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— Griffin Daily News Friday, August 8,1975
Baseball needs to stop running from problems
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) — Twenty years ago,
there was always at least one kid on every
block who could perform this astonishing
feat.
You’d mention the name of some ball
player, any ball player, and that would do
it
Automatically, the kid would be turned
on as if were a computer.
Statistics would come pouring out his
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the 24,817 fans attending the Brewers-Boston Red Sox game bringing the Brewers
attendance figure to 1,003,368 for 52 games. (UPI)
Falcons play
Skins tonight
WASHINGTON (UPI) - At
lanta coach Marion Campbell
will be scanning quarterbacks,
including top college draft
choice Steve Bartkowski, to
night when the Falcons meet
the Washington Redskins to
open a full-scale weekend of
NFL exhibition play.
Washington’s George Allen
will be concentrating on an
array of running backs in the
preseason contest. He’ll also be
hearing the first Redskin fan
response to the role he played
in forcing veteran star passer
Sonny Jurgensen into retire
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Second-year quarterback Kim
McQuilken will open for the
Falcons but Bartkowski, voted
most valuable player on the
College All-Star team, has been
told he’ll see action, probably
in the later stages of the game.
Also battling for the job are
former Heisman Trophy winner
Pat Sullivan, who lost his
starting post to McQuilken last
season; David Jaynes, obtained
from the Kansas City Chiefs;
and rookie Mitch Anderson, a
third-round draft pick from
Northwestern.
Alien’s problem is his running
game, particularly with ace
rusher Brown coming
around slowly from an off
season knee operation. In
addition, veteran Smith
announced his retirement from
football during the week and
Duane Thomas hasn’t come to
terms on a new contract and
doesn’t figure in the Washing
ton picture for the time being.
Moses Denson, the former
Canadian league back, and
rookie Mike Thomas from
Vegas, will open as
mouth with a rush, like some huge river
suddenly overflowing its banks. Batting
averages, fielding averages, earned run
averages, vital statistics, the whole works.
Twenty years ago the kids had many
players they could relate to in baseball,
men whose names became practically
household words like Ted Williams ...
Mickey Mantle ... Yogi Berra ... Al Kaline
... Bob Lemon ... Whitey Ford ... Early
Wynn... Herb Score... and Billy Pierce, to
mention only a handful in the American
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Jack Nicklaus missed an bogle on the second hole at the
Firestone Country Club and it brought this grimace. The
three-time winner of the PGA took a birdie four. (UPI)
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The Atlanta Falcons open their NFL exhibition season
tonight with a game against the Washington Redskins in
Washington.
Braves
The Atlanta Braves return to action tonight after a
night’s rest. The Braves will host Chicago with Tom
Dettore starting for the Cubs and Carl Morton on the
mound for the Braves.
Tifton
There is other baseball action tonight at Tifton, Ga., in
girls Little League Softball. Mt. Juliet, Tenn., and
Robertsville, Ala., battle for the right to represent District
Two in the regional tournament beginning next week at St.
Petersburg, Fla. *
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Southeastern Conference Football coaches and officials
began a clinic today at Birmingham, Ala. The clinic will
discuss rules changes and officiating techniques for the
coming football season.
the Redskin runners but veter
ans Charlie Evans and Bob
Brunet and newcomers Darwin
Robinson and Ralph Nelson are
also expected to see service.
Allen should be braced to
hear some booing. Washington
fans have been grumbling since
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League. In the National there were Stan
Musial ... Willie Mays ... Duke Snider ...
Ernie Banks ... Roy Campanella ... Eddie
Mathews ... Warren Spahn ... Robin
Roberts ... and Don Newcombe.
This isn’t that far back, only 20 years
ago.
Go ask some kid on your block to call off
a dozen or so of baseball’s top names
today. Or try the same thing on the guy
next to you in your neighborhood bar.
He’ll probably start out okay ... Johnny
Bench ... Tom Seaver ... Catfish Hunter ...
and maybe Pete Rose, but then more than
likely he’ll slow up a bit after that and quit
altogether because he just can’t think of
any more. You’ll help him out with some
more names like Reggie Jackson ... Lou
Brock ... Willie Stargell, and he’ll say, oh
yeah, he knows them, too, but there’s no
question at all that baseball does not have
the vise-like grip on people it once did.
What’s the reason for this?
Chief and foremost, I’d have to say it has
been the continuous greed and short
sightedness of the baseball operators
themselves.
They felt they found a surefire way of
making a quick buck by moving franchises
or expanding the two leagues. What did it
matter that their product was being
diluted over and over again or that their
teams were losing any possible identity?
The owners didn’t care about crossing the
he told the highly popular
Jurgensen, now a sports broad
caster, his services no longer
were needed two months ago.
Bill Kilmer will open for the
Redskins, to be followed by Joe
Theismann.
PGA excites Mark Hayes
By GENE CADDES
UPI Sports Writer
AKRON, Ohio (UPI) — It will
take more than leading the first
round of the PGA Champion
ship to get Mark Hayes excited.
Hayes, a second-year pro
from Stillwater, Okla., who
seemed almost bored while
describing his three-under-par
67 round Thursday on the
Firestone Country Club course,
says it’s too early to get
worked up.
“I didn’t think about lea
ding,” said the former Ok
lahoma State University two
time all-American. “It’s a little
too early to get excited. If this
was the third round, I might
get excited.”
Hayes, who made the turn in
33, two under, birdied the 11th
and strung together seven
straight pars, held a one-shot
lead over Bob Benson of
Easton, Conn., head pro at the
Golf Club at Aspetuck, and tour
pro Larry Hinson, both of
whom had 68s.
Another shot behind were Bob
Wynn, Billy Casper, Ed Dough
erty and Fred Wampler.
Nine golfers were at even par
70, including Jack Nicklaus,
who bogeyed the final hole, and
Tom Weiskopf, who shot his
way back into the thick of
things with birdies on the final
three holes.
Football
sign-ups
The Griffin-Spalding County
Recreation Department will
begin taking sign-ups for Youth
Football tomorrow and continue
until August 23rd from 10:00-
6:00.
Three leagues will be offered.
Pee-Wee’s will consist of boys 8-
10 (weight limit 90 pounds for 10
year olds), with the Junior
League consisting of boys 11-12
(weight limit 130 pounds for 12
year olds) and Senior League
boys 13-14.
Boys must be accompanied
by one parent, and have a birth
certificate. The age cut-off date
for all three leagues is Nov. 30.
The registration fee will be
$5.00 per boy.
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line which had to result inevitably in the
erosion of fan interest. The only line they
cared about was the bottom one. Seeing
that made it easier for the players to think
in the same terms.
For all those charts showing some
attendance gains in a number of major
league cities today, baseball is in the
throes of several grave problems at the
moment.
The Chicago White Sox are on the verge
of bankruptcy.
There is no assurance San Francisco’s
Bay Area can support one club anymore,
let alone two.
And the city of Seattle has a law suit all
set and ready to go if baseball reneges on
its promise to let them have another big
league club.
The baseball people are in a quandary.
They don’t know what to do about these
problems for which it is absolutely
imperative they find a solution. I can tell
them this much: moving franchises isn’t
the answer. Neither is expanding the two
overblown leagues they have now.
If the baseball owners continue moving
their franchises, they face the distinct
possibility of drawing less people in the
city they moved to than they did in the city
they moved from. Charlie Finley watched
that happen when he moved from Kansas
City to Oakland and Horace Stoneham had
the same experience switching from New
Hayes, who admitted to being
nervous only on his second shot
on the final hole, almost birdied
the 18th.
His tee shot plugged in the
soft ground between two
bunkers and he got a drop.
After his ball twice rolled back
into a bunker, he was allowed
to place it and then drilled a
four-iron shot 12 feet from the
pin. The putt missed.
Hayes, who stands 48th on
this year’s money-winning list
with $47,951, said he had been
experimenting with his swing
during the first two practice
rounds at firestone.
“But I came out here
Wednesday and couldn’t do
anything,” he said, “so I went
back to a natural action. I hit
everything pretty good.”
Benson, like Hayes playing in
his first PGA event, said he
was shocked to be among the
leaders.
The 35-year-old pro who once
Boys’ Club
to see game
Thirty members of the
Griffin-Spalding County Boys
Club will attend the Atlanta
Braves-Chicago Cubs baseball
game Saturday.
Each boy will be given a
Braves’ jacket.
The event is one of several
field trips sponsored by com
munity citizens.
Harold Arledge is executive
director of both local clubs.
Scott Coggin and Chuck Wakely
serve as program assistants
and direct activities at each
club.
Stover has 219
Lou Stover bowled a high 219
in the Thursday Morning
League yesterday.
Other leading bowlers were
Judy Griffin and Betty Imes
with 189 each, Dobbi Vaughn
176, Laura Doster 175 and Gwen
McMillan 150.
The Pinups beat the Alleyoops
3-1, the Spares beat the Country
Dudes 4-0, the Sleepy Heads
topped the Jetsons 3-1 and the
Goof-ups tromped the Streaks 4-
0.
York to San Francisco.
Ten years ago, the Braves moved from
Milwaukee to Atlanta, and look what hap
pened to them. They’ve drawn fewer than
400,000 fans in Atlanta so far this year. The
Brewers, on the other hand, went over the
million mark in Milwaukee Thursday
when 24,817 watched them lose to the Red
Sox. Milwaukee fans continue coming out
to see the Brewers even though they’re
15% games back.
“To say that we’re proud of our
attendance would be gross
understatement,” says Brewers’ president
Bud Selig, also a hard-working member of
baseball’s franchise committee. “I’m not
surprised at the way the fans have come
out because I know the kind of baseball
fans they are.”
Then, in an oblique reference to the
departed Braves, Selig adds:
“Milwaukee was a great baseball
market in the ‘sos and still is. All it took
was some energy to restore fan interest.
The town has a great baseball history and
how anybody could’ve ever thought of
leaving it is beyond me. Franchise moves
are the easy way out. Running away from
things don’t solve the problem.”
Selig’s right. There comes a time when
you can’t run anymore, when you have to
stop, meet the problem head on and come
up with a satisfactory answer.
Baseball is right at that point. Maybe
even a little past it.
gave golf lessons to John F.,
Teddy and Mrs. Rose Kennedy
at the Palm Beach, Fla.,
Country Club while still a teen
ager, was under par after four
holes, but bogeyed three in a
row.
“When I was two under I got
a little excited,” said Benson,
whose 68 is his best on a brief
tour try, “but I went one over
very quickly. Then I settled
down again and made some
birdies.”
Benson, a native of James
town, N.Y., birdied the final
hole to go two under. His putt
hesitated on the edge of the cup
before falling in.
“I would have gladly walked
off the course with a 69,” said
Benson. “I just didn’t want it to
go zinging by.”
Nicklaus called his 70 “a bit
frustrating,” adding, “I proba
bly got as little out of the round
as I could get. I played a lot
better than I scored.”
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Weiskopf, on the other hand,
was very pleased with his
birdie, birdie, birdie finish.
“It looked like I was on my
way out of the golf tour
nament,” said Weiskopf, “and
now I’m right back in it.”
Former PGA champions Ray
Floyd and Al Geiberger were
also at 70. That list also
included Jim Dent, Bruce
Devlin, Tom Watson, Mike
Morley and Art Wall.
Gary Player was among a
large group at two over 72,
while defending champion Lee
Trevino and Arnold Palmer,
still seeking his first PGA title,
were in anoher bunch at 73.
Trevino, who noted he also
opened last year’s PGA with a
73, said it wasn’t his driving
but his irons that got him in
trouble.