European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Morcelia runs to his third world record Nour Redine Morcelia clips 3.85 seconds off world Mark in 3,000 meters tuesday night. Monte Carlo Monaco a holding two world records did t Stop Algeria s Nour Redine Morcelia from get Ting a third. Morcelia ran the .3,000 meters in 7 min utes 25.11 seconds tuesday night at Monaco s Hercules grand prix to beat the previous record by 3.85 seconds. I be hungered for this since last year said Morcelia who finished the 3,000 at last year s meet in 7 29.24. I had to compensate for  Morcelia who owns record times for the mile and the 1,500 meters bested the Mark of Kenya s Moses Kip Tanui who ran 7 28.96 on aug. 16, 1992 in Cologne Germany. V Morcelia once a student at Riverside Junior College in California set world re cords of 3 44.9 in the mile and 3 28.82 in the 1,500. He was the 1,500 world Cham Pion in 1991 and 1993, and has dominated Middle distance events. But in the 1992 olympics Morcelia finished seventh in the 1,500 when he was boxed in and was unable to get Clear in the final Lap. The Gold medal was won by Fermin Cacho of Spain. Behind Morcelia on tuesday night were Haile Gebre Salasie of Ethiopia 7 37.49abdellah Behar of France 7 39.29 and Jim Spivey of the United states 7 39.65. In the pole vault Kory Tarpenning an american based in Paris upset Sergei Bubka by Clearing 19 feet i Inch. Bubka who set his 35th-world record sunday in a Estrere Italy was fourth at 18-8%. In another notable american Michael Johnson clocked 19.94 to win the 200  stars and stripes ports August 4,1994 Page 32 wednesday update no Progress in baseball talks new York a representatives of the major league baseball players and owners facing an aug. 12" strike dead line met for 2vs hours wednesday and reported no Progress. The two sides scheduled another meeting for thursday. Twins 4, orioles 3 Minneapolis a Scott Leius capped a two rim rally in the Bottom of the ninth with a two out rib single against reliever Lee Smith wednesday lifting Minnesota Over Baltimore. Red sox 7, Blue jays 2 Boston a Tom Bema sky s two run Homer capped a six run fifth and performance Tim Vanegmond pitched t/3 Strong  j a nags for Juis secon j major league win As Boston beat Toronto wednesday. Players owners hit new Snag by Ronald Blum _ new York a relations Between baseball players and owners took a turn for the worse when management decided not to make a payment of More than $7 million to the Union s pension fund. _ the sides were to bargain wednesday in an Effort to Avert an aug. .12 walkout that would create the sport s eighth work stoppage in 22 years. The no 2 official of the major league baseball players association said tuesday night that the pension decision was an All time Low and pushed the sides farther apart. Management negotiator Richard Ravitch said the decision to skip the aug. 1 payment was Normal while sides Are fighting Over a Tabor agreement. This is absolutely an All time Low in my understand ing  in this Industry said Eugene Orza the Union s associate general counsel. Well have to  with the players immediately. It May be predictable or understandable or go Over with the Public but it won t go Over with the players. It s one thing to play with the players it s another to play with their wives and  _ Jurza said the Union was informed of the move Friday in a letter from Ravitch. He said Union officials did t disclose it immediately because they wanted to talk with management first but that a player allowed word to leak tuesday. I think when you re in the midst of collective bar gaining and there s no agreement it s absolutely nor Mal not to make a payment of this nature Ravitch said. Earlier in the Day Union head Donald Fehr said he expected no major breakthroughs when the sides re sume discussions about management s demand for a _ salary Cap which Fehr said players will re Sis As Long _ As it  _ when asked if the latest development could cause players to move up the deadline Orza responded i Don t want to foreclose any  _ under the four year Benefit agreement that expired March 19, owners were required to make $57 million a year in payments to the Benefit plan. The remaining Money each year is due in november after the postseason. Orza said that because the All Star game was played the August payment was owed to the plan. He claimed management s move was of questionable  Ravitch said that in the near term benefits would not be affected because of the missed payment. On tuesday discussion groups involving both sides spent part of the Day talking about scheduling and a joint drug agreement to replace the one owners terminated in 1985.if they were not completely unproductive meetings _ Orza said the issues they Deal with exist Independent of what the economics of the sport  Fehr pushed tuesday for owners to publicly disclose their finances. T executive Council chairman Bud Selig and Ravitch have repeatedly insisted 19 of the 28 teams will lose Money this year but say there s no need to Public Lyle lease the list because the Union has it. They Don t want to make it Public because they know people would discuss it and there would be a Public examination of various clubs and the subsidies they re negotiating with cities and it would t look Good Fehr said. The. Aba throws out contracts signed by Grant Green new York a the Aba in another signal of its intent to preserve the salary Cap tuesday rejected the contracts signed by for wards Horace Grant and . Green. Grant a free agent from the Chicago bulls had signed with the Orlando magic. Green had re signed with the Phoenix suns after exercising a clause that allowed him to become a free agent. The contracts seen by the league As Well below Market value were similar to the one Chris Dud Ley signed with Portland last year. That Deal was validated in Federal court after the league con tended it violated the salary Cap. A we Are disappointed in the decision by the league and we think  inappropriate suns president Jerry Colangelo said.  v Over the next several Days we will assess our options and decide what actions Are going to  Deputy commissioner Russ Granik cited last year s judicial ruling to support the decisions on Grant and Green. In the Dudley Case . District judge Dickinson Debevoise said if one year out clauses became a trend in player con tracts they would constitute salary Cap circumvention. 0ii246850"000504"