European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 14, 1936 the stars and stripes Page 19 commentary \ Usel did t use any gamesmanship All right places Csc Inbody this is a quiz. One answer and one answer Only. Papers will be graded for neatness and originality. No prompting Tram the audience. Ready All right for 100 autographed photos of Harry usher who arc or were the Orlando renegades Andis there a product connected with what they in is what they do or did done on ice on roller skates horseback or under water How about he Portland Breakers care to take a guess what they do for a living what s a Baltimore Star do you fight the Jack Sonville hulls with a sword and a Cape or what"1 is Denver Gold subject to London Price fixing .1 give me a break. These unidentified non flying objects an pc Are entities in something called the United states fool Ball league. A collector s item. An endangered Spe cies. They have won what May be the lowest damage settlement in the history of american jurisprudence. Three whole american dollars. They would have taken it to Small claims court. Judge Wapner Wouldhave Given them More in a suit Over a Chicken. You know i always thought when you started a new sports league in this country the old rules of Good old american gamer Manship applied. You Enow protect yourself at nil times. Fight a Little dirty if you have to. Make it on your own. I mean leagues have been warring since the invention of the Ball. But one never went to court to gel the other to pay its Bills before. Established leagues never have welcomed upstarts with open arms before. Why should they they broke the ground. They pushed into the unknown fought the indians so to speak braved the floods stood the heat cleared the land. Newcomers can t come in and say excuse me would you mind moving Over they have to Cam their place Loo. There s even a uniquely american term to describe them johnnies come lately consider inc turn of the Century when the National baseball league was the Summit of All base Ball. An audacious sex sportswriter Bancroft ban Johnson dared to form a rival league the american. He did t go to court me fought dirty. He scrapped the so called National agreement which bound players to one club and put a s2,Soo Cap on salaries. He raided blustered moved the Baltimore fran Chise to new York and made off with immortal National league players like by Young and Napoleon Lajoice. The National league which and scornfully refused a postseason playoff with inc upstart league was forced to capitulate and the world series was born. Always thought that was the Way ii was done. Not that the leagues weren t litigious. Lajoice had to be spirited out of the slate of Pennsylvania when he jumped from inc National league Phila Delphia team to the american league and he had to be kept out since a court had ordered his return to the National league club the outlaw Federal league in 1914 perished because of bad timing. It came into being the same Lime As world War i. It did go to court to have the entire Structure of major league baseball broken up by the courts but in had to strike its colors after losses in the millions. An abortive Continental league was envisioned in the late sos by inc late Branch , but in died on the drawing boards after failing to enlist congressional Aid. It did How Ever pave the Way for expansion. The acts arc Rickey s last legacy to baseball. The National football league which appeared in court haughty and smug was itself a new kid on the lock once. Founded on the running Board of a car in a showroom in Canton Ohio in was a pass the Hal find an empty lol game. It was a despised offshoot of the College game and the contemptuous universities would t let it near their cavernous stadiums. As late As 1946, when the Cleveland rams moved to los Angeles the City would t let the pros use the coliseum a Public facility for fear of offending local colleges. Bui the nil itself moved smugly into the grand father position when a be league the All America conference was formed. Pint let them get a foot Ball sneered the then commissioner of the nil Elmer Laydon of four hours min Fame. They got a football All right. And inc Best football team in the universe As the Cleveland Browns proved to be when the nil cannibalized the Junior league and plucked the Browns san Francisco of stand one of several Baltimore teams known As the Colts out of its bankrupt ranks. It was the Public s first lesson that new did mean inferior. But in did l Lake. When the Ameri can football league came along a generation later financed by the Texas big Rich in took he Foo Balfan three super bowls to realize that the upstart league was not Only equal but Superior to the lordly nil. The Al did l sue for parity it fought for it. In did t seek subsidy in sought a scrap. In hired Al Davis a gut fighter with a Zeal for combat As com missioner and before he was through inc nil was glad to have the referee Slop it. They sued for peace terms. Davis did l want any. He wanted to keep his troops going right into Berlin so to speak but his general staff Paul Brown Larnard hum and others counselled merger. The next new outfit the United slates fool Ball league did not tight the Good fight. It tried to Short Cut its Way to legitimacy. You build a franchise in the sports pages not the courts. You hire Joe Namath a quarterback not a Law Sci. It look decades for the Chicago bears to Becco Nothe monsters of inc Midway the Dallas cowboys to become America s team. Starting out a new league is hard As George Halas curly Lambeau Tim Mara Art Rooney and George Preston Marshall found out All those year Sago when they bankrolled the nil Over a lot of losing years. Looks to me As if the jurors did l think they should do it All Over again for another league now. Tour changes format for International by Mike Rabun Castle Rock Colo. Up i a change of Pace is called for now and again to make life interesting and at inc moment the world of Golf is filled with , there is Bob Tway. Fresh from his astounding Bunker shot at the final Hole of the pea championship in Tole do Ohio which brought him his first major title. Two years ago Tway was not even Eli Gible for the pea tour. Now he is vying with Greg Norman for player of the year just As he battled Norman for the pea  his winning shot will be remembered along with Gene Sarazen s double Eagle at the masters 51 years ago or Tom Watson s Chip in at Pebble Beach to win the . Open in 1982 re Mains to be seen. But it has been the year s most spectacular shot. On lop of that the tour will adopt a change of format this week