European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 27, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                February 1981 the stars and stripes Page 21 Richard recovering from stroke players vote to strike a major league baseball players insist they dont want a but there ready to Challenge the club owners reported million War Chest and walk out six weeks into the 1981 sea the their Freedom to auction their services to the highest bidders restricted when the owners implemented their compensation plan for reentry free agents last came out the players associations executive comprised of representatives of each major league voted during a three hour closed meeting wednesday to strike May 29 if the controversial free Agency is sue cannot be guided by executive director Marvin who led the major leagues Only other regular season strike at the Start of the 1972 the players reacted As the owners plan requires that teams signing ranking free agents surrender unprotected roster players As compensation to the teams losing the free a ranking free agent is described by the owners As one who is selected by at least eight teams in the reentry draft and meets performance criteria based on the Battle lines Are More or less said the associations american league Doug Decinces of the Baltimore hopefully we will have some legitimate today was a procedural step to keep our options were trying to avoid a but we have no other we do not want to but were being forced with agreement on other issues reached last the players and owners agreed then to try to negotiate the clubs compensation averting a threatened neither Side budged and the through chief negotiator Ray Gre implemented their proposal As the agreement last May gave them the right to the players association had until March 1 to set a strike Date or accept the owners compensation Grebey issued a statement in new York in which he said the players decision was and he added any attempt to shift responsibility for their actions to the 26 major league clubs is without foundation and entirely Richard working on a comeback a Houston astros Pitcher Richard is working at his own Pace and going fishing almost daily during his attempt to come Back from a stroke last july but that Doest mean Hes taking it i think Gene Coleman is trying to kill me but that All right because i dont mind Richard joked wednesday during a news conference at the teams training i dont know what the next step will we dont have a regular pro Gram to step up astros general manager Al Rosen Well go at the Pace sets for because of knowledge of his own body and his mental we feel its Best to let it go at that has been at Spring training before and knows what he i feel Good about my chances of pitching this Richard said following his fifth Spring training if i got Down on who would be for me that would be defeating ill pitch this that Why in Down Richard said he Felt he was throwing at about half asked if his fastball had been clocked with a Speed Richard if they put the gun on me ill raise my Richard underwent surgery july 30 to remove a blood clot from his neck and on 18 an 18hour operation replaced a blocked artery in his right the astros announced 19 that Richard had been cleared for full or Spring training a since arriving at the teams training site Richard has taken morning stretching exercises with pitchers and catchers but worked alone for the rest of his astros special instructor Tony Pacheco worked with Richard wednesday hitting ground balls Back to the Mound to exercise Richards hand Eye apparently a key area of concern in Richards comeback during his pitching Richard concentrated on his fastball and Richard said there was nothing lie could not do in the hardest thing for me is getting up in the he on the i can do a photo rockets Billy Paultz 5 and George Mcginnis of the pacers Battle for a rebound jump Ball called on the with tip going to which won 101100 Lanier escorts Bucks past lakers by the associated press Bob Lanier is one of those players who can be valuable even when he Doest score a lot of but that Doest mean he cant put the Ball through the hoop when the occasion you touch the Ball a few More times and youll score its that said wednesday night he matched his High for the season with 29 Points to Lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 126108 National basketball association Victory Over the los Angeles the Veteran Center also grabbed 11 re collected six had four steals and blocked two we followed our game plan perfectly and didst have to change Buck coach Don Nelson were Tough to match up for the Lanier can hit from which they have to and weve got a lot of Guys who can establish an inside coach Nelson said to go and my teammates got me the Lanier we wanted our centers to take off and try to get them in mismatch Situa lakers Center Kareem Abduljabba duplicated lancers scoring output of 29 although he was double teamed by the the defensive Effort on Abduljabba resulted in three Early steals that helped Milwaukee take an 186 and the Bucks led by at least 10 Points from then the lakers pulled to within 6458 at halftime As Abduljabba scored six Points and Jim Chones four while Lan Ier rested on the Bench for three Sidney Moncrief scored 21 Points for Aba Roundup the Bucks and Norm Nixon had 23 for los elsewhere in the Aba celtics Cavaliers 103 Boston won its 23rd game in a Row at Home As Larry Bird scored 30 Points and Center Robert Parish added the cel tics led 6057 before outscoring Cleveland 247 in the last of the first half and the opening minutes of the third Quarter for an 8464 Parish scored nine of his 11 Points in the third Quarter during the Mike Mitchell led the Cavaliers with 27 rockets pacers 100 Robert Reid hit two free throws with five seconds left to give Houston its narrow Victory Over James who led All scorers with 25 hit a Basket with 15 seconds to go to give the pacers a on Point Reid and Calvin Murphy each had 18 Points to Lead the Murphy had no free throw attempts in the so his no record Streak of 73 in a Row is still jazz nets 106 utahs prolific 12 scoring punch of Adrian Dantley and Darrell Griffith paced the jazz to its easy Victory Over new Jer Dantley scored 40 including 17 in the first Quarter when the jazz took a 3928 and Griffith added Griffith had 19 of utahs 36 Points in the third Quarter and it upped its Lead to bullets Knoks 105 Elvin Hayes scored 31 including 12 in the fourth Quarter when Washington outscored new York 207 in the final the Victory was the bullets first Over the kicks in five tries this season and pulled them to within on half game Idle Chi Cago in the Battle for the final Aba East Ern division playoff Greg Ballard added 26 Points for Washington and Ray Williams had 26 to Lead new 76ers clippers 95 Julius Erving scored seven of his game High 39 Points in the final two minutes of the first half to help Philadelphia break open a close game against san which had its first sellout of the Ervings 22 first half Points gave the 76ers a 5447 halftime and they led the rest of the the who got 22 Points from both Swen Nater and free Man saw their five game win Ning Streak