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| basketball player Ron Reed al
| lowed the New York Mets only
four singles In seven Innings
Sunday as he paced the Atlan
ta Braves to a 2-0 victory.
Claude Raymond relieved
Reed and pitched three-hit ball
the final two innings. The
Braves ended a three-game
losing streak.
Atlanta got only six hits off
the Mets, but they were
enough. The first rim came in
the first inning when the Braves
loaded the bases and Felipe
Alou scored on Joe Torre's
grounder.
Reed scored the final run,
reaching base on a single, ad
vancing on Alou’s double and
coming home on Sonny Jack
son’s safety.
The win was Atlanta’s 12th
against 10 losses in spring play
and moved the Braves into
fourth place in the Grapefruit
League standings for National
League teams behind Cincin
nati, St. Louis and San Fran
cisco.
STEWART WINNER
BARCELONA, Spain (UPI)—
Jackie Stewart of Scotland
drove a Matra to victory in the
third Grand Prix of Barcelona
formula two race Sunday with a
clocking of 1:34:31.01 and an
average speed of 83.448 miles
an hour. Henri Pescarolo of
France was secona in a Matra
and Chris Amon of New
Zealand was third in a Ferrari-
Dkino.
Griffin Daily News
SPORTS
Billy Martin
Have Voted
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Spots Writer
ORLANDO, Fla. (UPl)—Ce
sar Tovar is sorry he caused all
that trouble.
He didn’t mean to. He doesn’t
like to make waves.
Minnesota’s dandy little han- \
dy andy was highly honored by
that one top vote he got for
MVP, but if its all the same to
Max Nichols, Cesar would’ve
voted for Carl Yastrzemski and
made it unanimous.
That's Cesar Tovar. But
that's not Billy Martin.
Martin coaches for the Twins
and the first thing he says to do
is put it right up there in big
letters that he thinks ballplay
ers don’t come much better
than Yaz. The second thing
Martin says is he agrees with
Max Nichols. He also would’ve
voted Cesar Tovar No. 1 in the ,
American League's MVP poll
for 1967.
One Vote Short
• For the background on this i
you have to go back to last fall. •
Orlando Cepeda, the Cardin
als’ strong boy, drew the .
unanimous votes of 20 baseball j
writers as the National Leagues ■
MVP and it was generally .
expected Yastrzemski would do ,
the same over in the American. j
But when they finished
counting the ballots Yaz had 2
only 19 first-place votes. Cesar ,
Tovar had the other one. It ■
came from Max Nichols, a ,
newspaperman and a darn good j
one, for the Minneapolis Star.
When the results were an
nounced they caused more pro
and con than the New |
Hampshire primary. Which
game was Max Nichols looking |
at? Didn’t he know a great
ballplayer when he saw one?
And who was this Cesar Tovar?
Well, Cesar Tovar happens to
be a quiet, little 150-pounder ’
from Venezuela who looks as if 1
an ordinary gust of wind can I
blow him over. It can’t. And it ’
didn’t last year when he played '
in every one of the Twins’ 164 ■
2
Monday, April 1, 1968
i Would
For Tovar
games. They don’t make ’em
like that any more.
But that wasn't all. Tovar
played six different positions,
everything but pitch, catch and
first base, and checked in with
a .267 average that included 32
doubles, seven triples, six
homers and 47 runs batted in.
He tacked on 19 stolen bases for
good luck.
Backs Choice
“If you followed our ball club
all year, you could see why Max
Nichols voted for Tovar", says
Billy Martin.” I would’ve voted
for him, too. What if we'd have
won the pennant Look, Yaz
had a great year, a fantastic
one. But if we won, Tovar
would’ve been the one who did
it for us, the same way Yaz did
it for Boston. The way I saw it,
I’d have to vote for Tovor as
the MVP. To the Red Sox, no
doubt, Yastrzemski was the
MVP. Probably to the rest of
the league also. But when
you’re talking about the Twins,
Cesar Tovar was the most
valuable player.”
Tovar wound up tied for
seventh place in the overall
MVP balloting with 70 points to
Yaz’ 272. During the time of the
voting last fall, Tovar w r as
minding his own business
playing winter ball in Caracas.
“Eet make me feel good,” he
says about that one top vote.”
Gedve me confeedence. But
Yaz, he have great year and do
everything. Eeeef I vote, I vote
for him first”.
Jacklin Steals
Thunder In GJO
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UPI)
—Tony Jacklin, the young
London pro, stole the thunder
from his U.S. and Common
wealth counterparts Sunday by
winning the SIOO,OOO Greater
Jacksonville Open.
It marked the first time since
Ted Ray won the U.S. Open in
1920 that an English golfer has
won a major tournament in the
United States—and the first
time ever for an Englishman on
Waller Wins
Second For
Gordon 'Dogs
Randy Waller of Griffin has
notched his second victory for
the Gordon Military College
Bulldogs.
His latest win came last week
when he beat DeKalb, 9-4. He
allowed only seven hits and st
ruck out four.
Earlier, Waller pitched Gor
don to a victory over Georgia
Military College. He whiffed 18
batters in that outing.
Gordon has a 3-1 record and
two of the victories belong to the
ex-Griffin High righthander.
Exhibition
Scores
By United Press International
Atlanta 2 New York (N) 0
Cincinnati 8 New York (A) 2
Washington 3 Houston 2
Chicago (A) 6 Phila. 0
Pittsburgh 3 Baltimore 1
Detroit 6 St.L. 5 (12 ins.)
Minn. 3 Boston 2 (12 inns)
x-Clev. 9 Chicago (N) 2
Los Angeles 9 San Fran. 7
Cal. 6 x-Cleve. 5 (11 inns)
x-Split squad
NBA Playoff
By United Press International
(Division Semifinals)
(Best of Seven)
East
Series A
W. L- Pct.
Philadelphia 3 2 .600
New York 2 3 .400
Series B.
W. L. Pct.
Boston 3 2 .600
Detroit 2 3 .400
West
Series A
W. L. Pct.
San Francisco 3 2 .600
St. Louis 2 3 .400
Series B
W. L- Pct.
x-Los Angeles 4 1 .800
Chicago 1 4 .200
x-Clinched series
Sunday's Results
Boston 110 Detroit 96
Phila. 123 New York 105
St. Louis 129 San Fran. 103
Los Ang. 122 Chicago 99
Monday's Games
Philadelphia at New York
(Only game scheduled)
Cale Yarborough
Wins Atlanta 500
By LAWRENCE C. FALK
ATLANTA (UPl)—Cale Yar
borough won the Atlanta 500
Sunday when Lee Roy Yar
borough was black-flagged into
the pits for an illegal pass, but
the sunburned, chunky Tim
monsville, S. C., victor believes
he would have been first in
any event.
"Our car was running per
fect,” Yarborough said. "I
don’t think there another
car out there that could run
with it.” Both Yarborough and
Yarbrough were in 1968 Mer
curys.
Yarbrough was running in
second place behind Yarbor
ough going into lap 300 on a
caution flag. The yellow came
out 11 laps earlier when Bobby
11 iso n, Hyeytown, Ala.,
smashed into a wall on the
fourth turn and slid along the
straight in front of the grand
stand.
As the pace car drove into pit
road, Yarbrough, of Columbia,
S. C., moved ahead of Yar
borough. NASCAR officials
called Yarbrough into the pits,
and he lost his lead and the
race.
The win was worth $20,000 in
total awards, counting lap
money. But Yarborough be
lieved he would have won with
out the official assist.
"I don’t think there would
have been a wheel-to-wheel duel
if he had stayed on the track,”
Yarbrough said. “I’d have run
him down.
“This race was pretty much
like Daytona as far as I was
concerned," he added. It was
at Daytona that Yarborough
caught Yarborough with four
laps to go and pulled into an
increasing lead in the last 10
miles.
The victory gave Yarborough
the grinding PGA tour.
There was only one tiny spot
of disappointment for the 23-
year-old champion. His final
round 71 Sunday snapped a
string of nine straight rounds in
the 60s —a performance un
equalled since Byron Nelson had
19 consecutive rounds in 1945.
Jacklin wound up at 15-under
par 273. He took the $20,000 first
prize by two strokes over five
runnerups.
Doug Sanders, who was tied
with Jacklin for the lead going
into the final round, suffered a
pair of double bogeys early but
recovered for a 73-275 to share
in a five-way tie for second and
$5,520. The other runnersup
were Doral champion Gardner
Dickinson, PGA champion Don
January, Chi Chi Rodriquez and
Dewitt Weaver.
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a two-pace sweep of superspeed
way events in the South this
year and his second consecu
tive championship in the Atlan
ta 500.
It also gave Ford Motor Co.
a one-two-three sweep in the 500
and continued their domination
over the NASCAR circuit this
year.
Donnie Allison, Bobby’s
brother, completed the top three
places for Ford in a 1968 Torino
While Charlie Glotzbach of
Georgetown, Ind., was fourth
in a 1968 Dodge. Darel Dierin
ger, Charlotte, N. C., was fifth
in a 1968 Plymouth and Rich
ard Petty, Randleman, N.C.,
was sixth.
Seventh and eighth were tak
en by Dodges driven by Bobby
Isaac, Catawba, N. C., and
Buddy Baker, Charlotte, N. c.,
FRENCH CHAMPS
LA TOUSSUIRE, France
(UPl)—Jean-Noel Augert of
France won the men’s combined
title of the international alpine
ski Prix de la Maurienne
Sunday with 19.08 points.
Francoise Macchi of France
was first in the women’s event
with 22.12 points.
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Sam McQuagg, Columbus, was
ninth in a 1967 Dodge and Butch
Hartman, Zanesville, Ohio, was
tenth in a 1968 Dodge.
The race was run at an aver
age speed of 125.564 miles per
hour, although the cars at times
hit as high as 150 mph. Eleven
caution flags slowed the speed.
Braves Have
35,000 Bats
For 'Bat Day’
The biggest ‘Bat Day’ in Bra
ves history is being readied for
Sunday afternoon when Atlanta
meets Baltimore in the last pre
season game in Atlanta Stadium.
The Braves have in stock 35,000
official youth-size bats, and all
are the famed Louisville Slug
gers. That total is 25,000 more
than the Braves stocked for
last season’s ‘Bat Day.’
Secondly, every youngster 12-
years-old and under will be giv
en one of the bats free, just by
entering the ball park. A year
ago children had to be accom
panied by an adult and sit in sp
ecified areas of the stadium.
The Braves - Orioles gams
starts at 2:05 Sunday. It’s Atlan
ta's last game before opening
the regular season April 9th at
St. Louis.