University Daily Kansan, May 1, 1985
SPORTS
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NEWS BRIEFS
Royals win on grand slam
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Steve Balionbelted his second career grand slam to cap a1-five run third inning that lifted Bret Saberhagen and the Kansas City Royals to a1-5 victory last night over the Cleveland 16dians.
Balioni's fifth home run of the season was the only hit of the inning as Cleveland starter Jose Roman waiked four Royals prior to the towering 400-foot blast into the left-field bleachers. Walks to Buddy Bancalana, Pat Sheridan, George Brett and Jorge Orta forced home the first run of the inning.
Balboni's other grand slam came when he was with the New York Yankees against Frank Tanana and the Texas Rangers on July 26, 1983.
Saberhagen scattered five hits, struck
out 9 and walked one to even his record
at 2-2 with his first complete game of the
season. Roman fell to 0-4.
The Indians scored their only run off the Kansas City right-hander in the fourth inning when Brett Butler walked and Julio Franco and Mel Hall slapped back-to-back singles. France, the American League's leading hitter, extended his hitting streak to eight games with that single.
White gets contract extension
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals yesterday extended the contract of six-time Gold Glove-winning second baseman Frank White two years, binding him to the American League club through the 1988 season.
White, 34, is in his 13th season with the Royals and has a lifetime 259 average. He is a four-time All-Star and won a record six consecutive Gold Gloves from 1976-82. He is the player of the American League Championship Series in 1980 and the club MVP in 1983.
The Royals had previously signed third baseman George Brett, center fielder Willie Wilson and relief ace Dan Quisenberry to lifetime contracts.
"This contract is in keeping with the organization's philosophy of maintaining the nucleus of our club," Kansas City Royals General Manager John Scherholz said during "Frank has been a major contributor to our team for years and we expect him to continue to be a vital member of our club the next four years."
Lloyd honored by public vote
LOS ANGELES — The American public thinks tennis star Chris Evert Lloyd is the greatest American woman athlete of the last 25 years, the Women's Sports Foundation announced yesterday.
Officials said a nationwide poll of nearly
35,000 Americans gave Evert Lloyd 32
points.
Her nearest competitors were two other tennis stars — Martina Navratilova, who got 17 percent, and Billee Jean King, Everton said. King would have gotten her vote.
Track stars Wilma Rudolph and Mary Decker Stanyan finished fourth and fifth.
Everl Lytton, who won a record 135 tournaments while dominating women's tennis, has won the U.S. Open six times and Wimbledon three times.
The tennis star was joined by her husband and parents at the awards ceremony. She accepted a silver trophy and joined in a champagne toast, which she admitted was "not part of the training -gimen."
"I feel very, very fortunate to have won this award," she said, "especially when I look at the other four athletes who are finalists and I see what they have accomplished, and what they have contributed to sports.
I would have voted for Billie Jean King if I could have voted both on and off the court. I really feel she opened the door to a women's tennis athlete, not only tennis players.
The five finalists were chosen last summer in a poll of sports journalists.
Compiled from Kerman staff and United Press International reports.
NFL owners opt for size, strength
By United Press International
NEW YORK - If they paid by the pound, yesterday's draft would be the NFL owners' most expensive ever.
However, this year's first-rounders might earn less than the group from last year simply because there is no longer much of a bidding war with the USFL and linemen don't command the same price as players in the skilled postitions.
And yesterday's draft was loaded with linemen.
Led by the two top picks, defensive end Bruce Smith and offensive tackle Bill Fraitre, linemen and linebackers got an unusual dose of pressure at the expenses of skilled position players.
There were six offensive and six defensive linemen taken in the first round. Five more linebackers were first-round selections, as well as linebackers made up the first nine picks.
IN THE 50-YEAR history of the NFL draft,
it was the longest run of lineers and
linebackers at the start. The previous ngnn was eight straight in 1968 before Miami selected running back Larry Csonka of Syracuse.
The first wide receiver selected was Al Toon of Wisconsin, taken 10th by the New York Ethers. Ethan Horton of North Carolina played for the Cincinnati Bengals. Kansas City drafted Horton in the 15th
There were no quarterbacks picked in the first 36 selections until Philadelphia took Randall Cunningham of Nevada-Las Vegas in the ninth spot of the second round.
It marked the second straight year no passers went in the first round.
WITHOUT THE OBVIOUS big name players, going was slow in the early rounds. The opening round took 3 hours 36 minutes — the slowest in 11 years and third slowest since the NFL and AFL combined 'drafts in 1967. The second round took 3:24.
"The big strong players go fast, and if you want one, you better pick early." Chargers chief scout Ron Nay said.
Falcons general manager Tom Braatz said, "It's traditionally the big people who always go early in the draft, and this year the draft is loaded with offensive and defensive lineman." Braatz traded for the chance to draff Fraalie. "Sometimes a team wants a player it fears won't be available when its time comes to pick so they attempt to trade up. I can't speak for the others, but in our case we sat on a hot tack."
SMITH HAD BEEN signed two months before the draft. He received a four-year, $2.6 million contract from Buffalo — just under the $2.65 million over four years that New England gave wide receiver Irving Fryar as the No. 1 pick a year ago.
Smith promises to be worth the money for Buffalo.
"I think some pressure was taken off by signing early," said the 6-foot-3, Smith, who admitted to being 10 pounds overweight at 98." But it also put more pressure on me
with the expectations. 'I'll try to fulfill the expectations as best I can.'
BANKS WAS PART of Cleveland's compensation for the first pick in the supplemental draft, a selection expected to lead to a roster with 14 quarterback Bernie Kosar, who opted to
Even before Smith's selection was announced, the first of four trades during the first round was revealed. Buffalo received the seventh pick of the draft from Cleveland as compensation for linebacker Chip Banks, who was traced to the Bills but failed to show up in Buffalo.
The second pick was also preceded by a trade announcement. The Vikings dealt the Nike in a acquired in hopes of drafting Kosar to Altair in '65s' No 4 pick and their third-round choice.
The Falcons picked Fralic, the 6-5,
285-pound offensive tackle. After Houston
picked defensive end Ray Childress of Texas
A&M as expected, the Vikings announced the
first surprise of the draft — Pitt outside
linebacker Chris Doleman on the fourth
selection.
Johnny Leuthold passes through the block of Matt Jefferson, both members of the KU Ultimate Frisbee team. The two were practicing with the Horror Zontals yesterday in the field
behind Oliver Hall. The team is preparing for the National Ultimate Frisbee Championships May 25-27 at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
HorrorZontals head for nationals
Sports Writer
By SUE KONNIK
Each summer millions of beach burns head to the water to deepen their tans and play Frisbee in the hot sand. The HorrorZontals aren't waiting for the sun.
The KU Ultimate Frisbee team, known as the HorrorZontals, practice year round behind Oliver Hall. The team is preparing for the National Ultimate Frisbee Championships May 25-27 at Stanford University in Stanford, Calif.
at the Midwest Regional Championships April 20 in Madison, Wis., to qualify for the national meet.
KU defeated Southern Missouri State 18-14
Stanford, last year's national ultimate champion, is expected to be one of KU's toughest competitors. Lou Thackston, HorrorZontal co-captain, said, KU competed in the national last year at Tufts University in Boston, but did not fair well.
"It was our year of experience," he said.
"The year we're shooting further. We'd love to win."
Ultimate Frisbee is a non-contact sport played by two seven-man teams. It is played on a field similar to a football field. The
object is to score goals by advancing the Frisbee across a goal line.
The Frisbee may be passed — no steps are allowed — and any time a pass is incomplete, an immediate change of possession occurs. Play stops when the Frisbee crosses the goal. Play may also be stopped if an infraction is committed. But, there are no officials.
"One of the major developments of the game has been for the players themselves to make the call," Thackston said.
KU will face 12 of the country's top teams at Stanford. This is the second year that collegiate ultimate Frisbee teams have had a meet to determine a national winner.
Chiefs pick NC's Horton for offense
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Mo — The Kansas City Chiefs today filled a gaping hole in their offense by drafting running back Ethan Horton of North Carolina.
The Chiefs ranked 27th in the 28-tem National Football League in rushing a year ago and were further weakened in the backfield when starting halfback TheotisBrown during a fatal heart attack in February. Brown is expected back until the 1986 season, if ever.
Horton led the Atlantic Coast Conference in rushing the last two years and finished as the fifth all-time leading rusher in North Carolina history behind Amos Lawrence, Mike Voight, Kelvin Bryant and Don McCauley. He was Bryant's understudy in his first two seasons and wound up his career with 3.074 yards.
The 6.4, 218-pound athlete rushed 200 times for 1,107 yards and eight touchdowns as a junior and 238 times for 1,247 yards and six touchdowns as a senior. He also caught 25 passes for 254 yards and three touchdowns in his final season.
"This is a player I feel can carry the ball 20 times a game." Kansas City Coach John Mackovic said. "He can punish the defense," and carry people. We haven't had a back in recent years who could carry the ball like that."
Horton was the first running back selected in the draft and the first ball carrier taken by the Chiefs in the first round since Woody Green in 1974.
Horton will line up initially at halfback along with Herman Heard, the Chiefs' No. 3 pick in the 1984 draft.
BASEBALL ALMANAC
National League
Yesterday's Results
**everyday's tuesdays**
Chicago 3, San Francisco 1
New York 4, Washington 5
Atlanta 8, Cincinnati 1
Pittsburgh 6, San Diego 2
Philadelphia 11, Montreal 0
St. Louis 6, Los Angeles 1
American League
Yesterday's Results
Baltimore 9, Chicago 7
Minnesota 11, Detroit 2
Kansas City 5, Cleveland 1
Texas 8, New York 4
Toronto 4, Oakland 3
Seattle 4, Milwaukee 2
Calif. 3, Boston 2
BY ANN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
But at the University of Kansas, foreign track athletes are hard to find and so are top finishers. Head men's track coach Bob Timmons said recently he wouldn't recruit any foreign athletes, no matter how tough competition becomes
For over a decade, U.S. coaches have been recruiting foreign athletes to strengthen their intercollegiate track and field programs. And on virtually every man's track team in the Big Eight, foreign athletes have become top finishers in NCAA competition.
BIG EIGHT COACHES say the reasons foreign athletes have been recruited in the big Eight are not complicated. Coaches who are incapable of recruiting top U.S. athletics, small budgets, poor facilities, or reputation, still want their teams to be competitive.
Top foreign finishers in Big Eight track and field include Missouri's Daniel Ogid, who won the 400 meter intermediate hurdles at the Kansas Relays this year. Moses Kiyai, who placed third in the long jump, and Yusuf Ali, from Missouri who placed second in the long jump.
To fill these empty slots, talented foreign
athletes are recruited.
Bill Bergam, head men's track coach at Michigan State, began recruiting foreign athletes about eight
"It was as clear as night and day what we had to do to stay competitive." Bergan said. "We didn't have enough kids in the Big Eight, but we did have kids from Texas and California were slim."
"THE FOREIGN ATHLETES have benefited our team tremendously."
For most of the Big Eight coaches it has become simply a matter of answering the phone when a foreign athlete calls, offering training and watching the trophy case grow.
Clint Johnson, KU shot-putter and discus thrower, said that when Timmons gets calls from talented foreign athletes, he sometimes gives them the names of other coaches, usually track coaches in the Big Eight, to contact for a scholarship.
But Timmons won't do that, he said.
Timmons has stated his reasons for promoting U.S. athletes in a plan to the NCAA. His philosophy is not one against foreign athletes, but one in favor of U.S. athletes, he said.
"I'll admit I'm a flag wafer for the U.S.",
Timmons said.
"Foreign athletes are recruited by coaches who want to win," he said. "In the pros, everyone plays to win. But in college, it takes a lot more effort and the hard work and dedication amounted to."
TIMMONS CONTENDS THAT foreign athletes have changed the entire purpose of a sport.
But, the KU track team's pride took a beating last year when the team placed
And this year, in a serious blow to the winning tradition Trimmens has built during his career — 13 Big Eight titles in 20 seasons and a course less number of record holders. He won two MVP awards from Championship and faces the possibility of placing last again in the outdoor meet.
eighth in the Big Eight indoor meet and seventh in the outdoor meet.
JOHNSON, WHO HAS competed for the past three years, said. "After always being then going to a meet with an attitude that you just wanted to place, it was quite a shock."
Bob Teel, head mens' coach at Missouri, who has six foreign athletes on his team this year, said, "I had to make a decision. Was I going to be a purist like Bob Timmons and be last in the Big Eight or was I going to be competitive?
"I can't tell you how many times we've initially tried to recruit someone in the U.S. and couldn't. Then we try to fill in with a foreign athlete."
Tirmimos contends that foreign athletes have raised the qualifying standards at meets and made it difficult for U.S. athletes to qualify for events.
"Oklahoma recruited a foreign athlete who is a milier, a 29-year-old world record holder. Tirmons said "You put your own athlete in the same race and it's just not fair."
GORDON FOX, HEAD womens' track and field coach at the University of Colorado.
"A lot of coaches recruit foreign athletes because their values are winning, period," he said.
said he agreed with Timmons to a certain extent.
TODAY, THE NCAA has added a rule to prevent this type of unfair competition. The rule states that "any participation by a student each year during the 12-month period after the student's 20th birthday shall count as one year of varsity competition in that sport."
But Timmons argues that there could be valid reasons, such as working before college or the military that would cause U.S. athletes who might be older than the average student to attending a university. But because of the CAA rule, they would not be able to compete.
But he does allow any qualified foreign student to be on the team, he said.
Timmons does not offer foreign athletes scholarships because he believes that foreign athletes use up scholarships that would otherwise have gone to U.S. athletes.
Watkins said he was considering staying at
TONY WATKINS. A freshman from Dungannon County, Ireland, on academic scholarship, is the only foreign athlete on the team at the beginning of his cross country team at the beginning.
KU for another year and needed a scholarship to do so. When he first learned of Timmons policy, he was upset, but not because he couldn't get a scholarship.
CARLA COFFEY, HEAD women's track coach, said that she didn't oppose recruiting foreign athletes, and that they had improved her team track considerably in the past two years.
Watkins said that after talking to Timmons, he agreed with his policy.
"I'm not mad because I'm not good enough compared to the other members of the team to get a scholarship." he said.
Big Eight champions Stine Lerdahl, shot putter, and Anne Grete Baeraaas, javelin thrower are members of the Norwegian team that won Oslo. Norway and have full scholarships.
Lerdahl said, "The best athletes are the ones who get to come to the U.S. on a scholarship. We are usually older and have experience competing on a national team at home."
She said the foreign athlete surge was much greater in men's competition than in women.
"It doesn't affect women's competition because the numbers are small." Lerdahl said. "I was surprised that there weren't any foreigners on the men's team, but after I heard Timmons reasons, I understood his point.
"1 understand that he wants U.S. athletes to get the scholarships but I still think foreign students should be allowed."
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