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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1981
I nUrlOUMY, JULY <L
Sports
Strike talks resume today
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Baseball
strike negotiators met late
Wednesday with the board of di
rectors of the owners’ Players Re
lations Committee, but again
failed to find a common ground for
ending the 41-day-old standoff.
Neither side would comment,
abiding by the press blackout re
quested by Labor Secretary
Raymond J. Donovan.
The 90-minute meeting took
place at the Office of Personnel
Management in Northwest
Washington. Donovan, federal
mediator Kenneth Moffett and
negotiators for both sides
attended the session.
The negotiators also met for five
hours Wednesday morning, and
were scheduled to meet again
Thursday at 8:30 a.m. at the Fed
eral Mediation and Conciliation
Service.
T Baseball commissioner Bowie
Kuhn is in Washington, but did
not attend any of Wednesday’s
sessions.
Wednesday marked only the
second time there have been
three consecutive days of negotia
tions. This week has been called
crucial — with many saying the
rest of the season will be canceled
if agreement is not reached soon.
There was talk the negotiations
probably would recess for the
week if Wednesday’s session pro
duced no progress. The stumbling-
blocks are compensation for pre
mier free agents and credit toward
pensions for time lost during the
strike.
Minnesota Twins’ owner Calvin
Griffith said he saw little progress.
Asked about rumors a settlement
is imminent, he said:
“From what I learn, it (the
situation) does not lead me to be
lieve that’s true.
“We’re not sitting on any of the
talks. We’re being updated by
messenger and by telephone. It
appears the minority of their (the
negotiators’) time is not being
spent together.”
Marvin Miller, executive dire
ctor of the Players Association,
said Donovan had met with both
sides Wednesday. Nearly one-
fourth of the season has been lost
to the strike, and efforts to salvage
the rest of the season have been
fruitless despite Donovan.
were in Washington, being kept
advised of the negotiations but not
taking part.
Sports Festival to open
tonight with ceremony
United Press International
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Symbolic
of the season, the opening cere
monies for the Third National
Sports Festival will be light and
bright.
\ One day later, though, a long
week of frenzied competition will
begin with this country’s top
amateur athletes showcasing their
abilities in 33 sports.
* The National Sports Festival,
which begins tonight with an
Olympic-style opening ceremony,
represents something new with
the framework of a long-
festablished format.
Basically, it is a national cham
pionship open to all athletes who
are eligible to represent the Un
ited States in the Olympics or Pan-
American Games.
In terms of quality athletes, the
Festival is the largest sports event
ever to be held in Syracuse, and
the response has been outstand
ing. As far back a week ago the
advance sale already surpasses the
previous record of 210,000 at Col
orado Springs in 1979, and there is
some expectation that the final tot
al can reach 300,000.
The opening ceremonies will
begin at 6 p.m. CDT at the
52,000-seat Carrier Dome, which
was opened last fall, and are ex
pected to last an hour and a half.
The 3,300 athletes and coaches
will enter the closed stadium in
Olympic-style grandeur, grouped
by region and wearing their re
spective colors, followed by the
lighting of the Festival Flame.
The torch, which will have been
run in two sections from Albany
and Buffalo starting July 18, will
be carried the last leg by two
athletes.
There will be music, principally
provided by the Syracuse Sym
phony Orchestra, playing in tan
dem with a modernistic laser show
which will be played off the roof of
the dome.
Speechmaking will be limited
— or so goes the promise. New
York Gov. Hugh Carey is sche
duled to open the Games and Wil
liam E. Simon, the former secret
ary of the treasury and now presi
dent of the U.S. Olympic Com
mittee, will address the athletes.
No travel problems are antici
pated. Events will be held at 22
sites, each of which can handle
cars, and the competitions will be
spread out over the community at
different times.
For the purpose of competition,
the country is divided into four
teams — East, South, Midwest
and West.
A slate of 24 sports will begin
competition at 6 a.m. CDT Fri
day, and the Festival will con
clude July 29 with finals in basket
ball, ice hockey, judo, indoor
speedskating and volleyball. The
highlight events Friday are bas
ketball, figure skating and swim
ming.
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Accompanying Miller weile
players Bob Boone of Philadel
phia, Phil Gamer of Pittsburgh,
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Ray Grebey, the owners’ chief
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United Press International
TOKYO — Baseball crazy
Japanese fans must consider
themselves fortunate there is no
such thing as free agency in
Japan’s biggest spectator sport —
professional baseball.
While a deadlock between the
club owners and players over free-
agent compensation has deprived
American fans of major league
baseball since June 12, no such
problems exist in Japan, where
baseball also is a major source of
summer entertainment.
A strike by the ball players in
Japan’s professional baseball en
terprise, which started in 1934, is
inconceivable under the present
setup. The players do not belong
to a union, although they have a
representative in dealings with
the presidents of their respective
leagues. Central and Pacific, and
with the baseball commissioner.
In the United States, any play
er may declare himself a free agent
after spending six years in the ma
jor leagues and be free to negoti
ate for higher pay with any club.
There is no such provision in
Japan’s organized baseball. A pro
fessional ball player in Japan nego
tiates a yearly contract with his
club — not any other team. If he is
dissatisfied with the contract
offered him, he can refer his case
to a mediation committee or re
main idle without compensation.
And he can be traded to another
club.
It is difficult even to imagine the
advent of a free-agent system in
Japan because there is no out
standing player who would be
confident of being sought by other
clubs with fantastic money such as
Pete Rose and other top american
stars.
Although there appears to be
room for improvement in the
treatment by the club owners of
the players, there has been no
organized movement by the play
ers themselves toward such ac
tion.
The pay and retirement funds
are far below standards in the
American major leagues.
That is one reason there are
three All-Star Games each year in
Japan, as opposed to the single
gala affair in the States. The main
objective of all three games is
building up the retirement fund
for the players.
If they ever decided to unite,
players in the Japanese leagues, a
number of whom are American,
could draw power from their great
fan appeal. Just how wild about
baseball Japanese fans are can be
seen by the fact a paid attendance
of 47,000 attended g recent game
between the Central League’s
front-running Yomiuri Giants and
the last-place Taiyo Whales.
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