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Four Pampa athletes barred for using steroids
PAMPA, Texas (AP) — Four
students who athletic officials say
wed steroids during off-season
football conditioning at Pampa
High School have been suspended
from sports-related activities for the
rest of the school year.
“They are on suspension from
all activities in the athletic depart-
ment, including the use of facilities
themselves — the weight room, et
cetera." said Dennis Cavalier, ath-
letic director and football coach at
the school.
Cavalier said the four are juniors
who were found to have used
steroids in the last 2 Vi weeks.
School officials were not releasing
their names. ^
Two of the four twice used
anabolic steroid injections of the
hormone testosterone, and the other
two used only one injection each,
Cavalier said.
Cavalier, who said he first heard
a rumor about the steroid use last
Thursday, said he was “stunned,
hurt, disappointed and shocked.”
One of the four started on the
varsity team last season, one played
junior varsity and the other two did
not play football until this spring.
Cavalier said. He also said he be-
lieves the four were the only ones
using steroids.
The four will enter a probation
period this summer, the coach said,
adding that they will go through
counseling sessions with Cavalier
and will be under close observa-
tion.
The boys and their parents will
meet with Cavalier in August and a
decision will be made on whether
they will compete in sports.
Teammates of the four confided
in Cavalier about the steroid use, he
said.
“My shock was based on my
trust of something I’m very famil-
iar with, the issue and the threat,”
Cavalier told the Amarillo Globe-
News.. “My trust in the young men
is what caused the most shock.”
Steroid use increases muscular
build, but testing has proven its
side effects to be dangerous.
Those side effects include an ag-
gressive behavioral change, poten-
tial heart damage and liver cancer.
shrinking of the testicles, changes
in the cholesterol and lipid makeup,
enhancement of male pattern bald-
ness, increased acne and premature
closure of the bone plates, which
stunts growth in young users.
“My feeling is how can you
make the decision to participate
knowing the short-term, long-term
negative effects?” Cavalier said.
"Folks who get involved in this are
trying to accomplish some kind of
muscular advantage. It seems to me
that it’s a hollow thing.”
Possession of steroids is a mis-
demeanor. First-time offenders face'
possible fines of up to $1,000 and
jail sentences of up to six months,
or both.
Intent to deliver or sell steroids is
a third-degree felony, with first-
time offenders facing possible fines
of up to $5,000, prison sentences
between two and 10 years, or both.
Cavalier said he believes the per- ,
son who sold the steroids to the
students is a Pampa graduate who
he said should face criminal char'
ges.
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Sports
12-THE NEWS-TELEGRAM,
Sulphur Springs, Tsxas,
Wednesday, May 24,1980.
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Market’s out there
for Pelluer’s talent
IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dallas Cowboys quarter-
back Steve Pelluer, disgruntled with contract negotia-
tions, asked a week ago to be traded. Now the burning
question many onlookers have is whether there’s a
market for the veteran player.
Team officials in the National Football League
seem to think there is.
“Sure, I think there is (a market for Pelluer),” said
Dick Steinberg, director of player development for the
New England Patriots. "He is not a sure thing, but he
has shown he has the talent to move the ball.”
Green Bay Packers executive* vice president Tom
Braatz, who might be part of that NFL market, agrees.
“Any veteran quarterback has value," Braatz said.
“(For) anyone that has started in this league, there is a
market value out there.”
The 26-year-old Pelluer was a fifth-round draft
choice. The 6-4, 212-pounder has a strong arm, quick
feet and sharp mind. Last year, his fifth with the Dal-
las Cowboys, Pelluer established himself as the star-
ter.
He started 18 of the past 22 games for the Cowboys
and 25 of the past 35. His record in 27 career starts in
the past three years is 7-20.
Pelluer ranked ninth, or 73.9, in passing efficiency
among the 14 NFC starting quarterbacks last season.
He completed 56.3 percent of his passes while throw-
ing 17 touchdowns and 19 interceptions.
But now the Cowboys have signed quarterback
Troy Aikman, the No. 1 draft pick. And Pelluer and
his agent, Joe Courrege, have called Cowboys con-
tract proposals low-ball offers.
Although he wants to make about $800,000, close
to the average salary for an NFL starting quarterback,
the Cowboys are offering Pelluer about $500,000 a -
year in base salary on a long-term deal. The team is
offering less for one year.
Steve Pelluer
Troy Aikman
Pelluer would be a good catch for some NFL team,
“one that can surround him with a well-balanced
team,” a former Cowboys assistant said.
Cowboys officials say they have placed calls
around the league but have seen little interest. But
even so, the Cowboys are hi ding to pull off a trade.
* “There definitely is a market out there for him,"
said John Wooten, longtime Cowboys scout who was
recently named pro personnel director. “The fact that
he is a winner, a highly intelligent youngster, has a
very disciplined approach to the game and has experi-
ence are the things I think people see.”
Green Bay, San Diego and Kansas City are the
teams likely to have the most interest in Pelluer, while
Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Detroit also may be interes-
ted.
That interest in Pelluer probably won’t surface until
June 1, and possibly not until early July, around the
time of the NFL supplemental draft
Ryan can’t take the heat!
Nolan must adjust after pitching nine years in Astrodome
By DENNE FREEMAN
Associated Press Sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -
Nolan Ryan is used to delivering
the heat. Now, he’s got to learn to
take it.
After pitching nine years in the
airconditioned Astrodome of the
Houston Astros, R' an discovered
on Tuesday night that the heat and
humidity can hurt his fastball in the
later innings.
Ryan earned his fifth victory, a
10-8 win over the Kansas City
Royals, but lasted only six innings
and 110 pitches. He struck out six,
allowed seven hits and walked four.
“The heat (89 degrees) affected
me but I have to get used to it,”
Ryan said. “It will affect me the
first few hot nights I pitch in it.”
Ryan was clocked at 94 miles an
hour at the start of the game but
dropped into the high 80s by the
time Bo Jackson hit a tape-
measure, 461-foot three-run homer
in the fifth inning.
It was the longest measured
homer in Arlington Stadium his-
tory.
Jackson didn’t want to talk about
it immediately after the game,
waving reporters off while he ate
dinner. Then he took a shower.
Texas manager Bobby Valentine
said “Nolan got a pitch down and
Looking ahead...
Tonight: Rangers host Kan-
sas City in final game of three-
game series, 7:35 p.m., Ar-
lington Stadium.
Pitchers: Rangers lefty Jamie
Moyer (3-3) vs. Bret Saberhagen
(3-4).
Game Line: Nolan Ryan beat
Kansas City for the 22nd time as
the third-place Rangers won
their second straight from the
Royals to move within four
games of AL West leader
Oakland, which lost to Mil-
waukee. Ryan leads the AL in
whiffs with 79, 14 ahead of Bos-
ton’s Roger Clemens.
one of the longest he had given up.
But not the longest.
“You don't pitch 22 years and
not give up longer ones than that,”
Ryan said. “But he did hit it good.
“In that situation I fell behind in
the count and had to give him a
fastball. I didn't get upset. He just
really hit it.”
It was Jackson’s 11th home run
of the season and came after he had
Jackson hit it a mile. The fans got
their money’s worth with Nolan
striking him out twice and Bo hit-
ting the homer. Bo’s a great talent.”
Ryan said Jackson’s homer was
struck out six consecutive times
against Ryan.
“Bo has tremendous bat speed
and you know how hard Nolan
throws it,” said Texas shortstop
Scott Fletcher. “Boom, it was out
of here.”
Ryan said he was disappointed to
get a 10-0 lead and have to strug-
gle.
“I wasn’t throwing very well,”
he said. “I lost the groove and
never recovered.”
Royals’ manager John Walhan
said “Bo got us going. He likes a. •,
challenge so I put him in the
cleanup spot against Ryan. It was a
great at-bat for Bo. Ryan brushed
him back twice before he hit the
pitch.”
It was Kansas City’s sixth con- .
secutive loss and the first for starter
Luis Aquino who had beaten the
Rangers earlier in the year. Aquino ;,
is now 3-1.
For Ryan, it was his 22nd career
victory against the Royals, most
against any other club. Ryan now
has 278 major league victories.
Texas slipped into third place a
half game ahead of Kansas City
and four games behind American
League West leader Oakland.
The Rangers had 14 hits and
Julio Franco knocked in three runs
to up his American League leading
total to 39. Ruben Sierra had three
hits for Texas.
Flames lead
NHL playoffs
Carpenter’s gem wasted as Eagles lose
Rangers Boxscore
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) —
0 They’re bellyaching about the
By CHUCK PICKARD
News-Telegram Sports Writer
refereeing. They’re moaning that
the other guys got all me breaks.
Their coach is throwing sticks
and swearing. And, most impor-
tantly. they’re one game away from
losing the Stanley Cup.
Who are those guys who lost 3-2
Tuesday night to the Calgary
Flames to fall behind 3-2 in the
NHL championship series? Who
are those guys wearing bleu, blanc
et rouge, anyway?
Montreal captain Bob Gainey
ays that, yes, they're the
Canadiens. And despite the 23 ban-
ners hanging from the Montreal
Forum rafters, the kings of hockey
have won only one title this decade.
“Contrary to what people think,”
Gainey said, “we don’t win it every
year.”
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Game 6 is Thursday night
M1NEOLA — Ccmo-Pickion
pitcher Rodney Carpenter kept his
end of the bargain here Tuesday
night, but his teammates short-
changed their mound ace both in
the field and at the plate as Eustace
cashed in a 3-2 Class 2A bi-district
win.
Carpenter turned in a superb
one-hit performance spiced with 11
strikeouts and only one walk. But
three damaging errors led to three
unearned Eustace runs and C-P left
six runners in scoring position.
The victory sends the District
18-2A runnerup Bulldogs into
Friday’s area game against Hughes
Springs. The District 17-2A cham-
pion Eagles conclude a 20-3 season
while losing for the third straight
year in opening-round playoff ac-
tion.
Carpenter (14-2) was blazing hot
at the start as the junior righthander
fanned eight in the first three in-
nings and tossed out another batter.
The Eagles, who scored 15 runs
in the hnal inning ot tneir district
clinching win over Leonard on Sa-
turday, broke on top in Monday’s
contest with a single marker.
Rowdy Crowson, who beat out an
infield hit leading off the game, was
erased at the plate trying to score
on Carpenter’s grounder, the latter
reaching on a fielder’s choice. Car-
penter pilfered second and rode
home on Chris Self’s two-out bloop
single to right.
Russell Caldwell singled softly
to right leading off the third for the
lone Eustace hit and came around
to score the tying run on successive
errors by freshman third baseman
Jimmy Schexnayder.
The Eagles tip-toed back in front
in the top of the fifth, thanks to
some heady base-running by Crow-
son, who walked leading off the
stanza. Crowson stole second and
third and came home when catcher
Juan Maltos muffed a third called
strike to Carpenter.
This set the stage for Eustace’s
comeback in the bottom of the fifth.
Caldwell coaxed Carpenter for a
leadoff walk and Ricky Lacour
reached on an error. Both runners
moved up a base on a wild pitch
and Carpenter nicked Roger Bryant
with a pitch to load the bases.
Blake Bryant followed with a
sacrifice fly to score Caldwell and
when catcher Brian Bain’s throw
eluded second baseman Joel New-
som the winning run scampered
across the plate.
The Eagles threatened on their
final turn at bat in the seventh. Bain
rifled a one-out single to left and
stole second. However, pitcher
Mark Gartrell was equal to the
challenge as he retired Carpenter
on a fly to center and fanned Chris
Self for the game-ending out
“I don’t think our kids took them
lightly,” said C-P coach Curt Hale.
“Their pitcher did a good job keep-
ing our hitters off balance, and we
mtssed too many scoring oppor-
tunities. It’s always tough to lose in
the playoffs, but I felt we had a
good season and the future looks
bright as we only lose one senior
starter.” First baseman David
Mowat played his final game in C-
P flannels Tuesday.
Kansu City
Texas . .
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Wilton cf
5 12 2 Eapy cf
5 110
SOlwll si
4 0 11 Fletchr as
4 3 2 1
Seitzer 3b
4 10 0 Palmer lb
5 12 0
BJacksn If
3 2 13 Sierra rf
5 2 3 2
Eisnrch dh
4 110 Franco 2b
3 0 2 3
Trixbll rf
5 0 12 Petralli c
3 0 11
Bucknr lb
2 110 Sundbrg c
10 0 0
Tabler 1 b
2 0 0 0 Incvglia If
2 10 1
FWhile 2b
2 0 10 Stone dh
0 10 0
Wcllmn 2b
3 2 2 0 BBell dh
2 0 10
Boone e
2 0 10 Leach ph
10 0 0
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1 0 0 0 Buechle 3b
4 12 0
Totals
37 S 11 1 Touts 35 1114 1
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Gartrell and Juan Maltos. W-Gaitrell (6-2). [^Car-
penter (14-2).
2B-Como-Pick ton: Ryan Bozeman.
LOB—Kansaa City 9. Texas S.
ubull. HR—BJackson (11). SB—Wilaon (11).
SF—France, Incaviglia.
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Unbeaten Yanbs (18-0) will play
Martinsville (13-7) at 5:30 pjn.
Friday at Spring Hill High School,
located five miles north of
Longview on SH 300, in a Class A
Area playoff game. Randy Smith’s
Owls blanked Avery 10-0 and Mar-
tinsville beat Carlisle 4-0 to ad-
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Ryan pitched to 1 batter in the 7th.
HBP—Fletcher by Aquino. BK—Gleaion. PB—
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Umpire*—Home, Morrison; First, Welke, Sec-
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T—3:15. A—20,054.
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Summer’s here and Charlie’s back, but it isn’t all roses, yet
Let the slate so read.
We had two hot summer days back-to-back and, bingo, the real
Charlie Hough is back!
Let there be no doubt about iL Hough is a hot weather pitcher. He
may look like a major -league pitcher, on occasion, in the spring time
but the summer heat is the tonic Charlie's knuckleball needs to drive
rival batters batty.
It was the good ole summertime at Arlington Stadium on Monday
and Hough responded with his first decent pitching performance
since he baffled Detroit on opening night
It wasn’t exactly vintage Hough, for he lasted only innings.
But over that span, he yielded only one run, four hits, three walks and
four strikeouts. He was the winning pitcher as the Rangers beat Kan-
sas City, 4-1.
It was Cecilio Guante who came onto the scene in the sixth inning
and put down a mild uprising by the Royals. And it was Jeff Russell
who hustled out of the bullpen in the ninth frame after Guante had
waked the leadoff hitter and got his seventh save of the campaign.
Actually, Bobby Valentine should have been credited with the
save.
been going as badly as Hough has this spring.
Now, Charlie has two positives to build on: (1) a strong perfor-
mance; and (2) hot weather.
Perhaps Valentine learned something, too. Sure, it looks good
when you gamble with a vet and he pitches out of a jam and goes on
In (VIVA Irw» tAOm Pioht Ar nina nunlitu inninnn nn
As Witt struggles once again, many of the railbirds are wondering
didn’t change jobs. Let Tom use some of his
to give the team eight or nine quality innings on the mound.
But when your defense is shaky and the run pro
—* -- — y—— —« .1 j uni uiv tun production has been
on the anemic side, which is the story for the Rangers this month,
your options are limited. You get a fresh arm on the mound, which is
precisely what Bobby did in saving one against the Royals.
Now that Charlie has shown signs of putting his most serious
slump as a Ranger (linger behind him, Valentine can turn his atten-
tion to some other problem areas that are plaguing the team —
namely Bobby Witt, Cecil Espy and the designated hitters.
When Hough hit a batter and walked a batter to open the sixth
frame, Valentine went to the mound and visited with Charlie. When
the count was 2-1 on the next hitter, Valentine called for Guante. He
pile bed out of the jam with only one run scoring and the Rangers still
Thus, Hough departed with a solid pitching stint still intact and the
bullpen did the rest after Pete Incaviglia clouted a two-run homer in
the seventh, his sixth of the year, to provide some margin for error.
Possibly out of respect for Hough’s considerable pitching contribu-
tions to the Rangers, particularly in the last two years, Valentine had
been leaving Charlie on the firing line too long. In five straight starts,
he squandered a couple of early leads and pitched himself into defcp
holes before Bobby would yell for relief.
But in Monday’s highly encouraging performance. Hough blinked
and Valentine was there with the book.
Brava •
Any manager can take a pitcher off the mound after the roof ha
caved in. Better ton soon than too late, especially when a pitcher has
Off the Cuff
By Lew Johnson
More than one observer believes a kX of Witt’s problems start with
Tom House, the controversial Rangers pitching coach who has some
rather novel ideas, some refreshing and some far out, concerning the
art of pitching.
When House started having his pitchers throw the football around
a couple of years ago, it was suggested the Cowboys quarterbacks
might need him more than a young Ranger pitching staff. Hough ex-
cepted, of course.
Win was a bewildered young man who had totally lost his con-
fidence when Valentine decided to send him down to Oke City last
summer. He regained his self esteem and his fast ball under the guid-
ance of the S9en’ pitching coach, Ferguson Jenkins, down on the
farm, then returned to Arlington and pitched brilliantly the last half of
the campaign.
if House and Jenkins should
revolumionary pitching methods at Oke City. Let Jenkins use his no-
nonsense approach at Arlington.
As for Espy, this fleet-footed flyhawk must get the jdb done as the
leadoff man if the Rangers are to increase their run production to an
acceptable level. Both Rafael Palmeiro, who is hitting 333, and Julio
Franco, who leads the league with 39 runs-batled-in, have been sen-
sational at the plate but Espy has been disappointing in the leadoff
slot
Unless the jet-footed Espy stops chasing pitches out of the strike
zone and starts swinging the bat like a major leaguer, Valentine must
dip into the Rangers' talented farm system and pull one of those
bright young outfielders at Tulsa out of his hat.
The DH problem should take care of itself. Surely, Buddy Bell,
Jeff Kunkel, Geno Petralli or Rick Leach, if he can get his head on
straight, can give the Rangers a solid stick in that vital spot in the bat-
ting order.
There are many encouraging signs for these new-look Rangers.
The pitching, if a trifle spotty at times, has been outstanding much of
the time. If Hough is indeed back, he and that other oldster, amazing
Nolan Ryan, can keep this club in the middle of the pennant fight all
the way.
The team’s favorite whipping boy, Incaviglia, continues to im-
prove defensively in leftficld and his bat s*.ill be a big asset in the
lower half of the batting order, especially if he can reduce his whiffs.
Scott Fletcher, perhaps still dizzy from that huge new contract his
agent negotiated with the Rangers, is not playing with the consis-
tency he did a year ago but he’s apt to get his head out of the clouds
and start earning part of those big bucks.
The catching is generally in good hands; Steve Buechek is cer- ,
tainly not a liability at third; and Ruben Sierra can be awesome as he
continues to mature.
Right now, we can't believe the Rangers aren’t playing better. If
two straight wins over the Royals hasn’t ended a serious May slump
for the Rangers, Valentine and GM Tom Grieve must address such
problems as House, Win and Espy while the fans are still storming
the turnstiles at Arlington Stadium...
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