University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, October 24, 1989
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Ballplayers take a back seat to quake survivors
Series support seems set to resume games
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — The World Series seemed back on schedule yesterday, with Bay area traffic and Candlestick Park doing just fine.
Now, the main problem is for the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics to get back on schedule. After another delay and a record 11-10 loss last season, the league not much spirit remains for Game Three on Friday evening.
"Numb. Everybody is just numb," said Brett Butler, one of a handful of Giants at Candlestick yesterday. "The enthusiasm isn't there anymore."
"We still want to win, but let's get it over with. The Most Valuable Player, the good things, the bad things that happen on the field — it doesn't matter. All of that, I think, is trivial.
"When people think of the 1989 World Series, they're not going to
remember who won. They're going to remember who survived. To me, people like Buck Helm are the stars of this series."
Helm is the 75-year-old man who was found alive 90 hours after being buried when the earthquake caused a freeway to collapse in Oakland.
The Athletics, who did not practice yesterday, lead the series 2-0.
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"Obviously, the wait isn't going to help anybody, but we realize everyone is trying to do what best. 'A*s on Rick Honeycutt said from home."
"I thought it might be a good idea for both teams to scrimmage against each other," he said. "We could have a couple of games here and give the money to charity. But I guess the same problems would still exist."
San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos and Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent said the series was pushed back for three reasons: to see if the area's roads could handle the increased traffic, to make sure Candlestick was safe and to find out if enough police officers were available.
which had been predicted to be one of the worst tie-ups in local history, wasn't so bad.
The California Highway Patrol reported that the morning rush hour,
Even with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge closed because of a partial collapse, traffic flowed relatively freely. Police said there were more cars than normal but fewer accidents.
Police staffing also appeared in order. Agnos said earlier that 250 officers, twice the number needed at Candlestick, would be available by
"Everything is going exactly as planned," he said. "We're right on it."
In the meantime, the Athletics and Giants planned to work out every day until the series resumes. Scattered
No final word has been heard yet on whether Candlestick was certified by the city as safe. But John Lind, director of stadium operations, said no problems were anticipated.
shows fell in the Bay area yesterday. With the threat of more rain, the A's might move to their spring-training site in Phoenix. Ariz.
a tarpaulin covered Candlestick's infield, so Will Clark and a half-dozen Giants took batting practice at indoor
cages. Later, there was a light touch-football game in the outfield.
"A as kid, you dream about playing in the World Series," Butler said. "At the start, I realized what a privilege it was to be in the World Series. Now I realize what a privilege it is to be alive."
3 Royals earn top rankings
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Right-hander Mark Gubicza of the Kansas City Royals is the best player in baseball, according to the annual player rankings compiled by the Elias Sports Bureau.
Gubicza, rated at 96.528 on a scale of 100, took over from Boston right-hander Roger Clemens, who led all players in last year's rankings.
Will Clark of the National League champion San Francisco Giants was the second-highest rated player this year at 9.63.16, followed by Bret Sahbergen, Gubiza's teammate on the Rovings' pitching staff, at 9.62.30.
The rankings, used to determine free-agent compensation, are based on statistics compiled over a two-year period. The formula was agreed to by the Major League Baseball Players Association and the owners' Player Relations Committee in the settlements of the strikes in 1981 and 1985. It is based on statistics such as batting average, plate appearances, home runs and runs batted in for hitters, and starts, innings, earned run average, saves and strikeouts for pitchers.
Mike Greenwell of Boston, Kirby Puckett of Minnesota and Jose Canseco of Oakland led AL outfielders.
Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox led AL catchers for the second straight year. Harold Baines of Texas, who tied Brian Downing last year at designated hitter, led all DH's this year.
Alvin Davis of Seattle became the third player in three years to lead American League first baseman. Kansas City's George Brett, who led last year, was second, and New York's Don Mattingly, who achieved the only perfect score in rankings history in 1987, was third.
Julio Franco of Texas, who tied for first in the AL at second base last year with Boston's Marty Barrett, took sole possession of first this year. Baltimore's Cal Ripkin regained the top AL ranking at shortstop after a two-year absence.
AP TOP 25
OOTBALL POLL
1. Notre Dame (56) 7-0-0
2. Miami, Fla., (3) 6-0-0
3. Colorado (1) 7-0-0
4. Nebraska 7-0-0
5. Michigan 5-1-0
6. Alabama 6-0-0
7. Pittsburgh 5-0-1
8. Illinois 5-1-0
9. Florida St. 5-2-0
10. Southern Cal 5-2-0
11. Tennessee 5-1-0
12. Houston 5-1-0
13. Arkansas 5-1-0
14. Penn State 5-1-0
15. West Virginia 5-1-1
16. Auburn 4-2-0
17. Arizona 5-2-0
18. Brigham Young 6-1-0
19. Florida 6-1-0
20. N. C. State 6-1-0
21. Texas A&M 5-2-0
22. Clemson 6-2-0
23. Washington St. 6-2-0
24. Texas 4-2-0
25. South Carolina 5-1-1
First-place votes in parentheses
KU center's snap streak ends Budde watches offense from sideline for first time since 1987
By Gene King Kansan sportswriter
With 2.59 remaining in Saturday's game against Colorado, Kansas center Chip Budde watched as his roommate, redshirt freshman Jim Holt, ended his consecutive snap streak.
"It's no big deal," Budde said after the game.
After red-shirting his freshman year, Budd had played every offensive play since he became the starting center his sophomore year.
"I'm just glad that I was there when they needed me to play," Budde said. "I hope I can be there in the future."
Holt entered the game and snapped the last four plays of the 49-17 loss.
"Obviously, if it were a close game and I had gone out injured, I wouldn't have enjoyed it at all," he said.
Budde said he was glad that it was his roommate who broke the streak.
"It was nice to see a lot of the
young guys get to play. They work just as hard at practice," Budde said. "Jim is going to be a good player for Kansas."
Offensive coordinator Pat Ruel said he was impressed with Budde's longevity.
"Center is a difficult position to play," Ruel said. "But you have to realize that we have a unique situation in that we didn't have a lot of guys to put in there."
Ruel said that in his 15 years of coaching he had never seen anything that would compare to a consecutive snan streak.
"It might be close to a boxer who boxes every week, but that doesn't happen." Ruel said. "In baseball, a ball against eight games without any contest."
Budge does not consider himself an ironman, though.
"I've played hurt before," Budde said. "But guys have played hurt a lot worse than I have. If they need me to play, then I play. That is what I'm
"Physically, it is not, like playing linebacker. The guy is lined up just six inches away as opposed to six feet."
here for. That's my job.
Budde wouldn't compare his streak to that in other sports. "Hey, I'm no Nolan Ryan," he said.
Budde really wasn't aware of the streak until after his first season of playing.
"It was mentioned to me that I had snapped every down of my first season," Budde said. "Then, last year they informed me that I made 1,000 and then after that it sort of snowbled."
"After a while, everybody started to talk about it, and I thought it would be all right to make 2,000.
The number Budde was striving for was 2.000.
"I wish it would have ended at a tenable number." he said.
Ruel said that Budde had displayed the abilities that should move him into Big Eight recognition.
Budde said he had no desire to try to match his old streak.
Chip Budde
"It would be kind of difficult to start over and make it again," he said.
"He has exhibited the endurance and physical attributes to maintain the streak," Ruel said.
Cleveland fires up,beats Chicago,27-7
It was the first three-game loss streak since Nov. 15, 2008, 1981, the year before Mike Ditka took over as coach.
Cleveland Browns enter tie for division lead
For the injury-decimated Bears, the game reflected a host of negatives.
The Associated Press
CLEVELAND — Bernie Kosar combined with Webster Slaughter, Eric Metcalf and a fired-up defense in leading Cleveland to a 27-7 victory against Chicago last night, leaving the Bears with a three-game losing streak for the first time in eight years.
Metcalf caught a 3-yard pass from Kosar in the first quarter and ran in from 7 yards out after a Frank Minifield interception in the third. The Browns bring their own two-game losing streak and put themselves into a three-way tie atop the AFC Central at 4-13.
Kosar capped the night with a 97-yard touchdown pass to Slaughter after the Cleveland defense had stopped Chicago at the 2 yard line with 7 minutes, nine seconds remaining in the game. It was the longest play from scrimmage in Cleveland history.
It also left a team that started
49ers hopeful about injury recovery
The Associated Press
STANFORD, Calif. — Jeff Fuller could move his right arm a little better yesterday, and doctors were cautiously optimistic that the worst of the San Francisco 49ers' injuries was not as bad as originally feared.
"It's a bitterstew type of situation, no question about it." Coach George Seifert said. "We had so many players' hurt, I looked around, and it was like a battlefield."
Four 49ers, including safety Fuller and quarterback Joe Montana, were injured Sunday during a victory against New England.
Mortana was carted off with a knee injury.
"It looks like Joe will miss one game and possibly two," Selfert said. "But there was no ligament damage."
with four straight wing at 4-3, one game behind Minnesota in the NFC Central. That's the first time they've been out of first place in the division since the final game of the 1983 season, a stretch of 85 games. The Bears also have
Fuller originally was thought to have sustained a compression fracture of three vertebrae in his neck, threatening his career.
Linebacker Jim Fahnhorst suffered an injury to his right foot, and special teams captain Harry Sydney, a fullback, broke his left arm.
James Klint of Stanford Hospital said that Fuller was upgraded from serious to satisfactory condition and that tests showed no fracture of the vertebrae. Instead, Klint said, Fuller had chipped the small bones protruding from the vertebrae in his neck.
Fuller and Sydney were placed on injured reserve yesterday, and cornerback Tim McKyer, suspended by the 49ers on Oct. 7 for insubordination, was reactivated.
Seifert said Steve Young would be starting quarterback Sunday against the New York Jets unless Montana recovered.
ever. Against the Bears, he completed 22 of 29 for 281 yards, with Slaughter catching eight for 184 yards.
anowed 102 points in their last three games after giving up just 61 in their first four.
The victory was in part the work of Kosar, who threw four interceptions last week in a 17-7 loss to Pittsburgh, his worst performance
But it also resulted from a defense led by Michael Dean Perry, whose more-celebrated brother, William, was a fill-in on the bears' defensive line for the injured Dan Hampton. Another starter, Richard Dent, was also missing from the Chicago line.
The Cleveland defense limited Mike Tornczak to four completions in 14 attempts for 76 yards before he was replaced late in the third quarter by Jim Harbaugh.
Cleveland clinched the game with goal-line stand, stopping the Bears at the 2-yard line on fourth down with 7:09 left after Chicago had consumed more than six minutes. One play later, the Browns executed their 97-yard touchdown play.
Chicago's only touchdown came on a 5-yard pass from Harbaugh to Wendell Davis with 3:47 left.
Kosir nickar-dimed 73 yards for the Browns in 14 plays, giving Cleveland a 7-0 lead with 28 seconds left in the first quarter. He completed 7 of 8 for 56 yards, including the final four in a row. The touchdown came on a 3-yard third-down pass to Metcalf, who stepped into the left corner of the end zone for the score.
Security surrounds Aggieville
Ten thousand dollars worth of security, including a multitude of armed officers, barricades, video cameras and plastic snow fences will surround a small business district in Manhattan this weekend.
Isn't the atmosphere surrounding the Kansas-Kansas State football rivalry great?
Although football games between the two schools during the past four years have been somewhat lackluster, misguided mobs have succeeded in turning a peaceful Kansas business district, known as Aggieville, into a combat zone.
Alan Morgan
Associate sports editor
The problem began October 14, 1984, when a mob of 8,000 people trashed the streets and vandalized buildings and businesses during a post-game disturbance.
On October 18, 1986, the mobs took the streets again. I was among the crowd that watched in disbelief as people broke store windows, imported goods from other countries, other and set an automobile ablaze. I left shortly after the tear gas.
A person might believe he has seen the bottom of the well of human stupidity, but on that one occasion there was an accident that there is no bottom to the well.
Looking back, I question my intelligence for standing in the middle of the melee.
Thus, a curtain of plastic snow fencing was erected around Agggieville for the 1987 Kansas—K-State game in Manhattan.
With about 250 officers patrolling the area, Aggieville became a demonstration of Kansas' law enforcement might.
Alvan Johnson, Riley County Police Department director, said that although the security budget had been cut from $30,000 in 1987 to $10,000 this year, there would not be a decrease in the number of officers.
"I have a good feeling about the weekend," Johnson said in a telephone interview yesterday. "We're basically going to follow the same procedure as we did in 1987, on the job, and I think we'll still have an adequate number of officers to take care of any problems."
Joining this year's Kansas police officers' convention will be representatives from the Riley County police, K-State police, Kansas Highway Patrol, KU police and Alcoholic Beverage Control Office.
It's a great chance for the public to view the latest in riot gear and apparel.
The obvious question arises, "What does this have to do with the game?" You make the call.
Johnson said the outcome of the game probably would not have an effect but added that it "might have some influence."
Regardless of what caused the riot, the connection between the game and the riot is a loose one. The riot can be attributed more to alcohol abuse and crowd mentality than to a football game.
In a guest column in today's Kan-san, Todd Johnson, chairman of the K-State Student Senate, urges Jayhawk fans to follow the lead of 1987 and keep the party safe.
With the security precautions planned for "Aggietraz," Jawhawk fans should follow the lead of common sense and keep themselves safe.
> Alan Morgan is a Holton senior ma joring in journalism.
Manning included on Big 8 all-decade team
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Danny Manning of Kansas and Wayne Tisdale of Oklahoma, who between them collected six conference player-of-the-year awards and helped elevate Big Eight basketball to national prominence, are unanimous selectee. Eighth-Eight's all-decade team of the 80s.
Chosen by 20 veterans from the six-state region, Manning and Tisdale were the only players named on every ballot. Voters, asked to pick the five best players, not necessarily by position, filled out the squad with Steve Stipanovich of Missouri,
The Associated Press
Roland Blackman of Kansas State and Jeff Graver of Iowa State.
All five were first-round draft picks by the NBA. The 6-foot-10 Manning, who led Kansas to the 1988 NCAA championship, is the Big Eight's career scoring leader with 2,951 points.
At the beginning of the decade, Big Eight basketball was considered a
The previous record of 2,861 belonged to Tisdale, who gave up his senior season and opted for the NBA after being named Big Eight player-of-the-year in '83, '84 and '85. Manning, player of the year in '86, '87 and '88, also finished No. 2 in Big Eight career rebounds with 1,827.
poor cousin to football. But, thanks to coaches such as Larry Brown at Kansas, Billy Tubbs at Oklahoma and Johnny Orr at Iowa State, elite blue-chip recruits such as Manning and Tisdale began coming into the league. And by the end of the decade, the Big Eight had taken its place among the top basketball conferences in the country.
"It's great that we can recognize the achievements of this group that contributed so much to the Big Eight in the decade of the '80s," said Carl James, Big Eight commissioner since 1980. Obviously, they were successful. Big Eight has worked hours and there's no question they set the stage for what we believe will be an equally successful decade in the 1990s."
Sipanovich, 6-11, teamed with sharp-shooting guard Jon Sundvold, helped Missouri dominate the Big Eight in the early '80s. He finished with 1,836 points and 984 rebounds.
Wavman Tisdale
Blackman played for former K-State Coach Jack Hartman in the early years of the decade and has gone on to star for Dallas in the NBA. At K-State, he scored 1,844 points and
Danny Manning
represented the United States on the touring 1980 Olympic team.
Grayer, more than any other single player, personifies the turnaround Orr has made at Iowa State.