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| Standings
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National League
East
Chicago 63 39 .619 ..
New York 55 41 .573 5
St. Louis 53 49 .520 10
Pittsburgh 50 49 .505 U*/ 2
Philadelphia 40 58 .408 21
Montreal 33 67 .330 29
WeStv W. L. Pct. GB
Atlanta 58 44. 569 ...
Los Angeles 55 43 .561 1
San -Francisco 55 46 .545 2%
Cincinnati 50 43 .538 3M:
Houston 51 4o .510 6
San t)iego 34 69 .330 24>/ 2
Monday’s Results
Chicago 4 San Francisco 3
St. Louis 2 San Diego 1
(Only games scheduled)
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EOT)
Houston (Wilson 11-7 and
Dierker 12-8) at New York
(Gentry 0-8 and Koosman 8-5)
2, 6:05 p.m.
Atlanta (Niekro 15-8 and
Pappas 4-8) at Philadelphia
(Champion 3-5 and Wise 7-9) 2,
6:05 p.m.
Los Angeles (Sutton 12-10 and
Foster 3-5) at Pittsburgh
(Veale 5-11 and Ellis 7-10) 2,
6:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Perry 12-7) at
Chicago (Holtzman 12-5), 2:30
p.m.
San Diego (Santorini 5-9) at
St. Louis (Briles 10-9), 9 p.m.
Montreal (Stoneman 6-12) at
Cincinnati (Maloney 4-2), 8:05
p.m.
American League
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 69 31 .690 ...
Detroit 55 42 .567 12>/ 2
Boston 56 44 .560 13
Was' ngton 52 53 .495 19>/ 2
New York 48 54 .471 22
Ceveland 40 61 .396 29>/ 2
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Minnesota 61 39 .610 ...
Oakland 56 40 .583 3
Seattle 42 57 .424 18>/ a
Kansas City 42 58 .420 19
Chicago 40 60 .400 21
California 38 60 .388 22
monday’s Results
(No games scheduled)
today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
New York (Bahnsen 6-11) at
Oakland (Blue 0-1), 10:30 p.m.
Boston (Nagy 6-2) at Califor
nia (Murphy 6-10), 11 p.m.
Washington (Coleman 7-8) at
Seattle (Segui 7-4), 11 p.m.
Baltimore (Cuellar 11-9) at
Kansas City (Bunker 5-7), 8:30
p.m.
Detroit (Lolich 14-2 and
McLain 15-5) at Minnesota
(Perry 11-5 and Boswell 11-9) 2,
6:30 p.m.
Chicago (Carlos 4-2 and John
6-9) at Cleveland (Hargan 2-8
and Tlant 8-11) 2, 5:30 p.m.
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Tarkenton Isn't Exactly
The Opposite of Namath
FAIRFIELD, Conn.—(NEA)—The problem for Fran
Tarkenton as a quarterback of rank and note is quite
simple. Frank Gifford synthesized it right after the Super
Bowl game. “Before he makes all-pro,” said Frank, “he’s
got to make all-city.”
There is another quarterback in New York besides Fran
of the Giants. An ex-restaurateur who wears bell bottoms
and drinks Johnnie Walker Red Label.
Joe Namath has set an image pattern for big city quarter
backs that has made Fran Tarkenton, scrambler though
he is, look about as exciting as an unmanned module.
All of which is unfortunate. It is a well chronicled fact
that Fran’s father is a Methodist minister. That Fran is
an active member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes.
That he is sedately married and a devoted parent (Sport
Father of the Year.) That the only thing he pushes is
Coca Cola. — -
But don’t put Fran baby
in a square truss. He’s not
all that sacrosanct. If you
look closely, you can see
the hair sticking out from
under the back of his
helmet, which shocks the
neighbors back in Georgia
but signifies that Fran’s
with it in Manhattan. The
sideburns grow longer. The
hair’s teased. The ties are
striped and wide, the suits
nattily double breasted.
Fran’s mod enough.
He has been to see
“Hair.” In Los Angeles, he
makes the scene at “The
Factory.” He goes out on
the town with the other
guys. They’ll swig the
strong stuff, but they won’t
laugh any louder than
Fran.
And his language is ap-
propriate to the occasion. When he was with the Min
nesota Vikings, there was one little episode in which the
Vikes, about to upset the Green Bay Packers, had two
touchdown passes in the end zone called back in the final
moments of play. When the whistle blew, Fran sought out
the referee. All the way from the middle of the field to
the dressing room, he chattered in the official’s ear. The
dialogue consisted of three words. All four letters each.
Repeated in rotation at one-second intervals. You can hear
them any night—if you shell out $25 for “Oh Calcutta.”
Or re-read “Portnoy’s Complaint.”
In other words, Fran has never been hampered around
the football troops by being a goody-goody. He passed mus
ter for toughness long ago, much the same way Bart Starr,
another gentle Southern boy. proved himself to the Green
Bay Packers. A big Chicago Bear linebacker once ground
Starr into the dirt on a blitz, then hovered over him and
growled, “That’s what you’ll get ail afternoon, pussycat.”
Starr looked up and in a quick burst of imperative
profanity told the linebacker off. A couple of yards away,
Jerry Kramer, the Packer guard-author chortled, “Hell,
until then I never ever heard Bart say ‘damn.’ ”
The whole point here is that Tarkenton.is no pale contrast
to the folk hero of the Jets when it comes to being a posi
tive personality because, first of all, no one can be a truly
big league personality without being assertive.
Furthermore, though Broadway Joe franchises and the
whole bit add up to a big bundle of money for Namath, no
one is going to hold benefits for Tarkenton. He could be
the most astute businessman among all the men playing
professional sports. He is already the highest paid player
in long Giant history (with an estimated annual contract
for $75,000).
He is now incorporated into a conglomerate called
Tarkenton Ventures, Inc., which includes real estate, pro
motion, television and some other diversified enterprises.
He will also, of course, resume his weekly syndicated
column for Newspaper Enterprise Association, offering
pointed comments on the latest happenings in the world of
organized violence.
It all helps salve the disappointment of not making All-
City.
Tommy Aaron
Wins Tourney
MONTREAT. (DPn_A noir __ . . . .
MONTREAL (UPI)—A pair
of Southern gentlemen played a
round of golf here Monday,
with about *IO,OOO riding on the
outcome, and at times seemed
to be so polite they might have
been trying to give the match
away.
But Tommy Aaron, the slim
Fran Tarkenton
quiet, 32-year-old from Calla
way Gardens, Ga., finally got
down to business on the last
few holes and won the match,
the Canadian Open title, and
$25,000.
Sam Snead, 57, who has been
at this Southern gentility bit
longer, will take $14,300 home
to Hot Springs, Va. Snead shot
a par 72 on the Pinegrove
Country Club course Monday,
losing the 18-hole playoff to
Aaron by two strokes.
Aaron forced the playoff
when he came from, six strokes
back with a record-breaking
final-round 64 to tie Snead for
first place at 275, 13 under par,
after the regulation 72 holes
Sunday.
Billy Casper was third, and
Japan's Takaakl Kono fourth.
Tied for fifth were Canadian Al
Balding and 1968 Canadian
Open winner Bob Charles.
A gallery of about 4,000
turned out to watch Snead and
Aaron play In humid, windy
weather Monday.
Four-in-One
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
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league player to hit four homers
in a game. The San Francisco
Giants outfielder clouted four
home runs on April 30, 1961.
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THE FIRST TIME: Ted Williams
'I Didn't Start Playing
Until I Was in Junior High'
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By LEE
MUELLER,
NEA Sports
Writer
Every athlete begins as a
small boy. The day he dis
covers his first football, his
first baseball, or first bas
ketball is one of the most
important of his life. In the
last installment of a five
part series, Lee Mueller de
scribes Ted Williams’ first
experiences with a baseball
bat.
NEW YORK—(NEA)— The
people who lived on Utah
Street that summer became
accustomed to looking out
through their screen doors in
the evening and seeing short,
13-year-old Wilbur Wiley and
tall, 11-year-old Ted Wil
liams walk past.
Williams, like all boys who
grow up too quickly, moved
with the grace of a man
wading a creek. Over his
thin body, he wore light
pants and a loosely fitting
shirt. Unlike his companion,
Ted Williams always wore
shoes.
“Ted never went bare
footed, I remember that,”
Wilbur Wiley recalls. “A lot
of kids in San Diego did, but
Ted could never bring him
self to it.”
Ted Williams, you see, has
never been exactly thick
skinned . . . any place.
In his autobiography, “My
Turn At Bat,” Williams calls
Wiley “my first real boy
hood pal.” They lived only a
block from each other, at
tended the same grade
school and shot pool fre
quently on Wiley’s table.
When Wilbur completed his
newspaper route in the eve
nings, he and Williams
would meet and walk to the
nearby North Park play
ground.
Wilbur Wiley says Ted
Williams practically raised
himself. “His mother and
father were wonderful peo
ple,” explained Wiley, now a
San Diego realtor, “but his
mother devoted practically
all of her time to the Salva
tion Army and his father had
a photo shop that kept him
busy night and day.” Ted
Golf Grand Slam
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1937 and 1938. Rod Laver
of Australia is the only other
player to win the Australian,
French, English and U.S, crowns,.
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The year is 1929 and some
how (luring the time that
Williams has been coming to
the playground, he has
played only softball. This
day, however, there is a
pepper game among the five
Talamante brothers—with a
baseball.
“The first time I batted, I
really slugged it,” Williams
recalls. “I loved the feel.
After that, I couldn’t wait to
get out of school to run down
to the playground to play
pepper with them.
“One of the rules was that
if you caught the ball on the
fly while you were in the
field, you won a time at bat.
Hitting was the thing for me
and, since I was tall, I sure
took advantage of it . . .
leaping around, knocking
people over.
“At the time, though, I re
member thinking it still
wasn’t more fun than play
ing softball.
“I really didn’t start play
ing baseball until I was 13
and in junior high school. I
remember once hitting a
baseball and overhearing
some older kid behind me
say, ‘You know, that kid has
good wrists.’
“I heard that and I said,
‘Well, you just wait ’til next
time!’ Then I started prac
ticing to show how good my
wrists really were.”
(“Ted always called a
spade a spade,” says Wilbur
Wiley. “He never put up a
false front.”)
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