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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY. JULY 14, 1981
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Cleveland to celebrate
despite no All-Star game
United Press International
CLEVELAND — Clevelanders, no strangers
to disappointment, are, for the most part, taking
in stride the postponement of what would have
been their day to brag about their town to base
ball fans around the country.
This would have been “All-Star Day,” with a
record crowd expected to fill Municipal Stadium
for the midsummer classic. There would have
been parties in the streets and good times til all
hours.
The baseball players strike has changed all
that, postponing the All-Star Game indefinitely.
And although many of the “All-Star Week”
activities the city planned — food festivals, street
fairs, concerts — are going ahead anyway, the
main event is painfully absent.
There is, of course, the hope the strike will end
in time for the game to be played sometime this
season — perhaps on July 30. And there was word
Cleveland will host the 1982 All-Star Game if this
year’s contest is wiped out completely.
But the fans who had hoped to see the game,
the local officials who had hoped to show off the
town and the vendors who had hoped to make a
buck readily tell you they sure were looking for
ward to what would have been.
“I was hoping for the All-Star Game,” said
Mike Rollins, a vendor at an ethnic food festival
being held within sight of the empty stadium. He
had hoped to catch some of the overflow crowd
tonight.
“It’s too bad for the city,” Rollins said. “I felt
bad when I heard about the postponement.”
A crowd in excess of78,000 — by far the largest
ever for an All-Star game — had been expected
for tonight’s contest.
The Greater Cleveland Growth Association
had projected the game would pump $2.5 million
to $3 million into tbe area economy through hous
ing, food sales, souvenirs and miscellaneous
spending.
In addition, there was the priceless media cov
erage that would have given local officials the
chance to spotlight the city’s attempts to brighten
up its image and battle its way back from years of
decay.
“We re certainly disappointed with the loss of
the game, but we’re going ahead with many of our
plans because, game or no game, this city has a lot
of things to celebrate,” Mayor George V. Voino-
vich said.
Now, the hotel and restaurant reservations
have been put on hold and vendors are trying to
figure out whether they will be stuck with
thousands of All-Star T-shirts, mugs, helmets and
patches.
Some street vendors say there has been little
interest in their souvenir items with the game up
in the air. The official concessionnaires, however,
say they expect to be able to unload their wares.
“I don’t think I’d have any problem at all, ” said
Al Friedlander, vice president of novelties for the
Municipal Stadium Corp., and one of those
licensed to sell items with the official All-Star
logo.
“Individuals will want souvenirs for the All-
Star game that never was,” he said. “I’m getting
calls and letters now. Some people think that if
you buy these things and hold them for 10 years
they may be worth some money.”
There will be an All-Star Game of sorts today —
a boardgame, computer-assisted simulation
being run at Municipal Stadium.
Duran looking for rematch
United Press International
CLEVELAND — Former
World Boxing Council welter
weight champion Roberto Duran
views his Aug. 9 return to fighting
against Mike “Nino” Gonzalez
only as a step along the route to a
rematch with Sugar Ray Leonard.
Duran, looking slightly out of
shape, arrived Thursday to begin
training for the Gonzalez fight. It
will be his first since Nov. 25,
when he lost his title to Leonard
by quitting in the eighth round
because of stomach cramps.
The junior middleweight
match against Gonzalez, a 10-
rounder, will be nationally tele
vised from Cleveland Public Hall.
The fight will be at 154 pounds,
meaning Duran will have to lose at
least 10 pounds. He will train at
promoter Don King’s training
facility in rural Orwell under the
direction of Panama Lewis.
“The last time he trained, which
was last week, he weighed 164 l /2
when he left the gym,” Duran’s
interpreter, Luis Henrique, said
during a news conference at
Cleveland Hopkins Airport. “He
had a cold, so he didn’t train for
about four days. But he has been
running.”
Asked about Gonzalez, who is
24-1 with 13 knockouts, Duran
said he remembered him as “mov
ing pretty good” when he sparred
with him a few years ago.
Duran, who also held the light
weight championship and has
compiled a record of 72-2 with 55
knockouts, said he views the Gon
zalez fight, and possibly another
bout in September, only as the
means of gaining a rematch with
Leonard.
“I’m only interested in fighting
Leonard,” he declared through
his interpreter, “because I’m run
ning behind him. I want to fight
him again.”
Asked if he would be interested
in fighting Tommy Hearns if
Leonard should lose his upcoming
title fight with Hearns, Duran
said, “I’m only interested in fight
ing Leonard.
“He wasn’t answering a ques
tion, he was only giving you his
own feeling about what he wants
to do,” his interpreter added. "I
think its obvious that if Leonard
loses, the appeal for a (Leonard-
Duran) fight loses a lot.”
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Connors enjoying
role in Davis Cup
United Press International
NEW YORK — For five years,
Jimmy Connors was almost an out
cast, a man who wouldn’t play for
his country.
Moffett waiting for signs
before calling for talks
Now, along with many of the
other changes that have taken
place in both his personal and pro
fessional life, this too has changed.
United Press International
NEW YORK — The major
league All-Star Game was to have
been played today, but for the
second time in history a “war” has
eliminated it.
Since 1933, when the classic
was begun, the major leagues
have failed to produce a game only
in 1945, when wartime travel re
strictions forced the cancellation.
But, there will be no game to
day because of the players strike,
which has entered its 33rd day.
Instead of names like Willie
Mays, Stan Musial, Ted Williams
and Joe DiMaggio bringing back
beautiful memories, the names
making the news in baseball are
labor negotiators, Marvin Miller
and Ray Grebey.
And, there is no sign either
wants to get together with the
other to end the strike.
Kenneth Moffett, the federal
mediator whose proposal pro
duced lengthy talks but no settle
ment during the weekend, said he
was waiting for a sign of movement
on either side before renewing
negotiations.
Nancy Broff, acting general
counsel for the Federal Mediation
and Conciliation Service, said
Monday she foresaw no new talks
in the next few days.
“We will probably wait a few
days but I don’t know for sure,”
said Broff.
The strike, the longest by far in
major-league history, has forced
the cancellation of 392 games and
necessitated the postponement of
the mid-season showcase.
Chuck Adams, a spokesman for
the commissioner’s office, said no
date has been established for play
ing the game.
“Until we have a resolution of
the players strike, we cannot set a
specific date,” said Adams. “The
30th of July is a possibility.”
If the game is to be played on
that date, the parties would need a
settlement in a hurry — probably
within a week. According to a for
mula established by players and
clubs, it would take 12 days to
place properly conditioned play
ers on the field, and that time
lengthens with additional strike
time.
If the game is not played this
year, the Office of the Baseball
Commissioner has said Cleveland
will most likely be the host next
year. That would mean Montreal,
originally scheduled as the site for
next year’s All-Star game,
wouldn’t get the contest until
1984. Comiskey Park in Chicago
has been picked as the site for the
silver anniversary contest in 1983
since it is the site of the first All-
Star Game played in 1933.
However, the strike may not be
settled by next season. The way
things are going not even Jimmy
The Greek would take bets.
For the first time since 1976,
Connors played Davis Cup this
past weekend and did so with ob
vious relish. He won both his sing
les matches in straight sets from
Tomas Smid and Ivan Lendl,
helping the United States beat
Czechoslovakia, 4-1, and advance
to the semifinals.
“It was a lot of fun playing for
the team and playing for Arthur,”
Connors said, referring to Arthur
Ashe, team captain. “I haven’t
played much Davis Cup in the
past and I want to help the team
win. That’s something I’ve never
done, and it would be important to
Despite the breakdown in talks
Saturday, Moffett said there still
was progress because the players
had made significant concessions
by dropping their demand com
pensation come from a player
pool, with signing teams not being
hurt directly by the loss of a
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According to Ashe, the U.S. has
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and it wasn’t until the appoint
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wanted to play.
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