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Big question:
where is race?
By United Press International
The major league pennant
races resume Thursday after
noon and night with the big
question whether there really
will be a race in any of the four
divisions.
Four strong front-runners—
ove Baltimore Orioles, Oakland
Athletics, Pittsburgh Piates
and San Francisco Giants—lead
the respective divisions by 5%
games or more and seem to be
in stronger positions for the
second half of the season than
they were for the first half.
At the All-Star break, the
Orioles led the Boston Red Sox
by 5% games in the American
League East, the Athletics had
an 11% game lead over the
.Kansas City Royals in the AL
West, the,Pirates had opened
up a 10-game margin over botm
the New York Mets and
Chicago Cubs in the National
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League East and the Giants
had a six-game advantage over
the Los Angeles Dodgers in the
NL West.
Most baseball men at the All-
Star game thought that only the
Red Sox and Dodgers had
chances to create serious
pennant races.
The Orioles were expected to
have the AL East race wrapped
up by now and their 5% game
lead is not impressive. But
Carly Yastrzemski and Billy
Conigliaro leading the opposing
factions, and do not appear
equipped to mount a big
challenge.
The Dodgers have cut into
early San Francisco leads a
half dozen times in the first
half of the season but have
fallen short in key games. The
Giants are always suspect off
their history of finishing second
so many times in the last
decade but their lead is
substantial and they have star
pitchers like Juan Marichal and
Gaylord Perry to help protect
it.
The Athletics, with Vida Blue
turning the pre-season dope
inside out, won’t worry until the
Minnesota Twins move into
position for a challenge. That,
however, seems unlikely inas
much as the Twins are 15
games behind the Athletics and
are scrambling for pitching on
a day-to-day basis.
The rat-tat-tat attack of the
Pirates is unlikely to diminish
and poses an almost-impossible
problem for the Mets and Cubs
to overcome. The Mets problem
is offensive and the Cubs is
pitching. Both the Mets and
Cubs also appear to have
internal difficulties involving
the direction of the teams by
managers Gil Hodges and Leo
Durocher, respectively.
GOODBYE AL
Manchester, n.h. )upi)—Al
Grenert, for 22 years the head
basketball coach at St. An
swelm’s College, announced his
resignation from the post
Wednesday.
Grenert, who guided the
Hawks to 19 winning seasons,
cited a desire to “alleviate this
financial burden” from the
college in his letter of
resignation to dean of students
Rev. Finbar O’Mahoney.
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BOSTON — Tony Conigliaro, 26, who last week retired from the California Angels, revealed a
medical report Wednesday that showed his sight had worsened over the past year. Conigliaro was
nearly killed Aug. 18,1967 when hit in the face by a pitch. At left he is shown in hospital the day af
ter he was struck in ’67. At right, Conigliaro talks to reporters as he arrived back in Boston follow
ing his retirement announcement. (UPI)
Exam shows Tony’s
sight deteriorating
BOSTON (UPl)—The near
fatal injury Tony Conigliaro
suffered almost four years ago
may have finally ended his
stormy career as one of
baseball’s most promising
young sluggers.
Hie 26-year-old Conigliaro
revealed Wednesday that an
examination of the left eye he
almost lost on Aug. 18, 1967
showed a deterioration in his
vision that would make hitting
a pitched baseball “difficult if
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HONOLULU( UPl)—HoytWil
helm, who will be 48 years old
within two weeks, pitched the
Spokane Indians to a 9-2 victory
Wednesday night over the Ha
waii Islanders.
The aging knuckleballer made
his first start in several sea
sons, worked five innings and
also hit a two-run single. The
only blow that hurt him was a
two-run homer by Rich Barry
in the opening inning.
Spokane got 14 hits from
three Islander pitchers and
among them was a three-run
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NORMAN, Okla. (UPI)-
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Wednesday.
not impossible.”
Only a second “miraculous
recovery” would allow the
California Angels' outfielder to
continue as an active player
according to a report filed by
Dr. Charles D. J. Regan, the
eye specialist who two years
ago classified Tony’s sight
recovery as a miracle unprece
dented in his medical exper
ience.
The doctor’s report, contained
in a letter to Tony and made
public by the player’s attorney,
served as an explanation for
Conigliaro’s sudden decision to
quit the Angels last weekend.
Dr. Regan’s latest examina
tion, carried out on Tuesday,
confirmed Tony’s repeated con
tention that he was not seeing
the ball as well as he had when
he made his dramatic come
back with the Red Sox in 1969.
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Tony narrowly escaped death
when he was hit in the face by
a Jack Hamilton pitch, then of
the same California club,
nearly four years earlier.
Idled for the rest of Boston’s
dramatic pennant run in 1967,
Tony tried to make a comeback
for the world series and again
the following spring but was
forced to sit out the 1968
season.
He came back to hit 20
homers and bat .255 in 1969,
and hit 36 home runs with a
.266 batting average in 1970
before being traded to the
Angels in a widely-unpopular
six-player deal last October.
Insisting that he had known
his vision was deteriorating,
Tony said he had kept the
matter a secret for several
weeks but was not surprised by
the medical finding.
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Jersey Giants?
NEW YORK (UPl)—New
Jersey officials have reportedly
drawn up the contract and are
now hoping the New York
football Giants will sign it,
bringing big-league sports to
New Jersey.
New Jersey officials Wednes
day maintained an official
silence in the face of persistent,
but unconfirmed reports that an
agreement to bring the Giants
to the Garden State was
imminent.
Informed sources revealed
that the New Jersey Sports
Authority has advanced to the
point of drawing up a proposed
contract. However, there was
no confirmation if the authority
and the Giants had indeed
affixed their signatures to it
yet.
The only blank in the
contract, besides the place for
signatures, sources said, was
the date. The month, July, was
printed on it.
There was the possibility that
announcement of an agreement
was being held up until New
Jersey Gov. William T. Cahill
returned to his desk.
The governor, one of the
prime movers in the quest to
bring the Giants to New Jersey,
has been home all week
recuperating from a virus.
State Treasurer Joseph M.
McCrane Jr., a member of the
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Thursday, July 15,1971
authority, was, according to the
sources, supposed to attend a
meeting in New York, presum
baly with the Giants represen
tatives.
However, the source could
not confirm that the treasurer
had actually held the meeting.
As state treasurer, McCrane is
authorized to negotiate and sign
the contract.
A spokesman for the Giants
said club president Wellington
Mara did not meet with the
New Jersey delegation Wednes
day, but added it was possible
that club lawyers did.
“Our position is the same as
it has been the past few
weeks,” the spokesman said.
“Our lawyers are looking for
the lease and we’re waiting to
hear from them.”
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