The Michigan Daily--Saturday, May 24. 1980-Page 15 TALKS GO PAST DEADLINE o strike: Play ball NEW YORK (AP) - Baseball's longest night ended in an agreement on a nbw four-year contract between owners and players that averted a strike which threatened unprecedented interruption of the major league season. While the full terms of the agreement were not announced, The Associated Press learned yesterday that the set- tlement gave owners essentially what they wanted on the free agency issue that had been the main stumbling block since talks opened six months ago. Baseball sources told the AP that the free agent system, which has created baseball's million dollar salaries, will remain the'same for the rest of this year. BUT OVER the next three years a new system is to be worked out. During that time, the players will have the right to strike only over the question of free agency. But the owners will have the right to invoke what is known as the 15-18 system that sets up a sliding scale of compensation based on the caliber of the player picked in the free agent draft. Under the present system, a player who has had more than six years in the majors and whose contract has expired can declare himself a free agent. The club p.eking up the player has to surrender a selection in the amateur draft to the player's former club. But under the system that will be in effect after this season, the team that selected the free agent would be able to protect from 15 to 18 players on its roster and the team that lost a "premium" free agent would select a compensation player from the remain- der. THAT SYSTEM would remain in ef- fect until the study committee devises a new system, or the contract runs out. Marvin Miller, executive director of the union, and Ray Grebey, chief negotiator for the 26 owners, struggled, through a marathon day and night of negotiations, finally hammering out an agreement in a seven-hour wrapup session that ended early yesterday. Under the terms of the contract, neither Miller nor Grebey would serve on the panel representing owners and players, that is to devise the new free agent system. The settlement must be presented to the Player Association's Executive Board and membership for ratification. crash 1977-78 and part of the 1978-79 season. He reportedly was in Cleveland to at- tend a party for former teammate Foots Walker. Police are testing a powdery white substance found in Furlow's pocket, said Linndale Police Chief Robert Xousek. Fousek also said police are testing the contents of a cigarette found in the car. Neither party would comment on the final disposition of the difficult free agent question. BOB BOONE of the Philadelphia Phillies, the National League player representative, said by telephone that there was an understanding on the free- agency issue but that it wouldn't hap- pen this year. Boone also said he was surprised by the agreement. "Last week I lost in- terest in the whole thing," he said. "I saw no way of reaching an agreement. Actually Thursday morning I was relaxed, just sitting around and waiting for the inevitable. Miller said the owners' proposed compensation system does not go into effect unless three things happen - the committee fails to come up with any recommendation; the parties fail to reach agreement in the next 30 days; the owners do not announce on Feb. 1 what they intend to do about the free agent draft the following November. Should agreement on a new compen- sation"agreement not be reached by next Feb. 1, the players may also chaos to strike at that time, but if they don't, there can be no strike over compen- sation during the remaining three years of the Basic Agreement, the player relations committeestated. HOWEVER, THE players' union may offer, before March 1, 1981, to waive their right to strike with a request that clubs permit a substitute strike in 1982, not later than June 1, Grebey said, ad- ding the clubs are not obligated to ac- cept such a request. MSU AL L-AMERICAN WAS TROUBLED: Furlow dies In OCLEVELAND (AP) - Terry Furlow, Furlow was pronounced dead at about a Utah Jazz basketball player known as 3:30 a.m. an outstanding shooter and described "It's really a tragedy," Jazz Coach by his coach as "troubled," was killed Tom Nissalke said when contacted by Friday in a car crash. telephone at his Houston home Friday. The 6-foot-4, 190-pound athlete was "Terry was very obviously troubled." No. 2 all-time scorer for Michigan Nissalke said the team knew Furlow State. In 1976, he was a first-round draft had a history of (problems when he pick of the Philadelphia 76ers and was joined. "But he played so well-his first traded to Cleveland on Oct. 3,1977. two months we were very encouraged Furlow was then traded to the Atlan- he may have found the right situation," ta Hawks in January 1979 for Butch Lee he said. and later to Utah, where he played in 55 After the National Basketball games as guard. League's All-Star break, during which Furlow, 25, died instantly after the his contract was not re-negotiated, car he was driving veered off Interstate Furlow suffered a lower back injury, 71 in suburban Linndale and crashed missed team meetings and was late head-on into a steel utility pole, police several times for practice. said. There were neither skid marks on "But he was going to figure in our the road nor any sign the driver tried to plans this year," the coach added. "We brake, said police. had put him on the protected list for the It tools members of the Cleveland fire Dallas draft May 28." department 35 minutes to extricate the Furlow played both forward and body from the luxury foreign car. guard for the Cleveland Cavaliers in Indy restrictions backfire: Unleash the machines STANLEY CUP SERIES 3-2 Islanders 'seared' INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-A few years, ago, when qualifying speedy in the In- dianapolis 500 hit 200 miles an hour, the reigning powers of the U.S. Auto Club said, "Enough!" Citing safety factors, they clamped down hard on the million-dollar or- pedoes which boom around the In- dianapolis Motor Speedway each May. The cut down sharply on the per- missible horsepower in 1979 and again this year, even though there hadn't been a fatal accident since 1973 nor a serious one since 1975. But far from cutting back on the threat of an accident, USAC is actually courting danger at the gate and on the track, say several of Indy's premier drivers. "They've set racing back about 10 years and I don't think the people want to see that," says A. J. Foyt, the only four-time Indy winner. "These cars are very capable of running over 200 miles an hour. These are real exotic cars,and what made Indy famous was speed.... We're talking about 20 or 25 miles' an hour different. It's more dangerous now than when we ran over 200." Without the restrictions; cars used to hit the 220s in the straighaways, then the drivers would downshift to.perhaps 180 in the corners. "What's happening now is that we're running the same speedy about 190 in the straights and the turns," Foyt said. "Now you hve to flatfoot it trying to make up in the turns what we lose on the straightaways." That 20 or 30 mph difference, Foyt said, "is where you used to separate the men from the boys, who had the talent and who didn't. Now with the restric- tions just about anybody is a race driver ... Driving one of these cars is like sitting on the freeway, taking your- family to dinner. I hope they throw all these rules away next year and let us just go racing like we used to." UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP)-In their two previous playoff series, the New York Islanders pulled within a victory of eliminating an opponent-only to lose at least once before finishing the job. Now, against the Philadelphia Flyers, they have continued the pattern. Their lead cut to 3-2 in the best-of- seven Stanley Cup final, the Islanders go for the kill again today at the Nassau Coliseum-where they have lost only one of their last 17 National Hockey League games against Philadelphia. - "WE'RE SCARED," said New York. left wing Bob Bourne. "I was afraid before Thursday night's game and I'm still afraid about today. But if we play like we did in Game Five, just do a little. better jobof stopping them, we're going to come away with it." Understand the Islanders have been talking about being "afraid" almost since their playoff journey began April 8. The fear they express is not as much as being afraid as it is hating to lose. Certainly, it is not fear about a record of playoff failure that includes a seven- th-game defeat by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1978 quarter-finals and a six-game loss to the New York Rangers in last year's semi-final. It is that record to which Phildelphia Coach Pat Quinn referred after a 6-3 Flyers triumph pulledlhis team within 3-2. "Thiismight have tightened them up a little," he said. "They might think about that bugaboo in their past. They might think aboutthat for awhile." WHAT MADE MORE of a differen- ce was the Flyers, for the first time in the series, playing up to the level that carried them to a 35-game unbeaten streak and the regular season-title. They got two goals from Rick MacLeish, strong goaltending from Pete Peeters and fine performances from two injured regulars-defen- seman Jim Watson (shoulder) and right wing Paul Holmgren (wrenched knee). "We played like that so often during the year, it was really puzzling as to why we didn't achieve that type of pitch in the first couple of games," said Quinn. "I'll probably spend all summer trying to put my finger on exactly why. "I believe, whatever it was, we might have crossed over that bridge and I really believe we'll have that type of ef- fort of the last two games. If we don't get that .type of effort, then there probably won't be two more games. THAT WOULD suit the Islanders. Certinly it would fit thepattern: They won the first three .games against Boston in the quarterfinals, then lost one before wrapping it up. In the semifinals, they took the first three games against Buffalo before moving into the final round.