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Wednesday, August 12, 1987/The Battalion/Page 5 Sports hillies’ Gross suspended for possessing sandpaper ■PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The National League suspended Phila delphia pitcher Kevin Gross for 10 days Tuesday for having a foreign substance on his glove. ■The suspension was appealed, but Gross admitted having sandpaper. ■The right-handed Gross was ejected from Monday night’s game ■ainst the Chicago Cubs by umpire John Kibler. The glove was sent to the league office along with a ball that Kibler said was clean. ‘I was caught with sandpaper in r glove,” Gross said Tuesday be fore the Phillies met the Cubs again. ■"They (umpires) thought I was supposedly scuffing the ball and I was ejected. I was not scuffing any ball in the game last night.” ■He said he was just “fooling with” the sandpaper. “I didn’t use it,” he said. ■National League spokeswoman Katy Feeney said Tuesday that sand paper and an unidentified sticky substance were found on Gross’ glove. League President Bart Giamatti said Gross’ suspension was effective immediately. Because of the appeal, however, the suspension was de layed pending a hearing. Gross and the Phillies said the ap peal was filed by the Players’ Asso ciation, not by the pitcher. “I don’t know why they appealed. All I know is that they decided to ap peal,” he said. But Don Fehr, executive director of the Players’ Association, said Tuesday that Gross had full knowl edge of the plan to appeal the sus pension. Fehr said his office had been in contact all day with Gross or his agent. Phillies’ manager Lee Elia also said Tuesday he didn’t know why the suspension was appealed. “I will say that I don’t condone it (sandpaper in the glove),” Elia said. “I’m a little disturbed by it for the simple reason I haven’t condoned it at anytime.” But, he said, “I know this is going on. I have a drawer full of scuffed baseballs. ... In fairness to Kevin, though, it’s not something that is part of his program.” Gross is the second pitcher ejected in the last 10 days. Joe Niekro of the Minnesota Twins was thrown out of a game against the California Angels last week for carrying an emery board and sandpaper in his pocket. American League President Bobby Brown suspended Niekro for 10 days without pay. Niekro ap pealed but was turned down. In the fifth inning Monday night, Cubs Manager Gene Michael asked home plate umpire Charley Williams to inspect Gross’ glove. Williams con sulted with Kibler, the crew chief. They went to the mound, examined both glove and ball and confiscated them. Kibler said the ball was clean when they inspected it. Hickey hires Lichonczak as assistant Lubomyr Lichonczak, the assis tant coach at Old Dominion the past two years, has been named to replace Texas A&M women’s bas ketball assistant coach Shelly Fee ney. Feeney’s husband, who had been an assistant with the A&M men’s team, accepted the head coaching job at Mebai State Com munity College in Virginia, Min nesota. Lichonczak comes to A&M from perennial power Old Do minion, where last year he helped Head Coach Mariane Stanley lead the Lady Monarchs to an 18- 13 record and a berth in the NCAA playoffs. “While we are disappointed that we are losing Shelly, we are excited we have a coach the cali ber of “Luby” joining our staff,” said Lynn Hickey, A&M women’s head basketball coach. ran Am drug tests may be avoidable ■ INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Med alists in some of the 31 sports at the Pin American Games could avoid (j|ug testing, doping control officials said Tuesday. ■ Dr. Eduardo De Rose, acting pres ident of the Pan American Sports Ojrganization’s medical commission, officials running the drug freening program defer to the ■shes of each international sport governing federation in determin ing which athletes will be tested. ■ Officials said their goal is to test medal winners and at least one other competitor in each event, but the ac tual testing method varies by sport. I In some sports, such as shooting, all athletes tested are being selected at random because that is the policy of the international federation, De Rose said. All medal winners could evade testing in those sports. In other sports such as swimming, half of the athletes tested are medal winners and the other half are se lected at random, he said. Athletes in team sports are selected ran domly, he said. “I agree that the president of the international federation (can) say that these are the rules they follow in all international competitions and it should be no different at the Pan Am Games,” he said. “If you fix the people you are going to pick up, it makes it easy for people to use drugs,” he said. “If we test randomly and everyone has the opportunity to be tested, it makes it more fair.” De Rose said organizers have tar geted three sports — weightlifting, track and field, and cycling — for extra random testing because those sports have histories of improper drug use. But there is no special effort to identify and screen athletes who have tested positive at previous com petitions. However, Dr. Ronald Blanken- baker, co-chairman of medical serv ices for PAX-Indianapolis, the local organizing committee, said the PASO commission “reserves the International golf tourney to undergo modifications ’•'> ;l Heidi He favorite 1*1 sckles. lls Loan lT ; lome Ltf', > t0 Pi ionwide •d funds-* vlonday ; :hatforaij istead of j ■se S&f-" ive i n,” CleBj rraml, re whosj doing tf al pul* CASTLE ROCK, Colo. (AP) — Bhe unique scoring system remains in place, but some modifications and additions have been made in the for mat this week in the second edition of the International golf tourna ment. I In addition to the $1 million purse, with $180,000 to the winner, players will compete for another $100,000 in “day” money in the tournament that gets started today at the Castle Pines Golf Club. The leading scorer in each of the first four days of play will receive $10,000, with $7,500 to second, $5,000 to third and $2,500 for fourth. P Scoring is on a modified Stable- ford system, in which points are awarded, or subtracted, for the play ers’ performance on each hole. A double eagle is worth 8 points, eagle 5 points, birdie 2, par zero, bogey -1 and double bogey or higher -3. L Ken Green is the defending / ampion in the 162-man field that, in effect, goes through three rounds of qualifications that will reduce the field to 18 players for Sunday’s final round. Last year, 12 played in the fi nal round. The first round is split into two sections, with 81 men competing to day and 81 Thursday. The top 39 players each day move to Friday’s third round. Those 78 players will compete for 54 spots (39 last year) in Saturday’s third round. Points are not carried over from day to day. Each man starts each round with a score of zero. “It’s like making the cut every day,” Green said. “Call it whacky golf. But I think that’s great. I think we should have more golf tournaments that are dif ferent,” he said. Green is among the half of the field that opens play Wednesday. So are Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and U.S. Open champ Scott Simpson. Leading money-winner Paul Az- inger, Ray Floyd and Fuzzy Zoeller are among those who begin play Thursday. Tom Kite, who has played five consecutive weeks, withdrew early in the week. Larry Nelson, the new PGA cham pion, along with Masters titleholder Larry Mize, Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange also are missing. Sierra’s sacrifice flys give Rangers 7-1 win Molitor extends hitting streak MILWAUKEE (AP) — Ruben Sierra hit two sacrifice flys and Greg Harris scattered seven hits over seven innings Tuesday night as the Texas Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-1. Milwaukee’s Paul Molitor ex tended his hitting streak to 26 games, longest in the majors this sea son, with a first-inning single. Moli tor also tripled home the Brewers’ only run in the fifth inning. Harris, 5-8, struck out six and walked one. The Rangers, who are 2-9 against the Brewers this season, jumped on Mark Knudson, 2-3, for two runs in the first and added three more in the second. Jerry Browne and Scott Fletcher opened the game with singles and Sierra’s fly drove in the first run. Pete O’Brien’s single and a ground- out by Pete Incaviglia made it 2-0. Oddibe McDowell doubled to ■■■■■■■■■ Our Inventory Includes Famous Names Like... Bassett, Broyhill, Pulaski, Riveside, Universal, Mayo, Bushling, Schweger, Kincaid, Kenline, Cardina, Sealy Many Other 5 Pc. Dinettes $89. 95 Desks $99. 9S Table . Lamps $9. 95 Miscellanous Chest of Drawers $59. 95 Miscellaneous Sofas, Love Seat S Chairs Ottomans $99 95 Bedding Specials Twin or Full Size Your Choice Ea, Pc. $49." 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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eight Dominicans were missing from the athletes’ village Tuesday at the Pan American Games and the head of the nation’s delegation called them “deserters.” In Washington, the U.S. State De partment denied a visa to a Chilean shooter, prompting condemnations from officials within the Pan Ameri can Sports Organization. The missing Dominicans — all members of the armed forces — in cluded cyclists Eugenio Deschamps and Teodoro Sosa, wrestlers Fran cisco Lora and Fausto Santana and weightlifters Angel Bernal, Angel Diaz, Luis Schowe and Manuel Volc- quez. “This is the first time that some thing like this has happened to a Do minican sports delegation,” Bienve- nido Solano, the leader of the Dominican Republic team said. “We are ashamed and disappointed.” The visa denial involved Chilean shooter Francisco Zuniga, who is re puted to be a member of Chile’s se cret police. “We condemn the refusal of a visa to a sportsman intending to partici pate wherever it occurs when that sportsman is endorsed by his Olym pic committee,” PASO president Mario Vazquez-Rana said. WEIGHTLIFTING Former Cuban world champion Roberto “Tony” Urrutia, who de fected to the United States in 1980, lost to two former teammates in the middleweight division. Urrutia, representing the United States for the first time in interna tional competition, won the bronze medal in snatch. Cuba’s Pablo Lara won the gold with a lift of 145 ki lograms, and Francisco Allegues got the silver by lifting 140. Urrutia, a winner of six Pan Am golds for Cuba, lifted 137.5 ki lograms. Cuba has won all 17 weightlifting gold medals so far, plus two silvers and a bronze. TEAM SPORTS Vaughn Alvey of Sandy, Utah, pitched a no-hitter, walking the first batter, then retiring the next 21 in a 9-0 rout of Argentina. Alvey struck out 12 and allowed only two balls out of the infield. Jim Buehning of Short Hills, N.J., was suspended for the rest of the team handball competition after striking a Canadian player in a game Sunday. The United States filed a formal protest of the suspension of Buehning, whose father Dr. Peter G. Buehning, is president of the Pan American Team Handball Feder ation. SMU to replace football with fall polo and soccer DALLAS (AP) — With the foot ball Mustangs hobbled this year at Southern Methodist University, an enterprising club is trying to replace them with polo ponies. The Willow Bend Polo and Hunt Club has invited about 1,600 frater nity and sorority members to polo matches this fall, and those games, along with other events, will try fill the void left when SMU Mustang football’s 1987 and 1988 seasons were canceled in the wake of a re cruiting scandal. “All (fraternities and sororities) want to do it right away. Things are very positive,” said Dan Dooley, who graduated from SMU last spring and is promoting the polo matches with two partners. Polo is the most unusual alterna tive planned for SMU students fac ing their first fall without football. School officials and student groups have arranged “a full smorgasbord of programs,” said Jim Caswell, dean of student affairs. Officials hope concerts, plays, lec tures, soccer matches and other events will leave no one “feeling lo nesome for taking the bus to Texas Stadium” where SMU played its home football games, Caswell said. University officials acknowledge, however, winning hearts and minds without the pigskm will be difficult. “You got the impression SMU was so inextricably tied to football it was incapable of doing anything without it,” said Bill Johnston, director of the student center and student activities at SMU. If nothing else works, there’s al ways polo. Willow Bend, whose matches have been open to the pub lic on Sundays, has added public matches on Saturdays to accommo date SMU students, said Claudia Hill, special events coordinator at Willow Bend. . Back on campus, the school will have plays and concerts, and soccer will become the big game. The na tionally prominent soccer team will move its games from Fridays to Sat urdays — a day the team had avoiaed so as not to conflict with football games. Montreal’s GM resigns start a string of five straight hits in the second and scored on Mike Stan ley’s single. Tom O’Malley and Browne singled for another run and then Fletcher loaded the bases with a bunt single past the mound. Sierra made it 5-0 with a fly to center. McDowell hit an RBI double in the eighth and scored on a ground- out by O’Malley. NEW YORK (AP) — Montreal Expos general manager Murray Cook resigned Tueday night after his team’s 6-2 loss to the New York Mets. An announcement released by Expos said Cook resigned for per sonal and family reasons. The resig nation was effective immediately. The team said Bill Stoneman, vice president for baseball administra tion, would become assume the du ties of general manager. Cook, 36, was named Montreal’s general manager on Sept. 5, 1984. He spent 25 years in baseball admin istration, the first 21 in the Pitts burgh organization and more than a year as the New York Yankees’ gen eral manager. The Expos had been one of the surprise teams in the major leagues this season. Having lost Andre Daw son to free agency, minus Tim Raines for the first month of the sea son and with a shaky pitching staff, the Expos have stayed in contention in the National League East all sea son. Wednesday, Special I 1 Buy a LARGE one topping PIZZA plus a pitcher of soft drink for only 501 University 99 good every Wednesday Northgate