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The Ryan express rolls on

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Nolan
Ryan's entire career has been a coun-
tdown. As a young pitcher with an
overwhelming but erratic fastball,
there were many walks and strikeouts
in the early days.

The strikeouts began to mount and
now number well over 5,000 with
more on the way. Then there are the
no-hitters. A major league record six
to be exact.

The most remarkable figure of all
might be his age. Ryan is 43 but shows
no sign of slowing down. And neither
does his fastball, which sill registers in
the mid 90s.

But now Ryan has a new number to

It’s 300 victories, and he’s joined an
elite fraternity of major league pit-
chers to win that many games. The
tall Texas Rangers right-hander, who
has pitched for four major league
teams, is only the 20th pitcher to
reach that level.

The number chase, for the time
being, is over.

“I'm relieved that it’s over with,”
Ryan said Tuesday night after pit-
ching 7 2-3 innings and beating the
Milwaukee Brewers 11-3 to win his
300th game on his second try. ‘I
don’t have any plans to celebrate. I’m
proably one of the most boring people
around.

set goals. I’m going to approach the
rest of the season as | did the first
four months. I hope I finish up the
last two months of the season as
strong as I can. What lies in the
future, I don’t know.””

But Ryan’s immediate future is a
return to normalcy after a hectic week
of chasing No. 300. He failed against
the New York Yankees last week in
the Rangers’ home park when he was
hit hard, giving up seven runs and 10
hits, including three homers. His
ailing back threatened to delay the
quest even longer.

But Tuesday, with a national TV
audience watching and a sellout

define his standing in baseball history.

“I’m not number oriented. I don’t crowd at County Stadium — in-

cluding George Bush, tHe son of the
president and part owner of the
Rangers — pulling for him, he got it
done.

“In the scheme of things, I really
don’t know what it's going to mean to
me,’ Ryan said after No. 300 was
finally secured. ‘‘I’ve gotten a lot of
satisfaction out of what I’ve accom-
plished. I’m not one to reflect back on
my career.”’

The victory came in his 695th career
start and gave him a lifetime record of
300-267. He won his first game on
April 14, 1968, with the New York
Mets and became the first to reach
300 since Don Sutton in 1986.

(
300-Game Winners

. Cy Young, 511
. Walter Johnson 416
. Christy Mathewson, 373

) Grover Alexander, 373
. Warren Spahn, 363
. James Galvin, 361
. Charles Nichols, 360
. Timothy Keefe, 344
. Steve Carlton, 329
. John Clarkson, 328
. Eddie Plank, 327
. Don Sutton, 324
. Phil Niekro, 318
. Gaylord Perry, 314
. Michael Welch, 317
(tie) Tom Seaver, 311
17. Charles Radbourne, 308
18. Lefty Grove, 300

(tie) Early Wynn, 300

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the bag during the game in the C

Park Sunday. Banjo's won the game 1-0. —costiews photo by Ed mills

Banjo’s Pub takes title
in Men’s Fastball League

By CasNews Staff

Local dentists might be getting a lot of business
from Banjo’s Pub players this week.

The league champions, Banjo’s added the playoff
title to their credits for the year as they beat defending
champions Labatts 1-0 to win it all in the Castlegar
Men’s Fastball League at Kinnaird Park Sunday after-
noon.

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And now they probably should be checked for
cavities because, according to Banjo’s player-coach
Terry Taranoff, victory couldn't have come any
sweeter. ~

were out
yotts by Labatts on Sunday at

Hark. —cosews photo by Ed Mills

Even Gerald Ryan's rally cap didn't pry Trainor
they besten the

“It was a really great year, capped off with this.
This is what you play for all year. Especially after last
year’s disaster this was really sweet,’’ said Taranoff
moments after Banjo’s had won.

‘Sweeter still is the fact that it was the fifth time in
six seasons Banjo’s has won the championship. The
team has won the league title three of the last four
seasons.

And if victory was sweet, Taranoff was sweetest
of all as he hit a two balls and no strikes offering from
Labatts pitcher Joe Tarasoff for a triple in the fourth

ub shortstop Gary Flemming covers
gar Men's Fastball League at Kinnaird

inning and scored the winning run when Guy Bertrand
hit a sacrifice fly to left field.

**] figured he had to come down the middle, but I
wasn’t really looking for anything, it was just there,”
said Taranoff, who came into third base without
sliding on the play

With the league’s best pitcher and playoff MVP
Eli Soukeroff on the mound, one run turned out to be
all Banjo’s needed

Soukeroff, who was named MVP in awards
ceremonies after the final, struck out three and walked
one but was actually out-pitched by Tarasoff who
allowed just two hits over seven innings.

Still, Soukeroff, who pitched every game for Ban-
jo’s in the playoffs for a 3-1 record, has been Banjo’s
ace all season and shut the door on Labatts with the
game on the line.

“Eli threw just super, you can put that in that
paper,’’ said Taranoff.

Labatts biggest threat came in the sixth inning,
but with men on first and second and one out,
Soukeroff got Bruce McMillan to hit into a fielder's
choice and then wrapped up the inning himself by get-
ting Tarasoff to hit a bouncer back to the mound.

The win avenged Banjo’s only loss of the four
team tourney, a 1-0 defeat to Labatts in the round
robin. But the sweetness Taranoff was referring to
goes further back than that.

Last year, Banjo’s was eliminated in three straight
games from the playoffs as Labatt’s went on to win the
championship. It was something players 6n this year’s
edition of team wanted to make amends for, said
Taranoff.

That didn’t go over too well at all,”’ he said, ad-
ding that it was veterans like Soukeroff, shortstop
Gary Fleming and thirdbaseman Phil Angrinon who
helped lift the team in the playoffs.

In the semifinal, Labatts’ Don Savinkoff hit a
solo home run in the fifth inning and Pete Evdokimoff
tossed a one-hitter as Labatts beat Trainor Mechanical
2-0. Labatts added an insurance run when Wayne
Kuzyk reached on an error and scored when McMillan
hit into a fielder’s choice.

Trainor’s Tony Kabatoff struck out a tour
nament-high nine batters and allowed just three hits
but still took the loss.

Salmo Hotel, which finished last in the regular
season and came into the playoffs with upset on their
minds, were upset themselves after pitching ace George
Plotnikoff broke his finger in the team’s last game of
the season, two days before the playoffs

Salmo lost S-1 to Banjo’s, 5-4 to Trainor and 3 2
to Labatts and were eliminated after the round robin
portion of the playoffs.

Wild Thing hangs
one on Blue Jays

BALTIMORE (AP) — Gregg
Olson lived up to his theme song —
Wild Thing — but still managed to
salvage a very important victory for
the Baltimore Orioles.

The box score in the Orioles’ 6-4
victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on
Tuesday showed that Olson earned
his 24th save with 1 1-3 innings of
one-hit relief.

It didn’t show just how close he
came to getting his fourth loss.

When Olson entered the game in
the eighth inning, the song Wild
Thing blared over the public-address
system, as it always does when he pit-
ches in Baltimore.

Olson gave up a run-scoring single,
then walked the first two batters in
the ninth. He got Tony Fernandez on
a fly ball, but Kelly Gruber followed
with a monstrous fly ball to left that
floated foul by about 12 feet. Olson
struck out Gruber and George Bell to
end the game.

He threw 34 pitches, 18 of them out
of the strike zone.

“I did that last year, I’ve done it
this year,’’ Olson said. ‘‘At least I’m
consistent.””

Gruber’s blast was close to being
the. first homer against Olson at
Memorial Stadium in 71 innings.
Earlier this year, Olson had been
tagged for a loss on the road by

KELLY GRUBER
... just missed

yielding a homer in a similar
situation.

Baltimore, which has the best
record in the AL since the all-star
break, was 17-11 for the month, their
best July since 1983

Cal Ripken hit a three-run homer
off John Cerutti (7-7) and Craig Wor-
thington had a two-run double as
Baltimore evened the three-game
series at one win apiece.

Yanks
owner
yanked

NEW YORK (AP) — Baseball
commissioner Fay Vincent in-
dicated Tuesday he planned only
to suspend George Steinbrenner,
but the New York Yankees’ owner
inexplicably asked for what
amounted to a lifetime ban.

Vincent also suggested the
penalty he planned to impose was
for a fixed term and was less
severe than the punishment Stein-
brenner agreed to after 11 hours
of negotiations Monday.

A baseball official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said the
length of the suspension would
have been two years plus three
years’ probation.

“I have to say to you I found
some aspects of yesterday strange
and I still find them strange this
morning,’’ Vincent said.

Steinbrenner agreed to give up
control of the team and resign as
general partner by Aug. 20.

As the baseball world still reac-
ted to Steinbrenner’s departure,
the commissioner placed the
Yankees under American League
supervision for the next five years.

Steinbrenner, meantime, con-
firmed he wants his 33-year-old
son Hank to take over the day-to-
day operations of the Yankees.
The'move, already cleared by Vin-

ed partners
major-league clubs.

“| think it’s time to turn that
over to the young blood in the
family,"’ said Steinbrenner, who
was punished for associating with,
and paying, a known gambler.

After Vincent informed Stein-
brenner of the planned penalty,
the owner’s lawyers proposed an
alternative.

“I said I would be willing to do

this,’’ Vincent said. ‘‘I sent Steve
(deputy commissioner Greenberg)
the seven paragraphs which I
wrote out, and they became Plan
B.”
During the hour-long session,
Vincent was playful and appeared
far more relaxed than he was
during Monday night’s news con-
ference.

Local teams getting set
for playoffs of swimming

By CasNews Staff

Call it round one in the playoffs of
swimming.

“*This is just like the playoffs. It’s
what we’ve been working towards all
year, this, and the provincials,”’ said
Castlegar Aquanauts coach Tom
Carew.

The “‘this’’ Carew is talking about
is the Regional Championships set for
the Wright Pool in Trail this Saturday
and Sunday.

Ten teams from the East and West
Kootenays and one from Colville,
Wash., will join the Aquanauts and
the Robson River Otters in the year’s
second biggest — next to the provin.
As — meet of the season.

“*It’s going to be a pretty intense
meet, because everybody's vying for
the provincial championships — the
top three (in each event) qualify,”
says Carew.

He says his team is ready

“*This could be the last meet of the
year for some of the kids so they
really have to be performing.

“*] want to see some fast swimming.
1 want to see kids doing. best times
or close to best times,’’ said Carew,
who returned Sunday with the
Aquanauts from a meet in Kimberley

With clubs from Colville, Nelson
and Trail showing vast improvement
this season Carew says he’s not really
worried about winning the overall
title at the meet but adds that the
Aquanauts still have a chance at it

“We're only taking 55 swimmers
(about half the members of the team)
which isn’t as much as we hoped
would go this year. We're going to
give Nelson (Neptunes swim club) a
good run for first . . ."” said Carew

It’s safe to say Carew and the
Aquanauts would like to do more
than just give the Neptunes a run after
the Nelson squad came in and stole
the Aquanauts own meet at the
Aquatic Centre two weeks ago. The

P are champ at
regionals while the Aquanatus
finished second last year

Revenge aside, Carew’s goal is to
have at least as many or more swim-
mers qualify for provincials then the
25 who made it last year

Robson River Otters coach Curtis
Ready, who will also be taking about
half his team — 14 members — to
regionals, says it will take an excep-
tional swim from at least two of his
club members if the River Otters have
any hope of qualifying more than the
three swimmers they did last year

Siblings Kim and Kristy Verigin are
expected to make provincials again

this year but Scott Sutherland is no
longer with the team so at least two
swimmers have to step in and fill the
void for the Otters.

Those exceptional swims could
come from a number of kids who
have been showing promise all season
long, says Ready.

“People like David Shingler, and
Sean Pinkerton in backstroke, Torrie
La Hue in the (butter) fly — They
have a chance,”* he said. ‘It would
have to be an exceptional swim but
there’s a possibility.”

The provincials will also be held at
the Wright Pool Aug. 15-19

Fun in the sun
in Kimberley meet

By CasNews Staff
Don’t worry, be happy — at least
for now

That's what the Castlegar
Aquanauts and Robson River Otters
were doing as the two local swim
club’s warmed up for their toughest
meet of the season with a no-pressure
meet in Kimberley last weekend.

It was the team’s final meet before
the big shows — the regionals this
weekend and the provincials two
weeks later. Both those meets will be
held at the Wright Pool in Trail

But in Kimberely, it was a time for
some fun in the sun and relaxation
before getting back to business in
practises this week.

“This was basically a fun, relaxing
meet, a good tension breaker from
our training,"’ said Aquanauits coach
Tom Carew.

Still, of the 22 Aquanauts who did
swim in Kimberley it was particularly

satisfying for Teddy Hunter and
Justin Phillips who both won gold
medals for the first time in Division 4
and Division 6 boys respectively

Neil Jones was also a medal winner
for the Aquanauts taking the bronze
in Division 7 boys while Jason
Schuepfer won the silver. Dan Fodor
made the medals with a bronze in
Division 6.

Overall, the Aquanauts placed
fourth behind the Colville, Wash.,
club, Nelson and the host team. Trail
placed fifth, then Golden, Grand
Forks and the River Otters

For the River Otters, it was novices
Paul Shingler and Dan Shingler with
second place finishes in the 25-metre
freestyle and 25-metre backstroke
respectively

Otters coach Curtis Ready got off
the sidelines and into the pool in
Division 7 boys and came out with a
second in the 100-metre breaststroke
and a fourth in the $0-metre freestyle