Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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South Florida nips Gamecocks 4-1 r Oa.H n a. rrom aiau nopons USC s men s soccer team suffered its second defeat of the season on Saturday losing to South Florida University 4-1 in overtime. The Gamecocks took the lead 1-0, late in the first half Ilk^L when forward Anri Am ^ in ^ I 'ns Ami Arnthorsson Carolina out shot South Q,nr0(i Mcn , Florida 15-6. Scored only USC goal. The loss drops USC to 8-2, while South Florida goes to 1 ~> 1 I . The Gamecocks will play Erskine at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Graveyard. L'SC'S WOMEN'S volleyball team dropped its second match of the season losing to Georgia 15-9, 15-8, and 15-7. The loss puts Carolina's record at 1 1-2 The Lady Gamecocks will play the Clcmson at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Clcmson. MANDATORY Ent< Tonight at Anyone in t L l\ MEN S VA toBASKB! m HEEl \|]j apply n( ta thf rask OFFICE I irn ifi LV-VLIDCU/ FURTHER CALL 77: JV? . Cubs 'pay the By Doug Lee (College Feature Service) One of my favorite sayings has always been. 4,lf you're going to dance, you have to pay the fiddler," i wiih.ii i suppose was pronamy the tirst draft of today's cost-benefit principle. The leason I bring it up is what the Chicago Cubs just finished paying their fiddler. While every other team in major league baseball put up lights, built domed stadiums and replaced outfield bleachers with bullpens, the Cubs danced in the sunlight. While other teams nut in astroturf. the Cuhs grew ivy. While others scheduled twinight double-headers, the Cubs decided they would rather start at noon. And while other teams built large parking lots to accommodate a growing interest in the sport, the Cubs left parking up to the neighborhood entrepreneurs lucky enough to have access to an alley. But until recently, no one seemed to care it the Cubs were a little bit behind the times. Sure, day baseball was an inconvenience Tor the visiting teams, but the fiddler kept right on playing. It didn't really matter that much. After all, day baseball only hurt the Cubs. UNTIL 1984, that is. This season the Cubs have made more changes than even George Orwell *rtainment and 6 p.m. Rusi hese sectio RSITTlft fBALL GERS (ED! ~\\Y/ AT ^ w ni ITBALL N THE i i ? FOR INFO ^ W 3 7-4197 fc i fiddler' with could have foreseen. General Manager uaiias ureen tirst picked up outfielders Gary Matthews and Bob Dernier and then pitchers Dennis Eckersly, Rick Sutcliffe and George Frazier. Suddenly, the Cubs had won the National League's Eastern Division. And the fiddler was beginning to figure out the balance due. The Cubs won their division, so they entered the National League playoffs. Three victories there and the Cubs would be in the World Series for the first time since 1945. But the television networks involved ? ABC and NBC ? didn't like the ratings day baseball would bring. They, therefore, have a clause in their contract with major league baseball that says the networks arc entitled to some sort of rebate should the playoffs of World Series be during the day. That rebate would have to be paid by each team, so the question of whether to allow the Cubs to play day games in the playoffs quickly became one of self-interest. Moving the Cubs' home games to Comiskey Park, home of the Chicago White Sox, was quickly vetoed by the Cubs' management. Installing temporary lights was nixed by a city ordinance that was passed, quite simply, to stop night baseball at Wrigley Field. So Kuhn and the other owners had to turn to other alternatives. And, Phototgraphe sell House Roc ns must at gir V BASKE1 TSTIt October I! 6:45 i in the Cc Stop by to fill out #i i # pick-up physical basketball office in Deadline C ?r further info. Pie .WW?niiW1 >ii' .;tJiUKtiiflmi!mj i^'iUL^, division titfo because nothing is sacred when it comes to appeasing the television people, Kuhn decided to play with the calendar. DAY GAMES are more palatable to the networks if they're played during the weekend. Ratings are higher then, meanine the networks ran rharoc mnrp to sell us cars, hamburgers and, of ' course, light beer. So, if the Cubs had to play during the day at Wrigley ' Field, they would play there during the weekend. "But doesn't that take away our home-field advantage?" the Cubs asked. But baseball didn't answer. It was time to pay the fiddler. Since the Cubs won their division, they will host the first two games of the best-of-three National League playoff. The final three games will be played in San Diego Western Division champion. And, if the Cubs won that series, the World Series games, the Cubs would host on the middle three ? on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So much for the integrity of our national pastime. What bothers me the most is the way the rest of baseball looked upon the Cubs as a nuisance. When tl e were clearly two sides to the issue ? the Cubs and television's ? baseball immediately jumped to the side of television, as if it were a natural reflex.' ;rs meeting >m 321 tend. EN'S ARSITT WALL UTS i i no/i i z>o*T xm* )liseum appiiidiiui lb & | form in the I the Coliseum. I >ct. 10 ase Call 7-4197