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Page 14 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1980 May 22 is regular season showdown Baseballers strike exhibition games United Press International DALLAS — The Baseball Players Association voted Tuesday to strike the remainder of the exhibition sea son, but agreed to play the first six weeks of the regular campaign in hopes of settling a contract dispute with club owners. An ultimate strike deadline was set for May 22. Marvin Miller, director of the players union, said the players were showing “one last hope” that the owners would enter into meaningful negotiating sessions. “To this point,” said Miller, “they have not.” The 1980 season will thus begin on time next week, but in the following weeks — if no agreement is reached on a basic players contract—tension will again build toward a showdown between almost 1,000 major leaguers and the men who pay their salaries. “If we don’t have an agreement by May 22,” said Larry Bowa of the Phi ladelphia Phillies, “we’re gone. It won’t make any difference if a guy is batting .040 or .840, he will strike. “The players came to this meeting in an angry mood. But we want to think about the fans as much as they can. That’s one reason we are going DIETING? to open the season on time.” Although the players voted not to compete in the final week of the ex hibition season, they said they would be willing to continue workouts at their respective training sites. “I think it would be in the best interests of the owners to let us work out,” said Minnesota’s Mike Mar shall. “If you owned a club you would want it to get off to the best start possible and you probably wouldn’t do that if you had missed the final week of spring training.” The players decision was reached in a two-hour meeting which had opened with many of the major league clubs wanting to strike im mediately. “Now, ” said Texas Ranger pitcher Jon Matlack, “I have to go back to my ball club and do a selling job. There was occasional concern expressed that by delaying a strike until after the season started there might be a loss of solidarity. “But everytime somebody said something like that it was argued down. The feeling was that by doing it this way we would get a few paychecks in our pocket. I don’t know if that will help solidarity, but it will keep players out of the bread lines.” Miller prefaced his announcement by reciting a brief history of the con tract negotiations from a players standpoint. He said the negotiations had accomplished nothing toward a settlement. The chief barrier toward a settle ment concerns compensation of a major league club for the loss of a player to free agentry. Teams cur rently are allowed to acquire a draft pick from the club that eventually signs one of its players lost through the free agent route. “The owners called in a federal mediator (last week) and we met with him in Palm Springs,” said Miller. “Usually when you call in a mediator you have new proposals you want to put on the table. But all they did was waste our time. There were no new proposals at all. I have never seen anything like it my life.” When asked why he thought the owners would negotiate now when they have not been able to reach a settlement during the past year, Mil ler said: “I hope that some of the more sen sible owners will play more of a role than they have to this point.” Miller insisted the decision to postpone a would-be strike until May was not a sign of weakness. “The players want to demonstrate a show of good faith,” said Miller. “But they have made it clear that if there is a continuation of the lack of effort on the part of the owners they will strike.” Before the meeting opened Miller said the owners had established a strike fund with which they had pur chased insurance in case a large por tion of the season is wiped out. Miller said insurance had been taken out with Lloyds of London. :ven though we do not prescribe diets, we make\ \it possible for many to enjoy a nutritious meal\ Iwhile they follow their doctor s orders. 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However, a USOC official said sup port for sending an American team to Moscow has been growing since the close of the Winter Games at Lake Placid, N.Y. served with baked potato or french fries. Reg. $2.69. Good Mon.-Thurs. from 4:30 P.M.-10 P.M. ■ fetorn Offer expires Thurs., April 17 -} C O UPON mffiap® MOOOQCgu:* MriOjJMflSMLSB WE BELIEVE IN PEOPLE HOURS, NOT BANKERS HOURS LOBBY HOURS Weekdays, 9 am to 5 pm Saturdays, 9 am to 3 pm DRIVE-THRU WINDOW Monday thru Saturday, 7 am to 7 pm College Station National Association MEMBER FDIC 1501 S. Texas Avenue College Station, Texas 693-1422 or 693-1441 Dennis Keegan, public relations director for the USOC, said prior to the American team’s strong showing at Lake Placid, 60 percent of those who wrote to the USOC indicated they supported a boycott. During the weekend, representa tives from 20 of the 21 governing sports bodies met with White House officials and made it clear the Amer ican athletes are not interested in any alternative form of international competition. “None of the options presented were greeted with very much enthu siasm,” said F. Don Miller, USOC executive director. “It was quite clear that, in the minds of the people here, there is no viable substitute for the Olympic Games.” Carter recently rejected a propos al from the Athletes Advisory Coun cil calling for the American team to compete in Moscow but boycott both the opening and closing ceremonies. The athletes also had said they would be willing to refuse to take part in any victory celebrations while in the Soviet Union. Alberto Jimenez, graduating senior on the Aggie tennl squad, burns a backhand down the line for a winner again ^ Texas Tech. Jimenez a long with partner Max King (4 pictured) compose one of the Ags major backbone doublJ y exas ^ tarns. 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