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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, June 2, 1985

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes june 1985 players May Boycott Allstar game new York a the possibility of a player Boycott of the 1985 Allstar game was introduced Friday As management and labor continued what the Union called an absurd line of negotiations toward a new baseball managements negotiating led by former american league president Lee supplied the Union with further details of its earlier proposal to place a salary Cap on All major league As they filled in the the promo which was absurd to Start has become even More said former Union head Marvin now a Consul Tant to the major league players Assoc a Miller handled the players Side of negotiations Friday while Don acting executive director of the was in Louis on a tour of major league cities to talk with Chr said a Boycott of the Allstar scheduled for july 16 in Minne Apo was a weve discussed All the Fehr said by that one of we Haven foreclosed any of the in their last negotiating on May Macpha ifs player relations commit tee presented the Union with an eight Point proposal that included the salary Cap under the each teams maximum salary would be based on 1985 teams would be allowed to exceed the Cap in signing players already under but they would be restricted to the Maxi mum figure in signing free Why Are they doing this Miller you the whole purpose of this is to reduce player to really gut the whole free Agency and without laying a proper foundation for such a drastic that what makes it its As if the players were our demand is that you turn Over All the 26 franchises to Miller nobody would take it under the management offered to acquiesce to Union demands that the free agent reentry draft be dropped and to eliminate professional player compensation for clubs losing High ranking free Macphail was asked if the two sides appeared to be coming any closer to agreeing to a new the old Basic agreement expired on we were just filling in the details in our previous Macphail i  say this session itself would have any great Impact upon exactly where we Don the Yankees designated hitter and american league player started the Flap Over the All Star game on thursday when he said if the players want to walk out on the Allstar game and resume playing that be come a genuine id say that the Allstar game is in a source close to the Union said it was premature to speculate on such a Boycott but added that Fehr and his Mark were travelling meeting with All the getting a feeling from All the players to see what they but that really the status of the unions executive in a May 22 meeting in authorized the Union to Call a no deadline has been Miller said he was unaware of any plans to Boycott the Allstar but he said it was always a there is no contractual obligation Ever for a player to play in an Allstar Miller you could refuse to play in that game without engaging in a there is nothing in a players contract or in the Basic agreement that requires players to play in the Allstar Macphail called the Allstar game very important to its not just an Macphail we would feel badly about losing the Allstar and we Hope that would not a member of the California who asked not to be said id say that one of two things has to happen for the game to be the owners have to make some substantive or they have to agree to put the Allstar receipts in an escrow fund that neither Side could touch until there is an we Arent going to play a game that will put Money in the owners pockets when they refuse to negotiate in Good flyers win pair from sheiks Germany the Wiesbaden flyers won a double header from the Spang Halem sheiks Here saturday in the Continental sports Bryan Hollis tier hurled the 52 opening game the flyers prevailed 83 in the second a Trio of flyers Pablo Gonzales and Mark Vincler collected three hits apiece off losing Pitcher John Chuhak in the first Connors advances despite penalty threat to quit Mississippi Arkansas win in College series up John Mitchell and Rafael Palmeiro each slugged two run homers Friday night to spark Mississippi state to a 123 thrashing of Oklahoma and Keith Kerns 14thinning single provided Arkansas with a 10 Victory Over South Carolina to open the College world 4 with its 17th straight faces 5 Mississippi while 8 South Caroli goes into a losers bracket game sunday with 2 Oklahoma Mississippi state ripped 14 hits off six Cowboy pitchers and took advantage of four Oklahoma state the bulldogs bunched a double by Bobby Thigpen and four walks to score three runs in the second Mitchell hit his Homer in the and Palmeiro towering drive Over the right Field Fence in the sixth put the game out of will Clark added three hits and scored two runs for the and Dan Van Cleve swatted three walked twice and drove in two the cowboys got bulldog starter Gene Morgan for two of their three runs in the ninth on a right Field single by Bobby me Pete College baseballs top and Bryan each had two hits Tor Oklahoma Kerns single drove in Norm Roberts for Arkansas extra inning Fred the Razorbacks picked up the Victory in Relief to improve his record to Paris a Jimmy Connors love affair with the French Tennis championships was on the rocks again saturday after he threatened to quit during a fou set Triumph Over Frenchman Tarik Benh Abiles and then hinted that he May not be Back next the 32yearold american seeded behind countryman John Mcenroe and Ivan Lendl of czechoslovak had a penalty Point awarded against him during a vital stage of his 75 Victory Over the 20yearold the temperature gauge on the Center court Rose to 100 degrees during the 4hour 7minute and Connors boiled threatening he would quit if the penalty was not but he stayed on court and won the afterwards he said Why should some Guy in the chair Cost me my last French asked if this years tournament would be his final appearance at the Roland Garros he backtracked by saying no Deci Sion has been but he later told the associated press this is my last French ill come Back next year to do defending Champion Ivan american 17yearold Aaron Krickstein and the swedes Anders Jarryd and Stefan were the seeded players to Advance to the fourth round of the mens singles in saturdays but 11 seed Miroslav Mecir of who reached the final of the italian tumbled to argentinian Martin Jaite in five Martina the defending women continued her Streak of not dropping a set while wearing her on court she advancing to the quarterfinals along with co seeds Hana Mandrikova and Claudia the penalty Point incident happened after the red Clay of the court kicked up in the wind and Connors fetched a Towel to wipe his face before playing the next the score was 43 in Connors favor in the second set with the players at one set the american took More than the allowed 30 seconds to prepare himself for the next Point and the Umpire awarded it to Benham which gave him Connors stormed do you want me to play Blind adding if the Point stays i after tournament referee Jacques Dorf Jimmy Connors protests to Umpire at French open saturday Man confirmed the Connors agreed to continue and went on to win the the set and the to go through to the fourth Connors finds himself a stranger among the Cla court but he says he is not prepared to go out of his Way to these Guys play on Clay for seven or eight weeks before the i simply cant do said there Are 52 weeks in the year and around 90 Tournai he adding on All sorts of different the French open is the Only grand slam event to elude twice he has made the and in when he won the three other grand slam tournaments the australian Wimbledon and the open he was barred from the Roland Garros event be cause of his involvement with world team Ivan had a comfortable 62 Victory Over Jerome Potier of and in the next round will meet who beat the experienced australian Paul Mcnamee Krickstein faced defeat when he trailed by two sets to one and 02 in the Mcnamee had found a Way of taming Krickstein booming forehand and had turned the game around in his favor after the american had led by a set and but Krickstein rediscovered the Power of his forehand and captured 12 of the next 13 game to reel off the last two Jarryd and Edberg set up a fourth round swedish showdown by winning their games in straight seeded downed Juan Aguilera of Spain 6 had a 76 60 Triumph Over John Frawley of Andrei a qualifier from the soviet Union who upset american 8 seed Eliot Teltscher in the previous reached the end of the line when he was beaten in five sets by Heinz Gunthardt of also won 76 after More than five hours of in the women Navratilova had a 61 Victory Over italian Rafaella third round conqueror of american 13 seed Kathy the unpredictable czech who struggled to beat Elise Burgin in a second round went close to losing the opening set to another Peggy but she went on to win 76 61 and Advance to a quarterfinal match with the West German 7 who came from behind to beat coun try woman Sylvia Hanika am sports television mens Golf Kemper final round from 7 basketball game Aba championship Boston celtics at los an Geles radio basketball Aba championship be  
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