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The Boston Globe Tuesday, July 24, 1979 33 Celtics to sign Carr today? The Celtics were negotiating with forward M. L. Carr late last night and may announce the signing of the coveted free agent today. Ironically, the 28-year-old Carr was signed as a free agent and promptly waived by the Celtics in 1974 after a season in the now-defunct American Basketball Assn. He did not surface in the NBA until 1976, when he signed with Detroit.

He played out his option with the Pistons last season. the wrecker vy is 1 staggers Montreal. But he will do it as long as Zimmer wants him. "I'm sure I can do it," said Renko. "And if it isn't working, we can always go back to five men.

But it is worth a try." By Larry Whiteside Globe Staff One of these days Joe Rudi is going to let the Red Sox forget that he is the Golden Goose that got away in 1976. And that the man who now wears No. 30 for the California Angels could be wearing No. 25 for Boston. Last night, with 35,024, the second largest crowd of the season at Fenway Park, sweltering in the hot and muggy July weather, Rudi hit a grand slam home run that not only carried the Angels to a 9-2 victory over the Red Sox but also helped convince manager Don Zimmer that he needs to do something radical about his pitching rotation before the American League East race gets too far out of hand.

Say goodby to rookie Joel Finch as a regular in a five-man Red Sox rotation. Rudi's grand slam, his third of the year was off reliever Dick Drago, and was his 12th career slam, high for active American Leaguers. But the fact that Drago was needed to save Finch at all was enough to make up Zimmer's mind about his rotation. "I'm goingwith four men from now on," said the Red Sox manager. "I've talked to each man and that's what I've decided to do.

A five-man rotation is fine if you have the pitchers who can do the job. But with 69 games left, the time to do it is now before the race gets away." Say goodby, temporarily, to Chuck Rainey who will join Jim Wright on the disabled list as soon as the Red Sox can make up their minds who will take his place. The roles now seem well defined. The starters until further notice are Dennis Eckersley, Mike Torrez, Steve Renko and Bob Stanley. Bill Campbell, Dick Drago, Tom Burgmeier will handle middle and short relief.

Finch and Allen Ripley, who had to gut out last night's game, trail- -ing, 7-0, will handle the long chores and perhaps even spot starts. After an upcoming three-game series with Oakland, the Red Sox will play 12 games in 10 days, including two doubleheaders, and obviously will need a fifth and sixth starter to fill in. It could be Finch. It could be one of the kids at Pawtucket, say Win Remmerswaal or John Tudor. It could be an unknown, and let us not forget that Jim Lonborg, the 1967 Cy Young winner, is just sitting there on the South Shore, waiting by the phone.

"The four-man rotation is not new for me," said Eck Angels' Carney Lansford slides as belated throw from Jack first inning. Action Mowed force at second on ball hit by Don uico no vurium uA aropg oaii in rayior. umpire is uui Hailer. (Ulobe photos by Frank Brien) How nice it would have been if young Finch had gotten the Red Sox through this night of decision with a victory instead of a loss. But he never really had much of a chance against the Angels, who may be having pitching problems of their own, but nobody ever said they couldn't hit.

The game was actually over before Rudi's home run, his ninth of the year, in the first inning. Jim Rice and Butch Hobson hit solo home runs off winner Dave Frost (8-6) in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively, but they were off a tired pitcher who had a no-hitter until Carlton Fisk broke it up in the bottom of the sixth with a bloop double to right, and faced only the minimum of 21 batters before Rice's home run. "I wouldn't say that Finch was too lucky in the first inning," said Zimmer. "He made a mistake on a throw to second base which got him in trouble. Then he was down, 2-0, because (Jack) Brohamer hesitated on the throw home.

Then he walked the bases loaded. Down, 2-0, I thought I'd bring in Drago, who has been our most consistent pitcher and get maybe three or four innings out of him. But it didn't work out that way. Things happened to quickly." Finch gave up a leadoff double to Rod Carew, which is no crime. But he tried to catch Carew off second on a comebacker to the mound by Carney Lansford, and his throw was late.

A single by Dan Ford brought home Carew with the first run. Then Don Baylor, who was later to take part in his third triple play in seven years in Fenway Park, hit a one hopper to third and Hobson's throw to second got Ford easily. Brohamer, indeed, hesitated, and Lansford faked him and then slid home safely under the late throw. That brings us to Rudi's grand slam. Whack! "I think most people know I'm not a home run hitter," said Rudi, who says he has no regrets over not staying with the Red Sox in 1976, a June 15 deal with -Oakland which brought Boston both him and Rollie Fingers for one day.

"What I try to do is hit the ball hard someplace. Concentration is the key to hitting. Any good hitter will tell you that is what it boils down to. In the past, I've been hurt, and I've had other things that took my mind off the hitting. Nowadays, all I'm doing is concentrating on my 'swing and the count.

It was a fastball up and in." And in passing, he added: "I'd never have kept No. 25. It belonged to Tony Conigliaro and I'll always be Nc. 30. 1 didn't want it." Too bad.

Six grand slams in the last two years would have looked nice in the Red Sox record book. Related story, Page 34 Iff wvpmt -r ersley, who will begin it tonight against the A's. "If I hadn't pitched every fourth day in the last month of the season, I'd never have won 20 games. The time to do it is now, not in September when you're far behind. I agree with Zimmer.

I think the timing is right." Renko, who at 34 is the oldest starter, also thinks the timing is right. He will not have to throw in between starts like the others, which makes sense because he has not been in a regular rotation like this since 1974 at RAY FITZGERALD Russian lifestyle: It's all Greek to US Take my gusto, I 1 but leave my logo The sardonic grin in 1970 The inscrutable look in 1971 For those years, the tough little monkey would belong to Bissell and would be on lend-lease to the Pats for a fee. After that, he would be the exclusive property of the football team. "The first year he belonged to the Pats," said Bissell yesterday, "they changed his face. They said he looked too much like a mad Chinaman, so they gave him a deadpan expression." Sure enough, an examination of the press guides of 1970 and 1971 shows the difference.

In '70, the guy has his sardonic grin. In '71, he is as inscrutable as Buster Kea-ton. However, in later press guides, the original expression had returned, as though the gods had punished the Patriots for toying with greatness. Bissell said that several original AFL logos have been changed, but that Houston still has its oil derrick and the Oakland Raiders the football player with the eye patch. In Rockport, the artist said that once he is able to overcome the trauma of the announcement, he will hang illustration to supplement the story of the naming of the new tam.

But that week, according to Bissell yesterday, Sullivan invited several advertising people to his house to present suggestions for a Patriots' logo, which would be used on helmets, letterheads and advertising promotions. The suggestions were spread out on the floorrand inspected them all. Then the youngest Sullivan boy wandered into the room. "Which one cf these do you like?" Sully is alleged to have asked. The boy looked them over, and said: "I like the one you've got hanging upstairs in your office." The one upstairs was Bissell's pugnacious patriot, and that's how the little man became a pro football star.

Now he's in his option year, playing out the string if the mysterious "they" have their way. He'll be used this year mostly in special team situations and maybe to block on extra point tries and then sent to the great logo cemetery, which I believe is located in an obscure wing of the Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. "It's like someone ran over my pet dog and I read about it in the paper," lamented Bissell from his Cartoon Corner studios in Rockport. "I just hope they give him a clean and decent burial with a proper eulogy." peace and friendship, the Americans view themselves as guinea pigs on an advance logistical mission. Only a handful of them are going to make next year's Olympic team.

They're here to test shower nozzles, bedsprings, menus and Soviet free throw percentages. "When we go back, we'll give Dave Gavitt (US Olympic coach) whatever information we have about everything," Rose if it's impossible to drink it. This is only one of three international teams the sponsoring US Amateur Basketball Assn. put together for this summer's Pan American Games (where they won the gold medal), the Spartacade and next month's World Cup in Argentina. They wanted to make each squad balanced and competitive, but the Spartacade group had its own special visa complications.

"The US wasn't invited until so late that the major prioruty was getting the visa and passport applications going in time," Rose said. "Because if we didn't get all that work done, the X's and O's just weren't oing to mean anything." What Rose wound up with was a youngish (three players 18 or under), tall-ish (6-7 average), Big Tennish (three starters) squad led by his own Joe Barry Carroll (7-1), Virginia's Lamp and North Carolina Charlotte's Chad Kinch, all of whom were conference scoring champions last year. Kinch and Purdue's Brian Walker will start at guard, and Chio State's Herb Williams (6-11) will play power forward alongside Carroll and Lamp. "I'm gonna fast break and play the best defense we can," Rose figured. The women, led by former UCLA star Ann Myers, include several members of the world champion squad.

So the Yanks going to Lithuania unprepared. But they are going uninformed. SPARTACADE, Page 37 By John Powers Globe Staff MOSCOW-They arrived just before 10 a.m. local time with their blue, US-issue windbreakers, their US-made tape decks and their eight-hour international jet lag, and handed over visas and customs forms. "Bassketboill?" beckoning bus drivers shouted, to weary nod all around.

"It's great to be in Big Red country," decided guard Jeff Lamp, which was virtually the only thing the special US men's and women's Spartacade basketball teams were sure of yesterday. The Cryillic alphabet signs, unshaven legs and cryptic expressions were giveaways. Beyond that, the Yanks were a little short on details. They knew they were supposed to play Soviets and others in someplace called Vilnius in Lithuania sometime this week. They had no idea where Vilnius was from Moscow, what the schedule format was, when they were going to eat or whatever they could drink the water.

"We know absolutely nothing," said men's coach Lee Rose, who usually works out of Purdue. "That's what I told my sports information director back home. I don't know the level of competition. I don't know the conditions under which we're going to play. The looming mystery here is the unknown." As they were leaving Sheremotyevo Airport for lunch, American writers told them that the Kirghiz SSR had beaten the Turkmen 3SR," 82-26, in the first round of the women's competition and that they shouldn't drink the water, change money on the street or sell blue jeans to strangers.

"How about the beds?" Rose wanted to know. "About 5 feet 5." he was told. "I got a problem," Rose said. While the Soviet officials may view the American basketball players as worthy international sportsmen come to share in the joys of mass participation, They can take away my gusto, my apple pie, my right to bear arms, my full gas tank. But this time they the great, nameless they have gone too far.

They're taking away the symbol of the New England Patriots. They're replacing the man in the three-cornered hat and the three-cornered stance with something modern, something "more in keeping with the '80s." They're -talking about a musketed minuteman, silhouetted against an American flag. Well, as a voice crying in the wilderness, I protest. Nobody razed Paul Revere's house and replaced it with a condominium and swimming pool. Nobody swung a-wrecker's ball at Lincoln's log cabin.

Nobody tore down Satchel Paige just because he was 70 years old. The pugnacious Patriot on the helmet has been the team logo since the inception of the franchise. He was the first man on the roster. He made the club before Ron Burton, Oscar Lofton, Tommy Addison, Gino Cappelletti and Harry Jacobs. He was around long before Clive Rush and his off-kilter philosophies, eons before Chuckeroo and his icy stares.

For 19 years through thick and thin mostly thin he gave it the best he had and now they're dumping him like a worn-out cornerback. "I read the story in The Sunday Globe," said a choked-up Phil Bissell yesterday, "and I just broke down. Right now I am prostrate with grief and barely able to function." Bissell was reduced to this wretched state because the symbol was his creation, his baby. In 1960, when the Patriots were barely more than a gleam in Billy Sullivan's eye, a contest was held to name them. Suggestions poured in, and when the name Patriots was selected, Bissell, then sports cartoonist for The Globe, drew his pugnacious little man for the paper.

That's as far as the cartoon was intended to go an venial, wmcn is sun in ms possession, on his studio wall, suitably surrounded by black crepe paper. "It's the least I can do for an old friend," Bissell said between sobs. But the Patriots themselves can do more. They can shelve their modernization plans and retain the original tough-guy logo, to remind them of their roots, when headquarters was a shoe box on Lansdowne street, the draft list consisted of people who had attended Boston College, and the home field was anyplace with an unlocked gate. The symbol, after all, is our only link to Harry Crump, Cowboy Jim Crawford, Walt Cudzik and the immortal Gerhard Schwedes.

The little man should not be allowed to go gentle into that good night. The creation of the symbol was not quite as dramatic as the invention of the telephone. Bissell had just finished a caricature of a Boston College lineman, down in his three-point stance. "I just substituted a new head, sort of a grinning Irishman, similar to the guy I used for The Celtics," Bissell said. This isn't the first time they've tried to do away with the little rascal.

In 1960, after Billy Sullivan had agreed on Bissell's drawing as the proper one to represent the Patriots, a 10-year agreement was drawn up..