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— Griffin Daily News Friday, May 23, 1975
Page 12
C3RIFFIN
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NCAA
During his major league playing and managing days,
Eddie Stanky never played for a winning World Series
club. But yesterday Stanky watched the University of
South Alabama team he coaches advance toward the
College World series. South Alabama scored a narrow 8-7
victory over Pan American in the NCAA South Central
Regional Tournament at Arlington, Texas.
South Alabama goes against Texas last night’s other
winner in today’s second round. Texas downed Louisiana
Tech 6-2. Louisiana Tech and Pan American will play in
today’s second game with the loser of that game to be
eliminated from the double elimination tournament.
South
Two Florida schools, Miami and Florida State meet
today at Starkville, Miss., to begin action in the NCAA
South Regional Baseball playoffs.
Louisiana State will play Murray, Ky. in today’s second
game.
The double-elimination tournament is one of eight
regional tournaments which will send winners to the
College World Series at Omaha next month.
Battle
Four Georgia Tech football players face charges
following a fight at an Atlanta night spot early yesterday.
One policeman’s arm was broken, one player sustained
a head injury and the hand of the other player was hurt in
the fracas at the Second Sun Lounge.
Lenny Semulka, a junior linebacker from Warren, Ohio
was fined $55 in Atlanta City Court. But Semulka was also
held for trial on other charges of trespassing and simple
battery.
The other players involved were Scott Witmer of Winter
Park, Fla., Tony Lubischer of Fanwood, New Jersey, and
Herbert Jenkins of Warner Robins, Ga.
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Lefty Grove, 75, is dead
NORWALK, Ohio (UPI) -
Robert Moses “Lefty” Grove,
generally considered the great
est left-handed pitcher in
baseball history, is dead.
The 75-year-old Grove, a
native of Lanaconing, Md., died
Thursday while watching televi
sion at the home of his
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Robert G.
Grove, where he had lived for
14 years. The funeral service
and burial will take place at
the Frostburg, Md., Memorial
Cemetery on Monday.
One of the giants of an era
that also included Babe Ruth,
Rogers Hornsby and Jimmy
Foxx, Grove, a member of
baseball’s Hall of Fame, led the
American League in victories
and won-lost percentage four
times each, in strikeouts seven
times and in earned-run aver
age nine times. He was the star
pitcher for Connie Mack’s
Philadelphia Athletics’ teams,
which broke the dynasty of the
Ruth-led Yankees in the late
1920 s and won successive
Eddie Stanky has shot
at ‘World Series’
By MIKE RABUN
UPI Sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Tex. (UPI) -
Eddie Stanky was never in
volved in a winning World
Series team during his playing
or managing days in the major
leagues. But he has not given
up.
Stanky would like for this to
be his year for the World Series
—the college variety that is.
The one-time major league
star, and the South Alabama
team he coaches, took a step
toward the College World Series
Thursday night, knocking off
Pan American in the opening
round of the NCAA South
Central regional tournament, 8-
7.
In tonight’s round of action,
the Jaguars will face the other
Garment stops
Spalding Gas
Griffin Garment beat
Spalding Gas 12-2 and Jim &
Joe’s stopped Griffin Federal
14-4 yesterday in the Con
tinental division of the Griffin
Little League.
Donnie Gresham was Griffin
Garment’s winning pitcher. He
pitched a no-hitter. He struck
out eight and walked six.
pennants in 1929-30-31. He
prided himself on the fact that
he yielded only nine homers to
Babe Ruth in 10 seasons.
Grove had a 4-2 record in
World Series competition but is
best remembered for his
smoking fast ball—with temper
to match—and his remarkable
consistency. He won 20 or more
games in eight seasons, had
successive 28-5 and 31-4 records
in 1930 and 1931 for a composite
59-9 for the two seasons and
finished his career with a
lifetime 300-140 mark good for a
.682 percentage. He was elected
to the Hall of Fame in
Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1947.
Warren Spahn and Eddie
Plank are the only other left
handers in the game’s history
who won 300 or more games.
Grove, a star for Baltimore
of the International League for
five seasons during a period
when the Orioles’ famous
clubowner, Jack Dunn, paid
major league salaries, was
purchased by the Athletics for
Thursday night winner, Texas,
which erupted for five runs in
the eighth inning to bump off
stubborn Louisiana Tech 6-2.
Louisiana Tech meets Pan
American in tonight’s other
contest and the loser of that
game is eliminated from the
tournament.
South Alabama, which
brought a 51-12 record into the
tournament, had to overcome a
6-3 deficit to whip the Brones,
who had put together a 61-5
season.
“We’re going to have to do
much better if we’re going to
go somewhere other than
Texas,” Stanky said. “But the
boys had a lot of bounce. They
were down and came back to
win it. I’m really proud of
them.”
The winning run for South
Jerry Bertram and Skip
Wyatt pitched for Spalding Gas.
Otis Morris hit a home run,
double and single for Griffin
Garment. Gresham, Ray
Young, Rodney Harris, David
Connell, Reginald Lindsay and
Luke Welty singled.
Rusty Jones was Jim & Joe’s
winning pitcher. Ray Malcom»
and Joe Pharr pitched for
Griffin Federal.
Jones hit two singles. Mar
shall Woodall, Wade Griffin and
Marty Bradford singled. Tim
Flemister singled for Griffin
Federal.
g&h
wins,
2-1
G&H Glass beat Kiwanis 2-1
and Dundee dumped Drug and
Surgical Shop 11-1 yesterday in
the National circuit of the
Griffin Little League.
The G&H- Kiwanis game
was one of the best played this
year in Little League.
Carey Griffin pitched a one
hitter for G & H. He struck out
12 and walked two.
Charles Slaughter pitched a
six-hitter for Kiwanis. He
fanned four and didn’t walk
any.
David Kimble doubled for G &
H and Kerry St. Clair, Carey
Griffin, Kevin Oglesby, Kelvin
Walker and Dexter Whitlock
singled.
Louis Sanchez singled for
Kiwanis.
Jay Cook pitched Dundee to
its victory. He fired a one-hitter.
Chad Byne was Drug and
Surgical’s loser.
Robert Whitaker hit a double
and single for Dundee. Kenneth
English had two singles and
Ricky Dutton, Mike Smith,
Scott Stonica and Jeff English
singled.
Tim Ellis doubled for Drug
and Surgical.
$100,600 in 1925.
One of four sons of a coal
miner, Lefty entered organized
baseball with Martinsburg in
the Blue Ridge League in 1920
and went to Baltimore in the
International League the next
season.
Always a fierce competitor,
Grove sometimes refused to
speak to his teammates for
days after a losing game and at
times ripped up clubhouse
furniture after a defeat. He
mellowed in his old age and
was a frequent visitor to
Cooperstown where he regaled
young reporters with tales of a
bygone era.
Friends may call Saturday
afternoon and evening at the
Kubach-Smith funeral home in
Norwalk. The body will be
transferred to the Eichhorn
Funeral home in Lonaconing on
Saturday.
Grove is survived by one
daughter, two sisters, one
Alabama came with two out in
the bottom of the ninth when
sophomore Mike Walker, who
entered the game in the eighth
inning when Jaguar left fielder
Mike Jacobs strained a knee,
singled in David Stapleton from
second.
“I’m very happy for Walk
er,” Stanky said. “You know,
he’s the only black player in
this tournament. And it was
great to see our players mob
him like they did after his hit.”
Walker, a defensive specia
list, lined a pitch off loser John
Dukes up the middle for the
game winning hit.
“I went up there to hit the
ball up the middle and that’s
where it went,” Walker said.
“It was a knee high fast ball
and I just got hold of it. It was
the biggest thrill of my life.”
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NORWALK, Ohio—Hall of Famer Lefty Grove (1-1936, r-1971), (tar pitcher of Connie
Mack’s Philadelphia Athletic teams in the 1920 s and 1930 s who won 300 major league games
and shares the American League record of 10 straight victories in one season, died
yesterday of an apparent heart attack. He was 75. (UPI)
brother, a granddaughter and
three great granddaughters.
His son, Robert, died in 1972.
Texas trailed 2-1 going into
the bottom of the eighth, but
leadoff batter Mike Anderson
walked and Blair Stouffer got
to first when his sacrifice bunt
was misplayed by Louisiana
Tech second baseman Phil
Willingham. Keith Moreland
sacrificed the runners to second
and third and they scored on
Rick Bradley’s double to the
left centerfield wall.
Mickey Reichenbach received
an intentional pass and Mark
Griffin loaded the bases with a
bloop single. Charles Proske
singled to score Bradley and
Reichenbach, and Garry Pyka
singled home Griffin.
Jim Gideon went the distance
for Texas to pick up his 15th
win of the year without a loss.
He struck out nine and
surrendered five hits.
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