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Five Texans get
early draft calls
Three Southwest Conference
standouts and a pair of
schoolboy sure were signed by
major league teams Monday in
the first round of baseball's
amateur draft.
The Texas Rangers, packing
fifth, selected Texas Tech out-
fielder Donald Hams and im-
mediately signed him far a
reported SI50.000 bonus.
Cincinnati had the 20th
choice and picked University of
Texas outfielder-first baseman
Scon Bry ant.
Texas AftM shortstop Chuck
Kaobauch was chosen by Min-
nesota. which had the 25th pick.
Cleveland was the 11th team
to pick and the Indians went for
Calvin Murray, a third baseman
outfielder from Dallas W.T.
White
Frankston outfielder Paul
Coleman was chosen by St.
Louis, which had the sixth pick
in the opening round.
—See related story . rage 7A
NBA Finals very special for Kareem
By HOWARD ILMAN
Associated Press Spans Writer
a
AUBURN HILLS. M»:h (API
— Kareem Abdul-Jabtar senous
and soft-spoken as ever, acts as if
these next two weeks are nothing
special
He’s tn the playoffs far the 18<h
ume m 20 NBA seasons. He’s m
the Finals for the eighth ume this
decade. And he's still the starting
center for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Next season, he won't be.
That’s what makes his final
championship senes that begins
tonight against the Detroit Pistons
very special, despite his denials
"This is the last tune the leakers
will be watched by people who like
to watch the Lakers the way they
know them," Los Angeles Coach
Pat Rdey said "It's the end of an
era."
Abdul-Jabhar has been a giant on
the national basketball scene for
nearly a quarter century, ever since
he was Lew Alcindor. a freshman
star m UCLA m 1965. He was the
NBA's rookie of the year in 1970
anl is as leading all-time scorer in
the regular season and playoffs.
His career. unmaKhed m basket-
ball history, has. at most, seven
games left.
He is retiring after this season.
Yet Abdul-Jabbar sat calmly at
coivtsade before Monday's practice,
deflecting probes by reporters seek-
ing a spark of emotion
“I keep answering this question
again and again. My motivation is
to help this learn win.” he said with
a tracr of annoyance. “I imdrrstanri
what I have ao do to help this team
wm I’m prepared to play."
Doesn’t this series mean more
because it’s Iks last?
“Not that I’m overly aware of.”
he said
Riley thinks Abdul-Jahbar. at 42
just two years younger than fus
coach, does fed strongly about his
final senes but is focusing on the
battle with the Pistons by pushing
those feelings aside.
"The way of the wamor is to
wm or pensh.” Riley said. "This is
bis last war.”
The Lakers were unscathed by
the skirmishes leading up to it.
They won all 11 games, a single-
season record, in their first three
playoff senes against Portland.
Seattle and Ptwemx.
However. Byron Scott, the
Lakers' third-leading scorer in the
playoffs at 19.9 per game, strained
his left hamstring in practice Mon-
day and was listed as questionable
for Game 1.
Lakers spokesman Josh Rosen-
fdd said Scott was injured early in
the ram's two-hour workout when
he went up for a rebound and lan-
ded awkwardly. He said Scott was
to be examined today and his status
for the game would then be deter-
mined.
The first two games of the hest-
of-7 Finals are at the Pistons’ home
and no road team has ever won the
first two games of a title series.
“They’re coming in to win both
games,” Detroit Coach Chuck Daly
said, “f think they truly believe
they can go undefeated. ”
“We didn’t expect to sweep any
ooc. It just worked out that way.”
Abdul-Jabbar said. “Each step got
harder and harder and now we're at
the hardest ”
The Pistons lost to Los Angeles
in seven games in last year's Finals.
their first since 1956. They had the
NBA’s best regular-season record
this season and swept their first two
series before beating Chicago 4-2
in the Eastern Conference Finals.
lag year, the Lakers won the
title "because of their experience,
because of their composurfe.” Pis-
tons guard Joe Dumars said.
“Thai’s what we have now.”
They also have a strong defense
that has not allowed more than 100
points in all 13 playoff games but
now must contend with the NBA’s
fifth highest scoring team.
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Sulphur Springs, Texas,
Tuesday, Jims 6,19M.
Dixie Baseball Reports
Minor League
VFW 5, Country World 4
Landon Nordin smashed a home
run in leading VFW past Country
World in Minor League action on
the Hopkins County junior baseball
scene Monday night Brad Woods
homered in a losing cause.
Farm League
First National Baak 10
City National Bank 5
First National Bank scored five
runs m the first inning and went on
to defeat City National Bank in
Farm League action Saturday night.
Jay Clayton was the winning
pitcher in the abbreviated affair
JR. Weld 15
SS Loan & Building 9
J.B. Weld scored six runs in the
fourth inning to secure a Farm
League win over Sulphur Springs
Loan & Building Saturday night.
Tony Key and Chris Cowling each
had a double for the winners. Janan
Coodbolt hit a double for SS Loan
ft Building.
Elliott Electric Supply (
Dobson Tractor 3
Cody Payne hurled a no-hmer
and Elliott Electric scored three
runs in the bottom of the fifth to
defeat Dobson Tractor in Farm
League play Saturday night.
Dobson Tractor 9
SS Loan ft Building S
Pitcher Cody Hooten homered
and fanned seven batters as Dobson
Tractor edged Sulphur Springs
Loan ft Building in Farm League
play Monday night Tyler Dunlap
singled borne the winning run in
the fourth inning
First National Baak S
First American Baak 5
First National Bank scored six
runs in the second inning to defeat
First American Bank 8-5 in Farm
League play Monday.
Dixie Youth
TR. Contructioo 4
Cromer Custom Van 2
TR.Constniction pushed over
five juns in the third inning and
went on to defeat Cromer Custom
Van in Dixie Youth League play Sa-
turday night Heath Powers
doubled to lead the winners while
T.C. Abrons and Billy Horton had
two baggers for Cromer.
Girls Softball Reports
Angels
Wan Mart to. Price Ford 8
Ebony Wade hit a home run and
Tiffinay Crowe banged out three
hits in leading Wal-Mart past Price
Ford in Angels Division play on the
Hopkins County Girls Softball As-
sociation scene Monday night.
SS Photography 10
Nordstrom Valves 2
Sulphur Springs Photography
scored nine runs in the first two in-
nings and coasted to an Angels
Division win over Nordstrom Wi-
ves. Amanda Jenkins led the win-
ners at the plate with a single and a
triple.
Ponytails
SS Suur Bank i2
First National Bank 2
Melanie Clayton fanned 12 bat-
ters in five innings as Sulphur
Springs State Bank rolled past First
National Bank in Ponytail Division
play Monday night Leiah Ham-
mons and Tina Wade each had a
single and a double for SS State
Bank. * ,
Super Handy 14
Optimist Club 10
Super Handy exploded for seven
runs in the fourth inning and held
on to defeat Optimist Club in
Ponytails Division play Monday
night Misty Maynard had a single
and a double to lead Super Handy.
Lendl ousted in French Open
: PARIS (AP) — Michael Chang
writhed with leg cramps but battled
his way through. Ronald Agenor
was wracked by stomach contrac-
tions but tried not to think about
them.
Mind over matter prevailed
Monday as both players rallied
from two-set deficits to set up a
quarterfinal meeting at the French
Open tennis championships.
Chang’s performance in beating
Ivan Lendl, the world’s top-ranked
player, was described by the
American’s coach as memorable
Chang’s 4-6, 4-6. 6-3, 6-3, 6-3
Center Court victory was the high-
light of a remarkable day’s tennis.
£ Longhorns rip Miami
r Big name hurlers fail CWS tests; LSU wins
■•■•f -kn i. ate
Farewell
Mike Scbmidt waves to the crowd
at Veterans Stadium ia Philadel-
phia after announcing his retire-
ment from major league baseball.
By TOM VINT
Associated Press Sports Writer
OMAHA. Neb. (AP) — The big
name pitchers in the College World
Series West Division contests failed
to come through.
Long Beach State All-American
Kyle Abbott was knocked out
Monday in his team’s loss 8-5 to
Louisiana State and Texas rocked
Miami freshman standout Alex
Fernandez 12-2.
Long Beach State’s loss sent the
seventh-seeded 49ers home with a
50-15 record and two CWS losses.
LSU. seeded sixth and 54-16.
moved to a 7:10 p.m. CDT game
tonight against Miami, the No. 3
seed and 49-17.
Tonight's winner will advance to
face second-soetjpd Texas, 53-17,
in a 7:10 p.m. contest Thursday. A
Texas win would put the Longhorns
in Saturday’s noon championship,
but a loss would force a second
game between those same two
teams Friday nighL
On Monday. Abbou opened the
evening with 2 1-3 innings of off-
target pitching for Long Beach
State. The left-hander, 15-3, had
been the No. 9 pick — by the Cali-
fornia Angeis — in the major
league amateur player draft earlier
in the day. He walked five, gave up
three hits and surrendered seven
runs before going to the bench.
“I didn’t think it would affect
me,” Abbou said of the draft “I
felt good. It was just that the ball
was taking off on me."
“He has been under a lot of pres-
sure in anticipation of the draft and
so forth,” 49ers coach Dave Snow
said, “it's hard to put that in
perspective on how much it affec-
ted him, but he was a little bit
wild."
LSU used a walk and a catcher
interference call to set up a two-run
single by Scou Schneidcwind in the
second. Then the Tigers scored six
in the third on a walk, a single by
Craig Cala, an RBI single bjrMike
Bianco, another walk to load the
bases and a walk to Matt Gnivcr to
force one tun in.
Robby Corsaro came on in relief
of Abbou and gave up another run
scoring walk and a three-run dou-
ble by Tookie Johnson.
Dan Bcrthcl singled home two
runs for Long Beach Stale in the
fourth, Deryk Hudson and Todd
Lloyd had RBI hits in the sixth and
Bcrthcl hit his second homer of the
year for the 49ers last run in the
eighth.
LSU starter Curtis Leskanic. 15-
2, went 7 2-3 innings. It was a
school record for most wins in a
season.
“1 didn’t know about the
record,” Leskanic said. “It’s nice to
be with (Ben) McDonald on that,
but it doesn’t mean I’m a better
pitcher than him. It wasn’t even one
of my goals this year. I just wanted
to pitch and win."
McDonald won 14 games for
Rangers trim Sax; Witt sharp
ARLINGTON. Texas (AP) - It’s
good news for Texas Rangers
pitcher Bobby Witt and bad news
for the American League batters
he’s going to face.
Wiu said Monday night that he
may have found the answer to his
recent control problems as he
pitched the Rangers to a 4-2 victory
over the Chicago White Sox.
Wiu suffered through a 1-5 May
with a hefty 7.34 ERA.
“It was a mechanical thing,”
said Witt, after he went seven in-
nings plus to up his overall record
to 5-5. "I found that I was over-
throwing when I got behind batters.
“I’ve slowed down my
delivery." added Wiu, who walked
just one and struck out five during
Looking ahead,..
Tonight: Rangers play second
game of four-game series
against Chicago White Sox at
Arlington Stadium.
Pitchers: Rangers’ Kevin
Brown (4-2) vs. Melido Perez
(3-6) on Tuesday night
How they stand: In the AL
West, the Rangers gained
ground on both Oakland and
California. Texas now trails both
teams by five games.
—See Rangers Box .. Page 7A
his Monday night stint. “I’m happy
with that (one walk).”
Wiu was also the beneficiary of a
couple of badly played fly balls to
the While Sox outfield, each of
which wound up as run-scoring tri-
ples.
The Rangers appeared to figure
out Chicago's rookie left-hander
Greg Hibbard, 0-1, in the fourth, as
Rafael Palmeiro led off the frame
with a double down thesnght-field
line. He scored to tie the game one
out later when Sox right fielder.
Ivan Calderon, lost track of Julio
Franco's fly ball and allowed it to
fall behind him for a run-sconng
triple.
Franco, who upped his American
League leading RBI total to 48 with
the strange three-base hit, came
Please see Witt, Page 7A
LSU this season and was the No. 1
player drafted, being taken by the
Baltimore Orioles.
In the nightcap, Texas pounded
out 12 hits, including a pair of
homers and an RBI single by Craig
Newkirk to hand Fernandez his
second loss in 17 decisions. The
Longhorns also beat Fernandez 6-5
in February.
“Wc -got thrashed," Miami
Coach Ron Fraser said. “We had
no intensity. Wc were a dead
hallclub. Maybe wc were expecting
Alex to do everything for us. Two
home runs and it got out of line.”
Texas added RBI doubles by Jeff
SchulLs and Steve Bethea after
Newkirk's first homer, in the sec-
ond. •
Newkirk's eighth homer of the
year, which made him the 12th
player in the 43-ycar history of the
CWS to have two in one game,
came with two out and nobody on
in the sixth.
“I’m a streak hiucr,” Newkirk
said. “After I hit the home run, the
first one on a fastball, the next time
he got me (on a strikeout) on two
curve balls. 1 guess he felt I
couldn't hit his curve ball and he
threw me one on a three-two pitch
and l took it out"
ine Longhorns scored six runs
in the eighth on bases-loadcd
singles by Newkirk, David Lowery
and an RBI walk for SchulLs
Bethea died out to the left-field
fence to score another and Lance
Jones singled two more runs home.
Lowery singled in his second run
in the ninth and Schults grounded
out to get his third RBI before the
Texans were finished
Brian Dare, who came on in
relief of Texas starter Scott Bryant,
said the Longhorns heard Miami's
Henry Hernandez say Texas
couldn't beat the Hurricanes.
“I think he learned a lesson,"
said Dare, 5-4.
“He’s a freshman and he proba-
bly learned something,” said Texas
starter ScoU Bryant, who didn’t
give up a hit in 4 1-3 innings but
went to the bench after issuing his
second walk in the fifth. “Don’t
ever say that to a ball club before
the game even starts. You never
know what's going to happen."
Bryant, starting his fourth game
as a pitcher, wasn't dastined to
finish even with the no-hmer on the
line.
Big year for Paris High; another big day for Paul Thurman;
Paris High School is on a roll — no doubt about iL
For the third time this^school year, the Lamar County Wildcats will
send teams into State Tournament play, a tremendous accomplish-
ment
Jlen Wilson’s football powerhouse, after dropping its first
dree games to tough opponents, never lost again in claiming the
Texas Class 4A football championship.
Pais High’s girls basketball team reached the State 4A Tourna-
ment and pushed heavily-favored Levelland to the limit in a sizzling
semifinals shootout before losing by an eyelash.
Now, ace Paris coach Benton Rainey’s well-balanced Paris
baseball team, featuring stylish southpaw pitcher Jack Ford and an
all-star hitting east, has qualified for the Final Four at Austin this
weekend. And our calculated hunch is that it will take one fine team
to deny the Wildcats a second state title this year.
The championship game could much Ford and Brenham’s record-
shajtering righthander. Jon Peters, for all the marbles.
Ironically, a fourth Puis team should have aaade it to State this
year. That would have been veteran J. T. Davis’ defending Ifcxas 4A
golf champs, who had nationally-ranked Cade Stone and two other
starters retiming from that championship team. But Paris was denied
a repeat utie shot when Stone inadvertently signed an incorrect
Off the Cuff
By L«w Johnson
scorecard in the regional tourney that didn't improve his 9care a
stroke...
It is hard far some to salute the successes of an arch rival, of
course. Frankly, we'd much prefer to be writing about otr Wildcats
making it into the penthouse of Ibxas schoolboy and schoolgirl
sports.
But such was not to be this year. So, let’s all take our hats off to a
district rival who has soared with the eagles this year. After all. Pans
has sliced a big bunk of stale-wide prestige for all of District 1(MA
For the record, the quality athletes, outstanding coaching and ex-
cellent support appear to be in place here to make a strong nm at the
playoffs on several fronts in the next couple of years. Perhaps Sul-
phur Springs athletes will be the next district teams to soar with those
eagles...
Touching all bases: Three East Texas teams will be seeking state
baseball tides Thursday and Friday at Austin. Paris, of course, is in
the 4A field while Mood is in the Class A field and Pleasant Grove
(Ttxariana) is one of the four survivors in Class 3A.. Pleasant Grove
is an interesting story. The Hawks got off to a stumbling 1-8 start, but
turned it around to forge a 15-1 record the rest of the way to reach
State. Jtemember Paul Tkarmaa? He’s the gent who rallied the
1932 Wildcat football lean together 54 years later for that homecom
mg salute a couple of yean ago. Nineteen of the 26 pbyen on the
team made it back for mat occasion and some warm friendships have
been revived. Thurman has an even more important milestone com-
um up Saturday. Paul and his lovely lady. Aim, will celebrate 50
yean of wedded Miss next Saturday « Pick ton during a gala hosted
by their offsprir«s. Paulette Purdy nd Bntce A NE Ikxas baseball
hotshot, Prairiland’s Scat Sc adder will nuke his major league pitch-
mg debut with Cincinnati tonight after sparthi^ stints in Triple A
ball at Nashville late Wm summer and Uus spnn* Pete Ram must
have a ton of confidence in Sc udder, for Scou it making his
Riverfront Stadium debot against one of basebaB’s best hitting teams,
San Francisco's Giants, and their premier slugger, Rena MRcheM.
who has already ctabbed 19 homers this year-.
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