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wrww The News Tribune Wednesday Aug 3 1988 ALWest loves Seattle i By Larry LaRuo The News Tttwno Picture the American League West as a speeding train moving off into the distance Picture the Seattle Mariners not being on it They officially fell off the train Tuesday when the California Angels steamed past them 10-2 a loss that had special significance for the last-place Mariners For with that loss Seattle is now below 000 against every other team in the division The Kingdome should bear an inscription perhaps using the Statue of Liberty as an example: Sir White Sox your Angels your ngers and we will let them beat Inst KsSwnTlw Ww TribemISSS One of the things that the Seahawks like about using Bobby Joe Edmonds as a punt and kickoff returner is his ability to break a return for a touchdown us into oblivion There was one other matter that may have been settled Tuesday the issue of Steve tenuous grasp on a spot in the Seattle starting rotation know what going to ask and we decided team President Chuck Armstrong said during the game Manager) Woody Woodward and I have Just been talking about what to do and well talk more tomorrow I think his performance tonight speaks for itself It gave me a For months the team has endured a Trout stream of poor games beginning with his first start of the season but on Tuesday in the Kingdome his line may finally have runout The sinker been effective and case the numbers lied: 1-9 in his last six starts opposing batters have hit 395 against him this season and after being chased by the Angels his season earned run average rose from 744 to 812 he make another start?" no time rock roll has By Sheldon Spencer Ths News Tribune to take it slow taken his soul KIRKLAND One day Bobby Joe hopes to see himself as a rock star maybe someone of the stature of a distant 1 someone named Jimi Hendrix Most good special teams players save for the exceptional kicking specialists become rich by NFL standards Ed-final is in the final year of his contract Adorned in gold Jewelry and dark i had the look Now If the Tuesday Edmonds I know capable of backing up Curt Warner if needed (Seahawks Coach) Chuck Knox wants me to return punts and kickoffs so what going to Meanwhile Edmonds works on broadening Ms horizons Last summer he financed the production and release of his own song entitled Oh Oh Oh Take It Slow The man has business savvy evident to even Harris very industrious He wants to get things going outside of football to make as much money as Harris said of his pupil who majored in Journalism at Arkansas a Edmonds savors the thought of another Pro Bowl-caliber year and the impact that could have a good situation If I have a good It will be an even better i said decisions will have to be made Fm sure going to be positive because Fm going to do my About those bloodlines Bobby Joe: They Manager Jim Snyder said repeating a question doubtful Very But are the Seahawks putting all his skills to best use? At 5-foot-ll 186 pouqds with demonstrated speed Edmonds seems a natural to spell Curt Warner when the Seahawks starting halfback needs a rest At last count the Hanks had five campers in contention for the backup not including Edmonds Yet last season Edmonds never ran or caught the ball on a regular-season day from scrimmage Why? came here to earn a Job as a kid said Chick Harris Seahawks offensive backflcld coach we know he has the talent to catch the football out of the backfield line up at wide receiver and do some things like that his value right now considering the people we have running the football is being a good special teams Seattle Seahawk decides to sing some of another best work and calls in a few other music industry connections Look out Billboard charts Edmonds realises not that simple Yet rather than concern himself with music charts where his cousin Kenny Edmonds is today a regular resident Bobby Joe thinki primarily of Seahawks roster charters Going into Thursday exhibition season opener against the Phoenix Cardinals in the Kingdome Edmonds is ensconsed as the top kick returner He should be A Pro Bowl performer in 1989 with a 123-yard punt return average Edmonds produced an even more impressive average (126) last season with the Seahawks His value to Seattle or maybe another team would multiply if he could be a reliable scrimmage player as well as a specialist Edmonds 23 excelled at the University of Arkansas as a triple threat of sorts He ran for 755 yards caught passes for 726 yards and returned punts lor 959 yards during his Razorbacks career He measures his words when talking about his role on this team Edmonds is content he assures you to be a kick returner but he admits he misses a team reiving on him the way the Razorbacks once did satisfied I still have an important role on this team I have any com- Edmonds said Who will start? It could be Mike Jackson Last week working in the bullpen with coaches Billy Connors and Phil Roof Trout was encouraged by the movement on his ball Roof said it was the best the lefthander had thrown all season Whatever pitches Trout threw in the bullpen they lost something on the mound when he needed them most California batters opened the Please see Seahawks C16 Pleaee see Mariners C3 TV pirobes story off missing ex-Loggeir miracle Sums to nightmare there" Rice who was 66 at the time he disap- The Associated Press By Bill Schey The News Tribune diving at the 1984 Los Angeles The 1988 Olympic Diving Trials will be Aug 17-21 in Indianapolis and Kimball is one of the top performers in his event peared attended Tacoma schools and was a football i 1 star at Lincoln High School It known if Kimball still plans to compete in the Trials but the head of UJL Diving said there is nothing within the or-it would disqualify I saddened by the news and feel terri- gradu-in 1939 After serving as a bomber pilot in World War he played guard on John teams at College of Puget Sound in 1946 and and earned second team Little All-America recognition his brother said After a financially successful career as a contractor and engineering estimator in California Rice retired 1983 or his brother said Rice and his second wife As-tarte moved to the island of St Croix in the Virgin Islands and built a home near the town of Christiansted the Fox broadcasting network airs its weekly segment of Current Affairs tonight at 6:30 pm on Channel 13 part of the program will be entitled Missing In Paradise a documentary on the mysterious disappearance of former Tacoman Jim Rice Rice has been missing from his home in the UJL Virgin Islands since July of 1986 according to a brother Willard Rice of Tacoma Police and private investigators have turned up few clues about the disappearance and family members presume Jim Rice is no longer alive The documentary will focus on the search tor Rice conducted by his daughter Kathleen Clementes of Diablo Calif BRANDON Fla Bruce Kimball a 1984 Olympic silver medalist and contender for a spot on the UJL diving team that will compete in the 1988 Games in Seoul was charged Tuesday with two counts of vehicular homicide after driving a sports car into teenagers gathered on a dead-end road Two people were killed and six others were injured in the mishap late Monday night Kimball and two passengers in his automobile escaped serious injury and the former University of Michigan diver was released from the Hillsborough County Jail on $10000 bond Kimball 25 survived a head-on automobile crash in Ann Arbor Mich in 1981 leaving every bone in his face broken his leg broken ligaments in his knee ton and his spleen crushed It was lata1 removed He recovered to win a silver medal in Me for the families Todd Smith executive director of UJL Diving said in a statement released in Indianapolis garding situation as it applies to i UJL Diving the accident at this point has no Dlymi effect on his eligibility fa the Olympic Tri- judicial process will have to run its course and depending on the outcome UJL Diving will act Smith added The last time the family saw Rice alive was Christmas of 1985 daughter last talked to him by phone i see TV probes C5 has spent a lot of money Willard- Willard Rice said Tuesday Former Olympic hero Bruce Kimball leaves a Florida jail after posting bail Tuesday costs a lot of money to send attorneys down i Kimball C5 Soft Teddy enjoys good sport role with Soviets By Harvey Araton New York Drty News Other voices ruptured Achilles tendon under supervision of the Trail Blazers Fratello frowned shook his head The Hawks as a stab in the dark drafted Sa bonis three years ago Now the Soviets have indicated they might let Mm play for Portland which drafted him last yea in the rn EW YORK Ted Turner the rich guy has I I become a peacenik dreaming of a day UXl when the United States gets together with the Soviet Union and melts a lot of minii! Naturally catchy and for a good cause I forgive him Tunwr lost $26 million on the first Goodwill Games two years ago in Moscow his first venture in his comradeship with the UJLSR That he has returned fa Round II the Games are in Seattle and next year a two The Hawks may get anotha of the Soviet players a 6-4 guard named Sharunas best Marchulenis like to have the TV righta Tunwr is the Southern Donald failing to beat the Celtics in the Easton Conference semifinals in May but as anotha phase of Teddy and the Soviets A year ago Tuner invited members of the Soviet National Team to America to practice and tour with the Hawks which annoyed John Thompson who want his future Olympic enemies getting hints from the NBA Tough Ambassada Tuna said There is more at stake here than a gold medal you play against a guy you may not like him but you're not gonna want to kill Turna said in one of his typical bursts of presumption got a chance now with glasnost to really get things going People in this country have to stop fearing communism Maybe it was something to be afraid of in the '50s but why should we be afraid of it now? It wok Even the Russians an starting to admit that now You know they wind up with 150000 of one product and none of Trump Mg ego stacked bankroll higher profile only he has his own television camaas to follow him wherever he signed to do it every four years through 1998 that he is sincere about continuing his continuing his ballfield goes Lately he has appointed himself special ambassada to the Soviet Union decided one way to keep the superpowers from each other's throats is to have Atlanta-based Tunwr Broadcasting keep everyone busy with track and field Fratello thinks only fair he not come away empty-handed Fa one thing he had to round up his playen and fly than halfway across an ocean and a continent two months after dispersed Fa anotha the Hawks managed to lose one of the three games the first victory ova the NBA fa the Russians and narrowly won the otlwr two People will talk Fratello called it When he was first asked about the trip said you have a couple of Tuesday be said think a few of our guys are going to appreciate what they have a little more I diplomacy And even if he's only in it fa the ratings and the eventual buck he has at least found a much better way to his millions than our local hero Trump who hangs around giving advice to Mike Tyson in orda to keep heavyweight personalities gambling in his Atlantic City casino "Oh sincere all right into a lot of different things ova said Mike Fratello who coaches basketball team the Atlanta Hawks Fratello was Just off a plane from of course the had sent the Hawks fa a UJLSR when Tunwr I stay off the battlefields and stay on the ballfielda" Tana drawled to me Tuesday as we At least the Russians an growing some pretty basketball players One of than 7-2 Arvydas Sabonis stood in a noisy crowded Waldof-Astoria ballroom a few minutes before a luncheon fa the 1990 Goodwill Games which is part of master plan to save the world My suspicions that the line had been rehearsed were later confirmed when he repeated it fa the genaal audience What the heck it was was sitting next to Fratello at the luncheon Tunwr had asked that he fly in from Portland as a genuine goodwill symbol when he has been rehabilitating a see Turna C5 three-game toa last week Not as banishment fa -f.