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Anderson, Robertson
Win State Doubles
Griffin sent two tennis players
a to the State Recreation Tourna
ment at Statesboro, Ga. and they
brought home two championship
trophies and one runner-up aw
ard.
* Jerry Anderson won the sing
les, and he and Dave Robertson
won the doubles.
Robertson was runner-up to
i Anderson in the singles.
Robertson opened the tourna
ment with a 6-3 and 6-0 victory
Expos Bow, 8-2
Harris Credits Didier
With Braves’ Success
FV JACK WILKINSON
ATLANTA (UPI) — Luman
Harris took time during a day
off from the baseball wars
today to discuss a big gamble
and a race that’s about as
Jumbled as a bowl of over
turned spaghetti.
Harris, manager of the
Atlanta Braves, has watched
his team win one, then lose one,
but generally come up with that
"must” victory that has kept
the Braves atop the National
League’s Western Division all
season. This doesn’t particular
ly perplex him, although he
wishes the thing would get
settled.
“We’ve got four clubs bat
tling for the pennant and it's
going to be hard for anybody to
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over Bill Richardson of Jesup.
He beat Charles Ware of Albany,
6-1 and 6-0.
Anderson defeated Richard
Folger of Albany 6-0 and 6-1 and
stopped Jack Roth of Savan
nah 6-1 and 6-0.
Those victories put Anderson
and Robertson In the finals of
the men's singles.
Anderson won the singles
championship by defeating Ro
bertson, 8-6 and 6-1.
gain on anybody else very
much,” he said. “Somebody’s
going to have to get hotter’n a
firecracker. We win one day,
V-on foil back the next. You
can’t hope for all of those
teams to lose. They did the
oth»r c’a” and we went two
games ahead —and that was a
he”uva lead.”
The Braves, Jinxed most of
the season by the Montreal
Exnos, broke the "spell”
Sunday w’th a seven-run
outburst that meant an 8-2
victory and kent them one
came ah~ad of Los Angeles.
•San F’-enclsco and Cl"c’nn«tl
were stl’l c’ose at t’ ,o ir he°ls.
“Th!« thin’ is Inter
esting.” he mused.
Much of th“ Braves’ success
this season Harris lavs to the
emer<rln<» faints O* T >ob D'd’et,
a 20-v«>ar-oid rookie catcher
from Hattiesburg. Ml®s. T” n”’v
his third year in organized ball,
Didier Is becoming a major
league star.
“Bob’s got an excellent
chance of being rookie of the
year,” Harris said. “He wants
to be a big league plaver and
he's taken advantage of his big
chance. It was a big eamble —
trading away Joe Torre and
replacing him with a rookie.
Whv, if we still had Torre, Bob
wouldn't have got a tumble.
But, he got the chance, and
he’s made the most of It.
Anderson and Robertson won
their first doubles match by de
fault.
They then defeated Charles
Ware and Richard Folger of Al
bany, 6-1 and 6-0.
The Grlfflnites defeated a Sta- I
tesboro team 6-1 and 6-0 in t h e
finals.
Anderson and Robertson were/
sponsored to the State Tourna
ment by RBM Motors of Griffin.
“And, the biggest thing about
him is his belief in what he’s
doing,” Harris said. “You can
practice until your head falls
off, but if you don’t believe that
what you’re doing is right,
“Bob Is going to make a lot
of money out of this game.”
Harris gives Didier some
credit for the success of
knuckleball pitcher Phil Niekro,
who has won 15 games.
“He has taken one of the
hardest pitchers to catch and
helped him become one of the
best pitchers in the league,”
Harris said.
Didier, a switchhitter batting
about .280, collected two hits
Sunday in the Braves’ splurge
against Montreal. The big
blows, however, were struck by
Rico Carty, who slammed a
two-run homer to breax a 1-1
tie and ignite the seven-run
seventh, and Felix Millan, who
opened the Inning with a walk
and then capped it with a two
run triple.
Jim Britton, the big ex-
Marine who held the Expos to
two hits during his seven-inning
stint, was the winner and now
is 5-1. His opponent, Steve
Reko, got both those hits and
handcuffed the Braves with
hitless pitching for four and
one-third Innings after Clete
Boyer’s solo homer In the
second —until the roof caved in
In the seventh.
The Braves open a series
Tuesday night at Philadelphia
with a doubleheader. Niekro
and Milt Pappas are slated to
start against Rick Wise and Bill
Champion.
East Columbus
Beats Griffin
The 1969 baseball season end
ed Saturday for the Griffin Babe
Ruth League.
Its 14 and 15-year-old All-Stars
were eliminated from the State
Tournament by East Columbus.
The final score was East Colum
bus 6 and Griffin 1.
Keith Tate was Griffin’s start
ing pitcher. Darrell Jones work
ed in relief.
Griffin was the victim of a two
hitter.
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Mets Win
TW Crown
The Mets won the Ted Will
iams League championship Sat
urday by beating the Dodgers,
8-7.
Dave Rumph, with relief help
from Tim Lemons, was the win
ning pitcher. They struck out
seven, walked 10 and gave up se
ven hits.
Mathis, Denton,
Phipps Win Titles
Jack Phipps defeated Al Jolly,
4-6 6-0 and 6-4 Saturday to win
the 18 and under singles in the
Middle Georgia Tennis Tourna
ment.
Mike Ward and Al Jolly took
the doubles with a 6-0 and 7-5
victory over Dow Bailey and
Kent Turner.
Libby Denton beat Cindy Pe
terson 6-4 and 7-5 to win the 18
and under girls singles.
She advanced to the finals by
stopping Mary Beth Westmore
land 6-1 and 6-2. Cinly defeated
Post 15 Belts
Conyers, 13-5
Butch Bell pitched and batted
Griffin Post 15 to a 13-5 victory
over Convers yesterday.
Bell pitched a five-hitter that
Included 10 strike outs. He drove,
in four runs with a home run
and two singles.
Griffin scored 13 runs on eight
hits and made three errors.
Conyers scored five runs oft
five hits and made six errors.
Allen McCullough was Cony
ers’ losing pitcher. He fanned
two and walked seven.
In addition to Bell’s home run
and two singles, David Shirah
hit two singles and had two
RBl’s, John Sikes doubled and
Gary Pugh and Kenneth Hand
singled.
Terry Shaw hit two singles for
Conyers. Willie Gillstrap, Mike
Matthews and Allen McCullough
hit singles.
Floyd Tames
‘Monster’
AKRON, Ohio (UPD—Brash
Raymon Floyd had that
certain feeling and told a few
people that he was ready,
willing and able to conquer
“the monster” and the field in
the *125,000 American Golf
Classic.
“But none of the press
believed me. I didn’t see
anything in the Akron and
Cleve la n d papers,” Floyd
quipped. "Maybe they’ll believe
me now.”
Never had the par-70, 7,180-
yard Firestone Country Club
course been manhandled the
way the 28-year-old pro from
Lake Hav us u City, Ariz.
brought the long and treache
rous monster to its knees with
a record-shattering 12-under-par
268.
Floyd blazed home Sunday in
five-under 33-32—65 for a four
stroke victory over former
PGA champion Bobby Nichols
who fired a final 34-33—67.
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Terry Parker pitched a o n e
hitter in a losing role. He struck
out seven and walked seven.
Tim Lemons doubled for the
Mets’ only hit.
Steve Mills hit a triple for the
Dodgers. Bruce Wells and Bill
Alford hit two singles and Ter
ry Parker and Earnest Adams
singled.
Donna Henry 6-1 and 6-2 in the
semi-finals.
David Mathis won the 15 and
under singles with a 6-0 and 6-2
victory over Mark Lane.
Libby Denton and Donna Hen
ry won the girls doubled with a
6-4 and 6-1 victory over Cindy
Peterson and Julie Martinson.
Donald Hankinson beat Wayne
Newton in the men’s singles 6-3
and 6-1.
Jerry Anderson and Dave Ro
bertson won the men’s doubles
by default.
Betsy Rawls
Wins LPGA
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KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y.
(UPI) —Hitting her shots perfect
ly and putting deftly, 41-year
‘ old Betsy Rawls of Spartan
burg, S.C., became the oldest
golfer to ever win the Ladies
Professional Golfers Associa
tion championship Sunday.
“It was one of the best
rounds I’ve ever played,” said
Betsy after taming the Concord
Hotel’s championship course in
two-under-par 71 for a three
stroke victory over Carol Manr
and Susie Maxwell Berning.
“To play this course without
taking a bogey is reallj
something,” she added, a bi(
smile crossing her face. Thi
victory, in addition to earning
Betsy the $5,250 first place
check, was her 50th in 18 years
on the LPGA tour.
She last won the LPGA
championship in 1959—when
first place was worth a mere
i sl,247—and two years later
t Louise Suggs became the oldest
champion at 33.
Marlene Hagge, who shared
the third-rund lead with Miss
Mann at even-par, had trouble
around the greens and shot a 79
to finish fourth at 298.
LaGrange,
Midway Play
Today At 6:30
The LaGrange Americans will
play Midway today at 6:30 in ths
Sub-Sectional Tournament at
Jackson. (The sub-sectional is
the first round of the State Tour
nament.)
The winner of the game in
Jackson will advance to the State
Tournament Wednesday at Smy
rna.
The tournament starts at 4 p.
m. and the winner of the Jack
son game plays at 6 p.m.
Model Plane
Club Meet
Thursday
A Model Airplane Club will be
organized here Thursday at a
meeting at the Griffin Commun
ity Center. The meeting will be
gin at 7:30.
All those interested in forming
a Model Airplane Club are invi
ted.
Griffin Daily News
Lady Umpire Will Keep
Mask On During Fights
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPl)—Mrs,
Bernice Gera, a demure, hard
working housewife, remembers
the first time she ever was
asked for her autograph.
A little hoy was the one
requesting It and when she
asked him why In the world
would he want her signature, he
said:
“My tnommie told me to get
it because you’re the only lady
vampire in the world.”
Barring a last minute hitch,
38-year-old Bernice officially
becomes the first and only
female umpire in professional
baseball history this Friday at
Auburn, N.Y.
If you’re planning to be
around that vicinity, you
probably won’t have too much
trouble picking her out from
among all the other baseballers
who’ll be participating in
Frl d a y’s New York - Penn
League contest between Auburn
and Corning.
She'll be the only one on the
field with the...uh...lipstick.
Battles Two Years
Bernice battled in and out of
court more than two years to
crack baseball’s seX line for
umpires and says she can tell
you right now how she’ll feel
suiting up for Friday’S historic
assignment.
"Nervous,” She promises.
“The same way the astronauts
felt. I originally found out about
my assignment While watching
the splashdown on TV and when
I opened the mail and saw what
was in it I felt as if I had just
left for the moon myself.”
There is still a possibility
Mrs. Gera’s umpiring contract
might not be approved by the
National Association of Profes
sfonal Baseball Leagues. Phil .
Piton, the association president, i
merely Says “no comment”
when asked whether he intends
approving or disapproving the
contract.
Ten years or so ago one of
the ball clubs signed a woman
to a professional playing
contract in the Inter-State
League but she never got to
play because the late George
Trautman, Piton’s predecessor,
turned thumbs down on the
whole business.
Mrs. Gera, who had to take
her fight to the New York State
Human Rights Commission and
enlist the help of Rep. Mario
Biaggi, D-N.Y., to gain employ
ment as a professional umpire,
is proceeding on the theory her
contract will be approved.
Arrangements To Dress
“I understand they have
made some arrangements
where I can dress,” she says.
She’s right. They have. She’ll
dress for the ball game in her
blues at the hotel where she’ll
be staying and then meet her
fellow umpires in the Auburn
general manager’s office. Pre
sent plans call for her to work
the bases until she makes her
first swing around the league
after which she’ll call balls and
strikes.
What about profanity?
“I’ve heard it all," Mrs. Gera
says.
Does she think of herself as
an umpire first or a woman
when she hears it?
“Nobody likes that kind of
language but any time I hear it
on the ball field I think of
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myself first as an umpire.”
Have any ballplayers ever
asked her for a date?
“Yes,” she says, quite
businesslike, “but they know
umpires don’t fraternize.”
Do the players ever try to get
fresh with her?
“Not too often,” she says. “I
had a batter step into the
batter’s box and asked the
catcher if he was wearing his
sjjp today. I’ve also had them
say to me ‘Hey, sweetie, what’s
the count?’ I’d Just rather them
call me umpire or Miss
Umpire.”
Bernice was graduated from
the Florida Baseball School for
Umpires three years ago and
didn’t originally get the idea to
become one from all the girls
who became jockeys this year.
Loves Baseball
“I’ve been in baseball since I
was 8 or 9 years old,” she says.
“Either playing it and being
around it. I used to put on
hitting exhibitions and I’ve hit
some balls as far as 350 feet.
No, not with- a fungo stick, I
Standings
By United Press international
Nat,io»’il League
.East
Chicago 62 39 .614 ...
:’ew York 55 41 .573 4»/ 2
St. Louis 52 49 .515 10
Pittsburgh 50 49 .505 11
Philadelphia 40 58 .408 2O'/ Z
Montreal 33 67 .330 28%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Atlanta 58 44 .569 ...
Los Angeles 55 43 .561 1
San Fran 55 45 .550 2
Cincinnati 50 43 . 538 3%
Houston 51 49 .510 6
San Diego 34 68 .333 24
Sunday’s Results
Cincinnati 6 New York 3
Pittsburgh 4 San Diego 1
Los Angeles 6 Chicago 2
St. Louis 8 San Fran 2
Houston 3 Phila 2, 11 inns.
Atlanta 8 Montreal 2
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(AU Times EDT)
San Francisco (Bryan 2-0 or
McCormick 6-5) at Chicago
(Hands 11-8), 2:30 p.m.
San Diego (Kelly 4-5) at St.
Louis (Taylor 2-0), 9 p.m.
(Only games scheduled)
American League
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 69 31 .690 ...
Detroit 55 42 .567 12%
Boston 56 44. 560 13
Washington 52 53 .495 19%
New York 48 54 .471 22
Cleveland 40 61 .396 29%
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Minnesota 61 39 .610 ...
Oakland 56 40 . 583 / 3
Seattle 42 57 .424 18%
Kansas City 42 58 .420 19
Chicago 40 60 .400 21
California 38 60 .388 22
Sunday’s Results
Minnesota 8 Cleveland 7 Balti
more 17 Chicago 0 Kan City 7
Detroit 2
Oakland 7 Washington 2
California 5 New York 4
Boston 5 Seattle 3, 20 inns.
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
(No games scheduled)
mean with someone pitching to
me. In the beginning, my
husband, Steve, couldn’t see me
becoming an umpire but now
he's all for it. Why am I so
anxious to be one? I
love baseball and want to do a
good job.”
Mrs. Gera gave a talk here
the other night find somebody;
in the audience asked her what
she'd do if a fight broke out on
the field, as one did in Montreal
10 days ago. Umpire Billy
Williams took a good lick on
the chm from Expo catcher
Ron Brand after he removed
his mask during the brawl.
"Well,” said Mrs. Gera, “the
first thing I wouldn’t do is
remove my mask.”
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make a good umpire. Name
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