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Red Sox pitcher Clemens
earns AL Cy Young Award
KATY (AP) — Roger Clemens,
the Boston Red Sox’ right-hander
who came bac k f rom shoulder sur
gery to lead the major leagues with
24 victories, became only the third
unanimous winner of the American
League Cy Young Award on
Wednesday.
“These honors are great, but in a
heartbeat I would trade them all to
be wearing that World
Championship ring,” said Clemens,
whose Red Sox were beaten by the
New York Mets after Coming within
one sti ike of winning the World Se
ries.
Clemens, at his home in Katy,
about 30 miles from Houston, said
he hoped he or his teammate Jim
Rice would win the league’s Most
Valuable Player Award, which will
be announced next week.
Aware that pitchers usually do not
win that honor, he said, “A lot of the
oldtimers have told me that I have
changed their minds about that.”
The voting, as with all the Base
ball Writers Association Awards, was
completed before the postseason
games.
Clemens joined Detroit’s Denny
McLain and New York’s Ron Guidry
as the AL’s only unanimous Cy
Young winners since the baseball
writers began giving the award to
the best pitcher in each league in
1967.
“There were several outstanding
pitchers in the league this year, but
only one Roger Clemens,” Boston
Manager John McNamara said. “It
would have been the robbery of the
century if he hadn’t won.”
In his first full season with the
Red Sox, Clemens set a major league
record by striking out 20 batters in a
3-1 victory over Seattle last April 29.
He won 14 games before absorbing
the first of his four losses in a 4-2 de
feat by Toronto on July 2. He beat
every team in the league at least once
while leading the AL with a 2.48
ERA and finishing second to
Seattle’s Mark Langston in strike-
outs, 245 to 238.
Clemens, who pitched Texas to
the College World Series
championship before signing with
the Red Sox as a No. 1 draft pick in
1983, received the maximum 140
points in the voting. He was the top
choice of all 28 writers, two in each
league city.
McLain was a unanimous choice
in 1968 and Guidry in 1978.
On a 5-3-1 point basis, Milwau
kee’s Ted Higuera was second with
42 points and California’s Mike Witt
was third with 35.
Reagan honors Mets
for World Series win
WASHINGTON (AP) -y Presi
dent Reagan toasted baseball’s fin
est Wednesday, welcoming a dele
gation of the World Series
champion New York Mets to the
White House and proclaiming
them the pride of America.
“You have certainly done your
selves, the city of New York and all
America proud,” Reagan said in
congratulating the handful of
players, including pitchers Dwight
Gooden and Bob Ojeda and
catcher Gary Carter, who joined
him at the Rose Garden cere
mony.
Mets Manager Davey Johnson,
who had been on an exhibition
tour of Japan, was not on hand,
nor were such key members of the
team as first baseman Keith Her
nandez, outfielders Darryl Straw
berry and Mookie Wilson and
pitcher Ron Darling.
Reagan recalled the 1962 Mets,
a hapless bunch that posted a 40-
120 record and prompted Casey
Stengel to question, “Can’t any
body here play this game?”
“Well, not only did the Mets
show America that the ‘Other
Team from New York’ could play
this game, they did it their way —
the Mets made ’em say, ‘Ya Gotta
Believe,’ ’’the president, a self-de
scribed Chicago Cubs fan, told the
audience of players’ wives and
members of the New York con
gressional delegation.
Reagan commented on the
Mets’ comebacks over the Boston
Red Sox in Games 6 and 7 to win
the World Series.
“You came back to epitomize
what that other bard of baseball,
Yogi Berra, once said — ‘The
game isn’t over ’til it’s over,’ ” the
president said.
Carter presented Reagan with
an orange-and-blue Mets warm
up jacket, with the name Reagan
emblazoned on the back, and
handed Vice President George
Bush a Mets cap.
Letters show UT didn’t make SWC allegation^
AUSTIN (AP) — A newspaper
that has obtained letters from the
University of Texas to the NCAA re
ported Wednesday that nothing in
the cofrespondence indicates the
school informed the NCAA of po
tential rule violations by any South
west Conference school.
Seven letters were released to the
Austin American-Statesman in re
sponse to a request for UT’s corre
spondence with the NCAA. The
newspaper’s request was made un
der terms of the state Open Records
Act.
The newspaper reported that the
letters contained the school’s re
sponses to five allegations about im-
proprities in UT athletics and accuse
a non-SWC school of violations in its
swimming program.
Parts of some letters were deleted
by order of Attorney General Jim
Mattox to protect the privacy of stu
dent-athletes.
The American-Statesman said
“nothing in the documents” indi
cates that UT informed the NCAA
of possible rules violations by South
ern Methodist University or other
Southwest Conference schools, as
has been suggested by some.
The American-Statesman re
quested the documents on March 24,
1986.
The university initially declined to
release certain letters, saying that to
do so would violate restrictions on
the release of academic records and
invade the privacy of people men
tioned in the letters.
Mattox ruled last week that UT
could withhold letters or parts of let
ters naming people who matric
ulated at UT, but he said the univer
sity was required to release the other
information.
One letter obtained by the Ameri
can-Statesman told the NCAA that
UT had arranged “improper trans
portation” for a high school football
player in 1985 and had “immedi
ately terminated” its recruiting ef
forts once the problem was discov
ered.
UT Men’s Athletic Director De-
Loss Dodds said that matter involv
ing high school player Wayne
Walker might still be pending with
the NCAA. Walker, a wide receiver,
went on to attend Texas Tech Uni
versity.
Dodds said UT investigated the
ride and learned that former de
fensive assistant Mike Parker had ar
ranged for an alumnus to drive
Walker from Waco Jeff erson Moore
High to Austin for a recruiting visit.
Leon Black, UT assistant athletic di
rector, said the NCAA allowed
alumni to give rides to players on re
cruiting visits until three years ago.
The NCAA considers actions that
tend to produce an improper advan
tage in recruiting to be among the
most serious violations of its rules.
Dodds said UT has been cleared
of any wrongdoing in the other mat
ters.
The American-Statesman said
those other matters on which UT
corresponded with the NCAf
eluded:
• Allegations that a former
basketball assistant organized
season practices, which are to
by the NCAA.
UT officials said the charge»
was substantiated. Dodds saidtk
legation was made by aixa
school, but he didn’t known
one. I he assistant involvedsitKt
moved to another university. I
• An allegation that bashc
coach Boh Weltlich improperly
tertained the coach of a recraj
prospect and the coach’s wife, f
I his involved the recruiting
Carlton McKinney, who signedt
Tulsa and since has transferrd
SMU. Dodds said that whenMci
ney. then an all-state forwardl
Nixon, made his official visitto!|
his coach, Dan McGovern, an
coat It's wife accompanied thep
UT took McKinney on a boa
on Town Lake, and Weltlich in
the M< Governs along as “aeon
courtesy,” Dodds said in a 19H
ter to t he NCAA.
• A picture of UT football(
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