S—The Daily Collegian Friday, July'll, 1975
Steelers
to report
PITTSBURGH (AP) The
Pittsburgh Steelers, cham
pions of the National Football
League, will open training
camp at St. Vincent College in
Latrobe with rookies report
ing on Sunday and veterans
joining the first-year players
three days later.
The Steelers will have a
crop of 39 rookies and free
agents plus the three veteran
quarterbacks for workouts on
Monday, and 46 veterans plus
running back John Fuqua and
linebacker Henry Davis on
Wednesday.
Fuqua missed the NT 1.
playoffs last year with a
broken wrist and Davis sat out
the entire season with a neck
injury.
The Steelers will ha\ e a bout
two complete weeks of prae
tice before meeting the
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made by Jimmy Connors’
seconds during the Wim
bledon matches said that the
“enfant terrible” of in
ternational sports would
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$500.000 —winner take all of
course
Surprisingly, the sports
writers offered no hints of
who was to be the hearty
challenger My first in
clination was to shout out
Chris Evert. It would
definitely be the sporting
event of the century. And to
show that no hard feelings
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existed on either side, the
tr ithr -ts could be
married at the net after the
match.
The American public
would love such an event:
fierce competition tempered
by sentimentality.
All of this conjecture came
before Connors got his
comeuppance from the old
pro, Arthur Ashe. Now a
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tagonists truly can’t miss
Ashe would have an op
portunity to vie for the really
big money and to prove that
his Wimbledon victory over
Connors was not a fluke.
Connors, on the other hand,
could vindicate himself by
smashing Ashe when the
lump was up—the money on
the line.
The American public
would love this event even
better than the Connors-
Evert clash, for it would
have the perfect com
bination of fierce com
petition and hatred. And as
far as their legal differences,
maybe they could settle
them on the court instead of
out of court.
Title IX or no Title IX.
female athletes who afe
Ah, ah, ah.
Frank Dolson. of the
Philadelphia Inquirer, asks,
shouldn't a manager (or
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fighting to control their
destiny in the male
dominated sports world of
the high school and the cam
pus may have it even
rougher if they plan to con
tinue their exploits in the
professional ranks—at least
in women’s golf.
Ray Volpe, former vice
president of marketing of
National Hockey League
Service , was named the new
commissioner of the Ladies
Professional Golf
Association Tuesday.
This is not to imply
that he won’t fill the
bill —presumably to get
bigger purses and more
press coverage for the
women. But I have heard
rumors that lady golfers
would like to have as their
commissioner someone who
don't touch that writer
player) know the pijce he’ll
have to pay for slugging an in
terviewer? Shouldn't a writer
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truly understands their
problems—presumably
another woman.
I must have heard wrong
though in light of Carol
Mann’s comments. “We
want people to know we have
a strong man who has as
much authority as com
missioners in other
professional sports,” the
president of the LPGA said.
Now that presumably
rules out a strong woman
or a strong person.
For all the disheartened
supporters of PennPIRG,
the message is you are not
alone. The National Football
League Players
Association—the spearhead
group who fought the owners
for more rights and fringe
benefits—is broke.
“That’s primarily because
the owners have taken away
the checkoff in their con
tinued effort to breaK the
union,” claimed Ed Garvey,
the group’s executive direc
tor.
(or announcer) know the risk
involved in talking to a
manager or player?
Of course, he should. Here
then, in the interest of fair
play, is a proposed schedule of
fines and penalties for
baseball personnel attacking
members of the media:
Reporter—s2s fine plus cost
of iodine, bandages, etc.
Local Columnist —$50 fine,
house call by club trainer.
National Columnist—ssoo
fine plus three days suspen
sion for each stitch required to
close wounds; if he reaches
more than one million
readers, double that.
Local Broadcaster —$100
plus $lO for each day victim is
unable to speak following at
tack.
National Broadcaster —$500
plus $5O for each day unable to
speak.
Howard Cosell —Fine
waived: $5O bonus for each
day victim is unable to speak
plus free legal counsel for at
tacker.
There will, of course, be
special bonuses given out by
the Players Association for at
tacks on official scorers.
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Ashe says
no challenge
ahead
match
By RICK STARR
Special to the Daily Collegian
PITTSBURGH Just two
davs after demolishing the
world’s best tennis player on
Wimbledon’s center court Ar
thur Robert Ashe, Jr. was
answering volleys from a
friendlier source—Pitts
burgh sports writers.
Even though he had just
beaten Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4
for the championship of the
world’s premier tennis tour
nament, there weren’t many
questions about his stunning
triumph. So there weren’t
many answers.
As usual, Ashe, the slen
der —even willowy—son of a
Richmond, Va. policeman,
was asked for his comments
on a wide spectrum of off-the
court topics such as the plight
of poor blacks and whites in
tennis, tennis challenge
matches, the Davis Cup,
World Team Tennis, and Bill
Riordan, Connors’ manager.
Ashe, who boggled the
minds of a few unsuspecting
shoppers as he strolled
through a Pittsburgh de
partment store Monday filling
a promotional commitment,
later paused long enough to
meet with reporters over a
doughnut and a cup of coffee.
In his wooden sandals, blue
jeans and blue denim jacket,
and using his calm, assured
smile as his only emotional
punctuation, Ashe turned to
each subject. c
The first, briefly, was Wim
bledon.
“Winning Wimbledon was
the one thing I wanted to do
before I hung up my racket,
but I’ll be going full-force next
year,” Ashe said. “It’s not my
greatest victory. I would have
to rank it a co-No. 2 along with
Forest Hills in 1968. My first
Davis victory was No. 1.
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That Davis Cup victory also
came in 1968 when Ashe took
the U.S. team to Adelaide.
Australia antj returned with
the Cup to break more than a
decade of Australian
domination.
Ashe also talked at length
about World Team Tennis.
“I don’t like World Team
Tennis for me,” Ashe said. "I
think the timing was all
wrong. Our Pro Association
was only six years old. Then
along comes the Nouveau
Riche who want a toy to play
with. There’s no stability to it.
Every team is losing a half
million dollars every year,
and when they lose, they sell
out, they don’t stick around.
“Suppose Willie Stargell
was traded every year just for
the hell of it. Who wants to
watch a man from Australia
who changes teams every
year? How can you build any
loyalty? I personally wouldn’t
get any satisfaction from
playing for a team with my
salary already fixed."
Ashe, as he has often done in
the past, also expressed
disdain for the tennis
challenge concept.
“It appears they're trying to
load TV with packaged tennis
matches,” he said. "But our
bread and butter is the tennis
tournament. This only means
that the rich get richer. Con
nors has already made three
quarters of a million dollars,
so why should he continue
playing this year? He can go
to the beach for six months.
The latest gossip is Connors
won’t be playing again until
Forest Hills, which won't do
anything to help the summer
tour.”
Ashe said he talked with
Connors in the lockerroom at
Wimbledon two weeks ago
about the possibility of
discussing their differences
together without lawyers,
agents or league officials
present. Ashe said Connors
agreed to a meeting at first.
“Then Bill Riordan called and
nixed it,” Ashe said.
“I think all of his off-court
notoriety is not of his own
devices,” Ashe said in
reference to Connors and
Riordan. “He’s handled like a
prizefighter, and he picks his
fights very carefully. He’s
•misguided by his manager,
but basically, I think Connors
is a nice guy...We wanted Jim
my to play Davis Cup last
year. He’s the best in the
world."
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