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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dick
flovvser, manager of the world
bhampion Kansas City Royals, un-
perwent surgery Tuesday in which a
malignant tumor in the left frontal
lobe of his brain was partially re-
pioved, doctors said.
Dr. Paul Meyer, team physician
for the Royals, said a few minutes af-
^er a statement by Dr. Charles
Plough, the neurosurgeon who per
formed the operation, that the tu-
hior is malignant. Meyer said it was
only partially removed for fear of
damaging the brain.
Meyer said doctors did not know
Jvvhat form treatment will take, but
[that radiation therapy is possible.
Clough, who declined to answer
lany questions, said in a statement
[read at a news conference that How-
Iser’s wife, Nancy, was with him in
Ithe recovery room and he described
[the 50-year-old manager as awake
land alert.
He said Howser was able to speak
land move all four extremities.
Meyer said it will be two or three
[days before doctors know the nature
[of the treatment they will follow.
Dean Vogelaar, a spokesman for
Ithe Royals, said Howser’s condition
was serious but stable.
“He was very alert and he knew
Nancy,” said Joe burke, president of
the American League club.
The operation started at 11:30
a.m. Dave Witty, a Royals spokes
man, said Howser was out of surgery
[four hours later.
He had complained for two weeks
| of a stiff, sore neck and associates
[said he had begun showing signs of
| mental confusion. During the All-
[Star game itself, said Mike Ferraro,
[ one of his coaches, Howser “was to-
j tally out of it...not...with it at all.”
The tumor was discovered by a
I CAT scan on Friday morning.
Ags’ Roper will fulfill dream
of playing on Olympic team
By Ken Sury
Sports Editor
Texas A&M basketball player
Donna Roper has a few hopes she’d
like to fulfill — one is playing on an
Olympic basketball team.
She’ll get that chance Sunday.
Roper, a 5-8 freshman point
guard on the "
Lady Aggies
during the
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son, qual
ified from some 200 hopefuls for the
12-member women’s South basket
ball team this May in Florida. The
team will see its first action Sunday
against the West squad in Houston’s
Flofheinz Pavilion in the second day
of competition of the U.S. Olympic
Festival.
“It felt great, because I never had
the chance to play on an Olympic
team before,” Roper said of her se
lection to the team.
She also said she thinks her play
ing on the team will enhance her
playing skills for the upcoming
A&M basketball season.
This past season, on a predomi
nantly freshman team, Roper aver
aged 10.5 points a game — third-
highest on the team — and led the
Lady Aggies in assists with 125.
The up-and-down-the-court ac
tion will also keep her in shape dur
ing the summer, she said. “(A&M
Women’s Basketball) Coach (Lynn)
Hickey told me to keep running this
summer.” Roper said. “She knows
that I hate to run.”
Roper said she’s hoping her col-
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A&M’s Donna Roper (21) will play on the women’s South basketball
team in the 1986 U.S. Olympic Festival which begins this weekend.
lege experience will pay off as a
large number of the other players
are still in high school.
“From the teams I’ve seen on pa
per, the East has a lot of high school
girls,” Roper said. “So I’m not wor
ried too much (about the challenge
from the East team).”
Roper said she’s looking forward
to the offensive gameplan of the
South team.
“From what I’ve seen,” she said.
“maybe the guard will have some
thing to do. Maybe get a chance to
shoot more from the outside.”
Although she’ll get to play on an
Olympic Festival team, Roper said
she’s still hoping to earn a spot on
the U.S. squad for the 1988 Olympic
Games.
“I dream about being on TV play
ing Olympic basketball,” she said. “I
hope some day that dream will come
true.”
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Athletes testify in Bias death inquiry
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — University
of Maryland athletes and a woman who was with
Len Bias the night he died were among those at a
grand jury inquiry into the death of the basket
ball star Tuesday.
The grand jury also heard testimony from a
state police chemist and from a Prince George’s
County paramedic, neither of whom would dis
cuss his testimony when questioned by reporters
as they left the county courthouse.
One of the athletes was Keeta Covington, a
football player who was with Bias early in the
morning of June 19, just hours before the All
American died of cocaine intoxication.
Covington said the day after Bias died that he
and other friends had talked with Bias about his
selection by the Boston Celtics as the No. 2 choice
in the NBA draft.
“At about 2 o’clock, he (Bias) said he was tired
of all the questions and just wanted to be alone,”
Covington said at the time.
Madelyne Woods, a friend of Bias who saw
him the night he died, confirmed that she had
testified before the grand jury Tuesday but
would not discuss her testimony.
John T. Tobin, an analytical chemist for the
state police, was one of the early witnesses as the
grand jury continued what could be a full week
of meetings on what happened in the hours be
fore and after Bias collapsed in his dormitory
room and was taken to a hospital.
“I examined evidence in this case and gave the
results to the grand jury,” he said. “Other than
that I have no comment.”
Other athletes who were seen in the court
house were basketball players Keith Gatlin, Jeff
Baxter and Phil Nevin.
Two other players who were with Bias when
he died, Terry Long and David Gregg, have
been subpoenaed, but Arthur A. Marshall Jr.,
the prosecutor, has not said whether he will call
them before the grand jury.
Anyone who testifies under a subpoena in a
drug related investigation is immune from pros
ecution, and Marshall said last week he did not
know if he wanted to give immunty to Long and
Gregg.
Marshall said last week that any indictments
returned by the grand jury could come by the
end of the week or early next week. He said they
likely will deal with use, possession or distribu
tion of drugs.
Flutie may be running
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HOUSTON (AP) — Doug Flutie,
who won the Heisman Trophy and a
ro fo'
formal workouts this week in Hous
ton.
million-dollar ticket into pro football
from the quarterback’s slot, is now
practicing catching the football.
How well he does on the receiving
end may decide whether he plays or
sits on the bench this fall with the
New Jersey Generals.
Thanks to a merger between the
Generals and the now-defunct
Houston Gamblers, Flutie is on the
same team with Jim Kelly, twice the
United States Football League’s
leader in total offense and passing.
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Kelly once threw for 4,623 yards
and 39 touchdowns in one season
with the Gamblers. Meanwhile, Flu
tie had something of a mediocre
rookie year with the Generals. He
completed 134 of 281 passes for
2,109 yards and 13 touchdown with
14 interceptions.
“I’m not thinking about the com
petition now,” Flutie said. “I’m just
trying to learn the offense to the
point I can be comfortable about it.”
He still is in running for the lead
quarterback’s position and will share
practice time with Kelly and Todd
Dillon, the second man in NGAA
passing history with 3,587 yards,
Coach Jack Pardee said.
“We’re still counting on him being
a quarterback, and he’s a darn good
one,” Pardee said. “But if it came
down to whether he sat on the bench
or played, I think he probably would
corne and ask us to switch him some
where he could play.”
Flutie, who has a $5 million con
tract, agreed.
2 Mets in weekend scuffle
have Thursday court date
HOUSTON (AP) — New York
Mets’ pitcher Ron Darling and
second baseman Tim Teufel will
appear Thursday at an examin
ing trial regarding their arrest af
ter a weekend scuffle with Hous
ton police, a court official said
Tuesday.
The trial in State District Judge
Joe Kegan’s courtroom will deter
mine whether there is enough ev
idence to send the case to a grand
jury, the court’s coordinator, Da
vid Alsworth said.
The judge agreed to schedule
the trial around the players’
schedule, defense attorney Dick
DeGuerin said.
The two were arrested early
Saturday outside Cooler’s night
club on charges they assaulted a
police officer. Pitchers Bon Ojeda
and Rick Aguilera were arrested
and charged with hindering ar
rest.
All four were released Satur
day afternoon after spending the
night in jail.
While Flutie isn’t giving up that
position, he isn’t ruling out a switch.
He’s been catching passes during in-
“If I was on this team and sitting
the bench, I’d want to be doing
something. I’d want to play some
where,” he said. “So I would proba-
blv take a look at wide receiver.”
Navratilova sweetens
return to homeland
with first-round win
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New York
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New York
54
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Montreal
48 41
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Cleveland
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Philadelphia
45 46
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Baltimore
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Chicago
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Toronto
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St, Louis
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Pittsburgh
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Milwaukee
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Houston
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Texas
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San Francisco
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Kansas City
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San Diego
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Chicago
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (AP) —
Martina Navratilova blew away
China’s Xinyi Li, then blew kisses to
the crowd at she ended an 11-year
long chapter in her life Tuesday at
the Federation Cup.
women s tennis equivaient of the Da
vis Cup.
Navratilova and Pam Shriver then
completed the three-match sweep
with a 6-2, 6-0 victory in’doubles
over Lilan Duan and Xiufen Pu.
Navratilova’s 6-1, 6-0 victory over
China’s top women’s player was her
first match in Czechoslovakia since
she defected to the United States in
1975. This trip is her first time back
since then, and the crowd that over
flowed the No. 1 court at Stvanice
Tennis Stadium cheered her every
shot.
“This is a team sport, and I’m on
the American team,” said Navrati
lova, who received her citizenship in
1981. “I’m an American and I won
for America.”
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“It was emotional, but it was
happy emotion,” she said. “It was
like a chapter in my life that I am fi
nally able to finish. It’s been open
for a long time.”
The victory and the welcome en
abled Navratilova to end an un
settled era in her life.
The victories by Navratilova over
Xinyi and Zina Garrison, 6-3, 6-2
over Ni Zhong, enabled the United
States to advance to the second
round of the national-team, single
elimination tournament that is the
Among other teams advancing
were third-seeded West Germany,
with Steffi Graf beating Belgium’s
Ann Devries 6-3, 6-1, and Claudia
Kohde-Kilsch beating Sandra Was-
serman 4-6, 6-1, 6-1; fifth-seeded
Bulgaria, with Manuela Maleeva
beating the Soviet Union’s Larissa
Savchenko 6-1, 6-2 and her younger
sister Katerina beating Natassia Zve
reva 4-6, 6-1,6-2; and eighth-seeded
Italy, with Laura Garrone beating
New Zealand’s Julie Richardson 6-1,
6-1 and Raffaella Reggi downing Be
linda Cordwell 6-3, 6-4.
The United States, the top seed,
will face Spain in the second round
today. The Spaniards eliminated In
donesia on Tuesday.
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