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vlav. Aim. (i. SS 3 Ilip .1 711IC9 11 1 VETERAN Olis END WEIR STRIKES Mradshaw TTir -p Macll -WE i 1 Griese said he feels most players support the strike, but added, "Miami is a different situation "than other organizations. Joe Robbie has been very fair; Shula has been very fair." He said he talked to.

Shula, Dolphins' player representative Doug Swift, association leaders Ed Garvey and. Bill Curry, and other Dolphins before deciding to join the team because "I don't think you can make a decision without talking to everybody." HE SAID THERE was still plenty of time before regular season began, but he wanted "to get myself in shape as far as throwing, running and mental attitude and there's no way you're going to get a football atmosphere outside of camp as you get in camp." Griese said other striking Dolphins were to meet Monday night with Ken Bowman of the players association to discuss the strike situation, but he wouldn't predict a mass return of Miami players. Staubach and Lee Roy Jordan of the Dallas Cowboys, who had announced their intentions earlier. The Buffalo Bills, the last NFL team with no veterans in camp, had their first when linebacker Bo Cornell joined the rookies and free agents in the club's camp. Meanwhile, the New York Jets announced Monday that linebackers John Ebcrsole and Rob Spi-cer have left camp to join their striking NFL teammates.

The two linebackers said they felt their loyalties lay with the picketing veterans rather than with the players in camp. The defections left nine veterans in camp. LATE MONDAY, the NFL said there were 323" veterans in the 26 camps, including 28 starters. The NFL numbers active players during the season. That meant about 900 veterans, including 500 starters, still were honoring the 37-day strike that had a profound effect on the first weekend of exhibition play.

In Miami, Griese, who is in the process of renegotiating his current contract, said his decision was based on "the slowness of the settlement and the respect I've got for coach Don Shult and for Joe Robbie, Dolphins' owner. "Robbie's trying to keep the team together," said Griese. "He's gone out and paid higher salaries than any other owner to keep the team together." Griese walked into camp on the eve of renewed negotiations in the strike in which the players union and management are still far apart on most issues. LAST WEEKEND'S first full schedule of NFL exhibitions indicated many fans have no intention to see rookies and free agents. The 11 games drew 250,000 fewer persons than I373's first weekend, and by most estimates cost the owners up to $3 million.

Thousandsnearly 25,000 in Buffalo-went to the trouble of getting ticket refunds. Free Press Wire Services More major defections from the picket line hit the National Football League Players Association Monday as quarterbacks Bob Griese, Terry Brad-shaw and John Hadl, reported to their clubs' training camps. Griese is the leader of the Super Bowl champion Miami Dolphins; Bradshaw and Hadl are the offensive sparks of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams. On the eve of another scheduled meeting between the NFLPA and the club owners, Griese predicted a quick end to the strike, which began July 1. "I think it is going to be settled pretty soon," he said.

"The owners lost $3 to $5 million last weekend in exhibition games. They're not going to do that every week. The players association is going to realize it is not that strong." Also checking into camp Monday were veterans Jack Snow of the Los Angeles Rams and Roger Bob Griese heels Cut 2, Lions Lose Pickets' Threats Shock Eagle Vet Opener to 22 for 143 completed 10 of yards. Add 3 Before pray for them (the strikers)." KIM McQUILKEN, a Little Ail-American quarterback from Lehigh University and a third-round Falcons' draft choice last winter, passed for two touchdowns as he did a helluva a real fine job was his first said Atlanta Van Brocklin. "McQuilken job out there, considering it ball game," Coach Norm Going South six-year veteran who crossed the line.

"It's really sad," lamented Brezina. "There are those who profess to be Christians who should take a better look into employer-employee relationships. You wonder where all the hatred in the world comes from, and then realize that we generate it ourselves." WHAT STARTLED Brezina, he said, was the cry from several pickets, 'We'll cut your throat. I heard it a couple of PHILADELPHIA (AP) -The Atlanta Falcons defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, 23-7, in a battle of makeshift National Football League exhibition squads Sunday, but the real fight was outside the stadium where striking veteran players heaped verbal abuse on both teams. "I expected picketing, but not the hatred, anger, frustration and lack of self control that they showed out there on the picket line," -said Atlanta linebacker Greg Brezina, a Brezina, who helped Atlanta win this first exhibition game with a 24-yard touchdown return of a fumble, said "There's a right way to picket and a wrong way to picket.

I resigned from the Players Association, the only union I ever belonged to, because the Bible says there are certain principles that we should follow, but they weren't being followed." Brezina, a 6-foot-l, 221-pound-er, said, "I've been praying every day that this strike would soon be over. I'll still oir Political Anverlisen-enl nTrn 1 IJ 1 i KM tSWW vomica RATED JUDGE William J. SUTHERLAND TO CIRCUIT COURT WEU QUALIFIED DETROIT BAR AssnciATinN EJ ja jl BY CHARLIE VINCENT Free Press Sports Writer The Detroit Wheels and Birmingham Americans added to the World Football League's image as a gypsy league Monday, adding, cutting and trading players before meeting for the second time in a week Wednesday night at Birmingham's Legion Field The Wheels lopped defensive end Gene Trosh and defensive back Reggie Holmes off their roster and added tight end Mickey McCarty, and defensive backs Dave Walker and Phil Webb. McCarty, formerly with the Kansas City Chiefs, cut late by the Chicago Fire. Walker and Webb both joined the Wheels from the Canadian League.

Birmingham, having defensive problems in spite of its 4-0 record, shored up its defense b'obtaining linebacker Gary Champagne and end Larry Estes from the New York Stars in rpturn fnr a ciyrh rnninH Hrflft nirb- novt anH IBfelto) FAIL ka 5 future considerations. WHEEL COACH Dan Boisture also announced two starters would not be aboard the charter flight to Birmingham Tuesday because of injuries. Defensive back Floyd Priester is still recovering from a concussion suffered in last Wednesday's 21-18 loss to the Americans and linebacker Mike Taylor is sidelined with an ankle injury suffered in practice Sunday. Mike Kuhn will fill in for Taylor and the newly acquired Walker will replace Priester. One face that definitely will not change is running back Jesse Mims, who turned in the best single night perform- ance by a World Football League back last week, gaining varric nnainsr thp Americans.

Mims was a late arrival in the Wheels training camp, after sitting out the player strike in the Canadian Football League, where ne nad rushed for yards in his first two seasons with Calgary. A knee injury kept him out of all but two games last season and Calgary fans were anxious to find out if he could make a comeback after the layoff. JUST TWO days after the CFL settled its strike, though, Mims decided he'd rather play south Of the border. He's not saying why the sudden change of mind, but he wasted little time getting out of Canada. "I knew the Wheels had been trying to contact me (they had picked him 29th in the WFL's pro draft).

So I just gave them a call and they said 'come on down'." He arrived at an opportune time just after the Wheels handed Warren McVea his indefinite suspension and just before they trimmed starting running back Lee Fobbs from the roster. The 203-pound running back was only adequate in his first two games gaining just 45 yards. But last Wednesday he became the Wheels' first bigger-than-life hero. what a great game for kids. Teaches them teamwork.

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KC, 20-12 Continued from First Sports point try was blocked, then a last-minute 51-yard pass from the Chiefs' Ken Pettiford to Larry Brunson set up a 34-yard fielder by George Jak-awenko to seal, the issue. The Lions will have little time to dwell on the setback. They'll be back on the practice field Tuesday afternoon preparing for a Friday night game in Baltimore. FORZANO and his Lions got a rude reception from the Chief rookies, who supposedly were as green as Detroit's. Kansas City needed only 10 minutes to grab a 10-0 lead, and by halftime Hank Stram's neophytes had stretched the margin to 17-3.

The Lions twice got inside the Chiefs' 15-yard line, but managed only one iield goal by Efren Herrera. He booted a 32-yard field goal after the Lions stalled at the Chiefs' four, but the UCLA sidewinder had a second try deflected from the 24. The Chiefs, meanwhile, were punishing the Lion defense with Woody Green, Tony Grisby and Cleophus Miller doing most of the damage on the ground. They made their first strike by air, however, with David Jaynes, the Kansas All-Ameri-can, hitting Craig Clark on a 46-yard touchdown pass as the 6-foot-3 Utah State eluded Lion secondary men Bill Frohbose and Larry Nickels. THAT GAVE Kaycee a' 7-0 lead with less than three minutes gone, then a Grisby run of 20 yards and a Jaynes-Robert Currier's- 22-yard field goal, making it 10-0.

Pat Korsnick and. the Lions finally got rid of the butterflies and drove 44 yards to set up Herrera's 32-yarder at the outset off the second period. Then the problems so familiar to Lion teams set in. Ray Griffin recovered Miller's fumble at the Chiefs' 40, hut after working the ball to the four, the Detroit attack not only stalled but three points were also lost when KC vet" eran Cesar Belser deflected Herrera's field goal attempt. Kansas City's second touchdown was set up when Korsnick fumbled a snap from center and the Chiefs' Scott Lewis recovered.

Stram scorned a field goal attempt on fourth-and-one at the Lion seven and with the Detroit defense all jammed in the middle, Grisby sneaked around end untouched for the TD to make it 17-3. THE LION pattern continued in the third period as Bruce Arthur, the pint-sized castoff from the Wbeels, engineered a penalty-aided drive which reached the Kansas City 11. But once again a touchdown was averted and the Lions settled for Herrera's 28-yard field goal, cutting the Chiefs' lead to 17-6. The frustration reached its peak early in the fourth quarter after Arthur got the Lions moving on passes to T.C. Blair and Alan Spencer.

Leon Crosswhite, the second-year running back from Oklahoma, bolted twice to the six for a first down, David Wooley made three, then the drearies set in again. John Cervini another former Wheel was guilty of holding, costing 10 yards, Arthur was sacked by Kaycee's Leroy Hegge, ttfen missed with, a pass. Alas, another Herrera field goal try, this one from 35 yards, was wide and the score remained 17-6. The Lions' perseverance fin-ally was rewarded late in the fourth quarter as Arthur, with heavy duty from Crosswhite, directed a 71-yard march which Bussey climaxed from the one with, the Lions' first touchdown of the exhibition season. 9 i I 7 Jf jf i 4- help PAL put the ball in football.

In i basketball. In baseball. Help PAL help these '4 kids in all kinds or activities. You can do it by sending whatever you can to the address in the coupon. Wheels Plan Owner Change Continued from First Sporty since their birth, causing a Phoenix businessman to fly here with an offer to buy the team even before training camp opened.

But the owners declined because it was their avowed intention to keep the team In Detroit or thereabouts. Cluh officials estimate approximately J1.5 million has already been expended, largely because of the club's inability to obtain credit. At least one bonus check bounced but was later made good. Paychecks have been late from time to time, too, but officials insist that has been caused not by lack of funds but by lack of experience in their business office. In their first two home games the Wheels have drawn 25,245 fan3 to Rynearson Stadium, an average of just 12,622 per game and nowhere near the team's breakeven point.

Sharks Padded Fan Count, Too JACKSONVILLE, The 'Jacksonville Sharks of the World Football League, who drew over 10.0,000 fans to their first two games this season, admitted Monday that 44,000 of the tickets were freebies. Sharks executive vice president Danny Bridges said the team was releasing the information despite the fact the contract the Sharks have with the city does no require them to make ticket information public. For their first four games, the Sharks, Now 1-3, have drawn a total of 105,892 fans. i "All our giveaways were legitimate to people and areas of the populace who we felt could help us in the future," said Bridges. "They were given out through the city recreation department and the Bi-centennial commission.

"I can't really understand why people are so interested in the number of free tickets we give away, but we are giving out the information to show that we are in no way trying to hide anything," he said. The Sharks are required to file with the city, which leases them the Gator Bowl, a total 10-game ticket accounting, but not a game-by-game breakdown. Help PAL help kids. rf X' V' -Jj PAL, PO Box W2, Dflrotl, Ml 4A231 fnrltisfd is my rinnjlinn to help PAL help kids. by buying lb bs.elhilli, baseballs, footballs, sports equipment, musical instruments Name.

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