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Football players’ hobbies I .us, month tua|or leaguer Bo Jackson 'Haiti he was going io play football dus year as a hobby. He plans to join the I a*» Angeles Raid ers after the Kansas City Royals finish their baseball season Most pm football players don', consider their spirt a hobby But some of them do have other hobbies JP I PHOTO Football is #1 with New York Jets player Mark Gastineau, whose hobby is collecting Indian artifacts. ■ Reggie Williams, Cincinnati linehacker. likes to raise Great Danes. • Walter Payton. Chicago nin ning back, collects antique cars ■ Reggie White, Philadelphia nose tackle, does impressions of famous people. suc h as Muhammad A ll. Rodney Dangertield. ( lint Eastwood a, xi Eh is IVesley ■ Maik Gas,mean. New York Jets defensive lineman, collects Amencan Indian art in Arizona ■ Mike Horan. Denver punter, works m the of, season design ing unmanned radar equipment for airplanes ■ Stese McMichael, Chicago defensive tackle, likes to hunt rattlesnakes ■ Al lim n. New York Jets wide* receiver, enjoys ballet la s t year he* seas ins tied to audition for the* Amencan Ballet fheatn* DPI PHOTO Chicago's Walter Payton, the NFL's all-time leading rusher with 16,193 yards, likes to collect antique cars. Spectacular sports Super slugger ties record Darcy Cruikshank. II. (left) bom Portland. Oregon, won the Ore gon Junior Championship title in the girls' ¡iee wee division She beat Molly Nealy fmm Grants Pass, Ore gon. one up in the match play tourney New York Yankee's first baseman Don Mattingly claimed he wasn't think ing about home nins when he stepped up to the plate. Mattingly, who had a slow star, this baseball season. lied the major league record of homenng in eight straight games. Back injuries kept Mattingly on the bench for IK games and before the streak, there had only been eight Mattingly homers this season Once Mattingly broke the American I eague home run streak of six, baseball tans were going crazy while he was staying cool Mattingly, 26, told the press after his seventh consecutive home run game. "I just want to help the club I haven’t hit a home run try ing to hi, one They jus, seem to he happening I don't know why." Once Mattingly was close to breaking the record set by Pittsburgh Pirate Dale Long 51 years ago, he was swinging to hit the hall into the seats Bui his streak finally came to an end Mattingly said he is proud to share the record with l ong and added he wouldn't mind hit ting another streak. " I’d like to do this again I like this." Bn>thers Nick a n d lo in Purler tmm Wentzville, Missouri, were both awanled gold medals at the National Junior Olympic Wrestling Champion ships because* they would not wrestle each other for the 105 5 pound ( irveo Roman title Sisters V icki am i Vera Jen k in s tmm Arizona, placed lust ami second respee lively in the I ' 14 girls' t.OOO meter race walk a, I he Athletics Congress national track meet in Philadelphia Scot, Bell. 12. o, Carmel, Indiana, won eight gold medals in swimming at the White River Paik Slate Games I le also took home a silver and bronze medal I he U.S. gills' softball team heal v China I 0 to score America's lust ever. S Inst place finish in the Iunior ( nils Sotthall World Championship I he tournament was held in < Iklahoma ( its. < fklahoma JPI PHOTO The Kail o t Fame w ants the bat, a 32- ounce L o u is v ille Slugger, that tied the record, but M attin gly w on t hand it over u n til it's broken Darcy C ru iksha nk watches her put, drop into the cup Competing in the 14 14 age group ot the pentathlon. R icardo Aguirre ot Scalile. Washington set a national leeoni with 3,l66points lie won three ol the Ine pentathlon events ai I he Athletics Congress national meet YOUNG AMERICAN «*■ AUGUST 12 PAGI 9
