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Cobb’s 57-year-old hit record shattered by Rose’s single
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Pete Rose
broke Ty Cobb’s career hit record
Wednesday night, 57 years to the
day alter Cobb’s last swing. The his
toric No. 4,192 was a characteristic
single, giving the Cincinnati Reds
player-manager the record at last
and perhaps forever.
THE hit was a liner to left field on
a 2-1 pitch from San Diego Padres
right-hander Eric Show with one out
in the bottom of the first inning.
It may have been the biggest little
hit in a century of baseball history.
With one swing of the bat, one of
the biggest records in all of sports
fell to the calloused, workman’s
hands of the 44-year-old Rose, in his
23rd major-league season.
He added a standup triple off
Show into the left-field corner in the
seventh, finishing the night 2-for-3
with 4,193 career hits. He also
scored both runs in the Reds’ 2-0 vic
tory and had the game-ending assist,
a diving stop on a hard grounder by
the Padres’ Steve Garvey.
But all that was anticlimactic.
On the record at-bat, Rose took
the first pitch from Show high and
outside, and he fouled the second
pitch straight back. The third pitch
was inside, and then came what peo
ple were waiting for.
The ball sliced gracefully into left-
center field, falling in front of Car-
melo Martinez, who fielded it on one
bounce.
Peter Edward Rose, the scrappy
“Charlie Hustle” and future Hall of
Earner, had surpassed Tyrus Ray
mond Cobb, the brawling “Georgia
Peach” and original Hall of Earner,
as baseball’s all-time hit king.
The hit triggered celebration in
Cincinnati, his hometown and where
he played his first 16 seasons and the
last 1 Va seasons as player-manager.
His teammates streamed out of
the dugout to congratulate him, and
he was hoisted briefly onto the
shoulders of Tony Perez and Dave
Concepcion. Reds owner Marge
Schott led a sellout crowd, many of
whom arrived too late to see the hit,
in wild cheers as Rose wept on the
shoulder of first base coach Tommy
Helms. When his 15-year-old son,
Pete Jr., came out to congratulate
him, Rose told him: “I love you, and
I hope you pass me.”
The first-base bag was removed
and taken to the dugout, along with
the historic ball.
All Show could do was sit on the
mound until the cheering died
down.
Baseball Commissioner Peter Ue
berroth, who watched Rose try and
fail to break the record Tuesday
night, was in New York when the big
moment came.
“All of baseball salutes Pete Rose
for breaking a record experts said
would never be broken,” Ueberroth
said in a statement. “His 4,192 hits is
a tribute to his great talent and
strength, his indomitable spirit and
his iron will. Not only has he re
served a prominent spot in Coopers-
town, he has reservea a special place
in the heart of every fan alive today
and every baseball fan to come.”
It was Rose’s 95th hit of a season
highlighted from the beginning by a
day-by-day countdown of the biggest
record chase since Henry Aaron
passed Babe Ruth in career home
runs in 1974.
It was the 3,162nd single of Rose’s
career. He also has 738 doubles, 132
triples and 160 home runs.
Cobb’s total included 3,052 sin
gles, 724 doubles, 297 triples and
118 home runs.
Rose’s return to Cincinnati, where
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Botha says blacks
from homelands
can be citizens
Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
-President P.W. Botha abandoned
i pillar of apartheid Wednesday by
Marine that blacks consigned to
lominally independent tribal home-
ands can have their South African
citizenship restored.
The announcement was coupled
nith a defiant statement by Botha
that South Africa’s white-minority
{overnment would chart its own
course toward racial reform and
would not be influenced by pressure
from the United States.
In Cape Town, Nelson Mandela,
head of the outlawed African Na
tional Congress who has been serv
ing a life term in prison since 1964,
faced prostate gland surgery, mem-
lersot his family said.
Doctors provided by the govern
ment said the 67-year-old black na
tionalist was suffering from an en
larged prostate gland and had cysts
on his liver and right kidnev.
Also in Cape Town, hundreds of
enraged mourners at a riot victim’s
funeral kicked and stabbed to death
a mixed-race policeman. Police said
the plainclothes policeman fired into
the mixed-race crowd, seriously in
juring one mourner, as he struggled
to save himself after being recog
nized as a policeman.
Police said they shot and killed a
4-year-old girl as she played in her
home during rioting in a Pretoria
black township on T uesday. Her
death raised the toll in South Afri
ca’s 13 months of anti-apartheid tur
moil to at least 709.
Botha told a party congress that 3
million blacks living in “white" South
Africa but who are official citizens of
four independent homelands will
have their citizenship restored. He
also was prepared to give “dual cit
izenship” to an additional 5 million
blacks living inside the four home
lands.
“(This is) additional proof of this
government’s willingness to react to
the agendas of those on the other
side of the negotiating table," Botha
declared at the Orange Free State
province congress of his ruling Na
tional Party in Bloerpfontein.
“This is the manner in which we
will build a common future and not
by throwing stones and carrying red
fiags.”
The statement was a far cry from
giving the vote to blacks. Under
apartheid. South Africa’s 5 million
whites rule 24 million blacks who are
denied most rights.
But the announcement marked
Botha’s first outright acknowledge
ment that a grand design of apart
heid — that blacks are not South Af
ricans but citizens of 10 small,
fragmented homelands — is over.
Six other homelands have refused
independence.
The homeland policy “denationa
lizes” black people, who have been
made citizens of tribal homelands
with varying degrees of self rule.
T he system of homelands is scorned
by many blacks in South Africa and
the homelands are not recognized
abroad.
A&M may exclude
minors from clubs
ByJENS B. KOEPKE
Staff Writer
Minors who are not Texas A&M
students can no longer be members
ofUniversity sports and recreational
dubs, if a proposal by the Intramu
ral Recreational Sports Department
is approved.
The policy, effective Oct. 1 if ap
proved, covers both minors from the
community and children of A&M
faculty and staff, said Dennis Gor-
rington, director of intramural rec
reational sports.
The change was made, said Vice
President of Student Services John
Koldus, because minors, aged 17
and under, are a high-risk liability
and because their membership in
A&M clubs constitutes unfair com
petition with community recre
ational groups.
The state has a clear-cut legal re
sponsibility to students, Koldus said,
but not to non-students. This results
in non-students, especially minors,
being a high-risk liability, he said.
Because A&M clubs have almost
nooverhead costs and free use of fa
cilities, they unfairly compete with
community sports clubs for mem
bers, he said.
As it stands now, non-A&M adults
can participate in club activities if
they can contribute expertise or in
struction, Corrington said. Also,
children of faculty and staff who are
15 and older can use University fa
cilities unescorted, while younger
children must be accompanied by
their parents.
Corrington admitted that because
these children can get into the build
ings, it becomes difficult to stop
them from participating in club ac
tivities.
Dr. Michael Trulson, faculty advi
sor and head instructor of the mar
tial arts A&M Moo Duk Kwan Tae
Kwon Do Club, doesn’t buy the ad
ministration’s arguments.
Responding to the liability ques
tion, Trulson said parents must sign
a waiver before a minor can partici
pate in a club. He added that stu
dents can sue just as easily as minors
in the case of an accident.
As for unfair competition, Trul
son said most A&M clubs don’t have
a commercial counterpart in the
community, unless the minor is will
ing to drive to Houston or Dallas.
“Even if commercial groups were
available, the cost would be prohib
itive,” he said.
Membership at a typical martial
arts school, he said, costs between
$50 and $100 per month. If the
cheaper A&M clubs were not avail
able to the minors, they would prob
ably not participate at all, Trulson
said.
The groups provide a healthy
moral atmosphere that keeps teen
agers “off the streets” and help stem
the growing tide of juvenile delin
quency, he said.
“If they eliminate the minors, they
should at least let children of faculty
and staff participate,” he said.
Trulson added that only five out
of the over 80 members of his club
are minors.
The Intramural Recreational
Sports Department will conduct a
hearing on Sept. 16 at 7 p.m. in 164
Read Building (formerly East Kyle)
to discuss the policy with all inter
ested groups or individuals, Koldus
said. The administration will then
decide if any changes to the policy
are needed, he said.
Trulson said he knows there are
individuals who are prepared to
carry their appeal all the way to the
Board of Regents.
College Station, Texas
Thursday, September 12, 1985
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GOP senators
block vote on
sanctions bill
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Republi
can-controlled Senate on Wednes
day refused for the second time to
end a filibuster blocking legislation
that would slap tougher economic
sanctions against white-ruled South
Africa than President Reagan has
imposed.
The Democratic-led assault on the
filibuster failed on a dramatic roll
call of 57-41 — three votes shy of the
60 needed — with GOP leaders lob
bying to get their way in the well of
the Senate while several black House
members looked on from the rear of
the chamber.
Republicans said they would seek
to postpone a final vote on the mea
sure for several months, until the
impact of Reagan’s sanctions can be
gauged in racially segregated South
Africa. Democrats vowed to con
tinue their fight for the bill, and an
other vote was likely on Thursday.
Reagan says he will veto the bill if it
passes.
“This is no longer an issue of
what’s good for South Africa. It’s a
raw political issue,” said Senate Ma
jority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas
in an appeal for GOP senators to
close ranks.
He pledged to seek a final vote on
the measure “if there’s any slippage,
if there’s any turning back” by Rea
gan, who abandoned his longtime
opposition to sanctions Monday.
But Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-
Mass., said after the vote that Demo
crats would succeed in winning a
vote on the measure by the end of
the year, and aides said an attempt
might be made to attach it to another
piece of legislation if Thursday’s
vote falls short.
Forty-six Democrats and 11 Re
publicans voted to choke off the fil
ibuster. Senate Minority Leader
Robert Byrd of West Virginia was
the only Democrat voting on the
other side, and an aide said he did so
to permit him to demand a reconsid
eration of the roll call. That recon
sideration was tabled, and thus
killed, on a 50-48 vote.
4,500 TDC Inmates allowed to leave cells
Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE — About a fourth
of the 17,000 Texas prison inmates
confined in a massive lockdown were
allowed to leave their cells Wednes
day, two days after officials began
the emergency effort to quell a war
among rival gangs.
Some 4,500 minimum-security
convicts at 13 units were released to
help with various chores at the
Texas Department of Corrections,
the nation’s second largest, spokes
man Charles Brown said.
“There are some things — like
K roviding food and laundry — that
ave to be done to keep the place
running,” Brown said.
The other 12,500 inmates will re
main confined to their cells indefi
nitely, Brown said.
“The situation is still very tense
and until we feel the climate is con
ducive,” he said. “They won’t be let
out,” he said.
Prison Director O. Lane McCotter
on Monday ordered the lockdown,
the second in recent weeks, after
four prisoners were stabbed to death
within a 24-hour period.
Some death row inmates housed
at the Ellis Unit, one of the 13 facili
ties affected by the lockdown, com
plained Wednesday that they are
denied showers, recreation periods,
access to legal materials and are only
fed six sandwiches a day.
“People on death row had nothing
to do with those killings,” said Troy
Kunkle, 19, who was sentenced to
death for the 1984 slaying of a Cor
pus Christi man during a robbery at
tempt. “We know we’re not entitled
to ice cream and cookies, but we
have a right to stamps, showers and
drinks with our food.”
Since the lockdown began, guards
have confiscated 85 weapons, mostly
homemade shanks, Brown said.
He said there have been no .inci
dents of violence since Monday.
“It’s been pretty quiet,” Brown
said. “We hope it stays that way,
knock on wood.”
Some previous lockdowns have
lasted for a couple of weeks before
the security precautions were eased.
But prison officials have labeled
the entire system, which includes
some 38,000 inmates housed at 27
separate units, as very tense.
Most of the recent violence has
been attributed to a recruiting war
between two Hispanic gangs known
as the Texas Syndicate and the
Texas Mafia.
“Part of the initiation rite is that
you beat someone or stab someone,”
Guthrie said.
Officials estimated about 800 in
mates are participants in gangs but
said the number was very conserva
tive.
“It’s the ones we don’t know about
that scare the hell out of me,” Mc
Cotter said. “We’ve got to put a stop
to this now. And I’ll lock down every
unit if I have to.”
“I’m not going to let them (gangs)
dictate how this unit operates,” Dar-
rington Unit Warden Michael
Moore said.
Eight slayings, recorded in eight
days, brought the number of homi
cides this year in the state prison sys
tem to 26, one more than the record
set in 1984.
Three inmates were stabbed to
death Sunday night at Darrington,
south of Houston, in an attack that
lasted no more than 45 seconds. An
other gang slaying occured on Mon
day at the nearby Ramsey II Unit.
Trains crash in Portugal;
over 300 believed dead
Associated Press
VISEU, Portugal — An ex
press train loaded with immi
grant workers bound for France
slammed head on into a domestic
passenger train Wednesday, kill
ing an estimated 300 people, a
deputy fire chief said.
Prime Minister Mario Soares,
who flew by helicopter to the
crash site near this town in central
Portugal, said the accident was
the worst in the history of the
country’s railway system.
“People were being burnt alive,
shouting, jumping from the car
riages and succumbing at the
train windows,” said Duarte San
tos Correia, 37, one of the passen
gers who survived.
Both trains were traveling on
the same track in opposite direc
tions, railway officials said, and
the eastbound international
slammed head on into the west
bound local.
The officials told ANOP, the
domestic news agency, that the
seven-coach international train
was going from Oporto on the
Atlantic Coast to Hendaye,
France. It was behind schedule
and did not wait for the Coimbra-
bound train to move onto a side
track, officials said.
Firefighters and witnesses said
cars in the two trains tipped over
and burst into fiames, setting ab
laze a pine forest along the tracks.
It was not known how many
people were on the two trains,
and no firm figure on the num
ber of casualties was available.
Delfim Azevedo, deputy fire
brigade chief from nearby Mang-
ualde in Nelas state, told ANOP
that most of the 300 people be-
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