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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, July 22, 1975
Griffin A’swin, 9-4
The Griffin Americans
defeated Henry County 9-4 last
night in the Subdistrict One
Little League Tournament in
Jackson.
Jackson beat Barnesville 7-5.
Ray Lemons pitched the
Americans to victory. He fired a
three-hitter, struck out 10 and
walked fiVe.
Jeff Craig was Henry
County’s loser.
Lemons and Kevin Peek hit a
home run and single for Griffin.
Mark Redmond, Phillip
Buckalew, Randy McCurry and
Ralph Gray singled.
Coaches
honored
Griffin coaches Max Dowis and Johnny Goodrum have
been named “Coaches of the Year” in Region 6-AAA.
They will be honored and receive their awards on Friday,
Aug. 1 at the annual coaches clinic in Atlanta.
Coach Dowis won the “Coach of the Year” honor after
his Griffin Bears won the Region 6-AAA football
championship for the second time in three years. He also
was named coach of the year in 1972.
Coach Goodrum is the 6-AAA track “Coach of the
Year.”
His Griffin High track team won the Region 6-AAA
championship.
Coach Dowis, Griffin High athletic director, has praised
coach Goodrum for rebuilding the GHS track program.
The Griffin coaches were selected for the honors by the
Georgia Athletic Coaches Association.
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Mark Barnes was Jackson’s
winning pitcher. Robert
Crawley and Albert Fletcher
pitched for Barnesville.
Morris Hightower and Robert
Crawley homered for Barnes
ville.
David Whitaker and Jeff
Maddox homered for Jackson.
The Griffin Americans will
play Jackson Wednesday at 6
p.m.
The Subdistrict Two Tourna
ment begins today with
Morrow-Lake City playing
Thomaston at 6 p.m. and the
Griffin Nationals facing Stock- S
bridge at 8 p.m.
Falcon
vets
work
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today for 38 veterans who §
reported to the Atlanta Falcons
training camp Monday and
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Coach Marion Campbell said
the veterans would not engage ?
in any rough work today,
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book yet,” said Campbell. “I’m
not sure when we’ll hit with
them.”
Atlanta General Manager Pat 5:
Peppier said offensive guard
Royce Smith, a former Univer- g
sity of Georgia standout, has $
signed a new one-year contract.
Smith was obtained from the
New Orleans Saints last season.
Campbell said defensive tack- £
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their old playing weights.
W-W ladies
to host
tourney
The Willow Wind Ladies Golf
Association will host a Ft.
Lauderdale Tournament
Sunday beginning at 12:30 p.m.
The entry fee is $5 for S
members and $6 for non
members. The fee includes
admission to all Willow Wind’s S
facilities for families.
For additional information
contact Nancy Powell at Willow
Wind.
Patriots
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multiyear contract today with
newly-acquired linebacker
Steve Zabel, head coach Chuck $
Fairbanks said.
Zabel, a five-year veteran g
with the Philadelphia Eagles,
played under Fairbanks at
Oklahoma.
With six players waived and
two voluntarily retired, the
Patriots squad of mostly
rookies and free agents here
has been reduced to 73 players.
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Falcons
Atlanta Falcons Coach Marion Campbell says 38
veteran players have joined the clubs Greenville, S.C.,
training camp and began working out today.
He said he called the vets together at Furman
University for their first meeting of the season.
Braves
The Atlanta Braves whipped the Montreal Expos 4-1 at
Montreal last night.
Vic Correll and Dusty Baker each drove in a run in the
eight inning and Earl Williams belted a two-run home run
in the ninth to give the Braves the win.
Reliever Mike Beard worked two innings for his third
win of the season against no losses.
The Expo’s only run was scored in the second inning by
Pete Mackanin on Tim Foil’s sacrifice fly.
Crackland
Seeded players advanced with ease in opening round
action of the 29th Crackerland Tennis Championships at
Athens yesterday.
Top-seeded Charlie Ellis disposed of Phil Brice 6-2, 6-1;
second seeded Narcello De Laserna and third seed Tim
Garcia won by default.
Taladega
Three time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt has
entered the Aug. 10 Talladega 500 stock car race, but
Donnie Allison can’t find a car.
Track officials say Foyt was entered yesterday as the
driver of a Chevrolet owned by Hoss Ellington of
Wilmington, N.C. a few hours before the deadline.
They said Allison, recently fired as a driver for Digard
Racing, had not found a car to drive. Jim Gardner of
Digard Racing entered the Chevrolet that Allison had
driven, but says he had not chosen a driver.
Qualifying for the pole position will be Aug. 7.
NASCAR
Richard Petty needs $6,307 more in earnings to become
stock car racing’s first $2-million winner.
Statistics released by NASCAR also showed the
Randalman, comfortably leading the Winston Cup point
standing with a total of 2,799 points for the year.
In second place is Dave Marcis with 2,343.
Petty finished second in Nashville’s 420 race Sunday to
boost his earnings $169,815 for the year and to $1,993,739
for his career.
James Hylton, Darrell Waltrip and Benny Parsons hold
down the next three places behind Petty and Marcis.
Southmen
Five new players including two from the Toronto
Argonauts of the Canadian Football League were
scheduled to start work with the World Football League
Memphis Southmen at Senatobia, Miss, today.
Defensive back Bill West and offensive lineman Farris
Scott both of the Toronto organization, joined the club
along with rookies Lorenzo Brinkley, Al Butler and
Raymond Burst.
Brinkley is a defensive back from the University of
Missouri. Butler is a defensive back from Campton Junior
College and Burst is a linebacker from the University of
Nebraska at Omaha.
The Southmen lost their second straight exhibition
game 7-0 Saturday night to the San Antonio Wings.
Texas Rangers
post 6-0 win
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Dave Moates, put into the
lead-off spot as the first
managerial move by Frank
Lucchesi, slashed his first
major league homer in the first
inning Monday night to spur the
Texas Rangers to a 6-0 victory
over the Boston Red Sox.
Ferguson Jenkins, 12-10,
hurled the shutout for Texas,
allowing four hits and walking
two. Luis Tiant, 13-9 took the
loss.
In other AL action, Minnesota
shut out New York 3-0,
Milwaukee downed Chicago 7-4,
Kansas City shaded Detroit 3-2,
Cleveland edged California 2-1
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in 11 innings, and Baltimore
defeated Oakland 6-2.
The Twins gave Bert Blylev
en a first inning run and he
responded with a four-hitter,
blanking the Yankees. Blyle
ven, 84, recorded his first
victory in 10 days and his first
shutout of the year. He struck
out five and walked one, an
intentional pass. Pat Dobson, 9-
10, took the loss.
Hank Aaron smacked a
bases-loaded two-run single in
the third inning and Bobby
Darwin belted a three-run
pinch-homer in the eighth to
clinch a victory for the Brewers
over the White Sox.
Billy Martin
gets heave ho
ARLINGTON, Tex. (UPI) —
Billy Martin, now a three-time
managerial loser, has left a
string of bitterness along the
trail that may lead him out of
baseball for good.
Frank Lucchesi, meanwhile,
has his second chance to
manage a major league club
and he responded Monday night
by retooling the Texas Ranger
lineup to the liking of the men
in charge.
Martin, 47, always aggressive
as a player and always
controversial as a manager,
was fired Monday by Texas
Ranger owner Brad Corbett.
The dismissal came 36 hours
after a noisy confrontation
between the two over Martin’s
refusal to stack the lineup with
youngsters.
And Martin, fired by the
Minnesota Twins in 1969 and by
the Detroit Tigers in 1973 after
run-ins with the front office, did
not leave quietly.
“They accused me of being
disloyal to the organization,”
said Martin. “You can kill me
before you accuse me of that.
Firing me had nothing to do
with the team’s record. It had
to do with me. I argued against
what they were doing. I have
proved my way is the winning
way.”
Martin’s way is with veterans
and that is not the way Corbett
wanted to play it.
Lucchesi, Martin’s third base
coach for the past two seasons
and former manager of the
Philadelphia Phillies, was
named the new manager for at
least the rest of 1975. He is all
for youth and to demonstrate
Dusters
to play
in tourney
The Griffin Dusters will
compete in the Fourth District
A.S.A. Tournament beginning
Friday at City Park and Dundee
Park.
Sixteen teams are in the
tournament.
The Dusters recently finished
third in a softball tournament at
Forest Park.
The Griffin team won three
games before losing to
Hapeville, 8-7.
Tommy Andrews led the
Dusters’ hitting with a .586
average. He was also a
defensive standout.
Members of the team are
Jerry Fields, Larry Bethune,
Walter Dinkins, Eddie Bethune,
Frank Steger, Terry Belvin,
Laverne Long, Freddie
Bethune, Terry Brown, Tommy
Lynch and Scott Adams.
T. V. Martin and John
Berhune are the coaches.
Swim Club i
to hold
meet
The Griffin Swim Club will
sponsor and invitational meet
Wednesday and Thursday at the
Griffin Country Club beginning
at 9 a.m. The Diving com
petition will be held at the
Griffin Elks Club. Ten swim
teams will compete.
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Martin
that he replaced Martin favor
ite Cesar Tovar in the leadoff
spot Monday night with rookie
( Dave Moates.
Moates was called up only
two weeks ago as part of the
youth movement Martin was
against. The rookie promptly
delivered his first major league
home run in the opening inning
Monday night against the
Boston Red Sox, starting Texas
to a 6-0 win.
Martin was hired two years
ago by Bob Short, then the
owner of the Rangers. Short
fired Whitey Herzog to make
way for Martin and, at the
time, Short said, “I would fire
my grandmother if I had the
chance to hire Billy.”
Corbett said, however, that
after lengthy consideration he
felt Martin’s departure would
be good for both the team and
the organization.
Like Martin, Corbett said his
dismissal had nothing to do
with Texas’ disappointing sea
son.
“We all know Billy is one of
the best technicians in base
ball,” Corbett said. “The
causes for this go beyond the
won-loss record. There was no
real straw that broke the
camel’s back. My differences
with Billy were a culmination
of many things over a long
period of time.”
Martin’s fate was decided,
however, by the rowdy session
he had with Corbett Saturday
night. That session dealt chiefly
with Martin’s desire to sign
veteran catcher Tom Egan to
back up Jim Sundberg. Corbett
viewed it as just wasting
positions on the team with
veterans, who could not help
the club in the future, instead
of giving playing time to young
players.
“We feel our future with our
strong young players,” Corbett
said during the news confer
ence at which Martin’s firing
was announced.
Martin, who remained at the
ball park all Sunday night and
Monday morning without sleep,
said he did not know if there
was a place in baseball for
him. Ironically, Corbett was
apparently ready to offer
Martin a spot in one of his
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Corbett said he recognized his
decision would “be traumatic
for the fans.” And in the first
hours after Martin’s firing,
phone calls made to the Ranger
office were almost 100 per cent
pro-Martin.
But when Lucchesi brought
the lineup card out before
Monday night’s game, there
was polite applause and only a
few scattered boos.
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