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Texas A&M The Battalion Sports Tuesday, July 26, 1983/The Battalion/Page 7 to mi liar for dot s salary hornton says new USFL job ill be ‘heck of a challenge’ mainti es so thi' n’t have lortages*! c Intyre icance tk ag to the ibesi e saida veloped; batomic of Ml hen to illy to can discoJ ;es sotha:| i will coal McIntyre | Former Texas A&M associate athletic director jiCharles Thornton says he is looking forward to the city of Memphis and working in the USFL. Please see related column on page 8. by John Wagner and Joe Tindel, Jr. Battalion Staff Charles Thornton, who accepted ajob Friday to become general manager of the new Un ited States Football League team in Memphis, said Monday a combination of reasons con vinced him to make the move. Thornton, Texas A&M’s associate athletic director since January 1982, told The Batta lion location, friendship and opportunity all entered into his decision. Thornton was hired by his long-time friend Logan Young Jr., the millionaire owner of the Memphis franchise. Thornton said the move to professional football was something he and Young have been talking about for “three or four years”, ever “It (accepting the job) was a difficult decision because we have enjoyed it here. It’s been a very good learning experience forme, and I’d like to think I made some contributions here.” — Charles Thornton, former associate athletic di rector. since Young and other Memphis investors applied for a National Football League franchise. When Young was granted a USFL team, Thornton was his First and only choice as general manager. Thornton said he is excited about switching from college to professional athletics. “I look upon this as a heck of a challenge,” he said. “It’ll be a lot of work, but if we get the thing going — and we will — (it will be) inth-inning triple wins game by attracting some good people to come in and coach, and work marketing and public relations and those things. I’ve had over 50 phone calls from people wanting jobs already. There’s been tremendous interest in the city of Memphis.” The 46-year-old Thornton, a graduate of Arkansas State, said the chance to move to Memphis was a major consideration. \ infield powers Yanks past Texas SJ i (lini m United Press International mngNr ARLING TON — In one of :xanip lose games that had as many the irists as a tornado, the man who (missile iLpaid to win games won ; suppo iother one Monday night. receive|With almost 30,000 hostile agan tk [ns yelling in his ears and only d for ei ie strike away from being on to help te losing side, Dave Winfield He e Mivered a 6-5 decision for the ie MX. ew York Yankees at Arlington o daims tadium Monday evening and, politics t so doing, elevated his team histenc ito a share of First place in the aresenta merican League East. ightEs!;“We have come a long way,” His cot'fcl WinField, who leads the luded ( ague in game winning hits with otherf’|'“We played mediocre to bad ixonancfseball the First part of the sea- Riand now we’ve turned it is supp< ound. But we’ve got a long rages o tytogo. We play in the tough- nly inti| division in baseball.” y anddc New York moved into a tie as tnui |h Toronto, Detroit and Balti- I was wore—all with 54-40 records — retheJ nt for a brief time it appeared owingisfrYankees had let this one slip ■■Kwhe Yankees had rebounded JBliiiifim an early 2-0 deFicit to take a -30 MINS®- 7 <C. HOUl 3<slead into the bottom of the Buddy Bell’s RBI single not enough for Rangers eighth inning, but Texas rallied for three runs and owned a one- run advantage starting the ninth. Goose Gossage, who had tamed the Rangers so success fully earlier this month in New York, had come out of the bull pen in the eighth to surrender a two-run single to Buddy Bell and a sacrifice fly to George Wright that put Texas in front. But with one out in the New York ninth, Rick Cerone and Don Mattingly singled. Odell Jones was called in to replace John Butcher for Texas and he struck out Graig Nettles. That brought up Winfield, who with a 2-1 count saw a wild pitch sail by his feet. Both New York runners moved up, leaving first base open. Rather than walk Winfield intentionally, the Rangers chose to pitch to him. Jones got Winfield to swing at a slider and on that pitch Win field’s bat left his hands and sailed past Jones almost to second base. “I don’t think that (the bat barely missing Jones) intimi dated him,” Winfield said. “He probably thought he had me where he wanted me.” But on the 3-2 pitch, Winfield rifled a fast ball into the right centerfield alley for a triple. “I wanted to throw a slider,” said Texas catcher Jim Sund- berg. “Odell wanted the fast ball.” I’m not surprised they didn’t walk me,” said WinField. “Jones has had good success with me this year. He struck me out in New York with the same pitch I hit tonight.” Cerone and Don Baylor con tributed solo homers to the New York attack Monday night and Gossage said it is games like this one that have brought the Yank ees back into the pennant race. “Ever since we’ve been play ing good baseball it’s been this way,” said Gossage, who im proved his record to 8-3. “I think we know that there is not pressure on any one guy. All of us can do the job. “We’ve never had the depth of talent that we have here. We have had big names before, but never this much talent. It’s good to be in first place. It’s good to have people chasing you instead of you being the chaser.” Winfield said the climb to First place, after having fallen as far back as 6V2 games was reward ing. But he also said it was too early to get excited. “This is not the time of year to be looking at the scoreboard seeing how other clubs are doing,” WinField said. “You’ve got to take care of the game you are playing in. There are too many good teams in this division to get carried away right now.” Mantle hurts from ‘banishment’ by Milton Richman UPI Sports Editor NEW YORK — Deep down, it hurts. Mickey Mantle admits that. Outwardly he shows the world a sunny disposition, giving the impression it doesn’t bother him being relegated to base ball’s periphery. He does that because it’s his basic nature. He likes to make small jokes about how he was the world champion strikeout hitter when he retired with the Yankees 14 years ago, and how neither they nor anyone else in baseball really offered him any substantial employment since then. So what did it really matter when Bowie Kuhn decreed he would not be allowed to work for any club in baseball after he signed a $100,000 contract as director of sports promotions for the Claridge Hotel and Gambling Casino in Atlantic City, N.J., last February? But it does matter to Mickey Mantle, and if you get him off alone on the side, he’ll tell you it does hurt. He has had a clean record all his life and why should there be any kind of blemish on it now? Willie Mays, in the same boat, feels the same way. Both are more sensitive than most people think and would like to be back in the same good graces they were before. Mantle showed that Monday when he was here to sign still another contract outside of baseball — this one with an organi zation called Timesavers, which helps people obtain credit cards who ordinarily would have difficulty doing so. Speaking about Kuhn’s contract as commissioner expiring in three weeks, a newsman called Mantle’s attention to the fact that Hank Aaron has been campaigning for the job. The Yankees’ 51-year-old Hall of Earner nodded. “I’ve already seen where he said if he gets to be commission er, I’d be reinstated,” he said. He explained why he didn’t attend this year’s Yankees’ Old Timers’ Day Celebration at Yankee Stadium on July 16. He felt it was more important for him to be home in Dallas that day because his 25-year-old, Billy, returned there from chemother apy treatments he had received in Houston. Mantle said his son was making good progress now from Hodgkins Disease. Then he was asked how come he had not been at the Old Timers’ Game in Chicago the day before the annual All-Star Game nor at the Crackerjack Classic in Washington, another get-together for old timers on July 18. “I would’ve loved to be at the Old Timers’ game,” he said, without specifying which one he meant, “but I would’ve felt funny being in uniform out there and being banned.” When the Yankees first signed Mantle in 1949, he was work ing in the lead mines in Commerce, Okla., and the Yanks wanted him to report to their rookie camp in Phoenix. He didn’t show up and they became a little anxious. So they called him and asked why he hadn’t reported and he told them he didn’t have the bus fare. Mantle didn’t know he was sup posed to pay his own way and the Yankees then would refund him the money. No matter what happened, he would never ask them for it. Nor will he ask for reinstatement now, although you can see how much he wants it. Deep down, it hurts. Erma Cult UZE Tbkin (lo-xe. Free Bikini Wa* With Purchase of Skin Care Treatment Treatment by appointment 693-5909 anmcF ivit/t ci toudl of cfcia Feature Their Expires Aug. 31, 1983 ^ PRIME RIB LncCudei: ioufi or ia£act, IjoHecI jiotato, Umad & Iruttez (ox fzsJl (JEcjEtuUrCe. J $7 t)r > Monday-Thursday \ This in addition to a variety of other menu selections. 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