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Thursday, October 24, 1985/The Battalion/Page 13 SWC cast as a gang of outlaws Baylor's Teaff rejects 'Sure Will Cheaf idea Royals' offense suffers without Series DH rule far gam ed," Spcra us. Bunim •ight. Thtii helped us.' )v> 17-4ord hwest Cotifa .500 teams matches. Ha earned tliati! venbodf. said, we I day when wi Spence said d a lessons ed four weali Tech. It was igainst Baste 3d t retired I3s ; straight on® ng. Steve I with a tMKi elder CesaiH j catch ofn SundberjB! fifth inning 11 scoring i ^ho worked st Saturday led off tte third hit on I > left. One o^l d to righ Tudor n roken-te . cd on 3 3’* f /orrell want bullpen, ireat whe iarplv w ” fr ' By HAL BOCK AP Sports Writer ST. LOUIS — Whatever else one may think of the designated hitter, baseball compounds the crime by de- American League teams of this offensive weapon every other year in the World Series. That is patently unfair. For baseball purists, the DH is an aberration, a slur on the strategic beauty of this marvelously cerebral sport. But to have your league cham pion constructed to Fit a particular profile and then order it drastically altered in the World Series is inde fensible. Hal McRae, a professional hitter, is Kansas City’s DH and regular cleanup batter. He hit .259 with 14 home runs and 70 runs batted in this season, a significant contribution to a team whose offense is distinctly lightweight. He is, however, missing in action in this World Series, legis lated out of business by the no-DH rule used in alternating years. Frank White did an admirable im itation of a cleanup hitter in Game 3, driving in three runs with a home run and a double. But he was not the replacement for McRae and his DH partners, who drove in 113 runs among them for the Royals this sea son. White, remember, would be in the batting order anyway. In place of McRae and Co., we have the KC pitchers, batting a col lective .000. The last time an Ameri can League pitcher had a hit in the World Series was 1979, when Tim Stoddard managed a single for Balti more. Appropriately, perhaps, Stod dard now pitches, and bats, in the National League. Including Stoddard’s single, AL pitchers since 1975 are a collective 1- for-62. They are automatic outs and it hardly seems fair for one Series team to play with eight bats while the Aggie Sportscope A&M rifle team takes first at Sam Houston Invitational The Texas A&M rifle team, ranked No. 8 in the NCAA, captured first-place this past weekend at the Sam Houston State Invitational in Huntsville. The Aggies’ 2,253 points, out of a possible 2,400, put them ahead of second-place Texas and the rest of the 12-team field. Individually, A&M took first and second place. A&M’s Eric Upta- grafft, who is in the running for All-America honors, was first and Chris Fedun was second overall. The Aggies’ next tourney is this Saturday at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., home of the lOth-ranked Falcons. A&M racquetball club weekend fall tourney results The Texas A&M Racquetball Club held its Fall Tournament this past weekend. The final results were as follows: Men’s A Division — Guillermo Paiz defeated Fernando Fonseca to take Ftrst-place. John Wyatt won the consolation final. Men’s B Division — Charlie Smith def. Ken Alexander to take first- place. Ken Rowlands won the consolation final. Men’s C Division —John Sivinski def. Sam Gunderson to take first- place. Jean Pavelka won the consolation final. Women s Round-Robin Winner— Kathy Koprivnikar. Mixed Doubles Winners — Kathy Langlotz/David Ragsdale Women’s Doubles Winners — Mary Bean/Kathy Langlotz Men’s Doubles Winners — Steve Sullivan/ Bobby Warrington other uses nine. The Royals’ attack limps along in the best of times. Tuesday night’s six-run production was rather un characteristic for a club that finished next to last in the AL with a .252 bat ting average. It can ill afford to sur render any part of its offense, much less its No. 4 hitter. National League stubborness, a traditional if not always quaint trait, has forced the AL into mis corner. On the surface, it seems fair. We’ll play the World Series by your rules this year and we’ll play by my rules next year. In order to maintain peace in our time — something British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain dis covered was not always possible — the AL swallowed hand and accepted that decree. What it really did, how ever, was shoot itself in the foot. NL teams are accustomed to hav ing pitchers bat and design their of fenses with that in mind. It is no bur den for them to go that way. In years when the Series is played with the DH, it merely supplies the NL champs with a useful extra bat. That is a lot nicer than being deprived of a hitter you depend upon all season long, which is what happens when AL teams must play without the DH. Last spring. Commissioner Peter Ueberroth promised a poll of the fans to decide whether baseball should adopt the DH rule for both leagues or discard it entirely. The g olf, Ueberroth’s office says, has een completed and the results are still being digested. However, any change in the play ing rules, including the DH, must be negotiated with the players associa tion. The union may not be anxious to eliminate the rule because it keeps older players in the game. It also may not be in the most congenial mood after the owners voted Tues day to unilaterally terminate the drug agreement they negotiated last year. So, it is hard to imagine this issue being resolved soon. And that means in 1987, AL pitchers probably will have a chance to extend the longest collective batting slump in World Se ries history. 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The Southwest Conference is fast becoming known outside its Texas- Arkansas borders as much for being “out-of-control” as for “ball-control” offense. Only Rice and Arkansas can claim they haven’t had dealings with the NCAA in the last year about possible rules violations. Basketball at Baylor and Houston has been under scru tiny, and the remainder of the schools have talked about their foot ball programs with the NCAA. Commissioner Fred Jacoby says the SWC may be the cleanest confer ence around because, like a small town, everybody gossips about ev erybody. Nobody can get away with any thing long without a neighbor squawking to the authorities. But the SWC has given new mean ing to the “Neighborhood Watch” signs you see around town. The con ference has an outlaw image, like it or not. No, SWC doesn’t really stand for “Sure Will Cheat,” but the cynics say it’s so. Which brings us to the refre shingly clean program of Baylor Coach Grant Teaff, who has proved you can win without casting green backs on the recruiting waters. Teaff is in his 14th year as the head papa Bear. During his tenure, Baylor has been in two Cotton Bowls and is threatening to pay yet another visit to the Dallas landmark. The football Bears have accom plished their goals without a hint of slush funds and payoffs. This is not to suggest Baylor has been perfect in its recruitment of prospective high school athletes. It’s hard not to break some of the hun dreds of minor NCAA rules which include, for example, no pictures of a coach and an athlete together on signing day. But being “perfect” in the scan dal-ridden SWC takes on a whole new definition after Kenneth Davis’ stories of payoffs at TCU. Baylor hasn’t been accused of doing anything wrong of a major or minor nature by the NCAA since Teaff has been in Waco. How do we know? You haven’t forgotten about the SWC “Neigh borhood Watch,” have you? Teaff, who has undergone some sniping recently for hiring former TCU Coach F. A, Dry as an assistant, has kept his program free of scan dal. He’s had a few pebbles tossed at his program. There have been a few off-the-record minor grumbles by other SWC members about Teaffs uncanny ability to land talented Texas black athletes. Baylor is rep resented by more players in the NFL than any other SWC school. Teaff has kept the green and gold remarkably clean with all the cheat ing dirt flying around in the SWC over the big bucks business of big- time college football. He once walked out the front door of the house of a high school recruit who suggested some under- the-table business, and never called him again. With his team ranked in the Top 20 and free of scandal, let’s give Teaff some credit. The SWC could use another hero. 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