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ATLANTA—Braves catcher Hal King goes in hard on Cards second baseman Julian Jaiver in a
vain attempt to stop a fourth inning double play. Umpire is Bob Engel (UPI)
Hank’s knee is better
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPl)—One of the
few bright spots for the Atlanta
Braves who have lost 14 of
their last 19 games has been
the improved condition of Hank
Aaron’s knee.
Aaron, “running better than
I have in a month,” had four
straight hits, including two dou
bles Monday night and raised
his average (.310) above the
.300 mark for the first time this
season.
But ttie Braves outfielder
wasn’t satisfied.
“I needed a fifth hit, the oth
ers weren’t enough,” Aaron
groused after the St. Louis Car
dinals rallied with a four-run
ninth inning and went on to
beat Atlanta, 7-6, in 10 innings.
The Braves were leading 5-2
when Aaron left the game in
the seventh. His substitute, Son
ny Jackson, came up with two
on and one out in the eight—
and bounced into a double play.
“But it doesn’t mean much
when we’re not winning,” said
Aaron.
Despite his sore knee which
is being drained about once a
week, Hank Aaron is second in
the National League in home
SF, Kiwanis winners
Rotary and Pomona battled to
a 23-23 tie in Tee League action
yesterday. State Farm defeated
Varsity Sports Center 12-7 and
Whitmire’s defeated Dundee 23-
11. Kiwanis shot down Specialty
Products 19-5.
Dale Roberts had three
singles and a double and
Douglas Thornton had a homer
and two triples for Rotary.
Danny Fennell had four singles
and Chris Chesser had a double
and three singles for Pomona.
Kirby Adkerson had three
Tech,
Archer,
BP win
Griffin Tech blasted Mays 23-
3 and Archer’s poured it on
VFW 27-4 in the Commercial
Softball League last night.
Martin’s BP defeated Varsity 9-
8.
Larry Brindley had two
homers and two singles for
Griffin Tech. May Neal had a
homer, triple and single. Jim
Lynch had two singles and
David Reems had a triple for
May’s.
Johnny Kitchens had two
homeruns and a triple for Ar
cher’s. Lawrence Moore had a
homer and single. Willie Ison
and Jackie Baugh had two
homers for VFW.
Eddie Bethune had three
singles and Stan Varnadoe had
two doubles for Martin’s. Ken
Strickland had a double and
homer for Varsity. Bobby
Pierce had two homers and a
single for Varsity.
runs (17) and runs batted in
(43) and appears, at age 37, to
be enroute to another fine year.
“The knee feels pretty good
right now,” said Aaron. “But
after four or five more games,
I know I’ll have to take a
break. I’ll probably have to
have the knee drained again
the water builds back up.”
Aaron doesn’t like to talk
about it but it’s obvious that
the knee worries him. Practical
ly injury free during his first 17
years in the majors, the knee
could slow his career batting
feats.
With 609 home runs, Aaron
has a shot at Babe Ruth’s rec
ord of 714. If his knee holds up
for three or four more seasons
he also could wind up the lead
er in many other categories.
Two other Braves had four
hits Monday night. Ralph Garr,
who regained the National
League batting lead at .360, and
Zolio Versalles, the shortstop
the Braves brought back from
Mexico, both had two doubles
and two singles.
“What good did it do,” grum
bled displeased Atlanta Manag
er Luman Harris. “I know ex
actly who got the hits. And I
also know who made all the
singles and Ray Lemans had a
double and a homer for State
Farm. Artie Wheeler had three
singles and Earl Rowe had a
triple and single for Varsity.
Roger Jones had a homer and
a single and Troy Smith had
three singles for Whitmire’s.
VFW wins first half
in split BR season
VFW won the first half of the
split Babe Ruth season with a 6-
1 record. Kiwanis finished
second with five wins and two
losses.
Randall-Blakely was third
with a 4-2-1 record. Elks and
WHIE were 3-3-1, Spalding Gas
2-4-1, Eagles 1-4-2 and Dundee 1-
6.
Eagles lead the first half
hitting with a .283 team aver
age. The Eagles had 54 hits in
191 at bats.
Kiwanis batted .266 as a team.
VFW hit .234, Randall-Blakely
and Elks hit .211, WHIE .189,
Spalding Gas .179 and Dundee
.138.
Richard Buckalew of Kiwanis
was the leading hitter with a
.519 average. Fifteen other
players batted .304 or better.
Besides Buckalew, they
were:
Chuck Dunn, Eagles, .444;
Mark Terrell, Eagles, .435;
Rusty Stonica, Randall-
Blakely, .429; Tony Wells, Elks,
.389; Marty Varna doe, Elks,
.364; David Pitts, Spalding Gas,
.364; Jim Kierbow, Dundee,
.350; Gene Smith, WHIE, .333;
Billy Moore, Kiwanis, .320;
bad plays.”
It was an unusual game.
Cardinal Manager Red Schoen
dienst, who could afford to
laugh about it since St. Louis
came out on top and held on to
a half game lead over Pitts
burgh in the National League
East, called it “one of the
weirdest games I’ve ever
seen.”
The winning Cardinals gave
up 13 hits and six bases on
balls, threw four wild pitches
and committed a couple of er
rors. They seemed well out of
it until the ninth when Ted
Sizemore and Jerry McNertney
both hit two-run doubles after
two were out.
McNertney’s double was hit
off Bob Priddy who had just
come on in relief, had a two
strike, no - ball count and
grooved the ball.
“McNertney obviously lulled
Priddy to sleep,” said Harris.
“I know what he was thinking,
that since he wasn’t swinging
he’d slip one past him. It made
me mad. It was dumb base
ball.”
“If you want to win a pen
nant, you’ve got to win games
like that once in awhile,” said
Schoendienst.
Scott Morris had a double and
James Peadan a single for
Dundee.
Kenneth Smith had two
homers and two singles for
Kiwanis. Brian Wood had two
singles. Anthony Stewart had
two singles and Phil Buckalew
had a homer for Specialty.
Phillip McCrary, VFW, .318;
Ranald Fouts, Eagles, .318;
Mark Gatlin, Kiwanis, .313; Ken
Crawford, Kiwanis, .308; Tony
Coker, WHIE, .304; Clemon
Ector, VFW, .304.
(Stan Treadway of Spalding
Gas hit the only home run of the
first half. He batted .294, getting
five hits in 17 at bats.)
Ken Crawford of VFW had the
best pitching record during the
first half. He won three games
while going unbeaten. He struck
out 22 and walked 20 in 29 inn
ings.
Ken Crawford of Kiwanis and
David Skrine of Elks had 2-0 re
cords. Crawford struck out 24
and walked 12 in 25 innings and
Skrine fanned 23 and walked 31
in 15 innings.
Billy Moore, Chuck Dunn,
Wayne Kendall, Dennis Pugh
and Terry Dunn were 1-0. Craig
Weldon of Randall-Blakely had
a 2-1 record as did Clemon
Ector of VFW.
Dunn had the most strike outs
31 in 21 innings and Skrine’s 31
walks were the most by a pit
cher.
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SPORTS
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Tennis tourney
opens June 14
The Griffin Tennis Associa
tion will sponsor its second an
nual Griffin Junior Hardcourt
Championship Tournament be
ginning June 14 at noon at City
Park.
The tournament is sanctioned
by the Southern Lawn Tennis
Association and the U. S. Lawn
Tennis Association.
Eighty of the top tennis play
ers from Georgia and surround
ing states played in last year’s
tournament. More than 80 play-
VEALE HURT
CHICAGO (UPI) — Relief
pitcher Bob Veale of the
Pittsburgh Pirates suffered a
shoulder injury and had to be
lifted in the fifth inning of
Monday’s game with the
Chicago Cubs. Veale said it
wasn’t a pulled muscle but the
Pirates weren’t immediately
able to diagnose whether or not
the injury is serious.
The Braves and Cardinals
meet again tonight with Pat Jar
vis, a disappointing 1-7, going
against Steve Carlton, 10-2 and
the ace of the St Louis staff
now that Bob Gibson is one the
disabled list.
St.. Louis Atlanta
ab r h bi ab r h bl
Brock If 5 0 0 0 Millan 2b 5 0 0 0
Alou cf 4 2 2 0 Garr If 6 3 4 0
Simmons c 4 12 1 Aaron rs 4 0 4 2
Torre 3b 512 1 Jackson cf 10 0 0
Cardenal rs 50 1 0 Cepeda 1b 30 0 1
Hague 1b 5 110 Barber p 00 0 0
Javier 2b 30 0 0 King c 30 0 0
Lee pb 1 0 0 0 Williams 3b 4 0 1 0
Drabwsky p 1 0 0 0 Lum cf 4 0 0 0
Sizemore ss 4 1 2 2 Versalles ss 5 2 4 0
Melendez pr 0 1 0 0 Reed p $ 1 0 0
Maxvill ss 00 0 0 Priddy p 00 0 0
Torrez p 2 0 11 Evans 3b 10 0 0
Llnzy p 0 0 0 0
Shaw p 0 0 0 0
Burdant 10 0 0
Arroyo p 0 0 0 0
McNrtny ph 1 0 1 2
Schofield 2b 0 0 0 0
Totals 41 7 12 7 Totals 38 6 13 3
St. Louis 000 011 004 1 — 7
Atlanta 100 001 310 0— 6
E—Versalles, Cardenal, Hague. DP—St.
Louis 2. LOB—St. Louis 6, Atlanta 11.
2B—Garr 2, Aaron 2, Versalles 2,
Torrez, Sizemore, McNertney. SPB—Alou,
S—Reed 2. SF—Cepeda.
Torrez 6 13 9 5 5 2 0
Llnzy 0 10 0 10
Shaw 2-3 0 0 0 11
Arroyo 121110
Drabowsky W 3 0 2 1 0 0 1 2
Reed 8 2-3 9 6 6 1 8
Priddy L 2-2 2-3 3 11 0 1
Barber 2-3 0 0 0 0 2
Linzy pitched to 2 batters in 7th;
HBP7By Priddy (Alou ) WP—Linzy,
Shaw, Arroyo, Drabowsky. Balk—Reed T
—3:06. A—10,354.
Wildwood
Church
winner
Wildwood blanked South Side
14-0 in the Church Softball Lea
gue last night. New Hope edged
Highland Baptist 12-10 and Mid
way outlasted Crestview 18-10.
Gary Thompson had a single
and double for Wildwood.
Tommy Shockley had two
singles. Jim Allen had two
singles and Steve Mills one for
South Side.
Charles LaPrade had two
singles for New Hope. Tony
Pitts had a double and two
singles. Jepp Childs had a
homer and triple for Highland.
Henry Harmon had three
singles and a double.
Johnny Wells had three
doubles and Marty Hendrix a
homer and single for Midway.
Brown Goodin had a homer and
single and Charles Mote three
singles for Crestview.
I Sports Briefs |
By United Press International
ALVAREZ BETTER
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI)-Dr.
Vincente Alvarez of Buenos
Aires, injured critically in an
accident at the start of the
Indianapolis 500, took a turn for
the better Monday. His doctor
said he was “definitely im
proved.”
PINIELLA BACK
KANSAS CITY (UPl)—The
Kansas City Royals Monday
took Lou Pinidla off the
disabled list. Piniella fractured
his thumb May 4 while batting
against Cleveland.
ers are expected to enter this
year’s tourney.
Entries close Friday. Players
may register with James Whit
mire or Frank Jolly.
Local favorites are Al Jolly,
D & S,Exchange
post L.L. wins
Drug and Surgical Shop de
feated Spalding Knitting Mill 6-4
and Exchange Club raked over
First National Bank 11-3 in two
Little League National games
at city park last night.
Keith Currington, one of three
pitchers to work for Drug and
Surgical, picked up the win,
Mike Estes and Thomas Akins
also were on the mound for D &
S. Tim Steward went the dis
tance for Spalding Knitting Mill
and was charged with the loss.
D & S piled up seven hits and
made two errors. Spalding had
three hits and three errors.
The D & S hitters were Wayne
White, Billy Blasingim and
Dickie Green with singles,
Kenneth Roberts with a homer
and a single and Keith Curring
ton with two singles.
Alvin Kendall had a single
and triple for Spalding Knitting
Mill and Reggie Touchstone had
a single.
The action left Hobbs Phar
macy at the top of the standings
with a 12 and 0 record. Spalding
ranks second with a 65 record
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WHIE of the Griffin Bowling League recently placed 11th out
of 1,718 teams in Division Two of the Women’s International
Bowling Congress tournament in Atlanta. The Griffin team
received a check for $550. Members of the team are (1-r) Sis
Wilhelm Retire? Someday, Maybe...
By IRA BERKOW
NEA Sports Editor
NEW YORK— (NEA) —
Hoyt Wilhelm, with little en
thusiasm, said that it’s like
being on vacation. It was al
most June and Wilhelm was
still home in Columbus, Ga..
while the Atlanta Braves
were on the road in New
York, in Montreal, in St.
Louis.
’ What do you do to occupy
your days?" he was asked
by telephone.
“What does anybody do?"
he replied, sharply.
"I don’t know.”
“Go fishin’."
"What have you been
catching?”
"Not much.”
Hoyt Wilhelm, who will be
48 years old in July, also ran
some every day to keep his
legs and wind in shape. He
threw a baseball almost
every day, too. He threw to
some local high school kids,
and he threw to his 13-year
old son, Jimmy. He threw
just straight stuff, he said,
and not his famed knuckle
ball. which even major
leaguers have trouble catch
ing. (A rookie with the White
Sox several years ago dis
dained a mask when warm
ing up Wilhelm and re
ceived a black eye on the
first pitch. >
Wilhelm, placed on the dis
abled list by the Braves be
fore the 1971 season started,
threw his knucklebal) only in
batting practice when the
Braves were home.
Jimmy Whitmire and Sonny
Shockley in the boys’ division
and Beth Barron and Eleanor
Walker in the girls’ division.
The tournament is for boys
and girls 18 and under.
and D & S is third with a 7-6
mark. First National is playing
.500 ball with a 6-6 record.
In the second game, Jeff Cook
picked up the win for Exchange.
Wally Wetherbee went the route
for First National and took the
loss.
Exchange had 14 hits and
made two errors. First National
had three hits and made three
errors.
Exchange hitters included
Jeff Cook with a single and two
doubles; Jeff Inglett with a
single and double; Jeff Ector
with a homerun, double and
single; Barry Jones with a
homer and two singles and
Jimmy King with two singles
and a triple.
Tommy Fetzer and Gene
Smith had doubles for First
National and Wally Wetherbee
had a single.
Buick-Garment took a 6-0 for
feit from Moose when Moose
didn’t have nine players for the
game. Highland and Spalding
Gas at Patrick Park were rain
ed out.
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HOYT WILHELM may
have a little less hair than
he once did. but he seems
to have boundless energy.
Though he was on the
Atlanta Braves' disabled
list through the early part
of the season, he kept in
shape pitching batting
practice during Brave
home stands.
"I'm all right as far as I’m
concerned," he said. “I'm
throwin' just about as good
as ever."
He had been suffering
Griffin Daily News
BASEBALL STANDINGS
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By United Press International
American League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
Baltimore 31 19 .620 ...
Boston 31 22 .585 1%
Detroit 28 25 .528 4%
Cleveland 23 28 .451 814
New York 23 30 .434 9%
Washington 19 33 .365 13
West
W. L. Pct. GB
Oakland 37 18 .673 ...
Kansas City 26 23 .531 8
Minnesota 27 27 .500 914
California 26 29 .473 11
Chicago 20 28 .417 13%
Milwaukee 20 29 .408 14
Monday’s Results
No games scheduled
Today’s Probable Pitchers
New York (Stottlemyre 6-3)
at California (Hassler 0-0),
night.
Boston (Culp 6-4) at Oakland
(Odom 1-1), night.
Washington (Cox 1-2) at
Kansas City (Splittorff 0-0),
night.
Minnesota (Blyleven 6-6) at
Baltimore (Dobson 2-3), night.
Chicago (Wood 4-2) at Cleve
land (McDowell 5-5), night.
Milwaukee (Parsons 5-6) at
Detroit (Lolich 8-5), night.
National League
East
W. L. Pct. GB
St. Louis 35 21 .625 ...
Pittsburgh 34 21 .618 %
New York 30 20 .600 2
Chicago 26 29 .473 8%
Montreal 21 27 .438 10
Philadelphia 20 32 .385 13
West
W. L. Pct. GB
San Francisco 38 19 .667 ...
Los Angeles 29 26 .527 8
Houston 27 28 .491 10
Atlanta 25 32 .439 13
Cincinnati 22 33 .400 15
San Diego 18 37 .327 19
Monday’s Results
Pittsburgh 11 Chicago 6
Cranford, Dot Stewart, Fred Watkins, team sponsors,
Margie Crosby, Fab Manning and Maggie Snow. The Griffin
team had a 2,301 scratch score.
from "a little shoulder stiff
ness.” It wasn’t really a sore
arm, he said, because he’s
never had a sore arm in all
of the 26 years he has been
pitching (19 of those years
have been with eight major
league teams).
“My shoulder usually gets
stiff that way and needs
workin’ out in the spring of
the year,” he said.
Wilhelm says he is ready
to return to the Braves as a
relief pitcher. Manager Lu
man Harris also said that
Wilhelm is ready to pitch.
But we don't have room for
him on the roster right now."
said Harris.
This is difficult for Wil
helm to swallow. He led the
Braves' staff last season in
earned run average, with
3.12. (He bridles at talk con
cerning the number of times
he has been traded. "I led
just about every team in
ERA the season they traded
me,” he said.) Wilhelm be
lieves his skills have not
diminished. Braves' bullpen
coach Ken Silvestri, among
others, agrees. "His knuckle
ball is still knucklin'," Sil
vestri said.
Wilhelm is the oldest man
to play big-league baseball
regularly. He holds the rec
ord for most games pitched
(1,042 before this season),
and assorted relief pitching
records: most games <990».
most victories (124 i most
saves (223) and most in
nings pitched (1.825).
Yet the man who won a
purple heart in the Battle
Tuesday, June 8,1971
5
St. Louis 7 Atla 6,10 inn, night
Today’s Probable Pitchers
San Diego (Arlin 2-7) at New
York (Gentry 4-4), night.
San Francisco (Marichal 8-3)
at Montreal (Stoneman 7-3),
night.
St. Louis (Carlton 10-2) at
Atlanta (Jarvis 1-7), night.
Cincinnati (Nolan 3-6) at
Houston (Wilson 4-3), night.
Philadelphia (Short 4-7) at
Los Angeles (Singer 3-9), night.
Pittsburgh (Johnson 4-4 or
Walker 2-6) at Chicago (Jenkins
9-5).
Boys 9 Club
teams win
The Boys’ Club of Griffin won
two baseball games in the inter
mediate (13-15) age group
Saturday in Macon.
In the first contest, Richy
Coggins struck out six and
Randy Bogan had four hits as
the Griffin club rolled to a 12-6
victory.
Charlie Rawls and Wayne
Davis had two hits each.
Other players with hits and
playing well were Fred An
drews, Jimmy Goetell, Kelly
Jackson, Ricky Lovett and
Terry Head.
Randy Jester was credited
with a save and pitched the final
one and two thirds innings.
The Griffin B team roll ed to a
12-5 win in the second game.
Danny Jester went the dis
tance as Tony Hamm and
Randy Jester collected two hits
each.
Others playing well in the
second game were Ricky Lyons,
Ken Reid, Tony Sims, Henry
Watkins, Julius Jester, and
Wayne Sutton.
Don Wilkinson, Boys’ Club
director, said the Griffin teams
are looking for more teams to
play in the 15 and under age
group and 12 and under group.
of the Bulge has a relatively
unlined face, though his still
dark hair is thinning above
the forehead. “It’s how old
you feel, how old you act
that’s important.” he said.
“Not how old are you."
Bob Didier, the Braves'
catcher, who was born seven
years after Wilhem began
his career with Mooresville
of the Class D North Caro
lina State League in 1942.
went hunting with Wilhelm
last winter in southern
Georgia.
“We walked for miles and
miles," recalls Didier. "I
kept saying to myself, I
can’t let this old man out
walk me.’ ”
Didier says he is in awe
of Wilhelm the pitcher, too.
"It’s catching a legend." he
said.
Wilhelm admits, though it
seems he hardly believes,
that the day will come when
he no longer can throw a
knuckleball for a living. His
Southern, nasal twang be
comes crusty at the mention
of post-playing days. “I’ll
cross that bridge when I
come to it." he said.
It was mentioned to him
that Eddie Mathews, now a
Braves' coach, had returned
to baseball after a two-year
retirement and said that he.
like other ballplayers, was
unprepared to meet life “on
the outside."
“That's Mathews sayin'
that. Not me." said Wilhelm.
"I won't have problems."
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