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58 THE TENNESSEAN, Thursdoy, Morch 27, 1980 Assignments Pfayers Urging Strike OVC 0 Vtt VwwKwwffiBy MIKE MORROW sww UNDER THE PROPOSAL, the free agent's new team would be allowed to protect 15 players on its roster, and players argue that few teams would be willing to sacrifice their 16th best player in order to sign a free agent. Also in question is the amount of time a player must serve before he can opt for free agency. The owners had wanted to keep it at the current six years, but players prefer a four-year minimum. A compromise of five years remains under plagued him the past four years, says this is a make-or-break season for him with the Kansas City Royals. Burke and I talked when I signed by contract, and we agreed that this season would be it if I couldn't pitch," said Busby of a conversation with the Royals' executive vice president and general manager.

Busby, who underwent orthroscopic surgery on his left knee earlier this month, is easing back into a rehabilitation program that he hopes will bring him closer to his oldform. Before being sidelined Friends Salute Tucker In Cooke vi lie Saturday with shoulder and knee surgery in 1976, Busby was the Royals' ace. He won 16 games in 1973, 22 SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) Players Association director Marvin Miller reported yesterday that no real progress was made as representatives of baseball players and owners met in a negotiating session on a new basic agreement. The session, which lasted just under two hours, was the first since March 18.

"We just had kind of a general discussion and agreed to meet again tomorrow," Miller said. Negotiators for club owners had no comment on the session. PLAYERS WHO MET with Miller shortly before the session opened indicated that a strike is likely. "It's been pretty much decided we'll have to take some sort of strike action. The question is when," said Gary Lavelle, the player representative of the San Francisco Giants.

The Giants and the Cleveland Indians met jointly with Miller yesterday and then voted unanimously to authorize a strike on or after April 1. A meeting of player representatives is scheduled for April 1 in Dallas to decide on a course of action if no agreement is reached by then. Other major items yet to be resolved: Whether a player with four years of service in 1974 and 18 in 1975. He was troubled by back or less should be restricted to a one-year con- problems 1979. tract.

Whether an arbitrator should give extra weight to a player's time and service, rather than to performance, when ruling on a salary Whether players should receive a percentage of baseball's television revenues, estimated at about $180 million this year, according to Garland. THE TWO SIDES have met about 30 times in YUMA, Ariz. It still bothers Dave Winfield that he didn't win the National League Most Valuable Player award last year. "This is no criticism of Willie Stargell and Keith Hernandez," says the San Diego Padres superstar, "but I feel I had a better year than both in 1979. My problem was playing for an also-ran team.

"But that's all right. Maybe I'll win it this year but if our team doesn't improve, I probably won't have a chance." Last year, the articulate, 6-6 outfielder batted .308, hit 34 homers and drove in 118 runs. In addition, he scored 97 runs, hit 27 doubles and 10 triples. His RBI total was the higest in the N.t. THE CHIEF NEGOTIATIOR for club Owners, trying to reach a four-year agreement to replace Ray Grebey, refused comment on the growing the one they made in 1976.

That pact expired at the support tor a siriKe among piayers dui saia ne end of last year saw no reason why the season couldn't begin even FORT MYERS, Fla. Pitcher Steve Busby, still on the comeback trail from injuries that have There will be a very special evening in Cookeville Saturday. Wilburn Tucker will be hon- The name of Wilburn Tucker alone is enough to stir the memo- of Tennessee Tech football followers from the 1950s and '60s. The head coach led the Golden Eagles to five Ohio Valley Confer-7 ence football championships, in- eluding four In a row from Tucker is currently battling an unfair opponent called cancer. His friends and admirers want to make "iSsure Tucker knows they're on his Over 400 people are expected for the appreciation dinner Saturday night at the Tech University Center.

It has blossomed from an idea of a group of ex-lettermen. While Tucker was dismissed from his job in 1967 when the losses began to gain ground on the vie tones, respect for his ability never diminished. A split camp surrounded the program then, but even those memories may be smoothed by Saturday's tribute. "We just want to do something to display our appreciation for his leadership," said Jim Ragland, a 5 former Tech standout who is help-, ing to coordinate the dinner efforts. "Actually, the dinner may be twofold.

We want to show him the great respect we have for him, and maybe this will be a chance to help heal some old wounds that came from that earlier time." Tucker, now a businessman in Cookeville running his own sporting goods store, served 14 years as head football coach at Tennessee Tech. Among his greatest coaching achievements was a 22-game con- ference winning streak in 1958-62. Reservations are requested by 4 p.m. today. Those interested should call Coach Bill Branch, at 526-3314.

Tickets cost AROUND THE OVC: Murray State can hang a "No Vacancy sign on its head football coach's office. Mike Gottfried, who an-: nounced his resignation last week, Vanderbilt Netters i Smack Memphis State MEMPHIS Vanderbllt's tennis team beat Memphis State 5-4 here yesterday, running its record to 7-4. 'a The Commodores open SEC play today at Ole Miss. has changed his mind about leaving for an assistant's post at Arizona. He's staying with the Racers.

Murray supporters had staged a "Please Don't Go" campaign to keep the personable young coach. A petition of about 6,000 names was presented to Gottfried at a rally Tuesday night. "The overwhelming support of the people of Murray and western Kentucky is something I can't ignore," said the coach. Middle Tennessee State coach Boots Donnelly is singing a familiar tune as football swings into spring for area OVC teams. "We're looking for aggressiveness and a lot of help on defense," he said.

"I can't think of one defensive position where we don't need help. The Blue Raiders lost seven recruits on national letter to other schools, but that's not altogether bad news. Schools like Auburn and Georgia have been the recipients. "We've been going after some pretty good people," Donnelly said. Tennessee Tech is switching to a five-man front from a four-man on defense this spring, and Austin Peay is reversing that move, switching from a 5-2 to a 4-3 Several recruits from junior colleges will be on hand for the spring drills at Tech, which begin Saturday.

New Tennessee Tech head basketball coach Tom Deaton, a former Tennessee assistant, noted future eye-catching opponents like Vandy, Ole Miss, and South Ala-bama on the Golden Eagles' schedule and said, "It looks like Don DeVoe has been making the schedule MTSU basketball recruit Buck Hailey, in keeping with Coach Stan "Ramrod" Simpson's nickname campaign, has been dubbed "Hailey's Comet." The Raiders already have Wardell "Poundcakes" Perry (a bookend to guard Ed "Pancakes" name for new signee Rick Campbell from Hiwassee. Some Souper possibilities exist, however. Best calculations here say Western Kentucky topped the NCAA basketball tournament in blowing a lead. The Hilltoppers squandered' an 18-point advantage playing at home eventually losing to Virginia Tech 89-85 in overtime in the first round. It was a strange habit for Western all season.

Tennessee Tech heads a group of four OVC teams in the NCAA rifle championships next weekend at East Tennessee. Wonder where those guys go to turn pro? Q8 ppir LIFETIME ALIGNMENT AGREEMENT JUL, WimnMQODayi without a new agreement. "I don't care what you've read on what Grebey has said," said Nashville native Wayne Garland, the Indians' player representative. "We're so far apart that everything is questionable." The major issue keeping the owners and players apart is the question of free agent compensation, Lavelle said. The owners want a team that loses a highly sought free agent to be able to select a player from the free agent's new team as compensation.

Speedway, ABC Sign Agreement For Six Indy 500 Telecasts NEW YORK (AP) ABC Sports and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway have reached an agreement on a six-year contract, starting in 1980, for television rights to the Indianapolis 500 auto race. Yesterday's announcement was made jointly by Roone Arledge, president of ABC News and Sports, and John Cooper, president of the Speed- WAY The contract, which runs through 1985, calls for a three-hour telecast of the Indy 500 in 1980 in prime time on the day of the race, Sunday, May 25. From 1971-79, ABC; edited the race down to two hours for same-day prime time coverage. From 1963-70, the race was aired the following weekend on "ABC's Wide World of Sports. Of ficials of ABC and the Speedway have agreed to explore the possibility of live coverage of the Indy 500 during the 1981-85 period.

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