European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 23, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday april 23,1987 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary next master quietly the National basketball association holding its breath hut the Phoenix sum cocaine scandal does t evolve into Point fixing. So Brad thin a Phoenix police spokesman Hassid that no evidence that we Are aware of links any professional athlete in Phoenix to any Lype of illegal gambling. Bui when asked if the current investigation was connected either to legalized gambling or to former players supplying information to gambit in thiss had the atone Niwen i cant  whatever develops the whispers in Phoenix Are i atone of the three current suns indicted last week on drug charges told a known Gambler in Phoenix that the Point total Tor the feb. 21 game Between the suns and the Milwaukee Bucks would not exceed 226 the number that for betting purposes the two teams would go Over Orst asunder. When the Bucks won 1 is-107, the Gambler sup Posedly won a $ 100,000 bet. But according to two Lai vegas sports Book opera tort a $ 100,000 bet on an Aba Over under number ii unheard of. Lou d Amico the manager flee Caesars Palace Book described it As out of proportion to pro basketball gambling. Caesars Palace like most of the hotel sport books in Nevada where gambling is Legal does t accept Over under Bell on Aba games we take Over under bets on pro football but Only for $ 1,000," d Amico says. If somebody tried to bet $100,000 in Phoenix a bookmaker there could t Layo t that much Money in Nevada without some people knowing about it and if somebody tried to bet it in 1,000 chunks at Gene Maday s place Here after two or three bets Gene would wonder what was going  Gene Maday the owner of Little Caesar s sports Book no relation to Caesars palaces reputed to take the biggest sports bets in Las vegas. But our limit on an Over under in pro baskets Issi ,000," Maday Sayi if somebody somehow were to bet $100,000 on an Over under number it would pc moved the number by 10 Points. We always keep Anele out for unusual Money. But no unusual Money Ever showed up on the suns either in their winning streaks or their losing streaks. If you exclude the cel tics and the lakers the suns attracted no More and Noless betting this season than any of the other Aba  maybe that $100,000 bet was  it was just talk in a bar. But it s the essence of Why the Aba is holding its breath regarding a co Caine induced Point fixing scandal. Two years ago the Tulane College basketball scan dal involved students supplying cocaine in return for cooperation in Point fixing. As serious As it was the Tulane scandal did t create the National Impact that a similar scandal in pro sports would. Although base Ball pro football and pro basketball have yet to be implicated in such sleaze it seems to be Only a mat Ter of time. The plot is obvious. One Day a player with a cocaine habit does t have any Cash. That s All right his drag dealer says. "1 know you get paid next  the dealer lets the player do that two or three limes. But sooner or later the dealer has another solution. Your next game the dealer says you re play ing that one for  desperate Tor cocaine the player agrees. Now he shocked not Only on cocaine but on cooperating with a gambling fix. Even worse the player is at a Point Ono return. Some players on cocaine have come for Ward to enter a drug rehab Center partly because their problem creates a certain amount of sympathy. But a player involved in a gambling Fin Seldom sur renders invariably he has to be caught. He knows nobody sympathizes with a fixer. By itself cocaine surely has detracted from the Public s Confidence in sports As the Pittsburgh base Ball drug trial showed. But a gambling scandal influenced by cocaine would shatter Public Confidence in that sport. Of the major sports he National football league appears to be the most vigilant about gambling. Like baseball and pro basketball nil Security and drug enforcement people address the players of each team during training  six nil teams have a Security or counselling services director on their front office staff Cleve land Dallas Green Bay Houston Miami and the los Angeles raiders. In addition Loa Security representative in each franchise City the nil has three roving regional Security representatives who report to the Security directors in the nil office. Baseball has what Rich Levin of commissioner Pete Ueberroth s office Calls a network of Security people who report to its Security director. So does pro Basket Ball but none of the baseball  Aba Lea i has h own Security director. It s time they did. Meanwhile drug tests taken last Friday on the three indicted suns players James Edwards Jay Humphries and Glenn Gondrezick were announced monday to have been negative. But each player is subject to three random tests in the next six  any lest proves to be positive that player will be banished from the Aba immediately. He also will be banished if be is convicted of or pleads guilty to any of the drug charges. The Aba has had Only one gambling scandal. Dur ing the 1953-54 season Jack Molinas of the fort Wayne pistons was banned for having bet on  later was convicted As a master fixer in the i9&i College basketball Point shaving scandals. Sooner or later the next master fixer will be cocaine. To Mil a to Tom Lall Star stats Utility Man s Price pirates Morrison Aims for another career year Pittsburgh a his numbers 23, so .400, $277.500 make Veter an Jim Morrison perhaps the biggest bar gain in baseball. Since becoming the Pittsburgh pirates starting third baseman last season four years after joining the team Morrison has supplied the pirates with All Star statistics at a a Lillyman s Price. Morrison 34, is Bitting .400 so far this season after producing a so called Ca reer year in 19s6 .274 baiting average,23 Homen is runs batted in. Not bad figure for a Guy who figure to spend the rest of his career on the Bench until the pirates traded away their former Starling third baseman four time batting Champion Bill mad lock late in the 1985 season. With a 1987 salary of $277,500, mor Rison makes nearly si50,000 less than the major league average even though he considers himself at least an average major league player. That s the Only thing that bothersome that i la never make what the average major leaguer makes said Morrison who has begun the season As if he intends to have another career year i know it s a business. I just feel fortunate that god let me play baseball be cause that s All i Ever wanted to do and there Are a lot of people in life who never get to do what they want to  some clubs might be willing to renegotiate a contract but i know the pirates Are trying to go with a Young club an that a new contract is not Likely to Hap pen Here Morrison  would rather have played every Day but i realized the situation i Wasin,1 he said. Bill Madlock was at third and Johnny Ray one of the Best Youn players in baseball was at second. Those Guys Are everyday players so i just had to try and put it out of my  became a starter at age 27 with the Chicago White sox in 1980,when he hit .283 with 15 homers and 57 runs batted in. But he was Back on in Bench during the strike shortened 1981 season and even after he was traded Toile pirates in mid-1982 for Pitcher Eddie Solomon he never managed More than304 at Bals in a season despite hitting As High As .304.Morrison signed his current contract in 1983 and the pirates have an option on his services for the next two seasons. So even if he should continue to produce better than average figures hell Likely continue to receive lows than average dollars. But when you re out there playing you can t worry about it Morrison  situation was different when i signed the contract. I was t playing everyday and i la have to live with  a Kioto pirates Jim Morrison. Baseball s big bargain Al from Page 17 Lead and Al Richcr opened the eighth with his first Home run. Charlie Hough i-1, gave up 10 hits struck out be Enand walked three in his first Complete game. Baltimore left 10 runners on base in losing ils third straight gome. Indians 5, Blue jays 0 Cleveland Cory Snyder and Pat Tablor hit two run homers and Tom Candiotti the american league Leader in Complete games a year ago pitched a six hitter Fortis first Complete game of 1987 As Cleveland beat Toronto. Candioli 1-3, struck out three and walked  key 3-1, took the loss allowing five runs on eight hits in eight innings. Anger 8, athletics 5anaheim. Calif. Gary pct is drove in the go ahead run with a single in the eighth inning. With the score 5-5, Dick Schofield led off the eight against reliever Dennis  0-1, with a single. Another error that enabled Schofield to reach third Selling up Pelvis rib hit. The Angels scored two More in the eighth on Devon while s single and Wally Joyner s sacrifice Fly to win the longest regulation game in Anaheim stadium history. The game took 3 hours and 46 minutes breaking the record of 3 41 set on april 21, 1966. Otherwise in was t a very Good night for the an gels. They Learned that right hander Kirk Mccaskill who was forced 10 leave monday s game after six innings. Has Bone chips in his Elbow and May require  Hendrick. While Pinch Hilling in the eighth was hit on the right hand by a Pilch and Mauch said he feared the worst. It s the worst dislocation i be Ever seen. In has to  Mauch said. Hendrick was to have the hand  and Joyner hit consecutive Solo Home runs in the fifth against Jose Rijo. In was while s fifth Homer of the season and Joyner s first since last aug. A Mike Cook. 1-0, won his first major league Gam with three scoreless innings of Relief Willie Frazier pitched the ninth for his first major league  Angels who trailed 4-1 after fourth inning tied the score at 5-5 with two runs in the seventh Ruppe Ljones doubled with one out off Eckersley and scored on White s single. While stole second and scored on Pinch Hiller Mark Ryal s single Reggie Jackson and Jose Canseco singled and Terry Steinbach had an rib double in the second