The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • Page 17

It's Sun-day Football In 1969 For Orlando Panthers By ED HAYES Sentinel Stiff All but one of the Orlando Panthers' regularly scheduled seven home games next season will be played on Sunday afternoon. This is the first breakaway from Saturday night since the Panthers moved here from Newark, N.J. in 1966. The Panthers played a Sunday afternoon Continen-, tal Football League game with Norfolk here last season, but had had no other choice because a storm had knocked out the attraction the night before. In addition to the switch to Sunday afternoon games, which will start at 2:15, there also are three new teams on the 1969 Orlando schedule San Antonio, Newark's Bears and Chicago.

San Antonio, from the Texas Division, is due for an exhibition game at the Tangerine Bowl on Saturday night, Aug. 24. Newark will play here in a regular season game, Sunday, Oct. 26. The other new face Chicago will entertain the Panthers on Sept.

20 in spacious Soldier Field. Home opener on the regular schedule will be against Little Rock, Sept. 6, which will be the last Saturday night played at the Tangerine Bowl during the season. The San Antonio Toros are the perennial roughnecks of the Texas League, which joined the CFL recently. They soundly spanked Omaha and Indianapolis in exhibition games in 1966.

There's a familiar refrain surrounding the remainder of the Orlando schedule, with the Panthers opening and closing with the Norfolk Neptunes, the team they had to whip to win the Atlantic Division title in 1967 and 1968. Orlando and Norfolk are booked to meet three times, and this is sound business because it's the best rivalry going in the four-division 23-team league. The Panthers have an exhibition game at Norfolk, Aug. 17. The regular season meetings with Norfolk are on Saturday night, Oct.

11, there, and here Sunday afternoon, Nov. 16. Chicago's Owls competed in the league for the first time last year but they did not meet the Panthers. Elmer Cook, president and general manager of the Panthers, said his office was starting work immediately on season ticket sales. The Panthers are defending CFL champions.

At the league meeting in Midland, last weekend, Mike Valan of Wheeling (Ohio Valley Ironmen) was elected CFL president. Secretary is Rex Ellis of the Hawaiian Warriors. Jim Lane of Huntsville is treasurer. Elected vice-presidents were Bob Edwards of Omaha and Alton Fairchild of West Texas. League commissioner is Jim Dunn, with an office in Norfolk.

The Panthers' complete schedule: Aug. 14 at Norfolk (Exhibition). Aug. 13 San Antonio (Exhibition). Au.

31 at Wheeling. Sept. 4 Little Rock. Sept. 13 at Indianapolis.

Sept. 10 at Chicago. Stpt. 28 Indianapolis. Oct.

5 Alabama. Oct. It at Norfolk. Oct. 1 at Alabama.

Oct. 24 Newark. Oct. 31 at Newark. Nov.

Wheeling. Nov. It Norfolk. 7 I1 That's Who! it Players Bon't Show, Neither Will Television Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1969 1-C NEW YORK Baseball's embattled club owners, facing a player strike on one front, are holding discussions on another with the National Broadcasting Company to determine what happens to their new $49.5 million contract in the event of a walkout.

LewCLA Faces Toughest Foe By Tha Associated Presi Towering Lew Alcindor and his UCLA teammates run into their sternest Pacific Coast opposition this weekend but should add to their 16-game season's winning streak and maintain their uncontested grip on the No. 1 position in The Associated Press major basketball poll. The Bruins are hosts in Los Angeles Friday to the University of Washington and Saturday to Washington State. The two Washington teams share the runner-up spot in the Pacific Eight Conference with 4-1 records and have over-all marks of 11-6. UCLA again was a unanimous choice for No.

1, gaining first place votes from all 30 members of the. panel of sports writers and broadcasters. North Carolina, with a 14-1 record, stayed at No. 2 and Santa Clara, also unbeaten with an 18-0 mark, held on to the No. 3 notch.

Then follow Kentucky, St. John's of New York, Davidson, LaSalle, Villanova, Purdue and Illinois. Ex-NL Attorney Hints Solution To Strike Threat By Sentinel Services MIAMI Major league owners dug down and came up with their second straight "unknown" baseball commissioner Tuesday when they named Bowie Kuhn, a 42-year-old National League attorney, to the post for an abbreviated one-year term. Kuhn's salary was set at $100,000 in contrast to the $65,000 paid William Eckert, who was fired at the conclusion of the winter meetings in San Francisco last December. Kuhn, who was named "pro tern" commissioner unanimously by the 24 owners as a compromise candidate after being recommended by a seven-man committee, promptly came up with a minor shocker of his own when he said, of a threatened player strike: "I would be surprised if spring training does not get off as scheduled." Kuhn had been working for the owners as counsel on the Player Relations Committee, which is trying to reach an agreement with the players on the funding of the pension plan.

As commissioner, he said he would disassociate himself from the committee. EARLIER TUESDAY, the owners, ignoring the strong possibility of the first general strike by players in the 100-year history of the sport, refused to change their position in their dispute with the Players Association over the pension fund. They spent the entire morning discussing the events in New York Monday that led the players to announce they would boycott spring training sites if agreement on the pension program were not reached. In a statement read by Joe Cronin, president of the American League, the owners drew the battle lines even sharper by emphasizing that "there shall be no relationship between radio and television revenue and the clubs' pension While no television official is about to divulge whether there are any loopholes that would enable NBC to avoid payment in the event of a player strike, a spokesman did say flatly: "We're not planning on paying major league prices for minor league games." That would seem to indicate that unless the dispute between the owners and the players is resolved and such stars as Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Bob Gibson and Denny McLain are featured performers, the owners are faced with loss of television revenue. WHILE some owners have said they favor closing down in the event of a strike, some are on record as wanting to go ahead with spring training and the regular season that follows with the players available, either the scattering of major leaguers on hand or by bringing up minor leaguers.

It appears then if that would happen that the owners, as well as the players, would suffer financially. Television also is at the center of the dispute between the owners and the players with the players insisting they get a share of television revenue for their pension plan and the owners willing to offer only a flat contribution not hinged to broadcast revenue. The new contract with NBC, for $49.5 million over a three-year period, is for national telecasts of regular season games, the All-Star Game and the World Series. Previously, negotiations were held individually on each, and the national telecasts brought $6 million a year. The new contract, of course, represents a large increase in that area.

The major league players currently share in All-Star and World Series broadcast revenue but not in the national telecasts. of the Pirates, Arthur Allyn of the White. Sox, Walter O'Malley of the Dodgers and Frank Deale of the Reds. Dale said the committee discussed a half dozen candidates briefly before unanimously agreeing on Kuhn. He would not say who nominated Kuhn.

As soon as the committee agreed on Kuhn, the owners voted on the recommendation. When Dale was asked why the term "pro tern" was included in Kuhn's title, he said, "The term has not been defined but literally it means 'for the time But Dale added the appointment was for a one-year term. Dale, called Kuhn's appointment a "major breakthrough for baseball. Maybe today for the last time we saw separate league caucuses." After a year, the owners will re-evaluate the situation and decide Kuhn's status. KUHN BEGAN his baseball career by working the scoreboard at Griffith Stadium in Washington at $l-a-day.

He has been involved with baseball for the last two decades I but has generally remained in the background. His announcement as the new commissioner occasioned nearly as much surprise as the selection of Eckert three years ago. The 42-year-old Kuhn, a member of the New York law firm of Wilkie, Farr and Gallagher, was the principal trial lawyer' for the National League in its case for moving the Braves from Milwaukee to Atlanta. A square-jawed, quiet-mannered attorney, Kuhn effectively argued the NL's case in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Kuhn is a vigorous man who works the year round and takes almost no time off for vacation.

At 6-foot-4 and 200 pounds, he is a keen fan of baseball and has represented his firm in dealings with the National League and the baseball commissioner's office. THE SELECTION of Kuhn not only surprised the sports world, but also the new commissioner himself. He found out about it only a short time before the announcement. But he said he was looking forward to the job, adding, "Every American boy dreams of being commissioner and I'm no different than anybody else." "I'm honored and delighted to take over this important job to lead baseball in a meaningful restructuring of organization." When the owners convened Tuesday, they deferred action to a seven-man committee consisting of Gabe Paul of the Indians, Dick Meyer of the Cardinals, John Mc-Hale of the Expos, John Galbreath Ickx Gets Mercury For Daytona 500 DAYTONA BEACH Iff) Belgium star Jackie Ickx Tuesday was assigned a Mercury from the Junior Johnson stable to drive in the Daytona 500 stock car race here Feb. 23.

Ickx, whose Ford GT40 was leading last weekend's 24 Hours of Daytona by 30 laps when a suspension broke, will be making his first start ever in a big bore American stock car. "I'VE never even seen a stock car race," said the 140-pound Belgium driver who celebrated his 24th birthday Jan. 1. "But I'm very excited about the prospects of driving one of the big sedans. "I feel there are two problems I must overcome the weight of the car and the high banks of Daytona International Speedway.

I've never been in a car except on an American highway." Ickx will drive in a Johnson team that includes veteran Lee Roy Yarbrough, who finished second in last year's Daytona 500. 'm, a imii-x WHY, IT'S BOWIE KUHN The owners' choice No Chance For MM In Oivners9 Lineup MIAMI BEACH (UPI) When form-er Vice President Hubert Humphrey got a haircut in the same hotel where baseball owners were trying to pick a new commissioner, it started folks wondering "Is Hubert the one?" But the presence of the defeated presidential candidate at the Americana Hotel where the major league owners convened was coincidental. As one wag said, the baseball barons are all big businessmen and would never accept a Democrat. 14-0 14-1 17-0 14- 1 13- 1 15- 1 14- 1 15- 3 11-3 13- 1 14- 2 1M 15- 3 15- 1 11-2 16- 1 14- 3 13- 4 15- 3 14- 1 521 441 417 322 155 247 134 171 154 13 4 14 St 54 51 34 25 1 It T. UCLA (30) 2.

North Carolina I. Santa Clari 4. Kentucky 5. St. John's, 4.

Davidson 7. LaSalle I. Villanova e. Purdue 10. Illinois II.

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New Mexico St. 17. Marquette II New Mexico It. Davton JO. Colorado Other! receiving votes, listed alphabetically! Arizona, Boston College, Cincinnati, Colorado State, Detroit, Drake, Iowa, Louisville, Notre Dame, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas Webor State.

Will Baseball Be Controlled By Television Octopus? Jim Mac Donald Executive Sports Editor octopus-like cash register which can supply money in amounts rivaling the federal government. The tentacles of the cathode-ray tube can grab control of a sport quicker than Hitler grabbed the Low Countries. Perhaps baseball's Players' Association some day will be merely another chapter of AFTRA the American Federation of Radio and Television Association. But as one who recalls when professional boxing could be seen live three nights a week on television, I have a word of warning. by, Miller, the average time spent in the majors by a player is four and three-quarters years short of the five-year period needed to qualify for a pension.

But the real rub is the revenue paid to owners for television and radio rights. IN FACT, Miller says TV and radio revenue last year was V2 times greater than the combined major league player payroll. Some 60 per cent of the TV revenue was going into the pension fund. The owners, says Miller, would like to alter the arrangement. The players would not.

There you have it folks, television the An attorney, Marvin Miller, is director of the Players Association. According to statistics compiled Vince Likened To God, Awaits Washington 'Go' Raiders Raid Own Ranks; Madden Youngest Pro Boss Hi yah, this is Jimmy for a jim-dandy of a deal! Almost fooled you there, didn't Do you have the feeling, too, that some of the young ladies who read local tel3vision commercials might be diction school dropouts? MENTION OF television reminds me we are close to what could be the first players' strike in the history of major league baseball. Even New York City has not had one of those. But revolt among our once-revered professional athletes appears to be a dollar-sign of the times. The months-long squabble between the majority of pro golf's tournament players and their parent organization the Professional Golfers Association of America was settled only recently.

And as I recall, professional football experienced a threatened players' strike last summer, which, fortunately was resolved at the final hour. In case it has slipped your mind during the recent excitement created by Joe Namath, O. J. Simpson and Vince Lombardi, major league baseball players are young men who work from April to October. They are paid from $10,000 (the minimum) to $100,000 each year.

WITH THE addition of four teams, there will be 600 major league baseball players this season. Or rather, 600 who will be playing in the major leagues. Only a handful has signed 1969 contracts. The others have been instructed not to report for spring training, and probably won't unless the dispute is settled. And the opening of spring training is only about two weeks away.

Root of the disagreement is the players' pension fund. Under the present pension plan, a player after only five years of work in the major leagues, will be paid from $250 to almost $650 per month, depending whether he takes the pension at the age of 50, or waits until he is 65. For those with 10 years in the majors, the figure ranges from $500 to $933 per month. TO THE outsider, this appears to be an excellent pension plan. Baseball owners have been investing $4.1 million a year into the plan.

They have agreed to increase the amount to $5.1 million. The players feel this is not enough. Thus, the disagreement. Williams, was quoted as saying Rozelle telephoned him only five minutes before his news conference late Monday. "I told him what I was going to say and he told me not to," Williams said.

"He told me that I could have the deal or the press conference, but not both." SO A tight-lipped Williams walked into the news conference and said he had nothing to say. The Washington Daily News quoted Williams as saying, "I was never more humiliated I was set to walk in there and break the news but I was warned." At issue is Lombardi's long-range contract with Green Bay which forbids him to take any other coaching job through the 1973 season. The nation's capital waited with excitement Tuesday for the inauguration of Lombardi. Phones rang repeatedly in the Redskins' offices and fans buzzed. A season ticket holder said, "How do I feel about Lombardi? How do you feel about God?" GREEN BAY, Wis.

OB Vince Lombardi awaited Tuesday a decision on whether he will get the green light to become coach, executive vice president and part owner of the Washington Redskins. The Green Bay Packers' 45-mem-ber board of directors will meet Wednesday night to consider a recommendation on Lombardi's request for a release from his contract. Meanwhile, a Washington newspaper quoted the Redskins' club president Tuesday as saying football commissioner Pete Rozelle had intervened to nip an announcement that the Lombardi deal was sealed. The executive committee will recommend that Lombardi be allowed to join the Redskins, The Milwaukee Sentinel said Tuesday night. In a story appearing in Wednesday morning's editions, the newspaper said Lombardi will not be allowed to touch any member of the Packers' present coaching staff for at least one year.

The executive, Edward Bennett looker of Davis, who was head coach of the Raiders before becoming commissioner of the AFL and then returning to Oakland. Rauch was an Oakland assistant before taking over for Davis in 19C6. Davis steadfastly denied all reports that he was interested in resuming field control of the club. Madden was the youngest assistant on the staff last year and for the past two years has worked with the Raiders linebacking corps, developing such outstanding players as Dan Connors, Gus Otto and Ralph Oliver. FOR three years, he was an assistant at San Diego State and created the defense that helped give the school the top-rated small college team in the country in 1966.

He is known for having developed excellent relationships with many of the Raiders' players. One spokesman pictured Madden as "having a lot of energy and a real curiosity about football." OAKLAND The Oakland Raiders once 'again dipped into their own ranks for a head coach Tuesday, naming assistant John Madden to do the job. Madden, who at 33 becomes professional football's youngest coach, replaces John Rauch at the helm of the American Football League club which won the championship in 1967 and the Western Division title in '68. Rauch resigned after the 1968 season to become manager of the Buffalo Bills. AL DAVIS, managing general partner of the Raiders and boss of certainly the most tight-lipped, close-knit front office in the sport, made the announcement in a brief press release.

Madden Was out. of town on personal business. Davis said he would have no comment on the new coach until a news conference Wednesday morning at which Madden is to be present. "AL moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform," said an on a.