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Big Leaguers Talk About Strike MARCH 31 be one of the most important dates in all baseball history. IMPROVED by Alan Maver That is when the 24 major league player representatives and their alternates meet in Dallas for a final vote on the major league strike. Will there lie baseball this season if the major league association goes through with its threatened strike? Bu7iie Bavasi, president of the San Diego Padres, answered that question in the affirmative after admitting his dub's 26-0 vote to strike was the low point of his baseball career. Would Use Triple A Players have to say yes, even if it means going all the way with our Triple A kids. forget, there are very few players wearing major league uniforms right now who Triple-A players at some point during their Bavasi said.

one of the club owners who in position to pay any more money- to the association. I'll say 'play the if the position we are forced into. confident the public will go along with us. The fans are well aware of two things: player salaries never being higher, and nobody in all professional sports with a better pension plan for its players than baseball. is something else which bothers me.

the Untruths our players were told. director (Marvin Miller) said that our clnh made money last season due to the tax structure, despite the fact our home attendance was 550.000. That is simply not true. we would arrange to have him do our tax accounting in the future. that case, I want him to know that need at least 850.000 home paid admissions to break even this year unless he has a better Ernie Banks Not Eligible to Vote Ernie Banks of the Cubs, despite the fact he has more than 19 years in the pension plan, is not eligible to vote on the strike.

He is no longer an active player, being the first base coach. One big league owner became miffed the other day after he rented a bus to take his players to a spring training game. The bus seated 40 and there were 34 players. But the players thought two buses should have been used, giving them more room. Richie, for Once, in Clear They blame Richie Allen of the Chisox if there is a big league strike.

He signed and abstained from voting. In fact, no one knows where he is. Allen and Wilbur Wood are the only two players on the White Sox roster 30 years of age or older. Both just turned 30. Time Changes Masters Image Bobby Jones Gone; Palmer No Longer Major Threat Bv DAVID MOFF1T ATLANTA (UP I) Bobby death last December won't have as much impact on next Masters as it might have had if the famed; swammer'' missed the three previous golf tournaments because of illness.1 But piling the demise of its founder on top of the fact that Ben Hogan's legs permit him to play anymore and the fact that its most popular golfer.

Arnold Palmer, is! seldom a threat these days, the! Masters won't be quite the same. From its fledgling days in the mid '30s until a crippling disease ended his participation some 35 years later, Bobby Jones and the Masters were synonymous. After Jones won his U. S. and British Opens and the U.

S. and British 1930 at the ripe old age of 28. his only tournament appearances were in his beloved Masters. In those first years, the Masters main attraction was a chance for the outsatnding golfers of the period to test their skill against the man dominated the game during the And, even on a once-a year basis, he made his presence felt. Coming off a four year Bobby Jones tied for 13th in the! first Masters (1934) and still retained enough of his skill to tie for 16th four years later.

I played in Masters, I grew nervous and to St. Petersburg, Fla. today- then it hurt my game," Jones for a night game with the New once said in explanation of why York Mets after demonstrating he do even better. their best hitting effort of the perfectly obvious why. 1 spring, rattling the Phila- keyed for the tension any delphia Phillies 12 6 Wednes- Back in the when he was for the Bobby spaaky anperson 3xo XEAA AG Of hVXKfP Xay 'G GO GET A ft)GT GTAXT TCtYAXP WA 23 GAMES.

OACWRGA, 3YA Distributed by King Features Syndicate. Jones won 13 major champion ships in an eight-year span starting with his first of four U.S. Open titles in 1923 when he was only 21 years old and ending with his last Masters appearance as a player was in 1948 when he withdrew after two rounds because of crick in Johnny Bench Hof In Spring Training CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) He was taken to a hospital the The Cincinnati Reds moved on for treatment of the cut ear. funny thing well, not funny said Bench, that he always wears an ear flap when he hits.

This time he wear it. I know why. day. were trying to get Clay Cincinnati cracked out 18 throw hard. It just hap- hiis, including two home runs said Bench.

threw bv catcher Johnny Bench who hard and it got away. Anderson had three Dave Con had to lose sight of the ball. A cepcion, at short, tagged Philly i Pitch right at your head is the pitching for a single, triple to get out of the way of, a homer and Tnnv Porpr akn but he didn 30 TERRE HAUTE, IND. THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1972 nearly three times as was a witness to tht How does Kennedy feel about'episode. The departure of tht this situation? plane was delayed 35 never really thought; Finally one of the other about he says.

man is passengers, a lady, stood up entitled to receive as much; and got off the plane to the compensation as he can com- accompaniment of applause. a homer, and Tony Perez also I just hope I have 30 days he was looking for a breaking ball. I like that this Bench Carroll later, adding that said. too bad, though, happened so fast he did not in a w-eek be hitting .300 have time to warn the batter. (His the But he continued to play a prominent spring average is even after he was confined to -385).

when it all starts wheel chair, until 1969 when he confessed, am no longer physically able to make the trip from Atlanta to for has just improved as a manager Sparky An derson said of Offers to Help John Wooden It is fitting that performance. hand, which golfers who want to make a run! had to be bothering him all last Rupp Declines To Run mand whether president of General Electric, a professional basketball player or a It happened in the Cleveland Airport Sunday night. The Cincinnati Royals, who; are moving their franchise to Fansas City next season, had; played their last game as the Cincinnati Royals. They had beaten Cleveland, 135 122, and now they were to take that! final ride back home to Cincinnati when Bob their coach, was told the flight! had been oversold and one of his players would have to get off the plane. Bob Cousy never has been known for being a sentimentali- ist but, well, you judge for yourself.

reservations are completely in order and were confirmed many months he said. the police, but we! are going as a To get off bu the coach would not budge. was Tom Callahan, the Cincinnati gifted young writer The Cincinnati Royals then made that last flight back home. The way Bob Cousy felt they should. As a team.

Wooden. Before the Bruins played Florida State last Saturday An otherwise gleeful perform are the U.S. and British opens muoaen. and ihe PGA in which Jones, as mairiMln' thV'ni'n'I'h for the NCAA championship. Oklahoma City Coach Abe Lemons an amau.ur never Diaved.

visited Wooden. you get into kidded Lemons, up three fingers from the bench. come down and give you a sideline play. got to do something to get out of this Indeed, UCLA is immersed In a crater. The Bruins have swept aside 45 straight opponents since losing to Notre Dame at Sonth Bend last season.

officials would still like to have; UCLA has won six straight NCAA championships and with him show up next week as an four of the five starters returning, the future looks an amateur, never played. when Philly outfielder Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, Mike Anderson took a C1 both of whom will be 60 in fas, ball in lhe dominated Masters play in lie and was carried bleeding from early Hogan won 6 and and lost in a playoff in to Snead who won in while Snead continues as active golfer finished at the modem grand slam year, isn a problem any must first win Masters.land got to make him a Everybody is trying to help UCLA basketball coach Johnny The othenyn the modern better Adolph Rupp is destinTto be remembered as one of the most successful basketball coaches in as a U.S. Con gressman. The University of Kentucky coach failed to file for a congressional! seat by the deadline, midnight Wednesday. meeting with my family all hoped I would not run for Congress, and urged me not the 70 year old Rupp said.

will abide by their i an fourth in the Doral Open just four weeks ago, Hogan plays! little these davs. Masters Cards Telecast 26 Games Younger Players Wonder How They Will Get Home By MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK when ballplayers came to play? Now they come to strike or sue. The two procedures have grown to become almost standard practice. Nobody bats an eye over either one anymore. This is not only applies to baseball, teetering on the bare edge of a strike at the moment, but also to football, basketball, hockey or whatever other sport or game in which there is a buck to be made.

Even the chess players what they used to be. They make a move now before they get what they want. About the only competition I know of changed and where the competitors still are pretty much the same is the rodeo. One scene is fairly common in most baseball camps today. A number of the younger players sit around discussing what do in case of a strike, wondering how get home.

you fellas have a strike one American League general manager asked some of his kid players the other day. replied one of the kids. Cardinals Will Pay The St. Louis Cardinals already have said they will pay transportation home for their players in the event of a strike. All other clubs probably will follow suit, although nothing says they have to.

One thing though, and sure Marvin Miller will empha size it to the players: if they decide to go out, they had better ALL go out because the owners have agreed to shut the doors to their parks even if the strike turns out to be only a one if some of the players change their minds and decide to stay. Despite the general unanimity of their votes, I believe the players will go out. Only because never seen them do anything in concert yet. Meanwhile, business as usual in all the camps. Baltimore Manager Earl Weaver has heard so often that the trading away of Frank Robinson could cost his club the pennant that he recites his answer almost by heart.

A Lot Easier With It been a helluva lot easier to win with Frank than be without says Weaver. I still think win. A fellow like Don Baylor have to take Frank place this year or next year. We can wait for him to do it until 1980 and do you realize something, he even be 30 what you call figuring it all out a Roberto Clemente, super everything, is called by some the best all-round player in the game. If you ask him though whom he considers the best player he ever saw he immediately says: Mays, no Charlie Coody, the defending champ, never tries to make himself more than he is.

Some of his fellow golfers on the tour could take a lesson. not a superstar, Coody. not going to be there winning every week like Jack Nicklaus or Lee Trevino. I just go out there and do the best I can, and once in awhile I FUSTIC PIPE Lowest Installation cost, easy to handle corrosion and rot proof. HCQ 10 ft.

DIXX CASH CARRY 939 OHIO 332-1321 FISCHER'S PARTS AND I ACCESSORIES STAI COVERS Very Simple Thoughts Wooden has been quizied how he was going to stop his All-American center, Bill Walton, from turning pro. try to dissuade said Wooden. I talked to Bill, I told him the decision was his. merely said, you make op your mind, be Wooden meant, of course, that Walton should be sure he wants to leave UCLA and the exact sum he would receive from the. pros.

That time may not come for two more years. Or when he graduates. Frank, Ted Don't Get Along Frank Howard, who signed a 120.000 year contract with the Texas Rangers Wednesday, is not getting along with man ager Ted Williams. Howard, who will be 36 on Aug. 8, is known as easy-going and soft-spoken but is stubborn about taking advice from Williams.

Their relations have steadily cooled during the last three seasons. Howard is said to have weighed as much as 315 pounds during parts of the season. Second Pro Hockey Loop making plans to have a second professional hockey team in Chicago. Businessmen in Chicago have purchased a franchise for the World Hockey Association. No players are yet signed.

Home games will he played in the International Amphitheatre, a south side arena with a 9.000 seating capacity. The Chicago owners have a $2 million budget for the 1972 73 season. They expect to lose money the first few seasons. Ed Short, former general manager of the Chicago Sox, has been named general manager of the Chicago ougars. NCAA Cage Tickets Go on Sale Soon Tickets will go on sale Monday for the 1973 NCAA basketball finals at St.

Louis U. Tickets cost $20 and cover semi-final games scheduled for March 24 and the finals March 26. No single game tickets will be sold. guest, but is too proud to show up at Ap. National and JustVr 'last moment of cardinal? Masters glory was In 1967 when a surprising third-round 66 had him only two strokes off the stations in nine states, lead.

But the obviously tired Jack Buck and Myron Hogan soared to a 77 in the Walden wiU share play-by-play final round. duties for the telecasts, with Palmer, the only former Card Mike Shannon pro- four-time champion, has fin-1 viding color commentary, ished no better the past four Host for pre-game and post- Masters than his tie for 18th game scoreboard shows will be last year, 10 strokes behind KSD TV Sports Director Jav. winner Charles Coody. Randolph. A fifth member of Now 42, Palmer, long the the team is the originating sta- dariing of Ron Jacober been a contender at 1 Hnn'1 rnntinmanage to put it all together.

I 1 uasu When I do that, I Augusta since his fourth place finish in 1967 far cry from his heyday of 1958 65 when he had four firsts, two seconds and a third. Little League Registration Stations on the network i' 1 WICS TV, Springfield, WRAU-TV, Peoria, WHBF-TV, Rock Island, WFIE TV, Evansville, WPSDTV, Paducah, WGEM-TV, Quincy, KCRG TV, Cedar Rapids. Iowa ball coach, a position he has held for the last 42 years, he would run for Congress. Register Now Persons wishing to play in the stadium golf league should contact Mrs. Helen Potter at the Indiana State University Golf Starter House.

Registrations are now being accepted. Persons who desire to participate in this league and are not already assigned to a team will be assigned to a team prior to May 3. Persons who already have a team should insure that their team is registered with Mrs. Potter. Teams this year may consist BRAND NAME TOP OUAUTY DELUXE PLASTIC Brifllif, Colorful, Waskoblt Fabrics.

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a All boys wanting to play Little League baseball his coming season will register at Ralph Mills Little League Ball Park at 2600 S. 13th, behind Farm Bureau Co-Op at 13th and Lockport Rd. All boys must bring birth cer tificates and must be accom panied yone of his parents in order to fill forms. All boys who will be ten (10) old before August 1, 1972 are able to register. Eleven year and 12-year olds are also elegible to register providing their birthdays are 11 and 12 before August 1 of 1972.

Final Chiefs at Notre Dame, registration date is April 1. Aug. 10. Thursday, Houston between 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Oilers at Houston. All boys living south of Wa August 20, Sunday, New Eng bash Avenue from the Patriots at Foxboro, Mass. River west to Kean Lane, in 27, JJunday, Green Bay eluding Deming Woods, and packers at Milwaukee, south to a point south where Sept. 9, Saturday, St. Louis Kean Lane would intercept Cardinals at St.

Louis. Road and then along I Schomer Road south to Stuckey FIRE INVESTIGATED Road, and west along Stuckey WA rrfn Va Road to WAKK 1 MN 1 UIM. Va Township register. of no more than six players. niThis wil1 enable the league to Twelve ol the 26 games will have more teams and enable more golfers to play.

Persons who want to register as substitutes should register also with Mrs. Potter. The only acceptable substitutes will be those who have registered by the completion of the second week of play. The league will start May 3 and run through July 19. The i league will have a tournament CHICAGO (AP) -The ji i.rt.cnts in Bears will meet the Mitchell F.

Miskel said he out registration Bdls at game oV their six-conjat nh tional Football League exhibi-Iar 8 me Detore lhe league tion schedule. The preseason schedule: Aug. 5, Satuiday, Kansas starts. Celtics Win include Prairieton are eligible to (UPI) Authorities today investigated! 126-108 BOSTON (AP) been a long time Coach Tommy Heinsohn said after the Boston Celtics returned to the National Basketball playoffs for the first time in three years Wednesday night. They did it in true Celtics fashion, calling on a team i effort in racehorse style to stampede the Atlanta Hawks, cause of a stable fire thatj what been nr i destroyed 10 Thoroughbred race looking Heinsohn said of Tryouts for Wabash League horses, valued at about $5.000 the Celtics performance in the opener of the NBA first round begin Monday, April 3.

each, at the New Hope Farm, 299-9085 1,355 won PGA Tryouts for Vigo League begin located three miles south of I senior golf title five times. April 4. best of seven eastern enee playoffs. SHREVEPORT. State beat the U.

of Missouri- St. Louis, 4-3, in the Centenary Tourney here Wednesday. The game ended in typical fashion, as St. Louis outfielder Bill Haberburger was thrown out by 10 feet trying to stretch a double into a triple. hit had scored Joe Muick, on base on Hal ninth walk of the game, and had Haberburger stayed at second the Rivermen would have had the tying run in scoring position.

But errors, both mental and physical, were the order of the day. All four ISU runs were unearned, the result of six St. Louis miscues. and only a painful lack of clutch hitting on both sides kept the scoring down. ISU left nine men on base, but again the opponents outdid the Sycamores with 11 wasted opportunities.

And twice in I bases-loaded situations Syca- 1 more batters hit the bail weB but at UMSL fielders. The win leaves ISU with the only unblemished record in the tourney. Southwest Missouri took a 5-4 decision from Northeast Louisiana in morning game but lost third game to Centenary 4 3 in nine innings. State faces Southwest Missouri at 10:30 a.m. Thurs day with Dean Cappell on the mound and the Sycamores come back again at 8:30 p.m.

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