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Steve Carver tries to get out of the way of an inside pitch. He didn’t quite make it. The ball brushed him and
he was awarded first base by umpire Harvey Oglesby. Dan McLean is the Gordon catcher.
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Eagles Clip Gordon 3-2
On Carver’s Clutch Hit
NBA Standings
By United Press International
Division semifinals
Best-of-five
Eastern Division
Series A
W. L. Pet.
Cincinnati 1 1 .500
Philadelphia I 1 .500
Series B
W. L. Pet.
Boston 1 0 1.000
New York 0 1 .000
Western Division
Series A
W. L. Pci
San Francisco 2 0 1.00
Los Angeles 0 2 .000
Series B
W * L. Pet.
St. Louis to O 1.000
Chicago O to .000
Thursday’s Results
St. Louis 113 Chicago 107
San Fran 113 Los Ang. 102
(Only games scheduled)
Friday’s Games
Cincinnati at Philadelphia
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The people in the front page picture are Harvey
Oglesby and Coach Gus White, who turned umpires
Thursday for the Griffin - Gordon baseball game.
Coach Oglesby worked behind the plate and Coach
It’s always good to win the fir
st nail game.
But Griffin's victory over Gor
don Military College Thursday
wasn’t Just good, it was some
thing very special for Coach Don
Pierce.
Besides being an ordinary
opening victory, it was Coach
Pierce’s first game as a varsity
baseball coach.
And, too, he was coaching the
Griffin Eagles, a team he pitch
ed to several region and one
state baseball championships.
In addition to that, he was
coaching against one of his old
alma maters. Coach Pierce play
ed for Gordon in his early col
lege days and was one of that sc
hool’s greatest pitchers.
“Before the game, I thought of
all this," Coach Pierce said.
"1 saw Coach D. T. Smith, and
it reminded me of my high sc
hool days when he was my coa
ch.
I never dreamed of coaching
at Griffin High.
“I really wasn’t Interested in
college. All I wanted to do was
sign a contract and play base
ball.
"Coach Smith kept talking to
me, and I finally took his advice
and went to Gordon. I’ll have to
say now that Coach Smith help
ed me as much as anybody,”
Coach Pierce said.
Coach Smith watched as one
of his ex-stars guided the Grif
fin Eagles to a fine 3-2 victory
over Gordon.
Griffin broke a 2-2 tie In the
bottom of the seventh on a pair
of singles by Tommy Lynch and
Steve Carver.
Gordon jumped on Griffin in
the first when ex-Griffin catch
er, Dan McLean, drove In a run.
However, Ken Strickland, who
pitched a brilliant game for the
Eagles, settled down and fan
ned the next two batters to get
out of a bases-loaded jam-up.
Strickland scattered four more
hits across the next six fram
es. He registered 14 strikeouts
and issued only five bases on
balls.
“Ken was ready. He’s in gr
eat physical condition.
“He was pressing in the fir
st inning, trying to blow the bail
by the batters. This made h i m
wild high.
“I told him to settle down, that
he had eight players backing
him up. He did and pitched a
great game.
“Ken is the type boy who giv
es 100 percent all the time. He
hustles and isn’t afraid of any
situation,” Coach Pierce said.
Coach Pierce planned to pull
his ace lefthander after three or
four innings.
“I talked to him after each
inning. He kept telling me he
wasn’t tired and wanted to pit
ch. So I left him in,” Coach Pi
erce said.
Three former Griffin players
Stargell’s Waistline
Him In Steaks
By GARY KALE
UPI Sports Writer
That little pinch in Willie
Stargell’s waistline will keep
him in steaks a while longer.
Stargell. who had trouble
bending down to tie his
shoelaces when he came to the
Pittsburgh training camp weigh
ing 235 pounds, was warned to
knock off the fat and report at
215 by opening day or face a
stiff slice in his pay check.
Wallopin’ Willie loves to eat
and likes to eat well, as do most
ball players. The money he
saves by trimming down could
pay his way into some fine
restaurants.
Strtngest measures have paid
off. Stargell, now down to 222,
swung freely and for distance
Thursday as he banged out
three hits and drove in five runs
during Pittsburgh’s 8-2 victory
over Cincinnati. The big blow
was a two-run homer in the
eighth inning off Mel Queen.
Tigers Beat-Orioles
In other exhibition games,
Detroit shut out Baltimore 11-0,
Boston topped Los Angeles 7-4,
Kansas City stopped the Chica
go White Sox 5-3, St. Louis ran
over Minnesota 9-4, the Yankees
routed the Mets 12-3 Houston
whitewashed Philadelphia 3-0,
San Francisco whipped Cleve
land 5-3 and California edged
the Chicago Cubs 2-1.
Bob Veale and Juan Pizarro
backed Stargell’s hitting with
eight shutout innings against
Cincinnati. Tony Perez homered
for the Reds.
Detroit scored seven runs In
the fifth inning to bury
Baltimore. A three-run homer
by Willie Horton and' Jerry
Lumpe’s two-run triple high
lighted the Tigers’ 13-hit slug
fest. Joe Sparma and Dave
Wickersham combined for a
four-hitter.
Russ Gibson’s three-run pinch
homer enabled the Red Sox to
beat Los Angeles. Boston
rightfielder George Scott suf
fered a concussion and face
bruises when he crashed into
the wall going after a John
Kennedy drive.
Duncan Chavarria Homer
KC recovered from a three
run deficit to defeat the White
Sox with the help of homers by
Dave Duncan and Ozzie Chavar
ria. Pete Ward connected for
Chicago. Jack Aker was the
winner and Fred Klages the
loser.
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started for Gordon.
Ronnie Pitts was at short, Dan
McLean at first and Randy Wal
ler was on the mound.
“Randy pitfhed a fine ball
game. It was the first time we
have faced fast balls like that
and I believe it did us a lot of
good,” Coach Pierce said.
McLean drove in Gordon’s
first run. Waller had one of Gor
don's six hits.
Waller was not the losing pit
cher. He was relieved at the be
ginning of the seventh while the
score was still tied, 2-2. He pit
ched six innings, allowing only
two hits, striking out nine and
issuing only three walks.
Griffin tied the score in t h e
j.hird without a hit.
Three consecutive Gordon er
rors allowed Strickland to score
the tying run.
Griffin went ahead 2-1 in the
sixth on Reggie Griffin’s solo
homer.
Gordon knotted the score at 2 2
in the top of the seventh.
After the run scored, Strick
land Intentionally walked Harry
Cook of Jackson to load the
bases. That brought up McLean.
The ex-Griffin player had a
chance to strike a big blow but
Strickland whiffed him with the
St. Louis capitalized on five
unearned runs to trounce the
Twins. Bob Gibson gave up only
one solid hit in the first five
innings he worked—a homer to
Tony Oliva.
The Yankees rapped Met
pitching for 15 hits, including
four by Ray Barker, who hit for
the cycle. Jack Gibbs also
homered for the Yanks and
Ruben Amaro drove in three
runs.
Mike Cuellar made it 10
consecutive hitless innings in
spring pitching as Houston
turned back Philadelphia on a
one-hitter.
Ken Henderson drove In
Frank Johnson with a triple in
the ninth and scored on Bob
Barton’s sacrifice fly as the
Giants won their ninth Cactus
League game. Henderson also
hit a two-run homer in the
fourth. Leon Wagner tagged a
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bases jammed.
Tommy Lynch singled after
one out in the bottom of the se
venth. Randy Harrison fanned
but reached first when the wild
pitch got by McLean, who had
moved to the catcher spot.
Steve Carver, who had repla
ced Robert Rohm in the outfield,
singled in Lynch with the win
ning run.
The game was a warm-up for
the Eagles, who open play Mon
day in the Lem Clark Tourna
ment in Macon. The Eagles will
go against Northside at 2 p.m.
at Luther Williams Field, the
home of the Macon Peaches.
Coach Pierce said today that
he probably would go with the
same lineup that opened the
Gordon game.
However, he said that Wayne
Westmoreland probably would
see more action.
Coach Pierce wanted to use
Westmoreland behind the plate
lor a couple of Innings Thursday
but Westmoreland’s back was
hurting from football practice.
Coacb Pierce was rcai pleas
ed with Danny Clark’s perfor
mance.
“Danny showed me he could
catch. He saved us one time by
blocking a wild pitch,” the coa
ch said.
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