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Show Page 6—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah, Tuesday, August 4, 1981 A full report and commentary on winners, losers and coming events O r ts Baseball Owners Forced to Postpone Meeting By United Press International Majer league baseball owners, stil! recovering from their 50-day bout wit! the players, were forced to postpone to- day's scheduled meeting in Chicago because of another work stoppage — this timebyair traffic controllers. The owners were to have taken up two key issues — ratification of the agreement that ended the seven-week walkoutanddiscussion ofa split season for the rest of the schedule. Player representatives unanimously approved the strike settlement in Chicago Saturday. The meeting was rescheduled for ‘Thursday but mayhaveto be cancelled if the air strike continues.In that case, the issues would be handled by telephone. A simple majority is needed in the American League to adopt the split the split season appeal to him, but has Saturday night and a Sundayfignt season a plan that would renew pen- not indicated which wayhe would vote between Roberto Duran and Nino GonTwo AL owners held widely differing zales. nant hopesfor a dozen clubs. But in the National League, a three-quarters vote views on the proposal The Commissioner's office said Mon“If theystarted even, I think you'd dayit is trying to assess the impactof is necessary The NL vote is considered pivotal in have a hell of a lot more fan interest the strike and the availabilityof flights. deciding whether the idea will be than just continuing it said Boston's In other post-strike developments, a adopted. A UPI surveyrevealed enough Haywood Sullivan. request was filed Monday in U.S variables to send the outcomeeither “Now we can say we're doing the District Court in Cleveland seeking a way. samething as the Florida State League permanentinjunction to halt Sunday's According to the poll, the American and Midwest League,” Chicago's Eddie All-Star Game. League is expected to vote in favor of Einhorn said. The White Sox were in The motion charges that the game the idea by a 12-2 margin. A veteran NL third place, 2'e games behind Oakland would be a ‘sham’’ because of the club official said a discussion last week in the AL West. duration of the strike and the poor in New York produced ‘three or four With the air traffic controtlers off physical condition of the players. firm ‘Yeses ' two verystrong ‘Nos.’ a their jobs, more than 1.000 reporters It also charges that ticket holders “maybe’ toward the no side and two andtelevision crew members expected werenot given sufficient time to rearmoreriding the fence.’’ Theofficial did for the bonanza sports weekend in range their schedules to attend the Cleveland began searching for other game not accountfor the remaining votes. Tommissioner Bowie Kuhn has said methodsof transportation. — Houston Astros pitcher J.R both leagues must adopt the same Besides Sunday's All-Star Game. Richard was declared fit to pitch in an system. Kuhn said certain aspects of there is an exhibition football game exhibition game Friday — his first game since he suffered a severe stroke a year ago. Astros General Manager Al Rosenin- dicated Richard might be placed on the active roster whenit is expanded to 40 players Sept. 1 On Monday night Richard pitched batting practice from behind a screen. Hethrewhard — butnotin the 100 mph range — and his control was marginal He wasableto getout of the wayofline drives, — San Diego pitcher Juan Eichelberger said he will not accept pay for the Padres’ Aug. 10 game against the Atlanta Braves Eichelberger whose 6-3 record makes him a candidateto start the game, said this was in line with owner Ray Kroc’s offer of free admission to fans wishing to attend the first game. “T think this is the thing to do along Briggs Test UtahnsBegin BCi Underway With Exhibition Tilts Things went pretty much according to form Monday as the annual Tom Briggs Memorial Tournament got underway. Most of the top seeds drew byes so there were no upsets. Doubles play began today. Theresults: GIRLS 10 and ender Singles Pam Pierpont The state of Utah will play the New York Riverside Church and Provo will challenge the Los Angeles Watts Magicians tonight in exhibition Basketball Congress International tournament action in the BYU Marriott Center. Utah and Riverside play at 7 p.m. The preliminaries of the annual slam dunk competition will be at 8:30 p.m., and in the nightcap, Utah Valley will play the Magiciansat 9 p.m. defeated Kristensapere GIRLS 12 and under Singles Amy Wiscombe won vy default Slephanie Fullmer ‘defeated Holy singles Julie Holmes defeated Susan Melntosh 6-3, 6-0, Margaret Lindsay defeated Amy Wiscombe 6-0, 6-1 GIRLS 16 and under Singles - LaDawn Robbins won by default, Margaret Lindsay aeteatea Carlene Christensen Sandy Peterson *feated Ruth Sprague 5-7, 6-4, defeated Holly Brown 6. Braithwaite defeated Susan Mcintosh 6-1, 6-1 le BCI SummerPrep tourney Started today at 10 a.m. with a schedule change. Instead of Louisville, Kentucky playing Orange County, Calif., at 10:30 Julie Holmes Bre KKeoThompsonye semeoe oe ine Sperry oe er oe Gleave Bye; Merci Barley defeated LaDawn Robbins 6-0, 6-1 Kristyn Thompson, defeated Holly Brown6-1, 6-1, Bye ‘itchen Bye; Shuri Cook Bye; S. S. Glassett eKovs 10 Singles - ne iolfuer=. liams defeated Rick Leishm: ee defeated Chad Nell 6-1i62, ‘ionLaan BOYS 12 Singles - Bob Pearce Bye; Brian Williams Bye; Kent Frampton defeated John Lambert 6-3, 6-7, 7-5; Chip Wintch defeated Alex Beckkby default: inhes defeated 2 Dixon "odd Esplin Bye; John Losee Bye; Andy Colina ‘Bye Phil Shurtleff photo John Warner returns shot during 6-0, 6-1 loss to Adam Olson in boys 14 singles. BOYS14 Singles - Mike Wolfgram defeated Rick Stewart 6-1, 6-1; Mike Moore defeated Dale _ 62, 6-3; Steven Braithwaite defeated eo e feeeOlson aebo ns defeated Ke Wiscombe663, 3.a] Rigas defeated Gary Wiscombe 6-4, 7-5; Jon Pierpont defeated Daniel Maynes6-2, 62; Alan Frampton Bye BOYS16 Singies - David Dennis won William Sperry by default; Todd Watkins defeated Donny ey 7-6, 6-1; Kyle Comer defeated John Wisconnbe 6-1, 6-0; Shawn Henretty defeated Alan Ostergar 7-5, 3-6, 6-2; Mike Wolfgram defeated DeanHatch 6-1. 6-2, John Crandall defeated Blake Howell, 6-1, 6-2; Robert Folsom defeated Mike Lund6-2, 6-2; Alan Frampton defeated Alan Nell 6a‘ BOYS 18 Singles - J.T Collins. Bye; Mark prior to Salt Lake’s Pacific Coast League game against Vancouver. All three players are members of the California Angels organization. They played with EL Paso. Texas, last year before being sent up to the Gulls of the Triple-A PCL. Bishop. 22,of Santa Maria. Calif.. led the Texas League in home runs, runs batted in. total bases and slugging percentage last year. And Brunansky. 20, of West Covina. Calif.. had 24 homers, 97 RBIs and batted .323 at El Pasolast year. 2-6, 6-2, 6-0: Mark Wolfgram defeated Tracy Jorgensen 74, 64 id Jorgensen Bye; Charles West Bye; Bill Collins Bye. Sconiers 22. of Fontana. Calif.. led the Texas Leaguein battingin 1980 with a .370 average. Theinfielder is also leading the PCL in batting this year with a .354 average while hitting 12 homeruns for the Gulls and driving in 67 runs. Brunanskyis also off to a hot season in 1981. after receiving a brief tryout with California. He is batting 325 at Salt Lake, with a club-leading 22 homers and 79 RBIs. Bishop has 73 runsbatted in with the Gulls, with nine homers and a .271 batting average. Lpbl‘Zbl Ga :JaNSUE. Grid Rules Change; PoorRef move on to bigger and better tnings he took a wrongturn at the firs. intersection. He became a card-carrying member of the Football Writers Association of America, Healso took honest employmentas chairman of the NCAA rules committee. : Last weekend he wasat Kings Island, Ohio, where he mingled with fellow lodge members and briefed them on rules changes for 1981. Now, manyof us have the impression that football has stayed pretty much the sameover the years while basketball rule makers build a new gameevery year or two. Not so. in fact, the referee in college football probably has the most demanding job in thetightlittle world of sports officiating Consider this There are 47 different signals for footballofficials. The referee must know each onebyrote aid answer each one promptly. He could get a Signalman’s First rating for his knowledge of signals At the sametime he must be aware of the penalty, where the ball is, which penalty it should be,et cetera, etcetera, et cetera. One of the rule changes that could be most important for BYU and other WAC members who throw the ball often, is the penalty for holding by the offense. Last year the rules makers gave offensive linemen a break byruling that when they were dropping backward they could extend both hands and pushoff the defender with their fists clenched. The penalty w broken up. If the blocker was caught grabbing on and holding it was a 15-yard penalty. If it was a smaller matter of pushing away illegally, it was 10 yards But the officials ran into a problem. When a blocker had his fists clenched it was impossible to tell if he was holding This year the penalty will be 15 yards for what is actuallya per- sonal foul locking the hands together andbringing themup to the defender’s headin an upper cut motion. The hands can't be clenched but must be open in pushing off and violations will cost 10 yards. Nelson pointed out that last year the Big 10 led the nation in fewest calls of the 1 penalty by a wide margin prompted one writer to comment: ‘The Big 10 thinks small." And guess which conference led in 15-yard penalties? Sure. It was the WAC, withits officials marking off the 15yarders something like 62 percent of the time. Nelson has a conference by conference breakdown of the way various regions called different violations and said he will mail meone. It will be interesting to see how the WAC compares with the other leagues around the country. One thing that all officials — especially those in the WAC must start to enforce is the one which prohibits defensive backs from putting their hands on a receiver whenthereis no blocking situation The problem is especiail ble when receivers cut across the middle. Defensive players have their handsall over himand yet the illegal use of hands and 5: yard penalty is almost never called in our league The rule simple enough Whenever an offensive playeris on the same yard line as the defense, the defenseplayer can't use his hands on him, Once the two are on the same yard line thereis no blocking situation and the defense must keep its hands off the offense. But. for some reason, officials here pratically refuse to dropa flag on this play Other trouble spots include crowdnoise anda lack of uniformity among the high schools and colleges. Rose Adds Another Recordto Collection NEW YORK (UPI) — Pete Roseof the Philadelphia Phillies, idled more cond baseman Dave Lopes of Los Angeles, shortstop Dave Concepcion of lection Monday — seven days before George Foster of Cincinnati and Dave Parker of Pittsburgh. the major league season resumes. Rose. one hit shy of breaking Stan Musial's National League record, was selected to start the 52nd All-Star Gameata record fifthposition. The National League lineup. announced by the commissioner's office. includes two players from Philadelphia, Montreal and Cincinnati The American League starters for Sunday night's game at Cleveland will be announced later today~ Rose. who had been selected an AllStarstarter at second base,third base. left field and right field, won the balloting for first base. In gaining 726,170 votes, he beat runner-up Steve Garvey of Los Angeles, who finished with 575.563. Marion Dunn,sereditor David Nelson wasa successful football coach who went wrong. Foryears his Delaware teams dominated small college rivals and he becamea legendin his own time. When he decided to this morning, the contest was switched with the Allentown, Penn. Phoenix, Ariz., game at 2:30 p.m. The change was made aftera late arrival by Louisville, according to Carl Severe of the tournament committee. Portland, Ore., was scheduled to test Rio GrandeValley at11:30 a.m. and Las Vegas, went after Seattle in the 1 p.m. game. The afternoon games included the switched Louisville - Orange County gameSouth Coast, Calif., against Tulsa, Okla., at 4 p.m. and Birmingham, Ala., (defending champions) against Carson, Calif., at 5:30 p.m. third baseman Mike Gividen Bye; Jeff Fillmore defeated Craig Mat- than seven weeks by the baseball Cincinnati, thews 6-0, 6-1; Gary Okey defeated John Crandall strike. added another record to his col- Schmidtof Philadelphia andoutfielders Baseball Writers to HonorTrio of Gulls SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Three Salt Lake Gulls players will be honored Wednesday night by the National Association of Baseball Writers for their outstanding 1980 seasons. Catcher Mike Bishop and center fielder Tom Brunansky were both named to the association's Topps Class Double-A Rookie All Star Team for 1980. Andfirst baseman DarylSconiers will receive a trophy as the 1980 Texas League batting champion. The awards were scheduled to be presented by former Los Angeles Dodger pitching star Don Drysdale, with Mr. Kroc’s gesture Hichelberger said - Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan, who took an active role in seeking a solution to the strike, will throwout the first ball Aug. 10 before the New York Yzakees’ opener against the Texas Hangers. “Mr. Donavan’s intervention in the stalled negotiations was an immense help in putting baseball back on the field where it belongs " said Yankees owner George Steinbrenner. — The St. Louis Cardinals learned catcher Darrell Porter will not be ready to play next week. Porter wassigned as a free agentlast winter toa 5-year $3.5 million contract and washitting .184 with two homers and eight RBI when he wasplaced on the disabled list in late May with a rotator cuff tear in his right shoulder. Officials are reluctant to penalize a team because the crowd won't give the rival offense a chanceto hearits signals. The penalty is one charged time out and if that doesn't do it, another charged time out, should becalled A rule change that might ease the congestion on the sidelines, calls for the yard marker and chains to be six feet from the sidelines instead of right on the sidelines as in the past Oh, yeah, it is possible for a defensive team to go 100-plus yards for a touchdown, not score a point yet give the other team twopoints in the process. It's this way: A team intercepts a pass three yards deep in the end zone and the ball is returned 103-yards for an apparent touchdown, BUT,a clipis detected in the end zone, possibly having nothing to do with the play Well, in taat case the referee mustgoto the coachof the defensive team and give him twobits of bad news: first he doesn't get the touchdown, second, it is a safety and two points for the other team Well, there is one rule that hasn't changed That's the one that says when the gameends the team with the most points wins Rose will be joined in the starting lineup by two first-time starters — catcher Gary Carter and outfieder Andre Dawson of Montreal. Former starters named to the squad include se- Schmidt. the NL Most Valuable Playerin 1980, collected the most votes of any starter — 1,087.307. He will makehis third straight appearance. Carter. only the third catcher selected since 1970, polled the second most votes, gathering 834,136. Cincinnati's Johnny Bench was an All-Star starterin all but one of those years — Ted Simmons was named to the team in 1979. Lopes. making his third straight starting appearance at second base, edged Philadelphia's Manny Trillo by 12,538 votes in the tightest race. Concepcion beat out St. Louis Garry Templeton by more than 160,000 votes to makehis first appearance in an NL All-Star starting lineup since 1977. Dawsonled alloutfielders in the balloting, easily outdistancing Foster for top spot. Carew Picked To All-Stars 12th Time NEW YORK (UPI) — California's Rod Carew. theall-time leading votegetter, Tuesday was named to the American League All-Star Game starting lineup for the 12th consecutive year. ” Carew, whose 784,354 votes this year increased his career total over the 27 million mark, will make his fifth straight start at first base after five years as the league's Ali-Star second baseman. In addition to Carew. other players selected to the starting lineup for Sunday's game at Cleveland were: four New York Yankees — second baseman Willie Randolph. shortstop Bucky Dent, and outfielders Reggie Jackson and Dave Winfield; Chicago catcher Carlton Fisk; Kansas City third baseman George Brett; and Baltimore out- fielder Ken Singleton. All but Singleton are formerAll-Star starters. Brett, the leading vote-getterin 1981, collected 1.144,272 votes to easily outdistance New York’s Graig Nettles. whofinished with a total of 302,398. Fisk was named for the second straight year and sixth overall. Milwaukee's Ted Simmonswassecond. Randolph. starting for the second time outdistanced Kansas City’s Frank White by more than 66.000 votes while teammate Dent eamed his second straight nomination by besting the Royals’ U.L. Washington. Jackson, despite a .199 batting average, gathered the most votes in outfield balloting. Winfield, a NL starter two years ago, captured his third berth. Jabbar, Lakers Friends Again INGLEWOOD, Calif, (UPI) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who makes $1 million a year says money wasn’t discussed at a meeting with Los Angeles Laker owner Jerry Buss at which the big center said he will remain with the club. scotching reports he wantedto be traded, Jabbar six times the NBA's Most Valuable Player met for more than an hour Monday with Buss and came out saying that misunderstandings over Magic Johnson's $25 million, 25-year contract had been resolved “A basketball team is much like a family,” Jabbar said ‘‘and when one member has been singled out oftentimes other people in that family can becomejealous “If you have jealousy, everyone cannot be working toward the samegoal. 1 rumorsof my departure are premature and I look forwardto ending my career with the Lakers. “Had I thought it was impossible to win here NewYork is my homeand is the oniy other place | would want to play. However my teammates and | are looking forward to the upcoming season and winning the world championship again’ The problem apparently involved the contract recentlysigned byth 22-yearold Johnson, The pactis in essence a two-part contract, covering roles that Johnson will play as both player and later as part of management Jabbar and other Lakers were reportedly concemed over Johnson's status: How could he be disciplined by coaches if he was, in fact, a part of management. A spokesman for Buss was not even mentioned during the would alsolike to point out that salary said there had been misconstructions of Johnson's status under the unique con- meeting.” tract “have always had an intense desire to win but the aimosphere here had not been conducive toward that goal.’ Jabbar said. ‘However after meeting with my boss this afternoon, the Jolesch said Buss cleared up thoseissues for Abdul-Jabbar. reiterating the fact that Magic was a player and ‘'reestablishing Jabaar’s faith in the winning atmosphere in Los Angeles.” |