University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 13, 1986
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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Boston Red Sox and the California Angels are trading miracles as freely as kids trade baseball cards.
Dave Henderson's 11th-inning sacrifice fly — his second clutch hit of the game — lifted the Boston Red Sox back into the American League playoffs yesterday with a 7-6 victory over the California Angels.
It was the longest playoff game in American League annals, surpassing by four minutes the Angels' 111th-inning thriller in Game 4 Saturday.
Henderson also hit a two-run homer in the ninth inning that gave the Red Sox a 6-1 lead they eventually lost. The best-of-seven series will return to Boston tomorrow with the Red Sox trailing 3-2.
"This keeps us alive and gets us back to our own park, a park we are built for," said Henderson, who entered the game in the second innings when Tony Armas twisted his left ankle. "We knew we had to score some runs to keep it going. It had been a tough ball game all day. We knew we had to score runs and we went out and scored them."
Steve Crawford, who helped the Red Sox shut down the ninth-inning California rally, was the winning pitcher. He pitched 12 innings, giving up one hit, a walk and striking out one. Calvin Schiraldi pitched the 11th for the save. He struck out two and forced Brian Downing to pop up to first to end the game.
"There is nothing like being in a game like this," Crawford said. "The atmosphere is just terrific. It was a dream come true and it was the game of my life."
Boston overcame a 5-2 Angel lead when Henderson and Don Baylor each hit two-run homers in the ninth. But the Red Sox then slipped into a 6-6 tie
after a rally by the Angels in the bottom of the inning.
In the 11th, Baylor was hit by a pitch from losing pitcher Donnie Moore. Dwight Evans singled Baylor to second and Gedman bunted for a single, loading the bases for Henderson.
The Red Sox were two out from a dismal end to their strong 1986 campaign and the Angels were on the verge of their first pennant in 26 years when both teams began the high drama in the ninth.
Bill Buckner singled and one out later Baylor belted a pitch from starter Mike Witt over the left
After the second out, California Manager Gene Mauch — long criticized for two pennants lost through questionable pitching strategy — brought in reliever Gary Lucas, who had only two saves this year.
Lucas threw only one pitch, hitting Rich Gedman. After Moore, the Angels relief ace, entered the game, Henderson hit a two-run homer to left, giving Boston a 6-5 lead.
Mauch, seeking his first World Series berth in 25 years as a big-league manager, declined to come to the interview area after the game, but said in his office that his bullpen had lost leads for Witt before.
In their half of the ninth, the Angels continued the theatrics. Bob Boone singled and Ruppert Jones ran for him. After Gary Pettis sacrificed, McNamara brought in left-hander Joe Sambito. Rob Wilfong then singled, and Jones scored.
McNamara then brought in Crawford to face
Dick Schofield. Schofield singled and Wilfong advanced to third, though he might have scored from second base.
Brian Downing received an intentional walk to load the bases. Doug DeCreses popped out to right for the second out and Bobby Grich lined softly back to Crawford.
In the 10th, both teams came within inches of putting the winning run across. In the Boston 10th, Moore got Jim Rice to ground into a double play with runners on second and first. In the Angels' 10th, Jerry Narron walked and Pettis belted a deep drive that Rice caught as he banged against the wall.
Boston took a 2-1 lead in the second inning when Gedman hit a two-run homer off Witt. In the third, Boone homered off Bruce Hurst, making the score 2-1.
The Angels took the lead in the sixth when Grich, hero of Game 4, drove a two-run homer to center, scoring DeCinces, who had doubled. Henderson jumped and appeared to have caught the ball, but it fell over the fence as he made contact with the wall.
In the seventh, the Angels seemed to seal the victory when one run scored on Wilfong's double and another run came home on Downing's sacrifice fly.
Kirk McCaskill, 17-10, pitches for Angels against Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, 16-10. Both are right-handers and 0-1 in these playoffs.
Scott leads Astros to 3-1 playoff win
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Series leveled at 2 games each
NEW YORK — Mike Scott pitched a dazzling three-hitter last night and registered his second playoff victory in five days, leading the Houston Astros over the New York Mets 3-1. The victory evened the National League Championship Series at two games apiece.
Astros catcher Alan Ashby contributed a two-run homer in the second inning, and Dickie Thon, who played for the Nets for a year, added a solo shot, in the fifth.
Scott, pitching after only three days rest, yielded just three singles and allowed only four flyouts in completing his second game of the series.
But Scott had his money pitch, the split-fingered fastball, working brilliantly. Scott, a 6-foot-three right hander, did not walk a batter and allowed only one hit - a fifth-
inning single by Ray Knight over the first six innings.
He blanked the Mets for seven innings, setting anNL playoff record of 16 scoreless innings and breaking the previous record of 15 set by Don Sutton of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1974.
Both Houston homers came off Sid Fernandez, who allowed only three hits in five innings. He took the loss on his 24th birthday.
Game 5 of the best-of-seven series is Monday, beginning 3:05 p.m. EDT. Rookie left-hander Jim Deshaies will pitch for the Astros and ace right-hander Dwight Gooden will pitch for the Mets.
New York's only run came in the eighth inning. Mookie Wilson beat out an infield hit. Then he advanced to third when Phil Garner made a diving stop of Knight's smash and turned it into an out at first. Wilson scored on pinch-hitter Danny Heep's sacrifice fly.
Foul weather doesn't dampen spirited antics of furry fowl
Scott experienced a nervous ninth before a Shea Stadium crowd of 55.038 when Len Dykstra, whose
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Photos by Jacki Kelly and David Brandt
Waterfowl
"I told these guys earlier that the sky was going to fall," Giannoulas said. "But they wouldn't listen to me."
Above, the Famous Chicken cheers on the Jayhawks. Right, the chicken tries to hide the game ball in his mouth.
That was what the Famous Chicken, Ted Giannoulas, predicted he would look like by the end of Kansas' 13-10 loss to Iowa State on the rainy afternoon Saturday.
Come rain or come shine, the Famous Chicken always comes through with a show, even though his furry chicken suit isn't waterproof.
But moonlighting as a duck doesn't bother Gianpulcas.
Later, Giannoulas decided to take a break somewhere dry.
Once during a rain delay at a Chicago Cubs baseball game at Wrigley Field, the chicken got drenched while entertaining the fans.
"I went into the Cubs' locker room to rest," he recalled. "When the guys saw how wet I was, they all took out their blowdryers and dried my suit. They wanted to get me back *oa* the field so people would stay."
Maintaining the fans' interest probably is the Chicken's biggest job, next to entertaining.
Gianoulas has been entertaining audiences for $12_{-2}$ years in a fuzzy yellow, red and blue chicken suit.
"I like to think of myself as a fuzzy Harpo Marx," Giannoulas said. "A Marcel Marceau with fur."
His debut came in 1974 when radio station KGB in San Diego asked him to dress like a chicken and give out candy Easter eggs to children during Easter break.
That job lasted only one week.
Now the chicken performs 250 days a year and has dropped the "San Diego"
It was Giannoulas' idea to put the chicken into a permanent act.
"I wanted the chicken to be more than a Halloween costume," he said.
Why a chicken? Why not a lion, a wildcat or even a Jayhawk?
"I wanted to be something funny, inherently funny," he said. "A chicken was absurd, humorous and different. Besides, I was supposed to be a comedy vehicle, not a mascot."
Since that time, Giannoulas has been on the road touring towns across the country.
Saturday's appearance was the chicken's second at a KU football
game. He moved goal markers, gathered loose footballs, ran into goalposts and razzed cheerleaders, referees and fans. Last year he came for KU's game against Oklahoma State.
"The key is to perform so that it doesn't impede the game," he said. "I won't steal the game ball or sneak out to the team's huddle."
But, he will bite babies' heads.
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"Now parents bring their babies up to me with a camera and ask me to bite their baby's head," he said. "I've had parents lined up at baseball games before. I'd stand there for hours taking babies and biting their heads."
Baseball and basketball games are Giannoulas's favorite performance spots because basketball is indoors and the court is "like a stage"
Baseball is "humourous to begin with," he said.
Why not football games?
"The weather can be foul," he said with a laugh as he looked at the falling rain.
"Also, the players have game faces and the coaches look like the second coming of Stonewall Jackson."
And if anyone is wondering which
came first, the chicken or the egg. Giannoulas will never tell.
"That's an old henhouse secret," he said. "I'll be henpecked if I tell. I'm not allowed to disclose chicken secrets."
"It would be like Bruce Lee giving away Kung Fu secrets. It's an unspoken thing."
KU old-timers relive baseball memories
By BRIAN SNYDER
Sports writer
The cold and rain Saturday morning couldn't keep the shine from these men's eyes.
About 50 former Kansas baseball players gathered in Lawrence this weekend for two days of dinners and reminiscing culminating with the old-timers baseball game Saturday at Quigley Field.
For a short time, they again were playing the game they loved. Perhaps not with the same speed and agility they had played with so long ago, but that didn't seem to matter.
The weekend's activities began with a banquet at the Alvamar Golf Club Friday night and included the old-timers game, the Kansas homecoming football game against Iowa State and a cookout after the football game.
"I've been to all six old-timers games," said Red Dugan, class of 1940. "It's good being together with everyone."
Without exception, the highlight of the weekend for the former players was the baseball game. The opportunity to lace up the old spikes and bring out the glove proved to be too much for at least one former Jayhawk pitcher.
Dugan, who now lives in Hiawatha,
said the Kansas baseball team he played on was usually a .500 team. The assistant football coaches also served as baseball coaches, and
Dugan served as baseball head coach in 1946.
Steve Renko, class of 1964, hit a home run. Renko is a former major league pitcher with the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs and White Sox, Oakland A's, California Angels, Boston Red Sox and the Kansas City Rovals.
The old timers game, Dugan said, is a fun game without an emphasis on competition. Frank Mischlich, class of 1952, disagreed.
Dugan said he usually came to at least one Kansas baseball game every spring.
"Oh yes, there is still a lot of competition," Mischlieth said. "No one wants to drop a fly ball or strike out. We still have fun, though."
In the visitor's dugout at Quigley Field, Jewell Campbell, class of 1932, described what playing baseball at Kansas was like in the early 1930s
In the game, not many balls were hit off the wall or bases stolen, but every player exhibited at least some of the ability that made him a baseball player at Kansas.
"We played on a field southeast of the football stadium," Campbell said. "There weren't any dugouts. Dr. (Phog) Allen was our coach, and we were a .500 team. The good team in the conference was Oklahoma."
Campbell, whose major was physical education, had James
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Original form of karate shown at Kansas
By COLLEEN SIEBES
Sports writer
In 1500 A.D., Japanese peasants on the island of Okinawa gathered secretly at night in country graveyards.
There they practiced karate, meaning "empty hands", their only mode of self-defense against the Samurai ruler who outlawed the peasants' weapons. They met secretly in the dark because if caught, they would be put to death.
Today, GoJu Ryu, the original form of karate developed by Okinawan peasants in the 16th century, is practiced at KU. But Rob Piteairn, former KU GoJu Ryu instructor and regional director for GoJu Ryu clubs, said he was afraid the traditional GoJu Ryu style would become extinct.
Americans have changed the traditional style of GoJu Ryu since it was introduced here as a sport 75 years ago, Pitcairn said.
In an attempt to preserve the purity of the art, Pitcairn and the KU Karate Club organized a tournament to unite those people who still practice the original form.
Pitcairn said the sport had been influenced by the U.S. and had become too rough. He said Americans turned karate into an offensive and aggressive sport.
Saturday, 90 people competed in a GoJu Ryu tournament at Robinson Center. Participants included people from 10 U.S. states, Canada and a special delegation from Hosei University in Tokyo. Competitors ranged from age 6 to 55.
The Karate Club organized an exchange last year so that the University would host students from Hosei University for a fall tournament and some Kansas students would go to Japan in the spring.
Go — meaning hard, Ju — meaning soft, and Ryu — meaning style is a form of karate which
incorporates 50 percent hard techniques and 50 percent soft techniques, said Jill Jorgensen, KU graduate. The players use 50 percent arm movements and 50 percent leg movements.
Jorgensen was the first woman to go through Goji Ryu training in Japan. She holds a first-place award.
Jorgensen said women in Japan didn't participate in karate, but women's involvement in martial arts has grown.
Of 45 members of the KU Karate Club, eight are women.
He said the sport had gained acceptance in the United States during the last 10 years. He enjoys the sport because it helps him learn mental discipline and relieve mental stress.
Larry George, KU graduate and tournament participant from Denver, said karate was becoming more popular in the United States.
The kias, or grunting noises participants make while practicing, are used for both physical and psychological reasons, Pitcairn said. The kia increases power through exhaling and tightening the muscles and also is used to release tension and scare the opponent. he said.
Go to Ryu comprises two types of competition. The first, kata, is performed individually. Competitors are judged on posture, intensity and accuracy of movements, balance and breathing control.
The second, sparring, is a one-on-one fight. Competitors receive a point for every potential strike they make to their opponent.
Pitcairn said people typically became black
Karate players are ranked by the colors of their belts — white green, brown and black — in a ranking system that was invented in the United States in the 1950s. George said. Stature is further broken down by degrees of belt, which are shown by strings on their belts.
Pitcairn said karate was a more civil sport than most because it was non-aggressive. The purpose is not to strike another person. Competitors are judged on the potential power of their strikes.
belts after three years practice but didn't become fourth degree black belts, the highest rank in GoJu Ryu, for about 20 years.
"It's almost like mock fighting." he said.
Pitcairn said people began karate to learn self-defense, for exercise, to develop coordination and confidence and also because some thought it was macho.
It's almost like block righting. We said,
Pitcairn, a second-degree black belt, said in 10 years of practice he had only been hurt five
times and only had minor injuries.
But participants gave a variety of reasons for practicing GoJu Ryu.
Kevin Fish, a third degree green belt from Lincoln, Neb., said he practiced to gain mental control. Fish said by practicing karate he was influenced by the Japanese philosophy of emotional control.
Randy Stipp, a second-degree black belt from Woodward, Okla., said he became interested in karate as a sport because he was too small to play most sports and sat on the bench a lot in highschool. Size is not an important factor in karate.
Debbie Ware, a 13-year-old third degree white belt from Lincoln, Neb., said she became interested in karate because her brother was involved. She said she planned to continue practicing GoJo Ryu even though the boys at school bugged her about it.