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Griffin Daily News
Nationals Belt
Americans, 9-3
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
UPI Sports Editor
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Re
member when:
* Folks said the pitchers were
running baseball the way
they’re dominating the game?
That was only last year.
* Some older folks thought the
All-Star games should be
terminated because the Ameri
can League was obviously
, much better than the National?
That was back in the 19305.
Well, dearie, anybody still
believing those things must
e have turned out a While ago—
certainly before 'the National
League's runaway 9-3 win over
the American in Wednesday’s
“rain check” 40th All-Star
’Game here.
Five homers—including a
record-tying two by the Giant
giant, Willie McCovey—were
* final proof of something that
the first half of the 1969 season
has shown: That this, unlike
1968, will not be “the year of
4 the pitcher.”
Should Be Boosted
Will somebody now suggest
that the pitching mound,
‘lowered after last year to help
the “outclassed” batters should
now be boosted to help the
“outclassed” pitchers?
* And the Nationals’ victory,
their incredible seventh straight
in a series they now lead 22-17
with one tie, has sons of the
, 1930 s complainers muttering
that the American League is
"mismatched.”
Red Schoendienst, the Cards’
manager who now has piloted
’four winning NL teams, is
quick to pooh-pooh any sugges
tion that the midsummer
classic is permanently lopsided.
* “The teams were very even,"
said Schoendienst after the
Wednesday win. “We happened
to get the better pitching. If
.these two teams played each
other a 162-game schedule,
they'd come out very even.”
Detroit Tigers Manager Mayo
who skippered the losing
American Leaguers, was more
inclined to blame the rout on
his own players’ miscues than
on any overwhelming strength
Bill Fulcher
Joins Jackets
ATLANTA (UPI) — Former
Georgia Tech freshman football
coach Bill Fulcher is rejoining
the Yellow Jacket coaching
staff as an assistant to Head
Coach Bud Carson,
Fulcher, who played for Tech
in the mid-1950s as an offensive
guard, was freshman coach
from 1964 through 1967. He quit
at the end of the 1967 season
to enter private business.
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Thursday, July 24, 1969
of the Nationals.
Fielded Badly
“We fielded very badly in the
beginning and we were far
behind by the time we settled
down,” Smith said.
The cannonading all was
crammed into the first four
innings. The Nationals got a
gift run in the first inning with
the help of Frank Howard’s
muff of Hank Aaron’s fly ball,
added two in the second on
Johnny Bench’s homer that
Schoendienst called the “key
hit” of the game, five more in
a third-inning rally that McCo
vey touched off with his first
homer, and their final tally in
the fourth on McCovey’s second
blast.
Bill Freehan drove in two of
the AL runs with a homer and
a single and Howard, admitted
ly trying to "atone for that
error,” got the other on a
towering 430-foot homer.
Howard, who isn’t any gazelle
even on a perfect field, didn’t
try to blame the mushy footing
for his key muff of Aaron’s
pop.
“I just butchered it,” insisted
the big guy. The error allowed
Matty Alou to score from third
and the Nationals never trailed.
Odom Discourated
Most discouraged of the
losers was pitcher John “Blue
Moon” Odom of the Oakland
A’s, who took that whole five
run hammering in the third
inning.
“I Just couldn’t get out of the
inning,” Odom said. "I’d rather
not talk about it.”
McCovey was rather unim
pressed by the fact he became
only the fourth of all the great
sluggers who’ve played in these
games to hit a pair of homers—
joining the late Arky Vaughn
(1941), Ted Williams (1946),
and Al Rosen (1954).
“They don't count in the
pennant race,” said practical
Willie.
It was a reminder that both
leagues go back to official work
Thursday. The All-Star players
missed getting one day off
because the All-Star game was
postponed from Tuesday night
for the first time in history.
Most fouled up by the delay
was Detroit pitcher Denny
McLain, the scheduled storter
who had to go home for a
dental visit, then didn’t get
back until the game was under
way. His substitute, Yankee
Mel Stottlemyre, thus was
tagged with the loss.
Weight Gap
NEW YORK (UPI) -
The greatest weight difference
in a world championship fight
was that in the lx>ut between
Primo Camera and Tommy
Loughran at Miami in 1934,
Camera weighing 270 pounds
to Loughran’s 184 pounds.
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Ron Santo Robs Fans Os Souvenir
WASHINGTON — Third baseman Ron Santo, Cubs,
leans into the stands to catch a foul ball hit by
Ex-Pitching
Great Dies
ANDERSON, S. C. (UPI) —
Leroy Mahaffey, 65, a member
of Connie Mack’s Philadelphia
Athletics in the 19305, died in a
hospital Wednesday after a long
illness.
Mahaffey, a native of Belton,
S. C., was on a pitching staff
that included Lefty Grove and
earned fame for his effective
ness against New York Yankee
sluggers Babe Ruth and Lou
Gehrig.
Mahaffey signed with Pitts
burgh in the mid 1920 s and then
moved over to the As. He was
with the St. Louis Cardinals
when he retired.
Funeral services are sched
uled for Friday afternoon
in Anderson, where Mahaffey
worked as a brickmason after
leaving baseball.
Bobby Unser beat Mario
Andretti for the U. S. Auto
Club national championship in
1968 by a margin of 11 points
in the closest finish in history.
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Clay In Court
For Sentencing
HOUSTON (UPI) — When
Dist. Court Judge Joe Ingra
ham handed former hea
vyweight champion Cassius
“Mohammed AU” Clay the
maximum penalty for draft
evasion two years ago, Ingra
ham indicated he might make
the sentence lighter if he had it
to do all over again.
Ingraham had his chance
today when Clay was resen
tenced on his conviction for
refusing to be inducted into the
Army.
The sentence came at 9 a.m.
in Ingraham’s court—the same
court in which Clay originally
was sentenced in 1967 to the
maximum penalty of five years
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Clay’s original sentence was
returned to Ingraham’s court
when the government admitted
to the U.S. Supreme Court it
eavesdropped on at least four
telephone conversations involv
ing Clay.
The Supreme Court ordered
Ingraham to decide if the
wiretaps were used as evidence
to convict Clay.
Ingraham ruled July 14 the
wiretaps were not instruments
used to find Clay guilty of draft
evasion.
The Justice Department con
tended Clay was never the
target of the wiretaps, the
conversations were not used as
evidence to convict the unde
feated former champ.