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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Derrell Evans (left) of the Atlanta Braves puts the tag on the
Texas Rangers’ Dave Nelson, who was out attempting to steal third base in the fifth inning
of Thursday’s exhibition game in West Palm Beach, Fla. Ranger manager Billy Martin (1)
checks the action. The Rangers beat the Braves 6-2. (UPI)
Rangers dump
Braves, 3-2
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
(UPI) — Tom Grieve connected
for three hits, including a home
run, to spark the Texas
Rangers to a 6-2 victory over
the Atlanta Braves Thursday.
Bill Hands and Ron Norman
limited the Braves to just four
hits. Norman allowed only a
single to Vic Correll in the four
innings he worked.
Grieve’s double in the first
FREED LEAVES
TAMPA, Fla. (UPI) - Roger
Freed, discouraged and con
vinced he can’t stick with the
club, packed up his belongings,
left the Cincinnati Reds’ train
ing carrip Thursday and headed
for his Los Angeles, Calif,
home.
Practice
begins
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - Old
Dominion won its second
baseball game in as many days
Thursday with a 10-hit perfor
mance that stopped Georgia 8-
3.
Dave Moyer and Jess Sanzo
led the Monarchs attack with
two hits apiece. The visitors
from Norfolk, Va., collected
their first win on their Georgia
road trip Wednesday with a 5-4
victory over Georgia Tech.
’Dogs fall
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) -
Defense is the big question
mark as Georgia heads into its
spring football practice today.
Bulldogs head coach Vince
Dooley says he’s “completely in
the dark” about the defense,
which lost eight seniors from
the last season squad that
looked good “on paper” but fell
apart. Dooley concedes that a
major rebuilding job is needed
on the Georgia defense and it
won’t be accomplished “any
time soon.”
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inning gave the Rangers a 1-0
lead, scoring Cesar Tovar who
had singled and was sacrificed
to second.
A two run home run by
Darrell Evans put the Braves
in front 2-1 in the third inning.
The Rangers rallied for four
rruns in the sixth to put the
game out of reach. Lenny
Randle reached first on an
Sports Briefs
GOOD NEWS
PITTSBURGH (UPI) - Left?
hander Ken Brett of the
Pittsburgh Pirates got some
good news Thursday. He was
told there was nothing wrong
with his ailing elbow.
Dr. Albert Ferguson, team
physician, told Brett to apply
moist heat to his left elbow and
take it easy for a few days.
Brett, who underwent surgery
on the elbow during the off
season, flew back to the
Pirates’ training camp at
Bradenton, Fla., Thursday,
saying he had heard something
“pop” in his elbow while
pitching an exhibition game
Tuesday.
OATES RESIGNING
SANTA ANA, Calif. (UPI) -
Bill Oates, head coach of the
basketball team at Santa Ana
Junior College, said Thursday
he is resigning to become head
coach and general manager of
the Athletes in Action’s West
Basketball Team.
Oates, making the announce
ment at a news luncheon, said
his resignation would be effec
tive April 1 when he takes over
his new position.
He replaces Jim “Country”
King, who took a coaching
position at Tulsa University.
CHANGES JOBS
CINCINNATI (UPI) - Pat
O’Brien, head football coach at
error by shortstop Craig
Robinson. Grieve bunted for a
single and Mike Hargrove
followed with double to score
Randle. Roy Howell’s sacrifice
fly drove in Grieve, Toby
Harrah walked and Jim Sund
berg drove in two runs with-a
single.
Grieve hit his home run in
the eighth with none on.
Wooster College the past four
years, will be head coach at
Western Hills High School here
next season, it was announced
Thursday.
O’Brien, who has been at
Wooster a total of nine years,
was told recently he would not
be offered a contract for the
1975-76 school year because 10-
year staffers are automatically
tenured. The school’s policy is
not to tenure faculty members
whose main jobs are not
teaching.
“I’m interested in remaining
as a head football coach, so I
applied at Western Hills,” said
O’Brien, 43, who served as an
assistant . coach at Xavier
University here in the early
19605.
Jones bowls
657 series
Tiggy Jones bowled a 225
game and a 657 series last night
in the Commercial League.
Other leading bowlers were:
Billy Bevil 217, Curt Pressley
200, Horace Phillips 206, Ray
Jackson 224, Wilson Bevil 225,
Melvin Whidby 212, Bob
Richardson 204, Paul Phillips
220, Bill Callahan 202, Bobby
Folds 218, Harold Robbins 225,
Jim Skrine 213, Julian Cook 203,
Randy Bannister 220, Edwin
Sharpe 203.
Ken’s Pizza beat Tommy’s
Used Cars 3-1, Capitol Credit
beat Spalding Amusement 3-1,
Ben Franklin’s beat Straw Hat
Pizza 3-1, Commercial Bank
and The Graduate Shop tied,
Drug and Surgical defeated
Rental Uniform 4-0 and VFW
arid Jones-Harrison Furniture
tied.
Willow Wind
to host tourney
The Georgia State Golf
Association will hold a Four-
Ball Handicap Golf Tournament
at Willow Wind Country Club,
Williamson, Ga. on Wednesday,
April 2. The tournament will
begin with a shot-gun start at 1
p.m.
The tournament is open to all
golfers who are members of a
GSGA Club that possesses a
GSGA computer handicap
system.
Entrants may call in their
teams to the host club
professional. Teams will be pre
flighted according to handicap
and play against other teams of
equal handicap.
Players are encouraged to
call in their teams early, as the
field will be limited.
Merchandise prizes will be
awarded in all flights.
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Tennis to Hiller
to Nicklaus
By Murray Olderman
The tipoff:
The tennis head-to-head match for big money will
spread to other sports, stimulated by TV backing in its
insatiable quest for more programming. Can you im
agine what a Johnny Miller-Jack Nicklaus confrontation
would draw?
Q. Is there any chance that Bill Cartwright, the seven-foot high
school All-American center from California, will pass up college
and go into the pros like Moses Malone did? — E.V., Roanoke,
Va.
There’s always a chance, but in this case I say it’s very slim.
Cartwright, the new whiz from Elk Grove High outside
Sacramento, is already committed to the University of San Fran
cisco with a signed letter of intent. More important, he needs the
college training because he doesn’t have the physical strength of
Malone, who has made a remarkable transition from high school
to the ABA.
Q. Who do you think will be voted the most valuable player in
the National Basketball Association this year, and how is it deter
mined? — J.R., Pittsfield, Mass.
Since statistics carry a lot of weight, I’d have to think Buffalo’s
Bob McAdoo, the NBA’s leading scorer, will be voted the winner
of the Podoloff Cup. But personally I think it should go to Dave
Cowens, the brilliant, hustling center of the Boston Celtics,
because of what he means to his team. Or maybe even someone
like rugged Jerry Sloan of the Chicago Bulls, who sets the tempo
for their physical style of play. The players of the NBA actually
cast the ballots for the MVP. The award was inaugurated by the
writer in 1956, when Bob Pettit won the first trophy (it was called
the President’s Cup then), with NEA tabulating the votes. The
league conducts the voting now.
Q. I keep hearing that Catfish Hunter may not necessarily pitch
for the New York Yankees this year, that the Oakland A’s are try
ing to get him back. What’s the story? — R.L., Lorain, O.
The New York Yankees are counting fully on the Catfish to lead
their bid for a return to American League eminence. But the
legalities on the case aren’t over yet because Charlie Finley, the
A’s owner, is still pursuing legal action to overturn the decision
by the three-man arbitration board which made Catfish a free
agent. And there’s a good chance that it could come to a head in
late summer. But meanwhile, Hunter will be racking up wins for
the Yanks.
Q. How many trips to the mound in a regular game may a
manager make before the pitcher is removed from the game? Is
it two trips per game or per inning? — Geo. Chapman, Castro
Valley, Calif.
Paragraph 8.06 of the Official Baseball Rules limits the number
of trips by a manager or coach to the mound in a single inning to
two. On the second trip, the pitcher must be removed. There’s no
limit specified for the course of a game, but obviously it must be
nine or the pitcher would be gone.
Q. I think Robin Yount, shortstop for the Milwaukee Brewers,
is the absolute greatest. I would like to know a little about him. —
Elton Fisk, Sacramento, Calif.
Yount is one of those embryo talents that a young club like the
Brewers builds with. He’s only 19 now and yet he stepped into a
regular job last summer after only one year of experience in the
low minors. He batted .250 in 107 games but was hurt late in the
season. He’s from Woodland Hills, Calif., and was the No. 1 draft
choice of the Brewers in June 1973, right out of high school.
Q. Midget football is a large organization here, as well as
throughout our country. Could you give me an idea of how many
pros got their starts in organized youth football? — Mai Morris,
Dußois, Pa.
There are no accurate figures available. I don’t think there are
many. Most of the pros I’ve talked to, such as Fran Tarkenton,
don’t embrace the idea of organized football at the small child’s
level. They don’t think their bodies are ready for the grueling
physical contact. I agree.
Parting shot:
I don’t know why there’s so much fuss about Bill
Russell’s reluctant act with the Basketball Hall of
Fame. They don’t need him there to enshrine him for his
feats. The inconsistent part of his action was not ad
vising the Hall beforehand that he wasn’t interested.
Got a tough question about sports and the people who play them?
All you got to do is ask Murray Olderman. Write him at (name and
address of this newspaper). The most interesting questions will be
answered in this column Olderman regrets that he cannot write
personal answers to all questions.
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Steve Blass gets
‘walking’ papers
By United Press International
Eight walks in one inning
means a lot more in spring
training than one slightly
tarnished World Series ring.
Which is why Steve Blass, the
key link of the Pittsburgh
Pirates with their world cham
pionship team of 1971, was
placed on waivers by the club
Thursday for the purpose of
giving him his unconditional
release.
The popular righthander was
given his walking papers after
pitching just 6 2-3 innings for
the Pirates this spring, getting
rocked for 13 earned runs and
17 walks. In his last outing—one
inning against the Chicago
Alexander no. 1
in eyes of fans
ATLANTA (UPI) - Trans-
Foyt
is the
choice
NEW YORK (UPI) — A.J.
Foyt, gunning for an unprece
dented fourth Indianapolis 500
victory this May, was the
overwhelming choice today in
first phase balloting for the 1975
Martini and Rossi Driver of the
Year award.
Foyt, winner of the California
500, first leg of USAC’s triple
crown of long distance racing,
received 108 points with 10 first
and three second-place votes
from a panel of motor sports
writers.
Super Tex, as the Houston
auto ace is called, was 49 points
ahead of his nearest rival,
stock car driver Richard Petty,
who collected 59 points after
winning three of the season’s
top events on the NASCAR
circuit.
Benny Parsons, winner of the
Daytona 500 stock race, drew 53
points for third place and
Bobby Unser, runnerup to Foyt
in the Cal 500 at Ontario, was
fourth on 40 points. Johnny
Rutherford, 1974 Indy winner
who captured this year’s
Phoenix 150, was fifth with 25
points and Bobby Allison placed
sixth with 23.
The winner of the four-phase
M&R balloting receives $7,500
and the coveted Golden Eagle
trophy. The next three drivers
each earn SI,OOO and gold
medallions.
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White Sox Monday—he walked
eight batters and forced in four
runs.
“I don’t think I’ll pursue a
job with another team,” Blass
said. “If someone makes an
overture I’d probably consider
it. But I’ve always pitched for
the Pirates and I don’t have a
lot of desire to pitch for
someone else.”
“I’m very proud of the 16
years I spent in this organiza
tion,” he said. “This is an
unhappy situation but I have no
regrets except maybe that it
didn’t last longer.”
Pittsburgh Manager Danny
Murtaugh said the decision to
cut Blass was heartbreaking
planted Australian John Alex
ander may be seeded second in
the WCT-First National Bank
Tennis Classic here behind top
seed Dick Stockton, but he’s
No. 1 in the eyes of his
“hometown” fans.
Alexander, who now calls
Atlanta home, rallied from a 5-
2 deficit in the second set to
pull out a crowd-pleasing, 6-4,
7-5, victory over Cliff Drysdale
Thursday.
The victory pleased an
obviously partisan crowd at
Georgia Tech’s Alexander
Memorial Coliseum.
In other singles matches,
Harold Solomon defeat Vijay
Amritraj, 6-4, 6-1; Stan Smith
defeated Anand Amritraj, 64,
6-2, and Milan Holechek
stopped Graham Stilwell, 64, 6-
0.
In doubles play, Terry
Addison and Armistead Neely
bested Jiri Hrebec and Vladi
mir Zednik, 7-6, 64.
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because “of the close relation
ship I’ve had with Steve.”
Life went on in the Pittsburgh
camp Thursday without Blass,
however, as the Pirates pum
meled the Detroit Tigers, 5-2,
behind Al Oliver’s four RBI.
Deron Johnson, battling to
win a job with the Boston Red
Sox after being given his
unconditional release from the
club at the end of last season,
hit his third home run of the
spring and drove in two runs to
lead Boston past the Chicago
White Sox, 6-1.
Tom Grieve collected three
hits to lead Texas past Atlanta,
6-2, Willie Crawford homered
leading off the bottom of the
10th inning to give the Los
Angeles Dodgers a 4-3 victory
over Minnesota, and the Cincin
nati Reds jumped on Catfish
Hunter for four runs in shutting
out the New York Yankees, 4-0.
Ex-Cub Billy Williams singled
and homered to propel Oakland
to a 7-1 clubbing of a split
squad of California Angels and
Joe Lahoud cracked a two-run
home run to highlight a seven
run ninth inning as the rest of
the Angels scored an 8-3 victory
over the Chicago Cubs.
Ed Crosby’s two-run homer in
the 10th provided Cleveland
with an 8-6 triumph over San
Francisco, and Fred Kendall
singled to drive in Mike Ivie in
the 10th inning to give San
Diego a 2-1 conquest of
Milwaukee.
Ted Simmons belted three
home runs and teammate Ron
Fairly added a fourth but it
wasn’t enough to salvage a win
for the St. Louis Cardinals, who
fell, 14-9, to the New York
Mets. The game was played
with an experimental baseball
and the two teams combined
for 29 hits and six home runs.