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londay, February 18,1991 The Battalion Page 9 W?£ Wf?/TEf^> CDM5IP£f?IK16 R£‘S’'n?UCTURlK)& Tf-lE. MALL OF FAME TO FF’OVlP’E em-sMrinjeviekj-t AFTER ALL fiOf? PETE f?Q&£ ? EMTCOOPER&TOWW baseball hall OF FAME pakkip :N/TheBatli(f Ags 1 6M undeniably talented BUTSMQHTLY &EEPV PIVI6IOM ^ ers d imann 'ion eked TeK end. team •n Saturdi a, the won. Louisiat: ady Agsdi >uisiana W provide i ■kend. h, Aubtirt ir single lost to Aa (, 6-0. Gat' lartin Pert ; Hegail 1 VVeavert ikotas out tedy 441- Blake wins Shearson Lehman SAN DIEGO (AP) — A fit of anger last Monday may have paved the way for Jay Don Blake’s first PGA Tour victory Sunday in the Shearson Lehman Brothers Open. The 32-year-old Blake threw his old putter — one he’d used since his high school days — into a pond at Palm Springs, Calif, while playing with some friends. “I don’t know what came over me,” Blake said. “That’s very much out of character for me. I’d just got tired of missing all those short birdie putts, reaching the par-5’s in two then 3-putting. “I was playing with some friends, and we had a few dollars going, and I wasn’t making anything. Finally, I missed a short putt on the 17th hole. I just turned around and threw the putter about 30 yards into the middle of a pond.” With that blade putter gone, he went to a back-up Blue Goose putter he’d been carrying around when he crossed the mountains to the California coast for this event. He made two critical birdie putts down the stretch Irvan takes flag and pulled away to a two-shot victory Sunday, the first in five seasons on the PGA Tour for the 1080 National Collegiate champion. "I always thought I had the game to win out here. I just hadn’t done it,” he said. And he gave full credit to the new putter. “If I’d still had that old putter, I might have kept on missing putts and messing up and not won today,” he said Sunday. Blake won this one — and gained entry to such exclu sive events as the Masters, Tournament of Champions and World Series of Golf — with a 5-under-par 67 in the final round at Torrey Pines and a 268 total, 20 un der par. He separated himself from a tightly bunched field with a downhill, 18-foot birdie putt off the back of the 15th green, and another from about the same length on the 17th. Dan Forsman and Ben Crenshaw, both very much in the title hunt until Blake rolled in the decisive putts on 15 and 17, finished third and fourth, respectively. at Daytona 500 Kent said g factor it it matcli. could not condition that weft ie doublet Igc in tlit DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Ernie Irvan proved he could run with the big boys and win last year. On Sunday, he proved he could win the big race — the Daytona 500. Irvan’s victory was aided consider ably by Dale Earnhardt’s continuing ill fortune in NASCAR’s premier stock car race, with a spin three laps from the end curtailing his chance of winning it for the first time and sending Irvan on to the win under a caution flag. Earnhardt, the heavy favorite to win after his dominating effort last year ended with a shredded tire about a mile from the end, tried hard to be philosophical. The defending Winston Cup champion said, “They’re gonna run another one of these things in ‘92 and I’ll be back.” For Irvan, who tried all week to convince people he was a real con tender, there was pure joy in his sec ond Winston Cup victory and a trip to Daytona’s Victory Lane — espe cially since he nearly ran out of gas after the biggest triumph of his 32 years seemed assured. Irvan was second to Earnhardt and pole-starter Davey Allison was seventh when the field was given the green flag with seven laps remaining following the eighth caution period of the race. By the end of lap 194 around Daytona International Speedway’s 2!/ii-mile track, Allison was up to third and he and Irvan were hooked up chasing down Earnhardt. Irvan’s yellow Chevrolet Lumina then took control, moving to the front on lap 195 and leaving Earn hardt’s Lumina and Allison’s Ford Thunderbird in a side-by-side duel behind him. Sterling Marlin wound up second, followed by Ruttman, Rick Mast and Earnhardt, who was able to keep his engine running and finish the race. Most of the 200-lap event was a strategy game because of NASCAR’s new pit lane rule, intended to make the pits safer. It prohibited tire changes during caution periods and forced the teams to make all their tire changes under the green flag. Sierra inks for big cash DALLAS (AP) — Texas Rangers right fielder Ruben Sierra on Satur day agreed to a one-year, $2,625,000 contract for 1991, a $1 million raise over last year. The agreement avoids a salary ar bitration hearing set for Monday. Sierra had asked for $3.1 million and the Rangers had countered with a $2 million offer. Nolan Ryan, with a $3.3 million contract for 1991, is the only Ranger to make more than Sierra, an All- Star right fielder and American League Most Valuable Player run ner-up to Robin Yount in 1989. Sierra’s agents and team officials had feared that listening to criticisms of his performance during a hearing would have hurt Sierra’s pride and performance. “He’s a very prideful guy,” said Rangers assistant general manager Wayne Krivsky, who negotiated on the club’s behalf. “But that goes both ways. “How Ruben might have re sponded certainly was a consider ation in getting this settled. It had some weight. “But the main thing about the set- dement was that it’s fair, based on his statistics and contributions to the Rangers over the past year.” Sierra, 25, had an off-year in 1990 after hitting .306 with 29 homers and a league-leading 119 RBIs in 1989. He led the AL in total bases (344), slugging percentage (.543), triples (14) and extra-base hits and was named AL player of the year by The Sporting News in 1989. But he slumped to .280 with 16 home runs and 97 RBIs in 1990. He also had a league-high 10 errors in right field. Manager Bobby Valen tine recently indicated Sierra will see time at designated hitter and center field in 1991. Union: Astros can’t leave NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Fehr, the head of the Major League Baseball Players Associa tion, said Friday that the union was not likely to allow the Hous ton Astros to leave the Astro dome for a month during the 1992 season. Astros chairman John McMul len said earlier this week that he had rented the Astrodome for the Republican Convention from July 27-Aug. 23. McMullen said the team either would take a month-long road trip or play home games at another site, pos sibly the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans. “The Basic Agreement does not permit 30-day road trip,” Fehr said, referring to the collec tive bargaining agreement be tween players and the 26 clubs. “That’s a change in working con ditions. I can’t imagine how any body thought that could be done without prior consultation and agreement with the players and the other clubs.” Fehr said that the union would not allow Houston to play home games in another city. Fehr said he did not know what the solution would be, and said he would wait for the National League to contact the union. Asked whether the association could be convinced to allow either an extended road trip or games in other cities, Fehr said, “It’s very difficult for me to see the As-, tros being away from home for a month.” with LSI unday h ather, bui e weatbti i has been at5p.ni' I Sent ion til Valentine Film Developing Special Single 3* Prints 12 EXP. __$1.99 15 EXP $2.69 24 EXP $3.99 36 EXP $5.59 C-41 Color Print Film Only Offer Good Feb. 14-20, 1991 PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICES AR IN REED MCDONALD & DROP BOXES AT THE COMMON MARKET & SBISA UNDERGROUND DESIGN YOUR CAREER AT THE SPRING ’91 CO-OP FAIR ATTEND BOTH DAYS Learn about the following companies and their co-op jobs, summer jobs and permanent jobs. Monday, February 18 8:30-3:30 Zachry Lobby B.F. Goodrich Co. Compaq Computer Cryovac Division of W.R. Grace Co. Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Ericsson Network Systems Fire Prevention & Engineers Bureau Fluor Daniel Freese & Nichols GAF Corporation General Electric H.E.B. 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