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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY. JULY 9. 1981 IMUrtOL/AY, JULY Sports Steinbrenner says his plan could bring strike to end United Press International now and Aug. 1, the date after Management made an offer attempt to Ag softball coach quits United Press International NEW YORK — While a federal mediator sought to return both sides to the bargaining table, ma jor-league baseball club owners prepared for a meeting tonight that could decide the direction of the 28-day-old strike. Kenneth Moffett, the federal mediator, said Wednesday no new negotiation sessions are sche duled. “I talked to them (Wednesday) and I’m going to talk to them (Thursday) morning,” said Mof fett, who added that talks could proceed despite National Labor Relations Board hearings over alleged unfair bargaining practices by the owners. The hearings en tered their fourth day today. The strike already has forced the postponement of approxi mately one-sixth of the season and has virtually wiped out any chance of the All-Star Game being played as scheduled on Tuesday. Only 22 days remain between now and Aug. 1, the date after which at least one general mana ger has said it would be useless to restart the season. The crux of the owners’ meeting is expected to be a referendum on the performance of Ray Grebey, management’s chief negotiator. A segment of the owners, led by George Steinbrenner of the Yank ees, Edward Bennett Williams of Baltimore and Eddie Chiles of Texas, would enjoy more progress in the talks. Steinbrenner has said he can offer a plan for ending the strike. Management made an offer Saturday, but it was rejected by the players in what proved to be a disastrous session. At the NLRB hearings Wednesday, Grebey said he stopped short of making the best offer on compensation. “I had the ability to go further, ” Grebey said. “There was room to move.” Other owners, including Wil liam J. Williams of the Cincinnati Reds, want to retain the hard line that has resulted in little progress to date. “To me, it’s a question of whether we re right or wrong on the stand we’re taking,” Williams said. “I think we re right in asking to be compensated for the players lost in the re-entry draft.” No talks have taken place since then. Tommy John of the Yankees hopes Steinbrenner can gather some support for his plan. “I really believe something will happen in the next week to 10 days,” John said. Steinbrenner expects to get a hearing at the meeting. “Every owner will be given a chance to speak,” Steinbrenner said. “Tve been assured of that. It will be talked about. Whether it will be listened to is another thing.” Steinbrenner’s plan may be an attempt to accommodate the play ers’ desire for a pool system for free-agent compensation. Under the players’ plan, each team draft ing a free agent would contribute to a pool of players, with a team losing a free agent eligible to pick any player in the pool. The owners have so far rejected that plan because a team could lose a player without signing a free agent. The owners prefer com pensation coming directly from the signing club, but the players believe such a system might dis courage teams from pursuing free agents and thus hurt the players’ bargaining power. “Reading between the lines, George’s proposal seems to be be somewhat close to the players’ pool concept,” John said. “If it is, and they accept George’s propos al, then we’ve agreed to some thing the players had down on the table since April and we’ve had a five-week strike for nothing.” Bill Galloway, women’s softball coach, has resigned to take a simi lar position with Louisiana Tech it was announced Wednesday. Galloway, who is one of the most successful coaches to ever coach at Texas A&M, leaves with a three-year record of 233-50. He took the Aggie softball team to three consecutive World Series, including this year’s tournament in Norman, Okla. where his team finished fourth nationally. Going into the 1981 World Series the Aggies were the num ber one ranked team in the coun try with a 77-12 record. His teams finished fifth nation ally in 1979 and third in 1980 and had become one of the most feared teams in the country. Galloway was out of town and unavailable for comment. Coach given one year probation United Press International ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The judge was angry, the coach teary-eyed, the audience elated, and the prosecutor wondered aloud how a man convicted of 21 felony counts could be punished by the promise of a clean record after one year of probation. District Judge Philip Baiamonte caught court spectators and former University of New Mexico basketball coach Norm Ellenberger by surprise Wednesday when he sentenced Ellenberger to one year of unsupervised prob ation, with no fine or restitution. He also promised to expunge the former Lobo mentor’s 21 felony convictions from his record at the end of that one-year period. While the sentence pleased the crowd. state Attorney General Jeff Bingaman, whose office prosecuted Ellenberger, said, “I always thought that when a person got caught steal ing, they should have to pay it back. ” He said, “I’m disappointed that the judge didn’t at least require restitution. I seriously wonder if many of the rest of us would have been dealt with so lightly if we had been con victed of 21 felony counts the day before.” But Baiamonte’s harsh criticism of what he termed the “hypocrisy” of college athletics across the country and his light sentence pleased Ellenberger’s father. Dale. “We’re just delighted and happy, ” the jubi lant elder Ellenberger said outside the cour troom. “We knew from the beginning he wasn’t guilty.” Baimonte’s opening remarks caught the courtroom crowd by surprise. “What’s going through my mind at this point is the question, really, of how fair is it to incar cerate in prison a coach who is basically doing what almost everybody in this community wanted him to do,” he said. “It seems to me,” he said, “the real hypoc risy is that colleges and universities across this country maintain and establish what amounts to professional ball clubs. “I am being asked to sentence a man be cause he got caught, not because his conduct was unacceptable. The clear testimony in this case is that everybody looked the other way until he got caught.” Registration opens today for summer intramurals PEACE LUTHERAI CHURCH Attorney ^ittee has ffinaines &M Univ at Univei jfonnatior | “I fore; ides Bon |nd said ute to be ^Board ight said bout the ion’t know But Joh if the Brya feved he v f action w i “He (Be. 1100 F.M. 2818 in College Station Stan Sultemeier 693-4403 9:30 Study for all 10:45 Worship for all You may enter the parking area by turning onto Southwood Rio Grande and coming from behind. REGISTRATIONSforVi! tion Bible School, July 21-29 are now being received. Pleaset the office. We do have a $2.00 materials fee per student there is difficulty. We have room for a number of studentsgra 3-6 and a few age 3 through grade 2. Call: Come: The first summer session intra- jnurals came to a close this week with many new champions crowned and the promise of more exciting action for the second ses sion. Nearly 200 people competed in six sports, including softball, vol leyball, basketball, racquetball, handball and tennis throughout the session and even more are ex pected for the second session. Entries for the session open to day and will close Tuesday, July 14. All persons interested in com peting in intramurals are encour aged to enter their respective sport as soon as possible in order to be assured of a spot. The Texas A&M Intramural- Recreational Sports Department, in cooperation with Piggly Wigg ly, Readfield Meat Co., Pepsi Cola, MSG Basement Committee and the Residence Hall Associa tion, sponsored the 4th of July Pic nic at the Pool Saturday. Some 550 people attended the party which included swimming and innertube races, along with other activities. Here are the intramural results of the first summer session: Softball: Men’s division — Class A: Tom’s Bar-B-Q. Class B: Sex Pistols. Women’s division — Class A: Jokers. Class B: Royder’s Raiders. Co-rec division — Class A: Half Fast. Class B: Swingers. Basketball: Men’s division — Class A: Wrecks. Class B: Hoops. Women’s division — Class A: A s. Volleyball: Men’s division — Class A: Awesome Roots. Class B: K’s Corral. Co-rec division — Class A: Lagnaf. Class B: Cad-O- Cads. Racquetball Doubles: Men’s division — Class A: Tom Meinecke, Charles Shea. Class B: Martin Newcomb, Kirk Smith. Class C: Ken Davenport, Will Williams. Women’s division — Kathy Langlotz, Brenda Fisette. Class C: Karen Weis, Norma Gomez. Co-rec division — Class A: Jennifer Risch, Eric Sandt. Tennis Singles: Men’s division — Class A: David Drews. Class B: Norris Hodgin. Women’s divsion — Class A: Jan Zimmerman. Class B: Nancy Smith. Handball Singles: Men’s divi sion — Class A: Jeff Bronson. Class B: Jay McCarthy. We’re tooting our own horn . . . 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