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HOUSTON — Hal Lanier, who
learned managing techniques under
St. Louis’ Whitey Herzog for five
seasons, was named manager of the
Houston Astros Tuesday, General
Manager Dick Wagner announced.
Lanier, a third base coach with the
Cardinals last season, signed a two-
year contract and said he hoped to
hire veteran major league manager,
Yogi Berra, as an assistant coach.
“I talked to Yogi yesterday and we
think he’ll be a good addition,” Lan
ier said. “It will be nice to have him
there if I want to ask a question.”
Wagner said Berra was still under
contract to the New York Yankees
but his contract expires shortly.
Lanier, a successful minor league
manager in the Cardinals’ system,
said his experience in the National
League ana Herzog’s recommenda
tion were major factors in his selec
tion to replace Bob Lillis, who was
fired Oct. 7.
“I think I got a great recommen
dation,” Lanier said. “Any time you
get a recommendation from Whitey
Herzog, you’ve really got something
on your side.”
Lanier said he would try to con
vert the Astros, who finished third in
the National League Western Divi
sion last season, into an aggressive,
Aggie, Hog
named AP’s
best of week
Associated Press
Texas A&M defensive back Domi
ngo Bryant and Arkansas quar
terback Mark Calcagni were named
the Associated Press’ Playefs of the
Week Tuesday.
Bryant, who blocked a fourth
quarter field goal attempt by SMU,
was named AP’s Defensive Player of
the Week for his play in the Aggies’
19-17 win over the Mustangs.
Starting in place of injured Greg
Thomas, Calcagni carried 22 times
for 160 yards — the most by an Ar
kansas quarterback since Lamar
McHan had 189 yards against A&M
in 1951 — in the Hogs’ 30-15 victory
over the injury-laden Rice Owls.
“They took away our running
backs,” said Calcagni, who was
picked as AP’s Offensive Player of
the Week. “They knew this was my
first start and they dared me to do
something.”
Rice took a 3-0 lead after inter
cepting a Calcagni pass, but his 55-
yard run to the Rice 8 set up his 6-
yard scoring run on third down. In
Arkansas’ next scoring drive, Cal
cagni had runs of 14 and 17 yards.
He read the option 21 times against
the Owls and made the correct deci
sion 85 percent of the time. Against
Houston, when Thomas was in
jured, Calcagni completed five of his
first eight passes for 166 yards and
guided the Razorbacks to five
straight scores in a 57-27 victory.
base-stealing team, similar to the
Cardinals’ style.
“I want to get it in people’s minds
to take the extra base,*’ Lanier said.
“I don’t like to see a club that goes
base to base and I think that’s the
type of club the Astros have been. I
think there are four or five players
on this team that can steal 25 to 35
bases per year.”
Astros outfielder Kevin Bass is
one of Lanier’s projected base steal
ers and he’s delighted to hear about
the new game plan.
“I think we need to have a giddy-
up offense and he’s going to give us
that,” Bass said. “We have to take
chances. We don’t have the Boston
Red Sox power.
“This is an exciting time. They
seem to be leaning toward the
younger players and since I’m one of
the younger players, I hope my time
has come to play everyday,” he said.
Lanier ended his major league
playing career with the New York
Yankees in 1973, signed as a free
agent with the Cardinals and was a
minor league player-coach until af
ter the 19/5 season.
During his tenure as a minor
league manager, Lanier led Gastonia
to tne Carolina League title in 1977,
and in 1980, he led Springfield to
the American Association
championship.
Lanier joined the Cardinals major
league staff in 1981 as a coach and
was a third base coach in the Cardi
nals’ charge to the 1985 World Se
ries against Kansas City.
Lanier, the son of former Cardi
nal pitcher Max Lanier, signed his
first pro contract in 1961 with the
San Francisco Giants. He reached
the major leagues in 1964 as a sec
ond baseman but primarily played
shortstop for the Giants.
He was the top fielding shortstop
in the National League in 1968.
Cardinal players gave Lanier a
vote of confidence, especially in the
areas of communicating with players
and aggressiveness.
“He’s one of those guys that won’t
allow you to take it easy,” St. Louis
secona baseman Tommy Herr said.
“He wants you to play hard all the
time.”
Cardinal outfielder Tito Land'
rum played for Lanier in the minor
leagues and was a member of the
Cardinals’ World Series team last
season.
“One thing that would helphimis
his playing experience,” Landrum
said. “He knows what it’s liketobea
regular and what it’s like to be an ex
tra player.
“it’s tough handling 25 different
individuals. But he’s always known
how to handle different players and
personalities. Over the course of a
season, that helps.”
Chicago White Sox third base
coach Jim Leyland, who competed
against Lanier as a minor league
manager, also was interviewed for
the job.
Wagner also interviewed former
New York Mets and Atlanta man
ager Joe Torre, former major league
manager Dave Bristol, and former
Minnesota manager Billy Gardner.
In replacing Lillis, Lanier be
comes the ninth manager in Astros
history. Lillis took over Aug. 10,
1982 al ter Bill Virdon was fired.
The Astros finished third in 1983,
tied for second in 1984 and tied for
third last season under Lillis. The
Astros started the 1983 and 1981
seasons with slumps and dropped
out of contention with a poor jul)
last season.
A&M water polo team
deals with its obscurity
By CHRISTOPHER EMIG
Reporter
Contrary to what National
Football League Hall of Famers
Dick Butkus and Bubba Smith say
in their TV beer commercial, wa
ter polo isn’t played with horses.
At Texas A&M, though, it
might as well be because no one
would notice.
Despite second place finishes
the past two years at the National
Indoor Water Polo Champion
ships, the the A&M Water Polo
Club receives little recognition.
Pat Yates, player/coach of the
club, accounts this lack of recog
nition to not having intercolle
giate status.
“Because we are a club sport,
we are not paid scholarships,”
Yates said. “The team members
play strictly for the fun of it.”
But it’s not always fun.
“We work very hard,” Yates
said. “Each year, 30 to 40 kids
show up for the first workout.
But, by tournament time, we end
up witn 12 to 14.
“We practice five nights a
week, 2‘/4 hours a night. We run
three to four miles on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays. We do
sit ups, push ups and various
other strength exercises on Tues
days and Thursdays.
“And, we swim laps and work
on passing and skill drills each af
ternoon.”
F,
All of this work has paid off for
Yates and his squad.
The Aggies competed in three
tournaments in the two months
prior to the national champion
ships last months. They travelled
to tne Air Force Academy in Col
orado Springs, Colo., where it
finished second to the Falcons.
A&M then won an eight-team
tournament at the University of
Texas and finished second in its
final tourney before nationals.
At the national championships
in Orlando, Fla., A&M finishea a
disputed second behind the
Olympic Club of San Francisco.
During the title game between
A&M and the Olympic Club,
Yates said the referee made seve
ral judgement calls which cost the
Ags the title.
“He (the referee) made some
very bad calls,” Yates said. “That’s
the problem with water polo, if
someone doesn’t want a certain
team to win, he can change the
outcome of a game. There is too
much politics in the sport.”
Yates, a Californian who
layed intercollegiate water polo
or the University of California-
Santa Barbara, spoke of the fa-
vortism involved in water polo in
Texas.
“There is very little interest in
water polo throughout Texas,"
he said. "There is no intercolle
giate water polo in the Southwest
Conference and there are very
few high school programs. This
problem stems from the fact that
the only two cities with programs
are Houston and San Antonio.
“When an organizer runs a
tournament in one of these cities,
he hires his own referees and
those referees favor the home
team. The organizers want
power, so they cheat to win their
own tournament. The other
coaches see this and won’t go back
to that town to play again. The
coaches don’t want to deal with
the politics.”
Yates said the “politics” of wa
ter polo is different in his native
California.
“In California, water polo is a
big thing,” he said. “There is an
organized high school program
and everybody has pools. These
players then go on to the college
programs there.”
Yates said the players in Cali
fornia go on to coach in that state,
which oenefits the West Coast
programs even more.
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