Page 8, Tha Herald, Friday, Seplamber 21, 1979 Umpires call a foul NEW YORK (AP) — The Major League Umpires Aasociation filed unfair labor practice charges against the National League on Thur- aday. Richie Phillips, counsel for the umpires association, met with national labor relations board representatives for six hours and charged the league with five separale counts of discrimination against the umpires, who staged a seven-week strike against major league baseball at the start of the current season. Specificaliy, the association charged discrimination in the areas of guaranteed salaries, advancement opportunities for minor league umpires whe honored the strike, vacation time, umplre evaluations, and expense money. “No union employee has ever been given more than a oneyear contract and there was never any salary guarantees for umpires,” Phillips said, “Yet the replacement umpires who worked during the strike were rewarded with three- year guaranteed contracta.” Phillips said that as part of the settlement which ended the umpires’ strike, the leagues had agreed to provide the union with evaluations of the umpires which were routinely made by supervisors, managers and general managers, “We have not received those evaluations,” Phillips said. The lawyer also said the league had granted ad- ditional vacation time and related benefits to non-union umpires while withholding them from the umpires who had struck, Phillips sald he decided to file the chargea when regular umpires found money withheld from their last paycheques to cover rental car expenses. With bitter feelings remaining from the strike, regular umpires and the replacement umps sometimes have rented two cara Instead of the one that the league authorizes for transportation. The lawyer said that when two care were rented, the coat for the rental was not withheld from the pay of thoae who had worked during the strike, “No charges were filed against the Arerican League. “The American League | has been guilty of some of the same infractions, but the pattern of conduct has not continued throughout the season,” Philllpe said, The board now. must conduct an investigation into the charges. Blake Cullen, supervisor of umpires for the National League, denied Phillips’ charges. He said replacement umpires had two-year contracts covering 1978 and 1880, “It's the same for them as it is for the union umpires,” Cullen said, . “T've never been asked for employee ~ evaluations,’’ Cullen sald.“And besides, the season's not over 80 they’re not in yet, anyway.” Regarding rental car ex- penses, Cullen said that crews were allowed to rent one car, unless they could substantiate a reason for ~ needing two. “It's incorrect to say we have not deducted rental expenses from the replacement umpires’ cheques,” he sald, ‘‘They get paid at a different time becawe their employment started at a different time.” Hoffman, Allen lead LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Former men's world champion Jan Hoffman of East Germany and American Lisa-Marie Allen took the lead after com- pulsory figures in men’s and women's competition at the Flaming Leaves figure skating competition Thur- aday. Allen won first-place votes from all nine judges to top the women’s standings ahead of Kristina Wegellus of Finland and Susan Driano of Italy. Heather Kemkaran of Toronto was in eighth place while Janet Morrlusey of Qltawa, who defeated Kemkaran for the 1979 Canadian tille, was 16th, Hatfmann scored 13 or- dinais and 42.76 points in the three compuisory school figures to take the lead over Scott Cramer, the second- ranked American male skater, who had 24 ordinals and 40.56 points, Americana David Santee and Scott Hamilton were third and fourth and Canadian champion Brian Pockar of Calgary was fifth in the first part of the three- part competition. Gary Beacom of Toronto was in sixth place, Pockar had 46 ordinals and $7.40 points, while. Beacom had 55 ordinals and 36.52 polnts. : Rudi Cerne of West Ger- many, Shinji Someya of Japan, Thomaz Oberg of Sweden and Helmut Kristofics-Binder of Austria rounded out the top 10, None of the 1979 world champions are competing re, Americans Tai Babilonia - ard Randy Gardner, the current world pairs champions and world women’s champion Linda ’ Fratianne of the U.S. stayed out of the competition. The Soviet Union also did not enter its two title holders — men’s champion Vladimir Kovaley and dance cham- pions Natalia Linichuk and Gennadi Karponosov. , Also missing from the entry list is Russian Irina Rodnina, who was out of competition last season while giving birth to her tirst child. She was: expected to make a comeback with husband Alexander Zaitsev in the dance competition. Rodnina won 10 previous world titles, HOME TOWN BOY WINS NAPA, Calif. (AP) — Mark Lye, playing in his home town, eared a share of the first round Jead in Napa’s $300,000 pro golf tour event by finishing with an eagle for a six-underpar 48 Thuraday. Bobby Wadkins mat- ched his score with a card that had six birdies and no bogeys. Both Lye and Wadkins played the shorter southern course at Silverado Country Club. Tom Watson won the tournament, the Anheuser-Busch Classic, last year but is not here for a title defance, “I was a little shaky at the start, with all my family and friends who I haven't seen for a long time, watching me,’" said Lye, 26, who is in his third year on the tour and still seeking his firat title, Lye scrambled for a par four on the opening hole of the 6,610-yard southern course by sinking an eight-foot putt, He ended his round by knocking ina 35-footer for a three at the par-flve final hole. “y think local knowledge helps, especially on the south course,” said Lye, who will play the longer northern course, also par 72, in today’s second round, Johnny Miller could manage only a 73 in the opening round. That left him well back in the field, as about half the players in the field of 15€ ahot par cr better on the warm, virtually windless day. Lye, who has won $37,601 on the tour this Beason, and Wadkizz, winner of $95,000, toox a one-stroke lead over Lee Elder and Tom Purtzer, who both posted their 673 on the southern course, es OELE a aa warca For our BIG anemman NIVERSARY RATI FLYER Packed with VALUES GALORE arriving in your home early next week. CANADA SAFEWAY LIMITEO { Expos even score Montreal Expos beat ew York Mets 6-3 in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader Thuraday and pulled into a virtual tie with 'Pittaburgh Pirates atop the National League East Division. Jerry White's lead-off homer ignited a four-run Moatreal outburst in the eighth inning to give the Expos the victory, while the Pirates lost 2-1 to Philadelphia Phillies in & single game. After an error by Mets shortstop: Frank Taveras helped the Expos load the bases, Dave Cash lofted a sacrifice fly to right flelder Gil Flores, But when Flores held on to the ball, Rodney Scott also scored, Then Andre Dawson cracked an RBI single for a 6-2 Montreal lead — Insuring the Mets’ 10th loss in their last 11 games, Manny ‘Trillo’s seventh- inning RBl single carried the Phillles past the Pirates. Phillies manager Dailas Green was ejected in the sixth inning and Philadelphia playéd the game under protest after a - ruling by umpire Eric Gregg ‘waa reversed and what ap- peared to be a three-run homer by Keith Moreland was negated. Base NEW YORK (AP) — Just when it looked as if baseball had achieved labor peace, the truce blew apart Thursday. Montreal Expos pitcher Bill, Lee, always the champion of Individual rights, has escalated his free-speech crusade against major league basebali commissioner Bowle Kuhn. Kuhn fined Lee $250 last spring. The crime? The public disclogure that he had used marijuana. But Lee, a pacificist, didn’t take it laying down. He made his latest attack flanked by lawyers of the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU will join the Major League Players’ Association in representing Lee in the case. Lee's decision to go public in his free-speech crusade against Kuhn violated one of the commissioner's orders when the two collided last spring. “Bowie Kuhn suggested I not discuss marijuana again,” Lee sald. “Bowie Kuhn was totally off base and can’t comment on my right to say things on this planet.” The $250 fine (actually he went Kuhn one better by paying $251 to an Eskimo mission in Canada) is weaving ita way through baseball’s grievance structure with a hearing ex- pected in November. Mean- while, the commissioner chose to maintain a low profile on the issue. “If it (s filedas a grievance by the players’ association, in time it will come before an arbitrator and it would be in- appropriate for Bill or myself to comment,” Kuhn said, Lee didn’t think it in- appropriate, though. The left-hander with the somewhat couthpawish view of the world originally tweaked the commissioner's sensibilities when . he disclosed how he used marijuana. ““T sprinkle it on my organic buckwheat pancakes in the morning,” he said. “It makes me Impervious to bus fumes when I run. I bake it and the THC (the weed's extract) soaks out and blends with the organic substance of the wheat,” Lee thought the com- missioner had over-reacted in his case, "I didn’t advocate its use,said Lee. "As long as I’m mortal and [ live and die on this planet, I'm entitled to die as I see fit. He (Kuhn) said what I did was nat good for baseball, I say that’s not true. He said it waa wrong. 1 say what's wrong is having Steve Garvey doing ads for Coca-Cola which has the Carcinogen sugar in it and is detrimental to health,”’ Asked how much in fines Kuhn might collect lf the commissioner maintained his $250 charge for all players using marijuana, Lee grinned. “He'd be a very rich man,’ the pitcher said. "T's all a bunch of baloney. [ just want to find out what Bowle's authority is and if he can gag me. There’s a method to my madness." Lee refused to disclose the Therookie Phillies catcher “ripped a drive to theleit- field corner that Gregg, the third base umpire, firat ruled a home run. But the entire Pirates team, led by manager Chuck Tanner, surrounded Gregg and the umpires, protesting the drive was foul, After a heated discussion, umpiringcrew chief Doug Hervey raversed the decision and called the ball ’ That brought out Green, who screamed and gestured in fruitless protest, A television replay indicated that not only was the hall foul,but it never went over the fence. Moreland returned to the plate and struck out, after which Green threw his cap out of the dugout and a 10-minute rhubarb delayed further action. In early American League baseball action, rookie John Castino drove in three runs to give Minnesota Twins a 2-1 victory over New York ‘ankees, Toronto Blue Jays defeated Boslon Red Sox 6-2 as Balor Moore pitched a four-hitter, Tony Solaita and Rick Cerone hit twerun homers and Roy Howell | added a solo shot. “In later NL games it was Chicago Cubs at St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves at Houston Astros, Cincinnati Reda at San Diego Padres and San Francisco Giants at Joa Angeles Dodgers. “In later AL action, it was- Baltimore Orioles at Detroit Tigers and Callfornia Angels at Kansas City Royals. PENNANT RACES NATIONAL LEAGUE . ast Wk Pod. 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They depreciate us like machines, We're overhead.” Lee was. wearlng a Jackeon Browne T-shirt and ared baseball cap Thursday and hardly fit into the Madison Ave. street scene where the ACLU offices are located. He didn’t stay long, however. “Pye got ta leave," he said. ‘I’ve got to talk at an anti-nuclear rally down the street,”’ His subject? “Plutonium 238,’’ he said." never smoked that, either.’ Edwards gets chance The Canadian Press British Columbia Lions might be just what the doctor ordered to restore the confidence of wide receiver Dwight Edwards of Toronto Argonauts, Edwards, a good-apeed sometimes no-catch import, will Hne up- against -the suddenly . beleaguered cornerbacks of the Lions when the Argonauts meet B.C. Saturday night in Vancouver in one of four Canadian Football League games this weekend. A vote of confidence from the Toronto coaching atatf this week has kept Edwards in the lineup, while the Lions are attempting to regoup after a shattering experience in Edmonton last weekend against thé Eskimos. Edmonton passed far 467 yards in stomping the Lions 40-8, picking on import corners Ken Hinton and Devon Ford for numerous long gainers through the air: Three other games will be played Sunday, with Ed- monton meeting the Tiger- Cats in Hamilton, Winnipeg Blue Bombers testing the Stampeders in Calgary and Saskatchewan Roughridera sneaking into Montreal to face the Alouettes. Coach Forreat Gregg of the Argos, 4-5, saya his staff is ‘determined to develop the talent we have and we know what Dwight (Ed- wards) can do.” Edwards apparently has been fighting the bail Instead of “just relaxing and cat- ching it,” says Gregg. “This is the first time I've been in this kind of situation,” says Edwards. ‘I know I should be doing better. “It's like a baseball player in a hitting slump. I’m pressing too hard, running with the ball before 1 catch it, looking for that touch- down, "“Tt’s a big mental boost having the team satay with me. Surprisingly. the coaches have not put a lot of heat on me and I appreclate that.” Toronto is in third place in the Eastern Conference after back-to-back losses to Montreal, while the Lions, 7- 2-1, have dropped three points behind leading Ed- monton in the Western Conference. B.C. had one of the better defences in the WFC unill it met Edmonton and was destroyed by the passing of quarterbacks Tom Wilkinson and Warren Moon, along with the sure handa of Brian Kelly and Waddell Smith. Coach Vic Rapp of the Llons wasn't happy, of course, with his team’s pass coverage in Edmonton and he spread the blame around instead of placing it just with Hinton and Ford, He sald a poor pass rush gave the Eskimos too much time to throw. Defensive tackle Frank Landy of the Lions says B.C. won't suffer a letdown against Toronto after the Edmonton debacle. "No way — I think we're made of better stuff than that,”. says Landy. “‘it hurtg that- we got beat by sucha bad. score because we're better than that. “We can atlll finish first. We just have to put our heads down against Toronto,” The game will be telecast nationally on the CTY net- work, beginning at 5 p.m. EDT Moon may get the starting call at quarterback for Edmonton in Hamilton because the veteran Wilkinson has a bad cold. Coach Hugh Campbell ‘expects both quarterbacks, however, to play about 30 minutes each, something he's been able to do most of the season as the unbeaten Eskimos have compiled an 8- 0-2 record. Campbell thinks quar- terback Tom Clements has been a little more effective since he waa traded to Hamiiton by Saskatchewan a couple of weeks ago. “He has a little better offensive line than he had in Saskatchewan," Campbell says, adding that Clements completed something like 14 passes before missing one last weekend against Montreal. Canadian defensive tackle Linden Davidson will be rushed into the Hamilton starting Hneup Sunday because of a knee injury which has put Mike Riley on the Injured list. Davidson was acquired earlier in the week from Winnipeg. The Ti-Cats, 2-8, are in last place in the EFC and are desperate for a victory because they trail Toronto by four points in the battle for the last eastern playoff berth. The game will be televised natlonally on the CBC net- work, starting at 2 p.m. EDT Winnipeg, 3-7, also needs a win badly If tha Bombers ex- pect to challenge Calgary, 6- 4, for third place in the weat. Billy Troup will be the starting quarterback for Winnipeg as Ralph Brock has aggrevated a knee injury suffered a few weeks ago. And, if Troup ia injured, defensive back Ricky Weason could be emergency replacement. Coach Ray Jauch says Brock could go out and hand the ball off for the Bombers or throw quick passes, ‘‘but that’s about all." Calgary has suffered from Inconsistent quarterbacking moat of the seneon, although the Stampeders got thelr act together last weekend in running up 50 points against winless Saskatchewan. The Roughriders, sub- merged under the crest of 10 straight losses, face the EFC's top team in Montreal, Caledonia girls team on a tour Caledonia Secondary School's senior girls and boys volleyball teams are on the road this weekend, travelling to Houston and Hazelton to play thelr initial games in the North-west Zone volleyball season. The teams travel to Houston to play exhibition games Friday night. They return to Hazelton Saturday, where the girls play their first league games of the season. Next weekend the boys team travela to Prince George for a tournament, not involving the zone play. League still has problems TORONTO (CP) — John Ziegler admits the National Hockey League atill hag some problems now that the . rival World Hockey Association is gone, but the league president hopes the problems won't take up so much of his time. “It's nice to be looking ahead to thia season and thinking I'm going to be able to watch more hockey games and focus more attention on the game, I hope, than a lot of the business problems that have commanded so much of my time in the last couple of years,” said Ziegler, In a recent interview, Ziegler was asked to give a general assessment of the coming season which will see four new teams who came in from the now defunct WHA, “1 certainly don’t see it as an end to ail our problems,” Ziegler said of the expansion that brought in Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg: Jets, Quebee Nordiques and Hartford Whalers. “If tt were, I'd probably be out of a jab, “But I'm rather excited and am looking forward to this season. I think perhaps I share the fans’ curiosity as to the new teams coming in. There's a number of players over there that I've heard a lot about and I'm looking forward to seeing them play',”'