European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 12. 1986 the stars and stripes Page 21 ports reds crush giants on 3 Davis hrs by United press International san Francisco Eric Davis is making the kind of Impact on baseball Pete Rose predicted he would even if it is a year liter than Rose expected. Davis the player Rose raved about during Spring training last year hit three homers wednesday for the first Lime in in Roundup his career to help the Cincinnati reds o a 14-2 Victory Over the san Francisco giants. Eric Davis is the Only Guy with inc potential to Bat fourth and Lead the league in stolen bases Rose said. He also has got a lot of Power to the oppo site Field. His a tremendous player who can do a lot of  Rose built Davis up last season Prais ing his abilities and projecting him As a Star. By june Davis was in the minors playing for the Denver zephyrs of the american association. Davis and All his Talent remained there until the reds re called him aug. 30. He hit .406 in sep tember but Rose kept quiet about Davis this Spring. Davis 24, opened the season in Cen Ter held and has been impressive All Erie a i i. Has 26 homers year. The los Angeles native is hitting .295 with 26 Home runs and 65 stolen bases. That rare combination of Power and Speed makes Davis remind Many people of Willie Mays. Giants manager Roger Craig likened him to Hank Aaron. He has More raw Talent than an player in the league Craig said. He has Power and he can run. He reminds me of Hank Aaron except that he can run Bel Ter than  this season Davis became Only the second player in major league history of hit 20 Home runs and steal 60 bases. Rickey Henderson was the first. If he has a Good september Davis could become the first player Ever to hit 30 homers and steal 70 bases. If he does that he might just walk of Wilh the no map. In wednesday s other games cubs 8, Phillies 7 Chicago Gary Matthews belted two Solo homers and the cubs survived a Home run festival at Wrig Tey Field against the Phillies seven Home runs All Solo shots were hit in the game. Mike Schmidt had two for Philadelphia to raise his league leading total to 34. Philadelphia reliever Kent Tekulve lied Roy face s National league record when his sixth inning appearance gave him 846 Tor his  4, expos t new York Keith Hernandez and Moosic Wilson each hit two run first in Ning homers and Ron Darling and Roger Mcdowell combined on a five hitter against Montreal. The Victory reduced new York s magic number for clinching the no East to two games. The mics can Clinch the title in their nest game Friday night at  4, pirates 3 Pittsburgh Vince Coloma tripled to right held a Vii one out in the ninth to score Jose Oquendo. The hit made a Winner of St. Louis reliever Ray Soff 3-0, who worked two innings of re Lief. Barry Jones 2-3, suffered the  Worrell pitched the last inning for his 33rd save. Dodgers 5, astros 1 los Angeles Sieve sax collected four hits and had the game win Ning rib against Houston. Orel Hershiser 13-11, snapped a personal three game losing Streak. Jim dish pics 9-5, lost to a no West team for the lint time this sea son after sin  9, Bravir 4 san Diego Craig Nettles re single broke a 3-3 tie and ignited a six run eighth inning off Gene Carbur 5-4.the Triumph snapped a five game san Diego losing Streak and extended Atlanta s win less stretch to four games. . 8-7, was inc Winner. Botox beat orioles Lead Toronto by 81/2 by United presi International Baltimore the Boston red sox who Are used to singing their september Swan song by now Are say ing goodbye to the rest of the american league East. Boston which last won a divisional title in 1975,increased its Lead to Soj games Over the second place Toronto Blue jays with a 9-4 Victory wednesday night Over the Baltimore orioles at memorial stadium. The Blue jays and Yankees were rained out in  a Ganc winning Streak Boston s longest since 1977 has helped quiet the cynics who were Al Roundup just waiting for the red sox to go into their folding act. Any combination of red sox victories and Blue jays losses totalling l