Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 19

Herald Review Sports. Decatur, Illinois, Thursday, October 18, 1S84 -Section C- billion lawsuit filed $1.32 i 9 sw'W 2. Ns 1 i i i. r'- gust to switch to a fall schedule starting in 1986, was formed in 1982 as what its founders said was an alternative to the NFL to provide spring-summer football for the American public. It came into being with two-year television contracts estimated at from $18 million to $22 million.

Last season, the league expanded from 12 to 18 teams and several of the franchises wefe sold, leaving only six of the original owners. It also spent millions to sign college standouts like Steve Young, Hers-chel Walker and Mike Rozier and finished last season with losses estimated at $63 million. Then, last August, despite ABC's extension of its contract for $15 million in 1985 and a new pact with ESPN valued at about $17 million a year, the USFL voted to switch seasons. It also has decided to consolidate from 18 teams to 12-14 teams for next year. The details of the consolidation may be worked out in meetings this weekend at Amelia Island, Fla.

The suit seeks $440 million in damages, which under antitrust law would be automatically trebled if the court finds in favor of the USFL. The suit also asks that the NFL be "enjoined from negotiating with or making contractual offers with players currently under USFL contracts" before their contracts expire. Last year, the USFL signed a number of NFL players, including Cris Collinsworth of the Cincinnati Bengals, who is currently playing in the NFL and will report to the Tampa Bay Bandits of the USFL after the season. NEW YORK (AP) The United States Football League filed a $1.32 billion antitrust suit against the National Football League on Wednesday, seeking to void the NFL's contracts with the three major television networks and charging that "a conspiracy" exists to put the USFL out of business. The USFL also asked the court to break up what it calls the NFL's monopoly on player contracts and stadiums in the nation's major cities.

NFL spokesman Joe Browne said the league would have no comment until it had seen the court papers. In a suit filed in federal court, the USFL, which has played two spring-summer seasons, said it "'seeks redress for past and ongoing violations of the federal antitrust laws" by the NFL. It names as defendants all 28 NFL teams as well as Commissioner Pete Rozelle. Filed on behalf of the league by New York attorney Roy Cohn, the suit accuses the NFL of "numerous predatory and unlawful actions" by which it "sought to perpetuate the monopoly of the NFL by making successful entry by a competing professional football league into the business of major league football impossible." It claims "there is a conspiracy" among NFL clubs "to create a complete barrier to the entry of a competitive league into the business of major league competitive football." Since the emergence of the NFL "the efforts of the defendants and their co-conspirators have been specifically directed at the elimination of the plaintiff USFL member clubs as competitors." The USFL. which voted last Au Photo by Herb Slodounik Part of kamikaze, front, from left, Kevin Bickings, Cheney Hunt, back, Dave Andriano, Aric Anderson.

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I t-1 4 f' LA Andy Salm Rick Lambie Richie Minor Rick Grove Frank Perryman Dan Gordon Tony Grant Cubs' Freyi A Febirf of kamikaze named top manager LSL since I've been coaching at Millikin (17 years). They tattoo people. You can hear the hitting. It's awesome." Poelker is responsible for the divine wind tag. Assistant Coach Ralph McQuiggan devised the alignment of the 11 hitters.

Assistant Coach Tim Littrell stands guard over the hitters. The hitters include six flyers and five trailers. The flyers destroy the wedge of blockers. The trailers pick up the bodies. The flyers are also known as: Aric Anderson.

200, sophomore. Palatine By BOB FALLSTROM NrM 4 Rtvtr Sports editor The divine wind sweeps with suicidal fury. In World War II, the divine wind was a wave of Japanese airplane pilots charged with the mission of crashing into enemy ships with explosive results. Kamikaze attacks they were called. Kamikaze translates: Kami (divine) kaze (wind).

Now the divine wind sweeps away Millikin University football opponents on kickoff situations. "Our divine wind is devastating." Coach Carl Poelker reports. "It's the best coverage team we've had Cheney Hunt, 210, senior, Pekin David Andriano, 190, sophomore. Palatine Dan Gordon, 180, freshman, Arthur Frank Perryman, 170, junior. Pittsburgh, Pa.

Rick Grove, 165, senior, Bethany The trailers are also known as. Kevin Bickings, 170, junior, Benton Richie Minor, 170, senior, Carmi Andy Salm, 215, junior, Rockford Rick Lambie, 160, junior, Barton-ville Tony Grant, 170, junior, Arthur Mostly, the Millikin kickoff is the group's only chance for action. The bench-sitters make the most of it. "They're crazed," marvels Poelker. "crazed with enthusiasm and determination and dedication." The longest return of a kickoff is estimated at 10 yards.

"We aim to inflict pain," Cheney Hunt vows. "We run as fast as we can, hit as many bodies as possible. If we can keep the returner from going beyond the 20, it sets the tempo in our favor." Aric Anderson, baby-faced sophomore, is the No. 1 intimidator.He sent a Southwest Baptist player to the hospital in the Oct. 6 game in Missouri, his divine wind teammates report.

"It's my job," Anderson responds. "Everyone else does as much as I do." Everyone has a lane, a certain area of responsibility. On Thursday and Friday they practice keeping within the lanes. On Saturday they hit, hit, hit. The divine wind's effectiveness has helped Millikin sweep away five opponents.

It's the first 5-0 start in 10 years. Now comes the ultimate confrontation: Undefeated and No. 1-ranked Augustana visits Millikin Saturday in a College Conference of Illinois-Wisconsin showdown. "A little extra adrenalin will be flowing," promises Cheney Hunt. "Before the kickoff, I have total dedication, a feeling that I'm going to make the tackle.

That's the only attitude to have, that's the only attitude we allow. There will be nothing close to a long gain by Augustana." That will be too, too divine. Bob Fallstrom Jim Frey NEW YORK (AP) Jim Frey, who turned the Chicago Cubs from a lower-echelon team to a division winner in his first year with the club, Wednesday was named the National League's "manager of the year" by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Frey received 16 of the possible 24 first-place votes and seven for second for a to tat of 101 points to win easily over Dave Johnson of the New York Mets, whose team contended most of the season with the Cubs for the National League East championship and finished second in the division. "I'm honored and proud that people thought I did a good job," Frey said.

"But it was the organization that went out and spent the money to get the ballplayers. A lot of people deserve credit. I'm just the guy who happens to be standing. here." He added that "individual awards are nice" but "the biggest thrill is being on a championship team." While Frey was left off one writer's ballot, Johnson was named on all 24 with four votes for first place, 16 for second and four for third. Dick Williams of the San Diego Padres, the National League champions, finished in Can't- please everybody third place in the balloting, also with four votes for first place, one for second and 18 for third.

Houston's Bob Lillis was fourth. Two writers in each of the league's cities voted. Frey, in 1980 as a freshman major league manager, led the Kansas City Royals to the American League pennant. Prior to managing in Kansas City, Frey spent 15 years in the Baltimore Orioles' system, beginning in 1964 after retiring cis an active player. Although he played professional baseball as an outfielder for 14 years, the native of Cleveland never made it to the major leagues despite a lifetime batting average of .302.

Frey, 52, was hired by former Mets Manager George Bamberger as the Mets' batting coach in 1982 and continued those duties, plus coaching first base, through the 1983 season in New York. The Cubs in 1983 finished fifth in the East with a 71-81 record, but Frey got them turned them around with a blend of youngsters and veterans acquired in some sharp trade acquisitions by General Manager Dallas Green. Fighting neck-and-neck with the Mets, the Cubs pulled away in the last two weeks in September. Commentary BUY A CHAIN SAW WITH ALL THE TRIMMINGS 240 16" Chain Saw wSTO Froo Accessory Kit Reg. $269.95 $01095 fey.

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So why don't you keep your big trap shut on predictions. Please excuse my typing. I am 88 and do not see ae well as I did. From Clarence H. Stamm, Newton: must congratulate the person who wrote the headline "They wouldn't be the Cubs if they didn't break your heart." I sympathize with the young people in the disappointment.

I've been a Cubs fan for 62 years. I love this team. They will give us many more wonderful years like 1984. In 1919 I was a White Sox fan and after they turned black I never wanted to see another professional baseball game. But a friend bound and gagged me and took me to a Cubs game in 1922 and I saw Gabby Hartnett in his rookie year.

He won me over and I've loved the team ever since. With players like Sandberg. Dernier, Durham and Jody Davis, the years ahead look bright. From Terry Phillips, Sullivan: The good old days of fast pitch softball are gone. Memories of competitive teams throughout the area linger but the teams are gone.

Who can forget the Sullivan Chiefs winning the state Gass A tournament in 1970? They were a competitive Gass AA team but never met their potential, finishing third in 1974 led by Shorty Cordray, Charlie Bland and Joe Phillips. Sullivan was beat out by a Sullivan native, Barry Freeman, who pitched Springfield Quality Furniture to the championship. Then there was Myron Kumler leading Canton and Maroa Perfect to championships and Gary Endres and Gem Quillman as a part of the dynasty for the Murdale Oilers of Carbondale. Back then the players got together for the competition and the fun of it. When state tournament time rolled around, four or five teams had a good chance to win.

This past season the ball parks at Sullivan, Areola and Maroa were quiet with no fast pitch softball. It will possibly be gone for some time. Has the interest left the players or has softball made a major change? We now have a very fine area team in Decatur ADM, the only quality team that fans can go to see. This club was not organized with a majority of area players but instead with national players. None of the teams in the past that I have mentioned could compete with ADM.

I have not attended a fast pitch game in at least seven years because the players that were familiar to me are gone, the area teams are gone. I miss it much. From B.J. and Jim Wade, Decatur: We read with interest and irritation your article on the Bombers softball team. It seems to us you could use your space to "appreciate" teams or people who really deserve the appreciation.

Bombers or whatever they call themselves in any given situation or tournament, is a team which is Class Class or Class whichever fits the particular situation. They seem to enter tournaments which they feel they can at least win or run away with. We have a team in women's C-3 Rec Department league called Wade's Renegades. We play in the Rec Department because we feel that js where we belong and feel most comfortable with. We know our team is not the greatest but we try and usually have a good time.

After all, that is what Rec Department softball is all about. Not to say that we and other teams don't have one or two members who might also play on another team outside of the Rec Department. This is all fine and allowed by the Rec Department. Our main complaint, and believe me we are not alone, is that their whole team is made up of players who are Gass or better and call themselves Gass players. They were in a Gass league in 1983 and because they couldn't handle the competition, placed themselves in the Class league and as you cited had a record of 13-1.

That is no great accomplishment, considering how they got there. We played in an end-of-season tournament at Borg-Warner Field but I believe it must have been a different one from the one you wrote about. The first day of competition, the so-called Bombers came out in one of their other uniforms, the pumpkin-colored ones with LINGAFELTER written on it. If they were Lingafelter's why were they in a Gass league division tournament and allowed to play? I would also like to point out that one of the players pictured, Tonya Greve, was on our team the past two years. She was picked up to play in that particular tournament.

In the tournament the Gass A players, as far as I know, were allowed to play over the protests of every team who played them. At least we did have the satisfaction of knowing we could beat them which we did. They did get the trophy for first place, as the tournament was double elimination, and we got the second-place one but feel we were actually the first-place team. We certainly don't mean to sound petty. We just feel that appreciation should be given to those who deserve it and earn it and we certainly do not feel that they do.

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