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NEW YORK — (N3SA)—Those
fun-loving New York Mets fans
who decorate Shea Stadium with
scrawied-on bedsheets have not
changed their theme for the new
season.
The messages on the banners
contain the same humorous tone
\ Braves After Record
Against ‘New’ Mets
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UFI)-Th e At
lanta Braves may be in a new
setting, but they are still up to
their old trioks.
The Braves haven’t lost a
home game to the New York
Mets since midway through the
1964 season and if they can con
tinue their mastery over the
Mets through this weekend,
they’ll set a new major league
record.
The Braves beat the Mets 8-4
Friday night for their 16th
straight home victory over the
New Yorkers — dating back to
their Milwaukee days. The
record for one team beating an
other at home is 18 games. The
Braves meet the Mets here this
afternoon, have a twin bill on
tap for Sunday and a sweep of
the weekend would make the
new record 19.
Speaking of records, that vic
tory Friday night set another of
sorts. It was the first victory in
Atlanta for the Braves who lost
their two other home games
this season to the Pittsburgh
Pirates.
Better for Ducks
Friday night at Atlanta sta
dium was better suited for ducks
than for outfielders. A heavy
rain pounded the outfield and it
was a quagmire at game time.
Line drives sent up geysers,
then skidded to a halt. The
players found the footing pre
carious and had trouble judging
the balls once they hit the
ground.
“Man, that was something
out there,” complained Felipe
Alou who sloshed around in
center for the Braves. “You
never could be sure that your
feet weren’t gonna go right out
from under you- You’d try to
get a jump on the ball and the
next thing you knew you were
scrambling.”
But while Alou and his team
mates may have been doing a
bit of scrambling afield, they
were on solid ground with their
ibats. The Braves, a bit slow
getting started in hitting this
season, ripped out 13 base hits
off six Mets burlers.
Alou raised his batting aver
age to .342 with a double and
a single while Hank Aaron, Lee
Thomas, Rico Carty and Denis
Menke also had two hits apiece.
Boyer Was Goat
It was Mets fielding as much
as Braves batting that decided
Friday night’s contest before
. 15,665 damp fans and the boat
was third baseman Ken Boyer,
the National League’s most val
uable player two years ago.
Boyer committed three er
rors, two of them in a Mets-like
third toning when the Braves
scored three runs on just one
hit.
“There’s nothing wrong with
my arm,” the 35-year-old Boyer
’ said about several short throws
that were chalked up as errors.
"I Just wasn’t getting the ball
over.”
One of Boyer’s errors was
unique. He got to Aaron’s way,
when the Braves outfielder was
caught to a rundown between
second and third, and was
Charged with obstruction.
It’s Hank Fischer (0 - 1) for
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as last year — a cross between
tongue-in-cheek and a sentimen
tal we-know-you’re-lousy- but -
we-love you anyway.
Before the first ball was pitch
ed in tlie Mets opener against
the Atlanta Braves, one man
drew guffaws with a poster that
read, “Wait ’tli next year!”
Another, borrowing a line from
the Braves against young Dick
Selma (0-0) this afternoon.
Tony Cloninger, the Braves’
ace righthander and Friday
night's winner, had to leave the
game in the sixth inning be
cause of a twinge in his right
shoulder. But manager Bobby
Bragan insisted it was nothing
serious and said Cloninger will
take his regular turn next
Tuesday at San Francisco.
Veteran Billy O’Dell, who
worked four innings in relief af
ter Cloninger left the game, no
ticed a sign hanging from the
stands which said “Clemson
loves the Mets.”
“How about that,” grinned
O’Dell. “They were pulling a
gainst me and Clemson’s my
alma mater.”
Standings
By United Press International
National League
W. L. Pet. GB
Pittsburgh 8 .800 ...
San Fran. 7 .778 14
Los Angeles 7 .700
Philadelphia 5 .556 14
Atlanta 5 .556 14
St. Louis 4 .500
Houston 4 .400
New York 2 .333
Cincinnati 1 .125
Chicago 1 ■Ill
Friday’s Results
Los Angeles 2 Chicago 1
Atlanta 8 New York 4, night
Phila. 9 Oinci. 7, right
Houston 2 San Fran. 0. night
St. Louis 7 Pittsburgh 5. night
Saturday’s Probable Pitchers
Los Angeles at Chicago—
Sutton (1-1) vs. Hendley (0-1).
Pittsburgh at St. Louis
(night)—Blass (1-0) vs. Briles
( 0 - 0 ).
San Francisco at Houston, (2,
day-night)—Bolin (2-0) and
Perry (1-0) vs. Latman (0-1)
and Roberts (0-2).
New York at Atlanta—Selima
(0-0) vs. Fischer (0-1).
Philadelphia at Cincinnati—
Burning (0-1) vs. Jay (0-1).
American League
W L- Pet. GB
Cleveland 6 0 1.000 ...
Baltimore 6 1 .857 Vt
Chicago 5 2 .714 1*4
Detroit 6 3 .667 V/z
California 5 3 .625 2
Minnesota 3 4 .429 3*4
Boston 2 8 .250 5
Washington 1 5 .167 5
Kansas City 1 5 .167 5
New York 1 7 .125 6
Friday’* Results
Det. at Wash., ppd., wet
grounds
Chicago at K.C., ppd., rain
Calif. 2 Minnesota 1, night
(Only games scheduled)
Saturday’s Probable Pltchera
Minnesota at California—
Grant (1-1) vs. Lopez (1-1).
Detroit at
bouquette (1-1) vs. McCormick
( 0 - 0 ).
Baltimore at New York—
McNally (1-0) vs. Peterson (1
0 ).
Cleveland at Boston—Mc
Dowell (2-0) vs. Stlgman (0-0).
Chicago at Kansas City
(twilight)—Pizzaro (1-0) vs.
Talbot (0-1).
lust How Long Will
Mets’ Banners Wave?
Don Adams of television’s Get
Smart, waved a banner read
ing, "The Mets in ’66. Would you
believe ’67?"
When things get dull at Shea,
you take a walk and read ban
kers. Some samples of ’66 en
tries:
“To err is human — to forgive
is a Mets fan."
A take-off on a tooth-paste
commercial: “Our team had 45
per cent fewer victories last
year.”
“Don’t waste water, stop send
ing Mets pitchers to the show
ers.”
★ ★★★★★★★
SPORTS
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CHICAGO — (NEA) — The
years have been good to Leo
Durocher. And vice versa.
He looks fit and talks a lot.
The voice is strong and the
words are crisp and colorful.
Many of them concern talented, men he
once led — some
others temperamental — but
Leo isn’t living in the past.
For the first time in a dec
ade, he’s doing what he most
enjoys — managing The a big
league ball club. town is
Chicago, the team is the Cubs,
and, if it isn’t the most prom
ising Leo’s position in baseball, it. it’s
and he loves
Animated though his recol
lections of days gone by may
be, Leo’s glance never strays
far from the field. With his
blue cap pushed down so that
it balances brow, gingerly he on the
rim of his surveys
his charges with an alert eye
and a critical tongue. A brash
product of a hungry era, Leo
is not adverse to voicing either opin
ions of his ballplayers,
to their faces, within earshot
or to reporters.
Neither does he hesitate to
talk of the qualities he ad
mires most in his men. Then
his eyes sparkle, he rubs his
hands together and his words
are gleefully aggressive.
“I want to see some desire,”
he says, placing great empha
sis on the final word. To illus
trate, he may point to a spe
cific ballplayer, who has not
been hustling of late. “I’ve got
fellows who can’t hit well, but
they’ll ing.” be here; they’ll be play
It’s not a new facet of the
Durocher At Brooklyn approach he to base- Lip
ball. was
A Star Is Born
Eagles’ Discovery
Is Fields
Sometimes ball players can
be found in the darndest places.
Coach Gene Kierbow found one
right under his nose.
Until Coach Kierbow took over
as the Eagles’ headmaster, Lar
ry “Smokey” Fields was ONLY
a batting practice pitcher, des
tined to toil on the mound hour
after hour while everybody else
learned to hit.
Evidently Smokey learned
more about hitting while pitch
ing batting practice than some
of his mates did while taking it.
Smokey isn’t a batting prac
tice pitcher anymore. Now he’s
the Eagles’ right fielder and is
doing a great job.
The ex-batting practice pitch
er rapped out four straight hits
Friday as the Eagles blasted La
Grange 5-2.
The four hits raised Smokey’s
batting average to .357, second
highest on the squad. He has
hit safely to 10 out of 28 trips.
In addition to his terrific av
erage, Smokey has played error,
less ball and is rated the Eag
les’ best bunter. He leads the
team to sacrifices.
“Mets strike fear in the hearts
of other Mets.”
“Don’t worry about scalping
the Braves, just get ahead.”
“The rest of the league is just
lucky.”
"Extremism in defense of the
Mets is no vice.”
“rather, forgive them, for
they know not what they do.”
“Deus Vault." And then in
parentheses, “God wills it.”
One word banners also are
popular:
“Please!”
“Resist!”
“When?”
between you'n'me
Durocher Is 'All We Need/
Says Santo of the Cubs
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
Sports Editor
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Leo, at New York he was
Little Shepherd of Coo
Bluff. At both, he want
men who, aa they say,
to play.” He got them,
some top talent, and won
pennants and one World
Only three times in 15
did he miss the first
Now he’s with the Cubs,
haven’t been in the first
division for 20 years. And
some folks wonder whether
Leo can handle a club going
nowhere. Oddly enough, the
men least concerned with this
are the Cubs themselves.
“Most of the players know
of his reputation as a manager
and, as a coach with Los An
geles,” says Cub outfielder
Billy Williams. “We know he’s
won before and he’s a great
leader. It has to help us.”
Ernie Banks, twice the Na
tional League’s most valuable
player still and, at 35 years of
age, a fine hitter, fielder
and hustler, is even more en
thusiastic.
“I think he’s great,” say*
have Ernie, “and great we’re going He’s to
a year.
brought enthusiasm and unity
to the team, and he knowa the
game of baseball.”
“Any club is going to have
to beat us on the field. , because
they’re not going to beat Leo,”
says Ron Santo, the Cubs’ bril
liant third baseman. “Actual
ly, I think he’s all we need—
a man who knows how to win
and gets the best from hia
ballplayers.”
With such endorsements
from the Cubs’ three finest
players, Leo seems off to a
good off start. Now, if his team
gets as. well • O •
Griffin’s 5-2 victory over the
Grangers was their eighth strai
ght. They haven’t lost since Gor
don Military College beat them
14-6 to an exhibition game.
Grady Pierce, who is follow
ing in the foot steps of brothers
Don and Bobby Gene, checked
LaGrange with a three-hitter.
He struckout eight and walked
four to win his first game. His
record is 1-1.
Griffin got five runs on eight
• • • the perfect tribute
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“Why?”
“How?”
“Pray.”
But behind the “Pray” banner
came this one: "We prayed. ...
now what?”
Fine. It’s great to have fun in
a ball park. The only thing is,
Metsian banner-wavers are in
danger.
The Mets have improved. No
doubt about it. The acquisition
of veterans Ken Boyer and Dick
Stuart, plus manager Wes West
rum’s “positive-thinking” cam
paign, has spurred the lovables
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THE NEW LOOK—Joe Pepitone of the Yankees, Bill
Freehan of the Tigers and Jim Honochick, the umpire,
all are watching the same spot—the right field stands in
Yankee Stadium where Pepitone’a hit landed*
Lakers Down To
LOS ANGELES (UPI) —The
Los Angeles Lakers were faced
today with a sudden-death
situation in their best-of-seven
National Basketball Association
playoff with the Boston Celtics.
Boston moved within one
game of giving retiring Coach
Red Auerbach an unprecedent
ed eighth straight NBA title by
handing the Lakers their
second straight home court
loss, 122-117, Friday night.
The Celtics take a 3-1 lead
into Boston for the fifth and
possibly deciding game Sunday
afternoon.
If Auerbach and Laker Coach
Fred Schaus are to be believed
officiating has now been so
major factor in two of th A
games.
Auerbach felt a controversial
goal-tending call against Bill
Russell gave Los Angeles its
133-129 overtime win in the first
playoff game.
But Friday night, Schaus
claimed the “officiating killed
us.” And the 15,251 Laker fans
who jammed the sports arena
seemed to agree. At halftime,
as the teams started for the
dressing room, a fan jumped
referee Joe Gushoe, starting a
wild melee.
Police quickly moved to and
hits and made one error.
LaGrange scored two runs on
three hits and committed five
errors.
In addition to Fields’ four
hits, Donnie Cobb had two and
Terry Marshall and Dan McLean
had one.
Marshall's hit was a home run
to the sixth.
The Eagles will go after their
ninth victory tonight in East
Point.
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to dizzy heights.
All of which means the Mets
just might climb out of the Na
tional League cellar and finish
ninth. Or even eighth!
Then Metsian banner-makers
would have to change their pit
ch somehow. Perhaps Westrum
could hold a couple of positive
thinking classes lor fans.
broke up the crowd with only
Gushoe’s pride hurt.
The Celtics’ dependable trio
of Russell, Sam Jones and John
Haviicek provided a more real
contribution to the win.
Haviicek, considered the best
sixth man in basketball, started
and led the Celtics with 32 points
Russell came up with 25 points
and 18 rebounds while the
sharp-shooting Jones potted 20.
Consistent Jerry West was
outstanding to defeat, throwing
to 45 points. Elgin Baylor
followed with 24 while Leroy
Ellis hit 21.
Despite the loss, Schaus was
optimistic. “If we play as good
Sunday as tonight, there will
definitely be a sixth game here
Tuesday,” he said.
REVIVAL
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Evangelist of Lithia Springs, Georgia for past 14 years.
ROLAND BUTLER
SONG LEADER
April 24 -29, 7:30 P. M.
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND
Rev. Alfred L- Key, Pastor
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There is another school of
thought: When and if the Mets
make it out of the cellar, they
will be Just another mediocre
ball club and all of the banners
and many of the fans will dis
appear.
In this vein, one banner stood
out. It read: “Is the Met dynas
ty crumbling??”
LUCK OF IRISH
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) —
Jim Sarno, a fl-foot-8 star of
Michigan’s class D high school
champions for the past two
season, will enter Notre Dame
next fall according to Irish
basketball Coach Johnny Dee.
Legals
LEGAL 887
GEORGIA, Spalding County.
All creditors of the Estate of
Mrs. Edna Earl McKikken, de
ceased, late of Spalding County,
are hereby notified to render in
their demands to the undersign
ec. according to law, and all per
sons indebted to said Estate are
required to make immediate
payment to me.
This the 29th day of March,
1966.
Mrs. Martha G. McKibben,
Administratrix with Will
Annexed of the Estate of
Mrs. Edna Earl McKikken.
Bolton & Seay,
Attorneys at Law.
LEGAL 911
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
GEORGIA, Spalding County.
To The Superior Court of Said
County:
The petition of M. L. Shackle
ford and Alton George, both
having the post office address
of Griffin, Spalding County,
Georgia, and Dorothy O. McCul
lough, having the post office ad
dress of Williamson, Pika Coun
ty, Georgia, respectfully Shows
that:
1.
They desire for themselves,
their associates and successors
to be incorporated and made a
body politic under the name of
Enterprise Janitorial Services,
Inc., for the period of thirty
five (35) years.
2 .
The principal office of said
corporation shall be in Spald
ing County, Georgia, but peti
tioners desire the right to estab
lish branch offices to this state,
or elsewhere, whenever the
holders of the majority of the
stock may so determine.
3.
The object of the corporation
is pecuniary gain to itself and
its shareholders; and the busi
ness to be carried on by it is:
That of the furnishing of
maintenance and Janitorial serv
ices for any and all persons,
or corporations, and in and
for any and all types of build
ings, the selling, furnishing and
dealing in or with, in any man
ner, any and all cleaning or
janitorial supplies; the holding
or selling or otherwise dealing
in or with any and all other
personal property necessary or
incident to the business of the
corporation; the purchase and
sale or otherwise dealing in or
with real estate, either as
principal or agent; and the do
ing and performing of any and
all acts and things necessary,
convenient, expedient or in aid
of the accomplishment of the
foregoing.
4.
The maximum number of
shares which the corporation
shall be authorized to have out
standing at any time shall be
five hundred (500) shares of
the par value of One Hundred
Dollars each. The amount of
capital with which the coropor
ation shall commence business
shall be not less than One
Thousand Dollars (61,000.00).
The corporation shall be author
ized to issue additional shares
up to the maximum number of
shares about stated, and there
after, from time to time, to re
duce the amount of capital out
standing, but not below the min
imum above stated, and all this
upon a majority vote of the
stock outstanding at that time.
Wherefore, petitioners pray to
be incorporated under the
name and style aforesaid with
all the rights, powers, privi
leges and immunities above re
ferred to, as well as such other
rights, powers, privileges and
immunities as are now or may
hereafter be conferred upon like
corporation under the laws of
Georgia.
CUMMING, CUMMING A
CUMMING,
By (s) W. Barron Gumming.
Attorneys for Petitioners.
ORDER OF INCORPORATION
GEORGIA, Spalding County.
At Chambers, in The Superior
Court of Said County.
The petition of M. L. Shackle
ford, Alton George and Dorothy
O. McCullough to be incorporat
ed under the name of Enter
prise Janitorial Services, Inc.,
for the period of thirty-five
years, has been read and con
sidered.
It appearing that said petition
is legitimately within the pur
view and intent of the laws of
this state; and it appearing
from a certificate submitted
from the Secretary of State
that the name of the proposed
corporation is not the name of
any other existing corporation
registered in the records of the
Secretary of State; and it furth
er appearing that petitioners
have complied with all other
conditions precedent and statu
tory requirements applicable to
such petitions:
It is hereby ordered and ad
judged that the prayers of the
foregoing petitioners be granted
and that said petitioners be in
corporated under the name of
Enterprise Janitorial Services,
Inc., for the period of thirty
five years, with all the rights,
powers, privileges and immuni
ties prayed for in said petition,
together with such rights, pow
ers, privileges and immunities
as are now or may hereafer be
conferred upon like corporations
under the laws of Georgia.
At Chambers, this the 22nd
day of April, 1966.
(s) JOHN H. MCGEHEE,
Judge of the Superior Court of
Spalding County, Georgia.