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Dowis Likes
"There’s probably no such
thing as a multiple-T. But that’s
the best I can describe the type
offense I coach,” Max Dowis,
Griffin’s new football coach, said
today.
Coach Dowis explained the
multiple-T:
“We’ll run flankers, split ends,
and slots from time to time, de
pending, of course, on the oppos
ition and type personnel.
“That's now a very good des
cription, but what we do is use
the offense we think is best ag
ainst the opposition.
"I’m not sure what we’ll use
in Griffin. We’ll check the ma
U.S. Victory
PERTH, Scotland (UPI) —
The United States curling team
came off a 14-3 victory over
Switzerland Wednesday night as
the favorite in the Scotch
Whiskey Cup competition.
The top four teams in the
World Series of Curling meet in
the semi finals Thursday with
the United States, sporting a 7-0
record, facing Sweden, and
Canada taking on Scotland.
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terial then work out a system,”
he said.
Coach Dowis hasn’t asked Co
ach Ormand Anderson to make
any changes in spring practice.
“I feel he’s doing a good job
with fundementals, and that’s
about all you can do in spring
practice,” the new coach said.
Coach Dowis strives for a ba
lanced offensive attack. He st
resses good aggressive, hust
ling, hard hitting football.
The Griffin coach said that if
he brings in a new assistant co
ach “he probably will be a line
coach."
“I have one or two people in
mind for the job,” he said.
Coach Dowis hasn’t decided
how his coaching staff will be
set next fall. ‘‘We’ll evaluate
the staff then decide who will
coach what.”
The new coach may not meet
his football team for a while yet.
He is in the middle of spring
practice at Elberton and may
not have time to visit with the
Eagles before spring practice
ends.
Coach Dowis became the Ewg
les’ new football coach Wed
nesday. He accepted the post
tion by phone after it was offer
ed him Tuesday.
SPORTS
★★★★★*r
Doug Sanders,
Gay Brewer
Waging Duel
PENSACOLA, Fla. (UPI) -
You’d never get them to admit
it, but Doug Sanders and Gay
Brewer are waging a personal
duel in the Pensacola Open
which began today.
Not that iiey don’t also want
to beat the other 142 entries in
the $75,000 tournament—but
there’s that matter of last year
to clear up.
Brewer backed into the 1966
title when the pacesetting
Sanders was disqualified at the
end of the second round for
forgetting to sign his scorecard,
Thus Brewer, who won only
this one tournament last year
despite winning more than
$75,000, Is anxious to prove that
can win here with Sanders in
the field as well as when he’s
out of it.
Sandres, on the other hand, is
convinced he’d have been an
easy winner last year If he
had his memory lapse,
and he’s out to put to rest any
doubts about his ability to tear
up the Pensacola Country Club
The 6,419-yard, par-72
course could have been styled
Sanders. It’s relatively short
and its tree-lined fairways put a
premium on iron accuracy—and
that’s where the dapper Sanders
Sanders had a seven-under-
65 in Wednesday’s Pro-Am,
but trailed Frank Beard who
won the event with a 64.
Doug Ford, Cary Middleeoff
Don January also had 65s.
Sanders and Brewer have a
lot of other top golfers to beat,
Leading money winner Julius
Boros, Jack Nicklaus, Gary
Player and Jacksonville Open
champion Dan Sikes also are in
the field.
Most noticeable absentees are
Arnold Palmer and Q Billy
Casper.
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THE STRONG ARM of Sam McDowell could mean the difference between a good and
poor year for the Cleveland Indians. The lefthander was 9-8 for Cleveland last year,
but arm problems curtailed his effectiveness.
Lost Family, May Lose Job
Gentile Has Plenty
To About
By MILTON RICHMAN
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) —Jim
Gentile was in his usual nervous
sweat.
He was worried, which is
about the same as saying Gene
Mauch was thinking because
both always are.
when other human beings
have nothing better to do on a
hot sticky day, they pack a
picnic lunch, back the car out of
the garage and head for the
beach or some place like that.
When Gentile has nothing
^ etter t0 do on any giVen day ’
he simp . , ’ y 8its , down and
worries. . This time o he changed
his stance, though. He was
doing it standing up.
“Everybody tells me not to
worry,” he said, knitting his
brow and fretting a mile a
minute, “How can I help but
worry? I lost my family, my
home and all my money, and if
I don’t make it here I lose my
job. Then they come up and tel)
me not to worry ”
Actually, this is one time the
high strung first baseman has
something concrete to worry
about.
He’s getting a shot with the
Phillies because of Bill White’s
Achilles injury but he’s still
technically on San Diego’s
roster.
"I thought this was a great
opportunity to get back in the
big leagues, but now I don’t
know,” Gentile said, worrying
some more before Wednesday’s
exhibition game with the Reds.
“No one tells me nothing and
I don't know wnat Mauch is
thinking. I’m not even on the
roster so I’m still on the fence.
"They’re playing everybody
and his brother at first base,
(Tony) Taylor, (Dick) Groat,
(Ron) Allen. . . and they’re
gonna use (Johnny) Briggs
today. I’m 32 and the only thing
I’ve got left if I don’t make it is
the minors. Then they’ll cut me
front $25,000 to $7,500 or
something like that and people
tell me not to worry.”
Gentile, who has worried
about one thing or another
during all his 15 years in pro
Thursday, March 23, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Maris Hopes To
Copy Robinson ■
UPI Sports Writer
Roger Marls would li£e to do
for the St. Louis Cardinals what
Frank Robinson did for the
Baltimore Orioles last year —
and Robinson would like to do It
again, too.
The two controversial right
fielders were the key figures in
two of the biggest trades of the
last two winters.
A year ago, Cincinnati
shipped Robinson to the Orioles
with the tag of an “old 30”—but
Robinson was young enough to
win every award in the book
while leading the Orioles to the
world championship.
Maris was sent by the New
York Yankees to the Cardinals
this winter just five seasons
after his historic 61 homer year
because of the mutual disench
antment on the part of both the
Yanks and Maris.
Maris now hopes to prove he’s
still capable of being a good
hitter—and he looked like one
Wednesday when he broke out
of a spring slump with a double
and three singles to lead the
Cards to a 7-2 victory over the
New York Mets.
Meanwhile, Robinson—coming
back slowly from a winter knee
operation—hit his first two
homers of the spring as the
Orioles outlasted the Chicago
White Sox, 5-4, in 10 innings.
In the other eight exhibition
games, Boston beat the New
York Yankees, 5-2, Pittsburgh
edged Kansas City, 2-1, Los
Angeles clobbered Minnesota,
15-2, Houston nipped Atlanta, 4-3
Washington beat Detroit, 6-4,
Cincinnati ripped Philadelphia,
ball, pursed his lips and shook
his head.
"I’ve gotten only three lousy
hits in 26 times at bat, but you
know me, I never hit In the
spring. It seems like everything
I do counts against me. But I’ve
got only myself to blame for
getting myself in this mess.
“It all started when I flipped
the bat with Houston last June.
I didn’t mean it to land near the
umpire, but it did and all the
publicity killed me.
“If that wasn’t bad enough, I
lost everything I had later in
the year. My home, my three
kids and my wife. She filed for
divorce last November. There
really was no big trouble
between us, but she wanted me
to quit baseball. She says it’s
driving me crazy.”
Gentile shook his head again.
"It wasn’t so long ago I was
going good with Baltimore,” he
sighed. “You wonder how you
can mess it up that quick.”
The big good-looking first
baseman moved toward the
batting cage.
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THE BIG EXPERIMENT is under way as superstar
Mickey Mantle tries out his first baseman’s glove in
the New York Yankee Florida training camp. The
Yanks’ management hopes moving the injury-prone
slugger from the outfield to first will prolong his
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NEW YORK—(NEA)—Lamar Hunt of the Kansas City
Chiefs and William Clay Ford of the Detroit Lions are a cou
ple of wealthy men who get their kicks from football. They
also get a boot out of soccer and they’re willing to bet a
bundle that you’ll feel the same way once you’re exposed to
the sport.
And, like it or not, you’re going to be exposed.
Two professional soccer leagues, the National Professional
and the North American, will swing into action in April in
this country, where soccer has been about as popular as arm
wrestling.
Ford is the chief sponsor of the Detroit entry in the North
American League while Hunt is backing the Dallas club in the
same circuit. Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los An
geles, New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver and
Washington are also represented. Baseball men Arthur Allyn
of the White Sox, Gabe Paul of the Indians and Roy Hofheinz
of the Astros are in the act along with Jack Kent Cooke of the
Los Angeles Lakers.
The National Professional League, not to be outdone, has
plenty of baseball brass of its own. William Bartholomay of
the Atlanta Braves is sponsoring that city’s entry while Jerold
Hoffberger of the Orioles is backing Baltimore’s booters and
Robert Hermann, son-in-law of August A. Busch Jr., is run
ning the show in St. Louis. Hermann also is president of the
league, which will have other teams in Chicago, Los' Angeles
(where Dan Pitt^prgh, Rages of the Rams is in charge), New York, Phil
adelphia, San Francisco and Toronto.
Although soccer is the most popular sport in the world,
American promoters were cool to the game until last year
when NBC-TV telecast the World Cup finals from London and
more than half a million sets were tuned into the action.
The North American League has several things going for it,
including a commissioner (Dick Walsh of the Los Angeles
; Dodgers) and the official sanction of the International Foot
ball Federation, the governing body of professional soccer.
The National League hasn’t named a commissioner yet,
can’t get an official sanction (the cause of the trouble between
the two leagues) but does have a $1 million contract with
| CBS-TV, which is very comforting to the league’s backers.
‘‘We’ve got the sanction,” says one North American official,
‘‘which means the other league is an outlaw organization.
Eventually, we'll win out.”
“Sure, not having a sanction hurts us,” replies a National
League supporter, ’’but sports in the United States evolves
around television and we’ve got a TV network behind us.
They don’t."
Either way, promoters have an estimated >20 million in
vested in the leagues and they plan to give their new love the
hard sell treatment this summer.
With all that money, and people like Hofheinz, Ford and
Hunt behind it,' it will be almost un-American NOT to like
soccer, whether you like It or not.
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10-6, Cleveland stopped San
Francisco, 14-5 and California
edged the Chicago Cubs, 5-2.
Maris’ four hits raised his
average from .160 to .258 and he
also scored four rims. Orlando
Cepeda, obtained in a trade
with San Francisco last sum
mer, had a perfect day at the
plate with a single, two-run
homer and double besides a
walk.
Robinson has now collected
six hits in his last nine at-bats
to raise his average to .350
after collecting just one hit in
his first 11 at bats this spring.
His two homers enabled the
Orioles to force the game into
extra innings and Dave John
son’s two-out, 10th inning single
scored Bob Johnson with the
winning run.
Dempsey Appointed
STOCKTON, Calif. (UPI) —
The University of Pacific
announced Wednesday that Ce
dric Warren Dempsey has been
appointed athletic director.
Dempsey, presently assistant
athletic director at the Universi
ty of Arizona, will take over
June 1, succeeding Dr. Paul
Stagg.
New Team
ERIE, Pa. (UPI) —The city
of Erie has entered into a
working agreement with the
Detroit Tigers to field a minor
league baseball team, Mayor
Lewis J. Tullio announced
Wednesday. The Tigers will
stock a class A New York
Pennsylvania League team
here.
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American Soccer Making
Big Splash This Summer
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
Sports Editor
Assn.