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Tennessee State 3rd 22 Lopez, ItnlahtWed v. '24 (." 1 WEDNESDAY October 27, 1982 nnn 1 iJon For tHSccwoni. 25 ruge I jvet Gome at Tech. 26 wed irs Ihre f'W. Ifjy WASHINGTON (UPI) Ed Garvey, executive ,1 director of the NFL Players Association, warned the players yesterday that NFL owners are threat- nin? to panrel the nro fnnthall spa son if the nlav- mmmmmmm.mmmmmmi.

isMmmMm llltlBlilllBI i i cjcn a much iaihu av.t yi uupai. I "The owners are contacting the player repre-sentatives and saying they will make a 'take it or "Meave it' offer on Friday," Garvey said. "They are I trying to convince the players and the public that -J. vif the players do not accept, thev will cancel the "We might have to play less. But at that point it becomes -important as to" who you're playing.

You've got to have a reasonable number of divisional games. If you go below that, it could be pretty chaotic. The fans will say you haven't got true divisional champions," said Rozelle. GARVEY SAID the offer favored by the owners was developed by Al Davis, owner of the Los Angeles Raiders. "The Davis plan 1 would mean an across-the-board increase for players but the players would have to negotiate their contracts individually," he said.

Prior to the news conference, union president Gene Upshaw met with a lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board. Garvey said the NLRB could order, an injunction forcing the NFL Management Council to discuss the wage scale issue, the major stumbling block in the strike. season in 24 hours." i i Garvey said the owners would lose too much 'money and would expose themselves to legal ac-'tion if they canceled the season. 1,1 THE NFL yesterday called off this weekend's games because of the 36-day-old players' strike. It was the sixth week of games lost to the strike ''and leaves the league just one week to settle the t-Ti strike in order to play 12 regular season games, -which Commissioner Pete Rozelle has said would tr l.be neccesary "to have a credible season." However yesterday, Rozelle wavered on that Garvey and Washington Redskins player representative Mark Murphy said they think the NFL will play a 14-game schedule, that would extend into January and February.

r-' IIIKMIIWHWMIMIIU 1 DDWDKII GARVEY SAID games would be moved from some "cold-weather cities" to cities in warmer climates that would like an NFL franchise. Murphy said, "Testing the-market in new; expansion cities is a clear "There is a growing feeling, among our people that the NFL is trying to back into the USFL season." Garvey The fledgling United States Football League plans to play a series of games in late spring and early summer. UPI Telephoto I loooooooooooooooo. fj by F. M.

Williams Blaming Those Guys The Grab Bag WASHINGTON Ed Garvey, the executive direc-1 ciation, says the league owners are trying to bluff tor of the National Football League Players' Asso- I the players with a take-it or leave-it proposition. ABOUT 20 minutes before kickoff at the Vanderbilt-Ole Miss football game at Dudley Field Saturday, Bill and Patricia Ritter were walking to their seats in Section Lin the South end zone Out of nowhere, something slammed into Patricia's Gets 4th Cy Young Award face, knocking her out of her shoe, smashing her glasses, and uuiicung several iaciai cuis; "We didn't know what had hit her," said Bill yesterday. "We thought it might have been some kid running up and. down the aisle" But it wasn't, some of the. people who rushed to help out, told them It was a football that had been kicked during warm-ups by the place-kickers "We rushed her to the emergency room and after we found out her eye had not been permanently damaged, she kept me running back and forth to the waiting room, where they had a television set, to, reporton the progress of the game," Bill said.

"Then she got to worrying about how much the injury would hurt her putting. told her she never could putt anyway, so that was no problem" She i ft It: plays in the 9-hoIe group at Richland. ONE OF THE things Bill wanted to point out was how nice Vanderbilt officials had been during the entire affair, and the way that football fans, just before the kickoff of a major rushed to the aid of someone they didn't even know "In times of stress, the public becomes awfully considerate," Bill says Incidentally, i usher Mel Brooks fell and sprained his wrist and suffered cuts around the nose before the game would say that Patricia took a harder lick than any player in the game," Bill says, "and that the only It fr NEW YORK (AP) Steve Carlton recovered from the worst start of his career this season to win an unprecedented fourth Na-' tional League Cy Young Award yesterday. Carlton, of the Philadelphia was the only pitcher in the 1 major leagues to win 20 games this year, finishing the season with a 23-1 1 record and an earned run average of 3.10. At age 37, Carlton got off to an old man's start, losing his first four games.

But he won four of his next five games, and, once again, he was on the form that has made him the all-time National League and left-handed strikeout king. CARLTON'S LEAGUE-leading 286 strikeouts this season gave him 3,434 for his career, only 74 shy of Walter Johnson's all-time record of 3,508. Carlton should have little trouble breaking that mark next season, his 17th in the major leagues and 12th with the Phillies. Carlton received 112 points in balloting by a special 24-member panel chosen by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Runner-up was Montreal Expos right-hander Steve Rogers, who received 29 points; followed by Fernando ValenzUela of Los Angeles, 25; Bruce Sutter of St.

Louis, 25; Phil Niekro of Atlanta, 18; Greg Minton of San Francisco, Joaquin Andujar of St. Louis and Gene Garber of Atlanta, 1 each, and Mario Soto of Cincinnati, one-half point Carlton received 20 first-place votes and was named runner-up on the other four ballots. He was the only pitcher named on all ballots. Sutter received two of the remaining first-place votes, and Rogers and Valenzuela received one each. Each member of the panel, consisting of two writers in each NL city, voted for three pitchers, with five points going for first place, three for second and one for third.

One third-place vote was split between Valenzuela and Soto. ONLY THREE other pitchers Jim Palmer (1973-75-76), Tom Seaver (1969-73-75) and Sandy Koufax (1963-65-66) have won the award three times. Carlton won his other Cy Young awards in 1972, 1977 and 1980. Valenzuela won the award in 1981. Carlton has struck out 200 or more batters seven times, leading the league in strikeouts four times.

He struck out a career high 310 batters to lead the league in 1972, his first with the Phillies after spending five seasons with St. Louis. Carlton shared another honor this year, with Dazzy Vance of the Brooklyn Dodgers, for being the oldest man to lead the league in strikeouts. Vance led the NL in 1923 with 200 strikeouts. Carlton also led the league in complete games with 19, innings pitched with 295 and shutouts with six.

This was Carlton's sixth seasonw ith 20 or more victories. He was eighth in ERA. tiipiiiiii 11. 5 rtaTTH BHicurry pened before the kickoff" Patricia will leave the hospital today or tomorrow. 1 Churchill Downs opens Monday for its fall meeting, with eight stakes races scheduled and total purses of over $2 million The Downs is adding the Iroquois on Nov.

6 for two year olds," and will feature the 56th running the Jockey Club Stakes Nov. 20 Only one horse, Canonnade, has won the Jockey Club and then won the Kentucky Derby This year's choice for the best 2-year-old in the country is Copelan, owned by Fred W. Hooper Copelan is the winter book favorite for the 1983 Kentucky Derby. THE LEBANON Big Orange Club is expecting one of the largest meetings of the year tomorrow night when John Ward, the Voice of the Vols, will speak The meeting begins at 7 o'clock and the menu calls for barbecue It will be at the high school Lebanon, incidentally, is ecstatic about its high school team which has clinched a spot in the playoffs and can win District with a victory in the final game. "The amazing thing is that we had won but two games in the last three years and hadn't won a district game in five," said Larry Thomasson, who: is the Big Orange Club president "Hester Gibbs is responsible.

He's got these kids believing they can win" Gibbs is the fourth coach in six years, having been (Turn to Page 26, Column 1) AP Laserphoto Cy Young Form Philadelphia Phillies star Steve Carlton, in action in September, has been named the National League Cy Young Award winner. 1 he Did, Sounds urn I leal With WLA i I I 1 i A I I i 1 "I know of one fan this year who lives in Lebanon and had to drive into Donelson to pick up a playoff game. This will help us reach fans in Middle Tennessee, northern Alabama and southern Kentucky. I was in Binghamton, N.Y., recently and I picked up WLAC clearly." DICK CASPER, president and general manager of WLAC radio said his station was pleased to hook up with the Sounds. "To the best of my knowledge, we will be the only clear channel station carrying minor league (Turn to 25, Column 2) By MTKE MORROW The.

Nashville 1 Sounds announced a new radio contract with WLAC yesterday which will assure the club of a broad-based, multi-state exposure they say is in minor league baseball. v. Sounds President Larry Schmittou announced the club has reached a two-year agreement with the Nashville station (1510-AM), a clear channel outfit, to carry all of the Sounds games. The move means Sounds games1 can be heard in every Southern League city, as well as far-reachihg points in the east ern part of the country. Schmittou claims the games can be heard in as many as 28 states.

THE SOUNDS and WLAC announced the agreement yesterday at the Hyatt Regency. "Now it will be much easier for our fans to pick up the games," said Schmittou, whose team's games were carried on WKDA in Nashville for four years. "I want to make it clear we were very appreciative of the agreement we've had with WKDA. But because of the tremendous growth of Sounds fans in outlying areas, we felt it necessary to obtain the strongest signal possible. -Staff photo by Dianhe Milam.

1 i Radio Talk Nashville Sounds President Larry Schmittou chats I Broadcaster of the Year Bob Jamison. The Sounds with Dick Casper, center, president and general I announced a new broadcast agreement with the manager of WLAS radio, and Southern League Pv4 -r.