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Wednesday, July 19, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Braves Spurt'
May Make Them
NL Contenders
? ATLANTA (UPI) — The At-
I lanta Braves have shed their
I Jekyll and Hyde personality —
I thus far, at least —and some
I observers are predicting they’ll
I make a real run for the Na-
I tional League pennant.
Traditionally gentle in the
I early summer, the Braves usu-
I ally are mired in the second
I division by the time their late
I summer meanness comes on.
I The final spurt, in the past six
I years, has put them around the
I middle of the standings.
The Braves contention has
I heen—and still is—that if they
I can play .500 ball until the All-
I Star game break, their late-
I season kick will make them
I strong pennant contenders.
That script has been followed
I almost to the letter this year.
I Atlanta was a little over .500 at
I the break and then resumed
I play with a four - game sweep
I over Philadelphia and Pitts-
I burgh.
I They were in fourth place,
I only 4>/ 2 games behind pace-
I setting St. Louis, when they
I took to the road Tuesday for a
I six-game series with second-
I place Chicago and St. Louis.
What has caused the transfor-
I mation?
Pirates manager Harry Walk-
I er, who was fired the next day,
I pretty much summed it up as-
I ter his team dropped its second
I straight Monday night:
“'Their pitching is coming
I real strong, the defense looks
I vastly improved, and, of course,
I what more can you say about
I their hitting.
The big catcher, Joe Torre,
I sees an additional ingredient—
I spirit.
This is the best spirit I’ve
I ever seen since I’ve been with
I the club,” he said.
I He attributes much of it to
I new memtiers gained In trades
I after last year’s fifth-place fin-
I ish.
I ‘‘We’ve got some guys who’ve
I been with champions and act
I like champs,” Torre said.
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MERRY MELODIES are in order at Shea Stadium these
days with Phil Linz back in New York. Phil, the ex-
Yankee, was traded to the Mets by the Philadelphia
Phillies. With the Mets, he rejoins Yogi Berra, the
manager of the Yankees at the time of the famous
“harmonica incident” in 1964. Yogi doesn’t mind Phil’s
music any more.
‘The Hat’ Fired;
Murtaugh Back
By FRANK SMIZIK
PITTSBURGH (UPI) —Pit-
I tsburgh Pirate Manager Danny
I Murtaugh was back in uniform
I today. Harry Walker was out of
I a job.
I Murtaugh, wearing his fami-
I liar No. 40, returned to the
I dugout Tuesday night a s the
I Pirates first downed San
I Francisco 8-6 then lost 3-2 in the
I second half of a twi-night
I doubleheader.
Walker, ousted earlier in the
I day by General Manager Joe L.
I Brown, went fishing in Mary-
I land after observing: ••
•'lt’s easier to fire the
I manager than 25 players. That’s
I baseball.”
| Murtaugh, who managed the
I Pirates from 1957 to 1964,
I including a 1960 World Series
I called him at the team’s
| Raleigh, N.C., farm club last
I Thursday and told him to return
I to Pennsylvania.
Finish Season Only
Brown debated firing Walker
I from Friday to Monday, Mur-
I taugh said, then called him at
I home and asked him to manage
I the team until the end of the
I season.
“Regardless of what happens
I this year,” Murtaugh said, “I
I will not continue . . . even if we
I win the pennant.”
He listed Clete Boyer, a form-
■ er Yankee who has done a
• spectacular job at third base
i and as a clutch hitter; reserve
I catcher Bob Uecker, who was
■ on the champion Cardinals
team of two years ago; and
. pinchhitter Charley Lau, who
. was with the Orioles last year.
1 Manager Billy Hitchcock was
! understandably cautious. ‘‘lt’s
. too early to start talking pen
: nant,” he said.
! The next three weeks could
tell the story.
> Atlata meets St. Louis, Chi
’ cago and Cincinnati, the first
■ three teams, in 18 games.
Twelve of the contests are on
1 j the road, and that could change
■ the trend.
1 So far this season, the Braves
‘ have won 32 and lost only 13 at
home. On the road, the figures
are 26 losses and 4 wihs.
1 The Braves started the cru
cial road trip Tuesday with a
9-3 loss to the Cubs.
’ Although Clete Boyer got his
, I,oooth major league hit—a
three-run, seventh inning homer
_ —it wasn’t enough to overcome
the Cubs, who knocked Denny
Lemaster off the pitching
mound in the fifth after he had
allowed five hits and four runs.
Cubs shortstop Donnie Kes
singer and Ron Santo led the
attack. Kessinger went four for
five, including a pair of dou
bles, and knocked in five runs
i while Santo hit his 18th home
' run of the season, a 400-footer
over the center field fence that
1 scored two runs.
Lefty Lemaster took the loss,
his third in 10 decisions. The
win went to hard - throwing
righthander Ferguson Jenkins.
It was his 12th of the year.
1 “It wasn’t our day, I guess,”
said Hitchcock. ‘‘Lemaster
' wasn’t real sharp, not consis
tently anyway, although he
threw a few good pitches. He
might have been all right if we
; had gotten him some runs, but
. | we just don’t score much off
that Jenkins.”
The Pirates, who at the start
of the season were favored to
do jus that, had dived to sixth
place in the National League.
But still, Walker admitted, his
firing came as a shock.
Just 19 days ago, Brown had
given him a vote of confidence.
Brown said when he gave
Walker the boost he had no idea
of firing him, “I don’t feel
hypocritical,” Brown said. “The
managerial change was my only
choice.”
Murtaugh, who resigned in
1964 citing ill health, was given
a job as Brown’s executive
assistant.
Receives Salary
Walker has no job. He will be
paid the salary required by his
one-year contract, estimated to
be about $40,000.
Most of the players were non
committal about the managerial
switch.
Roberto Clemente said:
“No comment. I get paid to
hit.
“I would feel the same way if
it was the other way, with
Walker coming and Murtaugh
going,” said team captain Bill
Mazeroski. “I guess a few guys
didn’t like Harry, but I know
one thing—he was always for
the players 100 per cent.
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