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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1981
Rangers
looking
for direction
Players, coach walk out^
over money troubles
And the runner is ?
Staff photo by Greg Gammon
Texas A&M second baseman David Ken- won, 5-4, despite a late Aggie rally. The Ags
nard appears to be putting the tag to a Kan- return to action Friday when they travel to
sas baserunner during the first game of Fort Worth to play TCU.
Saturday’s doubleheader. The Jayhawks
Astros snap losing streak
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allowed one hit in four innings
Monday as the Houston Astros
snapped a six game losing streak
by beating the Boston Red Sox 3-
2.
fourth when Dave Roberts dou
bled and scored on Jeff Leonard’s
single. Leonard stole second and
scored on Alan Ashby’s single to
make it 3-1.
Ryan, who gave up 10 hits and
10 runs in two innings in his only
other spring outing, allowed three
walks and one unearned run.
Terry Puhl’s bases-empty hom
er in the first inning off losing
pitcher Frank Tanana gave Hous
ton a 1-0 lead. Boston tied it in the
second when Astros shortstop
Craig Reynolds made a throwing
error to allow a run to score.
The Astros took the lead in the
Boston scored a run in the
seventh off Ken Forsch on a sacri
fice fly by Dave Schmidt. Forsch
worked four innings and Bert
Roberge pitched a perfect ninth.
Tanana was followed by John
Tudor and Win Remmerswaal
who combined for three scoreless
innings.
Houston improved its record to
4-8 while Boston fell to 5-8.
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POMPANO BEACH, Fla. —
The Texas Rangers have been an
organization without apparent di
rection in recent years and that
probably explains their failure to
compete even in seasons when
they were considered a possibility
for the title.
They have tried the free agent
market, they have tried to build
with youth, they have tried ac
quiring veterans. Maybe nothing
will succeed like a bit of stability
and that’s where Manager Don
Zimmer comes in.
Zimmer, fired because of the
weakness of Boston’s pitching
staff, faces a bigger challenge in
Texas. The weaknesses of the Ran
gers could hit him like a heat wave
in Arlington, Texas.
For instance, starter Steve
Comer and reliever Jim Kern are
coming off injuries.
The latest philosophy appears
to be to copy their intrastate
cousins, the Houston Astros, and
build with pitching, defense and
speed to suit their big ballpark
with the wind blowing in from
right.
The Rangers thus unloaded
slugger Richie Zisk to Seattle in a
multi-player trade that brought
them pitcher Rick Honeycutt,
who joins Jon Matlack as the lef
ties in the starting rotation. The
righties are Doc Medich, Fergu
son Jenkins and Danny Darwin.
Catcher Jim Sundberg, a Gold
Glove winner the last five years,
anchors the team and third base-
man Buddy Bell comes off his best
year offensively. Shortstop could
go to Nelson Norman, Mario
Mendoza or Mark Wagner. Bump
Wills is at second and Pat Putnam
at first.
Veteran outfielders Al Oliver
and Mickey Rivers are coming off
exceptional years and Zimmer has
Jim Norris, Leon Roberts, Billy
Sample and Johnny Grubb to fill
the remaining spot.
The DH could be veteran Wil
lie Horton, who comes over from
Seattle.
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MINNEAPOLIS — The Min
nesota Fillies played for months
without full paychecks, but a
“bum credit card” was the last
straw.
Coach Terry Kunze, sus
pended along with his eight play
ers for a walkout Saturday night in
Chicago, says the refusal of a Chi
cago hotel to honor a team credit
card brought the WBL club’s frus
tration to a head.
“It’s been coming for a long
time,” Kunze said Sunday in a
telephone interview. “They’re
way behind in payments. And
then they sent us on the road with
a bum credit card. We went to the
Holiday Inn and couldn’t get in.
We finally used my personal cre
dit card.
“The players had a meeting by
themselves. They decided they
shouldn’t play late that afternoon,
after wavering back and forth. I’m
neutral. I just told them I would
stand with them. If they played,
I’d coach. I give them a lot of cre
dit for playing this long, really.”
A home game against the Dallas
Diamonds was postponed Sun
day, but General Manger T. Gor
don Nevers said he planned to
field a new squad in time for
tonight’s scheduled match against
the St. Louis Streak.
Nevers acknowledged the
team’s money troubles, but said
he was surprised and embarrassed
by the walkout.
“As of 10 days ago, I was told the
team would finish the season
under any circumstances,” he
said. “Whatever circumstances
they felt were put upon them by
not playing in Chicago were not
apparent to me. Their pay sche
dule didn’t change one bit from
Friday afternoon to Saturday
night at 7:30.”
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coach and the players for some
time, but it was “understood” that
the team would continue playing,
Nevers said. He refused to say
how much the team owed.
Kunze likewise declined to esti
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himself and the players, but said
he did not receive a full paycheck
all season.
“The thing of it is if we stop
playing, he has no power to make
money, which is true,” Kunze
said. “But if we play out the year
and then stop playing, we®
get the money anyway.
“Anytime you make a
tual obligation, you’re
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ers have been very, ven
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