Show 'v 'Vnai w 2D The Salt Lake Tribune Tuesday September 8 1987 NFL Players’ Rep Calls Latest Management Proposal ‘Garbage’ AP Football Writer was mailed about two hours later to the 28 NFL teams NEW YORK The NFL Management Council on Monday gave its players union a new proposal it said can provide “the essential elements” for settlement of the contract impasse that could result in a players strike within two weeks The presentation comes one day before the league’s player representatives meet in Washington to set a strike date expected to come after the second week of the season that opens next Sunday with an option to wait another two weeks But Gene Upshaw the executive director of the NFL Players Association termed the document “garbage” The only talks since Aug 14 took place for 4 Vi hours in Washington last week and they broke off over the issue of protection for player representatives The league’s owners will meet outside Chicago on Thursday to hear from Jack Donlan the executive di By Dave Goldberg - The summary prepared during the weekend by council officials was presented to Upshaw executive director of the NFL Players Association shortly after noon EDT It rector of the Management Council on the status of the talks Despite Upshaw’s denunciation of Donlan's proposal both sides said they were willing to meet again Upshaw said they had talked on Sunday and expected to be back in contact Thursday after both sides have had their meetings Donlan said in his cover letter to Upshaw that because of the lack of talks the proposal “has been developed in a virtual vacuum without the benefit of assistance from the NFLPA” But he added: “It is our firm belief that this proposal will constitute the essential ele ments of the CBA collective bargaining agreement we eventually sign” Upshaw however said he agreed with only one thing — that the length of the contract be three years “It was just what I expected Now we have just seven points to go” he said in a reference to the union’s proposal The management proposal is similar in some elements to the Management Council presentation at the onset of talks on April 20 It continues intact for example the current system of free agency under which only one player has changed teams in 10 years although it upgrades the compensation to what ‘Flight’ To Victory If Reasons considered the fourth best linebacker on the Giants were to be paid what he wants by another team it would have to surrender to New York under the new proposal Jr The sore but speedy filly Monday scored a victory over in the $2 mileight other lion All American Futurity at Ruiwire-to-wi- re doso Downs e In winning the $1 million check for owner Dr Lindsey Burbank of Leesburg Fla Elans dominaSpecial snapped a tion of the race by colts and geldings Elans Special broke first in the race and quickly put away her challengers hitting the finish line 1 finlengths in front of second-plac- e isher Elaina Rae another of only three fillies in the rich race “When she left in front I never saw nobody” said Baldillez of his first win in the futurity “I looked back with about 150 yards to go to see if I was really that far in front” Baldillez said the filly ran so well she needed very little help “I hit her a couple of times and that was it” he said “And that was more to assure me” The filly returned to the winner’s circle noticeably sore a problem that trainer John Buchanan said developed following the first of two sets of elimination trials The winner of six of nine races going into the futurity Elans Special became the betting choice after prefirst-plac- ar 440-ya- rd — Elan Special right with jockey Alex Bal- - Associated Press Photo a length to win the All American Futurity race at Ruidoso Downs Race Track i dillez aboard beats the pack by more than I Pearce Aiming High on Tennis Tour Continued From D-- l d Ivan match he had with Lendl in Washington DC in late July He led Lendl 1 in the first set — “with a break to go up — before finally succumbing 6 3 One of these days he’ll beat a Lendl or a Becker or a Wilander and that day contend both Pearces will launch Brad up the tennis ladder “I think that he’ll break into the top players some time next year” says Wayne "I think you need one full year of the tour And then what’s going to happen is you’re going to play some big player and get a few breaks break through and beat that player And then in your own mind you get enough confidence that you recognize you really can compete with those players and then I think that's kind of the beginning" top-rate- 4-- 5-- 7-- 2-- 6-- The real beginning for Brad Pearce came he hears when he was four years old and he would use a sawed-of- f squash racquet to hit tennis balls against the garage door of the family home Brad was the middle child in a family of five (the oldest Evan died in a drowning accident eight years ago) and all the Pearces learned the fundamentals of tennis But Brad’s athletic ability — and the fact according to his father that “he was also a very disciplined individual” — enabled him to set loftier goals He went to Timpview High for two p years while playing in national tournaments Soon he realized that “I really wasn’t playing tennis like all the other players year-roun- d were So my junior year was the first year that I decided ‘Hey I’m going to go for the tennis and I'm going to venture’ ” make it a year-roun- d So he went to the Los Angeles area for his junior year splitting the school year living with two families and his tennis game improved dramatically In the spring of 1984 he won some major junior tournaments including the Easter Bowl in Tucson and he became a coveted college age-grou- recruit Brad chose to go to college at UCLA Coming back home to attend BYU was never really in his mind Pearce recalled “I had a dream when I was real young that I wanted to go to UCLA even though my father I was was coaching at BYU aware enough of college tennis then that I knew UCLA was always a major power” So he became a Bruin and made it to the round of 16 at the 1985 NCAAs and to the semis at the 1986 NCAAs Rick Leach of upsetting USC in that one Brad had known for a couple of months that the 1986 tournament would be his last in college He had already decided to turn pro "The European players the foreign top-seed- players they’re out on the circuit when they’re 6 years old” he reasoned “I just felt like for me for my development I needed to leave” He retained his amateur status through the summer of 1986 in order to participate with the Junior Davis Cup team He had a good summer winning a couple of pro tournaments (Berkeley and New Haven) for which he couldn’t collect the prize money So his career as a pro which he officially launched at last September’s Transamerica in San Francisco began on an upswing But then came the past year of difficulties not the least of which was his mother's death in May He misses her encourage15-1- ment which was ever-prese- Continued From D-- l No 8 Gabriela Sabatini and No 11 Lori McNeil In men's play d Emilio Sanchez lost to unseeded Ken Flach 14th-seede- a rain in match delayed by third-roun- d to win her 19th staight match After Lendl broke Jarryd’s serve in the seventh game of the first set the two players held serve 22 straight games before Lendl broke again to win final game of the match “I didn’t like anything about today except I won” Lendl said “I wasn’t moving as well and not hitting as crisply I was missing It was muggy hot and humid and it was hard to 4) Although they both won in straight sets Lendl and Graf had their toughest matches of the tournament Graf had her service broken three couldn't times but Kohde-Kilsc- h overcome her fellow West German’s powerful forehand "I knew it was going to be tough" Graf said “She didn’t make many mistakes" play” In women’s play Navratilova beat No 14 Catarina Lindqvist 0 Evert defeated No 10 Manuela MaSukova downed unseedleeva Sabatini beat ed Anne Hobbs 1 and No 12 Bettina Bunge McNeil defeated No 7 Zina Garrison 4 5 Graf’s next opponent will be Pam Shriver who beat Jana 6 (7- Novatna of Czechoslovakia 6-- 3 700 W 7-- d 6 (7-0- ) 6 (8-6- 6-- ) r- sport “I know her game as well as she knows mine” McNeil said "It was very emotional” Graf the queen of power ground-stroke- s thrives on opponents who hit the ball hard "Steffi doesn’t like junk — not many players do” Martina Navratilova said Monday “Steffi likes pace and she creates situations where she gets a lot of sitters in the middle of the court “I think Billie Jean King would have given her fits because she was such a master of spins” scratched Shoot Yeah the top qualifier for Oklahoma Still No 1 In UPI Coaches’ Poll - NEW YORK (UPI) Louisiana State used a strong opening victory at Texas A&M to advance four places to No 6 in the first regular-season ratings Monday by United Press International’s $4295 Built Oct Oct full tune-u- yr olds 9-- 9-14 10-- & 15 over (Parts 4 Labor Great benefits and a 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GARAGE m I1 7690 6 BAS 20’x2V Units 6-- 1 McNeil and Garrison are 972-242- 6 Special b 6-- 2 6-- 4 6 fifth-seede- 6-- 4 6-- old doubles partners who live in Houston and share the same coach They also are two of the leading black players in a predominantly white $5-4- race favorite Shoot Yeah was nt through all his wins and losses “She played a big part in my game” he said “and I didn’t really realize it because Wayne was there for the coaching and all that I wasn’t aware of the support that she played until the loss Then I realized ‘Hey what am I missing?’ " Pearce’s second year on the tour won’t contain the jolts of the first As he says the worst is behind him And so while he was consigned to watching bits and pieces of this year’s Open on television (he failed to qualify for it) he plans on playing in it this time next year — and making an impact far beyond the borders ot Utah Lendl Graf Have Rough Time in Reaching Quarterfinal Round ALL SEASON INC L the race developed a bone splint after the trials 10 days ago and was scratched by trainer Jack Brooks two hours before the race “I’m glad Shoot Yeah wasn’t in it but I hated to beat him this way” Buchanan said of the missing colt Shoot Yeah was the leading money winner in the field with six wins in eight starts for $250597 “I know every move he makes and I just didn’t feel good about it” said Brooks who had tried to nurse the speedy colt through a noticeable limp in the days preceding the futurity With Shoot Yeah out of the race Elans Special's early speed became the determining factor in the' race that saw the other contenders run into trouble early Kisses To Yawl the California invader who had the second fastest time in the trials went down to his nose at the start of the race and hever recovered to deliver his usual fast finish Jody O Toole who broke from the No 9 post in the straighaway race collided with Send The Gals Candy two jumps out of the gate and could run no better than fourth Send The Gals Candy ran an errat- ic race but rallied to take third behind the two fillies Elans Special became the first filly since Hoi Idea in 1977 to win the race The winner covered the 440 yards in a fast 2149 seconds and paid $680 $440 and $320 Elaina Rae paid $1040 and $660 while Send The Gals Candy returned The win boosted Elans Special’s earnings in her first season of racing ! to $1071341 winner’s circle was so smooth it even surprised jockey Alex Baldil-le- z half-lengt- Pre-Fa- $300000 - 3-- CABIN increase player pensions by about 20 percent over current levels and ups severance pay considerably A four-yeplayer who now receives a pension of $5184 yearly at age 55 would receive $6480 under the new plan and his severance pay would increase from a flat payment of $18006 to $30799 The average NFL career is about four years A player’s pension would increase from $12960 to $16848 and his severance from $24896 to $38089 By Pete Herrera AP Sports Writer Elans Special’s RUIDOSO NM run to quarter horse racing’s million-dolla- r By Steve Luhm Tribune Sports Writer EVANSTON Wyo — Jockey Scott Dahl got word from trainer Owen Bringhurst in the middle of the week that he’d be riding Flight Of Spring in the $44190 Rocky Mountain Futurity He’s glad he did Given an outstanding ride by Dahl Flight Of Spring upset stablemate Cossu by a length to win with richest thoroughbred race of the season at Wyoming Downs which concluded its third season Monday afternoon Flight Of Spring Cossu and Holm-patric- k are all trained by Bringhurst and they were coupled in the wagering The powerful entry was sent off as the 5 favorite in the field of 12 although Cossu was “the horse to beat” according to Dahl “That horse Cossu has run good every time out" Dahl said This day however Flight Of Spring jumped from the starting gate h lead over Cossu grabbed a down the backstretch built that advantage to 2 Vi lengths at the top of the stretch and then lasted to win the dash by a diminishing length in a snappy time of 110 25 Cossu who had won 3 of 4 previous starts was narrowing the gap at the wire But Cossu and regular rider Clark Spencer had to settle for second place Power Clue the 1 second-choic- e in the wagering was five lengths behind in third and 25-- 1 longshot Ryan’s First under leading jockey Ralph Seville closed strongly for fourth Ryan’s First was length behind Power Clue and seven lengths behind the winner Ironically Dahl didn’t know he’d be riding Flight Of Spring in the Rocky Mountain Futurity until a couple days before the race He had qualified Holmpatrick in the trials but Bringhurst looked the situation over and decided to put Dahl on Flight Of Spring an Oklahoma-bre- d gelding that Spencer had ridden in the trials When Spencer as expected took the mount on Cossu Dahl was given the assignment on Flight Of Spring “Owen just told me he’d talked to the owners and and they wanted to make the switch” Dahl explained “Then he told me I had a heckuva chance to win the race” Bringhurst was right although Flight Of Spring covered the first quarter mile in :22 15 seconds and the half in a :44 35 The blistering pace could have been fatiguing — “We wanted 22 and 4 fifths or even 23” Dahl admitted — but Flight Of Spring wasn't bothered as he raced to his second win in five career starts It was worth $22095 “I wanted to get him out get him to relax and save as much horse as I could” said Dahl "I sent him away and hey he just rated himself I didn’t have to fight him at all “I just waited until we turned for home — until we straightened out — and then I went to the whip on him He did the rest He ran a big race” Spencer said the same thing about Cossu who earned $8800 for finishing second and now has a career bankroll of just more than $25000 "My horse ran a real nice race" Spencer said “I just moved him a little late I misjudged it I didn’t want to go out and kill stablemate Flight Of Spring So I settled back and waited We were getting to him at the end but it was just a little late" S No 1 The new proposal does however Elans Special Wins All American Futurity Dahl Rides 1474 two No 1 draft choices Even if the team paid him what the Giants are offering it would have to give up a the council calls more realistic levels Free agency without compensation is one of the union’s principal demands But even the liberalized compensation would be rather restrictive For example Gary Reasons a starting linebacker on the New York Giants’ Super Bowl champion team is currently holding out for a salary reported to be more than $400000 a year The Giants are offering around Block 486-161- North ol 140) 6 12-mon- th 15 MIN LUBE OIL & FILTER I CHANGE 1 I With Tune up Up to 5 QtS 91 No vaM wfr any I Coupon 0 Jipr WuSi Sept 12 present 1987 s1f OGDEN 39th and Washington Blvd 393-886- Al Romero POBox 18356 Salt Lake City Ut 84118 3 MIDVALE OREM 7205 S 900 East (South ol Family Ctnttf) 400 South 566-664- 4 State Street 226-220- 6 - |