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Show The Jim Murray Column The Salt Los Angeles Times nnoun e W - LOS liter ANGELES If the men who puddle sieel. or mine iron, or diive trains, or pick up garbage go on strike, the republic is in trouble. If the guys who hit home runs, throw no - h i t r e r s, stem bases or wTite columns go on strike, its doubtful it Hie White J'n Murray House would go on sessions. p)rst The first law of a general strike is indispensability of tjte strikers Lepidopterists can go on strike and influence offl? the butterfly net industry. A strike of makeis is crippling. A strike of automobile racers is not. automobile have seen great newspapers disappear wdthout a trace at the bargaining table, f have seen whole industries price themselves out of business via a picket line. JYou had better be sure youre irreplaceable before you start holding your breath. Dont perch on a ledge and threaten to jump in front of who has been somebody staying up late trying to figure out how to get rid of you And if all you can do is make buggy whips, dont vote to kill harness racing. Baseball is about as neces-sar- y to the national wealth as 1 medicine shows. Its important to people who take tickets, rake grass, hit baseballs, sell hotdogs or sell razor blades. "Somehow, I can't pictuie the President of the United n States coming gravely on with a long face to Prizes Await Gelande Ski Titleists Special to The Tribune SOLITUDE Its up, up and away in the third annual held gelande championship Saturday and Sunday at this mountain resort. Cjjsh and merchandise prizes will be awarded to winners of the contest flying off Bobs bump on Solitudes Moon Beam run. Ron Gee, chairman of the event, ever has promised in a gelande in a first Sundays pro jump. Saturdays contest, beginning at 10 a.m. will include age groups 11 and Sunand under; will include competitors day's ages 19 and over, the professional, and the most spectacular jump. First prize will be $300 in cash plus merchandise; second, $150 and merchandise; and $75 in cash plus merchandise for third place. And, according to Gee, merchandise will;, be given from fourth place on down as long as the out. goods-hol12-1- na- tional product of home runa is down 100 percent in the face of a disastious stnke not in the public interest and that he is invoking clauses of the Taft Hartley Law to end it. Mil! the disappearance of the gopher ball produce shock effects on Wall Street? Will the government subsidize the Cl acker Jack industry? Will it have to buy up stocks of bubble gum and store them to keep the bottom from falling out of the market? Hardly. facSpeaking of buggy-whi- p tories, what becomes of all those 50 to 100 million dollar stadiums erected by community-taxpayers if ceases? Does the game have no obligation to them? Being like ballplayer, or a Executive Level Baseball at the executive level travels light. Most of the companies owming the game can fold a piece of paper, turn out the lights, padlock the door and hang a sign out to lunch, be back in a decade, reachable on the French Riviera. Municipal landlords will be the ones u take the red ink. A Gussie Busch can go back to beer, a Phil Wrig-- . ley back to chewing gum. Where the assets are fixed and the real property is owned by the club as in Chavez Ravine and the OMalleys, the chances are the real estate is more valuable with buildings on it than bases. No, it seems to me the players are coming to the negotiating table with the gun trained at their own heads. Give me what I want or Ill blow my brains out. Baseball may just shrug and say, Look, would you mind doing it outside? Id hate to ruin this rug, because I have a buyer for the whole place once you leave. 16-1- meeting, Miller said before the Now it's up to the plaveis and they have the r lit to do what they think best " Chub Feeney, the National League piesident, and Joe Ctomn, the American League piesident, wanted to attend Finlay's meeting to answer questions but refused because of its conditions. We wanted a format in winch the issues could be debated bui Miller wanted soil of limitations on the we and couldn't meeting agree lo that," said a spokesman lor baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. The Kuhn spokesman said lie expected negotiations to lesume in New York next week and he was optimistic settlement could be reached without a stnke. All-St- 1 ant to riay to play, said Btooks Rohhson. the Baltim-o- t e Oiioles player repiesenta-tive- . I think all the fellows do. It all boils down to whether the owners are willing to I make some concessions think our fellows ate willing to make some, too. And tha seems to be the best cii mce. Under the old contract, 1 want Chisnx Chief: a Herald-Tribun- sinke, then dubs,. ei wauls to leje-Befoie the meeting, Miller said ineie weie tlnee striae Refusal to play m televised games on Saturdays and I "o Jays. An ucime stnke. Trbune Staff Photo by Earl sword-swallowe- r, is pretty much a human being. His biggest fear should be that the public find out it could do without him. The last thing in the world he should do is contribute to that discovery. A ballplayers strike, it seems to me, would be as lamentable as laying the keel of the Titanic. My interest is not in the owners, its in the game. It behooves every man to get as high a price for his services as he can and as many fringe benefits. Thats just the point. If baseball has as precarious a hold on the public ardor as the New York for instance, the players may find they are ultimately bucking for a milkmans pension. Because, if baseball dies, they may find a limited demand for $120,000 dollar-a-yeguys whose specialty is hitting or throwing a curve ball. Continued from Page l.i alternatives: A total sttike. baseball A 27 1, lifTi Major League Players Vole Stri! XV that the gross column-write- al.f Inbuilt1, Saturday, Vpnl Unanimous Decision Are Baseball Player s That Indispcnsihle? Bv Jinri Munav I Al Westfahl CJ-- 5 Jeep, sits at wheel of his Quick Silver ; in pre- - G. Conrad Strikes a partition for Easter Sand Rally this weekend on the Jerieho Sand Dunes. Heavy Blow Bountiful Speedster Ready Off Road Racers Eye Easier Rally -- By Dick Rosetta Tribune Sports Writer EUREKA, Juab County The call of the sand dunes beckons Intermountain area vehicle drivers Saturday and Sunday in the second annual Easter Sand Rally 25 miles southwest of here on the Jericho Sand Dunes. No one was more ready for the event than Bountiful speedster Al Westfahl. He arrived on the desolate but soon to be bustling dunes a day early with hs modified new, competition CJ-Jeep. Successful in Snow off-roa- d tires, carburetion and gears. The sand offers a more Westfahl substantial base, The paddle tires explained. (every four inches along the tread, theies a rubber paddle which protrudes two inches from the surface) seem to Gal Bowlers two-da- y To Meet, Decide Spot 5 Westfahl was a newcomer two months ago when he his chauffeured drive creation up Ecker Hill in the Snow Rally. His credentials coming off the hill stamp him as a definite threat for honors this weekend. We had some problems to work out in the snow, Westfahl recounted Friday as he charged up the battery for the sand runs. I guess we (the we referring to he and his partner Stan Arnold) got a little lucky in coming away with two second place ribbons and a first place in modified on the obstacle four-whe- course. Itll be different on the sand as Westfahl and the other drive racers try to find tlie right combination of four-whe- el Special to The Tiibune of Utahs PROVO Fifty-on- e top women bowlers will compete at the Regal Lanes Saturday to find a Utah representative for the National U. S. Open Womens Bowling tour- nament. Preliminary matches begin at 10:30 a.m. and the women will bowl 10 games in single Saturscratch competition. days top eight qualifiers will battle April 22 and 23 at the Fairmont Lanes in Salt Lake City in match game competition. The winner will represent Utah in the national meet which is scheduled to be held in Denver on May 20th. Provos Betty Whitaker will be back to defend her better on sand. And, there are no rocks to contend work with out on the dunes. The Bountiful driver will be at the command of a 292 cubic inch Chevy engine. Classes tliis weekend will be determined by the cubic inch limit of the jeep divided into the weight of the vehicle. Well race in all three classes, but when we get to the or the big boys, well be fighting tough odds, Al continued. Why race sand? I guess because of the thrill of racing. The event just happens to be on sand this weekend, Westfahl said with a smile. Sand dune dtag racing, hill climbing and cross country racing are probably the safest forms of competitive racing in existence. Our only danger is rolling over, but if drivers adhere to the safety precautions such as roll bar cage, seat belt9, shoulder harnesses and crash helmets, theyll be okay, Westfahl added. SARASOTA, FLA. (UPI) -Stu Holcomb, general manager of the Chicago White Sox, said Friday night the player strike was already a heavy blow to the club financially. Holcomb said the team stood to lose $60,000 with the loss of two exhibition garris with the Cubs Monday anti Tuesday, and he added that the White Sox minor league system could close down in 10 team the days because - I told you the third base job is yours, kid. You don't have to use it as a pillow every night! owners paid about $i million a year to the playeis association. They have offeied the $400,000 raise to about $5.4 million. That would keep health and medical bene- fits up to date. Players Demand But players dm"nd another or a total increased $850,000 payment fiom owners of $1.2 million to a contract of moie than $6 million a year. The difference between the $400,000 owners offer and the $1.2 million players demand is what all the haggling is about. Obviously, we have an to sentiment overwhelming Trir ItftMLPlMM ($ TILLERS take the work couldnt afford to operate it without major league reve- nue. Holcomb said the White Sox would close down their major of league spring training camp Saturday and that the players would have to furnish their own way home. g nm I thought we had a pretty Engine with our good players, but they have a lawyer representing them and TODAY! they do what he wants, said Feel the Eos Easy When you hire a Holcomb. of Handlin Starting his advice take lawyer you even though you might not believe he is right. Thats what you are paying him for. All 25 Enclosed players in their heart may not Chain Drive have wanted to strike, but they are part o a group and Easy to Find didn't want to let the group The Jericho Sand Dunes aie down. John Allyn, owner of the easy to locate. Fans are urged Did 364-365- 3 Wlitrt Von tiet White Sox, said he foresaw a by the sponsoiing IntermounEast 9th South 437 tain fled Carpet Treatment long strike but would not Racing Assn, to drive south out of Eureka on elaborate. 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