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ST4 QUAD-CITY TIMES Fridav, Mav II, 1979 Quad-Cities, Iowa and Illinois Yankees, Guidry Near Contract Extension Steinbrenner, Mr. Rosen and the dustry and has not been as visible as usual around the Yankee IT5! It NEW YORK (AP) Sometime within the next few weeks, or days, the New York Yankees will call in Ron Guidry and extend his contract, thus rectifying one of the most flagrant salary imbalances In baseball. In effect, Guidry, whose current paycheck looks like coolie wages when measured by contemporaries of lesser stature, will have his pay structure brought into line with other top-salaried players on the club Jackson ($2.9 million, live years), Catfish Hunter ($3.5 million, five vears) and Rich On Wednesday, when Guidry received the Sporting News Award as "Man of the Year," Al Rosen, president of the Yankees, acknowledged that the club was in the process of new contract talks with their mound marvel. "THIS HAS been going on for some time," Rosen said. "We are delighted to see a young man of his calibre put the interest of the club ahead of his own personal Interests.

He will always be a Yankee. We will never let him getaway." Rosen indicated that there would be no immediate announcement of the new contract lest it be construed as a grandstand ploy to take advantage of the overall excitement generated by Guidry's unselfish gesture. Owner George Steinbrenner, the shipbuilding tycoon, has been tied up with strikes in the in $145,000 for the year after dipping into the $600,000. This Is ludicrous in today's spiralling salary structure which has big Dave Parker of the Pittsburgh Pirates making $900,000 a year, Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies $825,000 and Jim Rice of the Boston Red Sox Guidry, because of his age and potential, is believed in most baseball circles to be the most valuable commodity in the game Parker, Rose and Rice notwithstanding. This value was Increased markedly and intangibly last Saturday when he agreed to abandon his starting role on the Yankee staff and take up bullpen duties in the absence of relief ace Gossage, recovering from a thumb injury.

He already has a win and two saves as a reliever. rest of the Yankees," adds Schneider, a onetime Guidry schoolmate. It was after the 1977 season that Guidry signed a two-year contract at $38,000 a year, by far the most he had ever earned but well below the scale of a topflight pitcher on a championship team. Last year the contract was given a $600,000 extension. There will be no attempt to rewrite the current agreement.

Instead, the Yankees are expected to offer an extension beyond 1981 of three or possibly five years with $1 million up front on which the pitcher might draw immediately. When the contract is negotiated, he probably will fall in the bracket, adequate but still below the kingly fortunes drawn by a handful of other players no more skilled and no more valuable. office. However, those who know him, are convinced that he will not permit the current imbalance in Guidry's paycheck to linger for long. George is a proud man, proud of the Yankee tradition and one who appreciates loyalty.

He'd be the last to allow himself to be called a "cheapskate." Neither Guidry nor his Louisiana attorney, John Schneider, has applied pressure on Yankee management to redress the obvious shortages in the current contract in light of the pitcher's sudden spurt to super stardom. "I DON'T worry about money I never talk about it," says Guidry, who practices a modest, low-key lifestyle in the bayou country. "We have had nothing but the best relations with Mr. ($2.7 million, five years). Ron Guidry contract calling for $38,000 a year.

THIS CONTRACT, a two-year pact signed in December of 1977, was given a three-year extension through 1981 calling for a total of $600,000. Even then, Guidry was grossly underpaid, drawing perhaps Technically, last year when the 28-year-old left-hander from Lafayette, carved the best record in baseball and won the jCy Young Award with a 25-3 iTnark, he was working on an old Motta Hope: Spurs Rattled If 1 begining of this year's (S5b Sports Of Sorts Division championship out by 24 points. The So-playoff series, but the nics went to Denver with a question Is do the Son ics. 3-1 lead and got trounced The series is knotted at by the Nuggets. They went two games each with into Washington with a 3-2 Game 5 set for Friday at lead and were humiliated 10:30 p.m.

CDT in the by 35 points. Kingdome. "I don't think that will Phoenix will be without happen this year, Sonics playoffs. As for the Phoenix players, forward Gar Heard tossed a little challenge to Sonic followers. "The fans In Seattle might be a little itchy since we've won two (in Phoenix)," he said.

center Jack Sikma said at Earvin Johnson at four-year contract for starting center Alvan Adams, who remained at home with a sprained ankle. He is expected to be ready for Game 6 Sunday In Phoenix. Seattle won the first two Women's Teams In League i The women's basketball teams from Iowa, Iowa State and Drake will play in a new regional conference next season. i The three schools will be in the northern division the AIAW Region 6 conference. Other schools in the division will be Minnesota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Northwest Missouri.

Playing in the southern division will be Kansas, I Kansas State, Missouri, Wichita State, Pittsburg i(Kan.) State, Central Missouri and Missouri-St. Louis. Each team will play an independent schedule I next year. A qualifying tournament will be held at the end of the regular season to determine particip- ants in the Region 6 championships. Cubs Release Gene Clines CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago Cubs released utfielder Gene Clines Thursday to make room for nitnher Rill PanrtiH ithn was called nn from Wichita PROFESSIONAL games of the series at home and there was talk of a sweep.

The series then moved to Phoenix where the Suns won two games easilv. LATE MODEL SPORTSMAN RACING Johnson Decision Today CHICAGO (AP) -Michigan State sophomore basketball star Earvin "Magic" Johnson will announce today his intention to drop out of school to play pro ball, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Thursday. Johnson has given no public indication of his plans but reportedly has hinted to friends that he will apply for NBA hardship status by the Friday midnight deadline, the Sun-Times said in a copyright story. A news conference was scheduled for 9 a.m. (CDT) Friday in East Lansing to make the announcement, the Sun-Times said.

The 6-foot-8 Spartan is expected to be the Los Angeles Lakers' No. 1 draft choice and be offered a Queen Bees Land Player Marie Sudbeck, 5-foot-d basketball player from Sioux City Heelan High School, has announced her intentions to attend St. Ambrose College in the fall. Queen Bees coach Ken Buckles plans to use his new recruit as a guard next season. The "look" Motta claims he saw came late in Wed By Associated Press If Dick Motta has anything to be optimistic about for tonight's National Basketball Association playoff game here, it's that uneasy look he claims he saw in the eyes of the San Antonio Spurs when his Washington Bullets clawed back Wednesday night.

"This team (the Spurs) has a tendency to get rattled. They get too far ahead and avalanche," Motta said after the Spurs fought off a furious Washington rally to win 116-114 in the third game of the best-of-seven Eastern Conference championship series. "I saw that look in San Antonio's eyes. It's the same look they had up in Philadelphia. The same look they had at our place Sunday," added Motta.

The defending NBA champion Bullets face the possibility of falling behind 3-1 In the series if they lose Friday night in the Spurs' cozy Hemisfair Arena. The series doesn't return to Landover, until Sunday's fiftji game and the Spurs already have erased Washington's home-court advantage by winning the opening game there 118-97. IN THE other half of the league, the Phoenix Suns now know they're capable of beating the Seattle SuperSonics in the Western nesday night's game, when i 5 least $2 million. Asked about his reported plans at an awards ceremony at a Lansing, school Wedhes-day night, Johnson declined to discuss his plans, saying, "You'll Just have to wait "til Friday like everybody else." After chatting with Johnson on Wednesday night, his high school coach, George Fox, said, "Well, it looks like he's going (pro)." He has given indications in interviews that his intercollegiate days are over. Speaking this week of the fun he has had on the MSU campus, he told one writer, "I'll miss all that." Since the Spartans won the NCAA championship, Johnson apparently feels there is little left to accomplish as a player for MSU.

He said, "If I came back, I'll have to figure out new goals." He also mentioned that he would not mind playing pro ball for Detroit. "When we come to Detroit, everybody can see me," he said. tis Cf If 4 of the American Association. Caudill is supposed to join the Cubs in Houston today. Caudill, a 22-year-old right-hander, had a 3-1 record and a 2.73 earned run average with Wichita.

One of his victories was a two-hit shutout. Clines, 32, will be added to the Cubs' coaching staff. Clines is a nine-year major lpacriifi rvrfnrmr uith a ltfA- dogged Washington trimmed a 107-93 San Antonio lead midway through the fourth quarter to only 113-112 with 53 seconds left. SEATTLE COACH Lenny Wilkens says he's searching for keys that will turn things around. Meanwhile, Phoenix Coach John MacLeod thinks he's unlocked the door to beating the Sonics.

Seattle has been known to let up after gaining an edge against a playoff op FRIDAY, MAY 11 TH DAVENPORT SPEEDWAY MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FAIRGROUNDS RACING BEGINS AT 7:30 PJM. $3.00 ADULTS CHILDREN (6 to 15) $1 .00 AUTOWIZE 100 NIGHT Gene Clines tjme batlinR av0rage of .277 entering this season. FRIDAY JUNE 8TH, $7500 PURSE ponent. In last years! Chisox Send Bosley Down 281 5 W. LOCUST ST -DAVENPORT 322-7223 A TV playoffs, the Sonics traveled to Portland with a 3-1 series lead and got blown CHICAGO (AP) The Chicago White Sox pur MOTOR SPORT PROMOTIONS l.lli.i.il.lMiMMMl,,!,,,,.,.!! ii chased the contract Thursday of left-handed pitcher tatar rail1 it Rich Hinton from Iowa and optioned outfielder Thad Bosley to that American Association club.

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