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TaniriiB linii i inrirwniHMyi BUSINESS AND NATIONAL AND WORLD AND YOUTH NEWS 3FOKT Friday April 14 1995 KENOSBANEWS 23 WQfWT Baselbalfs new realities ByJimUtke AP Sports Writer Now that real baseball is back there are a few changes worth noting among the dizzying number that occurred between the last exhibition season and this one Already some people are suggesting the bitter strike shamed baseball into better behavior Warm fuzzy tales of players going out of their way to try to win back fans have become a staple of spring training Not surprising some of the biggest stars are making the grandest gestures In Arizona Ken Griffey Jr politely asked reporters to wait while he lingered 20 minutes in a corner of the stadium signing autographs In Florida the New York new closer John Wetteland went that one better In full uniform he climbed up into the stands after a workout then sat and talked and signed until everyone around him went home satisfied Afterward he fretted aloud that he might have missed someone Sounds almost too good to be true I finally have to leave I know say they really are But just one guy be back the next day" Wetteland said sign But this tidal wave of humility and goodwill swept over everyone Threats of a fan boycott have hardly humbled Barry Bonds Are you kidding like me or you Bonds said The three-time MVP and the highest-paid player this season at $775 million has even less use for the unwritten order issued by the clubs and his union to behave more BREWERS Fetters reach deal chtablytowardfans CUBS ChiSox w(n exhibitions say Kiss butt Bonds said Brewers lose not going to change anything Weall UMPSstjout move on together or we dwell in the past OK So not every player will be more fan Baseball news page 27 friendly But a few things will be different The exhibition season for example started with replacement umpires Real umpires walked picket lines Thursday and plan to do so again today to protest being locked out by the owners since the start of the year SEE BASEBALL PAGE 26 Carthage manages a win tie By Randy Donais Sports Writer Carthage College looked anything like the fourth-ranked NCAA Division-3 baseball team against UW-Whitewater Thursday and Coach Augie Schmidt was anything but happy The Redmen (16-1-1) needed Len single in the bottom of the ninth inning to beat the Warhawks 6-5 in game one of a double-header Game two was called because of darkness with the score tied 7-7 after eight The win in game one extended win streak to 14 Whitewater ranged 15th is 10-7-1 not happy with that because we play good said Schmidt outcome important We want to play good baseball If they beat us tip our hats But we made errors got into jams walked people In game one Carthage grabbed a 3-1 lead in the second inning but White-water took the lead back 4-3 in the fourth Carthage went back ahead 5-4 in the fifth Alan DeLoria singled in a run stole second and was singled in by Atkins Whitewater scored in the seventh to tie the game After loading the bases and failing to score in the eighth Shannon Blansette walked with one out in the Carthage ninth DeLoria singled to left-center Atkins poked a 1-0 pitch into right-center for the game-winning hit came at me all day with said Atkins threw one up and I hit it" Senior right-hander Brent Sagedal pitched all nine innings in winning his fifth game in as many starts Sagedal who took an earned run average of 161 into the game was rocked for five runs all earned on nine hits He had given up just 15 hits in 28 previous innings He threw 130 pitches figured it was my said Sagedal who will start again Monday at home against Wheaton worked so hard It been nice to get it done in Atkins DeLoria and Gavin Winfield each had two of 10 hits Brian Scuglik a former Bradford player did not have it in game two giving up four earned runs on seven hits in 223 innings Adam Llewellyn finished up allowing three runs one earned on three hits Carthage trailed 4-0 then 6-2 and 7-6 going into the bottom of the seventh inning when Mark RBI double sent the game into extra innings Seven of 12 hits were doubles Scott Behnke and Shorty Flees each had two hits I Tagliabue shoots down idea Knight Rldder Newspapers CHICAGO NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue speaking Thursday in Chicago called Mayor Richard Daley to expect another football team to come to Chicago if Michael McCaskey took the Bears to the suburbs or ever threatened to abandon the area altogether for a new stadium Daley has said he would petition the NFL for an expansion team or try to recruit another team to take over Soldie Field He said Chicago support two way beyond the point where we need a major metropolitan market to put the fannies in the Tagliabue said after a speech to the Chicago Advertising Council teams are at the point as are all sports leagues where a state of the art facility is what attracts the teams So no one would come to Chicago without a state of the art facility and if you have a state of the art facility it should be the Tagliabue also shot down the notion that Chicago could support two teams and that two teams could double the financial practicality of a new stadium a city like Chicago where there is such an identity between team and city I think just dividing in two rather than Tagliabue said birthplace of baseball AP photo Roberto Mejia during a Cactus League game Thursday In Scottsdale Ariz The Giants won 8-4 its claim as the BanCey bases his claim on a letter written in 1886 by Adam Ford then a resident of Denver The letter describes his childhood memory of watching a baseball game on June 4 1838 in Beachville Ontario memories check out" Barney says records land records church records tombstones prove he was right about the names of players and where the field was The letter describes the rules and the homemade equipment Bats were made from the spokes of wagons Bar to move VA games ahead of Milwaukee for the final playoff spot In the Eastern Conference NBA roundup Is on page 25 auoted a source in edition as saying Green Bay was among the teams that the Colorado running back had visited heading into next National Football League draft Most of the teams that have shown strong interest in him will draft just ahead of the Packers the source said He leaps and misses San Francisco right fielder Glenallen Hill leaps for the ball but comes up short allowing a triple by Canada stakes By Ted Rodgers The Sporting News Robert Barney wanted to show people where the game of baseball began so he arranged for the History of Baseball Tour to start in Canada Canada? right The oldest authenticated game was here in Canada he says Barney is director of the Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario Yes in Canada but Barney was bom and educated in the United States have references to people playing bat and ball and base games As Tom Heitz a historian of early baseball says just promoting their Although Heitz and Spencer do not believe the game was invented (it evolved they say) let alone in Canada they do agree with Barney that the same settlers who played it in America would have continued playing it when they moved to Canada The game belongs to both countries ney says The ball was stitched from cowhide that was stuffed Barney now a member of the National Board of Directors of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame says this proves the game was bom in Canada and that it became an embarrassment to baseball historians in the US Not so fast says Ted Spencer curator at the Hall of Fame in Coopers-town NY There are references to baseball in the US that go back before that a question of what do people consider baseball he says We Cowboy star faces IRVING Texas (AP) Erik Williams a Pro Bowl offensive tackle for the Dallas Cowboys faces sexual assault charges after a girl accused him of attacking her early Thursday Dallas police Sgt Jim Chandler said Williams was taken into custody after police responded to a telephone request for help by the girl from north Dallas home He was later released on bond Chandler said officers went to the residence and asked for the girl by her first name Williams told officers she was not there and there was no disturbance 4 As officers returned to their patrol car they said they heard a sound and saw the girl looking out a window Officers then arrested Williams and Roderick Carson of Madison Wis attorney Donald Godwin said Williams identified Carson as a longtime friend and a high school football coach Sources at Central State of Ohio said Carson played football there with Williams assault charge Said Cowboys spokesman Rich Dal- rymple: aware of the situation We are in the information gathering process right now We have any comment until we have further Williams and Carson were released after posting $2500 bond at separate hearings before Judge Charles McClure release was delayed until he cleared up outstanding warrants stemming from traffic citations accrued in Addison 'a Dallas suburb Williams and Carson both26 spent -Thursday morning at the Dallas County jail while investigators interviewed the girl Williams was seriously injured Oct 24 when his car slammed into a ramp on Interstate 635 He had reconstructive surgery on his right knee and missed the rest of the season The accident followed an evening of celebrating with teammates after a victory over the Arizona Cardinals He pleaded no contest to misdemeanor drunken driving and received two probation contract agreement with Green Bay Packer offensive tackle Joe Sims 26 Sims was expected to sign a two-year $1325 million deal Thursday Sims a converted defensive lineman was the starter at right SEE PACKERS PAGE 25 AP photo Celtics IV2 ahead of Bucks Shaqullle (left) kicks out his leg as Boston's Pervls Ellison tries to de- fend Thursday night In the Boston Gar- den Boston beat the Magic 119-114 an Trophy winner pays a visit to Green Bay Tl Associated Press and Knight-Ridder Newspapers MILWAUKEE1 Heisman Trophy winner Rashaan Salaam met with the Green Bay Packers last weekend in Green Bay according to a published report The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The first choice is 22nd overall but the team could make a trade before the draft giving it a higher selection Sims now an Eagle The Philadelphia Eagles confirmed Wednesday that they have reached a I.