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Return Home Tonight
Braves Dust Off Giants
In Doubleheader, 2-1, 6-4
ATLANTA (UPI) — The
Braves returned home from
their most successful road trip
of the season today, primed for
the opening game in a series
with the last-place New York
Mets tonight.
The Braves dusted off the al-
9ETWEEN YOU’N’ME
n
Epstein Fights System
For His Emancipation
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
Sports Editor
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON—(N E A)—
Rookies don’t worry about
public relations.
Mike Epstein does.
Rookies don’t battle the
hierarchy of baseball —and
win.
Mike Epstein does—and did.
Rookies, and certainly not
regulars, don’t draw people to
watch the Washington Sena
tors play baseball.
Mike Epstein does.
Twenty-four-year-old Mike
Epstein is the muscular
former fullback from the Uni
versity of California who hits
baseballs like a John Tunis
hero: far.
At Rochester last year, he
did it often. He was minor
leaguejflayer of the year. The
Baltimore Orioles owned him,
brought him to spring train
ing, then decided to send him
out because another large
young man, one John (Boog)
Powell, also hit baseballs—
and had been hitting them
for five years—like a John
Tunis hero.
Mike Epstein, who also is
something of an intellectual,
or as close to an intellectual
as there is in baseball, decided
that he would rely on histori
cal precedent and not report
to Rochester. Nothing against
Rochester, just something
about believing in a document
called the Emancipation Proc
lamation.
Mike Epstein went home to
California. He was going back
to college.
Then Washington traded
Pete Richert, a fine pitcher,
to Baltimore and brought Ep
stein to New York for his de
but as a starter.
One paper sounded its
warning to the people: “ The
Boy Bolshevik’ has arrived."
Mike Epstein had attacked
baseball. Which was like at
tacking Norman Rockwell,
Collins, Booker
Win In Babe Ruth
Collins defeated Kiwanls, 10-4,
Thursday night in the Griffin
Babe Ruth League. Booker dow-
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ways tough San Francisco Gi
ants Thursday in a double
header, 2-1 6-4 that enabled At
lanta to come home with a 7-5
road trip record, a considera
ble improvement over their
next best trip that ended 2-5..
Manager Billy Hitchcock
apple pie, Elm Street and
mother with a column of
tanks.
“It’s all wrong,” he said.
“I’m not a boat rocker or a
revolutionary. All I did was
stand up for what I thought
was right.
“If Baltimore had given me
the chance and I played my
self off the club, I would have
gone back to Rochester. But
they didn’t even give me the
chance. I didn’t think it was
right to just send me out like
that.”
Mike had hoped to return
to Yankee Stadium under dif
ferent circumstances: without
controversy and with cheers
from the stands. Instead he
got boos. It hurt.
Mike grew up a few blocks
from Yankee Stadium. Like
all the other kids from the
neighborhood, he hung around
after the Yankee games for a
glimpse of, and maybe an
autograph from, the great
Mantle or the great Ford. In
stead he was repulsed by the
great men who passed up the
little urchins as if they were
nothing but lampposts. The
memory lingers.
“Any time,” he announced,
“there’s an autograph to be
signed, I’ll stay, if I have to
stay an hour. I couldn’t under
stand when the Yankees and
the players on other teams
didn’t sign.”.
There is great pressure on
the rookie first baseman, but
he hopes and feels he will
overcome it with his bat, tak
ing the Senators with him to
the top.
“A certain kind of ball
player,” he said, “can have a
cataclysmic effect and spark a
ball club.
“I don’t say I’m a Frank
Robinson . . .”
Just a Mike Epstein. That
may do.
ned Foodtown, 8-1, in the second
game.
Steve Bozeman was Collins’
winning pitcher. He struck out
two, walked three and gave up
two hits. Charles Busbin was
charged with the loss. He struck
out seven, walked three and
gave up eight hits.
John Sikes hit a double and
single for Collins. Mike Bates
hit a double. Randy Jones, Cr
aig Bozeman, Randy Hurley,
John Seay and Mark Watkins
each hit a stogie.
David Landrum and Tommy
Harris each hit a stogie for Ki
wanis.
Foodtown committee 10 errors
in their game with Booker.
David Shirah was the winning
pitcher. He struckout 13, walk
ed one and gave up six hits. Don
nie Robinson, the losing pitcher,
struck out seven, walked seven
and gave up four hits.
Tim Gaston hit two singles for
Booker. Shirah and Danny To
len each hit a single.
Robinson hit a double for
Foodtown. Frankie Goldstein,
Thomas Thurston, Ricky Dix,
Chuck McCarty and Bill Gold
stein each hit a stogie.
nominated Ken Johnson, the
veteran righthander with a 6-4
record, to pitch tonight. He will
face Tom Seaver.
In beating the Giants twice
Thursday, the Braves handed
them their seventh loss in the
last 10 games.
A total of 18 Giant base run
ners were stranded in the two
games, eight in the opening
contest and 10 in the nightcap.
“nils is a good club and still
has a chance to win,” short
stop Dick Groat said after the
twin loss. He was obtained by
the Giants Wednesday night
from the Philadelphia Phillies
for the waiver price and then
saw limited service for his new
owner.
Henry Aaron smashed a two
run homer in the eighth hming
of the second game to break a
4-4 tie and hand sinkerball ex
pert Frank Linzy his fourth loss
against three wins.
Aaron, who now leads the Na
tional League with 18 homers,
Standings
By United Press International
American League
W. L. Pct. GB
Chicago 38 24 .613 ...
Detroit 36 28 .563 3
Boston 33 31 .516 6
Cleveland 33 32 .508
Minnesota 32 32 .500 7
Baltimore 31 32 .492 7%
California 33 36 .478
Kansas City 31 36 .463 91/>
New York 28 35 .444 10i/ 2
Washington 29 38 .433 11V 2
Thursday’s Results
Detroit 5 Minnesota 2
California 7 Cleveland 0 (night)
Boston at New York, ppd., rain
Kansas City at Baltimore, ppd.,
rain
(only games scheduled)
Today’s Probable Pitcher 8
(all times EDT
Detroit (McLain 8-7) at New
York (Downing 7-4), 8 p.m.
California (Clarke 4-6) at
Kansas City (Dobson 4-3), 8
p.m.
Baltimore (Dillman 4-1) at
Washington (Pascual 6-4), 8
p.m.
Chicago (Horlen 8-0) at
Minnesota (Chance 9-5), 9 p.m.
Cleveland (Siebert 6-6) at
Boston (Stange 1-4), 7:30 p.m.
Saturday’s Games
Detroit at New York (night)
California at Kansas City
(twilight)
Washington at Baltimore
(night)
Chicago at Minnesota
Cleveland at Boston (night)
National League
W. L. Pct. GB
St. Louis 40 22 .651 ...
Cincinnati 41 27 .603 2
Chicago 34 28 .548 6
Pittsburgh 33 29 .532 7
San Francisco 35 31 .530 7
Atlanta 34 32 .515 8
Philadelphia 29 33 .468 11
Los Angeles 27 38 .415 141/ 2
Houston 26 41 .388
New York 21 39 .350 18 “
Thursday’s Results
Atlanta 2 San Francisco 1 (Ist)
Atlanta 6 San Francisco 4 (2nd)
St. Louis 7 Los Angeles 2
(night)
New York at Philadelphia, ppd.,
rain
(only games scheduled)
Today’s Probable Pitchers
Houston (Giusti 3-7) at
Chicago (Nye 5-3), 2:30 p.m.
New York (Seaver 5-4) at
Atlanta (Johnson 6-4), 8 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Rlbant 3-3) at
Cincinnati (Ellis 5-3), 8 p.m.
San Francisco (McCormick 6-
3) at Los Angeles (Sutton 4-8),
11 p.m.
Philadelphia (Ellsworth 2-4)
at St. Louis (Hughes 6-2), 9
Oglethorpe
Signs Sheats
ATLANTA (UPD—Oglethorpe
College basketball coach Bill
Carter today announced the
first grant-In-aid to a Negro
player In the Atlanta area.
Harper High School basket
ball star William Sheats, 18, is
the recipient of the grant.
Sheats averaged 24.5 points and
15 rebounds per game last seas
on.
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said afterward that he never
recalled getting to Linzy for an
extra base hit before.
Reliever Claude Raymond
earned his second win against
five losses and turned to a good
cluth job during the seventh in
ning when he made Willie Mays
ground into a double play with
one run across, one out and the
score tied.
Phil Niekro used his fantastic
knuckle ball deliveries to beat
the Giants in the opener on 6
hits and hand Gaylord Perry
his eighth reversal in 13 deci
sions. Niekro (3-3) was tagged
in the sixth toning for Mays’
10th home run of the season
but repulsed all other San
Francisco threats.
Run-scoring doubles by Aaron
and Woody Woodward account
ed for all the Atlanta runs in
the opener. Niekro struck out
six batters including Jim Hart
who was whiffed three times.
Three Giants struck out to t>.e
eighth.
p.m.
Saturday’s Games
New York at Atlanta (2, day
nlght)
Houston*at Chicago (2)
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (night)
San Francisco at Los Angeles
Philadelphia at St. Louis
Optimists Down
Mays Printing
In Minor Tilts
Griffin Optimist Club downed
Mays Printing Company, 16-4,
Thursday afternoon in the Mi
nor League. Little League Aux
iliary edged Jim and Joe’s, 6-3.
Marty Varnadoe hit a home
run and stogie for Optimist.
Charles Disney hit a home run.
Ricky Chandler hit a double for
Mays Printing. Tony Scott hit
two singles.
Tom Crawley hit a home run
for Little League Auxiliary and
Bill Moore hit a triple. Ki m
Buffington hit a single for Jim
and Joe’s.
Hustlers, RDM
Win Commercial
Softball Games
Hustlers edged Kawneer, 5-3,
Thursday night in the Commer
cial Slow-Pitch Softball League.
RBM downed United Cotton
Goods, 19-9.
Stanley Hammond and Tom
my Ison each hit a double and
stogie for the Hustlers. Lanier
Dunn hit a triple for Kawneer.
Lenwood Bunn hit a double.
Dyke Goodin hit a home run
for RBM. Don Pye hit four sing
les. Hurley Stansell and Andy
Fowler each hit a home run and
single for United Cotton Goods.
Annelie Goodwin
Wins 3 Firsts
Annelie Goodwin, 12-year-old
daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. D.
Goodwin of 316 South 18th street,
Griffin, won three first place rib
bons in a swim meet at Opelika,
Ala.
She won first in the 50 yard
backstroke, 50 yard butterfly and
200 yard medley relay.
Annelie swims with the Forest
Park Swim Team.
MAY CHAMP
NEW YORK (UPD—A.J.
Foyt, who scored an auto racing
double this year with victories
at Indianapolis and Le Mans,
was named the S. Rae Hickok
professional athlete the month
of May in balloting announced
Thursday.
Bart Starr of the Green Bay
Packers, Wilt Chamberlain of
the Philadelphia 76ers, auto ace
Mario Andretti and golfer Gay
Brewer were the other monthly
winners this year.
Friday, June 23, 1967 Griffin Daily News
First National,
Dundee Win In LL
First National Bank blasted
Spalding Knitting Mill, 14-5,
Thursday In the Griffin National
Little League. Dundee routed Ki
wanis Club, 15-6.
Keith Tate, whe went the dis
tance for First National, struck
out 12 and walked six. He gave
up six hits.
Bill Rissman started for Spal
ding Knitting and was relieved
Tifton Pitcher
Signs With
White Sox
TIFTON, Ga. (UPI) —Wilson
High School righthanded star
pitcher Larry Charles Stewart
has signed a contract with the
Chicago White Sox.
Stewart, 19, will report to Chi
cago’s Sarasota, Fla., farm
club.
Maggie Snow
Rolls 509 Series
Maggie Snow’ rolled the high
game of 178 and high series of
509 in the Summer Follies Bowl
ing League Thursday.
Bernie Zuberer rolled a 183
game and a 483 series. Helen
Kolousek rolled a 180 game
and a 479 series. Carol White
rolled a 150 game, Carolyn Smi
th, 158; Shirley Bottoms, 155;
Betty Imes, 158; and Martha
Shearer, 165.
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in the second by Billy Moore,
who finished. Rissman and Moore
each struck out three and walk
ed five. They gave up 11 hits.
Darrell Jones hit a two run
homer for First National in the
fifth inning. He also bit a single.
Other First National Hitters
were: Mike Maddox, two sing
les; George Schobak, one sin
gle; Robin Watts, a double and
single; Tate, one single; Randy
Turner, one single; Mark Jones,
one single; and Jim Schobak,
one single.
Billy Moore and Randy Pass
each hit two singles for Spald
ing. Bill Rissman and Brad
Davis each hit one single.
Dan Speertog gained credit for
the victory against Kiwanis Club.
He struck out nine, walked two
and gave up 10 hits.
Ronnie Fouts started for Ki
wanis and was relieved in t h e
third by Jabo Griffin. They st
ruck out six, walked three and
gave up 11 hits.
Johnny Flynn hit a home run
in the sixth inning for Kiwanis
with no one on.
Johnny Flynn hit a home run
in the sixth inning for Kiwanis
with no one on.
Other Kiwanis hitters were
Jim Hedderman, three singles;
Wendell Lindsey, one single; Cl
int Smith, one single; Ronnie
Fouts, one single and James
Williamson, three singles.
Bill Simons and Don Sloan hit
doubles for Dundee. Sloan also
hit two stogies. Other hitters
were: Randy Dougherty, one
single; Keith Jones, two singles;
Dan Speering, two singles; Ric
ky Lusk, ong single; and Randy
Foster, one single.
3
Line Scores
By United Press International
American League
Minn 001 000 100— 2 4 0
Detroit 203 000 OOx— 5 9 1
Kaat, Perry (3), Grant (6),
Kline (8) and Zimmerman,
Nixon (8); Sparma (7-1) and
Freehan. LP—Kaat (4-8). HRS
—Kaline 2 (14th & 15th), Cash
(9th).
Calif 020 010 022— 7 8 0
Cleve 000 000 000— 0 3 1
McGlothlin (7-1) and Rodgers;
McDowell, Culver (7), Allen (9)
and Azcue. LP—McDowell (3-6).
HRS—Werhas (2nd), Schaal
(3rd).
Boston at New York, postponed,
rain
Kansas City at Baltimore,
postponed, rain
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San Fran OQO 001 000— 1 6 1
Niekro (3-3) and Uecker;
Perry (5-8) and Haller. HR—
Mays (10th).
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Atlanta 000 211 020— 6 7 0
San Fran 001 110 100— 4 11 0
Cloninger, Ritchie (7), Her
nandez (7), Raymond (7) and
Uecker; Bolin, Linzy (7) Herbel
(9) and Haller. WP—Raymond
(2-5). LP—Linzy (3-4). HRS—
Jones (7th), Aaron (18th).
St. Louis 000 003 022— 7 12 1
L A 000 200 000— 2 6 1
Carlton (5-4) and McCarver;
Osteen, Miller (7), Brewer (8)
and Torborg, campanls (7). LP
—Osteen (9-7).
New York at Philadelphia,
postponed, rain.