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Page 16 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30. 1960 McMullen: ‘did the right thing’ United Press International HOUSTON — Houston Astros owner John McMullen says the pre sent storm at his door over the firing of a general manager does not make him uneasy for his position or his pocketbook. Fans talked of boycotts and peti tions, and minority stockholders talked of lawsuits the past two days over McMullen’s unexplained re placement of Tal Smith with Al Rosen Monday. But McMullen said there would be no long-term ill to the performance or profitability the team. “The difference between winning and losing is always made up of hard decisions,” he said Wednesday. “I honestly believe I did the proper thing. I anticipated this type of up roar. Perhaps I could not have pre dicted the intensity of it. ” Threats by “three or four” limited partners to oust him were ground less, he said. “Obviously I’m discouraged a lit tle bit by some of the attitude,” he said. “But frankly I think it’s without foundation. My disappointment is in having it discussed in the press.” An investors’ revolt was lots of talk but little visible action. A published report quoted a source as saying a lawsuit would be filed against McMullen in Texas, New York and Delaware. The part nership was chartered in Delaware. General partner McMullen, his family and friends own 33 percent of the team. New York lawyer David LeFevre owns another 10 percent and 19 other Houston investors share the rest. LeFevre, the angriest of the li mited partners, said: “The general partner has a fiduciary responsibility to the limited partners. That’s the law everywhere. And so a contention that a general partner has violated that responsibility is one of the possi bilities.” McMullen’s office in the Astro dome has been beseiged with irate phone callers since he fired Smith Monday. He has given no reason for replacing Smith with ex-New York Yankees president Al Rosen. Smith has said he was fired be cause, as the acknowledged architect of the team, he received more credit for the Astros’ championship this season than did McMullen. LeFevre said there was an infor mal meeting of limited partners in New York Wednesday, but he re fused to say how many were involved and where it was. He was the man who interested McMullen, a millionaire New York shipbuilder who owned a limited share of the Yankees, to buy the Astros early in 1979. Now he is lead ing the effort to oust him. Such a move, LeFevre said, would take a vote of 60 percent of the ownership. McMullen finished a day-and-a- half of separate interviews with re porters Wednesday morning. “I have no regrets,” he said. LeFevre said the limited partners’ dismay at McMullen’s actions was “unified,” but comments of five li mited partners contacted by UPI in Houston belied that description. Three of them said they knew of no plans to fight the firing. One, who requested his name not be used, said it was McMullen’s right to fire Smith, but his “intuition” indicated to him something was wrong and since LeFevre got the group together early in 1979, “I would de fer to his judgment.” Most of the limited partners were unavailable or refused to return phone calls. “We are still underground and are not gonna tip our hand to anybody,” LeFevre said. Don Sanders, senior vice presi dent of E.'F. Hutton, said: “I don’t think any of the limited partners to my knowledge are hiding out. We re trying to handle it carefully. 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Dr. Wylie said Monday the artery had been damaged by what is known medically as a “thoracic outlet com pression syndrome,” a condition where greatly enlarged muscles coupled with massive bone struc ture create severe pressure on a major artery. The UC Medical Center teams used an 8-inch arterial graft to repair the artery, which they said is now carrying blood freely from the pitch er’s heart down into his lower right In Richard’s case, said Wylie, it was the scalenus anticus muscle that had become overlarge due to pitch ing and weight-lifting. As a result, every time Richard raised his arm to throw, the muscle pinched a seg ment of the subclavian artery. The repeated trauma over the years caused a large clot to form in side the artery, which eventually lengthened and backed up to the carotid artery — the crucial vessel carrying blood to the brain. It was the blocked carotid artery that caused Richard’s stroke and would have killed him without surgery, Wylie said. It has also caused some doctors to speculate that Richard may be at the end of his pitching career, although Wylie in dicated only time will tell. “But James Rodney Richard is re covering rapidly,” Wylie said. “He has a full range of motion in his arm already. He wants to run now, and we’re letting him. He wants to lift weights again, and he will — very soon. We expect him to be in full activity by Jan. 1.” Richard and his wife, who both refused to talk with reporters, were still in California Monday, but ex pect to return to Houston in a day or two. < A Good Times Halloween! i 3 HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY! Music By “Texas Time Machine” $2.00 Pitchers Draft Beer — 60«t Longnecks Costume Contest Starting 11 P.M. 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