The Herald-Sun from Durham, North Carolina • 14

Tuesday July 25 1989 Sports itfornin Herald Scoreboard 3 Fanfare3 Hall Of Famers: If Rose Is Guilty We Want By BILL MADDEN New York Daily News "If Pete Rose is not cleared got to suffer the consequences If he bet on baseball and if he's elected anyway I would never come back Never" ffl Bob Feller things to consider here than just being a great baseball player all made mistakes but a pretty big one if he made it If he did and if elected anyway I would never come back On the Hall of Fame ballot there is a clause that lists the criteria for which a player should be judged In addition to playing ability and sportsmanship the words character and integrity appear as well question is what is the message this electing Rose to the Hall of Fame even if he is found guilty of having bet on baseball games will give to the said Ernie Banks absence Rose and his ongoing legal tug-of-war with baseball over his alleged gambling activities managed to dominate the conversation among the Hall of Famers on Monday Does Rose belong in the Hall if it is proven he bet on baseball games including those involving his own team and is therefore banned from the sport for life as the rules state? He will still appear on the Baseball Hall of Fame ballot in 1992 when he becomes eligible "If he gambled on baseball he ought to be put out of said Enos Slaughter make special rules and if the commissioner rule on it then they might as well throw him and all the other commissioners out of their sports too They COOPERSTOWTf NY Much to the relief of hierarchy Pete Rose did not come to the Hall of Fame this weekend Neither did ballclub The Reds encountered airplane trouble in Montreal and had to cancel out of the annual Hall of Fame game Monday against the Red Sox But while the Reds surely will be invited to return there appear to be serious reservations on the part of the Hall of Famers as to whether Rose should one day be welcomed to meet exclusive club Even in his be worth Bob Feller was even more emphatic going so far as to say he would never come back to the Hall of Fame if Rose should be found guilty of betting on Reds games and was still listed to the Hall by the writers "Eventually I hope said Feller if not cleared got to suffer the consequences There are more Different Tribe Amazing Resuits See Rose4B Reds manager Pete Rose Go For it! LeMond Calcavecchia Afraid To By DAVE ANDERSON 1989 NY Times service Associated Press Golfers and cyclists are not always household names Some people in America still know the proper pronunciations Some call the golfer Others call the cyclist But they knew each was an American winning on foreign soil To them all that mattered And in sports sometimes that is all that matters Over the weekend Mark Calcavecchia won the British Open in a playoff and Greg LeMond won the Tour de France by 8 seconds after 2000 miles and three weeks of racing the best European cyclists Each triumph was a victory not only for the human spirit but also for the American spirit tired of hearing all this stuff Mnnri about the European golfers being LeMona better than we Calcavecchia said think Big talk from a big hitter At the downhill 600-yard first hole at Spyglass Hill during the 1988 National Pro-Am he was over the green in two with a drive and a 3-iron When Jack Nicklaus was grouped with him at this Doral Ryder Open the Golden Bear said: the first time I felt like other guys used to feel when they played with me Mark hit it so hard calcavecchia and so far I felt totally In assessing future not long ago Fuzzy Zoeller complimented him has mastered the most important thing in professional Zoeller said not afraid to In golf as in life not being afraid to win is the essence of the American way Go for it And now Calcavecchia a 29-year-old touring pro who lives in West Palm Beach Fla has won his first major championship He also won the hearts of Americans who know a putter from a divot but who do know that golfers from Europe and Australia were upstaging American golfers At the time of his remark about European golfers Calcavecchia was alluding to helping the US team regain the Ryder Cup from the Europeans at The Belfry in England on Sept 22-24 The Ryder Cup held every two years is an event Americans once virtually monopolized But in the British Open this aggressive American who swings a golf club as if it were a scythe emerged as a one-man team that ended a five-year domination by Europeans and Australians: Seve Ballesteros of Spain won in 1984 Sandy Lyle of Scotland in 1985 Greg Norman of Australia in 1986 Nick Faldo of England in 1987 and Ballesteros again last year Calcavecchia has clinched a berth on the Ryder Cup team in standings that will determine 10 of the 12 players Raymond Floyd the captain can choose two wild-card golfers or one if the winner of the upcoming PGA Championship does not finish among the top 10 in points At the moment the other nine after Calcavecchia are in order Curtis Strange Chip Beck Tom Kite Paul Azinger Fred Couples Payne Stewart Ken Green Marie McCumber and Mark With two coasecutive US Open victories Strange is the only one of those nine to have won a major title as a pro In contrast four of the Europeans have won a total of 10 majors: Ballesteros has five Lyle and Faldo two each and Bernhard Langer one See LeMond 4B Brad Kommlnsk is welcomed by teammates Pete and Joey Bel le after his fifth-inning three-run homer Sunday Komminsk Finds Durham Form In Cleveland Sports Editor Another dreadful season had come to a close for the Atlanta Braves They suffered through 96 losses watched as one manager was fired and another operated as a lame duck The 1985 Braves finished in fifth place in the National League West Division a whopping 29 games off the pace Even so the remains of this sinking ship still had enough life to stage a season-ending party in Cincinnati They gathered to reward players for efforts of the season Among those so honored was Brad Komminsk a second-year player who led the club in strikeouts with 77 in 456 at-bats take all the credit for this myself" Komminsk said in accepting the award as well as the razzing from his teammates like to thank all my coaches" The words were spoken in jest yet with a ring of truth that stung every member of the front office from executives to coaches to scouts It was painfully apparent to those in the room that the Brad Komminsk Seven years after Durham having failed in attempts to win a daily job in Atlanta and Milwaukee Komminsk was being tabbed as the next take your pick again Steve Chilcutt Stan Boderick or A1 Chambers Like Chilcutt Boderick and Chambers Komminsk never lived up to his billing That is until the past three weeks In a 17-game span prior to game against the Yankees Komminsk has taken the American League by storm with the Cleveland Indians He is batting 321 with four home runs and 19 RBI don't even know what the difference Komminsk said last week by telephone from Kaasas City think just basically getting some playing The playing time as every day center fielder came almost by default First Cory Snyder went down with an injury that caused manager Doe Edwards to do some lineup shuffling Then Joe Carter was slowed by injury Finally the Indians traded Oddibe McDowell to the Atlanta Braves That left Komminsk with a chance to prove himself yet one more time been a long long row to Komminsk said not exactly what I had hoped for or anything but I just kept hanging in there and tried to play hard I figured this might be the turnaround Finally I just feel good at the plate" That feeling of comfort as he step into the box hasn't been with Komminsk since he played in Richmond in 1983 In his step-by-step move through the minor-league system scouts and opposing pitchers marveled at how easy hitting was for Komminsk Even he admitted that the idea was pretty simple just see the ball and hit Kommiask often said But about the time the Braves first called Komminsk to Atlanta late in the 1983 season something changed All of the sudden the nice easy swing of Komminsk look right to the Braves Kommiask pass the blame He says it was a matter of not being able to establish consistency See Morris 4B standing at the podium as a member of the Atlanta Braves was not nearly the same Brad Komminsk who four years earlier was the toast of the minor leagues ith the Durham Bulls When he left Durham with a 322 batting average 33 home runs and 104 runs batted in Komminski was certain to be take your pick Mickey Mantle Hank Aaron or Willie Mays next to God in my said Grady Little who was managing the Hagerstown Suns then and now pilots the Durham Bulls Kareem Makes Comeback Financial Debacles Costly Lesson For Abdul-Jabbar team sport There were commercials national advertising campaigns a contract with a shoe company work in television production and other ventures the best scenario for an exit as a Abdul-Jabbar said thankful that everything worked out Things just keep gett ing think Kareem feels overcome another supreme challenge very different from on the court" Leonard Armato attorney said Neither he nor Abdul-Jabbar would divulge any financial figures but Armato said his client was in very sound financial health $55 million suit against Collins who later countersued alleged the agent had lost more than $9 million of the money in bad investments Abdul-Jabbar claimed he was even unable to meet his debt obligations and that he often had to borrow money from Collins to meet living expenses He also alleged that without his knowledge Collins borrowed money in name to invest in ventures that work out suit alleged that among other other investments that went sour was a loss of $297926 in cattle feed The suit in which Abdul-Jabbar also named as defendants some of the firms Col- See Abdul-Jabbar 4B LOS ANGELES One of Kareem greatest triumphs as his NBA career drew to a close had nothing to do with a skyhook or winning a game at the free throw line It was his rebound on the bottom line Although he was a very diligent player lack of attention to business off the court apparently led to such busted deals as in cattle feed When he sued Thomas Collins in 1986 claiming that the agent had squandered most of money the headlines summoned memories of other great athletes such as former heavyweight champion Joe 1iuis who wound up broke The Los Angeles center the all-time leading scorer and six-time most valuable player was determined not to go out that way And he just had to deal with it like I was going to lose everything and start from scratch" said Abdul-Jabbar 42 who retired this year after a record 20 seasons in the NBA had to be totally After breaking with Collins Abdul-Jabbar with a new attorney and accounting firm de-veloped a strategy for a financial comeback He signed a final two-year contract with the leakers worth $3 million last season in hat was the highest annual salary ever in a Bright Future Kareem Abdul-Jabbar faced financial ruin near the end of his NBA career but received sound advice in regaining his lost fortune File photo.