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USFL-NFL trial
$3 damage settlement may cause end of USFL
NEW YORK (AP) — Th< Na
tional Football League was ordered
to pay just $3 in token damages after
being found nominally liable Tues
day for one antitrust violation
against the rival United States Foot
ball league
Although the USFL said it would
appeal, the decision threatened to
doom the league, which had sought
$ 1.69 billion in its struggle to stay in
business.
“It's going to be very tough," said
USFL Commissioner Harry Usher.
**11'$ like a death in the family.**
He said the four-year-old league's
eight remaining owners, who aoan-
doned their spring-summer format
after the 1985 season, would meet
Aug. 6 m New York to decide
whether to compete as planned
against this NFL this fall. Other
USFL officials had said ear her that
they needed at least $500 million in
damages to survive one more season
“We’re lost now We’re dead.” said
Rudi Schiffer, vice president of mar
keting and public relations for the
USFL Memphis Showboats
The U.S. District Court jury of
five women and one man. which de
liberated for 51 hours over four days
after an emotional 11 -week trial,
said the NFL used its monopoly
power to damage the USFL and to
gain control of the pro football mar
ket but that the USFL had damaged
itself. It awarded actual damages of
only $1, trebled to $5 in an antitrust
case
USFL general counsel Jana Elli
son said Judge Peter K Leisure
would be asked to increase the dam
Walker undecided
on pro career moves
DALLAS (AP) — New Jersey
(Generals running hack Herschel
Walker savs he might go into real
estate if the United Mates Foot
ball League folds because of
Tuesdav's USFL-NFL trial deci-
sion.
The Dallas Cowboys, who
drafted Walker in the fifth round
in 1985. hope to run him in the
same batkficld with Tony Dor-
sett.
“I enjov football, but 1 enjoy
life, also.” Walker told The DmlUs
Morning News from his parents'
home in Georgia on Monday “I
just want everyone to know it’s
not 100 percent that I'm going to
the (Cowboys if the USFL folds '*
"Right now. I’d say it's 50-50,”
he said "I'm not sure what I’m
going to do."
Walker, who won the Heisman
Trophy while becoming the Uni
versity of Georgia's all-time lead
ing rusher with 5.259 yards in
three seasons, said he would con
sider working in real estate with
Generals owner Donald Trump.
Walker’s $6 million contract
extension with the Generals
would go into effect this season.
Walker said he is not creating a
money dispute for contract nego
tiations with the Cowboys
“I don’t need any more
(money),” Walker said “I just
have to decide if I want to con
tinue playing. I like living in the
New York-New Jersey area,
which has something to do with
ages because of confusion among
the jurors in then deliberations, but
NFL co-counsel Robert Fiske said
the jud^e had no authority to do
that. Leisure will hear post-trial mo
tions Wednesday
The NFL was cleared of eight
other charges, incudmg the key ac
cusation of monopoii/mg television.
Donald Trump, owner of the
USFL New Jersey Generals and
leading proponent of head-to-head
competition with the NFL, said the
verdict was "great moral victory."
“Now with the confusion and
what seems to be a hung jury, we ex
pect to win a total victory," Trump
said in a statement read to reporters
by his secretary.
USFL attorney Harvey Myerson
claimed that the jury was deadloc ked
5-5 on damages, with three of the ju
rors favoring substantial damages.
Miriam Sanchei. a schoolteacher
who was the most adamant USFL ju
ror, said she favored $200 million to
$500 million for the younger league.
But Sanchez said none of the oth
ers favored an award that large and
rather than risk a hung jury, the
three jurors who favored any dam
ages agreed to the $1 in hopes that
Leisure might increase them.
"The $1 was a compromise," she
said.
"Some compromise!” said NFL
(Commissioner Pete Rozellc.
“Justice is wonderful." crowed
NFL lawyer Frank Rothman, who
was sometimes criticized for his quiet
demeanor in the face of the flam
bovant tactics of his opponent Myer
son.
“One dollar. Iiust paid the buck,"
Rothman said “There was no case
The jury was very, very astute. They
saw through a case built on nothing
but smoke, and not very good smoke
at that. The $1 is an insuh td the
USFL. It’s what the jury thought
about the lawsuit "
One of the jurors, Margaret Li-
lienfeld. said the jury agreed that
while the NFL was a monopoly, the
USFL was primarily responsible for
the estimated $150 million in losses
it sustained during three years of
spring plav.
“It was very difficult," Lilienfidd
said “We decided that there was a
monopoly and that the NFL had
tried to maintain it, but the USFL
had damaged themselves."
Landry recalls London of '44
LONDON (AP) — The last time
Dallas Cowboys' head coach Tom
Landry visited London was in 1944.
Then he was a World War II
bomber pilot, age 20, serving with
the U.S. Army Air Corps.
Based at Ipswich, 69 miles east of
the British capital. Landry made fre-
? |uent trips into London. They were
un trips, a chance to forget for a
while the dangerous missions across
the English Channel to France. Hol
land and Belgium
“I used to go into London a lot
during those times." Landry recalled
Tuesday “I came here in October
1944 and flew B- 17s until the end of
the war. I remember Buckingham
Palace and all around Piccadilly Cir
cus even though London was all
blacked out then."
He added: “It's going to be nice to
look around again and see how
much 1 remember about it. I flew
about 50 missions here before the
war ended."
Landrv is in London with his
(kiwbovs for a preseason game
against the Super Bowl champion
(Chicago Bears at Wembley Staaium
Sunday.
The match, given the full hacking
of the NFL and dubbed "American
Bowl 86”v was sold out early May.
Officials expect 80,000 fans from all
over England, Scotland and Wales to
travel to London for the game.
Both teams arrived Monday with
Landry and his Bears' counterpart,
Mike Duka, promising that British
fans would have a chance to see the
likes of running backs Tony Dorset!
and Walter Payton, and quar
terbacks Jim McMahon and Danny
White during Sunday’s game.
But the one player all of Britain
wants to meet and greet this week is
Chicago's William “The Refrigera
tor" Perry. On Tuesday, he was
mobbed by reporters and photogra
phers at training and then by scores
of autograph hunters.
Landrv also had a bunch of ad
mirers from the media listening to
his every word — and they wanted to
know where his trilby had gone.
"You’ll see it on me at game time,"
he said. The blue Cowboys baseball
cap of Tuesday would be replaced
by the most famous fedora in Ameri
can football Sunday.
“It all suited when I first began
coaching," said Landry of his trilby
“I suited wearing a hat and I’ve
worn one ever since. I’m not super
stitious, it’s just that I felt good wear
ing a hat and I staved with it."
The usually poker-faced l~andry
was asked by one British reporter
what made him laugh.
“Winning most of the time," was
his quickfire reply before he ex
plained why he always seemed so im
passive when the fans this side of the
Atlantic see him on television
"When I’m working on the side
line I'm concentrating most of the
tune. Concentrating is very impor
tant, so I’m not watching the game
the wav the fans do."
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HOUSTON (AP ) — When Dar
rell Pace and Rick McKinney. Amer
ica's best archers, looked up at the
scoreboard at the end of their event
Tuesday, they saw something
strange — neither of them had won
the U.S. Olympic Festival gold
medal.
Val Rosas, a three-time All-Amer
ica from Buena Park. Calif, scored
the biggest victory of his career by
upsetting Pace, of Hamilton. Ohio,
and McKinney, of Gilbert, Ariz. Pace
won the gold medal in the 1976 and
’84 Olympics and McKinney is a
seven-time national champion and
1983 and '85 world champion
Rosas, who entered the final four
rounds in fourth place, shot a per
fect 66 for six arrows to sun the 30-
meter portion with 89 points. Rosas
took third place after the 70-metet
shooting and outshot the field in the
final round, from 90 meters, for the
title.
Rosas had 324 points, four ahead
of Pace and six in front of McKin
ney. It was the first time since 1979
that Pace and McKinney were not I-
2 in the Festival
In the women's competition,
AlcM graduate Tricia Green moved
from seventh place to second behind
Debra Ox, of Howell, Mich., after
the third of four rounds in th ar
chery competition. Ox has 520
points to Green's 315.
In women's basketball, the Smith
team entered the gold medal round
of the competition with an 87-77 vic
tory over the East squad. A&M soph
omore Donna Roper scored eight
points and had two steals for the
South.
The South ‘A’ team, led by Jim
Copeland, who won his second gold
medal, captured the cycling team tri
als Tuesday morning. Copeland won
the 120-kilometer road race to win
the first gold medal of the Festival.
John Albert Faldo of (Charleston,
W. Va., and Noelle Porter of San
Clemente, Calif, the second seeds,
won- the mixed doubles in tennis,
beating the No. 1 seeds. John Bov-
um of Spring and Trisha Laux of
Roswell, Ga., 4-6. 6-3, 6-4.
Bovtim was a winner in the men’s
doubles, teaming with Barry Rich
ards. also of Spring, for a 6-3, 3-6, 6-
4 win over Mike Bryan of Lafayette,
La., and Mitch Michulka of Ricnard-
son.
In women’s doubles. Betsy Somer
ville of Honolulu and Ginger Helge-
son of Edina. Minn., scored a 6-3, 3-
6, 7-5 dec ision over Porter and Mary
Beth Young of La Habra. Galif, for
the gold medal
In softball, the South men re
mained unbeaten with their fifth
straight victory, 7-1 over the North.
Represented bv the Decatur (III.)
Pride, the South will face the North
(Pav ’n Pak of Bellevue. Wash.) again
in the finals today.
Aggie Notes . . .Two future Ag
gies swam in competition Tuesday at
the Woodlands. Paul Weber ol Sac
ramento, Calif, finished sixth in the
200-meter individual medley with a
time of two minutes. 12.16 seconds.
Incoming freshman Susan Hab
ermas of Guithersburg, Md.. fin
ished eighth in the 800 freestyle with
a 9:17.41.
The battalion regrets failing to
mention the placing of (Connie Schil
ler of the A AM Skeet and T rap Club
in Tuesday's edition.
Schiller finished seventh with 182
out of a 200 points in Sunday 's inter
national skeet competition
Ryan’s hope: Elbow perseveres season
HOUSTON (AP) — Just about
the time Nolan Ryan began pitching
like the Nolan Ryan of old. the
Houston Astros had to start worry
ing about an old Nolan Ryan.
Ryan, 39, the all-time major
league leader with 4,209 strikeouts,
has been mowing down hitters with
regularity since June 24. when he
came off the 21-day disabled list af
ter suffering from a sore elbow
The elbow, however, is acting up
again and the 19-year veteran may
miss his next pitching turn.
Before he was sidelined early in
the vear, Rvan was 3-6 with a 5.21
earned run average and 59 strike
outs — hardly impressive statistics.
Since he returned, he’s 4-1 with a
2.16 ERA and 67 strikeouts, helping
the Astros build a S'Vgame Wad
over San Francisco in the tight Na
tional League West race.
“It’s always been painful.” Ryan
savs of his ailing million-dollar arm.
“It’s never OK. In the early part of
the season, I was ineffective because
I couldn’t throw. When 1 took some
time off, it got a little better.”
Ryan fanned 10 Philadelphia Phil
lies in five innings Sunday before
leaving the game. That came on the
heels of a 14-strikeout performance
against Montreal a week ago, giving
him 24 K’s in his last MVS innings.
The 14 strikeouts was the high in
the National League this year for
any pitcher. For Ryan, it matched his
career NL best, eaualling the 14 he
whiffed in 1968 when he was pitch
ing for the New York Mets
“I can’t ever remember his stuff
being better — ever," catcher Alan
Ashby says of his recent perfor
mances. “When he’s on like that, I •
just sit back there and let him throw
the ball through me."
Rvan technicailv is suffering from
a sprained medial collateral ligament
in nis
elbow. The cure is time off. In can’t pitch like that,” he savs.
the heat of a pennant race, however,
that solution is Rot what the Astros
want to hear, t
“If we could get him some time
off, it would definitely get better.”
savs Houston trainer Dave Labos-
siere. “He needs time for it to get
well, and we don’t have any to give
him right now. It’s a sprain and it’s
been bothering him most of the sea
son "
“Nolan’s arm is tender,” Manager
Hal Lanier says. “Hopefullv. that’s
all it is. I hope he wont have to miss
a turn.
The problem early in the vear was
that his arm problem affected his de
livery. according to Ryan.
“It was like when you have a sore
You don't want to limp and you
try not to limp, but you still limp. I
was taking something Off the ball
and messing with mv technique You
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Editor’s note: This is the first of a two-
part senes on the tricks used to gain an ad
vantage in major league baseball
ARLINGTON (AP) — Just above the
centerfield fence, just below the bleachers,
almost invisible without close inspection,
there used to be a television camera at Ar
lington Stadium
When the Texas Rangers were home, the
camera would focus on whomever hap
pened to be catching for whatever team
lexas was playing. There was only one
viewer for this private, closed-circuit show
ing. a plaver sitting in manager Billy Mar
tin’s office
When he had deciphered the catcher's
signs, he would communicate to the dugout
via walkie talkie. That allowed time for the
batter to be alerted as to what pitch was
coming.
If someone hollered from the dugout,
for example. “Look for your pitch.” it
might mean fastball “Take a good swing"
could mean a breaking pitch was coming
That sort of gamemanship ended at Ar
lington Stadium after Martin was fired,
more than a decade ago
“But." says current Rangers Manager
Bobby Valentine, “not a game goes by
where teams don't try to get a competitive
edge
Call it tricks of the trade. Call it cheating
Where do you draw the line? The general
attitude toward stretching the rules, or at
least bending them to vour advantage,
seems to be that anything goes if you are
cunning enough not to get caught
The vast majority of the time, trying to
get an edge is more mundane than electro
nic surveillance
It is a first baseman coming off the bag
just a little early on a close play
It is a shortstop dancing over second base
before he gets the ball on a double plav
It is a second baseman pretending to be
waiting for a throw, hoping to trick an un
wary runner into sliding, or at least slowing
down.
It is a runner tagging up and leaving just
a little early on a flyoaR
Crantland Rice once wrote that it's not
winning and losing that counts, it’s how you
plav the same
In the biK leagues, it’s winning and losing
that counts
t hat's why there are pitchers around
who will look for an edge when they need
just a little something extra on a pitch. They
will push off mavbe six inches in front of
thejxtehing rubber.
“Watch Phil Niekro.” one American
League official said of the Cleveland Indi
ans knuc kleballer. “Sometimes, with two
strikes, he'll move up a few inches and
throw the ball. And he’s never been
caught.”
Pilchers, of course, have other ways of
trying to get ahead of hitters A scuffed
baselxtll can be made to sink or sail. Some
pitchers, such as Don Sutton, are suspected
of carrying small pieces of sandpaper in
their glove to make their mark.
Former Rangers lefthander Rick Honey
cutt. then with Seattle, was suspended after
a thumbtack was found banaaged to his
thumb.
One time, the umpires came to the
mound to search for sandpaper while Sut
ton was pitching. They didn't find any.
They did find a note that Sutton had
tucked into his glove. “Nice try. You’re get
ting warmer," it read.
doiuciinn* pitchers don't even have to do
their dirty work. Infielders can scuff a ball
while throwing it around after an out. A
catcher can sharpen a buckle on his shin
guards to nick the cover.
A favorite trick of the late Elston Howard
when catching for the New York Yankees
was to pretend to lose his balance while
squatting. He would put out his right hand,
with the ball in it. to steady himself while
grinding it into the dirt
Gavlord Perry was best known for throw
ing a spitbai! In Cleveland one night,
though, ne smuggled a special resin bag to
the mound. It had flour in it, and on several
occasions Perry got a handfull of it. then re
leased his pitch into a distracting puff of
white powder,
“First they say my pitches are too wet.
Then they complain tnev’re too dry," he
shrugged, innocently.
And how did Perry load up his wet one?
A former catcher of his once confided that
after Perry released a pitch, he would draw
his hand back across whatever pan of his
anatomy was hiding his Vaseline that night
While everybody was watching the hall,
Perry was loading up.