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13-Year-Old Players Lose
Griffin Babe Ruthers
Beat Briarcliff, 5-2
Griffin’s 14 and 15-year-old Ba
be Ruth All-Stars moved into the
winner’s bracket of the State
Tournament last night by whip
ping Briarcliff, 5-2.
The 13-year-old All-Stars were
n’t as fortunate. They dropped
a 5-2 decision to Briarcliff.
The Griffin 14 and 15-year-old
players will take on North Col
umbus, the host team, tonight
at 8 o’clock.
The 13-year-old Ail-Stars will
play again Thursday at 5:30.
Keith Tate, with fine relief
help from Darrell Jones, pitch
ed Griffin to its victory.
Tate started and pitched until
the fifth when Jones took over.
Jones was tough in relief.
Briarcliff scored runs in the
second and third innings.
Griffin scored its first run in
the fourth and took the lead with
two runs in the fifth.
Chuck McCarty singled in two
insurance runs in the sixth.
Tate and Jones struck out four
and walked 'four. They gave
up six hits.
Griffin had four hits off Briar
cliff pitching.
Keith Phillips and Glynn Gos
sett hit doubles and Kenneth
Short and Chuck McCarty sing
led.
Buster Huckaby put down one
Briarcliff bases-loaded threat
with a great running catch ag
ainst the fence. It was one of the
finest defensive plays of the
game.
13-YEAR-OLDS
Chuck Dunn had a no-hitter go
ing until the fifth inning when
Briarcliff scored two runs. The
DeKalb team wrapped up t h e
victory with three runs in the
sixth.
Griffin’s runs came in the six
th.
Dunn pitched a four-hitter.
He walked eight and struck out
two.
Rusty Stonica and Stan Tread
way hit doubles for Griffin and
David Skrine, Tony Coker and
Dunn hit singles.
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Men’s Doubles, Singles
Highlight Tournament
The Middle Georgia Tennis
Tournament continued Tuesday
at City Park with most of t h e
action in the men’s singles and
doubles.
Don Hankinson, Robert Dixon,
Morgan Harvill, Sr. and Dan
Stiles posted wins in the men’s
singles.
Hankinson beat Dan Dixon 6-4
and 6-2, Robert Dixon defeated
Henry Neal 6-0, 8-6 and 6-4, Har
ville beat Al Jolly 6-2 and 6-2
and Stiles stopped Dyke Good
in 6-1 and 6-2.
Five matches were played in
the men’s doubles.
Gene Ray and Fred Smith
beat Morgan Harvill, Ju and
Billy Tonkin 6-4 and 6-3, Jerry-
Anderson and Dave Robertson
beat Morgan Harvill, Sr. and
Ralph Westmoreland 6-1 and 6-3
Wayne Newton and Harold Ton
kin beat Glen Esslinger and
Gary Wilson 6-1 and 6-4, Al Ro
bertson and Tom Leaning won
over Hal Nordan and Scott Wat
son by default, and Dyke Good
in and Ronnie Grogan beat Don
Futral and Robert Dixon 4-6, 6-3
and 6-2.
In the 18 and under boys sing
les, Jimmy Whitmire beat Char
lie Murphy 7-5, 2-6 and 6-4. Mike
Ward stopped Don Bailey 6-3
Mets, Red Sox
Win Games
In Tourney
The Mets beat the Braves 3-2
and the Red Sox shutout the Gi
ants 1-0 yesterday in the Midget
League Baseball Tournament at
Johnson Field.
Jeffery Drewry pitched a one
hittr forth Mts. Phillip Mc-
Crary was the Braves’ losing
pitcher.
Kenneth Page hit a home run
for the Mets. Drewry hit two
doubles, Darrell Jester trip
led and Jeffery Cloud singled.
Eugene Coggins was the Red
Sox’ winning pitcher. Charlie
Driver took the Giants’ loss.
Alonzo Mathis, Clement Mad
dox and Jess Maddox hit two
singles for the Red Sox and Cog
gins and Tony Smikes hit one.
Curtis Crawley doubled for the
Giants.
and 6-4, and Jack Phipps beat
Mark Lane 6-1 and 7-5.
Libby Denton defeated Jennie
Newton 6-0 and 6-4 in the 18 and
under girls singles and Mark
Lane beat Kent Turner 6-0 and
6-4 in the 15 and under boys
singles.
Allen Goes
To Work
On Long Ball
PHILADELPHIA (DPl)—Phi
ladelphia - Phillies’ long-ball
anter\ Richie- Allen returned to
Connie Mack Stadium Tuesday.
He Immediately set to work
poling the long ball, but the
33,608 seats were empty be
cause of the All-Star Game
recegs.
Allen was reinstated by
Manager Bob Skinner on
Sunday, but Skinner said his
mod-dressed first baseman
wouldn’t play “until he is in
shape to play.’’ The manager
indicated that would probably
be around Thursday at the
Astrodome in Houston.
Contrary to habit, Allen was
on time for batting practice
Tuesday. The slugger who
returns with a .318 batting
average picked up where he left
off, clubbing one ball onto the
left field roof and hitting the
next one over it.
All-Stars Try Again
Pitching Change:
Agnew For Nixon
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
UPI Sports Editor
WASHINGTON (UPD—In the
face of an ominous weather
forecast, they’ll try again at
1:45 p.m. EDT today to stage
baseball’s 40th annual major
league All-Star Game. The only
change in the pitching plans
was Spiro Agnew for Richard
Nixon.
The U.S. Weather Bureau
saw a 50 per cent chance of
more thunderstorms like the
Tuesday evening deluge that
forced the first postponement of
the midsummer classic since it
was started in 1933.
The starting pitchers remain
the same—southpaw Steve Carl
ton, 12-5, for the slightly
Allen Jacobs
Sidelined
With Injury
Tn baseball its three strikes
and you’re out and the same
may now be true for football
player Allen Jacobs of the New
York Giants.
Jacobs, who missed the 1967
and 1968 season because of
injuries, made it three years in
a row Tuesday when he broke
his left arm during a contact
drill and was told he would be
out for the season.
The 6-foot 215-pound fullback,
who came to the Giants in 1966
from the Green Bay Packers,
will be operated on by team
physician Dr. Anthony Pisani at
Park City Hospital in Bridge
port, Conn.
Ted Williams
Tournament
Starts Today
The Ted Williams League Tour
nament was scheduled to start
today at City Park.
The Cubs were scheduled to
play the Cardinals in the open
ing game at 3 p.m. The Brav
es will play the Dodgers at 5 pl
in.
Two games are set for Thurs
day at 3 and 5 p.m. and the
championship game will be play
ed Friday.
The Giants will play the Cubs-
Cardinals winner Thursday at 3
p.m. and the Mets tangle with
the Braves-Dodgers winner at
5 p.m.
favored National league and
righthander Denny McLain, 14-
5, for the home team American
League.
But the rain washed out the
scheduled appearance of Pres
ident Nixon, honored only hours
earlier as the “Nation’s No. 1
baseball fan,” as the ceremo
nial first-pitch tosser. Nixon
had to leave late Tuesday night
for San Francisco on the first
leg of a world tour.
Thus the first-pitch honor in
baseball's centennial summer
falls to Vice President Agnew.
Carlton, the St. Louis Cards’
ace lefty who got the game
starting assignment because he
was well rested, was annoyed
by the postponement because
now he figures he may be too
well rested.
“I haven’t pitched since last
Wednesday,” Carlton pointed
out. “That’s six days’ rest and
it could be too much. I think
perhaps I would have been
sharper last night.”
Another rainout last Sunday,
when Carlton had been sche
duled to pitch for St. Louis, was
a factor in his long absence
from the mound. Schoendienst
said today he has made no
change in his plans to follow
Carlton on the hill with first.
Juan Marichal of the San
Francisco Giants and then
either Bill Singer of the Los
Angeles Dodgers or Phil Niekro
of the Atlanta Braves.
Smith still declines to pick
the pitchers who will follow
McLain, preferring to “wait
and see how the game
developes.”
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leaders, Frank Howard of the Senators (left) and
Reggie Jackson, of the A’s chat in the dressing room
as outside rain fell on RFK Stadium. Jackson leads
the majors with 37 homers; Howard is second with
34.
LaGrange Wins
District LL Title
The LaGrange Americans won
the District Four Little League
championship last night by scor
ing a run in the bottom of the
sixth to nip Jonesboro, 6-5.
Jonesboro had scored two runs
in the top of the inning to t i e
the score, 5-5.
LaGrange came back with a
run in the bottom of the frame
to wrap up the district champ
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Rocky Duncan, the last of
three LaGrange pitchers, was
credited with the win. Jeff Je
ans, who relieved Mickey Drew,
was Jonesboro’s loser.
Terry Proctor hit a home run
for LaGrange and Terry Denny
hit one for Jonesboro.
South Fulton topped Barnes
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Wednesday, July 23, 1969
consolation game.
Jud Tarpley was the winning
pitcher. Bruce Skinner, who
struck out 13, was charged with
the loss.
The LaGrange Americans will
compete in the Sub-Sectional
(State) Tournament next Mon
day in Jackson. LaGrange meets
the District Three champions
from DeKalb County. The game
starts at 6:30.
The State Tournament will be
played July 30-31 at Dixie Little
League Field In Smyrna, Ga.
The first game will start at 4 p.
m.
Bill Beck IH, District Four
Director, and Hubert Chappell,
assistant, will attend the State
Tournament. Beck is secretary
of the State Little League organ
ization.
Texas League
Offers Simpson
Lucrative Pact
HOUSTON (UPD—The Texas
Football League apparently
wants outsiders to begin to take
the loop a little more seriously.
The loop signed the most
prolific runner in the history of
the Southwest Conference Tues
day and now is after the hottest
unsigned property in football
today—namely O. J. Simpson.
“I offered Simpson 80 per
cent of the net gate for our
eight home games, or a flat
$15,000 per game for our entire
16 - game schedule,” said Henry
Hight, one of five owners of the
TFL’s San Antonio Toros.
“I frankly don’t see how he
can turn the offer down, if he is
as great a drawing card as he
says he is," Hight said.
“We have a 20,000-seat
stadium and even if we drew
15,000 per game he could make
a fortune. That would gross
about $75,000 and we need
approximately $20,000 for sta
dium rental and other expenses.
Take about 80 per cent of that
and you have $44,000 per game
or better than $350,000 for the
| Standings
Major League Standings
By United Press International
National League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Chicago 60 37 .691 ...
New York 53 39 .576 4%
St. Louis 49 48 .505 11
Pittsburgh 47 48 .495 12
Philadelphia 39 55 .415 19%
Montreal 31 65 .323 28%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Atlanta 66 42 .571 ...
Los Angeles 53 41 .564 1
San Francisco 54 42 .563 1
Cincinnati 48 41 .539 3%
Houston 48 48 .500 7
San Diego 33 65 .337 23
Monday’s Results
(No games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Results
All-Star Game, ppd., rain
Wednesday's Games
All-Star Game: NL All-Stars
vs AL All-Stars at Washington,
D.C., 1:45 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Cmci at New York, night
San Diego at Pitts, night
Los Angeles at Chicago
San Fran at St. Louis, night
Montreal at Atlanta, night
Phila at Houston, night
season.”
“It’s not every day you get
offered that kind of money,”
Simpson said in Los Angeles.
“My manager called me and
told me about it this morning.
I’m flattered to receive it.
“But right now we’re still
hopeful we can work something
out with the Buffalo Bills. I'm
hopeful we can because I want
to play in the National Football
League.
“If we can’t work out a deal
with Buffalo or a trade, then
we’ll go on to the outside
offers.” S’mnson said.
Chris Gilbert, the leading
runner in the history of the
Southwest Conference, si-med a
contract Tuesday with the
TFL’s Fort Worth Braves. The
size of the contract was not
disc’osed. ’
Gilbert, a second-string All-
American last year at Texas,
was drafted fifth by the world
chamnion New York Jets, but
Gilbert said he and the Jets
never could come close to
reaching an agreement on a‘
contract.
American League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 65 31 .677 ..«
Boston 54 42 .563 11
Detroit 52 41 .559 11%
Washington 51 50 .505 16%
New York 46 52 .469 20
Cleveland 38 59 .392 27%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Minnesota 59 37 .615 ...
Oakland 53 39 .576 4
Kansas City 41 55 .427 18
Seattle 40 55 .421 18%
Chicago 40 56 .417 19
California 36 58 .383 22
Monday s Results
(No games scheduled)
Tuesday’s Results
All-Star Game, ppd., rain
Wednesday’s Games
All-Star Game: AL All-Stars
vs NL All-Stars at Washington,
D.C., 1:45 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Wash at Oakland, night
New York at Calif, night
fibSton at Seattle, night
Kan City at Detroit, night
Minn at Cleveland, night
Chicago at Baltimore, night