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3EJf dadliii.i3 roaches 'final to Wallace thinking strong finishes Owners, players still bargaining NEW YORK (AP) With the World Series just a day away from being wiped tout, striking baseball players delivered a "taxation" plan to owners Thursday and hoped it would be accepted in place of a salary cap. Owners said they will study the plan and respond today, the deadline for canceling the rest of the season. The plan calls for a 2 percent payroll tax and for clubs to split salary arbitration, making it unlikely a deal can be agreed to today. Acting commissioner Bud Selig said his deadline for calling off the remainder of the season "still applies." If so, it would cancel the World Series for the first time since 1904. "Everything is as ifs been all along," Selig said in a telephone interview from his Milwaukee office.

However, if there is a deal today, players probably would return to the field on Sept 16 or Sept. 19, depending on how many daya-of workouts the sides agree to. We11 be in touch with the union in the morning," management negotiator Richard Ravi tch said. Boston Red Sox chief executive officer John Harrington said after the players' 30-minute presentation that he hopes the proposal "will lead to more progress." Players hoped Selig would reconsider today's deadline and BASEBALL IKE 7 Union head Donald Fehr said (layers wouldn't agree to any arge tax that might be "inhibiting" in the free agent market. He said the plan didn't alter, the basic structure of free agency and STB I -'i I n2t of the year, run on my favorite track and sponsored by my car sponsor.

We have a dynamite 'new car and cant wait for the green flag to fall." Wallace also has finished second in the two most recent spring races at Richmond. And Dover, site of nert weekend's race, also has been kind to Wallace recently. He's won the last two events on that track. Strong showings at Richmond and Dover would be extremely beneficial to Wallace, whose seventh-place finish last week at Darlington, S.C., dropped him another 24 points behind leader Dale Earnhardt in the season standings. Earnhardt now leads Wallace by 227 points with eight races remaining on the 1994 Winston Cup schedule.

Gomhyskeirsi holds off Texas Tech 41-1 6 Zt -jr Vf 1 -I f--rr iV' C. -77 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) Rusty Wallace knowi that if he hai any movet left for this year's Winston Cup points battle, it's time to think about making them. -lf we're going to stage a killer comeback like we have to do, I couldn't pick any better part of the schedule for us to pull it off," Wallace said as he prepared for today's opening round of time trials for the Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Richmond International Raceway. Should Wallace win Saturday nighfs 300-mile event, it would be his third consecutive victory under the lights on Richmond's three-quarter-mile layout- This is a streak that weVe going to keep going," he said.

'If probably my favorite race Vintage No. 1 Nebraska By JEAN PAGEL Associated Press writer LUBBOCK, Texas Although it wasn't a performance for the ages, it was vintage Nebraska football. "We just ran the ball. Old traditional Nebraska football run it down their throat," quarterback Tommie Frazier said after scoring twice and throwing for a touchdown in the top-ranked" Comhuskers' 42-16 victory over outmanned Texas Tech Thursday night. Lawrence Phillips ran for .175 of Nebraska's 524 yards and scored two TDs in the third period as the Comhuskers pulled away after Tech (1-1) cut it to 14-9 Boon after halftime.

"We played good football but we didn't play inspired football," Nebraska coach Tom Osborne said. "I think the layoff took a little edge off. Probably we weren't as sharp as we should have been." Nebraska (2-0) hadn't played since routing West Virginia 31-0 in the Kickoff Classic on Aug. 27. "I don't know if Fve ever seen a team that stronger and better prepared," Texas Tech coach Spike Dykes said.

"It was really 25 percent of gate receipts according to sources, speaking on the condition that they not be identified. Sixteen clubs would contribute revenue to the other 12, sources said. The union suggested that clubs be required to maintain minimum payroll levels and that teams be prohibited from receiving money for more than three consecutive years. the right sideline, then made it 14-0 by going the last 3 yards of a 98-yard drive early in the second quarter. Tech's first pass completion of the game, with 12:22 left in the half, was a big one, a 43-yarder from Tony Darden to split end Field Scovell that Bet up a 49-yard field goal by Jon Davis.

The Red Raiders made it 14-9 early in the third quarter on Zebbie Lethridge's 6-yard pass to tight end Scott Aylor. A 2-point conversion attempt failed when "lthridje fumbled. Then Phillips took over. He vaulted 2 yards to make it 21-9, then sprinted 56 yards to E've the Comhuskers a safe 28-9 ad. Frazier hit Eric Alford with a 35-yard TD pass to give the Comhuskers a 35-9 with 10:56 left in the game.

Tech nearly gave away' a touchdown in the fourth period when Darden ran 11 yards to the 2, only to fumble. A Nebraska defender jumped at the ball, but missed it and Tech tackle Ben Kaufman "recovered in the end zone with 6:24 to go. In five previous U.S. Opens, he never got past the third round. Despite his height at 6-foot-3 he towered eight inches over Yzaga Novacek's style is best on clay, and hardcourts have rarely been kind to him.

Ranked 56th, Novacek has been a professional since 1984. He's always been a good enough player to threaten the best He iiever carric ciose" in ti Grand Slams, getting only as far the quarterfinals at the 1987 Frencn Open. "It was the dream destination to break the quarterfinals of the Grand Slams, and I am endlessly happy that I did it today," Novacek' said. "I won 13 tournaments. I have been playing Davis Cup.

I have been playing allow talks to continue. I If there's- settlement within reach, or a possibility of that, coming, I don't think them's a time frame on this," Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Brett Butler said. Fehr said he wasn't concerned it, either. "Well keep talking unless and; until some stops listening to he said. Both sides expected to have a1 formal bargaining session on Thursday, but it never developed 4 1 Players met with their lawyers for most of the day at thejunion! office in Manhattan as; economists gave their views by- telephone.

A delegation walked three blocks to the; commissioner's office where three union lawyers delivered the planj. Accompanying them. Dodgers pitcher Orel Hershiser, Pittsburgh shortstop Jay Texas pitcher Kevin Brown and Oakland catcher Terry Steinbach. AP Photo Tommy Martin 138 Cannon Ave. The Mutual Ufe Insurance Company of New York, New York 893-3933 Until March 1, 1995 Cialiti litins) J2 QibChddE baooawren(? (1) is upended Texas Tech defenders Cat Adams (22) and Bart Thomas (23) during the Comhuskers' 41-16 win Thursday night.

Stich awful, but sneaks into U.S. Open semis Novacek reaches final four with win over Yzaga; 33 Wo just ran the ball; Old traditional Nebraska football run it down their. Tommie Frazier Nebraska quarterback disheartening to be in there for awhile and then lose it" It was defense that kept Texas Tech within reach of Nebraska until midway through the third quarter. The unit, led by linebacker Zach Thomas, sacked Frazier once and had four tackles for losses. "We played good at times and then the next quarter you don't know what happens," Thomas said.

"I think we lost our poise a little bit and didn't play like we can for 60 minutes." Frazier, who ran for 84 yards and threw for 88, gave Nebraska a 7-0 lead just 2:01 into the game when he sprinted 58 yards, down with a lob that Bjorkman leaped to hit with a backhand overhead and tapped just wide. Novacek, a 29-year-old from the Czech Republic who logs more miles and plays more tournaments than anyone else, relied on his serve to get him out of trouble as he scored a victory over the man who upset defending champion Pete Sampras in the fuuiiii ruuiich After playing so well against Sampras, Yzaga played sloppily and slow in a terribly tedious match, spraying 73 unforced errors and carrying on a nonstop conversation with himself about hi mistakes He changed hi shoes near the end of the first set, changed his rackets several times, but couldn't change the way he was playing. The Sampras match took a lot out of me," Yzaga said. "I was sore yesterday and I was sore today. It was hard." Novacek, who hit 78 unforced errors while playing mostly- from the baseline, wasn't much livelier in one of the worst matches of the tournament.

There were fans talking on cellular telephones and fans reading newspapers, and long silences were interrupted on occasion by snores and yawns. Most of those in the two-thirds full stadium awoke at last to cheer Novacek at the end, perhaps grateful that the match was finally over after nearly 3V hours. But none of that really mattered to Novacek, happy to get this far no matter how he did it Limousine Service Best Rates In Middle Tennessee Business, Weddings, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Parties AH 1995 24 Hour Service 893-1412 Pager 848-9984 Hiph hurdles could scare a couple of them and who could give a good match to a couple of them." Elna Renaich and Patrick Galbraith won the mixed doubles final, beating the top-seeded team of Jana Novotna and Todd Woodbridge 6-2, 6-4. C7 KILLS FLEAS! SV- Buy ENFORCER FIm Killers For Pits, Hsim, Yard. Gnaranted Effective) Available at: FARRER BROS.

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If he were a factory worker, he'd be at the plant early every morning, lunch box in hand, and his attendance record would be perfect "7 He doesn't have to apologize for reaching the semis here, Ux-- i.r l. i ccu uicoa Oi vTic quality OI uic match against Yzaga, though he recognizes he's no longer on the same level with the top players. "I was once," he said. "Iwas playing the Masters with them. I was beating them and I was the top eight player in the world in 91.

1 was always top 20. 1 was not winning any- Grand Slam tour-i naments, but I was the one who Confidential NOW OPEN IN Get the You Need NEW YORK (AP) Michael Stich served with all the consistency of a once-a-week hacker, double-faulting 15 times Thursday night in his worst match of the U.S. Open as he stutter-stepped into the semifinals. The highest-seeded man left in the tournament, the No. 4 Stich created trouble for himself and got plenty from young Swede JonasBjbrkm8urforescap1nj with a 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4 victory.

Stich's next opponent is Karel Novacek, the quintessential journeyman of tennis, who served 28 aces to beat Jaime Yzaga 6-2, 6-7 (7-9), 6-1, 5-7, 6-3 and reach his first Grand Slam semifinal after 30 early exits. Andre Agassi and Todd Martin will play in the other semifinal Saturday. Stich, thel991- Wimbledon -champion, had never gone past the quarters at the U.S. Open. There were times in this match when it seemed he wouldn't make it this time.

"I was serving very, very badly," said Stich, whose double-faults more than offset his 13 aces against the player who knocked out Stefan Edberg. "Right now I'm really, really tired. All the credit to Bjorkman, the way he kept fighting. He never gave up. Not many guys are doing that "Today 1 played my worst match of the Open.

But it's very important to me that I made it into the semis, that I stayed in there." Stich knew his performance would not convince many people he could win this tournament, but -he didn't much care. "Let everybody think Agassi's 'supposed to win," Stich said. "I like that" He cruised in the first two sets, held! a 4-2 lead in the third, but let. the opportunistic Bjorkman back in by serving erratically. Stich, who also blew a 5-2 lead in the third-set tiebreaker, succumbed to tiredness and lost his rhythm as the match wore on.

Stich's loss in the tiebreaker cost him his first set of the tournament, and the way he was serving it seemed he could quickly lose another. But he broke Bjorkman to take a 3-1 lead in the fourth set, overcame one more poor service game, and broke him again for the match CHECK INTO Uli) frit) -lu -on 5 If you have an active checking account and Need Cash TODAY we'll cash your personal check and wait 12 days or your next pay day, to deposit. Quick, Easy Models shown subtecf to limited availability. 2-year limtted rtsifleniji and 1-year Itmitea commercial warranty on all Snow Trtrowen. See deaer tor all timitcd warranty details.

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