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Griffin Daily News Wednesday, September 25, 1974
Dowis hopes Bears
can earn rating
The Griffin Bears were rated
No. 9 in a high school poll this
week and Coach Max Dowis
hopes his players can earn that
respect Friday in LaGrange.
The Bears are 2-1, having lost
to Central of Macon, which may
be the best prep team in
Georgia, in the season opener
and bounced back with 6-AAA
victories over Rockdale County
and Newton County.
The Bears showed signs of
having a good team in the two
wins. However, mistakes really
hurt them, especially offen-
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By United Press International
Leading Batters
National League
g ab r h pct.
Garr, Atl 138 582 81 207 .356
Grvy,LAlso 620 93 197 .318
Buckner, LA
138 552 80 175 .317
Olvr, Ptt 139 582 89 182 .313
Mcßride, St.L
144 537 76 168 .313
Zisk, Pitt 141 512 72 160 .313
Madlock, Chi
120 422 62 132 .313
Smith, St.L
137 494 75 154 .312
Gross, H 148 557 74 173 .311
Brock, St.L
147 609 102 188 .309
Montanez, Phil
135 495 53 153 .309
American league
g ab r h pct.
Carew, Minn
147 576 85 209 .363
Orta, Chi 132 494 71 157 .318
McR,KCI4I 509 67 157 .308
Maddox, NY
132 445 73 136 .306
Rndl.Tx 146 502 64 153 .305
Pinll,NYl36 501 69 151 .301
Allen, Ch 128 462 84 139 .301
Burroughs, Tex
147 534 83 160 .300
Yaz, Bos 146 507 93 152 .300
Robinson, Balt
146 523 43 154 .294
Campaneris, Oak
131 517 77 152 .294
Home Runs
National League: Schmidt,
Phil 36; Wynn, LA 32; Bench,
Cin 31; Perez, Cin 27; Cedeno,
Hou 25.
American League: Allen, Chi
32; Jackson, Oak 29; Tenace,
Oak and Burroughs, Tex 25;
Darwin, Minn 24.
Cowboys
top Tigers
The Cowboys crushed the
Tigers 46-0 yesterday in the
Junior Football League.
Eddie Gilbert scored two
touchdown for the Cowboys.
Keith Odom, Tim Phillips,
Leslie Brown, Rob Weeks and
Bernard King made one each.
Brown made four extra points.
Kenneth Law was named the
Tigers’ best offensive players
and Mike Kimbell was tops on
defense.
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Coach Dowis has concentrat
ed on eliminating the mistakes
and he hopes the effort pays off
Friday in LaGrange.
“I believe the practice Mon
day was the best I’ve ever had
in Griffin,” the coach said this
morning.
He sent his number one of
fensive team against the
number one defense. The two
units went at it for about an
hour.
“They worked hard and the
scrimmage was almost mistake
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Dietzel stills
believes in team
By United Press International
Coach Paul Dietzel says his
final South Carolina team still
can have a fine season despite
an 0-2 start.
“We will be judged on what
kind of team we have after the
nine remaining games on the
schedule,’’said Dietzel, who is
quitting as coach at the end of
the season.
Dietzel announced his pend
ing resignation last Saturday
night after the Gamecocks had
dropped their second straight
game, a 20-14 upset to Duke.
He said he was discouraged
by the bad start of a team he
considered his best since his
great teams at Louisiana State.
“I think this football team
has a great attitude and now
can think football,” he said.
The Gamecocks meet Geor
gia, another disappointing
squad, Saturday in Athens, Ga.
South Carolina scout Dennis
Ford said Georgia, which
opened with a win over Oregon
State, “appeared a little flat”
in losing 38-14 to Mississippi
State last Saturday.
At Georgia, Coach Vince
Dooley scrimmaged his team
during the season for the first
time in many years. He said
his team “needed the work.”
Elsewhere, Florida listed
defensive back Alvin Butler,
recovering from a neck injury,
as a doubtful starter against
Tampa Saturday.
Mississippi held a two and
one-half hour workout on its
strategy for the Southern
Mississippi game. Mississippi
State had a controlled scrim
mage in preparation for Flori
da.
Tulane tried to work out a
defense for a West Virginia
offensive line averaging 240
pounds. Vanderbilt moved jun
ior Paul Grogdon to starting
linebacker ahead of Mark
Adams as the Commodores got
ready for Alabama.
Coach Bill Battle said Con-
free,” Coach Dowis said.
Coach Dowis was surprised
by the fine practice. Normally
Monday practice aren’t all that
good.
“I hope we didn’t waste it on
Monday. If we can do it in
practice, then why can’t we do it
in a game?” the coach asked.
The coach said the Bears
followed up the good Monday
practice with another good one
Tuesday.
“I don’t know what all this
means but I hope it means we
are finally putting it together,”
he said.
dredge Holloway probably
would start at quarterback in
Tennesee’s battle with Auburn
Saturday. But he said he also
plans to play Randy Wallace to
keep both quarterbacks fresh.
Alabama held a general
workout on all phases of its
game while Auburn worked out
for two hours, some of it
devoted to ways of stopping
Holloway.
Betty Love
bowls 195
Betty Love bowled a 195 game
and Cheryl Fields had a 193
yesterday in the Dundee
League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Mary Walker 184, Barbara
Smiley 185, Grace Lloyd 157,
Martha Bray 172, Peggy Scott
169, Linda Schuler 168, Mary
Blanton 182, Hazel Hilton 168,
Betty Parkerson 182, Tonya
Pressley 170, Nancy Powell 168,
Susie Clark 163, Frances Mc-
Carley 168, June Boonstra 155,
Joan Tanttari 157, Becky
McLean 152, Frances Dunn 182,
Linda Scott 157, Annette Taylor
182 and Sylvia Crumbley 164.
Team 10 beat Team One 4-0,
Team Two beat Team Three 3-1,
Team Five beat Team Four 4-0,
Team Seven beat Team Six 4-0
and Team Eight stopped Team
Nine 3-1.
Edwin Morris
rolls 237
Edwin Morris bowled a 237
game and a 613 series yesterday
in the Doc Craddock League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Ray Robbins 200, Emory
Garmany 215, Mike Waddell
207, Billy Bevil 204, Steve Un
derwood 214, Julian Folds 206,
Ray Jackson 214, Julian Cook
203, Melvin Whidby 211, Charles
Vaughn 202, Rob Richardson
203, Preston Blanton 211.
Fisher Hardware beat Hill’s
Tire Store 3-1, Forrer Apart
ments beat Western Auto 3-1,
WGRI stopped Fran’s Kennels
3-1, Mortell Co. beat Buckalew
Electric 4-0, Prescott’s Barber
Shop beat Harris Service
Station 3-1, Archer’s Food Store
defeated Millican Oil 4-0 and
Buddy’s Trailer Sales and
Team Eight tied.
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STANDINGS
By United Press International
National League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Pittsburgh 82 72 .532 —
St. Louis 82 73 .529 %
Philadelphia 76 78 .494 6
Montreal 73 81 .474 9
New York 69 84 .451 12%
Chicago 65 89 .422 17
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Los Angeles 98 57 .632 —
Cincinnati 93 62 .600 5
Atlanta 84 72 .538 14%
Houston 78 76 .506 19%
San Francisco 71 85 .455 27%
San Diego 57 99 .365 41%
Tuesday’s Results
Chicago 6 Montreal 4,lst
Montreal 11 Chicago 2,2nd
Philadelphia 6 New York 3
Pittsburgh 7 St. Louis 3
Cincinnati 5 Houston 1
Los Angeles 2 Atlanta 1, 10
inn
San Diego 3 San Francisco 2
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(All Times EDT)
Montreal (Walker 3-5 and
Rogers 14-21) at Chicago
(Kremmel 0-1 and Bonham 11-
20), 2,1:00 p.m.
New York (Seaver 11-9 and
Sterling 1-0 or Espinosa 0-0) at
Philadelphia (Twitchell 6-9 and
Lonborg 16-12), 2,5:35 p.m.
Atlanta (Reed 10-10) at Los
Angeles (Zahn 3-5), 10:30 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Brett 13-8) at St.
Louis (Forsch6-4), 8:30 p.m.
Houston (Dierker 10-9) at
Cincinnati (Billingham 19-10),
8:05 p.m.
San Francisco (Caldwell 14-4)
at San Diego (Mclntosh 0-4),
10:30 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Pittsburgh at New York,
night
Houston at Cincinnati, night
Los Angeles at San Diego,
night
(only games scheduled)
American League
East
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Baltimore 84 71 .542 —
New York 84 72 .538 %
Boston 80 74 .519 3%
Milwaukee 75 81 .481 9%
Cleveland 74 81 .477 10
Detroit 71 83 .461 12%
West
w. 1. pct. g.b.
Oakland 87 68 .561 -
Texas 81 72 .529 5
Minnesota 80 75 .516 7
Chicago 75 78 .490 11
Kansas City 75 80 . 484 12
California 62 93 . 400 25
Tuesday’s Results
Boston 4 New York o,lst
Boston 4 New York 2, 2nd
Baltimore 5 Detroit 4
Milwaukee 4 Cleveland 3, 11
inn
California 9 Kansas City 3
Oakland 5 Minnesota 1
Chicago at Texas, 2, post
poned, rain
Today’s Probable Pitchers
(AU Times EDT)
Minnesota (Blyleven 16-16) at
Oakland (Abbott 5-6 or Hunter
24-12), 11:00 p.m.
Chicago (Bahnsen 11-15 and
Johnson 9-4) at Texas (Hargan
12-8 and Bibby 19-18), 2, 7:00
p.m.
Chicago (Kucek 1-3) at Texas
(Brown 12-12), 9:00 p.m.
California (Hassler 5-11) at
Kansas City (Briles 5-5), 8:30
p.m.
Milwaukee (Slaton 13-14) at
Cleveland (Peterson 9-13), 7:30
p.m.
Detroit (LaGrow 8-17) at
Baltimore (Grimsley 18-13),
7:30 p.m.
Boston (Lee 17-13) at New
York (Medich 18-14), 8:05 p.m.
Thursday’s Games
Minnesota at Oakland, night
Chicago at Texas, 2
California at Kansas City,
night
Boston at Detroit, night
( only games scheduled)
Bowling
meeting
The Griffin Women’s Bowling
Association will hold its fall
meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at
the Civic Center.
All WIBC members are in
vited. Refreshments will be
served.
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These lady golfers won awards yesterday in the
invitational tournament at Willow-Wind Country Club.
They are front (1-r) Margaret Moore, Margaret
Burdeshaw and Betty Ziezenhene. Back, Sandy Schenk,
Susan Huguley, Erma Chafin, Mary Lindsey, Fab
Manning and golf pro Ed Sobek.
Susan Huguley,
Ziesenhene
win tourney
Susan Huguley won low gross
with an 83 and Betty Ziesenhene
won low net with a 69 yesterday
in the first Willow-Wind Ladies
Invitational Tournament.
Margaret Burdeshaw was
runner-up and Margaret Moore
placed third in the champion
ship flight.
Melba Tomme won the first
flight with a 74 net. Irma Chafin
was runner-up and Sandy
Schenk placed third.
Chessie Rogers won the third
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Ed Sobek, golf pro at Willow-Wind, presents awards to
winners in the first ladies Invitational tournament
Trophies winners were (1-r) Chessie Rogers, Liz Sherliza
and Ruth Marcom.
Cey feels
for Niekro
By JIM COUR
UPI Sports Writer
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Ron
Cey felt sorry for Phil Niekro
but not that sorry.
The Los Angeles Dodgers
refused to knuckle under to
Niekro Tuesday night and
thanks to Cey’s 18th home run
and a passed ball by Johnny
Oates, their magic number in
the National League West is
down to three.
“It was really a tough loss
for Niekro, no question about
it," Cey said after the Dodgers
beat the Atlanta Braves and
their ace knucklebailer 2-1 in 10
innings.
With two out in the 10th,
Niekro threw a knuckler that
had too much flutter for Oates
and Yeager scored from third
base.
“Niekro is the only pitcher in
the league who throws that
many knuckleballs,” said Cey,
whose one-out homer in the
eighth inning sent the game
into extra innings.
Cey’s blast (“He tried to
sneak a fastball by me”) was
only the second hit off the
Atlanta right-hander and ended
a string of 25 shutout innings by
Niekro against Los Angeles.
By winning their fifth game
in six starts, the Dodgers
pounded another nail in the
coffin of the defending NL West
kingpin Reds.
They’re five up and both Los
Angeles and Cincinnati have
seven left to play.
“We just want to get the
pennant wrapped up as quickly
as possible so we can relax
before the (National League)
playoffs start,” said Jimmy
Wynn. “It makes a big
difference if you’re able to take
a few days off and not have the
mental pressure on you right
up to the end.”
Added Cey, “It’ll be much
easier to decide who we’d
rather play (Pittsburgh or St.
Louis) in the playoffs after
flight. Liz Sherliza was second
and Ruth Marcom third.
Margaret Burdeshaw won the
closest to the pin and lowest
putts award.
Chessie Rogers won a prize
for the longest drive.
Willow-Wind Country Club,
which is located near William
son, is organizing a Ladies Golf
Association.
The organizational meeting
will be held tomorrow at 11 a.m.
Golfers are invited.
we’ve clinched our division.
When we get into the playoffs,
we’re going to try to force the
other team to try to play our
kind of game. That’s basically
to force the breaks to go our
way.”
The breaks went all the way
of the Dodgers against Niekro.
With two out in the 10th,
Yeager doubled for only the
fifth Los Angeles hit and
Niekro, now 18-13, walked Bill
Russell intentionally. He
walked pinch-hitter Gail Hop
kins and then came the passed
ball by Oates on the first pitch
to Dave Lopes.
Mike Marshall, appearing in
his 102nd game, got credit for
his 14th victory against 11
defeats as the Dodgers record
ed their 33rd come-from-behind
triumph of 1974. He pitched the
ninth and 10th inning and gave
up one hit. Dodger starter Andy
Messersmith gave up a run on
a first-inning double by Ralph
Garr and a pair of infield outs
but that was all the support
Niekro got.
In their regular season home
finale tonight, the Dodgers will
go with Geoff Zahn, 3-5, against
Ron Reed, 10-10 of the Braves.
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Atlanta fans
up in arms
By DAVID MOFFIT
UPI Sports Writer
ATLANTA (UPI) - Profes
sional football fans in Atlanta
are up in arms.
They feel they’ve been
shortchanged. Who’s to blame
them?
They’ve given the Atlanta
Falcons tremendous support
since this city got an NFL
franchise in 1966. The last 23
regular season home games—
all of 1971-72-73 and the first
two games this year—have
been sellouts.
What have they gotten in
exchange?
The Falcons, since their 1966
start, have won only 39 of 114
games. Their best season was
last year when they were 9-5
after leading the fans to believe
they would win a playoff berth.
They, didn’t.
The fans weren’t happy in the
early expansion years, but
accepted the fact that it takes
time to build a contending NFL
team.
But, this is the Falcons’ ninth
season. The fans are fed up
with the Falcons’ perennial
“wait ‘til next year” talk.
Atlanta caught “playoff
fever” last year when the
Falcons won seven straight and
appeared to have the elusive
post-season berth nailed down.
Back-to-back home losses to
Buffalo and St. Louis ripped
those nails out.
The Falcons came into the ‘74
season with the slogan
“Playoff: the only payoff.”
Coach Norm Van Brocklin
talked about how winning eight
of the last 10 games in ‘73
“gives us much confidence in
starting the 1974 season.
“We must get off our winning
marks faster in 1974 and put
ourselves into a position where
if we have a loss, it won’t have
such a pointed effect on our
season.”
That confidence was shaken
the past two weeks when the
Falcons, looking as futile on
offense as they did in the early
expansion years, lost to Dallas
(24-0) and San Francisco (16-
10).
The fans are incensed. It’s
not that the Falcons lost those
two games, but how they lost
them.
Against Dallas, the Falcons
had the worst opening-game
showing of any team in the
NFL.
Last Sunday, despite being 7
1-2 point favorites over the
Forty Niners, the Falcons had
another disheartening day.
In those two games, Bob Lee,
the quarterback Van Brocklin
had said “proved to be the
winner we thought he could be
when we traded for him”
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(giving up this year’s first
round draft choice and quarter
back Bob Berry), completed
only 14 of 45 passes for 127
yards and was intercepted four
times.
Add in the fact that the
Falcons runners averaged less
than 100 yards and coughed up
three fumbles each game and
you can understand why the
Atlanta fans have been vocally
showing their disapproval.
“Boos are part of the game,”
Lee said sadly. “The way we’ve
been playing, I don’t blame
them.”
What now?
Van Brocklin, in the last year
of a coaching contract which
reportedly won’t be renewed
unless the Falcons stage a
complete turnabout, recognizes
the need for change.
Next Sunday, at New Or
leans, Van Brocklin is expect
ed to start Pat Sullivan at
quarterback instead of Lee;
return Art Malone to fullback,
benching fumble-prone Eddie
Ray; and, with Dave Hampton
out indefinitely, move rookie
Haskel Stanback (the former
Tennessee star) into the other
running back position.
Sullivan, a former Heisman
Trophy winner at Auburn, has
seen little action since joining
the Falcons in 1972. There’s no
assurance he will be any more
successful than Lee, but what
does Van Brocklin have to lose?
At least the fans will know
he’s trying.
“I think,” he said, “our boys
will be happy to be out of
town.”
Jets, Rams
win games
The Jets defeated the
Dolphins 7-0 and the Rams beat
the Broncos 48-6 yesterday in
the Pee Wee Football League.
William Dukes scored the
Jets’ touchdown and extra
point.
Donald Gresham and David
Lowery were outstanding on
offense and defense for the Jets.
Mark Redman was named the
Dolphins’ top offensive player.
Cadet King won the honor for
defense.
Stacy Driver scored three
touchdowns for the Rams. Jim
Reid, Mike Chapman, Zachery
Fuller and Redi McCoy made
one TD each. Fuller and Marty
Bradford scored extra points.
Eddie James scored for the
Broncos. Ken Pierce was
named the Broncos’ top
defensive player.