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Walker to be highest-paid Cowboy
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DALLAS (AP) — Herschel
Walker will be the highest-paid Dal
las Cowboy in 1988, making $1.8
million, or more than twice as much
as any other member of the team,
the Dallas Morning News reported
Monday.
The salary figures were obtained
from sources close to the team and
in part from the NFL Players Asso
ciation salary survey, the News said.
The figures show that Walker, en
tering the third year of a five-year,
$5 million guaranteed contract, will
have a base salary of $800,000 and
will collect the final installment of his
$1.4 million signing bonus.
The Heisman Trophy-winning
running back from Georgia signed
Aug. 13, 1986 after the rival USFL
folded. His base salaries are
$400,000, $500,000, $800,000,
$900,000 and $1 million, in addition
to his signing bonus.
Walker got $400,000 of his bonus
in 1987 and will get the final $1 mil
lion in 1988. Last season, he stayed
on strike with the majority of his tea
mmates and lost $125,000, or 25
percent of his $500,000 base salary.
The next highest-paid among the
Cowboys would be quarterback
Danny White, with $775,000 if he
1988 and 1989. He will make
$775,000 if he starts eight times in
1988 and $852,000 if he starts eight
times in 1989.
Part of his salary will be pro-rated
at a base $250,000 lower if he
doesn’t start eight games. Steve Pel-
luer is considered the favorite to
start for the Cowboys next season.
DALLAS
COWBOYS
starts eight games, the newspaper
said.
White, who broke his right wrist
in the ninth game of the 1986 sea
son, signed an unusual contract last
season protecting the team against
his recurring physical ailments.
His base salary of $725,000 re
mains intact as long as he starts eight
games; he started nine in 1987. Had
White, 36, started fewer than eight
games, part of his base would have
been pro-rated at a base of
$500,000.
White has the same type deal in
Randy White ($550,000), Tony
Dorsett ($500,000) and Everson
Walls ($500,000) follow Walker and
Danny White as the Cowboys’ high
est-paid players in 1988.
Dorsett may be making his money
from another team, with coach Tom
Landry saying he will try to honor
Dorsett’s trade request. The final
$2.4 million of Dorsett’s $6 million
annuity will be funded over the next
two seasons.
Free safety Michael Downs,
backup middle linebacker Steve
DeOssie, No. 3 quarterback Paul Mc
Donald and guard Kurt Petersen,
who has missed the last two years
with knee problems, are the only
Cowboys without contracts. They
will become free agents Feb. 1.
Strong safety Bill Bates is among
several Cowboys who accepted the
team’s offer to pay up to $3,500 for a
certified financial planner toj
on investments.
Players have the right top
planner from a list the teat
vides. Athletes losing big
through poor investments a
coming more frequent, andtlie(|
boys are trying to help keep]
players solvent.
The Cowboys intend to ne?J
with all their players entering]
option year, including Jim Je|
Eugene Lockhart, Nate
Crawford Ker, Brian Baldingeil
Ron Burton.
Mike Sherrard, a rookie widt
ceiver, who broke his right I
training camp, lost out ona, (
bonus he would have received!
making the active roster.
Also on Monday, the Loski
Times reported that only sera
the 28 NFL teams made monetj
ing 1987, thanks largely to thee
strike. The newspaper said the]
las Cowboys lost almost $1.9 mil
with club revenue of $30,667,01(1
Data obtained by the Timesj
cated the strike cost NFL
more than $104 million inpotta
income, and the players lost j
lion in unpaid salaries.
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Joyner-Kersee is named
AP female athlete of year
NEW YORK (AP) — Track and
field star Jackie Joyner-Kersee, As
sociated Press Female Athlete of the
Year for 1987, is familiar with the
great career of Babe Didrickson Za-
harias, with whom she is compared.
“I saw her story on TV,” Joyner-
Kersee said. “She inspired me.
“It was touching to see her (high)
jump . . . into sawdust. And to watch
her play golf and tennis.
“Her being a woman, and being so
dedicated in what she wanted to do
was inspiring.”
Joyner-Kersee, the world record-
holder in the heptathlon, co-world
record holder in the long jump and
a former basketball star at UCLA, is
considered the finest all-around
woman athlete in the world today.
It was a title that belonged to Za-
harias for more than two decades,
including 1932, when, competing in
track, she won two Olympic gold
medals and one silver and was cho
sen AP’s Female Athlete of the Year.
She won the honor five more times
— for golf — in 1945-47, 1950 and
1954.
In addition, Zaharias, who died of
cancer in 1956 at age 42, once struck
out baseball Hall of Famer Joe Di-
Maggio, boxed and played football.
This year, Joyner-Kersee, 25, will
try and match the Babe’s two Olym
pic golds in the Seoul Games — in
the heptathlon and longjump.
Her accomplishments in those
events, along with outstanding per
formances in the high hurdles,
helped Joyner-Kersee win the 1987
Female Athlete of the Year Award
Monday.
In balloting by a nationwide panel
of 244 sports writers and broadcast
ers, she received 128 first-place
votes, 68 seconds and 16 thirds and a
total of 880 points, with points al-
loted on a 5-3-1 basis.
West German Steffi Graf, the
world’s top-ranked woman tennis
player and winner of 75 of 77
matches, including the French
Open, finished second in the ballot
ing with 806 points. She had 108
firsts, 82 seconds and 20 thirds.
Third was another tennis player,
Martina Navratilova, the 1983 and.
1986 Female Athlete of the Year.
Navratilova, the only player to beat
Graf in 1987 — in the Wimbledon
and U.S. Open finals — was a distant
third with 182 points, including 10
first-place votes.
Figure skater Katarina Witt of
East Germany placed fourth with
140 points and six firsts, and pro
golfer Ayako Okamoto of Japan was
fifth with 68 points, two ahead of
U.S. golfer Jane Geddes.
Joyner-Kersee and Canadian
sprinter Ben Johnson, the AP’s Male
Athlete of the Year for 1987, will be
presented their awards by the
Tampa Sports Club on Feb. 26 at a
banquet in Florida.
This is only the third time in the
57-year history of the awards that
athletes from the same sport were
chosen in the same year. Zaharias
and men’s golfer Byron Nelson were
honored in 1945 and tennis players
John McEnroe and Tracy Austin
were the winners in 1981.
“When I started competing in
sports, I never thought I would get
to the top,” said Joyner-Kersee, who
grew up in a “tough” neighborhood
in East St. Louis, III.
Joyner-Kersee said that her hus
band and coach, Bobby Kersee, al
ways believed she could be a world
record-holder.
In the past two years, Joyner-Ker
see has done those “little things.”
In 1986, she became the first hep-
tathlete to reach 7,000 points, accu
mulating 7,148 in the Goodwill
Games at Moscow in July, then im
proved the world record to 7,158 in
the U.S. Olympic Festival at Hous
ton in August.
Last year, she equalled the world
record in the long jump, clearing 24
feet 5‘/a inches in the Pan American
Games at Indianapolis Aug. 13, and
the following month, she won the
long jump and heptathlon gold
medals in the World Track and Field
Championships at Rome.
In the longjump, she soared 24-
1%, beating East German Heike
Drechsler, with whom she shares the
world record, and in the heptathlon,
she amassed 7,128 points — only the
third 7,000-point total in history, all
hers — and beat her nearest compet
itor by 564 points.
‘3 Amigos’ catch on
with fans in San Diegi
SAN DIEGO (AP) — At Sea
port Village, about 200 paces
down from the Super Bowl head
quarters hotel, there is a group of
souvenir shops, one of which al
lows tourists to pose with a cutout
of their favorite celebrity.
Ronald Reagan is there, so is
Tom Selleck, but there’s also a
sign advertising the availability of
the NFL’s latest celebrities — the
Three Amigos.
It’s a symbol the world is begin
ning to recognize: There are
other guys on the Denver Bron
cos besides John Elway. It’s also a
symbol of how the NFL world has
turned. Of the six top wide re
ceivers in next Sunday’s Super
Bowl, only 6-foot-3, 210-pound
Art Monk has the size that used to
be required for an NFL receiver.
Monday was the first official
day of Super Bowl week with the
Denver arriving during the af
ternoon. The Washington
Redskins arrived Sunday night
and were immediately jolted by
an earthquake at 5:15 a.m., cen
tered about 75 miles from here in
Mexico.
One member of the Redskins
entourage said it felt like Wally
Kleine, a 6-foot-9, 345-pound
rookie, fell out of bed.
Both the Broncos and
Redskins will be less concerned
Sunday with 345-pounders
than they will be with players who
weigh half that. Both teams in
fact, have led what is becoming a
trend in the NFL — small, quick
wide receivers.
The trend may have started
with the “Smurfs” — Charlie
Brown, Virgil Seay, Alvin Gar
rett, et. al., of the 1983-84
Redskins, the only team besides
the Broncos to go to two straight
Super Bowls in the 1980s. It be
came a boom with the twin
Marks, Duper and Clayton, who
combined with Dan Marino to set
receiving records for the 1984
Miami Dolphins, who lost to San
Francisco in the Super Bowl.
And on to the Three Amipj
— Vance Johnson, 5-1 [
pounds, in his third year; Marl
Jackson, 5-9, 174, in his second j
and Ricky Nattiel, 5-9, 180,
year’s top draft pick. They scrol
in, out and around deferoiu
backs while Elway gives thesl
time to get open with his almosl
unstoppable scrambles.
They have moved Steve Wail
son, 6-4, 195 and a nine-yearw
eran, to the shadows. The 3M
year-old Watson was spliltinjl
time with Jackson until he brokl
six ribs in a replacement gamtf
against the Raiders Oct. 12.Ttial
ended a string of 123 straigli;|
games.
“At that point," Watson sayi
“the Three Amigos emerged,:
I became the Gringo.”
With Elway having his best sea I
son, Johnson (aught 42 passes in I
the 12-game season played bytkl
regulars, Nattiel 31 and Jadsoj
26. Nattiel averaged 20.3 yardsal
catch, Jackson 16.8 and Johnson j
16.3.
In the playoffs, Nattiel hassL\|
catches for an average of
yards; Jackson four for 33.5, ini
eluding an 80-yard TD catdij
against Cleveland on which bfj
caught a 12 yard pass, broke twl
tackles and went all the way, andl
Johnson four for 26.3, althoujlij
he missed the Cleveland garni|
with a irroin injury.
They also present a probleml
for Washington, which likes
use its top conerback, Darrel!I
Green, man-to-man against die
other team’s top wide receiver.
The Redskins will probablvl
start 5-9, 173-pound Gary Clart
and 5-11, 180-pound Ricky Sand I
ers with Monk, who missed the
last six games with a knee injun;
in reserve. Both Clark and Sand-[
ers are refugees from the USFL
which also provided a boost to re [
ceivers of the minisized per
suasion, including Minnesota's
Anthony Carter and Cleveland's!
140-pound Gerald McNeil.
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PALESTINE (AP) — Duke Wal
drop needs a trophy case. His prizes
from more than 20 years of racing
threaten to push the furniture out of
his living room.
“I’ll get around to building a tro
phy room someday,” Waldrop said.
“People expect that when they visit.”
Waldrop, 43, has raced every
thing mechanical that moves — mo
torcycles, cars and, currently, speed
boats.
He is the race director for the In
ternational Outboard Grand Prix, a
circuit of eight speed boat races that
includes the St. Louis Grand Prix.
“Palestine is headquarters for a
racing series that draws half a mil
lion U.S. spectators, $1 million in
prize money and equipment, and a
television audience of about 100 mil
lion,” Waldrop said.
Waldrop, a consultant to Mercury
Marine, is not alone in his obsession
with speed boat racing. His wife,
Fay, is chief scorer for the IOGP. His
l7vyear-old daughter, Stacey, won
the 1981 Texas Divisional
Championship in the midget class,
and son Gary, 20, set a world record
in the midget class several years ago.
“For our kids, it was nothing when
they were growing up to spend the
weekend driving anywhere across
the country to go to a boat race,”
Waldrop said. “We’d drive all night,
qualify, sleep a little, race, then drive
back.”
Waldrop specializes in champ
boat racing, the most sophisticated
class of speed boat. The boat is 15
feet long, weighs 1,000 pounds and
resembles a giant tennis shoe on
foils.
In speed, a champ boat will do
zero to 100 mph in five seconds with
a top speed of 140 mph. A racer can
expect to pull four G’s in the turns
during the standard 50-lap race,
Waldrop said.
“The sensation of handling a
champ boat at 100 mph is like any
other racing at 200 mph,” Waldrop
said.
“But in other kinds of racing, the
track doesn’t change. In a boat race,
the track is never the same twice.”
Unlike an auto race, any move to
change position has to be planned
several laps in advance. Elements as
routine as a gust of wind or the
“rooster tail” off another boat can be
fatal, Waldrop said.
In 1978, Waldrop became the first
Texan inducted into the American
Power Boat Association Hall of
Champions. He won National SE
Class Championships in 1977, 1978,
1980 and 1983 and the World
Championship in 1981.
But two trophies in Waldrop’s col
lection stand out. His trophy as win
ner of the 1982 St. Louis Grand Prix
bears a black arm band in memory
of Tennessee racer Joe Burgess, who
was killed in that race.
“He was one of my closest friends
in racing,” Waldrop said. “The day
he died was the closest I’ve ever
come to quitting. If I hadn’t won, I’m
not sure what I’d have done.”
The other trophy Waldrop che
rishes most is the 1984 Joe Burgess
Memorial Trophy as outstanding
driver in the St. Louis Grand Prix.
Waldrop won his first trophy as a
high school student in Baytown. He
was racing a red 1957 Chevroleil
drag strip in nearby Dayton.
“I couldn’t take the trophy
because if my father had found
about it, I’d have been in bigw|
ble,” Waldrop said.
He continued to specialize ind
land racing in everything from d«
buggies to motorcycles until
joined an in-board racing teamorf
nized by famed oil well ftrefigl*]
Red Adair in the late 1960s.
“I also went to all the firesi
blowouts, but all that traveling'll
little tough with a new baby,’"
drop said.
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