European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 1, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 1,1991 the stars and stripes c Page 21 Rose not on ballot for Hall new York apr Tom Seaver a 311-game Winner is one of 18 first year eligible on this years Hall of Fame ballot. In All there Are 36 names on this years ballot none of which is Pete Rose. Rose like Seaver would have qualified for the ballot for the first time this year after being retired As an Active player for five years. But the Hall of Fame a Board of directors voted in february to make any former players banned from the game ineligible for election and Rose was barred indefinitely for gambling in 1989. The list was mailed Friday to More than 400 members of the baseball writers association of America who vote for the Hall of Fame. Rose who was manager of the Cincinnati reds when he was banned from baseball was convicted the following year of tax evasion and served five months in prison. With an All time record of 4,256 hits Rose surely would have gone into the Hall on the first ballot. Now Seaver is the Only first year eligible Likely to earn that distinction this year. Seaver was a 20-game Winner five times and holds several National league records including most lifetime strikeouts by a right hander 3,272 and most years with 200 or More strikeouts 10. Another newcomer to the ballot Tony Perez also could receive substantial support. Perez had a .279 lifetime batting average for 23 seasons mostly with Cincinnati. The other newcomers on the ballot Are Dusty Baker Vida Blue Cesar Cedeno John Denny Ken Forsch George Foster Bobby Grich Toby Harrah Dave Kingman Dennis Leonard Garry Maddox Ben Oglivie Bill Russell Gorman Thomas Pete Vukovich and Steve Yeager. Seaver Perez and Foster All were teammates with Rose at Cincinnati. Last years inductees were Rod Carew a a / a one of hey Hom Ovete it Quot Tes Norou Schneider t a ices women s ski opener held the first five places after the first run. Kronberger who ended Swiss domination of the women s world cup circuit last season by winning the Overall and slalom titles was philosophical about her loss and admiring of Schneider. A a in a satisfied a she said. A you always have to reckon with  Blair breezes Warsaw Poland a american Bonnie Blair overcame an Accident with another skater to win the 500-meter race in women a world cup Speed skating saturday. Emcee Hunyady of Austria won the 1,500-meter race saturday. Blair and Hunyady will be among the favourites in sundays 1,000-Mcter race. Blair won in 41.80 seconds setting a record for Warsaw a Stogny skating track ahead of Christine rafting of the Netherlands in 41.86 seconds and Germany a Angela Hauck in 42.27 seconds. In the Middle of the race when skaters change tracks Blair and Christina Zummack of Germany slightly collided with each other. The . Skater lost her Pace trying to overtake Zummack who was disqualified for blocking Blair. Blair decided to repeat the race and waited in the rink until other races ended. It turned out her original performance posted the Best time and there was no need to skate the 500 meters again. Americans Bonnie Blair posts 500-meter track record in Poland on saturday. Jansen posts season s Best Heeren Veen Netherlands apr . Speed skater Dan Jansen turned in the seasons fastest time As he won the 500 meters saturday and moved into a tie with defending world Champion Uwe Jens Mey in the Overall standings of the world cup series. Soviet Igor Zhel Ezovski won the 1,000 meters defending his title in that event while norwegian Geir Karlstad won the 5,000 ahead of titleholder Johan Olav Koss also of Norway. Jansen confidently skating a tight Sharp stride was clocked at 36.83 seconds to beat Mey by a narrow .06 seconds in the second world cup event of the season. The . Skaters performance signalled the beginning of a serious Challenge to Mey Holder of the world record 36.45 seconds on the Road to the Albertville olympics in february. Last weekend in Berlin Mey won one of the two 500 meter races and the two finished even in the other. After saturdays race Jansen and Mey led the 500 meter standings with 52 Points each followed by Japan a to Shiyuki Kuroiwa and soviet Igor Zhel Ezovski who Are tied for third at 54 Points. Kuroiwa finished saturdays 500 in third place in 36.99 seconds and Zhel Ezovski took fourth in 37.09. Karlstad skated the 5,000 meters in 6 minutes 46.70 seconds Well ahead of Koss who finished in 6 51.23 to take second. Bart Veldkamp of the Netherlands finished third in 6 51.63. In fingers who holds the major league record with 341 career saves missed election by Only 42 votes. The other Holdover candidates Are Dick Allen Bobby Bonds Ken Boyer Orlando Cepeda Curt flood Jim Kaat Mickey Lolich Bill Mazeroski Minnie Minoso Thurman Munson Tony Oliva Vada Pinson Ron Santo Rusty staub Luis Tiant Joe Torre and Marty wills. Lech Austria a Vreni Schneider of Switzerland had a Strong second slalom run and won the seasons first world cup women a race against a Strong austrian Challenge saturday. A a it a Nice to Start a season this Way a said Schneider who came from eighth place after the first run to Edge austrian Petra Kronberger. Kronberger appeared in command after being timed in 43.99 seconds �?1.2 seconds ahead of Schneider a for the 51-Gate first run. But Schneider a second run of 43.05 vaulted her to the top As she overtook Kronberger and her teammates who had strange can handle skins format Curtis strange. Fighting strange malady by Bob Green la Quinta Calif. A the skins game format suits Curtis strange just Fine thank you. A nine holes a Day and we can ride carts. I can handle that a strange said with a Wiy self deprecating smile before teeing off saturday in the two Day four Man made for television event. He obviously intended the comment As a joke. But there was More than a touch of Black humor involved. The two time . Open Champion still is battling a mysterious malady that he said has not yet been diagnosed. A a in a sometimes experiencing fatigue. Sometimes its hard to get through a round a he said. A a in be been seeing doctors for the past four months. They still done to know what it is. Its just something in a trying to fight  whatever the problem is it turned a promising season into a struggle. In the first two months of the year strange lost once in a playoff had another second place finish and appeared to be on Pace to regain his position As the leading player in this country. In 11 american starts since the masters though he missed the Cut five times did no to finish higher than 30th and withdrew after shooting 81 in the first round of the pea championship in August. A after the pea i went Home and did no to play much anymore. I spent a lot of time with doctors trying to find out what a wrong. They still Don t know. A but at least the disorientation is gone now a he said. A that helps. When you done to have any hand Eye coordination its pretty hard to try to play  after playing in the unofficial shark shootout last week he is closing his season in the skins game. A Sarah and the kids Are with me. Its just a Nice Outing a couple of weeks in the Sun a he said. Strange who Hasni to won since taking his second consecutive . Open title in 1989, said he plans to increase his playing schedule in the United states next year and will make a big reduction in foreign appearances. Strange the leading Money Winner in the last two skins games will play in a foursome with Jack Niclaus who has appeared in All eight previous skins games . Open Champ Payne Stewart and pea titleholder John Daly. They were scheduled for nine holes saturday and nine More sunday at pea West. The enriched purse of $540,000 has a value of $20,000 for each of the first six holes $30,000 for the next six and $40,000 for the last six. If two players tie for the Low score on a Hole the prize Money is carried Forward until one player wins a Hole outright