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The Griffin American League All-Stars will play Henry
County Monday at 6 p.m. in Jackson in the Subdistrict
Little League Tournament. Members of the team are:
Front (1-r) Larry Brindley, Mark Redmond, Mitchell
Cardell, Anthony Steward, Ralph Gray, Johnny Neel,
Boston wins 9th
By United Press International
While the astronauts and
cosmonauts played musical
spaceships 140 miles over
Fenway Park, Bill “Spaceman”
Lee kept Kansas City grounded
and brought back memories of
that sweet summer, 1967, for
the Boston Red Sox.
At 8:52 EDT Friday night,
the time when Apollo and Soyuz
were supposed to appear on the
horizon, Lee, whose flakiness
earned him the nickname “the
Spaceman,” shot a glance or
two upward. He didn’t have his
good telescope with him and
couldn’t catch the act, so he
concentrated on keeping the
Royals from going anywhere.
Lee limited the Royals to six
hits, leading Boston to its ninth
Otis Cobb
honored
Otis Cobb, who has been
connected with the Griffin Little
League for 18 years, last night
was presented the Bill Beck 111
Award.
The award is presented an
nually to a Griffinite “for un
selfish contributions to the
betterment of the Little League
program.”
Parkwood wins
CL tournament
Parkwood Cinema beat Jim &
Joe’s 9-7 last night to win the
Continental League Tourna
ment.
Parkwood used four pitchers
in the championship game.
They allowed six hits, struck out
10 and walked 11. The pitchers
were Danny Stewart, Ken
Ballard, Wes Treadway and
Scottie Cobb.
Rusty Jones and Marty Brad
ford pitched for Jim & Joe’s.
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Meriwether Street
straight victory with a 9-3
triumph. If the wind wasn’t
blowing toward Centerfield, Lee
said he would have had a shut
out.
Not since the pennant year
1967 when the Red Sox
accomplished their “Impossible
Dream” with the help of Carl
Yaztrzemski’s Triple Crown,
have they won nine in a row.
Yastrzemski’s two-run homer
in the first gave Boston a quick
2-0 lead off Steve Busby. Bernie
Carbo’s line-drive double to left
scored two more in the second,
and Denny Doyle’s shot off the
wall scored Carbo as Boston
increased its lead. Jim Rice
became only the sixth player to
hit a ball over the centerfield
wall at Fenway when his
The award was presented by
Bill Beck.
Mr. Cobb joined the Little
League program in 1957 and
served most of the 18 years as a
team manager.
He currently is on the Board
of Directors and is assistant
commissioner.
They gave up eight hits, fanned
six and walked seven.
Treadway and Lee Feltman
had two hits for Parkwood.
Danny Stewart doubled and Ken
Ballard, Freddie Colbert and
Frankie Smith singled.
Marty Bradford hit a double
and two singles for Jim & Joe’s.
Rusty Jones doubled and Whit
Byram and Marshall Woodall
singled.
Phillip Buckalew, Clark Vaughn, Stacy Ammons. Back,
Tony Holmes, Scott Leslie, Randy McCurry, Eric Britt,
Mike Slade, Kevin Peek, Todd Pitts, Artie Perry.
Standing Marty Martinez, manager and Mike Cobb,
coach.
estimated 500-foot homer
cleared everything in the third.
The Royals got a run in the
fourth on a Hal Mcßae single
and a Harmon Killebrew
double. The same people
conspired against Lee in the
ninth, with Mcßae tripling and
Killebrew knocking his 570th
career homer into the screen in
left.
“I’d have had a shutout if it
wasn’t for the wind,” said Lee.
“Killebrew’s double was wind
blown, and the homer might
have hit the wall if there was
no wind.”
Elsewhere in the AL, Oakland
nipped Cleveland 7-6, Baltimore
beat Minnesota 9-6, Milwaukee
blanked California 2-0, Texas
nipped New York 1-0 and
Chicago shut out Detroit 4-0.
In the National League,
Philadelphia downed Houston 7-
4, Cincinatti ripped Montreal
10-3, Atlanta edged New York 4-
3, San Diego beat Chicago 4-2,
Los Angeles clipped Pittsburgh
4-3 and San Francisco defeated
St. Louis 2-1 in 10 innings.
A’s 7, Indians 6
Billy Williams ran his career
RBI total to 1,400 with a two
run single that capped a three
run seventh inning and Joe
Rudi belted his 12th homer of
the year to pace Oakland.
Williams clinched reliever
Glenn Abbott’s fourth victory
with his bases-loaded two out
single off reliever Tom Buskey.
Orioles 9, Twins 6
Ellie Hendricks hit a grand
slam homer to highlight an
eight-run fourth inning and Lee
May added his 14th and 15th
homers to power Baltimore
past Minnesota. Hendricks, who
hit a game-winning homer
Thursday night, crashed his
second career grand slam in
helping Mike Cuellar, 8-6, gain
the win.
Brewers 2, Angels 0
Jim Slaton, 9-8, tossed a six
hitter to outduel Nolan Ryan.
Only one Angel reached third
base off Slaton, who won his
sixth straight. Ryan, 10-10, gave
up six hits and walked two in
dropping his seventh straight
decision.
Rangers 1, Yankees 0
Rookie Mike Cubbage broke
up a scoreless duel between
Jim “Catfish” Hunter and
Gaylord Perry with a run
scoring single in the seventh
inning to give Texas the win.
Perry, winning only his second
game for Texas since being
traded from Cleveland more
than a month ago, allowed just
four hits and boosted his record
to 8-14.
White Sox 4, Tigers 0
Jim Kaat allowed only four
hits to gain his first shutout of
the year and become the first
major league pitcher to win 14
games this season. The White
Sox got all their runs in the
fourth inning when Deron
Johnson beat out an infield
single, Ken Henderson and Bill
Melton walked, Jerry Hairston
singled, Bucky Dent singled
and Brian Downing hit a
sacrifice fly.
Reactivated
CLEVELAND (UPI) — The
Cleveland Indians reactivated
left-handed pitcher Fritz Peter
son and optioned rookie right
hander Jim Kern to the club’s
Oklahoma City farm club
Friday.
Peterson’s record is 4-7, while
Kern’s is 1-2.
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Forbes trial ends
with hung jury
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI)
— The first U.S. trial of a
hockey player for his actions in
a game has ended with a hung
jury, leaving at least two major
questions unanswered.
Dave Forbes of the Boston
Bruins was charged with
aggravated assault with a
dangerous weapon, his hockey
stick, for attacking Henry
Boucha of the Minnesota North
Stars in a National Hockey
League game here Jan. 4.
Boucha needed 25 to 30 stitches
near his right eye and still has
double vision.
The jury of seven men and
five women was unable to
reach a verdict after deliberat
ing for two days and late
Friday Judge Rolf Fosseen
dismissed the jury and con
tinued the case until Aug. 5.
One question is what Henne
pin County Attorney Gary
Flakne, who brought the
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MINNEAPOLIS — Dave Forbes of the Boston Bruins
gestures to people as he leaves Hennepin County District
Court here Friday after his trial for aggravated assault
ended with a hung jury. Forbes, 26, was charged with
aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon for attack
ing Henry Boucha of the Minnesota North Stars in a NHL
game. It was the first U. S. trial of a hockey player for his
actions in a game. (UPI)
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The Griffin National League All-Stars will play Stock
bridge Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Jackson in the Subdistrict Two
Little League Tournament. Members of the team are:
Front (1-r) Harvey Oglesby, manager; Jeff English, Tim
Scott, Kevin Oglesby, Steve Matthews, Scott Stonica,
charges in the first place, will
do next. He can either ask for a
new trial or drop the case.
“Perhaps in a different
location or with different
witneses the jury might find
differently if we go that route
again,” Flakne said after the
jury had been dismissed.
Another question is whether
the charge against Forbes and
the trial will take some of the
zip out of the game. When
Forbes was asked that, he
replied, “I can’t see how it will
affect the game but it will have
an effect on how they play in
Minneapolis,” apparently sug
gesting other players might be
afraid of being charged.
Forbes, 26, said “I feel like
I’ve been trampled by a
thousand buffaloes.” He added
that he felt as confused as he
has been ever since he was
charged.
Juror Gary Goranson said the
jury ruled out aggravated
assault late Thursday and the
final vote Friday was nine in
favor of assault and three for
innocent. The three jurors who
voted for innocent were men,
he said.
He said some jurors didn’t
want to consider aggravated
assault “because they didn’t
feel a hockey stick is a
dangerous weapon, and that it
wouldn’t be used in a hockey
game if it was.”
Defense attorney Ron Mesh
besher said, “If you get a hung
jury you’ve won the case.”
Meshbesher said a different
set of instructions to the jury
could have eliminated the
aggravated assault charge in
any other trial. “Simple assault
is any touching,” Meshbesher
said, implying that that would
be a ridiculous thing with which
to charge any player in a
major sport.
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Page 11
Ricky Harker, Johnny Matthews, coach. Back, Charlie
Vallee, Kelvin Walker, David Kimble, Carey Griffin, Jay
Cook, Kerry St. Clair, Charles Slaughter, Louis Sanchez
and Chris Dewberry. Standing in the back is Barron
English, coach.
LL tourney
starts Monday
The Griffin Little League All-
Stars will compete in sub
district tournaments beginning
Monday in Jackson.
In addition to the two Griffin
teams, Henry County, Morrow-
Lake City, Barnesville,
Thomaston, Jackson and Stock
bridge are in the tournaments.
The Griffin Americans play
Henry County Monday at 6 p.m.
The Griffin Nationals play
Stockbridge Tuesday at 8 p.m.
The other Monday game has
Thomaston playing Jackson at 8
p.m. at the first Tuesday game
sends Morrow-Lake City
against Barnesville at 6 p.m.
The tournament finals are
scheduled Wednesday at 6 p.m.
and 8 p.m.
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pleased
GREENVILLE, S. C. (UPI)
— The Atlanta Falcons, which
is comprised of mostly rookies
this year, did well in first
contact work Friday, head
coach Marion Campbell said.
After putting the players
through one-on-one blocking
exercises, passing drills and
other sweat-producing efforts,
Campbell said he was “very
pleased with the attitute of our
men out there today.”