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Pearson outruns
Petty at finish
By DAVID L. LANGFORD
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
(UPl)—The three kings of
stock car racing were hanging
on the high-banked turns as
close us sausage links, the
crowd roaring its approval of
the tightest race anyone could
remember.
Then curly-haired David
Pearson found his chance on a
back stretch to get around
Richard Petty, throwing a
gesture to the Plymouth pilot
on his way around.
Petty chased Pearson to the
finish line with his front
bumper alongside the winner’s
rear fender. Bobby Allison
came in a few feet behind.
“I can’t remember when
there was one that close,” said
Pearson in the winner’s circle
Tuesday at Daytona Interna
tional Speedway.
And Petty, suffering heat
exhaustion at the end of the
Firecracker 400 on Indepen
dence a vay, had no alibis.
“He just gritted his teeth and
got on 9” said Petty at the end
of a 50-mile lead-swapping run
with Pearson and Allison.
Pearson, the 37-year-old three
time Grand National champion,
Spartanburg, S.C., said Petty
“goofed up.”
“He just waited too long
before he tried to pass me,”
Pearson said.
And coasting by his pits after
crossing the finish line, Pearson
yelled to his crew, “now, that’s
the breaks.”
Pearson averaged 160.821
miles per hour in winning his
fourth speedway race this year
on the 2.5-mile Daytona track.
For three-fourths of the way
the Firecracker had hummed
along with no accidents and no
caution flags, although defend
ing champion and pole-sitter
Bobby Isaac blew a valve after
220 miles and Pete Hamilton,
the only other serious conten
der, went behind the wall with
an over-heated engine.
Then with 47 laps to go, the
three-way chase developed.
Pearson, substituting for in
jured A. J. Foyt at the wheel of
the Woods Brothers Mercury,
was content to follow the Petty
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and Allison cars until the race
came down to the wire.
‘‘l was laying back a little
bit. You’re always trying to
figure out how to outsmart the
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SPORTS
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| NL Standings
By United Press International
National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Pittsburgh 43 26 .623 —
New York 43 28 .606 1
Chicago 37 33 .529 6%
St. Louis 38 34 .528 6%
Montreal 31 39 .443 12%
Philadelphia 25 46 .352 19
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Cincinnati 44 28 .611 —
Houston 42 29 .592 1-2
Los Angeles 36 35 .507 7Vz
Atlanta 33 38 .465 10%
San Francisco 31 47 .397 16
San Diego 25 47 .347 19
Tuesday’s Results
Cincinnati 6 St. Louis 1
New York 2 San Diego 0, Ist
San Diego 4 New York 2, 2nd
San Fran 2 Philadelphia 1
Montreal 7 Los Angeles 3
Atlanta 5 Chicago 1, Ist
Chi 3 Atla 3, 2nd, 7 inns, rain
Houston 6 Pittsburgh 0
Today’s Probable Pitchers
San Francisco (Bryant 6-4) at
Philadelphia (Nash 1-4), 7:30
p.m.
San Diego (Arlin 7-8) at New
York (Matlack 8-4), 8 p.m.
1..0S Angeles (Osteen 7-6) at
Montreal (Moore 0-2), 8 p.m.
Chicago (Jenkins 9-7 and
Reuschel 3-0) at Atlanta (Niek
ro 7-7 and Stone 1-6), 2, 6:05
p.m.
Pittsburgh (Ellis 7-4) at
Houston (Forsch 4-2), 8:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Ix)s Ang at Montreal, night
Chicago at Atlanta, night
Pitts at Houston, night
other driver,” he said. But on
the last five laps I was running
it flat footed.”
He said he gestured to the
other drivers as he scooted past
them.
“You don’t really try to make
them mad,” he said. “You do it
instead of just sitting there
passing the time.”
Pearson particularly enjoyed
beating Petty.
“He’s the toughest there is,”
he said. “I like to run with
him.”
Petty, too, enjoyed the
dogfifht.
“It was awfully tight —like
two inches apart —through the
last 18 to 20 laps,” Petty said.
“It would get tense if you didn’t
know who you were running
with. But Pearson and Allison
are the best.”
Coo Coo Marlin finished three
laps back in his Chevrolet to
take fourth place. James
Hylton finished fifth in a Ford
and Leeßoy Yarbrough, the
1969 Firecracker winner, was
sixth in a Ford. 3 Pearson, who
pocketed 115,150 for the victory,
drove the Mercury into the
winner’s circle earlier this year
at Darlington, S.C., Talladega,
Ala., and Irish Hills, Mich.
He had planned to spend the
Fourth of July holidays
vacationing in Hawaii. Then
Foyt burned in a sprint car
accident and the Woods team
drafted him to drive.
Baseball scouting has moments
By JACK MURPHY
Copley News Service
First, there is the boredom.
All those empty afternoons of
sitting in hotel lobbies, walking
and window-shopping, seeing
movies, waiting for night and
the ball games.
Charlie Metro goes to lots of
movie matinees and the time
passes swiftly if he’s watching
a western. Charlie likes action
and excitement and there’s not
much of either in his life since
he took off his baseball uniform
and became a scout.
It’s not the job he wants, but
it’s away of staying in the
game. He works for the Detroit
Tigers and his territory ranges
from California to Texas. Even
though he’d rather be back in
uniform, Charlie does not feel
he is demeaned by his current
occupation.
“I am convinced,” he says,
”1 am as valuable to my ball
club as a 12-game winner. The
information I provide Billy
Martin (manager of the
Tigers) can be very useful.
Scouting should be more im
portant in baseball than it is
now. We could learn from the
football people.”
Metro is one of three Detroit
scouts who send weekly reports
to general manager Jim Camp
bell which evaluate the talent
in the major leagues. The oth
ers are Jack Tighe and Frank
Skaff. On most summer nights,
Metro occupies a chair in the
press box at the ball parks in
Los Angeles, Anaheim or San
Diego.
He was sharing the company
of Ron Taylor, batting practice
pitcher for the Padres, on a re
cent evening at San Diego Sta
dium when somebody men
tioned the transient nature of
baseball. Metro lasted for only
52 games as manager of the
Kansas City Royals in 1970, yet
he thinks leading a ball club is
the best job known to man.
“They say managers are
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try to make sure you can’t go home again. Dave Marshall (18) of the Mets was
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hired to be fired, but I never be
lieved that. You can’t take a job
in that spirit. Even with a bad
ball club, I expected to win ev
ery day. I’ve never met a ball
player who didn’t think he
could hit every pitcher or a
pitcher who believed a hitter
could beat him.
“That’s why I want to man
age again, to get back into uni
form. I love it; I thrive on the
pressures.”
That made sense to Ron Tay
lor. Taylor is on the Padre pay
roll, but he's not playing in the
ball games and he can’t con
vince himself he’s run out his
string.
“Nobody ever believes he’s
going to die. Right? Well, a
ballplayer has the same atti
tude about his career. He
knows it will have to end some
day but, somehow, he per
suades himself it won’t happen
to him. Then you get your out
right release and it comes as a
shock.”
A ballplayer hangs on as best
he can and a manager, once
fired, looks for an opportunity
to stay in uniform as a coach
and add to his pension time.
Failing that, he might manage
in the minor leagues or take a
low-paying job as a scout. An
annual salary of $15,000 is close
to the top figure for a scout, and
that’s not much reward for long
absences from home and fam
ily, and all those lonely nights
when the hotel rooms become
smaller and smaller.
Os course, there are compen
sations. The hours are good.
There are duller jobs than
watching baseball games. And
there are friends and acquain
tances all along the line, and
the sound of laughter in the
press bar after the games.
A scout learns a lot about
America because he sees most
of it. He learns the towns to
avoid, the ones with Sunday
blue laws. If he is a man with a
thirst, he learns to cope.
Metro, for example, once
found himself in Jacksonville,
Fla., on a Sunday evening and
the saloons were closed. In
stead of fleeing to his room in
meek surrender, Charlie
strolled about his hotel lobby
searching for inspiration.
It came in the form of a wed
ding reception in one of the
hotel ballrooms. He had no
knowledge of either the bride or
groom, but never mind the
technicalities. Charlie returned
to his room, dressed in a blue
suit, and joined the wedding
party.
As he passed through the re
ception line, a sweet-faced lady
asked, “Are you a friend of the
groom?”
“Oh, no,” said Charlie, “a
friend of the bride.”
Then he got a grip on a glass
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ander pitched 90 shutouts
during his career, more than
any other pitcher in Na
tional League history. Chris
ty Mathewson’s 83 puts him
in second place. Bob Gibson
of the St. Louis Cardinals
and Juan Marichal of San
Francisco had the highest
total among active pitchers,
entering the 1972 season with
50.
of champagne and joined in
numerous toasts to his unknow
ing benefactors, the bride and
groom.
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member of the wedding party
engaged him in conversation.
— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, July 5, 1972
Page 6
AL Standings
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Baltimore 38 30 .559 —
Detroit 37 31 .544 1
Boston 32 34 .485 5
New York 31 35 .470 6
Cleveland 28 39 .418 9%
Milwaukee 27 40 .403 10%
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Oakland 46 24 .657 —
Chicago 41 29 .586 5
Minnesota 36 33 .522 9%
Kansas City 34 35 .493 11%
California 32 40 .444 15
Texas 29 41 .414 17
Tuesday’s Results
Cleveland 2 Texas 0
Boston 2 Minnesota 0
Kan City 1 Detroit 0
Baltimore 2 Chicago 1
Milwaukee 4 Calif 2
Oakland 4 New York 2
Thursday’s Games
New York at Oakland
Milw at California, night
Detroit at Kan City, night
Baltimore at Chi, night
Texas at Cleve, night
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Post 15
The Griffin Lions defeated
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