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THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN 4 Wednesday. June 4, 1986 Dymg'USFL Dad Advises Lee May Jr. To Weigh OSU, Pro Offer Puts Blame On Rivals "We have a lot to offer," said John McHlvaine, Mets vice president. "We have one of the. finest organizations in baseball.

We can give him a better baseball education than he would get in college." Lee May Jr. hit .326 with a school record 14 doubles, five home runs, and 15 runs batted in and 10 stolen bases. He said he was worried about his batting this year although he was pleased With his fielding. "I was trying to hit every ball too hard. I disappointed myself more than anyone," he said.

Lee May who spends his summers with the major league team, hasn't seen Lee May Jr. play since 1983. "I have to credit his coaches. I haven't been around for his developmental years. I've been busy keeping a roof over his home." "I call him a lot," said Lee May Jr.

"He has a good idea of some of the problems I go through. He helps with things outside the game, like how to.get over a bad day," he said. Both agree they are different types of players. "We're not alike," said the younger May. "We don't even swing the same.

He had a shorter swing and hit for more power." Said the father: "From what I hear, he's a better ballplayer than I was. I never had a set position. I CINCINNATI (AP) Lee May former Cincinnati Reds slugger and now hitting coach for the Kansas City Royals, isn't sure he wants his son playing major league baseball until he finishes college. Lee May Cincinnati, was selected first by the New York Mets in the major league draft Monday. He has signed an NCAA letter of intent with Oklahoma State University.

"I've given him the pros and cons," said the elder May, who played first base for the Reds from 1965-71 before moving on. "We'll see how much money he's offered. But you can't put a monetary value on a college educaton. "I was lucky enough to make it after six years in the minors," May said. "If I hadn't, I'd probably be working in a steel mill in Birmingham," his home town.

Lee May played center field for Cincinnati Purcell-Marian High School. He said he won't go to college if an acceptable deal can be worked out with the Mets. "I can't say I'm going to sign for sure. If everything can be worked out, I'll sign. I hope so." Lee May Sr.

said the final decision was his son's. "I'll advise him. He's only 18 years old. Parents should be part of any decision an 18-year-old makes," May said. caijght a little, piayea nrstr New York Yankee great Mickey Mantle presents an award Monday at Ana-neaVy niTTerS nejm stadium to California Angel and former Yankee Reggie Jackson for passing him on the all-time home run list with 537.

Kriek 's Success in France Seen as Real Feat of Clay fiiiiiiii 1 1 hi 11 'UU nUHHHHi i. i NEW YORK (AP) -fUSFL commissioner -'Harry Usher said his league is dying and laid the blame on the rival NFL Tuesday, saying that the 4-year old league had been "pushed and shoved" by J. its larger rival into its situation. Usher's impassioned "statement came as he as being cross exam-ined in the trial of the iiUSFL's $1.5 billion 'trust suit against the NFL. Frank Rothman, the NFL's lawyer, asked him why the USFL had out of major markets and into small-" er cities like Memphis, rf Jacksonville and Orlando.

Usher outlined the series of financial failures that led to some of the moves, then said it was 1M all the work of the NFL, which, he said, followed the plan laid out for it during a seminar by a Harvard Business School professor in February, 1984. "What happened," said, "was that competition on I. player's salaries was 'really realized, the NFL went up to Harvard and to the strategy to interrupt our television money in the narrow window we had. "It was a brilliant jlan, a brilliant strategy. The net result is that we are dying.

We have been pushed and shoved by the NFL into the situation. It is not our choice, it is the NFL's business plan and choice. We are the little guy and they are the big "guy and that's what this suit is all about." Usher had begun his testimony Monday by enumerating the troubles he had with ABC and claiming that Roone Arledge, the head of the Network's news and sports departments, had informed him that the NFL was unhappy when ABC gave the league its original con- tract for spring play. In addition to $1.5 billion in damages, the USFL is' seeking to have the NFL barred from at least one of the three major networks. Rothman went back over that testimony Tuesday, at one point asking Usher If he was aware of a 1984 offer by ABC's Jim Spence to extend the USFL's contract for three years at $175 million if the league did not switch to fall schedule for 1986.

"No, because it never happened," said Usher, took over as USFL commissioner in January, 1985. Usher said, however, that he had heard ofdis-rXcusslons between Spence and the late John Bassett, then own- Johan Kriek bows in exhaustion on the center court at Roland Garros Stadium after defeating. Guillermo Vilas in the quarterfinals of the French Open Tuesday. Inside Oklahoma said. "If I had stayed back and played his type of game, all I would have done was turn myself into a ball of cramps.

"He had to make the shots and I had to play like this. I had to put the pressure on him." Sometimes, Kriek put pressure on himself. By playing with so little margin of error, his game swung from brilliant to dismal, from an ace on one point to a double fault on another. And Vilas was relying on every trick he knows, showing his steadiness in the fourth set when Kriek had three break points for the match. The Argentine held on to win the game, then broke Kriek to tie the set at 5-5 with some amazing shots.

With the score 30-30, for example, Kriek sent a forehand screaming across court. Vilas, coming off two long matches, charged into the corner to get the ball and sent a lob the length of the court, landing on the line. Thinking the shot was going out, Kriek reacted late and sent a volley ankle-high into the net. "He made some balls that couldn't be made," Kriek said. Kriek said he can win on clay, even a surface such as that at Roland Garros.

"I think I have the game to win but I never believed in myself," he said. "I feel I have a good shot I'm still dreaming." When he was jumping from 278th in the world to the top 30 in the late 1970s and winning the Australian Open in 1981 and '82, Kriek had a reputation for a bad temper and concentration that wavered from point to point. He still talks to himself during a match, sometimes encouraging, more often berating. Against Vilas, there were many points when the old Kriek might have exploded or collapsed. He did nothing this time but win.

"Your whole attitude changes when you get older," said Kriek, who turned 28 in April, "Good old years of maturity. "Life's not perfect, and I'm not perfect. (But) Knowing what I am and what I'm doing, that's where I am. I came to tennis through the back door, I beat so many odds to get to where I am today. "That's what makes me so happy about what's happened." PARIS (AP) The last time Johan Kriek played in the French Open was 1979, and he didn't stay around Paris very long, dropping a first-round match.

But this year, Kriek says his wife wanted to do some shopping orj the Champs d'Elyseses and he is doing his best to pay the bills. "This is more fun," Kriek said Tuesday after surprising clay-court specialist Guillermo Vilas to advance to the semifinals of the Grand Slam tournament he usually avoids. "It's like a little fantasy world." A native of South Africa who became a U.S. citizen about five years ago, Kriek at No. 13 was the only American among the men's seeds following the last-minute withdrawal of No.

15 Jimmy Arias. The U.S. ranks had been depleted previously by John McEnroe's sabbatical from tennis to rejuvenate himself and await the birth of his son, and Jimmy Connors' absence because of a 10-week suspension for poor court behavior. Kriek was seeded because of his high computer ranking, achieved on the fast courts of outdoor asphalt and indoor carpet. His serve-and-volley game was a type rarely seen in the late rounds of the French Open, where patience is prized more than power on the clay courts.

Early round victories failed to give any indication of a change in that formula. Kriek won in straight sets against Carlos Kirmayer of Brazil, then struggled through a four-set victory over Milan Sjreber of Czechoslovakia and a five-setter over another Brazilian, Luis Mattar. Sunday, however, Kriek got a break. Yannick Noah, the fourth seed and riding a hot streak, defaulted his fourth-round match against Kriek because of an ankle injury. Suddenly, Kriek was on center court.

He made the most of it against Vilas with a game full of risks. He served deep, even when flirting with double faults. He charged the net, slamming volleys. He kept Vilas, the 33-year-old champion of nine years ago, off balance and won 3-6, 7-6, 7-6, 7-6. "At one point," Vilas said, "I knew the only way he could pass me was down the line.

He hit a topspin lob! That's the match." "If I hadn't risked, I wouldn't have won," Kriek 36 holes Monday at a sectional qualifying round at Houston Country Club. Former Oklahoma State golfers Rafael Alarcon and Jeff Maggert also qualified Monday in Houston. Alarcon, of Guadalajara, Mexico, qualified with 68-72. Maggert, from The Woodlands, Texas, won medalist honors at Houston with 70-68. He played two years at OSU before transferring last year to Texas Northwestern to Gain 7-Foot Center ALVA Seven-foot center Paul Van Den Einde plans to transfer from the University of Minnesota to Northwestern Oklahoma State University in; Alva, basketball coach Bob Battlsti said Tuesday.

Battisti said Van Den Einde made his decision Monday and will be able to play for the Rangers after sitting out one semester. Van Den Einde was listed as one of the top 30 high school prospects in the nation by Street and Smith's magazine a couple of years ago but saw little playing time at Minnesota. Battisti is a former assistant coach at Minneso- State Amateur Entries Open Spots are still open for two upcoming men's amateur golf tournaments sponsored by the Oklahoma State Golf Association: the state amateur championship, scheduled for June 16-21 at Tulsa Country Club, and the state mid-amateur, slated for July 24-25 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa. Entries close Friday for the state amateur and June 20 for the mid-amateur. Golfers eligible for the mid-amateur must be 25 years or older and have a handicap of five or less.

For information, contact Bill Barrett at the OSGA office by calling 340-6333 or writing to P.O. Box 449, Edmond, OK, 73083. OSU's Watts Qualifies for U.S. Open Oklahoma State golfer Brian Watts of Carrolton, Texas, has qualified for the 86th U.S. Open Championship to be played June 12-15 at Shinne-cock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y.

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Ever." Fryar, who reportedly was under investigation by the league for alleged gambling, took the 3-hour polygraph MAG WHEELS ALL AT SALE PRICES DAYTONA DAYTONA RADIAL 60 nearly seven hours of sports on television each week. The poll found fans estimating the average baseball salary at $219,000, well below the $371,000 average reported by the Major League Players Association. Respondents' estimates were low in the other major team sports as well an estimated $191,000 to an actual $234,000 in pro football; an estimated $226,000 to an actual $340,000 In pro basketball, and an estimated $137,000 to an actual $152,000 in hockey. Baseball is the best television attraction, 75 percent, to 72 percent for pro football, The most over-televised sport, according to the poll, is pro wrestling with 31 percent of the population saying it could get along with less of It on TV. While pro football was the second-most popular TV sport, 27 percent said there was too much of that sport on TV.

Seymour Lieberman, president of the reserach firm which conducted the questioning, said the poll had a plus-minus 3 percent margin of error. "We begin to see chinks In the fans' affection," he "It remains to be seen if this turns to disaffection. Wo see some erosion in the feeling that athletes are role models and he-roes," abusers," he said. "Rehabilitation plus one year (suspension) for the first time. The second time, it should be three to five years.

It's a privilege to play professional sports and the right to play should be upheld by those who don't use drugs." "I find the projection that 30 percent of pro basketball players experimented with drugs to be astounding," said Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers. "I can't see someone on the court, competing at the professional level, under the influence of mind-altering drugs. The estimate of 30 percent is mind-blowing. And I worry about baseball and football (which had higher estimates)." Erving said he favored testing as a means of combating the drug industry, which consists of "bright, wise professionals, committed to preying on young, Impressionable players In all sports. Testing is for the players' own benefit, to safeguard his professional years." On other subjects, the poll found seven out of 10 Americans think baseball players are overpaid, but grossly underestimated average salaries for all sports, and that although tho same percentage think too many events are cm television, most watch NEW YORK (AP) A $200,000 poll commissioned by Sports Illustrated shows that 86 percent of the American public believes professional athletes use Illegal drugs, and nearly three out of four of the respondents favor compulsory drug testing.

The poll, conducted last November and December by Lieberman Research, questioned 2,043 adults on a variety of sports-related Issues. On the subject of drugs, 62 percent of those questioned perceived pro football to have the most serious problem, with baseball second at 54 percent. Pro basketball was third at 29 percent. Seventy-three percent of those polled favored drug testing while only 14 percent opposed it. These results were gathered before the post-Super Bowl drug revelations involving the New England Patriots but after last summer's Pittsburgh drug trials where a number of major lea-guyc baseball players testified, Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres said he was concerned that testing "proporly protect the rights of the Individual," but took a hard lino on punishing drug offenders, "We need hard, firm rules for RADIAL 70 P2057OR14 tn.n P21570M4 158.86 SAA95 P84870B16 Itl.H P23670B15 16MB Tw pinTow msnaim turn.

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