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■^EW YORK — At the very top, let’s gel
one thing straight. The St. Louis Cardinals
are the world champions and certainly de
serve to be.
■ They played by the rules, they won the
World Series as prescribed, in seven games,
and nobody is trying to take their victory
away from them. Nobody could, anyway.
■ But in losing the World Series, the Mil
waukee Brewers seemed to capture the fan
cy of people and swing them over to their
side more than the Cardinals did in win-
ning.
■The Set ies has been over almost a week
now, but everywhere I go, everybody still
talks about the Brewers, not the Cardinals.
■‘What a shame they lost,” and “I was pull
ing lor them so hard.” That’s all I keep
hearing. I’m hearing it at airline ticket coun
ters inure Midwest as well as in the East, in
such diverse places as supermarkets and
Barbershops and astonishingly enough,
even among many of my journalistic col
leagues. There’s supposed to be no rooting
in the press box but the World Series was
one athletic event in which that rule was
violated.
Maybe it was because the Brewers had
never won anything before or because of the
way they battled back to beat both the
Orioles and the Angels in those final games
where they would’ve been all finished had
they not. Or maybe it was because Mil
waukee symbolizes America’s Heartland to
most people more than St. Louis does.
I don’t really know what it was, but I do
know the Brewers are emerging as the most
popular losers in sports since Roberto Ue
Vicenzo erased himself as the winner of the
Masters championship by not using his pen
cil properly.
The Brewers lost with style. They went to
war with one of their biggest guns spiked
when their Cy Young relief ace Rollie Fin
gers had to merely stand around and watch
but they never offered that as any excuse for
losing. They didn’t whine, they didn’t alibi,
they didn’t complain, and maybe that’s what
made so many people take to them all the
more.
Last Thursday was a cold and cloudy day
in Milwaukee, the kind of day you feel like
staying indoors. But, according to police
estimates, some 100,000 people lined Wis
consin Avenue to show the defeated Brew
ers’ players how they felt about them as they
came along in a motorcade.
Later at Milwaukee’s County Stadium,
Pete Vuckovich, who was charged with the
seventh game defeat against the Cardinals,
got up to speak to the crowd. His choked
emotion showed in his voice.
“I don’t feel so good today because we lost
the game,” he started to say to the crowd,
but it never let him finish, answering him
back in a rising but loving chorus, “It doesn’t
matter ... it doesn’t matter.”
Bud Selig, the Brewers’ owner, became so
excited when they won the pennant by beat
ing the Angels that he bloodied his hand on
the roof of his private box. He bled some
more, inside where nobody saw, after the
defeat by the Cardinals. In light of what he
has seen, and how much it has meant for his
club even to reach the World Series, he’s
feeling a lot better.
“It has bound this state and community
together like nothing else has in the past
three decades,” he said Sunday from his
home in Milwaukee.
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WASHINGTON — Just in case there was some doubt, the
iking NFL players sent league owners a message that there will
Ino pro football in 1982 without a collective bargaining agree-
ger)
Even those union members who don’t always agree with the
Hdership either agreed with the union line Sunday or stayed
silent following a meeting of about 100 players in Washington.
■ The 34-day strike apparently won’t end before games next
weekend are called off, the sixth straight weekend without pro
tool ball.
■ “If anyone came here looking for us to blink, I’m sorry,” said
linjiggetts of the Chicago Bears, a member of the union negotiat
ing committee.
■Vo further meetings have been set to resume negotiations that
broke off Saturday when mediator Sam Kagel pulled out. Kagel
walked out when both sides refused to budge on the crucial issue of
how wages will be distributed.
■Ed ( iarvey, NFLPA executive director, said he will ask chief
AIL negotiator Jack Donlan for further talks “as soon as possible.”
Vo meeting is expected before midweek since Donlan is scheduled
ifmeet today in New York with members of the league’s executive
committee.
■Garvey also said the union plans to push for further action by
the National Labor Relations Board. NLRB General Counsel Wil
liam A. Lubbers said last week he will issue a complaint against the
VFL for refusing to bargain in good faith.
■Union attorney Joseph A. Yablonski said the NFLPA will decide
soon whether it will seek a rehearing of an appellate court decision
allowing the NFL to challenge in state courts the players’ right to
play in a series of union-sponsored all-star games or appeal the
case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
■ Yablonski also said the union may go back to U.S. District Court
in Washington this week seeking to have the standard NFL player
contract ruled invalid. The union sought an injunction against the
contract, but Judge John Penn said the matter needed further
hearing.
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Salazar shakes Gomez
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United Press International
NEW YORK — In the last half-mile of Sunday’s
13th New York City Marathon a small dust storm
kicked up in the faces of Alberto Salazar and
Rodolfo Gomez, who were waging a grueling
duel.
When the dust cleared, Salazar had shaken off
Gomez and pulled away to a four-second triumph
in 2 hours, 9 minutes, 29 seconds — his third
straight New York victory. For the second time in
three years, he had withstood a challenge from
Gomez, the veteran Mexican runner.
Salazar, the 24-year-old from Eugene, Ore.,
who now is undefeated in four marathons, played
down the significance of the dust, saying: “When
you have 600 yards to go in a 26-mile race, you
don’t worry about little things like dust.”
The Cuban native had begun his charge to the
finish 10 meters before the dust kicked up, stum
ning Gomez, who was unable to respond.
“I was surprised that he increased the tempo so
drastically,” Gomez said through an interpreter.
“I didn’t expect it. Then we entered the du$t
storm and I couldn’t see him. The surprise was the
spurt Alberto did.”
Salazar knew from the start, along with 14,3d8'
other runners, that he wouldn’t have much of a
chance at his world record of 2:08:13 which he set
last year; the cold headwinds which gusted out of
the northeast at up to 23 mph made sure of that.’
Still, the pace was even slower than expected.
At the sixth mile, the lead group’s time of 29:42'
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mark, the time of 1:04:55 had fallen 45 seconds'
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