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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
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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
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8 Dominicans missing
from Pan Am village
right to test any athlete at any time”
for the more than 3,700 name drugs
that are banned.
In 1983 at Caracas, Venezuela, 11
Pan Am medal winners from six na
tions were stripped of their medals
for illegal drug use.
Based on experience at that and
other international competitions, De
Rose estimated that 1.5 percent to 2
E ercent of the 1,070 Pan Am ath-
rtes scheduled for testing would test
positive.
However, the number could be
lower because many nations, includ
ing the United States and Canada,
tested their athletes during national
qualifying for the Pan Am Games.
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.
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