European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 5, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes june 1985 players hold cards As strike looms by Milton Ziniman m w York up the players on a Fliey hive the owners Over a barrel again once More yet still so that the chances of us having another baseball strike keep gelling belter every i he players Are giving you a Good idea of How they feel about going out on strike for the second time in four years by the Way there youre seeing plenty of that Good old Solidarity out of the clubs that have announced the results of their voting so the mariners voted 260 to strike with one unnamed the Yankees and twins All voted 250 in a few dissenters manifested themselves orioles 214 Vole to go out if the owners dont meet their Condi and Chicago Catcher Marc Hill said sunday hed Vole no to a but theres virtually no Chance of these five players creating any kind of groundswell against he existing vast before the 56day strike in the players look a similar vote among themselves and Jerry the Kansas City royals infielder who is scouting for them was the Only major leaguer among some 650 of them who voted against he had some very Strong feelings about his and he never flinched about being All by himself in the course he i remember him enumerating All his reasons to me Why he fell it would be morally wrong for him to strike even though he want making a whole lot of and his reasons made another strike by the players now will make no sense to the who cant possibly understand How the players can reasonably expect any More when some of them already Are making More than a million a the average big league salary is Over a year and the owners Are offering to raise the annual minimum from the present to the owners also have said they Are willing to make a commentary modest increase in their contribution to the players pen Sion int nearly enough for the they want the owners to turn Over on third of the television a figure that adds up to something like the players arc waiting for the owners to come in with a better in sure if the owners said they were willing to hand million of their to that automatically would end All talk of a i cant Sec the owners doing that at How Treyve had a or at Ueberroth they talk that they feel they already arc paying excessive salaries to Many players who Arent Worth of is entirely their own so Why should they pay them even More the owners say the players want it both in to Money As Well As and they have no intention of going along with that kind of every time they have yielded to the players the owners have wound up this time there deter irined to hold the but its hard to see How they can in the face of All the player contracts they hold for deferred plus so Many of those other contracts stipulating the players must get paid even in the event of a can you imagine How any owner would agree to a contract like that Many so a strike would Only mean these owners  be getting any people in the but they would have to be paying some players full those players with deferred or As they Are  suffer by a there guaranteed their Money the owners would suffer by having to pay these players eventually even though they went out on that Why the players have the owners Over a barrel again once some owners dont care How much of a disadvantage a strike will put them there mad As and they dont want to take it Don the head of the players is trying to determine what would be the most strategic time for the players to strike and Marvin his also is still around to offer his the players May choose to walk out on the Allstar game bearing in mind How successful the umpires were when they struck just before last years they May do the same and possibly sit out the world series the owners would lose million if there was no world series this and that gives the players another big Peter who had just taken Over As commis got the umpires Back to work last fall by de manding their salaries be he didst suggest he he has repeatedly said he wants the players and own ers to reach agreement on a new Basic agreement strictly through the collective bargaining 1 firmly believe he will try to bring his influence to Bear if he becomes convinced there is no other that his both sides keep insisting they dont want a int that the same thing they said last time i guess both sides simply dont care How incisive and accurate Santayana was when he said those of us who do not learn from history Are doomed to repeat soviet bloc attitude very favourable Korea claims Assurance of no Boycott Berlin a South korean sports minister Lee Yongho said monday he has received assurances that there will be no soviet bloc Boycott at the 1988 Seoul olympics despite he absence of relations Between communist countries and South Lee said he received a very favourable of the communist attitude to Seoul during a 40minutc meeting sunday with Manfred East Germany top sports official and the president of its National olympic we had a very Good Lee we discussed the Seoul games in detail and Ewald indicated not Only East Germany but All the socialist countries intend to take part in the Seoul a Boycott of the 1988 games by soviet bloc countries was widely expected because of their nonrecognition of South there were indications that North Korea in particular was urging such a Boycott on its friends and allies but was running into Vig Orous opposition from East european Mem Bers of the soviet particularly Hun Gary and East nearly All the friends and allies of the soviet Union boycotted the 1984 los an Geles purportedly because of threats to their Lee said Ewald assured him that East German and other communist countries would definitely participate in the judo world championships in september and the world cup boxing tournament in both in Lee said this would create a precedent for the 1988 olympics since the soviet bloc teams then could no longer claim that absence of diplomatic relations prevented their Lee said Ewald told him East Germany did not intend to Send a team to the world Archery championships or to the Junior women handball world championships in South Korea later this year Only because East Germany does not regard itself As being in the world class in these he said he and his official South korean delegation had been received with exceptional Courtesy wherever they went in East Germany on the occasion of the current annual session of the inter nation olympic committee in East Lee said the Seoul organizing committee has reached Complete agreement on the schedule of track and Field events at the 1988 games with the International Amateur athletic federation and a final con tract would be signed with Isaaf Primo Nebiolo of in Rome within two the negotiations were delayed by the american television companies insistence that major track and Field finals be held during the korean morning contrary to tradition to allow them to be broadcast live in prime time to audiences in the United under the Lee the finals will be held earlier than including some around track and Field finals traditionally take place in late Berlioz us will give up Ioc Post by Morley Myers Mast Berlin up Monique Berlioz us will quit As director of the in Lern Lional olympic committee next out of the Job after 14 years As one of the most influential women in world Ioc sources said sources said the 59yearold French official would remain in office until after the end of this weeks 90th Ioc session before vacating her Post on her return to Ioc Headquarters in Switz settlement terms have been agreed but details were not made the sources Berlioz us dominated the olympic movement during 14 years of dramatic developments which witnessed the 1972 Munich massacre of israeli successive Boycotts and intense political several attempts to oust her by Ioc members unhappy at her tight control of the organization have been made since Berlioz us became director in she had successfully countered those moves while serving under Ioc presidents Avery Brundage and lord since Juun Antonio Sam ranch be came president in 1980 the rift Between a swimming semifinalist at the 1948 olympic games in and the docs lineman executive has wid Ioc sources said the crisis came to a head saturday and sunday when three Ioc third vice president Ber hold Beitz of West Belgium Prince Alexandre de erode and Obeba Mbaye of were designated by the Ioc Board to try to persuade Ber linux to Berlioz us walked at the suggestion and denied she had been sacked at a press briefing there Are 13 hours difference Between South Korea and Eastern North agreements Between the Seoul organizing committee and All the olympic sports federations were necessary before the negotiations Between the Ioc and the american television companies for the Seoul Broad casting rights which Are due to open in Lau Switzerland in Lee said the last final except for track and were signed last month with the boxing and gymnastics Lee ruled out free accommodation for the athletes and officials expected at As had been proposed by the the organizing committee of the 1988 win Ter olympics in is consid ering offering free accommodation id the athletes expected in our Case this is not possible because the Cost would be Lee it would also place an obligation on subsequent creating an unacceptable financial Burden for Stanford 9 ousts Arizona in series up Mike Debe non slugged a grand slam and Walt Harris drove in three runs to Power 1 Stanford to a 92 Victory and eliminate Arizona Sun Day night at the College world in an earlier losers bracket 2 Oklahoma state beat 8 South Carolina 1611 in a game that took nearly four hours with five pitchers from each team issuing a combined 28 Pete Incaviglia belted a three run Homer and Mike Day scored four runs and drove in three to Power Oklahoma state which scored seven times in the Sec Ond the loss eliminated South 47 Oklahoma was to play the loser of tuesday nights Miami Texas game