- You: have? Then._you're
wasting time: Quite often it
. doesn't work that way atall:

Take the defending World

Series champion. Yankees
and their zillionaire owner
and manipulator, George

Steinbrenner. Here’s a guy’

who won one pennant with
Billy Martin, got rid of him
the next year because he was
losing, replaced him with
Bob Lemo, who got them
winning again and won
another pennant, then this
past week dropped Lemon
and rehired Martin.

The Yankees are 10 games
out, mostly because of in-
juries to key people like
Reggie Jackson and Ron
Guidry, not ‘because Lemon
has suddenly forgotten how
to manage in the style that

wiped out the Dodgers in last

year’s World Series.”

But tycoons whose CBOs -

are easily bruised (is it

Page B4, June 24, 1979-SundayNews |

observed, is

‘because fellow tycoons

needle them down at the

club?) when their teams
‘don't ‘play. as well as they
‘ think they should, feel they
_ must do something. And not
really knowing what.to do, .
* ‘they do the only thing that

comes to mind: they replace
the manager or the coach.

“When the most irrational
guy in the organization is the
head . knock himself, how

can that inspire confidence

among the players in
themselves and in the outfit
that employs them?

. It doesn’t. If. the Yankees
come back to win another

pennant,it will be despite the .

owner, despite the return of

Martin and because over the —

long season their depth of
talent will assert itself and
get the jobdone.

‘The role of ‘the manager,
the late Casey Stengel once
vastly

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-overrated. In alf his big years.
with the Yankees, he >

doubted that he was
responsible for winning
more than one gamé a
season on managerial genius
alone. :

He became a

Oe ) winning —
legend because he had the

best material in the game.

IN THIS SAME VEIN the
world now will be able to
more properly assess the
hockey genius of Scotty |
Bowman in his new position
as general manager and head
of the coaching committee
at Buffalo.

From four straight Stanley
Cup wins with the speediest,
most talented team in the
NHL, he has moved to the
team that finished eighth
overall last season in the 17-
team league.

The Sabres are not as
good as the Canadiens
because they have~ less

talent, less speed, ‘less’ size

where it counts and less
experience. -In_ recent

developed a reputation for

playing below their potential =
. once the playoffs’start.. oe

On how ‘the Sabres. per-

-. form in. 1979-80 -you .may
~. -, hang your judgement on the
+ importance of. Scotty's
contribution. to those four.-

straight Montreal -Stanley

Cup wins; on how. much«it

was his coaching, on how
much. it was ‘sheer
superiority of personnel. .

IT HAS TO BE good news

for the rest of the league to
see some cracks appearing in
that Canadiens ‘edifice.

Bowman has shuffled off to
Buffalo. Al MacNeil,
director of player personnel,

has moved on to Atlanta as
coach. |

Jacques ‘Lemaire,
was their leading playoff

scorer this spring, is off to

Switzerland -as manager,
coach and player of B
division Sierre in the Swiss
League.

‘It may be B hockey, but
the money is strictly AAAA -
- a reported $225,000 for
three seasons, plus house
and car. The big thing is that
the $225,000-is his net pay.
The club pays his income tax
on that sum.

And now. the word from
Europe, where he _ is
vacationing, is—that Ken
Dryden also is gone. There’s

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the
often underrated Centre who |

only one questian: where?

Into a fulltime law career?
Or first, a year of playing

‘. goal in the USSR, the better
.to study. Russian hockey,

methods? pe.

Without all these. people,

maybe the Canadiens will

become merely- mortal.

Instead of winning a fifth.

straight Stanley Cup, maybe
they'll just. get to the final.
And lose the seventh game
in overtime. |

ees

OF ALL THESE MOVES,
the one with the most far
reaching significance. could

- be - Lemaire’s~ decision to

foresake ‘the wobbly
Canadian dollar and high
income tax for the king of
international currencies, the
Swiss franc, and. no inCome
tax.

Earlier this month, in its

negotiations with the league,

the NHL Player's
Association caved in on the
free agent issue and todk
money: ($7.2 million over
five years) instead.

AS a ‘result, there is no

business with “the atiopping-
around player whose

‘contract has expired, he now - -
‘can go to Europe and make

an even better deal i in: francs °
ormarks.. ~

Iron man Gary. Unger, St.
Louis Blues’. best player has
been at liberty all. this.
month. But he hasn't had a
nibble. He, . too, just may

_wind up in Europe, playing

for the same kind of tax
prepaid money as Lemaire.

And that’s not. all Europe
has going for it. There’s the —
small matter of a 36-game.
schedule instead of ‘an 80-

game: grind; 100-mile road

trips’ instead of 3,000-mile :
transcontinental voyages of
discovery. | :

’ Horace Greeley had it all”
wrong. Go east young man,
goeast. —

market for the so-called free —

agent in the NHL. Every |
team is so scared of what it —.

might lose. under’ the

compensation clause, free
agents are avoided like —

lepers.

But now Lemaire has
shown the way to a hitherto

lightly regarded alternative. .
If other NHL teams won't do

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