Show 12— The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday January 14 1988 Ironman Garvey calls it a career eyes politics LA JOLLA Calif (UPI) -SGarvey whose durability in baseball was proven over nearly two decades retired Wednesday because a severed tendon in his left arm has not completely healed “It’s an injury that has come along slowly and it is an injury I don’t think can be ready by the his original team in but he said he met with Series holds the Dodgers executives Peter National League record for O’Malley and Fred Claire on most consecutive games played Tuesday and that no contract (1207) set from Sept 2 1975 offers were made or asked for because of his injury through July 29 1983 “Mentally I was ready but Garvey said his immediate his to to are devote time physically I just couldn’t be plans He ventures business prepared to do the things people many added he hoped to either return expect of me” he said e to baseball in a Garvey compiled a lifetime position or possibly enter poli- batting average of 294 with 272 homers and 1308 RBI He led tics at some level “A run for public office would tiie NL in hits three times be a way to give back to this knocked in 100 or more runs five society I know and love so times and holds the maior-leagu- e record for best fielding well”he said Garvey injured his arm dur- average lifetime by a first ing a spring training game last baseman (996) year and missed most of the Garvey's best season was 1974 season which was his final year when he was voted the National under a five-yecontract with League’s Most Valuable Player the Padres He got into only 27 He Hit 312 with 21 homers and games and batted 211 with one 111 RBI that season in leading home run and nine RBI The Padres were unwilling to renegotiate a new contract for 1988 instead offering him a chance to make the team as a player There had been rumors Garvey would return to the first day of spring (training)” who played said at a news com Sited in Garvey conference teve Garvey injured last season had previously talked of com peting for a job with one of his former teams — the Los Angeles Dodgers or San Diego Padres The first baseman 18 seasons and 10 All-Stgames ar front-offic- Everest or K2? A big question mit bids Besides the normal By climber’s compulsion to reach Scripps Howard News Service the summit this expedition has BOULDER Colo — On the two other themes one ceremocold morning of May 10 1985 nial the other practical The expedition will commemRobert Anderson stood at 28200 orate the 35th anniversary of feet on the West Shoulder of historic climb with the Hillary's Mount Everest The summit loomed only 800 feet above him late Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and his climbing partner Jay For proper tribute Hillary’s Smith The most difficult clim- son will be joined by Tenzing's son Norbu bing was below them “Of course I said yes” said to close their Tantalizingly who lives in ConNorbu towering goal they knew it was climb is partly to necticut “The to time give up Time had honor my father and we’ll be become their enemy “We stood there for half an starting in Tibet where my hour knowing we had to go people lived before they midown but we didn’t want to go grated over the passes to Nepal down" said Anderson reflect- Hundreds of years ago' The expedition will serve ing a few days later in base science as well The United we and "So stood there camp let our toes get colder It just Nations has endorsed the kind of hit us 'We’re not going expedition and the UN’s chief to make cartographer Miklos Pinther “If we’d kept going there’s a will go along and attempt to establish the precise height of pretty good chance we wouldn't have come down” he said “Or the summit instead of having numb toes in Everest was first declared the base camp I might have no world’s tallest mountain in 1856 toes” by the British Survey of India If Anderson knew when it was and it was named after Sir time to give up in 1985 he George Everest the surveyor John Meyer it’” ht “8 general Sverest East Face expedition Last March a University of that will tackle the world’s Washington astronomer mightiest mountain from Tibet George wallerstein used satelthis spring lite technology to measure K2 Anderson who grew up in the Himalayan peak considered Colorado and lives in New the world’s second-higheZealand will leave Feb 21 On Wallerstein said his his climbing team are Ed measurements fixed K2's Webster also a member of the summit at 29064 feet 36 feet Colorado-base- d Everest ’85 higher than Everest Although and Peter expedition Hillary Wallerstein cautioned that it son of the man who first was premature to declare K2 reached Everest’s summit the world's highest mountain Edmund Hillary because some of his equipment “It started four or five years had malfunctioned the question ago when I got the invitation to he raised was troubling: Had go the first time” Anderson mountaineers been climbing the said “We got within 800 feet of wrong peak all these years in the top and we came back raher hopes of reaching the world’s disappointed We got back highest summit? Since then an Italian team together and thought ‘What do we do next? Either climb some- has fixed Everest's altitude at thing else and feel better about 29108 feet 80 higher than the it or go back to Everest’” 29028 Anderson didn’t want to try Pinther will use a technology the same route on Everest called Global Positioning again nor did he want to try the System GPS units will be set up Nepal side of the mountain On at the foot of the mountain and the other side is Tibet more their precise position — includmysterious and remote than ing altitude — will be determined via satellite Nepal “The East Face is probably If Anderson’s team reaches the most obscure side of the summit it will place a Everest” Anderson says “It’s reflecting prism there Laser been cimbed once by an Amer- sightings from the GPS stations ican team in 1983” would then establish the precise Anderson's group will at- altitude “It's very important that they tempt a new route and they won’t be taking oxygen reach the summit” Pinther Malfunctioning oxygen equip- adds “If we can't get those ment was a major factor in the prisms to the top we still have failure of the Everest '85 sum- - a conventional survey” st long-accept- FREE Electric Start When you purchase one of these SNAPPER Snowthrowers! 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