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Yepremian, Stenerud rematch
By United Press International
It was ironic last Christmas night that the American
Football Conference title was decided by a Cypriot and a
Norwegian. But the 1972 could open with the same pair
playing a major role.
Hie Cypriot is Garo Yepremian and he kicked a 37-yard
field goal in the “sixth quarter” to give the Miami
Dolphins a 27-24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs and a
berth in the Super Bowl. Jan Stenerud, the Norwegian
born place kicker for Kansas, had blown a 31-yarder—
normally a sure thing for him—with 31 seconds left.
NFL schedule-makers have decided to open the season
with a rematch of that title game, and the Chiefs seem
especially apprehensive about it.
They won’t come right out and say so, but Coach Hank
Strain feels his club is ready to avenge the loss, though it
won’t make up for the $7,500 per man picked up by the
Dolphins as Super Bowl losers.
Both kickers remember it well.
“I can usually tell when a kick is good and I knew that
one was good as soon as I kicked it,” Yepremian said. “I
saw the ball clear the crossbar and then my teammates
began to mob around me. I was wondering what they were
doing because I thought I had to kick off. I forgot it was
sudden death and so mixed up I didn’t even realize the
game was over.” Stenerud’s mood was in complete
Next year has meaning for Eddie
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) - Eddie
Mathews is still a bit ill at ease
after nearly six weeks as a
major league baseball mana
ger.
There’s no lack of confidence
in his ability to do the job, new
to him as it may be. But Eddie
was too long and too recently
one of the boys and the shift to
Dolphins,
Jets win
The Dolphins beat the
Broncos 19-0 and the Jets
blanked the Giants 13-0
, yesterday in the Pee Wee
Football league.
Clent Key and Peter Ferris
scored touchdowns for the
« Dolphins. Mark Martin made a
touchdown and extra point.
Dudley Brown played a good
defensive game for the
’ Dolphins.
Mike Shackleford was the
Broncos’ offensive leader and
, Johnny Banks starred on
defense.
Jeff Pierce and Rob Weeks
scored touchdowns for the Jets.
Buddy Landers made an extra
point. Charlie Bartholomew
played well on defense.
Mike Miller was the Giants’
top defensive player.
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boss takes time.
“You’ve really got to be
careful what you say,” Math
ews observed. “One little slip
and someone gets his feelings
hurt.”
The former homerun-hitting
third baseman who replaced
Luman Harris last month as
manager of the Atlanta Braves
gave an example:
“We’ve been talking about
trying Earl Williams in the
outfield. Everybody knows Earl
catches and plays third and
first. But, you watch. As soon
as we try him as an outfielder,
somebody’s going to get the
idea that we’re planning to
trade one of our other
outfielders.
“It really puts you on a
spot,” Mathews continued.
“We’re still trying to win ball
games but the most important
Trammel
bowls 520
Ruby Trammel rolled a 170
game and a 520 series this week
in the Koffee Klub League.
Other top bowlers were:
Fab Manning 175, Lillie
Patterson 160, Lou Averman
169, Liz Sherliza 162, Jerry
Gillespie 157, Joann Todd 162,
Betty Bouchell 167, Jimmie
Norris 164, Norma Head 158,
Bonnie Rounds 153 and Betty
Gossett 168.
contrast, even more so because he was coming off a
brilliant season.
“I didn’t ever want to go on a football field again,”
Stenerud recalled. “I didn’t want to have anything to do
with this game. But after a few days I thought things over
and decided to go back. I got lots of mail and calls from
friends and it helped reassure me.”
Stenerud seems back to his old self. He starred in the
Pro Bowl game last January and he led the league in
scoring during the pre-season. It will be interesting to see
his reaction should a pressure kicking situation arise
against the Dolphins Sunday.
The Chiefs are essentially the same team except at free
safety where veteran All-Star Johnny Robinson has
retired and been replaced by Kerry Reardon. Miami, a
five-point underdog, has added wide receiver Marlin
Briscoe from Buffalo, to take some pressure off Paul
Warfield, and Jim Dunaway to the defensive line.
In other openers Sunday, Dallas begins defense of the
league title by entertaining Philadelphia, San Diego is at
San Francisco, Oakland at Pittsburgh, St. Louis at Balti
more, New York Giants at Detroit, New Orleans at Los
Angeles, New York Jets at Buffalo, Cincinnati at New
England, Houston at Denver, Green Bay at Cleveland and
Atlanta at Chicago. Washington is at Minnesota in the first
Monday night game.
thing now is to find out what
we have toward next year.
“That’s why I want to try
Earl in the outfield, simply to
see, if we should have his other
positions covered, whether he
could play there.”
A lot of people feel the
Braves would have been fairer
to Harris and to Mathews if
they had waited until the end of
this season to make a
managerial change.
After all, there wasn’t
anyplace that Mathews could
lead the Braves this year with
the team already so far out of
the race and he could have
observed the youngsters from
his first base coach’s post.
As it stands, any glamor that
might have attended the
managerial career of one of the
Braves’ all-time favorites, a
man who hit 512 home runs in a
17-year major league career,
will have been dulled a bit by
the general lack of interest in
what the Braves do during
these final two months of the
’72 season.
One point worth mentioning
here: Eddie Mathews was a
big favorite in Atlanta back in
1950-51, when this city was in
the now defunct Southern
Association. But that was more
than two decades ago and most
of today’s Atlantans didn’t see
him play then.
Also when Mathews came
back to Atlanta with the Braves
in 1966, he was in the twilight
of a career that had blossomed
brightest in Milwaukee and
being traded away the very
next season left little time to
rebuild his fan club.
Nevertheless, though he had
no previous experience, Eddie
Mathews was being listed as
the next Atlanta manager from
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SACRAMENTO— Olympic swimming star Mark Spitz visits
California Governor Ronald Reagan in his Capitol office
where he told newsmen he has “no idea” whether he will
endorse either Richard Nixon or George McGovern for
president. Asked if Nixon would welcome Spitz’
endorsement, Reagan replied, “Yes, but I’m sure anyone
would be delighted.” Reagan presented Spitz with a
California state seal and a letter of commendation. (UPI)
Sports Briefs
By United Press International
BOYD SIGNS
SCRANTON, Pa. (UPI)-
Fred Boyd, a rookie guard and
Philadelphia’s No. 1 pick in the
college draft, Thursday signed
a three-year contract with the
76ers.
Philadelphia’s new Coach Roy
Rubin also cut Jake Jones, Sam
Simmons, Bob Verga, Al Henry
the moment (1971) he joined
Harris’ staff as a coach and the
talk in '72, until the deed was
done Aug. 7, was never if, only
when.
Mathews, who will be 41 next
month, had a reputation for
being a firebrand and it was
figured that he’d be a hard
driving coach.
That he might become. But,
at the moment, Mathews is
walking softly; feeling his way
around as it were. Not that he’s
been soft. He’s cracked down
on some of the laxness Harris
put up with, fining those who
fail to follow the rules.
It is uncertain, in the
complex Braves front-office
chain, how much authority
Mathews will have regarding
trades. But he softly admits
that the Braves are going to
have to do some trading this
winter—“and we’re looking
very closely at pitching.”
“It isn’t that simple,” Math
ews continues. “You have to be
willing to give up somebody
good to get somebody good and
when you start swapping
standout players there is
always an element of risk.
“I remember when we gave
up Johnny Antonelli to get
Bobby Thomson from the
Giants. Thomson broke a leg
and Antonelli pitched the Giants
to a world championship.
“It’s always a gamble,” said
Mathews. “But you’re not going
to get what you need if you
aren’t willing to take that
gamble.”
One of the big complaints
against the Braves in recent
years has been their apparent
unwillingness to gamble. Sure,
there was Orlando Cepeda-for-
Joe Torre deal that backfired—
but that one had personality
and Steve Mix.
POTTIOS REACTIVATED
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Myr
on Pottios, a veteran middle
linebacker, was reactivated
Thursday so that he will be
available for the Washington
Redskins’ season opener
against the Minnesota Vikings
Monday night.
Glorious baseball days told
By JACK MURPHY
Copley News Service
He has a half-century of
baseball in his head and he
makes it seem a joyous experi
ence.
Frank Frisch was the sort of
fellow who tuned up for the
baseball season by riding with
a bobsled team. He’d fight with
an umpire, then join him for a
stein of beer after the game.
The driver of the bobsled was
an undertaker known as No
Brakes Johnson. Frisch tried
bobsledding at Lake Placid the
winter John McGraw traded
him to the St. Louis Cardinals
for Rogers Hornsby in one of
baseball’s most celebrated
deals. Hornsby had won a pen
nant in St. Louis the previous
season.
That’s a tough act to follow so
Frisch went to Lake Placid to
prepare himself. “I was in the
best condition a man could be
in,” he says, “I was as hard as
a rock.
“I went up there and trained
like a fighter, like Tunney.”
And he went sledding with No
Brakes Johnson and two other
undertones. The same can be
said for letting no-hitter Milt
Pappas go.
There have been some
sweeping front office changes,
especially Eddie Robinson tak
ing over from Paul Richards,
so Mathews may well be
advertising a new Braves’
approach for this winter’s
trading.
That baseball manager’s
adage—wait ’til next year—has
seldom had more meaning than
it does for Eddie Mathews.
TD Club to sign
members
at football game
The Griffin Touchdown Club
will set up a table at the
Memorial Stadium main en
trance tonight to sign up
members for the new season’s
activities.
The tables will be just inside
the gates. They will be open for
business before the game, at
halftime and following the
game.
Memberships are $8 per man
and sl2 for a man-wife mem
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beefy guys on what later be
came the Olympic track.
‘‘l was scared to death. I just
closed my eyes and hoped I
wouldn't get killed. Finally,
they told me I had to quit, be
cause I was a professional ath
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1934, which has become the
stuff of legend and his spirit is
undiminished.
When Frisch speaks of base
ball he refers to “my era” and
the names trip off his tongue:
Hornsby, Sisler, Terry, Bot
tomley, Collins, Waner, Alex
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gods of the game. He is tactful
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teams should be chosen every
25 years” — but once in a while
he reveals himself.
“Managing,” he says “that’s
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Frisch went to work for John
McGraw, a hard man. McGraw
addressed him as that “ce
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was a term of endearment.
Frisch’s predecessor, Larry
Doyle, was known as “Pin
head.”
McGraw once fined Frisch
$25 because he didn’t pull a
ball. No matter that he drove in
the winning run with a hit to the
opposite field.
“Hit the ball where I tell you
to hit it,” thundered McGraw.
“That’s not easy to do,”
Frisch protested, “the pitch
was outside.”
"Hit one inside,” said
McGraw.
Eventually Frisch would
play 19 years in the majors and
go into the Hall of Fame with a
lifetime batting average of .316.
But he had to survive such op
ponents as Burleigh Grimes
and Edd Roush.
Roush didn’t like college
boys. “I’m going to spike the
(bleep) out of you,” he warned
Frisch. And he did.
“He put 18 stitches in my
leg,” Frisch recalls.
Grimes was a spitball pitcher
who liked to test the rookie’s
reflexes.
“He’d throw at me all day,
one at my head to make me
jump, then one in back of me.”
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