| Show 10B Standard-Examin- Monday Oct 27 1980 er S®S Whiifie S iSemoinisU rosettes iiifii F (UPI) — Chicago white Sox President Bill Veeck says it will be business as usual for his American League team although the future of the club is uncertain Edward DeBartolo Sr came up two votes short at last Friday’s American League owners’ meeting in Chicago- He promised to continue lobbying to change the minds cf at least two owners while holding the other eight who approved the sale The next time his S20 million purchase proposal will come up will be at the major league meetings in Texas in early December Veeck said in the meantime he will continue operation of the club That includes trades attempts to sign free Agents and other business related to the operation of the club Veeck according to the “I guess I am still employed” - 66-year-- Veeck said ‘‘We will continue to operate this club and we are confident that Mr DeBartolo’s purchase will be ultimately approved by the American League” The White Sox overloaded with starting pitchers are in search of a starting third base-ma- n and catcher Had DeBartolo’s bid been approved he would have taken over operation of the club on Nov 1 and would have named a operations officer But Veeck said he will continue to talk trade and even look into the free agent market ‘‘We will be listening and making deals that we feel will help this club” Veeck said “Things aren’t just going to stand still until De left-hande- full-tim- d e cember We’ll try to sign a free agent or two make a trade here or there if the right deal comes up” WORKING AGREEMENT Additionally Veeck and the Sox must try to negotiate with a minor league team for a working agreement on the triple-- level The Iowa Oaks of the American Association the Sox AAA team for the past several years have signed with the rival Chicago Cubs The Sox are also looking for a television outlet for 1980 The current station has changed to a format and the club is to looking negotiate with another local channel to try to match the deal that has allowed up to 130 games each year to be televised locally While DeBartolo tries to lobby A pay-televisi- on the owners two Chicagoans who had bid against the Ohio businessman for the Sox are still trying to land the team Bill Farley and Jerry Reinsdorf indicated they are still interested in buying the club They indicated that because they are from ownwould satisfy Chicago they ers’ concerns about local ownership a facior cited as a reason why the league rejected the DeBartolo offer “The one thing we can do is give the White Sox local de-finte- ly ownership” said Reinsdorf But Andrew McKenna chairman of the board of the Sox said no other offers would be considered TRAINING GRIND while the DeBartolo offer was still alive “We’re still back at square one” McKenna said Former welterweight champion Sugar Ray Leonard gets into a sparring match in his training camp in Maryland Leonard is preparing for his Nov 25 rematch with Roberto Duran Duran defeated Leonard in Montreal in June UPI Telephoto FRUSTRATED BY CIRCUMSTANCES Wira field AttreKstfs Little Qrotferestf -- By MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Editor NEW YORK (UPI) — Dave Winfield finds himself in a box It isn’t the worst one in the world because he figures to get out of it eventually with more than $1 million a year but it’s still deeply frustrating due to the set of circumstances he’s trapped in now He has already declared himself a free agent saying he doesn’t wish to play for the San Diego Padres anymore Primarily because they won’t pay him the $13 million over 10 years he and his advisor A1 Frohman are asking Winfield is one of baseball’s premier players Any club would love to have him in its outfield But whether it’s because he had an off year for him batting 276 driving in 87 runs and hitting 20 homers or because he’s asking for the amount of money he is only one club has shown any great interest in meeting his price That club is the New York Yankees or more specifically their Colorado Club Stays Perfect United Press International made the difference between Adams State and Southern Col- orado who went into week No 8 of the 1980 season as the only undefeated teams in Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference play USC which went into the game ranked eighth in the National Inter- collegiate Athletic Association in that outscored Adams State deadcritical period to break a lock and take the victory in conferSouthern Colorado ence play thus pulled a game and a half ahead of the pack Adams State’s RMAC record fell to overall Tied for second are Adams State and Southern Utah State with RMAC records of 1 7 20-1- 6-- 8 0 4-- 4-- 5-- 1 2 1 In Golden Colo Colorado Mines won its second straight game by crushing winless Western New 0 Mines quarterback Mexico Mark Gill passed for 176 yards and d the Orediggers responded to a four with field goal Mustang unanswered touchdowns In Durango Colo game day began with the discovery by maintenance workers that vandals had scattered broken glass over the playing field at Fort Lewis College The glass was picked up “piece by piece” in time for thea game and the college has offered $1000 reward for information leading to the arrest of whoever was reponsible The contest put Western State back into the winning column for the first time in three weeks although Fort Lewis gave the Mountaineers a tough time of it Leading Western State to its 5 win were David Howell and Ron Linsacum who scored a pair of touchdowns 41-1- first-perio- 28-2- each increased its record to in overall and kept league play alive its hopes for at least a tie for the conference title Fort Lewis fell in RMAC games for the to season Mesa Southern’ Utah State and WSC 4-- 5-- 1-- 4 2 2 1-- 5 New Mexico Highlands were idle MAY NOT GET CHANCE make a trade for him with the Yankees the Mets or anyone else interested in negotiating with the outfielder The big Padres can do that within the rules The Yankees want Winfield and he wants to play for them and ordinarily all that would have to be worked out would be a contract between them But the rules redraft which garding the Winfield must pass through as a free agent are such the Yankees may not get a chance to sign him Thirteen clubs and no more have a right to select Winfield or any other free agent when the draft is held on Nov 13 Since they wound up with the most victories in the majors this season the Yankees will be the 26th club to make their selection and by that time Winfield most likely will be “closed out” — selected by 13 other clubs The Padres also have the right to retain their negotiating rights to re-ent- ry Associated Press It was the fourth quarter that 7-- Winfield and Ballard Smith their president tells me they plan to do so What the Padres would like to do if they can is sign Winfield sometime in the next few days and then 29-year-- FIVE-YEA- R CONTRACT They have offered Winfield a r contract for $700000 a year plus incentive bonuses where five-yea- he could bring that figure up to $900000 without too much trouble but that offer has been turned down The Padres also have tried making a deal for Winfield with the Mets A couple of deals in fact where they were willing to take considerably less talent than they felt their dissatisfied superstar was worth rather than lose him for nothing as they will if he goes through the draft but none of those trade talks ever materialized The Free Age rofi Meurkef Mets have some interest in Winfield but it’s not that hard to understand their thinking If they should decide to give him the money he’s asking and that’s a big “if” why should they give up any of their players to the Padres for Winfield when they simply could select him in the draft? of them for a million or more a year Whatever happens George Steinbrenner has demonstrated once again he’s usually a jump or two ahead of most of his fellow operators He made the greatest personal effort to lay the framework for obtaining Winfield So that’s where matters stand and he did it completely within the now rules Any talk of his “tampering” Winfield has no idea who he’ll be was without foundation whatsoevplaying for next season at this er point The Padres have no idea “People get angry with George either sometimes for his way of doing The possibility exists that nobody things but you have to give him will give him what he’s asking for credit” says Ballard Smith “We had been talking with the although you never can tell what baseball owners will do one minute Yankees about Winfield and there from the next Numerous owners was no tampering involved” he have said they’ve been burned suf- adds “We thought we had worked ficiently already in the free agent something out with the Yankees market so that they’re no longer and we notified the commissioner interested in paying the kind of (Bowie Kuhn) to that effect George money Winfield is asking but you flew to Minneapolis and met Dave can bet that if the Padres don’t sign in the airport there the him or trade him before the draft World Series but sinceduring the interWinfield will be selected by 13 league trading period did not start clubs and eventually sign with one until five days after the Series all George could tell Dave was the Yankees would have to wait before he could talk terms with him and that’s exactly what he did I have no reason to doubt that was the extent of it “If anyone needs further proof that nothing was actually settled they have it by what happened a couple of days afterward Dave declared himself a free agent If he had made any agreement with George to sign with the Yankees why would he have done that?” The only course the Padres have open to them now is to try to sign Winfield and make a deal for him before the draft Winfield has said he will not sign again with the Padres but he could change his mind too If he doesn’t he’ll go through the draft and all those clubs like the Angels Giants Dodgers Red Sox Cardinals and Braves which have said they’re not interested in getting into any bidding crossfire will have the opportunity of changing their minds as well Unheralded Rookies Must Battle to Stay on NBA Rosters With Close Win 13-1- owner George Steinbrenner who has gone out in the past and given big money to such free agents as Reggie Jackson Goose Gossage Don Gullett Tommy John and Bob Watson omi For every Joe Barry Carroll there is a Billy Reid for every Darrell Griffith a Lorenzo Romar Some rookies come into the National Basketball Association with contracts that contain six-figu- re complex bonus provisions and enough fine print to keep a flock of lawyers busy — including clauses that guarantee payment even if the players turn out to be duds Some but not all Others like Reid and Romar a pair of guards with the Golden State Warriors come in with little more going for them than their own dreams and the lure of making it in the pros If they’re lucky they do something in rookie camp that attracts the attention of the coach Sometimes it’s as obvious as a stickout shooting performance sometimes defenit’s as subtle as a heads-usive switch Whatever it’s enough to plant the thought in the coach’s mind that these are kids who may help the team And so despite the n fact that they are and the club has no financial stake in their success they get invited back for the regular training camp no-c- ut p little-know- For Reid it was his defense “The reason he made the team was that he could stop the other team’s big guard” said Joe Dearborn a spokesman for the Warriors “His defensive skills are what attracted us He does not have a good outside shot but in rookie camp he shot better than we had hoped for He was a stickout” For Romar it was his ability to play a running game “The reason he stuck is that he’s such a good passer and he runs the from Washington was taken on the seventh round No 141 overall There were 56 rookies on NBA rosters when the 1980-8- 1 season opened earlier this month and eight more on the injured list — meaning that 64 youngsters beat the odds this year For some like Carroll and Griffith it was no contest Their rosters spots were assured from June 10 the day they were selected by Gol- den State and Utah respectively to start the NBA draft Their toughfast break very well” said Dear- est battles of the summer were the born “Both these guys are better contract negotiations fought on in an open pro game than in the their behalf by agent Bob Woolf BITTER NEGOTIATIONS college game Their colweren’t In programs lege general the negotiations were type offenses and their talents more bitter and more prolonged didn’t really show up till they came than usual this summer Several to camp” agents threatened to have their BEAT THE ODDS sign with European teams players At the regular training camp instead of the NBA And when they went up against the big boys rookie camps opened most of the the veterans the pros who’ve been picks were still unsignaround the NBA circuit and who ed were fighting to protect their jobs But eventually 22 of the 23 and their lifestyles And that’s came to terms with their when they beat the odds NBA clubs The only one not with Reid a guard from the the team that took him is Kiki of San was a Vandeweghe of UCLA who failed Francisco University 182nd the pick player to come to contract terms with the chosen in the draft The Romar expansion Dallas Mavericks and slow-dow- n run-and-g- un first-roun- d first-rounde- rs ninth-roun- d 6-- 1 GOT STARTED AT AN EARLY AGE has asked to be traded to either Los Angeles or New York Of the 23 players chosen on the first round of the college draft 19 opened the season on their team’s active roster and three more were on the injured list Reid and Romar represent the other end of the spectrum They are the only players picked in the second half of the draft below the fifth round to make the grade The Warriors who finished last in the Pacific Division for the third year in a row last season and underwent a major facelift over the summer have five rookies on roster the most of their 11-m- an any NBA club Along with Reid Romar and Carroll are center-forwar- d Rickey Brown and forward Larry Smith The New Jersey Nets also kept five first-yea- r men four active and Edgar Jones on injured reThe Milwaukee Bucks are the only team in the league that did not keep a single rookie They traded away their pick to get Calvin Natt from the Nets one serve first-roun- d Of the 64 rookies 18 were chosen in earlier drafts including Dallas center Ralph Drollinger who was Gbelkh Wcas Besomed fer Life ®ff Keodirag LONG BEACH Calif (UPI) — Mehl Gabelich says he knew which path his son was taking when the kid turned the family’s 1957 Pontiac into a racing monster and won drag races with it Gary Gabelich said he knew he was headed for a life of racing when he was in grammar school “I used to draw pictures of rocket cars” he said “I thought they were pretty neat” He didn’t stray far from that path as he grew up racing boats motorcycles and pretty much anything with an engine He climbed a step higher by joining the Apollo space program as a test astronaut (or in his words “a guinea pig”) which called for a sky diving mission from 30000 feet In the process of learning all he could about racing he twice came within inches of death In the first accident in he nearly lost his left hand and underwent seven majorfour-wheoperations following a crash in a drive vehicle The second accident a powerboat crash left him with a crushed kidney heavily damaged liver and a separated shoulder 1972 The rocket engine inside Gabelich’s body exploded Barrett broke all the rules of land speed racing Gabelich claimed Most people in the industry agreed with Gabelich The rules call for the average run timed mph in a a two-wa- y and one OFFICIAL MARK kilomeone mile through Today at the age of 41 Gabelich ter That had system speed trap who thought his rocket car drawatall land in used been speed ings in grammar school were “pre- tempts But Barrett’s speed of 731 tty neat” is still intrigued by the mph was achieved through a speed idea His land speed record of 622 of 100 yards on a single run mph set in 1970 in the famed Blue trap “The point is you don’t change Flame along the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah still stands as the the rules to fit the player” said official mark And he would have Gabelich “Since 1890 when the record of 30 miles an hour was set been satisfied to sit on the record But late in 1979 Stan Barrett it has always been timed through a powered a rocket car across a dry one kilometer and one mile trap lake in California at a speed of 731 It’s not fair to the many men who mph and claimed the new land have died trying to set the land speed record officially and to the speed record el millions of hours spent playing the ballgame the right way” Gabelich still irked at Barrett’s claim is preparing another charge This time be says there will be no holds barred Gabelich h wants to push a car over the to virtuand mark from there ally unlimited speeds 800-mp- He has formed a company — Rocketman Productions Inc — in Long Beach to establish a new record and break the speed of sound h with at least an clocking Construction of the vehicle named the American Way will begin shortly he said with plans designed to go for the record in the fall of 800-mp- first selected in 1976 but elected to play for Athletes in Action after leaving UCLA ANOTHER SHOT Typical of these players is guard Wayne Kreklow a third-roundraft choice of the Boston Celtics in 1979 who was their third cut a year ago Rather than give up Kreklow d hooked on with the Maine Lumberjacks of the Continental Basketball Association and spent the year riding buses and working on his game hoping for another shot at the big time This summer he got it and he won a spot as the 11th man on the roster “It was as Celtics’ long road and a lot of times I felt like hanging it up” he said “but I hate to quit” Two players who were never drafted managed to win roster spots with the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers thanks to their play this summer Alan Hardy a 7 forward from Michigan who was twice cut by the lowly Detroit Pistons impressed the Lakers by leading the Southern California Summer League with a 335 scoring average won a spot as 11-m- an 6-- a reserve forward Family Affair At Richmond RICHMOND Va (UPI) — Ben Wilson doesn’t get home too much anymore so he thought he would surprise his family Instead the running veteran was shocked by his younger sister Richmond Wilson a native who now calls Claremont Calif home won the men’s division of Sunday’s Richmond Marathon in 2:23:22 56 seconds off the record of 2:22:26 set last year by Hilary Tuwei of Kenya But Wilson and most of the fans race on a watching the 262-mil- e cool clear afternoon received a happy surprise when Wilson’s sister Kathy Thomas of Earlysville Va won the women’s division in a record 3:06:22 “I don’t believe it! I don’t believe 1982 it! That’s fantastic!” Wilson Gabelich doesn’t want this pro- shouted as he embraced his sister as her two children ject to culminate the way the other land speed record attempts have and husband stood beside her |
