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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, April 16,1974
Griffin LL opens
with four games
Runs were plentiful for some
teams yesterday as the Griffin
Little League opened its 1974
season.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
blanked Pomona Products 19-0
in an American League game
while Buick-Garment blasted
Commercial Bank and Trust
Co. 19-6.
Randall & Blakely doubled
Bank of Griffin 22-11 and a
Continental League game. The
lowest scoring game saw
Spalding Gas stop Hobbs
Pharmacy, 8-2.
Doug Pound of the Colonels
blanked Pomona Products with
a two-hitter. He struck out 10.
Alex Tatum was Pomona’s
losing pitcher. He allowed 14
hits, walked 18 and struck out
five.
Tony Powell hit a double and
two singles for the Colonels.
Tommy Murphy and Doug
Pound had two singles, Wayne
Chasteen and Randy McCurry
doubled and Frankline Allen,
Thomas Ellis, Buddy Thrasher
and Todd Aaron singled.
Henry Miller and David
Ix>wry singled for Pomona Pro
ducts.
Ray Lemons and Phillip
Buckalew pitched for Buick-
Garment. Mark Redmond was
Commercial Bank’s loser.
Lemons hit a home run, triple
and double for Buick-Garment.
Sherick Champion hit a triple,
double and two singles, Tim
Ixing had a double and two
singles, Tony Stanley hit a triple
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and single, Phillip Buckalew hit
a double and single, Marty
Tiller doubled, Leslie Scott
tripled and Scott Reeves
singled.
Keith Lynch hit a double and
single for Commercial Bank.
Alex Leverett and John Tuggle
doubled and Todd Pitts and
Mark Williams singled.
Mark Martin and Marc
Pfrogner pitched for Spalding
Gas. Novin Darsey and Keith
Head pitched for Hobbs Phar
macy.
Chip Davis and Kevin
Oglesby had two singles for
Spalding Gas. Kelvin Walker,
Marc Pfrogner, Tracy Baird
and James Smith singled.
Keith Head and Mike
Niekro leads
Braves to win
ATLANTA (UPI) - Phil
Niekro of Atlanta seems to save
his best pitching for San Diego.
Last year Niekro pitched the
National League’s only no-hitter
against the Padres.
But his dancing knuckleball
was even more elusive Monday
night when he shut out San
Diego 6-0 on four hits, Niekro
believes.
“I had better stuff over nine
innings than at anytime in the
past two-three years,” Niekro
said. “It was really moving
around.”
The Padres would agree.
Niekro got 13 strikeouts—a
career high.
Twice late in the game
Niekro seemed to be in trouble.
In the seventh inning San Diego
had two runners on with one
out but he struck out Fred
Kendall and Dave Roberts.
In the eighth Niekro allowed
two of his four hits—singles to
pinch-hitters Bernie Williams
and Clarence Gaston—with no
outs. But he retired Matty Alou
on a fly ball, got Derrel
Thomas on an infield out and
then struck out Dave Winfield.
Niekro is off to a 3-0 start
and his win pulled the Braves
to 5-5.
Outfielder Dusty Baker hit a
sacrifice fly and then singled in
the seventh inning to keep alive
a nine-game hitting streak.
Baker is batting .364.
“This is the best start I’ve
had in a long time. Ever since I
hurt my shoulder a few games
back while I was sliding
against Cincinnati, I’ve been
hitting the ball pretty good,”
Shackleford hit two singles for
Hobbs and Kelly Head had a
double and single.
Ralph Gray and Kevin Peek g
pitched for Randall & Blakely, x
Zachery Holmes and Tracy
Phillips pitched for Bank of
Griffin. £
Tony Bunn hit a double and
two singles for Randall & x
Blakely. Kevin Peek had a
triple and double, Danny Cald
well and Mike Slade hit a double
and single, Carey Griffin x
homered, Ralph Gray hit two £
singles and Artie Greer and
Mike Moore singled.
Danny Schmitt hit a home run x
for Bank of Griffin. Mitchell
Cardelp doubled and Kim Jones
singled.
Atlanta’s winning pitcher Phil
Niekro (35) stands in the bat
ter’s box and blows bubble gum.
Niekro allowed four hits and
struck out a career high 13 in
pitching the Braves to a 6-9
victory. (UPI)
Baker said.
Baker thinks he knows how a
bruised shoulder could help.
“I think it’s making me
concentrate a little bit more.
Now when I go up there I’m
thinking more about what I can
do. Concentration. That’s what
hitting is all about.”
The Braves tormented San
Diego left-hander Randy Jones,
who lost his third game. Jones
had an ERA of 18.00 before
Monday’s game and he did
nothing to improve it by
allowing three earned runs in 1
2-3 innings against Atlanta.
Body Shop,
Auto Parts
win games
Griffin Body Shop ripped
Dotson’s 11-2 and Griffin Auto
Parts tripped Commercial
Bank and Trust Co. 20-1
yesterday in the Commercial
Softball League.
Kenny Mann hit a double and
two singles for Griffin Body
Shop. Larry Fouts had a triple
and double.
Steve Bozeman hit a double
and two singles for Dotson’s.
Coy Hodges doubled.
Larry Bethune hit a home run
and double for Griffin Auto
Parts. Monday Feltman hit a
double and two singles.
Rayford Peek and Wayne Gill
hit two singles for Commercial
Bank.
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Palmer
and friends
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) — The people who hurt Arnold
Palmer most are his friends.
They don’t really mean to. Their motives are basically
good.
They want to see him win and be on top again the way he
used to be.
They are so fervent in their zeal, so overanxious to
identify with Arnold Palmer, King of the Hill once more,
that they try to convince him he’s every inch the golfer he
used to be, his game is the same it always was and he’s
capable of going out there and winning any time he
wishes.
His friends can fool themselves, but they can’t fool
Arnold Palmer. He knows better.
Palmer had an excellent wrapup round of 67 in the
Masters Sunday, a round which created a feeling among
some that maybe, somehow, he had finally recovered his
old lost putting touch, but Palmer sensed it was only
momentary and he probably was right.
Talking about the round, he revealed he had held his
putter a little more loosely, and immediately some
suggested to him that might be the key he has been
looking for all along.
Arnold Palmer didn’t have the heart to disillusion them.
“You never can tell,” he smiled agreeably. “Hubert
Green told me he found himself holding his putter a little
too tight,” said Palmer. “He thought maybe I could be
doing the same thing, so I tried holding the putter a little
looser.”
Palmer Elaborates
Later, though, Palmer elaborated a little more.
The first flush of excitement over his fine 67 had passed.
All right, he had finished with his best round in 12 years;
his 72-hole total of 284 would turn out to be only six strokes
back of winner Gary Player, and he had putted only 29
times in the final round.
Arnold Palmer wasn’t kidding himself about having
found the “key” though, by the way he had handled his
putter. “I’ve tried this before," he said. “It’s nothing
really new. Same old stuff.”
He shrugged.
Somewhere along the line, Arnold Palmer has picked up
a bad habit, a terrible one for someone trying to make his
living at golf.
He has become a defensive putter, which is almost the
same thing as a defensive hitter in baseball. A defensive
hitter doesn’t brim over with confidence when he walks up
to the plate. Generally all he does is guard it, and that’s
the same way Palmer usually walks up to his putts.
Defensive hitters rarely make much money in baseball,
and you can make what you want of the fact that Arnold
Palmer, who always was 1-2 on the money winnings list,
isn’t even among the first 100 now.
He’d Take Putting Stroke
If there was only one thing in the world he could possibly
have which belongs to someone else, Arnold Palmer says
he would take Bob Charles’ putting stroke.
“He’s unbelievable on the greens,” Palmer says of the
skinny New Zealand lefthander. “He’s the greatest putter
in the whole world —bar none.”
Bob Charles smiles understandingly upon hearing
Palmer would love to have his putting stroke.
“It’s not for hire,” he laughed. “I have to play this
game, too. You take my putting away, and I wouldn’t be
able to make a living on this tour."
Charles came here directly from Greensboro, N.C.,
where he finished first and won $44,066. He played with
Palmer in Friday’s second round at the Masters and
failed to make the cut with a 73-79—152. Palmer had a 71
Friday but still evoked Charles’ sympathy.
“I felt sorry for him,” said the New Zealander. “He just
never made a putt. It was kinda sad because if he had his
old confidence, his 71s today would be his 67s of yesterday.
“He was as fine a putter as there was in the game, and
actually his stroke doesn’t look any different now, but he
just isn't starting the ball out in the right direction.
Putting is 90 per cent mental and 10 per cent physical.
Your eyes line up the blade and tell you where to stroke
the putt. It’s possible your eyes can change with age.”
Sees Better Now
Arnold Palmer is 44 now and has been wearing
eyeglasses for two years. He still is not completely
comfortable with them, but one important thing —he sees
better with them. He doesn’t squint.
Ordinarily the touring pros think first of themselves, but
Bob Charles, like so many of them, couldn’t really find it
within himself to be very upset if Arnold Palmer should
somehow happen to win one more big one sometime soon.
“I don’t know of anybody who has done more for the
game,” Charles says of Palmer. “He has the manner, the
personality, the charisma, to attract people to golf
courses who aren’t even golfers. That makes a difference
in everything —atmosphere, interest, prize money. You
take what happened to me at Greensboro, for example. I
wouldn’t have been able to win $44,000 there if it wasn’t for
Arnold Palmer. He has increased the prize money for us
everywhere as a fellow professional. I’m grateful.”
Armstrong
defeats
Duncum
Bob Armstrong defeated
Bobby Duncum in a grudge
match Saturday night at the
Sports Palace.
The main event saw Robert
Fuller and Mr. Wrestling
Number Two defeat Art Nelson
and Jerry Briscoe.
Mike Stallings battled Zebra
Kid to a draw and Jerry Oates
defeated the Masked Marvel.
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game and a 575 series last night
in the Monday Ladies League.
S Other leading bowlers were:
Helen Kolousek 206 and a 545
series, Lila Williams 202, Peggy
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Laudnry 3-1, Forrer Apart
•x ments defeated Holiday Inn 3-1,
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Six games played
in Church circuit
Six games were played
yesterday in the Church Softball
League.
Sacred Heart ripped Mt.
Gilead 15-3, East Griffin
stopped First Presbyterian 24-6,
Fellowship Baptist defeated
First Methodist 18-7, Calvary
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National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
S X-Montreal 3 1 .750 —
# St. Louis 7 3 .700 —
g Philadelphia 5 3 .625 —
Chicago 3 2 .600 %
S New York 2 5 .286
x Pittsburgh 17 .125 4
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
x: Los Angeles 7 3 .700 —
San Francisco 6 4 .600 1
:x Cincinnati 4 4 .500 2
Houston 5 5 .500 2
x Atlanta 5 5 .500 2
San Diego 2 8 .200 5
x-Games behind based on Ist
x place team
Today’s Probable Pitchers
£: (All Times EDT)
:x New York (Seaver 0-0) at
Montreal (Renko 6-1), 3:15 p.m.
£ Pittsburgh (Ellis 0-1) at
x Chicago (Reuschel 0-0), 2:30
:£ P-m.
:£ St. Louis (Siebert 1-0) at
x Philadelphia (Carlton 0-0), 7:30
£ p.m.
San Diego (Arlin 1-1) at
Atlanta (Reed 1-1), 7:30 p.m.
San Francisco (Willoughby 1-
X 1) at Houston (Griffin 1-1), 8:30
P m -
Los Angeles (Messersmith 1-
x 0) at Cincinnati (Gullett 0-1),
8:05 p.m.
American League
x: East
x w. 1. pct. g.b.
Milwaukee 5 2 .714 —
Boston 4 3 .571 1
New York 5 4 .556 1
x Baltimore 4 4 .500 IMs
S Detroit 4 6 .400
Cleveland 3 6 .333 3
£ West
§ w. 1. pct. g.b.
California 7 2 .778 —
Minnesota 4 3 .571 2
g Oakland 5 4 .556 2
Kansas City 3 3 .500 2%
Texas 4 5 .444 3
Chicago 17 .125 5%
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Boston (Tiant (Ml) at New
York (Stottlemyre 1-1), 8 p.m.
Cleveland (J. Perry 0-1) at
•x Milwaukee (Colbom 0-0), 7 p.m.
•x Kansas City (Busby 2-0) at
x Texas (Clyde 0-0), 9 p.m.
Minnesota (Decker 0-0) at
California (Ryan 2-1), 11p.m.
Chicago (Gossage 0-0) at
Oakland (Lindblad 0-0), 11 p.m.
.( Only games scheduled)
Pike LL
opens today
The Pike County Little
League will open its 1974 season
today with two games at Little
League Field near Zebulon.
The White Sox will play the
Cubs and the Yankees will take
on the Braves.
The games begin at 6 and 8
p.m.
The remainder of the 1974
Little League schedule is as fol
lows:
April 19, Braves vs. White Sox
and Cubs vs. Yankees.
April 23, Cubs vs. Braves and
White Sox vs. Yankees.
April 26, Yankees vs. Cubs
and Braves vs. White Sox.
April 30, Braves vs. Yankees
and Cubs vs. White Sox.
May 3, Yankees vs. White Sox
Baptist beat New Salem 13-6,
Hanleiter Methodist downed
Southside Baptist 16-11 and
Calvary Assembly of God beat
Second Baptist Youth 10-9.
Jeff Rowe hit a home run,
double and two singles for
Sacred Heart. Ray Glass had a
home run, double and single.
Ike Woodruff doubled for Mt.
Gilead and Wayne Moss
singled.
Brady Crowder hit a home
run and double for East Griffin.
Jack Furlow homered. Cooper
Stanley hit a triple and double
for First Presbyterian and
Terry Tardy doubled.
Jeff Merritt had a home run
and two doubles for Fellowship
Baptist. Benny McMichael hit
two doubles. Lanney Bateman
hit three singles for First
Methodist and Tom Roberts hit
a double and single.
Wayne McKie hit a double
and single for Calvary Baptist
and Tim Inglett hit two singles.
Ron Mullins had three singles
for New Salem and Pat Murphy
hit two doubles.
Randy Crane hit a home run
and double for Hanleiter and
David Jimerson hit a triple and
single.
Eddie Lovin slammed two
doubles for Southside Baptist
and David Colwell hit two
singles.
Keith Steger hit three singles
for Calvary Assembly and
Craig Stevens hit two singles.
Steve Murphy hit a home run
and two singles for Second
Baptist. Don Sloan had a triple
and single.
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