The Michigan Daily - Friday, September 23, 1994 -15 .Owner of cottage where Gerulaitis died lacked permit * SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) - The owner of the pool cottage where tennis star Vitas Gerulaitis was found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning did not have an occupancy permit for the bungalow. Jon Foster, the Southampton Vil- lage Building Inspector, said Wednes- day an inspection was required for the application permit, and an inspector fight have discovered a problem in the heating systems. Investigators suspect a malfunc- tion in one of the heating systems used to heat the pool was the source of the lethal carbon monoxide gas that circulated into the cottage bedroom killing Gerulaitis, 40, once one of the world's best players. Foster said the cottage on the estate was listed only as a pool *house. "It was not allowed to be used for cooking, heating or sleeping," he said. In 1991, in an advertisement to sell the estite, owner Martin Raynes said his property included a guest house. After seeing the ad, village officials contacted Raynes, a real es- tate developer, and told him to obtain an occupancy certificate if he planned to let anyone sleep there, Foster said. Inspectors are waiting to further inspect the cottage to determine if there were any building code viola- tions, Foster said. A funeral is scheduled for Thurs- day at St. Dominic's Roman Catholic Church in Oyster Bay, near where Gerulaitis owned a home. Gerulaitis, ranked at one time as high as No. 3 in the world, was one of the most popular players in tennis. "It's very sad," Pete Sampras said, while in Goteborg for the United States-Sweden Davis Cup. "He was a close friend. He was always a very generous person, he always cared about me." "Vitas was like a brother to me," Bjorn Borg told the Swedish paper Aftonbladet. "It feels like I've lost someone in my family." Borg played a doubles match with John Lloyd against Gerulaitis and Jimmy Connors on Wednesday night in the Champions Tour in Seattle. He says he will try to attend Thursday's funeral although he has a commit- ment in Mexico City this weekend. NORWAY Continued from page 13 "Kansas City," said the older guy, the American Embassy mailman. "Whoa!" said the kid. "You look like Ken Griffey, Jr.!" After spending a couple Saturday mornings with these kids, and hearing things like that, it's hard for me to go along with all the media people one sees on television, spouting off about how the strike- especially if it runs into the 1995 season- is going to do the game of baseball serious harm. Those people are adults, and are almost necessarily pervaded by a certain cynicism that comes with age. And a certain forgetfulness, too. What these people are forgetting is how strongly baseball grabs the imagination when you're young. Kids of all ages,'from the small ones playing Little League to the big ones who play in huge stadiums, dream of hitting that Series-winning grand slam or recording that game-saving strikeout. Sure, it's a pipe dream for most of us, but the infinitely small possibility captivates us and keeps us on the diamond, and then lures us to the ballpark when our own playing days are over, to live vicariously through our favorite big leaguers. I don't think people are going to stop going to games, even if the strike continues and wipes out the 1995 season. For certain, the fans will be little angry at both sides for taking away their game, but once the season starts, the vast emerald-green fields of Camden Yard, Tiger Stadium and Wrigley Field will call them back, not only to the ballparks, but maybe even to their own childhoods, to a time when every field was a field of dreams. That's the magic of baseball. Its spell cannot be broken by talk of salary caps and free agency. To the kids here in Norway (and most other places, I think), all of that is just adultspeak, stuff that to them must seem almost childish, even though kids, not multimillionaire adults, were the ones in mind when that word was invented. In a place where soccer is unquestionably king, the fact that more than a hundred kids would come from miles around to play baseball is testament to the joys and possibilities of the game, and the universality of these things. To me, standing in the blustery wind on that Norwegian field, the message is clear: as long as there are kids playing baseball somewhere, there's no need to worry about the future of the game. Baseball will survive, just as sure as our heroic young dreams. 0 e win against EAST LANSING (AP) - It's a matchup straight out of a bookie's nightmare. When Miami of Ohio visits Michi- gan State on Saturday, the two teams will take the field with a combined record of 0-4-1. Michigan State is coming off a heartbreaking 21-20 loss to No. 9 Notre Dame. Next week, it starts Big Ten play against defending league and Rose Bowl champ Wisconsin, now ranked No. 16. And the 0-2 Spartans have a recent history oflacklusterplay against smaller schools, mainly 1991 and 1992 losses at home to Central Michigan. On top of all that, Miami (0-2-1) has some speed and quickness on offense, tools that have proven effec- tive against Michigan State. Michigan State coach George Perles said he'll have to make sure his team isn't drooping from the Notre Dame loss or already looking ahead to Wisconsin. "No one jumps into their trou- sers. And when everyone gets on that field, if the breaks go the wrong Spartans look for first Miami way, it can be a long afternoon for anyone," he said. Perles said no one has figured out a way yet to bottle the emotion from one game and have it ready for the next. "I wish we could, but it's a diffi- cult thing to do. The reason it's diffi- cult to do is one thing we can't do is fool ourselves," he said. "We know the circumstances out there and we react to them with all the gray matter we have. "It's hard to do anything more than be honest and that's what we try to do in talking to the team." Coach Randy Walker said his Miami team has to cut down on its mistakes after squandering a lead last week against archrival Cincin- nati and having to rally for a 17-17 tie. Michigan State also has had trouble with consistency. After tak- ing first-half leads against Kansas and Notre Dame, the Spartan offense couldn't score in the second half and the defense couldn't bottle up the opposition. i *Bettman says NHL won't go way of baseball NEW YORK (Al) - NHL com- missioner Gary Bettman, pointing to baseball's ruptured season, said Thursday the league will not start its season without a labor contract. He said the NHL will lock out the players if a collective bargaining agreement is not reached by Oct. 1, opening night of the league's 78th season. "This is very difficult, but the ab- sence of acollective bargaining agree- ment leaves us no choice," he said. "A CBA in place is essential to the long- term health of the league. "We want a season without dis- traction, without interruption. Thebest thing would be to put some pressure on both parties to get a deal going." Bettman, speaking by conference call, said the possibility of a players' strike during the season was "very strong" without a contract. "All we have to do is look at base- ball," Bettman said. "Or what hap- pened two years ago." Bettman was referring to 10-day strike by NHL players, also over a new contract. "There's no secret the players' leverage increases as the season goes on," he said. "(No CBA) would be a disaster." "I don't know if the. season is at risk," Bob Goodenow, executive di- rector of the NHL Players Associa- tion, said. "I can tell you that part of the season is at risk." z For the most COmplete COVerage of Michigan sports ng b nothng eats : Bettman's announcement was not unexpected. He had been given a man- date over the summer from the league's owners to lock out the play- ers. "I have had the authority for some time," he said. "There was no shock on that side of the table." On Monday, negotiators from the NHL and union are to resume bar- gaining in Toronto. "If we work hard, there's enough time to make a deal by Oct. 1," Bettman said. "It's not impossible, but as time slips away, it's harder and harder. It will be difficult and arduous." Goodenow, speaking during his own conference call, said the players will continue to finish the exhibition season as scheduled. "That's our plan," he said. "Our plan was to come to camp in a profes- sional manner. The work ethic has been great and the competition has been great. That's our format and that's what we'll continue with." Goodenow said the players were upset with Bettman's rollback man- date that cost the players their train- ing camp benefits. That issue would have to be addressed in the negotia- tions. "It would be most difficult to play (the season under that mandate)," Goodenow said. "It has not pleased the players at all." If the start of the season is post- poned, Bettman said he does not con- sider the move a lockout. Asked what the difference was, Bettman said: "Once we get this behind us, we in- tend to get the full season in." Bettman said he hoped to get in all 84 regular-season games. There was a possibility some games could be lost if the postponement continued deeper in the season. "That would have to be evaluated on a day-to-day basis," Bettman said. Over the past two days, Bettman and Goodenow met for a total of 12 hours and both came away from those negotiations with nothing positive to say. Among the major issues, owners are looking for a system that links salaries to revenue. Players want a free market and more liberalized free agency, among other things. Both sides have submitted complicated tax proposals to help small-market teams. This has been amajor stumbling block in the negotiations. The NHL and the union have been without a contract since Sept. 15, 1993. Their negotiations have inten- sified over the past week when they met four times in six days. If the season doesn't begin on time, it would be the second interruption in the NHL since the 1991-92 regular- season ended a weekearly when play- ers went on strike April 1 over a number of issues, including free agency and sharing of non-hockey revenues. The issues were settled and the postseason was played. FRA 04 aw a RUSH SCHEDULE FALL 1994 Come join the winning team! 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