Phillies Get Tekulve for Holland

In a swap of relief pitchers, the Philadelphia Phillies traded left-hander Al Holland and a minor league player to the Pittsburgh Pirates for right-hander Kent Tekulve.

Holland, 32, is 0-1 with one save this season. In seven previous seasons, he had a 32-25 record and a 2.69 earned-run average with 73 saves.

Tekulve, 38, has no record this year. He has a 12-year record of 70-61 with a 2.64 ERA and 158 saves.

Last year, Tekulve was 3-9 with a 2.66 ERA and 13 saves in 72 games. Holland was 5-10 with a 3.39 ERA and 29 saves.

The Pirates also will get Frankie Griffin, a 25-year-old pitcher with the Phillies’ Double-A team at Reading, Pa.

Holland was upset by the trade, while Phillies’ President Bill Giles said Tekulve was happy to be joining the Phillies.

“One of the reasons we traded for Tekulve is that Al Holland is on the last year of his contract, and we had made up our mind we were not going to extend that contract,” Giles said.

“Holland did a super job in ’83 and in most of ‘84,” Giles said.

Holland declined to comment when asked if he felt bitter.

“Something was done, and that’s it. That’s part of baseball,” he said.

Olympic gold medalist Tyrell Biggs scored a first-round technical knockout of Mike Perkins in a scheduled six-hound heavyweight fight at Corpus Christi, Tex.

Biggs, of Colorado Springs, Colo., weighed 228 pounds. Perkins, of Hallandale, Fla., weighed 206.

It was the first fight for Biggs since he completed an alcohol and drug addiction program Jan. 21. He is 2-0 as a professional.

Perkins (15-8-1) opened the round with a left hook to Biggs’ head, but was soon in retreat as Biggs countered with combinations to the head and body. Perkins took a standing eight count and the fight was stopped at 2:50 when he began staggering about the ring.

Earlier, lightweight gold medalist Pernell Whitaker used left jabs and combinations to score a unanimous decision over Nicky Parker.

The 25-year-old Whitaker, a 136-pound southpaw, was the aggressor during the six-round bout, using right jabs to drive Parker to the ropes and corner and then following with combinations to the head and body.

Whitaker, from Norfolk, Va., increased his record to 4-0, while Parker, 134 1/2, from Erie, Pa., dropped to 13-5-1.

Greg Louganis, a double gold medalist in the Olympic Games, won the 10-meter dive to complete a sweep of three events in the U.S. Indoor Diving Nationals at Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Louganis, of the Mission Viejo Nadadores, scored 618.78 points to edge out Dan Watson of the Longhorn Diving Club of Texas with 615.72. Bruce Kimball of the Kimball Divers from Michigan finished third with 608.43.

In the women’s 10-meter final, Olympic silver medalist Michele Mitchell of the Nadadores won with a score of 469.50. She was followed by teammates Wendy Lian Williams, 398.76, and Wendy Wyland, 397.77.

The United States scored a 4-3 win over previously unbeaten Canada in the World Hockey Championships at Prague, Czechoslovakia.

The Soviet Union defeated East Germany, 6-0, and Czechoslovakia beat West Germany, 6-1.

The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia are both 3-0, followed by the United States and Canada at 2-1. The top four teams will enter the medal playoffs after the seven-game round robin.

Baseball fans responding by telephone to a survey conducted Saturday by NBC during its coverage of two games voted 38,432 to 27,676 against using the designated hitter in both the American and National leagues.

University of Nevada Reno basketball star Curtis High was sentenced to 18 days in Washoe County Jail at Reno and ordered to perform 360 hours of community service for pleading guilty to three charges of beating his girlfriend.

High also was ordered to continue to undergo counseling for the next six months, with monthly reports to be filed with the court and the Washoe County District Attorney’s Office.

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Joe Dial of Oklahoma State and Steve Stubblefield, unattached, set a meet record of 18-8 in the pole vault in the Kansas Relays. It was the best mark in the nation this year. Dial was the winner on fewer misses.

Rickey Henderson, recovering from a sprained ankle that has kept him from playing with the New York Yankees, went hitless in two at-bats for Yankees’ Class-A Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) team Friday night.