Texas A&M
Battalion
Thursday, June 16, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7
is short on baseball’s throne
by Milton Richman
UPI Sports Editor
EW YORK — Time is running
ut on Bowie Kuhn.
His contract is up in less than
days. The clubs who have
:ed against him expect to have
Iher commissioner by Aug.
, But who knows? They may
, lave another Sewell Avery in-
non-begimij | af j
llfyou don’t know who Sewell
very is, go ask your father or
iother. They know.
gThey can tell you all about
im, the resolute corporate king
n Chicago who defied the
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U.S. Army, flatly refused to
budge, and was way ahead of his
time in boldly proclaiming, “No,
no, I won’t go.”
Avery was board chairman of
Montgomery Ward in 1945
when the War Labor Board
ordered the company’s main
warehouse in Chicago taken
over because of a labor dispute
over the supplying of military
equipment.
Soldiers were dispatched to
the warehouse, but Avery would
not leave. He wouldn’t even get
out of the chair behind his desk,
so two soldiers picked up the
chair and carried it out onto the
street with Avery sitting in it. He
was the picture of supreme de
fiance with both his arms folded
in front of him. A footnote to
that episode was the fact Avery
was back at his desk as if nothing
happened two days later.
Whether Bowie Kuhn is pre
pared to go to the same lengths
is a good question, but he does
have a good start. Last Novem
ber in Chicago, the owners voted
not to re-elect him when his pre
sent contract expires on Aug.
13.
At that meeting, five National
verwhelmed
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SlN FRANCISCO — Darrell
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Evans, “because that’s the way to
play this game.” Evans unloaded
his first two homers Wednesday
off Houston starter and loser
Mike LaCoss. His third came off
reliever Frank LaCorte. All
three were solid blasts that
wound up deep in the bleachers.
“I’ve always had a lot of confi
dence in my swing,” Evans said,
“but I didn’t start hitting until
Frank (Giants manager Robin
son) moved me up to second in
the batting order.” '
Now, Robinson has dropped
Evans to third, in front of Jack
Clark, and Darrell said he is
seeing pitches he’s never seen
before.
“That’s important,” he said.
“Where you bat in the order may
be the difference between 30 to
40 points in your average.”
Fred Breining went the dis
tance in Wednesday’s game and
wound up with a four-hitter af
ter holding the Astros hitless for
5 1-3 innings. His performance,
as fine as it was, couldn’t upstage
Evans.
Even the Astros marveled at
Evans.
“He’s swinging the hottest bat
in the National league,” said
manager Bob Lillis. “Pitches we
used to get him out with now are
landing over the fence. We’re all
going to have to take another
look.”
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League clubs — the St. Louis
Cardinals, the New York Mets,
the Houston Astros, the Atlanta
Braves, and the Cincinnati Reds
— voted not to renew his con
tract. Four votes would have
been enough, but there were
five. Now that figure is up to six,
with the Chicago Cubs also
opposed.
The American League clubs
voted 11-3 in favor of Kuhn in
Chicago, but that didn’t matter
since his failure to get three-
quarters of the votes in any one
league was enough to cost him
his job.
Kuhn made what everyone
assumed was his “acceptance
speech” after the vote, accepting
the result although certainly far
from delighted with it, and he
promised he would keep serving
as commissioner until it was time
for him to go.
He has done that and then
some. He has shown so much
zeal, he looks as if he’s warming
up to take over the job, not leave
it. More than that, he has said he
would like to continue as com
missioner.
For that to happen, no other
candidate to replace him would
have to be found acceptable, and
baseball’s executive council then
would have to vote Kuhn as his
own interim successor.
But there is a provision in the
Major League Agreement which
says that can’t be done either
with less than three-quarters of
the clubs in each league voting
for it, since that doesn’t look as if
it will happen, Kuhn’s chances
of continuing aren’t good at all.
Bowie Kuhn has some firm
support in his camp, but simply
put, there are not enough of
them. It strikes me this has to
leave him with a rather empty.
uncomfortable feeling, working
as hard as he does at his job ev
ery day and knowing he’ll be out
soon unless at least three NL
owners who are against him now
suddenly flip-flop and go the
other way.
That’s not likely to happen,
and those who have voted
against re-electing him wonder
why he hasn’t submitted his res
ignation yet. They fear it’s pri
marily a matter of ego that’s
keeping him from doing so,
along with the hope that some of
them will switch their vote at the
last moment.
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Errors stunt Rangers’ attempt
to move closer to league lead
average of .314.
on a tear the first
lay and outside of one short
U.S. Natiorjell in which he went 0-for-14,
ional Reseai|hasn’t stopped.
J1 of this won’t win him the
[tional League’s starting first
job in next month’s All Star
e, which almost surely will
A1 Oliver of the Montreal
is, but it’s certain to get him
|e playing time in the mid-
mer classic.
Ifhat’s baseball’s showcase
e,” Evans said of the All Star
e. “Over the years there
been cases where players
named and found a way to
out. Not me. If they pick
1 will regard it as the honor it
„That last statement tells
[]aliforniaH:n ore about Evans than
not leavtBhing else, and is illustrative
why he is one of the most
. .vpular players among his
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m Barr. “I’m sure everyone in
ball is delighted he’s having
a fine year. It couldn’t be
pening to a nicer guy.”
|t’s hard to tell why opposing
hers don’t keep him on his
but the way Evans is hitting
should be seeing a lot of
ish-back pitches.
You expect them when you
hitting the way I am,” said
United Press International
ARLINGTON — Both the
Seattle Mariners and Texas
Rangers did something they
haven’t done much of this sea
son Wednesday night.
The Rangers let a sizeable
lead slip away and the Marin
ers overcame a sizeable de
ficit.
“We haven’t won many
games like that this year,” said
Seattle manager Rene Lache-
mann. “But that is the kind of
game that can be a confidence
booster. When you come from
four runs down it makes you
think you can do it again.”
Texas owned a 4-0 advan
tage through the fifth inning
Wednesday evening en route
to what appeared to be its
sixth straight victory. A Ran
gers’ win would have moved
them to within a game of the
lead in the American League
West.
But three Texas errors led
to three Seattle runs and the
Mariners then struck for
three more in the ninth to
down the Rangers, 6-4.
A1 Cowens, batting an .184,
drove a two-run, two-out tri-
Frank Tanana
pie to right in the ninth, bring
ing home the tying and go-
ahead scores for the Mariners
— who had lost seven of their
previous nine outings.
“We were just one strike
away from winning,” said
Texas manager Doug Rader,
who was in a less than pleasant
mood following the contest.
“It’s frustrating. But this
won’t set us back. It’s just one
loss.”
Pete O’Brian had keyed a
four-run Texas fifth inning
with a two-run homer.
But Seattle started chip
ping away in the sixth with two
runs set up by a throwing
error by normally solid third
baseman Buddy Bell.
Another unearned run re
sulted from a two-base error
by second baseman Wayne
Tolleson in the eighth.
Then, in the ninth,
Domingo Ramos and Steve
Henderson delivered back-to-
back, one out singles.
Jones retired Manny Cas
tillo on a fly ball, but Cowens
produced the game winner on
a 2-2 pitch. His liner skipped
past O’Brien in right field all
the way to the wall.
After reaching third
Cowens promptly scored the
final run of the inning on a
single by the designated
hitter.
Before his ninth-inning
apperance Cowens had
grounded out three times and
walked once.
“I never considered pinch
hitting for Al,” said Lache-
mann. “If you do that you
show him you don’t have any
confidence in him and then he
doesn’t have any confidence
in you, either. Maybe this will
' be the big hit that gets him out
of his slump.” Cowens admit
ted he had listened to every
body and tried just about ev
erything to improve his lowly
average.
“If you told *me I could
have stood on my head and
gotten a base hit I would have
done it,” he said. “But all I can
do is try the best I can each at
bat. I wasn’t guessing any par
ticular pitch. When you are
hitting .180 you can’t guess.
“I think I have been trying
to pull the ball too much.
When we get behind I try to
hit a home run every time and
that is a mistake.”
Ed Vande Berg, Seattle’s
third pitcher of the evening
who threw 3 1-3 innings of
one-hit relief, was the benefi
ciary of the comeback and
evened his record at 2-2.
Jones’ record dropped to 2-3.
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