Texas A&M
The Battalion Sports
Thursday, June 30,1983/The Battalion/Page 9
iekro surrenders eight
hits as Braves win, 11-1
United Press International
ATLANTA — Lefthander
Ken Dayley hasn’t pitched a
omplete game for Atlanta
his season, but if the Braves
keep winning with him on the
bound, he says it really
doesn’t matter.
Dayley, who was retrieved
from the minor leagues car
per this year, gave up six hits
and struck out four over seven
innings Wednesday night to
helpboost the Braves to a 11-1
victory over the Houston
Astros.
During last week’s series
against Cincinnati, the
second-year pitcher had
blanked the Reds over eight
innings, but was knocked out
in the ninth after giving up
five runs.
“1 think the other day it was
amatterof 1 quit pitching and
started throwing the ball,”
said Dayley, 2-0. “I was just
throwing all fast balls and you
can’t pitch in this game
lhat way. I went 8 2-3 innings
and had a shutout and then
gave up five runs.
I “Today, I think maybe I
thought of the last game, and
I said it wasn’t going to hap-
ttr and started forcing the
II a little bit,” be said.
1 There’s no excuses though.
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Astros manager Bob Lillis
falls short against Braves
It would have been nice, but
we won and that’s what
counts. Maybe next time.”
Reliever Donnie Moore
came on in the eighth and
burled a one-hitter over the
remaining frames to seal the
win.
Houston starter Joe Niek-
ro, 4-7, gave up eight hits over
3 2-3 innings — including
four in the first inning.
“I guess you could call it a
tough outing when you give
up eight runs,” Niekro said. “I
didn’t have a real good knuck-
leball. It was just one of those
nights.”
Brett Butler led off the first
with a single, stole second,
went to third on an error by
catcher John Mizerock and
scored on a single to right by
Rafael Ramirez.
Claudell Washington then
followed with a single to right
and both runners advanced a
base on an error by right fiel
der Kevin Bass. Dale Murphy
then slapped a two-run dou
ble to left and one out later,
Chris Chambliss added an
RBI double to right.
The Braves added four
more runs in the fourth, run
ning up the score to 8-0.
Ramirez delivered an RBI
single, Bob Horner chipped
in a sacrifice fly and Glenn
Hubbard delivered a two-run
single.
handler secures five juco
ansfers for baseball squad
United Press International
COLLEGE STATION —
ixas A&M athletic department
feials Wednesday announced
digning of five junior college
ill transfers and the hiring
[a trainer for baseball, basket-
land football.
Three of the baseball players
by coach Tom Chandler
pitchers.
They are Beje Mahoe, a 5-9,
5-pound righthanded reliev-
from Golden West Junior
;e in California; Tom
rrmgton, a 6-3, 185-pound
jhthander from College of
pin California; and Wayne
ckson,a6-3, 185-pound lefth
anded pitcher from Yavapai
Junior College in Prescott, Ariz.
Rob Swain, a teammate of
Jackson’s in Arizona, is a 6-foot,
180-pound shortstop who bat
ted .457 last season. The fifth
signee is Shawn Choruby, a 5-
11, 180-pound outfielder from
Miracosta Junior College in
California.
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Going pro tough decision for young athletes
by Milton Richman
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK — Today’s eco
nomy invites a lot of questions
and a lot of college and high
school athletes are asking the
questions. Should they grab the
lucrative offers available in pro
fessional sports or finish their
education first?
With the kind of salaries
being paid professional athletes
today, that would be a tough de
cision for anybody to make and
it becomes tougher yet for a kid
playing ball in school because
he’s always risking an incapaci
tating injury if he stays on.
Ralph Sampson, the College
Basketball Player of the Year for
the past three seasons, had to
decide and he stayed in school.
He began getting those head
swimming offers near the end of
his freshman year at the Univer
sity of Virginia, but he didn’t let
the sweet smell of big money
make him dizzy.
The 7-foot-4 all-America cen
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opportunities to become an in
stant millionaire at the expense
of his education and it all work
ed out fine for him Tuesday
when the Houston Rockets
selected him as the No. 1 pick in
the country.
Ronald Reagan was so im
pressed, he called Sampson to
praise him for the splendid ex
ample he set for others. See,
even the President of the United
States is an investment counse
lor at heart.
On the surface, it would
appear that Sampson made the
right decision, that he’s now in
the ideal position of being able
to command as much money as
he would have two or three years
ago and he no longer need be
concerned about interrupting
his education.
If you go by that yardstick,
then Herschel Walker made the
wrong decision last February by
leaving the University of Geor
gia and signing a $1.5 million
contract with the New Jersey
Generals of the USFL.
Personally, I felt at the time
he had not made the right deci
sion even though he said he
planned to finish his education
at Georgia.
That was why I was enor
mously interested in hearing
what three men like O.J. Simp
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nesseca, with such diverse ex
periences, would have to say on
the subject.
All three addressed some of
the finest young athletes in the
nation at a mid town hotel Tues
day as part of a seminar honor
ing the winners of the Hertz No.
1 award. The award recognizes
excellence in high school athle
tics.
“I don’t blame Herschel Wal
ker,” said Simpson, one of the
NFL’s premier running backs
during his 11 years with the Buf
falo Bills and San Francisco
49ers. “You can’t force anyone
to get an education. Besides, this
has been an education in itself
for him. He said he’s going to go
back to get his degree and I be
lieve he will.”
Paterno, one of college foot
ball’s most successful coaches
during his 17 years at Penn
State, spoke openly and candid
ly as usual.
“I can’t get angry at Herschel
Walker for signing a profession
al contract,” he said. “My only
problem with Walker doing
what he did was that we have no
procedure to make sure the
other Herschel Walkers who
come along after him have the
same opportunity he had. If he
didn’t have the exposure, the
program and the coaching he
got at Georgia, he might not
have been worth the money he
got.”
Ninth-inning walk costly
Angels edge Rangers, 2-1
United Press International
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Texas
Rangers pitcher Mike Smithson
knew he was in trouble the mo
ment the umpire called ball
four.
“The walk will kill you every
time,” Smithson said Wednes
day night after walking the Cali
fornia Angels’ Ellis Valentine in
the bottom of the ninth inning.
Valentine later scored the
winning run on a one-out single
by Bob Boone that gave the
Angels a 2-1 victory over the
Rangers.
“It seems like every time I put
a man on like that, he usually
scores,” Smithson, 6-6, said. “It
seems it always happens to me.”
The decision left California
and Texas in a tie for first place
in the American League West.
Bobby Grich opened the
Angels’ half of the ninth with an
infield out.
Smithson then walked Valen
tine, who was singled to third by
Tim Foli and then driven home
on Boone’s fourth game
winning RBI of the season, a line
drive up the middle.
“I made the pitch I had to
make to Boone,” Smithson said.
“He just hit it up the middle.”
Despite the outcome of the
game, Smithson remained high
on himself.
“I did a lot of good things
tonight,” he said. “It was one of
my better games, so I’m pleased
as far as that is concerned.”
California tied the score 1-1 in
the third on a leadoff, ground-
rule double by Valentine and an
RBI single by Foli.
The Rangers took a 1-0 lead
in the top of the third off Cali
fornia starter Tommy John.
Bucky Dent singled with one out
and scored on Wayne Tolleson’s
double to right.
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