—— it Tigers a ; are e the class 0 ‘of <5 | = a Detroit Tigers are the clasa of major league baseball four weeks into the 1984 season, yet manager Sparky Anderson - can’t un- derstand all the com- motion the club's torrid start is creating. Detroit ran its record to 15-1 Wednesday night with a 94 victory over Texas Rangers and remains 5% ganies in front of Toronto Blue Jays, who at 11-8, sport the American League’s second-best record. By comparison, the National League's - leading club is Tos Angeles Dodgers, at 13-7. ‘We won 92 games last year,” Anderson. said. “That's . what people forget. I can’t see why people are so surprised.” The Tigers showed last RRS Jouns Ra. Terrace Se 125-4741 Skeena Mall Terrace, 8.0. in finishing second in the AL East behind the World Series-champion Baltimore Orioles, that they were a young club with a very bright future. 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He lost his shutout bid with two out in the ninth when centre fielder’ Armas - dropped Spike Owen's fly for a three-base error and pinch hitter Dave | Hen- dergon singled. : Indians 9 White Box 2 ; Neal Heaton - pitched seven strong innings and .Pat Tabler had three hits as Cleveland handed Chicago its fourth logs in its last five games. The _ struggling White Sox, who won the West title last seasin, .currently occupy the Jivision cellar with a 6-10 record. Floyd Bannister took the loss, his. eighth in nine lifetime decisions against the Indians. National league Tony Gwynn and his- manager at San ‘Diego, Dick Williams, have a slight disagreement, “it .. ; ‘seems. believe he'll ever hit 400. Gwynn doesn’t Williams thinks he might. With ‘two hita in- four” trips, including | a. home run, ..Gwynn ‘raised ‘his batting average to .464 Wednesday. night against... Sax Francisoo Giants. He has 15 hits in his ast 26 at- ' bats for a .577 average: Bruce Hurst bested Jim B “There's no way I'm going to hit-.400, I know that,” Gwynn said, “I just want to continue to do the best Ican.” - Gwynn's homer, and another by Kevin McReynolds, . |: gave Padres pitehera - Eric - Show and ‘Rich Gossage all the runs-they needed -for a 3-0 victory over San Francisco, enabling the ‘Padres to sweep the three-game © National League baseball - series and remain 1% games ahead of Los Angeles Dodgers in the West’ Division. . Show, 3-1, gave up three hits in seven’ in- nings, and Gossage was perfect over the final two for a major _league- leading seventh save. “He's a natural,’ Williams said of Gwynn. “He won't bea .460 or .465 hitter, but I think it’s conceivable he could hit 400, mm In the rest of the National League, Los Angeles beat Houston Astros 4-2, New . York Mets edged Montreal Expos 2-1 in 11 innings, St. Louis Cardinals beat : Chicago , 7-5, Palephia ‘ *® nilies downed Pittsburgh Pirates 9-7 and Cincinnati Braves 43... Mets 2° Expos 1. “George Foster “singled. "fran lith-inning run and New York rallied with two out to anap- ‘Mon- treal’s four-game win- ~ ning streak, Greg Harris ‘retired the first two batters in the 11th before Keith Hernandez doubled to the gap in right-centre field. -Foster followed with a single between third and shortstop, scoring Hernandez easily... Dwight Gooden bitched the first seven innings for New York, allowing just two hits and striking out 10. David Palmer, who had pitched o five-inning perfect, game in his previous start, also had a two-hitter for Montreal in his seyen-inning stint. Dodgers 4 Astros 2 Fernando Valenzuela pitched 6 1-3 innings of no- hit ball, settling for a three-hitter, and Terry Whitfield drove in three runs as the . Dodgers extended thelr winning streak to four games. ° Valenzuela, 2-2, retired the first 16 Astros before walking Tom Wieghaus with one out in the sixth inning. Cardinals 7 Cubs 6 St. Louis rallied from Reds defeated Atlanta ‘three runs 5 doa to break a - seven-game: “losing streak, Willie McGee had three hits, -inichiding: ae triple in the: Cardinals’ four-run - fourth ‘inning ” which erased & 4-1 deficit, The Cubs ‘chased -St. Louis starter Bob Forech with a run In the: fourth inning on ‘consecutive doubles by Mel’ Halland Richie - Hebner;’- ‘siving Chicago a 4-1 lead, Phillies 8 Pirates 7 Mike Schmidt -and Glenn Wilson contributed key hits in Philadelphia's five-run sixth inning; ad: finch-hitter Von Hayes's.. seventh-inning.. homer provided the Phillies with their eventual : run. The Phillies ‘erased at 2 Pittsburgh lead against Lee Tunnel] {n their big Inning. Ozzie Virgil led off with a horrier;: Sth midt's tworun double made it 6-5, and Schmidt scored the tying runon a throwing error by Amos Otis in left field. Reds 4 Braves 3 Tom Lawieas and Dave . Concepcion: hit -homé runs, making a winner, of the Reds and Mario Soto. Soto took a four-hitter into the elghth inning before he gave up: two Atlanta runs on three hits 77 including a two-fun homer by Claudel]: Washington — witha getting a man out. cos High tower daredevil active © WINNIPEG (CP) — Klaus Dibiasi of Italy, who ruled the world of men’s diving for eight years, is still keenly involved in the sport — from the sidelines. The 36-year-old daredevil of the high tower won gold medals in three Olympic Games — : Mexico in 1968, Munich in”: . rartie ‘and. Montréal in 1978.-/ He: ‘ternational: star by using . alist of dives which were the most ‘difficult to oc a perform during — his Olympic career. ’ Now Dibiasi is coach of _ the Halian national team which will compete this weekend in the Dive Canada meet at the Pan- Am Pool, in--- The event begins Friday, with athletes from Canada, China, the’ United States, Dominican Republic and Mexico among the 12 countries expected to take part in the three-day meet. Dibiasl, a resident of Rome, said in an in- terview Wednesday that the divers will, also be. , performing, more difficutt... routines. than when | he, competed. |* He sald five new dives have been accepted for competition since the abbreviated Moscow Olympic Games of 1980, which were boycotted by a number of countries “because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The new dives include “8%-tuck somersaults in Gerulataitis overcomes deficit DALLAS (AP) — Vitas Gerulaitis of the United: States and South African Kevin Curren both overcame two-set deficits to take opening-round wins in the $500,000 Championships of Tennis - finals Wednesday. Gerulaitis stopped hometown favorite Bill Scanion 2-6, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), . 6-3, 6-2 after Curren came from behind to defeat American Mark Dickson 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3. The two winners became the fourth and fifth players. in’ WCT finals history to over- ‘come two-set deficits, Gerulaitis, who won the Dalias tournament. in ' 1976, fought off a maten ’ point in the 10th game of the third set, then won the set tie-breaker to hang on. Gerulaitis then swept . the last two sets. Gerulaitis moves into a quarter-final match with top-seeded Jahn - McEnroe of the United States on Friday; Some of the teams from the men’s slow- itch league were out this week tuning up fheir games In preparation for the up- coming season. The season officially gets underway with an ice-breaker tournament on May 11-13th. There are 13 teams in the “21, the back, reverse and inward ~ positions. In addition, : .the : 1% somersault dive with a 3% twist from the reserve and back positions have been added. _, MOST WILL TRY “Most of the younger divers here will be doing | those dives," the coach said. ‘‘It’s easier for.them . do the newdives than itis::.too close: to the tower, ~ didn't need. Throughout . the years we've . had accidents, but: nothing like that. We are a safe: sport.” COACHES MUST HELP The Olymple champion’. sald it is. the.-respon- sibility of the coaches:to watch out for their. ‘divers. AL “If_divers are coming. forts }cthe:!! solder . /Asegms " then odachts-‘must ‘tell? petitors.”* vote ee Dibiasi’s team ‘includes. tower specialiats Domenico Rinaldi, 32, and Deanseus Fabrietio, along —__. with springboard © divers. Santilli Massimo, - 27, Massimo Castellani, 20, and Piero Italiani, 22. However, the Italians won't be dolng the new “routines, the coach said. “My guys will not. be doing the new dives,’’ Dibiasi said. “They will be concentrating on the . list of dives they will be doing in the Olympic Games this summer in _ Las Angeles," o Dibiasi also said the accident involving Soviet diver Sergei Shlibashvili, who died nine days after his head struck the tower while trying a reverse 3' somersault in Ednionton last year at the World Student Games, has had a dampening effect on future competitors, "It was negative publicity, which our sport +" them!The “ yoinig -Kids* “coming up now can do the: - dive safely because they: are well-coached.”” ..-: Improved coaching nnd the use of teaching aids have made it possible for ” athletes to make difficult dives, he said. . “Winnipeg hasa bubble machine to wse in training, but we don't, 4 he aaid, - . The ‘machine is ‘an improvised _air-compr- essing unit at the Pan-Am Pool, which injects streams ' of air into the water, ‘créating a soft cushion to pillow - the landing of the diver, : “You can’t learn those difficult dives without the bubble machine," . th coach sald. “We willbe importing one. from Canada shortly, so we can use it in preparation for the Olympics.’” Dibiasl said the meet should provide excellent competition and serve.aa & good warmup for the Olympics. EES Seine league this year and there are 158 . scheduled jeague gamies for the season. Shown In the picture Is Matt Lang (batter) of SKB and Bird. Bob Findlay (catcher) of ny Po