European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday july 10, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 twins Kangaroo court fines manager up Minn Sola twins manager Ray Miller presented the idea of establishing a Kangaroo Roun As a Way id draw his players closer and add some a Vii to he twins clubhouse. The team liked he idea so Well it decided to make Miller it first victim. Milter was fined j5 monday for fraternizing with dim roil manager Sparky Anderson before the game. He May incur another pen Alty for relating some of he court s proceedings to the Media. Outfielder Randy Bush Relief Pitcher Roy Lee Ray Miller Jackson and bullpen coach Rick Stelmas zek presided Over the closed door meet ing in which players and Staft will be fined either Money or a Case of Beer for any number of infractions. Pitcher Neal halon was fined for Tak ing a sign from the Catcher with runners Lieberman not helping attendance by Ken Ross Springfield. Mass. Up Nancy Lieberman trumpeted As the first woman Ever to compete in amen s professional league has yet to yield results at her team s Box office the team owner said tuesday. The Springfield Fame of the United slates basketball league has averaged about 1,200 fans Over six Home games this season said team owner Harry Gilligan that is about the same number of fans the club Drew last year. The Fame in first place in the league has announced plans to move from the Springfield civic Center after sunday night s league All Star game. It will take up quarters at the Blake Arena at Springfield College a facility which holds slightly More than 2,000 spectators. The civic Center seats More than 8,000. I Don t think Nancy has added significantly to our attendance he said of expected her to draw More said he was not disappointed with the Overall Home at Tendance figures however. Without her As a Factor the crowds Are still the same As they were last year he said. And i m not disappointed in Lieberman stepped into action june 10 against the staler Island stallions and made history. She went scoreless As the Fame won 122-107 before 2,186 fans at the civic Center. A former standout for old do minion University and the team Lieberman has scored 2.5 Points per game. I think Nancy a done a Good Job " Gilligan said she s a Rookie and she is still learning the Gilligan said he bad wanted to play at Blake Arena the entire sea son but was unable to work out details with officials at the civic Center is too big Tor us said Gilligan. There Cju too Many seats and the Cost of operating it u too expensive. On first and third As if he were going into a Windup instead of working from the stretch position. Othe Back to Back Complete games by twins left handers Frank Viola and Neal Caton Over the weekend were the first by the twins in successive nine in Ning games this season. For the year the twins staff has 19 Complete games which ties for the major league Lead wit Milwaukee and los Angeles. Twins Center fielder Kirby Puckett May have better statistics than the an gels Reggie Jackson but he s not doing As Well in the polls puck to who is Bai Ting .340 with 16 homers and 47 rib leads the Al in hits and total bases and is third in average and batting percent age. He has More Home runs than Jack son has extra base hits. But Jackson will Start in the Al Outfield for the 57lh All Star game next week along with new York s Dave Winfield and Rickey Hen Derson. It s kind of hard for me to say any thing Puckett said. Just me being in a race against Jackson is exciting. He s going to be in the Hall of Fame and ican look Back someday and Tell my kids i was once 700 votes behind Reggie the last twins player to be voted to a starting berth was Roy Smalley who was Csc Clodat shortstop in 1979. When the Philadelphia Phillies re called reliever Rocky Childress from i heir Portland farm club tuesday he be came the 37lh player the team has had on its roster this season a major league High. Tuesday night s game marked the ninth time since april 29 the Phillies tried to get to the ,500 Mark. They were 8-8 on that Dale and failed in their first eight tries to gel Back to the break even Point. Philadelphia has been Over .500 Only once in the last two seasons. The Phillies were 3-2 after the first five games this year. Montreal Pitcher Dan Seha tender has four Pinch hits this year the most in the National league by a Pitcher since Don Nwe Ombac of the dodgers collected five in 1959. Gary Peters of inc Chicago White sox had four Pinch hits in 1964. Schatzeder has a lifetime baiting average of .253. Entering tuesday night s game bos ton s Marly barrel had Hil in 14 straight games equalling his longest Streak of the season. He is hitting .466 27-for-58 Over the stretch. Dave Kinsman needs one Homer to tic Billy Williams for i9ih place on the All time list. Kingman s Solo blast Mon Day night gave him 425. San Diego placed right hander Eric show on the 15-Day disabled list to re this ailing Elbow. To take his place inc padres Nave purchased the contract of right hander Bob Stoddard from Lais vegas of inc Pacific coast league aaa. Show is in the midst of a four game winning Streak and is 7-4 with a 2.65 Era. Since coming up to the big league sin 1981, show had not before been disabled. Stoddard who has spent time with Seattle and Detroit appeared in 29games with Las vegas was 5-2 with a 3.40 Era in 39 2-3 innings All As a re Liever. He struck out 38 and walked 14. British heavyweight says he s ready for Aba Champ by Francis x.cl1nes London it was a Hook what put me Down says the targe Boner sound ing More Wise than angry now that he Isan upright contender once again. Frank Bruno the latest English Hope for the heavyweight boxing championship allows the Candor of his one humming defeat in 29 fights to deepen the Luvly Cockney Richness of his voice. Them things had 0 Appen to me to appreciate the Good now what i m gain ing through life he says Bobbing the words along like the heavy right handed Abs that Mark his plodding stalking style. The plaque standing around Bruno atthe Royal Oak pub a pasty and Paunchy Tot compared to their sleek Black hero needs no talk of losing. Their Bruno has a title fight coming up july 19 in nearby Wembley stadium against Tim Witherspoon the world boning association heavyweight Champion. For those britons surf edited an the hype for the coming nuptial match be tween Prince Andrew and his Fergie the hype for Bruno is a pleasing alternative. With his Bent vowels and glistening body his Ballet leg warmers and insistence that "rign1, male he will win one for the Crown sipping and waxing Brave in the Aura of their 6-foot-3-Inch, 229-Pound hero the crowd at the Royal Oak agrees and insists that their Bruno will slide the More experienced american Down like a wedge of Steak and kidney Pic. So does Bruno. This is my town this is my crowd and tha s my title he con tends his voice deepening coldly toward the Othello level of James Earl Jones. Out in the Essex suburbs Witherspoon is training More quietly. The tabloid writers Are sparring with him a bit Nick naming him smoking Tim and the grass Root Champ As the play up his past marijuana infraction. But Witherspoon concentrates on finding new ways of saying How he loves the British if the United states blew up i would move his hulking Silhouette is being imag ined daily by Bruno As he trains in a gym Over the pub in East London. Picture in sleep Wim Shower w in Bruno says. Me i there All the Lime but not stupidly. I know wha i got to do to Bruno sounds serious. He now sleeps a photo Frank Bruno. Remembers knockout alone apart from his beloved compan Ion Laura the Mother of their Young daughter Nicola and begins each Day with a 7-mile run. Then he eats one or those death trip British breakfasts a Steak and three eggs a half dozen Sau sages rashers of Bacon and Fried Toma toes. After his afternoon at the pub gym he sips Orange juice by the bar and stares Ata videotape of his commercialized fight song its marketing limed like the new Bruno biography for the bout. Bruno is a Man o War his video Rock group thunders sneering and posturing like humanoids As the Bruno plaque blinks smiles and toasts the screen at the Royal Oak. "anylhin1 what can make your toes Click right Bruno says aptly summarizing the video s message. People from across the Waters say i Cawn t take a punch because o tha de feat he says dwelling on the 1984 knockout Hook suffered it the hands of James Bones rubber Smith. A was Dev Asiatic by i was at night he replays that Light along with his old favorite tapes of Jake la Motta Rocky Marciano Joe threw 32 punches in Hal 10th round i me i four he says. Good punches no a Beery Well Wisher interrupts. Cheers Jack Bruno cuts him off As Suring one More briton that the nation Shope in him will not prove misplaced. Just had me a Mah stage and i m Brilliant i would Luy Bon Crusher again but first there s Witherspoon he reaching up from that awful i oth round. Bruno s climb Back into Contention was accomplished through seven straight victories most emphatically his 210-Scc-Ond confrontation with Gerrie Coetzee the Well travelled South african whom he knocked into defeat onto the ring apron four months ago. I went to town an before that he had Defeated Larry Fra Zier then ranked sixth among contend Era and Anders Eklund the european Champion. It is difficult to sort tact from fiction in the leathery blur of a typical fight buildup but Bruno insists be was in deed a mean Street kid in South London Eliza Doolittle with a Rabbit punch beaten up regularly by larger boys even As he did it unto smaller ones. I was Doin a lot o real Naug lies he says referring to a string of discipline problems that brought complaints fro parents and school officials. I was such a Han Ful me mum sent me away he says. He spent five Yean at Oak Hall a school for problem boys where he says he was forced to take boxing seriously discovered that to survive there you had to be aggressive. Noshin like the 42d Street inner York Jack by it i Methe killer a he crouches lately Bruno is an interesting marketable mix of the Bloke who talks lovingly of mum and of the atavistic knockout artist who says life Likely will offer him Tew better opportunities at Fortune than the Chin of . The world is full of villains tha wan Money an they la chop off your fists or Cut your Throat he says. When he talks of his mum Bruno is smiling boy. Me mum does t wan me to fight he says smiling. By All mums Are like tha. A go Jack
