European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 26, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March zb.19bb the stars and stripes commentary who s on third Guerrero Dodges it to if. Verb to describe Peic Guerrero is swagger. Pulc probably never said excuse me in his life. Pele is the original gel out of my face Guy. Pc j does t Sec any reason to Apo Laigie for any Kinmg he might do or has done. Being Pulc Guerrero Means never having to say you re sorry. You could t Call Peic cocky. He passed that stage Long ago. Even arrogant is inadequate. Pete does t like to he told what to do. Like play third base for the los Angeles dodgers particularly after he has batted. Second in the league hit 27 Home runs to i on the Cam got 184 hit second Inich league and scored and Bat cd in 89 runs. Pete figures when a Man Puls up numbers like hat he Oclis you where he wants to play. And when. You let some humbly who bunts for a hit play third base not of be Guerrero third bases not superstar position. Pete is a supers car and Don t you forget it. There is also the consider Avion thai inc last Lime Pulc played that position there was blood allover the infield. It was a horror Story. Before he could switch Back to the Gulf iced in june Pete had count pm four whole Home runs. He had 18 runs bailed in and was Balling in the lower reaches of the .300s. After swi Chine Back to the of Ifield he swatted 29 Home runs drove in &9 runs and Bat cd .348 inc rest of the Way. In fact he celebrated his return to god country left Field by Hilling 15 Home runs that month More than anybody in Emory save for a Cou pc of Guys named Ruih and Maris. You would think in the Light of this that the dodgers would ask Pulc Gul Rem to Lake out the garbage or do windows before they Wynum think of asking him to play third base again. The trouble is the dodgers have More outfielders than Maine has rocks or Banks have vice  s standing room Only in left Field. It used to be said of the dodgers when they were in Brooklyn thai it was inc Only Lown in the tog leagues thai did l have us own newspaper Railroad station or left fielder. No the lodgers have Noi Hinz but left Field ers. They have cornered the Markel on them. What they Don t have is a third baseman. The proposition is simple if Pete Guerrero can. Orwill play third base the dodgers can get All of their left fielders in the game. They can put one of them on first Baw and the rest of them can choose up sides Pete gig mrs hit j3g with 17 Homer in 1987, for the Gulf iced positions. This gets five big bats in the game Kirk Gibson s. Mike Marshall a John Shelby a Mike Davis and pole s. Do you ask the Star to play the faithful old India companion or family retainer u he supposed to fall on the grenade docs he give himself up for the Good of the regimen docs he go to the Guillotine  i a far far better thing i do than i have Ever done you get the feeling Pete is Nal Good at the Martyr Srole either. What was it Gen Patton said the Art of War is no dying for your country. It s gelling some other poor ,b. To die for  Peic Guerrero might say amen Pete is no body s Lauri facial Lamb. Pole is very much his own Man. I name Guerrero Means Warrior in Spanish and n t not hard to picture pole with a knife in his Teeth and murder in Ilis heart trying o get somebody else to die fur to country. He played third base recently for the first time in several years. No one got Hurt. Pete handled two nol cry difficult chances afield got a hit and in Chr locker room afterwards he did t bust up any Furni Ture or throw cold cuts around the Shower or yell play me in the Outfield or Trade me neither did he sound i Ike Nathan Hale. I play where they Tell me he kept repealing stubbornly As reporters crowded around. I Only work Here. They pay me every second tuesday. The Man whose name is signed id the checks is the Man who telis you what to do. They pay me i Don t pay them Wai he reconciled to the switch would it he per manent Pete Ihrer Tgcy. I Dunno. I bring two gloves Locarno a first Rancman j and a third brim wit  which would he rather do if play i base Hen they got to do something with those four outfielders. If i play third base i make All those indic Lycra  will to make Pete Guerrero unhappy aft Rall it did the last time. The last time i was making a lot of errors. Bui the learn was losing too. They had to do something. Hey suggests Pele there s a lot of time before we break Camp. I be played every position on a Ball club except shortstop and Pitcher. Maybe they la ask me to  the dog cars Don t pay Pete Guerrero to be Nappy. They pay him 11.7 million a year 10 i terse balls. They can see with Pulc Guerrero ice tiny another Bat in the lineup where they could have  s Row baiting order. Pete Gurrero just wants id make sure he in l the first one hey murder. African Council has Budd on the run London f a if Zola Budd is selected Tor the British least in the Seoul olympics it could Lead to a Boycott of the games by Black african nations. Meanwhile the International Amateur athletic federation track and Field world governing body banned the South african bom Judd from competing out Side her adopted country Britain until april 1 a when it completes an investigation into her eligibility. The times of London reported Friday thai Amadou Lamina a general Secre tary of the supreme Council for sport in Africa said the same objections the Council raised against the runner s participation in saturday s world Cross country championships at Auckland new zealand apply for the Seoul games the 21-year-old distance runner who look British citizenship because South Africa is barred from International sport Over its apartheid policy withdrew from Britain s team Tor the Cross country championships after fears thai her pres ence might wreck her teammates chances. At least three african nations said they would withdraw from the event if she competed. British team officials heading for u clash with the 1aaf, the world governing body for track and Field. Threatened to withdraw its comic Livors if the Isaaf ordered them to drop her. Budd s action in volunteering to with draw averted a. Clash Between the two bodies and an african Boycott of hit championships Bui Lamine a interviewed by the times in Casablanca Morocco where he is attending the african nations soccer tournament said the Issue of Budd s eligibility id run for Britain would not go away. Although competing for Britain Bud returns regularly to her Homeland. The Isaaf is investigating allegations thai she May have taken pan in a track meet in the South african Lown of Brakpan Las year until the investigations Are Complete and the Laa Meeli in London april is to decide her ease the Isaaf instructed the British Amateur athletic Board to withdraw Budd from All International Competition. The Isaaf announced in move at a news conference in Auckland Friday. In London Baab spokesman Tony Ward did it was a Clear  her Case whatever words they like to wrap it up in the Isaaf has clearly suspended her from International Competition until april is Ward said. We believe Yoa cannot manipulate the rules or Laws in order to set political or moral Standard. This is what we be Lieve the Isaaf b35 been doing for the past two  in London the times quoted Lamine Baas saying the question is not just a matter of the to gaily of a British pass Pon but one of Mommy and sincerity. Since competing for Britain in the 1984 olympic games Budd has repeatedly returned to live in South Africa and our information hat been that she has twice competed there although we Are aware she has denied  Lamine a said his organization stance on eligibility Wai that for athletes to compete for another country the must live Here at least nine months every year. Budd docs not have this for the nest olympics games he was quoted As say ing. Lamina a told the times his Council would not approach the Prospect of an olympic boy Coll lightly. The olympics i Montreal in 1976, Moscow in i9bo and los Angeles in i9s4 were hit by political Boycotts. We recognize bal a Boycott damages our own sporting standards and our competitors As Well a damaging the even itself he said. But we have to have some dignity wet Carnot stand by while other people act i sincerely in order to avoid International  after being forced Irmo withdrawing from the world Cross country championships Budd decided to run a 10-kilo-meter Road race in new York sunday Bui an order from the athletics con Gress the is. Governing body for the sport forbade her to run there. Distance runner Zola Budd. Faces Seoul shutout