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    Page 18/The Battalion/ Tuesday September 3,1985
Tuesday
Nystrom trips Becker in U.S. Open
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Sweden’s Joakim
Nystrom knocked off Wimbledon
champion Boris Becker Monday, ad
vancing to the quarterfinals of the
U.S. Open Tennis Championships
and dashing the anticipated meeting
between Becker and top-seeded
John McEnroe.
McEnroe, the defending cham
pion, fulfilled his part earlier in the
day by stopping 16th-seeded Tomas
Smid of Czechoslovakia 6-3, 7-5, 6-2.
But Nystrom, seeded 10th, elimi
nated the 17-year-old, eighth-seeded
“wunderkind” with his relentless, ac
curate ground game. Becker, how
ever, did not go down without a
fight, staving off five match points
before succumbing 6-3, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4.
Another Swede, No. 8 Anders
Jarryd, also reached the quarterfi
nals as he ousted No. 13 Tim May
otte 7-6, 7-6, 6-4.
In the women’s singles, top-
seeded Chris Evert Lloyd and de
fending champion Martina Navrati
lova led a stampede of the favorites
into the quarterfinals.
Lloyd crushed Robin White 6-2,
6-4 after Navratilova fought off No.
13 Catarina Lindqvist of Sweden 6-
4, 7-5.
No. 3 Hana Mandlikovza of
Czechoslovakia, No. 4 Pam Shriver,
No. 5 Claudia Kohde-Kilsch of West
Germany, No. 6 Zina Garrison and
No. 7 Helena Sukova of Czechoslo-
“Of course Vm unhappy. I wanted to face McEnroe in
the quarterfinals. Joakim (Nystrom) is a good player.
He beat McEnroe this year. So far, every match Eve lost
has been good for me. ”
— Boris Becker on his U.S Open loss
vakia also reached the round of
eight.
Mandlikova eliminated Kathy Jor
dan 7-5, 3-6, 6-1; Shriver stopped
Alycia Moulton 6-2, 6-4; Kohde-
Kilsch outlasted No. 12 Wendy
Turnbull of Australia 5-7, 7-5, 6-2;
Garrison crushed Kate Gompert 6-3,
6-2; and Sukova ousted No. 15 Car
ling Bassett of Canada 4-6, 7-6, 7-5.
Becker boomed 20 aces and 24
service winners. Nystrom had only
two aces.
But it was Nystrom — who lost tp
Becker at Wimbledon and the ATP
Championships — who found the
hardcourts surface at the National
Tennis Center more to his liking.
And the baseliner opened up his full
barrage of passing snots and lobs.
“The surface here helped me,"
Nystrom admitted, then added: “Bo
ris didn’t play so well.”
“Of course I’m unhappy,” Becker
said. “I wanted to face McEnroe in
the quarterfinals.
“Joakim is a good player. He beat
McEnroe this year. So far, every
match I’ve lost has been good for
me. Hopefully I’ll return for the ’86
Open and do better.”
The strawberry blond from Lei-
man, West Germany, unleashed his
powerful forehand for numerous
spectacular winners. But most of the
time he was sputtering with un
forced errors — 64 of them for the
Oiler bad ‘Luck’
hits hard again
at quarterback
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Houston Oilers’
backup quarterback Oliver Luck suf
fered a slight fracture of the left an
kle and will be out three to four
weeks, Coach Hugh Campbell said
Monday.
The injury to Luck, suffered in
the third quarter of Saturday’s 20-10
loss to the Dallas Cowboys, leaves the
Oilers with only starter Warren
Moon available for Sunday’s Na
tional Football League opener
against the Miami Dolphins.
Moon suffered a thumb injury
against the Cowboys.
The Oilers earlier cut third-string
quarterback Brian Ransom and
would be forced to use widq receiver
Tim Smith off the current roster if
Moon could not play.
Campbell said the Oilers likely would re-sign Ransom prior to Sunday’s
game.
“I fully expect that’s what we will do,” Campbell said. “We’ll be watching
the waiver wire and unless someone came along we just couldn’t pass up,
that’s what we’d do.”
Moon left the Dallas game in the second quarter with a torn thumbnail
on his passing hand and did not return. Campbell said Moon’s injury had
improved Monday and that he would start against the Dolphins.
When the Oilers made the decision to carry only two quarterbacks,
Smith was designated as the emergency quarterback. Smith, the team’s lead
ing receiver, was a high school quarterback.
Luck said he was injured while diving for extra yardage. He felt th6 an
kle give way, but remained in the game because of Moon’s injury.
“I noticed Warren throwing on the sidelines and it was obvious he was in
pain,” Luck said.
Luck said if the Oilers had had a third quarterback on the roster, he
would have taken himself out of the game.
The Oilers also placed running back Dwayne Crutchfield and wide re
ceiver Steve Bryant on injured reserve and waived linebacker Todd Sea-
baugh and defensive end Jerome Foster.
The removal of Foster cleared the way for No. 1-draft choice Ray Chil
dress from Texas A&M to move into the starting defensive end position
only one week after ending a lengthy contract holdout.
The club earlier waived starting defensive end Mark Studaway.
“It was an emotional thing to cut Jerome because he is a good football
player,” Campbell said. “I feel certain that he will be picked up by another
team.”
Oliver Luck
A Different NFL?
Games will be faster, some rules to change
Associated Press
NEW YORK — It was just a
preseason game, yet fans were in
midseason form over this play at
Denver’s Mile High Stadium:
Clint Sampson, a Broncos wide
receiver, streaked up the sideline
with New York Giants’ rookie
Herb Welch running next to him.
Sampson and Welch made con
tact, Sampson fell and John El-
way’s pass continued on a harm
less trajectory downfield.
No flag.
Boooooo!
Sorry, folks. It might have
been pass interference in 1984,
but it isn’t in 1985. The rules have
changed.
Midway through last season,
there were signs the National
Football League was in danger of
losing its designation as America’s
League.
While attendance was climbing
toward the second highest season
average in NFL history, the true
barometer of popularity, the tele
vision rating, was slipping for the
third straight season.
Games were getting longer,
finishing the season an average
nine minutes over the optimum
three hours, and huddles by offi
cials were taking more time than
huddles by players.
There was also an image of
stagnation, of games dominated
by passing and all looking the
same, and of situation substitu
tions that made fewer players and
teams identifiable.
So, during the offseason, the
NFL used its brainpower to fig
ure out how to put more action
and less talk into its product. The
result — a potpourri of procedu
ral and rules changes to eliminate
nitpicking anfl to get games back
under three hours.
Anyone tuning in for opening
day, Sept. 8, will see:
• Fewer made-for-TV
timeouts. There will be four per
quarter, instead of the five and
six of previous years, and none
after kickoffs. Remaining breaks,
however, will be longer — U/2
minutes instead of a minute.
• A rules change that restarts
the clock after penalties called on
running plays or inbound com
pletions, and shortens timeouts in
the last two minutes, from 90 sec
onds to 60. Also, officials have
new instructions to put the ball in
play more quickly, annoying
some coaches who claim they will
have too little time to get players
on and off the field.
• Forty-five man rosters, an
economy move by owners that
has all 28 coaches complaining. A
side effect may be to produce
more identifiable, full-time play
ers. The guy who played only in
third-and-long situations likely
will be a casualty.
• And, the change that
Denver fans noticed so vocife
rously a few weeks ago.
Gone is the gratuitous pass in
terference penalty for incidental
contact, like the one on San Fran
cisco’s Eric Wright in the waning
moments of the 1983 NFC title
game that led to Washington’s
winning touchdown.
“If both players are going for
the ball, they can tangle legs,
bump, go to the ground and it’s
no call,” says Jack Reader, an as
sistant supervisor of NFL offi
cials. “It’s only pass interference
if one player — offense or de
fense — is playing the man and
keeping him from making the
catch.”
“It’s been the play that’s caused
problems. Whether it’s called or
not called, somebody’s always up
set,” says Commissioner Pete Ro-
zelle. “We think that with this
rule, there will be fewer calls and
clearer direction for officials on
whether or not to call them."
The NFL made one more sub-
de change, taking from the TV
networks the power to determine
the pace of a game and giving it
back to the officiak on the field.
For the past 20 years, there has
been a minor official on the side
lines who relays from the TV pro
ducers when to start commercial
breaks and when to resume play.
Over the years, replays, chalk
boards and other technological
wonders have proliferated dur
ing commercial breaks, extending
them as long as three minutes.
This year the break will be
timed by the back judge and will
end exactly 1 minute, 50 seconds
after it begins. The game will re
sume, even if color analyst John
Madden is still retracing a pre
vious play on a chalkboard.
This all seems to be working so
far. The first four nationally tele
vised games ranged from 2:48 to
3:13 in elapsed time and ratings
were up. The final verdict, of
course, will take awhile.
Rozelle thinks football’s TV
ratings will improve this season.
Among his reasons: the faster
game, the season starting a week
later and new blood from the
United States Football League.
But not everyone’s so sure the
changes will make a difference.
“I don’t think the speedup has
anything to do with it,” says Terry
O’Neil, executive producer of
CBS’s NFL telecasts.
“I think the ratings are cyclical,
but they depend on competition.
Will the ratings go up? I think if
you have good races for the play
offs, they will.”
Four veteran quarterbacks get NFL ax
Associated Press
Four veteran quarterbacks were
among the familiar names cut Mon
day, while another was sidelined by a
fractured ankle as National Football
League teams reduced their rosters
to the regular season 45-player limit.
Jim Zorn, Jack Thompson, Bob
Avellini and Joe Pisarcik all were
dropped as teams prepared for next
Sunday’s openers.
Zorn, an original member of the
club, was released by the Seattle Sea-
hawks. Thompson, known as the
Throwin’ Samoan during his college
days at the University of Washing
ton, was waived by Tampa Bay.
Avellini was dropped by the New
York Jets and Pisarcik was cut by the
Miami Dolphins.
Other veterans who did not sur
vive their teams’ final cuts included
safety Beasley Reece of Tampa Bay,
nose tackle Ken Kremer of Kansas
City, linebacker Dan Bunz of the Su
per Bowl champion San Francisco
49ers and running back Mike Pruitt
of the Cleveland Browns.
ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived
Bob Holly, quarterback, Emile
Harry, wide receiver, Wendell Ca
son, defensive back, and Sylvester
Stamps, running back. Placed Joe
Pellegrini, center-guard, on injured
reserve.
BUFFALO BILLS — Waived
Tom Mullady, tight end. Placed Bo
Harris and James Seawright, line
backers, on injured reserved.
CINCINNATI BENGALS —
Waived Steve Maidlow, linebacker,
Pete Koch, defensive end, Lee Davis
and Sean Thomas, cornerbacks, and
Keith Lester, tight end.
CLEVELAND BROWNS —
Waived Mike Pruitt, running back,
Dwight Walker, wide receiver, Aa
ron Brown, linebacker, D.D. Hog-
gard, defensive back, and Scott Bol-
zan, offensive lineman.
DALLAS COWBOYS — Waived
Ron Springs, running back, Duriel
Harris, wide receiver, Scott Stras-
burger, linebacker, and Carl How
ard and Ricky Easmon, cornerbacks.
Activated, then released, Ron Jen
kins, wide receiver.
DETROIT LIONS — Waived
Ken Jenkins, halfback, John
Witkowski, quarterback, and Larry
Lee, guard. Placed William Frizzell,
safety, and James Johnson, line
backer, on injured reserve.
GREEN BAY PACKERS —
Waived Ray Crouse, running back,
and Eric Wilson, linebacker, and
Ken Stills, defensive back. Signed
Buford Jordan, running back.
HOUSTON OILERS — Placed
Dwayne Crutchfield, running back,
and Steve Bryant, wide receiver, on
injured reserve. Waived Todd Sea-
baugh, linebacker, and Jerome Fos
ter, defensive end.
INDIANAPOLIS COLTS —
Waived Tracy Porter and Waddell
Smith, wide receivers, Steve Hatha
way, linebacker, Ricky Smith, de
fensive back, Dallas Cameron, nose
tackle, and Ellis Gardner, offensive
lineman. Placed Mark Kirchner, of
fensive tackle, on injured reserve.
LOS ANGELES RAIDERS —
Traded Ted Watts, defensive back,
to the New York Giants in exchange
for an undisclosed draft choice.
Placed Stefon Adams, defensive
back, on injured reserve. Waived
Dan Reeder, running badk, Dwight
Wheeler, offensive lineman, and
Gordon Jones, wide receiver.
MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed
Jim Jensen, quarterback. Placed Joe
Pisarcik, quarterback, on the waived-
injured list. Waived John Chesley,
tight end, Vince Heflin, wide re
ceiver, Eddie Hill, running back,
and Tom Taylor, offensive lineman.
NEW YORK GIANTS — Waived
Joe McLaughlin, linebacker, Larry
Flowers, safety, and Frank Wright,
defensive tackle. Placed Zeke Mow-
See NFL Cuts, page 19
match — off both sides.
Nystrom, on the other hand, had
only 20 unforced errors, with only
six coming off the forehand.
"The first two sets I wasn’t even
on the court,” Becker said. "And
then in the third and fourth sets,it
was a close match.
“I didn’t play tennis the first two
sets."
McEnroe stomped and pouted
about the line calls in the first set,
when he seemed to match Smid in
unforced errors. But whenever he
needed to, he pulled out a super!)
serve, finishing up with 15 aces and
an additional 18 service winners.
Rose set
to break
hit mark
Not even a curve ball
can stand in his way
As sociated Press
CINCINNATI — Pete Rosetalli
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about THE HIT as if
other day at the ballpark.
“The closer I get to the record
there’s not going to be pressure,'
Rose says of chasing Ty Cobb’s 4,191
alltime career hits. “If I go intotht
last game of the season needing si
hits, then there will be pressure. Tht
closer 1 get to the record, the mort
revved up I'm going to get.’
Already scores of reporters ami
photographers have descended
upon this river city, where fam
scream “Pete! Pete!" the momentbe
sets foot on the field at Riverfront
Stadium.
It would unnerve many playm
Not this one.
“It’s fun," says the Cincinn
Reds’ 44-year-old player-manager.
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tory — without fear that fate mighi
throw him a curve and keep him for
ever in Cobb's shadow.
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never worried about it,” Rose said
recently. “If you get hurt, buddy
you get hurt. That’s all there is toil,
and with the career I’ve had, wb]
should I worry about getting hurt?”
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sure Rose has faced this season. Be
ing the Reds’ manager alone is
enough to keep him busy.
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Cincinnati 23 years ago, is at least
partly responsible for boosting game
attendance and the Reds’ rise in the
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