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Griffin golfers
win by stroke
The Griffin High golf team
defeated Jackson and Newton
County yesterday in a nine-hole
match at Jackson.
Griffin won by a stroke,
beating Jackson 165 to 166.
Griffin-Jackson
meet cancelled
The Griffin-Jackson track
meet scheduled today in
Jackson has been cancelled.
Heavy rains this week left the
track in poor condition.
Coach Johnny Goodrum said
this morning that the meet was
cancelled since a new date
couldn’t be worked out.
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apart a
Flames a
The Atlanta Flames are in a must-win situation tonight
and again Sunday if they are to remain contenders for a
berth in the National Hockey League playoffs.
Southern
Georgia Southern went into today’s second round of the
sixth annual Furman Invitational Golf Tournament in
South Carolina with a six-stroke lead. T he Georgia squad
had a 293 total yesterday to lead 25 competitors.
Braves
The Atlanta Braves closed out the spring training
season with a 3-to-2 victory over their own Richmond farm
club.
Driessel L,P,
Maryland basketball coach Lefty Driessell was in
Athens last night for the Georgia basketball awards
banquet. Driessell was singing the praises of UCLA Coach
John Wooden who retired with ten national
championships. Driessell calls him the greatest of all
time.
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Newton finished with a 172.
Bubba Mabbett, Dee Hunter,
John King and John Larrimore
fired the four lowest scores for
Griffin.
Mabbett toured the wind-
rescheduling the meet
would have meant holding back
to-back meets and getting the
kids out of class two days in a
row. I’m trying to avoid that,”
he said.
Griffin now is scheduled to
open its track season Tuesday
in LaGrange.
swept course in 39 strokes.
Hunter had a 40 and King and
Larrimore fired 435.
Griffin has three matches
next week. LaGrange will bring
its team to Griffin Monday,
Griffin will travel to Thomaston
for a match with R. E. Lee on
Tuesday and Jonesboro and
North Clayton will be here for a
match on Thursday.
Griffin has beaten eight
teams while losing to one. The
Bears have won four matches in
a row.
Indi Fuller,
baseball wife
By Ira Berkow
NEA Sports Editor
MIAMI, Fla. — (NEA) — The
young lady in halter and shorts
sat alone in the quiet stands
behind the home plate screen
and watched a lazy-seeming
Baltimore Orioles spring train
ing intrasquad game here at
Miami Stadium.
But the game, as her new life
now, is as dramatic as it is or
dinary in baseball terms.
Her name is Andi Fuller. She
has appealing, hazel eyes,
brown hair cut short and
toenails in open sandals painted
silvery.
Her husband is 24-year-old
Jim Fuller, who had been up
and down with the Orioles and
in the minor league towns of
Rochester and Miami and
Asheville for the past few
years. He was trying to catch
on for good as a part first
baseman and part outfielder.
They were married only last
December. And she was here
because she felt it important
she share this struggle with
him.
This baseball business is for
Andi Fuller a fresh and odd kind
of life. She has left the stability
of happy routine as a first- and
second-grade teacher in San
Diego for the roller-coaster
delights and perils of a baseball
player’s spouse.
She wondered about making
that adjustment before wither
ing under Fuller’s connubial
implorations.
She sits in the stands as he
comes to the plate, a large
Oriole red number 18 on the
back of his white uniform. He is
a large man, 6-4, 220 pounds
with a hunk of hair struggling to
escape the confines of his beak
ed cap.
She clasps her hands and con
centrates. He swings and mis
ses. “That’s one of his famous
swings,” she says with a little
grimace. “His problem is he
strikes out too much. He’s been
trying too hard, he wants to let
it flow a bit more.
“Last time up he hit a single
and then was out trying to
stretch it.”
He takes a ball.
“Sometimes,” she said, “I’m
proud of him just when he takes
a pitch.”
Fuller popped up. She went
back to talking about him off
the field.
“We won’t be crushed if he
doesn’t make it with the Orioles
full time,” she Said. “Jim’s
whole life is not baseball. He
loves it, but he has perspective.
Some day he’d like to work with
kids, or maybe even be a
barber.
Veeck needs
loan to buy Os
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (UPI) -
Gov. Marvin Mandel, making
every effort to keep the
Baltimore Orioles from moving
away, has invited Bill Veeck,
prospective buyer of the team,
to come to Annapolis today to
explain to lawmakers why he
needs a $4 million state loan.
Mandel said he wants Veeck
to come because his proposal to
loan $4 million in state money
to help Veeck purchase the
team has run afoul of a
threatened Senate filibuster.
The governor’s office said
Veeck would spehd most of the
morning in the state capital.
The proposal, which would
enable Veeck to raise his offer
for the team by $500,000 to $12.5
million through savings from
lower state interest rates,
Palmer trapped
GREENSBORO, N.C.—Arnold Palmer blasts out of trap on his way to a bogey on the fifth
hole during first round of action yesterday. Palmer shot a six-over-par 77,13 strokes behind
leader Tom Welskopf. (UPI)
“And me, I think I can adjust
to almost anything. Like now.
When you’re in ball you don’t
even know what day it is. It
could be Sunday today or Thurs
day. When you’re in school, you
ALWAYS know when it’s Fri
day. Because tomorrow is the
weekend.”
She laughed. “But as long as
Jim is in ball I’ll have to find
some things to do that I feel are
important.”
She says she is interested in
volunteer work, and wants to
take courses in such things as
Chinese cooking and stained
glass making. She knows she
will need a life of her own,
something she has always had.
“When he went to ball from
San Digeo last season (fuller
also grew up in San Diego) he
only took two small suit cases,”
she said. “This spring he took
two footlockers, two big clothes
boxes and me.”
One of his problems on the
field, she says, has been his ap
parent lack of aggressiveness.
“He’s just a low-keyed man,”
she said, “and he must work at
expressing himself more.
“Once last season, when he
was in a slump, he said he broke
a bat on the wall of a dugout
runway, then immediately
thought it was silly. He had
started the season hitting well,
then ran into trouble, and was
JIM FULLER: Two
footlockers, two clothes box
es and Andi.
sent down from Baltimore to
Rochester.
“But he believes a violent ac
tion like that is no solution.”
Does she recommend one for
him.
“Well,” she said, “I told him
that when I’m frustrated, I cry.
It does wonders for me.”
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swept through the House of
Delegates, but is opposed by a
clutch of senators who argue it
is tantamount to a state subsidy
of private business.
Mandel proposed the loan
after Orioles Board Chairman
Jerald C. Hoffberger said he
was about to receive an offer
above sl2 million from a group
of buyers who would move the
team to another city. Mandel
said Veeck did not propose the
loan, which would carry an
agreement that the money will
be immediately repaid to the
state if the team is moved
away.
The governor Thursday
strongly hinted that the loan
may play a significant factor in
the ongoing negotiations for the
sale of the team.
Weiskopf leads
GREENSBORO, N.C.—Tom Welskopf, Columbus, Ohio,
smiles approvingly after sinking a birdie putt on the ninth
hole and seven-under par to take the first round lead in the
Greensboro Open with a score of 64. (UPI)
Sports briefs
By United Press International
INTO BTH PLACE
NEW YORK (UPI) - Los
Angeles Dodger Manager Wal
ter Alston will move into sole
possession of eighth place in
1975 for years of service among
all major league managers,
according to the Baseball
•Commissioner’s Office.
Alston, entering his 22nd
season, trails only Connie Mack
(53 seasons), John McGraw
(33), Bucky Harris (29), Bill
McKechnie (25), Casey Stengel
(25), Leo Dur ocher (24) and
Joe McCarthy (24). At present,
Jimmy Dykes (21 seasons) is
tied with Alston.
DATE SET
UNIONDALE, N.Y. (UPI) -
The National Championship of
Run, Dribble and Shoot Contest
Special Olympics for the
Mentally Retarded with partici
pants from all over the United
States will take place April 27
at the Nassau Coliseum.
The competition will precede
the 1975 American Basketball
Association championship play
off with trophies to be
presented at halftime.
GAMES PLANNED
BOSTON (UPI) - Yankee
Conference football teams hope
to play nine exhibition games in
Western Europe in June 1976 to
introduce the sport overseas,
the league’s athletic directors
announced Thursday.
The plan must be approved
by officials of the six individual
schools.
Proposed cities for the nine
game tour are Milan and
Rome, Italy; Barcelona and
Madrid, Spain; Munich and
West Berlin, Germany, Vienna,
Austria; and Istanbul, Turkey.
CHOICE OFFICIAL
ENGLEWOOD, N.J. (UPI) -
Bill Willoughby, Englewood,
N.J. high school basketball
sensation made his college
choice official Thursday by
signing a Southeastern Confer
ence letter-of-intent with the
University of Kentucky.
The 6-8 Willoughby, who
averaged over 30 points per
game despite numerous “slow
downs” thrown against his
team, is considered the finest
forward prospect in the nation.
A FIRST
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -
The United States Trotting
Association announced Thurs
day that for the first time in
harness racing history, at least
five races have been scheduled
with estimated or guaranteed
purses of $200,000.
The races are the Roosevelt
International Trot, the Ham
bletonian, the Cane Pace, the
Yonkers Trot and the Monticel
lo-New York City OTB classic.
JACKSON SUCCEEDS ROSS
DAYTON, Ohio (UPI) -
Marcus Jackson, head basket
ball coach at Dartmouth
College last season, Thursday
was named to succeed John
Ross as head basketball coach
at Wright State University
here.
Ross has been head coach at
Wright State since it began
competing in intercollegiate
athletics five years ago and
was 15-10 last season. He
resigned to become assistant
athletic director.
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Page 9
All you got to do is ask
Was Lakers 9 love
for love a lie?
By Murray Olderman
The tipoff:
While the FBI was scouring the country for Jack
Scott, the advocate of radical sports figures, as the ap
parent landlord for Patty Hearst last fall, he was phon
ing his friends in sports and apologizing for any em
barrassment he might be causing them.
Q. Whatever happened to the deal the Lakers made with the-
Chicago Bulls for Bob Love? — Gino LaMont, Garden Grove,
Calif.
“That was a false story,” says Coach Bill Sharman of the
Lakers. “We would have liked to have him — who wouldn’t — but
we never talked seriously about it.” The story spread around the
country about the time early in the season when Love was holding
out from the Bulls for a renegotiated contract which he never got.
Planting a trade story might have been part of the strategy.
Q. Is it true that Manager Billy Martin of the Texas Rangers
slapped an older official of the club last season? How come Mar
tin always seems to get into these scrapes? — L.R., Denton, Tex.
Yes, it’s true. Martin, fuming after a late season loss, accosted
Burt Hawkins, the traveling secretary of the Rangers, and
slapped him not once, but twice. The provocation: Hawkins and
one of the coach’s wives had formed an auxiliary for the club. The
story was covered up for a while but finally published in Dallas.
Dr. Bobby Brown, then the club’s top official, reportedly put
Martin on probation for the rest of the season, but Brown has
since resigned from an active role. Martin historically has had a
short fuse, so it’s not surprising to find him as a central figure in
a scrape.
Q. When and in what major league baseball park were banners
first displayed? I brought numerous banners to Wrigley Field in
June, 1946 to heap graffiti-type abuse on Dixie Walker of the
Dodgers. — Al Walner, Silver Spring, Md.
You can’t pinpoint an historical first on this. Garry
Schumacher, whose career in baseball covers more than 50 years
as a writer and then club executive, says the first banners he ever
saw were in Yankee Stadium in the 1920 s when kids were ad
mitted free on special days and waved painted signs. The banner
fad got its big push in the TV era, especially with the New York
Mets in the early 19605. Instead of the nuts waving their hands for
the sweeping cameras, they flaunted banners. Even in Ebbets
Field, they never got that gauche.
Q. Did Abner Haynes ever play football for the Buffalo Bills? I
would like to know some of his stats and what he is doing now. —
Kevin Barker, Ojai, Calif.
Abner was the first fine running back bred exclusively by the
old American Football League, right at its inception in 1960. He
broke in sensationally with the Dallas Texans as the AFL’s first
rushing leader, transferred with them three years later to Kan
sas City and ultimately played a couple of years with Denver
before fading out after brief hitches with the New York Jets and
Miami Dolphins in 1967. He never made it to Buffalo. In 1962 he
gained more than 1,000 yards and also led the AFL in touchdowns
with 19. In recent years, Abner has been an agent for black foot
ball players, headquartered in Dallas. Among his clients is Duane
Thomas, the sometimes silent one.
Q. I have heard that the NCAA has expanded the number of
teams allowed in the basketball tournament. If so, are the first
and second place teams in each conference going? I would also
like to know who your choice is to win this tournament — this is
very important to me, so please answer. — Larry Jordan, Cincin
nati, O.
The NCAA basketball championship tournament was expanded
considerably this year to include the runners-up in such con
ferences as the Big Ten, ACC, Southeastern and Pac-8, which
brought a strong bleat of protest from UCLA's Johnny Wooden. It
also makes the form book a little tougher. My choice is not In
diana, which finished the season unbeaten, or UCLA but
Maryland.
Q. Who is the oldest professional football player to score a
touchdown? — Keith Johnson, Dublin, Calif.
My research on this may not be complete but I’ll have to go
with John Henry Johnson, who rushed for three touchdowns with
the Houston Oilers in 1966 when he was 37 years old, only to be
superseded by Earl Morrall, who sneaked for a touchdown in 1972
at the age of 38.1 hedged on this because I’m not sure John Henry
provided the record books with his right birthday.
Parting shot:
Before Frank Robinson goes through with his no
curfew treat-’em-like-adults edict for the Cleveland In
dians, maybe he ought to consult Tommy Prothro, who
tried it one year with the Los Angeles Rams. Except for
a few iconoclasts, I’ve never really heard pro athletes
complain seriously about curfew.
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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