European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 14, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday october 14. 1987 the. Stars and stripes Page 23  Rich owners victimized by poor Law. There Are two kinds of Taw in his country one Tor he Rich and one for the poor. Take the Phi 1 Well hat s the Tii seems sometimes. If you re an a murderer or Yottey somebody to Drain with a Iclal chair he court no Kiihn w inc Case out because you did t gel to Call to Grandi Solher or your fortuneteller or Cousin in Conati our presi Dent of the United states you can t  about a crime never mind com Mil one. W now consider the cases of the 26 owner. Major league baseball god knows they re Rich. Well these Guys just got convicted and Are Gorito be fined millions of Dollar for doing nothing. Of course what they did nothing about was Kirk Gibson Donnic Moore. Rod Carew and Carlto Fisk. Those Guys were among 62 baseball players who were available on the open Market in the Winter of83. Nobody made a serious move to sign hem. Now it is one of the inalienable rights of Floc Ordi nary citizen in this country not to have to buy what s on a counter or in a showroom. It s no crime to say no thanks to a product you Don t want or is Over priced. Unless you re a baseball owner. An product is Kirk Gibson. Then it becomes mull Well actually the crime is called Coll Urff. Rich folks can t collude. Collusion is a White Collar Crim defined As a secret agreement or cooperation i of a fraudulent or deceitful purpose. A there could be no Dou Jonhal what was going on in 1985 was collusion Ulcek Gibson at the time was an outfielder who kid batted .287 with 29 Home runs 97 runs Bura in and 3d bases stolen. He had Speed Powe no Charisma. Two years before the would Harnad to lie George Steinbrunner in a  some place to keep him from offer ing ung Island for him. This Lime he was mystery ply silent. It s like that old Sherlock Holmes Case where he knew the crime was committed because inc dogs did t bark. So did baseball s arbitrator Thomas Tulloc Rob erts. The evidence in inc Case was Prima Facie valid on the face of it. No owner even talked in his sleep. No Otic got drunk and spilled inc Beans at  party no wrote his congressman no  there t did t Cufr Tecl a Public defender As signed to try Jar int that not one of the key Etca agents was Signy evidence enough. Next Case. Now in flaw in tend More than a body and a food a . But Don i sex j american civil Liberm Ynion to take a pinball owners Case. The owners thought so if Taos no one mouthed off they could not be found Guy it at poor Man s Law. In baseball it is not enough to i evil. You must avoid the appearance of evil. The. Did t even gel anyone to read their rights. They did t have any. You see some years ago baseball wrote into ils collective bargaining agreement with the players a proviso Tor an arbitrator who would sit in final judgment for any player or owner grievance. The arbitration was binding. It was an arbitrator who sounded the death Knell for baseball s hoary Reserve clause he last stand of slavery in this Century. In 1976, it was an arbitrator who freed Andy Messersmith and Dave Mcnally and turned the auction Block Over to the slaves in this latest Case the arbitrator was Tom Roberts now . Roberts is a Palos Verdes calif., Barris Ter a baseball fan an sex Navy Pilot and a longtime labor arbitrator. He had been fired once by the own ers Over a drug testing a Crisio for the held violated the Basic agric Man Lulf Furnad been re instated in inc collusion cat cause he had already begun to hear ic3timojbiril. Arbitrator  32 Days of hearing read 5,000ninmni in Ilii. Examined 288exhib its. He lock pc Days Worth of testimony from play ers agc4nithc witnesses for the prosecution in this Maul he real aggrieved parties of Floc first part. Finding was a Model of logical  was guilty not because its fingerprints were on he knife but precisely because they weren t. The dog had t barked. It was a kind of complicated Date rape. The fact that Only four free agents changed clubs out of 62 and that they were players who had not been made offers by their own clubs was consid ered conclusive. Paragraph ii of article xviii of the Basic agreement Between players and owners provided that the utilization of rights under free Agency shall be determined solely by each player and each club. Players shall not act in concert with other play ers and clubs shall not act in concert with other  this is All very laudable. Rut the finding smacks a Little of the red Queen s Legal process in Alice i wonderland where it was the verdict first the Al afterwards evidence was hardly to be held on a Par wit live i Tasoff phone conversations written memoranda Orel threats to owners who might break inc line. The in jts thought they stonewalled it. Did they code of course icy did. But you wonder if f. Be Tiley would think so. Edward Bennett Williams my Jib Coli should the owners Octav with it of course not. But neither should a lot of  who arc walking inc streets today even Cluj a their Guill is self evident. The moral of the Story is Clear. Uncle to Rich Man s Law you May get away with murder. But you la never get away with not buying Kirk Gibson. 1m lot angst of Yarm sky Kings bomb Fairford 48-6 Raf Fairford England Mon Day was a Holiday so the Fairford of sense decided to take the Day off. Under relentless pressure from the upper Heyford defense the Falcons could manage but 32 Yards in total of sense As the sky Kings romped to their sixth win of the season against two lasses with a 4g-� thrashing of 2-6 Fairford. The sky Kings built the demolition on two Iniece pfc passes and four Fumble recoveries which set up three touch Downs. They also derived considerable Benefit from an anaemic Fairford kicking game which averaged just 18.4 Yards on eight attempts.  White Fairford s offence went South for the Holiday the sky Kings rolled up the yardage in what the turnovers and miserable kicking game turned into half court football Heyford amassed 345 Yards in total offence on the occupied half of the Field. Tailback Jerome Solomon ran for two ads and passed for another and Chet Singleton added three to passes on a 6 of 19 game for 112 Yards. Solomon was involved in me Ford s first three touchdowns scoring on a pair of i Yard plunges and throwing an 18 Yard option pass for a to to Wesley Par key As Heyford shrugged off Robert bos Ley s 16-Yard first Quarter to pass interception to build a 20-6 halftime Edge. Singleton put things away in the Sec Ond half tossing for an 18-Yard score to Herb Campbell and hitting Dennis Stew Art with 33 and 26-Yard scoring strikes. . Graham ran 3 Yards for the sly Kings other touchdown and Parkey aborted an attempted sweep by Vemon Hendon for a safety Ron Twilley Charles Brownfield and air Force football Sam Wamick led the Bloodthirsty hey Ford defense which limited Fairford to 3completed passes by backup of Chris Perkins which netted but 18 Yards in Columbus Day action in the Continental sport conference by Timog 27, rims teen 10 Pitburg a. Germany the bit Burg Barons were about to catch the blown Lead disease when Scott Webster produced the winning Medicine. Webster a Reserve linebacker injected the Barons with an interception and a rousing Fumble recovery to save their Victory Over the Ramstein rams. Pitburg nearly joined the ranks of Csc teams which have surrendered miracl comebacks this season. The Barons 27-7 fourth Quarter Lead shrank to 27-20 with 5 24 left. Enter or. Webster. When he landed on Michael Price s Fumble with 4 03 left a Nurein never saw the Ball again. Pitburg thus jacked its record to 5-1, and with three games left that s a cinch for the playoffs. Ramstein fell to 3-3 with crunchers left against Rhein main Hahn and Sembach. Webster did on this Columbus Day. His interception stopped a Ramster drive near mid old with 10 03 left. His Fumble recovery at the Tilburg 44 slopped a drive that promised to tie la game Noi bad for a backup tackle nos guard playing linebacker for the first Lime. Webster a 5-Foo a i 210-Pounder from Milwaukee bad to fill in for Star linebacker Dennis Hueston when the for Mer Ohio Suter Hurt his toot in the third Quarter. The Barons were gelling run Over by Price who rushed for 79 Yards and a touchdown that closed the Gap to 27-13with 13 52 left. The Barons were also feeling a stiff Breeze by Jeff Wilson whose second to pass a 9-Yardcr Tyanthony Carter made it 27-20 with 5 24 left. Wilson started picking up the flaws in our defense said Tilburg safely Danny Estes who intercepted Wilson in the first Quarter. Their comebacks were playing Upton Doie and Pur receivers were there All Day said Wilson who hit nine of 20 passes for 167 Yards including a 41-Yard to to . Toomer in the second Quarter. We never Felt out of it. Our offensive line with a Csc tackle de Mitchel coming Back in the second half despite a bad ankle worked out their problems and i had More time. In the first half took three Steps and Felt pressure. In the second half i had Lime to look around. There was no doubt we were going to win the ballgame. Their defense was in a  the clock showed 4 09. With the Ball at his 48. Wilson handed to Price the speedy tailback gained b Yards on second Effort then fumbled i hit him said Webster then he spun off me because ii was so wet and fellow linebacker Earl Sledge hit him. 1 saw the Ball and Dove on it the Barons ran eight plays to run off the final 4 03. Five of the handoffs went to tailback Freddie Miller who finished with 32 carries for 141 Yards. Rams Cin s defense zeroed in on him the second half and even inserted All Csc running Back Willie Mccray Al defensive end but Miller Stilt gained 55 Yards in the last 30 hts Ford a a Chet Singleton three to passes minutes. Miller produced touchdown runs of 23 and i Yard As Purl of a Pitburg offence that Amaud 66 rushes for 208 Yards. Miller a to caught a Pat pass from Bert Chew following Chew s opening to pass a 16-Yardcr id Llan Kirr Dayne Harp. A Bow Chi vol a on nine of 22 pjs Urs for 144 Yards. He hit split end Emmet Glover four times for 70 Yards and Light end Jeff Leonard i h a 14-Jard to strike thai gave Zuburg its 27-7 Lead