The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 102

mrrTmmmr t'v t'" if yi yipyif lywyyyy "TpTV yyrfyfYyy nyrw PB SATURDAY JUNE 2 1990 THE MIAMI HERALD 33 people in sports SPORTS ROUNDUP out of the hole now From Herald Wire Services How times have changed: After Lee Trevino picked up $45000 for winning the Doug Sanders Celebrity tournament in Texas he recalled that his first professional victory came in the Texas State Open in Sharpstown Texas The year was 1965 Trevino said: won $1000 and said I was driving a Chevy and had a caddie named Fat Jack We had a $100 bill stopped at a 7-Eleven and bought two six-packs of Schlitz a pound of bologna and a half-loaf of bread We took off down 1-45 and we were rich my wife will get the $45000 and probably give me Trevino Hydros trade speed record By SCOTT FOWLER Herald Sports Writer Tom and Chip Hanauer played an Invigorating game of one-upmanship Friday pushing each other to the fastest set of unlimited hydroplane laps run St Miami Marine Stadium When qualifying for MiamiBudweiser Unlimited Hydroplane Championship began Friday morning Jim 136110 mile per hour lap driving Miss Budweiser in 1988 stood as the best on the tight l23-mile course That record fell quickly as (who replaced Kropfeld late in the 1989 season) drove Miss Budweiser to a 140075 lap was my first time racing in Miami in 14 said to set a record The mark last an hour however Hananer fired up Circus Circus another turbine boat and blew to a 141160 lap "Actually that feel that great" Hanauer said think someone is going to go 145 at some point Was Hanauer joking? It was hard to read his eyes behind his pink sunglasses Turned out he took out Miss Budweiser just 10 minutes before the course closed Kicking up a 100-foot rooster tail knew he was flying felt he said As sped by the several hundred spectators who had shown up Bernie Little the owner of Miss Budweiser cried out: ought to be It was actually 145922 In one day the qualifying mark was broken three times and raised more than nine mph Although final attempt netted no laps higher than 137 mph Little still satisfied want 150 mph he told Qualifying and testing continue today from 10 am to 4:30 pm While the competition dominated the first day of the first meet of the 12-race HFC Hydroplane Series Mr the boat that won this race last year also qualified for race Six more boats will attempt to qualify today including Oh Boy! Oberto which finished second here last year and first in 1988 Morgan leads Kemper by 1 From Herald Wire Services Gil Morgan birdied four of the first eight holes Friday en route to a four-under-par 67 and a one-shot lead over Scott Hoch after two rounds of the Kemper Open at Potomac Md Morgan bidding for his first tournament victory since 1983 completed 36 holes over the TPC course in seven-under 135 First-round co-leaders Ted Schulz and Pat McGowan both shot 72 and were among five players two strokes behind Morgan 3 LEAD LPGA EVENT: Stephanie Farwig Kate Rogerson and Mary Beth Zimmerman shot five-under 67s to share the first-round lead in the Lady Keystone Open at Hershey Pa RHYAN TIES RECORD: Dick Rhyan shot a course-record-tying 63 in the first round of the NYNEXGolf Digest Commemorative Senior golf tournament at Sleepy Hollow Country Club in Scarborough NY Jim Powell was alone in second with a 64 2 WIN PGA MATCH PLAY: Chuck Kandt of Daytona Beach and Pat Schwab of Elkton Fla were the winners in the fourth annual North Florida PGA Section Match Play Championship at the Grenelefe Resort near Haines City FOOTBALL Playoff supported About 77 percent of the public favors a championship playoff in college football according to a Gallup Poll released Friday at the College Football Association's annual meeting in Dallas Thirty-seven percent of those polled said they think the current weekly poll sys And you can quote me Andre Agassi on his chances in the French Open this year compared to last year: "Last year I had plane reservations before every match This year I packed two worth of Cleveland Indians Manager John McNamara on late-night baseball games: love them I go home have myself a scotch and water Oreo cookies and milk watch the whole game and fall asleep on the Bruce Meadows of the Santa Rosa (Calif) Press Democrat: mart Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament offers a first prize of $150000 marked down to Fired Met Davey Johnson on managing again: a loser now got a bad taste in my mouth I want to get it out real tems were a fair way to determine a national champion BENGAL HAS SURGERY: Cincinnati Ben-gals cornerback Eric Thomas who is expected to miss the 1990 season because of a May 17 injury he suffered in a pickup basketball game underwent surgery to repair the knee damage ETC BOXING: Heavyweight Ray Mercer showing little ring rust despite a three-month layoff because of an injured forearm pounded out a fourth-round knockout of Lionel Washington in Rochester NY Mercer who weighed 221 pounds to 234 improved his record to 14-0 with 10 knock-outs SKIING: Yugoslav world slalom champion Mateja Svet in a surprise announcement said she is quitting skiing to embark on a business career and had already established a sports marketing firm am tired of a life style 1 have led since I was a little said Svet 21 fl YACHT RACING: The high cost of waterfront property and a lack of public financial support for the 28th Cup has challengers threatening to move their elimination trials out of San Diego in 1992 AUTO RACING: Dick Trickle won his first Winston Cup pole position taking the top spot for the $542000 NASCAR Budweiser 500 stock car race Sunday at Dover Del TV BEST BET French Open 3 pm Chs 4 5 Where: Roland Garros Stadium Paris Announcers: Dick Enberg Bud Collins Chris Evert Jimmy Connors Briefly: The tournament has lost its top seeds Stefan Edberg and Boris Becker plus its titleholder Arantxa San-chez-Vicario but defending champ Michael Chang still survives after a stirring comeback Friday from two sets down against Christian Bergstrom American Andre Agassi is also alive in the Grand Slam event SPORTS TODAY 4 Floridians may go early in draft Television (See The Herald's TV book (or complete listings 1 pm This Week in Baseball 1 pm This Week in Baseball 1:30 pm 003 golf Kemper Open third round 2 pm Auto racing The Miller 200 (taped) 3 pm OO Tennis French Open 3 pm 0B5 Men's bowling PBA Doubles Classic final round 4 pm 0 Drag racing Pepsi championships from West Palm Beach 4:30 pm 00 Wide World of Sports 8 pm Baseball Chicago Cubs at St Louis Cable television IesnI Tennis French Open IsunI Milwaukee 200 time trials IesnI Grand National Budweiser 200 IesnI Baseball College World Senes LSU vs The Citadel IsunI Women's tennis World Team Cup (taped) Isuni Men's golf British Masters (tape delay) IpixI Baseball Baltimore at New York Yankees IvvgnI Baseball Chicago Cubs at St Louis IesnI Baseball College World Series Oklahoma St vs Fullerton St IsunI College baseball Division II title game Jacksonville State vs Northridge State (tape delay) IspcI World Basketball League ItbsI Atlanta at San Diego 9 am 12:30 pm 2 pm 4 pm 4:30 pm 6:30 pm 7:30 pm 8 pm 8 pm 8:30 pm 9 pm 10 pm Radio Cummings speeds to top By MIKE PHILLIPS Herald Sports Writer look for Midre Cummings to show up on a national list of top baseball prospects but look for Cummings to show up in amateur draft as a sleeper Cummings an outfielder from Edison High may not have a high profile but he has a quick bat and even quicker feet In the past two weeks Cummings has attended tryouts for 12 major-league teams Scouts love what they see He has run 60 yards in 62 or 63 seconds almost unheard-of times could outrun Vince Coleman" says Mariners scout Phil Zelman Another scout sim-itamA ply calls Cummings best outfielder to ever play in Dade sleeper status exists because until recently he was listed as an academic junior in high school But his class graduates this month Cummings 18 is going to night school and could graduate in August Because of his academic status Cummings allowed to play last month in the Dade County High School All-Star Game But Cummings who hit 400 in high school with 31 RBI in 29 games was allowed to hit with a wooden bat before the game at FIU More than 40 scouts watched as he switch hit He hit three homers over the 375-foot sign in left field then turned around and hit three more over the right-field fence Other Dade players expected to be drafted: Columbus High: Islay Molina IB Alex Miranda both have signed with UM Edison High: C-OF-IF Jackie Ross Miami Jorge Correa (93 1 10) Jorge Rodriguez Dade-North: IB Randy Curran (339 8 HR 50 RBI) Dade-South: Ricardo Jordan (113 3 08) Charlie Greene Jr (265) OF Ernie Yaroshuk (275) OF Rikkert Faneyte 364) IB Kiki Antonini (321) Jordan has signed with UM Dade-Wolfson: SS Lipso Nava 336) Javier Hernandez (6-5 3 32 ERA) Florida international University: FaustoTejero( 304 7 HR threw out 58 percent of runners attempting to steal) OF Giiberto Torres 308 41 RBI) OF Loris Mazzocca (293) Kevin Lucerno (10-3 2 89) Paul Anderson (13-5 3 40) University of Miami: Shawn Purdy 1 1-3) SS Greg Erickson Juan Flores Noon Roundtable of Racing WKAT (1360) 5 pm Sports Roundup WSBR (740 Boca Raton) 6pm SportsTalk WIOD (610) 6:45 pm Baseball New York Mets at Philadelphia WQAM (560) 7:30 pm Baseball Baltimore at New York Yankees WIOD (6 1 0) WSBR (740 Boca Raton) 10:05 pm Baseball Cincinnati at Los Angeles WQAM (560) coached all four local prospects since they were 11-12 years old He said the Hispanic academies and the year-round devotion to the sport has given them an edge think they all have major-league careers ahead of he said bright competitive the kind of kids want your daughter to 6-2 height gives him a slight edge over 5-10 fireballer Caridad who was ranked as the high school pitcher with the highest velocity by Baseball America Caridad is still a crude thrower rather than a pitcher said scout Brannon Bonifay scouts are always bothering me the Caridad said perfect now But some see me as a pitcher and some say I could make it as an everyday Fraser would like both Caridad and Prado to enroll at UM but said Caridad is the more likely of the two to go pro following in the footsteps of his brother Rollie who plays in the Chicago White Sox minor-league system really a question of Fraser said tough for a 17-year-old to go to work a tremendously hard road to the Maturity is just what Munoz ace gained during a regular season in which he had a 217 ERA and 104 strikeouts in 116 innings Baseball America said Munoz achieved his 15-2 record "without a single major-league but Fraser said he did it by developing his forkball As the draft approaches the four players admit they are tired of the critiques and the rankings and the personality tests scouts ask them to take ask you stupid questions like a new guy on your team would you try to help him or beat Prado said this point I just want it to be PITCHERS FROM ID fastball and slider unusual confidence and polish Prado Coral Gables High: Above-average fastball and curve ideal body (6-2 big hands) Caridad Westminster Christian School: 90 mph Munoz University of Miami: Big improvement thanks to split-fingered fastball a little kid inside you think play in the major leagues some day but you really believe said Fernandez still have a ways to go I figure halfway First-round money would be hard to turn down the four pitchers said But Prado has decided that only a tremendous offer would induce him to skip college a very anxious feeling waiting for the Caridad said to go pro as a teen-ager will be a tough The four players know each other to some degree The three Cuban-Americans Fernandez Prado and Munoz were born here Caridad moved here as a youngster As kids they played at the Southwest Boys Club and in the Khoury League Fernandez was called and Prado Munoz was when they played at Columbus High Fernandez once hit a home run off Prado in a high school game Fernandez and Munoz played together at UM kids have all followed the same roads to said father Jose Sr Fernandez the former Pace High and UM ace who transferred to Dade-South so he could go pro has been projected to go anywhere from No 1 to No 10 Dade-South Coach Charlie Green said has the Chicago White Sox taking Fernandez fourth Fernandez (12-2 record 119 ERA) has also heard rumors that Philadelphia Pittsburgh and South Florida events Pari-mutuels Calder Race Course NW 2 1 0th Street and 27th Avenue 1 pm (625-1311) Dania Jai-Alai301 Dania Beach (945-4345 or 426-4330) Flagler Dog Track NW 37th Avenue and Seventh Street 12:30 and 7:45 pm (649-3000) Miami Jai-Alai 3500 NW 37th Ave noon and 7: 10 pm (633-6400) Palm Beach Jai-Alai 1415 45th St West Palm Beach noon and 7:15 pm (407-844-2444) For scores and information on major sports call TeleHerald at 373-4636 (Dade) 527-4636 (Broward) and 373-1111 (Spanish) Today's access code: 47 FSL baseball Miracle vs St Lucie Mets Pompano Beach Municipal Stadium 1799 NE Eighth St 7:05 pm (783-2111) Fort Lauderdale Yankees vs West Palm Beach Expos Fort Lauderdale Stadium 5301 NW 12th Ave 7 pm (783-2111) Drag racing Pepsi Drag Racing Championship Moroso Motorsports Park Beeline Highway across from Pratt Whitney Aircraft West Palm Beach 9 am Hydroplane racing Miami Marine Stadium 3601 Rick-enbacker Causeway 10 am (579-6325) American junior season at UM He has been pegged as a probable third-round pick The projected No 1 pick high school senior Todd Van Poppel of Arlington Texas (6 feet 5 inches 95-mph fastball) sent letters informing teams he intends to play for the University of Texas next year Fernandez and Munoz are ready to go pro Prado and Caridad have committed to UM but will consider pro contracts UM assistant Lazaro Collazo has Cleveland are interested will be one of the quickest to move from the minor leagues to the big leagues" Green said strikeouts 154 to walks 23 ratio is unheard Coral Gables Prado (9-1 50 ERA) and Caridad (7-1 199) are projected to be among the top 30 picks Caridad who had a sore arm the first half of the season could be picked as a shortstop Munoz is more of a wild card due to his surprising All- ea MOST CARS Our Reg 24 95 PIRELLI P77 STEEL RADIAL BLACKWALIS FRONT END WHEEL ALIGNMENT 55000 Ml TREADWEAR WARRANTY 195 Caster-Camber Toe-In Set To Mtr Original Specs 4 Wheel Adj Slightly Higher M0ST 17570HR13 1 7570HR1 3 49 95 18570HR13 53 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