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The Red and Black, Thursday, May 14, 1970
Broadway’s
kingmakers
By Robert Friedman
Sports editor
Rico Carty came back from the dead last year to
jjj raise his batting average by 342 points Tommy Agee s j
average rose from a pathetic .218 to a mediocre 271.
:¥ hardlv cause for national celebration
Who was the National League's Comeback flayer of :
K the Year' 1 Agee, of course It's not that Carty has i a-
jjj hies or bad breath, the simple fails ol the matter are
:j: that Agee plays for New York, while ( arty performs
:j: for Atlanta, the publicity Siberia of the South
jjj: Henry Aaron, although three years younger than
j;j: Willie Mays, has already e< lipsed most of his famous
jjj: counterpart's records, vet no knowledgeable fan
jjjj would dare assume that Aaron belongs in the same
| class as Mays
g Why has Mays gleaned so much more popularity.
| than Aaron" Because he is a colorful performer 9 Hell,
xj Willie Mays hasn't made a colorful statement in his
4 life; Aaron displays twice as much intelligence and
j!j: class
Namaths sick mother
:j:j The New York press jumps on anything that resem-
jjjj bles a star Mays had the greatest years of his life
j:j: while playing there, but he was no more colorful than
j:j several other plavers in other cities
I New York is the only city that can make personal)-
jjj ties out of Casey Stengel, a senile old man. and Yogi
jjj Berra, who reaped the benefits of writers making up
jj: jokes for him
jij New York teams already have the funds to buy the
jij most colorful performers available, but. instead of
iji making the investment, owners choose to let newspa-
ij: permen invent famous athletes for them
jjj Joe Namath is the one true superstar in the city, but
¥ even his mother would get sick to her stomach from
jjj all the crap written about him by opportunistic jour-
x nalists
Simpson and Parmer
| In sports whereNew York Cith can claim no native J
sons, they take aliens to their hearts,
jjj: 1 could never live long enough to want to hear again
jjjj "There goes O-o-o-o J-a-a-a-a-y Simpson." or Arnold
| Parmer (sic) steps to the green " If they have to keep j:
jjj the camera on him when he's 10 strokes behind, for i
x God's sake why can’t they find somebody who can i
iji pronounce his name?
jj; Simpson and Palmer are probably the greatest ath-
jjj letes ever in college football and golf, respectively.
j;j but too much of a good thing gives me a gut reaction
| The inevitable finally happened a few years ago j
% when CBS bought the Yankees, formerly the biggest
x publicity attraction ever Unfortunately for CBS.
jj; they jumped on the bandwagon too late, and not even
jjjj the most original young advertising accountant can
make the Yankees attractive now
Of course, more athletes than merely those from
jjj: Atlanta have fallen victim to the Madison Avenue
x Syndrome Great stars like Ernie Banks. Jerry West,
x Gale Sayers, Harmon Killebrew and countless others
x have received less national exposure than they de-
¥ served — not to mention fewer fringe benefits — sim-
jij: ply because they played in unattractive publicity
jij: areas
Rico's Vitalis Afro
¥ Ihe most ludicrous travesty of all was announced
4 the other day when it was announced that Carty. lead-
jij ing tht* world in virtually every hitting category this
jij year, had been left off the entire ballot for the all-star
iji game vote
pour players listed on the ballot had not even played
this season three others had not played a game at the
A position where they were nominated
IV commissioner's office later explained that the
x nominations were made last December Very bright,
iji commissioner We certainly wouldn't want the team
jij picked on the basis of merit, would we?
jij And. even if the picks were based on last year's re-
j;j cords. 18 outfielders were nominated. Carty was the
iji third leading hitter in the major leagues, and Carty
iji was not nominated
Hardly seems logical, does it" But then, if Carty
jji didn't deserve to be Comeback Player of the Year, he
iji certainly has no business on the all-star team
Dh well, Carty could always sign with the Knicks as
jij a tourth-string guard and make some spending money
jij doing Vitalis commercials
Dogs trip
S.C. 3-2
in wrapup
By BOB GILES
Assistant sports editor
Shortstop John Calhoun got
one of those big hits that coach
Jim Whatley would have liked
to see more often this season,
helping Bob Cannon record a
11 inning 3-2 win over South
Carolina Tuesday in Columbia
The season-ending triumph
gave the Dogs a 17-14 mark and
the most victories chalked up
by a Georgia baseball team
since the 1953 squad won 23
games en route to the South
eastern Conference champion
ship
Starting on the mound for
only the second time this year.
; senior righty David Reeves
: went the first two innings and
: held the Gamecocks scoreless
j before giving way to Bob Can
non The Dogs most consistent
: hurler throughout the season
: stilled the* Carolina bats until
• the ninth
IN THE NINTH, South Caro-
lina got a bases-loaded single to
:• score two runs and offset a pair
of (Georgia markers in the top
•: of the inning
:j Hitless until the fifth inning.
£ the Bulldogs registered the
first runs of the contest in the
•; ninth when Calhoun drove in
Kirby Campanella and Tom
y. Cannon Campanella had dou-
j bled and Cannon had walked.
and both advneed on a wild
% pitch to set the stage for Cal-
*: houn's heroics
:$ Looking back over the sea-
:$ son. Whatley seemed to have
£ mixed emotions Though his
>•: team bettered last year's re-
x. cord and won more games than
>•: any Georgia baseball team in 16
previous campaigns. Big
Jim insisted that “we should
>: have done better
x PARTICCIJIRLY tough for
:> the Dogs to take were the two 4-
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HOME ESTATES
Underdog ruggers
surprise in tourney
Defenders wait for Gregg Byrd
Photo byROBNOVIT
Georgia's spring practice came to a
close with Saturday's annual G-Dav con
test, won by the Blacks, 31-14 The Black
squad broke open a toss-up contest with
an unexpectedly explosive often" and a
clutch defense, headed by Chip Wisdom
(49) and David Save (71). The two
squads will join forces for fail practice
and the regular-season schedule.
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3 extra-inning defeats at the
hands of Auburn last weekend
A pair of wins would have
vaulted Georgia into a final
third-place standing in the SEC
ahead of the Tigers, but it was
not to be
The veteran mentor pointed
to a misjudged fly ball and a
great game-saving play by the
Plainsman second baseman in
late innings as the main obsta
cles in the Bulldogs path to
third place
About midseason, the pitch
ing staff began to shoulder the
load, much to Whatley's de
light But there was a catch. At
the same time Georgia's hit
ters went into a miserable
slump
The situation reached such
proportions that, at a time
when the team was still in a
position to finish near the top,
Georgia dropped four straight
league games, three of them by
shutout
That the mound corps chose
this phase of the season to
come around, says Whatley,
“was the only thing that saved
us."
Baxter aids team,
sets own records
by JIM WYATT
Staff writer
Eddie Baxter is one of the
top members of tnis season's
outstanding mile relay team as
Dog golfers seek
another SEC title
Georgia's golfers start today
: in their bid to become the first
: Bulldog squad in anv sport to
jj bring home an SEC ehampion-
jj ship this year
j; Howell Hollis, coaching the
jj golfers for the 25th vear. is
jj looking for his 13th conference
jj winner last vear's team was
jj victorious in a close tourna-
:j ment. and this year's outfit.
¥ thanks to its perfect 13-0 season
j;j record, is a favorite to repeat
jjj The tournament is being held
;j: at Callaway Gardens, where
ij: the Bulldogs competed once
jjjj during the regular season In
jj: that match, thev polished off
:j: Auliurn. Alabama and Colum-
x bus College, but the team
jjj scores were high - too high for
j? a championship team
ALLEN MILLER, three-
jjj time all-American and the
jjj greatest golfer in Georgia his-
j:j ton according to Hollis, leads
j:j the Bulldogs Miller shot a hor-
jij: rendous 80 in his first encounter
jjj: with Callaway Gardens, but the
jjjj senior star is fresh from a vic-
:j:j torv in the Dogwood Classic in
:j:j Atlanta, and he should he the
:jij favorite for individual honors
jjjj Miller will be joined by Gary
j:j: Holloman Terrv Diehl Tom-
mv Valentine, Mov'd Liebler
and Lyn Lott All of these golf
ers are capable of winning indi
vidual recognition
Last vear's toumev. held in
Athens, was one of the closest
ever with Georgia winning
over Florida 1099 to 11116 LSU.
Tennessee and Alabama were
in contentionuntil the final holes
FLORIDA AND LSU should
again offer the stiffest chal
lenges to the Bulldogs.
LSlI's Vaughn Moisc, who
nipped Miller by two strokes
for last year's individual cham
pionship. is back to defend his
crown
The three-dav. 54-hole tour
nament will he completed Sat
urdav
EDDIE BAXTER
Half-mile star
well as the Bulldogs' top haif-
miler
The junior management
major from Atlanta holds the
Georgia school record in the
half-mile with a time of 1:53.3.
He is also a member of the
group that set the present mile
relay school record this season
against Furman in 3:12.7, the
third best clocking in the SEC
this year
Baxter was a prep star at
Dykes High School in Atlanta,
where he was state champ in
cross country his sophomore
year, half-mile and mile state
champ his junior year, and state
mile champ his senior season.
THE MILE RELAY is his
favorite event, and he feel" this
team will break the existing
record, possibly in the SEC
meet and definitely before the
end of the season.
Baxter would like to see how
he could perform in the open
440 before he ends his colle
giate career. Fr.om the times
he has turned in his relay legs.
Baxter could be a top quarter-
miler.
The dedicated runner com
petes in cross country in the
fall, indoor track in the winter
and outdoor track in the spring
He works out three or four days
a week in the summer. Baxter
has run track and cross-country
for eight consecutive years.
HF. INDICATED an interest
in soccer Baxter participated
in a summer soccer league and
hopes to play more in the fu
ture
His main aspiration is to be
able to run in the nationals this
season, for which the Bulldogs
need to break 3:11.0 Baxter
commented that Georgia's re
lay team is capable of reaching
this goal with a good perform
ance by each of the four run
ners
A weary crew of ruggers
slowly reappeared this week in
the Classic City after several
days of riotous living in Char
lottesville, Va . venue of the
ninth annual Commonwealth
Cup Tournament
Going as definite underdogs,
seeded last and considered to
tally out of contention by the
organizers, the young Georgia
Rugby Football Club, “in for a
jolt" according to the local
paper, shook the giants of
American rugby with their
Commonwealth Cup perform
ance
The Dogs had a tough draw,
pitted against Brown, two-time
winner of this prestigious tro
phy, in the first round The Red
and Blacks led until the dying
stages of the game, but were
defeated 128.
BROWN SCORED four pen
alties (field goalsl to Georgia's
Ed Sumner's try and Graham
Holloway's penalty kick and
extra point conversion Brown
went on to defeat 1970 Ivy
League champs Yale and Notre
Dame, to take the title for the
third time in nine years
The Dogs were the only team
to cross Brown s line during the
tournament
jThe second round saw Geor
gia facing off against the To
ronto Old Boys in what some
claimed was the best game of
the 12 played over the weekend
The Dogs ran Toronto into the
dust under the hot sun. and
came out 9-3 winners Holloway
scored one try and two penalty
kicks for Georgia
SUNDAY'S GAME was
against second-ranked Virgin
ia Poor tackling hurt Georgia
in an 11-3 loss as Holloway
again kicked a penalty.
Because it is such a short
tournament, there are no offi
cial rankings of the teams in it,
but Georgia was unofficially
placed fourth by the organizers
The Dogs demonstrated in
the twcHiay affair that they can
compete on the same level as
the established Eastern clubs
after only two years.
Georgia has already re
ceived promises of spring visits
from most of the tourney's par
ticipants — Brown. Yale. Mich
igan. Toronto Old Boys. Notre
Dame. University of North
Carolina and Virginia.
Women golfers split pair
Georgia's women's golf
team conquered Converse Col
lege here May 4 but fell victim
to Furman University last Fri
day in its first loss of the season
At the University golf course
the team shut out Converse Col
lege of South Carolina 4-0
Georgia's No I player for the
match. Karen Shapiro, mushed
over Edie Jones of Converse 5-4
in match play Mary King of
Georgia beat Deedee Cooper of
Converse 5-3.
Traveling to Furman Uni
versity in Greenville. S. C.,
Georgia lost its first match this
season Playing in the No 1
position, Georgia's Mary King
shot 86. but Gwen Hyatt of
Furman carded 83 to defeat her
3 2 in match play
Nancy Nutting (Georgia!
and Chris Kennedy I Furman)
were all even in match play
after 18 holes Resulting team
scores were 4* a to 1 Va in favor
of Furman
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