out but Wilh slice s local performance. The key to Dave tonight was that he was throwing strikes coming right after the hitters he said. Just the Way the lady in Black had come after inc Pitcher Wilh enthusiasm and Complete Success. Grand rapids carpenters undefeated women s team finds football a Challenge by Linda Warren grand rapids Mich. Up by Day these women Are College students teachers Hospital workers secretaries de signers and commercial artists. But by night they Don the pads cleats helmets and jerseys of the grand rapids carpenters the undefeated leaders of the National women s football league. As double lives go this one is especially Tough according to the two dozen women who spend every spare minute practising competing watching and thinking about tackle football. It � a professional team although owner Mary Lohrstorfer said she and the rest of the team consider it cause for Celebration when there Are enough fans at i hair games to pay inc Cost of renting the stadium and hiring officials. Las year there were so few players some had to play both defense and offence. The carpenters ended the season Wilh a i 5 Mark tied for last place in the six team division. But it s a different ballgame this year As the carpenters reign Over their opponents with an unblemished season record going into inc playoffs later this month As heavy favourites against second place Toledo. There arc 24 women on the squad this year and said Lohrstorfer we re the team to beat no doubt about it other teams in the division arc in Lan sing Mich., and Cleveland and Columbus. The Kalamazoo team was out of play this season because of a a organizational Effort. Although there were once three other Divi Sions in the country Only the Northern Divi Sion has survived the High Cost Low Revenue Litcof women s professional football. But Lohrstorfer said there is Active in Terest on the West coast in reviving a division there a team is developing in Miami and the Northern division will gain at least one team next year since a franchise has been granted in Pittsburgh. She said there is also interest in the Indianapolis and Elkhart ind., areas. Many players said they kept their love for the Gridiron secret from co workers and relatives because icy did t want inc lecture that most often starts out with. Bui girls just Don to. " Quick to Point Oul they arc l girls inc women Are equally Quick to note that there is nothing Una Mininc about their sport or the women who play it. Assistant manager Karen Carico said she s aware of the stereotype of a woman who plays football and laughed As she pointed to the 5-foot, 115-Pound safely. Lynn dressier. Sure we Vegol some big women bul we Vegol average size women and Small ones Loo she said. People have to realize we play other women and we re basically matched against someone approximately our  coach Rahn by Nelcy a 1964 Michigan slate University graduate who played col lege football and then semipro Ball for 2w years termed inc carpenters very very capable  most players come to you already knowing the game and a style of play he said but these women just love inc game and concentrate very hard on what you have to say. They re More Rocc Plovc to instructions and follow them to the  if in was just us i Don t think they d be Oul there he said. But once icy gel a taste of football and what they can do when they re Strong and in condition other sports like softball Pale by comparison to the Competition they gel  Kathy Elenbaas a 5-foot-3, 125-Pound wide receiver and linebacker said she was a softball player who got curious and just came to Walch a  now i just love it she said admitting she kept her playing Sercl from co work ers at a local Hospital until her cover was blown when she needed some pos Idamc treatment at the emergency room there. Sex wrestlers claim they were blackballed new York up two former professional wrestlers one known As the Continental Lover and the other As the magnificent Zulu charged tuesday that they were blackballed from the sport by promoters who stage phony fights. The two hulking athletes told a new York state Senate hearing they could no longer gel matches in the United states because they refused to go along with promoters schemes. The Senate democratic task Force on professional wrestling divided Over How seriously to take the sport was led by sen. Abraham Bernstein of the Bronx who has submitted legislation to ban pro wrestling in new York. Sporting shoulder length curly red hair Eddy Mansfield professionally dubbed the Continental Lover said be had shaved his head to play a bad Guy for a 1983 match in Texas. But the promoter who had promised to pay him $5,000 plus a $1,000 Bonus gave him Only s65 when it was Over Mansfield said. He said he protested and the promoters who had billed him As Star Loid him he would never fight again. I was Black balled he said. Mansfield said be is suing the National wrestling Alliance in Atlanta Over the Black Balling Issue and because his family has been harassed since he began speaking out. Promoters cell the shots from the dress ing room to the ring. They can make you or break you said the former wrestler who is writing a Hook on the sport. Questioned by several senators he said sure matches Are  wrestlers playing the part of the bad Guy often arc told to carry razors into the ring usually hidden in their shorts so they can Cut themselves at the right moment to look like they Are badly Hurt Mansfield said. Pulling his hair Back off his forehead the former wrestler showed a series of scars near his Scalp line. They want you to believe it s real but it s not he said of the seemingly brutal bouts. Asked the role of referees he said their function is to just slay the hell out of the Way. They re paid by the  Ron Pope also known As the magnificent Zulu a Bald headed Man As tall As a basketball Center bul Wilh the Muscles of a Power lifter said he has Only been Able to get matches in third world countries since he was blackballed in 1978 for joining the a act s suit charging discrimination against Black wrestlers in California. His testimony in the Case helped put a major san Francisco area promoter out of business Pope said. Promoters could not tolerate his Independent spirit he said. They want Blacks to act like Stepin Fetchel or or. T. Bul Black people just arc l like  Bernslein said he had asked hundreds of leading arcs oilers and promoters to testify but icy had stonewalled the hearing. The Only person from the world of wrestling who showed up to testify in favor of the sport was a Short bearded Man wearing dark sunglasses a Black Robe and a White kerchief on his head and claiming to be a Sheik from saudi Arabia. He spoke with a Long Island acc Cal. Sheik Ali Abdulia also known As Al Greco said he was an Index endom promoter training to be a pro wrestler. I Don t know of any Maich that s been predetermined he said and Hen described wrestling As entertainment like new York