European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Thursday february 20, 1986 stars and stripes Page 19 Howe has t Given up by Ben Walker new York a Steve Howe works these Days in a Remote Montana town Miles from the nearest stretch of major Highway and even farther from the fast Lane of the major leagues. He is still pitching. But for now he s a Pitcher for a pair of Small radio stations in Whilefish mont., tucked away in the Northwest Corner of the stale. He s our nation us sales representative says Benny Bee the owner of Kjor am and Kubz pm of Howe. He s also doing color commentary on High school basketball How Howe s Job at the station a Small building on the outskirts of town also includes maintenance of the broadcasting towers atop big Mountain plus a few other Odds and , mrs. Bee s car is always break ing Down he says by Telephone with a laugh. I fix that love it Howe says. I m Good at basically whatever i that All leads to the big questions. What is Steve Howe doing at a radio station in a place of about 7,000, up near the Canadian Border can the same per son who was suspended for the 1984 sea son and then broke Down in opportunities with the los Angeles dodgers and Minne Sota twins last year put his cocaine and alcohol riddled past behind him will he Ever again be baseball s boy wonder i Tell him we have to make a Little Progress every says John Lence the Whitefish raised new York City educated attorney representing Howe. He knows this is his last Lence met Howe a few months ago. Shortly after Howe began working at the radio stations on nov. I. As part of Howe s rehabilitation pro Gram he had to have a full time Job. He got one from Bee who is a Friend of an Uncle of Howe s wife. There was the Normal hesitation at first Bee says. But the Way i look at it if everyone Only got one Chance there would t be a lot of Bee figures that Howe who talks to local children about the dangers of drugs and alcohol benefits from being in a place where the Pace is Howe who lives in a Whitefish Condi minium with his wife and their 2-Yearold daughter agrees. I m a person Here he says. I m just Steve yet even if he does say his on air work is pretty Good he is still Steve Howe the major league Pitcher. Every Day Howe who will turn 28 next month works out at a local gymnasium. Every other Day he throws with the local american legion team. They re clocking my fastball at 93 Miles per hour says the 1980 National league Rookie of the year. This is the Best my Arm has Felt in a Long each Day Lence docs his part. He has crisscrossed the United Stales and Canada by Telephone trying to find a Job for Howe. La acc says he s gotten a few feelers about the left handed reliever including a nibble from the Toronto Blue jays. The pitch is forthright and simple. Lence Calls it no play no any team that wants to look at Howe during training can have him for a 30-Day option. If the club decides not to keep him it can release him no questions asked and just pay Howe s daily expenses during thai period. In return Lence asks that if a team keeps Howe it gives him a contract for the major league minimum of j60.000, along with performance incentives. It s no risk Lence says. The first team that offers that that s the one we re going but will anyone want to Lake that Chance not the twins who signed Howe in August a month after the dodgers re leased him following recurring problems with cocaine and alcohol. With Minnesota Howe went 2-3 with a 6.19 Era in 13 games. Before that he went la with a 4.91 Era in 19 appear ances for los Angeles. I be thought about it a lot and decided i Don t want him Back twins manager Ray Miller said. You say you want to help a Guy straighten himself out for the rest of his life. That s a lie. You want to straighten him out so you can win some games Howe says his life is getting straight ened out. He said the same thing at the Start of Spring training last season when he was coming off Elbow surgery. This time his Arm a not the question. Once again Lime will provide the answers. I be come a Long Way. I be matured Howe says. You have to figure out what you want and what you want to do about it. I want to pitch. The furthest thing in my mind is to step Back into baseball and make a fool of myself and my Lence and Howe say that if no team Calls them soon they la go to either Florida or Arizona and Knock on doors. But that trip May have to wait for at least a few Are a lot of High school Basket Ball tournaments coming up Howe says. They need me at the Ueberroth says baseball will be drug free in 86 Fresno Calif. A com missioner Peter Ueberroth said tues Day he is optimistic Hal major league baseball will be virtually a drug free sport this vowed Hal drug prob lems will be eliminated because baseball players Are idols of millions of predicted at a news conference baseball is going to this year put on the Field of play virtually a drug free sport. We will hat gel rid of it it s players themselves Are the key to eliminating drug abuse Ueberroth overwhelming Way we re get Ling rid of in is peer pressure from the great players he said before a fund raising speech for a business school building Al Fresno state University. You re going to be Able to look at in and judge and see if a lol of players fall off the drug program Ueber Roth said. Everyone wants to get behind us so we can play baseball. He refused to divulge details of interviews he completed last week with players named As drug users in testimony at a Pittsburgh drug trial last he maintained Hal drug use in baseball is nol nearly As widespread As in some other parts of he avoided Laking sides in the controversy Over Interior Secretary Don Ald Model s firing of Chrysler corp. Chairman Lee Iacocca from the statue of Liberty restoration com Mission of which Ueberroth also is a member. 1st Victory at Nassau this year Caps record big win Over islanders from wire dispatches Uniondale . The Washington capitals fell inc need to play Well and win a game Al the Nassau coliseum Ana did just thai tuesday night. This was a big win for us said Washington coach Bryan Murray after a 5-4 Victory Over the new York is tenders. "1 Don t know if it was the biggest win of the year but it was close. It was important for us to play Well in took the Lead with three unanswered goals Iff second period but needed Bengt Gustafs Jan s third period score to hold off the islanders. The Victory not Only extended the capitals Lead Over the islanders to eight Points in the Battle for second place the Crick i in but also gave Washington whal the players fell was a psychological boost. The capitals have had trouble Healing the islanders with a record of Only 12-40-5 in regular season play and first round tosses in the Stanley cup playoffs three years the Victory. Washing Lon s first Al Nassau this year lied the season series at 2-2 and snapped them a
