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Tyrone Daily Herald, Monday, June 15,1981 Page Five Baseball Strike Continues: Both Sides Ready To Resume Talks SELECT GOLF 4-0 WOOP To ByMIKETULLY UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) Despite the loud silence of that Chuckran Named AD At Rhode Island PROVIDENCE, R.I. John R. Chuckran, Penn Stale Director of athletic, financial and management operations, has been named athletic director at the University of Rhode-Island, UR1 President Frank Newman announced Saturday. Churckran, 55, will take over the job on August l. He replaces Maurice Zarchen, who resigned in February amid charges he misused URI athletic equipment and scholarships.

Chuckran has been director of the athletics and financial management operations at Penn State for 12 years. Prior to that he chaired the physicial education department and was director of intercollegiate athletics at Allegheny College. He coached briefly prior to that at Tyrone area High School. A graduate of Penn State, he won All-America honorable mention as a halfback during his undergraduate years. In 1947 he was a member of the undefeated Nittany Lion team that played in the Cotton Bowl.

first weekend without major league baseball, negotiators refused to predict when they would resume playing catch with the issues. Don Fehr, an attorney for the Players Association, said his side would be ready this afternoon and was waiting for federal mediator Kenneth Moffett to contact management. Ray Grebey, chief negotiator for the owners, said his side was ready to bargain at any time. Moffett, who said last week the sides would meet Monday or Tuesday, was unavailable late Sunday to issue a time or date for a meeting. So there they were, as divided as ever, while the nation turned renewed attention to picnics, pro soccer and minor league baseball.

The White House said President Reagan plans no intervention in the strike as suggested by Baltimore Orioles' owner Edward Bennett Williams. "The president has no intention of getting involved in the dispute," White House spokesman Robert Gray said Sunday. "There were also suggestions that he get involved in the coal strike, but he didn't. The president hopes (the players' strike) can be settled without his action." Negotiators were wondering how it could be settled without the participation of Marvin Miller. The executive director of the Players Association absented himself from the most recent talks but Fehr denied Miller purposely was impeding the discussions.

"Not now nor has it ever been Marvin making the decisions," Fehr said. "It's always been the players. They're not scattered to the four winds like they were SPORTS CARD TODAY Slo-Pitch Softball (Tri-Co. League) Oldtimers vs. Bullpen, 7 p.m.

Bressler's vs 9 p.m. Little League Baseball (Tyrone) Kiwanis vs Elks, 6 p.m., Start of 2nd-Cycle schedule. (Bellwood) Benzel's vs IGA, 6 p.m. Minor League Baseball Mets vs Tigers, 6 p.m., Start of 2nd-cycle schedule. Greater City League S.O.I.

(Tyrone) at Spring Cove, 6p.m. Fiore Girls Softball Bunny Bread vs T-Bolts, Best Yet, 6:45 p.m. Today's Sporf Parade By MILTON R1CHMAN UPI Sports Editor DETROIT (UPI) The loneliness of the long distance runner sometimes doesn't even begin to approach the sheer frustration of the professional prize fighter and perhaps nobody offers a better example of that today than Larry Holmes. Listening to him after Friday night's third-round technical knockout of Leon Spinks in Joe Louis Arena, it was perfectly obvious he didn't feel winning was everything. From some of the resentment and bitterness he expressed, he sounded more like a man who was lost.

Maybe he had not gotten rid of all his hostility in the ring, considering it had taken him a total of only eight minutes and 34 seconds to finish off Spinks, and maybe it also had something to do with his belief that he still hasn't received the full measure of recognition he feels he deserves, but he made it clear something was bothering him. Unbeaten in 38 straight bouts, 28 of which resulted in knockouts, Holmes prefaced his post-fight remarks with the warning he might sound "bitter" and "arrogant" by what he was about to say and then after he said them, that was pretty much the way he sounded. He said he was bitter because Spinks was "a good man" who had taken more punishment than he deserved only because the referee, Richard Steele, hadn't stopped the fight soon enough. Later, Holmes said he felt "they" take advantage of Spinks, and when he was asked whom he specifically meant by "they," he included writers, promoters and some of those who have handled the one-time Olympic gold medal winner. The whole thing was a little hard to comprehend inasmuch as the 31-year-old Holmes had generally denigrated and ridiculed the 27-year-old Spinks before the fight, going so far as to voice personal antagonism toward him because of a piece of rudeness Leon allegedly was guilty of in regard to Holmes' wife.

That wasn't the only place Holmes contradicted himself. At one point, he declared, "1 don't fight for the money, I fight for my wife, Diane, and my daughters, Misty, Lisa and Kandy." Less than two minutes later, he said, "I'm not in the ring to kill people or hurt people, I'm here to earn money." Later, Holmes' comments took on. the aspects of a diatribe as he scolded those present for their general misimpression of him, telling them they really didn't understand why he fought, how good a fighter he actually was and how he needn't fight anymore if he didn't care to because he had all the money he'd ever need. At heart, Larry Holmes is one of the most likeable fellows you'll ever meet. He's genuine, generous and good- natured with no meanness in him, yet hearing him boast how he could beat "anyone in the world," how he'd punch out Gerry Cooney right then and there if the popular Irish No.

1 contender happened to come into the room and then use some language he nor- mally wouldn't, especially in front of his wife, Diane, who was also I couldn't help but think how ironic it was Holmes was saying all these things in a place like Joe Louis Arena, which was officially dedicated Friday night. A champion is supposed to be a gentleman and normally, Holmes is one. Joe Louis always was, and in his worst day, he never said some of the things Holmes did Friday night. Maybe I was trying to make excuses for the WBC champ because I like him, but I thought he had an off-night. Outside the ring, not in it.

You couldn't find too much wrong with the job he did on Spinks, who, to his credit, never quit trying before the referee stopped it. Apparently, what stung Holmes more than Spinks did was a remark reported to him made by Cooney, who was at the fight doing TV commentary and taking some pictures for a national magazine. Holmes was told Cooney had said he had "no class." Responding to that while facing the media, Holmes lapsed into some street language and then quickly apologized to his wife and the few other women present. When he finished with the press, Holmes remembered something else he wanted to do. He walked all the way around to Spinks' dressing room to talk with him and make sure he was all right.

By this time, all the bitterness and hostility in him were gone. He was the old Larry Holmes again, the one everyone likes, a champion and a gentleman. during the season. Part of the reason Marvin stepped out was because a significant number of player reps had been told the reason we didn't have a settlement was Marvin. "If the players on the negotiating committee want to consult with him, he's available.

He has no further plans to attend any of the negotiations." Fehr discounted a newspaper report that the strike would be settled in time to allow the All-Star Game scheduled for July 14 in Cleveland to be played. Under the existing agreement, if the game is not held due to player action, owners need not make a payment of about $2 million to the players' pension fund. "The players lose $4 million a week in salary," said Fehr. "The All-Star Game contribution is under $2 million. If that was crucial, we wouldn't have struck in the first place.

Whether the owners make a payment to the pension fund, that's not going to resolve anything." The 650 major-league players began their strike June 12 over the unresolved issue of compensation for free agents who sign with new teams. Forty games already have been canceled by the strike, the third in major league history but the first to begin after the start of the season. A source in the negotiations refused to predict how long the strike will last, but the 26 club owners appear to be in better shape than the players if the walkout lasts more than several days. Whereas the owners have $50 million in strike insurance, which begins June 24, and another $10 to $15 million in emergency strike funds, the players' union is paying no benefits to its members. Fehr said the players stand to lose considerable sums.

"We don't pay any benefits to the players," the attorney said. "We couldn't possibly do it. Even if we tried to fund it 25 percent, that would be $1 million a week. The players knew that the strike was coming, and they have taken that into consideration and have been husbanding their funds." While both sides agree on some level of compensation, the players feel compensation for a quality free agent should not come from a club's 25- man, regular-season roster. The players have proposed that a team signing a free agent place its 37th, 38th, 39th and 40th best players in a "pool." Then, the team losing the free agent could select a player from that compensation pool.

Sports Deals Sunday Baseball Detroit Signed righthanded pitchers Ricky Barlow, Mark Lockenmeyer, Bob McFadden and Mark Jacob, left-handed pitcher Charles Carey, first baseman Jon basemen William Earl and Bryon Horn, third baseman Chris Goodyear, catcher Dan Phillip and outfielders Nelson Simmons, Stanley Barker, Reginald Thomas, and Ken Haynes. byAlanMove West VdoUnder Investigation Confident Watson Eyes U.S. Open ByRICKGOSSELIN UPI Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) Tom Watson has something more valuable than adrenalin and more precious than a hot putter heading into the U.S. Open this week.

He has confidence. After a slow start in 1981, Watson has come on very quickly in the last two months to claim his customary sppt atop the PGA earnings list with $332,492. He has captured three tournaments this year, including his second Masters, Youth Football Meeting Monday, Jane 15 7:00 P.M. Front of High School. All paronti Interested eltlioni aro to attend thli mooting far tho survival of league.

and has finished third or better in six of his last eight starts. In his most recent outing, a week ago at the Atlanta Golf Classic, Watson captured his 28th career victory with a sudden death playoff over native Georgian Tommy Valentine. Watson bypassed the Westchester Classic this past week to hone particular facets of his game for his bid to win the only major championship that has eluded him in his climb to the top of his profession. And he feels comfortable, if not cocky, heading into the 81st U.S. Open this week at the Merion Golf Course in Ardmore, Pa.

"My major problem in the last few Opens, except for possibly last year, was that I wasn't playing well," said Watson. "And as a result, I didn't have much confidence in my game. If I don't think I can make a 15-foot putt, I can't. "But I'm competitive tough right now. I'm making my shots.

I missed a lot of greens last week (Atlanta) but I was missing close to the hole. I was staying out of trouble. I think I have the confidence that I've been lacking in recent years (heading into the Open)." The Kansas City native has won three British Opens, two Masters and one PGA championship in his 10 years on the tour. He has been named the PGA's Player of the Year every year since 1977, has won the Vardon Trophy three times for the lowest stroke average on the tour and ranks third on golf's all-time winnings list with $2,534,733. But his failure to win a U.S.

Open continues to hang over his head. "The major championships are what it's all about," said Watson. "They've been around for such a long time. They were the first tournaments. Every sport has them the Super Bowl, the World Series, the NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs golf there are four of them.

"The Open is the most rewarding after you've won it once. I've never won the Open and it's something 1 want very much. It's No. 1 with me. I put myself under more pressure (at the Open) than I usually do in a golf tournament.

I like that I like the idea of personal pressure. But I don't have a phobia about not winning. If I don't win, I'm sure I'll be back again next year." Watson said he has played Merion only once before, on a rainy day last September at the invitation of a friend, but failed to break par. "It's probably.the shortest Open course I've ever played," said Watson. "But the fairways are tight and the rough long.

Most players won't be using their drivers very much. It's too big a gamble of ending up in the rough. You can't advance it from there; you've just got to get it back onto the fairway. It's better to be in the fairway with a 2-iron than in the rough with a 9-iron. "Merion doesn't overpower you.

You need finesse. You've got to be patient. Par is a good score. The last four holes are extremely difficult birdie holes. You want to par those.

But there are a lot of birdie holes before that." SLAM, CHARLESTON, (UPI) The Commission on Special Investigations voted Sunday to conduct "a full- scale investigation" into the use of athletic funds at West Virginia University. Senate President Warren McGraw, D-Wyoming, said the probe was sought by Sen. Gino Colomboa, D-Harrison, and Delegate James Teets, R-Preston. Without elaborating on the investigation, McGraw said it was being undertaken "in regard to the publicity coming out of Morgantown, for the past two or three weeks, regarding the funds." McGraw declined to go into the mechanics of the probe, and said he had "no idea how long it will take." The commission is a 10-member, legislative body, and will set about its task "as soon as our staff can attend to it," McGraw said. "Presently, a legislative auditor is auditing that agency," he noted.

Besides McGraw, the Floyd Wins Westchester By MARTIN LADER UPI Sports Writer HARRISON, N.Y. (UPI) It's long been a theory of Ray Floyd's that streaks play a very important role in deciding sports events. In just a few days, he'll put Caponi Bags LPGA Laurels ByGENECADDES UPI Sports Writer KINGS ISLAND, Ohio (UPI) Donna Caponi couldn't believe her eyes when she lined up what turned out to be the winning putt in the final round of the 27th LPGA Championship Sunday. "I couldn't believe it," said Caponi, who calmly rolled the ball 15 feet into the hole to break a three-way tie and win her second LPGA title in the last three years on the Jack Nicklaus Sports Center Course. "If you're going to have to putt to win a championship, have one like I did, straight up and straight in.

When it was two feet from the cup, 1 knew it was in." Jerilyn Britz, who along with Pat Meyers shared the lead going into the final hole, at 7-under-par, still had to putt for a chance to tie after Caponi's clutch performance. But she made a premature visit to her good friend to congratulate her anyway. "She just came over and said, 'great Caponi explained. "I said, 'Do you want me to help you read She just laughed." Britz, who led the 1979 LPGA Championship here for 66 holes before Caponi caught her for the victory, then missed her 10-foot downhill putt to the left and Caponi again beat her. It made Caponi's fourth major title and 22nd triumph since turning pro in 1965.

Caponi also has won two women's U.S. Open. Caponi, who shot a l-over-73 in Sunday's final round, had a 72- hole score of 8-under'280 to win $22,500 and edge into third place among the all-time LPGA money-winners with $932,857. She is seeking to become the first $1 million winner on the ladies' tour. Caponi began the day with a two-shot lead and pushed it to three after five holes.

But back-to-back bogies on five and six, coupled with back- to-back birdies by Meyers on the same holes gave Meyers the lead, although not more than one shot separated the leaders the rest of the way. Britz, who had stayed close all day, got her opening on the 17th hole when both Caponi and Meyers bogeyed. Britz' par sent the three players to the 18th deadlocked. for the lead. Sunday's round, unlike the first three, was played in swirling winds, although it was completed without the rain delays that hampered the second and third rounds.

Meyers, who had a good look at Caponi's winning putt, said she knew "the minute she hit it" it was going in. "She (Caponi) was due to make one of those," said Meyers. "You just sort of knew it was going in." Debbie Massey finished alone in fourth place at 283 followed by JoAnne Carner, Nancy Lopez-Melton and Beth Daniel at 284, defending champion Sally Little at 285 and Amy Alcott 286. the feeling to a severe test in quest of the big prize that has eluded him in 19 years on the pro golf tour. Despite what he called "probably one of the worst rounds I've played in a month or two," Floyd continually escaped trouble Sunday for a 2-under-par 69 that gave him a two-shot victory in the $400,000 Westchester Golf Classic.

He had a 72-hole total of 9-under 275. The tournament is known as the Manufacturers Hanover Westchester Classic. Today, Floyd will be on his way to the Merion Golf Club, just outside of Philadelphia, to begin preparation for the U.S. Open that starts there on Thursday. He never has won the Open, and it now has become the major priority in a career which includes 15 victories and more than $1.7 million in earnings.

Earlier this year Floyd won the Doral Open and Tournament Players Championship in consecutive weeks, a feat which brought him a bonus of 9250,000, and this achievement is very much in his mind as he heads to Merion. "I can only look back to those back-to-back victories and I'm hoping this is my year for back-to-backs," he said with conviction. "I'm happy to have won here because it means I played better than the others, and now I'm looking forward to the Open. "I've always felt that sports is played in streaks generally. In baseball, for example, you have pitchers who win in streaks.

I've always believed that sports is like gambling and that if you're in a streak you can keep going. If you're winning, you're playing well and you're confident, and those are the things that can keep you playing well." Floyd emphasized he isn't predicting a victory in the Open, only that he has been playing consistently well and has confidence in his game. "Consistency" is the word Floyd used to explain why he is enjoying the best year of his career. "I've played well day in and day out, week after week. I've had times in my career where I've played this well for a couple of weeks in a row, then lost it." Floyd called a saving par on the 12th hole, when he pitched to nine feet and sank the putt, as the key hole for him Sunday.

He moved to the front for good when he parred the 15th hole, and wrapped up the Waltrip Is NASCAR Winner RIVERSIDE, Calif. (UPI.) Stock car racing has developed into a science, with hundreds of thousands of dollars used to develop the finest racing machinery possible within the NASCAR framework. But for Darrell Waltrip, Sunday's Warner W. Hodgdon 400 at Riverside International Raceway came down to a problem eventually encountered by anyone who has ever been behind a steering flat tire. Waltrip overcame the tire blowout, however, and scored a narrow victory over Dale Earnhardt in the $180,685 Grand National event.

"The tire flat exploded," explained the 34-year-old from Franklin, Tenn. "It went down so fast I was barely able to limp back to the pits, running on the rim with the tire wrapped around it." victory with a four-foot birdie putt on No. 17. Craig Stadler had a chance to take the second place money of $43,200 but three- putted the 18th hole for a par. His final round 72 the first time in eight rounds he didn't shoot in the 60's gave him a share of second place at 277 with Gibby Gilbert (70) and Bobby Clampett (68).

Instead of $43,200, Stadler settled for $29,866. Gilbert had led the field by two strokes with only five holes to play, but he bogeyed the 14th and 16th holes. It was the third time, and second year in a row, that Gilbert was runnerup at Westchester. Despite the fact he had only one bogey, Floyd insisted his game wasn't particularly sharp Sunday. "It's the kind of round that was very gratifying and satisfying," he said.

"I played so much worse today in comparison to the other three days. I had trouble off the tee, I was very tentative and reluctant and I kept missing fairways. I'm glad I was able to keep my patience and persistence." commission will include Sens. Robert Nelson, D-Cabell, Dan Tonkovich, D-Marshall, Orion Jones, R-Roane, and William L. Gilligan, R-Tyler, and Delegates Clyde See, D- Hardy, who is speaker of the House, Lyle Sattes, D- Kanawha, Robert D.

Harman, R-Mineral, Larry A. Tucker, D-Nicholas, andTeets. "I'm not authorized to say anything more about it," McGraw said. The athletic department has been embroiled in an on-going controversy over the use of funds for several months. Last week, The (Morgantown) Dominion Post published articles on the department, including one that showed former Athletic Director Dick Martin authorized the use of Mountaineer Illustrated account money to pay the country club dues of two underlings.

In a copyright story, The Dominion Post reported Friday that Martin used the same account for personal expenses, including a number of checks to cover airplane fares, not only for himself, but for his wife, children, and a brother. Amid serious budget problems, Martin resigned the post. Until recently, the account had been kept in a Morgantown bank and had been used a discretionary account by the WVU athletic department. The account contains thousands of dollars in revenue from advertising in, and sale of, football and basketball programs. Pennsylvania Man Truck Race Winner Charlie Baker of New Oxford, survived a rash of accidents in Sunday's Diesel Electronics 250 truck race at the North Carolina Motor Speedway to earn his second victory this season.

Baker, driving a Kenworth, led five times in the 250-mile event for a total of 117 laps, and earned $11,000. His average speed in the race that had 11 lead changes among four drivers was 65.983 mph. It was the second straight victory for Baker on the American Truck Racing Association circuit. He won a 300-mile event at College Station, last month. J.B.

Adams of Wake Forest was second in a GMC, Jack Schreffler of Belvedere took third in a Kenworth, while Eddie Lohr and Bill Johnson, both of High Point, were fourth and fifth respectively. Both drove Corbitts. Although the 29-year-old Baker cruised to victory under the caution flag, it was not an easy race for him. Baker had to survive 95-degree heat, numerous. accidents and blown tires that brought out the caution flag 10 times for a total of 81 laps and a stiff challenge from Adams.

Adams lost two laps in the pits after being involved in an accident early in the race, but got back into the lead lap later in the event and led for 22 laps. Baker took the lead away from Adams for good with 10 laps remaining. A spinout by Bill Ruppe on lap 241 of the 245-lap event insured Baker of the victory. Strike Drains PhillyOf $78,800 Per Day PHILADELPHIA (UPI) Philadelphia city officials have good 4 reason to be unhappy as the major league baseball strike continues with little promise of ending quickly. The striking Phillies are costing the city at least $78,800 a day when they do not play baseball.

Joel Ralph, the city's assistant recreation commissioner in charge of managing Veterans Stadium where the Phillies play their home games, it will city an average of $76,200 per day. "The Phillies are our bread and butter," said Ralph who added that his average daily figure was probably low. "We could wind up being in the red if the Phillies don't play again this year." Regardless of whether the Phillies play, the city must pay $3 million annually in loan costs and $2 million in maintenance. Last year, Ralph said the stadium generated a $2.4 million profit for the city. "We expected over 50,000 fans on Sunday," Ralph said.

"With the Phillies on a hot stre'ak and Pete Rose we could be talking about $100,000 to $125,000. I'm sick about it." Bigger crowds were expected to turn out to see Rose break Stan Musial's National League hit record of 3,630, which Rose tied Wednesday. Revenue Commissioner Eugene Cliett said the city will lose another $2,500 per day in city wage taxes paid by the players, who pay about $200,000 in taxes to the city for 81 games. Nilon Bros. which took in about $7.1 million last year during Phillies games from its sales of food, drinks and novelties figures it lost the average $85,000 per game it earns in gross revenues.

Players walked out when talks between the association and the Player Relations Committee, which represents team owners, became deadlocked over the free agent compensation issue. Talks were not expected to resume before Monday. In Pittsburgh, James Smith, chairman of Three Rivers Stadium Authority, said the strike will cost the city about $12,500 per day in taxes and 25 cents for each unsold ticket to Pirates games. The Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce estimated city businesses outside the stadium this weekend will lose million the amount of money fans normally spend on motels, bars, restaurants and other services. Tyrone Sportsmens Assn TUESDAY NIGHT 8P.M.

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