New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung (Newspaper) - August 24, 1989, New Braunfels, Texas Sports Page 8 New Texas August 1989 Pete Rose banned from baseball for life Cincinnati manager can appeal decision in a but odds say hes permanently out NEW YORK AP Pete baseballs hit leader and holder of 19 majorleague was banned for life today for betting on his own team and other actions that had stained the Under the rules of baseball Rose can appeal for rein statement after one But Commissioner Bartlett Giamatti There is absolutely no deal for reinstate That is exactly what we did not agree to in terms of fixed number of Rose became the 15th person banned for life in baseball history and the first since No one banned for life ever has been At a news conference in Rose continued to deny the charges against Despite what the commissioner said I didnt bet on he Rose admitted that he bet on other Unicorns roll past the Owls Staff Writer In its first match of the 1989 sea the New Braunfels Unicom vol team started things on a posi tive note by beating San Antonio Highlands in straight In the first the Unicorns nev er breaking a 33 tic to take the lead for The second game took a lot longer to put but the Uni corns converted the last five Mindie Hardernan serves to win after trailing I was satisfied with our progress at this Coach Claudia Perry Our primary focus is going to be working on the coordination of adjacent Perry added no one on the team has played next to who they are playing beside The coach was pleasantly surprised with the play of setters Juliana Aguir rc and Monica who had five and six respective Neither of them had ever set a varsity Perry showed a lot of Holly Erben led the team with eight five in the second Six of her seven kills also came in the sec ond led the Unicorns in aces with who had would have lied her teammate except that one was negated by an illegal substitution call that cost New Braun fels a Perry said the illegal substitution was because she started Jessica Schwab at left and after two other substitutions put her back in at a different said she nor mally doesnt substitute often but wanted to try different combinations at this early point in the At that point in the second the Unicorns lead was cut to but they quickly scored again when High lands turned the ball over and palmed the return to Melissa Alves The Unicorns gave up one point to make it but Aguirre and Galvan recorded aces to score the only points during 10 possession changes before Hardernan served five consecutive points to put the match That second game was way too long for Perry We gave them too many opportunities to come They did but it wasnt because we didnt give them the overall impressions ot the first were She said before the contest that this learn has more talent than last years state final ist but less Im pleased with our Im pleased with our Weve got our roots she Weve still goi a lot of work to I made some mistakes and Im being punished for he As you can this is a very sad Rose Ive been in baseball three decades and to think Im gonna be out of baseball for a very short period of time He called the settlement fair and said he regretted only that I wont have the opportunity to tell my side of the Todays action ended six months of allegations involv ing one of the greatest players in the history of the It apparently docs not eliminate him from consideration for the Hall of In the absence of a hearing and in absence of evidence to the contrary I have concluded that he bet on base Giamatti said at a news conference announcing the which is effective Asked directly if he thought that Rose bet on the Giamatti He said that was his personal ion and not an official The agreement announced in a statement from the com missioners office said that Rose neither denies nor admits that he bet on any major league baseball game but Rose acknowledges that the commissioner has a factual basis to impose the penalty The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is the sad end of a sorry Giamatti said in the One of the games greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game and he must now live with the consequences of those There had not been such grave allegations since the time of the statement said in a reference to Kene saw Mountain the commissioner who suspended for life the players involved in the Black Sox scandal after the 1919 World Giamatti said the episode would strengthen the confi dence of the American public and in baseballs I think the game will emerge The suspension of Rose came in a agreement signed Wednesday by Rose and Regarding any gambling rehabilitation for Gia matti said We have not required It seems to be entirely Roses associate director of the Hall of Fame Rose would still be eligible for election in 1992 unless our board of directors decides As part of the Rose dismissed his lawsuit See Page 9 Tennis legends shootout set for 2729 Staff Writer John Tennis Ranch in New Braunfels will make tennis history when it holds the first ever tennis Dubbed the Shootout by eight retired tennis greats will play a tiebreaker that will count as the entire The entire tournament will be completed in the approximate time of a The shootout will cap off a Legends of Tennis weekend at the set for October It will be on following a Friday and Saturday doubles Some of the people in tennis are the ones were going to have said Clarence dent of ranch and Trinity University tennis The eight players who will participate in both the dou bles and the shootout are Roy Fred Cliff Mai Owen Davidson and Marty Davidson is the onsite director of the Competitive Edge Internation al Tennis Academy at the Newcombe Davidson hopes that the New Braunfels which is planned to be repeated will help bring Legends of Tennis the success senior golfers have He says that in the holes arc shortened slightly on the Masters tour to make things look better for The general image to the public is that the Legends of Golf have not suffered with Davidson We all get and the tennis court stays the same To offset doubles matches have become more popular on the senior but Davidson said other be All the tennis players arc heavily involved in other he They dont have the time to play on a weekly But there arc some who do play and others such as Newcombe who participate when they dont have other Davidson thinks the sport has poten tial for but even at its current generally to seat it has One is that sponsors and corporate executives can socialize with the which Davidson says is unheard of on the regular Another is that the level of play is more accessible to lay See Page 9 Astros pennant hopes flying away like errant throw to first The junior varsity teams both lost to straight and freshman Highlands in Holly who paced New Braunfels with eight offers up a set in the Unicorns victory over Highlands day Photo by Deryl Clark Canyon begin play with matches tonight Both Valley and Canyon open their 1989 volleyball seasons with matches Valley will hosi Medina with varsity match sche for 6 The freshmen match is set to begin al 4 with the junior varsity scheduled for 5 Canyon travels to Austin Crockett for a 6 contest in its inaugural The JV is slated to begin at 5 with the freshmen teams playing at 4 The varsity plays again on Friday and Saturday at the Texas Lutheran College tournament in Statistics Assists NEW BRAUNFELS Aguirre 3003 Alves Galvan 2002 Erben Hardernan Landin 0022 0000 Kie sling 001 Schwab Walls Figueroa Totals 861826 13 Atlanta reach tentative agreement THOUSAND AP The Dallas Cow toys are close to a deal that would send holdout quarter back Steve to the Atlanta according to published Reports today in the Fon Worth Dallas Morning the Dallas Times Herald and the Atlanta Constitution indicated that the two teams reached a tentative agreement Wednesday night that would send to the Falcons for a choice in the 1990 draft and possibly a veteran The trade agreement could be sources told the only if and his Joe can come to terms with the Falcons on a The reported that the trade will be announced once the contract can be worked possibly before the Cowboys Coaeh Jimmy Johnson did not deny the trade had been agreed All lean say is were he Atlanta earlier confirmed they offering a contract that will pay between and in base salary and provide an incentive package worth more than would receive bonuses for every start and addi tional money every time the Falcons won a game in which he started at The Times Herald reported that a possible holdup to the deal could be a effort by the Kansas City Chiefs or the San Francisco 49ers to acquire PITTSBURGH AP If the Houston Astros losing the National League West title by a Jim Clancy will always remember it as the one that got Clancy threw 112 pitches in the Astros potentially 61 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wed but none cost him near ly as badly as his one awful throw to first base in the first happened to him is the worst thing that can happen to a pitch the most frustrating thing that can happen to a Pittsburgh star ter Bob Walk With the score tied 11 and the bases loaded with two outs in the Pirates Junior Ortiz hit a seem ingly routine grounder to the Clancy fielded the ball so quickly that Ortiz was barely out of the batters Clancy had plenty of so he elected to make a lob But the ball slipped out of hand and sailed 10 feet over Davis allowing all three runners to score The error made it and gave Walk the cushion he needed to check the Astros on five hits over seven The Astros managed only a solo home run for the second night in a row to fall games behind NL San which has won two in a row in New hopes the pennant didnt slip away for the Astros when his throw slipped Its awful lough for me right said a distraught who lost for the seventh time in eight deci 1 guess I just had too much I just threw it over his The Astros have lost two games in the standings to the Giants in two nights while managing only two runs against a Pittsburgh staff with the ERA in the Manager Art Howe tried to sym with but said the Astros cant afford to throw away It was just a bad Howe Jimmy just lobbed the ball and thats the second time this year hes done You have to put something on that throw so you can control That definitely turned the game around We could have been out of the first no the Astros are another game out of first American League Baltimore Toronto Milwaukee Boston Cleveland New York Detroit West Division Oakland California Kansas City Texas Minnesota Seattle Chicago Wednesdays Games Boston New York 1 Baltimore Milwaukee 1 Cleveland Seattle 3 Toronto Detroit 4 Minnesota Chicago 7 Kansas City California 4 Oakland Texas 4 Todays Games Seattle Zavaras 13 at Cleveland Steve Davis 00 Chicago Perez 713 at Minnesota Aguil era 02 Baltimore Harnisch and 912 at New York Gary 22 and Plunk Detroit Morris 310 at Toronto Flanagan n Blyleven 132 at Kansas City Aquino n Oakland 145 at Texas Jellcoat n Fridays Games 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lot of good things happened for me that havent happened in my last three Stewart my luck But the Rangers woes particularly in center where Cecil Espy failed to make two plays that could have turned the loss into a The As erased a 21 Texas lead with three runs in the sixth off starter Kevin With one Brown walked the next two the subject of manager Bobby Valentines wrath for his growing propensity to misplay fly balls into big turned the wrong way on Dave Hendersons catchable drive to the warning which fell in for a Ron Hassey scored on the play and Mark McGwire went to Terry followed with a sinking lin er to who made a good play on the apparently surprised that McGwire broke for threw high and giving Oakland the lead for who wasnt charged with an error on either then hobbled Tony Phillips ensuing single that scored After Tuesdays 20 loss to the Valentine ripped into the effort of his particularly on four fly balls he said should have been caught by Espy and Ruben Valentine brushed off questions about bad throw Wednesday He said he just screwed Siena hit his 22nd homer in the bottom of the first after Harold Baines
