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Griffin Ruthers
district champs
The Griffin 14 and 15-year-old
Babe Ruthers split a double
header with Jackson here last
night and by doing so won the
District One championship.
Griffin was the only unbeaten
team going into the finals.
Since Jackson won the first
game 3-0, a second game was
needed to decide the title.
Griffin won the championship
game 7-0 on the strong pitching
of Marty Varnadoe and some
tremendous defensive play by
the entire Griffin team.
Griffin helped keep Varnadoe
out of trouble with three double
plays.
The double plays prevented
Jackson from having a runner
reach second safely until the
seventh inning.
Griffin and Jackson will
participate in the State Babe
Ruth Tournament.
Griffin will go as the top team
in District One and Jackson will
participate as the number two
team in the area.
Vamadoe pitched a four
hitter. He struck out six and
walked only two.
Joel Kuhn was Jackson’s
starting and losing pitcher.
Andy Crumbley, Bruce Skinner
and Rodney Vining worked in
relief. They gave up eight hits.
Stan Treadway hit a double
and single for Griffin. Mark
Terrell also had a double and
single. Chuck Dunn hit two
singles, Cony Coker doubled
and Richard Buckalew singled.
Crumbley, Don McKibbon,
Tim Moss and Terry Wilson had
Jackson’s hits.
LL tourney
starts Monday
The Eastern Division Tourna
ment of Georgia District Four
Little League will begin here
Monday with 12 teams compet
ing for two sub-district
championships.
Thomaston, Barnesville,
Jackson, Pike County, Moun
tain View and Henry County
will play for the Sub-District
One championship and Jones
boro, Griffin Continental,
Riverdale, Griffin National,
Morrow-Lake City and Griffin
American will play for the Sub-
District Two title.
The single elimination
tournaments will run through
Friday.
Tournament directors are Ed
Griffin, BUI Beck 111 and Albert
Harrell.
Two games will be played
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Friday, July 16,1971
Griffin’s big inning was the
fourth.
Treadway doubled. He scored
on Terrell’s double. Terrell
went to third on Dunn’s single
Davis slugs
Braves, 6-0
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI)--Willie Da
vis started the season with a
.274 career average but he’s
now convinced that he is going
to be this year’s National
League batting champion.
The 31-year-old Los Angeles
Dodger outfielder has sound
reason for his belief. He’s now
hitting .354 after contributing a
home run, a triple and a single
in the Dodgers’ 6-0 win over
the Atlanta Braves Thursday
night.
“There are a bunch of guys
hitting pretty good right now,”
said Davis. “I have to think
that (Roberto) Clemente will
be the toughest one for me to
beat because he’s won it be
fore. But, I’m not worried
about any of them.”
A bystander asked: “Are you
saying you’re going to win it?”
“That’s what I’m saying,”
Davis replied.
The speedy Dodger certainly
looked like a batting champ
Thursday night. He got the
each night. The first will start at
6 p.m. and foe second at 8 p.m.
The Monday schedule is:
Thomaston against Barnes
ville at 6 p.m. and Jonesboro
against Griffin Continental at 8
pm.
Jackson wUI play Pike Tues
day at 6 p.m. and Riverdale will
take on Griffin National at 8
p.m.
Mountain View wUI play foe
Thomaston-Barnesville winner
Wednesday at 6 p.m. Morrow-
Lake City wiU play the Jones
boro-Griffin Continental winner
at 8 p.m.
Henry County will play the
Jackson-Pike winner Thursday
at 6 p.m. and foe Griffin Ameri
cans will play the Riverdale-
Griffin National 'winner at 8
pm.
and scored on an error. Dunn
stole second and third and scor
ed on a wild pitch. Rusty
Stonica walked. He moved to
second on an error and to third
on a wild pitch. He scored on
first two hits Atlanta’s Ron
Reed gave up —a wasted, two
out single in the first and his
fourth homer of the year in the
fourth. He filed to center his
next time up but then sand
wiched a triple between two
singles in the eighth to account
for two more Dodger runs.
The Dodgers had three ho
mers in the fourth. Richie Allen
hit No. 13 on the first pitch
after Davis homered and Jim
Lefebvre followed Willie Craw
ford’s single with his ninth ho
mer.
Any one of those would have
been more than enough for
lefty Claude Osteen (10-6), who
scattered six Braves’ singles
and was never threatened until
the Braves loaded the bases in
the eighth.
Osteen, who complained later
that the humidity “made me
feel so lazy I just wanted to
lay down and go to sleep,” got
out of that one jam by snaring
pinch batter Leo Foster’s liner
and throwing to third to third
for a double play.
“I didn’t even seen the ball,”
Osteen said with a grin. “I
think he hit me a changeup.”
It was the fifth time at bat
for young Foster who was just
called up last week from the
minors. In that short time, he
has hit into two double plays
and a triple play.
The win moved the second
places Dodgers to just five
games behind San Francisco in
foe National League West.
“The guys have felt all along
that they had a shot at it, even
when the Giants jumped off to
that big early lead,” said Dodg
ers manager Walter Alston.
“They’ve given me confidence.
“The young fellows have
really done well. Usually you
have one, at the most two, kids
in your lineup when you win a
pennant. We’ve been playing
with four and even five.
“We never felt we had to
give up,” Alston continued.
“Now that it’s half way
through, we find the Giants
aren’t as far out in front as
they once were. The standings
will take care of themselves.”
Braves manager Luman Har
ris had a ready explanation for
why he chose Foster, who has
yet to get his first major league
hit, as a pinch batter in that
bases loaded situation in the
eighth.
“Who else did I have?” Har
ris asked glumly. “I had a
choice between Foster, Bob
Didier (.222), Marty Perez
(.194) or Gil Garrido (.159).
We really don’t have any pinch
hitters with Orlando Cepeda
and Rico Carty missing. I
figured I might as well give the
youngster a chance.”
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Allen 3b 41 2 2 Williams c 30 10
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Allen (13), Lefebvre (9). S—Buckner. SB—
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LEE LEADS STANDINGS
NEW YORK (UPl)—Dave
Eichelberger has entered the
PGA’s top 10 money-standing
list with 1971 earnings of
388,309, including $25,000 he won
in Sunday’s Greater Milwaukee
Open.
Lee Trevino leads the stand
ings with $195,869. The $13,200
Trevino collected for winning
foe British Open does not count
in the standings. Second
through fifth on the list are
Jack Nicklaus, $161,213; Gary
Player, $119,510; Arnold Pal
mer, $114,489, and Miller
Barber, $102,793.
Robbie Scott’s bunt.
In the fifth, Skrine reached on
an error. He moved up two
bases on fielder’s choices and
scored on Dunn’s single. Dunn
scored on two successive
errors.
Vamadoe won two games in
foe District One Tournament.
Earlier he beat Jackson, 4-2.
The Griffin hurler faced only
24 batters last night, three over
foe minimum.
Jim Montgomery was Jack
son’s winner in the first game.
He fired a three-hitter at Griffin
to send foe tournament finals
into a doubleheader.
Rusty Stonica was Griffin’s
loser. He pitched a fine game,
allowing only seven hits, strik
ing out 10 arid issuing no walks.
Don McKibbon, Steve Smith
and Tim Moss had two hits for
Jackson. Crumbley had one.
David Skrine, Ronald Fouts
and Creig Weldon had hits for
Griffin.
State Loan, Mays
in tourney finals
State Loan slipped by Cole’s
Drug Store 9-8 yesterday in the
semi-finals of the baseball
tournament for 9-year-olds.
Mays Printing Co. blanked
Little League Auxiliary 11-0.
Tom Barrett hit a double and
single for State Loan and Wayne
Chasteen singled. Victor Per
due doubled for Cole’s and Mike
Shackleford singled.
David English hit two doubles
for Mays and Timothy Thomp
son hit two doubles and a triple.
Keith Lynch and Lee Wood
angled for Little League.
The tournament finals for 9-
Church of God,
Wildwood,
New Hope win
Palace Street Church of God
beat East Griffin 284 last night
in the Church Softball League.
In other games, Wildwood
defeated Calvary 11-2, New
Hope beat First Christian 13-0
and Miday stopped Southside
194.
Ken Horton hit a home run,
triple and single for Church of
God. Howard Bennett hit two
homers and a triple. Don Mc-
Daniel hit a home run for East
Griffin and Robert Padgett
tripled.
Lonnie Clowder hit a home
run and double for Wildwood.
Glenn Betsill hit a double and
two singles. Glenn Brown hit a
home run for Calvary and
Tommy Bunn doubled.
Mike Compton hit three
homers and a single for New
Hope. Roy Shackleford hit three
singles and a double. Bill Wages
doubled for First Christian and
Bruce Jones singled.
Billy Hendrix hit two homers
and a double for Midway. Leroy
Turner hit a home run, double
and single. Roger Daniel hit two
singles for Southside and Joe
Key singled.
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EVANSTAN, 111. — Quarterback Jim Plunkett, the Heisman
Trophy 2winner and No. 1 draft choice of the New England
Patriots, happily looks at his just signed contract Thursday.
year-old boys will be played this
afternoon at 6 p.m. at City Park.
The game is scheduled for the
Little League field.
WHIE
tops RBM
WHIE romped RBM 24-5
yesterday in the Women’s Soft
ball League and the Southern
Belles beat Goldstein’s 10-9.
Evelyn Gaston hit a triple and
two singles for WHIE. Deloris
Lyons hit three singles. Norma
Giles singled for RBM and An
nette Rothbauer doubled.
Karen Stinchcomb hit a triple
and double for foe Southern
Belles and Annette Barrow hit a
double and single. Bonnie
Taylor hit a home run for Gold
stein’s and Linda Tarleton hit a
home run and single.
|| Sports Briefs ||
By United Press International
TREVINO WINS AWARD
HOUSTON (UPl)—Lee Trevi
no edged Vida Blue to win the
June monthly balloting for the
Hickok Award. Trevino, who
won the U.S. Open in June,
received 257 votes to 224 for
Vida, who has a 17-3 record for
foe Oakland A’s.
RYUN THIRD
OSLO (UPl)—Jim Ryun of
Wichita, Kan., who finished last
ina mile race in Stockholm last
week, placed third in the 800
meters race Wednesday night
in an international track and
field meet at Bislett Stadium.
Ryun, with a clocking of
1:49.6, finished behind Tom
von Ruden of the United States
and Chris Fisher of Austria,
who won with a time of 1:47.0.
Plunkett relieved;
Manning immobile
By JOE CARNICELLI
UPIn Sports Writer
Jim Plnkett is relieved and
Archie Manning is immobile.
Plunkett, foe Heisman Tro
phy-winning quarterback from
Stanford and the first player
selected in the pro draft last
January, Thursday signed with
foe New England Patriots. But
Manning, the star quarterback
from Mississippi and the second
player chosen in foe draft, can
only stand and watch as the
New Orleans Saints’ rookies go
through their paces.
Manning still is in the middle
of a contract hassle with foe
Saints and cannot practice until
he signs.
“I am very relieved,” said
Plunkett, who is in Chicago
preparing for the College All-
Star Game July 30. “I am
looking forward to coming to
Boston and working with Joe
Kapp and learning the business
of professional football.”
Plunkett, a 6-foot-3, 207-
pounder, said he was “satis
fied” with foe terms of the
contract but added: “I can’t
discuss specifics.”
Manning, meanwhile, con
tinues in a strange stage with
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Plunkett, in the Chicago area for the College All-Star game
July 30 said “I am very relieved. 1 am looking forward to
coming to Boston and working with Joe Kapp.” (UPI)
foe Saints, a team without a
first-string quarterback. “Ar
chie told me by telephone that
he had a social visit with Mr.
(John) Mecom (Saints’ owner)
yesterday but certainly no
negotiations took place,” said
Frank Crosfowait, Jr., Man
ning’s agent.
Manning is asking for a four
year contract worth $400,000
with provisions providing for an
additional $200,000.
Elsewhere in foe training
camps, the San Francisco
Forty Niners traded veteran
defensive tackle Roland lakes
to foe New York Giants for a
future draft choice. Lakes, a 10-
year veteran, is expected to fill
the vacancy left with the loss of
Jerry Shay, who has yet to
recover from a broken leg
suffered late last season.
Chip Oliver, the linebacker
who quit pro football a year
ago to live in a commune, did
not report to the Oakland
Raiders’ camp but said he
would sign in with the veterans
Sunday. Oliver, a vegetarian
whose weight has dropped from
230 to 180, will attempt to make
foe team as a free safety.
Kent McCloughan, the veter-
an cornerback traded from the
Raiders to the Los Angeles
Rams, announced his retire
ment Thursday. McCloughan
said he still had problems with
his left knee, which underwent
surgery twice, and did not feel
100 per cent.
Three veterans—running back
Matt Snell, offensive tackle
Winston Hill and defensive back
John Dockery—were early arri
vals at the New York Jets’
camp and the Rams announced
that running ball Russell
Harrison, a 13th-round draft
choice from Kansas State,
underwent surgery on his left
knee for torn ligaments.
The Buffalo Bills opened
camp with 63 veterans and
rookies on hand while the
Houston Oilers trimmed three
players—defensive back James
Fabish of Texas-El Paso,
defensive tackle John Reado of
Southern and defensive end
LaFayette Robinson of Norfolk
State.
The Pittsburgh Steelrs
dropped offensive guard Felix
McGee of Jackson State, the
younger brother of Steeler
veteran Ben McGee, and
defensive end Rod Herron of
Edinboro State.