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Aaron Bombs Bucs
With Two Homers
By DAVID M. MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) — That siz
zle you hear in the background
is Hank Aaron’s bat heating
up.
It’s not a new sound. Hank’s
been burning up the league for
years. But it’s an ominous
sound, especially to those pitch
ers who’ve heard it before.
Pittsburgh manager Harry
Walker figured he had away
to cool off the Atlanta Braves
outfielder. He instituted the
Aaron Shift, much like the one
teams used on Ted Williams.
The just-ended Atlanta-Pitts
burgh series indicates Walker
might have to come up with
something else.
In the four games, Aaron
had two homers, two doubles
and three singles and was rob
bed of an extra base hit on a
great running catch by out
fielder Roberto Clemente.
“That shift doesn’t help
against home runs, does it?"
Aaron asked with a grin Sun
day after hitting his 10th and
11th homers to pace Atlanta to
a 7-2 victory over the Pirates.
“They tried to get me to
punch the ball to right with
that shift," the righthanded
Aaron said. “I figure I’d rather
take my chances by sticking
to my regular style.”
Aaron went 4-for-4 Sunday to
raise his average to .333. His
two, two-run homers gave him
the majors’ runs-batted-ln lead
with 29 and his 11th homer, a
rifleshot that bounced off the
top of the left field fence into
the stands, put him two ahead
of the field in that department.
Aaron was the National Lea
gue home run champ last sea
son with 44 and his 442 total
at the start of this year was
exactly 10 behind Willie Mays.
But his batting average dipped
to .279, 42 points behind his
career mark, and the Braves
rightfielder insisted he would
go for the hits this year and
let the home runs fall as they
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Aaron has gotten that aver
age back up, just like he prom
ised, but his homers are com
ing just as regularly. He’s even
with last year’s pace through
34 games and has cut Mays’
lead to 94. At 33, Aaron is
three years younger than Mays.
Aaron’s hitting Sunday gave
the Braves a split with the Pi
rates and handed Ken Johnson
his third victory of the season.
Second Baptist,
DeVotie Tied;
Hustlers Lead
DeVotie Baptist and Second
Baptist are deadlocked with 3-0
records in a close race for the
Church Softball League cham
pionship.
Hustlers lead the Commercial
League with a 5-0 record but
Rooks are close behind with
four wins against no losses.
Church League standings af
ter three weeks play are:
DeVotie and Second Baptist
3- First Baptist and Calvary
Baptist 2-1, First Assembly,
Highland Baptist, Midway Me
thodist, Pomona Methodist and
Sunny Side-County Line 1-2, and
Crestview 0-3.
Hustlers are 5-0 in the Com
mercial League and Rooks are
4- Other standings are: Scope
Dopes 4-1, Quality Gas and At
lanta Gas 3-2, Kawneer and
RBM 2-2, Sooners 2-3, Dundee
1-3, F Troop 1-4 and Aces and
Holan 0-4.
The top hitters in the Church
League are:
Chris Jones .889; John Ebetino,
.700; Perry Banks .666; Tim
Conkle .666; Ron White .666;
Robert Rohm .636; Harry Smith
.636; and Joel Bennett .600.
Jack Crawford, Bobby Joe
Dutton, Chris Jones, Robert
Rohm, Harry Smith, Wayne Sm
ith and Ron White have two ho
mers.
The top hitters in the Commer
cial League are:
Kenneth Tyson .714; Collier
Sanders .687; Tommy Ison .666;
Johnny Kitchens .666; Ricky
Killingsworth .644; Francis
Mangham .618; Jerry Davis .615.
Ernest Garner .615; Bddie Beth
une .588; Larry Bethune .588;
Ray Dunn .588 and Tommy Sni
der .588.
Billy Carver, Billy Mann, Bub
ba Westmoreland and Allen
White have three home runs.
Johnson, suffering from a vi
rus, had missed three starts
and said he was surprised he
was able to go the full nine in
nings.
“We kept a man ready in
the bullpen, just in case," said
manager Billy Hitchcock. “But
the way Ken was working, he
was never needed.”
Johnson, now 3-2, gave up a
lead-off homer to Willie Star
gell in the second inning, then
SPORTS*
Standings
By United Press international
American League
W.L. Pct. GB
Chicago 20 10 .667 ...
Detroit 21 11 .656 ...
Kansas City 17 16 .515 4>/ 2
Boston 16 17 .485 s>/ 2
Baltimore 15 16 .484 s>/ 2
Minnesota 15 16 .484 s'/ 2
Cleveland 14 17 .452 6'/ 2
New York 14 17 .452 6’/ 2
Washington 14 18 .438 7
California 14 22 .389 9
Sunday’s R e sults
Detroit 9 New York 4, Ist
New York 6 Detroit 5, 2nd
Boston 4 Cleveland 3, Ist
Boston 6 Cleveland 2, 2nd
Minnesota 12 California 3
Kansas City 5 Chicago 4
Balt, at Wash., ppd., rain
Today’s Probable Pitchers
All Times EDT
New York (Talbot 2-2) at
Baltimore (Phoebus 1-1), 8 p.m.
Chicago (Horlen 5-0) at
Minnesota (Kaat 1-5), 9 p.m.
Washington (Pascual 3-1) at
Cleveland (Hargan 4-3), 7:30
p.m.
Kansas City (Dobson 1-1 or
Odom 1-2) at California (Mc-
Glothlin 2-1), 11 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Games
New York at Baltimore, night
Boston at Detroit, night
Kansas City at Calif., night
Chicago at Minnesota, night
Washington at Cleveland, night
Line Scores
Major League Results
By United Press International
American League
Balt, at Wash., ppd., rain
(Ist Game)
New York 000 000 400— 4 11 1
Detroit 150 100 02x— 9 13 1
Ford, Tillotson (2), Reniff (5),
Hamilton (7) and Gibbs;
Wilson, Gladding (7), Womack
(8) and Freehan. WP—Wilson
(5-3). LP—Ford (2-4). HRS—
Freehan (9th), McAuliffe 2 (6th
and 7th), Clarke (Ist), Mantle
(Bth), Horton (7th).
(2nd Game)
New York 005 000 010— 6 11 0
Detroit 300 020 000— 5 6 0
Peterson, Hamilton (7) and
Howard; Sparma, Podres (3),
Korince (5), Aguirre (7), Sherry
(8) and Freehan. WP—Hamilton
(1-0). LP—Sherry (0-1). HRS—
Horton (Bth), Kaline (9th).
Chicago 000 200 002— 4 11 3
K.C. 004 001 OOx— 5 10 0
O’Toole, Higgins (3), Wood
(4), Wilhelm (7) and Josephson;
Nash, Aker (9) and Roof. WP—
Nash (5-3). LP—O’Toole (1-1).
(Ist Game)
Cleve. 000 020 010— 3 4 1
Boston 000 000 04x— 4 7 3
Siebert (3-3) and Azcue;
Rohr, Wyatt (8) Stange (9) and
Ryan. WP—Wyatt (3-2). HR-
Scott (3rd).
(2nd Game)
Cleve. 002 000 000— 2 8 0
Boston 010 201 20x— 6 10 0
McDowell, Culver (7), O’Don
oghue (7) and Sims; Brandon
(1-4) and Gibson. LP—Mc-
Dowell (2-2). HR—McDowell
(Ist).
Minn. 013 050 120—12 15 0
Calif. 000 110 100— 3 7 4
Boswell (1-1) and Zimmer
man; Clark, Burdette (4),
Cimino (5), Coates (7), Rojas
(9) and Satriano, Rodgers (5).
LP—Clark (2-3). HRS—Tovar 2
(Ist and 2nd), Killebrew (7th),
Mincher (7th), Alliston (sth).
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allowed only six singles while
striking out seven and walking
none. The other run off him,
in the fourth, was unearned.
Johnson held major league
batting leader Roberto Cle
mente hitless Sunday, lowering
his average to a still sparkling
.388.
The Braves are idle today,
then open a three-game home
series with the St. Louis Car
dinals Tuesday night.
National League
W. L.Pct. GB
Cincinnati 26 12 .684 ..
St. Louis 20 11 .645 2‘/ 2
Pittsburgh 18 14 .563 5
Chicago 18 15 . 545 s>/ 2
Atlanta 18 16 .529 6
San Francisco 18 17 .514 6'/ 2
Philadelphia 15 18 .455 B>/ ?
Los Angeles 14 20 .412 10
New York 10 20 .333 12
Houston 11 25 .306 14
Sunday’s Results
St. Louis 3 New York 2
Phila. 2 Cincinnati 1, 18 inns.
Los Angeles 6 Chicago 1, Ist
Chicago 8 Los Angeles 2, 2nd
Atlanta 7 Pittsburgh 2
Houston 2 San Francisco 0
Today's Probable Pitchers..
AU Times EDT
Los Angeles (Singer 0-1) at
New York (Seaver 3-2), 8:05
p.m.
San Francisco (Perry 1-4) at
Philadelphia (Bunning 3-4), 8:05
p.m.
Pittsburgh (Fryman 0-2) at
Houston (Dierker 4-2), 8:30 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Gam e s
Los A. at New York, night
San Fran at Philadelphia, night
Pittsburgh at Houston, night
Cincinnati at Chicago
St. Louis at Atlanta, night
National Leaku e
St. Louis 001 101 000— 3 6 0
New York 001 000 100— 2 7 0
Washburn (2-2) and McCar
ver; Cardwell, Lamabe (8) and
Sullivan. LP—Cardwell (2-5).
HRS—Brock (Bth), Maris (2nd),
Jones (2nd).
San Fran 000 000 000— 0 8 1
Houston 000 110 OOx— 2 3 0
McCormick, Herbel (8) and
Haller; Cuellar (3-2) and
Bateman. LP—McCormick (3-
2). HR—Aspromonte Ord).
(18 innings)
Cincinnati
000 000 001 000 000 000—1 11 1
Philadelphia
100 000 000 000 000 001—2 11 0
Pappas, Abernathy (8), Queen
(1), McCool (12), Nottebart
(15), Osteen (17) and Pavletich;
Short, Hall (13) and Dalrymple.
WP—Hall (1-2). LP—Osteen (0-
1).
(Ist Game)
L.A. 000 000 402— 6 11 1
Chicago 010 000 000— 1 4 0
Brewer, Regan (7) and
Roseboro; Culp, Hendley (7),
Koonce (8), Upham (9) and
Hundley. WP—Brewer (1-1). LP
—Culp (3-3). HRS—Banks (7th),
Davis (Ist).
(2nd Game)
L.A. 000 002 000— 2 3 2
Chicago 000 431 OOx— 8 11 3
Sutton, Miller (5), Perranoski
(7) and Roseboro, Campanis
(7); Jenkins (4-3) and Hundley.
LP—Sutton (1-5). HR—Santo
(4 th).
Pitts. 010 100 000— 2 71
Atlanta 220 010 02x— 7 11 1
Pizarro, Blass (1), Mcßean
(5), Mikkelsen (7) and May;
Johnson (3-2) and Oliver. LP—
Pizarro (3-3). HRS—Stargell
(sth), Aaron 2 (10th and 11th).
Monday, May 22, 1967 Griffin Daily News
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Kansas City A’s
Trouble Chicago
By MARTIN LADER
UPI Sports Writer
This is the kind of year it is
in Detroit.
Willie Horton smashed into
the left field wall and collapsed
at the base of it during the first
game of Sunday’s doubleheader
against the New York Yankees,
but it was Tiger Manager Mayo
Smith who suffered the injury.
“I pulled a leg muscle going
out to left field to see if Willie
got hurt,” Smith said later.
“They were bringing the
stretcher out for Willie and I’m
the one who needed it.”
What seemed like a serious
Injury to Horton was shrugged
off by the Tiger outfielder and
he bounced back to hit home
runs in each game as Detroit
split the doubleheader. The
Tigers won the opener 9-4 but
New York salvaged the final
game of the four-game series 6-
5.
Detroit enjoyed a brief fling
in the first place in the
American League following its
opening-game victory, but fell
back to second, 11 percentage
points behind the Chicago White
Sox, at day’s end.
Athletics Top Chicago
Chicago once again ran into
trouble at Kansas City, drop
ping a 5-4 decision to the
surprising Athletics, who are in
third place, only 4iX> games off
the pace.
The Boston Red Sox swept a
pair from the Cleveland In
dians, 4-3 and 6-2, and the
Minnesota Twins routed the
California Angels 12-3. The
scheduled game at Washington
between the Senators and
Baltimore Orioles was post
poned by rain.
In the National League, St.
Louis nipped New York 3-2,
Philadelphia outlasted Cincinna
ti 2-1 in 18 innings, Atlanta
tripped Pittsburgh 7-2, Houston
shut out San Francisco 2-0 and
the Chicago Cubs defeated Los
Angeles 8-2 after the Dodgers
had won the opener 6-1.
Dick McAuliffe hit two
homers in the first game and
Bill Freehan added another as
Detroit staked starter Earl
Wilson to a 7-0 lead. However,
Wilson was knocked out when
Horace Clarke and Mickey
Mantle each hit two-run homers
in the seventh inning.
A run-scoring single by Ruben
Amaro in the eighth inning of
the second game gave Steve
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year for New York.
Four-Run Inning
Six straight hits with two out
in the third inning produced
four runs for Kansas City. Jim
Nash, who gained his fifth
victory, retired 16 batters in a
row until Duane Josephson
singled with one out in the
ninth. Jack Aker saved the
decision.
Boston, shut out on three hits
by Sonny Siebert, scored four
times in the eighth inning of the
opener on Carl Yastrzemski’s
two-run triple and George
Scott’s two-run homer. Yas
trzemski drove in two more
runs with a single in the
nightcap and Rico Petrocelli
contributed a pair of doubles.
Both Cleveland runs came on
starter Sam McDowell’s first
major league homer.
Cesar Tovar hit two home
runs and Harmon Killebrew and
Bob Allison added one each as
the Twins collected 15 hits, 10 of
them for extra bases off five
California pitchers. Tovar had
four hits and Tony Oliva three.
The Angels, who lost their ninth
game of their last 10, chipped in
with four errors.
Giants Split
Twin Bill
The Griffin Giants split a dou
bleheader Sunday with the At
lanta Knights.
The Knights won the first game
10-4. The Giants bounced back
to take the second, 5-2.
Willie Shannon had two hits in
the first game and Russell Starr
and Willie Turnipseed had one.
Russell Starr, Willie Turnip
seed and Tommy Ponder had
two hits in the second game. Otis
Blandburg was the winning pit
cher.
First Baptist
Beats Calvary
First Baptist beat Calvary 14-2
Friday in the Church Softball
League.
Dave Hightower and Ron
White hit home runs for First
Baptist. Melvin Cleghorn had
two singles for Calvary and Ho
ward Coates doubled.
7
In Four Games
Ist National Pitchers
Allowed Only 2 Hits
First National Bank may not
have the best Little League pit
ching around but their’s will do
until something better comes
along.
Darrell Jones and Keith Tate
of First National have allowed
only two hits between them in
four games.
Both of Jones’ games were no
hitters. Tate has two victories,
both on one-hitters.
It was Tate’s turn to pitch Sat
urday night and he beat Spald
ing Knitting Mill, 15-.0 The only
hit off him was a single in the
third by Randy Pass.
Tate struckout 12 and walked
two.
Bill Rissman was Spalding’s
loser. He and two relief pitchers,
allowed 15 hits.
Tate also hit the game’s only
home run. It came in the fourth
with the bases empty.
Stockton
Colonial
Winner
By ED FITE
UPI Sports Writer
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI)
Unheralded Dave Stockton’s
first tournament triumph came
because he did what no other
golfer has ever had the nerve to
do —charge Colonial Country
Club’s terror-laden course —and
got away with it.
Stockton, a 25-year-old Cali
fornian with less than three
years’ professional experience,
won the prestige Colonial
National Invitation title Sunday
by two strokes over hometown
er Charles Coody with a two
under-par total of 278.
His first two par-shredding
rounds of 65-66 over the 7,100-
yard layout gave him the
cushion he needed to pocket
$23,000, nearly double the
money he has earned in his
previous 34 months on the tour.
But, when his margin melted
away from a third-round peak
of seven strokes to a deficit of
two strokes at one time on the
final round, he kept his “cool”
and kept charging away,
picking up a few bogeys along
the way, but always staying in
the thick of it.
His dad had told him before
the tournament that if he
“made six birdies and no stupid
mistakes” he could win this
tournament.
He wound up with 13 birdies
and enough stupid mistakes to
pile up nine bogeys and one
double-bogey—but he still pulled
out the victory.
Tom Weiskopf, who started
the final round tied with
Stockton at 205, George Archer
and Coody all made a run at
the lead, but fell back.
Weiskopf birdied the first two
holes, then disaster struck in
the form of two bogeys and a
double bogey, and he was never
in contention again, winding up
with a 286 and winning $2,369.
Archer, who went 34 straight
holes without a bogey at one
stretch in the tournament,
pulled even for one hole, then a
pair of bogeys dropped him
back to a 281 where he tied with
five-time champion Ben Hogan
at 281, worth $7,187.50 each.
Coody never quite caught up,
but was in contention until the
final hole and his 34-35—69, the
only sub-par round yielded by
Colonial on the raw, windy day,
put him at even par 280, worth
$13,800.
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Mike Maddox and Darell Jones
had three hits. Robin Watts and
Ray Gilbert had two. George
Schobak, Greg Orr, Randy Tur
ner and Brooks Woodruff had
one.
First National leads the Na
tional circuit with a 4-0 record.
Jaycees are 3-1.
Kiwanis out-hit Dundee 13-6 in
the nightcap but came up short
in the score as Dundee won a
close battle, 4-3.
Dan Speering was the winning
pitcher. He struckout five and
didn’t issue any walks. Ronnie
Fouts was the loser. He fanned
nine and walked eight.
Don Sloan had two hits for
Dundee and Rocky Langford,
Keith Jones, Speering and Bill
Simons had one.
Wendell Lindsey had three hits
for Kiwanis. John Flynn, Jeff
Goen and James Williamson had
two and Jim Hedderman, Clint
Smith, Ronnie Cobb and Ronnie
Fouts had one.
Hedderman made one of the
best defensive plays of the sea
son in the fourth inning. He
made a running, diving catch
in centerfield.
Mixed Bowling
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A mixed bowing league will be
organized Tuesday night at Gr
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begin league bowling.
The meeting will begin at 8
p.m.
Officers will be elected and
rules will be set.
Teams may have two men and
two women, plus subs, or one
man and three women.
Officials said that bowlers
should come prepared to bowl
after the meeting.
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