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Photo by Phelan M. Ebenhack
Track members Donnie Bodron and Brian Bradshears compete in the 3,000 meter steeplechase during last Saturday’s CS Relays.
Umpires to return Friday
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Major
Hgue umpires will report to work
Flday, ending a weeklong boycott
of spring training games while their
lalot dispute goes to binding arbi
tration.
■The umpires’ union and league
pjesidents agreed Tuesday to let a
retired Philadelphia judge resolve
tlu n differences, including whether
iiiipires should be paid for spring
games canceled during the owners’
3‘J-day lockout.
■‘ Were delighted to see the um
pires go back to work." union head
Riiln’e Phillips said. 'T hey need
some work, particularh behind the
plate, to get ready lor the openers
AM 9." '
■The agreement was reached with
the prodding of L’.S. District judge
Anna L. Shapiro, who was sched-
jiled to heat arguments in the
Agues’ request for an injunction
wningdie umpires to work.
■instead, the two sides met for sev
eral hours, then emerged to say re
tired Common Pleas judge Stanley
Greenburg would decide the issues,
starling with a hearing at l 1 a.m.
Wednesday.
“I’m looking forward to going
back — I’d go back tomorrow, if we
could,” said National League umpire
Eric Gregg, one of three umpires
present during Tuesday’s session.
The umpires began their boycott
Monday — the f irst day of exhibition
games — to protest the way regular-
season games were rescheduled af
ter the lockout ended. I he umpires
said they should have had a say in
the process.
On Sunday, baseball asked the
court for a restraining order to force
the umpires hack to work. Minor
league umpires are working the ex
hibition games. T he boycotting um
pires had said they would have re
ported for regular season games
which begin April 9.
American Teague president
Bobby Brown said arbitration could
have been used last week to settle
matters, as spelled out in the um
pires collective bargaining
agreement.
“We suggested it earlier, but then
we went through all this,” Brown
said. “I’m neither happy or sad —
just disappointed all this had to oc
cur.”
National League, president Bill
White declined comment as he left
the federal courthouse.
Also in dispute are increased liv
ing expenses incurred by the um
pires who gave up apartment leases
when the lockout started and fewer
days of f because of the compressed
schedule.
■ 1 hes w ill ii.i\ < WI u oi k lire: t nil
season in a shorter period of time, ’
Phillips said.
He said the dispute was not over
economics, but “an issue of respect
for the umpires.”
Phillips said he would continue to
press charges of unfair labor prac
tices, which were ftledTast week with
the National Labor Relations Bu
reau.
Rangers’ Jeffcoat ready to shine
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PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. (AP) — The sounds of
Mike jeffcoat’s career the past three seasons have been
lizzie, fizzle, sizzle.
I He fizzled in 1987 and 1988 after cursory look-sees
with the T exas Rangers before being returned to the
minor leagues.
1 But last season Jeffcoat hurst into the starting rota
tion in late May and ref used to leave?.
| He made live most of his third chance in the starting
rotation and finished the season with a 9-6 record 3.58
earned run avei age.
■ Consequently, he begins 199U with the unaccustomed
Security of having a starting assignment.
1 “It’s a different feeling starting out this year hut I’m
noi approaching it any different from any other
Spring,’’ Jeffcoat said. ‘T’ve got to perform to stay where
I am.
1 1 won’t he looking over my shoulder to see what the
|ther guys are doing. I’m just going to put in a quality
■ fort every chance 1 get.’
Jeffcoat got his chance when Jamie Moyer went on
tire injury list for three months with a shoulder injury.
It was just a matter of manager Bobby Valentine giv
ing jeffcoat a longer look than the two previous years,
Jef fcoat said.
“The past two year’s Td come up and not done a
good job but I still believed in myself,” Jeffcoat said. “I
just kept telling myself and the coaches to give me five
or six starts and then evaluate me.
“Fortunately, it worked out. I kept getting starts and
my confidence started to improve.
Jeffcoat is in a rotation that includes fast ball special
ists Nolan Ryan and Bobby Witt, knuckleballer Charlie
Hough and Kevin Brown, who tied a rookie record with
12 victories last season.
Jef fcoat doesn’t pretend he’s got the natural talent of
some of the other starters.
“I’m what’s c alled, if they want to use the nice term, a
‘crafty lefthander,”’ Jef fcoat said.
Gooden has
impressive
outing for Mets
PORT ST . LUCIE, Fla. (AP) —
Pitching under a microscope follow
ing last season’s shoulder problems,
Dwight Gooden made an impressive
first step back for the New York
Mets T uesday night.
Gooden worked two scoreless in
nings against the New York Yan
kees, allowing one hit and striking
out three. He threw 30 pitches, 24 of
them for strikes and was clocked at
95 mph.
Even Gooden, often his own
toughest critic, had to be impressed.
“I felt good,” he said. “The main
thing was I was throwing nice and
easy and having fun out there. The
curve was good hut really I’m still
trying to find it. A couple of them
were bad and a couple were good.
My location could have been better,
hut for the first time out, it was OK.”
The Yankees hit just four fair
balls against Gooden, who was con
stantly ahead of the hitters. In his
first inning of work, he threw' nine
pitches, eight for strikes. His fastball
seemed explosive at times, especially
when he struck out Roberto Kelly
and Steve Balboni, the last two hat
ters he faced.
Perhaps the most important part
of the outing was the fact that
Gooden was letting it all hang out.
“I wasn’t holding back,” he said.
“Usually in spring training, you
build up to it. By throwing this win
ter, I think that helped me tonight.”
The winter work was part of
Gooden’s rehabilitation from the
small muscle tear behind his right
shoulder, the first time in his career
he has experienced arm trouble.
The Mets were determined not to
rush him back, letting him work at
his own pace after the 32-day lock
out.
“This was a big test,” he said. “It
w'as a game situation with opposing
hitters. I just let it go.”
Lady Ag softball team
hosts Kent State today
BySKEETER BROWN
Of The Battalion Staff
The red-hot Lady Aggies’ Softball
learn will try to contiue their winning
"ays at home today, as they cool
hey heels from tournament travels
luring the past two weekends.
A&M hosts Kent State in a dou-
bleheader at the Ladv Aggie Softball
Held, with the first pitch scheduled
for 2 p.m.
The Lady Aggies are sporting a
29-8 overall record, and have won
22 out of tbeii last 25 games. Kent
State is off to an 8-0 start this season.
} ■ „ or,,. i () a n m it that we’re idv •'!
of where 1 thought we would he at
this point in the season,” A&M
Coach Bob Brock said. “I’m really
excited about this team
A&M has been on die road in
tournaments, with their last played
at California State-Fullei ton. The
Aggies finished tied for fifth, going
3-1 in the Pony Invitational.
The Lady Aggies made it to
bracket play at the top spot in theii
pool, defeating nationally ranked
Cal Poly-Pomona. 3-0, later downing
U.S. International and Oregon State
by identical 2-1 scores. In bracket
plav. A&M beat Bowling Green by 3-
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1989 than a lot of people thought he
would, and he did all right. Klingler
passed for eight touchdowns and
846 yards while completing 68-of-
114 passes. Had Klingler met the
NCAA’s pass-attempt minimum, his
144.7 efficiency rating would have
been 10th in the nation. It did make
him the second most efficient passer
in the SWC.
Guess who was No. 1?
You guessed it. The old one-
armed bandit himself .
Old Faithful led the conference
with a 152.5 efficiency rating, taking
his teammate Klingler to the top
with him. What a guy!
OK. The guy can throw and get
the job done as a backup quar
terback. But is he ready to accept the
throne with all of the pressure built
up around it?
T he new UH king finds himself in
pretty much the same fix as Lance
Pavlas did when Bucky Richardson
got hurt.
Pavlas accepted the challenge, and
the rest, as they say, is history. He
led the team to the John Hancock
Bowl, and is now the one Richardson
has to knock off if he hopes to start.
Klingler has been given the chal
lenge to take control of a team that is
on Cloud Nine. Or at least they were
despite not being able to appear in a
bowl game. I think he should stick to
his guns and be himself, and not try
to be another whatchamacallhim.
After all, it will work out in the
end. Just like this column did with
out me ever mentioning Ware’s
name. Oops!
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