Sports
Players peeved at owners
NEW YORK (AP) - Angry
player representatives accused
management Monday of moving
backward in its wage-scale
negotiations in the 43-day-old
National Football League strike.
The accusation came after
the players met with union
leadership for a briefing on
negotiations. Their anger
centered on a provision invol
ving signing bonuses in
management’s latest contract
offer.
Jim Miller, a spokesman for
the owners negotiators, called it
"a small snag typical of labor
negotiations ” But that didn't
seem to placate the player reps
"I don't think we'll have a
settlement now until January,"
said Marvin Powell, of the New
York Jets.
"We are back to Square One
on some of the economic is
sues," said the Detroit Lions'
Stan White, vice president of the
union’s executive committee
"There's less money there
than meets the eye," said a un
ion source close to the
bargaining table
And Don Hasselbeck, player
representative of the New
England Patriots, said, "It’s
really kind of ridiculous. We're
not getting any closer we re not
going to reach an agreement by
doing something like this."
The major problem seemed to
be with the inclusion in
management s latest proposal
of signing bonuses as part of the
owners' proposed $30,000 min
imum wage
"Under the owners' plan if a
player signs for $20,000 and
receives a $10,000 signing bon
us, under their proposal he
meets the requirements of the
minimum wage." said Dave
Sheridan, spokesman for the
union.
In another example cited by
Sheridan, if a player were to
sign a three-year contract with a
$60,000 signing bonus, his team
could spread the bonus over the
life of the contract applying the
payments to the minimum wage
Miller, the management
spokesman, discounted the
seriousness of the de
velopment, but noted "This
is the same kind of snag the
union threw at us last night
when they proposed a
three-year contract "
The appearance of mediator
Sam Kagel and, barely an hour
later, the appearance of at least
half a dozen players milling
about the lobby of the hotel
giving interviews was in stark
contrast to the news blackout
which Kagel had clamped on
these talks the previous two
days.
The two sides exchanged
monetary proposals Sunday
with the owners offering a four
year package averaging $320
million a year and the union
seeking $11 billion or. $370
million a year, over a three-year
period
“The players and man
agement have exchanged
detailed, written proposals on
most of the remaining issues."
Kagel said. "The repre
sentatives of the parties
have identified such issues as
those in which they are
reasonably close and such is
sues have been assigned to
subcomittees The major issues
have also been identified and
discussions are proceeding in
depth between the parties on
such issues and will continue
It is clear to me," Kagel con
tinued. "that the parties are
continuing to make a real effort
to reach agreement on those
issues and all the other issues
that might be in contention ."
"However, in this proceeding
it should be clear the mediator is
not a magician. Kagel contin
ued "It is the parties
themselves that will have to
reach the necessary agree
ments to end the strike "
Ducks zero in on
Beavers in net tilt
sun reeling tne nsgn after a
sweep over both Washington
State and the University of
Washington, the Oregon
women’s volleyball team will
invade Gill Coliseum
Wednesday night in Corvallis
for a match against Oregon
State
"We re excited to play
them, we re ready to play
them, and we should take
them on and beat them,"
says coach Chris Voelz of
her team's outlook heading
into the OSU match
The Beavers are 7-3 in the
NorPac, while the Ducks are
4-6, and Voelz admits. They
have beaten some teams that
we haven't, so that gives
them a little bit of an edge
' But we re playing at our
highest level right now —
we re playing soundly and
peaking We may be out of
the running for the playoffs,
but I don’t see why in the
world we can't finish with a
couple of wins against Ore
gon State "
OSU is paced by hitters
Sandy Sexton and Julie
Steding Sexton is a senior
who lends experience and
power to the Beaver lineup
She tallied 13 kills in a win
over Washington State
Saturday Steding, a
freshman from Lake Oswego
who was recruited by the
Ducks, is an imposing 6-3,
making her one of the tallest
players in the NorPac
Voelz plans to use Sue
Harbours presence to
counter Steding Harbour
had five blocks and 13 kills
against a tall Washington
team
Oregon is nearly at full
strength, with both Ronda
Dalthrop and Shauna Koenig
recovered from injuries,
although Barb Lutz is still
sidelined with a sprained
ankle Voelz says that her
team is a very self-assured
unit now
"We re coming off two big
wins, and we feel real con
fident," she says."Our goal
at the beginning of the
season was to maintain
intensity through every play,
every point, every game and
every match, and we're
doing it.”
Baseball bosses send Kuhn packing
CHICAGO (AP) — Bowie Kuhn, in his
14th year as commissioner of baseball,
was fired Monday in a vote of owners that
ended 11 months of wrangling over his
fate
The commissioner was fired in a vote
by the National League owners, despite
gaining a majority The vote was 7-5 in
favor of Kuhn's re-election, but he
needed three quarters of the votes, or
nine The American League vote was
11-3 in favor of retaining Kuhn
Kuhn's second seven-year term as
commissioner expires Aug 13, 1983,
when a new commissioner must be
elected None has been selected yet
Although the dissenting votes in the
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National League were not announced,
they reportedly were cast by owners
Nelson Doubleday of the New York Mets,
August A Busch of the St Louis
Cardinals, Ted Turner of the Atlanta
Braves, John McMullen of the Houston
Astros and William Williams of the Cinc
innati Reds
The announcement, made by
American League President Lee
MacPhail and National League President
Chub Feeney, followed a joint session of
the owners that lasted only 27 minutes
"We regret to say the commissioner
failed re-election,” MacPhail said
Feeney said the NL vote was taken on
a proposed compromise that would have
kept Kuhn in office but would have
added a business officer known as
COOBA, for “Chief Operating Officer of
Business Affairs."
However, five NL owners refused to
accept the proposal, apparently because
the business officer would have reported
to the commissioner, and that was
enough to block Kuhn's chances to
staying in office.
Kuhn was elected to replace the fired
William Eckert in February 1969. Kuhn
served a six-month interim term before
he was elected to a regular seven-year
term on Aug 13, 1969.
Opposition to Kuhn first surfaced at
last December's baseball meetings,
when it was discovered that nine owners
had signed a letter asking Kuhn to
resign. The letter was never sent, but its
discovery unearthed the dissatisfaction
with Kuhn
The National League had the votes to
oust Kuhn at baseball's summer
meetings at San Diego last August, but
some parliamentary maneuvers by
Kuhn's backers, mainly Peter O’Malley of
Los Angeles, postponed the decision.
The two leagues met in separate
caucuses Monday morning. The AL fin
ished early, waiting as the NL debated
Kuhn's fate until about 3:30 p m. EST.
This time, there was no postponing the
inevitable.
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