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ARLINGTON (AP) —Bobby
Valentine says Nolan Ryan brings
out the winning spirit in the
Texas Rangers.
“He’s such a good competitor
that everybody rallies around the
atmosphere,” the Rangers’ man
ager said.
Ryan started the Rangers dou
bleheader sweep of the California
Angels Wednesday, finishing a
10-game homestand in which
Texas won seven. Ryan, 42, and
Charlie Hough, 41, combined for
5-1 and 6-3 victories over the An
gels.
The Rangers began the home-
stand by losing two of three to
Oakland. But as the team pre
pared to leave for a series in New
York Thursday, Texas was just
4'A games behind the Athletics
the American League West.
“Nolan Ryan is a pro. As the
long as the Rangers have him
they’ll be in the pennant race,”
Angels manager Doug Rader
said.
It was only the third time in the
last 56 years that a pair of pitch
ers 40 years of age or older
started a doubleheader for the
same club.
“Both Ryan and Hough were
incredible,” Rader said. “Nolan is
really something at his age.”
Ryan improved his record to 8-
3 with a victory over Chuck Finley
7-5 in the opener. Hough, 4-8,
went seven shutout innings in the
second game to beat Kirk McCas-
kill, 7-3.
Jeff Russell saved both games
to build his total to a league-lead
ing 16.
Ryan put his name in baseball’s
record books again but didn’t
consider it a big deal.
Ryan became the sixth pitcher
in major league history to defeat
all 26 major league teams.
“The only way 1$ accomplish
beating all 26 tearps is to be in
both leagues with two clubs in
each league,” Ryan said after the
seven-hitter. “It’s no great accom
plishment. It should happen if
you hang around long enough
and pitch well.”
Ryan pitched for the Angels
seven years. His last season with
the team was 1979.
“Even though I’ve been away
for a while I’ve always followed
the organization,” he said.“It’ll be
more strange when I go into Ana
heim Stadium.”
Texas outbid California to sign
Ryan as a free agent in the offsea
son.
Rader said the Angels faced
Ryan when he was at the top of
his form.
“Ryan threw awful well,”
Rader said.“He has a tremendous
changeup that sets everything up.
He’s been throwing the changeup
for quite some thing and that’s
the pitch that will keep him
going. He’s just an excellent, ex
cellent pitcher and his fastball
doesn’t tell the story.
“He’s not just a thrower. He’s a
real pitcher. He’ll throw the
change on any pitch in the
count.”
Hough said he would have
liked to go all the way but tired in
the nightcap.
“My arm started getting a little
sore and I didn’t want to risk
going on,” Hough said. “I had a
really good knuckler. It was mov
ing but I kept it over the plate.
“I’ve had a tough time going
even three or four innings this
year. It’s a first time in awhile that
I’ve had a little arm speed and
could throw a knuckler that could
break more than once. It was the
first time in a month or two
months that I had a chance to
strike out a guy when I needed to.
“It’s been a tough little grind
for me. At least my arm felt better
tonight than it has all year,”
Hough said.
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AUSTIN (AP) — The University
Interscholastic League’s policy com
mittee has asked for study of a pro
posal to add a Class 6A division to
UIL competition.
Andy Griffin, football coach and
athletic director at White Oak High
School, said the 6A bracket would al
low more equal competition by em
bracing schools with more than
1,571 students, based on 1987 en
rollment figures.
The plan would not increase loss
of school or study time, and travel
ing distances would not be appre
ciably greater than the current five-
division system, which has been in
place since 1951, Griffin said. He
said his plan, presented Wednesday,
would have 215 schools in the top di-
The key reason for the top con
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enrollments of competing schools,
Griffin said.
“In the past, we have had schools
twice as large as smaller schools in
the same conference,” Griffin said,
adding that only in 6A would such a
wide range of enrollment continue
to exist.
Using 1987 enrollment figures,
Griffin’s plan would have 145
schools with 876 to 1,571 enrollment
in 5A; 145 from 443 to 875 in 4A;
145 from 262 to 442 in 3A; 210 with
130 to 261 in 2A; and 118 with 129
and under in 1 A.
Only two classifications, 6A and
2A, would have as many as 32 dis
tricts, allowing them no byes in the
state playoffs.
UIL attendance figures for the
1988-89 and 1989-90 schooL years
have schools with 1,470 and above in
5A; 740 to 1,469 in 4A; 300 to 739 in
3A; 145 to 299 in 2A; and 144 and
below in 1A.
Policy committee members voted
to ask the UIL Legislative Council,
which formulates rule changes, to
set up a committee to study the pro
posal. Griffin said polls he has con
ducted among his fellow coaches in
dicate 70 percent favor the addition
of a 6A division.
Bill Farney, UIL athletic director,
said the six-conference plan has
been discussed previously but pre
sented travel problems and never
has been put to a vote by UIL mem
ber schools. Schools three years ago
voted down a plan to set up a sepa
rate state football playoff bracket for
the state’s larger schools.
Committee members also asked
the UIL staff to study a proposal to
change a four-year-old rule that
grants waivers allowing foreign ex
change students to compete in UIL
events.
Paul Smith of the Texas Tennis
Coaches Association asked that the
ban on foreign students be re
instated because “we feel that Texas
students are being restricted in par
ticipation in UIL competition and
being robbed of scholarships.”
Ann Grabhorn-Friday, soccer
coach at Anderson High School, said
“a major purpose of the foreign ex
change program is for us to be am
bassadors of American and Texas
goodwill.
Nicklaus one stroke off lead in U.S. Open
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Jack
Nicklaus, the grizzled old Golden
Bear himself, was calling on mem
ories of another golfing era as he
came ambling through a misty, driz
zly rain.
“I figured if I could win by seven
shots back then,” in the 1980 PGA
national championship “well, even if
I’m seven shots worse now, at least
that puts me in contention,” Nick
laus said.
And that’s where he found him
self Thursday after a 3-under-par 67
— one stroke off the lead in the first
round of the 89th U.S. Open golf
championship.
With about half the field of 156
still out, West German Bernhard
Langer, Jay Don Blake and Payne
Stewart shared the top spot with
rain-aided 4-under-par 66s.
“The greens are so soft, it’s like
throwing darts out there,” Stewart
said.
“That’s the reason this course is
yielding so many red numbers,” he
said of the sub-par scoring on the
East course at the Oak Hill Country
Club.
It was on this same course that
Nicklaus finished second to Lee Tre
vino in the 1968 U.S. Open, and
here than he won a record-matching
fifth PGA national chammpionship.
“I know I can play this golf
course. I know I can play well on this
golf course,” said the man who holds
a record 18 major professional titles
and is competing in a record 33rd
consecutive U.S. Open.
But can he still win? At age 49 can
he hold on for three more rounds?
Can he once again harness the magic
that once was his?
“Damn right,” Nicklaus said, slap
ping his hand on a table in mock se
verity.
Then he shrugged.
“I don’t know. I don’t know what
I’m going to shoot tomorrow. I don’t
know what I’m going to shoot the
next day,” Nicklaus said.
“But this was a good round in the
U.S. Open. This was a lot of fun.
This shows me I can still play.”
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Nicklaus acknowledged that time
has changed his attitude.
“A few years ago I’d be sitting
here saying I’m going to be grinding
on it the next three days, looking
ahead to the next round.
“But right now, I’m just kind of
enjoying this round.,” said Nicklaus,
whose last victory came in the 1986
Masters.
“I guess he’ll be all right,” Scott
Simpson said, tongue in cheek. “If
he doesn’t get too nervous under the
pressure the next few days.”
Simpson also had an early 67 and
was tied at 3 under par with Nick
laus, Joey Sindelar and Tom Kite,
the Tour’s leading money-winner.
Curtis Strange birdied his last
hole to escape with a 71.
Seve Ballesteros, PGA champion
Jeff Sluman and Lee Trevino were
not so fortunate.
Trevino, returning to the site of
his first professional triumph, shot
74. Sluman, a Rochester resident on
the rebound from recent surgery,
took a 75.
And Ballesteros, the Spaniard
who holds the British Open title,
scowled and frowned his way to a 5-
over-par round.
Masters champion Nick Faldo of
England, Tom Watson, Australian
Greg Norman, Ben Crenshaw and
Mark Calcavecchia all had late start
ing times.
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