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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, July 6. MM
Like Peter Pan, Rose Grows
Old But HasYet To Grow Up
By WAYNE LOCKWOOD
Copley New* Service
No one ever Mid Peter
' Pan would not grow old. The
only promise was that he
would never grow up
He has aged, this elfin
man-boy better known to the
baseball world as Pete Rose
overtones or cosmic signifi-
cance Rose doesn't. The
pitcher throws a baseball.
You try to hit it Sometimes
he wins, sometimes you win.
Everybody has fun
Let Marvin Miller and
Ray Grebey and assorted so-
cial historians make of that
what they will. They miss
He has lived '40 summers the P°int
now, and the passage of time " Rose still plays this game.
* and plays it well, because be
has distilled the thing to its
essence. What is fun when
you’re 8 can still be fun when
you’re 40. The game doesn’t
change, only people Rose,
bless him, has not
Rose is making what
amounts to a grand tour this
year Sometime in the next
few weeks, he will pass Stan
Musial to become the most
prolific hitter in the history
of the National League.
After that, only Henry
Aaron (who did some of his
hitting in the American
League) and Ty Cobb remain
ahead. Rose undoubtedly
will catch' Aaron, too, and
even Cobb’s seemingly once
unreachable record is no
longer out of sight.
We could be looking at the
all-time most productive
hitter in the history of the
game How does Rose look
at that? Like a game, of
course.
This is no blase superstar
Strolling the final mile to
immortality: This is cram-
the-baMing-helmet-down-
and-iet’S-choose-up-sides
Pete Rose »
Is there a game9 Great. If
not, let’s make one up.
At this moment, Rose has
organized the Phillies’ bat-
ting practice into a contest
of sorts. It could just as well
has left a mark.
There are lines where
once there were none, gray
where once there was black
It says "single” after ftis
name ip the Philadelphia
press guide where it once
read "married.’’
Rose has lived his life - a
full one He has overcome
his adversities and savored
bis accomplishments.
These are his golden
years, a placid time when
Rose eases into the sunset
with a dignified grace befit-
ting such an advanced state
of life. Prepare the testimo- .
mals, make ready the cere-
monies.
If you believe all that, you
know absolutely nothing
about Peter Edward Rose.
Forget the lines. Forget
the gray.
What we have here is
Peter Pan, the eternal boy in
a world of grown-ups who
will never truly understand
him. Nor should thfy try.
Understanding is not neces-
sary. Just enjoy. That’s.what
Rose is all about.
He enjoys, hugely, playing
the game of baseball. He en-
joys it because he has never
lost sight of the fact that a
game is what it is. The whole
business is as simple as that
Look for no metaphysical
those which reach only the _______
Ros/iyfooking elsewhere City Playoffs
when Manny Trillo is sent
sprawling by a pitch from n on uoun n. ls iuusku o so
coach Mike Ryan thrown at "
his head Pee ww t BartMcue vs. Manitowoc!
In Tourney
Ponies Rally For Win
his head.
“What happened?” Pete
wonders. ’’Knockdown,
knockdown,” chortles Mike
Schmidt.
"Well, go get him," Rose
advises.
No one is having more fun
than Rose, a middle-aged
man about a boy’s business.
And why not?
says. “My father played foot
ball at 42. No one asked him
to explain that. My father
was a nicer man than me,
but otherwise, I’m just like
him.” . ,
Rose played yesterday
and he will play today and
the day after that
PETE ROSE
be a bunch of kids on a cor-
ner lot. Let’s see who can get
the most hits. And let’s
argue a lot about what is a
hit and what isn’t.
"Cmon, hustle in and out
of that (batting) cage," Pete
urges his teammates. “You
gotta’ look cool walking in
and out of the cage?”
Time is a factor, after all,
We’ve got a game going
here
Pete hunkers down behind
the cage, the better to act as
arbiter about what consti-
tutes: a hit. His word gener-
ally is accepted. Who can
argue with a man who has
more than 3,600 major
leaguetrits?------
“Did you?" Rose invari-
ably inquires, when 1 ball is;
struck welf and shows
promise of reaching the
seats. . - -------------1--------
One of Gary Matthews’.ef- the other to my right. If I
forts does. "That’s for shak- had .better range, I’d be two
. ing hands,” Rose decrees. hits closer to him.” .
“Paint," Rose appraises of Rose is close enough,
those which hit the wall. When you’re a kid, there’s al-
"Littie man hitting,” follows ways plenty of time.
• pm Monday «> Morgan! Patrol
.. MH Parti 7; JO p.m Monday SI
Curtla Mathea »«. Trull Cans •: 3» p.m.
Monday 11 Merlin* Repair vi Tladale
* Company 0:30 p m Monday 7)
Baytown Merehant Cotta va
Econothern 1:30 p.m Monday 01
Team a H R Green va American
Paaaenger I X p.m. Monday 0) In-
dustrial Instruments vs Wl 0:10 p.m
Tueeday 10) Wive. Reddl-GoO: »p m
Tuesday 111 The Texans vs WJ 0:30
p m Tuesday 12) LS va Li 7:30 p m
uuwuyuvi: Tuesday 111 LOvs. U 7:10 p.m Tuee-
“ . day Ml LI va. Lit 7:10 p m TuewUy
I play the same way now 1SlL7vl L1#*»p m Tuesday, toils
I played in high school,” he v. WHO :30pm Tuesday 17IWI1VS
r ... . ... isaMnm Tuei
today 10
iday. 171 Wl!
day 10) W14 vs. LO
i 111 W4 vs. WO 0:30
Tuesday
p m Tueaday, 10)
Wednesday ») W0 va W0 6:10
L0 0:30 p.
0 30 p.m Tueada;
p m Wednesday 211 W7 vs. W10 6:30
p m Wednesday HI Wll vs Wl 6:30
p m. Wednesday 111 L16 va Wll 7:30
p m Wednesday. Ml W13 vs. L» 7:30
p m Wednesday 25) Lit vs. W17 7 !
p m Wednesday 26) W16 vs LS 7:1.
p m Wednesday. 17) Wtf vs. W20 8:30
p m Wednesday 28) Wll vs. W22 1:10
p m Wednesday 20) W26 vs. W25 0:30
p.m. Wednesr : 30) W24 va. W23 0:30
p m Wednesday 31) W27 va, W28 7:30
p m Thursday 331 L28 vs W30 6:30
p m Thursday 34) W33 vs W38 1 30
L3f vs.
p m. Thursday '■
36).’_____________
lay. 37) W36 vl. L36 0:30 p.m. Fri-
II n
p.m. Friday. 36) W31 vs W35 7:30 p.m
Friday 37) Wl
e Udy ura wins. p.m. Wednesday 31) W27 vs W28 7:30
“I haven’t missed a game p-m Thursday wi w» vs. L27 6:30
in a Phillies' uniform," he »•» Thur*d*>' 531 v* wso *:3°
says proudly. "I don’t want
to. Maybe I don’t have that
many left. All I know is I’ve
been getting to the. ballpark
earlier than I ever did in my
life.”
More time for games.
Pete is chasing the im-
mortals now. He already has
caught most of them.
"I remember Musial’s last
Sunday’s Results
Midland at San Antonio, ppd., rain
Jackson 3, Shreveport 0
Cl Paso 4. Amarillo 3
Mcmday’l Gamas
Amarillo at Cl Paso
Tulsa at Arkansas
Midland at San Antonio
Shreveport at Jackaon
Houston Classic
HOUSTON (API - Here are Use
results of Sunday’s bowltnf In the
Ladles' Professional Bowlers Tour
326,06(1 Houston Classic Sunday at Big
TexanLanet.
1 Ctndy Mason, Duarte, Calif., 6,136.
2. Donna Adamek, Duarte, Calif.,
6.076.
3. Nikki Glanullaa, Valle)o. Calif..
6,067.
4. Lisa Rathgeber, Palmetto, Fla..
3.062
3. Shirley Hints, Merritt Island. Fla.,
3666 . ’
6 Cheryl Daniels, Detroit. Mich ,
3.006.
7 Debbie Ralnone, South Euclid.
Ohio. 5,707
6 Pat Costello, Dublin. Call!., 3,773.
0. Patty Ann. Arlington Heights, 111..
5.772.
10 Lorrie Nichols, Island Lake, 111..
5,742. f
it. Betty Morris, Stockton, Calif.,
5,AM
12. Martha McGowan, San Diego,
Calif.,
HOUSTON (Sp) - The
Baytown “A” 14-year-old
all-stars moved into the
final round of the Clear
Creek invitational with a
3-2 victory over North
Shore Saturday.
Sunday’s championship
contest was rained out.
Greg Sims homered and
Jimmy Hofman got a
pinch-hit, run-scoring
single in the bottom of the
sixth to lift the Baytonians
to the curfew-curtailed
victory over Clear Creek.
Sims led off the inning North Shore led
to tie the contest. Hofman throughout the contest un-
bouncefl his single up the til Baytown staged its
middle to score Kelly winning rally after scor-
Price, who had doubled to ing twice in the top of the
right, with the winning second.
run. North Shore hurler
Rusty Stark had inten-
tionally walked John By-
ington and Kevin Warren
to pitch to Hofman.
Donovan Forbes was
the winning hurler, giving
f up fiVe-nits and striking
out nine in the contests.
Stark was charged with
the loss after allowing five
hits and six walks.
Baytown notched a
single tally in the bottom
of the second. The contest
stayed 2-1 until the bottom
of the sixth.
Baytown had advanced
to the second-round game
after gaining a forfeit vic-
tory from Deer Park in
the first round.
Californians Win Classic
HOUSTON (AP) -
Rookie Cindy Mason led a
trio of Californians to the
first round lead in the
finals of the Ladies’ Pro-
fessional Bowlers Tour
$25,000 Houston Classic
Sunday at Big Texan
Lanes.
Mason, 19, won seven of
eight matches and posted
a 6,135 pin total. Mason
and second-place finisher
Donna Adamek are both
..neceaaary
Inner and runner-up to regional Ju-
ly 16-10 at Baytown,
Meo’a Church
1) Eaatalde Baptist Green va. St
John'a Methodlit 6 30 p.m. Monday 2)
Mlaiour! -Street Church ol Chriat va.
Redeemer Lutheran 8 30 pro Monday
3) Memorial Baptlol.va First Baptist
Gold 7:30 p.m, Monday 4) Second Bap-
tist No 1 va. Wl 7:30 p m Monday 3)
W2 vs. W3 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. 6) L2vs.
L3 7:30 p m. Tuesday. 7) L! vs L58:30
-pja_lM04sy 8) L4 va. W6 0:30 p.m.
Water High At Trinity Bay;
Big Catch At Galveston
WIND, WATER AND TIDES - Winds
will be southerly 10 to 15 mph.
Temperature range will be from the low
70s to the mid 90s. Trinity and Galveston
bays will be choppy. Offshore wave
ls7:*p.m. Tueouy. n u v$. l»s:« pays will De cnoppy. unsnore wavt
■» 7”■ «> liSCsHr
my rookie season (in Cincin-
nati). He got two hits in that
game. I was the second base-
man. One was to my left and _
*...*»'* ■ WomensOpes
esday 9)
day 10) W8 vs W7 8:30 p.m Thursday
ID L9 vs. WIO 6:30 p.m. Friday.;*?) W9
vs: Wll 7:30 p.m. Friday, til Wl2
LI2 8 30p.m Friday, If necessary
Vipner and runner-up to regional Ju
ly 1718atLake Jackson
from Dujarte, Calif.
Adamek won five of eight
matches and trails Mason
by 57 pins. *
Nikki Gianulias of
Vallejo is in third position
with 6,057. The 21-year-old
right-hander won four Of
her eight matches after
leading the 18-game quali-
fying round.
A pair of Florida
women —— Lisa
Rathgeber of Palmetto
and Shirley Hintz of Mer-
ritt Island — followed the
Californians in fourth and
fifth position. The cham-
pionship will be decided
Monday with 16 matches.
The winner will get $6,000.
Stephenson Wins
DORION, Quebec (AP)
— inning the $200,000
Peter Jackson Classic,
one of' the top events on
the Ladies Professional
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Despite Adversities |
Texas League Ump Likes Job
ALBANY Ore (AP) - Randy Knuths could'have winter by the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. . uamu,
stayed home in Shedd, Ore., after graduating from But the major league strike kept him down on the c™tr
Central Linn High School, but instead he chose the $500- double-A farm. '
a mnnt h life of a Texas Leaaue umpire Some major league umps on option from the PCL
3 Whatever glifry mfgid conie along’Wfth being an urn- came back down during the strike Knuths says
Dire also brings moonlighting to make ends meet, liv- In the PCL, just one step from the majors, pay a d
tog out of a stotcase and being called a numbskull by working conditions are far better than in the Texas
"No. I've never considered quilling," fi’esays. "It's a make *500 a month. Monthly travel allotment is *800.
good life'it’s a lot easier here than farming.” v*,- Driving reimbursetoent is 20 cents per mile.
8 TheTe'xas League’S eight cities Midland, San An- “Me and my partner split the costs and stay in decent
toflio, El Paso,' AmarillPe Little.Roqk. Shreveport, motels,” KnUths says. sonum
Tulsa and Jackson-stretch along 1,000 miles; 7 costs us about $30 a day. That s $900 a month,$100^more osmith
Knuths, 29. is in his second season to the minor than we’re given in per diem. You can get too a waoum 9 s o o :
league Like many of the players,* he hopes for the that kind of money. ' • «' M . ,
break that would send him to the big time. "This is a sacrifice for the future;^toat Texas League
“I’ve got as good a shot as anybody.” he says, “and it is. If you looked negatively at driving all night from
I’m going to get a shot at the majors. It’s just a matter city to^cityand makingjust $500 a month, you d go By the associated press
^The^atch major league openings are rare and the Knuths says PCL umpires make about $350 more a fr^v^rt ] ]
rnmlrnionlsSn 8 , month than he does, but the big different is travel - » 7 7 ™
•There are a tot of guys out there, the competition’s they fly.' It’s too far from Albuquerque to Spokane to —-■ west
pretty goodTbutTVe moved upiasLand I think I’ll con- drive and no one yet has driven to Hawaii for a 4-game nmo* » * Jg .
H".hoS h«. was going u gel a boost this so»fn. "Oh. hoy. would my lifestyle change in the PCL. - «
Knuths was one of two Texas League umps drafted last says Knuths .
Fiori Shakes Pressure To Win Prize
.*• . .i . . o final mimri but that auicklv went by It was Fiori s i
llVlgluo nm w »"w -----
(Galyeston, beach water temperature is*
83 degrees. Tuesday Galveston beach
high tides will be ai 10:13 a m. and 9:34
p.m. Low tides wfil be at 2:45 a.m. and
^TRINITY BAY - The Trinity River I1
Gr«phic AMurenc* 7.30 p m Monday ^ bankful at Liberty for the next to 50 pounds, were lined along the bank the Ladies Professional
W.w^;»p^ni2d^fw4« u several days. Flood stage at Moss Bluff every three or four feet. Faulty plankton Golf Association tour, was
s jo pm Tuesday, it necessary is seven feet. The flood waters on 1-10 are was suggested as the cause. morethanwishfulthink-
iyuT.rXrr^r'uploreglon‘'J“' son holding enough crayfish to en- LAKE LIVINGSTON - Most of the ing for Australian-born
courage crowds of crawfish hunters. best fishing is still on the trot lines. A few JanStephenson
Astros Box GALVESTON — Big talk around the crappie have been found in deep chan- -
Tabletop League fish camps about a 11 and three-quarter nels. Good white bass fishing.along i;he
L angeles ^ pound speckled trout hauled out of West old roadbeds. . , *V ;
Lopes 2b 4021 Bay where fishing has. really turned. LAKE SOMERVILLE — Lake level is
Rsmthrf 3010 Eight pound redfish are common, about normal again. Water going over
irvyib 4000 Another conversation tells of a massive the dam has created great fishing along
Ikerll 3000 mi I - P.imv Marlrp nnrth nf the phannpl which ftmtlties into the
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record-shattering per- Fiori fired a final round
formance in the 78th 67 over the hazardous
Western Open. 7,097-yard BuUer National
“The. pressure was layout and finished with a
there and it usiiallyscares 72-hole total of 277, 11
me to death, but 1 handled strokes under par, and
it well,” said Fiori. four shots better than the
* ■ >• previous Western-at-
J.S. Rowing Team
OAK BROOK, 111. tAP)
Ed Fiori felt the
ressure mounting Sun-
ay, but the relatively
nknown touring pro
look it off to capture the
>p prize ofs$54,000 with a
but that quickly went by It was Fiori’s second
the boards as Rogers, who touir victory, the 'other
had birdied the first two coming in the 1979
holes in each of the Southern Open when he
previous three rounds, defeated Tom Weiskopf in
opened with a bogey while a playoff. The ’ $54,000
Fiori Birdied to climb into payoff boosted his earn-
Wins Henley Regatta
HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England (AP) — The
lited States Olympic rowing team did not get a chunky Fiori when asked
anee at the gold medaft in Moscow last year because jK)W be conquered such a
the American boycott of the Games The women’s u..nh "«'«•*» whiiA
a tie.
Although Fiori did not
have'a single bogey in the
round, he fell behind
Simons, who birdied four
of the first five holes to
takeaoneshotlead.
Fiori birdied No.6 to
ings this year to nearly
$90,000. His previous high
was $79,481 last year.
Nicklaus had a fine 69
Sunday and a 2-under-par
286 total to tie for seventh,
but more important, it
virtually assured him of
par 33 and tacked on bir- son, who like N^klaus is a
dies at the 12th and 15th two-time Western, winner,
holes. ended up at 294
Butler record of 281
posted by Scott Simpson
last year.
“I've been working on
my game, I’ve been work-
ing on my swing and I’ve
played well, “ said the ^*7^ ‘tie"with Simons and, the final spot on the Ryder
went ahead to stay when Cup team.
7oTs'r;si{
%SZr*. “p ,,r“ *,he H¥ey**Refa (nig nine wui a S-anto- and a whUa Wat-
(ailing themselves the 1980 Rowing Club, the U'.S. jacj5 Nicklaus, Lee
■mpic crew won the invitation event, easily beating Trevino and Tom Watson,
anac, the Canadian national squad, to the coxed But it hasn’t Nicklaus,
rs to become the first victorious women’s crew at Trevino or Watson who j f tinnte
nley. This was the first year women were allowed to pjori had to defeat. He JBCHSOH Den 19
npetehere. finished four shots ahead
[oily Hatton, the 32-year-old cox from Melbourne, o{ Jim Slm0ns Greg r! n j-| /
i., said. “We got one or two catcalls and cries of get Powers and jim Colbert, £jl J BSO UCieaiS uUX
the water, it's for men only ... but most people we’ve who tied for second at 281,
t really encouraged us.” while Bill Rogers, who By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
idanac won the Women s Invitation Double Sculls had ^ lead going into the Scott Holman held the Shreveport Captains to only
sn Janice Mason and Lisa Roy of St. Catherine’s, (inal round, finished fifth one hit and teammate Rick Poe had two doubles as the
ario, beat Julia and Charlotte Geer, sisters from at2g2 - Jackson Mets took a 3-0 Texas League baseball victory
■mont who represented the Dartmouth Rowing Club. pi0ri, who lives in over Shreveport Sunday night.
Ilfs about time the women were here, ” said Mason. Sugariand( Texas, 1 and in the only other Texas League game played, El Paso
sheen a man’s stronghold long enough.”' claims he mist lose 20 beat Amarillo, 4-2. Midland’s scheduled game at San
S. crews won three trophies on the final day of the ^ get down to the Antonio was postponed because of rain,
atta Sunday. The University of Washington s junior for him in the Holman, now 2-5, pitched his first complete game of
sity heavyweight eight won the Ladies Challenge ^ Guide, had things the season to pick up the victory. Poe drove in two runs
te; the Charles River Rowing Association eight took ^ weU ^ even a„d Mike Fitzgerald drove in the other for the Mets.
Thames Cup, and Holy Spirit High School of played safe and Eddie Irvine had two hits in four plate appearances
econ, N.J., captured the Princess Elizabeth Cup for wou]d ha^e satisfied and scored two runs as the El Paso Diablos beat the
ools. - 7 with a bogey 5 on No.18, Amarillo Gold Sox, 4-2.
be winners received their, prizes from Princess ■*putt to Chel Sun part, 14, pitched a six^hltter tn picking up
-e of Monaco, whose brother Jack Kelly once won ^ K the victory . The loser was Dave Dravecky, 7-4.
•iamond Scujls atHenley ^ a Jwo- All Texas League teams arete betoaction tonight.
— - - — Amarillo is at El Paso, Tulsa at Arkansas, Midland at
San Antonio and Shreveport is at Jackson.
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