Page 16 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1981
Major League Baseball
National League
East
American League
East
Montreal
7
2
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Boston
6
3
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St. Louis
6
2
.750
v 2
Detroit
7
4
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Philadelphia
7
4
.636
1
Cleveland
5
3
.625
Vi
New York
4
4
.500
2 Vs
New York
6
4
.600
V2
Pittsburgh
4
4
.500
2V2
Milwaukee
4
4
.500 1V 2
Chicago
1
9
.100
6V2
Baltimore
3
4
.429
2
Toronto
3
8
.273
4
West
West
Los Angeles
9
2
.818
Atlanta
5
5
.500
3Va
Oakland 13
1
.929
—
Cincinnati
5
5
.500
3V4
Chicago
5
3
.625
5
San Francisco
5
7
.417
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California
5
7
.417
7
San Diego
4
8
.333
51/2
Texas
4
6
.400
7
Houston
3
8
.273
6
Seattle
4
8
.333
8
Kansas City
2
6
.250
8
Minnesota
2
8
.200
9
Tuesday’s Results
Wednesday’s
Games
Tuesday’s Results
Wednesday’s Games
Montreal 10. Philadelnhia 3
Philadelphia at Montreal
Boston 10, Texas 4
St. Louis 8. Chicaeo 0
Chicago at St. Louis
Milwaukee 6, Toronto 2
Texas at Boston
Houston 1. Los Aneeles 0
New York at Pittsburgh
New York 2, Detroit 0
Milwaukee at Toronto
Atlanta 10. Cincinnati 1
Los Angeles at Houston
Cleveland 4, Kansas City 1
Detroit at New York
San Dieeo 3. San Francisco 1
San Francisco at San Diego
Chicago 2, Baltimore 1
Baltimore at Chicago
Atlanta at Cincinnati
Oakland 4, Minnesota 3
Cleveland at Kansas City
Seattle 3, California 0
Seattle at California
Minnesota at Oakland
Astros finally
take Dodgers
TANK MCNAMARA
by Jeff Millar & Bill h:
United Press International
HOUSTON — Pitching made
the Houston Astros a champion
last season, so it was no surprise
they should weather their first
storm in 1981 with a strong per
formance from the mound.
The circumstances were dow
nright dire Tuesday as the Astros
started lefthanded pitcher Bob
Knepper against the powerful
right-handed hitting Los Angeles
Dodgers.
To boot, the Astros infield re
sembled a utility man’s hall of
fame, with Mike Ivie at first base,
Dickie Thon at second, Kiko Gar
cia at short and Art Howe at third.
Rangers fall again,
Knepper, however, stopped
the Dodgers on three hits, and
with a handful of defensive gems
behind him the Astros won their
first game of the season against the
Dodgers, 1-0.
Making his second start of the
season, the curveballing Knepper
struck out three and walked none.
Sports panel agrees that
college jocks compensated
In 10 previous games, the
Astros had won only two times and
had not beaten the Dodgers in
four games.
United Press International
WASHINGTON — A panel of sports reporters
and a football player agreed Tuesday that despite
supposedly tight NCAA recruiting rules, some col
lege athletes are given under-the-table inducements
to attend certain schools.
And Houston Oilers lineman Elvin Bethea said
two players that were once his teammates told him
only half-jokingly they made more money in college
than as professional athletes.
He declined to name them or the school they both
attended. Bethea said they were joking when they
said it, but that he believed their story was true
because he knew of other cases.
The panel on sports journalism was part of the
convention of the American Society of Newspaper
Editors.
CBS commentator Brent Musburger called col
lege athletics hypocriticial for claiming that the
athletes are also students who play for the love of the
game. Referring to illegal payoffs of money, cars or
jobs, Musburger urged the NCAA to “get it up on top
of the table where it belongs. ’’ He said the compen
sation for athletes could be money, cars or anything
of value so long as the players were paid something
for their role in building up college athletic depart
ment treasuries.
When an editor asked if college payoffs hadn’t
ended because of strict NCAA enforcement and
newspaper exposes, three of the panelists responded
immediately and emphatically.
“I think it still exists,’’ Musburger said. Washing
ton Post sports editor George Solomon said “it’s
worse” than before and Bethea made his charge
about the players that told him they made more
money in school than they did as professionals. He
said the minimum salary for an NFL player is
$22,000.
“Athletes are pampered and babied in college,”
Bethea said. “A lot come to the pros and don’t know
what’s going on and expect the handouts. ” He said,
“It’s happening even more now than when I was in
college” 13 years ago.
Bethea said sports reporters were missing a “disas
ter” story by not examining what happens to athletes
who are exploited in college and then fail to make the
pro ranks.
On the question of reporters’ lack of access to some
athletes, Bethea said a great many players want to be
written about for their off-the-field lives, which he
said would make them appear more human.
New York Times columnist Dave Anderson said
lockerroom interviews are “the only link between
players and fans and the player has the obligation to
answer whether it was a fastball or a curve. All we ask
is that they answer questions for five minutes after
the game.”
Pedro Guerrero rapped two of
the Dodgers’ hits but was retired
in the eighth inning when leftfiel-
der Jose Cruz made a fine
reaching catch in the corner.
Knepper was backed also by two
excellent stops by Howe and one
by Thon.
“They played perfectly behind
me,” Knepper said.
United Press International
BOSTON — Is it too early to
start the Lansford Watch?
“Don’t even talk about that,”
cracked Carney Lansford, whose
blazing bat has produced 15 hits in
his last 26 at-bats for an American
League leading average of .485.
“We’ve still got 153 games to play.
But I wouldn’t mind staying in this
streak a little longer.”
Lansford continued his hot-
hitting Tuesday afternoon by
going 3-for-4 and knocking in two
runs to pace a 15-hit attack, lead
ing the Boston Red Sox to a 10-4
win over the Texas Rangers.
Carl Yastrzemski drove in three
runs and Dwight Evans added a
pair of RBI as the Red Sox notched
their third straight win and second
in as many tries over former skip
per Don Zimmer.
After going hitless in his first
two games, Lansford has been on a
tear. He has a reputation of being
a streak hitter and he credits the
old hitter’s axiom of “seeing the
ball better” for his current binge.
“This is definitely the best start
I’ve ever had. The first two games,
I didn’t see a thing but now I’m
more relaxed. I’m also getting
more outside pitches and if I can
lay off the inside stuff, I’ll be bet
ter off,” he said.
Lansford’s third-inning single
off loser Ferguson Jenkins, 1-1,
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gave Boston the lead for!j
2-1. His fifth-inning
in Tony Perez, who I
Gary Allenson’s second dJ
the game then scored Lai
Al Oliver drove ins
for Texas but the
held pretty much
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Knepper got the win despite a
“throbbing” left foot, which had
been hit by a line drive seven days
earlier. The injury caused him to
leave his only appearance this sea
son after three innings.
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Knepper, a . 138 lifetime hitter,
sparked the anemic Astros offense
with two hits, and scored the only
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United Press International
HOUSTON-The interest is so
great in the future plans of out-of-
work baseball executive Tal Smith
that he has sent invitations to
friends, business associates and
the media announcing an an
nouncement reception.
There was no hint in his cheer
ful “let the cat out of the bag” in
vitation what Smith would be
doing, but since his firing as Hous
ton Astros General Manager Oct.
27, he has talked of entering pri
vate business and leaving pro
baseball after 22 years with the
sport.
“It’s not a press conference,”
Smith said Monday. “That would
be presumtuous on my part. I
didn’t want to give it more import
ance than it should take. I don’t
know that this is news.”
His firing by new Astros owner
John McMullen Oct. 27 angered
many Astros fans and triggered 20
Astros limited partners to dissolve
the business’ structure and dilute
McMullen’s authority. It did not
result, as some limited partners
had thought it would, in Smith’s
return to the club.
Since that time, Smith, 47, has
occupied a small llth-floor office
loaned him by a friend, and until
six weeks ago he believed he
might be rehired to the team
which he and Manager Bill Virdon
in five years had made into a Na
tional League division champion.
McMullen, of Montclair, N.J.,
replaced Smith with former New
York Yankees President Al Rosen,
and months later one source close
to McMullen said the owner
wanted to fire Virdon but didn’t
following the reaction to Smith’s
firing.
Smith’s decision to take a job
comes as the Astros, a near unani
mous choice to win the West Divi
sion again, have begun the season
with a 2-7 record.
He will tell of his plans at a 10
a.m. Friday reception in the Lib
rary Room of the University Club.
“This is nothing earthshaking
or out of the ordinary. I’m just
going to tell everybody my plans,”
be said.
Smith could have collected a
paycheck from the Astros during
this baseball season because his
contract extended through 1981.
His contract contained an attend
ance incentive, something he had
negotiated when the team was in
last place several years ago.
The Framington, Mass., native
began his career in pro baseball as
the Cincinnati Reds’ farm system
secretary in 1958. He was hired
and made the first payroll of the
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