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THb BATI ALIUN
THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1981
Sports
Biles pleased with
‘new’ QB Reaves
DIETING?
United Press International
SAN ANGELO, Texas —
Freshly signed Houston Oiler
quarterback John Reaves “put zip
on the ball” and shows experience
and skill, despite a two-year layoff,
says Houston Oilers Head Coach
Ed Biles.
Harold Bailey.
“With his experience,” Biles
said, “he may have a leg up on the
other two (backup) prospects.”
The training camp boycott of
free safety Mike Reinfeldt in a
contract dispute has caused the
Oilers to look for defensive backs
with experience, and Wednesday
they signed Doug Greene, 25, a
free agent from Houston who has
played for the St. Louis Cardinals
Biles installed Reaves, 31, for
merly of the Cincinnati Bengals
and Philadelphia Eagles, as the
team’s No. 2 quarterback Tues
day, a week after the surprise res
ignation of quarterback Kenny
Stabler. Reaves will play behind
Gifford Nielson.
“We watched him work and he
had some zip on the ball,” Biles
said. “We wanted to see if he
could throw some patterns —
outs, ups and posts. He looks like
he has a good touch, but you have
to remember he’s been out a
year. ”
The terms of the contract were
not disclosed.
Reaves did not play for an NFL
team in 1980, and the year before
he was on the Minnesota Vikings’
roster but did not play. In six NFL
seasons he has passed for 3,155
yards on 249 completions in 539
attempts.
A first-round draft choice out of
Florida, Reaves played from 1972
to 1974 at Philadelphia and from
1975 to 1978 at Cincinnati. The
other other quarterbacks the Oil
ers have in camp are third-year
pro Nielsen, Craig Bradshaw and
Yankees continue suit
over Munson’s death
United Press International
VERO BEACH, Fla. — A strike by profession
al football players may be inevitable, but lessons
learned from the current baseball strike should
prove valuable in negotiations, says Saints owner
John Mecom.
Mecom said Wednesday both owners and pro
fessional football players should heed the lessons
learned from the current strike by baseball play
ers, but he added that a football strike may be
forthcoming.
“It’s just another one of the normal problems of
professional sports right now,” said tbe Houston
businessman, who is looking to new head coach
Bum Phillips and a host of promising recruits to
improve on the club’s dismal 1-15 record of last
year.
“I hope we owners have learned enough to
want to compromise and that the players have
grown up enough to want to survive, and that
everyone realizes that you can’t afford a strike.
“At least we started negotiating about three
years ago on our collective bargaining agreement
— as opposed to waiting to the last minute as
baseball did. Two or three years ago, baseball
owners gave everything away. Now they’re trying
to be hardnosed and get something back. You
don’t do it that way.”
Part of the problem was that football players
id a
often do not feel bound by their contracts and are
not willing for owners to possess the same bar
gaining rights they seek, Mecom said.
“If the players believe so much in the players’
agreement, then it’s a shame they don’t believe as
much in their own contracts,” he said. “They feel
like they can break their own written contracts at
will.
“When it comes to the owners trying to get
something back through negotiation from a con
tract, they’re very upset about it. They ought to
live up to their contracts as well as they expect the
owners to live up to their contact with the union.
“At least we’re trying to compromise. Did you
ever see a player give you anything back on a
contract?”
A walkout could be avoided through comprom
ise between players and owners, Mecom said,
adding he was unsure football could survive a long
strike without permanent damage.
“It isn’t the strike, it’s the image,” he said. “It’s
the tamishment of the image. That’s what I hope
we’re going to learn from this baseball strike.”
Strike insurance is one alternative being ex
plored by owners hoping to protect themselves
from a players strike, Mecom said.
Excitement marks Festival’s finale
United Press Internationa]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — National
Sports Festival III, which started
with a riotous display of green and
blue laser lights a week ago before
thousands of cheering fans and
athletes, ended quietly and with
out witnesses just after midnight
Wednesday.
A few moments after the final
medal was decided, a lone secur
ity guard at Clinton Square in
downtown Syracuse received
word by walkie-talkie to douse the
flame that stands as symbol of
brotherhood and good sportsman
ship in the world of amateur athle
tics.
He turned a small valve, and
the fire disappeared without a
trace.
“I think it could be the most
exciting and moving thing after
the Olympics, ” Tim Daggett, gold
medalist in the men’s horizontal
bar gymnastics event, said. “I got
chills during the opening cere
monies -— it seemed like America
was together again. This could be
the American Olympics.”
“If I had this when I was 17 or
18, I would have been better pre
pared for international competi
tion,” said veteran sprinter Har
vey Glance.
Crowds were near capacity at
Wednesday’s festival-ending
events — in judo, ice hockey, in
door speed skating and men’s and
women’s volleyball and basketball
— despite unseasonable chilly
weather and rain that fell intermit
tently until late afternoon, accom
panied by gusty winds.
In men’s basketball, UCLA
almost stole the limelight away
from the West in the gold medal
basketball game.
UCLA recruit Stuart Gray
scored 22 points; UCLA sopho-
more-to-be Ralph Jackson scored
18, and Nigel Miguel, another
UCLA recruit, added 13 to lead
the West to a decisive 109-97 vic
tory over the South.
Steve Carfino scored 23 points
in the bronze-medal game to lead
the Midwest to a 93-92 win over
the East earlier Wednesday.
In women’s basketball, the
South took advantage of Medina
Dixon’s second-half foul trouble to
mount a rally that gave it the gold
medal with a 93-84 victory over
the East.
In indoor speed skating, pony
tailed Gloria Bogacki, 18, of Park
Ridge, Ill., and Steve Merrifield,
26, a motorcyle racer from Canoga
Park, Calif., each picked up then-
third and fourth gold medals of the
Festival, completing sweeps of
the events in their respective divi-
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The Oilers said Tuesday they
were talking to former Washing
ton Redskins perennial all-pro
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out of retirement, and reportedly
he has told them he would consid
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Biles said Greene could make
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The Oilers continue to say they
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