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Friday, July 24, 1981
The Michigan Daily
SEES NO MORE BASEBALL IN '81
Miller downplays proposal
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WASHINGTON (AP) - The chief ne-
gotiator for the striking major league
baseball players said last night that
chances for the resumption of the
season this year were "very bad," but
added that he would pass along the
owners' latest proposal to his union's
executive board.
Marvin Miller, executive director of
the Major League Players Association,
made the comments after Ray Grebey,
management's chief negotiator,
described the two sides as being "as
close as they've ever been."
BOTH SPOKE after another day-long
session in the 42-day-old strike which'
has cancelled 499 major league games
since June 12, wiping out 24 percent of
the season.
Miller said he would take the latest
free-agent compensation proposal from
the owners to player representatives
from each team but would pass it along
without recommendation for approval.
The player representatives, who make
up the union's executive board, are to
meet Monday or Tuesday.
Grebey said the meetings have been
recessed to allow the players to study a
new proposal by the owners in the four-
th day of talks in the nation's capital.
"WE HAVE moved much closer,
narrowed our differences," he said.
"Unfortunately, the parties have been
unable to totally resolve the differen-
ces."
But Miller said: "I became convinced
tonight that they (the owners) do not
want a settlement, and it is inaccurate
to say that we will take their proposal to
a vote. I said the board would meet, and
I would report to them as accurately as
I can where we are, period.
"With respect to the proposal, we will
not recommend it. And, my belief is the
executive board will act accordingly."
MILLER PAINTED an entirely dif-
ferent picture than Grebey had momen-
ts before.
Grebey, emerging from the negotia-
tion sessions, told reporters that after
the players meet to discuss this week's
negotiations, "we hope ... this will
produce a settlement."
Grebey refused to discuss what
specific movement had taken place on
the two areas of discussion in the last 48
hours.
Miller said that despite the players'
so-called pool proposal for compen-
sation, "the owner's committee said
they had numerous problems with it."
"WE ADDRESSED them one by one,
and each time something new came up
until we became convinced tonight that
they do not want a settlement," he said.
One issue involves the number of
players to be protected from being.
claimed as compensation for free agen-
ts. Another is the question of whether
owners would consider using a pool of
player talent supplied by a number of
clubs to provide professional compen-
sation to teams losing free agents.
Federal mediator Kenneth E. Moffett
said he expected the next negotiating
session to take place sometime next
week, possibly Wednesday. He did not
indicate whether those talks would be
held here or in New York.
THE TALKS moved to Washington at
the request of Labor Secretary
Raymond Donovan, who wanted to
remove them from the media "fish-
bowl" of New York. Donovan put the
pressure of his office on both sides by
bringing them here in an attempt to
salvage the season, but it remains to be
seen whether that attempt was'succes-
ssful.
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U.S. trackers, tankers
faring well at Games
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BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -
Larry Cowling and Stephanie
Hightower added to the United States'
growing collection of World University
Games Gold Medals last night.
Cowling, of the University of Califor-
Moffeti
... close, but not quite
nia, won the men's 110-meter hurdles in
13.65 seconds. The 21-year-old from
Sacramento, Calif., just beat Pall Palf-
fy of Romania to the tape. Georgy
Shabanov of the Soviet Union took the
bronze medal.
HIGHTOWER, 23, from Ohio State,
won the women's 100-meter hurdles in
13.03, her best time this year, and the
fifth best in the world.
The two victories yesterday lifted the
U.S. track and field team's total to six
gold medals after three days of com-
petition at this, the biggest meet since
the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Larry Ellis, the chief coach of the
U.S. team, is not surprised by the suc-
cesses.
"I THINK this is almost certainly the
strongest team we have ever sent to the
University Games," said the Princeton
coach.
Four University Games records fell
in the swimming competition yesterday
as two Americans, a Soviet and a
Romanian won gold medals.
Jill Sterkel of Hacienda Heights,
Calif., and Kris Kirchner of Solon, Ohio,
won the men's and women's 100-meter
freestyle, respectively.
KIRCHNER, A 22-year-old Univer-
sity of Texas student, clocked 51.39
seconds, beating the record of 51.88 set
by Italian Marcello Guarducci in 1979.
Sterkel, also a student at the Univer-
sity' of Texas, broke her own Games
record with a time of 57.17 seconds. She
had set the previous mark of 57.69 in
qualifications Wednesday.
Her teammate, Barbara Major of
Stanford, took the silver medal with a
time of 58.28, followed by Olga
Klevakina of the Soviet Union in 58.65.
An exuberant American coach,
Frank Comfort, said "It's certainly
been a great evening" as he clapped his
swimmers on the back.
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Blowing off some steam AP Photo
Sometimes things get a little hot during the tension of training camp, especially among those players fighting for
a spot on a squad's roster. That was the case yesterday in Kent, Ohio, the training site of the Cleveland Browns, where
Elvis Franks, at left, and Joel Patton air their differences. Several Browns moved in and quickly broke up the skirmish.
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