University Daily Kansan / Friday. April 24, 1987
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Sports Briefs
Former lineman for Dallas dies of gun wound; suicide suspected
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Larry Bethea's troubled life began when he left pro football. It ended yesterday when he apparently shot himself in the head within hours after he was identified as the gunman in two robberies.
Drug abuse was blamed for the problems of the former Dallas Cowbies defensive lineman, a first-round NFL draft pick.
"This man, who had so much going for him, lost everything, including his life. I believe that Larry Bethea would be alive today if he had been able to stay away from drugs," Newport News Police Chief Jay A. Carey said in a statement read by Sgt. Lynn Pearson.
On Jan. 23, Bethea was given a four-year suspended prison term for his guilty plea in December to stealing his mother's life savings of $41,000.
Newport News Circuit Judge J.
Warren Stephens also ordered
Bethea to spend two years on
probation and repay the money.
Bethea was arrested by Dallas police on Aug. 4 with $61,375 in cash in his pockets after he allegedly accosted his estranged wife, Gloria. She summoned police, who found her with bruises and a bloodied lip.
Bethea's mother reported the next day that her $64,000 was missing.
Bethea said in January that he was grateful for his lenient sentence. "I got a little confused in the big picture, and I hurt my family," he said. "I didn't mean to hurt them."
Bethea pleaded guilty in 1985 to setting three fires in Mount Rainer National Park in Paradise, Wash. He was ordered to pay $1,000 to the park to cover the cost of fighting the fires.
In the latest incident, police were called by an unidentified friend of Bethea's while officers were still questioning witnesses who said Bethea robbed two convenience stores shortly before midnight Wednesday.
Bethea, 30, was found in the friend's backyard with a gunshot wound to his right temple and a 38-caliber automatic pistol near his body. He was taken to Hampton General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:08 a.m., said Jan Dunning, a hospital spokesman.
The friend told police that Bethea had given no warning that he was going to commit suicide. He left no suicide note, Pearson said.
The gun used in the shootings and the two robberies is believed to be a weapon that was reported stolen from a parked vehicle in the city Wednesday, she said.
Barr and Fiori share lead in Houston Open
HOUSTON — Ed Fiori and his house guest, Dave Barr, tamed the Woodlands Country Club fairways and greens with 6 under par 685 to share the first-round lead in the $600.00 Houston Open yesterday.
The co-leaders held a two-shot lead over four other golfers bunched at 68 at the par-72, and won the Tournament Players Course.
Barr had a bogey-free opening
round that included long-range birdie putts of 35, 25 and 25 feet and an 18-foot downhill birdie on No. 15.
Fiori birdied four of the first six holes, but he had no long putts. Instead, he used his short game effectively to remain in a tie with his house guest.
Keith Clearwater, Howard Twitty, Ray Stewart and Perry Arthur were tied at 68.
Leaders tie with birdies in Legends of Golf
AUSTIN, Texas — Miller Barber and Bob Charles finished off a 61 with birdies on the last three holes and gained a tie for the first-round lead yesterday in the $500,000 Legends of Golf.
Charles, a New Zealand left-hander, and Barber played the back nine in 29 and came within a single stroke of the tournament record in this best-ball competition for senior players 50 and older.
But it only brought them a tie with Bobby Nichols and Butch Baird, who also combined for a bogey-free 9-under-par effort on the Onion Creek Country Club course.
"We were never in trouble, never in danger of making a bogey. Butch is such a steady player, I
felt like I could do almost anything and we're still in the hole," Nichols said.
Baird dropped a 15-foot side-hill birdie putt on the 17th hole, and Nichols chipped to within 30 inches of the cup on the 18th for a closing birdie.
Charles birdied the 16th from about 15 feet and hit a 9-iron to within three feet on the 17th. His partner, Barber, gave them a share of the lead with a 15-footer on the 18th.
Dow Finsterwald and Dale Douglass were one stroke back of the leading teams at 62.
The teams of Orvile Moody and Bruce Crampton, and Charlie Sifford and Jim Ferrese were another shot back at 63.
Paper says Gooden not addicted
From Kansan wires.
NEW YORK - New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden was found to be an occultive cocaine user, not an addict, and will end one month of treatment for drug use at a rehabilitation center Thursday, according to a published report.
The Associated Press
Friday's New York Times quoted a source at the Smithers Center for Alcohol and Drug Treatment as saying that Gooden was doing fine and would be released April 30th. But, according to the newspaper, neither his doctors nor Mets officials can predict how soon Gooden will resume his baseball career.
By leaving April 30, Gooden would spend only the minimum 28 days at the center undergoing counselling and therapy.
The source, quoting doctors at the Smithers Center, said Gooden was "a perfect patient, very humble, very cooperative. There's no indication he addicted to cocaine. He definitely started on beer. They don't think he's an alcoholic, but they want to nip any such thing in the bud."
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