European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes saturday october 31.1987 Leafs Blank struggling penguins by inc associated pres Pittsburgh the pills Burgh penguins arc off to a Rock Start in he nil season but icy May have i Rock Bolian thursday night. Artiss Connall scored two goal Sand Allan Besler stopped 29 shots nil Roundup for his fourth career shutout As in Toronto Maple Leafs beat the pen guins4-0.the penguins Are 2-6-3 and in last place in he Patrick  is undoubtedly the lowest Point of he season Pittsburgh Cap Tain Dan Frawley said. We be got to look at ourselves pretty closely and decide what we re going to about his. It s up 10 each Guy  while the penguins Are struggling inc Maple Leafs have enjoyed two consecutive wins after lightening their defense. Alter giving up 17 goals in losses to Montreal and Minnesota Toronto has allowed two goals in wins Over the new York is Landers and Pittsburgh. In other games thursday ndrdiqikt4,bruiru2boston Peter Salasny scored twice once after a second period Brawl that resulted in nine ejections As Quebec Defeated  Brawl started 16 seconds into the second period when bos Ion s Wii i Pletl and Quebec s Gord Donnelly collided and began fighting along the boards. When it was Over referee Dave Newell called two minor penalties 10 fighting majors eight game misconduct and a five a nuts match Penally against incl for kneeling Plell in the head As he Lay on the , Tommy Albelino nor Mand Rochefort Paul Gillis an Mike eagles of Quebec and Billy o Dwyer Jay Miller Glen Wesleyan John Blum of Boston were ejected. Blues 3, North stars 2bloomington, Minn Brian Sutler s second goal of the game in the opening minute of the third period snapped a lie and lifted  past Minnesota. Free agent Market grows As Molitor Chili Davis file new York a Paul Molitor who finished second in the american league in batting and had inc fifth Long est titling Streak this Century was one of eight players tiling for tree Agency thurs Day increasing the total to 24. Chili Davis of the san Francisco giants Larry hem Don of the Detroit tigers and Glenn Hubbard of the atlant braves were among the other players to file thursday. The last Day for players to declare themselves is nov. 9. Also filing were Garth Iorg of inc to Ronto Blue jays Joe Sabilo of the bos ton red sox triad Bosley of he Kansa City royals and Chris Bando of the Cleveland indians. Unless something very surprising develops. I suspect i la do Back in a Brewer uniform next year Mali Tor said. Think in my Case filing is More of a for  Ron Simon Molitor s agent met in  last week with Milwaukee general manager Harry Dalton and owner Bud Selig. I think we re maybe looking for four year contract Simon said. Al his Point we re going to focus on working out a Deal with  Molitor made $1.26 million last sea son in the final year of a five year Deal after earning 11.16 million in 1986. He baited .353 and hit 16 Home runs Paul Moll tar. More of a formality with 75 runs better in despite missing seven weeks with pulled Hamstrings. To ii or spent five months on the disable list in 1984, two weeks in 1935. And eight weeks in 1986. Molitor started a 39-game hitting Streak the Day he came off the disabled list for the second time. Ii was the Long est Skircak in the major leagues since Pete Rose hit in 44 straight in 1978. Davis hit .150 this season Wilh 24home runs and 76 rib. His average has dropped from 1984, when he hit .315wild 81 rib but his 24 homers were a career High. He made ssi 5,000 in 1987.hcrndon, one of eight tigers eligible for free Agency signed a $225,000 con tract with inc tigers last fall after becom ing a free agent  a 1400,000 payout. He batted .324 with nine homers and47rbiin225al-Bals.hubbard batted .264 this season with five Homer and 38 rib. He made$525,000. Bando who earned $305.000, balled.218 with five homers and 16 rib in 211 Al Bals. Bolsey made $457,500 and Bat led 140 limn with one Homer 16 rib and a ,279  had inc worst season of his najor league career Balling .210 Wilh foursome runs and 30 rib. He earned $362,500.sambilo, a free agent last year who re signed with the red sox for $360,000,was 2-6 Wilh a 6.93 earned run average and no saves in 47 Relief  Boston Pitcher. Sieve Crawford filed for free Agency on  if the red sax would re sign them general manager Lou Gorma said thursday i Don l think we  Molitor and Dave High Clit Are the Twostars who have filed so far. Other eligible stars include Jack Clark of the cardinals Dale Murphy of the braves Cal Ripken or. Of he orioles Jack Morris of the tigers and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies. Anderson named top manager new York a Sparky Ander son who led inc Detroit tigers to the Best record in baseball this season on thursday was named american league manager of the year by the baseball writers association of America for the second time in four years. Anderson also named manager of the year in 1984 when inc tigers won the world series received ii first place votes and a total of 90 Points in balloting by a panel of two a Baa member from each Al City. Tom try Belhom of the Milwaukee Brewers was second Wilh 78 paints and seven first place votes followed by Tom Kelly of the world series Champion Minnesota twins with 74 Points and 10first-place Voles. Balloting was done on the basis of Reg ular season performance Only. Each panel member was asked to Vole for three managers Wilh rive Points awarded for a first place vote three for secondhand one for third. Anderson s tigers lost the Al playoff sin five games to the twins but in Many ways the series was Anticlimactic to theone that got them there. Trailing Toron to by one game going into a season end ing series Wilh the Blue jays the tigers swept three to win the  the final two weeks of the season the tigers played seven one run game with the Blue jays winning four. Throughout the season Anderso claimed this team which won 98 games was belter than the club that won 104gomes in 1984 after a 35-5 Start. He claimed this despite a Start that Hadi hem in sixth place ii games out on May 5."sparky did a Good Job of keeping us positive Early in the year when thing Wren l going Well tigers outfielder Kirk Gibson said. He told you Guys re porters in May we would be Here and you walked away laughing at  pointed to pitching As the difference Between 84 and 87, in 1985.the tigers traded third baseman Howard Johnson to the new York mets for Pitcher Walt Terrell who has won 47 games in the past three years. The tigers added Frank Tanana in june 1986, and he has won 27 games is acct including a ,1-0 season ending Victory Over Toronto that clinched the division Tony Larussa of the Oakland athletics finished a Distant fourth Wilh eight Points followed by Doc Edwards of Cleveland and Lou Piniella of new Yor Wilh one Point apiece. John Mcnamara of Boston won theaward last year. Quotes of the week / never saw an Umpire go o-for-4 twins Victory has proven that Nice Guy scan and do finish  Minnesota by the associated press everybody says Lee Weyer had a bad night last night. Hell i have a lot of play ers go o-for-4, but i never saw an Umpire go o-for-4." St. Louis manager Whitey Herzug about the first base Umpire in game 7 of the world series. To beat the san Francisco giant without Jack Gark and take the Minne Sota twins to the seventh game without Terry pc Duclon and Jack Clark if we d played four series games in  instead of four games in Minnesota we d have kicked their tails Whitey Herzog is. Lou is cardinals Man Ager. This team is probably the nicest group of people to Ever come together and Wear a baseball uniform. The cards manager Whitey Herzog gov Rudy Purpich. Describing the world series Champion Minnesota twins. It feels Betler. Victories in the Busi Ness world can i compare 10 this. This in l about Money. Money can t buy  s the greatest feeling i be Ever had in my life " Minnesota twins owne Carl Pohlad after winning the world series. As a player i never thought would manage. I never dreamed i would be a Gen eral manager. My next step is being  Uhi Piniella newly named Gen eral manager for the new York Yankees. The Only thing thai rivals this is 10 years ago when my wife and i got engaged. Every 10 years something great happens. I can t Wail until i m 45. Roy Smalley after the twins beat is. Louis 4-2 in the seventh game of the world series. I be almost resigned myself to the fact thai i be pitched my last game Here. But you Don t know what they re think ing. They probably Don l know what they re thinking right  is. Louis cardinals left hander John Tudor who said he expects to be traded. I be been coaching for eight years in the league now and i be never seen any thing like that. I m Loo angry to say what i think about Brown now. If he did the same thing on the Street tonight he d get 10 years in jail. He did t just try to Hurt hint he tried to kill  rangers coach Michel Bergeron after new Yor Forward Tomas Sands rom suffered a mild concussion when the flyers Dav Ebrown stashed him. Brown was assessed a match penalty for deliberate attempt to injure. He s George Steinbrenner not doing a Gorbachev. He s not laying Down de mands comparable to Star wars mayor de Koch about George Slein Brenner s request for More parking spaces at Yankee stadium. We have to Lake them one game Ai Alime. We have a big Hole to climb Oul of. The one thing we did t want to do was Slink up this place. We did t want to face  new York giants linebacker Carl Banks after the giants won their first game this season 30-7 Over the is Louis cardinals in the first Post strike game for both teams