The Michigan Daily-Friday, May 23, 1980-Page 15
DEADLINE DRAWS NEAR
Baseball strike talks stall
NEW YORK (AP) - The deadline for
the first midseason players' strike in
major league baseball history drew
closer last night as negotiations in the
stalemated contract talks resumed at
10 p.m. after a four hour recess.
The chief negotiators for the two
sides, Marvin Miller, for the player
association, and Ray Grebey, represen-
ting the owners, met briefly in informal
talks during the recess.
MILLER, EXECUTIVE director of
the players' group which has
threatened a strike following yester-
day's games, returned to the midtown
hotel. He was followed a half hour later
by Grebey and the management
negotiating team.
It was the third time yesterday the
negotiators had arrived at the hotel.
And on each occasion, the. owners'
representatives were late for the
meeting.
"We are still working away," said
Grebey as he rushed into an elevator to
the 17th floor meeting room.
THE TWO SIDES met for a total of
about 21/2 hours in their two earlier
sessions with Federal Mediator Ken-
neth Moffett.
After his return from the four-hour
break, Miller said: "There is no reason
to stop /the clock. We need an
agreement."
After meeting for about 90 minutes in
the morning, talks were due to resume
at 4 p.m. Grebey and the management
negotiation team did not arrive until
4:50 p.m. and thenleft at 6 p.m., saying
they would meet again later in -the
evening.
ABOUT 9:30 P.M., Miller returned to
the negotiations site and said he and
Grebey had held an "off the record
conversation," at an undisclosed
location.
He indicated that Grebey would be
returning to the bargaining session
shortly.
He said of his talk with Grebey:
"There is no way to say if it
helped ... I have no more assurances
than the last time I left here."
ONLY SIX major league games were
scheduled yesterday, all of them at
night, and they seemed certain to be the
last contests to be played for some time
as negotiators remained deadlocked in
fruitless talks.
The strike was set to start today and
SPORTS OF THE DAIL Y:
Tracksters go for Big
The Michigan men's track team is in
Illinois this weekend, participating in
the Big Ten Championships to be heldto-
night and tomorrow afternoon, at the
University of Illinois.
The Wolverine harriers are expected
to be strong challengers to the meet
favorites, the Indiana Hoosiers.
The Hoosiers won the Big Ten Indoor
Championships this winter and
defeated Michigan in a dual meet out-
doors in a close battle earlier this
spring in Bloomington.
"On paper, I'd have to say Indiana
can beat us," said Michigan Coach
Jack Harvey. "But with a few breaks, it
will be a very interesting weekend."
"We made a couple of mistakes in the
S indoor meet (The Wolverine mile relay
dropped the baton en route to a sure
win) that put Indiana way out in front.
If Indiana makes those kind of mistakes
this weekend, they'll be in trouble."
"The Friday night events-will be key
for us," continued the coach. Harvey
was referring to the only three events in
which the finals are Friday-the long
jump, discus and 10,000 meter run.
Harvey is counting on strong perfor-
mances from James Henry in the long
jump, Mike Boehmer in the discus, and
have Lewis in the 10,000 meter. "These
are three of our best events, and if
we're not in the lead after Friday night,
we could be in trouble," Jlarvey war-
ned.
The meet will conclude with the finals
in all other events Saturday after-
noon'. Strong performances will be
needed from several Michigan in-
dividuals if they are to be expected to
contend for the meet championship.
Andrew Bruce will be counted on
heavily in both the 100- and 200- meter
sprints. Terry Thomas in the 800 meter,
Dan Heikkinen in the 300 meter
steeplechase, and the 1600 meter relay
team will also be looked upon to finish
with strong performances to beat In-
diana. -JON MORELAND
Preaku ess appeal
scheduled
BALTIMORE (AP) - A June 2
hearing on the foul lodged against
Preakness winner Codex by runnerup
Genuine Risk was scheduled by the
state Racing Commission's Thorough-
bred Board yesterday. b d
The public hearing, to be held at
Pimlico Race Course, was called to
hear testimony on the appeal by Diana
and Bert Firestone, the owners of the
filly.
The Firestones will be represented by
Henry Lord, a former deputy attorney
general in Maryland and now a lawyer
with the Baltimore firm of Pier and
Marbury.
10 title
The Firestones are asking for a
review of the decision of Pimlico's
stewards in rejecting the foul claim
lodged against Codex and his rider,
Angel Cordero, by Jacinto Vasquez,
Genuine Risk's jockey.
Vasquez contended that Cordero pur-
posely steered Codex toward the out-
side and then bumped the filly as the
field neared the top of the stretch in
Saturday's 13/16-mile Preakness.
Vasquez also claimed that Cordero
hit Genuine Risk across the face
several times with his crop. That con-
tention was also rejected by the
stewards.
Genuine Risk won the Kentucky Der-
by May 3, becoming only the second
filly to win the first event in racing's
Triple Crown.
In the Preakness, she went off
favored to become the first filly ever to
win the first two Triple Crown races.
nothing that occurred at a meeting
yesterday between the two sides
changed the bleak outlook.
THE PLAYERS voted virtual
unanimous strike authorization during
spring training when contract
negotiations became stalled. On April 1
in Dallas, the executive board of the
players' association voted to strike the
final week of spring training exhibition
games, wiping out 92 contests, and then
to walk out again on May 23 if no con-
tract were reached.
Talks sincethen have made little if
any progress with the two sides
deadlocked over the issue of compen-
sation for premium free agent signings.
The clubs have demanded a system be
implemented permitting them to
replace certain free agents who sign
with other teams. The union has rejec-
ted that idea, saying it would be an at-
tack on the free agent system which has
produced a huge jump in player
salaries.
WITH THE strike deadline only hours
away, federal mediator Kenneth Mof-
fett said the compensation issue had not
even been discussed at the morning
meeting. "We wen. over minor issues
and nothing happened," he said.
"There was no progress."
Earlier, David Vaughn, counsel for
Moffett, said of the negotiators: "There
is no guarantee that they will be back
together again tonight," Vaughn said.
"The strike deadline remains in effect.
There had been no indication on the
part of the players to extend th4
deadline."
SCORES
NCAA Regionals
Mideast
MICHIGAN9, Central Michigan 4
Nebraska 12 Brigham Young0
I Midwest
Missouri5.Wichita State4
Nevada-Las Vegas 3, California 2
American League
Baltimore 5. Detroit I
New York 5, Toronto I
National League
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