European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes May owners want free agent salary limit by Marv Schneider new York a the free agent which triggered the 1981 baseball players is up front again in this years contract the club owners proposed on monday a plan that would limit salaries for free agents and other players who move from one team to another As a Way to put baseball Back somewhere in a breakeven Union chief Don Fehr said his first reaction was that the proposal appeared to be a step backward of the most enormous magnitude because it would do away with free Agency in baseball As we know Lee president of the owners player relations committee and managements chief said the payroll plan is patterned after the nabs salary and called it the most significant proposal made thus far in the sporadic contract he said it would not affect the salaries of players already on the 40man but would limit what teams could spend on others subsequently it was part of an eight Point contract offer in which management also said it would be willing to do away with the free agent reentry with which the players have grown and to eliminate professional players As compensation to teams which lose High rank ing free a major Issue in the 50day about managements willingness to abolish the re entry Fehr said if you do away with the reentry draft and say All ill retire after the 30th players can negotiate with All that one if you then say most clubs cant sign any free that makes the first rather All we were trying to do was slow the dramatic in crease in Macphail said of the our objective is by slowing that increase to allow baseball revenues to catch up with our costs and put baseball Back somewhere in a breakeven position where the clubs could stand financially on their own two the who say baseball is having severe eco nomic last week gave the Union data which showed an aggregate loss last year of with 24 teams Macphail said that when the two remaining clubs the figure could go As High As he explained the plan by saying we would figure an average payroll for clubs based on 1985 player compel and the clubs own payroll in relation to average payroll level would determine what they could and could not do in regard to signing other As far As players not on the 40man they the clubs would be Able to go up Only to the limit of the Macphail Macphail said if the plan went into clubs Well above the level would be Given a Grace period some time to get Down or they could stay where they there is no prohibition to remain above the average payroll but there would be restrictions on what they could do about acquiring players not on their 40 Man two years the National basketball association became the first major professional sports league with a salary players and owners agreed to limit each team to a Given payroll each the figure for this season is million for each teams 12player Fehr said the at first would functionally do away with the right of a baseball player to seek a Market value level for his their proposal would eliminate most clubs from the free agent Market most of the the outline was specific enough to understand that clubs having a higher than average payroll  be permitted to sign free acting executive director of the players Assoc a said mondays proposals would be presented to the unions executive committee at a meeting in Chicago on thursday where player representatives Are expected to vote to request strike authorization from the the club owners also said they would adopt player benefits in the form of an improved waiver in creased allowances and an increased postseason player Macphail said management had offered major improvements in retirement benefits for those still Active and those already an increase in the mini mum salary to from the present and to take Steps to protect the players with respect to the million of unfunded deferred compensation committed to be paid the players in the Only two More indy 500s for Foy by Mike Harris Indianapolis a the Only fou time Winner of the Indiana Polis 500 and the Only Driver Ever to com Pete in the worlds richest Auto race in four separate said monday he plans to Call it quits at Indianapolis after the 1987 ill retire after the 30th Foyt told the associated press during an interview in front of his gasoline Alley garage at the Indianapolis motor who first came to Indianapolis As a Rookie in will Start his 28th consecutive indy 500 on sunday from the outside of the seventh it will be the 300th indy car race in this is the first time the 50yearold Driver from has pinpointed a retirement always saying before that one Day he would just get out of his race pull off his helmet and Foyt has been known to change his mind asked if he was serious this time about retiring after the 1987 he grinned and said we gotta do 30 if i aint too then ill asked if he still likes racing the missile like indy Foyt shrugged and i still enjoy if i didst like racing i  be Foyt qualified 21st in the 33car Field for sundays race with a four Lap average of Foyt has won a record 67 indy car his closest Mario has Foyt also has won seven grand National Stock car including the Daytona 500 the three biggest sports car endurance events the 24 hours of the Daytona 24 hours and the 12 hours of Sebring and he has won a record seven Auto club National Foyt first won the 500 in 1961 and Fol Lowed with triumphs in 1967 and the 10year Gap Between his third and fourth victories is the longest Span Ever Between victories by the same his last ind Caf Victory came in the 1981 Pocono 500 and he has driven in Only 17 indy car events since the beginning of the 1980 the fiery tempered Driver returned to sports car endurance racing in after a 16year and won the Daytona 24 he won it again this and Fol Lowed that Victory with his first at a photo 4time Winner Foyt four decades at indy the old Ali wowed them in China peking a it was like the old Days for Muhammad he Drew big sparred playfully with All Comers and put on the a shuffle in the invited by the communist government and hailed in the press As the King of Box ing and a 20th Century the for Mer heavyweight Champion was making his second visit to his first in 1979 helped revive boxing in banned As too dangerous two dec Ades earlier because of a death in the China now Hopes to train olympic i was surprised that so Many people knew said whose slurred speech and wooden expression betray the debilitating Parkinson disease from which he accompanied by his wife vet eran manager Herbert Muhammad and other Ali was mobbed by fans wherever his limousine arrived for an in he attracted throngs of Auto graph to roars of approval from 500 students at peking sports 20yearold lightweight Wang Wei sparred with the Champ in a makeshift ring and said it was the greatest Day of his another Amateur at the session disclosed that his coach told him to aim for the Stom Ach As Ali was not in Good who took off his suit coat and tie for the on minute resembled his old self when he donned a pair of boxing he swung his right in circles for upper cuts that were not meant to danced away from opponents and faked a Knock Down at the hands of one Small Treyve got great he said of boxers in peking and there not but they can take a punch and they Are determined and i Hope to come Back with a program to train chinese the communist View in 1959 was that Good comrades should not hit each other and some still feel the sport is too but Holder of the world Crown in 1974 and defended boxing at a news conference for 50 chinese reporters in peking last if we stopped All the things that caused cars would be air planes would be he calling for better referees and ringside physicians and evenly matched if i had to do it All Over i would do everything the same he to the China youth he wrote now that you Are open to the never lose your because others will try to give you their it will be a great i Promise to come Back and stay Long Ali Sipe hits twice As bulls rally for 2017 win Houston a Jacksonville quarterback Brian Sipe threw two touchdown passes and Brian Franco kicked a 27yard Field goal in a 17point third Quarter to rally the bulls to a 2017 United states football league Victory Over Houston monday the trailed 173 at the but struck Back with Sipe touchdown passes of 22 Yards to Alton Alexis and five Yards to Larry Mason to tie the score and Franco added the clincher with 40 seconds left in the the netted Only four Yards in the third Quarter and held the Ball Only of the the gamblers drove to the bulls 30 be fore running Back Todd Fowler fumbled and bulls Terry Beeson recovered with left in the return specialist Gerald Mcneil ignited the gamblers to a 173 halftime Lead when he darted through a Hole in the Middle of the bulls defense for a 49yard punt return in the first Toni Fritsch kicked a 44yard Field goal and Jim Kelly hit Richard Johnson with a 15yard touchdown pass in the second Quarter for their halftime the bulls reached the Houston on Yard line in the second Quarter but two penalties and a sack of Sipe forced them to Settle for Francos 29yard Field aided by two pass interference penalties against reached Houston 23 but Luther Bradley interception with 10 seconds left in the half ended that bulls running Back Mike Rozier gained 86 Yards on 20 carries to give him Yards for the the gamblers had promised to give away a million annuity to a Lucky fan if fans attended the game and if at least were Gambler officials said fans at tended the it was the smallest crowd of the