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i The Independent Record, Helena, Wednesday, August 1, 1990 SCOREBOARD CLASSIFIED Dild 'iiw WDiro Becomes the 20th pitcher to reach this monumental milestone 11 reer total to 5,219, walked two and threw 146 pitches. It was not the overpowering, classic Ryan, but it counted. And it also served to bring baseballs focus back to th field, one day after Nejw York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner was disciplined. In fact, commissioner Fay Vincent stayed away from Couhty Stadium, perhaps not wanting to steal attention from Ryan. For a loss, the Milwaukee players didnt seem to mind too much.

Ive got a great deal of respect for Nolan. Its a monumental milestone for him, Dave Parker said. It makes me feel so good to see him do it for all of us old guys. With Texas leading' 5-1 in the eighth, two errors by second baseman Julio Franco and two singles led to two town when eligible, except spitballer Gaylord Perry. Ryari, though, is probably the only one not talking about his statistics.

Never has, and never did in the minutes after his accomplishment. Im sure people wilt find this hard to believe, but Im not numbers-oriented. I dont set numbers goals, he said. Its a real special feeling, but Im probably one of the most boring people you know as far as celebrations go, so I dont know if Ill do anything, Ryan said. Ill be up tomorrow, getting ready for my next start and trying to help this team win as many games as it can.

Ryans only disappointment was that he could not finish what he started. Brad Arnsberg got the final four outs after getting some advice from Ryan when he was relieved. He told me to go after them, not to feel the pressure, to throw strikes, Arnsberg said. "We all wanted to be the pitcher to go out there and save it for him. With two outs and two strikes on Robin Yount in the bottom of the ninth, the fans stood and started applauding.

When Yount flied out to center fielder Gary Pettis, the crowd erupted, i Ryan was mobbed as he made his way to the mound to congratulate Arnsberg. Pettis gave Ryan the game ball, and with all the hand-shaking done, Ryan headed toward the dugout as his 18-year-old son, Reid, caught all the action with a video camera. My teammates really got into it emotionally, Ryan said. Its made the last two years especially enjoyable because of the support theyve given me. Im sure its been an inconvenience to then at times, and I appreciate what theyve done.

Ryan (11-4) won his sixth straight decision, allowing six hits in 7 2-3 He struck out eight, increasing his ca MILWAUKEE (AP) Nolan Ryan, a pitcher defined by great numbers, finally got the number that defines great pitchers. 1 Ryan won his 300th game Tuesday night, reaching the milestone in his sec- ond try and ensuring his place in history as the Texas Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 11-3. I feel more relieved than anything else after all the buildup, Ryan said. I really dont know, in the scheme of things, what this will mean for me personally. But if there was any lingering debate about whether Ryan belonged in the Hall of Fame and how could there be? then this achievement certainly cinched it.

The games all-time strikeout leader, the fastballer with a record six no-hitters, became the 20th major leaguer to get 300 victories. Every other pitcher to win that many was elected to Coopers- 1 Nolan Ryan delivers a pitch en route to his 300th victory. (More on RYAN, page 3B) TTcJayJn CpcySo 7 Brewer reoHly nip Copper Kings 5-4 Drewer baseball The Helena Brewers will meet Salt Lake City at 7 tonight at Kindrick Legion Field to open a three-game series with the Trappers. By KEN PEKOC IR Staff Writer On c-ioirO i Mike Carter lashed a two-run double with one out in the bottom of the ninth Tuesday night, giving the Helena Brewers a gutsy 5-4 win over the Butte Copper Kings. The win keeps Helena within three games of division-leading I ti Billings, 1 which walloped Salt Todd Foster scheduled to fight in Helena Sept.

8 took second when hard-charging Butte outfielder Malvin Matos let the ball roll past him for an error. Diggs bringing one, 4-3. Mike Norris, pinch-hitting for outfielder Mike Couture, then walked on four pitches, putting runners on first and second for Hood, who had singled and bled. Buttes Tim Wells then relieved pitcher Matt Whiteside l-2), and on a 1-1 pitch Hood bunted down the third base line, sacrificing Wheat and Norris to second and third. Carter then stepped to the plate and stroked the first pitch from Wells, a hanging slider, into deep rightcenter field.

The first one is the best one usually, a grinning Carter said afterward. I thought hed throw a fastball, but I saw him shake off the first sign. Then I looked for something off-speed. He credited Hoods sacrifice bunt for creating the game-winning situation. Local boxing promoter Gary Langley said Tuesday if he can get the approval of the state athletic commission, Great Falls native Todd Foster will have his next fight in Helena.

Langley said he has made arrangements with officials of the Houston Boxing Association, which manages Foster, to have the former Olympian fight here Sept. 8 against a yet-to-be-named opponent. Langley said he is hoping to put together a boxing card at the Helena Civic Center that would include 30 to 32 rounds of boxing, in addition to the Foster fight. The matchmaker for the Houston group, Joe Spudic, confirmed last week that a Helena group had spoken to him and that Foster might fight in Helena. Miles City has been hoping to land a Foster fight on Sept.

1, but Spudic said last week that date and site had not been confirmed. Foster, 22, is 13-0 as a professional and won his last fight July 4 in Dodson in a third-round knockout over Felix Du-bray. Lake City 13-3. The Trappers begin a three-game series in Helena tonight beginning at 7 p.m. at Kindrick Legion Field.

Butte remains ltfe games behind Idaho Falls in the Southern Division. Helena thanks to clutch hitting by Carter and Randy Hood has now won eight of its last nine games and is 20-17 overall. The Brewers entered the bottom of the ninth trailing 4-2, with Butte tallying a run in the top of the inning; after Helena reliever Brian Souza (2-2) walked Todd Guggiana with the bases loaded. Brewer catcher Rob Beck began the rally with a single, and Tony Diggs pinch ran for Beck. Pinch-hitter Chris Wheat then looped a single to right field and Helena right fielder Mike Couture goes head-over-heels trying to catch a foul ball in the second inning.

(Staff photo by Gene (More BREWERS, page 2B) Vincent had no plans to ban Steinbrenner Redskins cut Jay Fagan Former University of Montana football player Jay Fagan has been cut from the roster of the Washington Redskins. Fagan was one of four players released Monday by the National Football League team at their Dickinson College preseason training camp. All were rookies. The 6-foot-3, 280-pound free agent was trying to land a job as an offensive guard after starring for the UM Grizzlies at that position as a three-year starten Fagan was a product of Butte High School whose collegiate career ended last fall when Montana lost an NCAA Division I-AA playoff semifipal game to eventual national champion Georgia Southern. Fagan earned All-Big Sky Conference and third-team All-America honors in his senior season? He graduated from UM last June with a degree in finance -and a 3.0 grade-point average.

involve use of the word he said with a slight smile, then he was asked to define suspension. Suspension is for a finite duration. Suspension is for a period of time, he said. After Vincent informed Steinbrenner of the planned penalty, the owners lawyers proposed an alternative. I said I would be willing to do this, Vincent said.

I sent Steve (deputy commissioner Greenberg) the seven paragraphs which I wrote out, and they became Plan B. During the hour-long session, Vincent was playful and appeared far more relaxed than he was during Monday nights news Steinbrenner, meantime, confirmed he wants his 33-year-old son Hank to take over the day-to-day operations of the Yankees. Die move, already cleared by Vincent, must still be approved by the teams limited partners and major league clubs. I think its time to turn that over to the young blood in the family, said Steinbrenner, who was punished for associating with, and paying, a known gambler. At a meeting in his office with about a dozen reporters to review Mondays negotiations, Vincent didnt volunteer new details of how the agreement on Steinbrenners punishment was reached.

However, in cryptically responding to questions, he allowed reporters to piece details together. NEW YORK (AP) Commissioner Fay Vincent indicated Tuesday he had planned only to suspend George Steinbrenner, but the New York Yankees owner, inexplicably asked for what amounted to a lifetime ban. Vincent also suggested the penalty he planned to impose was for a fixed term and was less severe than the punishment Steinbrenner agreed to after 11 hours of negotiations Monday. A baseball official, speaking on the condition that he not be identified, said the length of the suspension would have been two years plus three years probation. I have to say to you I found some aspects of yesterday strange and I still find them strange this morning, Vincent said.

HE SAID STEINBRENNER did not want the word suspended in the penalty; Vincent said the difference was semantics. The agreement reflects that, stating: effective Aug. 20, 1990, Mr. Steinbrenner will Falcons still wailing for Sanders The Atlanta Falcons still have no idea when Deion Sanders will show up for preseason training camp, and will continue to fine the second-year cornerback $1,500 per day until he arrives, the NFL club said Tuesday. On Monday, three days after it was reported that Sanders was ready to sign a $2 million contract with baseballs New York Yankees, Sanders said the deal was off and he would report to the Falcons shortly.

Falcons spokesman Frank Kleha said Tuesday there still was no word from Sanders when he would show up. He said Sanders would continue to be fined $1,500 for each day of training camp he misses. Training camp opened July 26. Sanders also was fined $10,000 for missing a mandatory 10-day minicamp earlier in July. Sanders left the Yankees before Monday nights game in New York against the Detroit Tigers, but did not say when he would report to the Falcons complex in Suwanee.

REPORTERS REFERRED to Vincents planned penalty as Plan A and the eventual settlement as Plan B. Could the difference between Plan A and Plan involve length? Vincent was asked. Yes, he answered. Did the difference in Plan A and Plan STEINBRENNER AGREED to give up control of the team and resign as general partner by Aug. 20.

As the baseball world still reacted to Steinbrenners departure, the commissioner placed the Yankees under American League supervision for the next five years. (More on VINCENT, page 2B) Shoal Creek accepts black honorary member Arrington said Louis J. Willie was named an honorary member of Shoal Creek by the club's board of governors. Willie, 66, is- the pro tour. But the Rev.

Abraham Woods, local -SCLC president, said that with (he agrees, ment by Shoal Creek the start of widespread changes were under way. yo mama! Yo president of Booker T. Washington Insur-ance Co. and is active in civic projects in Birmingham. As an honorary member, Willie has all the rights and privileges of a regular member.

Unlike a regular member, however, he didn't have to pay a $35,000 entry fee and didnt have to be approved by the clubs full membership. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) A civil rights group Tuesday canceled plans to protest the PGA Championship next week at -Shoal Creek after the all-white private clubs board accepted a black businessman as an honorary member. Birminghams black mayor, Richard Arrington, also announced that another black could become a regular member in the exclusive club if he meets Shoal Creeks normal membership requirements. Arrington said the PGA of America also will recommend to its board that future PGA Championships be held at clubs that do not discriminate.

The board is expected to ratify the recommendation at a meeting next week. 1 i () I i I bU IT SEEMS AS SO goes Birmingham, so goes the nation, Woods said. The ripples have gone around the country and this sounded the death knell to exclusionary clubs around the country." Jim Awtrey, chief executive officer of PGA of America, said the PGA tournament sites have been selected through 1994 and the golf association is having discussions with those clubs and will have announcements" concerning their membership status. The 1991 PGA Championship is scheduled to be played at the all-white Crooked Stick club Carmel, Ind The other sites are Bellenve in St. Louis, Mo in 1992, Aroni-mink in Philadelphia in 1993, and Oak Tree in Edmond, Okla in 1994 Andy O'Brien, a spokesman for PGA, said he did not know if any other club besides Arommink had black members.

SH04L CREEK PRESIDENT John Pittman said the clubs policy is not to disclose the name of any person being considered for membership. He said that in the spirit of equality the policy would be followed for the black who is being considered for a regular membership. THE REV. JOSEPH Lowery, president of the Atlanta-based Southern Christian Leadership Conference, called off his civil rights group's plan to protest the golf tournament, which will be played Aug 9-12 at Shoal Creek. He also urged all other groups or individuals to reconsider if they were planning to protest.

The NAACP said it had canceled its plans as ell. 1 The SCLC, spurred by a statement by Shoal Creek's founder that the club would not be pressured into accepting black members, had planned to post pickets at Shoal Creek south of Birmingham during the PGA, one of the four major tournaments on PGA officials later reversed themselves and rescinded the decision to allow heckling at tournaments. 1.