Show flje jM t pakt Section D ibunc Tuesday September 1988 6 Page 1 o For Recorded Scores Call Local 237-202- 5 0 Giants Rally in 2nd Half to Edge ’Skins A Blocked r Punt Fumble Recovery Spark Comeback v am - X f UPI Sports Writer EAST RUTHERFORD NJ — Tom Flynn ran 27 yards for a touchdown off a blocked punt and nose tackle Jim Burt returned a fumble 39 yards for a score Monday night rallying the New York Giants to a 27-2- 0 victory over the Washington Redskins Flynn’s TD came after Gary Reasons blocked a Steve Cox punt with 9 59 left m the lead m a game and gave the Giants a 20-1game they trailed 13-- in the second quarter Flynn a backup safety has returned three blocked punts for TDs m the last three years Burt scored 2 13 later after Pepper Johnson sacked Doug Williams on a second-and-from the Redskins 47 Williams lost the ball and Burt picked it off in the air and rambled into the end zone for his first career TD on WilWashington pulled within liams’ TD pass to Kelvin Bryant with 1 1 seconds remaining The Giants recovered the ensuing onsides kick to seal the victory New York’s rally ruined the start of the Redskins’ defense of the NFL title in a matchup of the last two Super Bowl winners The Giants also scored on Joe Morns’ run and Raul Allegre field goals of 23 and 32 yards on Chip Lohmiller The Redskins led 13-field goals of 26 and 25 yards in the first quarTD pass to Ricky ter and Williams’ Sanders in the second All-PrThe Giants played without seven-tim- e outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor who y d is serving an drug suspension Andy Headen played irnhis place Dexter Manley the Washington defensive end who returned last week from a drug supsension played mostly on passing downs He scuffled briefly with Giants tackle William Roberts after Roberts held Manley on a third-quartplay but did little else Simms completed 19 of 37 passes for 195 yards and was sacked four times Williams completed 24 of 50 passes for 288 yards and was sacked three times Timmy Smith gained 100 yards on 20 carries for Washington The Redskins dominated the first half Smith had 55 yards on 10 carries at halftime and Williams completed 8 of 18 for 1 1 1 yards The Giants were held to minus-- yards rushing on nine carries with Morris running seven Simms was 14 of 20 for times for minus-1- 1 A I y V - - By Dave Raffo ”: 1Z 0 x 1 ' 'X A CTrc $ vt nauts at Flames Blues Cut Deal o 30-da- 30-da- y — 128 yards and was sacked three times But the Giants tied the score with 10 points within 2 06 of the third quarter on a TD and field goal set up by special teams on Morns’ The Giants pulled within run to cap a 51 yard drive after a 20- - even-mone- 2-- 1 1 Slew Candy Slew owned by Doyle Huber and Barton Snow of Vernal bolted to the lead from the No 9 post under jockey John Kester Buck Country meanwhile broke alertly and quickly moved up inside Candy Slew from the No 2 post Those two opened four lengths on the field almost immediately h and they raced down the tn tandem Buck Country was on the inside Candy Slew was on the outside They were with the rest of the field out of sight back-stretc- eyeball-to-eyeba- ll himself" Kester said later when asked if the early speed duel took too much out of his horse In the middle of the turn Kester drove Candy Slew' ahead by as much as a length and as the leaders turned for home it looked like Utah-brethe Charles Mohar-trainehad put Buck Country away f Not so unthe stretch Midway through der the strong urging of jockey Kelly Stallings Buck Country slowly started to rally along the rail With 50 yards to go the favorite drew even with the tiring Candy Slew and from there Buck Country inched to the lead en route to his third win in four starts “I knew I had a good horse" said Stallings afterwards "I knew with good luck he’d be there Instead he had fair luck But he still got there ” Stallings explained that Candy Slew kept Buck Country pinned to the rail throughout the race That's where the track is deepest and most tiring Then m the middle of the turn Stallings felt Candy Slew crowded Buck Country and pinched him See D-Column 1 d d 6 0 d CALGARY Alberta (AP) — The Calgary Flames sent center Mike Bullard scorer to the St their second-leadinLouis Blues Monday as part of an NHL seven-playe- r deal The Flames are the parent club of the Salt Lake Golden Eagles Bullard and center Craig Coxe were traded to the Blues for for center Doug Gilmour right wing Mark Hunter center Steve Bozek and defenseman-righ- t wing Michael Dark said Calgary team spokesman Rick Skaggs The Blues also received the rights to defenseman Tim Corkery Bullard played 79 games for the Flames who finished atop the NHL standings after regular season play They were eliminated by the eventual Stanley Cup champion the Edmonton Oilers in the Symthe Division final Bullard scored 49 goals and added 55 assists He had 68 penalty minutes Gilmour played 72 games for the Blues last season notching 36 goals and adding 50 assists He had 59 penalty minutes Hunter had 32 goals and 31 assists in 66 games amassing 136 penalty minutes Navratilova Graf Gain Open Quarterfinals 'First Week Easy’ Says Steffi r "He did it all by Cox punted 41 yards when Washington's next possession stalled Phil McConkey fielded the punt near his right sideline broke across the field and raced 35 yards to the Redskins 22 Allegre kicked a field goal with 3 55 left m the quarter to tie the score d 13-1- 0 e’ season- -opener yard Cox punt Morris caught a pass to the 22 and on Simms scrambled 13 yards to the 9 With Washington blitzing on second down Morris ran a trap draw off right guard into the end zone with 6 21 left in the third quarter third-and-1- Associated Press Photo ants’ John Washington in Monday night’s NFL for both teams at East Rutherford NJ Washington Redskins’ running back Tommy Smith is brought down after short yardage by New York Gi- - Buck Country Wins two-hors- s ®T d Tribune Sports Writer EVANSTON Wyo — The $37260 Rocky Mountain Futurity e race looked like a That's the way it turned out too y Buck Country the second-choic- e favorite eased past Candy Slew in the final strides Monday to win the richest thoroughbred race of the season at Wyoming Downs by a neck It was five lengths back to 35-shot Nalees Sprite who finished a nose ahead of Utah Snow m third As soon as the starting gate opened however the futurity turned into a battle between Buck Country and Candy Tiger-Cat- CWIBi) 3:30 pm — Baseball Dodgers at Braves CMAJ 530 pm — Tennis U S Open QG0 6 pm — Baseball Phillies at Cubs pm — Baseball Padres at Giants 0 By Steve Luhm 2 ClJA) 10 a m — Tennis U S Open CIlfJD 11 am — CFL Football Argo- 27-2- 0 ‘Two-Hors- Seattle Milwaukee 5 Chicago 2 New York 7 Cleveland 2 Boston 4 Baltimore 1 Toronto 5 Detroit 4 California Kansas City Oakland 1 1 Texas 4 TV Sports d 1 American League Minnesota 2 0 New York Giants 27 Washington 20 5 2 pzSports Capsulezi National Football League 3 0 NFL-impose- 1 Chicago 14 Philadelphia 3 (1st game) Philadelphia 4 Chicago 3 (2nd game) New York 7 Pittsburgh 5 San Diego 7 San Francisco 4 St Louis 6 Montreal 2 Los Angeles 3 Atlanta 0 Houston 3 Cincinnati 0 n r 237-200- National League rS Z i Call J V pfi'X Sports Information By Rick Warner AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK — Martina Navratilova who took a nap before her match woke up just in time in the U S Open on Monday Navratilova fell behind in the first set against South African Elna Reinach before rallying for a victory that moved her into the quarterfinals "I probably shouldn't tell you this but I took a nap before the match and I wasn't quite awake at the begindefending chamning" the pion said "You know" how it is It takes time to wake up Steffi Graf also had to shake off a 0-- 4 6-- 4 two-tim- first-se- 6-- 1 e slumber before beating t to American Patty Fendick move within three victories of the Grand Slam “The first week is very easy" said Giaf who had lost a total of four games in her three previous matches "Now' comes the work " In men s play Ivan Lendl No 4 Andre Agassi and No 6 Jimmy Connors breezed into the fourth round Second-seedeMats Wilander advanced to the quarterfinals w ith a win over Mark Woodforde the Australian who upset John McEnroe in the second round Another unseeded Aussie Darren Cahill moved into the quarters with a of win over Martin Laurendeau Canada 6-- 4 6-- 2 d d 6-- 3 6-- 6-- 2 6-- 4 6-- 4 6-- Lendl stretched his Open winning streak to 24 matches with a victory over American Scott Davis Connors eliminated Pieter Aldrich of South Africa and Agassi beat Johan Kriek Two men’s seeds No 12 Guillermo and No 15 Anders Jar-rywere ousted from the tournawas beaten by ment Jorge Lozano of Mexico ) and Jarrvd fell to Jakob Hla-seof Switzerland In the final match of the night Aaron Krickstein defeated Stefan Edberg ) marathon in a five-se- t 6-- 3 Perez-Rolda- 6-- 2 6-- 3 6-- 6-- 6-- 1 6-- 4 2-- 6 6-- 0 6-- 3 n d Perez-Rolda- n 6-- 4 6-- 4 5-- 7 7-- 6 k 6-- 2 6-- 4 5-- 7 7-- 6 4-- 6 ) 6-- 2 7-- 6 (7-4- 7-- 5 Michael Chang 16 became the youngest man to reach the fourth round since Krickstein m 1983 Chang defeated fellow American Tim Wilkison The No 7 women's seed Helena Sukova was beaten by No 14 Katerina Maleeva Joining Maleeva in the quarterfinals were Chris Evert No 5 Gabriela Sabati-n- i No 11 Zina Garrison and No 16 Larisa Savchenko The swirling winds on center court at the National Tennis Center nearly made Navratilova blow the first set ' I couldn t tell which w’av the wind was blowing " said Navratilova who is seeded second behind Graf ' It blew then it stopped for a little w hile then it blew again I hit some lobs that Column 1 See 4-- 6 3-- 6 6-- 1 6-- 3 7-- 5 6-- 4 6-- 3 third-seede- d — Associated Press Photo Andre Agassi of Las Vegas reaches for a backhand in Monday’s US Open action Agassi beat Johan Kriek in four sets D-- 6 Kindred Spirit Gone between Rich Pro Athletes and Working Man As I write this column on this day dedicated to the working man and woman I'd like to reprint a statement made years ago by Warren Giles former presi- dent of the Cincinnati Reds and later president of the National League 20 years ago He said "Baseball is mistaken to popularize extravagance and I don’t think it is appreciated by the working man whose family is the backbone of the game The guy who saves money from a $10 000 yearly paycheck to take the kids to the ball park is going to hoot when a $100 000 outfielder makes a bobble ’’ I warned you this was spoken some years ago because you will note there are very few baseball pla’ ers making as little as $i 00000 a year now Of course not many families making only $10 000 a year are goijig to many sports events either I agree w:Ji Giles Years ago a baseball fan could relate to an athlete because both were working for a living and the pay scale for the professional baseball or football plaver wasnt much more per game than a guv i punching the time clock made for his week s work Professional basketball still was a dream of Abe Saperstein and his Harlem Globe Trotters and professional golfers were playing for $5 000 top money and pro tennis was no sport to earn a good living a Maybe a working guy earned only $40-$5week which was the pay scale when I left the university But professional football plavers going both ways on offense and defense might be earning between $75 and $150 a game and many major league baseball players were earning $5 000 for the season at that time 1 believe professional sports have lost he fueling of oneness with the working man How can there be a kindred feeling between the working man or woman and the athlete being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for hours a day for six playing a game months’ I d guess if you listed the top 20 vearlv incomes for Utah the Utah Jazz players would occupy 40 percent of the positions The professional dub owners are making this class distinction even more pronounced It was one thing to have special reserved sections for the financial he aw hitters who could afford to pav a premium for choice seats But now the trend is to limirv boxes 0 two-thre- e where those who can afford it or who can figure a tax write off will be able to look down on the ' peasants’ and athletes Maybe "peasants' lsn t the right word because to be able to afford the prices for anv seats at professional sports even's one has to be in an affluent position At least the fans who couldn t afford the prices could see 'their team' on the TV tube now and then But we 11 see the day when owners will figure a wav to tap the TV viewer and the distance between the fan and athlete w ill he im reased Different Strokes shudder when I receive a pubVi" hand out which claims the fastest growing spurt in Al sports departments go the U S is several such boasts a mon'h Reren'lv a public relation'- firm ismh d a I ’ - release on soreer s popularity w it h the follow ing statements More children between the agfes of six and 19 play in organized soccer leagues than in Little League baseball Pop Warner football and anv other organized team sports leagues "More NCAA colleges field soccer teams than any other athletic teams including foot ball basketball and baseball ' More than 1 1 million Americans currenth play soccer in organized youth and recreation leagues Soeepr growth is projected at 8 10fc annually Soccer has quieth and very quickly become the participatory team sport of choice in America ' Obviouslv the publicity release was pre pared for a soccer organization Bu( these statements do not jibe w ith a survey released b the National Sporting Goods association This sunev shows 2 million participated in baske'ball — 3 7 million m the 7 1 1 age group and 8 3 million in the 12 17 bracket Soccer was fourth with 7 7 million participants — with 3 6 million in the 7 11 group and 4 1 mil lion in thi 12 17 brai ket It s in tin dll dg' k1 oup sei tn vears and up wheresii'ici falters ''w ipitnu g ra'es No in r million ir llM7 f j artu ipa'i p w i'h Mi 1 1 1 rise walking is second followed by bike riding fishing camping bowling exercising on apparatus motor boating billiards basketball 25 1 million) running volleyball 23 6 milhoni aerobic execises softball (21 6 million hunting 'shooting golf roller skating tennis 1 6 9 millioni hiking and calisthenics The second 20 in participation are baseball (15 2 milhoni football (15 million table tennis dart throw mg water skiing alpine skiing (10 3 million) and No 27 on list socrer i (9 8 million) Trhia Time Can you name four major leaguers who pitched at one time in their careers who hit a to'al of 2 198 home runs’’ Obv iously Babe Ruth comes to mind and he contributed 714 homers But how about Jim-mFoxx (334i Ted Williams '521) and Stan Musial (429)’’ Foxx pitched bneG' for Red Sox in 1939 and Phillies in 1945 W illiams was 0 0 with Red Sox as a pitcher in 1940 Musial made one mound appearance m 1952 Ru‘h for the reeord had pitching records of 23 and 24 victories for Red Sox in 191 h 17 v Observation Ward When Howard in ulomates how about moii'h resur giving mouin-l- it comes (osrll citation to George Meinbrrnner Don King or Donald Trump'’ Promoter |