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Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 11,1972
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HOYT WILHELM began his professional baseball career 30 years ago with Moores
ville of the North Carolina State League (he won 10, lost 3I with 4.25 earned run av
erage in 23 games), made the majors with the New York Giants in 1952, above- and
is still at it this spring as a 49-year-old Los Angeles Dodger relief pitcher, right.
Cage draft: a shootout
By FRED McMANE
UPI Sports Writer
NEW YORK (UPI) —The
National Basketball Associa
tion, taking advantage of one of
the thinnest crops of college
basketball talent in recent
years, has set the stage for a
real shootout with the rival
American Basketball Associa
tion.
The NBA conducted its
annual draft of college seniors
Monday and shocked everyone
by drafting two established
ABA stars and another player
who has already signed an ABA
contract on its first round of
selections.
The Buffalo Braves started
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PITTSBURGH, Pa.—Pittsburgh Pirates’ president Daniel Galbreath (r) tells news conference at
Three Rivers Stadium that retroactive pay has become probably the biggest stumbling block in
negotiations between the baseball players association and team owners. His father, Pirates’
chairman of the board John W. Galbreath, who helped write the original players’ pension plan, is
at left. (UPI)
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the fireworks by choosing 6-
foot-9 forward Robert McAdoo
of North Carolina as the No. 2
choice in the draft. This was
done less than five minutes
after NBA commissioner Wal
ter Kennedy had notified all 17
teams that McAdoo had signed
a contract with the Virginia
Squires of the ABA.
The Chicago Bulls and the
Milwaukee Bucks, however,
pulled the real stunners of the
first round when they respec
tively chose Ralph Simpson and
Julius Erving, two of the ABA’s
superstars. Simpson plays for
the Denver Rockets and Erving
with the Virginia Squires.
While it was generally
assumed that this meant the
NBA had decided on open
warfare with the ABA, a
spokesman for the Bulls said
the drafting of Simpson should
not be construed as an attempt
to create trouble with the other
league but rather as a “long
range gamble.”
“He (Simpson) has a two
year contract with the ABA and
we hope he’ll play with us when
it’s up,” said Pat Williams,
general manager of the Chicago
Bulls. “This is the first year he
has been eligible for the draft
under NBA rules. His rights are
valuable so that is why we took
him.
“So if he ever decides to play
Sports Briefs
WOMEN’S PERFECTION
Mrs. Charles Fahning of
Buffalo, N.Y., during the
1929-30 season rolled the first
300 game sanctioned by the
Women’s International Bowl
ing Congress.
EL GRIDIRON
Pop Warner Junior League
Football teams play in Mex
ico under the name, "Liga
Mexicana de Football Amer
icana Pop Warner.”
PULLING THEM IN
The National Football
League drew a record 10,-
076,035 paid fans for its 1971
regular season games. Aver
age attendance for each reg
ular season game was 55,363.
National Conference games
outdrew those in the Amer
ican conference, 4,067,841 to
3,795,589, with inter-confer
ence games making up the
balance.
LONG RANGE
Rick Barry holds the ABA
record for most successful
three-point field goal tries in
a play-off game. He hit on
eight three-pointers in a 1971
in Chicago we have the first
rights. There was not much in
the NBA draft anyways, so you
might call this a gamble. We
will not ask him to jump his
contract with the ABA. We
have no plans to get in a war
with the ABA.”
Violation of Rules
Kennedy made it clear that
any attempt by an NBA club to
sign a player under contract to
the ABA would be in violation
of NBA rules and would not be
allowed.
“The owners agreed at a
meeting last week that we
would honor all signed con
tracts in the ABA,” said
Kennedy. “But drafting and
signing are two different things.
The minute that one of our
guys signs them then it’s a
different story. I would not
allow it under league rules.”
Laßue Martin, a 6-10 center
from Loyola of Chicago, turned
out to be the No. 1 pick as
expected. Martin was taken by
he Portland Trail Blazers, who
have problems at center.
The only other center taken
in the first round was 6-10 Tom
Riker of South Carolina, who
was selected by the New York
Knicks.
Sixty-Sixers
finish 2nd
The Sixty-Sixers of Griffin
recently finished second in an
Atlanta Slow Pitch Softball
Tournament.
Dalton beat the Griffin team
6-5 in the finals.
During the double-elimination
tournament, the Sixty-Sixers
won six games and lost two.
Leading hitters for Griffin
were Walter Dinkins, Larry
Bethune and Stanley Vamadoe.
Dinkins received a trophy
after being selected the tourna
ment’s most valuable player.
Georgia golfers
stand at 9-2
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - The
Georgia golf team upped its
season record to 9 - 2 Monday
with a 380 to 390 win over
Georgia Southern.
Georgia Southern won an ear
lier contest with the Bulldogs
and the two teams meet again
today.
New strike issue: pay forfeit
NEW YORK (UPI) -Negoti
ations between the major
league dubowners and players
appeared today to be stymied
by a new issue which executive
director Marvin Miller of the
Players Association called “a
terrible, terrible road block.”
The issue was a stipulation
by the clubowners that the
players forfeit their pay for the
days they struck while agreeing
to make up the games
postponed during the 11-day
strike and play a 162-game
schedule.
The stipulation was contained
in an offer by John Gaherin,
chief negotiator for the du
bowners, “to use $400,000 of the
gains now on deposit in the
fund for additional pension
benefits.”
The offer was flatly rejected
Monday night by Miller,
appearing on the ABC network
TV program Monday Night
game against Virginia.
GOOD FOR KICKS
Tom Dempsey, who was
released by the New Orleans
Saints but found a home in
Philadelphia, had the best
percentage among National
Football League field goal
kickers last season, hitting
on 12 of 17 tries for a .706
percentage. Garo Ypremian
of the Miami Dolphins led
the American Conference
with a .700 mark, hitting 28
of 40 tries. Curt Knight of
Washington tried the most
field goals in the NFL, 49
(tying a league record) and
also made the most, 29.
SET ’EM UP
About 52 million Ameri
cans, one in every four,
bowled at least once last
year, according to a survey
conducted for the National
Bowling Council.
RUGGED NIGHT
The Virginia Squires and
Kentucky Colonels commit
ted 80 personal fouls, an
ABA playoff high, in a game
in the 1971 post-season com
petition.
Most of the teams went after
forwards in the first round.
Cleveland selected 6-7 Dwight
Davis of Houston, Phoenix
grabbed 6-7 Corky Calhoun of
Pennsylvania, Milwaukee chose
6-7 Russell Lea of Marshall,
Seattle took 6-5 Bud Stallworth
of Kansas, Detroit went for 6-9
Bob Nash of Hawaii and Los
Angeles selected 6-8 Travis
Grant of Kentucky State.
The other two first-round
choices were guards Freddie
Boyd of Oregon State by
Philadelphia and Paul Westphal
of Southern California by
Boston.
DINAH SHORE checks out the Mission Hills Course in
Palm Springs, Calif., as she prepares to host the Dinah
Shore-Colgate Winners Circle Golf Tournament, the
richest event on the women’s pro golf tour, with a rec
ord first prize of $20,000. The tournament opens April 12.
Sports. Miller said, “the owners
are asking the players to work
overtime for nothing ... I think
it is incredible.”
Asked whether the new issue
could be resolved, Miller
replied: “I don’t see how it
can. I do not see any early
solution. This iron-clad provi
sion that the players will work
overtime for no pay is
incredible.”
National League President
Charles Feeney, appearing on
the same program moments
after Miller made his state
ment, said, however, “we are
very close in the pension area ..
I hope this strike can be
resolved tomorrow.”
Gaherin made the pension
fund offer late Monday after
meeting with Miller and federal
mediator J. Curtis Counts in
Washington early in the morn
ing. Optimism caused by a
telephone call by President
Babe Ruth League
drafts players
The Griffin Babe Ruth
League held its player draft last
week for the 14-15-year-old
League and 13-year-old League.
Complete Babe Ruth League
rosters plus managers and
coaches are as follows:
14-15-Year-Old League
DUNDEE
Manager, David Fordham
and coach, Ken Buckles;
players, Mike Barnwell, Monty
Ellis, Frank Gaissert, Jimmie
Hodo, Joe McGee, Pat Reeves,
Bruce Skinner, Jeff Whitaker,
Terrell Bunn, Charles Harper,
Kurt Hartle, Terry Hurley, Carl
Imes, Jerry Kent, Alan Smith.
EAGLES
Manager, Carlton English;
players, Ronald Fouts, David
James, Keith Lassiter, Charles
ton McClendon, Bruce Mims,
Joel Moon, Robert Nordan Jr.,
Eric Prather, Wakey Ball,
Brant Daniel, Wynn Harris,
Mike Jones, Nathan Shockley,
Garry Mason, Rufus Nash.
ELKS
Manager, Dan Carraway;
coaches, Doug Bell and Olin
Hunter; players, Terry Baxter,
Kenneth Garner, Eddie Jones,
Marty Vamadoe, Tony Wells,
Tim Westmoreland, David
Thaxton, Barry Boggs, Ricky
Green, Kenneth Newman, Clay
Rumph, Mel Stewart, Charlie
Ward, Roy Wilson, Brooks
Woodruff.
KIWANIS
Manager, Bobby Jones;
coaches, Jack Crawford and
William Moore; players, David
Barnes, Richard Buckalew,
Steve Hyatt, Willie Jordan,
Milton Ritchie, Terry Williams,
Tim Hollis, William Alison,
Mark Gatlin, Billy Moore,
Frankie Ritchie, Tony Scott,
Fred Sender, Thomas Steele,
Nixon to Counts Saturday night,
expressing hope for an early
settlement, proved unfounded.
Gaherin followed up the
announcement of the new offer
with the statement, “the
condition is that the players
will not be paid for the days
they have not played thus far
this season.
“Further,” Gaherin added,
“that the clubs will try to make
up most of the cancelled games
so as to complete a 162-game
schedule and the players will be
expected to participate in that
schedule within the framework
of die basic agreement.”
Miller and Gaherin expressed
gratitude for the intervention of
Counts, with whom they met
for two hours, but agreed that
little progress in the talks
developed from the meeting.
Miller, the 24 player repre
sentatives and their alternates,
Tim White.
I RANDALL & BLAKELY
Manager, Bart Johnson;
coach, Rollin Griffith; players,
Curry Butler, Don Colbert,
David Colwell, Randy Griffith,
Bill Ward, Bobby Atchison, Lee
Beam, Jeff Griffith, Arch
Holmes, Billy Johnson, William
Scott Jolley, Dennis Pugh, Jim
Smith, Randy Smith, Lyn
Shockley.
SPALDING GAS
Manager, Bill Delay;
coaches, Thomas Thurston and
David Shirah; players, Warren
Autry, Andy Craft, Bill Moore,
[ Jr., Bubba Penny, David Pitts,
Barry Whatley, Larry York,
Robin Callahan, Mickey Corley,
Gregg Edwards, Mitch Ham
| mond, Bobby Hart, Jr., Barry
McCarty, Phil Treadway,
David Williams.
VFW
Manager, Everett Crawford
and coach; Howard English,
players, Sam Bunn, Jr., Grant
Crawford, Terrell Downing,
Clemon Ector, Tim Hobbs,
Mike Kendall, Philip McCrary,
i Kim Perkins, Timothy Bunn,
David Collier, Travis Harrison,
Paul Mansour, William Payne,
John Scoggins, Ricky Smith.
[ WHIE
r Manager, Perry Coker and
, coach, Clinton Weldon; players,
> Noah Chalkley, Dale Carley,
; Jr., Terry Dunn, Johnny
Harper, Tim Shepherd, Dan
Smith, Keith Andrews, Steve
Chappell, Randy Foster,
[ Johnny Head, Jeff Hunt, Alan
[ Kent, Larry Martin, Ralph
Pritchett, Steve Young.
13-year-olds
COMMERCIAL BANK
, Manager, Jim Bell; coaches,
, Jerry Martin, Howard Sims,
Women golfers trim
figures and scores
PALM SPRINGS, Calif.—
(NEA)—Sandra Palmer, 5-
Kathy Whitworth, 5-feet-9,
132 pounds.
Sandra Haynie. 5-feet-5,
120 pounds.
Janie Blalock, 5-feet-6, 125
pounds.
Beauty contestants? No,
these are the top money
winners for the 1971 season
in the Ladies’ Professional
Golf Association, and the
statistics are merely to em
phasize the svelte new pro
file of today’s women golf
pros.
Although avoirdupois once
was thought to improve per
formances—the way it does
with female opera singers—
with today’s women golfers
it’s accuracy that carries
weight.
“We’ll never be strong
enough to hit a ball off the
tee as far as the men pros,”
says petite Miss Palmer, “so
we concentrate on accuracy
to give us the best possible
lie for our second shot.”
“It’s true, the women pros
are more accurate than the
men,” confirms TV golf
caster John Derr, who’ll be
reporting on their ultimate
accuracy test in the richest
tournament in women’s golf
history, the SIIO,OOO Dinah
Shore-Colgate Winners Cir
cle Golf Tournament, April
12-16 in Palm Springs. First
prize is a record $20,000.
Kathy Whitworth, who fin
ish e d No. 1 in the 1971
LPGA tour, says she and
her colleagues don’t have to
were scheduled to meet in New
York today while Gaherin was
Benefit basketball
game Friday
A Griffin-Pike County Alumni
Benefit Basketball game will be
played Friday night at the Pike
County Gym. The game is being
Named coach
STANFORD, Calif. (UPI)—
Hudson Houck, a former player
and coach at the University of
California, Thursday was
named Stanford freshman foot
ball coach.
The 29-year-old Houck was a
center of the 1962 Trojan
national champions and for the
past two years has been USC
freshman coach.
Wallace Upson; and player.-
Kirk Anderson, Ray Bishop
Larry Lee Cook, Michael Grays,
John Jackson, Harvey Jones!
Brent Martin, Cliff Miller, Venl
Nix, Steve Nixon, Kennl
Roberts, Woody Stapleton!
Brian Upson.
FIRST FEDERAL
SAVINGS & LOANS
Manager, Jack Trenton
coach, Wink Taylor; an
players, Danny Baxter, Tin
Crane, John Dees, Jr., Wayn'
Dunn, Gergory Head, Charle
Ray Nash, Dwight Odo -<
Danny Pitts, Charles Relefoi
Jr., Tony Shockley, Kenneth
Taylor, David Darrell Trenton
Roger White, Tracy Young.
FORRERAPTS.
Manager, Robert Smith
coach, John McDaniel; an
players, Joey Bevil, Darrel;
Buntyn, Tim Derpentigny’
Terry Hicks, Stan Hyatt*
Medrith McCrary, Mike Morris s
Jimbo Murray, Dennis Nichols
Edward Bruce Smith, And—
Smith, Randy Stewart, Calvi
Vallee.
GRIFFIN ELECTONICS
Manager, Harold Brooks; an<
players, Pearse Barkley, Terr;
Brooks, Cyrus Daniels, Wyat
Davis, Dee Hunter, John King
Tommy Langston, Johi
Lovelady, Steven LominackJ
Van Manolis, Jeff Mills, Jef’
Rainwater, Trip Smith.
IMPERIAL HOMES «
Manager, Woodrow Steele
and players, Johnny Bennett
Steve Burnette, Danny Coker
Jeff Cook, Larry Evans
Tommy Fetzer, Donnie Foster
Bennie Hosely, Jr., Jeff Jones,
Buster O’Dell, Joe Robinson
Charles Steele, Reginal
Touchstone.
hit as far as the men to pre
sent a great show on the
course.
“It’s an entirely different
game of golf,” she says,
“and I think people can
learn more from watching
the girl pros than they can
from the men. With men,
it’s power off the tee. But
with women it’s finesse and
rhythm. Men amateurs don’t
hit a ball 350 yards, so it’s
easier to identify with wom
en professional golfers—
whether you’re a man or a
woman.”
Janie Blalock, who’s ex
pected to offer tough com
petition for the top money
at Palm Springs, attributes
much of her success on the
fairways to her powers of
concentration.
“A golfer — especially a
woman golfer — must have
complete coordination of
mind and muscle for maxi
mum accuracy,” she says,
“and you can’t have that if
you can’t concentrate!”
Sandra Haynie agrees with
Janie about the value of con
centration, but also throws
in some good words for
“patience.”
“I think the two things that
can really ruin a golfer’s
game,” she says, “are con
ceit and a bad temper.”
The Dinah Shore-Colgate
Tournament promises to test
the tempers of all the con
tenders since it will be held
at the new Mission Hills
Course, considered the most
challenging course on this
year’s LPGA tour.
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scheduled to report back to the
owners.
sponsored by the Pike Touch
down Chib. Game time is 8 p.m.
Admission is $1.25 for adults
and 75 cents for students.
Players, who graduated from
the schools in the last 10 years,
are eligible to compete.
Proceeds will be used by the
Pike Touchdown Club to help
support the Pike football team.
GOODBY, VERN
Vern Mikkelsen, the sturdy
forward on George Mikan’s
Minneapolis Laker teams t
fouled out of more game
than any player in NBA his
tory, 127.