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i DETROIT FREE PRESS 8-JE Sunday, Oct. 27, '74 EX-SHARK GOES TO JETS WFL "May Face Player Desertions to NFL 1 1- York, would be free. The WFL has been staggered by low attendance and lack of funds and the breach of contract could be the knockout blow. ton club is now in Shreveport. Should Morton's claim be upheld, then players signed to future contracts by Shreveport and Charlotte, which moved to North Carolina from New Giants, signed with Houston of the WFL last summer.

But Morton claims there is a clause in his contract making it invalid if the club is no longer in operation. The Hous back Virgil Carter ws injured a month ago and Southern California, with a talented crop of rookies, could stand the possibility of losing some if management misses a payday. The Hawaiians reportedly hase financial problems and hold rights to a number of ex-NFL players. Portland players almost went on strike after missing paychecks Shreveport is still without ownership after moving from Houston. THEN THERE'S the problem of future contracts.

Craig Morton, recently traded by Dallas to the New York month without hecks and franchise ownership is still up in the air, with the present owners obtaining an injunction to prevent the league from taking over the team. THE DETROIT team has been disbanded, with its players spread around the league in a dissolution draft, and Charlotte players received their first paychecks In three weeks last Friday. Philadelphia is drawing poorly, with only 750 attending the Bell's last game. Chicago has dropped off in attendance since star quarter TODAY FOR YOUR" HQ UMc i "That's big money," he said, "But not when they don't pay you. They promise you the world and deliver nothing.

"One time they just got the uniforms out of the cleaners just before gametime. The company wouldn't release them unless they were paid. "Guys are without electricity and their phones have been disconnected. Some guys doe't even have enough money to send their families home by bus." Hie Jets are checking Kindig's contract carefully the last thing they want is a lawsuit by the new league. But should" Kindig sign, then play-e on tronbled franchises might start filtering back to the NFL.

Memphis and Birmingham seem solid but players for the Florida Blazers went nearly a- make long snaps on punts, wants to sign him. If he does, it could be a major blow to the young WFL, perhaps a fatal one, Kindig is still under contract to Jacksonville, even though no team exists. But he contends that the Sharks breached their contract with him since they did not pay him for his services, and a. top WFL official agrees with him. A Jets' lawyer is awaiting a copy of Kindig's contract as a precaution before signing him, but if the Jets do, a precedent will have been set.

A number of WFL clubs have missed paychecks this season and if Kindig's signing is upheld, players on those teams could be free to make deals with NFL clubs. "If he wants to sign with the Jets, we won't stand in his way," said Don Anderson, the WFL 'vice president in charge of publicity. "We can't start pressing charges on players like Klridig because there are too many of them who haven't been paid." KINDIG SAYS he signed a three-year contract with Jacksonville at $75,000 a year. 1 UniM PrtM IntcrnttitMl For the past nine years, Howard Kindig has been one of those anonymous bodies who toil on pro football's offensive lines. But he soon may go down as the man who destroyed the World Football League.

S-foot-6, 250-poun-jJefcMsntyour everyday an-if2ft, but his status in the Stir jveek or so could send a nfirlpf; of WFL players folrrying' to the National Fir 11! League. I tr.i "33-y a -o 1 Kindig Efcrl jHn the NFL for San USTXf Buffalo, Miami and met Washington. -I yfzs dropped by the Red-sltif at -the end of training cttrli ind signed with the WFL Jacksonville Sharks. Kindig was playing for Jack-sonviC when suddenly the payclrks stopped. A sfcoft while later, the franchise was suspended by the league for the remainder of the season.

LArf 5 TUESDAY, Kindig earned; a tryout with the NFL New5fork Jets and coach Charley Winner, looking for an experienced center who can DO IT NOW i A Lw VUU REPLACEMENTS 1 prz3czic3cz3ciicr 1 1'; CREATIVE REPLACEMENTS 111 I 1 SOO N.rth Fork Ofiv.Suil 10 CCO 1111 Mil y7f2 SwlMi.W, MKh.jn 4107 SOS-jlJ I MDRESS A 1 WWI iw Jl VI TELEPHONE. Bui timi It call ffl 027-71 Soccer Pilots MS COMMERCIAL and INDUSTRIAL Call DON MaclVER 261-0930 Gett ing the Ax torn three teams in the First Division are relegated at the end of the 6eason and replaced by the top three teams in the Second Division. The system operates through the four Shop Sundays 12 to 5 at Sears Shop Sundays at Sears Southfield. Lincoln Park. Livonia.

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Yet, like lemmings, each season they embark- of a journey of seemingly eelf -imposed destruction. They -are England's soccer club Managers, a band of eternally men whose carejay have more ups and a roller coaster. Ove(i 1,500 of them have lost thei'jobs since the end of World War II. This year has seen managers Jail by the wayside at an unprecedented rate as clubs, hungry- for success or la fear of relegation, have axed the men at the top. (In i English soccer, the bot- THE SEASON is only nine weeks old.

but already nine managers, five frorri London clubs, have been sacked or resigned under pressure. Twelve other managers lost their jobs during the close-season. The sacking of Sir Alf Ramsey on May 1 after 12 years as manager of. England's Na tional team started the chain reaction. Don 1 manager of league champion Leeds United, ended a 12-year reign with England's most success I For Quick, Easy Starts this Winter Fast, Free I Battery 1 preepowerTeam Installation 1 Test of Starting, I Charging System ful club this decade to succeed Ramsey, and outspoken Brian Clough left Third Division Brighton to fill the vacancy at Leeds.

Modified Auto Title Cloueh's name hardly had time to dry on the manager's office, door before he parted company with the club 44 days later with Leeds planted It On the Line firmly in the cellar. THE MANAGERIAL OffilD changes at the top continued with Bill Shankley's shock an nouncement of his retirement as boss of Football Association Cupholder Liverpool after 13 Sears years. Liverpool aia not go Use Your Searit Revolving Charge outside the club to una a re placement, promoting coach Bob Paisley to succeed jsnanic- MARTINSVILLE, a. -(AP) The spotlight will be on Richie Evans and Jerry Cook of Rome, N.Y., as they battle Sunday for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing Modified national championship. Evans and Cook will be among' the 36 starters in the modified race that kicks off the $62,440 Cardinal 500 Classic doubleheader at Martinsville Speedway.

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Morgan Shepherd of Conover, N.C., who also sur musical chairs has left Chelsea managerless at present. passed the previous qualifying record with a speed of 85.785 which could mean a place for m.p.h.' Hendrick had held the Sir Alf Ramsey, Brian Clough or indeed any of the men oc EGO Q8S3S3fm fe? to? III SPECTRUM mark Qf 85-65' m.p.h. cupying the hot seats in the 93 II The winner of each race other league clubs. Jimmy Armfield of the Bol Sunday will earn $5,000, and another $1,000 will go to the Pre-Mix Washer Solvent ton Wanderers, who took over driver who leads the most laps as manager of Leeds from in-feach event around the half- Clough, summed up the fear facing the men in the hot seat mile track. Brian's Out "If Leeds is relegated, I'll get the sack.

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