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sports Battalion/Page 17 May 5, 1982 4# Houston signs 12 free agents for next season & Up and over staff photo by Peter Rocha P’s Denise Armstrong competes in the high jump ^rtion of the heptathlon event in the TAIAW state et here over the weekend. Armstrong won the seven-event heptathlon by compiling 4,888 points. Texas A&M, which finished second to the Longhorns in the meet, did not have an entry in the heptathlon. United Press International HOUSTON — Team officials said Tuesday the Houston Oil ers will enter this weekend’s free-agent tryout camp with 12 free-agent players already signed to contracts for the com ing season. The team also reported for mer starter George Reihner, taken in the second round of the 1977 draft, had signed to end his brief retirement. Reihner re turns after attending law school for one year. Another offensive lineman, Wes Phillips, also has returned to the club. Phillips has spent two seasons with the Ottawa Roughriders of the CFL. He was with the team during the 1979- 80 seasons. The free-agent tryouts begin Friday for linebackers and will end Saturday. General Manager Ladd Her- ne more victory Perry a step away from No. 300 WE BUY BOOKS EVERYDAY! AND GIVE 20% MORE IN TRADE ON USED BOOKS I ■But Idesi United Press International ylord Perry, that old fox, is back in the weeds, e’s trying to decoy every- by playing it cool, hoping eate the impression that his start Thursday night in the tie Kingdome against the York Yankees won’t be :h different than any of his ious 633 others. the Mariners’ 43-year- righthander and the majors’ active player already has n fighting the butterflies, isn’t so hard to understand idering his next victory will he 300th one of his career virtually will ensure his ntual election into the Hall of ic. hould Perry beat the Yank- for the second time in a k, he’ll become only the 15th in major-league history in 300 games. All 14 other game winners are in the of Fame. I’m looking forward to it,” he its. “What do 300 victories n to me? It would mean I’ve a successful career.” |:her In his time, he has been ac cused of throwing spitters and doctoring the ball with outside agents like vaseline and slippery elm. He has even admitted to having resorted to some of those illegalities in a book he collabo rated on with Bob Sudyk, col umnist for the Hartford Courant. But nobody could ever accuse Perry of not working hard. He has missed only two starts in the past 16 years due to his own in capacity and the only complaint you ever heard about him dur ing all the time he pitched for the Giants, Indians, Rangers, Padres, Yankees and Braves be fore this was that he’d occasion ally “intimidate” some of his teammates with his criticism of the way they played behind him. He doesn’t do that too much anymore with the Mariners, although he’ll never be able to abide by anything less than max imum effort. He gives it and ex pects everyone else to. “I see certain talent not get ting everything they should out of their ability and the way I feel b Something Else Hair Salon Would like to congratulate all “Class of 82“ graduates (A&M & High School) with a special 8 00 haircut (cut only) and our lash and brow dye for 5 00 . Also purchase your mother her Mother’s Day Gift Certificate. 8-7 Sat. 8-12:00 No appointment necessary 693-9877 404 E * **3 about it is they’re hurting them- | selves and they’re hurting me,” he says. “Basically, I don’t see anything wrong in bringing something like that to the atten tion of your teammates. “Tom Haller was a good ex ample of what I’m talking about when he Caught me with the Giants. He’d come out and chew me out whenever he thought it was necessary. He did that be cause he wanted to win and he wanted you to win. That was the same reason I did it to others later on.” But Perry, the only pitcher ever to win the Cy Young Award in both leagues, always pushed himself harder than he did any one else. “If I hadn’t, I guarantee you I wouldn’t have had 299 victor ies,” he says. That 299th victory Friday had some nostalgia for him because his wife, Blanche, came up to New York from their home in Williamston, N.C., to see him pitch against the Yankees. “It reminded me of the times she’d come to New York years ago for voice lessons and she’d skip the lessons so she could watch me pitch,” Perry says. “She loves baseball but she couldn’t stay more than that one day this time because she had to get back to see our son, Jack, play for his high school team the following day, and one of our daughters, Allison, play in a softball game.” TLOUPOT'S*f! BOOKSTORE Northgate — Across from the Post Office f Z7o tfzz dixEctox Lfl mij [ijz: HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOHN X, University MW —HI* -H THE LAST BIO WEEKEND! 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