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before stretching out to complete the dive in the all-city diving championships. Future star's form Chris Swanson is one of more than 200 of swimming and diving clubs in the Madison Madison's best young divers who are par- area: Hill Farm, Maple Bluff, Monona, Na- ticipating in the all-city diving champion- koma, Park Crest, Rigewood, Shorewood ships which began Monday at the Maple and Westside. Coaches from these clubs Bluff Country Club Pool and concludes judge each dive according to style and today. Swanson competed in the boys 10- form as well as by age groups. Divers and-under division — one of seven age qualified for the meet by participating in groups for boys and girls. The meet ends two or more city dual meets held during summer competition for the eight city the summer. - State Journal photos by Edwin Stein Chris Swanson of Park Crest steadies himself, then leans back to begin his dive . Writer claims Cose/7 told it like it wasn 't By Larry Merchant there was a well-known sports writer not Kelly, because as a boy in Brook- N.Y. Times News Service with the name Tommy Holmes on the lyn I lived across the street from him. Brooklyn Eagle. The warmth he showed last week did NEW YORK - In the tell-it-like-it- Don Drysdale, as surprised as the not surprise me. is style that made him what he is, rest of us, said he hadn't heard that My family moved from the Bronx Howard Cosell told a fascinating story one before, coaxing from its modest to Brooklyn, to 58th Street between on ABC's "Monday Night Baseball" author the comment, "Just bubble 17th and 18th Avenues, when I was last week. That was the night Pete gum card stuff." Sports nine years old, and I was astonished to Rose was going to tie Tommy Well, I would certainly like to own find a peach tree in my backyard and Holmes' modern National League con- that bubble gum card because on to- a real ballplayer across the street. It secutive-game hitting record, and day's flourishing exchange, it would Wisconsin State Journal was 1940, and Holmes was a star with Cosell revealed exclusively that be worth a wad. the Newark Bears, the top Yankee Holmes' real name was Kelly. As a Reason being that the story Isn't farm team. In the afternoon, you boy in Brooklyn, Cosell's scoop went true. Tommy Holmes, I can reveal, Tuesday, August 1, 1978, Section 2 could hear the radio broadcast of on, young Tommy Kelly changed his was, is and always will be Tommy Newark games blaring from the porch name to Tommy Holmes because Holmes. old-fashionedness about it, in contrast again," as he put it. I once listened at of the white frame house where his There are a couple of points to this to the psychodrama of the Yankees an old-timers day to Ty Cobb, fire still two kid brothers, five sisters and par- preamble. One, of course, is another that had produced earlier that day the in his eyes, lecture Yogi Berra on the ents might be listening. feeble attempt to embarrass the un- resignation of Billy Martin. How can importance of records. And Maury Some evenings Holmes, a hand- Standings embarrassable Cosell, who closed the you not love a game that gives you Wills told me that, despite his public some, smiling young man, would play broadcast by congratulating himself Mary Poppins and Sigmund Freud on stance of wishing Lou Brock well in catch with his brothers, Jack and Joe, for a journalistic job well done. the same day? pursuit of his stolen-base record, he and whoever else was around. I had a American League The second is to muse about the Holmes was a bonus in all this, be- died a little when it was being broken. $4 softball glove that I had to stuff baseball personality involved and how cause he surfaced from the Mets' Holmes acted as if it was an honor to with handkerchiefs and grit to take his EASTERN DIVISION apt it would have been if the footnote front office with such genuine good have Rose remove his name from the throws. He took it easy, but he didn't W L Pet. GB feeling for the moment that Rose was record book. about Holmes had been true, because Turn to Page 4, Col. 3 Howard Cosell Boston 65 38 .631 .... the Pete Rose drama had such a nice giving him. "Making me a big-leaguer I know that the name is Holmes, Milwaukee 59 42 .584 5 New York 58 46 .558 7% Baltimore 57 46 .553 8 Detroit 55 49 .529 10^ Cleveland 49 54 .476 16 Rain suspends Toronto 39 66 .371 27 WESTERN DIVISION W L Pet. GB Brewers' game Kansas City 58 44 .569 .... California 56 50 .528 4 can League lead. It came after short- Oakland 55 51 .519 5 BALTIMORE (AP) — Cecil Coop- er's two-out single in the ninth pulled slop Mark Belanger failed to field Texas 49 55 .471 10 cleanly Robin Yount's potential double Minnesota 45 56 .446 12% the Milwaukee Brewers into a 5-5 tie with the Baltimore Orioles Monday play ball and was able only to force Chicago 44 59 .427 14% Jim Wohlford for the second out. Seattle 36 69 .343 23% night and the game was suspended by a local curfew after the Orioles failed Ken Singleton, who extended his to score following a rain delay of hitting streak to 14 games with an RBI National League 2 hours, 20 minutes. triple in the fourth, opened the Balti- The game will be resumed at more eighth with a double. Eddie Mur- EASTERN DIVISION 5:30 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday before ray and May followed with singles, W L Pet. GB the start of the next regularly sched- and DeCinces followed with his run- Philadelphia 55 45 .550 .... uled game between the teams. scoring hit. Chicago 51 51 .500 5 Under the Baltimore curfew law, SUSPENDED GAME Milwaukee Baltimore Pittsburgh 48 52 .480 7 no inning may be started after ab r h bi ab r h bi Montreal 50 57 .467 8% 11:59 p.m. on weekdays. Play was not Molitor 2b 5010 Belangr ss 3000 Money Ib 3110 Garcia ss 2010 New York 45 62 .421 13% resumed until 12:31 a.m., but it was Bando 3b 4000 Dauer 2b S I 1 0 Hisle If 4111 Singletn rf 4221 St. Louis 40 64 .385 17 permitted because the ninth inning Davis dh 3011 Harlow cf 1000 had started long before. Oglivie ph 1000 EMurrv Ib 4121 Wohltrd rf 4120 LMay dh 4011 " WESTERN DIVISION The storm had been threatening for DMav rf 0000 DeCncs 3b 4021 Yount ss 3100 Mora If 4111 San Francisco 63 43 .594 .... several innings, and a torrential down- GThoms cf 4112 Lopez cf 3000 Cincinnati 62 43 .590 % pour started as the Orioles came to CMoore c 2000 Kelly ph 1000 Cooper ph 1011 MAdrsn rf 0000 Los Angeles 61 44 .581 1% bat in the bottom of the ninth. The um- BMartnz c 0000 Dempsv c 4020 San Diego 54 52 .509 9 pires waited for two hours before or- Total 34 5 8 S Total 395125 Milwaukee 200 000 201—5 Atlanta 48 56 .461 14 dering the tarpulin removed. Baltimore 000 210 020— -5 Houston 48 56 .461 14 Game suspended after nine innings Lee May and Doug DeCinces E — Dempsev. LOB — Milwaukee 5, Balti- more 7. 2B — Dauer, Singleton. 3B — Single- rapped RBI singles in the eighth to ton. HR— Mora (6), GThomas (241. SB— Monday's results Molitor, Money. 5 — Yount. 'What can't you hit, Pete?' give Baltimore a 5-4 lead after Gor- IP H R ER BB SO man Thomas' two-run homer in the Milwaukee AMERICAN LEAGUE Trovers 6 2-3 Milwaukee 5, Baltimore 5 (suspended) Pete Rose, right, is interviewed by Atlanta Niekro was unable to prevent Rose from seventh had put Milwaukee in front, RStein 1-3 Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3 Castro 2 pitcher Phil Niekro for a television extending his hitting streak to 44 games 4-3. Baltimore New York 6, Texas 1 Monday night. (See story on Page 2.) Thomas' 24th homer of the year McGregor 7 Boston 9, Chicago 2 sportscast before Monday night's game. Kerrigan 2 1 Toronto 8, Detroit 7 (14) tied Boston's Jim Rice for the Ameri- A— 10,514. Oakland 2, California 0 —AP Wirephoto Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal 3, Pittsburgh 2 Philadelphia 6, New York 1 Cincinnati 3, Atlanta 2 Terasa, Regenberg lead Junior tourney Hoston 4, San Francisco 1 San Diego 4, Los Angeles 3 Only games scheduled. greens look their toll. Only six players Chuck Prestigiacomo of Nakoma, just wanted to make pars out there, Presligiacomo was particularly By John Hughes pleased with his 76. "Nakoma's greens Today's games State Journal Sports Writer ' managed to break 80, including Tera- a junior-to-be at Oregon High School, because if you get out of the fairways sa's two playoff partners from a year leads the 15-16 year-old division after you can really get into trouble. I really are so slow compared to these, I had a AMERICAN LEAGUE his first-day 76. Trailing him is Craig made only two mistakes — bad club hard time getting used to them," he Chicago (Proly, 1-0) at Boston (Tiant, Chris Regenberg and Ed Terasa ago, Mark Braska of Maple Bluff and Scott Walsh of Cherokee.