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MAJOR LEAGUE'S THIRD BLACK SKIPPER
Wills to
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - New Seat-
tle Mariners Manager Maury Wills
says he wants his players motivated by
respect, not fear.
"I like to build a thing of respect,"
explained Wills. "Rules are made to be
broken. Usually you make rules for two
or three players. With the economy the
way it is, why take $500 away from
somebody because he's three or four
minutes late, or something. _
"IN MY RELATIONSHIP with the
players, I want to level with them,"
said the 47-year-old Wills, the former
shortstop and base-stealing king named
Monday to replace the fired Darrell
manage
Johnson as Seattle manager.
"I don't want them to do anything out
of fear. I want to be fair and honest. I
always remember when I was a
player."
Going into Tuesday night's game
against the California Angels, Seattle
had lost 10 games in a row and 21 of 25
contests since the All-Star break and
were in the American League West
cellar.
SEATTLE President Dan O'Brien
said in announcing Johnson's dismissal
and the hiring of Wills that the club was
taking a "new direction."
Wills' managerial debut Monday
through
night was less than smashing as the
Mariners lost 8-3 to the Angels. But he
said afterward he saw a lot to like.
"I wish we could have won, but the
ship's not going to sink after one loss,"
Wills said. "The players showed me
something, coming back with three
runs in the seventh inning."
WILLS, WHO has long aspired to be a
big league manager, is the third black
skipper in the majors, following Frank
Robinson and Larry Doby.
"I have known Danny O'Brien for a
number of years and I am sure that he
selected me to manage not on any
social basis but because he believes I
can do the job," Wills said.
"But many times I wondered why I
didn't get an offer to manage in the
major leagues. I did a lot of soul-
searching. I didn't come up with
anything feasible."
WILLS BEGAN his major league
respect
playing career for the Los Angeles
Dodgers in 1959. In 1962, he stole 104
bases to break the long-standing record
of 96 established by Ty Cobb. Lou Brock
stole 118 bases in 1974 to break Wills'
mark.
Wills played with the Dodgers until
1966, when he was traded to the Pit-
tsburgh Pirates. He went to the Mon-
treal Expos after the 1968 season and
was traded back to Los Angeles during
the 1969 campaign.
WIlls, who had a lifetime batting
average of .281 and stole 586 bases in his
career, managed four seasons of winter
baseball in Mexico and his clubs made
the playoffs all four years.
Bump Wills, Maury's son and the
Texas Rangers' second baseman, said:
"I'm probably happier than he is
because I know that it's the one thing in
his life that he hasn't done and always
wanted to do... I can hardly wait to
play them."
MAURY WILLS, newly appointed Seattle Mariner manager, relates some of
his vast knowledge to a pair of players during the team's Monday night
. game with California at Anaheim Stadium. Wills had long sought a chance to
manage in the major leagues.
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SPOR TS OF THE DAILY:
Csonka waived;
boxer saved
MIAMI (AP) - The Miami Dolphins asked waivers yesterday on Larry
Csonka after their star fullback had sought his freedom to negotiate with other
National Football League teams in the wake of a much-publicized "final offer"
made by owner Joseph Robbie.
Coach Don Shula said Csonka, who had not reported to training camp because
of a contract dispute, was' upset by press reports quoting Robbie as saying he had
made Csonka a final offer of $230,000 - and that any other NFL team could sign
him for the same price without providing compensation for Miami.
"The Larry Csonka situation has been brought to a head by the stories in the
papers the last two days," Shula said.
"Csonka came to see me earlier this morning. He was upset. He asked to be
put in a position where he could contact clubs free of contractual obligations to the
Dolphins.
"The only way this can be done is place him on waivers. If he is claimed and
does not want to report to that club as a veteran player, he can opt for free agency
and then be free to contact any club," Shula explained. "Or if he is not claimed by
any club, then he becomes a free agent and can contact other clubs."
NFL teams have 24hours to claim Csonka on waivers. -
Another Hearns?
KALAMAZOO (AP)-The fame of the Kronk gym, the Detroit sweat-
box that has produced two boxing champions in the past few months, has spread
far and wide - even to the courtrooms.
In a unique sentencing Monday, Kalamazoo County Circuit Judge C.H. Mullen
placed a Kalamazoo boxer on three years probation, on the condition that the man
sign a professional contract with Kronk trainer Emmanuel Steward within 96
days.
Shawn Thomas, a 22-year-old amateur boxer who won four state Golden Glove
titles as a 112-pounder, faced sentencing on charges of larceny and use of a stolen
credit card.
Jail, the judge said later, was certain. But during an impassioned plea for
probation, Thomas said he was on the threshold of a professional boxing career.
Thomas claimed he would soon sign a professional contract with Steward,
whose stable of boxers includes newly crowned World Boxing Association welter-
weight champion Thomas Hearns and WBA lightweight champ Hilmer Kenty.
Thomas told the judge he wanted to be "an inspiration" to the youth of
Kalamazoo. He said sparring with Steward's fighters in Detroit last week made
him realize that "being around champions, you feel likea champion."
"I just don't want to be another statistic," Thomas told the judge. "I need to be
around champions so I can do something with myself.
Thomas pleaded guilty to acting as a lookout while two accomplices took a
purse from a woman at a Kalamazoo apartment complex last September. Thomas
later used the woman's credit card several times, according to the judge.
Compensation difficulty
NEW YORK (AP) - Acting on request of the clubs involved, National Basket-
ball Association Commissioner Larry O'Brien assumed jurisdiction yesterday in
the compensation cases involving former free agents Leon Douglas and Tom
Burleson.
Douglas, a forward-center who had played with Detroit, signed with Kansas
City on June 12. Burleson, a center who had been with Kansas City, signed with
Atlanta on July 8. I- A