European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 7, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes june 1985 times cites Pittsburgh connection is reports no rite with cocaine new York a evidence uncovered by investigators in the Pittsburgh Federal grand jury probe of drug Traffick ing shows that cocaine was sold to base Ball players in virtually every National league sports illustrated reported in its june 10 and the new York times said a study it had done showed that 80 per cent of the dates mentioned in indictments handed up by the grand jury last Friday coincided with dates when the pirates were in sports illustrated quoted unnamed Law enforcement officials As saying drug deals involving ballplayers were so routine that those who cooperated in the investigation often had trouble providing specific information about in some sports illustrated athletes were Able to pin Down sales by recalling who the opposing Pitcher was on a Given seven Pennsylvania men were charged with 165 drug violations in indictments returned by the grand jury following a 14month More than a dozen ballplayers most under Grants of immunity were called to testify before the however no players were named in the the seven men indicted Are to be arraigned Friday before a magistrate in the Story in thursdays editions of the times said dates of 133 counts in the 165count indictment match Days on which the National league team was Home from 1980 through Alan the attorney who directed the grand said he could not comment on the pattern of dates involved in the Stanton a lawyer for Jeffrey who is charged on 12 counts of cocaine said he had checked on the dates in the indictments of his client and my Assumption is the governments Case is based strictly on allegedly dealing with baseball of 12 counts against five involved dates when the pirates were one Date in when the Louis cardinals played in also shows up in the charges against Dale another of the seven Schiffman was indicted on 111 87 with dates in 1983 which match every one of the dates when the pirates were in Pittsburgh either playing or on a Day his lawyer would not comment on the pattern of the lawyer for Curtis Strong of who has been indicted on 16 counts of cocaine said he was aware of the pattern of dates cited in the without this whole thing involves baseball said attorney Adam Renfroe or of Phila sports available wednes said players in National league Cit ies usually bought cocaine in Small Quan Ana quoted one source As saying the players deliberately shied away from larger they didst want to be arrested and labelled the source they know if its Small quantities they wont go to jail and  go into some kind of treatment the Magazine that prosecutors also have information that one big league player spent More than on drugs in a single reds7 owner offers to open books Cincinnati up Cincinnati reds owner Marge fearing another players strike will Chase away fans for has offered to let reds player representative Joe Price examine the clubs financial Price saying he int an accountant and the books would mean nothing to a disagreement among players and own ers about baseballs financial health has stalled labor negotiations and raised the possibility of a players strike next i told him Price he can come in and look at the Schott and if i find out anything the players want to ill let them know about Iti the Way she put it to 1 could come in and try to figure them out by Price if i were an that might mean but i really dont want to get into it with Marge i dont have anything to gain doing i dont think she would let me take the books to the players association and have them look at that not what she she said i can go in there myself and take a Schott said she fears a players strike would Hurt the game much More now than the strike of if the players go out i dont think the fans will Ever come she the last time the players went people went out and found other things to it took us a Long time and a lot of hard work for us to Start getting the fans if the players go out i know the fans will stay away for its Amaz ing How they take these things and the players better realize the reds previously announced they lost More than million last year and who bought the club this has started trimming at least one Par time employee was other Par time employees Are being summoned less frequently and More changes Are being Schott also ordered an end to the fire works which used to be set off after every Cincinnati French from Page 21 played Start caused by a and Navratilova lost three of her first six service games As both players continually double Kohl Kilsch knotted the first set at but Navratilova forged ahead again on her serve and clinched the set with a spectacular pass on the both players seemed to hit some kind form at the same time around the mid dle of the second set and they thrilled the crowd with some Brilliant but it was too Little too late for the West and she succumbed on the first match Point with a backhand Volley into the Navratilova said later she was far from her Best form on the Day i didst play i didst feel i didst serve god and i was kind of out of synch out but i did what i had to to win and that what she has lost just 21 games in six rounds of this years tourney and she its Good to know that i can play badly and still win in straight five time Winner of the French reached her 30th grand slam final by crushing whom observers had regarded As a Good possibility for an but whenever Sabatini struck one of her Low Ever Lloyd would match with her main weapon seemingly out of the youngster tried everything to outman Euver the experienced varying the spin and Angle of shots and looking for opportunities to reach the in each of the two Sabatini held serve in the opening but then lost the next she hit Back in the first to reach before losing it on the first set but in the Ever Lloyd snuffed out any Chance of a second comeback by capturing sabatinis serve to claim the afterwards the american Veteran it was 54 3030 in the first set and anything could after i won that i was Home i looked at Gabriela and she looked a Little the last time i played her on Clay was Here last making her first Ever appear Ance on the Center court at Roland Garros said through an i was a bit tired out there today and i didst really play Well but it was really a question of concentration and not in still satisfied with the Way i played in the the mens doubles final will feature the experienced australian duo of marked Mondon and Kim Warwick against Hans Simonsson of Sweden and israels Shlomo in the semifinals the australians pro Philadelphia sky boxes put on hold Philadelphia a a lion project that would create 40 luxury sky boxes and add office and restroom space to the spectrum has been put on hold pending congressional action on president reagans tax code the Arenas owner said i dont believe it is prudent to build a Structure with sky boxes when the deduction May not be Spectator owner de Snider reagans unveiled last would eliminate sports tickets As a taxed ductile business depriving Many Arenas and professional teams of an important source of Snider said sales of the 40 sky boxes would have financed the renovations of the Home to the National basketball associations 76ers and the National hockey leagues which Snider he said his group has been working to renovate the 18yearold facility for and is nearing completion of plans for a two phase project to build a Concrete superstructure around the facility and make other if in fact the Bill were we would move on the project As quickly As the architects could Snider a representative of the National football leagues eagles said Hes had no problems in efforts to lease 27 new sky boxes at adjacent veterans Ive surveyed All of the people whole so far committed to the boxes and i Haven had any said Lou director of Penthouse sales he said he had leased about 12 boxes for annual fees ranging from to Scheinfeld said businesses feel they need the boxes As legitimate entertainment tools whether or not there and companies do not want to miss out on signing up for the boxes because of a tax Bill that May never go he noted that older sky boxes at the stadium which was completed in 1971 have a 10year waiting mayor Wilson Goode proposed construction of sky boxes at veterans stadium As part of a Deal preventing the eagles from moving to last celtics from Page 21 Chris Ever Lloyd grand slam finale diced a Victory Over the swed ish pair of Mats Wilander and Joakim nys Simmons son and who earlier upset world doubles champions Ken Flach and Robert Seguso of the reached the final by beating another swedish Combina Stefan Edberg and Anders 6 As who had 13 Points in the Quad came Back with two straight Hook Quinn Buckner hit from outside just As the 24second clock trimming the Defi Cit Back to worthy two Quick baskets Early in the fourth Quarter gave los Angeles a 9083 Lead and again put the lakers on the verge of putting the game but it was at that Point that Bird took Over for the cel breaking out a shooting slump that had seen him hit Only percent of his Field goals in the last five playoff the lakers had their running game perk ing Early in the and outside shots by magic Johnson and Bob Mcadoo and a Layup by magic Johnson gave los Angeles a 3124 its largest of the with to go in the opening then who had 10 Points in the first hit a turnaround jumper to Start the second triggering a 60 run that gave Boston a 3432 los Angeles tied the score five times in the next four minutes without regaining the Lead before the celtics reeled off five straight Points for their largest margin of the los Angeles managed three More dead locks in the closing minutes of the but Cedric maxwells free throw with two seconds and Boston led 5958 at