University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 30, 1986
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Sports Briefs
Grid injuries hamper Hawks; KU looks to stop OU's speed
Neutralizing the Oklahoma Sooners' team speed will be the key if Kansas is to have any success against the country's fourth-ranked team Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium.
"Watching them on film, it looks like they are always running downhill," head coach Bob Valesente said yesterday after practice. "But we have to worry about our execution and not about Oklahoma. They are a great football team and have all the ingredients to be one of the top four or five teams in the country."
Injuries continue to be an obstacle for the Jayhawks, 3-4 overall and 0-3 in the Big Eight Conference. Cornerbacks Mill Garner, who has a sprained left ankle, and Mike Fisher, left thigh bruise, returned to limited action yesterday. Wide receivers Willie Vaughn, thigh injury, and Ronnie Walker underer sprain, also saw limited practice, and Valdez said they should be ready by Saturday.
Valesele, who opened up all the starting positions last week, said he planned no other line-up.
"We had the right people in the ball game," he said. "We are just having problems putting the ball into the end zone. Injuries and inexperience have both contributed to that."
Football tourney starts week 2
The final intramural football championship tour-
ment games for this week were completed
yesterday afternoon at the Shenk Complex at
the corner of 23rd and Iowa streets.
Games will resume Sunday at 3:30 and 3:30 p.m.,
starting the second week of the tournament.
Next week's games will be played at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with the Hill Championship set for Nov. 9 at 2:30 and 3:30 p.m.
Nesterday's scores were:
Men's Independent Trophy division — Wayne Regan Realtors 7, Campus Cruade 0; FCA 13, Bad Assets 0; Professional Students 34, Tastes Great 0.
Men's Greek Trophy division — SAE 23, Sigma
Aloe NUo 42, Delta Upsilon 10; Ducks 14, KL
Aloe 58, St. Louis 12
Fight between fans hurts 10
AMHERST, Mass. — Officials at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst yesterday investigated a brave between fans of the Boston Red Sox and Mets that sent 10 students to the campus intrpry.
A university administrator planned to spve with police, housing officials and students involved in the tracas, which broke out Monday after the World Series, its teams in Game 7 of the World Series, an official said.
The university was also investigating whether they were racial overtones, as some students reported.
"Right now, we don't think it was a racial incident, but we can't say for sure," university spokesman Peter O'Neill said. "We think it was just white people." Mr. Cox was among those who were black and some of whom were white."
Philip Cavanaugh, assistant director for public safety on campus, said about 1,000 students spilled onto the common area of the university's southwest residential complex after the game.
At first, there was some innocent heckling between Mets and Red Sox fans. But, Cavanaugh said, the dispute escalated and the fans began throwing bottles.
Police awaited officers' reports and an opportunity to speak to more students before deciding whether any criminal charges will be brought, Cavanaugh said. Nine of the persons injured were treated and released from the infirmary and one was held overnight, a university spokeswoman said.
Players file for free agency
NEW YORK — Jack Morris, who won 21 games for the Detroit Tigers, and Montreal Expos Tim Raines and Andre Dawson head a list of seven major league players who filed for a fire agency on
their first day of eligibility
Montreal's Wayne Krenchicki, David Palmer and Ted Simmons of Atlanta and San Francisco's Harry Spilman also filed Tuesday, the first of 15 days eligible players will be permitted to file for free agency.
Free agents may negotiate and sign with their former teams and talk with other clubs, but cannot do so without a deal.
Morris, who has won more games than any other major league pitcher in the 1980s, said it will be tougher for the Tigers to corral him than it was for them to resign slugger Kirk Gibson a year ago.
"I got some money in the bank," he told the Detroit News in an interview from Los Angeles on Tuesday. "He didn't. I'll survive."
Morris, who leaves for Japan today as a member of an major league All-Star team playing a series against Japanese teams, said he won't capitulate on the signing deadline night in January as Gibson did.
Last year, Tigers General Manager Bill Lajose vowed the team ultimately would catch Gibson, and they did. Gibson phoned in his agreement at the hospital to ask if he could pub in New Zealand where he was honeymooning.
Olympic runner Scholz dies
DELRAY BEACH. Fla. — Jackson Scholz, the Olympic runner portrayed in the Academy Award-winning movie "Charios of Fire," died at his home Sunday at the age of 89
Mr. Scholz won a gold medal for the United States in the 200-meter dash in the 1924 Olympics in Paris, but lost to Harold Abrahams in the 100 meters.
"Jack never looked at it, because they mispronounced his name throughout the whole movie," said Harry Rahner. Scholz' brother-in-law. "Also, in the movie he supposedly hands a guy his note. He never met the guy. He said he didn't write any note."
Mr. Scholz never saw the 1983 movie
Mr. Scholz ran in the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928 and was honored with a spot in the National Track and Field Hall of Fame. At one time, he was considered the fastest man in the world.
Mr. Scholz had a journalism degree from the University of Missouri and wrote sports books for children. Rahner said he completed 31 books in 31 years.
Mr. Scholz' wife. Phyllis, died a year ago. No formal services were planned for Mr. Scholz. He will be cremated and the ashes scattered at sea.
Padre arrested for illegal pills
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Paterson pitcher LaMarr Hoyt was arrested yesterday at a Mexican border checkpoint with hundreds of illegal Valium and Qualua tablets, authorities said.
Hoyt, the American League Cy Young Award winner three years ago, was released on $25,000 bail and ordered to re-appear in federal court Nov. 19 to face the possibility of a five-year prison sentence.
The pitcher has been arrested twice before on drug charges — once at this same border crossing — and his major-league career is in leopard.
Federal Magistrate Roger Curtis McKee said Hoyt must undergo random drug testing before returning for his November preliminary arraignments on charges of importing a controlled "substance."
Ballard Smith, president of the San Diego Padres, said the club had yet to determine what actions it would take against Hoyt, who was 8-11 in the league and Chicago Sox when he was the AL's top pitcher.
The magistrate allowed Hoyt to return to his South Carolina home to await the hearing.
The arrest came one day after Commissioner Peter Berberroth said the problem of drug abuse had been "virtually eliminated" from baseball.
Hoyt, 31, was arrested after a border patrol officer noticed the pitcher's hands were shaking during a routine inspection.
"At that point, (U.S. Custom Senior Inspector Gus) Rodriguez gave a closer visual inspection of Hoyt and discovered an abnormally large bulge in the croft of his pants," a court statement said.
Drug Enforcement Authority chemist Pam Smith identified 322 of the 498 tablets as Valiums and another 138 as what are suspected to be illegally manufactured Quaaluas, a barbiturate.
Hoyt was led away for a closer inspection and found to be concealing two large plastic packages containing hundreds of pills. He told custom officials he picked them up from a cab driver in the Mexican border community of Tijuana.
Hoyt was arrested once before at a border crossing for drug possession. He will face the stricter drug laws imposed by the bill that was signed by President Reagan on Monday.
Jets' Mehl has knee surgerv
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Lance Mehl, the New York Jets All-Pro linebacker, underwent major knee surgery yesterday, and the team said he would require a year of rehabilitation.
The reconstructive surgery, led by Dr. James Nicholas of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, was needed to repair extensive damage to the cruciate ligament in the right knee. Mehl underwent a diagnostic procedure with an arthroscope yesterday before the decision to operate was made.
Mehl was injured in the first quarter of the Jets' 28-23 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Sunday. Mehl, 6-foot-3 and 233 pounds, injured his knee while attempting a quick stop on the artificial surface of Giants Stadium.
In losing Mebl, the 7-1 jets must deal without their surest tackler, their best pass-covering linebacker and their defensive signal caller. Kyle Clifton will move from right to left inside linebacker and will call signals. Matt Monger and Troy Benson will share the right inside spot.
The Jets also waived quarterback Richard Todd, whom they brought in earlier this month when starter Ken O'Brien hurt his knee. Jets head coach Joe Walton said he would not hesitate to recall Todd if the team suffered any more quarterback injuries.
Becker and McEnroe advance
PARIS — top seed Boris Becker and fifth seed John McEnroe each struggled yesterday before advancing to the second round of the $625,000 Paris Open indoor tennis tournament.
Becker of West Germany, suffering from a case of jet lag, defeated Hugo Nunez of Ecuador, 7-5, 6-4.
McEnroe, seeking his fourth consecutive tournament victory after a six-month break from tennis, defeated qualifier Todd Nelson of the United States 7-5, 6-4.
Third-seeded Henri Leconte of France enjoyed a successful return from a back injury by defeating compatriot Thierry Champion, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
Paul McNamee of Australia beat South Africa's Chris涛 Stey, 5.7-7 (6/2), 7-6.0. No 8 May Timote of the United States defeated Emilio Sanchez of Spain 6.1, 6-1 in a second-round match.
Becker's victory advances him into a second-round meeting with Kevin Curren of the United States, the man he beat in the 1983 Wimbledon final.
McEnroe fought off 87th-ranked Nelson's thundering serve to break it in the last game of the two sets while he never conceded a service break.
McEnroe said his priority is to be among the eight qualifiers for the New York Masters Tournament in January. He is currently 18th in grand-prix points standings and needs to win the Paris event, which awards the winner 400 points and $100,000, and at least one other tournament to do it.
"Realistically, I don't have much chance but I'll give it my best shot," McEnroe said. "Unfortunately, I had a few commitments that prevented me from playing in some tournaments that I wanted to be in."
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