The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 213

OUTDOORS SUNDAY EXTRA recipe Hunt is on or soon will be Will the drought affect hunting during the upcoming seasons? In some cases there might be an abundance Pages 16-17 Charlie Richard has built the Baker football program into one of the nation most successful Page 2 SDR SPOKE Sunday October 9 1988 Page 1 SPORTS Mets take lead near pennant Dodgers tumble after Howell ejected THE PLAYOFFS ByDickKaegel sportswriter Oakland poised to sweep Red Sox By Bob Nightengale sportswriter It happened so quickly that Red Sox Manager Joe Morgan was left with no answers only questions How can a five-run lead after two innings Saturday result in a 10-6 loss to the Oakland Athletics in the third game of the American League Championship Series? How can his starting pitcher Mike Boddicker pitch nine straight games without allowing a homer and then give up three in a span of 11 hitters? How can his team have its top four hitters go eight for 18 score six runs and drive in five and still lose? And how in the world can his team ever recover from a 3-0 deficit in the best-of-seven American League Championship Series? have the Morgan said guys got The Red Sox who have lost nine straight games to the Athletics at the Oakland Coliseum must find a way to win two straight in Oakland just to bring the series back to Boston The fourth game is scheduled to begin at 2 pm today (Channels 2 and 9) The fans chanted See Athletics pg 10 col 5 AMERICAN LEAGUE SATURDAY: Oakland Athletics 10 Boston Red Sox 6 SERIES: The A have a 3-0 lead In the best-ot-seven series TODAY: Game four Boston at Oakland 2 Boston's Bruce Hurst (18-7 366 ERA) vs Oakland's Dave Stewart (21-12 323 ERA) TVRADIO: Channels 2 and 9 KCPW (949 FM) REMAINING GAMES: A fifth gameTnecesT-sary would be 2 Monday in Oakland A sixth and seventh games II necessary would be in Boston The sixth game would be 2:08 pm Wednesday and the seventh game would be 7:22 pro Thursday NATIONAL LEAGUE SATURDAY: New York Mets 6 Los Angeles Dodgers 4 STANDING: The Mets have a 2-1 lead in the best-ot-seven series TODAY: Game lour Los Angeles at New York 7:20 pm Los Angeles John Tudor (10-8 232 ERA) vs New York's Dwight Gooden (18-8 319 ERA) TVRADIO: Channels 2 and 9 KCMO (810 AM) REMAINING GAMES: The filth game is 11 a Monday in New York The sixth and seventh games If necessary would be in Los Angeles The sixth game would be 7:22 pm Tuesday and the seventh game would be 7:22 pm Wednesday World Seriea: Oct IS and 16 in NL city Oct IB 19 and If necasaary 19 In AL city Oct 21 and 22 If neccessary In NL city If the Mets had lost this game on a rainy 43-degree day their fans would have remembered some strange and unpleasant sights: Hernandez falling down not once but twice and crawling through the soggy ground into an out at third base crimping what might have been a big sixth inning was doiiig Hernandez said Relief pitcher Roger McDowell slipping on the wet grass while fielding a two-out tapper and throwing the ball away opening the way for the Dodgers to take a 4-3 lead in the eighth Left fielder Kirk Gibson spinning his wheels as he started after twisting liner in the fifth and making an edge-of-the-glove catch as he slid over the turf Or as Hernandez said of a second-inning gaffe that led to two Los Angeles runs: have remembered my error on the bunt The New York press would have been all over my What the baseball world will remember most though about the game is the incident that sent Mets fans off to celebrate chanting Cheats! LA Howell the right-handed ace of the bullpen came to the mound in relief of Orel Hershiser to start the eighth The first batter he faced Kevin McReynolds had a 3-2 count and had just fouled off a pitch when Mets Manag- See Mets pg 10 col 1 New This may be the playoff that turned on a charge of cheating Certainly the New York 8-4 victory Saturday over the Los Angeles Dodgers did Just after Dodgers reliever Jay Howell came in to protect a 4-3 lead in the eighth inning he was ejected for having a foreign substance on his glove The Mets followed the incident by scoring five runs in the inning taking a 2-1 lead in the National League Championship Series National League President Bart Gi-amatti had no immediate ruling on any suspension or further action against Howell The unprecedented postseason ejection for use of an illegal substance was the centerpoint of a wild afternoon at Shea Stadium was the most exciting ugly game ever Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez said The Mets now are in position to win the best-of-seven ticket to the World Series at home They play tonight and Monday afternoon at Shea where the Dodgers have won just one of six games this year gives us an edge but not an overwhelming said center fielder Mookie Wilson who drove in the winning run in the eighth inning Mizzou offense clicks in rout of Kansas State By Dennis Dodd sportswriter anhattan There are some things even a resignation cure Kansas State Coach-for-now Stan Parrish found out in a 5221 pounding by Missouri on Saturday at KSU Stadium There was talk that postseason resignation that was announced last Monday might provide an emotional stage for the winless Wildcats who beaten Missouri here since 1970 Instead Parrish was upstaged in the Big Eight Conference opener for both teams mostly by redshirt freshmen quarterback tandem of Corey Welch and Brad Fitzmaurice They keyed a big-play offense that rolled to the most points and total yards (592) of the Woody Widenhofer era So who is the No 1 quarterback? don't want to start a quarterback Widenhofer said smiling Welch ran for 105 yards on 15 carries and accounted for 244 yards in total offense Fitzmaurice completed seven of 11 passes for 86 yards Each played seven possessions with Fitzmaurice leading four touchdown drives and Welch three Welch including a 49-yard scoring run of his own ran over us Parrish said it was the last game of the year it (his resignation) might have made a difference Today my last game They know have to listen to me yelling at them about what we did Parrish can start in plenty of areas Young QBs brighten MU scene anhattan Misery may love company but Missouri At least not well enough to join its next-door neighbor Kansas State in the lower reaches of the college football world And yet as lopsided as was the 52-21 victory over the Wildcats Saturday Mizzou actually could have peered into the abyss of an upset if not for its freshman quarterbacks Corey Welch and Brad Fitzmaurice As Woody Widenhofer said moments after the highest-scoring game in his tenure as Tigers head coach hate to have another quarterback controversy but it looks like we've got one It does With veteran starter John Stol-lenwerck out with an injury Fitzmaurice and Welch stepped in and made things happen as they haven't all season for the Tigers gave us some options out on the perimeter that we seen this Widenhofer said had to like what we saw in both of Fitzmaurice of Jefferson City Mo High School started and hit seven of 11 passes for 86 yards rushed six times for 46 yards was at the controls when MU overcame a 14-10 deficit and directed four touchdown drives Welch was even better statistically rushing 15 times for 105 yards including a 49-yard scoring bolt hitting three of five passes for 139 yards and a TD and guiding MU to three TDs and a field goal So where does that leave the MU quarterback position? Has Stol-lenwerck who guided the team to a 1-1-1 record before being hurt lost his job? Widenhofer say so: too early to say anything like that have to take everything into Stollenwerck think so: feel like I could have done the same things if been in there I say that to take anything away from them at all They both had great days But I feel like if been beaten out it would have been before I was Neither newcomer said so Welch: look at it like competing to beat John or Brad out I look at it like competing to put the University of Missouri on the football map John was the starter before we got this chance and I feel like he is the starter unless he comes in again and move the ball" Fitzmaurice: see any problem with the quarterback situation at all I think Corey and I can handle it But not conceding anything either I feel like gonna be one heck of a fight for the job and that can only make us a better team" At the same time it would be difficult for either of the freshmen to dream up more of a storybook day felt good about the way I played but really a luxury when you can sit back and pick and choose your receivers the way we could Fitzmaurice said Welch said felt good to show what I could do but I credit the offensive line because they were making huge holes that anyone could have run Perhaps not anyone could have done it with Welch's 458 speed in the 40-yard dash And perhaps not every quarterback could have pinpointed his passes as well as Fitzmaurice who threw for 35 touchdowns at Jeff City have some very good athletes at Missouri now and we saw some of it Widenhofer said the thing that concerned me the most was whether they could See Twymap pg 7 col 1 See Missouri pg 8 col 1 Huskers score early often in rolling past Jayhawks ByTomShatel sportswriter first-year coach suffered some first-class abuse Mason was given a lesson in KU-Nebraska lore: a record 38 first downs by the Huskers five touchdowns on their first five possessions and a 49-10 halftime lead that threatened to let this chapter erase the ugliest of all the 70-0 loss in 1986 could have easily been in the 70s or 80s" Kansas junior quarterback Kelly Donohoe said we would have laid down and died it could have been in the Instead Kansas playing with 19 freshmen held the first second and third teams to two touchdowns in See Kansas pg 8 col 1 Ding ding ding Thud thud thud Beneath a dark gray October sky those were the sounds of Kansas Coach Glen Mason getting welcomed to the Big Eight Conference Nebraska using the afternoon to prepare for next clash with Oklahoma State played the KU scoreboard like a pinball machine in running up a 63-10 victory Saturday at Memorial Stadium It was the first Big Eight game of the season for both teams and the first of his life for Mason In the process the Jayhawks and their Missouri running back Smiley Elmore took a tumble over Kansas Lome Whittle in the second quarter but landed in the end zone His fall helped the Tigers beat the Wildcats 5 2-21 (staff photo by Joe Ledford) Bad starts keeping Chiefs from using balanced game plans By Randy Covitz THE CHIEFS WEEK NO 6 TODAY: Chlals vs Houston Oilers WHENWHERE: Noon at the Astrodome Houston RECORDS: The Chiefs are 1-3-1 the Oilers are 3-2 WEATHERATTENDANCE: The father Isn't a factor since the game Is Indoors The Oilers are expecting a crowd of about 42000 TVRADIO: Channel 4 KCMO (810 AM) pro-game show atarie at 9:30 pm NEXT GAME: The Chiefs play the Los Angeles Raiders at noon next Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium four quarters and it starts counting when they kick it Gansz said have to understand that and get ready to play at a frenzied level from the first snap You have to get ready right off the bat and it takes that kind of emotional preparation have to practice tempo mental concentration and physical effort throughout the Will it carry over today? an attitude more than cornerback Albert Lewis said a team I think we consider it a game until the second half first half for us has been a feeling-out process to try and see what doing and maybe because we're not sure what we're doing When we played Denver and won there was no question in mind what we were doing For some reason these last couple of weeks been some questions I think all preparation "If we can come back and tie these A Sometimes a sack takes the Chiefs out of an opening drive Sometimes a penalty or an incompletion And sometimes not being ready t6 play when the whistle blows not coming out of the locker room at the beginning of the game with the right frame of DeBerg said "But the bottom line is just not making the plays early in the game offensively or defensively We need to come out of the locker room more focused not as fired up and as concentrated as we could be improved as the game has progressed better to have a better second half than a first half You can win the first half and still lose the game If you win the second half usually win the Not in the case The best come up with was last week when they rallied from a 17-3 deficit to a 17-17 tie against the Jets So Chiefs Coach Frank Gansz recognizing the sluggish starts tried picking up the tempo in practice The Chiefs spend all week devising a game plan that by halftime in recent weeks has been as useless as a USFL franchise want to run the quarterback Steve DeBerg said hard to do when down 14 or 17 points" Indeed the Chiefs can blame poor starts for the 1-3-1 record take into noon game against the Houston Oilers 3-2 at the Astrodome The Chiefs have been outscored 68-30 in the first half Their first two possessions in each game have resulted in eight punts a fumble and a field goal after a 2-yard drive was set up by a fumble recovery Consequently they trailed Seattle 31-3 at half San Diego 140 at the end of the first quarter and the Jets 10-0 at half wide receiver Carlos Carson said get together as a team and say We do We make that mental adjustment and go out and do the things capable of doing If we can go out and play the firyt couple of series without making any errors lljcol1 J' just making mistakes tihat are stopping ourselves the first couple of See Chiefs pg.