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Training Roundup
Veteran, Rookie Give
White Sox Confidence
By FRED DOWN
UPI Sports Writer
The oldest story in spring
training—the one about the
rookie and the veteran—is
giving Manager Eddie Stanky
and the Chicago White Sox new
confidence this spring.
The veteran is 33-year-old
shortstop Luis Aparicio and the
rookie is 27-year-old pitcher
Cisco Carlos.
Aparicio had a poor 1967
Beason with the Baltimore
Orioles but is the key man of
the White Sox’ 1968 infield. Tim
Cullen, his double play partner,
Will be playing his first season
with a pennant contender and
Stanky apparently plans to
alternate his first and third
basemen.
CaAos is a 6-foot, 3-inch, 205-
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pound right-hander who had an
11-8 record and 2.63 earned run
average for Indianapolis in the
Pacific Coast League and a 2-0
mark and 0.86 ERA in eight
games with the White Sox last
season. The odds are against
him even making the strong
White Sox’ pitching staff but he
is bidding for the No. 4 starting
assignment behind Joel Horlen,
Gary Peters and Tommy John.
White Sox’ Win
Both starred along with Pete
Ward Monday when the White
Sox defeated the Orioles 5-1 for
their sixth victory in 11 games.
Aparicio had a triple and a
single, raising his spring
average to .429, and Carlos
pitched five shutout innings in
his first starting effort of the
spring
Ward’s contribution was a
three-run homer and Tommy
Davis added two singles, raising
his spring average to .417.
Gary Nolan, Jim Maloney and
Mel Queen scattered 12 hits as
the Cincinnati Reds ran their
winning streak to seven games
with a 5-2 triumph over the New
York Mets. Tony Perez’ double
and rookie Hal Mcßae’s two-run
homer were the big blows for
the Reds, now 8-1 for the
spring.
Reserve catcher John Ed
wards delivered two singles in a
six-run ninth-inning rally that
carried the St. Louis Cardinals
past the Philadelphia Phillies 8-
7. Pinch-hitter Floyd Wicker’s
two-run double and Bobby
Tolan’s two-run single were
other big blows in the frame as
the Cardinals overcame an
early 7-0 deficit.
Bob Veale, Dock Ellis and
Roger Brown combined in a
four-hitter in pitching the
Pittsburgh Pirates to a 7-2
victory over the Detroit Tigers.
Matty Alou drove in three runs
with three singles for the
Pirates, boosting his spring RBI
total to 11 and his average over
the .400-mark.
Doug Rader’s two-run 11th
inning double, his first hit of the
spring, gave the Houston Astros
a 6-4 decision over the Oakland
Athletics despite Sal Bando’s
fifth homer of the spring.
Rookie outfielder Ivan Murrell
drove in two runs and went 5-
for-5, including two doubles, for
the Astros, who have won five
of 10 exhibition games.
Don Drysdale said while the
Los Angeles Dodgers enjoyed a
day off that he never had seen
so many good young players in
a training camp and predicted
that 20 victories for him this
season “are not out of reach
given the runs and the breaks.”
There was a sad moment in
the Chicago Cubs’ camp when
Dick Radatz, once the most
feared relief pitcher in the
American League, was dropped
and a hilarious moment in the
Houston Astros’ camp when
general manager Spec Richard
son was asked for the latest
news on Bo Belinsky
Belinsky left camp Sunday,
presumably to continue his
courtship with Jo Collins, the
“Sun Goddess of Cocoa Beach”
and a national magazine’s
“Playmate of the Year” in 1966.
“I don’t plan to go looking for
him,” said Richardson, who
obviously will not be asked to
be best man at the wedding.
|NBA Standings!
By United Press International
East
W- L. Pct. GB
x-Phila 61 19 .763 ...
Boston 54 27 .667 7*/ 2
New York 42 39 .519 19i/ 2
Detroit 39 42 .469 22(4
Cincinnati 38 42 .475 23
Baltimore 36 45 .444 25(4
x-Clinched div. title
West
W. L. Pct. GB
x-St. Louis 56 26 .683
Los Angeles 51 30 .630 4(4
San Francisco 43 39 .524 13
Chicago 28 52 .350 27
Seattle 22 59 .272 33(4
San Diego 15 65 .188 40
x-clinched div. title.
Monday’s Results
Phila. 158 Los Angeles 128
Dteroit 88 Seattle 82
New York 123 San Fran 118
(Only games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Games
Cincinnati at Philadelphia
San Diego at Los Angeles
Chicago at Seattle
(Only games scheduled)
HICKOK AWARD
NEW YORK (UPD—Jerry
Quarry, who moved into the
World Boxing Association hea
vyweight finals by stopping
Thad Spencer in the 12th round
of their elimination bout,
Monday was named winner of
the February poll for the S. Rae
Hickok Professional Athlete of
the Year Award.
Quarry outpolled Canadian
golfer George Knudson, who
won two major tournaments in
February, and auto driver Cale
Yarborough.
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Bob Dickson Didn't Like
His 'Lie' in the Amateurs
By MURRAY OLDERMAN
NEA Sports Editor
NEW YORK—(N E A)-Bob
Dickson is someone you’d buy
a used car from. In fact, you
might even crash through
your door, falling three times,
to get to him.
Tall and lean with neatly
trimmed auburn hair and
glasses on a well-scrubbed
poker face, he gives the im
pression of utmost pfobity, if
not severity.
Appearance and image,
evoked by the yahoos that run
amateur golf, have hung up
Bob Dickson.
Dickson was the world’s
most successful amateur
golfer last year. He won the
United States and British
Amateur titles and was a
member of the Walker Cup
and America’s Cup teams.
But on his 24th birthday, Jan.
25, he announced he was
turning pro.
Since his days as a golf
prodigy in McAlester, Okla.,
Dickson has aimed his putter
at a pro career. (He was
breaking 80 by age 11, and
stories have it that when
strangers came-to McAlester
Country Club and asked to be
matched against the best golf
er, they were told, “He’s over
there, playing guns.”)
Dickson received a golf
scholarship to Oklahoma State
University and emerged one
of America’s finest amateurs,
on a par with Bob Murphy,
Marty Fleckman, Ron Cer
rudo, Deane Beaman, Jim
Weichers, Jimmy Grant, Bob
Smith and such.
Upon graduation from OSU
last June and after his sen
sational summer successes.
76ers, Knicks In
NBA Playoffs
NEW YORK (UPD—The Phi
ladelphia 76ers open defense of
their National Basketball Asso
ciation title on a “friendly”
home court March 22 against
the New York Knickerbockers
in the start of a best four-of
seven Eastern Division playoff
series.
Two other series starters
were set, both in the Western
Division, as section champion
St. Louis prepared to host third
place San Francisco March 22
and 23 and second place Los
Angeles geared for a visit to
fourth place Chicago March 24-
25.
Boston, second place finisher
in the East, must await the
battle for fourth place between
Detroit and Cincinnati. If the
Pistons and Royals finish in a
tie, the NBA said Monday, a
single playoff game will be held
in Detroit Friday night. A coin
toss decided the site. The
regular season ends Wednesday.
In any event, Boston hosts the
opener on March 24.
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he was flooded with questions
about future plans.
“That was the hardest part
of amateur golf,” said Dick
son, with his polite southwest
ern twang. “I had to lie when
I was asked about turning
pro.
“It’s a legitimate question.
But I couldn’t be truthful. The
rule is that if you so much as
express thoughts about be
coming a pro, then you are a
pro. So I’d have to say, ‘Oh
no, why I’ve never even con
sidered it.’ Sometimes I’d
want to laugh out loud. Other
times, it would upset me very
much.
“I had it up to here with
the sham of hypocrisy.”
For a man like Dickson,
who said he has learned more
about a sense of values from
golf than he has from church,
the deceit was agonizing.
“I’ve learned in golf that
you have to stick to the rules,
that there is a right way and
a wrong way. But this one
rule is wrong.”
When Dickson joins the
pressurized, highly publicized
tour, he will encounter all the
problems of pro neophytes,
plus one—image.
“I’ve been described as
drab, studious, thoughtful and
serious,” he said. “So I con
. sidered changing my person
ality and wearing contact
lenses and white - and - red
patent leather golf shoes. I
decided against it. I just don’t
have a flair like Doug Sand
ers or Arnie Palmer. Doug is
■ Doug. Arnie is Arnie.
1 “And I’m me—Bob Dick
. son.”
That’s not bad for starters.
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Philadelphia’s opening round
series with third place New
York places the 76ers in
Convention Hall March 22 and
the Palestra March 27. If
additional “home” games are
necessary, they will be played
at Convention Hall March 31
and the Palestra April 3.
Philadelphia hopes to have the
Spectrum repaired within 10
days and ready for any future
games. The arena roof was
damaged by high winds.
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Hall To Speak
To Sportsmen
Jay Hall, a member of the
State Game and Fish Commiss
ion staff, will be guest speaker
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| ABA Standings
By United Press International
East
W. L. Pct. GB
x-Pitts 52 24 .684 ...
Minnesota 50 28 .641 3
Indiana *3B 39 .494 14(4
New Jersey 36 40 .474 16
Kentucky 34 41 .453 17(4
x-Clinched div. title
West
W. L. Pct. GB
New Orleans 45 30 .600
Dallas 44 31 .587 1
Denver 44 33 .571 2
Houston 28 48 .368 17(4
AnaheinF 24 51 .320 21
Oakland 22 52 . .297 22(4
Monday’s Results
New Jersey 113 Houston 103
Pittsburgh 135 Anaheim 118
Denver 108 New Orleans 101
(Only games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Games
New Orleans at Oakland
Anaheim at Pittsburgh
New Jersey at Kentucky
(Only games scheduled)
MONEY WINNER
PALM BEACH SPRINGS
Fla. (UPD—Tom Weiskopf’s
second place finish in the Citrus
Open earned him $13,800 aed
boosted his year’s earning to
$60,042, tops in the Professional
Golfers Association circuit, it
was announced Monday.
Canada’s George Knudson
was second with $44,007.
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