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yi I FT, TSV Football 53 Ma jor League Baseball 54 Outdoors Column 55 Vandy Football 56 Page 51 THURSDAY August 19, 1982 A vs X. Jl ft- By LARRY WOODY Schmitz, who had reached base on a single. In the sixth, a Tim Knight single scored Erik Peterson, who had also reached on a single. Peterson closed out the scoring with a leadoff homer in the eighth. The blast cleared the left-field wall, going over the Kroger sign and winning Peterson an extra $100.

"I KNEW it was well hit, but I didn't know it was gone at first," said Peterson, who now has 13 home runs for the season. "He (Columbus pitcher Ben Snyder) threw me a slider and I just got a For the second time this sea-Son, the Nashville Sounds had more fans than they knew what to do with. A new Greer Stadium and. Southern League record crowd of 22,315 spilled out of the stands and into roped-off areas in the outfield last night to root the team on to a 3-0 win over Columbus. THE RECORD turnout erased the former stadium and league mark of 21,141 thatshowed up 27 for a game with Charlotte.

A good portion of last night's crowd was in on freebies, thanks to go with the four hits he gave up. "It's hard to imagine a pitcher doing a much better job in a small ball park like this," said Oates. "It was supurb." Oates said the Sounds are at a critical time of the year. "Every game from here on out is a big one," he said. "We don't play Birmingham again, so we just have to go out and win more games than they do.

We are actually in a position that we can lose one more game than Birmingham does now, barring any rained out games, and still win the second-half championship. "But the real key," Oates added, "is simply to keep winning." ASL All-Star Team Trips Rochester 3-2 ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) Brian Tinnion of the Detroit Express scored two goals to lead the American Soccer League All-Stars to a 3-2 victory over the Rochester Flash in an exhibition game last night. Dave Tobin of the Carolina Lightning scored the other goal for the stars. Dennis Mepham 4 good piece of it." Peterson said the mammoth crowd had an effect on the play of the team.

to a Kroger promotion ticket giveaway'. Las nighjt's game opened a six-garrte home stand-f or the Sounds, and.fyia wi coupled with Birmingham's' loss to Knoxville last night left (Nashville solidly in first place, in the heated Western Division race. Ray Fonteriot went the distance for the Sounds in fashioning a 4-hit shutout. Fontenot gave up three singles and a ground rule double. THE SOUNDS broke a scoreless tie in the fifth inning when Otis Nixon singled home Dan "Gosh yes," he said.

"You look around and see a big crowd like that and the adrenalin starts flowing you just can't beat this place." Sounds manager Johnny Oates had high praise for his club's performance in general and in Fon-tenot's pitching job in particular. "This is one of our better games all year," said Oates, "and I know it's one of the best pitching jobs of the season. It was just an amazing job." FONTENOT, A southpaw who improved his record to 4-5t had 18 groundouts and six strikeouts AP Laserphotos Out, I Mean, Safe ana iu-nie Buriano, both members of the Buffalo Stallions MISL team, scored for the Flash. CHICAGO Home plate umpire Eric Gregg first I then changes his mind prompting a 21st inning calls Los Angeles Dodger Steve Sax out as Chica- I argument. Sax' run was the game-winner.

Story on go Cub cutcher Jody Davis makes the tag, top, I Page 54. Plans Renegade League Turner Readies For NFL Strike trp 'xri AYEM WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep resentatives of cable mogul Ted Turner's video empire said yes many as 80 percent of America's television viewers if the games are sold to television stations in the nation's major markets, WITH IAUM dl 13 13 terday Turner's Atlanta Supers-tation would nationally televise SPORTS EDITOR games played by a renegade eague of NFL players should the players strike. In a prepared statement re- The Accusations Begin pHE TOCSIN OF accusation has been sounded. From Springfield's Tom Petty comes the first alarm charging eased by his aides at a news conference at the elegant Madison Hotel, the outspoken Turner as "pathetic" the grumbling from "Vanderbilt people" that the introduction of professional football in Nashville could have an said the renegade league would field six, 45-player squads that would move around the country playing games in as many as 18 cities on Sunday and Monday adverse effect on the Commodore program. Certainly, points of view such as expressed by Petty are not Three of the renegade league's teams would be made up of players from the AFC and three from the NFC.

Players would be chosen by ballot by the player's group. Asked to comment on the plans, NFL spokesman Jim Hef-fernan said, "The players by their contracts are prohibited from playing with anybody else." But Garvey said, "We welcome a legal challenge." Garvey said the idea of a group of highly-paid athletes striking would not drive away the American public from the football stadium or televison screen, and would not threaten the planned league. "PEOPLE WANT to see a professional football game," he said. In his statement, Turner said he hoped a strike could be avoided by the players and team owners who are trying to reach a new contract agreement. "The last thing we want is for 'the regular NFL season to be jeopardized by the failure of the NFL owners and players to reach agreement in the current dispute," said Turner, who owns the Cable News Network, the Atlanta Braves' baseball team and the Atlanta Hawks' basketball team.

"Our only interest is to ensure that the American people have an opportunity to see NFL-cali-bre football, whether or not this year's regular schedule is played." ROBERT WUSSLER, a Turner Broadcasting System vice president and a former CBS president, said Turner could air the games with as little notice as three days, but added "we probably won't do anything prior to Sept. 19." The players are without a contract and Garvey said NFL owners do not want to go to the bargaining table, "At this point we want more money, the right to choose our own doctors, a change of rules and a number of other things," Garvey said. Turner's Atlanta Superstation WTBS reaches 22 million homes by cable and could reach as unanticipated. nights. A championship game would be played Dec.

19 at Hono- FROM THE OUTSET, when it was disclosed that Nashville interests are challenging Memphis in pursuit of a National Football ulu Aloha Bowl. The Turner aides would not League expansion franchise, I've had the feeling that if the effort say what facilities would be used, nor specify the cities, although they said they had received commitments from promoters in 16 cities. The aides said all players would earn per game. ED GARVEY, executive direc tor of the NFL Players Associa tion, said the organization entered the agreement with Turner to "provide insurance" for the players so they can "make a living in the threat of an NFL shutdown or possible lockout or even a strike." WASHINGTON (UPI) The NFL Players Association refuses to sanction weekend strikes by players fined for shaking hands with opponents in a show of union solidarity, the union's chief said yesterday. Amid reports the union sanctioned the labor actions for selected exhibition games, NFLPA executive director Ed Garvey said: "We certainly hope that-there will be no work stoppage over handshakes.

We have asked them not to strike." The overwhelming majority of players in 12 of the 13 exhibition games last weekend shook hands just before kickoff to demonstrate solidarity over their union's demands for a percentage of the NFL's gross revenue. In New York, the NFL Management Counsel yesterday recommended that the league's clubs rescind all fines levied against players who participated in handshakes before the 13 exhibition games. TSU, Tech Slate Football Series COOKEVILLE, Tenn. Tennessee State and Tennessee Tech university football teams will meet for the first ever time in 1984, the first year of a four-year, home-and-home series announced yesterday by Tech athletic director David Coffey. Tech will host TSU for the Golden Eagles' homecoming on Oct.

13, 1984 and again in 1986. Tech will visit Nashville for games in 1985 and 1987. "It makes sense that Tennessee Tech and Tennessee State begin a football rivalry," Coffey said in making the announcement at his school's football media day. Coffey and TSU athletic director Sam Whitmon have already signed contracts for two years, with an oral agreement to continue the series in 1986 and 1987. "We're in the money cruch like most schools, and we're trying to arrange as many games against fizzles, a broad segment of the local sporting populace will brand Vanderbilt the scapegoat.

Petty, vice president of NASCO, a Springfield firm licensed to manufacture and sell certain merchandise bearing the NFL logo, just happens to be the first person to put such a notion in writing. Undoubtedly, as more and more horror stories surface suggesting the detrimental effects pro football is believed to have had on other college programs in various locations around the country, more and more people with intense Vanderbilt interests, are going to have second thoughts about an NFL team in town. The catch of course is that Vandy has the only facility in the area that comes close to being capable of accomodating a pro team. Accordingly, it follows that if Vandy deems it unwise to rent Dudley Field to an NFL club, those many people in the community who thrill at the idea of a pro club here and could care less about the status of Commodore football are sure to finger the university as uncooperative and blame the school for costing Nashville a shot however unlikely it seems at this point at a pro franchise. VANDERBILT ATHLETIC director Roy Kramer has tempered some of this thinking.

In his first comment on the possibility of Dudley Field's availability to a pro football tenant, Kramer said his immediate reaction was one of "strong reservations" but that he has an open mind on the matter and "will talk with them on a long range plan." In his letter dated Aug. 16, three days after Vandy football coach George Maclntyre expressed serious concern about the effort to bring an NFL team to Nashville, Petty, a proud supporter of University of Tennessee affairs, writes: "I think it is pathetic to hear the grumbling from the Vanderbilt people concerning professional football possibly coming to Nashville, and its effect on Vandy's program. It should be pointed out that there is a much larger area involved than just Nashville. A pro team would draw from Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky and also Northern Alabama. I can assure you that once you leave the Nashville area, the Vandy support is almost nil, and even in the Nashville area the University of Tennessee has by far more fans than Vandy.

"In my opinion, the effect a pro team would have on Vander-bilt's program should not be considered, because the majority of people in this area that would determine the success or failure of professional football in Nashville are not, and never will be, Vanderbilt supporters and thus no damage to Vandy. "HOWEVER, I WOULD say this to the Vandy people, if your program is so weak that you constantly feel threatened, then maybe you should re-examine that program." The interesting part of all this isn't isolated in Nashville, Springfield, Memphis or NFL headquarters in New York. For, with every verbal stone cast in our Volunteer state, a dozen or more chunks of concrete and ribbons of steel are being placed daily in position in the construction of a $77 million domed-stadi mi i mm i mm' in. i "in 1 unuin A-y hrf '--v. 'U' f' I K.

K'' '1 i Clement Urges Memphis Sway By LARRY WOODY Congressional candidate Bob Clement arrived here from Washington last night, hoping to persuade a Nashville group to abandon its plans to compete with. Memphis for an NFL franchise. "I intend to discuss the matter with Joe tomorrow (today) and encourage him to give up the effort," said Clement last night, referring to Nashville businessman Joe M. Rodgers, who is spearheading the local franchise push. "I HOPE to convince Joe and his group that it is in the best interests of the state to give up their effort and throw their support behind Memphis," said Clement.

Clement explained that Memphis has been working years to secure an NFL franchise, "and in my opinion, it's too late for Nashville. "My concern is that the state of Tennessee gains a franchise," Clement continued. "I think a unified front is our best chance. I will encourage Middle, East and West Tennessee to all get behind the franchise effort." Clement said any tug-of-war um in Indianapolis. In case you haven't heard, Indy also is in the market for an expansion franchise.

To be sure, there's been no public commitment that Indianapolis will get one of the new teams. But, when asked if Indianapolis is taking a $77 million gamble that it will land a team, informed sources there grin and our neighbor colleges as we can, while continuing our long-standing series with some of our oldest rivals," said TSU athletic director Sam Whitmon. TSU has earlier reached agreement with Western Kentucky University, and Whitmon said negotations are underway to resume the Tigers' series with Middle Tennessee State. Staff photo by J. T.

Phillips Eye-Opener Vanderbilt senior linebacker Joe Staley was asked to react to the big plates dished out at the first dinner for the returning Commodore football team members at Vandy's Branscomb Quadrangle. He responded with the same enthusiasm that charaterizes his play as a Commodore linebacker. (See Vandy football story on page 56) respond: "You don't really believe this city is building a $77 million sta dium on a lark, do you? Nobody around here is willing to go on (Turn to Page 55, Column 1) (Turn to Page 56, Column 1) I i 5 Mm.