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nnryiywfryyinnrvfynnrnnryf rv I I I I 1 I 1 A ft I 1 Comaneci Wins Gold Francis Retires WsT I Nadia Comaneci scored two perfect scores of 10 on her way to the gold medal at the World Student Games lin Bucharest Romania PageUC New England tight end Russ Francis surprised the football world when he announced his retirement from the NFL for personal reasons Page9C Vi BC ftiVtfMa (Balc-Beacon wn Wlchlte Ewl Swan ruMMWn Cbl Wednesday July 22 1981 SC Both Sides Silent After 7 Hours of Strike Talks say" Boone told reporters "The government's involved" EP9 Marvin Miller the players association's executive director refused to comment on the talks or whether any progress was being made But he said that negotiations would probably be going on even if there were no progress toward a settlement have a duty to he said I (night say jocularly else do I have to Bob Boone the Philadelphia Phillies' catcher and the National League player representative also refused comment rally have anything to DONOVAN AND the management negotiating team headed by PRC director Raymond Grebey wen unavailable for comment Miller said that in theory the blackout should help reach a settlement it works my feeling will be that it's very good" he said Monday night Kenneth Moffett acting Mediation and Conciliation Service head and the mediator in the 8 of 11 The StrikeDay 40 Also back Broff said will be Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan who spent a second consecutive day at the baseball talks The session started at 8:30 am and lasted until 4:30 pm Redbirds Trip Aeros Again By CASEY SCOTT Staff Writer Hie way the Springfield Redbirds have handled the Wichita Aeros this season makes you wonder how they can be a sub-500 team 7 games out of first place in the American Association East The defending league champions have practically owned the Aeros in the season series They racked up their eighth win in 11 tries Tuesday night with a 6-3 victory at Lawrence-Dumont: Stadium CDT with a 1-hour break to allow the secretary to address the Urban League convention at the Shoreham Hotel "THE TWO ftDES met both separately and in joint session and the secretary attended all sessions that the mediators sat in Broff said Acting under a news blackout imposed at Donovan's request Monday Broff refused to discuss the substance of the day's meeting or if Donovan had made any proposals or revisions to (dans already on the bargaining table Champ Weaver was not supposed to stay heavyweight champion any more than he was supposed to become one Boxing is funny that way it has got more politics than government does The easiest fight the 29-year-old Weaver has had since winning the my title WASHINGTON (AP) Under a blanket of silence and heavy pressure from die nation's top labor official negotiators met for almost seven hours Tuesday in efforts to end the major league baseball strike which has wiped out almost a quarter of the season Nancy Broff acting general counsel fpr the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service said the represents- fives of the Major League Players Association and the club owners' Player Relations Committee would return to the bargaining table at 9 am CDT Wednesday Wellman Giving NFL Another Try LIBERTY Mb (UPI) Mike Wellman has done just about everything you can do in the National Football League during the last two years except (day The former Kansas center has been drafted traded and waived He also has sat sat sat first on the Los Angeles bench behind Rich Saul and then on the Green Bay bench behind Larry McCarren Except for an occasional long snap with the Packers Wellman's professional career has been punctuated by clean pants Wellman Is in the Kansas City training camp this summer with the prospect of even more sitting this time in favor of perennial All-Pro candidate Jack Rudnay But sitting Wellman has decided is many times more satisfying than being out of the game completely Wellman qualifies thus far asa bust as a professional after a sparkling collegiate career at Kansas He started three years for the Jayhawks and earned All-Big Eight acclaim as a senior That earned him third-round selection by the Rams in the 1979 but he was traded to Green Bay midway through training camp for a future draft pick He backed up McCarren that entire season but got lost on the Packers' injured reserve list in 1980 and was released at midyear Bay apparently didn't think I was a good enough hall player" said Wellman hurt my pride I could argue all day that I belonged (on the roster) but they had the final say They sign the paychecks So I had to go home and decide first if I was good enough to keep playing and second if I still wanted to play" Home for Wellman is Lawrence Kan But his real "home" became the weight room at the University of Kansas in Lawrence It didn't take Wellman long to decide he had not fulfilled himself as an NFL player and that he wanted another shot perhaps his last shot at the still young age of 25 matured mentally" said Wellman understand better what this job means to me what football means to me and what it still means to me I always wanted to play but there was a point where I perhaps wasn't as prepared as I should have been I'm determined to do whatever I can to to make this dub camp is the biggest challenge I've had in my athletic career It means so much more to me than my first (pro) camp When you're a draft pick things are given to you things cone a little easier But since then been traded by one chib and released by another I know how good I am any more spent more hours in the weight room last winter than ever before I think there's anything more I could have done to better prepare myself for this camp I'm in the best shape of my life I want to play football I want to play football for many more years But first I have to prove to myself that I can play" V- 4 dispute over free-agent compensation for the last two years said the two sides never been further As the strike went through its 40th day Tuesday having canceled 476 games or 23 percent of the 2108game schedule there were the first rumblings of dissatisfaction among some players SEVERAL MEMBERS of the Detroit Tigers said they were unhappy about how the strike was being con- (See SOME 7CCoL 1) Driller Will Play Everywhere TULSA AP) -Who's on first? at shortstop? How about in left field? or right? The answer with apologies to Abbott and Costello is easy: It's Marty Scott of the Tulsa Drillers Scott will be playing all nine positions tonight when the Drillers host the Texas League All-Stars in Sutton Stadium Since Scott 26 is a player-coach for the Class AA farm team of the Texas Rangers he may have a one-position advantage over the handful of major leaguers who have played all nine spots in a game IS THE ultimate for a utility player" said Scott Drillers Manager Merrill Eckstein suggested the multiple roles to Scott as for the fans to enjoy" during the All-Star contest About 3000 people are expected at three-monthoid Sutton Stadium for the All-Star game Scott from Hurst Texas says his fifth season as a professional baseball player will be his last Drillers spokesmen say the 6-foot 190-pound all-purpose player bring groomed" for a management position in the farm system a really sharp kid" a spokesman said So what's such a bright guy doing trying to come at the All-Stars from every direction? wouldn't have agreed to it if I didn't think I could do it without embarrassing myself" Scott said SCOTT A PRODUCT of Dallas Baptist was selected as the utility infielder in All-Star balloting July 15 When the game was set against Tulsa he was replaced on the All-Star roster His most accustomed position is third base but he has played every position on the field Scott will start the first inning as catcher for former Yale hurier Ron Darling the top Texas Rangers draft choice figure that's my toughest position It'll be a challenge" Scott said Scott will advance around the bases then play all three outfields in successive innings before coming to the pitcher's mound in the ninth ECKSTEIN WHO said he wouldn't mind winning the game against the talented All-Stars said if the game is close in the ninth Scott will still get to pitch "unless he gets tired then we'll take him out like we would any pitch- mm er The 18-man All-Star squad is dominated by San Antonio with six selections The Dodgers concluded a sweep of the Drillers with an 11-10 victory in 10 innings Monday night Randy Brown Randy Brown is on vacation His column will resume Tuesday Once again it was pitching that paved the way for Springfield This time it was Dave LaPoint who stopped the Aeros on eight hits in notching his second win against Wichita this year Earlier he threw a shutout against the Aeros in L-D Stadium Jim Farr 88 wasn't quite as sharp as he has been in recent outings when he won 5 of 6 decisions bid he pitched well enough to last 72-3 innings Springfield reached him for 11 hits but six of those went for extra bases AT ONE POINT this year the Red-birds were 13 games below the 800 mark after dropping 10 straight games in a June stretch They now stand at 45-51 and trail Evansville in the Eastern Division But with the pitching the Redbirds have LaPoint Joe Edeien Donnie Moore Andy Rincon and Luis DeLeon Springfield Manager Tommy Thompson expects his club to make a move "I think if we can get to the playoffs (two teams qualify in each division) we'll be as tough as he said is if we can get there That's what we're striving for guys have won before" he added they're starting to smell (See REDBIRDS 8C CoL 4) more formidable opponents have been with less satisfying results Weaver has had to square off with one of the two most important promoters in the game He has had to square off with the WBA itself He has even had to square off with his manager But Weaver is still champion Against ail odds Weaver laughs: said it would be easy But I want my title more than anything" Nobody said it would be all that hard though keeping the title Heavyweight champions are expected to dictate the circumstances of their reign But Weaver was in even less control of his future as champion than he had been while fighting for grocery money out id a tough Pomona Calif (See WEAVER 7C Col 1) Staff Photo by Jerry Clark WAYNE TOLLESON COLLIDES WITH NEIL FIALA Tolleson stole the base but the call brought a heated argument Against All Odds said it would be easy But I want more than Weaver By RICHARD HOFFER The Lss Angeles Times Mike Weaver was not supposed to be a heavyweight champion in the first place The only reason he was allowed into the same ring with then-World Boxing Association champion John Tate was that he figured to require help getting bade out Weaver's record was 204 Tate's was 204 1 That was a little more than a year ago Weaver the Pomona Puncher got out of the ring on his own that night Tate on the other hand needed two people to carry him back to the dressing room and into a hospital for observation And suddenly Weaver against all odds was 214 and champion of the world or at least that part ruled by the WBA In the year since it has turned out -Mike Weaver title has been with Gerrie Coetzee in South Africa That was nothing Weaver knocked him out Easiest because it was in the ring SOME OF THE other title defenses held in different venues and with far Colt Purchased for Record Price purchased the $38 million colt in partnership with a Loa Angeles lawyer Daniel Schwartz and two other partners Cooper could not identify The horse was one of six unnamed unbroken 1-year-old horses to bring more than $1 million on the opening day id the Keeneland auctions The underbidder on Sangster's big purchase was the Ashton Upthorpe Stud of England owned by Sheik Mohammed bin Fashad al Maktoum from the Persian Gulf nation of Dubai The sheik also was outbid on two high-priced horses arid Friday to a prince from Saudi Arabia But he rallied shortly after his loss to Sangster Monday night and spent $38 million on the Northern Dancer-Sweet Alliance colt which was also consigned by Windfields Farm am very pleased" the sheik said of his purchase "I consider a fine hone is a thing to have and this is a fine horse He will be trained in The sheik was one of a group of Arabs who flew to Lexington in a private Boeing 727 that has been parked over the weekend at the airport across the road from the Keeneland gate Even before the sale began rumor had it that the Arabs were in Lexington to spend considerable amounts of money This did not escape Sangster who also came to the sales baAed by perhaps unlimited funds By Maryjeaa Wall Knlght-Rldder Newspapers LEXINGTON Ky Robert Sangster a man who made his millions booking England's soccer bets is not one to back down easily A wealthy Arab discovered that at the Keendand Selected Yearling Sale Monday night when the European millionaire outbid him for a world record $35 million in a bidding dud over a Northern Dancer yearling colt Sangster bidding through a British bloodstock agent Tom Cooper went $100000 higher than the final offer of $34 million to get the full brother to the English and Irish champion Storm Bird The seller was Windfields Farm of Chesapeake City Md Sangster's purchase was one of three Northern Dancer offspring that sold for a total of $9750000 A colt by Northern Dancer out of Sweet Alliance a filly who won the Kentucky Oaks brought $38 million and a half-brother to Marlboro Cup winner Proud Bergie was sold for $295 million The previous record price paid for a horse was $2 million for a broodmare bought at Keeneland last fall The highest-priced yearling sold for $17 million Sangster who makes his home on the Isle of Man has been one of Keeneland's biggest buyers in the past He $35 MILLION WORTH OF HORSEFLESH Colt sold for world-record dee In bidding war A -tr -tnr-'u.