European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 15, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Poge 24 the stars and stripes july new devised h Toronto National leagues expansion committee declined to make a decision wednesday on accommodation of teams from the world jockey As the nil Board of governors How vote to change the Stanley cup off system for Spring under the new the top two clubs in each of the four divisions will qualify for the playoffs along with the next four clubs with the highest Point the last three the top thaw finish ers in each division qualified for the play this arrangement proved inequitable when teams from a weak division qualified for the playoffs with less Points than a non qualifier from a stronger the firs place finishers will each get a Bye from the Baslom Hryc preliminary rounds As has been the Case during the last three hew playoff format did not contain any provisions accommodation of clubs from the world hockey who could be part of the nil next fall play ing in their own division if the nil decides to we had hoped by this Lime to have the necessary the applications and All of the work that would be necessary to consider going through with the proposal on said John the new Lyhl a ii a it 40 4f is cavi m 1 i m ii als leading managers dont like new pitch Rule morn i 40 41 41 of t new Fri i Chat Flo Tutro Neft Iii h Call Larniel 1 a Milf Oak Lam i eau Ami us of u 11 414 h 4j ii t 47 11 11vj Ami 41 Irver ii my howl of x ant Ltd Almu curl Milf i 1 for Tiko sin Dlud f continued from Page 21 embarrassed by having lost the last five Allstar games and 13 of the Macphail is understandably if the pitchers started sunday and then worked tuesday night in uie Hallaar says there would be the possibility of injury to their Ahns we ave the clubs sufficient time to adjust their pitching rotation so that we have a Pool of rested Relief pitchers Are not and if a designated starters game is rained out he can Start the sunday but to be fair to air the once a Pitcher is designated far All Star he cant pitch the sunday i agree that the Pennant race is More important than the Allstar but if the ail Star game is Worth its Worth playing properly its also Worth putting in As the National league does by scorning such a Rule and winning consistently the Allstar game should not influence a managers selection of his starting pitch nor should it be a potential tool for the Allstar manager to use to his own teams our designated starter is Paul split says Whitey the Kansas aty royals for All i Billy Martin Mightie designated him cause Hes a Lethander and we play the Yankees this weekend and they dont like left handers and maybe Billy was hoping id keep him out of the in not saying Billy thought that but that a possibility with any Hes think big of his own team Martin has indicated that he planned to name As Many Relief pitchers As starters Relief pitchers can warm up the Yankee manager and there used la working All the iwo of the Allstar design prank Tanana o the California Angels and Mark Al dryer of the Detroit have developed Arm trouble and will not be available tuesday each was work ing with three Days rest in a rotation geared to avoid sunday if the sunday Rule did not each might still be perhaps some Day the Ameri can league will rewrite its Allstar commandment to read thou shall not tamper with the Pennant bake in time Wilkes Louis Cardinal first baseman Keith Hernandez is a Little late Wilb us tag and Philadelphia philae bake mob rdc it Back ahead of the Pickott at the Hometown Puu took die photo continued Page 22j and was named Rookie of the year As he helped his team win the Aba the compensation the must make to the warriors was not under Aba if an agreement cannot be a decision would be made by the league Golden stale vice president scottly stir in Chicago for a said the warriors would seek Abduljabba As citing terms of the Aba agreement that the lakers have to make the warriors Stirling with Kareem they he is the Only player they have who could make us we have negotiated for a year with Jamaal through his attorney and in the final analysis what it came Down to was that Jamaal did not want to continue his career in the Bay area a warriors representative in Oakland our offer was More than but Wilkes decision to return to los an Geles outweighed the financial advantage of playing with the spokesman Cincinnati Man captures National putting title Columbus up Jura bar Tell of Cincinnati captured the National put Ting beating Randy Stone of and Bill Hebert of Lake in an 18hole playoff after they were tied after holes of Borchelt fired a uni Perpar round in the while Stone was 11 under and Hebert nine Borchelt received because of the breadth and length of the legalities and the work that had to be done we were not in a position to process As a matter of they Art just now being finalized to be said we were not in a position to discuss with the players m meaningful basis question of any amendments to the Colleur live bargaining agreement in the event of an Ziegler mid the Board Stilt has a great Deal of work to do on expansion and would not speculate when a final decision would be reached on the the Board Ard the players met separately Early wednesday and again after joint meeting the expansion question is said the question will not be finalized in the applications have not been presented we cant act until we have the at this i cant Tell you when that will Ziegler declined to speculate on How Long the nil could wait before deciding it cannot go ahead with an accommodation of wha v the nil Board of governors voted in Chicago last month to have its far finding committee pursue negotiations with wha teams on expansion of the nil by not fewer than six wha teams for the 197778 while admitting there might be some Ziegler expressed Confidence at the Lime that a decision on the question would be made at these we passed a Resolution calling for a proposal to expand which called for a sub Mission of applications by present Mem Bers of the world hockey association Ziegler there were also a number of conditions attached to these conditions had to be fulfilled and we Are working on seeing that those conditions Are there Are documents and materials that must be delivered and examined by our lawyers and we do not have a Complete or did not have As of but we will probably have that by the time we leave once the applications Are received by the nil from the individual wha each will be examined and a Vole will be taken on whether to admit the Ziegler said the expansion of the nil could take place without a renegotiation of the current collective bargaining agree ment with the a unanimous vote is needed to make changes in the collective bargaining ment and the los Angeles Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs All Nave indicated they would oppose any apparently feeling they can effectively Block any accommodation of wha Alan executive director of the players agreed that the nil could go ahead with the expansion without the he 1 would be surprised if the owners embarked on an expansion without full consultation with the Eagleson added that the players Assoc Atie Luis not decided what it would do in the event the nil goes ahead with expansion without its the players have adopted a wait and see we want to find out whether or accommodation going to take we indicated to the owners that when they make that they can presume that we will be reason he we May not be totally in agreement with their but we will adopt a position that will be reasonable for the future of the
