Umpires end two-day walkout

NEW YORK Major-league umpires agreed to a new contract Monday andended their two-day walkout, but the deal came too late for them toreach seven of the eight season openers.

Amateur umpires, who took over for the final two days of springtraining, worked all but one of Monday's games, the first timeregular umpires missed games during the regular season since 1979.

Regular umpires are scheduled for today's nine games.

The only Monday game with regulars was in Texas, where JimEvans, Durwood Merrill, Larry McCoy and Tim McClelland umpired as theRangers played the Milwaukee Brewers.

"Money was the biggest issue," commissioner Fay Vincent said."I …