European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tribe gets Winfield. Or Cleveland a in the first Trade since the baseball strike began aug. 12, Dave Winfield was acquired by the Cleveland indians on wednesday night for a player to be determined later. The Deal was announced just half an hour prior to the Midnight deadline for postseason rosters although teams May be Able to bring up players from their minor league systems if there is a postseason the deadline remained As far As acquiring play ers from other organizations. Winfield 42, has been with the Minne Sota twins since the Start of the 1993 sea son. He played 77 games this season and hit .252 with 10 Home runs and 43 Bis. Winfield is in his 22nd major league season and this is his sixth team As he played for san Diego the new York Yankees California Toronto and Minnesota. The 12-time All Star has 3,088 hits 463 Home runs and 1,829 Bis. Should the season resume Dave would be an invaluable asset to this club during the Pennant drive and certainly during the postseason. Indian general manager John Hart said. Cleveland is one game behind the Chi Cago White sox in the at Central. If there is a postseason but regular season play does t continue the indians would qualify As the wild card team and play the new York Yankees. Pete Sampras knocks some Layoff rust off his 125-Mph serve on wednesday. Baseball strike the stars and stripes ports september 2,1994 Page 40 Sampras skips past qualifier Chang by Steve Wil Steinau Tennis writer new York Pete Sampras first match in six weeks a no sweat quickie against a no serve qualifier at the . Open proved he can beat some players virtually in his sleep on crutches maybe in a wheelchair. Winning the title is another matter. Sampras no. 1 by far in the rankings after capturing four of the last five grand slams dismissed no. 206 Kevin us Lett 6-2, 6-2, 6-2 wednesday in 1 hour 25 minutes one of the shortest men s matches so far. Whether it was dormant Tennis awaiting its breath of life see Page 36 the rain Clouds threatening or his ankle worrying him Sampras wasted no time getting this Little test but of the Way. No. 6 Michael Chang perhaps the leading candidate to get to the finals froth the depleted opposite half of the draw from Sampras spent a lot of time getting through to the third round wednesday night in a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3,7-6 7 3. Victory Over Mulivai Washington. Trailing 0-2 after losing the first set Chang Cut Down on his errors and watched Washington make plenty of his own to win six straight games arid take control. There were moments when each . Open produced great shots but those were off set by a total of 111 unforced errors. Washington seemed beaten when he was broken to 5-3 in the third set then hit a defensive lob As High As the top of the stadium at 30-15 in the next game. Chang waited a few seconds for the Ball to come Down put it away on a Bounce with an overhead then served an Ace to close out the set. But Washington forced a fourth set to a tiebreaker. Chang capitalized on a couple of big serves and Washington s errors he had 65 to squeak through after a three hour match that ended after Midnight a few Points Here or there and it could have been Mai s match Chang said.  /. The Best part of Sampras match for him was that he did t feel pain in his left ankle inflamed with tendinitis since he injured it during a Davis cup match right after he won Wimbledon. He served As hard As Ever up to 125 Mph though As a right hander his left foot is the one he plants and comes Down on when he serves. He yielded Only one Point on serve in the first set. I really did t have any problems Sampras said. He Down t have a big game. I can really get my Grundies in and get my rhythm. That s what i did today.". Back forces lend out York a Ivan win t be adding to his . Ware this year. Hard Bacher of Germany. Karbacher was leading 6-4, 7-6 7-51-. 0 when Lendl pulled out but the Veteran Back injury thursday forced the right hander had held a 5-0 Lead in the three time Champion to retire in his Sec second set before his injury took Over and Ond round match against Bernd Kar his game collapsed. S -. To extend into 95 new York Apas the Chance of completing the 1994 season dwindles the likelihood of the baseball strike extending into 1995 rises. It s a grave source of con Cern acting commissioner Bud Selig said wednesday after fed eral mediators failed to Call for bargaining to resume. But As bad As the Short term pain is. The Long term pain of not solving this problem is  the baseball strike completed its third week thursday with no movement. Federal mediators met wednesday for three hours with management negotiator Richard Ravitch and for 15 min utes with Union head Donald nil rejects lockout see Page 35 Fehr. They found no reason to Call another bargaining session. In the event there is no More baseball this season the Union expects owners to impose a salary Cap. Ravitch said no decision has been made but said thoughts would turn to 1995 very soon. No later than the beginning of october we re going to have to sit Down and figure out How to put next season together he said. In that event the strike would continue threatening the Start of next season. The Union has threatened litigation if owners impose a Cap and even Ravitch indicated an imposed Cap was out. Strikes Don t make the game work. Implementation of con tracts unilaterally Don t make the game work he said. The Only thing that will is sitting Down at the bargaining table and coming up with a new Basic  i a Fet i . 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