European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 2, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes August 1985 Ueberroth his own thing his own Way by Hal Bock new York a for someone who has no authority to intervene in the Peter Ueberroth is the image of an upfront commissioner As baseball counts Down to what could be its second strike in four he is often sometimes con always me ordered the owners to open their books and agreed with them that baseball is losing i be toured the country to talk with players and sided with them against the own ers proposal for a salary he has followed a much different path than the one pursued in 1981 by his Pride Bowie and Kuhn thinks that just you have a new commissioner who is not very Kuhn in not saying that to be he does his own thing in his own Hes a new face and maybe that beneficial at this Ueberroth has tried to walk a Middle often complimenting the negotiators and saying both sides Are Well rep but he also has taken unprecedented Steps for a on Long before the talks had reached crisis Ueberroth shocked an owners meeting by saying he would order the clubs to open their if both parties in the labor negotiations Felt it would be helpful in reaching a new analysis of the financial records have from a management claim that teams lost million last year an Esti mate later reduced to million to a Union claim that teams actually finished with a profit of about the truth is you can argue Over How much the loss but the loss is very Ueberroth baseball teams Are los ing i think both sides at the table arc beginning to get serious about a photo Peter Ueberroth helping Stop strike not having an Industry that going Down the tubes with terrible problems that they cant recover until the commissioners baseball clubs have always been careful to keep their financial records of limits to the this was a reversal of previous management it was Howe Ueberroth first last his second Day on the major league umpires went on this was on opening Day of the one week before the world and it was not the Best introduction for a new Ueberroth first response was a traditional one it is a league by weeks he was arbitrating the awarding the umpires 102 percent of what we asked according to Richie executive director of the their he was the catalyst in reaching an he settled neither Side directly asked for Ueber Roth to arbitrate the umpires he became involved after Lee president of the player relations served As an intermediary Between Phillips and the it is Macphail who is bargaining for management in the cur rent talks with the the umpires strike episode especially with the Union getting More than it had asked for painted Ueberroth As an in dependent not tied to the owners As his predecessors had it is a helpful image to especially if he Steps into the current labor i think he can be extremely effective in bringing about a settlement of this Dis Phillips i feel the same Way about this As i did about the he Doest have to be asked its his Job to become Don acting executive director of the major league players wonders about it seems strange that an individual brought on Board to do something about baseball finances has done absolutely nothing in collective he so Ueberroth has been walking a thin line on the at weeks he refused to be interviewed on the labor although he had been vocal on the subject i think there going to work together and solve the he in trying to keep the rhetoric Down and let them get their Job offended some players the Day before the Union set a strike he assumed what some interpreted As an arrogant posture on National he said of a possible As far Asim the sooner the bet lets get it Over lets get the strike behind at other Ueberroth has sounded every ounce of our Energy should be directed to ensuring that these negotiations Are he my stance is very in doing everything you can do in not going to take the owners Side and in not going to take the players to take a Side would be fool ignorant and yet he did appear to take a Side in private conversations with players and he reportedly spoke out against the owners salary Cap in a free Enterprise he Ueberroth calling the salary Cap proposal the word int in my he Macphail says he sees nothing wrong with Ueberroth he has said he is not in favor of some things the clubs have on the table and Hes not in favor of some things the Union has on the it seemed unusual for a commissioner to be discussing issues with agents and it in character for this last during the owners Winter meetings in Ueberroth flew to Las vegas to address the players that turned a few management who never had much of a pipe line to the likes Ueberroth a i think its Good that Peter met with he i think its important to have ties to the players the ability to talk with their executive their the players i also thought opening the books was the right in i said that the direction to if i could i would have done the same does the Ball or the baserunner get to Home plate first photos by red Grandy Torrejos Louie Francavilla lunges for Home plate left As Alconbury Catcher Safe from Page 25 rocket reliever Harry the line drive carried Over the left Field which lost to Sembach in the championship a year broke on top 10 in the first when Alex Dimuro ripped a Solo blast off Jim Rhei main tied the score in the third when Bobby Moss rifled a triple to right scoring Ralph who had reached on a fielders Chapmans blow came an inning Bob Kundinger walked and Jim Tinalli lashed a single to set the stage for Chap mans Brent Wilburs run scoring Dou ble gave the eagles a 53 Lead to open the but Rhei main almost pulled it out in the Bottom of the Moss homered to Lead off and one out Chad Jerome Maxey and Don Rudy West reaches for the they collide but West holds onto the Nelly Drew consecutive walks off starter Rinal Lakenheath manager Cal Bates then summoned right hander Fred Smith escaped further trouble by retiring Dave Jones on a called third strike and Frank Quinones on a liner to Wilbur in right who stumbled but Hung Bates had hoped that Tinalli could Fin but decided to go to Smith when i Nalli just  find the plate any in wednesdays opening Alcon Bury and Torrejon came in with what they thought were big but came up with Only it was Rhei Mains whittles who silenced the spartans on three hits As the rockets turned Back Alconbury then it was Chris Starrs the Sembach right hander handcuffed the raiders on four hits to spark the Host tigers to a 90 that gave the Continental sports conference a sweep of the first two games in this double elimination a had More trouble fighting a driving rain then he Ball right and Umpire Glenn Mitchell Calls Francavilla out in thursdays losers rack had in battling the the 2 team from the relying mostly on his the native fanned 13 in route to his Complete game the rockets took a 10 Lead in the first when Bobby Moses drive to Center was displayed by West into a Maxey drove in Moss with a sacrifice Rhei main made it 20 in the third when Chad Sumner stole second and came Home on two wild pitches by John who went the distance in Rhei Mains final tally came in the sixth when Curt Lineback stole went to third on a sacrifice and scored on Scott Grodis sacrifice Sembach had no trouble coming up with the big hits against the tigers scored once in the twice in the fifth and six times in the sixth to provide More than enough Cushion for Starr who kept his record unblemished in capping the Sembach onslaught was a three run Homer by Alex Clark in the Bot it Competition in the Safe baseball Alconbury torn of the the off reliever Wil Liam carried Well Over the Fence in left enter that shot earned a five year tigers the game but it was Starr who carried the he limited the raiders to four hits and three the right hander struck out with one out in the Little hit de Bittinger with a pitch and bully Balocan followed with a single moving Bittinger to Bobby Mason relieved and Mickey Merrill slapped a grounder to first baseman Kevin Mccracken who caught Bittinger in a but Bittinger was Able to avoid the tag Long enough to allow his teammates to and Vance to second and a passed Ball allowed Balocan to break the scoreless television baseball Chicago White sox at new York saturday