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Cubs' new chief has football history Front offices baseball’s melting pot By Milton Richman UPI Sports Editor One thing you have to say about the Chicago Cubs, they never quit trying. They saw where Jim Finks ended his association with the Chicago Bears a few weeks ago over differences he had with Papa Bear, George Halas, and they asked him how he’d like working the other side of the street. Finks said why not, so most any time now the Cubs will be introducing him as their new president. Finks’ strong suit is his organizational ability and the Cubs Figure they can use a little PROBLEM PREGNANCY Are you considering Abortion? 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He was football coach at Purdue eight years and later switched over to baseball as general man ager of the White Sox. Arthur Allyn, who owned the White Sox then, knew Holcomb from col lege and thought he’d make a good organizer. So he hired him. But Holcomb never really fit in and didn’t last long. Then there’s Lou Saban, who captained the old Cleveland Browns, later coached North western, Western Illinois, Mary land and Army and then Bos ton, Buffalo and Denver in the pros before winding up as Presi dent of the Yankees. Saban is athletic director and head foot ball coach at Central Florida now, and you know who the guy was who brought him into base ball, don’t you? An old football How are you going to tell your mother you were left out of the book? The Aggieland yearbook Freshmen and Sophomore pictures being taken NOW. 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When you get to be a finished ballplayer, that’s when I’ll give it to you.’ I said to him, ‘Mr. Barrow, the only thing you’ll give me when I’m a finished ballplayer is my re lease.’” “I’m from the old school,” he says. “I have only one thing in mind and that’s to win. If I offend some people, well, that’s the way I operate. I ask my play ers only three things: Show up at the park on time, execute, hus tle. Is that asking anyone too much?.” I can understand Ken Grif fey, as a father, being upset over his two little boys being singled out for making too much noise in the clubhouse corridor dur ing a recent Yankee ball game when the children of other play ers were making a racket also, but I can’t understand why so many players insist on regularly bringing their kids into the clufck house with them. Ben Chapman, the one-time outfielder for the Yankees, Red Sox, Senators, Indians, Dodgers and Phillies, says Branch Rickey wasn’t the tougnest baseball man out of whom to get a nickel, Ed Barrow was. He was the Yank ees’ general manager during Chapman’s time and Chapman remembers how Barrow flatly refused to raise him a penny fol lowing the 1931 season. That had been Chapman’s second year with the Yankees, and after hitting .316 his rookie year, he had hit .315, driven in 122 runs, hit 17 homers, scored 120 runs and stolen 61 bases in his sophomore season. Maybe it’s because the youngsters’ mothers are so ea ger to get rid of them for awhile and have their fathers take care of them. The clubhouse isn’t supposed to be a playpen. More than once I’ve seen players who don’t bring their offspring in there obviously annoyed by chil dren belonging to their team mates getting underfoot. “I sent back seven contracts and still Barrow kept offering me the same salary I was paid the year before,” recalls the 74- year-old Chapman, still in good shape and living now in Birm ingham, Ala. “What’s more, he called me up and said he was gonna sus pend me if I didn’t sign for what he was offering. ‘You’ve only played in the big leagues two years,’ he said to me. ‘You can demand $20,000 but you’re not . Now that the White Sox have clinched the division title in the American League West, Cubs’ shortstop Larry Bowa is espe cially happy for his old Phillies’ roomie, Greg Luzinski. “When we won it in Philadel phia in 1980, ‘The Bull’ didn’t really feel he was part of it,” Bowa reveals. “They were play ing Lonnie Smith in left field and when we were celebrating, The Bull was sitting in the train er’s room with (Steve) Carlton. He was happy for all the guys, but he felt a little left out.” BOWIE COUNTY HOMETOWN CLUB Organizational Meeting Wednesday, Sept. 21st 7:00 Room 305 Rudder The Anderson mystery, Will he play Saturday? THINGS WERE SHAPING up nicely for Oklahoma Stateruniij back Earnest Anderson. The 5-11, 190-pound senior hadpickedup 80 yards in 25 carries, and he was headed for the endzone witlitt; ball in his hands. Less than 10 minutes remained in the Cowboys’ season-opener against North Texas State when Anderson — the leading msherii menca- the NCAA last season — grabbed a handoff from quarterback Rush Hilger and took off. Anderson was five yards from paydirt when it happened. Agroin muscle, injured eight days before the start of the season, w* re-pulled, and Anderson crumpled. “Like someone shot him,’ recalls OSU Sports Informatioi Director Pat Quinn. That was two weeks ago, and Anderson hasn't practiced yet. lli doubtful he’ll start in Saturday’s regionally televised game against Texas A&M (kickoff time is 2:50 p.m.). But will he play? Nobodyi saying for sure. United Press Inti COLUMBIA, S :nt Reagan, hop: itrage over the Sc: a Korean airlir pport for a U.S. ip, visited Sou uesday to rais oney for Sen. 5 ond. Reagan, in rema t a fund-raising d )-year-old consei r, said the U ouid respond to rmed the “murde filians” by Most ming his drive “The savage a e unarmed Korea inds us; we live in odd with cruel pe ct our ideals ant ird individual rij ilue of human 1 >id. With votes loom Hill on his plan issile and other < jrs, Reagan sugg ct the Soviet atl suiting deaths ol be channeled into d at peace when democracy know QUINN SAID TUESDAY if Anderson sees any action at all,il will be from the bench. “He wants to play,” said Quinn, “buttlt chances are less than likely.” _ .. . That’s understandable. A healing groin is not something you■ s „P? Icies want to rush. Stay off your feet, get plenty of rest, drink lotsdl.. e r can j 11 ^ e liquids - and don’t play football. ks safe and our Funny thing, though. OSU coach Jimmy Johnson saysAndersos will play. "We expect to use him some,” Johnson said at his weeklypress conference, “but we won’t start him. The doctors tell memucbol the swelling has gone down, but not all of it. ” If the apparent contradictions confuse you, don’t worry. It’si common ploy coaches use. Knowing a certain player is hurt can give the other team the psychological lift it needs to win. It’s a be), alright — aren’t we lucky’ type of feeling. In fact, Anderson could have two broken legs and an ingrom toenail, and Johnson would say there’s a chance he would play, I the Aggies are unsure about Anderson’s status, there’s no waytbey can adequately prepare defensively. Is he, or isn’t he? Only lit team doctor knows for sure. um] ith THE MAN THEY call “Plug” isn’t your ordinary football hero. He began the season as one of the leading candidates for the Heisman Trophy, and the 1,877 yards he gained in 1982 repro sented the fifth-best season total in NCAA history. Anderson pick ed up 100 yards or more in nine games, an incredible statistic considering the Cowboys weren't that good (they finished 5-6). At this time last season, Plug had 372 yards. He has 80 now That’s a lot of offense to lose. The Aggies, however, can’t afford to take things lightly. Hate to be rude, but the Cowboys haven’t missed Anderson that much Running out of the I-formation, the Cowboys are 2-0 and are averaging 344 yards per game — 219 yards rushing, 125 yards passing. Not had for a team with its star on the bench — and he may not be there much longer. United Press Intel A late-summer nged temperatu ees from the R Eon’s central reac ler of hours Tuesi s threatened a f “People were v mmer was ever g d now they’re w :re’s going to be i Gundy, mete National Sev recast Center in But the dyir rned on along thi second day of nperatures in t peared certain. B bon, it was already A&M COACH JACKIE Sherrill says he not only expects Andet- Boston and a reco son to play, but expects him to be at full speed. If so, it should bea dence, R.I., and real test for the so-called “revitalized” Aggie defense. Stopping )re-Washington / if he plays- OSU’s offense is a job in itself. Stopping Anderson is another story. The Aggies haven’t given up a point in six quarters of play Anderson hasn’t played in two weeks. A true test of wills. Stay tuned. And don’t surprised if No. 34 trots onto the field, pulled groin and all. Aggieland Flower & Gifts 209 W. 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