Jh I blin R s n i U i U i L HOW12 — The Prince WILL George FANSCitizen — Friday,REACT July 29,1988THIS TIME? Jays' turmoil continues as Yankees invade TORONTO (CP) — As the world expert at calling a game for pitch­ turns, the bold and the not-so-beau- ers. tiful are due to gather at Exhibi- More intriguing is that Whitt, the ' tion Stadium today, adding yet an­ 36-year-old catcher, might be rea­ VICTORY other chapter to the soap opera dy to pop the cork on his bottle of that has become the Toronto Blue emotions. Whitt, perhaps the most STOLEN Jays’ baseball season. disappointed Blue Jay following As in every unpredictable plot, last season’s seven-game collapse, today’s drama adds a twist. has been notoriously silent about BY EXPOS The New York Yankees are in the Bell situation. for a four-game series — usually Jays’ general manager Pat Gil­ by Canadian Press big news due to the rivalry esta­ lick termed the Bell situation an The Cardinals are known as the. blished by the two American “ open wound.” bandits of the basepaths, but the League teams over several previ­ Randy Hendricks, Bell’s Hous­ Expos stole a page from the St. ous seasons. ton-based agent, suggested it could Louis playbook Thursday night. The posting of the starting lineup be healed with a trade. Montreal stole six bases, includ­ should answer the big question of Gillick said Bell is available for ing three thefts of third, as the the day: Will manager Jimy Wil­ trade and added: “ It wouldn’t Expos ran to a 4-3 victory over the liams, the guiding light of the Blue bother me if George went home.” Cardinals in a 10-inning National League baseball game. Jays, allow George Bell to play Remember, it all started March In other games, it was: the Cin­ for the first time since their shout­ 1, when Bell pronounced: “ We’ll cinnati Reds 5, Atlanta Braves 2; ing match Tuesday in Minneapo­ see who lasts longer with the or­ Houston Astros 3, San Diego Pa­ lis? ganization, him (Williams) or me.” dres 2; and Chicago Cubs 7, Phila­ The indication Thursday from Williams is frustrated by Bell’s delphia Phillies 0. Williams was that Bell would con­ lack of concentration defensively. “ We won this game the way Car­ tinue burning a hole on the bench. The young (28) and restless Bell, dinals usually win — with speed,” When he does get in, how w ill the who fought the move to designated said Expos’’ manager Buck Rodg­ crowd express its opinion of his la­ hitter in spring training by claim­ ers. “ We’re adding a new dimen­ test outburst? ing he was a more-than-adequate sion to our game and right now Toronto fans, disturbed by the outfielder, has turned the left field we’re feeling pretty good about Blue Jays’ uninspired play this into a stage and the main attrac­ ourselves.” season, have alternated their tion could be called Follies Bell- Pinch-hitter Graig Nettles drove scapegoats. For awhile it was Bell, gieres. His 13 errors so far have in the winning run with a two-out single in the 10th, but it was the then they began jeering Williams tied a 1979 club record. speed of the Expos, especially Otis It’s hard for Williams to bring relentlessly as he made pitching Nixon and Rex Hudler, that made moves. Bell back as DH, because the the victory possible. Then there’s the mysterious an­ right-handed Cecil Fielder and left- Nixon stole three bases, includ­ nouncement that Ernie W hitt has handed Ranee Mulliniks have post­ ing a key nab of third in the eighth scheduled before tonight’s game. ed good numbers in a platoon role. inning, while Hudler pilfered two, Jeff Musselman, 2-0, takes on as Montreal moved seven games Whitt mentioned retirement to New York’s Richard Dotson, 8-3, in back of the idle East Division-lead­ announcer Jerry Howarth on the opener of the three-game series ing New York Mets. Wednesday — his contract runs out tonight. The temperature is pre­ The Cardinals did their thing in this season, although the Blue Jays dicted to be hot, just like the Blue the first inning, scoring a run with­ have an option to renew for 1989 at Jays’ clubhouse. out the benefit of a hit. Vince Cole­ $800,000. man drew a leadoff walk, stole second, went to third on an error Few players announce their re­ The Yankees visit the Jays at and scored on Terry Pendleton’s tirement in mid-season, especially 4:30 today on The Sports Net­ work (cable 16), 11 a.m. Satur­ fielder’s choice. when they consider themselves still Coleman scored again in the day on BCTV (channel 12, cable marketable. W hitt’s arm has lost third when he doubled and crossed sonie zing, but he’s a much-desired 11), 1:30 p.m. Sunday on BCTV the plate on Pendleton’s two-base left-handed hitter and is considered and 10:30 a.m. Monday on TSN. hit. * With those two runs, and the two- hit shutout Bob Forsch was work­ ing on until the sixth, it looked as though St. Louis would break its Bell spurns cash eight-game losing streak in Mont­ real that started last August. But in the sixth, tne Expos scored twice before 20,751 fans and to answ er critics chased Forsch from the game. Nixon, pinch-hitting for Bryn I TORONTO (CP) - George Bell “ It’s stupidity. What about me? Smith, led off the sixth with a sin­ says the Toronto Blue Jays can He’s the one who doesn’t care for gle and stole second before scoring take the money back. He just people’s feelings. He’s the one who H ig h -flyin g Russian on a single by Dave Martinez. - wants peace of mind. runs the whole length of the dugout It was the first hit as an Expo by “ I don’t care about the money,” screaming at me.” Maxim Tarasov of the Soviet Union lets out a and field championships in Sudbury, Ont. Martinez, who was 0-for-20 since • Bell was quoted as saying in to­ Bell referred to the incident that yell as he heads for the bar during the pole Tarasov won the silver medal with a vault of being acquired July 14. Martinez went to second on an infield out, day’s .edition of the Toronto Sun. preceded the shouting match. He’d vault final Thursday at the world junior track 5.65 metres. Statistics, page 14. * “ If they want to take the money fielded a single in left and threw stole third and scored on a two-out double by Hubie Brooks off Dan back for 1989, they can take it. I ’m over catcher Ernie Whitt’s head Quisenberrv. serious.” - - ...... trying in futility to cut down Kirby The deadlock was broken in the Bell, enmeshed in a running feud Puckett of the Minnesota Twins at seventh when pinch-hitter Tom with manager Jim y Williams since the plate. Simon Fraser Days canoe^race Pagnozzi singled home Tony Pena spring training, signed a two-year “ He doesn’t wait until we get in­ for St. Louis. But in the eighth, contract before the season for side,” Bell said. “ No way I can Nixon used his blinding speed to nearly $4 million US. Toronto holds take that. manufacture the tying run for the option for another season. ‘You’re out of the . . . game! Montreal. “ They can tear up the contract,” Take a shower and go home.’ The offers challenge for all levels Nixon beat out a bunt single, Bell said. “ I know I can play. man doesn’t show me no respect. stole second and third, and scored There w ill be something for eve­ men’s, mixed and junior. Also run­ Final registration takes place at when Todd Worrell threw a wild “ I prefer somewhere I can play Ever since the meeting (about the ryone at the annual Simon Fraser ning Sunday are the 3x27 mixed, Wilkins Park at noon Saturday. pitch. every day and have my peace. I DH role last spring, with general Days canoe race, from serious rac­ the team business challenge and Racing begins at 1 p.m. both days In the 10th, Hudler led off with a mean it. I know what type of play­ manager Pat Gillick, vice-presi­ dent Paul Beeston and Bell’s ers to those who like to get out for the 4x32 fam ily mixed events as The entry fee for the open 3x27 bloop single against Larry McWil­ er I am. I know myself. I can’t liams. Hudler was sacrificed to agent, Randy Hendricks) he’s held a more relaxing paddle down the well as the solo race. classes is $40 per canoe, the open take it any more. I just can’t take second by Nixon, then stole third to it against me. Everybody writes river. Canoes in the recreational 4x32 and recreational classes are it. I don’t want people screaming put himself 90 feet from the plate The race, which runs Saturday classes must be shorter than 18 $20 per canoe and solo entries are at me no more. I f they want to re­ about my attitude. What about his with one out. and Sunday, starts at Wilkins Park feet and more than 34 inches wide. lease me, that’s fine.” attitude?” $10. Pinch-hitter Tracy Jones popped in Miworth and winds downstream Bell indicated the salary has set Organizer Jim Feragen says only An additional charge of $2 per out, but Nettles grounded a ball Bell, who awoke Thursday morn­ him up to be the scapegoat for Wil­ along the Nechako to the Fraser, the open categories have upstream canoeist is required from anyone through the right side of the infield ing to find more headlines about liams, team management and fans. then to the finish at Fort George portions and the 3x27 pro division not a member of the B.C. Mara­ to malce a winner of Tim Burke, 3- the designated hitter squabble and He’s made 13 errors in left field Park. includes a portage. thon Canoe Racing Association to 2. the spring feud, had a tone of res­ this season, but feels he doesn’t get There are open and recreational Recreational competitors also provide for insurance. Expo notes: Wallace Johnson ignation in his voice. credit for the aggressiveness he categories for men, women, mas­ get a five-minute head start on the Entries are available at CJCI leads the majors with 14 pinch- “ No matter what I do, I’m shows in making good plays. ters, mixed, family and junior ca­ open classes. Radio and Bobsports. hits . . . Jones, acquired from the wrong,” Bell said. “They say I “I know I’m brutal out there,” noeists as well as a special team Cincinnati Reds on July 13, is 9-for- think I run the ball club because I Bell said. “ The way I ’ve been business challenge. 20 for a .429 batting average with make $2 million. playing is because they made me Most of the open races take PONUICK MEMORIAL the Expos . . . Since moving to “ They write what Jimy says. I that way. place Saturday, including men’s the bullpen June 13, Neal Heaton is 1-1 with a 1.95 earned-run average think it’s absolutely wrong.” “ The way I ’m playing right now, and women’s 3x27-inch and men’s, in 13 games. As a starter, he was I know is not me. I don’t know women’s, masters and junior 4x32. Williams, still enraged following 2-6, with a 5.69 ERA . . . Montreal a shouting match with Bell in the what’s going on. Mentally and phy­ Most of the recreational classes go Sunday, including men’s, wo- Oldtim ers to race pitchers came into the game lead­ dugout Tuesday, made the allega­ sically I’m all right. Maybe I’m ing the league in home runs tion. Bell, asked to respond, re­ thinking too much. But I tell you — allowed with 82 . . . Left fielder fused comment. if I come to spring training and Tim Raines, still suffering the “ Jim y says I show him up,” Bell Jimy say, ‘Let’s go get ‘em !’ I ’d 'Mean' Nunn at PGARA show effects of a bruised left shoulder, said. “ I show him up? be a totally different man.” had to leave the game in the sev­ This w ill be a special weekend at the Prince George Auto Racing Asso­ enth inning. pounds Tate ciation for more than one reason. Reds 5 Braves 2 Oldtime racing cars from the 1920s and ‘30s w ill run Saturday at the First baseman Nick Esasky LAS VEGAS, Nev. (AP) - M i­ PGARA track on Aitcheson Road for the second straight year. Interior Patience requested chael Nunn gave a convincing an­ nailed his third# game-winning Open Wheel Association modifieds w ill run with the oldtimers before both home run in three days against swer to the critics who said he classes run Sunday in Quesnel. Atlanta. by Canadian Press longest in the American League couldn’t punch. Baltimore rookie Oswald Peraza this year, surpassing Franco’s own The Harvey Ponuick Memorial show for hobby stocks and street stocks Astros 3 Padres 2 Nunn dropped Frank Tate, the hopes those around him w ill be pa­ 21-game streak earlier in the year. w ill be held Sunday at the PGARA track. Bill Doran’s two-run homer International Boxing Federation tient while he learns to pitch in the Baltimore last defeated the In­ The oldtimers, based primarily on Vancouver Island, are mostly original sparked a three-run first inning middleweight champion, with a big leagues. dians on Aug. 11 last year and is 1- stock cars. Their drivers don’t run all out on the track, but they care about and Bob Knepper, 11-3, earned the “ I ’m still learning, because I ’ve 9 against Cleveland in 1988. devastating body shot in the eighth putting on a good show. win. only been pitching for five years,” In other AL games Thursday round and finished him off with a Racing begins Saturday at 8 p.m. The Cardinals visit Montreal Peraza said. He gave up two runs night, it was: the Detroit Tigers 7, flu rry of head punches in the ninth Sunday’s racing will honor the memory of a longtime Prince George at 4:30 p.m. Saturday on CBC in 8V3 innings as the Orioles beat Kansas City Royals 1; Milwaukee round to capture the 160-pound title auto racing enthusiast who died earlier this year from complications aris­ French (channel 4, cable 5). the Cleveland Indians 5-2 in Ameri­ Brewers 6, New York Yankees 1; Thursday night. ing from heart surgery. can League baseball action Thurs­ and California Angels 7, Chicago Nunn, who frustrated Tate early PGARA w ill make a donation to the heart fund and, since the size of the White Sox 6 in 11 innings. day night. in the fight with constant move­ donation w ill depend on how big the crowd is, track organizers are hoping SCHULTZ PONTIAC Peraza, 25, made it to the majors Tigers 7 Royals 1 ment, showed his punching power for a lot of people. this year after Baltimore acquired BUICK LTD. Jeff Robinson, 12-4, allowed only to Tate and a crowd of about 4,000 him in exchange for veteran pitch­ “ I’m expecting a really good turnout,” PGARA president Glen Kelly Frank White’s single in the fourth at Caesars Palace. ANNOUNCEMENT er Mike Flanagan in a trade last said Thursday. inning for his eighth victory in his “ They told me to get mean and I Racing, expected to begin at 2 p.m., w ill feature something a little dif­ summer. past nine starts at Tiger Stadium. did,” Nunn said of the sudden dis­ He relied heavily on his sinking ferent called a hamburger race. Detroit swept all six games against play of power. “ I psyched myself forkball Thursday in his longest A half a pound of hamburger is placed on the manifold of each partici­ the Royals here. It was the first out to get mean.” # outing yet. pating car, which then races 20 laps. The first finisher to eat his hamburg­ time the Royals didn’t win a game Nunn looked much like his idol, “ We hit quite a few balls hard er wins the race. at Detroit in a season. off him ,” said Indians’ manager Sugar Ray Leonard, as he mugged and taunted Tate throughout the Doc Edwards. “ But when you hit Brewers 6 Yankees 1 fight. Tate, who defeated Michael ‘at ‘em’ balls, you don’t score.” B. J. Surhoff had three hits, in­ Eddie Murray and Cal Ripken cluding a run-scoring double that Olajide of Vancouver in October Jr. each homered to help Balti­ sparked a three-run sixth inning, for the title, was unable to land more end a string of 11 straight and Mike Birkbeck won his third any big punches. losses to the Indians. straight decision as Milwaukee “ I was too tight, too tense, and I Peraza, 3-4, held the Indians snapped a five-game losing streak. didn’t wait for the shots to come,” Terry Kushnlruk scoreless on four hits until the New York, 0-30 when it trails after said Tate. “ My mind was there but Brian Olesuik, Parts Manager is pleased ninth, when Cleveland scored a run seven innings, saw its four-game the body mechanics weren’t.” to announce the appointment of Terry on consecutive singles by Joe Cart­ Kushniruk as Assistant Parts Manager of winning streak snapped. Nunn, of Los Angeles, who Schultz Pontiac Buick's Parts-To-Go er, Mel Hall and Brook Jacoby. scored his 21st professional knock­ Angels 7 W hite Sox 6 Store. Terry brings many years of Tom Niedenfuer then gave up an out and raised his record to 31-0, automotive experience to his new RBI single to Carmen Castillo but Brian Downing, who earlier had received $ 100,000 for the bout. position. Call Terry today for all your GM got the last two outs for his 12th a two-run homer, hit a two-out Parts needs. Two judges had the fight scored save to give Baltimore its third home run in the 11th. Downing’s victory in the past 12 games. homer, his 16th of the year, mark­ 77-73 and another 78-73, all in favor SCHULTZ PONTIAC Cleveland’s Julio Franco went ed the eighth time he’s hit two of Nunn, through eight rounds. The hitless in four plate appearances to homers in one game. Donnie Associated Press had Nunn win­ BUICK LTD. end his career-high hitting streak Moore, 5-2, pitched the final two in­ ning every round, with an 80-72 1111 Central St. 563-0271 Dealer 5656 at 22 games. The streak was the nings for the Angels. lead in points.