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PIZZA & SUBS V Delivers Free... Fresh! Fast! Hot Pizza! Plus Free Cokes! Call Now 846-3768 846-7751 We Guarantee 30- Minute Delivery Service! sports Battalfon/Pageii September 8,1! • i wrni i-i 11 i ...MiitW-iiii.rtin One of a kind || Death of former Cardinal star Boyer brings memork TANK IN W\<? FI APPf^ Clete Boyer loved his older brother, Ken. He had the type of love for Ken that transcends de scription. Knowing Ken didn’t have long to live because of cancer, Clete, who coaches third base for the Oakland A’s, got permis sion last week from Manager Billy Martin to leave the club so he could spend the last few days with him. “If I hadn’t known him, I wouldn’t have recognized him,” Clete said of Ken, 51, who died Tuesday in St. Louis after hav ing spent 15 years in the major Rhodes Scholarship 1983-85 leagues, 11 of them with the Cardinals, for whom he played third base so brilliantly that he was named to seven All-Star teams and awarded five Gold Gloves. “You know how he played at around 205 pounds?” Clete said. “He was down to 120. His mind was wandering so much, I’m not even sure he knew who I was.” Ken was being treated at the Mari De Villa nursing home in suburban St. Louis. A room was provided for Clete and he shared it with Ken’s oldest son, David. Suzie Hartwig, Ken’s old est daughter, came to see her father every day and his two other children, Danny and Janie, also were frequent visi tors. “The nurses told me Kennie never complained one time,” Clete said. “The night before last, his nurse said they tried to take his blood count but couldn’t get a reading. She told us when we woke up Monday he’d prob ably be gone.” Ken made it through Labor Day, however. The night was a particularly bad one. “I hate to wake you up and have to tell you this, but your brother is gone,” she said. She told him the time of death was 6:15 a.m. Hal Lanier, one of Boyer’s many friends who played against him with the San Fran cisco Giants, visited him Monday and stayed with him past mid night, while Clete, almost out on his feet, tried to get a little sleep. Ken’s nurse, Doris Fangman, came into Clete’s room at about 7 in the morning. “Knowing all that Kennie went through these past few months, all the pain and suffer ing he endured without ever bitching or feeling sorry for himself. I’m relieved now,” Clete said Tuesday while help ing with arrangements for a visi tation by many of his brother’s friends at the Schrader Funeral Home in Ballwin, Mo., Wednes day and Thursday. was. He was a super athlete and a super brother. I idolized him so much.” There were seven Boyer brothers in all but Ken and Clete, who is 45, were the closest. Cloyd Boyer once pitched for the Cardinals, and tour others, Ron, Len, Lewis, and Wavne, all played minor-league ball. Ken was the most talented of all five. He was the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1964, the year the Cardinals beat the Yankees in the World Series and played against Clete in that Series. other. We wrote noia another the whole joked all through ilm Nobody enjoyed itrwi did.” In the seventh game, Ken got three ha mg a homer and adc scored three runs tot victory that made the world champions. Bob Gibson was the pitcher in that gam< Atlanta, where heinosi with the Braves, thti Boyer's death deprw:\7 1 "I remember nim jr, V A “I feel good that at last Kennie is resting,” Clete said. 'Tm so E roud ofhim, the type of player e was, the type of brother he \ If you are a senior with a grade point average of 3.75 plus, you could become the TAMU nominee for a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. You might spend the first two years after graduation widening your academic base at the Univer sity of Oxford, UK. “We had so much fun in that Series," Clete recalled. “Both of us wanted our clubs to win but we were still pulling for each an argument once somebody had saklsoal about me," Gibionstid Uni fended me and I nur HOU that." PiDino We want YOU! All car enthusiasts to Contact Professor J. F. 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"Zorn will come in if the situa tion calls for it, but we won’t be changing quarterbacks every quarter or half, as in preseason. ” In Chicago, Coach Mike Dit- ka selected Avellini over Evafis and top draft-pick Jim McMa hon as his starter in the Bears' opener against the Lions in De troit. “It was a tough decision," said Ditka, the Bears’ first-year coach. “All three of them are starters. At this time, Bob is a little more advanced with what we’re trying to do with the offense." In other news: — Detroit running back Billy Sims said he has enaed his con tract holdout after meeting with owner William Clay Ford. The Detroit Free Press said Sims and Ford met Tuesday for about 45 minutes. "It’s my future, and I’m well satisfied with what took place,” the paper quoted Sims. — Seattle cut eight veterans. 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