University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 10, 1991
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KC forced to knuckle under
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — April has always been one of Tom Cardui's best months and Kansas City one of his favorite teams to pitch against.
So it came as no great shock when Cleveland's knuckleball specialist beat the Royals and Mike Bodderick, in a swiftly paced pitcher's duel.
But the month and the team hardly matter when the knuckler is working this well. Candotti said.
"The knuckleball is one of those pitches that's extremely hard to hit when it's moving a lot and you're keeping it in the strike zone," said Candiotti, 10-3 against Kansas City and 12-7 in April. "And that was the key for me. I was keeping it in the strike zone all night. I was real zoned in and the ball was moving in the strike zone real well. They couldn't take it all the time because I was throwing it for strikes."
Sandy Alomar Jr. caught Candiotti's knuckle all night and delivered a run-scoring double in the second inning off Boddicker, who made his Kansas City debut and lost his first game in Royals Stadium since 1983. The team was unearned as Jerry Browne hit a bases loaded sacrifice to hit.
Candiott went eight innings, giving up five hits, striking out five and walking only one. Doug Jones pitched a perfect ninth inning for his first
Boddicker, who came over from the Boston Red Sox as a free agent,
gave up only five hits in nine innings striking out three and walking none
"It itens like my time I pitch against Cleveland, Candys' pitching," said Boddicker, who signed a three-year deal for $25 million. He did a great job. You've to give credit where credit is due."
Kansas City ruined Candiotti's shutout in the eighth when Brian McRae's groundout to first scored pinch-runner Bill Pecca from third.
Albert Belle singled at the start of the Cleveland second and scored on a double by Alomar, the 1990 American League rookie of the year.
Boddicker and Candiotti matched each other pitch-for-pitch as the chilly evening wore on. After Alomar's RBI double, Boddicker retired 14 straight until Browne singled with two outs in the sixth only to be *traned when Chris James filed out*.
**Notes:** It was the 62nd complete game of Boddicker's career.
■ **lones**: 14 saves against Kansas
was the only gorilla Boddy's career.
Jones' 14 saves against Kansas City are the most he has against any chip.
In their first two games, the Royals' pitching staff has allowed just two earned runs covering 18 innings. The Indians announced after the game they have signed outfielder Stan Jefferson to a minor-league contract. Jefferson, 28, was released by the Indians in spring training after getting just two hits in 24 at-bats. He will play for the Class AA affiliate at Colorado Springs in the Pacific Coast! League.
Rhain Buth tries to keep the ball alive during a match with Dave Gonzales of SMSU. Rhain won the match 7-6, 6-2.
Jayhawks blow by SMSU 5-1
By Mark Spencer
Kansan sportswriter
The 14th ranked Kansas men's tennis team fought off strong winds and a pesky Southwest Missouri State team for a 5-1 victory at the Allen Field House tennis courts yesterday afternoon.
"The biggest thing in the wind is attitude." Kansas coach Scott Perelman said. "I keep stressing to the guys that I don't want to hear any thing about the wind affecting their game because it won't change anything, and there is nothing we can do about it.
"If you allow it to become a distraction, you're in trouble," he said. The lashawks did not allow the.
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chilly 20-30 mph gusts to distract them, but they did alter their game to play in the wind.
"The wind was swirling today," he said. "I tried to hit the ball without a lot of spin so the wind wouldn't take it away." He got into it, into the few errors I made.
The more the Jayhawks pushed the wind out of their minds, the more it seemed to weigh on the SMSU players.
The Jayhawks did not allow the
Echeardo Abriel could be heard across the field house complex complaining vehemently about the gusty conditions.
Perelman said the wind may have turned a large part of the SMSU players' attitudes into frustration.
SMSU's Dave Gonzales and
"They're not a bad team at all," he said. "We about let them in the door."
On the court, Kansas juniors Paul Garvin and Patrick Hain and freshman Rian Bath notched straight set victories against their SSU appo
At No.3 singles, Kansas junior Rafael Rangel was stretched to three sets with SMSU's April.
Rangel rallied from a 3-2 game
deficit in the third set and claimed a 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 victory.
The Jayhawks' only defeat came at No. 1 singles where SMSU's Ameen Bous汀 dropped KU's Craig Wildey 6-3, 7-6.
Both teams agreed to suspend the doubles matches because the Jayhawks had already won the dual 5-1. The team needed to be worsening, Perelman said.
"It worked to our advantage," he said. "I wanted to rest (Kansas senior Chris) Walker's arm, plus, a lot of the guys have tests tomorrow."
Men take 6th at Augusta
With its highest ranking in school history, Kansas will travel to Iowa State on Saturday and to Nebraska on Sunday.
By Rick C. Honish
Kansan sportswrite
The Kansas men's golf team finally got to play a tournament in nice weather at last weekend the Augusta Hills tournament in Augusta, Ga.
After Kansas played badly in rain and sleeet during last month's Western Intercollegiate tournament in California, Kansas coach Ross Randall said he was pleased to see the team win in the overall play of the team.
Golf
"It was also nice to just get out and play golf and not battle the elements," he said. "All three rounds were plowed in great weather."
After playing the practice round in a downpour, Kansas emerged from the final round under sunny skies and a three-round total of 883.
"We were only six or seven shots out of third going into the last round," he said.
Sophomore Brad Bruno said the team played well in the first two rounds but faltered in the third.
Bruno, who shot the low score for the Jayhawks with a 212, said that the team was eight under par at one point during the second round but八了 the next round behind the Jayhawks 32 strokes behind Florida State, the winning team.
He said that Kansas faced an unfamiliar problem with the greens at Forest Hills that Florida State, Georgia and other Southern schools did.
"They are all Bermuda grass there," he said. "We normally don't
play on those."
Bruno said that the Bermuda made the greens slower and that the grain of the grass would grab the ball and take it one way.
Even with problems on the greens, Kansas managed to beat 14th-ranked Kent State, which finished 7th.
Randall said that four players, Matt Gogel, Len Johnsen, Bruno and Jeff Moeller, had established themselves at the tournament as the team's top players. Qualifying rounds will continue during practice in an attempt to fill the fifth spot on the traveling team.
"I think we will have it all figured out after next week's tournament," Randall said.
Kansas will take time off before the April 20-21 Firestone Tournament in Akron, Ohio, to make up school work and fine-tune swings.
Back to basics for Jayhawks
Kansan staff report
Kansas freshman catcher Monica Gormley said the Jayhawks were reviewing the basics in preparation for Washburn's double-header against Washburn.
The first game begins at 2 p.m. at Javahawk Field.
The Jayhawks (20-9) do not yet know officially if their 1-3 tournament finish against Iowa State and Missouri during the weekend had any bearing on their national ranking, they want to build their confidence.
"We're trying to be more disciplined," Gormley said. "I'm not really worried about our ranking."
Kansas coach Kalum Haack said that the team's practices since the weekend had been good and that he worked to work on hitting and base running
"We're not going to go out and run up the score, but we’re going to play hard and get back to the way we’re used to playing." Haack said.
Haack said the Washburn game would give the Jawhays the chance to sharpen their skills and put to use what they learned from their last
"I always think we'll get back and get it together," Haack said.
Kansas' Jodi Hoyer and Erin Wahaus take part in catching drills.
Baseball salaries explode
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — The average baseball salary skyrocketed a record 49 percent this year to $891,188 on opening day, according to associated Press survey, and 223 players are making $1 million or more.
There are 123 players topping the $2 million level, and 32 making $3 million or more. Last year, only Robin Yount of Milwaukee reached $3 million, and just 27 made $3 million or more on opening day.
Garyland leads with a payroll of $36,432,500 and an average salary of $1,349,384, an increase of $544,709 from the Athletics' 1990 average.
Houston has the lowest average at $487,090 and is the only club whose payroll decreased. The Astros averaged $681,664 last season but then paired their roster of most veterans.
The increase is dramatic even by baseball's standards. The largest previous percentage jump was 47.7
percent in 1977, the first year after free agency. Last year, salaries increased 20.2 percent to $597,537, according to figures compiled by the Major League Baseball Players Association.
"I'm just mind boggled," said Chuck O'Connor, the head of the owners Player Relations Committee. "This shocks me as to both the what and the why. Obviously, we think this is a problem. It's one of some dimension. I don't think you can look at this and say this is a situation that's going to stabilize itself. It’s not."
The New York Mets have the second-highest payroll average at $1,251,538, an increase of $492,963 and Los Angeles rose from eighth to third with an average of $1,248,212. The Dodgers' $624,423
Figures for this survey were obtained by the AP from several player and management sources. A total of 20% of rote-rated shares of signing bonuses
The World Series champion Cincinnati Reds rose from 17th to 10th at $883,271, while Pittsburgh, which complains about salaries more than any other club, rose from 15th to 13th at $822,987.
increase was the largest in the majors, and the increase exceeded the payrolls of Baltimore and Houston.
San Francisco rose from 12th to sixth at $1,117,619, and the New York Yankees dropped from fourth to at $1,028,673.
The Major League Baseball Players Association attributes the large rise to the salary system bouncing back after the collusion era, when clubs conspired to hold down salaries. Union head Donald Fehr was not immediately available yesterday, and O'Connor said he thought it had to be more than just the end of collusion.
"I think your intuitive reaction is that it can't continue," said O'Conner.
Famed jockey injured in car accident
The Associated Press
SAN DIMAS, Calif. — Bill Shoemaker, the winningest jockey in thoroughbred racing history, was in critical condition today with internal injuries suffered in an automobile accident.
"His condition is critical," Kay Threlkeld, the public relations director, said at Glendora Community Hospital, said late Monday night, some three hours after the accident occurred. He can say, He is in surgery at this time.
"I just know he was in an automobile accident and suffered major internal injuries. The paramedics brought him in here."
Threlkeld said it was unlikely further information would be made available for several hours.
California Highway Patrol officer Joe Flores said Shoemaker, 59, was alone in his 1990 Ford Bronte II, a four-wheel-drive vehicle, when the accident occurred.
"We think he was under the influence of alcohol because there was an odor of alcohol on his person," Flores said. "He has been arrested."
Flores said the accident occurred near San Dimas at 8:30 p.m. PDT as Boemrao was driving west-bound on State Route 30, the connector road to the southbound 210 Freeway.
San Dimas is located about 30 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
"The vehicle went over the side. down a 50-foot embankment." Flores said. "It rolled over several times and landed on its wheels. It appears to have rolled over at least two times."
Shoemaker, of nearby San Marino, rode in his final race at nearby Santa Anita on Feb. 3, 1990, before a crowd of 64,573, capping a 41-year riding career. The race, billed as "The Race," was held nationally. Shoemaker's mount, Patty Groundfond, finished fourth as the 7-10 favorite.
Shoemaker rode 8,833 wins and his mounts earned $123,375,524 — records that will be very difficult, if not impossible, to surpass. So will the 40,350 races in which Shoemaker competed.
He also finished second 6,136 times and third 4.987 times.
Shortly after he retired as a jockey, Shoemaker became a trainer, but he never achieved anywhere near the success in that field as he had as a jockey.
Shoemaker became the oldest jockey ever to win the Kentucky Derby when, at age 54, he rode Ferdinand to victory in the 1986 race at Churchill Downs. Shoemaker guided Ferdinand along a small road to the victory in a ride many turt writers have called the greatest ever.
It was his fourth Kentucky Derby victory, Earlier, he prevailed aboard Swaps in 1955, Tom Lee in 1958 and Lucky Dobainair in 1965. He was also aboard five winners in the Belmont Stakes.
Bhoemaker, born on Aug. 19, 1931, in Fabens, Texas, won his first race as a jockey on April 20, 1949, at Golden Gate Fields aboard Shatterer (the horse) who came on Jan. 20, 1900, at Guifère Park aboard Beau Genius.
Mason releases starter for violating team rules
In a statement released yesterday, Kansas football coach Glen Mason said outside linebacker Pat Rogan was the team for violating team rules.
Before transferring to Kansas his sophomore year, Rogan was a part-time starter at Ohio State University as a freshman.
Rogan, 6-foot-2 and 225 pounds,
started all 11 games for the Jaya-
hawks last season and was selected
to the All-Big Eight Conference Team.
sports briefs
He led the Kansas defense with
Kansas City Chiefs sign quarterback Pelluer
four caused fumbles and 10 tackles for losses in yardage.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Quarterback Steve Pellie, used mostly as a holder last year, has signed a two-year contract with the Kansas City
His signing and the recent signing of Mark Vlasic, a Plan B free agent, give the team four quarterbacks. the others are Steve DeBerg, who at 36 and Michael McMahon joins its offseason last season, and Mike Eklins, the team's top draft choice in 1989.
"It was a very quick negotiation." Carl Peterson, the Chiefs president and general manager, said Monday of Pelluer's signing. Leigh Steinberg, Pelluer's agent, described Peterson as being very persistent.
"Carl indicated that although they were pleased with Steve DeBerg's performance, they are hoping that Steve (Pelller) starts to move into a position where he might challenge for the starting position," Steinberg said.
12 jurors take seats
for Howard Spira trial
NEW YORK - Ten men and two women were sworn in yesterday as
jurors in the attempted extortion trial of Howard Spira, the self-described gambler whose dealings with George Steinbrenner caused the New York Yankees owner to lose control of the team.
Spira's trial in Manhattan federal court, will continue this morning when attorneys present opening arguments to the jury.
The 10-count indictment also
Stainbrenner, a key prosecution witness, is expected to testify during the trial, which is expected to last three to four weeks.
Spira, 31, of the Bronx, has pleaded not guilty to charges he tried to get money from Steinbrenner by threatening to ruin his reputation.
settle two-day strike
Major league umpires settle two-day strike
accuss Spira of threatening a United Airlines employee and a Houston attorney, Earle Lily, who once represented a woman in a matrimonial case against former Yankees outfielder Dave Winfield.
NEW YORK - Major league umpires returned to the field vester-
Steinbrenner agreed last summer to give up day-to-day control of the Yankees after commissioner Fay Vincent found Steinbrenner had not acted in the best interest of baseball when he paid $240,000.
day with more money, more vacation time and more benefits.
"All of us are happy to be back," Bruce Froemming, an umpire at Shea Stadium, said. "We didn't want to be on strike."
The two-day strike was settled Monday, but the agreement came too late for the regular umpires to work at Shea Stadium and six of the other seven season openers. Instead, former major and minor league umpires and current college umps handled every opening-day game except the one that President Bush attended in Texas.
From staff and wire reports