Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 12, 1968, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press Friday july 12, 1968 strike losing by Shirley Povich Washington the trouble with being a capitalist on strike is it s so costly to miss even one of those wonderful paydays so the professional football athletes presently will re assess Worth Poten tial reach for their Security blankets and conduct a Rich people s March Back onto the club owners payrolls. Getting the athletes to persist in a Brave front against the National football league club owners was the understandably difficult task of John Gordy the Detroit guard who is their Union president working with the Union s new Legal consultant. They Are dealing with special Type Union members whose average salary is for six months work in the nil and who at that wage May not be completely dedicated to finding a principle to place above profit. The Lone Point of Contention be tween the players and the owners is the size of their pension fund and there Are indications that the rank and file of the players Are More concerned with the paycheck in hand than he pension Check of the future. After All there is so Little time to stay on the Active payroll. Surveys show the average career of the nil player to be years. That the players solid front was being breached in important nil cities was apparent the other Day when 11 Green Bay veterans started to suit up and at Dallas where the cowboys player representative Dave Manders said Fiere would be daily workouts without coaches on a Field adjacent to the team s regular prac Tice Field. New Orleans linebacker says he won t re Spect any strike. When Dave Manders said of the Dallas players position on the strike too much is at stake we re going for the it sounded unlike a strike minded team. The Brave talk by Gordy and the other team player representatives last month about bringing the owners to Heel has quieted with the approach of the first payday. Individual redskins have announced they will report on the train ing Date strike or no strike. Sonny Jurgensen will have cause if the Union asks him to give up his a game salary in the interests of a better pension fund that will begin for him 30 years hence at the age of 65. It is now the second phase of the strike talk. The athletes won the first phase with Tough talk that won them some concessions but on the demand for a pension package that would Cost the owners 5 million dollars a year they Are losing out and will get scarcely a fourth of that. It was the owners turn to show their muscle and worked for them. In effect the club owners simply Are staring the players Down in what became a game of Chicken. The own ers Are winning it by excluding the Veteran players from the Early train ing Camps and restricting the Camps to rookies who Are not yet members of the players Union. The owners also said they were prepared to Hon or their exhibition game commit ments with cookie teams and let the veterans stay on strike. But Art Modell or whoever it was that quietly got it Home to the athletes that the owners would not scare easily virtually dismantled the players position. With Only the Rook ies in training each club would save the stipend for the average of 18 Veteran and about a Day for 30 players on a lesser scale. This would Adorf up to a saying of dollars daily simply on payroll obligations. In addition the teams would be saving Money on the Cost of meals for As Many As 48 striking players while they were mulling the Worth of their strike. The striking veterans of the Green Bay packers particularly would be wondering whether stay ing on strike was intelligent the packers would have the most to lose by any strike or threat that extended to a Point where Green Bay would be unable to Field a team for the College All Star Gam in Chicago aug. 2. That is not a Mere exhibition game. For that one each Packer gets regular game pay based on one fourteenth of his salary. For quite a few packers that loss would be in the Range of from to for one Day s work. No nil players could have much Chance of Success without the Leader ship of the packers. And the typical mrs. Green Bay Packer at Home with the children and counting on that Cheque from the All Star game might not understand Why her Man did t bring in the Money. He was t mad at the club owners last year. In these instances there is no strike breaker like a wife. John Cordy Barcelona wins Madrid a Barcelona won the Spanish cup soccer tournament by beating major league Champion real Madrid -0 in the final game thursday night. Barcelona s outside right Rife ran for his Side and passed. Real Madrid s Centre half Zunzunegui tried to Clear the Ball but failed and put it into his orioles9 reins by George Bowen Baltimore a Earl Weaver a minor league base attention resort Camp operators Large deep 23 it. Canoe with 5 it. Beam newly Fibre glassed. Long Shaft Johnson 10 h.p., outboard included. Price May be seen at Watson Marine Middle Church Manitoba or write Box 1118 free press Ball player and manager for 20 years confidently assumed managerial leadership of Balti More orioles thursday from Hank Bauer a figure on the major league scene during the same Span. Winnipeg baseball fans May remember Weaver from when he managed Aberdeen Phea Sants the Northern baseball league eight years ago. Quick of Tongue and a colourful figure Weaver is believed to be one of the very few Northern league personnel who have become full Kins join Simpsons seats Blue bomber Booster club it s sign up time sat., july 13th . On the mall next to Simpsons Sears membership Only Here s what you get if bomber Booster membership card if a bomber Booster sweatshirt if a bomber Booster Pennant if a bomber picture tickets to Home games at 20% off for club members Only prizes sky cold pens if movie passes if bomber autographed footballs Pius a trip for 2 to the 1968 cup voir friends sign ii now live broadcasts every saturday at . With John Wells and Blue bomber stars Wink served from the Wink Mobile to club members attending managers in the majors. I still feel we Are a Pennant Weaver told a news conference. I Don t think first place is unrealistic even though we Are 10% games Harry Dalton Oriole person Nel director cited Weaver s highly successful minor league managing record and said i think he s a Winner. He s very aggressive. He s a Bat Weaver was hired for the remainder of the season. It was Dalton who abruptly broke the news wednesday to Bauer at his Home near Kansas City that he was being direct Midway through his fifth season As Oriole manager. We in the total performance of the Ball Dalton gave As reason for paying off Bauer on his expiring contract. We feel it should be playing better. It was More a sputtering than a driving the orioles Are third in the american league. They won the Pennant in 1966 and then swept four straight games in the world series from los angled dodgers. Bauer said thursday he should have been replaced As manager of Baltimore orioles by Billy Hunter instead of Weaver a coach whose appointment he opposed last Winter. Since Weaver was Only hired for the rest of the Bauer said i would have named Hunter. He knows the players Weaver was one of four new coaches appointed to the Balti More staff this season after three others were fired at the end of the 1967 season. Weaver a successful minor league manager in the Oriole Chain was acknowledged As a possible replacement for Bauer and on that basis Bauer opposed his addition to the staff. I asked Why they did t fire me instead of the Bauer said. I on account of my salary. At the time Bauer had just finished the first season of a two year contract Worth annually a pact he signed after leading Baltimore to the 1966 world series. With the 1968 season half Over Bauer was in Baltimore thursday to pick up the remainder of his salary. Dalton said the hiring of Marks a new Era for the orioles for he is the first of six since Baltimore returned to the major league in 1954 to be promoted from their own organization. He has managed Oriole farm teams for 11 years never finishing out of the first Divi Sion winning pennants in three different leagues and being runner up five times. The Oriole managing change was the third in the major leagues this season. Bob Skinner replaced Gene Mauch at Phil Adelphia and Harry Walker took Over from Grady Hatton at Houston. Football award Winner Dies Calgary up Charles George Liebel 63, of Regina who in 1961 became the first Canadian to be honoured by the National pop Warner conference of the United states died thursday. The award named for the late coach who had a Long career in american foot Ball is granted for work in promoting football among the Young. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. I Earl Weaver a. Gets Post. National league St. Louis Atlanta Cincinnati san Francisco Philadelphia los an gels new York Chicago Houston w l 54 31 40 42 40 43 42 40 40 40 43 41 45 40 44 40-44 36 ,49 pet. Gel .635 .524 lova504 i .500 11% .482 13 .477 13 a .474 13va .445 .424 thursday s results san Francisco 012 201 7 11 1 Cincinnati 000 001 1 8 4 Perry 1-6 and Oletz Maloney 8-5 Ritchie Kelso Lee car Rol 8 and Bench. Or 3 first Chicago 000 060 new York 000 100 1 5 1 Jenkins Regan and Hun Ley Selma Koonce and Martin. Second Chicago 000 000 240 new York 000 000 052 hands 8-5 and Hundley Cardwell Taylor 9 and Grote. Los Angeles 4 1 Atlanta 100 000 1 6 0 Ostem Grant 8 and Haller Niekro 8-4 and Torre. First i Philadelphia -100 5 10 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 062 Jackson 8-10 and., Ryan Veale Sisk i Kline 8 and Kolb. Second Pih Adelphia 000 000 483 Pittsburgh 010 000 1 8 1 Short Boozer 8 and Dalrymple Moose Ellis and c. Taylor. Or first i Houston 300 000 000 5 7 1 St. Louis 000-000 030 4 11 0 Dierker Coombs 2-1 Blasingame Dukes and Bateman erne Willes 1-2 Granger 10 and Mccarver. Second Houston 010 030 7126 St. Louis 003 300 8 12 0 Cueller Gustl i Coombs Dukes 0-2 Blasingame Ray 8 and Bateman Brant Nelson Granger Willii 2-2 Hoener 9 and today s games Chicago Holt men Koosman Philadelphia Fryman 10-9 at Pitts Burgh sunning 4-10 san Francisco Marschal 15-4 at Cincinnati Nolan 3-2 los Angeles Singer at Atlanta Pappas 5-6 Houston Lemaster 8-7 at St. Louis Gibson 01-5 american league a l pet. Gel Detroit 55 29 .655 Baltimore 44 37.543 Cleveland 47 Boston 42 39 .519 11v4 Minnesota 40 42 .488 ,14 California 40 43 .482 Oakland 40 43 .482 new York. 37 43 .443 16 34 45 ,430 18v2 Washington 30 48 .385 22 thursday s results new York 000 320 5 10 2 Chicago Peterson Hamilton 9 and Fernandez Peters Wilhelm Mcmahon Wood and Joseph son. Washington 000 000 0 2. 0 Baltimore 100 010 240 Coteman Baldwin 8 and French Mcnally 9-t and Etcheber Ren. Or Detroit .003 010 460 Minnesota a 1 Lolich Dobson Miller 5-3 9 and Freelian Chance Perry Perranoski 8 and Roseboro look hrs Mcaulitte re Nick Cleveland 000-001 5 0 Oakland 000 300 462 Seibert Paul 0-5 5 and Azcue de son 7-8 and Duncan hrs Brown Boston 6il California 000 000 3 8 1 Ellsworth 2-3 7 and Gib Brunet m Ellis 8 and Rodgers Satryano hrs Cal Hinton today s games Cleveland sle Bert 9-5 a Oakland Hunter 6-6 Boston Bell 7-3 at California Mcglothlin 6-6 Detroit Wilson 6-6 at Minnesota Kate 6-5 new York Barber 1-3 at Chicago John 7-0 Washington Pascual 8-4 at Balti More Hardin 9-5 j the whole at last Toronto. Of cps arrange ments to televise first half hour of National hockey league games in Toronto and Montreal during the 1968-69 season Are Al most Complete. The d Hough vice president of broadcasting for Maclaren advertising ltd., the company which owns the to rights to. Maple Leaf gardens said we had to make certain that the networks did t saturate the extra half hour with additional commercials and station Ford motor company of can Ada ltd., will join Imperial Oil ltd., and Molson breweries ltd., in sponsoring next sea son s telecasts. Winning debut for manager by the associated press Earl Weaver made a Ful debut As manager of Balti More orioles thursday night As major league baseball resumed after the three Day All Star break. The orioles Defeated washing ton senators 2-0 As Dave Mcnally pitched a two hit shutout and Don Buford hit a 38, Iliad been named earlier in the Day to succeed Hank Bauer dismissed wednes Day. Houston snapped the seven game winning Streak of St. Louis by taking the first game of a twi night doubleheader 5-4 in 10 innings. The astros won on Denis Menke s triple with two on in the 10th. The the National league leaders gained a split by winning the second game 8-7 with two runs in the eighth. Philadelphia Phillies swept a doubleheader from Pittsburgh pirates 5-0 arid 4-1 while new York mets and Chicago cubs traded shutouts in their twin Bill. The mets took the opener 1-0 and the cubs the Nightcap 2 0 on Ernie Banks two run Dou ble in the ninth. Atlanta braves shaded los Angeles dodgers 1-0 on Phil Niekro s four hitter and san Francisco giants routed Cincin Nati reds 7-1 i other no games. Minnesota twins snapped a six game losing Streak in the american league by beating first place Detroit tigers 5-4 on Rod Carew s rib single in the ninth. A crowd of welcomed new York to Milwaukee and watched the yanks turn Back Chicago White sox 5-4, helped by Andy Kosco s timely hitting. Mickey Mantle of the Yankees was. Honoured in ceremonies be fore the game the fifth of 10 the White sox Are scheduled to play in Milwaukee this season. Reggie Jackson whacked his 14th Homer of the season in the eighth inning to give Oakland athletics and Chuck Dobson a 4-3 Triumph Over Cleveland indians. 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