Page 10 I Mb bA 1TALION WEDNESDAY. JULY 15, 1981 Page € WtUNfcSUAY, JULY Sports » Labor secretary joins talks Ethics and winning at all costs Somethin^ very sad happened 1 thing-less-than-sp flfift TlirfiSSlll'rP Tft OWnPrS lastweektocoUegeathletics. Sad —,1 son, he's not gi* A ▼▼ because it seems to be happening Ji WclV produce a win more often and on a larger scale. ✓ doesn’t matter the r\**rv>r»r* T T i \ r/ri r'c i M i r "■r" # — rwvwln/tA a United Press International NEW YORK — Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan has en tered the baseball negotiations and his presence may force the owners to make a move that would bring an end to the strike now in its 34th day. A negotiating session was sche duled for 2 p.m. EDT today, and Donovan will speak to both sides to advise them of the administra tion’s concern about the pro longed dispute. According to management sources, Donovan’s entry into the talks is putting pressure on the owners, and they were expected to offer another proposal to the players at today’s meeting. Federal mediator Kenneth Moffett, who got things stirred up last weekend by presenting a com promise proposal, said he thought the two sides were getting very close to a settlement. “I’m quite optimistic, especially after the lousy meeting we had last week, ’’ said Moffett Tuesday night on ABC-TV’s Night Line. “I’m hopeful of getting this thing done in a day or two. Both sides made a lot of movement last week and there’s been lots of conversation since then. I think it’s ready to settle.” It was under Moffett’s urging Donovan agreed to attend today’s session. Earl Cox, his special assis tant, said the decision to go to New York was the outgrowth of several days of discussions be tween Moffett and Donovan, but was not at the direction of the White House. “This is the act of the secret ary,” Cox said. “It does not reflect any words he has received from the administration. It was not cleared.” Cox added, however, the White House was being kept informed of developments. It was to be the first time any one from the Reagan administra tion has become involved in the strike, which has forced the can cellation of 393 games, including the All-Star game. However, Doug DeCinces, a member of the players’ negotiat ing committee, questioned what kind of impact Donovan’s speech would have on either side. “It’ll be interesting to see. I don’t really know,” said De Cinces, who also appeared on Night Line. “The main question I have is whether he’s totally briefed on the situation.” ,.*e vey ,»e e ' te driver vs. driver in Parking Lot action! CLASH OF THE TITANS” ALL CARS — ALL DRIVERS WELCOME. CARS ARE COMPARATIVELY CLASSED SO PIT YOUR SKILLS AGAINST OTHERS, THIS • SUNDAY, 19 JULY 81. ZACHRY PARKING LOT • REGISTRATION: 9:30- 12:30 RACING: 12:45-3 ROUNDS AND PRACTICE TAMUSCC MEMBERS - $3.00 NON-MEMBERS - $4.00 — TROPHIES AWARDED — SPONSORED BY: Texas A&M Sports Car Club B&J Texaco/Auto Locators 1800 S. Welsh Ave. College Station 693-4132 DeCinces indicated the owners would make a new proposal today, but was not as optimistic as Mof fett the strike would end soon. “I kind of felt we had the oppor tunity to settle last weekend with the proposal Mr. Moffett brought forth,” DeCinces said. “The play ers finally decided to give up some things in hopes of getting this set tled and resuming this season. We have yet to see the new proposal. Earlier in the day, the adminis tration told Congress there is no reason for professional baseball’s antitrust exemption and urged that it be eliminated. Abbott Lipsky Jr., deputy assis tant attorney general, told the House subcommittee on monopo lies and commercial law the “anti trust laws are sufficiently flexible to accommodate whatever un usual or unique business charac teristics might exist in the profes sional sports industry.” He noted the Supreme Court ruled in 1922 baseball was exempt from the antitrust laws because it was not trade or commerce within the meaning of the Sherman Act, and it was not interstate in nature. “We have seen no economic or other justification for an exemp tion for professional baseball,” Lipsky said. “It has been the posi tion of the antitrust division for some time that baseball’s exemp tion is an anachronism and should be eliminated. I reaffirm that posi tion today.” Something very sad happened last week to college athletics. Sad because it seems to be happening more often and on a larger scale. Former University of New Mexico basketball coach Norm Ellenberger was handed a one- year deferred sentence for illegal ly collecting money for recruiting trips he supposedly never took. He was convicted on 21 counts of fraud and filing false public vouchers. Although the university was not punished for any illegal recruit ing, it seems the presiding judge’s remarks following the trial made it quite clear that some type of in ducements were offered to some of the players. Describing Ellenberger as “simply one cog in a machine all ’ over the country called college ball”, Judge Phillip Baiamonte said the coach was being sent enced “because he got caught. ” Baiamonte went so far as to place the blame for Ellenberger’s “wrongdoings” on major-college athletic programs across the coun try for “maintaining what amounts to professional ball clubs in the guise of amateur athletics.” Buying off players by whatever means is not the goal of college athletics. It never was and it will never be . The goal of intercollegi ate athletics is good, clean amateur competition at the high est level. General George Patton perhaps said it best when he said that The way I see it By Ritchie Priddy America loves a winner. How right he was. Winning is great. Everyone loves a winner. It not only means pride and support for the team but it also means sold-out stadiums and big bucks rolling into the athletic department. Understand that I am not against winning or the money it brings in. On the contrary. It takes a lot of money to support the athle tic department of a major universi ty and I realize that every cent is needed and accounted for. The issue here is the cost of win ning. Athletics involves more than just physical sports engaged in by athletes. It has become a huge business involving millions of peo ple — not just athletes — and li terally billions of dollars. If the pressure to succeed in life is enormous. The pressure to win in major-college athletics is over whelming. For some unknown reason athletics (football and basketball more than any other sport) drive people crazy. Maybe it’s the thrill of competition. Maybe it’s be cause at the college level people take so much pride in their schools and/or team that winning has be come an obsession. Whatever it is, the fact remains that people often judge a school by the success of its teams and not by the quality of education it has to offer. The only difference at Texas A&M is that in years past the school has enjoyed success at both. The last couple of years, though, the Ags, athletically, have not lived up to expectations. Makes one wonder about the pressure being applied now to some of the coaches by some known and unknown "athletic in terests.” It makes one wonder even more about the investigation the NCAA is currently conducting into the Texas A&M Athletic Department. When a team fails to produce, the coach is the butt of all jokes. His future is determined solely by his won-loss record. And it should be. If he starts out with a some- thing-less-than-spectacular | son, he’s not given much tit produce a winning tea® doesn’t matter that it takesw| produce a powerhouse. Hel/ol 74 N do it now or he is gone. 4j2 Pages and others make sure of tint I think that in many caseiIfi" pressure to win makes it impfe' ble for a coach to carry onafe: ram he thinks can win. He X t take chances, opting insteail X i sure things like offering the W players certain incentives to| for him so that a “powerW could be just around thecorl Some people say that thes « of, or the ethics behind, awtf| 1 V* program is trivial, though, compared to the revenue hiaffi ( »»• Mel a While I support a winningMB rr il] as | as much as the next personl : ; ( r j] ( foy | condone a philosophy of wi [gg Soviet at all costs. Not even if ray Celling a hood depended on it. Son)(ill e 1973 j down the line a person hastiSBc W crc himself if he is satisfied g u( hr" 1.1 py life, his successes and thew a g, vv e d National League wins mock garm went about them. [snieli tov I think the cost of winninr/nilltary c be paid by the coaches foree peoj athletes, alone. Not bysray'iH Palest tic interests" offering u%viet-ma ments to players or by pnS 50 art applied on the coaching -md settle anybody. Btier, t The point I’m trying to roiXrhe sta that America loves a winnalpfst she does America see the diSrJast War. between w mmng fair and jus j|&Voist ning? Ran res iredomin; Rat Sh Rtary a ^Jn Na! ■tor dr ihrhona. United Press International CLEVELAND — There’s one aspect of the Strat-O-Matic board baseball game that’s realistic. In a mock All-Star game played at home plate in Municipal Sta dium Tuesday, the National League buried the American League, 15-2, continuing a mas tery that has lasted more than two decades. The real All-Star game was can celed because of the players’ strike, but a local television station decided to stage a “game” of its own, complete with the Canadian and American national anthems and the ceremonial throwing out of the first dice — instead of a ball — by Hall of Earner Bob Feller. Dave Parker of Pittsburgh won the game’s Most Valuable Player Award, with three hits in five trips, including a home run. Phi ladelphia’s Manny Trillo, who was 2-for-4 with three runs scored and three RBI, finished second in the balloting. The rosters were chosen by officals from Sportsphone and WKYC-TV and the managers were two producers from the sta tion, Jon Halpern and Jim Schaefer. Parker got the Nationals on the board first with a solo home run in the second inning — a screaming line shot over the centerfield fence that official scorer Dan Coughlin of the Plain Dealer esti mated at 415 feet. The AL tied it in the bottom of the third, when Willie Randolph of the Yankees led off with a walk, advanced to second on a ground- out and scored on a single by Oak land’s Rickey Henderson. Cincinnati’s Dave Concepcion led off the fifth with a single and was replaced by pinch-runner Andre Dawson of Montreal. Daw son promptly stole second and scored when Trillo singled to right. v ,, , ■‘tment Ihr NL put the gan*R elev . vith seven runs in Je se' ;,t - The winning pitcherwr ae 'Us Camp of Atlanta, whopitffer to sc o inspec Prism dght IRj V MEXICAN RESTAURANTS MEXICAN RESTAURANTS 1816 Texas Ave. • 823-8930 907 Highway 30 • 693-2484 Adver an it! in tt Battal Call 845- PLANT SALE ■eseJHTn SATURDAY JULY 18 FLORICULTURE GHSE be pro banges gate’s, n 'The g finger s Jaturallv I'teps it < lose co Mkins si , Atkins Jsli its n But Ji |e I HA': he visit ■Basket 10 A.M.-2 P.M. 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