2B The Capital Times * Wednesday, Aug. 1, 1990 SPORTS BRIEFS Cecil glad to take on apartheid From staff and news services most got into several altercations for making a trade. At that point, By Rob Schultz RAPING Dairyland Greyhound Park general manager PACKER NOTES with some of those real bigoted Braatz said, he'll begin discussions nm/mu Don Hesg gayg he will continue to act as a Tin' Capital Times golfers just because I made with Vataha again. consultant for the Kenosha race track despite his resignation. GREEN BAY — Racial inte- gave those golfers a stare, fol- friends with some blacks," he Meanwhile, Majkowski has Hess, 33, quit his position at the Kenosha track — promoted as gration is something that Green lowed by a lecture, that would said. other worries. His father Fred, a the nation's largest — following the stock divestiture by four Bay Packer safety Chuck Cecil have made Nelson Mandela Asked if he wished one of the Buffalo firefighter, suffered a Alabama investors who brought him into the project. never gave a second thought to proud. golfers had stepped over the line stroke over the weekend. The The four Alabama investors, also known as the American as an athlete. He has had black In fact, Cecil challenged those and pushed him into a corner, elder Majkowski, 51, had been in- Racing Group, announced July 26 they would sell their 37.2 teammates since his high school golfers as if they were a wide re- Cecil quickly answered: "Yeah, timately involved in his son's con- percent interest in the track within 30 days. Hess said he De- days. He never thought of them ceiver about to catch the ball in that would have been nice." tract discussions with Vataha. cided, over the weekend to resign, adding, "I just felt it best." as black, he just thought of them the middle of a football field. Cecil, who was struck by the Trade talk: Braatz said some The Alabamian divestiture was prompted by the Wisconsin as teammates. "Nobody messed with me too beauty of South Africa's land- teams have made initial inquiries Racing Board staff's investigation of charges of misconduct much about it after that," said scape, said he was nevertheless Cecil spent this past winter in about trades. The Packes are deep and shady financial dealings against the four — Elliot and Cecil, a 5-foot-ll, 210-pounder glad to get back home. "That ex- in running backs and tight ends Herman Maisel and Herbert Meisler, all of Mobile, Ala., and South Africa as a caddie for his who has made a name for him- perience really makes you ap- old college pal Willie Kane. Since and are thin in the defensive line, Harold Ripps, of Birmingham, Ala. self in the National Football preciate what you have a lot Also, with the holdouts, they are A closed-door hearing into those charges is scheduled to he was one of only a few white League with his hard-hitting more," he added. caddies on the South African short-handed in the offensive line begin Aug. 7. Racing Board officials said they plan to review a style. Negotiations update: Running and quarterback. charge that Hess lied to the board about the whereabouts of professional golf tour, Cecil made Cecil said nobody can really back Keith Woodside has signed a friends with several of the black "If we have any holes as we some track records and construction documents. understand apartheid until they three-year contract and was in start the pre-season, then we'll caddies. He never gave it a sec- see it for themselves. camp this morning. However, run- DfterDAI I Kansas City Royals owner Ewlng Kauffman ond thought. have to make some deals," said Dn<?bt>ni.L, completed an ardUous bailout of his ill-fated "Incredible is the wrong adjec- ning back Brent Fullwood remains Braatz. "1 talked with them, found out tive to use to describe it," he among the missing. The Packers partner and said the ballclub he founded would be offered to about their backgrounds, just said. "The whites treat the broke off negotiations with Full- Mandarich, Murphy scuffle: it the highest bidder. kind of hanged with them," he blacks almost as if they were wood after he failed to sign a con- was brief, but interesting. During The Royals owner has been negotiating for months with co- said. animals. There's absolutely no tract before the club's deadline of practice Tuesday morning, 6-5, owner Avron Fogelman, who was brought into the organiza- Basically, he treated the situa- interaction. midnight Tuesday, according to 290-pound Tony Mandarich and tion by the 73-year-old Kauffman with the idea that Kauffman tion as if it was just another "And the majority of blacks Tom Braatz, the vice president of 6-2, 200-pound strong safety Mark could eventually retire with the team safely in Fogelman's locker room. don't know any better. But that's football operations. Murphy exchanged a few blows hands. But some of the South African beginning to change, and the As far as the Don Majkowski after the second-year tackle tried Fogelman, however, saw his Memphis-based real estate em- golfers told Cecil that what he whites don't like it." negotiations are concerned, Braatz to block the blitzing strong safety. pire collapse in the last year and needed cash. Creditors was doing was a real bad idea. And the whites especially did- said he'll give the third-year quar- "It was one swing and then viewed his interest in the Royals as his most valuable asset. And Cecil, in his own special n't like it when Cecil wasn't terback and his agent, Randy run," joked Murphy. "If he had • The Los Angeles Dodgers' revived hopes in the National way, told those golfers where helping their cause. Vataha, until Friday to learn if come after me it would have been League West and Detroit pitcher Steve Searcy's continued they could stick apartheid. He "It was unbelievable that I al- there's any interest from teams bob and weave, bob and weave." struggles combined to scuttle a proposed deal that would have returned outfielder Kirk Gibson to the Tigers. Rumors of a Gibson-for-Searcy deal surfaced about three weeks ago, but Detroit rejected the deal. Manager Sparky Anderson said GOODWILL GAMES at the time that he wanted the left-hander in his starting Steinbrenner's son: rotation for the rest of the year. General manager Bill Lajoie, however, called his Los Angeles counterpart, Fred Claire, Tuesday in a bid to land Gibson before the midnight trading deadline. This time, the Dodgers rejected the trade. U.S. team A lot like his dad By Tuesday, Searcy had compiled a 1-2 record and a 5.82 earned-run average in four starts. trait of a man who is quite dif- Newsday ferent from his father. And, de- • The St. Louis Cardinals called an early afternoon news con- rebounds ference for today to make what was expected to be the an- NEW YORK — Hank Stein- spite his relative lack of experi- brenner, selected Tuesday by his ence, he seems to be well thought nouncement that Joe Torre will be the new Cardinals man- father George to take control of of among Yankee executives. ager. Published reports in the past few days have said that in Seattle the New York Yankees, is just As the oldest of Steinbrenner's Torre was to be the successor to Whitey Herzog. like the old man — brash, de- four children, Hank, 33, was ROXING George Foreman knocked out overmatched Ken SEATTLE (AP) — There are manding and opinionated. being groomed to take over the DV/vinu Lakusta at 1:24 of the third round of a scheduled some American teams who can That is the portrait painted by Yankees even before the decision 10-round heavyweight fight in Edmonton, Alberta. The 41- win at the Goodwill Games. Try some people who have known by baseball Commissioner Fay year-old Foreman improved his record to 23-0 since he ended a the American women in basket- young Steinbrenner since he Vincent that demoted George to a 10-year retiremennt in 1987. ball and the U.S. men in volley- worked in the club's minor limited partner. The younger DITC AND PIFrF<5 The all-city swim meet begins Thurs- ball. league system and as a horse- Steinbrenner served as one of his Dl 13 HIW riCA/t.«J day and runs through Saturday at the The U.S. women routed South breeder in Florida. In fact, in one father's advisers as early as Korea, 94-70, in basketball while of his blunt appraisals of the 1986 and, according to several Parkcrest Swim and Tennis Club. Teams from the following pools the American men's volleyball Yankees in 1986, Hank — dis- present and former Yankee offi- will compete: Cherokee, Hill Farm, Maple Bluff, Middleton, Mono- team defeated the Soviet Union gusted with the team's habit of cials, was forceful and persua- na, Nakoma, Parkcrest, Ridgewood and Westside. Boys and girls in three games to two. squandering leads — said that sive in urging his father to make age groups 8-under, 9-10, 11-12, 13-14 and 15-18 will compete It was a pleasant change in the club "had all the killer in- several controversial moves. with preliminaries starting Thursday at 9 a.m. All relays and fortunes for the United States, stinct of a Quaker." The elder Steinbrenner once finals are set for Saturday at 9 a.m.