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Trial Begins Monday Jury Of 10 Selected For Raiders-NFL Case SO-Santa Cruz Sentinel Friday, May 15, 1981 AReal' Islanders Roll To Second Cup Finals Win UNIONDALE, N.Y. AP) The Minnesota North Stars looked more like their usual selves Thursday night but, unfortunately for them, the New York Islanders looked a lot like their old selves and cranked out a 6-3 victory in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals. The North Stars had scrambled back from a two-goal deficit to tie the game 3-3, but the defending National Hockey League champion Islanders then exploded for three straight goals in an eight-minute span to go ahead 2-0 in the best-of-seven series. "We looked more like ourselves tonight, but obviously it wasn't enough," said Minnesota Coach Glen Sonmor. "We were a lot more in this game than we were the other night.

At 3-3, 1 felt very good about our chances to win." After spotting Minnesota a 1-0 lead on a power play goal by rookie Dino Ciccarelli, his 13th of the playoffs, the Islanders forged a 3-1 advantage on goals by Mike Bossy, Bob Nystrom and Denis Potvin. Minnesota bounced back, however, on Brad Palmer's lone second-period goal and Steve Payne's 14th goal of the playoffs just 30 seconds into the third period. "You bet I was worried when they made it 3-3," admitted Butch Goring. "We stopped skating in the second period." Potvin took the worry out of being close, however, with his second goal of the game and eighth of the playoffs on a power play at the eight-minute mark of the final period. "That goal ignited the club and we took control," said Potvin, who recorded his 100th career playoff point.

"We started to feel high on the bench when we got that power J- 'Y discuss anything else." said attorney Robert M. Loeffler, who did admit the authenticity of an earlier report that he had been talking with attorneys for both sides. Attorneys weren't optimistic that Loeffler could bring a settlement before the case goes to trial in federal court, even though he helped resolve a sticky case involving the Equity Funding Corp. nine years ago. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times reported in today's editions that County Supervisor Pete Schabarum was leading an effort to break the Coliseum away from the suit and instead seek another NFL team for the stadium.

The report was attributed to unnamed sources. Schabarum refused comment because the case is in litigation. The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission brought suit in 1978, claiming the NFL was illegally trying to keep a team from replacing the Los Angeles Rams, who moved from the Coliseum to Anaheim Stadium in 1980. -The Raiders joined the antitrust suit last year. LOS ANGELES (AP) Attorneys for both the Oakland Raiders and the National Football League have agreed on the makeup of a 10-member jury, paving the way for opening testimony in the trial to begin next Monday.

The jury selection process was shortened substantially Thursday when attorneys on both sides agreed to forego further questioning of prospective jurors and settled on seven women and three men who were acceptable to both the Raiders and the NFL. The jury was to be sworn in today for the trial of the antitrust suit brought by the Raiders and the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission against the NFL. The Raiders, seeking to move to Los Angeles, are challenging the NFL rule requiring approval of three-fourths of the league's team owners for such a move. Meanwhile, U.S. District Judge Harry Pregerson brought in a mediator in hope of settling the case out of court.

"I have been asked by the judge to try and mediate a settlement. I can't CUB 0 dWHAT! IB jj WHAT a IS 8 IRISH RED? IP fl 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IS a id a (AP Laserpoto) Minnesota goalie Don Beaupre sat helpless after Islanders' sixth goal. Al Arbour, the Islanders' coach. "The North Stars were sharper than they were Tuesday and it took us a while to get our sharpness." Less than four minutes after Potvin scored his power play goal for a 4-3 lead, Ken Morrow connected on a wrist shot from the right point for a 5-3 cushion. Bossy's final goal came on a two-on-one break with Trottier from just inside the right faceoff circle.

"The Islanders aren't going to let you have things your own way just because you decide you want to control the tempo," said Minnesota's Bobby Smith. "They tightened up and really forced the game in our end." "After throwing our best at them we slowed down," said North Stars winger Brad Palmer. "We should have kept coming at them. When you get one you should go for two." Late in the game, Trottier exchanged words and shoves with Minnesota goalie Don Beaupre, who had a brilliant game until the roof caved in in the third period. And at 16:44, Minnesota's Brad Maxwell and Bob Bourne each received major penalties for fighting.

Also, Ciccarelli and Gord Lane were each nailed with misconduct penalties. "It's not a question of bad feelings between the two teams," said Minnesota defenseman Fred Barrett. "I've always enjoyed playing the Islanders because they don't rely on intimidation. Tonight it got a little rough around the edges but that's only due to the amount that's at stake. It's getting down to the bitter end." play." Potvin now has 23 playoff points, just one shy of the National Hockey League record for defensemen set by Bobby Orr back in 1972.

His eighth goal also leaves him just one short of the record held by Orr and Boston's Brad Park. Potvin wasn't the only one to set record, though. Bryan Trottier's assist on New York's final goal gave him at least one point in 15 consecutive games, snapping Orr's 1972 mark. "It's nice to have Orr's record," said Trottier. "I feel I'm being rewarded because the team is winning.

You really appreciate it when all the guys congratulate each other." Bossy, who scored the Islanders' first and last goals, scored on a power play at 4:33 of the first period to extend his own playoff record for power play goals in one season to nine. Bossy notched his 15th goal of the playoffs at 16:22 of the third period, giving him 29 points in the playoffs, which tied Trottier's record set a year ago. In contrast to Tuesday night's 6-3 defeat, when Minnesota did very little right, the North Stars looked sharp in rebounding from the 3-1 first-period deficit. "The score wasn't what we were looking for, but we skated much better and moved the puck much better," said Sonmor. "We made some big strides over the first game." "We didn't really get going until the third period," said MUE NLRB Investigating Complaint Baseball Strike Date May Be Delayed gave the players the right to strike before June 1 of this year if the two sides failed to reach agreement on a compensation plan.

No agreement has been reached, and the owners last February unilaterally put into effect a program providing for compensation for the loss of "ranking" free agents, to be determined by a formula involving batting and pitching performance. The players announced 10 days later that BRAND they would strike May 29. "The owners are not going to agree with the players to move back the strike deadline, and the players cannot do it unilaterally, since it in a signed contract, said Miller "Any postponement must come from the courts." SLiuLSo Miller added that no new contract talks, last held Monday, have been set by federal mediator Kenneth NEW YORK (AP) The National Labor Relations Board has talked with both sides about a complaint of unfair labor practices which could postpone the major league baseball strike set for May 29. Daniel Silverman, the NLRB's regional director in New York, said fact-finders from his office interviewed representatives of the clubowners Thursday, a week after the complaint was filed in Washington by the Major League Baseball Players Association. Marvin Miller, executive director of the union, and other representatives of the players were interviewed last Friday, Sil verman.

The players contend that the owners have failed to bargain by refusing to turn over financial data. The association says it-needs Ihe information to determine the validity of the owners' claim of financial hardships brought on by soaring free-agent salaries. The complaint contains a request for a U.S. District Court injunction to postpone the strike, if the NLRB tells the owners to turn over the-financial records. 3 "If that is the outcome, considering the time sequence, the owners would need time to compile the data and supply it to us, and we would need time to analyze it and bargain on it," Miller said Thursday.

He added, however, that postponing the strike deadline would not be easy. When the players and owners narrowly averted a strike last May by agreeing to all points of a new basic contract expect free-agent compensation, the settlement Moffett. mm Silverman said he would discuss the investigation with his agents today to see if more evidence is needed before acting on the players' complaint. "We will then have to decide whether to act on it here or send it to the general counsel in Washington," he said. "Then, we'll have to decide whether there is enough evidence to warrant a complaint and a hearing before an administrative law judge and, on the injunction request, whether it should be taken before a (U.S.

District) judge." Whatever the regional office decides, he said, "it is reasonable to conclude that we would complete the process well before May 29." Unser Just Waiting Around At Indy finish. He's started on the front row seven other times, including both years (1968 and 1975) he won the race. Speeds here are significantly faster than last year, when Johnny Rutherford won the race after starting from the pole with a 192.256 mph average. Unser said a new rule by the U.S. Auto Club barring side skirts which help create an aerodynamic downforce and virtually glue a car to the track did not have the intended effect of slowing speeds to make the "little guys" more competitive with the big-money teams.

"The problem now is they've just about finished off the little guy. You can't hurt teams like Penske, because we'll figure out how to get the speed back," Unser said. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) "Dry the track off, and I'm ready," says two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Bobby eager for a break in the rainy weather and a chance to qualify his new Penske race car. Only nine cars were able to qualify last Saturday because of rain, and Sunday's session was washed out entirely. Practice this week also has been curtailed, and a steady, drizzle kept the Indianapolis Motor Speedway track closed all day Thursday.

"I've been ready for a long time," said Unser, one of five drivers yet to qualify who in practice have topped the tenatitve pole-position speed of 196.078 mph set by A.J. Foyt Saturday. The National Weather Service forecast a 20 percent chance of rain today, tapering off in the afternoon and becoming partly sunny Saturday, the next-to-last scheduled session of time trials. Unser, 47, has been practicing in his backup Penske PC9B this week when the weather allowed it since his primary racer had already been set up for last weekend's qualifications. So, he says, he's, been concentrating on getting the backup ready for the May 24 race, in case it's needed.

"We did some race testing with it." he said. "We've been trying to get the backup ready just as a good spare. We've had the extra time (because of the rain). My (primary) car is already set for qualifications, and I'd hate like hell to change anything on it now." Judging by practice speeds, there doesn't seem to be much difference which car Unser drives. His top practice lap in the car he will drive in qualifications has been 199.510 mph, and the fast lap in the backup is 199.159.

Only two other drivers have gone faster Rick Mears, Unser's Penske teammate and the 1979 Indy winner, clocked at 200,312 mph, and Danny Ongais, twice timed at 200 mph. Unser, seeking a starting spot in the Indy race for the 19th consecutive year, has won the pole position only once, in 1972, when he led 30 laps before a mechanical failure knocked him out of the race and gave him a 30th-place 49ers Sign Two DBs, Waive Another Corner SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The San Francisco 49ers, who chose four defensive backs in the recent National Football League draft, announced Thursday the signing of two: Eric Wright of Missouri and Lynn Thomas of Pitt. The 49ers also announced that veteran cornerback Gerard Williams has been waived. Charles Cornelius, a cornerback waived earlier this spring, has been claimed by Green Bay. Wright was a second-round draft pick and Thomas was taken in the fifth round.

The other defensive backs drafted by the 49ers were first-round choice Ronnie Lott of Southern Cal and third-round choice Carlton Williamson of Pitt. Newly signed free agents who will report to the 49ers' July training camp are wide receiver Henry Williams from Long Beach State, center Paul Belluomini from Cal-Davis and defensive back Saladin Martin from San Diego State. BUOY THE FIXE TASTE OF IRISH RED BREW! Ask for some today at your favorite retailer Distributed by Filice Distributors Inc. Phone 426-9663 2521 Mission Santa Cruz.