Show ' 'V k r W ' ' W' V O' T I i1' m f " snorts writer Niv Yoik Yankees biggest foe in their battle Is capture the AmerieanLeague East may to George Itetabreator Alter Naming his three Dm Mattingly Rkkey Henderson AMtars ud Dm WtaffoU -- on their performances this season the Yinkeet owner hasoacked down Ia today's editions of the New York Daily Newt Stoiabrenasr promised that to will that ' The ' to work goes upfortterestoftbesaason Steinbrenaer called Mattingly 'the aioit unproductive 800 hitter ta bueoau" during the AffSUr break but has now told the Daily News “I am wry that It came eat wrong about Dob Mattingly The Yaakeee boss hat a Mitory of verbal tirades whieh in the late lira's teemed to work '3 New Yorkers for the Reggie Jackson-le- d However recent verbal lathings by propel a negative effort on Us team Last year to told the media that Manager Lon Plnella thought that Henderaon stoulnhavo retimed to action sooner after an Injury' ft affected the relationship between the manager and one of baseballs eiploelve offensive weapons The Yankees never recovered hem “He's (Winfield) been Herculean Bit It's a long season" Stelnbrenner said after saying to knew the rlghtflelder would stamp from hlsfest favorites the other leaders are somewhat of a - divisions The Oakland Athletics the best at 5444 record in baseball lead the American League West by S 2 games the biggest cushion of any: division front-runnat the start of the second haUoftheseason The Detroit Tigers are atop the AL East to three games while the New York Meta have last it 14game advantage ta tto National League and the Im Anfl& Dodgers cling to first by 2 2 lengths tathrNLWest The A’s and Mete threatened to run away and hide but have aDowedi their division foes at least UN start Winfield Is batting J4I with 60 RBI and Is to have hope entering the second half of the having what many consider hit best season season Both have seen their advantages sliced In half : Winfield also wrote the book "A Player's Life" which detailed his lack of love for Stelnbrenner Oakland led by 11 games New York owned e It seems the same story arises In Ito Bronx ' 7ame bulge only to drop 4 of 5 before the but In the INS baseball season fans are4 Nonetheless the A's and Nets were salivating over firstjlace chases In four 1-- er : rr at 1-- : "rStWttra their division last season to jinx not only nave had deal with but done so without star right Adder KJrk Gibson who wu granted free agency in the who won t“iwat "‘cSoonsIgned with the DodaraW ftaistod in fourtnplaee 17 gamesback tor Angeles amend generally wu not expected to tam itselfcould not Gibson of the so qufckqr though impact have been forecast 1627 AT Wait to “do It with mirrore" as continues Detroit continues to get the Anderson Manager Sparky crew Besides the toss of most of a Gibson the Tigers have seen ace Jack Morris (7-- 1 524 ERA) limp to the break Second-yeno-nam- e ar See BASEBALL onpage 11 pre-seas- fV f Utah’s Colts race never was in his own way loosening up a tight team After his initial heart attack on the sidelines Thompson came HYRUM done it They've with defense said coach Gres around to that benign in- 4amma4a4Lma mtWwIIIIiiDi Thompson “Defense and pitThrowing a glove at a ball is overlook but dont ching"— those IS hits and IS runs that highly irregular of course not the Providence Indians banged to motion illegal and on the out Wednesday on their way to bench Wagners father Curt the District Colt title and into buried his fawta his hands He the state tournament The tournament begins Sat which Colt team would show that wu currently urday at Smithfldd when the up the one e win streak or Indians go up against favored on a which had abjectly one the Blue 6:00 Sprtagvdle pm at Sox Park That game will be dropped three In a row Seeing the dove Ay up J followed by the Smithfield-Tooel- e the ball Wagnerfeared towards clash atl15pm The playoffs continue at the worst He fearen that Nate Smithfiddl July If 20 and 21 and the other Colts would hone with games at 0:00 and 0:15 around in this championship each day except that Thursday game 'Oh no" he said to himself wtonjust the championship “They're not into it" game will be played Tin ImiliM Hill hmtm The winner of the touma- - dedicated band recently Webb Joined Thompson at the team’s controls and soon Aw Tribe was ' Wash July 0 up and at 'em for I am First baseman Nate Wagner Sactiees at the Providence “That really brought quickly illustrated us about together” observed point Wednesday's 114 bombing of shortstop Jeff Guymon The Box Eldermth title contest varsity Mountain Crest player Box Elder's first batter Jeff was one of several “okr late with the Jensen sent a looper Into right birthday and strength that field 10 feet over Wagner's experience head But did Wagner concede provides extra steadiness the Ut? Did he Just stand and afield and extra power at the watch as it sailed into right plate But not to worry Troy field? No Wagner blithely heaved Us glove skyward at Nordic on the mound had a the tolL Nothing wu going season ago showed himself at Malad through — or over — that capable of a infieUif he could help it Either that or tto first sacker By Mike Ingraham eporte editor busted - r By Ralph Wakloy United SALT LAKE CITY u office Black If National City Cltlf IBS tto fOUTBOprim: peels were arrested on ciondf docainepos intenrndutnbute 25-2- Officers were X52 sixth suspect The other suspects in custody were identified Utah football team freshman defensive back Charles Patterson It San Diego Utah student Samuel u V Simmons non-studen- was a South stampede PROVIDENCE The talk at Zollinger Park about the apparently was Wednesday night on tap for the district Pony blockbuster match-u- p League Championship game about to begin “These may to the two teams to beat at state" said one observer in the stands as players from Logan and Cache Valley South were introduced “This’ll be a whale of a game” said another fan Well it wasn’t And even if it had been — a whale of a game that is — the Cache Valley South 164 winners over Logan and automatic qualifiers for next week’s state tournament probably would have harpooned the poor thing during warm-up- s The battered Logan beached in their first effort to continue the season get another shot at state competition tonight when they meet Brigham City American for tto consolation title The game begins at 6:20 pm at the same Zollinger Park site Wednesday's game was over almost as soon as it began Cache Valley South made it dear early that it All-Sta- All-Sta- SnESoRiSSSmT Providence's Troy Nordic was plain nasty against Box Elder rs rs would tolerate no funny staff from its opponents and picked off two Logan runners attempting to steal in the first inning atoning perhaps for the fact that pitcher Aaron Thatcher had walked both runners Thatcher would not give Logan many more such opportunities — he allowed Just four hits through five innings and struck out throe batters which doesn't sound like much except that to faced only 20 all night rule after owing in part to the invocation of the n five innings The Cache craw got off to an explosive start scoring 10 runs in the first liming alone mght of those with two out Laren Nalder singled and drove in Corey Kohler and Ryan Pond to start the avalanche Thatcher singled and scored when Rick Obray singled and Jim Howell hit a ground-rul- e double to wive m Obray and Josh Jensen giving CVS a 0 lead Daniel Simmons smacked a double allowing Howell to score and finishing off the batting orderTOn their second of the frame Konkr and Gifford who had grounded out on his first try drew Baugh walks to load the bases and bring up Ryan Pond whose last experience with three runners on earlier in 10-ru- 5-- go-roun-ds the tournament rewarded Us team with four runs Pond needed only two pitches to foul the right one and send the ban sailing over the fence for a grand slam homer putting CVS on top 1(M) Logan pitcher Brad Thorne already in relief for starter Aaron Dean loaded the bases again after Pond's heroics but wu able to avoid further diuster when Nalder got caught in a rundown trying to steal left-cent-er home Shane Staler gave Logan a glint of home in the second when he tripled but he wu thrown out when Riley Johnson singled moments later Cache added another run in the bottom of the second when Baugh drove in Howell on a bloop single to right Then in the fourth the South stars put together another big inning Chris Hodson Logan's third pitcher of the nihgt walked in Dustin Singleton though he picked up a strike-ou- t inbetween Logan’s second ana final K of the game Simmons scored on a Jay Theurer sacrifice fly Baugh came home when Thatcher doubled and Chris Baldwin in his first drove in both Thatcher and at-b- at Curtis Johnson' Los Angeles James ts Clendon no-hitt- er — Feder- five people including the University of Utah football turn’s leading 1987 rusher in a raid that netted 22 poutas of cocaine agents said Wednesday The five were arrested durapartment ing a raid on ranted by sophomore fullback Martel Black who led Utah in rushing last fall with 530 yards said Steve Lough head of the US Drug Enforcement Administration's Salt Lake City -- In the - al and campus poUee arrested four-gam- i Preu International Los Angeles and Mc- and Deandre Townsend Panorama Cite Calif The suspect still at large late Wednesday reportedly wu a member of the Ute football team said Lough The six had ton under investigation for three months after campus officers received reports of “cocaine being sold in the dorms and to students” said Chief Wayne Shepherd of the University Police Shepherd declined to say which man wu the suspected leader of the ring but to added “We've dealt more with Martel than with anyone else" During the raid the chief id officers also seised " little bit of stolen property a shotgun and two semiautomat ic handguns" Cocaine purchased in the undercover operation herd uid “has tested as as 66 percent pure That's pretty high All of it's been pretty good stuff" Lough said 'the DEA and university plan to reign the suspects Thursday before a US magistrate and present the evidence to a Utah federal grand Jury Sports report HJ Tennis Tournament Hyde would not to dislodged pitching a complete game and spinning his way to a The deadline for entry in the Herald He struck out 12 on bis way to his fifth victory Journal-Loga- n Parks and Recreation tennis win tournament is Aug 1 The annual event will run Paul Lindstrom who the past weekend added with mixed doublet and family events Aug to his already considerable worth by moving scheduled the first week and singles and doublet from left field to catcher in a pinch belted his events the second week blow off of the season a three-ru- n homer seventh Players can enter three events per week with second Lindstrom in the leads the May a maximum of two family events and two NTPR Craig Sox ta homers and rbi's with 42 He has nine rbi numbered events A separate entry must be in the last four games submitted for each event was He mured catching duties by the presence Entry formt are available at the Logan Recreation Center 113 S 100 West For addi- of Jessie Torres the third College of Southern Idaho player to hook on with the Blue Sox In tional information call fact now Torres is the only CSI representative on the team Jeff Warren having departed and 2 Anthony Negrete down with a hamstring pull With the kind of pitching staff the Smithfield Torres who Joins Owen Braker and Scott Elliott Blue Sox throw there's not been much work for behind the plate was twice drafted and reliever Scott Hyde To prevent the rust from Wednesday showed how the gameisolayed once thickening manager Rlcn Hansen made sure sneaking behind a runner ripping down to first that Hyde got his inningt starting him Wed- and then taking a throw to catch the astounded nesday against Tremonton Once on the mound fellow as he rounded the bag 2-- 2 4-- 20 752-32- £30 Tromonton “This is about the most consistent team I've had” said Sox manager Rich Hansen observing that the team has won 22 of 24 games and stands 6 The Sox are leading the Beehive League with a 12--0 record and are in second place in the Northern Utah League at 4 Leader Belnap is 31-- 11-- 9--2 Smithfield next plays a doubleheader against the University of Utah at the U Saturday at 2 PID Ballesteros takes lead LY1BAH ST ANNES Enflud (UPI) -S- everiano Ballesteros opened irith three tardies first round in and completed a treacherous winds Thursday to set up his bid for a third British Open Golf tide The Spaniard whose first Open victory was at 67 for the Lytham in 1879 fired a lead early He collected five birdies in an outward 20 taking advantage of favorable winds to birdie the firsttnree holes near-flawle- ss I “I feel like I played the best that I can on tto first nine" said Ballesteros whose last major tournament victory was in the 1964 Open atSL Andrews Ballesteros didn’t falter until the 14th when he drove left of the fairway then hit a into tto bushes He took a drop and hit a to 15 feet making the putt for a bogey “I was lucky to get away with a bogey there" said Ballesteros who shares the course record of 65 on the 6657 yard Royal Lytham and St Annes course He birdied the 17th but had to make drov the bushes : on the right took a drop “With the wind it’s very hard to hold the ban and make the putts" Ballesteros "ttoireen said ‘ The back nine is very difficult I made a few mistakes but I expected that" starts included defending champion Nick FaMo and follow on “f "i! 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