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The Herald, Tuesday, January 13, 1981

This time the agents ARE free

NEW YORK (AP) — The
last time major league
baseball held a free-agent
draft, the clubs came
equipped with bulging
bankrolls and turned
several players into instant
millionaires,

The 26 clubs return to the
draft table today, but this
time the free-agent grab
bag will be conducted at
bargain basement prices.
The amateur draft doesn’t
generate the kind of auc-
tion place bidding created
by the re-entry process.

Twice a year, in June and
January, baseball divides
up the most promising
amateur talent from high
school and college players

in

for the amateur draft. The
names available are not
familiar, but big league
scouts spend long hours
evaluating the talent so
that the selections can pay
off for their clubs,

Among the players
who've come out of the
January amateur draft and
gone on tesuccessful major
league careers are Tom
Seaver, Carlton Fisk, Roy
Smalley Jr., Chris Chamb-
liss, Steve Kemp, Bump
Wills and Chris Speier.

The draft is conducted in
two stages — regular and
secondary — with the 26
clubs linked in a con-
ference call telephone
hookup with commissioner

Bowie Kuhn's office in New
York. Bill) Murray,
baseball's administrative
officer, conducts the
selection process.

Two rounds are
scheduled in each phase of
the draft today. Available
in the regular phase are
players from junior cal-
leges, those who have with-
drawn from a four-year
college or January high
school graduates, The
secondary phase includes
players previously drafted
but not signed.

For the regular phase, —

teams choose in reverse
order of the previous
season's won-lost per-

centage and selections
alternate by league. The
secondary draft order is
determined by lot in a
drawing conducted by
the League presidents
Chicago Cubs hold the
firat choice in the regular
phase, followed by Seattle.
After that, it will be New
York Mets, California, San
Diego, Toronto, St. Louis,
Chicago White Sox, San
Francisco, Texas, Atlanta,
Minnesola, Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Oakland, Montreal,
Detroit, Philadelphia,
Boston, Los Angeles,
Milwaukee, Houston,

Kansas City, Baltimore
and New York Yankees.

Commercial League close

Terrace Chrysler Juveniles have a six-point
lead in the Terrace Commercial Hockey
League standings. .

They've won 10 games, lost four and tied
five for 5 points. CP Air is second, with eight
wins, seven losses and three ties, for 19 points.

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Bavarian Inn, seven wins, nine losses and
three tles, is third with 17 points and Dynamic
Waterwells has five wins, 10 losses and three

ties for 18 points.

Leading scorer is Juveniles’ Larry Swanson
with 27 goals, 15 assists and Bavarian Inn’s
Rino Michaud is second with 16 goals and 15

assists.

Last week’s scores were Dynamic 10,
Bavarian 0; Chrysler 16, CP Air 3; Dynamic
4, CP Air 4: Chrysler 6, Bavarian 2.

This week’s schedule has Dynamic meeting
Chrysler tonight at’ 9:15; and Bavarian and
CP Air meeting at 10:15, Wednesday,
Bavarian and Chrysler hook up at 9:15 p.m.
Thursday's action sends Dynamic against CP

Air at 9:30.

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Rino Micnavd 81
Dave Sharpe CP Air
Doug Richey TC)
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Darcy Mallet CP Air
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SPORTS BRIEFS

MONTREAL (CP) —
Wayne Gretzky, 19-year-
old Edmonton Oilers
eentre, was named the
National Hockey League
player of the week, the
NHL announced Monday.

Gretzky scored three
goals and had seven assists
in three games for the week
that ended on Jan. 11. He
finished the first 40 games
of the season with 70 points.

HARTFORD, Conn.
(AP) — Defenceman Jack
Melihargey of Hartford
Whalers started a three
game, National Hockey
League suspension Monday
night.

Mecllhargey left the
penalty box during a
Hartford-Winnipeg Jets
game Jan. 10, resulting in
the suspension handed
down Monday morning. -

Melihargey had jumped
on the ice to help team-
mate Pat Boutette as he
tought Dave Babych of the
Jets.

LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Twelve of the 18 players on
the roster of Houston
Apollos of the Central
Hockey League have been
placed with other teams
following the suspension of

the franchise last Thur-
sday, says George
Maguire. general manager
of Las Angeles Kings of the
National Hockey League.
Five Apollos were
assigned to Saginaw Gears
of the International Hockey
League, including right
wingers Doug Harvey and
Kevin Schamehorn, cen-
tres Claude Larochelle and
Warren Holmes and defen-
ceman Don Waddell.
Defencemen Barry
Gibbs and John Gibson
were assigned to Bir-
mingham Bulls of the CHL
and right winger Blair
Stewart went to Fort Worth
in the CHL. Goaltender
Paul Pageau was assigned
to Oklahoma in the CHL
and centre Steve Carlson
and right winger Alex
Tidey were sent to
Springfield Indians of the
American Hockey League.

ST. LOUIS (AP) —
Quarterback Brian Sipe of
Cleveland Browns has been
selected winner of The
Sporting News-Marlboro
Award as 198) National
Football League player of
the year and running back
Billy Sims of Detroit Lions
as theleague's rookie of the
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