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— Griffin Daily News Friday, April 4,1975
Nolan impressive
in 3-1 victory
By United Press International
At this stage of the game,
winning—and losing—is mea
sured by more important
yardsticks than mere scores for
such question mark pitchers as
Gary Nolan and Claude Osteen.
Both hurlers suffered through
the misery last year of not
knowing if their careers were
sliding to an unspectacular end.
Nolan underwent shoulder surg
ery last May and his total
output for Cincinnati amounted
to six innings in two games.
Osteen’s situation was a little
more mysterious as he claimed
to be feeling fine but still
turned in his worst campaign,
9-11, with a 3.80 earned run
average. At the age of 35, the
game lefthander is fighting for
survival in the St. Louis camp
this spring.
Both pitchers won exhibition
games Thursday, with Nolan
being far the more impressive.
The tall, 26-year-old righthand
er yielded only one run on five
hits in seven innings as the
Reds beat the Detroit Tigers, 3-
1, at Tampa, Fla.
Nolan, who has been penciled
in by Manager Sparky Ander
son to start next Saturday’s
game at San Diego, struck out
five batters and walked two.
The only run off him came in
the sixth inning when Nate
Colbert doubled home Art
James.
Nolan is reluctant to discuss
his troubles of last year,
explaining, “Everyone knows
how much uncertainty I went
through in the past. The only
thing I want to think about is
the future.”
Mickey Lolich, another veter
an who has had a poor spring,
went the distance for Detroit
and allowed eight hits, includ
ing a pair of singles to Johnny
Bench.
Osteen, who lost his only two
decisions with St. Louis after
being traded from Houston,
yielded seven hits and three
runs in five innings Thursday
when the Cardinals beat the
Astros, 10-5, at St. Petersburg,
Fla. In 23 innings this spring,
Osteen has given up 23 hits and
10 earned runs.
“I feel I’ve pitched well
enough to make the team, but
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who knows what they’ll deci
de,” said Osteen, who is
dueling with rookie John Denny
for a fifth starting spot.
St. Louis scored seven runs in
the fourth inning against Larry
Dierker, getting two-run singles
from Eddie Brinkman, Ted
Sizemore and Bake Mcßride.
In other Florida exhibition
games:
The Montreal Expos put
together four hits and a bases
loaded walk to score three
times in the eighth inning and
edge Philadelphia, 4-3 ... Lee
May drove in three runs with a
homer and a double and Paul
Blair added a two-run double to
lift Baltimore to a 6-4 victory
over Kansas City ... Willie
Stargell homered for one run
and then singled home Richie
Hebner with the winner in the
eighth inning as Pittsburgh
nipped the Chicago White Sox,
3-2 ... And Dusty Baker’s two
run homer in the third carried
Atlanta to a 3-2 victory over its
Southern leads
by six strokes
GREENVILLE, S.C. (UPI) -
Georgia Southern went into
today’s second round of the
sixth annual Furman Invitation
al Golf Tournament with a six
Tennis
lessons
planned
The Griffin-Spalding
Recreation Department plans
to offer tennis lessons for
women.
The course will start April 9 at
10 a.m. The six-week course
ends on May 14.
Registration is required.
April 8 is the deadline. People
interested in the course may
register at City Park. The
registration fee is $4.
Mrs. Cindy Gatlin is the in
structor.
Richmond farm club.
Lou Piniella’s two-run homer
off Jerry Koosman capped a
four-run eighth inning that
enabled the New York Yankees
to beat the the New York Mets,
7-3, in the rubber game of their
spring rivalry ... Bert Blyleven
struck out 10 batters in seven
innings in his tune-up for
opening day while pitching
Minnesota to a 2-1 win over the
Boston Red Sox.
In Arizona, Jerry Morales
capped a three-run rally with a
two-run homer in the eighth
inning to lift the Chicago Cubs
to a 6-4 triumph over Mil
waukee ... Campy Campaneris
hit a pair of home runs for
Oakland and Claudell Washing
ton drove in the winning run
with a two-out infield hit in the
ninth as Oakland beat Los
Angeles, 10-9.
The scheduled game between
California and San Francisco at
Modesto, Calif., was canceled
because of rain.
stroke lead.
The Georgia Southern squad
fired a 293 total Thursday to
lead the 25 teams competing in
the tournament. Georgia and
East Tennessee State were
second Thursday with 299’s
North Carolina was one
stroke behind at 300 while
North Carolina State and
Appalachian State were tied for
fifth at 301.
Each school is playing a five
man team with the best four
scores each day counting
toward the team score. Defend
ing champion Wake Forest is
not present.
The Deacons are playing in
the Greater Greensboro Open
as amateur entrants.
Mark Bope of North Varolina
led individual play with a 69
over the par 72 Greenville
course Thursday. The only
other players breaking par
were Tim Simpson of Georgia
with a 70 and Skeeter Heath of
East Tennessee and Ken
Krieger of Georgia Southern,
who both had 71s.
★★★★★★★★
SPORTS
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Baseball
game reset
for April 24
The Griffin-LaGrange
baseball game scheduled here
yesterday was postponed until
April 24.
It was postponed because of
wet grounds.
Griffin now is scheduled to
open its home season Monday
against Forest Park. Game
time is 4:15 p.m.
Joe McGee (2-0) is scheduled
to pitch.
Ray Jackson
bowls 279
Ray Jackson bowled a 279
game and a 642 series last night
in the Commercial League.
Other top bowlers were:
William Bevil 202, Frank
Kelsey 207, Clyde Young 214,
Jim Skrine 225, Julian Cook 201,
George Evans 202, Bob
Richardson 201, Red Trenton
215, Bill Wilkerson 203, Horace
Phillips 204, Edward Sharpe
204, Danny Hudgins 206 and
Randy Bannister 201.
Commercial Bank defeated
Capitol Credit 4-0, VFW beat
Straw Hat Pizza 4-0, Tommy’s
Used Cars topped Rental
Uniform 3-1, Graduate Shop
beat Jones-Harrison Fruniture
3-1, Ben Franklin’s beat Ken’s
Pizza 3-1 and Spalding Amuse
ment defeated Drug and
Surgical shop 4-0.
LL Auxiliary
to meet
The Griffin Little League
Auxiliary will meet tomorrow
at 2 p.m. at the Community
Center at City Park.
All mothers of Little Leaguers
are asked to attend.
Unit as still amazed
by Klein generosity
By JACK MURPHY
Copley News Service
It’s been a full season since
Johnny Unitas turned in his
football vestments and play
book for the last time, but
he’s the sort who will linger in
the public eye.
The kids were clamoring
for his autograph during the
recent American Airlines golf
tournament for prominent
duffers in Palm Springs,
Calif. Like Joe DiMaggio, Joe
Louis and a few other athletic
demigods, Unitas has the
kind of popularity that will
endure even when he’s an old
gray crock.
Currently he’s a very spry
41, not fit enough to play foot
ball, but otherwise un
changed in any way that mat
ters.
Which is to say he is utterly
forthright when he chooses to
answer a question. He saved
all his deviousness for the
football field, and there he
had few equals, if any, as a
pro quarterback in the 20th
Century.
Encountering Unitas at the
Canyon Country Club, I was
reminded anew that he would
rather be truthful than diplo
matic. He is still astonished,
for example, that the man
agement of the San Diego
Chargers was determined to
enrich him by a half-million
dollars when he had just
about exhausted himself
physically in 16 seasons with
the Baltimore Colts.
“I told them it was a stupid
contract,” Unitas recalled. “I
said, ‘Are you sure you want
to sign that thing?’ But they
insisted.”
Club president Gene Klein
now reasons it was a good in
vestment because it cost him
and the other stockholders
nothing but money. Certainly
the arrangement was benefi
cial to Unitas.
The Chargers were obli
gated to pay Unitas $250,000
last season even though he
limped home to Timonium,
Md., during the summer
camp.
“The leg had gotten so bad
I couldn’t maneuver,” said
Unitas. “It wouldn’t make
sense to stand in the middle of
a boulevard and get run
over.”
Thus Unitas retired after
establishing he wouldn’t be
missed by Head Coach
Tommy Prothro. There was
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NEW YORK—If Muhammad All can defend his championship against a stiff, then George
Foreman (1) figures he can take on five men on the same night. And, that to what Foreman,
making his first ring appearance since losing his heavyweight title to All in Zaire last
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‘When you get old you don’t heal 9
Gibson’s pride hasn’t changed
By Ira Berkow
NEA Sports Editor
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —
(NEA) — A pair of old baseball
crocks met on the sidelines
before a recent spring training
game here.
Vada Pinson, trying to hang
on in the big leagues now with
Kansas City, was discussing ag
ing with Bob Gibson, the St.
Louis Cardinal pitcher who is
one year shy of being a quar
togenarian.
“When you get old," said Pin
son. “it takes longer to heal.”
“When you get old,” said Gib
son, “you don’t heal.”
Then the pair creaked off to
their respective jobs.
Gibson has announced that
this is his final baseball season.
Although he is the winningest
pitcher among active players
(248 career victories), 1974 was
the worst statistically of his 14
an odd clause in his contract
which stipulated he must join
the club each weekend for un
defined duties, but this was
waived by management.
“I guess I could have
worked on the phones, I could
have done something to
help,” reasoned Unitas. “But
Prothro didn’t want me either
as a player or coach. I under
stood. He was committed to
the young quarterbacks (Dan
Fouts and Jesse Freitas), he
had his own coaching staff
and his own ideas.”
Unitas declined to discuss
the events of the 1973 season,
a messy affair when the
Chargers won only two
games and eight athletes
were fined for alleged drug
| Sports Briefs |
By United Press International
2 VACANCIES FILLED
TULSA, Okla. (UPI) - Head
football coach F. A. Dry filled
two vacancies on his University
of Tulsa staff Wednesday,
naming Frank Grimm defen
sive end coach and Rick
Gilstrap secondary coach.
They replaced Charlie Do
naldson who went to Memphis
State and Greg Williams who
took a job at West Virginia.
UNDERGOES SURGERY
BLOOMINGTON, Minn.
(UPI) — The Minnesota Vi
kings’ No. 2 draft choice,
defensive tackle Art Riley of
Southern California, has under
gone exploratory knee surgery,
a club official said today.
Jerry Reichow, Vikings direc
tor of player personnel, said
first reports indicate a piece of
floating cartilage was removed.
Riley will attend the Min
nesota rookie camp the last
weekend of this month.
TERLECKY CUT
ST. LOUIS (UPI) - The St.
Louis Cardinals today sent
pitcher Greg Terlecky to their
minor league camp for reas
signment, lowering their roster
to 28.
A club spokesman said final
cuts to bring the roster to 25
should be announced Friday.
full big league seasons.
He had his first losing record
of those years, 11 and 13. His
earned run average was his
highest (3.83) and his strikeout
total was his lowest.
“I’d be a . . . fool if I said
I’m as good as I’ve ever been,”
said Gibson. “But I wasn’t all
that bad last season, either.
There were six games, for ex
ample, in which I was removed
from the game with a lead. And
we lost that lead. We win those
games and I have 17 wins for
the season.”
It is time, though, he says, to
quit.
“I’ve been playing ball for
something like 30 years — 30
years! — and I’m tired.
“Oh, once you get on the
mound, the challenge comes
back, and it’s fun.”
His eyes, shaded under his
bright red Cardinal cap, are
alive now. His voice is quick
abuse.
“It was a very interesting
experience, to put it mildly,”
he said. “But there’s no point
of kicking a dead dog.”
But a later comment hinted
of his disdain for the situation
he found in San Diego.
“I wasn’t used to a scene
where the coaches were the
first to leave the practice
field.
“I had to go into the dress
ing room and find people to
stay out and work with me on
pass patterns. You can’t get
the work done during the time
allotted for practice. I got
some help from Forrest
Gregg and George Dickson,
but that was it.”
Unitas says he is content
with his life away from the
playing field. He has exten
sive business interests and he
has found work as a football
analyst for the CBS television
network. Naturally, he’s at
ease with the TV folk.
“I like the job because it
keeps me close to the game.
It’s not difficult once you find
out what they want. About the
only thing that bothered me
was when somebody started
counting down for a station
break in my headset while I
was explaining a play.
“I had a tendency to hurry,
but I got over that.”
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“There is that sense of power
on the mound, like you know
everything pretty much
depends out there on how you
do. Or don’t do. That’s
something I’ll miss when I
finish playing ball.”
He says that being one of the
best at his profession was
something he strove for. He
says he knows that whatever is
next — possibly broadcasting,
possibly business, he has
enough money to make a
leisurely choice — he may not
reach the heights he did as a
ballplayer.
“I don’t think that that will be
frustrating — not being the best
anymore,” he said. “I mean, I
will always know that there was
something I could do as good or
better than anyone else. That’s
satisfying. My records are im
portant in a relative way in this
regard. I’ve had ac
complishments and there they
are for all to see.
“I’m proud of them, and
sometimes even now I’ll think
about, oh, my no-hitter in 1972
or that 1968 season and a smile
will come to my mind.”
In 1968, he had a 1.12 ERA, an
all-time big-league low, and
won 22 games, led the Cardinals
to a pennant and a World Series
win; he broke the Series record
in the first game in 1968, strik
ing out 17 Detroit Tiger batters.
“But when it’s over, I hope
not to dote on the past,” he
said. “And I won’t be going to
any of those old-timers’ games,
I’ll tell you that. I’ve sat around
and heard these guys talking
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Indiana State
hires Hodges
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI)
— Bill Hodges, coach at
Armstrong State College in
Georgia, has been hired as an
assistant basketball coach at
Indiana State University.
He fills the third and last
vacancy created when the ISU
staff resigned after last season.
Hodges, 32, is a native of
Lebanon and graduated from
Marian College in Indianapolis.
He later coached at Zionsville
High School and was an
assistant at Tennessee Tech
before taking the Armstrong
job.
NICKLAUS FAVORED
LONDON (UPI) - British
bookmakers Thursday made
Jack Nicklaus a 3-1 favorite to
win the Masters golf tourna
ment next week.
Johnny Miller was made
second choice at 6-1, with Gary
Player next best at 7-1.
Nicklaus was offered at 100-1
to win the “grand slam” of
Masters, PGA, U.S. and British
Opens.
about how good they were and
how the players today ain’t
nothin' like they used to be.
“.. . , we’re better than they
are, and the players to come
will be better than us. It’s the
way things are.”
Being tired is both a mental
and physical thing for Gibson.
“Last season, I had my knee
drained 22 times, before almost
every start, and that’s tiring,”
he said. “Also, playing for so
long, I can’t get as fiercely ex
cited before a game as I used
to. But losing — man, I still
can’t get used to that.”
There is another change ap
parent to Gibson and that is the
difference in the treatment of
blacks.
"I remember when I first
came down here to spring train
ing in 1958, the black players
couldn’t stay at the same hotel
as the whites. And there was no
place for us to keep our
families. So they stayed home.
That has changed.
“Also, I think more people
think of me as Bob Gibson,
ballplayer, instead of Bob Gib
son, black ballplayer. I believe
that because of my mail, which
is a lot less racist than it once
was.
“But still there is an under
current. You get it in little
things. For example, I was in
an elevator in a hotel recently.
A couple gets on. Now I’m in a
suit and tie. The man says to
me, ‘I want the twenty-second
floor.’ He thought I had to be
the elevator operator.
“I said, ’For all I care,
mister, you can take the whole
hotel!’ ”
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