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College Station, Texas
Friday, April 7, 1972
THE BAIT
No end in sight for history-making baseball strife
By MIKE RATHET
Associated Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK <A>) — The first
general strike in baseball history
continued Thursday with no indi
cation of any settlement in sight
following a long, but unproduc
tive meeting between the chief
negotiators in the dispute over
pension benefits.
Indications were that even an
immediate end to the strike would
not see any games played before
Monday, for the St. Louis Cardi
nals announced they were post
poning their Saturday and Sunday
games against Philadelphia.
Marvin Miller, executive direc
tor of the Major League Players’
Association, and John Gaherin,
the owner’s chief negotiator, met
Thursday morning in a session
characterized by Miller as provid
ing “frank discussion.”
But it didn’t provide any
break in the situation.
“We are not close to any set
tlement,” Miller emphasized.
Miller said Gaherin did not
bring any counter-proposal from
the owners and pointed out that
they have come up with “none to
the dozen or so proposals we have
made through the course of nego
tiations.”
Asked directly if, in the ab
sence of a counter-proposal, there
had been any movement at all,
Miller replied: “No.”
Meanwhile, it was reported that
American League President Joe
Cronin and National League Pres
ident Chub Feeney would prevent
players from using ballparks for
practice. Neither Cronin nor Fee
ney were immediately available
for comment.
Miller, meanwhile, took on Cin
cinnati General Manager Bob
Howsam and Detroit owner John
Fetzer, who issued two of the lat
est statements critical of the
players’ position in the pension
dispute and Miller’s role as the
players’ chief negotiator.
Howsam, issuing a statement
in Cincinnati, said “there would
be no strike if it were not for
Marvin Miller. He has not played
one inning as a professional play
er. He has never worked for a
baseball club. I challenge his
knowledge of baseball to repre
sent to the players the need for
a strike.
Miller’s background, Howsam
continued, “is in the field of la
bor negotiations, not baseball.
Money seems to be his only con
cern. Baseball is not the steel in
dustry and he can’t use the tactics
of a steel negotiator.”
In reply, Miller said he would
only comment “that Mr. How-
sam’s thinking still is 30 years
behind the time.” He took greater
exception to remarks made in De
troit by Fetzer, who criticized
the players’ position in the dis
pute.
Fetzer said “the union’s offi
cial position is a mirage. They
would sack the reserve fund of
the pension to reach a tempora
ry solution in order to take them
selves off the hook. At a time
when the owners were negotiat
ing in good faith, they called an
ill-advised strike, an extreme vio
lation of good ethics.
“Mr. Fetzer,” said Miller, “is
completely inaccurate in his re
marks and clearly does not un
derstand either the plan or what
he himself agreed to in pension
agreements resulting from the
1967 and 1969 negotiations.
ings were utilized by the
management and by the
association to improve bei_
We’ve been proposing thtji
thing as in those two yean
The players have askei
a surplus in the pension fu
used to meet their demal
a 17 per cent cost-oMivii;
crease in retirement beneiiti
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owners have rejected that I
ing to an original offer o(|J
000 increase over their $5.4cj
annual contribution.
“In both those instances the
capabilities of the plan’s earn-
Miller and Gaherin plant:
again today.
Texas Relays are next stop for injured Aggie tracksters
By BILL HENRY
Assistant Sports Editor
Although still plagued with in
juries, the Texas Aggie track
team will compete in the presti
gious Texas Relays in Austin.
Thirty-eight university divi
sions teams are entered in what
coach Charlie Thomas calls, one
of the greatest track meets in the
nation.
Individuals competing in the
high-caliber meet are such Olym
pic performers as Randy Matson,
Jim Ryun and Dick Fosbury. Col
lege standouts who are vying for
a spot on the 1972 Olympic team
are Cliff Branch, Colorado sprint
er; Pat Matzdorf, Wisconsin high
jumper; Dave Roberts, Rice pole
vaulter; and SMU shot putter
Sam Walker.
“In this meet, you’ve got to
run a great race just to qualify
for the finals,” Thomas said. “Our
biggest hope is riding on the
sprint medley relay.”
In that event, Alan Swagerty
and Donny Rogers will run the
220-yard legs, Horace Grant will
take on the 440 and Willie Black
mon will finish with the 880.
Doug Brodhead is the biggest
injury problem for the Aggies in
this weekend’s meet.
“Without Brodhead I doubt if
we can qualify for the finals in
the mile or distance medley re
lays,” Thomas said.
Brodhead injured his foot in the
College Station Relays two weeks
ago and has not responded to
treatment as fast as Thomas had
hoped.
In the meet, six relays and sev
en individual events will be run.
Phil McGuire and Marvin Tay
lor will compete in the high jump,
Tim Brown in the discus, Harold
McMahan in the pole vault, Frank
Ybarbo in the six-mile run; David
Prince in the 440-yard interme
diate hurdles while Scotty Jones
and Edgar Harvey compete in the
120-yard high hurdles.
The relay races to be run are
the mile, sprint medley, 880-yard,
sprint two mile, and distance med
ley. The distance medley is made
up of a 440-yard leg, 880, 1320
and mile. If the Aggies do not
qualify for the finals in the dis
tance medley they will compete
in the two-mile slated for Sat
urday.
In the sprint relay, where A&M
usually shines, Thomas feels the
team will not be able to qualify
because of an injury problem.
Gerald D’Ambrosio and Billy Por
ter are ailing with sore legs while
Rogers and Steve Barre are sound
and he feels the two able sprint
ers will not be able to carry the
other two in this top-notch meet.
Both Marvin and Wayne Mills
are recovering from injuries and
are expected to see action this
weekend.
“Marvin is not totally well but
wants to run and with him in
there, it should help us. Wayne
will run in the mile and 880 re
lays,” Thomas said.
No team trophy, as such, will
be given out as no team points
Charge:
pnie
kept. An Outstanding! er seat
trophy will be awarded *<
team that all the coackg
worthy. A&M has wonitj
past two years.
Both individual and reli;B ate f 0]
ners will receive watches
phies for their accompli! , had
at the meet. Twenty-four i I
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meter
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thinclads will compete fori
awards.
A&M tennis team faces important matches
t a fe\
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Two big tennis matches are
scheduled for A&M this weekend
as the Aggies entertain North
Texas State Friday and travel to
Dallas to take on SMU Saturday.
points after smashing TCU 7-0
March 28. Rice has six points
with a 6-1 win over Texas.
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The lineup for A&M this week
end will be Dick Fikes, Tommy
Connell, Dan Courson, Lawton
Park, Bill Wright and Billy
Hoover in singles, and Fikes and
Courson, Wright and Hoover and
Park and Connell in doubles.
Nine matches will be played
against North Texas and seven
against SMU. In the SWC, cham
pions are determined by a point
system in which each match win
counts as a point.
A&M leads the race with seven
“North Texas will be a good
match for us,” assistant coach
Richard Barker said. “The people
that have beaten us have beaten
them worse on most occasions
but we are really very equally
matched personnel-wise.”
A&M will contend with the
ninth ranked team in the nation
when it visits Dallas Saturday.
The Mustangs are made up most
ly of foreign players having only
one native Texan on the squad.
John Gardner, SMU’s No. 1 play
er, is from Australia.
“I feel SMU is the toughest
team in the conference,” Barker
said. “Rice is supposedly the
toughest because it has Harold
Solomon, but the rest of its play
ers will have a hard time. I also
think Gardner can beat Solomon
if he has a good day.”
In the conference race, Barker
gave A&M the only chance of
pulling an upset at this time.
“I would have thought Texas
had a chance until they were
smashed by Rice,” he said. “It
will be hard for them to make up
the difference now, though. Right
now I would have to pick us as
a darkhorse having both the pow
erhouses left to play.”
Two more SWC matches are
scheduled for next week as A&M
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must travel to Houston for a
match with Rice on Wednesday
and host Baylor Friday in crucial
contests for the Aggies’ title
hopes.
Poloists play Houston matet
The A&M Polo Club will travel
to Houston this weekend with 12
of its horses for a zero-goal team
match Saturday.
The zero-goal status of players
Houston tourney
says ‘No hair’
DALLAS — Dave Williams,
University of Houston golf coach,
has decreed that no golfer can
play in the All-America Invita
tional Golf Tournament in Hous
ton next week “if you cannot see
skin between his collar and hair
line and if there’s any hair over
his ears.”
He said “This is something they
don’t have to do. This is an invi
tational. If a team doesn’t want
to come that’s their business. If
they do come, we expect them to
abide by our rules.”
Williams told Dallas Times Her
ald columnist Sherrod he has had
responses from about 75 per cent
of the coaches supporting the
code.
Some 24 teams have been in
vited to play in the tournament.
Sports schedule
here, dou-
Friday
Baseball: Baylor,
bleheader, 1:00
Track: Texas Relays,
Tennis: North Texas,
1:30
Football: Spring workout, 4:00
Austin
here.
Saturday
Baseball: Baylor, here, 2:00
Track: Texas Relays, Austin
Tennis: SMU, Dallas
Football: Scrimmage
Rugby: Austin tournament.
Tuesday
Baseball: Houston, here (Tra
vis Park), doubleheader, 5:00
Football: Spring workout, 4:00
Wednesday
Tennis: Rice, dual meet, Houston
Golf: All-America tourney,
Houston
Football: Spring workout, 4:00
Football:
Thursday
Spring workout, 4:00
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