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Baseball focuses back
on Rose, Ryan, Toronto
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Pete Rose, Nolan Ryan and the To
ronto Blue Jays, armed with a 5-year contract that ended
baseball’s shortest strike, grabbed the spotlight back
from the negotiators Thursday.
The action moved from the meeting rooms to the
playing fields and a strike wasn’t a walkout any more.
Again, a walk was a trip to first base, rather than a work
stoppage.
“Let’s send a message to Pete Rose, ‘Go get ’em!’ ”
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth said on national tele
vision. “There’s a whole bunch of records. Don Sutton,
Phil Niekro, they’re all closing in. Ryan breaks a record
every time he pitches the ball.
“This is the year of the fan and the year of the re
cord,” Ueberroth said Thursday morning on NBC’s To
day show.
Thursday’s slate of 18 games was a busy return. There
were five double-headers in the American League as
clubs rushed to make up the 25 games lost during the
two-day strike.
The resumption caught Rose, player-manager of the
Cincinnati Reds, 24 hits shy of breaking Ty Cobb’s all-
time record of 4,191 hits. He has said he hopes to get
there late this month.
Ryan’s career strikeout mark was at 4,028 and count
ing, and Niekro and Sutton were six and 10, respec
tively, short of 300 victories. Second-year pitcher Dwight
Gooden, 17-3, is riding a New York Mets’ record 11-
game winning streak.
The Blue Jays, meanwhile, were nine games ahead of
the world champion Detroit Tigers and the New' York
Yankees and hoping to close in on the long-suffering ex
pansion team’s first American League East title.
As they and everyone else in the big leagues picked up
the last third of the season, players union leader Don
Fehr and owners’ representative Lee MacPhail faded
into the background.
MacPhail said he was looking forward to a vacation.
Fehr said he’d wait and see whether the players would
remove the uncertainty from his title, acting executive
director of the players’ union.
“The negotiators got the job done,” Ueberroth said,
denying that his presence in the talks Wednesday had
forced a settlement. Actually, he said, MacPhail and
Fehr had just reached agreement when he joined them
at MacPhail’s Manhattan apartment.
The new contract has no salary cap or limit on arbitra
tors’ awards. But it does increase from two years to three
years in the majors the time a player has to serve before
he is eligible for arbitration. That doesn’t take effect un
til 1987, though.
Gone are the free-agent re-entry draft and profes
sional player compensation to teams losing free agents.
That was the one thing the owners won from the 50-day
strike four years ago.
The minimum salary goes up from $40,000 to
$60,000 a year.
Players got an increase in the owners’ pension contri
butions, from $15.5 million a year to an average of $32.6
million, but not the $60 million they requested.
The owners who make money intend to share some
revenue with the less-fortune clubs, although that is not
part of the agreement with the Major League Players As
sociation.
Ueberroth said the owners, who say the game is losing
millions, shouldn’t expect the players to help solve their
financial problems.
“They’re doing their jobs on the field, and that’s all
anyone can ask them to do,” Ueberroth said.
Jewel I breaks record
en route to PGA lead
Associated Press
DENVER — Journeyman
Doug Tewell wiped out an Ar
nold Palmer record with a seven-
under-par 64 that staked him to
the early first-round lead Thurs
day in the 67th PGA national golf
championship.
“I’d like to tell Arnold you can
leave the driver in the bag on No.
1 and shoot better than 65,” Te
well said after scoring six birdies
and an eagle-three on the Cherry
Hills Country Club course.
Palmer, now 55, executed one
of the most memorable shots of
his golfing career when he drove
the green on the 346-yard first
hole in the final round of the
1960 U.S. Open — also at Cherry
Hills — and went on to a 65 that
stood as the course record until
this warm, sunny day.
Tewell, 35, who scored the
only two victories of his 11-year
tour career in 1980, was on target
for a 63 after an eagle on the 17th
put him at eight-under-par.
“Thrilled,” “ecstatic,” “some
thing to cherish,” the usually
quiet, low-key Tewell said after
his lowest score of the year.
With more than half the field
of 149 still out, Corey Pavin held
second place with a bogey free 66,
five under par but two off the
pace.
Tom Watson and Danny Ed
wards were another shot back at
67.
Oilers won’t trade Smith for speedster
Associated Press
SAN ANGELO — Tim Smith, the
Houston Oilers’ slow but depend
able leading receiver the past two
seasons, doesn’t feel threatened by
all the cheetah-fast, small receivers
flooding the Oiler preseason camp.
He hopes they ■■■ —
draw some atten
tion.
“If a speed re
ceiver can clear
everything out,
you might be able
to break under- - ■ —
neath all that coverage so maybe
that would really help my game
plan,” Smith said.
At one point in the Oiler training
camp, six of the 10 receivers there
were fast-lane models, built for
speed and the deep threat.
OILER CAMP
They might be amazed to note
that Smith, despite a more deliberate
f jace, snagged 83 passes in 1983 and
tad another 69 receptions last sea
son. His two-season total represents
more catches over that period than
any other National Football League
wide receiver.
“I’m slow, maybe in a straight
line,” Smith said, “but I think I can
read defenses tjuickly and get into
the pattern quickly and make my
breaks to get open.”
Smith has been befuddling NFL
defenses since getting his chance two
seasons ago and new offensive coor
dinator Joe Faragalli isn’t about to
trade him for a faster model.
“You have to have the possession
receivers like Tim and Mike
Holston,” Faragalli said. “It’s impor
tant to have that speed for the deep
Houston’s Tim Smith
threat, but it’s also nice to have those
dependable guys catching the ball.”
Faragalli also is trying to add a
passing threat to the Oiler backfield
and Smith thinks that also will bene
fit the entire offense.
“I love to have guys like Butch
Woolfolk that can come out of the
backfield and catch the ball,” Smith
said, “They’re not going to know if
it’s a running back or tight end com
ing out and if you can match those
guys up with a linebacker, they are
going to have a good time.”
Smith is hoping the Oilers have a
better time than last season, when
they finished 3-13 and the offense
ranked only 23rd among the 28 NFL
teams in total offense.
“We’re going to be able to spread
them out so they can’t double any
one good running back or receiver,”
Smith said.
Smith’s emergence as an Oiler re
ceiver was sudden. He was a special
teams player in 1982 and didn’t
catch a single pass.
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