European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 26, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February the stars and stripes Page 23 retread pro rain to go As Amateur Brian Oldfield has two California Drivers one bears a color photograph of a Bull necked Young american with Lightbrown curls in fairly neat array and an expression of Manly Resolution on his clean shaven the other has a por trait that could be mistaken for John the pirate chief known As the mass of Unco bed curls grows Down to the and below that is shrubbery dense enough to conceal a Covey of this is the Brian old Field who has thrown a 16pound Ball of Lead farther than anyone else in the world and will Endeavor to do it again in the indoor track and Field championships in Madison Square Garden if you were trying to pick he said youd bet on skeets Nehemiah in the High hurdles and Brian Oldfield in the in Midtown Oldfield looked like a refugee from a hippie commune faded Blue a dark Blue sweater whose neck Dis closed a Gold Chain around his Oldfield stands weighs 275 at age is a retread professional starting his Sec Ond career As an his several goals include the world indoor and outdoor records he already has the Best but they dont a Gold medal in the olympics of when he will be 39 International and enough walking around Money to keep him in cigars and red As he he was smoking a blowing rings Between Par at the 1972 olympic trials in the waxworks turned livid at the sight of Oldfield wearing Bikini shorts and fishnet and smoking cigarettes Between turns in the after surgery for torn knee cartilage in he gave up now i allow myself a Victory he but sometimes i smoke it before the he puffed what shocked the olympic fathers in Eugene even More than his sexy costume and poolroom training regimen was the fact that he bumped Randy Matson off the Matson was the first shot Putter in the world to heave the Leaden Goblet 70 feet he won the Silver medal in the Tokyo olympics of 1964 and the Gold medal in Mexico in at Al Feuer Bach and George Woods were first and and Oldfield beat Matson for third in Brian was he came Home and joined the new professional circuit promoted by Mike on april he hit the Best Ever then on May mothers Oldfield he made three pitches outdoors in a High school stadium in Elpaso 7314 and 75 he was a and the Amateur world of track and Field never accepted those As in the Amateur George Woods holds the indoor record of 722 and East Germany Udo Bayer is the outdoor Champion at 728 when he did Oldfield said of he announced that he was going to take the shot put to the end of its but he Hast done it whats stopping him Voharas professional venture went and last year the Amateur rules were Oldfield and other pros were reinstated As but up to now the olympic people have not accepted the that is one of several facts that infuriate who was told he could compete in the olympic trials last year but would not be eligible for a place on the so what have i been doing in Between he i competed in the oldest scottish throwing the Caber and that sort of and Ive been com Peting with i tried the furniture business it want very and i went i had a discotheque restaurant in and went i got into real estate and was just about to make my first Sale when i was invited to do a part in a Warner a thing about a lesbian Pentathlon i think there still planning to bring it out in the its called personal some of the people i met on that Job in a bad Guy but i was too Good for and i tried i was work ing out under the direction of Gil and i sparred an exhibition with Muhammad i decided that was a game you could walk into at my work at for a year and a half and be burned so Here i am on my 12year that 1984 will be 12 years since i first made the olympic so far this Winter Ive done 71 feet Inch at my first undercover As they Call it when they mean and two weeks i went to and set a european record of after the indoor season ill probably o to weve got a dual meet with Russia in Moscow this and then the world games in i think ill be eligible for what am i looking for As an Amateur at my age i dont want to be remembered As a Guy who went to the olympics once and finished i want to be remembered As the i was a Good Saloon bouncer when i was i could have been a Good football player at Middle Tennessee but football bored my world is the world of track and that where i want to the new York times Turner says baseball owners must lower salaries of players Ted Turner outrageous contracts Atlanta a Atlanta braves owner Ted who signed outfielder Claudell Washington to a reported million five year contract last says baseball owners must work together to lower major league salaries Are just too High Turner said in an interview published in tuesdays Atlanta Treyve got to come or some teams will go  have to go out of the flamboyant Turner said he and new York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner have Hurt other teams by giving outrageous contracts to some no doubt about he they have to live up to our salaries in i think the top salaries in All sports should be about or i think the average players should make around 000 or weve got to reduce salaries i dont think All our players Are overpaid Pitcher Phil Niekro is Worth every Penny Hes getting but we have Given some outrageous he Turner said the braves went a Little overboard on Washington for despite his Strong he said he is not ready to abstain from pay ing High salaries unless other owners do the a team could make that but it would risk handicapping he Oakland tried and look what Hap Minnesota did it recently and lost All its Boston is doing the owners have got to work he Turner said he has become disillusioned with players who win valuable contracts and then want these Guys ought to act like there appreciative of their tremendous he they  walk around with sour they ought to be thankful to but to they  be complaining about he said he thinks baseball owners should stand firm if there is a baseball strike this lets find out who the players Are supposed to and the owners Are supposed to let the leaders lets get things Back like there supposed to players appear certain to vote for walkout continued from Page 21 May also from the owners George Steinbrenner of the Yankees said he has never seen them More solidified in their stand than they Are i dont want a he no body wants a but in convinced the owners Arent going to give in this they feel they should be reasonably compensated for the loss of any of their free in where Hes in Spring training with the new York Catcher John their former player said there was virtually no Chance the players would change their minds about voting for a strike wednes id say theres a 99 percent Chance Well vote for a said who was to attend a meeting in Tampa the players Are 110 percent unified on this Stearns phoned the players association office Here tuesday to Clear up certain remarks made by him and published Mon he said they had been Misc on Stearns had been quoted As say ing he believed the players eventually would have to agree to some form of com what i was doing in my remarks was using the 25man roster As a Point to show that the owners Haven even sought to negotiate on the one proposal that has been on the table the past 14 said the mets they propose that any compensation to a team losing a free agent begin with their 16th that leaves 15 of their play ers Frozen who cant be and Natu those will be their Best 15 the compensation in the form the owners Are proposing would have such an Adverse affect on the system As we know it would virtually eliminate the ability of a player to test his free Market the owners dont feel it but Stearns offered the Nils compensation system As a prime example of what Hes talking he meaning the have hundreds of free agents every year and to ail intents and no free agents Are Ever signed by other clubs be cause of their rigid Pete the nil Steps in and awards the team losing a free agent a 1 draft and sometimes that Why no free agents Are Ever signed by other teams in the As a its the player who we feel this Basic proposal the base Ball owners have on the table now is Simi Lar and it would have the same affect on our system that it does in the Grebey and management have said we have offered no counter proposals and that not weve offered the owners say they need equity for a player lost through free so we proposed they set up a Cash take Cash for we but they said we also proposed to help set up a Trad ing system whereby a club could receive equitable Talent in trading a player approaching free they didst go for that Stearns agreed it would be difficult for the fans to sympathize with the players but he thought they would if they realized All the implications the players Are not he were not fighting for were fighting for a right we won legally five years a right that was tantamount to granting All players free