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D2 The News Tribune Tues Aug 23 1988 Morning report GOLF: SCOUTING REPORTS: A PICTURE IS WORTH: an American League record when he caught his 1807th game Aug 19 and celebrated by batting 556 for the week has been named AL player of the week Cincinnati outfielder Eric Davis (318 three homers 10 RBI) won the National League award Tacoma Tigers at Vancouver Canadians Tway-Azinger team meets the challenge in Portland After teaming with Paul Azinger on seven consecutive birdies Bob Tway knew it was their day "I kind of wanted to see if we could shoot 59" Tway COLLEGES: said 1 hat was in the back of my mind But that's TONIGHT 7:35 at Cheney Stadium (KTAC-850 radio) UPDATE Tacoma's Joe Law (3-3 485 ERA) will face Greg Hibbard (11-10 434) in the conclusion of this four-game series After an off day Wednesday the Tigers play four games in Calgary before returning Sunday for the home-season ending series with Portland NEXT Off day Wednesday Thursday doubleheader Tigers at Calgary Cannons 6:05 pm Seattle Mariners (Ms) at y7 Baltimore Orioles pretty tough to keep going Obviously 62 is a very very good score" Good enough for the first-round lead Monday in the $650000 Fred Meyer Challenge in Portland Their 10-under-par 62 put them one shot ahead of Andy Bean and Ray Floyd going into the final round today The teams of Arnold Palmer-Peter Jacobsen Scott Simpson-Craig Stadler and Lee Trevino-Fred Couples are two shots back at 64 on the par-72 All-American Sanders set to play ball for Seminoles Florida State All-American cornerback Deion Sanders joined the top-ranked Seminoles for practice Monday after being notified he had successfully completed an algebra correspondence course to become eligible Sanders who spent much of the summer playing pro baseball in the New York Yankees organization missed nearly two weeks of the team's preseason practices He is generally considered the best athlete in the history of the school University of Colorado Coach Bill McCartney has suspended six offensive linemen for violating a football team drinking rule Joe Garten Greg Gould Darrin Muilenburg Erik Norgard Scott Rasmussen and Mark Vender Poel will be suspended from practice for the next week No details on the infractions were available Toney Mack leading scorer for the Georgia basketball team last season has failed re-admission to the university and will not play for the Bulldogs the school announced Monday Mack was declared academically ineligible last March but played in all 36 games leading the team with a 153-point scoring average TONIGHT 4:35 at Memorial Stadium (KIRO-710 radio Channel 7 two-hour delay) UPDATE Once more into the breech goes Mark Langston a Mariner trying to square his record (9-10 412 ERA) and head into September at 500 Langston hasn't been there yet this season nor has the team but they are in Baltimore and for Langston at least 500 is within reach Opposing him tonight will be Jeff Ballard (7-10 435) NEXT Wednesday Seattle Mariners (Mike Moore 7-13 404) at Baltimore Orioles (Dave Schmidt 6-3 333) at Memorial Stadium 4:35 pm Associated Press Fred Couples takes Lee Trevino under his wing to give him a few tips BOWLING: ON THE DIAL: Fine tuning: OK so you basically want to take a break until the NFL exhibition games find their way back on TV Thursday Still for those who feel the true Boys of Summer don't wear shoulder pads and for heaven's sake plastic cleats the sports du jour has America's Team as well as Puget Sound's own Buoy Boys from which to chose Bon ap petit Today 4:30 pm Baseball: Seattle at Balitmore 710AM 4:30 pm Golt: Fred Meyer Challenge ESPN 5:30 pm Baseball: Atlanta at St Louis ESPN 6:30 pm Baseball: Seattle at Baltimore (delay) 6:30 pm Boxing: Kinchen vs Amparo ESPN 7:35 pm Baseball: Vancouver at Tacoma 850AM Wednesday 4:30 pm Baseball: Seattle at Baltimore 710AM 5:30 pm Baseball: Atlanta at St Louis TBS 6:30 pm Baseball: Seattle at Baltimore (delay) 0 6:30 pm Bowling: PBA Senior Championship ESPN 1 1 pm Horse racing: Today at Longacres ffi 298 game lifts Anthony into senior tourney lead Earl Anthony of Dublin Calif used a 298 game to help lift him into the fifth-round lead of the $115000 Ebonite Senior Championship in Canton Ohio Anthony a Tacoma native and PBA Hall of Famer who has a record 41 tour victories amassed 5635 pins for his 24 games including 30 bonus pins for each of his three match-game victories Bob Perry of Phoenix moved into second place 22 pins behind TENNIS: Associated Press Well everything seems to work just fine Katar-ina Didaskalou goes through a dress rehearsal of the lighting of the Olympic Flame at Athens Greece The real ceremony will be today and then the flame will be on its way to Seoul WHAT'S HAPPENING: 6584-yard Portland Golf Club course Playing in temperatures in the mid-90s Tway had four birdies in a row beginning on the fourth hole Azinger added long birdie putts at the eighth and ninth holes before Tway two-putted for birdie on the par-5 10th to put them 8-under The duo cooled off with four consecutive pars but Azinger made short birdie putts on the 15th and 17th holes The teams of Payne Stewart-Ben Crenshaw and Johnny Miller-David Ishii tied for sixth at 66 with Fuzzy Zoeller and Chi Chi Rodriguez another shot back The father-son duos of GaryPlayer-Wayne Player and Jack Nicklaus-Jack Nicklaus II finished at 68 and 69 respectively The first-place finishers split $100000 Last-place finishers earn $22500 apiece Another $50000 will be divided in a "skins" competition with the money divided among the players who outscore their opponents on any specific hole Jan Stephenson rolled in an 18-foot putt for birdie on the second playoff hole to give the Australian team of Greg Norman and Stephenson a 1-up victory over Japan in The Big Four television match at the Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin Ohio Stephenson and Norman defeated the Japan's Isao Aoki and Ayako Okamoto The event was produced for later viewing on Japanese televison by Jack Nicklaus Productions Nicklaus designed and built the 7104-yard par-72 Muirfield Village course The winners split $60000 the Japanese team split $40000 The match format was stroke play with alternating shots OLYMPICS: Johnson returns to Canada on orders from doctors A little more than a month before the Seoul Olympics 100-meter world champion Ben Johnson has been ordered to return home by his doctors after two consecutive poor performances in Europe Johnson will miss the last pre-Olympic Grand Prix track meet set for Friday in West Berlin He had gone to Europe after recovering from a left hamstring injury that sidelined him for three months until August Johnson said the long time off had affected his preparation and condition 'I am very tired I need to go home and rest for a few days and then I will start training for Seoul I can run faster I can come back" MOTORSPORTS: Driver in criticial condition after crash at Evergreen Stock car driver John Gay injured Saturday night in a four-car crash at Evergreen Speedway in Monroe was in critical condition at Harborview Medial Center Monday with burns over 60 percent of his body Gay 44 of Snohomish suffered second- and third-degree burns Another driver Steve Hurley was listed in satisfactory condition at Harborview with burns on his hands and face The other two drivers involved in Today BASEBALL Seattle Mariners Game 2 against the city by the other bay Baltimore The O's and M's time is 4:35 pm Tacoma Tigers Yes the last time Vancouver plays Tacoma this year so say good-bye to Les Canadians starling at 7:35 pm Wednesday BASEBALL Seattle Mariners The Mariners play Game 3 of their series against the Baltimore Orioles in Memorial Stadium beginning at 4:35 pm HORSE RACING Longacres First race begins at 5 pm MOTORSPORTS Spanaway Speedway It's Wednesday Night Fever with Super Figure Eights compacts and spectator drags beginning at 5:30 pm Wilander's ATP victory cuts into Lendl's lead Ivan Lendl retained his No 1 men's tennis ranking Monday but second-ranked Mats Wilander has cut Lendl's lead to its smallest margin in three years With his victory at the ATP Championship Sunday Wilander increased his computer average from 13184 to 14753 behind Lendl's 15500 If Lendl remains No 1 until Oct 3 he will break the record of 159 consecutive weeks as the top-ranked player set by Jimmy Connors (1974-1977) Arantxa Sanchez of Spain beat former tournament champion Jo Durie 6-2 6-2 to advance to the second round of the $200000 United Jersey Bank Classic at Ramapo College in Mahwah NJ Sanchez 16 will face top-ranked Steffi Graf tonight Sixth-seeded Sylvia Hanika of West Germany Sandra Cecchini of Italy and Elna Reinach of South Africa also won first-round matches AROUND THE SOUND Row row row your boat in Great Cross Sound race The 10th annual Great Cross Sound Rowing Race begins and ends on Alki Beach Saturday All manner of oar-powered craft are eligible to compete They get underway at 9 am in open competition among multiple craft (more than three persons) peddle boats and other craft not conforming to the three remaining categories: shells (single and double) at 9:15 canoes and kayaks at 9:30 and rowboats (single and double) at 9:45 For entry information call Tom Bush of Rowing Northwest at 324-5800 Kevin and Bill Carrier of Puyallup will be one of three teams from Washington state competing in the Avco National Family Bowling Tournament in Washington DC over Labor Day Weekend Some 65000 bowlers nationwide participated in the preliminary rounds with the top 258 moving on to nationals Compiled from News Tribune news services by Paul Miller the crash Leonard Sundholm and Ralph Lewis suffered minor injuries The crash occurred during the 12th lap of a 30-lap National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing race BASEBALL Twins' G-Man has surgery may miss rest of season Gary Gaetti of the Minnesota Twins may miss the rest of this season after undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery Monday A piece of torn cartilage was removed and some cartilage fragments were shaved from Gaetti's left knee the Twins said Gaetti an All-Star third baseman who suffered the injury while stealing a base last week is Minnesota's leading home-run hitter and emotional leader Asked what the Twins would lack most without Gaetti General Manager Andy MacPhail said: "A 300 average a 30-homer guy a guy who drives in 100 runs and has a Gold Glove at third Take your pick" Future Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt may not have a contract with the Philadelphia Phillies next year if he doesn't play 22 of the team's remaining 39 games Schmidt on the 15-day disabled list with bursitis in his right shoulder has played 108 games this year The second year of the contract he agreed to last fall does not become guaranteed unless he is available for 130 games this year He could earn $215 million for next season but the club may buy out the contract for $350000 and the Phillies are interpreting the agreement to mean they aren't obligated to pay him the buyout should Schmidt not play 130 games this year Don Buford currently a Baltimore bench coach Monday was named the Orioles' minor-league director of field operations and instruction He replaces Lance Nichols who left earlier this month to become director of player development for the Philadelphia Phillies Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox who broke QUOTE OF THE PAY: i I'm not making errors on the field I'm not leaving men stranded in scoring position I'm not carrying a 530 ERA since the All-Star break and I was 2000 miles away when we lost three of four games to the Seattle Mariners of all people Yankees owner George Steinbrenner firing back in the face of criticism by his All-Star first baseman Don Mattingly SPORTS PEOPLE: Since 1946 I IS L-H COME TO OUR PARTY! Tacoma Screw Products Presents Miss TTulKLLcl Thursday August 25th SEE MAKITA POWER TOOLS IN ACTION SAVE WITH SPECIAL SALE PRICES TALK TO MAKITA FACTORY REP IN PERSON CINDY MARGOLIS-MISS MAKITA 1988 From father to son Ryan is still feared Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Barry Bonds says it is "incredible amazing" that Nolan Ryan is still throwing 95 mph fastballs at age 41 What is astounding to Bonds is that Ryan was doing the same thing to his father Bobby Bonds 20 years ago "He's struck me out and he struck my father out" Bonds said after Ryan threw 5 perfect innings against the Pirates before losing 2-1 last weekend "He's one of the all-time greats My father has told me so many times how hard he was to hit against it's incredible to me he can throw that hard after pitching that many innings" The Pirates put into persepctive Ryan's two-decade career The heroes of Pittsburgh's past three World Series champions were Bill Mazeroski in 1960 Roberto Clemente in 1971 and Willie Stargell in 1979 Ryan has faced and fanned all three Bobby Bonds told his son all about Ryan and Barry Bonds said he'll probably do the same thing to his son someday and he won't be surprised if Ryan is still in there pitching After appearing to improve over the weekend Pittsburgh Steelers chairman and founder Art Rooney Sr hospitalized in Pittsburgh last week because of a stroke slipped into a coma Monday and his doctor described his condition as "very grave" Rooney 87 had been improving during the weekend but he suffered "quite a setback" Monday afternoon when he developed increased cerebral swelling Dr Theodore Gelet said late Monday Cerebral swelling is normal after a stroke but Rooney swelling increased on the left side of his FREE BUFFET BREAKFAST! SERVED AM FREE BUFFET LUNCH! SERVED 11:00 AM-2 PM Thakita Ljj MAKITA DEMO VAN WILL BE ON HAND Associated Prsss1986 Nolan Ryan's still-fast fastball is still feared brain and his dependence on a respirator also increased Monday Ashby Harper a 71-year-old retired American teacher postponed his attempt to become the oldest person to swim the English Channel because of rough seas Harper of Albuqueque NM waited more than an hour on a pilot boat anchored at his starting point off Shakespeare Beach Dover England but decided against swimming His plans are to try again today Harper will be attempting to recapture his record from Australian Clifford Batt who swam the channel last year at the age of 68 breaking the record set by Harper in 1982 Compiled from News Tribune news services by Scott Oberstaller 5 ki RAIN OR SHINE UNDER OUR CIRCUS TENTS 2001 Center Street Tacoma WA 98409 (206) 572-3444.