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0SU victory
softens blow
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Head
football coach Jimmy Johnson may
have had some second thoughts
about leaving Oklahoma State last
spring for the University of Miami
after reading his Sunday morning
paper.
Johnson’s defending national
champion Hurricanes lost their No.
1 rating last Saturday when they fell
to Michigan, 22-14. But Johnson got
a chance to smile the next morning
when he read that his old team, Ok
lahoma State, had humiliated No. 13
Arizona State, 45-3, on the road in
its opener Saturday night.
“Jimmy called me Sunday morn
ing and said that seeing our score
took some of the shock off him los
ing his ball game,” said Pat Jones,
who was elevated from Johnson’s
staff to the head coaching position at
Oklahoma State.
Jones had previously served on
staffs of Frank Broyles, Ron Meyer
and Jackie Sherrill in addition to
Johnson before getting his head
coaching break at the Big Eight
school. His debut earned his Cow
boys the No. 14 rating in the UPI
ratings and Jones was named UPI
Coach of the Week Wednesday.
“I don’t know if we’re that good or
if Arizona State played that poorly,”
Jones said. “It’s confusing. I thought
we could win the ball game but I
thought it would be down to the
wire.
“The funny thing is that we could
have had a couple more touchdowns
very easily. We kicked three field
goals after we got into four-down
territory. We fumbled a screen pass
in their end and Jamie Harris
dropped a touchdown pass while it
was still a ball game. Their cor-
nerback slipped and the pass hit Ja
mie right in the heart. He could have
gone 50 yards with it.”
The score may have surprised
Jones. It was the most points scored
against the Sun Devils since Wash
ington State scored 51 in 1978. But
Jones certainly wasn’t surprised by
the outcome. He inherited 16 start
ers from a 1983 team that went 8-4,
including a Bluebonnet Bowl victory
over Baylor
“We didn’t change a whole lot,”
Jones said, “but we executed better
than I thought we might for an
opening ball game. There wasn’t
that usual first-game confusion. We
didn’t have any motion or offside
penalties. We didn’t play a perfect
game by any stretch of the imagina
tion and I don’t know if anyone can.
But I’d like to keep working in that
direction.”
Rodney Harding started things
off for Oklahoma State by returning
an interception 36 yards for a touch
down 2 ‘A minutes into the game.
Tailbacks Shawn Jones and Charles
Crawford went on to rush for 100
yards apiece, Larry Roach kicked
three field goals and quarterback
Rusty Hilger completed 9-of-17
passes for 138 yards and a touch
down to finish the rout.
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artists from throughout the land...Take in the races at
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Umpires need thick
skins and good eyes
By JAN PERRY
Sports Writer
Kill the umpire! Kill the um
pire!
Jeering fans coupled with non
stop travel for most of the year
can be a very volatile mixture for
any would be major league base
ball umpire to deal with.
Undaunted, hundreds of
young men and women are still
determined to become big league
umpires.
Stranger still, is the presence of
two men both of whom happen to
be from the Southwest and who
want to become major league um
pires. The odds of two men living
within 100 miles of each other
and both seeking an professional
umpiring career are about as rare
as right-handed First baseman.
Chuck Sadowski graduated
from the University of Texas in
May with a degree in French, and
is currently working as a College
Station chauffeur to raise the nec
essary funds for an umpiring
school.
Tony Dworaczyk, a University
of Houston geology student, is
working for the government to
earn money to attend the Joe
Brinkman Umpiring School in
Orlando, Fla., beginning in Jan.
The umpiring school, which is
held once a year, is a combination
fun-camp and concentration
camp.
The students get hands-on ex
perience in umpiring baseball
games, that’s the fun part.
But these prospective umpires
also have to attend classes during
the day and the night.
“You really have to know your
rule book,” Dworaczyk said. “I’ve
been studying it about 8 months.”
He said the majority of little
league managers and coaches and
some high school and college
coaches don’t know the rule book
very well. This ignorance of the
rules causes most of the unnec-
cessary arguing on the field.
Sadowski, who spends most of
his spare time umpiring for the
local little league, said the parents
of baseball players are more trou
ble than the coaches.
He said the parents heckle the
umpires both during and after
the game, leading to some un
pleasant scenes.
Most minor league um
pires only receive two days
off during their entire
season, compared to two
paid weeks of vacation
(during the baseball sea
son) for major league um
pires.
But, Sadowski and Dworaczyk
know what’s ahead of them. They
know about unruly fans and the
constant travel. Their modivation
is simple.
“I love baseball,” Sadowski
said. “I’m by no means the most
gifted athlete, so by umpiring I
can be a part of baseball.”
Sadowski started umpiring
when he was a junior in high
school and he’s been hooked ever
since.
Dworczyk got his start a little
differently. He was a catcher for
his high school team and got a
taste for being behind the plate.
According to Dworczyk, an ex
catcher would have an advantage
over umpires without any playing
experience.
“It helps behind the plate if
you know what the catcher does,”
Dworczyk said. “A catcher knows
how to not flinch his eyes.
“If the catcher sees it (the ball)
pop up, the umpire will probably
miss it because he flinched his
eyes,” he said. “You need to learn
to keep your eyes open.”
Learning how to keep from
blinking is not something they
can teach at the umpire school.
It’s something only experience
can teach.
The professional umpires at
the school do teach the students
how to project their voices and
make base and plate calls and are
evaluated on how well they per
form.
Prosective umpires are also
evaluated by the 15-member staff
on their physical appearance,
playjudgement, and their perfor
mance with the pitching machine.
No, they don’t have to go to
batting practice. The umpires use
the pitching machine to learn the
strike zone better.
f
If the student receives good
evaluations in all of the catego
ries, he may he picked up by the
minor leagues.
The minor leagues consist of
three divisions — AAA, AA, A —
with single A at the bottom of the
heap.
The usual pattern umpire
school graduates f ollow is to start
at the bottom and work their way
up to the major leagues. Some
graduates, however, have been
nown to jump directly to AAA. $
Both Dworczyk and Sadowski
said the Brinkman school does
not guarantee its students jobs
upon graduation. However, the
school does give its students T-
shirts when they graduate,
Dworczyk said.
But with the chance of earning
$75,000 a year plus $97-a-day for
expenses on the horizon, both
men are willing to take a chance.
All the school requires of its
students is that they l>e of rea
sonable weight and have good
eyesight, with or without correc
tive lenses.
“You have to lie of ‘reasonable
weight’ to go to their school, but
those guys you see on TV all look
like they weigh over 400 pounds,”
Dworczyk said.
Sadowski, who wears contact
lenses now, said he was never
hassled for wearing glasses on the
field.
The student also must have a
high school diploma or equivalent
and he able to pay the $1,355 for
tuition and room and board.
Even with the good salary, an
umpire’s life is not for everyone.
“If you’re young you ought to
do it (go to umpire school) before
you get tied down with marriage
and all that other foolishness,”
Dworczyk said.
Sadowski agreed with Dworc
zyk about the possibility of mar
riage getting in the way of an um
pire career.
“I wouldn’t get married if I was
an umpire unless I was damned
sure I was going to have a strong
marriage,” he said.
“If you want to learn a lot
about umpiring you go to the
school,” Sadowski said. “It’s the
only way to make it into big
league baseball. ”
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