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Monday, March 5, 1984/The Battalion/Page 11 ihi mU WFIVAMAILl* by Jeff Millar & Bill Hinds iletic scholi' ^ kMObW? 'i years 6R£s)US> IN wTs made! lar sliips fc TrAl TTo'/i-Zr- ^X S ‘ ° Women h [h schools, ill,! ng women creased frot' |)ercent of e Tide IX v ding to the ducation D.C. Womal about 30 athletes. ip- fteree. pic? You , > TOA-r TMG. PKlMt WIPE IS> A TQOIOI5> MUT ? C?ip you kUCVJ -TrfAT / E-UE'S. 5UCWAT£MtOtS> MOT TUAT A omen athletsl if factors 051 fight to 3DC Td£ etRVtCE UKlC JUCGE ? TME ONE I JOSTCALtEP Kaat wants back after nap United Press International BRADENTON, Fla. — Left- handed reliever Jim Kaat, offi cially out of baseball for seven months, knows what he wants to do with the rest of his life — broadcast sports and breed horses. Problem is, he’s just not re ady to do it. That’s why, at the age of 45, he has traveled south to Florida to attend the Pittsburgh Pirates’ training camp hoping to find himself a major-league team so he can play his 28th season of professional baseball. Kaat thought his baseball ca reer had ended for good — though he considered it prema ture —last July, when the St. Louis Cardinals gave him his outright release. “I called a lot of teams, but I couldn’t find a team that was in terested at all,” Kaat says. “So, by process of elimination, I fig ured if there was no one out there interested in me, then, ob viously, I wasn’t going to have a chance to play. “But the more I checked around during the off-season — I was at the World Series and I was at the winter meetings — and every club I heard talking about its needs for ’84 said it was looking for left-handed pitching.” That talk made it hard for Kaat to forget baseball. An offer by Pirates’ executive vice president Harding Peter son to allow Kaat to attend spring training was too good to pass up. Kaat traveled from his home to Florida in January to see if he could get himself back into playing shape. He was satisfied with the re sults, turned down the broad casting job and accepted Peter son’s invitation. After a couple weeks of workouts with the Pirates’, Kaat is confident he has made the right move. (uhn to remain in office till Oct 1 Baseball commissioner named Charles By MILTON RICHMAN Columnist lor United Press International TAMPA, Fla. — Baseball, which searched ev- jrywhere the past 16 months to find a commis- :c in the II joner, came up with two of them Saturday, a • " !i 111 iew one j n p eter v. Ueberroth, who will take of- 1 t n< icfeOct. 1, plus an old one in Bowie Kuhn, who rs to finis! ■ eed to sta V on u” 1 ' 1 then - laceil fintr/w^hc dapper, 46-year-old Ueberroth currently iitermediai ierves.as president of the Los Angeles Olympic ■ganizing Committee. He agreed to a five-year fiington, tontract making him major league baseball’s b well intb ixth commissioner and calling for an estimated Hilled up; (45() 000 a year, race. ' -meterreb g ut newsmen he never would have , jaines is» n considered la * t ' n 8 the j°k unless Kuhn — sbrooks ^ <) h as held the post since February 1969 — timeof41jip d agreed to remain in office until he can fin- eter relavi sh his work directing the Summer Olympic nderson.l Games, which end in late August. Bill SheltocBpeberroth finally was chosen as baseball’s i with a new head man by a special eight-man search committee headed by Allan “Bud” Selig, owner and president of the Milwaukee Brewers. Selig, who had worked feverishly trying to find a successor to Kuhn, thrust his right hand up in the air in triumph, much as he does everytime his Brewers win a ball game. When Selig introduced the LAOOC head to all the 26 major league owners for the first time Saturday, they gave Ueberroth a standing ovation. Kuhn, di rectly at Ueberroth’s side, leaned over and whispered something to him. “What Bowie just told me,” Ueberroth jokingly re vealed to the assembled owners, “was that this would be the last time I would ever get an ovation like this.” As recently as Friday, Ueberroth had said in Los Angeles that he would not accept the job unless the influence of the commissioner’s office was broad ened. Ueberroth pointed out that the question of his acceptance was still so up in the air Friday that he told his wife, “We may be only taking a plane ride to Tampa for the day.” But shortly before noon on Saturday, Selig, who had worked feverishly trying to find a successor to Kuhn, thrust his right hand up in the air in triumph, much as he does everytime his Brewers win a ball game. “I am a big believer in a Yogi Berraism, that it’s never over until it’s over,” Selig said. At the moment, baseball had a new commissioner, he said. Key changes in the duties and powers of the com missioner will become effective when Ueberroth takes office seven months from now. Under the new structure, the commissioner will be formally recognized as the chief executive office of baseball. All departments and activities will report di rectly to him. The National and American League presidents will report to Ueberroth on matters per taining to the overall administration of baseball. Andre Watts Violin-Piano Duo Tuesday, March 6 MSC 4r OPAS ELEVEN Ticket Info: 845-1234 • were comp key indnidii ?et. Sprinin iid quarttr- ■re resting^ meet next It’s finally official; Dupree’s a Breaker United Press International NEWORLEANS —Running Vatl Y lack Marcus Dupree, who hopped out of two universities f’H n t " e P asl ^ lve mont f ls ' Satur- U T|1 lay found a home with the New Drleans Breakers of the USFL ITthe highest paid player in i as many irofessional football.” ig the Ho« Breakers owner Joe Canizaro tat the twoi® Dupree can earn more mie one han $1 million in each of the iter rivaln6|ext five years by meeting per- ue loe^jBnance incentives based on nu cametj a ^'*‘ Cv to sla y healthy and ionallv or ? la y- not his rushing statistics. Ool blJ^es the highest paid player ■cast forth! 1 professional football,” Cam- taro said ol the former Univer sity of Oklahoma star. “I call on teamsPto my |6 million man.” showings B Kntoniofell Dupree, 19, who dropped ; New 0:Sut of Oklahoma in October 0, and If Mid spent a few weeks at the the TampTniversity of Southern Missis sippi this winter, said he turned ®p because of the money and [usty wind because “I want to play ball in d, the Gw '84 " lan pleased I “I am very excited about be- back Rid jng in New Orleans,” said Du de his pro pree, a 6-foot-3 man-child who ayed his < combines blazing speed and raw md placekrunning power. “I am very ex- /er Dlamedited about being a Breaker. •k for n#' “I'd like to thank the league ntonio a cl-for letting me be here.” . Dupree was introduced to New Orleans amid pomp and -ew an int f,1 ceremony, with cheerleaders, a fourth f jazz band and hundreds of bal- the breezdoons lining the path down iid the "which he, his mother and quarter With the Superdome in the background, Dupree was wel comed by team officials. New Orleans Mayor Ernest Morial and USFL founder Dave Dixon. Breakers Coach Dick Coury said Dupree will travel with the team to Sunday’s japame at Oak land and will play in the follow ing week’s home-opener against Memphis. Dupree said he has been run ning and working out with weights and could be down to his playing weight of 233 — seven pounds below his current weight — within a week. Dupree, a highly publicized and glorified runner since he broke national scoring records as a prep star in Philadephia, Miss., has been an enigma to coaches and associates during his two-year transition from high school to the pros. He starred as a freshman for Oklahoma, but squabbles with Sooner Coach Barry Switzer over Dupree’s lack of desire led the sophomore to transfer to Southern Mississippi. After being told he would not be eligible to play until 1985, Dupree dropped out before ever carrying the ball for the Golden Eagles and announced he wanted to turn pro. The Breakers courted Du pree for weeks and had to ob tain permission from the USFL to sign the second collegian ever to turn pro. The New Orleans team also had to give a first- round 1985 draft choice to the New Jersey Generals, who held the rights to Dupree. d field S° j icpppled brother were brought 1(1 in a horse-drawn carriage. <e the kick™ 1 -n the 1. “Then it Orleans) •f wind." ■ T I Iat/mo Our It Fun £Recm Serving Luncheon Buffet Sandwich and Soup Bar Mezzanine Floor Sunday through Friday 11 a.m. to i :30 p.m. pm lt cnar.5 art eA ect Delicious Food Beautiful View Open to the Public “Quality First” Q. 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