Lexington Herald-Leader from Lexington, Kentucky • 19

-O' Count One Strike Biggest Rhubarb Ends With Compromise By HERSCHEL NISSENSON Associated Press Sports Writer A shortened baseball season will finally get under way 11 days late Saturday but before the first pitch Is thrown the sport has two losers and a count of (me strike 1 The first general walkout in file history of the so-called national pastime ended Thursday on two in Chicago where major league club owners voted to pick up the season beginning Saturday and cancel all games called off by the strike and in New York where the player representatives agreed The pennant races thus will be decided on a percentage basis since not all teams will play the same number of games Technically the races always are decided on per- centage but games affecting the final standings usually are made up In the American League East Baltimore has 154 games remaining Boston and New York 155 and Cleveland Detroit and Milwaukee 156 In the AL West Chicago Kansas City Minnesota and Texas will play 154 games California and Oakland 155 and Pittsburgh in the National League East show 155 games left while Montreal New York Philadelphia and St Louis have 156 In the NL West Houston and San Diego have 153 Atlanta and Cincinnati 154 and Los Angeles and San Francisco 155 All 24 teams will lose at least one home ame The only dispute still remain until the year-end negotiations between players and owners a new basic involves Kansas City and Chicago in the AL West Ewing Kauffman owner at the Royals says he will protest any games his club bas to play against Chicago this weekend because the White Sox disregarded a lc-nie directive and allowed their players to work out in White Sox Park during the strike opening day schedule looks like this: American Minnesota at Oakland Texas at California (night) Chicago at Kansas City Boston at Detroit Mil- waukee at Cleveland New York at Baltimore National Pittsburgh at New York Montreal at St Louis Philadelphia at Chicago Los Angeles at Cincinnati San Francisco at Houston (night) Atlanta at San Diego (night) The players went on strike April 1 in a dispute with the owners over the amount of money owners would contribute to the pension plan That wiped out the last four days of spring training and the walkout continued into the regular season scheduled to start April 5 Today would have been the 10th day of the campaign The owners whose annual contribution to the plan came to $54 million offered an increase of $490000 earmarked solely for the health care segment of the pension plan The players were asking a 17 per cent cost-of-living rise in retirement benefits The first break came early this week when the owners who had not offered a penny for retirement benefits offered to allocate $400000 from a huge interest surplus built up by the pension fund The players lowered their demand from 17 per approximately to $600000 and the two sides finally compromised on $500000 That left pay for made-up games as the only issue At first the owners wanted to reschedule all lost games with no salary The players offered to give up one pay The owners proposed to pay the players for games made up on open dates or as part of a separate admission doubleheader but not for those rescheduled as part of one-admission twin bills Finally the owners decided to start the season Saturday Since the players are paid on the basis of a 182-day campaign rather than a 162-game season they will each lose 10-182nds of their salary For thole earning the $13500 minimum it will amount to $740 For those at the major league average of $32500 $1780 For Hank Aaron who pulls down a record $200000 a year it comes to a loss of $10980 The owners were losers too Some estimates place the loss at $5 million including gate receipts parking concessions and one canceled national television game "Nobody said commissioner Bowie Kuhn who called the meeting in Chicago "The players suffered the owners suffered baseball suffered I hope all learned a lesson I will work with people in baseball for procedures to prevent this sort of thing in the future Nobody wants it "I think fair to say nobody ever wins in a strike said Marvin Miller executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association "This one is no ex- ception not going to claim victory even though our objectives were Meanwhile it remained to be seen how the players would be received by the fans "Regardless of how the fans felt before I think be glad to see the players run onto the field said Wes Parker of the Los Angeles Dodgers Play ball! Richest Ashland Draws Ten Silent Beauty Wins Myrtlewood was nemed for the great foundation brood mare of the Combs opened a lead of three or four lengths in an effort to steal the race Manganello kept Silent Beauty skimming the rail and began to cut into the advantage around the turn At the head of the stretch the tiring Running Beauty bore wide Manganello seized the opening just as he did so often with 1969 Kentucky Derby winner Dust Commander Silent Beauty and Running breeding fortunes Myrtlewood the fourth dam of Silent Beauty Dorothy Joan broke cm top from her outside post position But Bobby Kotenko shot Running Beauty to the front before the field had covered a sixteenth of a mile Down the backstretch She Beauty ran down the stretch as a team heads nodding in a bitter duel until the Combs filly began to edge away in the last sixteenth of a mile The Renieman miss barely lasted by a neck over the late charge of Levee Night It was another 1V4 lengths back to Kinship Girl a 35-1 shot who finished fourth Silent Beauty is trained by Fischer Leslie son Brownell Combs represented bis father in the circle after the Myrtlewood Boot a first-time starter who showed no workouts in the past performances was bet down to the 2-1 second choice in the first race apparently because he is trained by Herb Stevens known locally for his ability with first-time starters The gelding belonging to Mrs James Gallagher overcame a long early lead built up by Ala Man to win at $6 even and launch a 3-8 Daily Double completed by Gus Mr Spirit in the second event at $9 even The combination returned $2680 Mr Spirit is trained by Doug Davis Jr of Versailles who became the first trainer at the meeting to saddle three winners Davis who became a grandfather Wednesday night added to the celebration in the fifth race with a one-two finish for his entry of Patricia Appihilate Em and Bosuns Falcon the latter owned by Davis in partnership with George Holtsinger WELL Jockey Mike Manganello stands in the irons after piloting Silent Beauty to a 1V4 length victory in the Myrtlewood Purse Thursday's feature race at Keeneland (Staff Photo by Martin Jessee) Bane is still a maiden and so will carry rally 107 pounds for the Ashland Kotenko will be in her saddle Last season's running of the Ashland in which Whit-n You All collected $2059750 for her victory was the previous richest hi the 35-year history of the stakes named for the home at statesman Henry Clay All the Ashland entrants are nominees to the Kentucky Oaks except Ess Eft and Aromanite In addition Wac has been named to the Kentucky Derby Because of the heavy rain this morning the public-address portion of the morning workouts program was cancelled Weather permitting the program will be held on Saturday morning and again next Saturday with coffee and doughnuts available at a stand near the grandstand dining room Threatening weather also forced a second postponement today of the schedule excursion of orthopedically handicapped children and teenagers from the area to Keeneland Originally set for Wednesday and also postponed on that date because of weather the outing sponsored jointly by Keeneland Race Course and the Lexington Rotary Club has been re-set for this coming Wednesday if the weather will co-operate Jockey Mike Manganello following the rail-skimming tactics he perfected with Dust Commander a few years ago guided -last Kentucky Oaks winner Silent Beauty to a' successful seasonal debut in the $10000 Myrtlewood Purse at Keeneland Thursday Scurrying home ahead of an approaching thundershower the filly belonging to Leslie Combs II covered the six furlongs in 1:11 2-5 over a fast track She prevailed over the pacesetting Running Beauty who races for Dust owner Robert Lehmann Levee Night owned by John Shouse finished third fo the field of eight fillies and mares She and Silent Beauty were joint 9-5 favorites of the crowd of 7550 who turned out to enjoy the first really pleasant day of the spring meeting Silent Beauty paid $560 $420 and $3 Running Beauty was worth $4 even and $320 while Levee Night -returned $280 to show The ltt-Iength victory by Silent Beauty was quite appropriate The race was named for the farm of unde Lucas Combs and the farm in turn By FRANK PHELPS Song and Barely Even two of the leading three-year-old fillies in the country head a surprisingly large field of ten for the richest running of the Ashland Stakes at Keeneland on Saturday With an extra $5000 added to the previous $25000-added value of the six-furlong dash the race will be worth $36400 with $23660 to the winner A prep for next Kentucky Oaks at Churchill Downs the Ashland has also drawn Gamble La Brisa Aromanite Wac Ess Eff Hicksville Fairway Flyer and Ann A Poise Barely Even from Florida and Song from Arkansas yill share top weight of 121 pounds because of their stakes victories last month Mrs Jasmine Stakes winner Barely Even is to be ridden by John I Botz one of the nation's leading stakes jockeys Hcmpens Song captor of the Magnolia Stakes after Dan Lasater bought her for a reported $150000 earlier this month is to have Louis Spindler in the irons La Brisa defeated Aromanite and Wac in an allowance at the Ashland distance at Keeneland on the opening program of the spring meeting last Saturday with Hicksville fifth Bobby Breen will again be aboard Drs Daniel and A Gehl's La Brisa who will chare an Impost of 115 pounds with Aromanite and Gamble Aromanite owned by Aug Muckier is to have David Whited in the irons for the Ashland Gamble owned by Mrs Virginia Mourar won two allowances and a $16500 claiming race at the Fair Grounds this winter and was second in a stakes at the New Orleans track She will be ridden by Phil Rubbicco Wac belonging to Preston Madden and again to be guided by Mickey Solomone gets into the Ashland under 112 pounds along with Harold Ess Eff Carter Hicksville and William Fairway Flyer Hicksville will again have Mitch Shirota in the irons No riders were named overnight for Ess Eft or Fairway Flyer Both the latter broke their maidens last September The Floyd filly was third last season in the Selima and Clipsetta Stakes Ann A Poise owned by Russell Michael Jr and Burning The Midnight Lights At Riverfront League Baseball Players Association had ended and the Reds staged a two-hour practice in preparation for their opening game here Saturday afternoon against the Los Angeles By JOHN GRACE CINCINNATI The lights at Riverfront Stadium were burning Thursday night and the crack of Cincinnati Reds bats echoed throughout the park The strike by the Major Baseball At A Glance lot of Bench said "It is unfortunate it had to happen and I hope something like this never happens again" Fan reaction to the end of the strike was mixed here Roger Ruehl a graduate student at the University of Cincinnati said not irate at the players or the owners just glad over question whether cither side won more than it lost VI play baseball (amateur) and part of my he continued just a shame the Reds open the National League season I'm kind of a bug oh George Ratliff of Greenup Ky was less charitable think the fans 'should go on strike for awhile I think they should attend for about a be said Charles Kramer director of economic research for the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce estimated that the five missed games here restulted in a toss to the city of about $500000 would be money filtering into the community through food sales to and out of the stadium lodging shopping refreshments at the park and at bars and other ex penditures of fans while they are in he said James Flick city finance director said each canceled game would cost the city about $12500 plus some $4000 in parking charges for eacty contest The city owns River front Stadium looks like we wind up being the only Flick said the baseball players and club owners are getting rich the poor taxpayer has to pick up the The stadium deficit which before the strike had been estimated at $1A million foij 1972 has to be paid out of the general fund Fifteen players including Bobby Tolan John Bench Don Gullett and Jack Billingham took part in the practice Pete Rose and Gary Nolan were among those who did not make the workout- as they have been in Florida Manager Sparky Anderson saying "Anytime you play baseball it's good scheduled a double practice session for the Reds today would say they are in pretty good shape but we'll have to wait and Anderson said of the physical condition of the team members Anderson said he will start Billingham against Don Sutton Saturday to the game that will be preceded by the traditional opening day pageantry originally scheduled for the April opener against the Houston Astros that never came oft The only difference is that the Reds will not be playing the first game of the year in the National League as they traditionally have dime because Cin Anwrican Lassus Saturday's Gamas (Stfutar faaian sums) Nsw York (Stettlamyra 1S-12 or ion 1S-13) at Baltlmoru (Palmar JO-f) Boston (Pattin 14-14 or Culp 14-15) at Detroit (Lollch 25-14) Minnesota (Blyleven 15-15) at Oakland (Holtxman f-15) Texas (Bosnian IMS) at California Massersmitti 20-13) night Chicago (Wood 22-13) at Kansas City (Drego 17-11) -Milwaukee (Parson 13-17 or Lockwood M-15) at Clavaland (G Parry 15-12) 1 Sunday's Games Ntw York at Baltimore 2 Milwaukee at Cleveland 2 Chicago at Kansas City 2 Boston at Detroit Minnesota at Oakland Texas at California National League Saturday's Gamas (Regular season spans) Los Angeles (Sutton 17-12) at Clriclnnatl (Blllingham 10-15) Atlanta (Nlakro 15-14) at San Diego (Kirby 15-13) night Pittsburgh (Ellis lf-f) at New York (Seaver 20-10) Philadelphia (Carlton 2M) at Chicago (Jenkins 24-13) Montreal (stonemao 17-14) at St Louis (Gibson 15-13 or Wise 17-14) San Francisco (Marlchal 11-11) at Houston (Dlerker 12-4) night Sunday's Games Pittsburgh at New York Philadelphia at Chicago Los Angeles at Cincinnati Montreal at St Louis San Francisco at Houston Atlanta at San Diego 2 cinnati had the first professional baseball team All the other major league clubs will also start their seasons Saturday The Reds said that only tickets marked "Opening would be honored for the game Tickets dated for April 15 and for'April 11 12 13 and 14 may be exchanged for any future dates this year After hearing about the strike settlement Thursday evening Reds general manager Robert Howsam said happy this is over and that we can go about our -business of playing baseball games Howsam said he was surprised the players agreed to play less than the 162-game schedule games not to be played could have a great bearing on the outcome of the four division races but we want to alienate our fans any more than we have had to by the strike of the he said-Cincinnati catcher John Bench said he and many of the players have been eager to start the season especially in the last few days He said he hoped any resentment by fans would be quickly forgotten "There has been a lot of mud slinging on both sides and al Relief Is Reaction Now That Over LEADER SPORTS Lexington Ky Friday April 14 1972 "19 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Everyone is glad that the Sports Calendar THOROUGHBRED RACING 2:00 Post time at Keeneland 4:25 Feature race from Keeneland (Radio WILIS WVLK) 7:00 Today at Keeneland (TV Ch 18) BASEBALL 1:30 Kentucky vs Florida at Shively Sports Center BASKETBALL 9:00 NBA playoffs Los Angeles at Milwaukee (best-of-seven series tied 1-1) (TV Ch 32 62) The Quality LAWN and GARDEN Products by AGRICO available at FAYETTE SEED CO 630 Broadway PH 255-3334 PLAY GOLF 18-hole regulation course Open to Public PARKWAY GOLF COURSE 1 i Lexington Versailles Road 10 minutes from New Circle Road is unfortunate it had to happen and I hope something like this never happens again You just have to look at it in the sense that all Outfielder Rico Carty of Atlanta found out the strike was over while watching television I was like the fellow in that I believe the whole said the Atlanta outfielder were out too long But we just had to stick together and do our Knuckleballer Phil Niejcro who will pitch the opener for Atlanta heard the news when a neighbor told him said the neighbor employed Torre Staub and Dobson all agreed that there might be some alienated fans among the crowd when the season starts probably will be some catcalls from the stands when we start to play said Torre I think most of the fans will be just happy that SEC Will Rule On Frosh Today ATLANTA (AP) The Southeastern Conference will conduct a special business meeting in Atlanta Friday to approve officially a rule making freshman eligible to compete to varsity football and basketball However the presidents of the 10 member institutions expected to name a new commissioner to replace A Coleman who announced in January he will retire this summer The SEC informally approved the freshman rule at its January meeting in Orlando Fla but the constitution prohibited formal action on it The National Collegiate Ath-etic Association had adopted the permissive legislation two weeks before the SEC meeting and the conference constitution required three weeks notice on new proposals before official approval could be given Coleman commissioner since 1966 announced to Orlando that this was his lsst year to the position A special committee was appointed to begin screening applicants for the job baseball strike is said spokesman for the Philadelphia Phillies And that literally means just about players management and the man on the street People of the baseball world and the fans who love the sport reacted with high enthusiasm and relief after settlement Thursday of the arduous 13-day strike relieved I really feel good I just want to play said Chuck Dobson the Oakland pitcher "I -really feel said Joe Torre the St Louis Cardinal star explain how I feel in one word but happy will do for said Rusty Staub the New York right-fielder Happiness was spread liberally throughout the nation and brought smiles all around People are waiting for the cry readv to said Manager Ted Williams of the Texas Rangers ready to do some been working at the wrong things ready to play baseball" added Texas General Manager Joe Burke "Everybody is glad to be getting back to "Boy am I glad this thing is said a coffee-carrying night watchman at the Associated Press Building in New York been a baseball fan since I was a boy and I really missed it Forget hockey and Johnny Bench the Cincinnati catcher said eacer to start the season Saturday and hopes that there he any resentment from the fans There has been a lot of mud slinging on both sides and a lot of said Bench Daily Fees: $300 weekdays $450 weekends 1 holidays (9-hole fees $200 weekdays $300 weekends and holidays) $200 Ladies Day (Wednesday Mornings) Annual Fees: Senior Citizens Clergymen and Juniors (ages 12 thru 17) $50 $75 College Students College Student A Wife $125 Senior Citizen and Wife $100 Single Membership $125 Family Membership (includes children thru 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