European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 18, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                \ implosion s trimming business staffs by Ronald Blum new York a the implosion of major league baseball has begun with some teams firing and laying on a Large percentage of their business staff. The san Diego padres fired half their administrative staff Friday getting rid of 25 employees. Padre president Dick Freeman said that the team could no longer afford the staff because of the strike. Among those Cut were the team s publicity head. Freeman said the accounting Public relations and Community relations departments were among those included in the cuts. He said about 40 percent of the team s administrative payroll was eliminated. Ain Oakland the athletics Laid off 17 of 71 front office workers. Most of the Lay offs Are in marketing and ticket sales we held the line As Long As we could but with the season clearly Over we have exhausted All our options Oakland Gen eral manager Sandy Alderson said. In new York Union head Donald Fehr said he will go on a seven City tour to. Up Date players on the failed talks. Friday marked the Start of the strike s sixth week. Two Days after cancelling the season acting commissioner Bud Selig did t know when talks would resume. As soon As possible should be the goal he said from his Milwaukee office. Bar gainers on both sides said they would take the weekend off. Talks aimed at starting the 1995 season on time Aren t Likely until october. J i Don t know yet Fehr said. There s a lot of things going on both internally the stars and stripes ports september 18,1994 r Page 36 and  Fehr and Selig Are to testify thursday. Before a House subcommittee that wants to know Why baseball should keep its antitrust exemption. Owners will be meeting but they re unsure when. The quarterly meetings that originally were scheduled for sept. 7-9 in Detroit probably will be held there either the week of oct. 3 or the week of oct. 10. -. I m not sure yet Selig said. Fehr and management lawyer Huck o Connor spent Friday in Washington at a meeting of the . Conference of mayors. " " mayors of major league cities said they Are considering filing a lawsuit to end the strike which causes an average economic loss of $1.16 million per City for each can celeb Home game. Sigh Harper by the associated press Chicago the Chicago bulls announced the signing of free agent guard Ron Harper to a Multi year contract Fri Day. The 6-foot-6 Harper 30, averaged 19.3 Points in eight seasons with the Cleve land Cavaliers and los Angeles clippers. Harper who averaged 20.1 Points per game last season joins a team in transition. Toni Kukoc and . Armstrong the Only regulars expected Back. In other Aba moves Friday saturday update Keefe traded to jazz Atlanta the Atlanta Hawks traded Forward Adam Keefe to the Utah jazz on Friday for Forward Tyrone Cor bin and a second round draft pick in .1995 " Tisdale signs with suns Phoenix Wayman Tisdale signed a one year contract with the Phoenix suns who also received league approval Mannheim cornerback Curtis Brown Light Jersey matches hang time with Frankfurt of Danny Manning s one year $1 million receiver Jason Duke Long enough to Knock the pass away during the eagles 34-16 vie hanging out is Woyna v. Hal contract signed last week. Tory saturday at Frankfurt. See pages 34 and 35 for the weekend High school picture. College football scores East Bucknell 32, s. Connecticut 7 Colgate 20. Dartmouth 16 Cornell 31, Princeton 16 Edinboro 28, Elizabeth City is0 Johns Hopkins 7, Swarthmore 6 Maryland 24, West Virginia 13 Massachusetts 32, holy Cross 0 Monmouth . 20, Pace new Hampshire 27, Jamos Madison 24 Ponn 27, Lafayette 7 Pennis. 61. Iowa 21 Rhode Island 27, northeastern 20 Robert Morris 24, cent. Connecticut St. 17 sacred heart 22, St. Francis a 13 St. Peter s 23, Siena 22 Virginia tech 12, Boston College 7 Wash. & Jelf. 34, Susquehanna 0 West Chester 14, Shippensburg 10widened 36, Kings a. 13 Yale 27, Brown 17 South appalachian St. 45, n. Carolina a r 0 Auburn 30, leu 26 cent. Florida 48, Bethune Cookman 17  St. 31 Vii 21. Georgia 70, be la Luisiana 6 Maryville Tenn. 19, Davidson 14 North Carolina 49, Fulani 0 s. Carolina St. 37, Charleston Southern 0 virginia9, Clemson 6 Midwest Bowling Green 59, Navy 21 cent. Michigan 30, e. Michigan 29 Cincinnati 17, Miami Ohio of Kent 32, Akron 16 Kenyon 28, Oberlin 0 Ohio St. 27, Pittsburgh 3 . 22. Ayno m cd 21utah St. 5. Ohio u. 0 Valparaiso 9. Million 6. Southwest Southern methodist 34, now Mexico 31 far West Northwestern 14, air kor co 10 International team cuts Gap Gainesville a. A a potential rout became a race As the International team gathered from countries whose players Are not eligible for the Ryder cup won 3 /2 of a Possi ble 5 Points in morning four Ball play. Ballesteros leads by two to Bairn England a seve Ballesteros shot bogey free Golf for the second consecutive round carding a 7-under Par 65 and taking a 2-stroke Lead at the Midway Point of the British masters. Earlier Golf stories on p. 32. Mavericks sign Dumas Dallas a Tony Dumas the Dallas Mavericks second first round draft pick from Missouri Kansas City signed a four year contract. Fittipaldi takes pole Nazareth a. A Emerson Fittipaldi gave team Penske its ninth pole in 15 events this season when he raced to a record breaking Lap of 185.600 Mph. New american wins Kingsport Tenn. A one Day after becoming a . Citizen Arturo Barrios raced to a seven second Victory Over Tom Ansberry in the . Men s 10-Kilometer championship. 01i2a6850"000504i