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> ATLANTA (UPD — Hank
'Aaron, the last active player
•remaining from the 1957 and ’SB
• Milwaukee championships, “is
'fading fast,” says former team
'mate Lew Burdette with tongue
In cheek.
*- You can tell the slugger is
• past his peak, Burdette reasons
> Jokingly, because “there were
'three more inches on the home
run he hit (Friday night) than
on the one he hit when I saw
him last month.”
It would be hard to convince
National League pitchers that
Aaron, now 35, is fading. He
slammed a line drive double in
the first to chase home the
Braves’ first run and drilled his
536th career major league hom
er (his 26th this season) in the
seventh for the final run in an
8-7 loss to Montreal.
Despite the loss, the story
was Aaron, who moved into a
tie with Mickey Mantle, retired
New York Yankee star, for
third place in the all-time hom
er derby.
Many of Aaron's former
teammates were in the stands
on the eve of tonight’s old
timer’s game, pitting the 1957
world champion Braves against
an aggregation of one-time At
lanta Cracker stars. Warren
Spahn, Burdette, Bob Buhl,
Johnny Logan, Eddie Mathews,
Joe Adcock, Del Crandall, Bill
Bruton and most of the rest of
the championship team are
expected to be on hand for the
7 p.m. game. Aaron will also
play with the old-timers, then
with his present teammates in
the nightcap at 8 p.m.
The Braves Friday night
could have used some pitching
off the 1957 team. Ace Phil Nie
kro, in search of his 16th win,
was ineffective, pitching two
innings and giving up nine hits
and six runs and instead got
saddled with his eighth loss.
The Braves fell behind 4-0 in
the first inning when Bob Bail
ey cracked a three-run homer
and Jose Laboy followed with a
solo shot. The Braves got two
runs back in the second, but by
the fourth were behind 8-2 after
the Expos got single runs in the
second and third and two in the
fourth on Rusty Staub’s two-run
homer.
In their half of the fourth, At
lanta got three runs back when
they loaded the bases with one
out. Pinch-hitter Tito Francona
hit a sacrifice fly for one run
and pinch-hitter Mike Lum dou
bled in the other two. In tho
fifth, Atlanta got another run on
a single by Orlando Cepeda.
> Relievers Gary Neibauer,
Claude Raymond and Pau)
Doyle pitched creditably, but
the game was too far gone by
;the time Atlanta began scoring.
-'Pat Jarvis, 8-7, is scheduled,
to face Jerry Robertson, 2-8, if)
- tonight’s game.
MATHIS UNRETIRES
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (UPD—
Veteran New York Jets running
back Bill Mathis, who retired
two weeks ago, announced
Friday he would return to play
for the Jets because Coach
Weeb Ewbank needed backfield
strength.
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| Standings I
Major League Standings
By United Press International
National League
East
Chicago 61 38 .618 ...
New York 54 40 .574 4>/ 2
St. Louis 51 48 .515 10
Pittsburgh 48 49 .495 12
Philadelphia 40 56 .417 19*/jt
Montreal 32 66 .326 28*/ 2
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Atlanta 57 43. 570 ...
Los Angeles 54 42 .563 1
San Francisco 54 44 .551 2
Cincinnati 49 42 .438 3*/ 2
Houston 49 49 .500 7
San Diego 34 66 .340 23
Friday’s Results
Los Angeles 4 Chicago 2
New York 4 Cincinnati 3
San Diego 3 Pittsburgh 2
Montreal 8 Atlanta 7
Phila 7 Houston 3
St. Louis 2 San F.ran 1, 13 inns.
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Cincinnati (Clonlnger 7-12) at
New York (Seaver 14-5), 4 p.m.
San Diego (Roberts 0-3) at
Pittsburgh (Walker 1-1), 2:15
p.m.
Los Angeles (Singer 13-7) at
Chicago (Hands 11-8), 2:15 p.m.
San Francisco (McCormick 6-
5) at St. Louis (Carlton 12-5),
2:15 p.m.
Montreal (Robertson 2-8) at
Atlanta (Jarvis 8-7), 8 p.m.
Philadelphia (Palmer 1-4) at
Houston (Griffin 5-4), 8:30 p.m.
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ST. LOUlS—Little 2 J-year-old Dan Shannon has helmet trouble to the delight of
his father, St. Louis Cardinals third base man Mike Shannon before the Cards-San
Francisco Giants game . (Bottom) Still looking a little unhappy he adjusts his
helmet and is ready to play baseball. The Cards defeated the Giants 2-1 in 13
innings.
American League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 67 31 .684 ...
Detroit 54 41 .568 ll 1 /?
Boston 55 43 .561 12
Washington 51 52 .495 18'/a
New York 47 53 .470 21
Cleveland 39 60 .394 28>/ 2
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Minnesota 60 38 .612 ...
Oakland 55 39 .585 3
Seattle 41 56 .423 18>/ 2
Kansas City 41 57 .418 19
Chicago 40 58 .408 20
California 37 59 .385 22
Friday’s Results
Baltimore 4 Chicago 2
Detroit 3 Kan City 0
Minn 4 Cleveland 2, 16 inns.
Oakland 4 Wash 3
Calif 6 New York 0
Boston 7 Seattle 6
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Washington (Shellenback 2-5)
at Oakland (Odom 14-3), 4:30
p.m.
New York (Stottlemyre 14-7)
at alifornia (McGlothlin 5-9),
11 p.m.
Boston (Siebert 8-8) at Seattle
(Talbot 5-3), 11 p.m.
Kansas City (Butler 5-5) at
Detroit (Wilson 8-7), 2:15 p.m.
Minnesota (Kaat 10-6) at
Cleveland (Ellsworth 5-5), 1:30
p.m.
Chicago (Horlen 6-11) at
Baltimore (Phoebus 9-3), 8:30
p.m.
Tigers Lose McAuliffe
DETROIT (UPD—The De
troit Tigers will have to make
their belated drive for a second
straight American League pen
nant without the services of
sparkplug Dick McAulliffe.
The gritty second baseman
will undergo surgery Monday
for torn cartilage in his right
knee, the club announced
Finals Today
In Tennis
Tournament
The finals will be played today
at City Park in the Middle Geor
gia Tennis Tournament.
Donna Henry defeated D r u
Dixon 6-3 and 6-4 yesterday In
the 18 and under girls division.
Al Jolly beat Jimmy Whitmire
6-1 and 6-0 in the 18 and under
division. Mark Lane stopped
Scottie Adams 6-2 and 6-1 in the
15 and under division and David
Mathis beat Jimmy Whitmire
6-4 and 6-4 in the same division.
Dow Bailey and Kent Turner
beat Jimmy Whitmire and Char
lie Murphy 6-3 and 6-3 in the 18
and under doubles. Al Jolly and
Mike Ward beat Dave Caswell
and Eddie Smith 6-2 and 6-1.
Molly Shepard and Glenn Es
slinger beat Butch and Dru Dix
on 7-5 and 6-1 in the mixed dou
bles.
Wayne Newton advanced in
the men’s singles with a 6-4 and
8-6 victory over Don Stiles.
WINS GOLF CROWN
AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (UPD—
Sixteen - year -old Sara Jane
Stuhler of Amsterdam won the
New York State Junior Girls
golf crown Friday with a 7 to 6
victory over Ann Sadowski, 17,
of Mechanicsville.
"Tlday, and he will likely miss
the remainder of the season.
McAuliffe, 29, was put on the
emergency disabled list for not
less than 60 days. He has 11
home runs with 33 runs batted
in and a .262 average for the 74
games in which he has
appeared this year.
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The Lady Was An Umpire
NEW YORK — Mrs. Bernice Gera, of Jackson
Heights, N. Y., showns her stuff at her home after
confirming receipt of umpiring contract with New
York—Pennsylvania Class A Baseball League. Con-
Huff’s Violent World
Grows More Violent
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPD—The
violent world of Sam Huff was
a Sunday picnic compared to
this.
There was no Vince Lombar
di for Sam Huff In that other
world. There is in this one.
Sam Huff, ordinarily a fellow
with good sense, returned to
football this summer after
being out a year. That, at 35,
would be rough enough but Huff
really wanted to do it the hard
way. And he did.
All you have to do is take a
trip to Carlisle, Pa., where the
Washington Redskins are in
training to see how hard Huff
has made it for himself by
■coming out of retirement to
serve as player-coach under
Lombardi, also coming out of
"retirement,” so to speak.
Watching Huff or any of the
other Redskins working under
Lombardi can break your spirit
or your heart.
Lombardi’s specialty of the
house happens to be grass drills
and if you don’t know what a
grass drill under Lombardi is,
Sam Huff says he’ll be happy to
explain—just as soon as he
can catch his breath.
"A grass drill is running in
place, then diving on your
stomach, over on your back and
on your feet again running in
place,” Sam Huff says. “It’s
something you don’t look
forward to because Coach
Lombardi gives a lot of ’em.
The most we have done so far
is 43. Forty-three times. On you
belly, on your back, on your
feet and get ’em up high! This
takes a lotta strength. I was
hurtin’ so bad doing ’em one
time the only thing that kept
me going was Sonny Jurgensen.
I looked at Sonny, he’s the
same age as me, maybe a
coupla months older, and he
was still doing ’em. He’s never
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done ’em before, so I thought if
he can do it, I can do it.”
. Mistake No. 1
Huff already admits to
making one mistake about
Lombardi.
"I grossly underrated him,”
he says. “I didn’t think he was
as good as he really Is —and I
rated him very highly original
ly. He is the most dedicated,
motivating, hard-working man
that I have ever seen. The fact
that I’m a player-coach means
I get to sit in on all the
meetings as well as participate
in all the practice sessions, and
that also means I g£t the
real inside an Coach
Lombardi. He’s just the grea
test. There’s no finer person in
the world as a human being
and there’s no finer coach in
the world. I really underrated
him. He’s much better than I
ever thought he could be.”
A typical day for Huff begins
at 7 a.m. when he gets up with
all the rest of the Washington
players.
He has breakfast at 7:30,
then meets with the other
Redskin coaches from 8 to 8:30.
The first thing he does when he
goes out for practice is take
three laps around the field. The
second thing he do e s is
isometric exercises. Then he
practices football for an hour
and a half at which point it's
time for lunch.
One Great Hour
Immediately after lunch,
there’s another meeting until 1
p.m. Huff then has himself a
ball with the only free time he
gets all day. He lies down for
an hour.
Once again it’s back out on
the practice field and after
that, dinner at 6. Then there s
another coaches’ meeting fol
lowed by a regular squad
meeting which runs until 9.
Maybe you don’t believe it but
there’s still another meeting
The Griffin-East Columbus All
Star Babe Ruthers will play to
night at 8 o’clock at the N o t t h
Columbus Field.
The game was scheduled last
■night but it was washed out by
a heavy rain.
The winner of the Griffin-Col
umbus game will play North
Columbus Sunday at 2 p.m. in
the finals of the State Babe Rutti
Tournament.
(UPI TELEPHOTO)
tract ends a three—year battle to break into game’s
previously all male world. First female ump will
start work at Auburn, N. Y.
after that which lasts until
10:45 and then Sam Huff goes
the only possible place he can
to bed.
Huff is convinced it's only a
matter of time until Lmobardi
brings a championship to
Washington and he wants to be
there when that day comes. He
listens closely to everything
Lombardi says and believes
him. v
“He says if you cheat in
practice, you’re cheating on
yourself,” Huff says. And if
you cheat yourself, you’re going
to cheat in the game of life and
cheat on your ballplayers so
that when it comes right down
to those last two minutes in a
game, when you have to suck it
up and give it everything
you’ve got in order to win the
ball game, you’re going to
cheat there, too. As he has said
man y times, fatigue makes
cowards of us all.”
Sam Huff is human. He feels
fatigued sometimes. But he
keeps going anyway. Lombardi
has away of getting a man to
do that because he does it
ask for a better
definition of the word leader.
Susie Berning
Ahead In LPGA
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.
(UPD—Susie Maxwell Berning
had an uneventful round of golf
Friday.
But if she could have her way
every round would be as
uneventful.
Susie had two birdies and a
bogey, said she hit the ball well
and putted Just good enough to
get by. But more important,
she shot a one-under-par 72 to
grab the lead at the midpoint
of the Ladies Professional
Golfers Association (LPGA) 72-
hole championship at the
Concord Hotel.
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