European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes wednesday August 23,1989 Al from Page 21 tic breaking two run double off Roger Clemens in the sixth inning and new York Defeated Boston for the Yankees first win in four games under manager Bucky Dent. It was the Home debut for Dent who twice ran onto the Field to argue Calls. Clemens suffered his first defeat in six career decisions at Yankee stadium while the red sox loss for the eight Lime in nine games. Royals 4, Angels 2 Kansas City to. George Brett drove in two runs and Bret Saberhagen won his sixth straight decision As Kansas City beat California and dropped thenagels out of first place in the american league West. Saberhagen 15-5, yielded two runs and six hits in eight innings. He has won 12 of his last 13 decisions. Rick Luecko pitched the ninth for his first major league save. The Angels who had won five straight Trail Oakland by one game. The teams arc even in the loss column but the athletics have played two More games and won them. The third place Royal remained 4 i games out. California starter Chuck Finley left after two thirds of an inning with a sprained toe on his left foot. Loser Willie Fraser 3-6. Pitched 3 a innings and gave up the go ahead run in the fourth. With two out. To Jackson walked stole second and scored on Jim Eis Curcich s Bloop double. The royals made it 4-1 in the fifth against Rich Montc conc. Frank White reached on an error by third baseman Bobby Rose and singles by Mike Macfarlan and Kurt Stillwel loaded the bases. Kevin suit scr singled while Home and Brill who drove in Kansas City s first run with a first inning grounder hit a sacrifice Fly. Athletics 6, tigers 1 Detroit Mark Mcgwire hit a two run Homer in Oakland s four run first inning and the athletics beat de troit for their eighth Victory in 11 games. Oakland s Victory combined with California s loss at Kansas City moved Thea s into first place in the Al West. Curt Young 4-8, allowed four hits Infix innings struck out six and walked five As he snapped Detroit s three game winning Streak. Frank Tanana 9-11, gave up six hits and four runs in four innings. In 26 starts he has allowed 27 first inning runs. Only 6,197 fans attended the game the lowest turnout at Tiger stadium since 5,868 attended a game against Texas on May 19,1983. To wan eyes 4th straight la title in first series with woman ump by Davids. Martin Williamsport a. A this year s Little league world series offers a trailblazer and a tradition. A female Umpire is making Calls at the world series for the first time As Taiwan seeks its fourth consecutive championship. The top eight teams to survive Little league elimination tournaments Gath ered monday for the annual we Klong world series As the youth sports organization Marks its 50th year. Represent ing the four . Regions arc Trumbull. Conn. Tampa Fla. Davenport Iowa and san Pedro Calif. It s a dream come True. We just Hope we do Well Trumbull manager Tom Galla said. Teams from the far East have won the series 18 out of the last 22 years. Marietta a. Was the last . Team to win the series defeating Bah Arona dominican Republic 3-1, in 1983. Also competing in the world series Are Canadian Champion Toronto Onta Rio resuming european Champion Dhahran saudi Arabia and latin Amer ican Champion Maracaibo Vonc Urcla. On tuesday far East Champion Kaohsiung Taiwan was to meet Dhahran m the opening game of the series with Betty pc Zialci assigned As the Umpire at first base. I m not Here to be the first woman. I m Here because i worked very hard at it and they gave me a  said Spezialy of Dunkirk . Dhahran representing Europe and comprised mostly of sons of americans working in the Oil Industry has qualified for the series the past three years. Central Champion Davenport was scheduled to play Eastern Champion Trumbull on tuesday evening. Wednesday s schedule has san Pedro playing South Champion Tampa and Maracaibo against Toronto. Starring for West Champion san Pedro is Victoria Brucker a 12-year-old right hander who hit nine Home runs in 17 tournament games proceed ing the world series. Victoria is Only the second girl to play in the Little league world series. The first was Victoria Roche a Mem Ber of the european Champion Brussels team in 1984. Little league which began in this Small North Central Pennsylvania City in 1939 with three teams and 30 play ers now has 2.5 million participants in 33 countries. Victoria Brucker of san Pedro Calif., hit nine homers in series qualifying play. Those joining the Little league this year include China Jordan Peru and Poland. I think you la find particularly in the next 25 years a great expansion of Little league baseball said Creighton j. Hale Little league s president. Hale attributed Little league s rapid growth to the International olympic committee s decision making baseball a Gold medal sport at the 1992 olym pics in Barcelona Spain. Little league s Golden anniversary has attracted the attention of president George Bush and major league baseball commissioner a. Bartlett Giamatti. Bush a former Little league coach held a ceremony at the Rose Garden last month to commemorate the anniversary. Giamatti in a speech at the International Little league Congress in june said the youth sports organization was a great idea born out of  Carl Stotz who worked at a local sandpaper Plant had the idea for Little league while playing catch with two Young nephews in Williamsport. How would you like to play on a regular team with uniforms a new Ball for every game and bats you can really swing he asked the boys. Little league was Bora. The world series began eight years later in 1947. My from Page 21 hitter Joel Youngblood homered off Steve Wilson. Walton walked in the first inning filed out in the second grounded into a double play in the fifth struck out in the seventh and grounded out in the 10th As he fell four games Short of the Rookie record of 34 straight games by san Diego s Benito Santiago in 1987. Andre Dawson doubled in two runs and Sandber homered for the cubs. The cubs reached reds starter Ron Robinson for three runs in the first inning on Andre Dawson s two run double and Shawon Dunston s rib single. Sandburg s 25lh Homer his third in five at bats and13th in the last 23 games started a two run sixth. One out later Grace tripled and scored on a sacrifice Fly by Vance Law. Rick Sutcliffe gave up a single in the first and retired 10 straight before Benzinger hit his 14th Homer leading off the fifth singles by Ken Griffey Benzinger and Oester knocked Sutcliffe out in the seventh with the score 5-2. Dean Wilkins making his major league debut gave up a run scoring single to Jeff Richardson and walked Pinch hitter Dave Collins before Wilson came in and got Pinch hitter Rolando Roomes to hit a sacrifice Fly and Luis Quinonis to Bounce out. Dodgers 6, expos 1 Montreal Tim Belcher snapped a personal three game losing Streak and handed Montreal s Mark Langston Only his second loss in his last 10 decisions As los Angeles beat the sagging expos. Both Rick Dempsey and Alfredo Griffin singled Home two runs in the dodgers four run second inning and Belcher 9-12, combined with Jay Howell on a six Hitler to Send Montreal to its 13th loss in 18 games. The expos third in the National league East Trail the front running Chicago cubs by three games. Belcher pitched eight innings allowed five hits walked five and struck out six. Mike Marshall walked to Start the los Angeles Sec Ond against Ingston 10-4, Jeff Hamilton forced mar shall and went to third on a single by Jose Gonzalez. Rookie Mike Huff had an infield hit to Load the bases and Dempsey singled to left. Later in the inning Griffin s single off the left Field Wall scored Dempsey and Belcher who had walked. Griffin who also singled in Dempsey in the ninth got a single because he missed first base and had to turn Back As he headed for second. An error by Montreal Catcher Nelson Santovenia accounted for the other dodger run in the ninth and led to the ejection of expos manager Buck Rodgers. Padres 8, Phillies 2 Philadelphia Dennis Rasmussen pitched six Hitler for his first Complete game this season and hot hitting Bip Roberts had a two run Homer As san Diego beat Philadelphia. Rasmussen 6-9, who had seven Complete games Las season struck out four and did t walk a Batter. His last Complete game was oct. 2,1988, against Houston. The Only Philadelphia run came on Pinch Hitler Dwayne Murphy s two run Homer in the third. It washes second straight Pinch Homer. San Diego scored five runs off Don Carman 4-13, in the second inning. Jack Clark opened with a double and Chris James walked. Garry Templeton tripled in both runners then scored one out later on Luis Salazar s single. After another out Roberts homered to left his second Homer of the year and third of his career. Roberts is hitting .347 42-for-121 in his last 36 games