Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday Barkley ‘surprised’ by selection NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic veteran Charles Barkley of Phoenix and Sacramento guard Mitch Richmond were added to the US Olympic basketball team Saturday the “Dream Team's" final two members Those invited earlier to play for Olympic coach Lenny Wilkens of the Atlanta Hawks include Anfernee Hard- Barkley who played in Barcelona four years ago apparently changed his mind after declining an invitation to the team six months ago It s not that often you get to represent your country and it’s a special event" Barkley said on NBC’s pre-gashow Glenn Robinson and John Stockton Malone Pippen Stockton and Robinson played in 1992 along with one college player — Christian Lacttncr Barkley was the star a boulevardier of Barcelona who entertained and outraged the world with his antics off the court while averaging 18 points in an 8--0 US run to the gold medal “It's exciting" Barkley said “It’s an unbelievable thing I don’t think you can ever recapture what it was the first time 1 12-m- NBA Showtime “Tin surprised very surprised actually It's a great honor and I think it's something that's still fun and exciting” away Grant Hill Karl Malone Reggie Miller Hakeem Olajuwon Shaquille O'Neal Scotlic Pippen David Robinson mean come on to play in the Olympics? You got to be crazy to turn this down" The United States will have an roster for the first time in the July 4 Summer Games in Atlanta “The selection committee and coaching staff in their recent conference call wanted a shooting guard to round out the team and certainly Mitch Richmond fits that bill extremely well" said USA Basketball president CM Newton “And they wanted a forward with great versatility someone who could play both inside and had the ability to go and shoot off the perimeter against zones with a shot and Charles Barkley emerged as that person" all-NB- A 19-A- CINCINNATI (AF) — Fans cheered when updates out-of-to- flashed on the scoreboard and belit-tied Marge Schott with a band-hel-d banoet Hie Gntinnati Reds' bleat owner- - April 14 1996 — save moaey The result wai so major league score spdates duiinf the first five Reds games and only: sporadic ones during the last two They were back to normal Ftfdnjr night during a 10--8 Joss to Houston' ' generated controversy drifted away Friday but not before leaving anotb- er scar on the owner’s reputation and fans noticed Reds renewed their Sporofllckerser- vice Friday so thev could supply updates on other rnajm league games on the Riverfront Stadium score-- the board and applauded Under criticism from fans the bond Schott had canceled the score ser- vice which costs $350 a month to Page 19 When the first score update wag flashed on the scoreboard la the third inning some fans pointed at v A local bank offered Friday to pay the SpartsTkker cost — rough-iy $11 per day — in exchange foe an advertising plug The Reds chose to pay for the service themselves chib spokesman Charles Henderson saJdL AL Continued from Page 13 Orioles 7 Twins 6 At Baltimore Brady Anderson hit a solo homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning capping a rally from a five-ru- n deficit Baltimore came back for its seventh straight victory at home The Orioles won their fifth in a row overall and ran their record to 9-- 1 best in the majors Pat Mahomcs (1-got one out in the ninth before Anderson drove a pitch into the right-fiel- d bleachers Anderson who doubled and had a sacrifice fly earlier hit his third home run of the season Armando Benitez (1-retired all four batters he faced for the win Rangers 10 Yankees At New York Dwight Gooden struggled in his second straight start for New York and Juan double Gonzalez hit a three-ru- n for Texas was tagged for Gooden (0-six runs on nine hits and three walks in 3 innings in his first Yankee Stadium appearance He received polite applause when he was pulled Gooden was beaten in Texas last weekend in his AL debut He allowed five runs on five hits and four walks in five innings in that loss The Yankees took an early 0 lead against Roger Pavlik (3-but Gooden couldn't hold it Kansas City 3 Milwaukee 2 UMilwaukce Michael Tuckhomer — the only er's three-ru- n hit off knucklcballcr Steve Sparks in eight innings — gave Kansas City a victory over Milwaukee The Brewers put men on the corners with one out in the ninth 1) 1- -1 0) i ACCORDING TO 2) 1- -3 3-- 0) - i iJ C but Jeff Montgomery got Jose Valentin to ground into a double play After Valentin hit a comc-back- er to the mound gomery threw to shortstop Jose Offerman whose low throw to Mont- first was scooped by Joe Randa shot to the Tucker's 397-foleft-fiel- d power alley followed walks to Bob Hamclin and Joe Vitiello in the fifth inning and erased Milwaukee's 0 lead The homer was aided by a 13 mph wind and cleared the wall by only five feet Oakland 5 Chiacgo At Chicago Tony Phillips' RBI single in the 12th inning gave the Chicago White Sox a 6--3 victory over the Oakland Athletics ot 2-- i OUR FREE CHECKING IS ONE OF THE IN THE COUNTRY Darren Lewis opened the inning with a walk off reliever Don Wengert (0-- 1 ) and was sacrificed to second by Ozzie Guillen before Phillips singled into the gap in Man Karchner picked up the w in with one inning of relief Trailing 2 in the ninth the White Sox tied it on a three-ruhomer by Harold Baines After Jose Munoz and Frank Thomas singled off Jim Corsi with one shot to out Baines hit a right-cent- er (1-- 0) 3-- n 409-fo- ot bleachers the has Thomas w ho went hit in all 10 of Chicago's games Detroit 9 California 5 At Detroit Cecil Fielder hit his sixth home major league-leadin- g run and also doubled Fielder's double began a four-ni- n sixth inning that broke a 3 tie Eddie Williams hit a two-ru- n double that chased Scott Sanderson (O--ll and Mark Parent home-re- d off Mark Eichhom homer in Fielder hit a two-ru-n the fourth and Melvin Nieves follow cd w uh a home run The Angels closed to 4 in the seventh when reliever Greg Kca-gl- e (3-fl- ) walked the fust two baand tten gave up an RBI single to left-cent- 3-- A leading consumer magazine has just selected Washington Mutual Free Checking as one of the best checking deals in the country Unfortunately they won't let us use their name in our ads (Mint: they write a lot about cars and microwave ovens) Read the article and vou'll discover that our Free Checking has no monthly fee or minimum balance comes with a free Cash CmlT and gives ou access to cash machines all oxer the world Sound good? Then call or stop by any Washington Mutual Financial Center soon And tell 'em senl TU- I131'5 different That's Washington Mutual - 7-- Chili Davis Mike Myers relieved and he escaped the inning with a (JjJj) Washington Mutual Bankov fly ball and a strike- out caught stealing double play Cleveland 14 Boston 2 At Boston Albert Belle home-re- d and drove in four runs Satur-da- v leading the Cleveland Indians 14-- 2 and sending the pass Boston Red Sox to their error-plaguworst start in 50 years The Red Sox lost their third consecutive game and dropped to R maidiing their 1945 curt -- ed 2-- Logan: 750-030- 3 (in Fred Meyer) I DU Invurrd |