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. Who knows what
could have happened once those
balls got in the Mets’ clubhouse?
“If the Mets are (such) big fans of
Scott’s, then they should bring them
(the baseballs) over to Mike and he
can autograph them.”
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