sports
Battalion/Page 11
May 26, 1982
No changes
yet
Rangers’ owner Chiles decides on status quo
are start earns Palmer
asy victory over Texas
United Press International
ARLINGTON — Claiming a
baseball team can be run like any
other business, Texas Rangers
owner Eddie Chiles has opted
for status quo rather than a mass
hanging.
Chiles, following his well-
publicized and well-guarded
meetings on Monday with man
agement and players alike,
announced Tuesday that no ma
jor alterations would be forth
coming within the team’s power
structure.
Instead, he said, goals would
be set and some sort of notice
able progress would be expected
by the all-star break.
“I know sometimes I talk like
I’m mad and I’m disappointed
and I don’t like what’s going on,”
said Chiles, who is in his second
full year of ownership of the
Rangers. “But it’s never been my
style to wave my arms and fire
people. I really don’t think that
is the way to go about it.
“It seems that in the sports
world, if you have difficulties
you fire someone. In industry
that’s not true. The poor guy
who got you in trouble is often
the guy who has to sit there and
get you out of trouble. There is
no use in getting mad and taking
action in anger. I think it is the
poorest thing you can do.”
As is usually the case, the
Rangers had high hopes this sea
son. But going into their Tues
day night meeting with the Balti
more Orioles, the Rangers had
an 11-25 record.
Chiles refused to discuss any
specifics from Monday’s meet
ings, such as what manager Don
Zimmer and general manager
Eddie Robinson felt were the
causes of this year’s dismal
showing.
He would not say much of
anything, in fact, except that the
team is off course and that it is
going to try to get back on
course. To help do that, Chiles
said, a set of goals would be
established.
“We will have checkpoints,”
said Chiles. “The first major
check point is the all-star break.
But we will have weekly check
points, too.
“The won-loss record will be
included (in the criteria that de
termines whether goals have
been reached), but the record
won’t be everything. That does
not give you all the information
you need.”
Chiles was asked what would
happen if the team’s goals, none
of which he would specify, were
not met.
“I’m not going to presuppose
that they won’t be reached,” said
Chiles. “It’s like an airplane that
is going across the country. You
pass checkpoints and if you are
off course a little bit you can
make adjustments that will get
you on course.”
United Press International
MicheloHhRLINGTON — It has taken Jim Palmer 16
. .years to win 250 games, but since his previous
, starling assignment was May 6, he figures it will
take him 20 more years to get to the 300-win
mark.
■“I know it is going to take that long if I only get
to start once every three weeks,” said Palmer, 36.
"ibuess winning 250 games is a milestone as far as
ptory goes. But it is not one as far as I’m con-
Icerned. When you get to 249 you don’t want to
stop at 250.”
■ Palmer’s 250th win — making him the 32nd
pitcher to ever reach that plateau — came Tues
day night at the expense of the lowly Texas Ran
gers With Baltimore power hitters Gary Roenicke
and John Lowenstein providing long ball support,
-■mer (2-2 for the year) came out on the favor
able end of a 10-3 decision.
|It also provided additional fuel for the latest
. Japter in one of the longest running love-hate
111 1 ^Blationships in baseball — that between Palmer
L
ason mil
i the $1
iked 18t
e SMU
h, Aria
was 1
e poll,
e secort
id Orioles’ manager Earl Weaver.
Palmer had been taken out of the starting rota-
n because of general ineffectiveness and had
kn used four times out of the bullpen since his
ist recent start.
“Jimmy pitched real good tonight,” Weaver
said afterwards. “That’s great for u,s. We have five
good starters now and I plan to use them all for
the next few weeks until we have a day off. Then
one of the starters will have to miss a turn. I don’t
know which one it will be yet.”
Palmer, naturally, hopes it is not he.
“I want to pitch regularly to see if my arm feels
as good as I think it does,” said Palmer. “You need
to pitch regularly to have that good control. I
don’t mean control so you don’t walk anybody. I
mean control in the strike zone.
“I feel I have pitched this way all year. There
have been games where I’ve pitched good and I
just couldn’t figure out how I had givep up seven
runs. But when things are not going your way they
aren’t, that’s all.”
Baltimore scored an unearned run in the first
and then unloaded for three in the third — two of
them coming on Lowenstein’s 10th home run of
the season. Roenicke produced back-to-back
homers in the sixth and seventh innings, both of
them coming with Lowenstein on base.
Texas, meanwhile, has lost 22 of its last 27.
“I know what they are going through,” said
Palmer. “We lost nine in a row and when you do
something like that it is a team effort. No one
player causes you to do that.”
week at
on as'
I quotd
i hopet'
:t with
ie team!
ic court
had I
; Presidf
istweek!
e theJJ
in affaj
e years!
ilFGoodrich
WMHIGH TECH
'/JmRADIALS ggsggsggssgssggggssggsss
BRAZOS TIRE SERVICE
AN AGGIE OWNED BUSINESS SINCE 1952
J. N. HOLMGREEN CLASS OF ’44 R. J. HOLMGREEN CLASS OF ’47
MIKE A. HOLMGREEN-MANAGER-CLASS OF ’77
2707 TEXAS AVE. BRYAN
823-0551 822-1425
ere
ttokno*
tress' rit
Antofl
want I*
dy
softer
i.
,e Geof
case
otiate
.xtensi#
it u
lfor»
-anchist
Now Better Than Ever. You Will Be Pleased With
These Carefully Prepared and Taste Tempting Foods.
Each Daily Special Only $2.19 Plus Tax.
“Open Daily”
Dining: 11 A.M. to 1:30 P.M. — 4:00 P.NI. to 7:00 P.NI
MONDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Salisbury Steak
with
Mushroom Gravy
Whipped Potatoes
Your Choice of
One Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
TUESDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
Mexican Fiesta
Dinner
Two Cheese and
Onion Enchiladas
w chili
Mexican Rice
Patio Style Pinto Beans
Tostadas
Coffee or Tea
One Corn Bread and Butter
WEDNESDAY
EVENING SPECIAL
Chicken Fried Steak
w cream Gravy
Whipped Potatoes and
Choice of one other
Vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread and Butter
Coffee or Tea
/p '
Al
©
J * vO
THURSDAY EVENING SPECIAL
Italian Candle Light Spaghetti Dinner
SERVED WITH SPICED MEAT BALLS AND SAUCE
Parmesan Cheese - Tossed Green Salad
Choice of Salad Dressing — Hot Garlic Bread
Tea or Coffee
FOR YOUR PROTECTION OUR PERSONNEL HAVE HEALTH CARDS.
n su.'!® 1
isco**
FRIDAY EVENING
SPECIAL
BREADED FISH
FILET w TARTAR
SAUCE
Cole Slaw
Hush Puppies
Choice of one
vegetable
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coftee
SATURDAY
NOON and EVENING
SPECIAL
Yankee Pot Roast
(Texas Salad)
Mashed
Potato w
gravy
Roll or Corn Bread & Butter
Tea or Coffee
|“Quality First”!
SUNDAY SPECIAL
NOON and EVENING
ROAST TURKEY DINNER
Served with
Cranberry Sauce
Cornbread Dressing
Roll or Corn Bread - Butter -
Coffee or Tea
Giblet Gravy
And your choice of any
One vegetable
COME GROW WITH US f
ALDERSGATE
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
“The Church With A Heart-Warming Touch'
TEMPORARILY MEETING AT
A&M CONSOLIDATED
MIDDLE SCHOOL AUDITORIUM
JERSEY ST. AT HOLIK ST., COLLEGE STATION
SUNDAY SERVICES: SUNDAY SCHOOL 9:45 A.M.
MORNING WORSHIP 8:30 A.M.,
11:00 A.M.
EVENING WORSHIP 6:30 P.M.
CHURCH OFFICE
2114 SOUTHWOOD
696-1376 PASTOR: TERRY TEYKL
AGGIES!
Douglas
Jewelry
10% AGGIE DISCOUNT
ON ALL MERCHANDISE
WITH STUDENT ID
(Cash Only Please)
We reserve the right to limit
use of this privilege.
Downtown Bryan (212 IN. Main)
and
Culpepper Plaza
WHY PAY
MORE?
$iLOUPOT'SlF
BOOKSTORE
HAS
USED BOOKS!
SHOP EARLY AND SAVE $$$!
AND WE’RE STILL PAYING
CASH
FOR USED BOOKS NOW!
NORTHGATE
ONE-HOUR FREE PARKING BEHIND THE STORE