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TIGER WOODS PRAISES CHARLIE SIFFORD
uy m e som e p ean u ts
and alum inum b ats
A h , s p r in g tr a in in g . T h e
“ P O P !” o f g lo v e s, the “ P IN G !”
o f bats.
Ping?
That’s right, the Korean National
team were allowed to use alumi
num bats in an exhibition game
against the New York Mets today.
Major league teams are not allowed
to use aluminum bats, which are
p o p u lar in co lleg e and L ittle
League.
Mets man
a g e r B obby
V a le n tin e
d o e sn ’t care
what kind o f
bats the Kore
ans use
“ I d o n ’t
th in k that th e r e ’s any dou b t that
this team w o n ’t get m any h its ,”
V ale n tin e said as he p eru sed a
s c o u tin g
re p o rt.
“ T hey
s h o u ld n ’t. T h e y have to fill in a
lot a o f g o o d h itte rs to be the
kind o f team th a t’s goin g to win
th e A sian to u rn a m e n t.”
Mets Korean pitcher Jae-Weong
Seo, who is slated to pitch against
his former teammates in another
exhibition on Thursday, said hit
ters are definitely more fearsome
when wielding aluminum.
“ Y ou can tel 1 the type o f hit with
a wooden b a t’s crack,” Seo said
through an interpreter. “With the
aluminum, you can’t tell if it’s a
solid hit or not. It could be a bloop
single or a home run - same sound."
The Korean team knows Seo,
but they may not recognize his
pitches. The 20-year-old right
hander has added something to his
arsenal o f pitches during spring
training.
“ I’m going to throw in some
forkballs and change-ups,” Seo
said.
College
Sports
Hire Few
Minorities
The grades are in for minority hir
ing in college sports, and they’re lousy.
A new study released Tuesday by
Northeastern University’s Center for
the Study o f Sport in Society found
that while the record for minority hir
ing in pro basketball, football and base
ball is poor, it’s even worse at the
college level.
The “Racial Report Card” cover-
ingthe 1995-96 academic year showed
that college sports have the worst
record for hiring women and minori
ties; the percentage o f black players
decreased in college and pro sports;
and that majority ownership in sports
for minorities does not exist.
“There has been very little progress
in the patterns ofh iri ng people o f color
and women in pro and college sport,”
said Richard Lapchick, author o f the
report and director o f the center.
The center conducts an ann ual study
o f the racial composition of players,
coaches and front office employees in
pro basketball, football and baseball.
This year, it widened its focus to in
clude colleges.
“ D esp ite w ell ¡m e n tio n e d e f
fo rts, w h ite m ales still c o n tro l
m ost o f o u r te a m s, fro n t o ffic e s
an d a th le tic d e p a r tm e n ts ,”
L ap ch ick said .
The center found that in 1996,
71.4 percent o f the N C A A ’s top
executives w ere w hite and about
21 percent w ere black. About 92.1
percent o f the o rg an izatio n ’s ch ief
aides w ere w hite; 5.3 percent were
black and 2.6 percent w ere Latino.
M ore than 80 percent o f the
NC A A ’s office managers were white;
9.4 percent were black; and 1.9 per
cent were Latino.
V a le n tin e p la n n e d to use six
p itc h e rs in each o f the gam es
a g a in st the K oreans.
“ I hope th e only cu to ffs and
relay s w e w ork on are in p ra c
tic e ,” V a le n tin e said.
At Fort M yers, F la , J e ff F ry e ’s
k n ee p u n ctu ated B o sto n ’s spring
tra in in g cam p w ith a big, loud
pop-
In th e m id d le o f a rundow n
d rill, th e second basem an fell to
p itch ed tw o h itle ss in n in g s in
an in tra sq u a d gam e T u esd ay ,
usin g a tw o-seam fastb all th at
he h o p es w ill keep his hom e-
run to ta ls dow n from last year.
A lth o u g h stru g g lin g w ith his
c u rv e b a ll, Irabu threw 1 7 o f 31
p itc h e s for strik e s and d id n ’t
allow a hit or a run to a lineup o f
Y an k ees reg u lars.
Irabu gave up tw o w alks and
stru ck out none.
A ndy P e ttitte
also w ent tw o in
n in g s, a llo w in g
one run and th ree
h its. T h e le fty ,
w ho had e x p e ri
enced back pain
late last seaso n ,
sailed through his 34- pitch, 22-
strik e p erfo rm an ce.
“ M y back felt good and my
arm feels g re a t,” said P e ttitte ,
w ho stru c k out tw o and w alked
none.
D avid C o n e ’s next hurdle fo l
low ing o ffseaso n sh o u ld e r s u r
gery com es today w hen the Yan-
kees play a n o th e r in tra sq u a d
gam e.
W ith sp rin g tra in in g w ell u n
der w ay, C uban d e fe c to r O r
lando H ernandez is g e ttin g a n x
io u s a b o u t s ig n in g a m a jo r
league co n tract.
“Hopefully something will re
sult soon, in two or three days,"
Hernandez told reporters after a
training session in Costa Rica. "I
feel a certain uncertainty over the
wait.”
H ernandez, older brother o f
Florida Marlins World Series MVP
Livan Hernandez, fledCubaon Dec.
26. The Cuban government banned
him from competition for making
contact with professional baseball
scouts.
th e g ro u n d , his left knee a p p a r
en tly d am ag ed.
“ I h eard so m e th in g p o p ,” said
D arren B ragg, th e ru n n er on the
p lay. “ It d e fin ite ly d id n ’t sound
go o d . It d e fin ite ly d id n ’t look
g o o d .”
Frye, coming o ff his best season
and signed to a $7 mi 11 ion, three-year
contract, was driven off the field on
agolfcart. About a halfhour later, he
left the clubhouse on crutches and
was driven away to undergo X-rays
and an MRI.
“ I saw him go dow n and g ri
m ace. He d id n ’t get right back
up ,” m anager Jim y W illiam s said.
“ I knew it w a sn ’t g o o d .”
Jo h n V alen tin began last se a
son as the seco n d b asem an, but
w as sh ifted to th ird , w here W ill
iam s w ants to k eep him.
“ I t ’s g o in g to be a g reat lo ss,”
M o V au g h n said. “ W e w ere r e
ally lo o k in g fo rw ard to him g e t
tin g on b ase fo r us and sta rtin g
th e w h o le th in g o f f .”
In T am pa F la., N ew Y ork Y an
kees rig h t-h a n d e r H ideki Irabu
€
W hen C h a rlie S iffo rd is h o n
ored th is w eekend fo r w inning
the Los A n g e le s O pen 29 years
ago. T ig e r W oods w ill have a
very p erso n al reason to shake his
hand - and thank him .
W oods, w h o se m o th er is Thai
and fa th e r is b lack , fu lly realizes
that his friend helped break g o lf’s
c o lo r b a rrie r a lm o st th re e d e
cades ago.
"C h a rlie , in my o p in io n , is one
o f the m ost c o u ra g e o u s m en ev er
to play th is sp o rt," said W oods,
w ho w ill co m p e te th is w eek in
the N issan O pen, fo rm erly called
the Los A n g e le s O pen.
“To deal w ith th e th in g s he
had to deal w ith , so c ie ty and the
racism , he kept fighting and fight
ing to the point w here he knocked
dow n the C au c a sia n c la u se . If it
w a s n ’t for him , his stro n g w ill,
w ho k now s, I m ight have n ev er
had the ch a n c e to p lay g o lf. My
dad m ight not have pick ed up the
sp o rt."
W oods. 22, c o n sid e rs S iffo rd
and Lee E lder, an o th e r black g o lf
p io n eer, lik e g ra n d p a re n ts.
“T h e y ’re aw eso m e. T hey call
m e, I call them , w e ju s t talk. W e
have a g reat re la tio n s h ip ," he
said.
A lthough W oods is from a d if
feren t g e n e ra tio n th an S ifford
and E lder, he also has e x p e ri
enced d isc rim in a tio n at tim es in
his life.
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