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Olympic cyclist reinstated Page 2 Spoils Ganassi condition serious Page 2 Wisconsin State Journal Tuesday, July 24,1984, Section 2 • Baseball Page 3 A homemade product Fingers ties swimming for the Queen save record By Andrew P. Baggot Wisconsin's tember of 1979. State Journal sports reporter "My father always wanted me MILWAUKEE (AP) - Rollie Fin- to swim for England," Annabelle gers is more worried about saving •She didn't say a thing about tea Olympians said in a telephone visit last week. games than collecting "save" num- and crumpets. "He's always been English at bers. Princess Di wasn't mentioned heart and wanted to keep it that Milwaukee's veteran right-hander at all. way. registered his 23rd save of the season Liverpool's latest soccer tri- "If it weren't for my parents, I Monday in a 6-4 victory over the New umph was passed over complete- wouldn't be swimming here, I York Yankees. The save was his 216th ly. Parliament were not among know that," said added. "They've in the American League, tying him And, horrors, she didn't even Cripps' uppermost thoughts. She always been there to encourage with former New York and Texas re- have an accent. was 11 then, just another all-Amer- me and help me." liever Sparky Lyle for the league Chances are good, too, that An- ican girl, attending Edgewood Expensive encouragement, too. lead. Fingers holds the major-league nabelle Cripps didn't curtsy at all School in Madison and doing things The monthly overseas telephone Annabelle Cripps mark with 324. during the conversation. But tradi- any ordinary kid would do. She bill runs about f400, figures Anna- "I didn't know what I had until tion and other frivolous chit-chat was a swimmer then, too. As a belle. She says without a moment's working on varying technique. someone mentioned it to me after the aren't at the top of Cripps' priority matter of fact, she set her first hesitation that she couldn't do game," Fingers said of tying the AL Rollie Fingers list right now. "I train different than anyone record as an 8-year-old in the 1976 without the encouragement. else and that's why he's a good record. "I was more worried about She's in California with the rest all-city meet when she was For the benefit of those who coach for me," said Cripps, who saving the game for Don (Sutton)." of the world's athletic greats, clocked in 17.02 seconds in the 25- remember Cripps when she at- has returned every summer since "Bui as long as I keep saving ready to swim for the good of the meter freestyle. tended Edgewood, there's this 1981 to work with Jack Pettinger, games, that's OK with me," he added Surgery for Porter: Queen and the British homeland in Little did she know, though, warning: she's changed. "I've the men's coach at the University with a laugh. the Summer Olympic Games. that great plans were being laid grown up a lot being over there of Wisconsin. "We don't concen- Sutton improved his record to 9-8, See Page 3 Funny thing, though. Great Britain for her future. (England)," said Cripps, who will trate on one thing, which I think is winning his third successive game isn't exactly home for Cripps. Her father, Dr. Derek Cripps, is graduate from Wigan Technical good for my training. and the sixth of his last seven starts. That story in a moment. a Madison dermatologist, a trans- Institute next year with an inclina- Fingers has saved every Sutton vic- "We work mostly on freestyle NEW YORK MILWAUKEE At 16, Cripps is the youngest planted Englishman (he left for tion to get into the world of busi- events and mostly on the longer tory this season. member of the women's swim America in 1965) and ex-world ness. "I've met a lot of interesting ab r h bl ab r h bl distances. It's really helped in the "If you had had me around all your Randolph 2b 5010 Romero 3b 5121 team representing Great Britain. class swimmer. A butterfly spe- people and learned a lot since I've career," Sutton kidded Fingers, Wynegar c 5020 Gantner 2b 5120 been here, especially through last couple months (endurance- Harroh pr 0000 Yount ss 3001 She will compete in the 200-meter cialist, he was good enough to wise) since we've been competing "you'd have 500 saves." Mattingly If 5120 Cooper dh 4222 and 800-meter freestyle events in swim for Great Britian in the 1952 swimming." Baylor dh 5000 Simmons Ib 4011 a lot." Fingers worked the final 2% in- Wlnfleld rl 4000 Lozado 3b 0000 Los Angeles as well as take her Helsinki Olympics, but didn't The looks have changed, too. Griffey Ib 4011 Oflllvle rl 4020 Indeed. Even after Cripps nings, not giving up a run while allow- Pagllarulo 3b 4110 Brouhard If 2000 place in the leadoff spot on the make the trip because, among She has the tapered dimensions of Meacham ss 4131 Manning cf 1100 qualified for the Olympic team, ing four hits and leaving five runners O. Moreno cf 4112 Sundberg c 3120 4x100 relay team. other reasons, there wasn't enough a world-class swimmer — 140 on base. C. Moore cf 4031 there were places to go and races Total! 40 4 11 4 Totals 35 6 14 4 She's currently making final money. pounds draped over a 5-foot-ll to be won. The team was given a In the ninth the Yankees loaded preparations with the rest of the Anyway, like two brothers be- frame. New York 000 100 300 — 4 week off immediately after the the bases with one out, but Fingers Milwaukee 300 003 OOx —« British team while staying on the fore her, Dr. Cripps wanted his She began her tutelage abroad Game-winning RBI — Yount (6). E — Mattingly, trials, but then it was off to got Don Mattingly on a pop-up and Yount. DP — New York 2. LOB — New York 9, Milwau- campus of San Diego State. Mon- daughter to have the same kind of in Devon County, training for two kee 8. 2B — Cooper, Sundberg, Meacham, Pagllarulo, Sweden for a tuneup meet, then Don Baylor on a routine fly to right to Mattingly 2, Ogllvle. HR —Cooper (5), O. Moreno (3). day she'll dive into her first Olym- educational opportunities and years under Terry Davis. Since back to London for more training end the game. SF — Yount. pics when she's called to the swimming training he had, thus then she has been with Keith Bew- "We've been playing good ball," IP H R ER BB SO before making the trip to Califor- New York blocks for the opening heat in the the groundwork for his daughter's ley, a two-time gold medalist in said New York Manager Yogi Berra. Guldry L (8-8) 52-3126 4 1 2 200. migration was put down. She left the Commonwealth Games, who' Shirley 12-32 0 0 1 0 "We've been playing catch-up ball. I Armstrong 2-30 000 1 Five years ago, LA and the for her induction abroad in Sep- has Cripps and his other charges Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 thought maybe we'd catch them to- Milwaukee Sutton W (9-8) 6 1-3 8 4 4 0 5 Fingers S (23) 2 2-3 3 0 0 0 1 Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 T — 2:42. Att. — 17,657. Lewis' possible return clouds Chi Ids' future By John Hughes ers' receivers coach. "If he continues State Journal sports reporter to progress the way he has, he'll help Packer notes us." GREEN BAY — A week ago, Sunday, in the Packers' first ex- Henry Childs looked like a shoo-in to tended scrimmage of training camp, become the backup tight end for the Childs showed his ability as a re- Green Bay Packers, behind Paul During the off-season in 1981 he ceiver by making a great catch of a Coffman. was traded twice, first to the Wash- pass from Dickey on a play that cov- But late last week, the name of ington Redskins and then to the Los ered 31 yards. former Packer Gary Lewis came up Angeles Rams, where he played half Carpenter wasn't surprised. again, so Childs isn't sure now where a season being sidelined with a foot "His biggest strength when he was he fits into the picture. injury. The next year he was cut by playing was that he was a super pass "I keep hearing these rumors the Rams before the season started receiver," he said. ..." he said Monday. and he hasn't played since. But Childs, a 6-foot-2, 226-pounder, But for the moment, Childs re- "I felt that I still had something to doesn't want folks to take that as mains the bird in the hand, so to give," he said of his decision to return meaning he can't block also. speak. to football. "When I played in New Orleans, Lewis, who played tight end for "He's done a good job to this the Packers for three seasons before point," said Lew Carpenter, the Pack- Turn to Page 2, Col. 3 jumping to the United States Football League last winter, was waived out of the USFL by his former team, the Chicago Blitz, last week.