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The new head coach put his team through its first workout in a week Wednesday as the Easter holidays ended for the Aggies. Bellard is pre- e stu only ra ■ent Sen Tom Ai be hel paring his charges for the Maroon-White game April The team works out Tuesday-Friday at 4 :00, with scr® 10^ ~ r mages scheduled the next two Saturdays. Workouts aip 6 1 open to the public. (Photo by Mike Rice) Games put off; strike continue By MIKE RATHET Associated Press Sports Writer What happens every spring didn’t happen Wednesday—and it won’t happen today either. For the first time in baseball’s 103-year history, a general strike by the players delayed the start of the season, forcing postpone ment of Wednesday’s traditional opener at Cincinnati. And as Wednesday wore on, today’s eight - game schedule crumbled as well—along with one Friday contest, Philadelphia’s game at St. Louis. No formal negotiating sessions were announced for today, al though John Gaherin, the owners’ representative, said he would meet with Marvin Miller, execu tive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association. The time and location were not im mediately disclosed. Despite this meeting, however, prospects for an early settlement in the pension dispute between players and owners appeared bleak even though heavy losses are anticipated on both sides. If the strike lasts through the weekend, for example, an edu cated guess places the loss to the 24 major league clubs at about $2.5 million. For the average player—one earning about $22,500—the strike will cost him about $140 a game in salary. And for the game’s highest paid star, Atlanta’s Hank Aaron, it’ll mean a loss of about $1,250 a game. Vice President Paul Richards of the Braves, one of the last teams to announce postponement of today’s game, suggested there might not be any baseball “for a long, long time.” Richards, in Chicago, where the owners met Tuesday, blasted Miller, saying the owners aren’t against the players but are “fed up” with Miller. “Unless the players take a stand now,” Richards said, “there isn’t going to be any baseball for a long, long time.” The owners he said, “simply aren’t going to let Marvin Miller run over them any more.” And the players, he continued, should end the strike “for their own good. If they don’t it’s the players who are going to pay the price.” Richards suggested the players should turn to Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for resolution of the dispute. Kuhn returned to New York from Chicago after sitting in on the owners’ meeting, but was unavailable for immediate comment. In Baltimore, meanwhile. Mil ler met Wednesday with 18 members of the Orioles, then accused team manager Earl Weaver wtih trying to illegally break the strike. Weaver had said earlier that he had polled his players and that all but five of the 26 had been willing tto defy the ban and open the season on schedule. Further, Weaver said, a poll by him showed that, of those 21 players, 16 had been willing to play an exhibition game sched uled for last Saturday. Miller, following his meeting with the Oriole players at the suburban home of third baseman Brooks Robinson, said of Weaver: “There’s a fine point in labor laws and he’s gone way over board. His attempts to break the strike have been as a representa tive of management—which has nothing to do with being a field manager. “Weaver is entitled to give his opinion and talk to the players,” Miller said, “but when he exer cises coercion and makes threats, direct and implied, that’s differ ent . . .” And Robinson, the Orioles’ A matter of life by Gordon Richardson Nice guys finish last. That’s a phrase quoted so frequently too many people believe it. It’s just not so. Nice guys usually finish first. As a rule, they work harder and better. That is, more efficiently. And nice guys are the people we care about. So here’s a friendly warning to them, from Provident Mutual, in the form of a capsule case history. A 27-year-old dentist, a nice guy, wanted to add $50,000 to his life insurance portfolio. We couldn’t sell it to him. In the three years since his first purchase, he’d become uninsurable. It happens. And it’s what makes Provident Mutual’s Guaranteed Purchase Option so important. 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Next Week-The Computer, Financial Portrait Painter. player representative, disputed Weaver’s version of the pre season poll. “Actually,” the third baseman said, “the vote was 16-4 that we would be willing to play the exhi bition games but only if the own ers would agree to accept figures of the actuaries on the amount of surplus already existing in the pension fund.” And after the meeting with Miller, Robinson added: “We are more unified now than ever before.” Among the players, meanwhile, there was considerable specula tion about the possible duration of the strike, the reason for the polarization between the two sides and how quick games could be played if — and when — the strike ends. “I don’t see any break in this thing,” said Houston pitcher The gei niter w and. Polls fc p.m. ired. All C01 ps area Larry Dierker, the club’s p! representative. “I think," ion C< Astros’ pitcher Dave RoBampus : “the owners are out to pBges, he of Miller. This guy hasn't*Off-can baseball, but he has done« en ^ £ e for the players, accoiql benefits they wouldn’t havecf wise obtained. The Astros’ general mas H. B. “Spec” Richardson, sail doubted the weekend series Atlanta could be played eve apartrr ig pla< the strike ended immedia: Pry to d “Even after this thing is tied,” he said, “I want to see pitchers throw.” Several Pittsburgh pla worked out at the Universt!j| Pittsburgh Wednesday, but barred from further use of college’s facilities. The se . alpha! n the ] TRY BATTALION CLASSIFIf] Autrey jtion bu Is to be tions. 1 “We’re [groups, alreac Is woul the Da Revivii ;ate alsi THE PEANUT GALLERY FRIDAY NIGHT, APRIL 7 AT 8:00 P. M. BEER IJc A GLASS One Keg THE PATIO WILL BE OPEN OLD COLLEGE RD. PEANUT GALLERY TEXAS AVE. 813 Old College Rd. College Station, 846-9978 Open 4 p. m. Monday-Friday—7 p. m. 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