Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 70

CALGARY HERALD May 28, 1986 F3 Shepherd running for a job Football League's outstanding rookie. He became a running back with a limp a year later when he was felled by a hip injury and played in only 12 games during the next two seasons. At 29, some consider him a bit ancient for a comeback. Shepherd only shakes his head. He's heard the whispers and feeds off their doubts.

"I never lost my confidence. I knew it was just a matter of getting my health back and I've got it. I feel like a 20-year-old I'm just as strong and I'm just as fast." His speed would seem to be back, running a 4.4 over 40 yards during an off-season workout. He became a free agent in March but his performance the last two years did little to enhance his marketability. He's agreed to a one-year pact which will give the team time to assess his health while he'll have the opportunity to raise his stock.

"We've been a little concerned with the ST. CATHARINES, Ont. (CP) Only a Bernie Ruoff punt away from Niagara Falls, Brock University has been collecting its share of stray honeymooners this week. Dave Sauve, Jedd Tommy, Poncho James and Johnny Shepherd signed lifetime contracts during the off-season, but this week hasn't been much of a honeymoon for the quartet of Hamilton Tiger-Cat hopefuls. It's been more like a trial separation with long-distance phone calls the only link between bride and groom.

Shepherd had hardly enough time to kiss the bride goodbye before returning from LaGrange, N.C., where he had married Karen Dixon, his high school sweatheart. "She's staying there until things get settled with football and I find us a place to live," said Shepherd. He would like to settle the football business early. There are some who doubt he can regain the form which earned him a 1983 Schenley Award as the Canadian physical thing," says head coach Al Bruno. "But I've been impressed by his speed ani his attitude (has) shown me he really want i to play.

We could have a real battle at tiv j. position." Shepherd has been sharing the backfield with returnees Poncho James, George Works and Derrek Peels. Another candidate is expected today. Tom Bennett, five-foot-11 and 195 pounds; is out of C.W. Post College and earned his invitation during a recent free agent camp at Columbus, Ohio.

"I try not to think about the competition," says Shepherd. "How well I do is up to me. "The last couple of years were really frustrating." Shepherd had little trouble getting to the church on time with teammates Grover Covington and Mitchell Price doing the blocking. The pair doubled as ushers. USFL continues to tackle seminar I -r-a Associated Press Yannick Noah survived a scare at French Open Court battle goes to Noah NEW YORK (AP) The executive director of the National Football League's Management Council was expected to testify further today on the league's labor management seminars as the antitrust suit between the United States' rival professional football leagues continues.

On Tuesday, Jack Donlan testified for an hour in answer to questions from United States Football League lawyer Harvey Myerson centring on the seminars, specifically a Harvard Business School study entitled "How To Conquer The USFL." Donlan testified that the Harvard study was merely an analysis tool and not a concerted effort by the National Football League to destroy the fledgling league. "It's purpose was to teach us how to analyse the competition, so you can get a better handle on (individual player) negotia tions," Donlan said as testimony resumed in the three-week-old case after a four-day holiday break. "It was nothing but what comes out of most labor-management seminars," Donlan said of the study presented to the 65 NFL representatives in February 1984. "I thought it was just to be a lead-in." NFL commissioner Pete Ro-zelle testified earlier in the trial that he felt "physically ill" when he heard what was contained in the seminar and added that he had no prior knowledge of the seminar before its presentation. Myerson concentrated on past NFL labor management seminars with Donlan, asking if he had had any conversations with Al Davis, Los Angeles Raiders' general partner, and Ed Garvey, former director of the NFL Players' Association, about antitrust violations contained in a 1981 seminar.

"Do you deny having had dirty examination of the case." Porter and Bell stressed throughout their testimony that suggestions were merely "ideas or notions." The USFL contends that the seminar was a strategic battle plan aimed at them. Porter's response was that it was "not a strategy or advice but rather a laundry list, a framework of thinking." Bell also testified that "by no stretch of the imagination should any of these ideas be called strategies." Porter and Bell said they provided disclaimers about the feasibility or practicality of the seminar after making their presentation. Bell added, "One should take what we have to say with a grain of salt." There was a possibility of repeating the lecture, but within a few weeks, Bell said he was was told by Donlan "that Roi zelle thought that there would be negative antitrust such conversations?" Myerson asked. "Yes sir," Donlan replied. During his testimony, Donlan insisted that the 1984 seminar, which included such items as dissuading ABC-TV out of its contract with the USFL and bankrupting financially-weak teams, was to be used as a guideline.

Read into the record Tuesday were depositions from Prof. Michael Porter, a member of the Harvard Business School faculty who made the presentation to the NFL clubs, and his assistant, Michael Bell. Porter said he was paid $3,000 for what he estimated was probably only 1 hours worth of preparation work before giving his two-hour presentation. Bell said he was furnished with some background information by the NFL concerning both leagues, such as salary and revenue. Porter described Bell's "limited" research as a "quick and PARIS (AP) French players and fans provided most of the emotion Tuesday in the first round of the French Open as four of their countrymen advanced, while chances for an American to win the men's title have grown slim.

With Jimmy Arias of Buffalo, N.Y., out of the tournament with a badly-sprained right ankle leaving only one seeded American male Frenchmen Yannick Noah and Tank Benhabile8 provided the excitement of the round before a cheering, chanting crowd. With winds swirling the clay of Roland Garros Stadium's Centre Court into clouds of red dust, Noah and his little-known opponent battled for three hours 47 minutes before Noah served rn ace that capped a 6-3, 6-4, 6-7, 6-7, 6-4 victory. On the final changeover, the crowd rose and applauded both players. The cheers continued through the final point moments later. Today, Noah is to face American Sammy Giammalva in the second round.

"I'll have a massage and rest," Noah said of his quick turnaround. "It would have been better with a day's rest, but rules are rules." The top seeds also were to see action in the second round as Ivan Lendl met Jakob Hla-sek of Switzerland and Martina Navratilova faced Larissa Sav-chenko of the Soviet Union. In other second-round matchups, Chris Evert Lloyd, the No. 2 women's seed, was to face Nathalie Herreman of France, third-seeded Steffi Graf of West Germany was to meet American Gretchen Rush and fifth-seeded Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia was to meet Virginie Paquet of France. Helen Kelesi of Edmonton and Mary Joe Fernandez of the United States had their match halted by darkness Tuesday and resumed today with the second set tied 2-2.

Fernandez won the opener 7-6. No. 13 seed Carling Bassett of Toronto faces Pascale Et-chemendy of France, while Martin Wostenholme of Oak-ville, meets 12th seed Guillermo Vilas of Argentina. The lone remaining American men's seed, South Africa-born Johan Kriek, the 13th seed, was to face Czechoslova-kian Milan Srejber. Navratilova advanced easily Tuesday in her opening match, beating Sandra Cecchini of Italy 6-3, 6-3.

Winning among the men's seeds were No. 2 Mats Wiland-er 6-0, 4-6, 6-1, 6-1 over Ricar-do Acuna of Peru, and No. 11 Martin Jaite of Argentina, 6-1, 3-6, 0-6, 6-2, 6-4 over Ronald Agenor of Haiti. To complete the sparkling day for the French, No. 8 Henri Leconte defeated Spaniard David de Miguel 6-3, 6-1, 6-3; No.

10 Thierry Tulasne beat Italian Francesco Cancel-lotti 4-6, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; and unseeded Guy Forget, struggling in recent months, also won on Centre Court, beating Pablo Arraya of Peru, 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6. Other seeded women advancing included Mandlikova, a 6-7 (7-5), 6-3, 6-3 winner over Sab-rina Goles of Yugoslavia, No. 4 Claudia Kohde Kilsch, who beat American Lori McNeil, 6-4, 6-2; No. 10 Zina Garrison of the United States, a 6-2, 6-3 winner over Romanian Gabrie-la Dinu; and No. 7 Kathy Rinaldi, who defeated Hu Na, 6-1 6-1, in a match between American players.

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