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GAMES EVENTS PEOPLE SECTION SPORTS SAN DIEGO COUNTY Cos Angeles Sftmes THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 1992 CCt HIGHLIGHTS Yount Joins the 3,000 Club and It's a Big Hit With Fans 3000-Hit Club Major league players with 3,000 or more career hits Baseball: He gets historic single against Indians in final game before Brewers go on the road. From Associated Press MILWAUKEE Robin Yount, who began his career of quiet consistency as a shy 18-year-old shortstop, became a player for the ages when he got his hit Wednesday night. Yount, hitless in his first three at-bats, singled to right-center field off Cleveland's Jose Mesa in the seventh inning of the Milwaukee Brewers' 5-4 loss to the Indians. He became the 17th player to reach 3,000, and the first to do it since Rod Carew in 1985. "1 never really gave it that much thought what it was going to be like," Yount said.

"All along I said it wasn't any big deal, it's just going to be another hit. Well, obviously it turned out not to be just another hit. "The way the fans got into it, the whole thing Please see YOUNT, 1 PLAYER HITS PLAYER HITS 1. Pete Rose 4,256 ll.PaulWaner 3,152 2. TyCobb 4,191 12.

Rod Carew 3,053 3. Hank Aaron 3,771 13. tou Brock 3,023 4. Stan Musial 3,630 14. Al Kaline 3,007 5.

TrisSpeaker 3,514 15. Cap Anson 3,000 6. Carl Yastrcemski 3,419 15. Roberto Clemente 3,000 7. Honus Wagner 3,418 15.

Robin Yount 3,000 8. Eddie Collins 3,311 ON PECK (NEARING 3,000) 9. Willie Mays 3,283 'George Brett 2.978 10. NapLajoie 3,244 'Through Wednesday Associated Press Yount gets a lift from his teammates after hit with a line single in the seventh inning. Robin Milwaukee' getting his No Rest, Only a Loss, for Weary Baseball: A 4-1 defeat leaves Padres nine games out and resigned to playing for San Diego County PADRES FALL: Kevin Gross pitched a four-hitter to help the Dodgers send the Padres to a 4-1 defeat.

The Padres fell to nine games behind the National League West-leading Atlanta Braves. CI PHILLIPS OUT: Saying the "Joe Phillips affair is over," Charger General Manager Bobby Beathard withdrew the team's contract offer to the veteran nose tackle. Phillips said he had decided to accept the offer but missed Beathard's deadline to respond. CI SDSU-BYU: San Diego State, still stinging from ties last week against USC and last season against Brig-ham Young, plays the Cougars tonight in a nationally televised game in Provo, Utah. The Aztecs will try to stop a sophomore quarterback, John Walsh, who played well in BYU's opener last week against Texas El Paso.

CI HIGH SCHOOLS: El Camino and Point Loma, the defending San Diego Section 2-A and 3-A champions, respectively, are 1-2 in The Times' preseason football rankings. C9A DEL MAR: The absence of any of his entries in Del Mar Debutante was one indication trainer Wayne Lukas is suffering through a miserable season with horses that have earned under $10 million for the first time since 1984. C12 ALSO Padres Update C9A College Notebook C9B San Diego Sports Et Cetera C9B Elsewhere MILESTONE: Robin Yount of the Milwaukee Brewers singled in his fourth at-bat against Cleveland to become the 17th player in history to reach 3,000 hits. CI TEMPORARY LEADER: Bud Se- lig, the owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and a leader of the group that forced the resignation of Fay Vincent as commissioner, was elected chairman of baseball's executive council and takes over as acting commissioner. CI GRAF UPSET: Steffi Graf made 49 unforced errors and was upset by Arantxa Sanchez Vicario, 7-6, 6-3, in a U.S.

Open quarterfinal. CI U.S. OPEN: Jim Courier had 22 aces during a 6-3, 6-7 (8-6), 6-1, 6-4, quarterfinal victory over Andre Agassi at New York. C7 ANGELS LOSE: Dave Stewart, Jeff Russell and Dennis Eckersley of the Oakland Athletics combined to stifle the Angels in a 3-0 victory at Anaheim Stadium. C5 COLLEGE FOOTBALL: The official statement said that Jack Crowe resigned as coach at Arkansas, but anyone familiar with Frank Broyles' tenure as athletic director knows better than to believe it, Gene Wojciechowski writes.

C8 By BOB NIGHTENGALE TIMES STAFF WRITER The Padres trudged into the team hotel at 4:30 in the morning Wednesday and tried to catch a little sleep, but it was of no use. They still were groggy and irritable when they arrived at Dodger Stadium, hardly in a mood to go to work. The Padres simply couldn't get their minds off their 16-inning defeat the previous night in San Francisco, and after they lost 4-1 to the Dodgers in front of 22,067 at Dodger Stadium, they wondered what they'll do with the rest of their season. Please see PADRES, C9A Associated Press Bud Selig's hard-line stance on labor negotiations might keep baseball from naming a new commissioner for a year. Selig Gets Commissioner's Power Beathard Slams Door JIM MURRAY on rnmips Baseball: Brewers' Owner to take position temporarily.

It could take a year to find permanent successor. By ROSS NEWHAN TIMES STAFF WRITER Bud Selig, the activist owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and a leader of the group that forced the resignation of Fay Vincent as commissioner, was elected chairman of baseball's executive council Wednesday and entrusted with the power of commissioner. Selig said he will serve only until a new commissioner is selected. He said he hopes it will be a "short-term" assignment, but he could not predict how long the search would take, and he acknowledged that the process could be delayed as the owners consider ways to restructure the commissioner's office. "Don't be surprised if Bud rides this thing for a year under the guise of looking for the right person," said a Milwaukee-based attorney with close ties to Selig and the Brewers.

A "year's ride" would ensure the owners that the commissioner would not intercede if they reopen collective bargaining talks in December Please see BASEBALL, C4 Baseball Commissioners KENESAW MOUNTAIN LANDIS Nov. 12, 1920, to Nov. 25, 1944 HAPPY CHANDLER April 24, 1945, to July 15, 1951 F0RDFRICK Sept. 20, 1951, to Nov. 16, 1965 WILLIAM ECKERT Nov.

17, 1965, to Dec. 20, 1968 BOWIE KUHN Feb. 4, 1969, to Sept 30, 1984 PETER UEBERROTH Oct. 1, 1984, toMarch31. 1989 A.

BARTLETT GIAMATTI April 1, 1989, to Sept, 1, 1989 FAY VINCENT Sept. 13, 1989, to Sept. 7, 1992 They're Not Looking for a Real Live Wire It has probably come to your attention that the baseball owners, the last stand of entrenched royalty on the planet, have gotten rid of their commissioner on the grounds he had exceeded his authority. It's very easy for a commissioner to exceed his authority. He doesn't have any to begin with.

But the rulers of the grand old game have the unenviable task of picking a permanent successor. This will not be easy. The requirements are very special. But because we in journalism are always interested in promoting the public weal, we would like to offer a few viable candidates: 1. Since the days of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the most potent of all baseball commissioners, it has been customary to look for a jurist who might fill the bill.

Accordingly, we would Please see MURRAY, C4 Football: Chargers make Phillips two-year offer, but he misses deadline to respond. ByTJ. SIMERS TIMES STAFF WRITER SAN DIEGO Charger General Manager Bobby Beathard said nose tackle Joe Phillips ignored the team's signing deadline Wednesday and as a result will not play for the team this season. He also said the team will not grant Phillips his outright release, thereby tying him to the team without the chance to play or be paid. "It's over," Beathard said, while slamming the door on any possibility of Phillips' return.

"He's not coming in. He never got back to us. We go without Joe Phillips Please see CHARGERS, C2 BASEBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE Dodgers 4, Padres 1 CI St. Louis 10, Montreal 3 Philadelphia 2, New York 1 Pittsburgh 13, Chicago 8 Atlanta 12, Cincinnati 7 Houston 6, San Francisco 4 Roundup C3 AMERICAN LEAGUE SDSU Tries to Forget Those Ties That Grind Oakland 3, Angels 0 C5 Minnesota 6, Seattle 2 Chicago 6, Detroit 4 New York 5, Baltimore 2 Cleveland 5, Milwaukee 4 Toronto 1, Kansas City 0 Texas 3, Boston 2 Roundup C4 Graf is Upset at U.S. Open Tennis: Sanchez Vicario gets win.

INDEX Walsh, making only his second collegiate start, sends the SDSU secondary spinning like cherries on a slot machine. He looks like the second coming of Ty Detmer. By game's end, college football fans watching on ESPN are left shaking their heads, wondering where this guy came from and talking about how BYU produces stud after stud for a quarterback. The Aztecs, who have never won in Provo and are still piecing their hearts back together after last season's 52-52 tie with BYU, have a habit of making quarterbacks look terrific. And BYU has a habit of producing terrific quarterbacks.

Please see AZTECS, CB College football: Aztecs, coming off 31-31 deadlock with USC, play BYU, against whom they tied last season. By SCOTT MILLER TIMES STAFF WRITER PROVO, Utah Forget the final score. The real odds of tonight's Western Athletic Conference game between San Diego State (0-0-1) and Brigham Young (1-0) are these: New BYU quarterback John Ji'mMurray CI Morning Briefing C2 Allan Malamud C3 Baseball Report C4 The Day in Sports C10-11 TV-Radio Listings Cll Horse Racing C12 By THOMAS BONK TIMES STAFF WRITER NEW YORK Every once in a while in a Grand Slam event, Arantxa Sanchez Vicario seems to pop up from nowhere and tweak somebody's nose. She smiles, raps a few two-fisted backhands into the corner and knocks women's tennis on its ear. Please see TENNIS, C7 Arantxa Sanchez Vicario of Spain rejoices after upsetting second-seeded Steffi Graf, 7-6, 6-3, in the quarterfinals of the U.S.

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