Sports Page 12 Thursday, July 16, 1981 The Michigan Daily Kids hone skills at sports camps 4 4 By SANDRA SMITH Daily Staff Writer Baseball hats flung on backwards, hundreds of youngsters descend on South Quad struggling with overstuffed duffel bags and shrugging off parents' hugs on a sweltering Sunday afternoon. This is not a batch of young-looking Freshmen Orientation attenders, nor a gang of young intellectual geniuses en- tering college during puberty. This primarily teen-aged group has instead arrived for a week of special sports training at the University. CLAIMING TO OFFER "the finest in coaching and facilities," the Univer- sity's summer sports camps, scheduled from June 14 through August 14, include a variety of separate sports for men and women, as well as four co- educational sports, according to Sandy Boyd, of Michigan's Summer Sports Schooll. "We offer men's wrestling, basket- ball, and baseball, women's softball, field hockey, gymnastics, volleyball, basketball, and cheerleading, and co-ed speed swimming, cross country, track and field, and soccer," Boyd said "all in sessions from Sunday to Friday." "The regular Michigan coaches par- ticipate for baseball and basketball," Boyd said "along with their assistants, guest coaches, and college students. It's pretty much the same with all of the sports." BOYD ADDS that volleyball, soccer and cheerleading camps bring in their own staffs and coaches. Depending upon the rigorousness of the sport, "each coach has his own schedule of instruction," Boyd ex- plained. "For example, speed swim- ming usually doesn't practice as often as basketball." Although the youngest participants are merely eight years old, the athletes generally average from 12 to 18 years, according to Boyd. "The age restric- tions vary depending again on the par- ticular sport," says Boyd. MARY ANTIEAU, Building Director at South Quad, where the youngsters are housed, estimates receiving ap- proximately 900 new athletes per week. "We'll have about 7,000 over the course of the summer," she says. Although most of the children par- ticipating are from Michigan, Boyd revealed that many travel from upper Indiana and Ohio to attend the various camps. "We even have a few kids from out West," she added. According to Boyd, advertising for the sports school appeared- in major newspapers in the Ann Arbor area several high school newspapers, and about 25,000 brochures were distributed. "Brochures were also passed out at the basketball games," Boyd adds, "plus we held seminars in Philadelphia and in the West." ALTHOUGH SUCH camps existed in the past, this is only the second year in which the students are all housed in one facility, according to Antieau. "Both the Athletic Office and the Housing Of- fice feel really good about the progress of the program," she says. Two Residential Directors are on staff in South Quad to coordinate registering the youngsters, and to program activities, explains Antieau. "We provide evening entertainment such as movies or swimming at the I.M. Building." "There are rules, however, just like any camp," continues Antieau, "such as turning in their car keys when they check in, no smoking, no alcohol, and a building curfew of 10 o'clock." BOYD SAID that the average price of the one-week stay at the camp is $130 to $135, including room and board, although some sports offer day camps at a lower rate. Revenue from the camps is divided within the Athletic Department, accor- ding to Boyd. "The Housing Department also receives funds," said Antieau. "The program -allows us to keep our housekeeping and food staffs on year around." 4 0 0 Daily Photo by PAUL ENGSTROM PARTICIPANTS IN THE baseball camp hosted by the University play touch football in Michigan Stadium while their coaches take a break. Michigan is holding sports camps throughout the summer for youngsters from 12 to 18. OWNER SAYS BASEBALL NOT EXEMPT: Turner testi ies before Congress WASHINGTON (AP)-Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner, often at odds with his major league baseball partners, told Congress yesterday there is no reason for the sport to be exempt from the nation's antitrust laws, a view not held by other baseball owners. "I know of no reason for different treatment of baseball from other league sports," Turner told the House subcommittee on monopolies and commercial law, a branch of the Judiciary Committee. BASEBALL'S exemption from the antitrust laws stems from a 1922 Supreme Court decision ruling that the sport was not interstate commerce and was therefore not subject to antitrust laws. Turner, who also owns Atlanta's Channel 17 "Super Station" as well as the Atlanta Hawks basketball team, told the subcommittee that "Congress should make it clear that the baseball exemption, if retained at all, does not extend to non-sports activities such as telecasting games." "In other words, the telecasting of baseball games should be subject to the same rules as the telecasting of the games of other professional league sports," he said' THE SUBCOMMITTEE, in its second of three days of hearings, is compiling a record of current ap- plications of federal antitrust laws to professional sports, such as the purchase and sale of franchises, territorial restrictions, movement of franchises, player entry and mobility and broadcasting. The panel also is studying specific legislation aimed at limiting the movement of franchises, the distribution of television broadcast revenues among the teams of a league, and eliminating a team's ex- clusive territoriality in major cities. Turner said he would like to see more revenue sharing of television receipts in baseball and basket- ball as is done in the National Football League. "I THINK THAT is what makes the NFL so viable," he said. "Each of the teams has about the same amount of money to bid for players. The leagues could do it now but the wealthy teams don't want to share." As an example, he said the New York Yankees received $5 million for their local broadcast rights last year while Kansas City, which defeated the Bronx Bombers in the 1980 World Series-"And that will be the last time that happens"-got less than $1 million for its local radio and TV rights. "I think there is a tremendous imbalance," he said. "Pro sports except for football is in an endangered position especially in the smaller cities. "And when pay-TV revenues start coming, New York and the Los Angeles Dodgers will become stronger," he said. "Teams like Minnesota, Cincin- nati and probably Atlanta will not be able to com- pete." Turner also told the committee that pay cable or subscription television will dominate sports broad- casting, possibly within five years.