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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.”
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with a very bright future.
And while the Tigers

are proving that last

season's strong finish
was no fluke, Baltimore
continues to flounder,
The Orioles dropped their
19th game in 18 starts this
season,

Elsewhere, it was:
Toronto 11, Oakland A’s

0; Minnesota Twins 8, -

New York Yankees 6;
California Angels 5,
Milwaukee Brewers 1;
Boston Red Sox 2, Seattle
Mariners 1}. and
Cleveland Indians 9,
Chicago White Sox 2.-
The Tigers' fortunes
Wednesday night were

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at-bats, °
snapped out of his slump |

 Witt’s

seven-hit pltehing. in the
California victory. Witt,

2-1, struck out seven ‘and
walked two as the Angels
won for the seventh time
in their last elght games.
Red Sox 2 Mariners 1

Beattie in a classic pit-
ching duel, tossing a five-
hitter. Hurst, 32, who
needed little offensive '
support; got run-scoring
singles from Tony Armas
and Rich Gedman. 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