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Wednesday, October 15,1986AThe Battalion/Page 11 Akers allows Simmons to practice AUSTIN (AP) — Texas run ning back Edwin Simmons, sus pended Sept. 28 for disciplinary reasons, will return to practice as the Longhorns prepare for Satur day’s meeting with Arkansas, Coach Fred Akers said Tuesday. Akers would not say if Sim mons would be allowed to play against the Razorbacks, only that he was cleared for practice. “It is my decision,” said Akers, "but I value the opinion of my players. This is there football team, and they felt it was best that he get back out here.” Akers had asked his team their opinion of whether Simmons should be reinstated, and the players asked that Simmons pre sent his case to them. Following a meeting with Sim mons, UT team leaders told Ak ers they were convinced that the senior deserved another chance. Simmons’ suspension came af ter he was apprehended naked outside an Austin house by police who responded to a prowling call. No charges were filed, but Sim mons missed the Longhorns’ games with Rice and Oklahoma. “1 made a mistake,” Simmons said following the Tuesday prac tice. “I am just happy to be back out here. I realize that what I did caused embarrassment to my school and my team.” Milestone almost unnoticed LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) —When Walter Payton, the Chicago Bears’ veteran running back, reached his latest NFL milestone, it went some what unnoticed. As Payton, the league’s all-time rushing leader, caught a 30-yard pass from Jim McMahon late in Sun day’s 20-7 victory over Flouston — the Bears’ sixth triumph without a loss — he became the first player to reach 20.000 combined yards. That includes rushing, receiving and returning kicks. With his 76 yards rushing Sunday, Payton now has 15,442 yards rushing, 4,025 yards receiving and 539 yards on kick returns. Play was not stopped when Payton reached the 20,000-yard mark. Pay- ion was not given the ball and there was little fanfare over the milestone. One reason might have been be cause of an error in the statistics. It was thought Payton needed 61 yards to reach 20,000, but it turned out he needed 100 because of a clerical er ror in w'hich he was credited with 39 yards on a punt return which, in reality, was a punt by the versatile Payton in his rookie year in 1975. “It’s not my fault,” Payton said about the game not being held up. “I would have liked to have been given the ball since nobody else had done it (reached the 20,000 mark). It would have been nice.” Bears acquire Fiutie CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Bears have acquired the rights to Heisman Trophy quarterback Doug Fiutie from the Los Angeles Rams for an unannounced future draft choice, Bears’ General Manager Jerry Vainisi announced Tuesday. “We did not give a high draft choice so w'e thought why not take a chance,” said Vainisi. “We want to sign him to a 1987-88 contract and that would make him available this season if something happened to our quarterbacks. “We were in competition with three or four other clubs,” Vainisi said during a break in the NFL’s owners’ meeting. Fiutie, who at 5-foot-9 has been considered too small to play in the National Football League, has said he wants a chance to prove himself and was delighted when he learned the undefeated Bears were inter ested in his services. “I’m an anxious kind of kid, I don’t like to sit still,” said Fiutie, who was in Boston when he heard the news. “But I realize the situation. I know Jim McMahon is the No. 1 quarterback.” Fiutie, the 1984 Heisman Trophy winner out of Boston College, played in the United States Football League with the New Jersey Gener als last year. McMahon has been hampered by injuries through most of his career and is currently nursing a mild shoulder separation. McMahon is backed by Steve Fuller and Mike Tomczak. Oilers trade Moriarty HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Oilers traded starting fullback Larry Moriarty to the Kansas City Chiefs Tuesday for an undisclosed draft choice and placed guard Mike Munchak on injured reserve. Moriarty started 12 games for the Oilers last season arid had just returned to the starting lineup last week after recovering from a shoulder injury suffered against the Chiefs in the third game this year. Munchak suffered a knee in jury in the First quarter of Sun day’s 20-7 loss to Kansas City will undergo arthroscopic surgery to day. NL president clears Scott of scuffing NEW YORK (AP) — Mike Scott, the Houston Astros’ pitching star who has baffled the New York Mets twice in the National League play- ffs, Tuesday was declared innocent [if scuffing baseballs by NL presi dent Chub Feeney. eeney met with Frank Cashen, the Mets’ general manager, before the fifth game of the best-of-seven series. “As far as we know, Mr. Scott is not guilty of this infraction,” Feeney aid in a statement. “A man is inno- :ent until proven guilty. “However, we will be watching losely the next time he pitches, and vill take appropriate action if nec- ?ssary.” Scott’s next start is scheduled fbursday at Houston in the decisive ieventh game,i if the series goes that ar. The Houston right-hander, who pitched for the Mets from 1979-82 before being traded to the Astros for outfielder Danny Heep in December 1982, won the first and fourth games of the series, allowing a total of eight hits, one run, one walk and striking out a playoff record 19 bat ters in 18 innings. His dazzling performances have brought loud complaints from the bewildered Mets, who have claimed that Scott has been doctoring the ball — possibly with sandpaper — before delivering it. Scott — and the Astros — have contended, however, that his split- fingered fastball, taught him by San Francisco Manager Roger Craig, has been mostly bothering the Mets’ hit ters. “I think he could make a cue ball dance, but if he is defacing the ball, I’d like to see him stopped,” Mets Manager Davey Johnson said. Johnson claimed Scott keeps the sandpaper in his palm. “He doesn’t rotate the ball, he just makes a grinding motion,” Johnson said. “It’s biatant to me.” As attempted evidence against Scott’s scuffing, the Mets collected 17 baseballs and put them in John son’s desk. However, Doug Harvey, chief of the umpiring crew for the NL play offs, scoffed at the Mets’ scuff-ball charges. “(The Mets) have 17 balls, I’ll show you 30 balls (the Astros) say are scuffed by the Mets’ pitchers,” Har vey said. “It’s funny the Mets never once asked to see a ball while it was still in play.” Harvey also said that he had um pired behind home plate while Scott was pitching at least five times dur ing the season and in the opening playoff game, adding, “The man is just one hell of a pitcher.” “Are the Mets trying to get to his mind?” asked Harvey, who ejected pitcher Don Sutton in 1978 for alleg edly scuffing baseballs during a game against St. Louis. “Possibly.” Houston Manager Hal Lanier made light of the Mets’ dark assess ment of Scott’s pitches. “Mike has never been been con victed in a court of law,” he said. “I heard the Mets were colllecting Scott’s baseballs. 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