Dave Schmidt

Recirculated water trickles into the blue-bottom pool, interrupting the morning silence as Dave Schmidt sits in a patio chair on the handsome stone deck, occasionally sipping juice from a tall plastic cup. Most days he is at Wood Ranch Country Club in Simi Valley, polishing his three-handicap golf game and unwinding from a fruitful but sometimes frustrating baseball season as UCLA's pitching coach.

Recirculated water trickles into the blue-bottom pool, interrupting the morning silence as Dave Schmidt sits in a patio chair on the handsome stone deck, occasionally sipping juice from a tall plastic cup. Most days he is at Wood Ranch Country Club in Simi Valley, polishing his three-handicap golf game and unwinding from a fruitful but sometimes frustrating baseball season as UCLA's pitching coach.

Dave Schmidt was raised the son of a Southern California history teacher who coached Little League and Colt League. From the beginning, baseball was serious stuff. "My dad taught me it was important to do things right," Schmidt said. "He's the one who formed my approach to the game and, as a result, I've always been pretty organized about it." He is more than that.

Dave Schmidt was raised the son of a Southern California history teacher who coached Little League and Colt League. From the beginning, baseball was serious stuff. "My dad taught me it was important to do things right," Schmidt said. "He's the one who formed my approach to the game and, as a result, I've always been pretty organized about it." He is more than that.

"Standing on the field and seeing four decks of stands, that was a little intimidating. I remember [Coach] Darryl Stroh telling us not to look up." Dave Schmidt, former major league pitcher, who played for Granada Hills High in the 1975 City Section baseball final at Dodger Stadium.

Quarterback Erik Kramer of North Carolina State, who formerly played football at Pierce College and Burroughs and St. Genevieve high schools, was named to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference first team. Kramer was named over quarterbacks from Clemson, Maryland and Georgia Tech, all bound for postseason bowl games. North Carolina State finished this season at 3-8.

Bob Welch of the Oakland Athletics, the first 27-game winner in the major leagues since Steve Carlton 18 years ago, filed for free agency Thursday. Among the others filing were Juan Agosto of Houston, Tom Browning and Rick Mahler of Cincinnati, Randy Bush of Minnesota, Don Carman of Philadelphia, Ron Kittle of Baltimore and Dave Schmidt of Montreal. That puts the total of players filing for free agency at 59. The Orioles have until Dec. 15 to exercise a 1991 option on Kittle.

Montreal Expos owner Charles Bronfman said today he would consider selling the team but only if the purchaser agreed to keep the club in Montreal. The Expos owner responded to a report in this week's issue of Sports Illustrated that said Bronfman wants to sell and that a Florida investment group in Orlando or St. Petersburg might bid for the franchise early in 1990. "I'm thinking of selling, but not to just anyone," Bronfman said.

The UCLA baseball team opens its 1988 season today at Jackie Robinson Stadium when it meets a team of former Bruin stars now playing pro ball. The program begins at 10 a.m. with a home run hitting contest and a game between alumni. The varsity-alumni game will follow.

"George Washington Slept Here" is not one of Kaufman and Hart's more subtle comedies, and the La Habra Depot Playhouse doesn't approach it as if it were, giving this slap-happy tale of country living gone haywire an almost vaudevillian treatment. Director Dave Schmidt is not shy about playing it brassy or letting the cast whoop it up in their roles, but that's OK. This isn't cerebral stuff. This 1940 comedy is more an attenuated slapstick sketch--albeit a well-written one--than anything else.