Event Date: March 20th, 1986
Event Description: Manges Manipulations
Source: UPI
A state district court judge Thursday ordered the San Antonio Gunslingers franchise transferred to the Bexar County sheriff's office for public auction to settle a legal judgment.
The ruling by state district Judge Rose Spector of San Antonio was in a lawsuit filed last week by U.S. Football League Players Association attorney Phil Hardberger on behalf of 52 former Gunslingers owed more than $600,000 in back pay.
During the hearing, it was reported that owner Clinton Manges had last fall transferred ownership of the franchise to his four children.
But Spector said the franchise's membership in the USFL was not transferred, so it still was under the control of Manges' South Texas Sports Inc.
Last month, sheriff's deputies confiscated an estimated $100,000 worth of equipment from the team offices at Alamo Stadium to help satisfy the debt owed the players.
Bounced and skipped paychecks plagued the team during its 1985 season. The Gunslingers played for the last time last June, unpaid for that game or for the three games that preceded it. Manges waived the entire team in last fall.
But Harry Lander of San Antonio, who organized a group of Texas investors to bid for the franchise, said after Thursday's ruling his group still wants to buy the franchise and hopefully have them reinstated.
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