The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 105

SECTIOX Eljc iHiami Herald Wc(L March 17 1976 Kitlm fiVrj io Oyanlna Camps Player Offer EDWIN POPE sports editor lounged in chairs around a horseshoe-shaped table They all nodded in agreement as Miller speaking softly but firmly called the proposal a relations plov How can this he called a final offer he mused at page 9 a list there ot 14 items issues to be discussed How tan we cote on such a We have nothing to vote MILIFR LAUNCHED in'o the matter ot the plan which the owners had labeled a great giveaway and which had provoked Gahcrin to remark after presentation of the proposal left my blood on the floor proposal does not make a Turn to Page 2E Col I the negotiator we change anything No no no Lee MacPhail piesident of American League was asked if talks would collapse it the exeiuuve board rejects the proposal MacPhail replied th it happens our pronosal will be withdrawn but it will not be a hinder-ance to Miller has summoned his executive board consisting of elected player representatives of the 24 major league clubs to a meeting Tampa today The board will study the owners proposal offering the unexpec ted concession on the so-called issue The owners who have knot spring training camps shuttered said opening ot these facilities will depend on a favorable recommendation of the board such a prospect anpeaiM bleak I am rtallv said Detroit outfit 1 It Rusty Staub sorething is done soon 1 thm'c things aie going to be pretty giae The official opening of the season is scheduled April less than three weeks away MILITR todtlcss and showing signs ot wear tiom hours at the negotiating table was surrounded bv some 3J placers when he called in le press and proceeded to rip the ow oifer to shreds 'lorn Ssavtr star pitcher of the New Yoik MeiS was at his lilt elbow Slugging tust baseman Wil-he Starg' 11 of the Pittsburgh Pirates chewtd on a cigar Outfielder Lou Brock of the St Louis Cardinals leaned ugunst the wall Others By WILL GRIMSLEY Associated Press ST PETERSBURG Chief negotiator Marvin Miller and a cordon of most influential players turned thumbs down on the major league widely hailed Tuesday throwing negotiations into another deep freeze The players challenged Commissioner Bowie Kuhn to make good his word and order opening of the training camps immediately No such action appeared imminent will recommend rejection of the latest said Miller executive director of the union reading of the sentiment is that the executive board will reject it THE OWNERS were shocked (Miller) has put this in one fine said John Gahenn -v nr is 's- ig tf S' VA- Rookies Lynn Eyelids and Aaron Main victims of baseball settlement (aside from owners natch) will be lesser teams and all rookies Clubs like Reds and Red Sox are set anyway and you like to be a greeme trying to make big league in three weeks before openers? Count Oriole Jim Palmer among those figuring Fred Lynn for long-haul superstardom Two-time Cy Young Award winner expect Red Socker to go 331 again got all the tools not like so Lf 7f many kids trying to pull everything for a homer He hits the ball where pitched Pitch him outside and go to left field Pitch him inside and pull Droopy eyelids (myasthenia gravis for purists) all bad for retired coach Weeb Ewbank I catch the dickens from some girls who LYNN think winking at says 68-year-old Ewbank good news is that I now qualify as a National Football League If Tommy Giordano qualified as new director of scouting who is? He led Henry Aaron in home runs in Sally League Quietest as well as one of brightest of young golf tourists is Mark Hayes answer to country singer Whispering Bill Anderson After Hayes counts his first million make a great guard at Metropolitan Museum of Art Tell me kidding Ring Magazine rating Jimmy Young ahead of Joe Frazier Next Sports Illustrated will carry Dan Jenkins piece on Doral 18th hole as toughest 18th anywhere About twilight 19th was no cinch either Happiness in Carl Miami spring football training is Eddie Edwards better than ever at defensive tackle Frank Makarevich switching from OT to guard Mike White from OG to center and Eldridge Mitchell coming back strong at cornerback Cirfv Kicks amt Manny ANGELO DUNDEE have to do much cut-work with Muhammad Ali but learned hard way Angelo remembers bleed at a press Ex-Florida punter Dave Bludworth has no kick state attorney for 15th Judicial Circuit at West Palm Beach Patriots have resigned themselves to losing unhappy QB Jim Plunkett sooner or later They handed Steve Grogan five-year contract practically unprecedented for a No 2 (Now if Dolphins will only do same for Earl Morrall be safe until at least 46) i i 1 i i I 44 ve JCXWK1WI y--yWVsy rr jmpw mum iy 11 1 ihj I i 4 i'iTf 1 4 i y-Jr Jr Super Bowl Home Is Superdome Special To The Herald SAN DITCiO New Oileans and its new S173-nullion Superdome were awardid the 1 97S Super Bowl football game by the National Football League 1 uesdav But Dade nine man delegation came away from the meeting heartened by prospects that the game will return to Orange 4 Bowl for the fifth time by 1980 NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle announced the selection that takes the premiere pro football game to New Orleans for the fourth tune In 1970 1972 and 1975 the game was held in the uncovered Tulane stadium A spokesman for the Superdome said it would be possible to accommodate between 76000 and 80000 for the game which will be played Jan 15 1978 Rose Bowl will be the site ot the 1977 game an award made last year DOLPHINS owner Joe Robbie who assisted in the Dade presentation said Miami was passed over it (Super Bowl X) was just played here and the game has never been in the Su-pe-dome But Miami Commissioner Plummer head of the delegation said Rozelle indicated that games beginning in 1979 will be rotated among those cities who have already hosted the Super Bowl A firm rotation including Miami was a major goal of the delegation Lew Price director of the Miami-Metro Depaitment of Publicity and Tourism added is a possibility the owners will consider the Orange Bowl as the site for 1979 when they meet Phoenix Ari7 in May ROZELLE said four ballots were necessary for New Orleans to gain the approval of the 21 teams necessary to make the award He said the selection was not unanimous among the 28 owners Ben Levy execulite dnector of the Superdome responded to criticism launched previously that hotels and moiels hiked prices by saying an agreement had been reached under which rooms would be priced ai their normal rales same as the rest of the Bidding for the 1978 game in addition to New Orleans and Miami were Los Angeles Pasadena Hous- toh and Dallas However Dallas' was unab'e to put on the game on the specified date because of previ- ous commitments of hotel rooms' lor a convention Orleans led all the Roelle said of the balloting had the largest number of votes on each ballot LAST January at Super Bowl between Dallas and Pittsburgh the OB attendance was 80187 and Rozelle said the television audience numbered 0 million The NFL Pro Bowl game was held in New Orleans this year at tne Superdome home of the New Orleans Saints of the NFL Selection of the Super Bowl site for 1978 was the maior item of business at annual meeting session of the NFL owners i I 5 I 5 4 i '1 jy sy Topsy Tiirvy JOE ELUERT Miami Herald Staff Whittaker while stealing and sent him sprawling Carol City defending state Class Carol City Cesar Zamora sliding into AAAA champion recorded its seventh victo- second proves upsetting to Jay ry in eight games with a 4-0 decision at Scott Whittaker Zamora who was safe undercut Park Whitey shortstopping son Eddie 22 hoping to move up to triple A farm at Pawtucket And Whitey was all smiles at gift of $12 leisure jacket from Mickey Mantle until it cost him $15 to get it altered More golf and show biz for charity May 1 in Manny Fernandez Classic at Country Club of Miami Bob Hope Jackie Gleason Tom Poston Efrem Zimbalist Jr Rick Hurst Claude Akins and others promise be there Call 667-1011 to enter or buy tickets but call Manny doubling as national sports chairman for retarded citizens Fernandez coming off two operations within six weeks had a total of eight in Dolphin career threatening record of old Chief Ilolub Anyone for a pair of Jack old boxing gloves? Jim Atkins is taking bids at 6108 Knoll Valley Drive Clarendon Hills 111 60514 Yep wives you can buy too Howard Cosell aghast at TV overkill of Ali-Coopman farce: respect Brent Musburger as a journalist but if done the hype job that he did be getting heat from Luis Robin Hood and Rice TOUPEE MljST NOT have damaged Luis brain still learning every day at Series hero says who think they know everything already are the dumbest people in the I know the state of archery in the state of Arkansas but city of Conway out thataway has a new cop named Robin Hood And the more we hear about Homer Rice the more we suspect Chinese blood Rice new Rice University coach will play first game in Rice Stadium Guess who Expo catcher Larry Doby Johnson was named for Also guess be coaching Expos at Daytona Beach Larry Doby If horse trainer LeRoy Jolley had black hair instead of brown be Bob Newhart And if Bob Newhart had Foolish Pleasure and Honest Pleasure he have to have a TV show Bill Koch only won silver medal in Olympic cross-country skiing but takes gold medal for brevity with answer to question as to whether lived Vermont all his life said Koch Kyle Rote Jr knows his goals looking to ministry when soccer days are over Now an incentive program with a bite to it Students in Modric Yugoslavia get one-year free fishing permit for high marks Ford and Agnew on same ticket? Sure on a West Texas high school football team named New Deal Football Foundation Honors VWs Gustafson Harding Boilermakers had snapped Notre 37-game winning streak put us on the map in big-time Gustafson said were 100000 people at the airport when we came hack There was a spontaneous parade to Bay-front Park Both Gustafson and Mrs Harding Sei they never nuss a LM home me And they both otfer leasons for the decline in attendance the past decade program is in good hands now with Pete Llliott and Carl Sel-mer but I wish I could wave a magc wand and bring more fans said Gustafson tragic that onlv 30 600 saw the Notre Dame game last year moie When Mrs Harding was asked what could be done she winked and said a BOTH Gustafson and Mrs Har- By JIM MARTZ Herald Sports Writer Andy Gustafson fondly remembers the glory days of University of Miami football when every seat the Orange Bowl was sold and 100-000 people showed up at the airport to greet the team after the 1950 victory over Purdue And Louise Harding will never forget the time her late husband Jack took the Hurricanes to Gainesville in 1938 to play Florida for the first time upstarts won (19-7) and it led to the Florida coach being she recalls Those glory days were recognized Tuesday by the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame The executive director James McDowell Jr announced that Gustafson and Harding would receive Distinguished American Awards for their contributions to the athletic success PLAQUES will be presented to Gustafson and Mrs Harding at opening game Sept 18 against Florida State in the Orange Bowl McDowell also said Gustafson and Harding have been selected as National Football Hall of Fame candidates and will appear on the 1977 ballot this November Mayberry Reported In Million Deal KANSAS CITY (AP) John Ma berry Kansas City first base-man who placed second to Fred Lvnn of Boston as the American Most Valuable Player reportedly has signed a five-year $1 million contract The Kansas Cny Times reported it was reported that the Royals will make the official announcmenet of the contract sometime this week Last season Mayberry batted 291 while slamming 34 home runs and driving 119 runs The newspaper said Mavberrv will receive from $80000 to $100 OiO a season in salary for the duration of the contract with the rest spiead over the next 20 years GUSTAFSON HARDING is the first time the Vami chapter of the Ndfonal Foundation has presented the re McDowell said think in time the university will have several plavers worthy of nonvnation And Pete Elliott (athletic director and former coach) is a Hall of Fame candidate Harding served as head football coach from 1937-47 and was athletic director from 1937 to 13 the year he died His teams compiled a 54-32-3 record and appeared in one bowl game GUSTAFSON vas head coa from 148 63 and athletic director from 1963-68 His 1950 team upend ed Purdue 20-14 a week after the INSIDE SPORTS believe the decline in LM attendance goes hand-m-hand with the rise of the Dolphins Jcel the pios appreciate what the colkpts do for Mr Hardirg said warming to the topic they dcstrov college football destroy tneir means of reuniting They should get down and say and help out MICHIGAN STATE football coach Denny Stolz resigned under pressure and basketball coach Gus Ga-nakas was ousted Page 3E INDIANA University won the final Associated Press college basketball poll Marquette was second and Ne-vada-Las Vegas thiid Page 3E.