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Sports
Friday, Sept. 6, 1985
University Daily Kansan
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News Briefs
Former KU punter waived by Packers
Former Kansas punter Bucky Scribner was waived by the Green Bay Packers Wednesday.
Tournament to begin
Scribner, who had been the Packer's punter for the last two seasons, was suprised by the move. He said he thought he had "several years of football left."
The Alvamar Racket Club, 4120 Clinton Parkway, will host the Michelon Lite tennis tournament this weekend at the racket club and also at the Lawrence Tennis Center at Lawrence High School
Scribner ranked third among National Football League punters last season with a 42.3 average. Green Bay signed free agent Joe Prokup as his replacement.
Mixed doubles competition will be tonight with men's and women's doubles and singles tomorrow and Sunday.
Jeff Henderson, a professional at Alvamar, said that several good players would be coming from Kansas City, Mo., for the tournament this year, raising the quality of play.
The schedule of play will be available today. Interested students can call the racket club at 842-7766. Admission is free.
TV bid may be top
SEQUEL — South Korean sports officials are confident of landing a record contract in next week's final negotiations for American television rights to the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games.
The talks are scheduled to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland, Sept. 12-13 between officials of the Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee (SLOOC), the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the three American networks — ABC, CBS and NBC.
IOC President Juan Antonio Saramanchar said in Seoul last week that the Lausanne meeting would be final for the U.S. television rights, but Korean officials said that there might be more bargaining unless the bidding prices fall short of a certain level.
Cornerback may get start at wide receiver position
By Chris Lazzarino Sports editor
After the loss of wide receivers Skip Petee and Johnny Holloway to knee injuries, head football coach Mike Gottfried said he was considering moving starting cornerback Milt Garner to receiver.
Garner worked at receiver during yesterday's practice behind Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
"We are going to give him one more day there, and then we'll decide if we'll keep him there," Gottfried said.
Peete and Holloway were both injured in Saturday's game against Hawaii. Holloway underwent arthroscopic knee surgery yesterday to determine the extent of damage in his knee.
"He could be out one week or three or four." Gottfried said. "It just depends on himself and how well he recovers. The same is for Pete. He could be out anywhere from one to
four weeks, maybe longer, you never know. It's just a matter of when they come back."
Both Holloway and Peete were on crutches at yesterday's practice.
If Garner does move to receiver, sophomore C.J. Eanes and freshman Danny Crossman will fill in at cornerback.
The Jayhawks practiced without pads yesterday, and the same is expected today. Gotfried said they would most likely begin working out in pads tomorrow.
Tomorrow's practice will begin at
11:30 a.m. at Memorial Stadium.
Gottfried said he was pleased with the conditioning of the football players, but the practices wouldn't get any easier.
"We are going to condition them hard," Gottried said. "That was a strong plus for us against Hawaii. Most teams that go over there die after the first half. We got stronger in the second half."
concerning the eight players who have not been academically certified. Gottfried said some of the eight watched practice, but none had been participating in practices.
There is no new information
This year's academic questions resemble last year's situation when 10 players were rued academically ineligible, but Gottfried said this year was not a carbon-copy of last year.
"Nothing is ever the same." Gottfried said. "Each year is different. The only thing I can do now is coach and prepare for the next ballgame."
Kickoff time for the Sept. 14th game against Vanderbilt has been moved from 1:30 p.m. to 11:40 a.m. The game will be televised on the Big Eight-Raycom television network.
Two other KU home games will be televised, and they will both begin at 11:40 a.m. Those games are the Oct. 25 game with Oklahoma State and the Nov. 23 game against Missouri.
Royal testifies in drug case
PITTSBURGH — Lonnie Smith, Kansas City Royals outfielder, yesterday named an ex-clubhouse caterer as a major source of the cocaine that he said he bought for himself and sometimes for teammates, including Joaquin Andujar and Keith Hernandez.
United Press International
Smith was the first of several major leaguers to testify in the federal court trial of Curtis Strong, who is charged with selling drugs to ballplayers.
Smith, who was testifying under immunity from prosecution, said that the drug buys from Strong were in 1861 and 1862 and that sometimes the cocaine was wrapped in folded-up "girlie magazine papers."
He also said that he made cocaine purchases from Strong for Andujar, a pitcher, and Hernandez, a first-baseman, in 1882, when all three played for the St. Louis Cardinals. He said that those buys were made in Pittsburgh when the Cardinals were in town to play the Pirates.
the Philadelphia Philies in 1981, teammate Dick Davis, who now plays in Japan, introduced him to Strong. Smith said that he made his first buy from Strong during a visit with another former Philies teammate, Gary Matthews, to Davis' room in the Stadium Hilton near Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia.
Smith said that when he was with
He is among seven men indicted on trafficking charges by a federal grand jury in May. He is the first of the seven to stand trial. Three others pleaded guilty to various charges.
Strong, 38, a Philadelphia-based caterer who formerly served the Philies' clubhouse, is charged with selling cocaine to players in Pittsburgh between June 1981 and mid-May 1984.
"The only difference is that these men make hundreds of thousands of dollars." Renfroe said.
In his opening statement, Adam Renfro, Strong's attorney, told the jury that he would destroy the credibility of the ballplayers called to the stand. He called them "hero-criminals."
He said that he would show how the
players still were using and selling drugs to other baseball players around the league.
"Halfway through the season, I was up to (buying) an eighth of an ounce at a time. I would buy two to three eights a month," he said.
Initially in 1981, Smith said, he bought a gram at a time once or twice a week for $100 a game.
Earlier yesterday, James Ross, Assistant U.S. Attorney, told the jury of nine women and three men they also would hear immunized testimony from Enos Cabell of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Dave Parker of the Cincinnati Reds, John Milner, retired outfielder, Jeff Leonard of the San Francisco Giants and Hernandez, now with the Mets.
"They have been given immunity so they could tell you about their (cocaine) use without fear of prosecution ... and how they got it," Ross said.
"You may hear some things about major league baseball that will surprise and maybe even upset you, but, remember, baseball is not on trial here."
Moreno homers; K.C. tops Brewers 4-1
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Omar Moreno, who was out of baseball three days ago, hit an inside the park home run in the first timing and then lined a two-run triple that capped a three-run eighth last night and led the Kansas City Royals over the Milwaukee Brewers 4-1.
The victory pulled Kansas City within one game of idle California in the American League West.
Moreno, signed as a free-agent after being released by the New York Yankees, lashed a line drive down
Charlie Leibrandt, dueling Moose Haas, made the run hold up until the eighth when Paul Molitor walked, was sacrificed to second and scored on a single by Cecil Cooper.
the left-field line leading off the Kansas City first that eluded left fielder Ed Romero and went for an inside-the-park homer.
Steve Balboni led off the Royals eighth with a double and went to third on John Wathan's single. After Balboni scored on George Orta's pinch-hit single, Moreno hit a two-run triple into center.
Haas, 8-7, gave up eight hits while Leibrandt, 14-7, gave up just six.
The game was a makeup of a contest rained out seven days before in Milwaukee. The Royals' 12,400 season ticket holders were all mailed complimentary tickets to the game and the turnstile count was reported as 15,075.
But the official paid attendance was listed as 2,257, beating the Royals' previous low attendance mark of 6,180 on Sept. 22, 1975.
Royal center fielder Willie Wilson says he hopes to be running this
Wilson has missed four games since he took a penicillin shot Saturday night to relieve a nagging cold. He had surgery Monday to relieve swelling caused by the shot.
weekend and to return to the team in less than the two weeks it was expected he would need to recover from an allergic reaction to penicillin.
"It's real disappointing," he said,
"because we're in a stretch drive or pennant drive, and something funky like this happens. It probably hurts me more than anyone else."
Bryan Graves/KANSAN
Brenda Sanders follows through on a tee-off on the first hole at Alvamar Golf and Country Club. Sanders practiced yesterday afternoon with other members of the women's golf team.
Bags to weigh heavy on golfer's shoulders
By Frank Hansel Of the Kansan sports staff
Sanders, one of the tri-captains on the women's team, wants to prove to herself that she is capable of shooting low rounds of golf. She averaged 86.7 strokes-per-round last year.
With a book bag draped over one shoulder and a golf bag over the other, Brenda Sanders, Cottonwood, Mont., senior, is determined to make her final year on the golf course a successful one.
By Frank Hansel
Besides trying to improve her golf game, Sanders also is working toward a degree in architecture. She is in her fourth year of the five-year program and the schedule has left her with barely enough hours in the day.
"I know I'm capable of shooting low scores, but I just haven't done it yet. Sanders said yesterday." "And because I knew driving my drive to succeed this year,"
"She had to be in studio a lot last year when the team was practicing, but she didn't make excuses," Kent Weiser, head coach, said. "She just got the work done and she impressed me with her overall attitude."
Sanders said she had been hitting the ball really well since she took two 1/2 months off from golf this summer. She spent those months studying architecture at the University of Dordmund in West Germany.
Last year, because of her class schedule, Sanders spent most of the time practicing by herself after the rest of the team had called it a night.
Sanders participated in a student
Sanders impressed Weiser so much that he made her one of this year's tri-captains. She sets a great example for the team by her approach and hard work. Weiser said.
She said that she only managed to play golf once in West Germany because she wanted to see how the courses compared to American courses. They were basically the same, she said, except they were a lot longer.
"The professors at Dortmund encouraged me to go to Italy to explore the Italian life since our project we were working on was in Venice." Sanders said.
exchange program and her trip was arranged through Study Abroad. Besides spending time in West Germany, Sanders also visited Venice, Italy and Paris as part of the trip.
Visiting Paris was strictly Sanders' idea. She said that she had $60 left and that she was going to spend her birthday in Paris for as long as the money would hold out.
"I managed to stay six days by staying in cheaper hotels and not eating as much," Sanders said.
Now back on American fairways, Sanders is eager for the team to build on last year's success. But with several new faces on the team, Sanders said that the players had their work cut out for them.
As leaders of the team, Weiser said his tri-captains would help the new players get adjusted to college golf.
"My job mainly is to bridge the communication gap between the younger players and coaching staff," Sanders said.
Weiser said that the captains also acted as coaches when he was not around. With 16 golfers on the team, Weiser said that he couldn't be with all of them at the same time so his captains and Brad Demo, assistant coach, helped the younger golfers with their game.
Suzy Mast/KANSAN
Up and away
Grey Marritt, Wilmette, Ill., senior, prepares to leap to catch a Frisbee. Marritt,
an Uliterors Frisbee Club member, practiced Wednesday afternoon behind
Oliver Hall.
Volleyball team to face defending Big 8 champs
By Heather Fritz
Of the Kansan sports staff
New head volleyball coach Frankie Albitz is cautiously optimistic about the Jayhawks' first outing tomorrow against defending Big Eight champion Nebraska in Lincoln.
"I can't get a feel yet about how we'll do in competition," she said yesterday. "But I'm staying pretty optimistic. We've done all we can do to prepare."
"I'm having trouble putting players in positions on the court," she said. "A lot of players do everything well but not one specific position."
The Jayhawks haven't won a Big eight match since 172 – 27 conference games.
Albitz said that slight injuries had bothered some players, but her biggest problem was figuring out where to position the players.
Albizt said this hurt the team because instead of practicing at one set position, the women practice at two or three positions.
The tentative line-up for the match consists of Catalina Suarez and Shannon Ridgeway as release hitters, Julie Ester and Tammy Hill as the center blockers, Monica Spenser
as the setter and Judy Desch as the play-set hitter, Albiz said.
"I'd like to be competitive with them early," said Albitz. "If I'm having to try players in different positions, that means we're not."
The coach expects Nebraska to play a fast game, but she said KU's shorter women should be quicker moving players than those of the Cornhuskers.
"They'll run a multiple offense and have a sophisticated defense," she said. "They'll pass well, too. Nebraska's very business-like. 1 like a lot of intensity.
Suarez is a freshman, but will start the game as the team's most experienced player after coming to Kansas from the Colombian national team.
"Our defense is designed for their offense, or for anyone else with a fast offense. I'm more concerned with where the ball goes than how it gets there. If we can get a good ball to their seer we can run 'plays against only one blocker. If we pass well it's easier to do well."
"They play such a different brand of ball over there." Albitz said, "but she will be our steadiest player."
McEnroe draws $1,500 fine
United Press International
NEW YORK — John McEnroe was notified yesterday that he had drawn a fine of $1,500 for verbally abusing the chair umpire in his quarterfinal match at the U.S. Open.
The fine, assessed by the Men's International Professional Tennis Council, increases his total on fines during 1983 to $6.250.
If the outspoken McEnroe exceeds the $7,500 limit during a 12-month period, he will be excluded from tournament play for a 21-day period if he does not play any exhibitions. The suspension lasts 42 days if a player does play exhibition matches.
McEnroe was suspended in September 1894 for 21 days when he exceeded the fine limit after drawing $2,100 for his actions at Stockholm.
During Wednesday night's Open match with Sweden's Joakim Nystrom, McEnroe became angry with umpire Steve Winyard of England for requiring the replay of a point after a late call on a serve in the third set.
McEnroe then demanded that an on-court technician holding a microphone be removed. His continued complaints resulted in his being given a code violation in the fifth game of the set, when the score was tied 2-2.
Sports Almanac
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East Division (Late game not included)
W L. Pct. Pet. GB
Toronto 83 50 421
New York 68 58 21%
Detroit 71 61 331
Baltimore 69 61 12%
Boston 64 68 485
Milwaukee 64 68 18%
Cleveland 48 55 11%
California 75 38 964 -1
Kansas City 73 58 577 -1
Oakland 68 66 307 7½%
Chicago 68 67 307 7½%
Minnesota 67 72 454 10¼%
Seattle 60 73 461 13%
Texas 60 73 461 13%
Yesterday's Results
Boston 13, Cleveland 6, 1st game
Cleveland at Boston, late)
Toronto 7, Minnesota 0
New York 7, Oakland 3
Kansas City 4, Milwaukee 1
Chicago 1, Texas 4
National League
East Division
W L. 80 50 Pet. GB
St. Louis 80 25
New York 90 32 600 1
Montreal 71 41 60 10
Milwaukee 64 67 480 17
Chicago 63 88 481 17%
Pittsburgh 68 88 321 18%
Los Angeles 77 53 592 --
Cincinnati 69 62 382 8 %
San Diego 69 62 382 8 %
Houston 64 68 495 14 %
Atlanta 56 75 437 21 %
San Antonio 56 75 437 21 %
Vesterday's Results
St. Louis 6, Chicago 1
Houston 4, Pittsburgh 3