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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, May 8,1973
Page 6
Griffin to organize
2 Senior BR teams
Griffin will field two Senior
Babe Ruth League teams this
summer.
They will be sponsored by
American Legion Post 15 and
Griffin Federal.
The Senior Babe Ruth League
will be divided into two
divisions with the Griffin teams
Bakers win
tourney
Pat and Ed Baker won the
championship flight in the
recent Griffin Ladies Golf
Association Scotch Foursome
Tournament.
Margaret and Bill Moore
were runners-up and Janet and
Bill Dupree finished third.
Katherine and Logan Carlisle
won the first flight. Carol Gold
stein and Alex Stewart were
runners-up and Mary Jane and
Bill Bartholomew and Gwen
and James Skrine tied for third.
Joe and Dell Yandell won the
second flight. Margaret Duncan
and George Montgomery were
Spalding Gas
clips Bonanza
Spalding Gas defeated
Bonanza Sirloin Pit 13-7
yesterday in a make-up game in
the Continental circuit of the
Griffin Little League.
Mark Martin was Spalding
Gas' winning pitcher. He struck
out seven and walked one.
Barry Kimble was Bonanza’s
losing pitcher.
Chris Badger and Mark
Martin had two singles for
Spalding Gas. Chris Cliett
doubled and David Duke and
Kelvin Walker singled.
Commercial Bank,
IM Imperial win
Commercial Bank and Trust
Co. defeated Forrer Apart
ments 5-2 and Imperial Homes
shutout Griffin Electronics 5-0
yesterday in the Babe Ruth
league for 13-year-olds.
Danny Gilreath pitched a two
hitter for Commercial Bank.
Ricky Faulkner was Forrer’s
losing pitcher.
Mark Washington hit two
singles for Commercial Bank.
Mark Andrews, Don Gossett,
Danny Gilreath and Mark Jones
singled.
Bowling
meeting
An organizational meeting for
the summer Tuesday Mixed
Bowling league will be held
tonight at Griffin Lanes.
The meeting will begin at
7:30.
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and Jackson in the Eastern
Division and the Newnan
Americans, Newnan Nationals
and Thomaston in the Western
Division.
Bobby Jones of Griffin will
coordinate the Griffin teams.
Sign-ups for the Griffin teams
second. Sara Walker and Bo
Powers were third.
Margaret Moore and Tom
Ixickhart won prizes for the
longest drive and Pat Baker and
Bill Moore won awards for
closest to the hole.
Others in the tournament
were:
Tootsie Powers and Paul
Walker, Eve Dunaway and
Jerry Bonner, Alice and Mac
Garrison, LaVerne Beatty and
David Skrine, Jackie and Tom
Ixjckhart and Fab Manning and
Preston Bunn.
Barry Kimble hit three
singles for Bonanza. Rodney
McDowell and David Kimble hit
a double and single, Stan
Steward singled and Andy
Steele, Ricky Turner, Sidney
Stapleton and Jimmy Harris
singled.
Bonanza leads the Con
tinental League with a 5-1
record. Hobbs Pharmacy and
Spalding Gas have 4-1 records.
Griffin Federal and American
Mills are 2-3, Bank of Griffin is
1-4 and Randall-Blakeley is 0-5.
Gene Smith and Robbie
Vamadoe singled for Forrer.
Rusty Nix pitched a two-hitter
for Imperial Homes. Wade
Gatlin was Griffin Electronics’
losing pitcher.
Bobby Willis hit a triple and
single for Imperial Homes, Jeff
Harpe doubled and Jerry
Hendrix and Keith Hurley
singled.
Jimmy Ward and Clarice
Rumph singled for Griffin Elec
tronics.
Presbyterian,
Southside win
First Presbyterian beat
Crestview Baptist 13-2, South
side Baptist stopped Sunny Side
16-5, Calvary Baptist defeated
Midway Methodist 16-11 and
New Salem beat Palace Street
Church of God 14-7 yesterday in
the Church Softball League.
will begin Saturday at 1 pm. at
the Community Center.
Senior Babe Ruth baseball is
open to boys 16,17 and 18-years
old.
Boys must bring a birth
certificate when registering and
must pay a $lO registration fee.
Lanes,
United
win
Griffin Lanes beat Supreme
Manufacturing Co. 25-8 and
United Cotton Goods topped
Jester-Hooper 5-4.
Ann Reid hit a home run and
single for Griffin Lanes and
Sara Bragg had a home run and
two singles.
Mildred Johnson hit a double
and single for Supreme
Manufacturing Co. and
Deborah Mays hit three singles.
Dorothy Wise hit a home run
and three singles for United
Cotton Goods and Shirley Polk
hit three singles.
Linda Tarleton hit a double
and single for Jester-Hooper
and Nancy Hooper hit two
singles.
Dotson’s 9
Pro Sports 9
RBM win
Dotson’s Remodeling
defeated Rakestraw’s Body
Shop 25-15, Pro Sports beat
VFW 11-9 and RBM Motors
tripped American Legion Post
29-13 yesterday in the Com
mercial Softball League.
Donald Griffin hit a home run,
two triples and a single for
Dotson’s Remodeling and
Dwaine Fallins hit a home run
and single.
I-arry Brindley had a home
run and two doubles for
Rakestraw’s and George
Sanders hit a triple and double.
Jerry Brindley hit a double
and single for Pro Sports and
Bethune hit a triple and
single.
Willie Ison hit two homers for
VFW and James hit
one.
Johnny Kitchens led RMB
Motors with a home run and two
triples and Neel Baldwin hit a
home run, double and single.
Clifford Jester hit a home
run, triple and single for
American Legion and Willie
Jester hit a home run and two
singles.
Walter Jones hit a home run
and double for First Presby
terian. Victor Parker had a
home run, triple, double and
single and Donnie Roberts hit a
home run and two singles.
Phil Harp and Gil Bray hit
two singles for Crestview.
Ken Oliver hit a home run,
double and single for Southside
and Mitchell Jones homered.
Noah Shockley hit a home run
for Sunny Side and Lynn Buf
fington hit a double and single.
Tommy Bunn hit a home run
and double for Calvary and
Glenn Brown hit a double and
two singles.
Bobby Horton had a home run
and single for Midway and
David Huddleston hit a double
and three singles.
Warren Varnadoe hit a home
run, double and single for New
Salem and Norman Fields hit
three singles.
Billy Hendrix hit two singles
for Church of God and Kenneth
Horton hit a double and single.
Leaders
By United Press International
National League
g ab r h pct.
Mdx.SF 21 79 12 31 .392
Frly, Mtl 21 54 11 21 .389
Mota, LA 15 53 8 20 .377
Wtsn.Hou 30 108 22 40 .370
Santo, Chi 25 90 15 33 .367
Sngln.Pitt 22 98 17 34 .347
Mthws.SF 23 64 6 22 .344
Cncpcn.Cin 22 85 16 29 .341
Crdnl.Chi 27 102 23 34 .333
Grubb, SD 23 75 12 25 .333
Goodson.SF 23 75 8 25 .333
Strgl.Pitt 18 72 20 24 .333
Szmre,St.L 15 54 6 18 .333
★★★★★★★★
SPORTS
★★★★★★★★
By United Press International
National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Pittsburgh 12 9 .571 —
Chicago 14 13 .519 1
New York 13 13 .500 IMs
Montreal 11 12 . 478 2
Philadel[ilia 11 13 . 458 2%
St. Ixiuis 5 19 .208 8%
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
San Francisco 22 9 .710 —
Houston 19 10 .655 2
Cincinnati 16 11 .593 4
IjosAngeles 15 14 .517 6
San Diego 11 18 . 379 10
Atlanta 9 17 .346 10%
Monday’s Results
Houston 6 Montreal 0
New York 7 Atlanta 2
Philadelphia 3 Cincinnati 2, 14
inn
Pittsburgh 5 Los Angeles 4
San Diego 4 Chicago 1
(only games scheduled)
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Houston (Forsch 3-1) at
Montreal (Renko 1-2), 6 p.m.
Atlanta (Reed 0-4) at New
York (Matlack 2-4), 8 p.m.
Cincinnati (McGlothlin 1-0) at
Philadelphia (Lonborg 2-4), 7:30
p.m.
Pittsburgh (Briles 0-2) at Ix)s
Angeles (Messersmith 1-3), 11
p.m.
Chicago (Jenkins 2-3) at San
Diego (Norman 0-4), 10:30 p.m.
St. Louis (Gibson 1-3) at San
Francisco (Marichal 4-2), 11
p.m.
Wednesday’s Games
St. Ixjuis at San Francisco
Houston at Montreal (night)
Atlanta at New York (night)
Cincinnati at Philadelphia
(night)
Pittsburgh at Ix)S Angeles
(night)
Chicago at San Diego (night)
American league
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Detroit 12 13 .480 —
Baltimore 12 13 .480 —
Milwaukee 11 12 .478 —
Boston 10 13 .435 1
Cleveland 11 15 . 423 1%
New York 10 14 .417 1%
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Chicago 15 6 .714 —
Ka l sasCity 16 10 .615 1%
California 13 9 .591 2%
Minnesota 11 10 . 524 4
Oakland 13 14 .481 5
Texas 8 13 .381 7
Monday's Results
New York at Minnesota,
ppdjain
Boston 4 Chicago 1
Baltimore 8 Oakland 2
(only games scheduled)
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
New York (Stottlemyre 3-4)
at Minnesota (Woodson 1-0), 9
p.m.
Boston (Pattin 1-5) at Chica
go (Fisher 3-1), 9 p.m.
Detroit (Fryman 2-1) at
Kansas City (Spiittorff 4-1),
8:30 p.m.
Texas (Broberg 0-3) at
Milwaukee (Slaton 1-2), 8:30
p.m.
California (Wright 0-4) at
Cleveland (Perry 3-4), 6 p.m. -
Oakland (Hunter 2-1) at
Baltimore (McNally 3-4), 7:30
p.m.
Wednesday's Games
California at Cleveland
Detroit at Kansas City, night
New York at Minnesota, (night
Texas at Milwaukee,
Oakland at Baltimore, night)
(Only games scheduled)
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Flex Millan returns
to haunt Braves
NEW YORK (UPI) - Felix
Millan’s third hit of the game
capped a six-run eighth inning
rally Monday night that gave
the New York Mets a 7-2
victory over the Atlanta Braves
and mapped a five-game losing
streak.
Tom Seaver scattered six hits
to earn his first victory since
April 12.
The Braves led 2-1 in the
eighth when Wayne Garrett and
Rusty Staub led off with back
to-back singles against starter
Pat Dobson. Former Met
Danny Frisella relieved and Ed
Kranepool greeted his first
pitch with a run-producing
Hank Aaron upset
with some fans
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) - Hank
Aaron has never been more
upset, more terribly agitated,
in his 22 years in baseball.
He’s hitting only .208, but that
has nothing to do with it.
What’s tearing him up inside,
what’s gnawing away at the 39-
year-old Atlanta Braves’ super
star so much that his voice
breaks sometimes when he
talks about it, really has little
to do with baseball.
It has much more to do with
abysmal ignorance, the type
causing so much trouble
throughout the world today.
Hank Aaron’s anguish is being
caused by a small group of fans
who generally sit in right field
in Atlanta Stadium. They never
let up on Aaron. Fans have a
right to holler and yell, but
when they abuse that right as
these few do—and Aaron keeps
emphasizing it is only these
same few all the time—then the
whole thing becomes all wrong.
“What specifically do they
call me?” says Hank Aaron,
repeating a newsman’s ques
tion, “I’ll tell you what they
call me. They call me nigger.
They say I’m not as good as
Babe Ruth. I never said I was,
did I? Then they say I’m being
paid too much money. They
call me an s-o-b.”
Hank Aaron says it exactly
that way.
He uses the three initials
instead of the actual words
because basically, deep down,
he’s a truly gentle individual,
one not usually given to the
customary rough talk you hear
in a baseball clubhouse.
But the man who has hit 681
major league home runs
already and is zeroing in more
and more on Babe Ruth’s
glamorous all-time record of
714 can react when he feels
there is no other way out
I remember being in Tampa,
Fla., a few springs back.
Both the Braves and Yankees
were there at this particular
time, too, and one night in front
of the Hillsborough Hotel a
drunk began bothering Bobby
Richardson, the little ex-
Yankee second baseman.
This guy was giving Richard
son a hard time. Hank Aaron
was watching the whole thing,
minding his own business, when
the guy started on him, too,
first calling him names and
finally going over and pushing
him without any provocation
whatsoever.
Pow?
One quick swing and it was
all over.
Hank Aaron did the job so
beautifully and with such
dispatch, hardly anybody ever
knew about it.
More to the point, when these
certain right field patrons in
Atlanta kept getting on Aaron
double. Jim Gosger was walked
intentionally to fill the bases.
After Jerry Grote struck out,
Frisella walked Bud Harrleson
to force in the second run of the
inning.
Seaver then hit an apparent
double play grounder to short
but second baseman Dave
Johnson’s relay went wild and
Kranepool and Gosger crossed
the plate. Ted Martinez walked
and Millan singled home Seaver
with the fifth run. Back-to-back
walks to Garrett and Staub
forced home another run before
reliever Phil Niekro got Krane
pool, the 12th man to bat in the
inning, to ground out.
where he no longer could take
it a little more than a week
ago, he waited until the game
was over and invited them
down to confront him.
They didn’t of course.
“I’m not going to take no
more of that,” says Hank
Aaron. “Why should I? It
doesn’t happen in other cities.
One thing I wanna get straight.
Generally speaking, the people
in Atlanta have been wonderful
to me, but it’s just these few
I’m talking about.
“Look, I’m no ... fool,
either. I’m just getting too
dose to Ruth’s record, infring
ing on an area where no black
man ever has been before. If I
were a white boy, it’d be fine.
If this were someone like
Killebrew or Mantle doing it,
everything would be all right.
But they can’t accept the fact
I’m black and I’ve got this
chance to do it.”
Hank Aaron first reported to
the Braves from Jacksonville of
the South Atlantic League in
1954 and never before has been
involved in any race issue.
That’s why his comments
become all the more meaning
ful.
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The Mets took a 1-0 lead in
the fifth when Harrelson and
Seaver walked, Martinez hit
into a forceout and Millan, with
only two RBIs in 101 previous
at bats, lined a run-producing
single with two out.
The Braves went ahead in the
seventh when Dusty Baker led
off with his fifth homer,
Martinez dropped Marty Perez
liner to center for a one base
oror and Johnny Oates fol
lowed a sacrifice with an RBI
double.
Seaver struck out eight and
walked two in gaining his third
victory against three losses.
Pat Dobson was saddled with
his fourth loss in six decisions.
season I was booed,” he says.
“I didn’t deserve that. What
was my crime? What did I do
wrong? I’m only a human
being. But these people start in
and never let up. Some
loudmouth keeps hollering I’m
not as good as Babe Ruth. ...,
this guy doing all the hollering,
fe ain’t half as good as me! I
take one look at him, see he’s
about my age, and know he
never saw Babe Ruth in his
life.
“Then they get on this thing
about me not being worth the
money I’m getting. I’ve always
earned what I got. Nobody ever
gave me anything for nothing.
The only thing I can figure is
this guy’s old lady kicks him
outta the house on Saturday,
and he says to himself I’ll go
out there and get on that boy in
right field. I’m sure he doesn’t
call me Aaron. He probably
calls me ‘that boy.’”
Up to now, Hank Aaron
hasn’t gone to the Braves’
brass with his troubles.
He doesn’t like bothering
anybody.
But when Eddie Robinson,
the club’s vice president for
baseball operations, learned of
Aaron’s deep distress Monday
R-B,
Elks
win
Randall-Blakely outscored
WHIE 10-6 and Elks ripped
Eagles 11-6 yesterday in the
Griffin Babe Ruth Leagit.
Arch Holmes was Randall-
Blakely’s winning pitcher.
Larry Martin was charged
with WHIE’s loss.
Jeff Cook hit a triple and two
doubles for Randall-Blakely.
Lyn Shockley hit two singles
and Arch Holmes, Lee Beam
and Jeff Griffith singled.
Larry Martin had a double
and single for WHIE. Robin
Green hit two singles and
Randy Foster hit one.
Clay Rumph was Elks’
winning pitcher. Wakey Ball
was Eagles’ losing pitcher. Tom
Morris pitched in relief.
Roy Wilson and Mel Stewart
hit two singles for Elks. Clay
Rumph doubled and Kenneth
Newman singled.
Kirk Anderson hit two singles
for Eagles. Gary Mason
doubled and Brant Daniels
singled.
Ga. Coeds
protest
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - A
group of University of Georgia
coeds say they will stage a
demonstration today to protest
alleged discrimination against
women by the university ath
letic department.
The group, known as Wom
en’s Oppression Must End Now
(WOMEN), said they will form
a picket line at the university
coliseum from noon until 2 p.m.
EDT as students are picking up
their football tickets.
night while traveling with the
Braves here, he said:
“The Atlanta club is going to
do everything it possibly can to
protect Hank Aaron from being
disturbed by whatever it is that
disturbs him.”
Eddie Robinson is rigit in
there thinking.
If the Braves don’t look out
for a Hank Aaron, then what
chance in the world has, say, a
Larvell Blanks?