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October 1, 1982
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|SAN FRANCISCO — Joe Morgan has the
ack of putting things into perspective and he
s the ball pretty well, too.
Thursday night, Morgan started the San Fran-
Ico Giants on still another one of their dramatic
pebacks with a two-run single in the seventh,
Id the Giants, down 5-0 at one point, had a 7-6
Jtory over the Houston Astros.
I Ron Pruitt, an journeyman catcher, wound up
V- hero. His two-run, pinch-hit single with the
[ses loaded and two out in the bottom of the
th kept the Giants in the National league West
e, which now is down to its final three games.
“This team has a lot of character,” said Mor-
, who last week celebrated his 39th birthday,
you had to say what won this particular game
fdi us it would have to be character. I’ve never
seen a team like this one that simply won’t quit. It
game out
-6 victory
seems to thrive on adversity.”
There were long faces in Candlestick Park
when it seemed Mike LaCoss would shut out the
Giants. But the Giants battled back to knock out
LaCoss in a three-run seventh and then tied it with
two more runs in the ninth.
After Harry Spilman hit a solo homer to put
Houston on top again at 6-5 in the top of the
ninth, the hosts displayed their last-minute
heroics.
The Giants now are tied with the Los Angeles
Dodgers, one game back of the Atlanta Braves
with three games left to play. The Dodgers snap
ped an eight-game losing streak with a 10-3 vic
tory over Atlanta. Now, the Dodgers come to town
tonight for the start of the final weekend of play
against their old foes.
United Press International
NEW YORK — The National
Football League officially called
off this weekend’s scheduled
games Thursday, marking the
second weekend that has fallen
victim to the players’ strike.
In addition to the 13 games
that were scheduled for Sunday,
a league spokesman said that
Monday night’s nationally tele
vised game at Tampa Bay be
tween the Buccaneers and San
Francisco 49ers also was being
called off.
The weekend washout came
less than an hour before the
NFL Players Association and the
Management Council were due
to resume negotiations at 1 p.m.
EDT in Washington.
Even with the knowledge that
a second weekend of games
would not be played, both par
ties appeared determined to
hold their respective positions
when they got together for only
the second time since the strike
began 10 days ago.
“Because of the players’
strike, the 14 National f ootball
League games scheduled for
Sunday and Monday Oct. 3-4
will not be played,” the league
announced Thursday.
art
On Wednesday, the Manage
ment Council continued to call
for a federal mediator and re
fused to send any of the 28 own
ers or Commissioner Pete Rozel-
le to the bargaining table. Mean
while, the union refused to drop
its request for a wage scale.
The owners regard the wage
scale issue as the major stumb
ling block in reaching a settle
ment to the first regular-season
strike in the NFL’s 63-year his
tory.
“The ownership in this league
is opposed to a wage scale and if
they don’t address that issue Fri
day, it’ll be the shortest meeting
in history,” said Cleveland own
er Art Modell, a member of the
Management Council’s Execu
tive Committee. “The money is
there (and) the guarantees are
there. There is $1.1 million for
every player who plays five
years. All I know is they rejected
it and to me it was beyond my
comprehension.”
According to a union spokes
man, the NFLPA still wants the
owners’ proposed $1.6 billion to
be distributed by a wage scale.
“We will be particularly in
terested in any second thoughts
they might have about a wage
scale,” said Dave Sheridan, an
NFLPA public relations assis
tant. “The numbers within a
wage scale are certainly negoti
able. We are seeking a basic
wage scale and that’s not negoti
able.
“But there are also other
issues to be negotiated. Obvious
ly, the wage scale is the number
one item on the agenda. Earlier
in the week, we proposed meet
ing with them in a series of sub
committees to discuss these non
economic issues and they said
no. We will certainly be pur
suing those on Thursday as
well.”
The side issues include a grie
vance procedure, drug rehabili
tation program, pensions and
insurance. Jack Donlan, the
owners’ chief negotiator, claims
the Management Gouncil has
made proposals on each issue.
On Sunday, the NFLPA re
buffed the Gouncil’s willingness
to guarantee the $1.6 billion
over five years. Modell said
Wednesday the next move to re
solve the strike is up to Ed Gar
vey, executive director of the
union.
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lie that he can’t wait to start,
t’s always exciting to go
n and play at Kyle Field in
t of all those people, so
ire all looking forward to
It,” he said. “We’re expecting
;ood game since A&M’s de-
se is a lot like Baylor’s. They
the same defensive front, so
week has been pretty much
same as last week as far as
•reparation goes.”
“’he Aggie secondary, which
been criticized as being
ik, will not be attacked more
often by Texas Tech than any
other secondary in the confer
ence, Hart said.
“The coaches haven’t even
mentioned anything about that
(passing on Aggie secondary),”
he said, “I think that we’re just
going down there with the idea
that we need to worry about
what we’re doing and not what
they’re doing.
“We’re just going to run our
offense and not worry about
their defense. We know they
have big physical guys on their
defensive line, so we’re just
going to have to execute and not
make any mistakes.”
Hart said if the game is error-
free it could either be a defen
sive struggle or could be filled
with offensive fireworks.
“I’m sure it’s going to be a
physical game because I know
both defenses are hard hitting
and aggressive,” he said. “But at
the same time it might be high-
scoring because A&M does so
many things on offense and
we’ve been moving the ball pret
ty well the last two weeks too, so
it should definitely be exciting.
“Our players are becoming
more comfortable with the
offense so we’re not making
near as many mistakes as we did
last year. All I know is that when
you play in College Station you
never know what’s going to
happen.”
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