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According to an agreement approved by the MISL's board of directors, a group beaded by oilman lim Graham has an opttoa through July 11 to purchase the team, pro vided the buyers can meet Carter's terms Carter has been negodMMf with Graham’s group to sell the franchise, which reported $5 million in losses over its first two years of operation The club announced Monday that it would fold after negotiations reached a standstill but talas resumed later in the week. “He (Carter) has given that option to Jim Graham and his associates.” said Sidekicks' General Maaaeer Ron Adkins. “They will now take this chal lenge and try to make it work for us. It’s time for us to go on with the championship team that should be in Dallas” When Ckrter put the team up for sale on April 23. he said buyers would have to agree to put up a $2.5 million line of credit, keep tne team m the Dallas-Fort Wortn area and give Adkins and Coach Gordon Jago 10 percent stakes in the club. According to the agreement approved Thursday, the purchasers will put up a $1 million line of credit and will deposit $250,000 with the league. Graham said. "Now our challenge is to take all the positives and get rid of the nega tives and move forward.” Graham said. Graham said his group, which also includes investment banker Stan Fin ney and Jan Rogers, daughter-in-law of Mary Kay Cosmetic* founder Mary Kay Ash. hopes to have the deal finalized by June 30. The Sidekicks, who made the MISL playoffs last season while aver aging 7,700 fans per game at Reun ion Arena, began play with the 1984- 85 season. The dub was formed after Carter purchased the New Jersey Rockets in 1983 Special dove season may be revived AUSTIN (AP) — Stale wildlife officials are proposing to reinstate the special four-day while-winged dove season this September be cause of increasing whitewing populations in the lower Rio Grande Valiev Last year’s season wasramelled after surveys indicated the De cember 1983 freeze had severely reduced nesting habitat in the valley. But the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife said Wednes day that proposed dates for a spe cial white-winged dove season are Sept. 6-7 and Sept. 13-14. The Parks and Wildlife Com mission will adopt hunting seasons and bag limits for doves, teal, rails and gafiinules on July 24. officials said Ron George, dove program leader for the department, said surveys during May indcated that some 472,000 whitewmgs were nesting in the Rio Grande Valley “Thu represents a 31 percent increase over last year ana is only 3.8 percent below the 10-year av erage,” George said TANK MFNANARA* pevr UtmXv by J*«f Millar a Bill Hinds I'/OU I JIM I'ueMosiiu homwoofa - f cr*i~r loom TtTn irirrM Cubs dismiss manager Frey ‘for good of the team, fans’ i (AP) —- Inn Frey, who two years ago guided the Chicago Cubs to their first title since 1945, was dismissed Thursday as manager. “I think he did everything in hu power to help the players and the organization get back on the winning track. Unfortunately, in my opinion whatever he was doing at this stage of the game wasn’t getting the job done,” club President Dallas Green said at a Wrigley Field news confer ence. “It’s something I’m very dishear tened by,” Frey said. “I wanted to stay here a long time. 1 wanted to stay here and win.” The decision to release Frey fol lowed a disastrous road trip — seven losses in 10 games “For the good of the baseball team and for the good of the fans, we had a change,” < to make Green said. “The baseball players know how I feel about this change — I’m not very happy about it. And I told them in no uncertain terms how I feel they con tributed to it,” Green sasd. Green said he was looking for a permanent replacement and had sev eral possiblities in mind, but declined to Kientify any of them. He said first-base coach John Vukovich will handle the managerial duties Friday, when the Cubs open a home stand against the St. Louis Car dinals. but would not say whether Vukovich would stay on the job beyond that. “I don’t like the word interim. I’d prefer to call him my manager. I told you he’s managing tomorrow and that’s good enough," Green said. The Cubs also released third-base coach Don Zimmer, a close friend of Frey’s. Green said he will never forget what Frey did for the Cubs in leading them to the National League East pennant in 1984, “and I don’t think anybody in Chicago should forget R.” For his leadership, Frey was named 1984 Manager of the Year by The Associated Press. Frey. 55, said he had no inkling he would be fired until he was called into Green's office Thursday. Green “didn’t really give any reason other than the performance of the team, and I don’t think you really need any reason other than that,** Frey told WBBM-AM radio. The team was 23-33 this year, in fifth place, 16)4 games behind the division-leading New York Mets. In Frey’s first season with the team, the Cubs won the NL East title with a 96-65 record but lost the pennant to the San Diego Padres in five games. Paris swinger Texan fulfilled dream of major leagues despite not playing high school baseball SULPHUR SPRINGS (AP) — Asa schoolboy living in the North Texas town of Pans, Eddie Robinson was intent on becoming a major league baseball player, even though his high school team didn’t play baseball. “I played football and basketball and came out for track because they needed bodies." he said. He had to rely upon semi-pro ball to attract major league scouts “I got five bucks a game for play ing semi-pro ball in Sulphur Springs one season, and I would hitchhike to and from the games,” he said Robinson was in Sulphur Springs recently to sprak at a luncheon meet ing of the Rotary Club. Naturally, topping the day’s menu was baseball conversation, covering his major league career that spanned 13 sea sons with eight team*. Although Robinson’* batting credentials pale compared to some other Texas-bred major leaguers such as Rogers Hornsby, Tris Speak er. Frank Robinson. Ernie Banks and Eddie Mathews, he is knocking on the door of the Texas Sports Hall of Fame Although his career batting aver age was only .268, Robinson put together some red-letter days as a homerun hitter. The left-handed swinging first baseman hit the last of his 172 big league homers in 1957 as a member of the Cleveland Indians. Oddly enough. Robinson had hit his first round-tripper while wearing Cleveland flannels in 1946. There were plenty of ups and downs in between for Robinson, whose career was interrupted by a stint in the Navy during World War II. A leg operation for removal of a tumor uso slowed things Doctors told Robinson he would never play baseball again, he said, but he haa different ideas. As one of the big sticks on the Chicago White Sox teams of the early 1950s, Robinson surpassed the 100 RBI mark for three straight seasons, beginning in 1951, when he banged 29 homers and drove in 117 runs. The 29 home runs stood as a club record for left-handed hitters until 1977, when Oscar Gamble hit 31 homers for the White Sox. His finest hour, Robinson said, was with the world champion Indians in 1948. “I hit three home runs in a double- header against the Yankees that year before 85,000 fans in Cleveland,” he recalled. “My second home run in the first game came in the 10th inning to win the game My third homer came in the sixth inning of the second game to tie the score, and we went on to win the game. 2-1.” After bowing out as a player in 1957, Robinson hooked on with the Orioles as the club’s farm director and director of player procurement. He became general manager of the Atlanta Braves in 1972, and four yean later was named executive vice president of the Texas Rangers. Robinson now heads a baseball con sulting firm in Arlington. He works for the Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins in this role. “I get a lot of calls wanting my opinion on certain players when trade talk comes up,” Robinson said. He also works on arbitration cases during the winter months. 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