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■ MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nolan
Ryan won his 300th game Tuesday
night, reaching the milestone in his
Rcond try and ensuring his place in
story as the Texas Rangers beat
e Milwaukee Brewers 11-3.
_ The game’s all-time strikeout
Bader, the fastballer with a record
Bx no-hitters, became the 20th ma-
Br leaguer to get 300 victories. Ev
er v other pitcher to win that many
■as elected to the Hall ol Fame
when eligible, except spitballer Gay-
Brd Perry.
I; Ryan (11-4) won his sixth straight
Bedsion, allowing six hits in 7 2-3 in-
Rngs. He struck out eight, increas-
Bg his career total to 5,219, walked
Bvoand threw 146 pitches.
■ It was not the overpowering, clas
sic Ryan, but it counted. And it also
served to bring baseball’s focus back
Bthe field, one day after New York
Bankees owner George Steinbren-
Berwas disciplined. In fact, commis-
Boner Fay Vincent stayed away from
Bounty Stadium, perhaps not want-
Big to steal attention from Ryan.
■ With Texas leading 5-1 in the
Bghth, two errors by second base-
Bian Julio Franco and two singles led
to two unearned runs, sabotaging
Byan’s chance to finish with the com-
Blete game he wanted so much. He
jbined Early Wynn and Steve Carl
ton as the only pitchers to reach 300
Bctories without pitching a complete
game.
I After Jim Gantner’s RBI single,
Byan left to a standing ovation and
waved to the crowd, which booed
■hen Brad Arnsberg relieved, but
applauded when he got the third out
Fans rally support at home stadium
ARLINGTON (AP) — A raucous crowd of almost 8,000 Texas
Rangers fans cheered Nolan Ryan’s effort Tuesday to become baseball’s
20th 300-game winner, treating it like a home game —even though it
wasn’t.
“We drove 200 miles from Georgetown for this game, with a fiat tire
on the way, and it was worth every bit of it,” said Bob Phillips, a 36-year-
old lawyer.
“We didn’t think we were going to make it on time, but I paid extra
to get the flat fixed faster and by the grace of God and the charity of a
man at this Exxon station in Abbott, we were able to get here by the top
of the second inning.”
Phillips brought his son, David, with him to watch Ryan face the
Milwaukee Brewers via big-screen television at Arlington Stadium.
“I wanted him to be here for history,” he said. “My wife thinks I’m
crazy.”
Chris Kinnear, 30, of Arlington, brought a banner with a large
“300” written on it and draped it over a section of the grandstand.
It was his second trip to Arlington Stadium with the banner. It
made its appearance last week when Ryan was unsuccessful in his first
attempt at the record.
“I am one big Nolan Ryan fan. The atmosphere here tonight is like
a regular game,” he said.
Chris Pikulinski, who works for the Rangers as a security guard,
agreed.
“That’s what’s really strange —the way the crowd has been reacting
tonight,” the 26-year-old Pikulinski said. “I never thought the crowd
would respond this way.”
of the inning, preserving a 5-3 lead.
Arnsberg got the last three outs for
his third save.
Ryan’s victory then was assured
when Franco redeemed himself by
keying a six-run ninth for Texas
with a grand slam.
A paid crowd of 51,533, largest of
the season in Milwaukee, included
15 of Ryan’s family and friends and
Rangers owner George Bush, son of
the president. They saw what they
came to see and so did the Brewers’
fans, who gave the 43-year-old Ryan
a standing ovation when he walked
to the dugout before the game and
loudly cheered him throughout the
evening.
Ryan wanted an early win in his
quest, not an Early Wynn. It took
Wynn seven starts to win his 300th
game, and Ryan was disappointed
last Wednesday when he got a no
decision against the Yankees, getting
tagged for seven runs on 10 hits in
eight innings. Of the previous nine
pitchers to win 300, five did it on
their first try.
This time, Ryan held Milwaukee
hitless until Paul Molitor singled
with two outs in the third and Robin
Yount tripled for a 1-0 lead. By the
end of the inning, Ryan already had
thrown 71 pitches and there were
fears that his bad back might act up
and force an early exit.
But after Texas rallied for four
runs in the fifth against Chris Bosio
(4-9) and scored again in the sixth,
Ryan seemed to get stronger as he
sensed history. He did not give up
another hit until Molitor blooped a
single to start the eighth.
Ryan’s winning streak is his long
est since he won six straight in 1984
with Houston.
The victory came in his 695th ca
reer start and gave him a lifetime re
cord of 300-267. He won his first
game on April 14, 1968, with the
New York Mets and became the first
to reach 300 since Don Sutton in
1986.
Flash bulbs popped all during the
night and “300” signs dotted the
ballpark. At Ryan’s home field in
Texas, there were 7,828 people in
the stands to watch the game on the
scoreboard at Arlington Stadium,
and fans across the country tuned in
the game on ESPN-TV.
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP)
Awareness is too easy an explana
tion of Arkansas quarterback
Quinn Grovey.
That was the catchall used by
first-year Arkansas Coach Jack
Crowe. Without prompting, he
expounded.
For instance, last December,
when Crowe was the offensive
coordinator and the Razorbacks
were preparing for the Cotton
Bowl, Grovey wandered into
Crowe’s office and asked about
Tennessee film.
“Before 1 ever put the film on,
he says, ‘Who are they like.’
“I said, ‘Quinn, they remind
me a lot of Baylor, the size, the
movement.’
“He says, ‘Hey coach, they’re
good.’ Baylor was salty on de-
Battalion file photo by Mike C. Mulvey
Arkansas quarterback Quinn Grovey led last year’s Razorback
squad past A&M 23-22 for the Southwest Conference title.
fense.”
They watched almost a half be
fore Crowe asked ,Grovey about
the Vols.
“He sort of looked at me like, T
can tell you the truth, can’t I,’ and
said ‘Coach, they ain’t like Bay
lor.’ He said, ‘We’ll score 40
points on them.’ I mean, I didn’t
know that.”
Tennessee beat Arkansas, 31-
27, even though the Razorbacks
rewrote the bowl record book
with 568 yards and 31 first
downs.
The Volunteers and Razor-
backs could be meeting on an an
nual basis in the years to come if
Arkansas leaves the Southwest
Conference and joins the South
eastern Conference.
The SEC has been courting Ar
kansas since May for inclusion in
the league’s expansion. UA Ath
letic Director Frank Broyles has
said that a decision, one way or
another, would be announced be
fore players report Aug. 13. The
University of Arkansas Board of
Trustees is to meet today to dis
cuss the possible move.
So far, every group polled at
the university has favored the
switch, officials said.
During last year’s Baylor game
in Fayetteville, Grovey reversed
his field once and Robert Black
mon knocked him out of bounds
for a 15-yard loss.
Grovey did everything to avoid
talking with Crowe on the phone.
The following Monday, Crowe
was waiting.
“I said, ‘Quinn, we’re fixing to
play A&M and the way those guys
run, I promise you, you reverse
your field one time, it may cost us
the ball game.’ ”
“I understand, coach,” Grovey
said.
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At College Station, with the
Southwest Conference
championship on the line, Grovey
reversed his field and went 25
yards for the Razorbacks’ first
touchdown in an eventual 23-22
victory.
“He comes to the sideline and I
said, ‘Quinn.’ He said, T know
coach.’ He said, T knew I could
do that. I wanted to tell you but
you wouldn’t have believed me.’”
Grovey is a big reason that Ar
kansas has a chance to win a third
straight SWC title.
Talk about a catalyst. “You’ve
just got to give him a chance to
make a play twice a quarter,”
Crowe said. “I’m not sure when it
became obvious to me or even
how you define it, but every
player out there knows it and ev
ery coach knows it that’s been out
there with him in a game.
“He’s not gonna be an NFL
player, he’s not gonna be any
thing other than what he is.
There are competent football
players, what I mean by compe
tent is height, weight and speed,
but they’re not really aware of the
field, the defenses, the circum
stances.
“He is always aware of what has
to be done right now. Most of
these guys that are good players,
their ego sorta gets away from
them and they lose the awareness
of what is really happening.”
Early on, Crowe said he tried
to dominate Grovey. Finally, he
backed off.
“The team was standing
around waiting for Quinn to do
it,” he said. “It just became ob
vious to me over a period of time
that when he makes a play, they
all start cheering and pick him up
and say, ‘Let’s go again.’”
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Arkansas’ departure strikes
chords of inevitable change
for Southwest Conference
HOUSTON (AP) — Arkansas
coach Jack Crowe said Tuesday he
has some reservations about the
Hogs’ moving to the Southeastern
Conference but the move appeared
inevitable.
“It’s almost a manifest destiny,”
Crowe said. “It’s the will of the peo
ple and you don’t ask questions.
There’s nothing in the state of Ar
kansas that would get a stronger vote
right now.”
Arkansas president Alan Sugg,
says he will recommend to the sys
tem trustees on Wednesday that Ar
kansas end its 76-year membership
in the Southwest Confernce and
move to the SEC.
“It’s so unanimous in the state of
Arkansas that I don’t think there’s
anything I could have done to turn it
around,” Crowe said. “The only
thing I asked them to do was make it
quick.
“When our players come in, I
want this to be a dead issue.”
Crowe told writers and broadcast
ers at the Texas High School
Coaches’ Association coaching
school he was concerned how the
move would affect recruiting and
how his own players and coaches
would react.
“I believe in tradition and we’re
messing with tradition here,” said
Crowe, starting his first season as
head coach.
“I’m not sure we’ll have a lot of
happy players and coaches about the
decision. Every player and coach at
Arkansas fully intended to coach
and play his entire career in the
Southwest Conference.
“It’s something that we’ll just have
to wait and see.”
In Dallas, SWC commissioner
Fred Jacoby said “sensitive” dis
cussions were under way with seve
ral schools outside the SWC. Asked
if they were in the Big Eight Confer
ence, Jacoby said he wouldn’t iden
tify the schools.
However, Jacoby said the dis
cussions “could strengthen our
selves” without Arkansas being in
the league.
Asked about CBS saying it might
not do business as usual with the
Cotton Bowl because of Arkansas’
departure, Jacoby said “any talk
about CBS is premature. That’s in
the future.”
Texas A&M coach R.C. Slocum
said he hoped the SWC could go on
as a strong 8-team league without
the Hogs.
“I
It’s the will of the people
and you don’t ask
questions. There’s nothing
in the state of Arkansas that
would get a stronger vote
right now.”
—Jack Crowe,
UA head coach
“I’d be dishonest if I said I wasn’t
disappointed but we’ll go on,” Slo
cum said. “It’s not the end of the
world, it’s not a panic situation for
the rest of us.”
There also has been speculation
about the Aggies and University of
Texas moving to the SEC but Slo
cum said there were other alterna
tives.
“It’s logical to make the assump
tion that if Arkansas is attractive, I’d
say Texas A&M and Texas would
also bring fans and television ap
peal,” Slocum said. “If I were an out
sider looking in, we’d be two teams
that might jump.”
Such conclusions are premature,
he said.
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Yankees’ placed under
five-year AL supervision
as Steinbrenner’s penalty
NEW YORK (AP) — The New
York Yankees were placed under
American League supervision for
the next five years by Commissioner
Fay Vincent as part of owner George
Steinbrenner’s punishment.
Vincent, who on Monday forced
Steinbrenner to give up control of
the team after 17V2 years because of
his dealings with a known gambler,
released a four-page order Tuesday
that prohibits all contact between
Steinbrenner and the team without
Vincent’s permission.
The Yankees must certify to the
AL every six months that there has
been no unauthorized contact. Vin
cent threatened disciplinary action
against any Yankees official or em
ployee who does not fully disclose
any communication with Steinbren
ner.
Hank Steinbrenner, the owner’s
33-year-old son, will be subject to the
restrictions if he becomes the team’s
new general partner. Steinbrenner’s
lawyer Stephen E. Kaufmann said
Hank will be proposed to succeed his
father.
The seven-page agreement be
tween Vincent and Steinbrenner
specifies “the commissioner will ap
prove the appointment of either of
Mr. Steinbrenner’s sons as general
partner,” but Hank Steinbrenner
also needs approval from the other
major league owners.
Vincent ordered that for five
years the Yankees must seek league
approval for “the hiring, firing, pro
motion, demotion or reassignment
of any officer of the club.” During
the next five years the team also
must ask league approval to sue or
file a grievance against a player and
to hire lawyers and investigators in
volved with player dealings.
“Except as otherwise provided ...
no Yankees officials or employees
shall confer, consult, advise or other
wise communicate, either directly or
indirectly, with George M. Stein
brenner III on any matter involving
the New York Yankees or baseball
until further order of the commis
sioner,” Vincent ordered. “If such
communication, either direct or in
direct, occurs, a responsible club of
ficial shall immediately notify the
American League president.”
Vincent also ordered the Yankees
to certify each six months beginning
Jan. 31 that there has been no com
munication between Steinbrenner
and the club.
“Any non-compliance with this
certification and reporting require
ment shall be deemed conduct not in
the best interests of baseball and
shall subject the non-complying club
official to discipline by this office,”
Vincent warned.
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