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Sports McHENRJ^LAINC^ALEIR^Saction^T^ Sunday 12-inch Softball In last weekend's games in the Men's Sunday 12" Softball League, Mike's Buzz Out West swept a pair of games from John's Place, while in other contests: Gary Lang 10, Garrelts' 4 Mike Dowlin&had three hits and three runs scoremto pace Gary Lang to a 10-4 win |pver Garrelts' Plumbing. Dan Huff, Len Chutka and Gary Thennes had two\hits each, Huff driving in three ituis and Chutka two. Glenn BenhamVhurled a five- hitter, and was backed by fine de­ fensive plays from Dean Peterson and Henry Glick. Steve Garrelts had two hits for the losers. Ed Jelen and Mark Thomp­ son added one hit apiece. Garrelts' 17, Gary Lang 12 Garrelts' Plumbing held off Gary Lang in the second game of the evening to win, 17-12. Ed Jelen, Steve Garrelts and Rich Walford were the big guns for the winners, combining for nine hits, 12 runs scored and 14 RBI. Wolford banged two home runs, had two doubles and drove in six runs. Garrelts had three hits, five runs scored and four RBI, while Jelen homered, singled, scored four times and knocked in four runs. Mike White had two hits and three RBI. ! .Nm Huff, Chris Lykke and Dean Peterson all had three hits for Gary' Lang, Huff and Fleming knocking in three runs apiece. Mike Dowling and Jim Fleming added two hits each. Sportsman's 12, Cullom Knoll 6 Sportsman's Pub scored twice'in the top of the third to take the lead for good en route to a 12-6 win over Cullom Knoll. Randy Glick and Skip Bellon led the way with three hits each for the winners, Bellon driving in three runs, while Glick homered and dou­ bled. Mike Burgdorf added a two- run homer, while Rick Sorenson had two hits and three RBI. Mike Maves, Brian Smith and Denny Shaver all had two hits for Cullom Knoll. Smith drove home a pair of runs. Maves doubled and tripled. Sportsman's 15, Cullom Knoll 3 Sportsman's Pub also won the nightcap, scoring in every frame of the five-inning rout. Randy Glick led the way with three hits, three runs scored and a pair of RBI. Tom Cunningham chipped in two hits and scored three times, while Tery Harvey homered and singled and Mike Burgdorf tri­ pled in two runs. Pete Buss, Dave Zimmerman and Dave Baurer led Cullom Knoll with two singles apiece. Jim Hocin tri­ pled and scored. Martin in turmoil once again Gooden, Mattingly appear headed for league MVP awards By Jamie Turner Scrippe Howard News Service , Do the 130 runs and 74 steals of Rickey Henderson make him a more valuable player than Don Mattingly and his 128 runs batted in and .560 slugging percentage? Does the twice-weekly brilliance of Dwight Gooden or John Tudor match the day-in, day-out perfor­ mances of Pedro Guerrero or Willie !McGee? * . ; ; Here's ,hgw the^o£#«teW%* Player vW Tnid^ fro lirBotr leagues. American: Since 1978, MVPs have come from playoff teams. Jim Rice in '78 is the lone exception, but even ithat carries an asterisk, because Rice and the Red Sox had a one- game playoff with New York for the East championship. ! if Toronto and Kansas City win, the trend likely will end. The Blue Jays have been practically ignored by the national media, and MVPs usually get a lot of exposure. The Royals have George Brett, a former MVP and legitimate 1985 candidate.• But Brett doesn't lead in any major hitting category. Besides, the last player to win multiple MVP awards was Roger Maris in 1960 and '61. Which brings us to the two most celebrated candidates -- Henderson and Mattingly. Henderson has been everything the Yankees could have hoped for when they acquired him during the winter. Considered one of the major league's top "catalysts" with Oakland, Henderson has bet­ tered career highs in hitting, homers, runs scored and runs batted in this season. When the Yankees were strug­ gling early, Henderson was at his best. "The guy who gets on is a more valuable asset (than the power hit­ ter)," said New York designated hit­ ter Don Baylor. "You get that guy on and it starts the flow of every­ thing else." ' Said second baseman Willie Ran­ dolph: "Without a doubt, the cata­ lyst sets the tempo. Without him, the big men can go up there and swing all they want and nothing happens." Meanwhile, Mattingly is having the best run-producing season since Baylor had 39 homers and 139 RBI for the Angels in 1979. More inipor- iMcHENRY Plaindealer ••AMOCO ••WHITE HEN PANTRY •BELL LIQUORS •BOLGERS DRUG STORE •JEWEL/OSCO •KAREN &GINNY'S •LIQUOR MART •NORTHERN IL MEDICAL CNTR •FOOD MART •NORTHWEST TRAIN DEPOT •ISLAND FOODS •CONVENIENT FOOD •COUNTRY CUPBOARD •SULLIVAN FOODS •UNION '76 •COLE PHARMACY •COAST TO COAST •SUNNYSIDE GAS & QUICK MART Available At The Following Locations: • J & L GAS •ACE HARDWARE •LAKEVIEW FOODS •SUFFNYSIDE FOODS •LITTLE STORE •SUNRISE GROCERY •DEBBIE'S GENERAL STORE •VILLAGE MARKET •MCHENRY DRUG • J & R F O O D M A R T By United Press International NEW YORK - A day off from the pennant race Monday did little to soothe the turmoil surrounding be­ leaguered Billy Martin and the New York Yankees. Rather than receive sympathy for his broken right arm, Martin instead was the object of considerable spec­ ulation that his fourth reign as,Yan­ kee manager would run no longer than the end of this season. However, it was learned Martin will continue as manager through the remainder of the regular season Oct. 6. Martin was involved in two late- night skirmishes during the week- aid in the bar of the Cross Keys Hotel in Baltimore, and the second incident Saturday night resulted in his arm being broken by pitcher Ed Whitson. The Yankees said Monday that no penalties had been dealt as yet, al­ though a club spokesman said Whit­ son, a disappointment after being signed to a $4.4 million free-agent contract last winter, was not listed in the club's starting rotation through Thursday. "Not until all the facts are ascer­ tained will there be any judgments about any actions," a team official said. Although principal owner George Steinbrenner has not fined anyone, he is disturbed that several other Yankee players, including Dave Righetti, Dale Berra, Rickey Hen­ derson and Rich Bordi, are known to have been in the bakduring at least one of the incidents. "As much as I'm concerned about the fights, I'm even more upset about the curfews and the fact so many players were in the bar that late at night before a day game," Steinbrenner said from Tampa, Fla. "Otherwise I don't have anything else to say until I get the reports." Steinbrenner sent General Manag­ er Clyde King and Woody Wood­ ward, the vice president for baseball administration, to Baltimore to in­ vestigate the circumstances of the fight between Martin and Whitson, "I'm not going to do anything at all before I know all the facts," Steinbrenner said. "I'm not going to do anything until I have a chance to talk to Billy. I intend to do that sometime later this week." Even before Friday night's inci­ dent, when Martin got involved in a shoving match with a young man, there were reports he would be re­ lieved as manager at the end of the season and would be assigned other duties for next year. According to Martin's version of the Saturday night incident, he and Berra were trying to act as peace­ makers when Whitson became in­ volved in trouble with a patron in the bar. "I wasn't trying to fight," Martin said. "I was only trying to break up a fight." Whitson, meanwhile, still was up­ set at Martin for being replaced in the starting lineup by Bordi against the Orioles last Friday. Martin ex­ plained at the time that Whitson was * having arm trouble, a statement the pitcher disputed. "I was shocked," Martin said about the way Whitson leaped at him, I--_____ At one point 4n their battle, Martin was kicked in the groin, and he also suffered a broken arm, which he claims was the result of another kick. Whitson had a split Up but Martin isn't sure how that hap­ pened, saying, "1 don't know If 1 popped him at all. I tried to but I can't fight feet." Whitson, who has a 10-8 record and 5.03 ERA, returned to his home in Closter, N.J., prior to Sunday's game at Baltimore. His lawyer, Tom Reich, said Whltson's version of the fight differed from Martin's, and he added the pitcher was willing to take a lie detector test. The Yankees trailed first-place Toronto by 5 4 games in the AL East prior to the Blue Jays home game Monday night against Boston. New York, which has won two straight contests after an eight- game losing streak, returns to ac­ tion at home Tuesday night against Detroit. tantly, during the team's stretch run, Mattingly's production im­ proved and Henderson's fell. Since the All-Star break, Matting­ ly increased his batting average from .309 to .326. Henderson's aver­ age fell from .357 to .324. Mattingly hit 19 of his 28 homers since the All- Star break. Henderson hit 12 of his 23 homers. Mattingly has 59 RBI in . 53 games. Henderson stole 33 bases since the break. So, which is more important, the flayer who keeps the team afloat^ during tough times, or the player who leads when the money is on the line? Mattingly labored all spring to re­ habilitate an injured knee. Hender­ son missed the last couple of weeks of spring training and the first week of the season with a pulled leg mus­ cle. Then, when the players' strike was settled, he neglected to show up for the Yankees' first post-strike game. American League MVP: «Don Mattingly. In the National League, five pitch­ ers, Bob Gibson, Sandy Koufax, Don Newcombe, Carl Hubbell and Dizzy Dean, have won MVPs. Gibson (1968), Koufax (1963) and New­ combe (1956) also won the Cy Young Award the same season. If a pitcher isn't selected MVP this year, an investigation should be called. The last pitcher to have a season statistically equal to Dwight Gooden's was Ron Guidry (25-3,1.74 ERA, 248 strikeouts) in 1978. Guidry didn't win the 1978 MVP. Rice did, with 46 homers and 139 RBIs. Nei­ ther McGee nor Guerrero is having a Rice year. But St. Louis' John Tudor is hav­ ing a pretty good replica of a Goo­ den year. The numbers: Tudor --19- 8, 1.97 ERA, 147 strikeouts in 242 innings, 46 walks. Goodeh -- 21-4, 1.62 ERA, 247 strikeouts in 250.2 in­ nings, 61 walks. Tudor put together a scoreless streak of 31 innings. Gooden has a scoreless string of 31. Should Gooden keep his ERA below 1.70, it will be the lowest mark posted by a starting pitcher since Bob Gibson's 1.12 in 1968. And remember, it's Tudor having a Gooden year, not the other way around. National League MVP: Dwight Gooden. Plaindealer photo by Chrla Juzwlk Lowering the Boom Johnsburg's John Kegel (42) lowers his shoulder but is stopped cold by Marian Central's Kurt Marunde in the second quarter of the Hurricanes thrilling 19-16 win Friday night in Woodstock. Both teams will play their homecoming games this weekend. 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