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Inc Page 10/The Battalion/Thursday, September 24, 1987 Picketing Oilers pelt bus full of free agents HOUSTON (AP) — A chartered bus was pelted with eggs as it crossed striking Houston Oilers player picket lines Wednesday, delivering non-union personnel to begin meet ings and workouts. Striking Oiler players were joined in their picket line by members of other unions sympathetic to the players as they marched in front of the team’s practice facility for the second day. The bus, scheduled to shuttle in players throughout the day, met only passive resistence Wednesday morning on its first trip with about 10 people. But when it returned with a sec ond group of about 15 non-union players, eggs were thrown and one incoming player dodged an egg as he entered the practice facility. The Oilers released a list of 47 players who would begin workouts Wednesday but there were only about 10 people in the first group. “Get back on the garbage truck,” one picketer shouted as the first group of players reported. “Are you all-high school?” another Oiler player yelled. There were no other serious inci dents as the Oilers started their sec ond day of pickets, joining the other 27 NFL teams in the second player strike this decade. Quarterback John Witkowski, who was cut by the Oilers in training camp, was among those signed. “He may be hurting himself more rhan He’s helping,” Oiler quar terback Warren Moon said. “He might have had a chance to come back with the team as the third quar terback this year. “Now, if he came back, I don’t think they team would feel too good about it. It would be a tough situa tion.” Other players on the Oilers’ non union roster included former Oiler kicker Florian Kempf, former Uni versity of Texas kicker Jeff Ward and former Texas A&M safety Dom ingo Bryant. Bryant was among Oiler free agents cut in training camp. Several prospective players came to the practice field to apply for tryouts but they were turned away by Oiler security officers. Picketing Oilers made no attempt to confront any of the hopefuls. They did shout their feelings however. “They (Oiler management) said they’d take anybody before they’d take you,” guard Kent Hill shouted at one prospect after he was turned away. One prospect said he could run 40 yards in 4.3 seconds and could turn the franchise around in one year. Former University of Houston center Billy Kidd was one of the players on the Oilers’ list but he too was turned away from the practice field and told to go to the Oilers’ of fices. Moon said the striking Oilers hoped to start workouts Thursday. Pokes 7 White, Smerek cross the picket line IRVING (AP) — Veteran de fensive tackles Randy White and Don Smerek rolled a pickup truck through the Dallas Cowboys’ players picket lines on Wednesday amid shouts of “scab, scab” from some of their teammates. White, the driver, stopped the truck momentarily in the middle of the picket line at the entrance of the Valley Ranch headquarters, then drove on to the locker room. Spectators on a sidewalk across from the entrance cheered the two players, who were the only Cowboys not to honor the picket line of the NFL Players Association. “I didn’t expect ’em to cheer me,” White said. “I’m doing what’s best for me and my family. I didn’t want to lose one-sixteenth of my salary ($31,000). I’ll be paid whether we have a game this week or not.” White, a 13-year veteran and six times an All-Pro, said, “I’m not against the union. I did what I had to do. I respect what they are doing. I hope they respect what I’m doing.” “I want to play the game. My ca reer is coming to a close. I’ll proba bly play one more year. I don’t want to lose things I’ll never have a chance to make up,” he said. Some Cowboys’ players turned thumbs down as White drove through the picket line. “I knew it made some people un happy,” he said. “I told ’em at the meeting yesterday I was going to do it. They weren’t surprised.” Smerek, an eight-year veteran, said not many Cowboys know why they are striking. “I don’t know what the issues are and why jeopardize my career for that,” he said. “I’m confused. No body on this team knows the issues.” Smerek said he expected a hostile greeting. “I’m sure some of my teammates feel (I) let ’em down,” Smerek said. “I have respect for their position and they should have respect for mine. If there is any animosity, then it be comes their problem, not mine.” Smerek added, “I feel a strong al legiance to the Cowboys. They stuck by me when I was injured. I feel a lot of loyalty to them.” The picketing Cowboys got on the line too late Wednesday morning to greet the 47 free agent players who reported to practice. The players came in at 7:30 a.m. but picket lines didn’t go up until an hour later. Club President Tex Schramm drove through the picket line at 9:45 a.m. en route to Philadelphia and a new round of talks between labor and management. “Get up to Philly and get it set tled,” player representative Doug Cosbie shouted at Schramm from the picket line. Schramm replied, “That’s why I’m going.” The Dallas players were joined by members of local unions. White said he stopped his truck “because some 80-year-old man with a sign bumped it. I think he just wanted to be on the 10 o’clock news.” Linebacker Jeff Rohrer said he didn’t respect the decision made by White and Smerek. “I’m a little bitter over it,” Rohrer said. “I’ll forgive but I won’t forget.” John Dutton, a 14-year veteran who is on the picket line, said he talked to White, a good friend. “You can’t talk Randy out of any thing once he makes his decision,” Dutton said. “It was a tough decision and he’ll have to live with it.” The Cowboys held an afternoon workout at their old practice field on Forest Lane while the free agents went through their paces at Valley Ranch. Seventh-round draft pick Kevin Sweeney, the last cut made by the Cowboys, was the first-string quar terback. “While it’s all a little confusing, this is my chance, my shot,” Sweeney said. “I don’t want to wonder years from now whether I should have taken it. I did what I had to do. It was frustrating for me not playing football for the first time in my life.” Gastineau decides to be loyal to the Jets HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Say ing it was “the toughest thing I’ve ever gone through in my life,” de fensive end Mark Gastineau crossed his teammates’ picket line Wednes day and reported to the New York Jets. “I’m being loyal to the people who have been paying me for nine years,” Gastineau said, specifically mentioning Jets owner Leon Hess and Coach Joe Walton. “I thought about this for a long while. If there were any things the Jets didn’t do that they said they would do . . . there wasn’t anything. “I’ve had people not talk to me on this team and I’ve gone through a lot and I will go through more. Mr. Hess has never not talked to me; when I was in the hospital with my knee injury last year, he came to see me. “They might not believe I did this out of loyalty,” Gastineau said of his striking teammates, “but I am. They do not understand Mark Gastineau.” Gastineau did not actually cross a picket line because the Jets were not allowed to picket on the property of Hofstra University, their training fa cility. But he was inside the locker room while his teammatfes were else where, on strike. The Jets signed 25 free agents, who reported Wednesday for physi cals, meetings and a workout. Seve ral of them stood at the back of the group of reporters talking to Gasti neau and listened to the former All- Pro discuss his reasons for not going on strike. “This is not Russia, it’s not a dictatorship,” he said. “I’m doing what I believe I have to do, just as the guys (on strike) are doing what they believe. I’ve felt strongly this way since the beginning. “Four years ago, when Mr. Hess re-did my contract, he said he would have to change the whole salary structure of the Jets. But he did it and it even changed the salaries around the league. “I never forgot it and I don’t plan to right now, in this circumstance.” Asked if he feared he would alien ate himself from his teammates, Gas tineau said, “I’ve been alone a lot be fore.” “Things have been said in the pa pers about me by my teammates,” he said. “Mr. Hess never said a deroga tory thing to me or about me. Part of being a team is to understand differ ences in people.” < i Costumes Galore Thursda; lonti Reserve your costumeeaf while selections are good Formal Wear & Costume Rent Park Place Plaza Texas Ave. at Southwest Pkwy. College Station 693-0709 ifter l [ONTREAL (, Expos’ pitcher P; made a remarkabl — on and off the fi | Perez, a 30-year- was convicted of c in his native Domi 1984, and his onc< career came p tiding. JJow, Perez has I hat incident and ins, and become; >r in the Expos’ < onal League East l j Perez attends I jnous meetings jhether the Expos n the road. 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