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Leo’s Other Theory
Strong Guys Finish Ist
By JOE CARNICELLI
UPI Snorts Writer
Leo Durocher, who maintains
that “nice guys finish last” is
also a firm believer in another
theory—that strong guys finish
first.
And Durocher seems to have
molded one of the strongest,
most well-balanced attacks in
the National League this season
in his effort to bring the
Chicago Cubs their first pennant
In 24 years.
The Cubs’ attack has been
both balanced and awesome
thus far in the 1969 season.
Tuesday it was the veteran
Ernie Banks, who smashed a
pair of homers to pace Chicago
over Philadelphia. Wednesday’s
hero was Billy Williams, with
four doubles—tying a major
league record—to highlight a 16-
hit Cub attack. And Thursday it
was Ron Santo's turn.
Two Homers
Santo hit two home runs to
power the Cubs to their third
consecutive victory, a 6-2
decision over the Phils. His first
came In the fourth inning and
he connected again in the
seventh, both times with two
Out. The veteran third baseman
also singled and scored a run in
the sixth.
Randy Hundley also had a
Solo homer for the Cubs and
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left-hander Ken Holtzman scat
tered 10 hits in going the
distance, a feat he accom
plished only six times in 32
starts last season.
Elsewhere in the National
League, Pittsburgh nipped St.
Louis 3-2, New York downed
Montreal 4-2 and San Diego
shutout Houston 2-0.
In American League play,
Detroit ripped Cleveland 12-3,
Washington outlasted New York
9-6 and Baltimore edged Boston
2-1 in 13 innings in the only
games scheduled.
Willie Stargell doubled and
Bill Mazeroski singled for runs
in the eighth inning to lift the
Pirates to victory over the
Cardinals and a sweep of their
three-game series against the
defending league champions.
Opens With Single
Richie Hebner opened the
eighth with a single and took
§econd on a wild pitch. After
Roberto Clemente walked, Star
gell doubled to score Hebner
and, after an intentional walk,
Mazeroski singled off pitcher
Ray Washbum’s leg to score
Clemente. Right-hander Dock
Ellis went all the way for the
Pirates.
Tommie Agee belted two long
home runs and rookie right
hander Gary Gentry, with relief
help in the ninth from Cal
Koonce, was a winner in his
first major league game in the
Mets’ triumph over the Expos.
Agee, who had only five
homers last season, connected
against Larry Jaster in the
third and added another solo
shot in the seventh. Koonce
relieped Gentry with the score
4-2 and two on in the ninth. He
walked the first batter before
getting pinch hitter Don Bosch
on a fly to end the game.
San Diego stayed in a first
place tie with Atlanta at the top
of the West Division with its
third straight victory over
Houston. Ollie Brown drove in
both Padres runs with a third
inning groundout and a sixth
inning homer. Dick Kelley won
the game with ninth inning
relief help from Billy McCool
and Frank Reberger.
fS3 Ira Berkow
NBA Sports Editor
Managers Valuable?
LAKELAND, FIa.—(NEA)
—There is always a question
as to how important a base
ball manager really is.
For all the grimacing on
the bench, flights of fancy in
the mind, platooning on the
field, fining in the pubs, for
all the chewing of lineup
pencils, philosophical chins
m palms, bed checks, scru
tinizing eyes, stentorian
lungs, ulcerated stomachs,
the question still persists:
Is a manager the baseball
equivalent of an appendix?
Now a new season is rising
like a yawning dawn over
the horizon. With it are some
newly foaled managers along
with the inevitable prepon
derance of old war horses,
eager to test their wit and
wisdom.
Yet every manager knows
that, despite his esoteric
knowledge of everything
from physiopsychology to
throwing a spitter, the time
will come when his hitters
2 don’t hit as good as the next
team and his pitchers don’t
pitch as good and fans will
think they can manage bet
ter and his players will think
they can manage better and,
most important, the owners
will think the fans and play
ers are right. Into the street
he is bounced.
It happened to seven man
agers last season: Houston’s
Grady Hatton, Philadel
phia’s Gene Mauch, Balti
more’s Hank Bauer, the
White Sox’ Eddie Stanky,
Minnesota’s Cal Ermer,
Washington’s Jim Lemon
and Oakland’s Bob Kennedy.
San Francisco’s Herman
Franks saw the graffiti on
the wall and retired volun
tarily.
Now, the very best one
can do in this profession is
to win the World Series.
That’s It. The Ultimate. It is
MORANO NEW COACH
NEW YORK (UPI)-J. Henry
Morano was named assistant
coach of Fordham University’s
basketball team Thursday after
Richard Tarrant said he was
resigning because he wanted to
devote full time to his job as
guidance counselor at Passaic
Valley High school in New
Jersey.
Morano had served as Ford'
ham freshman coach.
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WALTER ALSTON, above, dean of major league baseball managers, started 16th
season with the Los Angeles Dodgers with sliding demonstrations for players at Vero
Beach, Fla., training camp.
Alexander the Great running
out of worlds to conquer, a
dancing bear making the Ed
Sullivan Show.
So, number one genius
of the hour is Mayo Smith,
manager of the World
Champion Detroit Tigers.
He was asked how it feels to
know that he won’t be fired.
“Listen. Let me tell you
something,” he said, point
ing the same brainy finger
at the interviewer that he
uses to direct Willie Horton
to move three steps left and
four steps back. “There
have been only two man
agers in history who never
had to worry about being
fired. Two, get it?! Connie
Mack and Clark Griffith—
and they owned the clubs!”
Os the 24 men in the ma
jors who wake up each
morning with the sword of
Damocles swaying over
head, five are managerial
newcomers to the big
leagues: Ted Williams of
Washington, Billy Martin of
Minnesota, Clyde King of
San Francisco, Preston Go
mez of San. Diego and Joe
Schultz of Seattle.
Others have been
drummed out of the dugout
in one city, only to wind up
masterminding in another:*
Leo Durocher of the Cubs,
Harry Walker of Houston,
Joe Gordon of Kansas City,
Hank Bauer of Oakland, Al
vin Dark of Cleveland and
Gene Mauch of Montreal.
The manager with the cur
rent longest reign in point of
service with one club is
Walter Alston, beginning bls
16th season as the Dodgers*
manager. His longevity is so
unusual that, outside of Dis
neyland, Alston is the great
est tourist attraction in Cali
fornia.
BIANCA WINS
PARIS (UPD—Bianca, with
J. Geheau astride, won the 3,500
meter steeplechase worth 30,000
francs ($6,000) at Paris* Auteuil
Race Track. Owned by Alben
Ken, Blanco paid $2.70 to win.
RENEW CONTRACT
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) -
Army and Navy renewed their
contract with Philadelphia to
play their annual sell-out
football game In that city for
three more years.
Frank Howard Slugs
Two More Homers
By FRED DOWN
DPI Sports Writer
Frank Howard, already the
only major league slugger Ted
Williams must look up to, says
the new Washington Senator
manager hasn’t seen anything
yet.
Howard, who at 6-foot-8
towers over the 6-4 Williams,
has hit four homers in leading
the Senators to two victories in
their first three games. But he
observed through a cloud of
cigar smoke Thursday that he
still hasn’t found his best
groove.
"I wasn’t swinging the bat
real well,” said Howard after
hitting two homers in Thurs
day’s 9-6 victory over the New
York Yankees. “Well, at least
as well as I did in that streak a
year ago.”
..Williams Was Fishing
Williams was fishing in the
Florida Everglades last year
when Howard went on a tear of
10 homers in six games enroute
to a major league leading
season total of 44. Now Ted is a
.667 manager—two wins in three
games—and Howard is proving
that a lengthy spring holdout
hasn’t robbed him of his ability
to hit baseballs over buildings.
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Howard and Brant Alyea hit
two-run homers off Fritz
Peterson in the first inning and
tagged Fred Talbot for a solo
shot in the fifth. The three
homers were the big blows of a
16-hit attack which enabled Jim
Hannan to receive credit for the
victory although he needed
relief help from Bob Hum
phreys and Dennis Higgins.
Frank Fernandez drove in
five runs for the Yankees with a
grand slam homer in the sixth
inning and a solo in the eighth.
The world champion Detroit
Tigers defeated the Cleveland
Indians 12-3 and the Baltimore
Orioles scored a 13-innlng 2-1
triumph over the Boston Red
Sox in the other American
League games.
(National League
In the National League, the
Pittsburgh Pirates beat the St.
Louis Cardinals 3-2, the Chicago
Cubs downed the Philadelphia
Phillies 6-2, the New York Mets
toppepd the Montreal Expops 4-2
and the San Diego Padres
shutout the Houston Astros 2-0.
Bill Freehan hit the second
grand slam of his career in the
fighth inning and homered again
in the seventh to lead a 13-hit
Detroit attack which enabled
Friday, April 11, 1969 Griffin Daily News
Hawks, LA Lakers
Square Off Tonight
INGLEWOOD, Calif. (UPD—
Die Atlanta Hawks, a balanced
basketball team with few ap
parent weaknesses through its
first seven players, square off
against the Los Angeles Lakers
tonight in the opening game of
tne finals in the NBA’s West
ern Division playoffs.
The Lakers, with superstars
Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain
and Elgin Baylor, enter to
night’s contest having swept
four games from the San Fran
cisco Warriors in the semifinal
after losing the first two. The
Hawks qualified by taking four
of six games from the San
Diego Rockets. .
Atlanta, unlike the Lakers,
has no players of superstar cali
ber but the balance of their
first seven men has Los An
geles coach Bill Van Breda
Kolff concerned.
Said Van Breda Kolff, “They
World Series hero Mickey
Lolich to coast to the victory.
Mickey Stanley and Willie
Horton also homered for the
Tigers, who hammered 1968 AL
strikeout king Sam McDowell
for seven runs in five innings.
Lolich, the surprise hero of the
1968 World Series when he beat
the Cardinals three times,
allowed six hits including a
homer by Tony Horton but
walked only two and struck out
seven.
Frank Robinson doubled and
scored on a single by Boog
Powell with none out in the 13th
inning to give the Orioles their
victory over the Red Sox. Mike
Cuellar, acquired from Houston
during the winter, allowed only
four hits in the first 10 limings
although Dave Leonhard, who
pitched only one inning, re
ceived credit for the victory.
ARRIVES IN LONDON
LONDON (UPD—World feath
erweight boxing champion John
ny Famechon of Australia has
arrived in London “a bit tired
... but ... happy to fight
anybody in the world.” He is
scheduled to fight April 21,
probably against Italian Giovan
ni Gigenti.
won’t beat themselves — that’s
for sure.”
“We’re not big,” said Atlan
ta coach Richie Guerin, “but
we’ie fairly strong.”
This means, Van Breda Kolff
said, “they like to muscle the
ball and work inside. They don’t
make too many mistakes.
They’ll work so a guy can get
his shot.”
The Laker front line of 7-2
Chamberlain, 6-5 Baylor and
6-7 Bill Hewitt or 7-0 Mel
Countt could dominate the
Hawks’ line of center Zelmo
Beaty, 6-8, and forwards Bill
Bridges, 6-5, and 6-4 s Lou
Hudson, except for the balance
provided by Atlanta’s back
court of ex-Laker Walt Hazzard
and Joe Caldwell and reserve
Don Ohl.
Griffinites
Set To Defend
Golf Crown
THOMASTON — The fifth an
nual four-ball Thomaston Coun
try Club golf tournament will
be held on Saturday and Sunday,
April 19-20 with two Griffin golf
ers set to defend their crown.
Dan Smith and Troy Smith
knocked 11 strokes off par to win
the one-day four-ball tourney
here last year with a 97 for 27
holes of play.
Entrance fee for the two-day
tourney is S3O a team and the
deadline for entering will be
Wednesday, April 16. Teams can
mail entry fee and registration
to Petey Holt, Box 622, Thomas
ton. All entry fees will go into
merchandise awards.
The championship division will
be divided Into A & B divisions.
Flights will be determined by
the first 18 holes score on Satur
day. Awards will be presented
to the winner, runner-up and
consolation in each flight.
WILL RUN AGAIN
WASHINGTON (UPD —A
spokesman for Sen. Allen J.
Ellender, D-La., says Ellender,
78, has every intention of
running in 1972 for a seventh
term. “There is no doubt in my
mind the senator plans to run
again,” the spokesman said.
"He is quite active.”
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