European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday August 13,1986 Valenzuel cts Best year keeps dodger Hopes up Bybell Gurken los Angeles not on the sur face in appeared to be business As usual. Southern California commuters were jockeying for position As the freeways dumped them into the dodger stadium parking la. The celebrity Peanut Vendor was loosening up. Steve sax was posing for pictures with a Young Hollywood actress. Behind the scenes Hough something was amiss. On ibis recent night there would be even More attention than usual directed at the Mound where Fernando Valenzuela sets up shop every five Days no exceptions. In his previous Start the Elbow of theman who has never missed a turn in the major leagues was sore. The Prospect of losing Valenzuela sent a chill through the organization already besieged by endless injuries. When he gets a cough i gel worried his manager Tom Lasorda said later. But by then Valenzuela had showed thai the concern was unnecessary by mowing Down the san Francisco giants during the dodgers recent eight game Victory Streak. Dill Madlock a teammate of Valen Zuela for less than one season was sitting near Val Unzueta in the Trainer s Roo after that game. Madlock has seen a few pitchers in his Lime. It Ain t enough Madlock said. It Ain l enough. Whatever they pay the Man it Ain l  they pay the Man very Well. On the Day of his scheduled salary arbitration last february Valenzuela and the Dodg ers called a truce in a sometimes bitter financial dispute by agreeing to a three year contract for 15.5 million making Valenzuela the highest paid player annually on a franchise that Fortune mag Azine considers the most lucrative in sports. He is one month Short of marking his sixth anniversary in the major leagues and he is Only 25 years old. The mania that surrounded his storybook 1981 sea son has faded while the reputation of Mexico s favorite baseball son Bas grown. As if to prove he is Worth the big Money Valenzuela is having his Beol sea son Ever. His name can be found Amon National league leaders in every important category for starting pitchers re Cord earned run average Complete games shutouts strikeouts innings pitched. He was 15-7 after saturday s 6-2loss in Cincinnati. His performance has helped the Dodg ers recover from a crippling string of in juries that left them at or near the Bot Tom of the division most of the season. They were in last place nine games Back on july 17. With the help of their recent winning Streak they moved up to third five and a half Back before dropping Down to eight games behind with a doubleheader loss to Cincinnati Friday night and a single game loss he next Day. And soil has been in another unpredictable dodger season thai the Only constant has been Valenzuela. No sooner had Dwight Gooden been virtually con ceded the title Best Pitcher for the next decade along comes Valenzuela bidding to become  first two time by Young Winner since Sandy Koufax a three Lime Winner and their firs 20-game Winner since Tommy John in 1977. He is the Guy we re Riding on Lasor Masaid he remains the jewel of a pitching Stalf that has t lived up to its reputation this year. Orel Hershiser another millionaire in Only his third season languished around the .500 Mark until a recent spun. Bob Welch despite rare Good health a had worse Luck in his free agent season and May not raise his record to .500. Jerry Reuss is out after Elbow surgery. Alejan Dro Pena struggles with inconsistency trying to Salvage his career after shoulder lure Ery r Cut Honeycutt another Veter an of shoulder surgery has been steady if not spectacular. More than any other player Valenzue la has been responsible for keeping he dodgers afloat in the National league West while 13 of his teammates have been disabled. We be had years when we be had in juries like 19x4 " said Bill Russell Dean of the dodgers in his Isth season. But nothing like this year. Nothing like the broken Bones and operations things you can t void or prepare  the most devastating injury was suffered by Pedro Guerrero the slugging outfielder who ruptured a Tendon in his left knee on an aborted slide on the Las Day of Spring training in Florida. Only recently Wai Guerrero believed to be far enough along to be  got into a couple of games but had to be put Back on the disabled list when he could t Man Euver properly. Without him Lasorda has been forced to play at last count 78 different lineup combinations. Such instability is not conducive twinning and has been compounded by other assorted ailments to regulars Suchias Mike Marshall Backgren Brock knee Mariano Duncan ankle mad lock leg muscle Mike Doscia ankle Ken Landreaux knee sax Heel and Franklin Stubbs hamstring. That Means that each member of the lineup has been sidelined at some Point with an injury Outing a week or longer. No wonder a Lilette Elbow tenderness for Valenzuela could throw the club into panic the tenderness developed not con Cid nutty in Valenzuela s first Start after squeezing into his Busy schedule three innings at the All Star came. All Valen Zuela did then was tie Carl Hubbell s re Fernando Vixen Zueff. Among no Leaden Cord with five consecutive strikeouts. He seems immune to pressure Hershiser said. Even when he s hit hard he s still  that too is part of the Valenzuela mystique something that has not changed since his arrival in the United states from the Little Sonoran Village of Eicheh Aquila. It is Why Many opponents insist Valenzuela s birth certificate must have been doctored that he must be closer to 30 years old. What makes him special to a coach Isis Knack to really listen and apply him self and retain what he learns said dodger pitching coach Ron Perranoski. He has a lot of fun but when it comes to business he s very very intelligent and  through his agent and close Friend Tony Dymarco Valenzuela has been Able to keep outside demands at a mini mum. Demarco teamed with Dick Moss to represent Valenzuela during his 1982 holdout in the 1983 is million arbitration Victory and in negotiation last year for the $5.5 million contract. Pea from Page 21 this certainly in a dream come True said Tway who tried and failed three times to earn the right to play on the pea tour before finally joining the circuit Las year. To make a shot like that Well it May never happen again in my career. For it to go in was  known to his colleagues As an emotionless player Tway jumped into the air time and again when his final shot trickled into the Hole. Tway rallied from a four shot deficit with nine holes to go to defeat the Man who had dominated the world of Golf this year. Norman who led after the third round of All four major championships this year appeared on his Way to his second straight major title having claimed the Brit ish open last month. Bui Norman slumped to a 76 monday including bogey on the 18th after Tway s Bunker shot. "1 Don t think of myself As having lost said nor Man whose double bogey at the Pam 11th started his skid. Bob Tway hit the shot when it counted and he won. I m planning to win the next tournament and the week after that As  the pea was Twy � fourth Victory of the year and he became the first player in four Yean to win thai Many in one season. The 1140,000 first place Check gave Tway 5600,005 for the year. Norman who collected $80,000 monday leads the Money list with s644.728. It is the first time in pea history that two players have gone Over the 1600,000 Mark in the same year Tway shot a 1-under-Par 70 monday closing out a round delayed from sunday when Rains drenched the course. His 72-Hole total of under Par 276 was eight shots lower than the previous Best winning score in a major event at the 83-year-old Inverness course. Norman shot a 4-Over 40 on the Back nine for his 76 that left him at 278 for the  Jacobsen who played in the same threesome with Tway and Norman monday finished third at 279 and won 160,000. . We brine came out of the pack with a 69 to finish fourth at 280. Payne Stewart who also holed a Bunker shot at the last Hole tied Bruce Lietzke for fifth 21281.jack Niclaus started the Day eight shots behind and could have made a run at the Lead with a few Early  he made Early bogeys and finished his 100th major tournament in a lie for 16th at 2s5.Tway, 27, a product of the Oklahoma slate univer sity Golf program was considered a sure bet for Star Dom when he led  in three straight trips to the pea qualifying school he failed to make in onto the tour. He finally succeeded in the Winter of 1984 and last year Bis first on the tour he won $ 164,000.Tway quickly moved into the tour s top Echelon this year with a win at the Andy Williams open and followed that with victories at the Westchester classic and the Atlanta Clasie in Between the Westchester and Atlanta triumphs he led after the opening round of the . Open eventually finishing eighth it was no Surprise therefore when he moved into Contention at the pea with a course record 7-under Par 64 in the third round. I just like to play Golf Tway said. "1 like to play Ina lot of tournaments and i Hope to win a lot  Tway began the Day four shots behind Norman and made up two strokes when Norman bogeyed the Par-3 third and Tway ran in a 15-foot Birdie  had to make a. 45-foot putt to save Par at the fifth Hole but then bogeyed the ninth while Norman was recording 8 Birdie to make the difference four shots As they headed for the last nine holes. Nil free of sign players from Usel by Dave Goldberg a football Miter the nil freed its teams on monday to sign some600 Usel players but such stars As Herschel Walker. Jim Kelly and other Usel players with guaranteed contracts will Hill have to go through i. Three Ste clearance process in order to sign. Nil spokesman Joe Browne said his league had Seal its clubs a list of 600 current or former Usel players who could be signed immediately although Only some of those Are free agents. Others Are restricted to nil teams that hold their rights. The announcement came on a Day thai Irv Zealman the Baltimore stars All Usel offensive tackle reached agreement on a contract with the nil s Kan Sas City chiefs. However Caiman Walker and Kelly Are among 30 players who have guaranteed or personal services con tracts with Usel interests and must first obtain Clear Ance from their teams the Usel office and the nil before signing. To sign them Browne said we need unequivocal written release of any further obligation owed by the to the  the Usel announced last monday it would no play this year pending the Appeal of the s3 award it received in its antitrust suit against the nil. The 30 players with guaranteed Usel contracts have the option of signing with an nil team or sitting out the season and collecting their Money. They must decide by wednesday which option to pursue. Some like 19b4 Heisman trophy Winner Doug Flutie of the new Jersey generals who has had Only lukewarm in Terest from the los Angeles rams May opt for Takin the Usel Money