European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday. October 1987 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary strik Breakers not Recor Breakers somewhere in a great Box Seal in inc sky Roger marts and Ford prick must be laughing about the football follies of 1987. Twenty sin years ago this Tat inc slugger and the baseball commissioner argued Over whether Maris s 61st Homer was Simon pure or should be stigmatized by some typographical Mark How charming How innocent thai i talc spa scam in retrospect now that the National football league seems Bent on legitimizing accomplishments by a rag tag swarm of strik Breakers. According to the nil. All games and All records arc to be inscribed without asterisk Dingbat Star or Skull and genres Bones. Such worthies As Gary Cuozzo. Bill Kilmer and Gary Clark Are already in danger of sharing or losing club records they established against real teams. By contrast the great mans Frick debate was a tempest in a Teapot or at most a Samovar Roger Maris was already the most valuable player in the american league in i960, a Superb fielder and base runner and clutch Hitler. When the american league expanded in1961, enlarging its season from 154 to 162 games Maris hit Bis 61st Home run in the 162nd game. Reporters had prodded Frick the commissioner about whether Maris s potential 61st Home run would require an asterisk. Frick who had once writ ten articles for Ruth wanted to protect his old Friend s record although Frick himself did not bring up the word  s feelings were Upsel but in the Long run both Ruth s and Maris s accomplishments have been honoured without any asterisk in contrast the leaders of the nil Are putting a giant asterisk on an entire season including the super bowl. The league should have had enough respect for its product to Call off the games until me labor dispute was settled but it listened to lawyer talk thai the league had to conduct business As usual. There were games of a sort last weekend passes catches tackles Field goals Point spreads. America had something to do on sunday afternoon. Fine but Hal does t mean those games should count. It is obscene to allow Gary hog Boom s five touchdown passes to lie the franchise record for the Colls. That record belongs to Gary Cuozzo and the cily of Baltimore from whence the Colts were spirited in the Middle of the night and trucked to  in for the injured Johnny units on nov. 14, i96i, Cuozzo threw his five touchdowns again slim Marshall and Carl Eller. Two of inc finest defensive linemen of their time or any time just because hog Boom was willing to walk past his colleagues on the picket line and pick up his quarterback paycheck docs not mean he should join Cuozzo in any record  situation we arc in is a Little tainted but you Don l think about it when you re on the Field hog Boom  an obscenity it would be if hog Boom were to break the club s season record of 32 touchdown passes set in 1959 by Unitas his grand right Arm As prominent As an elephant s trunk his no. 19 shining like the North Star flinging passes against Butkus and Lilly Wilson and Tunnel. Docs he league really want to see Unitas name vanish to be replaced by Gary hog Boom throwing against inc Buffalo counterfeit Bills what about new Orleans where John Fourcade left his Job As a High school coach in Marrero la., Tothrow a touchdown pass of 82 Yards to m i pc Waters that touchdown broke the saints record of 80 Yards set by Bill Kilmer to Dan Abramowicz on dec. 17, 1967, against the real Washington redskins. Must those two great players vanish from a line in the saints report of Book to be replaced by strik Breakers or what about one an Huny Allen Cut by Atlanta Las summer who gained 253 Yards in receptions for the Washington substitutes last sunday should he be Al Lowed to eclipse inc record of 241, set by Gary Gark against Lawrence Taylor and inc giants last year i Don t really care Allen said referring to Llic possibility of an asterisk record. "1 wanted a Chance to play and be  the Only league record to he Vicinti cd was the Washington record of 159 consecutive sellouts ovrr21 years. That Only 27,728 morbidly curious souls showed up in . Stadium is a tribute to inc Good taste and loyally of most redskins fans. The real fans deserve better than an end to that  does not want to sound Loo Stuffy about records belonging to great players. It was a Surprise to find that Cuozzo not Unitas holds the real Coll record for touchdown passes in a game that Bill Kilmer not Archie Manning had thrown the saints longest  Tor Cuozzo Good for Kilmer. Records arc made to be broken but not by strik Breakers playing against strik Breakers. Perhaps last weekend s games and records arc Only bargaining chips to be traded for the players backing Down on free  the league does not exorcise these games every time you Sec Pete roil la Anil Hugh culverhouse and Tex Schrann and other Leaden of the league you will see a giant a on their foreheads not a Nathaniel Hawthorne a of course but a naming red a for  this strike ends Pete Roc Lac must invoke some Good of Tho game clause and wipe out All these bogus matches. New new Voth to Law giants say they May have been too anxious by Steve Wulstein St. Louis a the san Francis co giants Are not sure whether they were Over anxious or St. Louis Pitcher Greg Mathews was simply too Good tuesday night in the opener of the National league playoffs. He got a lot of Guys going after his Pilch said Jeffrey Leonard one of the few giants to solve Mathews when he homered to Lead off the fourth inning. I Don l know whether it was a Case ofus being too anxious or whether it s just a fact of him developing to the Point where he s that Tough said Bob Brenly who struck out twice against he left hander in St. Louis s-3 Victory. Will Clark who came up in the eighth inning against reliever Ken Dayley with the bases loaded and a Chance to put the giants ahead said he thought he hit the Ball Well but it just did t carry far enough. I was just Hying to get a base hit in that situation Clark said. I hit it Good but in this Ballpark you have to crush one to get it out Especial a in the alleys. That would have gone Oul in candlestick Pitcher Rick Reuschel was disappointed in the loss but not in his own performance. I Felt i was making Good pitches he said. A lot of limes those dinks the were getting would go right to the fielder. Bui not  san Francisco manager Roger Craig agreed with Reuschel. They got three Bloop hits off him in the sixth tuning when the cardinals broke a tie with three runs. He pitched a Good game and we played a Good game. They got the Breaks tonight. Maybe we Olget them tomorrow night. It will be a big game and we always gel the Breaks in the big  Craig said he thought the turning Point came in the eighth inning when the giants picked up one run and were threatening to score More. Robby Thompson walked with one out and went to second on a single by Leonard. Candy Maldonado then hit a ground Rule double to left Center scoring Thompson. Leonard would have score Loo but was sent Back to third when the Ball bounced into the stands. Of the Ball had slaved in play Craig said in would have forced the cardinals to Pilch differently to Chili Davis who walked and to Clark who then died Quito end the inning. Robby Thompson slide Home with the giant first inning run tuesday night. A Pittmo cards from Page 17 the third gave St. Louis a 1-1 tie. Reuschel retired the first seven cardinals before Pena singled with one out advanced on Mathews sacrifice Ana scored on Cole Man s single up the Middle. With the count 0-2 on Smith Reuschel pitched out and Catcher Bob Brenly s throw to second easily caught Coltman who led the majors with 109 stolen bases but was just three for eight against the giants. The team thai threw out the most would be base steal cars this year. Brenly has now gotten Coleman three times All on Pitchonis. Mathews and inc cardinals began he game with the jitters. Mathews first pitch was High and wide and Thompson grounded the next pitch to Driessen who let the Ball glance off his Glove for an error. Kevin Mitchell three far eight against Mathews this season singled Thompson to second and Leonard s Fly Ball moved the runners into scoring position. Maldo Nado followed with a grounder to rendition who appeared to have a play at the plate but chose to gel the out at fint As Thompson scored. The giants were to try to even the bust of Swan Serin wednesday afternoon with Dave Dravecky opposing John Tudor the cardinals holiest Pitcher. Herzog is hoping Cox will be ready for game 3friday night. Joe Maranc will Start the fourth game and Mathews is now scheduled to come Back in game 5, if necessary