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BARRY ROBINSON Bad sleeping habits for Charger fans San Diego Charger fans are losing lots of sleep over their team these days. That is. San Diego fans are forced to change their sleeping habits in order to see the Chargers play. You may have noticed the San go-St. Louis game story in yesterday's sports section here.

It a Monday night national televised game it was an extremely early morning game Monday. The Chargers and Cardinals slugged it out in Tokyo in a special bicentennial production by the NFL. KIckoff was 6:30 p.m. in Tokyo but back in San Diego it was 2:30 Monday morning. And the poor people in St.

Louis had to stay awake until 4:30 a.m. to see the start of the game. Cardinal fans, however, didn't mind it because tbelr team whipped the Chargers, 20-10. Besides, they can return to normal sleeping habits this weekend when their Cards take on Chicago here in this country. Also.

St. Louis residents had fun with their new schedule. Thousands of Cardinal fans went to bed at 8 Sunday night and woke up Monday morning at 4. They ate breakfast and drank coffee during the game, showered and dressed at half time and then took off to the office after the contest, which ended about 7 in the morning in St. Louis.

It that simple for Charger fans. Most of them stayed awake all Sunday night atching the late ie so that they fall asleep before the 2:30 a.m. clash. By the time their team was whipped, it was 5 loo early to go to work but much too late to go to sleep. But to really make matters worse for Charger fans is the fact that there will be another strange schedule awaiting them this weekend.

Theip Chargers depart Tokyo, here they practiced yesterday and today, early tomorrow morning and fly directly to Honolulu, Hawaii, where they play the 49ers Saturday night. Late, late Saturday night in San Diego. To be exact, 11 Here in San Antonio the game actually starts Sunday at 1 a.m. Most San Diego fans mind the inconvenience earlier this week because their Chargers were boasting a perfect 2-0 record. More wins than losses been too common in San Diego" in recent years.

But if San Diego loses again this week, it might lose a few former backers. Football fanatics are funny people. They mind missing church to Finley rules with iron hand By BILL LIBBY Charles 0. Finley was entertaining a writer in his Oakland apartment. the one about the uniforms, when you were playcr-manager of semipro learns in Jimmy Piersail prompted.

Finley beamed. "Ah. he said. "VVell, I went to ail the merchants in town asking them each to give $25 to pay for our uniforms. In return I assured them have the names of Iheir firms on the backs of our shirts.

"What I did then was to go out and buy 98-cent sweat shirts and just have the firm names stenciled on. The full unifornis cost more than $15 apiece. The rest was he concluded proudly. "Is that the most money made out of he was asked. I think you could say Finley said.

A former member of his front office staff says, would spend money on some things and not on other things. pay big bonuses to sign players, then refuse them fair If he felt in a generous mood he'd offer a player a lionus or a raise, but if a player asked for It never gel It. No expense account kept giving his last manager, Dick new (ontracls with raises, but he refused to give him an expense account He probably was the only manager in the majors without an expense account. In fact, he deducted $2,100 from 1973 World Series share to cover expense's illiams had run up. Joe DiMaggio was coaching for the club primarily fur his image, he made the mistake of asking Finlc'y for a desk.

Finley to give it to him. He said coaches net'd desks, but DiMag was mainly a public-relations reprexsentative for the team. He brought in a lot of mail, but he have a desk to sit at to read it or a secretary to help him answer it. paid some of his staff very well because it gave him a This is the feorth in a six-part series ob Charles O. Flnley, the controversial owner of the Oakland hold on them, but he pay others very well bt'cause he have to.

People would keep quilting him and replace them with kids just out of college or young girls with no experience or friends of friends for whom he wanlt'd to do favors, and a lot of them had been out of work and he have to pay them much. time he told his publicity director he was making more than his promotion dirc'ctor and he told his promotion director he was making more than his publicity dirc'ctor and when they realized what told Ihem they compared notes and found out they were making exactly the same salary. offer guys raises one day and fire them the next. The surest thing about him was you never knew where you stood with him. It gave you an insecure feeling.

He liked guys to be uneasy. He felt it See FINLEY, Page 41) Veteran Miami safety Scott given suspension "W- QT I Seorelioard San Antonio Express or V. 1 College 8ff Bf. wL JL Dan Page 3D 40 Page 1 Wednesday August 1 8 1976 see a winner but they tolerate missing sleep to watch a losc'r. Bears optimistic Perhaps the most excited team in the NFL today is Chicago and the main reason the Bears are thinking big things is young Bob Avellini.

A year ago Avellini was virtually unnoticed in the Chicago camp at Lake Forest College. Many days reporters saw him sleeping under shade trees between workouts and even recognize him. This season Bob is the most popular player in the Bear camp. Reporters stand in line waiting to interview him after most practice sessions. Avellini was a rookie, sixth round draft pick out of Maryland last season and he even supposed to make the final Bear roster.

He did, though, probably because there an abundance solid quarterbacks on roster. Anyway, Avellini stayed on the bench for the important part of the season and the Bears lost far more than they won. They lost so much, in fact, that Coach Jack Pardee decided to try Avellini as his starting quarterback in the final four games. The Bears responded by winning half of those four games, not an impressive feat for many NFL clubs but a startling accomplishment for win- starved Chicago. when the optimism started.

Confident now Cominjg into this season, Pardee announced that Avellini would begin exhibition play as his No. 1 quarterback. still No. 1 after half the preseason in which the Bears are undefeated with a 3-0 record. And confident that he will remain No.

1. "Now that been here and seen what about, I know as good as our other quarterbacks (Gary Huff and Virgil says Avellini. knows all there is about quarterbacking. studied films of the other quarterbacks in the and even the veterans still throw the ball right in the middle of a zone. why when I throw a ball and intercepted and run back 90 yards I hate to hear people say a dumb rookie mistake a mistake every quarterback makes.

he adds, Namath led the league in interceptions (28) last year. I think do that." The former nobody is now a touted somebody who makes pretty good sen.se. COMnilD ftOM SitViCES MIAMI Veteran safety Jake Scott of the Miami Dolphins has been suspended after refusing to test an injured shoulder in an exhibition game. Scott, who has been troubled by an ailing shoulder since he entered training camp this summer, refused to play the second half of a NFL preseason game against Philadelphia last weekend. Scott reportedly said that he mind being injected with pain killer before a regular season game, but he objected to the Irealmenl for an exhibition contest.

Miami Coach Don Shula said personal physician. Dr. Fred Allman of Allunta. cortisone could be injected if the shoulder is painful and Jake should be able to play without problem." Scott visited Allman last week, according to the Dolphins. Scott, who is entering his seventh year in the NFL, is praised in tlu Dolphin press guide for his "wiUing ness to play with injury." Spurs may not hire assistant TOMMY BOGGS, 20-year-old Texas Ranger pitcher, is dejected after giving up a ninth-inning home run to the New York Yankees' Graig Nettles Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium.

See story on Page 2D. wirephoto By JEFF GROSSMAN Of THE EXMESS STAFf There is a strong possibility Spur Coach Doug Moc will not have an assistant coach this season. Moe as well as Spur Trustee Angelo Drossos have said no one is under consideration for the position at this time. Further, both admit there is a chance that the position might not Longley, Landry have talk DALLAS Coaeh Tom Landry said Wednesday that suspended reserve quarterback Clint Longley had telephoned him regarding the training camp feud with Roger Stauhach but additi has called me Sunday night and said he felt bad about the embarrassment the incident had caused the said Landry. loss has bt'en a great blow to our football Landry refused to over whether Longley had asked to he forgiven for punching Stauhach last Thursday but there was every indication the Cowboys were attempting to comply with desire to he traded know what will See CLINT, Page 4D Thunder future brighter By JIM HLTTON Of THE EXPRESS STAFF Don Batie thinks the Thunder has finally constructed the foundation for a good soccer side of the future.

Whether that future lies in San Antonio is a question. Thunder finished its season with a 12-12 record, a tremendous improvement over the initial season mark of 6-16. And San Antonio, which suffered a horrible, lale-season slump, still managed to miss the playoffs by only a single point. I Angeles also finished 12-12 but had 108 points. The Thunder closed with 107.

made the right step, or maybe I should say kick, in forming a foundation fur next Batie said. be the first to admit we make all the right decisions but we grew with our players and The Thunder started fast, winning three of its first five matches and, at one time through the middle of the season, collected six out of eight games. Suddenly, the club hit the skids, losing five in succession which included three straight shutouts against Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. all the injuries we had going into that terrible slump, I think we would have leveled off and been in good shape for the Batie continued. it was abnormal," he reflected on the accumulation of iniuries.

At one time or another during that slump the Thunder lost the services of midfielders Jim Henry and Kddie Thomson, back Bub McNab and forwards Dan Counce and Victor Kodelja. "The key losses were Henry and Batie sighed. San Antonio played with a patchwork midfield, the most important segment of a soccer side, and it showE'd. eiuh'd the year with a team of wingers and Batie saul. never he caught short on midfielders Batie termed the slump and injuries the lurmiig point of the season.

San took miracle proportions when side won three of its final four and See THENDER, Page ID win, 2-0 SPfCtM lO IMt Exmsi NEW YORK The New York Co.s- nios deft'atiHi the Washington Diplomats, 2 (1, in a NASL Eastern Division playoff game Tut'sduy night before 22,698 fans at Sht'a Stadium. The Cosmos travel to Tampa Bay Friday night to nuvt the Rowdies, Eastern Division champions. and Terry Gar bell scored the Cosmos goals. officially exist in the first season in the National Basketball Association. one in have no one in mind (for assistant coach) said Moe.

could go either way on possibility exists that we have an as.sistant coach this Drossos. was an assistant coach the last four years under Lurry Brown, two yt'ars at Carolina and the last at Denver. Moe knows role So he knows that role well. And going without an assistant be an unprecedented tnove. St.

Uniis and Virginia imiploy assistants last season. And it is understood that the Spurs are especially conscious of saving since they are in Ihe process of paying their way into the NBA to the tune of $4.5 million. never spent money Just to spend Drossos, matter what the Lending credence to the thinking that there will he no assistant is the presence of Boh Bass, former coach and now assistant to Drossos. Bass to scout Bass will handle the professional and collegiate scouting for the club this season, traditionally one of the prime responsibilities of an assistant. Rudy Davuios had served as assistant hir the three years the team has been in San Antonio, first under Toni Nisaalke and later under Bass.

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