European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 27, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Poge 26 the stars and stripes Friday May 27, 1977 Nader eyes sports Public s Robin Hood ready to wage War on behalf of the nation s fans by David Israel Washington is you Haven teen anything yet Ted Turner against Bowie Kuhn. Carroll Rosenbloom against Pete Rozelle Billy Martin against George be Brenner. Charlie Finley against the world were just preliminary bouts before the real Battle lines arc drawn skirmishes before the holocaust. Ralph is ready to take on the sports establishment. And it certainly is going to be Beautiful when that happens. The thought of Ralph Nader is going to make Turner. Kuhn Rosenbloom Rozelle Martin Steinbrenner and Finley allies Best of pals banding together for the common Good and to beat off the Public s Robin flood. Ralph Nader is ready to take on promo tors of Winner take just a Little More Tennis matches owners who raise ticket prices without improving the product Lousy food at Concession stands artificial turf the thoughtless shining of franchises and the dilution of Talent through greedy expansion. Sports is Long overdue for a National fans organization Nader said tuesday. It keeps getting More imperative every week. This is because fans Are basically the Consumers of High priced tickets and victims of frauds like that Tennis thing of phony contests of junk at the Concession stands. Sports has gotten so big it s nothing More than a mul billion Dollar Industry. Players and management Are heard from and now it s time that the fans the con Sumers were heard from As  Nader said that although the formation of a National fans Alliance under his auspices is not imminent he said that he and his associates have in recent months give extensive and serious consideration to the possibilities of such an organization. We re really starting to get interested in something like that he said. But we Haven t really decided whether to launch it yet. We Don t know what the Best Way to do it is yet. It s probably too big and unwieldy to be one of our groups at Public citizen. Thust groups like Congress watch and the health research group Only have five or six staff  Nader May not have a Structure for a organization yet but he knows exactly what issues there Are to attack and How to attack them. Nader s raiders will be Able to operate As successfully on sports fraud As the Oakland raiders were Able to oper ate on the Minnesota Vikings in the superbowl. Public interest people Are All latent avoid fou ups and wait heavy traffic worries Guthrie this is the first in a series of articles written for the associated press by Drivers entered in sunday s Indianapolis 500.1 by Janet Guthrie Indianapolis