European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1978 the stars and stripes Page 23 Yankees pm says Kuhns decision n Blue in Best interests of game Aywill Grimsley new York a the Oakland base franchise has become a vast waste with no a empt to maintain a pct Tive the new York Yankees general manager said tuesday in de my commissioner Bowie Kuhns m in the Vida Blue he commissioner hag the inherent to make such decisions in such Cir Cedric vice president general manager of the told its n recent years Oakland has seemed interested in holding on to the Talent disposal the commissioner has an action to try to protect competitive bal for the Best interests at the n monday Kuhn voided the Deal that id have sent the As Allstar to the Cincinnati reds for Ion in Cash and a minor league first named Dave Mirles the Oakland seen the Backbone of his three time series champions dissipate with the in Lureon such stars As Reggie Don Gene Bert Paneris and Sal the commissioner previously had de an attempt by Finley to sell Blue to Yankees or Rudi and Fin to the Boston red sox for ii million the Oakland owner sued but the it upheld ruling that the com sinner had extraordinary Powers writ nto the major league the commissioner had to disallow this is Deal since he had acted As he did in Yankees Tallis he had Ibl shed a revering is not an everyday who succeeded Gabe Paul in the Ikee front was member of a Evering vows e wont return minor leagues in Cannati a Dave Uther Man in the Deal nixed by baseball Nils sooner Bowie int about to Ira to the minors for another Levering leaves no doubt that he wants out of Cincinnati so he can be Given Opportunity to play every he has it three years at the reds top farm mat will be in the big leagues this vering vowed in a Telephone interview his Home in Levering is out of meaning he ild have to pass waivers before he is re Ted to the minor already tev f teams have expressed an interest in Young Flint who was included Che reds in the Trade for Pitcher Vida Tot the Oakland lie Trade was rejected monday by the Beall am disappointed and i will gob the minor leagues want to v and i want to play in the big vering i would have had that we to in they have eight great yen out they tried to Trade me 1 that was Nice of if i stay in Cin i will not get the Chance to Evering hit with 29 Home runs last but his problem is that he is standing line behind Dan who is just Ning into his own at first i want a revering i ived myself in the minor leaves above a beyond the Call of o revering remains Rubn made mention of 1 am certainly sympathetic to re rings interest in playing in the major Kuhn 1 Hope he will have 1 earliest possible Opportunity to do panel set up by Cue Magazine to discuss the question will the salary War for ath letes wreck Bigl me sports in new other members of the panel were Rusty Detroit tigers outfielder Bill Mel general manager of the new Jersey nets basketball team Mike general manager of the Cosmos soccer and Marly a play ers a former said court Deci Sions giving players More Freedom had produced new 1 some enterprising such As the have made spend ing Money to make he in there Are such As the new York mets and i still love pm who chose to resist the they have staub said there was no danger of play ers becoming soft and uncaring because of Lon term adding Pride prevents them from doing so Pride and fans who never let up on Melchion no said there Are 220 top basketball players in a nation of 220 you have to pay for he Martin attributed the hard labor relations with players reaction to the longtime greed of the owners when they were in the pendulum has he arrogance has swung to the play Kroc Calls ruling demands Kuhn be fired Diego a Ray who says he was the Only major league baseball owner to vote against renewing Bowie Kuhns contract last called wednes Day for firing of the i told one of the owners recently that unless we buy up Kuhns were said the 75yearold owner of the san Diego i dont want a lawyer in thai we should have a Good businessman who knows what life is All Kroc said owner Charles Finley of the Oakland As has the right to sell the con tract of Pitcher Vida Blue for million if tie the Deal involving the Cincinnati reds was nullified monday by who said the High Price would have an Adverse effect on competitive balance among Alt in an interview Kroc i think this is going beyond some reason t wish somebody would explain to me the differ ence in paying million to the Cincinnati reds or to Joe Kroc said the Money Finley would get for Blue would just about make up his lasses of last the Kuhn he is Plain chairman of Mcdonalds fast food reputedly is Worth sold Down the River Louis offensive guard Conrad Dobler top left and wide receiver Ike Harris top right have been traded to Ibe new Orleans Sainti for defensive end Bob Pollard Bottom left and of fent Lve guard Terry Dobler has Ibe reputation of being one of the meanest players in the a Swiss duo sets Mark in 2man Bob by John Nelson Lake a the Swiss learn of a Linz Hilt Brand and Alain Piaget shattered the track record tuesday in Quall fing for the world woman bobsled with Hiltebrand driving and Piaget at the the Swiss z sled careened Down the i curve course in one the old record of was set in the 1973 world Champion ships by a West German sled driven by Wolfgang now a the Swiss record came in the second of two also under the old track record in the second heat was the Swiss 3 sled of Peter Scharer and Max who clocked in Hilt Brand and Piaget also has the fast est time of the first As the Swiss and West germans continued their domination of time trials for the Champion ships which will be run on saturday and Switzerland and West Germany each brought three woman teams to Lake site of the 1980 Winter and All six sleds were in the lop 10 in both heals Scharer and Ruegg also finished second in the first clocking the Best time by the West germans was in the second heat when their 1 with Stefan gals Reller and Manfred Schu Mann clocked for in the first the West German sled of Jakob to sch and Waller Barfuss finished third but with a slower time of Best american limes the Best the americans could do was the time of former world champions Brent Rushlaw and Dennis both of Saranac in the second that time placed Ihm Wade Whitney of Keene and Tom Tannenberger of West finished i he in the first heal in after wednesdays time the 13 countries participating will select their two Best sleds for the several coun including the United have been racing three Hiltebrand said he Felt the track record would fail its possible to get faster on this he maybe into the High right after Shady a tight turn to Trie right and going into the 8 turn there is still Snow on the with Piaget the Swiss 2 sled had a Lime of Over the so meters at the Only one of two push limes All Day under five Coger gets three Day suspension for punch new York up National Basket Ball association commissioner Larry Obrien monday suspended Indiana guard Ricky Sobers for three Days As a result of a punching incident with Tom Mcmillen of the Atlanta Hawks on sabers punched Mcmillen after the two players collided during a game Between the Hawks and pacers in Atlanta and Al though no official at the game saw the Obrien said videotape of the game clearly showed the our investigation of the incident included questioning of Sobers who con firmed the accuracy of the said i have made it Plain this Type of action will not be tolerated in the Aba and anyone engaging in such conduct will not escape simply because his actions go undetected by the