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Hank Aaron's Secret
A New Breakfast of Champions: Sherry
By IRA BERKOW
NEA Sports Editor
NEW YORK —(NEA I—A
current television commer
cial depicts Henry Aaron
draggin’ The reason, accord
ing to this paid, lugubrious
advertisement, is that Henry
Aaron ain’t had his Wheaties
today. More likely, if Henry
Aaron is feeling dilapidated
on a particular day it's be
cause he hasn’t consumed
his morning glass of Har
vey's Bristol Cream sherry.
Now Henry Aaron will
never be confused with, say,
Joe Namath. Namath admit
tedly ingurgitates whole bot
tles of grog in an evening
for pleasure. Aaron sips a
small daily potion of sherry
for energy
It began, says the Atlanta
Braves outfielder, about 10
springs ago It was spring
training, 1961 Aaron in 1960
had had a miserable (for
him) .292 batting average
after having led the league
in hitting in 1959 with .355.
“I was feeling tired in
games,” he said. “It was be
cause I was weak from not
having eaten during the
day.
“Bob Feron was our
trainer in Milwaukee and he
suggested that I drink a
small glass of sherry in the
morning. He said it would
give me an appetite.
“I have trouble eating
during the season I guess
it’s a nervous stomach. I
spend a lot of time thinking
about the game coming up
It takes a great deal of men
tal effort to hit well.”
He says that hitting is 90
to 95 per cent concentration
and thinking, on and off the
field. He is always consider
ing the type of pitches he
might see that day. And per
haps his craftiness at the
plate is what inspired
pitcher Curt Simmons to re
mark once, “Trying to sneak
a fastball past Henry is like
trying to sneak the sun past
a rooster.”
Now, in the spring of
1961, Aaron was worried
about his empty stomach
He tried the aperitif, and it
worked
“I began drinking sherry
I
ATLANTA—Braves’ Earl Williams slides home in fifth inning of game here last night Catcher
It*d Simmons looks for ball as plate umpire Ed Sudel removes bat Braves won the game 8-3.
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Wrestling Matches Slated For
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STILL HUSTLING, 37-year-old Hank Aaron barrels into Philadelphia catcher Tim
McCarver. The seemingly tireless Atlanta outfielder says that, contrary to the
implications of a popular television commercial, what he really starts his day
off with is a glass of sherry.
the morning before day
games and the afternoon be
fore night games," he said.
“And I used to carry a bottle
in my traveling bag during
the season."
Henry again began feeling
his oats, to mix a cereal
metaphor, and came back in
1961 with a .327 average.
At first, he said he was
able to get down a little
orange juice. Soon, his pre
game diet expanded from
liquids. “Now,” he says, “I
usually have one egg for
breakfast. I can shove down
a piece of toast and I also
manage about six pieces of
bacon.” (Periodically, he’ll
even have Wheaties.)
Lately, he has been off
the hard stuff. He has a
swollen knee and each morn
ing he takes a pill to reduce
the pain and the swelling. It
is well known that pills and
booze don't mix. "But when
I stop the pills I’ll go back
to my daily glass of sherry,"
he said.
Aaron, smiling, discour
ages the notion that this
daily potion has been the se
cret of his success. Strange
ly, his success has been a
sort of secret until recently.
He agrees that he has prob
ably had as much publicity
in the last year as he has in
his previous 16 years in the
big leagues.
In a nation of phenomenal
media coverage of sports,
Aaron has been relatively in
visible. The reasons given
include his having played in
rather small cities —Atlanta
and Milwaukee, and he is
reserved off-duty and fas
tidious on-field.
“It wasn't until I was get
ting close to 3,000 hits last
year that I started really
getting notices," he said.
Now, his homers are always
news as he tries to overtake
Babe Ruth’s career record of
Manning
drafted by
White Sox
NEW YORK (UPl)—Archie
Manning has picked up some
more ammunition for his
contract battles with the New
Orleans Saints.
Manning, the celebrated
quarterback from the Universi
ty of Mississippi, was drafted to
play football for the National
Football League Saints but has
been unable to reach contract
terms. He gained another
avenue Wednesday when the
Chicago White Sox chose the 6-
foot-3 Manning as a shortstop in
the secondary phase of the
annual baseball free agent
summer draft.
Manning, who played short
stop for Ole Miss but made his
reputation as a daring quarter
back, also had been drafted last
summer but passed up signing
to play his senior year.
Another much publicized
quarterback, Joe Thiesmann of
Notre Dame, also was chosen
Wednesday, going to Minnesota
in the late sessions of the
regular phase and also as a
shortstop. Theismann, who
originally had said he would
play with the Miami Dolphins
of the National Football Lea
gue, later signed with a
Canadian team.
714 homers (he had 606 at
the end of May and, at age
37, has a good chance to do
it—even better than Willie
Mays, three years and only a
handful of homers ahead of
Aaron).
With five more good
years, Aaron can break such
records as: most games
played (Ty Cobb had 3,034,
Aaron is over 2,600), at bats
(Cobb had 11,437, Aaron has
over 10,000), hits (Cobb
4,192, Aaron over 3,150),
extra-base hits (Stan Musial
1,377, Aaron over 1,270),
total bases (Musial 6,134,
Aaron over 5,700), runs
(Cobb 2,245, Aaron nearly
1,850) and runs batted in
(Ruth 2,217, Aaron over
1,900).
"It took people 16 years
to find out I was for real,”
said Aaron.
Hank’ll drink to that.
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Ladies
PGA
starts
SUTTON, Mass. (UPI)-One
of the largest purses and a
truckload of prestige went on
the line today in the start of the
$55,000 Ladies Professional Golf
Association championship.
For the fourth time in five
years, lush Pleasant Valley
Country Club will be the site of
the key national ladies tour
nament whose $7,950 first prize
drew entries from nearly
everyone on the tour.
While she hardly needs the
money since her career earn
ings have soared past the
$300,000 mark, 1967 LPGA
champion Kathy Whitworth,
winner of two stright tour
naments, was rated the favor
ite.
Miss Whitworth will simply
have to maintain the torrid
pace she set in the Lady
Carling event last weekend
when she swept through the
$25,000 tournament at nine
under-par to win by six strokes.
Kathy, a Monaghans, Tex.,
native, shot a 284 to win the
LPGA tourney in 1967 and had
totals of 294 and 285 before
losing playoffs in 1968 and 1970.
The veteran tourist, who
admittedly likes Pleasant Val
ley, has won two other titles on
the same course, in 1966 and
1969, and will be encountering a
somewhat revised layout this
trip.
P.V., at 6,130 yards and par
73, is rated one of the longest
courses on the tour and
formerly sported the largest
greens. However, a series of
changes instituted at the
suggestion of Gary Player have
curbed the massive greens and
altered the course somewhat
though not necessarily making
it much easier.
Shirley Englehorn, who won
the $4,500 LPGA top prize last
year, has been bothered recent
ly by an old ankle injury but
the field won’t lack for
challengers since 1969 winner
Betsy Rawls, 1968 titlist Sandra
Post and several other former
winners were included in the
big field.
Renko
fires
I-hitter
By FRED MCMANE
UPI Sports Writer
Steve Renko of the Montreal
Expos is finally gaining respect
as a pitcher to be reckoned
with in National League circles.
The 6-foot-6, 227-pound right
hander, who has taken much
criticism from rival players
because he doesn’t use his size
to overpower hitters, showed
that knowledge and poise are
more important than size
Wednesday night when he one
hit the San Francisco Giants 4-
0.
Only a second inning single
by Dick Dietz, a ball that
Renko said he could have
flagged down if he had made an
effort, deprived the 26-year-old
from a niche in the baseball
record book. But, while it was
the first one-hitter ever pitched
in Montreal’s Jarry Park,
Renko was rather calm over
his sparkling effort.
“I guess I’d have to say that
last year, when I threw a three
hitter and shut out St. Louis 8-
0,1 was more thrilled. But I’ll
take a one-hitter or a 10-hitter,
as long as it’s a victory,” he
said.
Renko, as usual, did not try
to overpower the Giants. He
struck out only four and walked
five in defeating San Francisco
for the first time in his career.
In other NL action, Philadel
phia beat Los Angeles 9-4, New
York beat San Diego 4-2,
Atlanta whipped St. Louis 8-3,
Cincinnati nipped Houston 2-1 in
10 innings and Chicago defeated
Pittsburgh 3-1.
Cleveland beat Chicago 3-1,
Baltimore edged Minnesota 2-1
in 10 innings, Kansas City
defeated Washington 5-4, De
troit blanked Milwaukee 3-0,
Oakland downed Boston 6-1 and
California topped New York 4-3
in American League games.
Homeruns by Deron Johnson,
Byron Browne and Don Money
enabled the Phillies to defeat
the Dodgers and brought rookie
southpaw Ken Reynolds his
first major league triumph.
Steve Garvey had a homer for
Los Angeles.
Bud Harrelson tripled in the
tying run and scored the
deciding run on a single by
pinch-hitter Ken Singleton as
the Mets rallied for four runs in
the eighth to defeat San Diego.
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On Farm Team Activities
MONTREAL - (NEA) -
When the Montreal Expos
get a good performance from
one of their farm teams, a
detailed typewritten report is
on the desks of the club’s
president, general manager,
scouting director and pub
lic relations director bright
and early the next morning.
A bit of magic performed
by the U.S. and Canadian
postal services? Nope, just
modern electronics.
Jim Fanning, the Expos’
general manager, has en
listed the aid of an auto
matic telephone message
system to speed reports from
his farm system every day.
“It’s working out swell,”
Fanning reports. “After each
game, while it’s fresh in his
mind, the farm team man
ager telephones our special
number here and dictates a
concise two-to-three minute
report on how things went,
giving the line score, pitch
ing summary and defensive
and offensive reviews. The
recording is transcribed,
typed and ready first thing
in the morning/’
In the past, farm team
managers used the tele
phone, but the calls were
person-to-person and could
get lengthy and costly, Fan
ning said. "With this tele
phone answering system we
get the reports fast, to the
point and can act quickly if
we have to,” he added. The
system, designed by Dicta
phone, is also used to handle
administrative chores, re
cording injuries to players
and other farm system mat
ters.
Fanning said, “It works
two ways, too. If I want to
get some special informa
tion, say a full report of
pitching schedules, or want
to leave a message for one
of my managers, I record it
on the machine’s announce
tape and when they call in.
Church
of God
wins, 19-6
Palace Street Church of God
beat First Presbyterian 19-6
yesterday in the Church Softball
League.
Ricky Maxwell tit two singles
for Church of God and Homer
Thompson hit two doubles and a
single. Glenn Gilbert hit two
singles for First Presbyterian
and Thomas Lunsford hit a
home run and single.
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they get my message before
dictating their reports. If I’m
in the office I can listen in
on their reports and if I want
to tell them something, I can
cut in on the telephone.”
The only problem they had
was in the beginning. “A few
of the managers talked too
fast,” Fanning explained,
“but we’ve got it down to a
science—and it’s less costly
because they call station- to
station.” The Expos have
five minor league farm
clubs: Winnipeg, Manitoba
(International League); Que
bec City (Eastern League);
West Palm Beach (Florida
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State League); Watertown,
S.D. (Northern League) and
Jamestown, N.Y. (N.Y.P.
League) with 125 minor
league players.
On road trips Fanning can
still get his reports each day.
“Late each night I tele
phone our special number
and. with the help of a little
portable electronic device,
signal the machine to play
all messages,” he said. “I
can even make the machine
back up and replay any re
port I want, and I can also
leave my own comments for
the office staff.”
(NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.)