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■ ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Bo
knows, and so the American League
goes.
■ He . did it all and when he was
done, the Americans won 5-3 and
Had consecutive All-Star Game victo
ries for the first time since 1958.
I He led off with a monstrous home
run. He stole a base, and took two
others. He drove in two runs, scored
twice, saved two more with a run
ning catch and was named the
ame’s most valuable player.
Jackson, who has never led off for
ansas City, made Manager Tony
a Russa’s gamble pay off. He and
fade Boggs hit consecutive home
tuns in the bottom of the first inning
off Rick Reuschel. Jackson became
Bie fifth player to lead off an All-
Star Game with a home run and the
ninth to homer in his first All-Star
appearance.
I “He’s a sinkerball pitcher and I
think he left a sinker out over the
plate a little bit, and I was able to golf
Swing and get a piece of it,” Jackson
said.
“I thought I made a good pitch.
Hejust went down and got it,” Reus
chel said. “I heard about his power
and strength and I saw it first-hand
tonight.”
The NL, true to tradition, came
out running. Ozzie Smith led off
with a single and was caught steal
ing, and Tony Gwynn walked.
Gwynn was on the move as Will
Clark grounded out, but major
league RBI leader Kevin Mitchell
and Howard Johnson hit RBI sin-
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Jackson drove in the tiebreaking
run in the second, singled in the
fourth and left after the sixth. By
then, Nolan Ryan was on the way to
being the winning pitcher and AL
narrowed its All-Star gap to 37-22-1.
Starter Dave Stewart, who pitched
eight innings for Oakland on Satur
day and was La Russa’s choice over
fan favorite Ryan, left after one in
ning, giving up two runs. He usually
does not eat on game days because
he gets nervous, and maybe he was
this time.
Ryan, at 42 the second-oldest
pitcher in All-Star history and the
oldest to win a game, pitched two
scoreless innings in relief. Ryan al
lowed one hit and, even without his
best fastball, struck out three.
Atlanta’s John Smoltz, the young
est pitcher in the game, was the
loser.
The AL led 5-2 after three in
nings. The NL tried to rally in the
eighth when Von Hayes hit an RBI
single, but Doug Jones retired Tim
Wallach on a fly ball with two run
ners on base to end the inning.
The victory was the third in four
All-Star games for the American
League after losing 20 of 21.
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HOUSTON (AP) — Unrestricted
free agent Larry Smith, a rebound-
W* ing specialist with Golden State the
ance, lev p ast nine seasons, signed a three-
id Amen: ^ear contract worth $2.5 million with
compel:, the Houston Rockets Tuesday.
The 6-foot-8 Smith, Golden
. ,_State’s first-round pick in 1980, av-
Iministras eraged 5.7 points and 8.2 rebounds
per game last season and started 78
games for the Warriors.
Smith has been one of Houston’s
primary targets in obtaining a strong
rebounder during the off season.
Since he was an unrestricted free
agent, the Rockets do not have to
compensate Golden State for Smith.
“He’s recognized as one of the top
three or four rebounders in the
NBA,” General Manager Ray Patter
son said. “He’s a blue-collar player
who gives us additional strength in
the front line along with Akeem Ola-
juwon, Otis Thorpe, Tim McCor
mick and Walter Berry.”
Smith has averaged 10.4 re
bounds during his NBA career, and
only once in his nine seasons has he
had more points than rebounds.
That was in 1984-85 when he had
887 points and 869 rebounds in 80
games.
Smith underwent off-season sur
gery to repair ligament damage to
fingers on both hands.
“I had ligament tears on the little
fingers of the right and left hands
but everything is okay now and I’m
excited about getting started,” Smith
said.
Rockets coach Don Chaney said
the addition of Smith would bolster
his rotation system.
“We needed additional rebound
ing and we made great strides last
year by signing Otis Thorpe,”
Chaney said. “Now we’ve got that
third guy to come in and give us a
three or four man rotation.”
Smith earned $600,000 with the
Warriors last season and recently re
jected a two-year contract offer.
Smith, who attended Alcorn State,
was the Warriors’ first round pick in
the 1980 draft, the 24th player cho
sen overall.
LLORENCE, Ala. (AP) — The
LBI said Tuesday that more than
$500,000 in cash was confiscated in
raids on an alleged gambling opera
tion that, according to Florence po
lice, may have involved game-fixing
at the prep level.
Florence police chief Rick
Thompson was quoted in the Flor
ence TimesDaily and The Birming
ham News as saying coaches may
have been involved in the alleged
scheme.
“Nothing is more disheartening
and discouraging ... as the allega
tions brought forth during this in
vestigation that high school coaches
and officials are manipulating the
outcome of high school sporting
events to cover the point spread
given by odds makers,” Thompson
told the TimesDaily.
“In turn, these so-called coaches
and officials have been tampering
with the lives and future careers of
our high school athletes,” Thomp
son said.
The TimesDaily quoted an un
named investigator as saying the al
legations included tampering with
yardsticks on the sidelines of football
games, altering time clocks and fix
ing scores to meet the point spread.
Tom Wiseman, an FBI spokes
man in Huntsville, told the Asso
ciated Press that the game-fixing
charge was a local issue being investi
gated by Florence police not the
FBI.
“It’s based on some allegations
they’ve got,” Wiseman said. “It’s
purely a local matter. We’re not pur
suing it.”
Meanwhile, FBI special agent Al
len Whitaker of Birmingham said
the searches were continuing Tues
day. On Monday night, agents
searched 11 homes and businesses in
seven North Alabama cities, includ
ing the houses of two former high
school coaches and a police investi
gator.
The two coaches were identified
as Ganum Smith and William Floyd
“Brub” Hamilton, former Coffee
High School assistant coaches.The
police investigator was identified as
Muscle Shoals police Lt. Tom Berry
man.
Muscle Shoals police commis
sioner John Conn told the AP that
Berryman was placed on 30 days ad
ministrative leave.
T he newspapers said Hamilton, a
former star running back at the Uni
versity of North Alabama and now a
driver’s education teacher at
Bradshaw High School, coached
football at Coffee about 10 years ag-
o.Contacted by the AP, he had no
comment.
The TimesDaily said Smith re
signed at the end of the 1988-89
school year. He has an unpublished
telephone number.
Thompson, the Florence police
chief, said no current athletes were
involved in the searches.
But the newspapers said the FBI’s
list of residences searched Monday
night included the home of a former
Colbert County High football
player, Carl Matthew Keenum.
He could not be reached by tele
phone Tuesday.
Jim Hartley, head football coach
at Coffee, told the Birmingham
News he was unaware of any investi
gation into gambling in the North
Alabama area until he heard about
Monday’s raids.
Thompson, however, told the
News: “We feel like this is not just
gambling on the local level. It’s a
multistate operation, and we feel like
we can connect it to organized crime.”
ESPN to cover Ag, LSU
1989 football opener
The 1989 Texas A&M football
season will open the way it ended,
not with a loss to Alabama, but in
front of ESPN cameras.
A&M will take on LSU in a
Sept. 2 matchup slated to begin at
5:30 p.m. on Kyle Field.
The Aggies home opener will
be the dehut of head coach R.C.
Slocum and will be the starting
point for Darren Lewis’ run for
the Heisman Trophy.
Lewis, the nation’s leading re
turning rusher, gained 1,692
yards last season as a sophomore,
second only to 1988 Heisman
winner Barry Sanders of Okla
homa State.
His season total was the sec
ond-best in the history of the
Southwest Conference behind
1977 Heisman winner Earl
Campbell of Texas.
A&M is led defensively by se
nior Aaron Wallace, an All-
America candidate at linebacker.
The Aggies failed make it into
The Sporting News’ Top 20 Pre
season poll, but are not far away
with an overall ranking of 22nd.
Other rankings by the mag
azine included Darren Lewis’ rat
ing of ninth-best rusher in the
country and Kyle Field as eighth-
best stadium to see a football
game.
LSU is picked to win the South
eastern Conference according to
The Sporting News, and is led by
third-year coach Mike Archer,
who won his first collegiate game
against A&M in 1987.
Quarterback Tom Hodson and
running back Harvey Williams
highlight the Tiger’s offensive at
tack for 1989.
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The Dallas Glowboys have a public
relations problem.
Now that Jerry Jones has taken over,
some Cowboy fans are more interested in
the price of tea in China than following the
actions of the team.
Can you blame them? Jones has the
personality of a brick wall. He showed no
respect to Tom Landry, Tex Schramm or
Gil Brandt and gave them their walking
papers.
When Landry was fired, Jones all but lost
any respect he could have obtained from
Cowboy fans. It wasn’t the fact that Landry
(was gone. It was more of the way he did it.
A man gives 28 years of his life to an
organization, and he’s dropped like a hot
coal. Landry is the epitome of class and one
of the most respected people in Dallas. He
didn’t deserve what Jones was dealing out.
Landry was recently honored in
Washington by the Redskin Touchdown
Club. He was praised for the mark he has
made on professional football and for being
a focal point of the Cowboy-Redskin rivalry
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that has lasted for so many years. The club
even sang “Hail to Tom Landry” to the
former coach. It’s pretty sad when the team
you had an intense rivalry with gives you
more respect than the team you coached
for 28 years.
Schramm and Brandt didn’t deserve the
treatment they got either. Once Landry was
gone, you just knew they were next to get
the boot. Jones handled each “dismissal” in
the wrong way.
Then Jones decided to bring in Jimmy
Johnson from the University of Miami.
Johnson brought most of his coaching staff
with him and made appropriate
“dismissals” in the Cowboy coaching staff.
Right away you could see why these two
guys from Arkansas are such good friends
— they both use the same kinds of classless
moves.
Jones continued to damage his already
low reputation when he told the Dallas
, Cowboy Cheerleaders that they were now
going to be hostesses for the players’ parties
and there would be a change in their
uniforms. Most of the veteran cheerleaders
quit because they did not appreciate Jones’
attitude.
The Dallas Cowboys Band was the next
victim. Jones got rid of the band to free up
100-plus seats in the end zone where the
band would sit. Maybe Jones didn’t realize
that those 100 or so seats will probably
remain empty if he keeps his actions up.
The Cowboys’ public relations
department noticed that their reputation
with the public was at an all-time low. The
problem was Jones, and they knew it. In
desperation, the Cowboys hired an entire
public relations firm to deal with Jones.and
his shifty nature.
There finally was a bright spot in all of
the turmoil that the sale of the Cowboys
churned up. Dallas selected Steve Walsh
from Miami — where else? — in the NFL
supplemental draft. Johnson says Walsh
will remain a Cowboy, but don’t bet on it.
Troy Aikman has a no-trade clause in his
contract, so we know he’s not going
anywhere. The only reasonable option is to
package Walsh with some other players to
make a trade to fill needs in the offensive
line, linebackers and secondary.
Now rumor has it that Tony Mandarich
wants to play for the Dallas Cowboys. Green
Bay holds his rights, but Dallas may try to
offer Walsh and a few others to get
Mandarich. Could you imagine having
Mandarich lead the way for Herchel
Walker? Or perhaps vice-versa? He could
be Fridge II.
Jones’ hopeful image as a folk hero in
Dallas will probably never come about.
What is ahead for the team is unknown, but
one thing is certain —Jones needs to clean
up his act quick or Dallas will cease to
recognize the Cowboys as their team.
Cowboy fans are used to classy individuals,
as well as first rate management. Jones has
shown that he doesn’t fall into either
category.
Even though Dallas had the worst record
in football last year, the fans always had the
upmost respect for the management and
the coach. Now that Jones and Johnson
have moved in, they will ever reach the
same level of respect that Schramm and
Landry had. Without good public relations,
they won’t sell enough tickets to fill up a
rack of bleachers.
Most Cowboy fans are following Chicago
and Denver these days because of their ties
with Landry and the great teams of the
seventies. The Cowboys are no longer the
Cowboys. We’ve reached a new era in Dallas
with management that seems to care only
about themselves. My response is “Go
Bears!”
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