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— Griffin Daily News Wednesday, October 22, 1975
Page 12
Coach Dowis expecting
typical Griffin-Lee game
Forget records, Forget
ratings. Forget standings and
forget last year’s score.
All of that goes out the win
dow when the Griffin Bears play
the R. E. Lee Rebels. There is
no favorite.
“I expect a typical Griffin-
Lee game,” Coach Max Dowis
said this morning.
“Records will not matter. Lee
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Carlton Fisk of the Red Sox jumps with joy after hitting
the game winning home run in the 12th Inning. The Red
Sox even series
Fisk’s homer ends
marathon, 7-6
BOSTON (UPI) - It could
only have been more dramatic
if Carlton Fisk hit his home run
in the seventh game rather
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has a good football team and
they will be ready.
“I hope we can prepare
ourselves for a tough ball
game,” the Griffin coach said.
“Coach Jim Cavan has a lot of
good players. His line is big —
bigger than Griffin’s at major
positions such as tackle.
“His backs are big and fast
and Lee has a great kicking
than the sixth, when, in the
bottom of the twelfth inning he
kept the Red Sox alive in the
World Series.
game,” Coach Dowis said.
Lee has had a few problems
this season, mainly because of
the absence of quarterback
Walt Rogers. The senior signal
caller was injured early and is
now just returning to the lineup.
Coach Dowis said that Rogers
played a little last week and is
expected to play against Griffin
Friday night.
Sox winning 7-6 and making it three games apiece. Fred
Lynn also shows his joy. (UPI)
Fisk’s homer was the Red
Sox’ third of the night—each
more climactic than the previ
ous one—and combined with a
game-saving catch by Dwight
Evans gave Boston a 7-6 win
over the Reds and set up a
seventh game finale.
Tonight two lefties, Cincin
nati’s Don Gullett and Boston’s
Bill Lee—oppose each other in
the deciding game at a park
that is supposed to be death for
lefthanded pitchers.
For the Red Sox, Fisk’s
homer was the last of three
dramatic game saving plays.
The first was Bernie Carbo’s
pinch hit home run in the
eighth inning for three runs to
tie the score at 6-6 in the last of
the eighth.
(“All I kept saying to myself
was ‘Don’t strike out. Don’t
strike out,”’ Carbo said.
“The book says to pitch him
(Carbo) away,” said Rawley
Eastwick. “I threw it high and
inside.”)
Then the catch by Evans—a
desperate over-the-shoulder
grab to rob Joe Morgan of a
run scoring triple in the 11th.
(“It was the best catch I’ve
ever seen,” said Anderson.
“We’ll never see one any
better.”
“I think it was a row or two
up in the stands,” said Evans.
“I turned around to see where I
was and just stabbed it.”)
Fisk slugged
low sinker
BOSTON (UPI) — Carlton
Fisk could feel the emotion of
his most important game in the
12th inning Tuesday night.
Fisk, Boston’s injury-prone
catcher, hit the left field foul
pole with a sinkerball off
Cincinnati’s Pat Darcy to give
Boston a 7-6 win over Cincin
nati and force a seventh game
Wednesday night.
“It was a sinker down and
in,” said Fisk of the 1-0 pitch
he hit four hours and one
minute from the game’s start.
“And all I wanted to do was
swing through it.
Rogers is just one of Lee’s
game breakers. Two others are
Joe Jones and Ronnie Paul.
Coach Dowis said his team
had a good practice Monday.
“Yesterday’s practice wasn’t
nearly as good,” he said.
The Bears are nursing a few
minor injuries but no major
ones. Griffin escaped the 21-20
upset by Newnan with very few
And finally Fisk’s homer, a 1-
0 pitch off loser Pat Darcy
which hit off the left field foul
pole.
(“I knew it was out of the
park when I hit it,” Fisk said.
“Once I knew it was fair, I just
wanted to make sure I touched
every white thing I saw. If I
had to straightarm everyone in
my way, I was going to touch
every base.”)
The Red Sox went up 3-0 in
their first when rookie Fred
Lynn belted a home run into
the center field bleachers after
singles by Carl Yastrzemski
and Fisk.
The Reds finally solved the
mystery of Luis Tiant’s many
motions with three runs in the
fifth. They added two more in
the seventh off Tiant, who has
beaten them twice in this
series, on George Foster’s two
out double plus another in the
eighth on a homer by Cesar
Geronimo.
Rick Wise, the fourth Red
Sox pitcher and the 12th in the
game, was the winner after
retiring the Reds in the 11th.
“I hate to lose,” said
Rose in the dressing room after
the game, “but Fisk’s homer
was the only way that game
could end. I’m just glad I was a
part of it. My son and I will be
talking about this one for years
to come.”
“When I hit it, I knew it
would be a fair or foul homer. I
knew it was out of the park. I
knew the wind was blowing out
and I thought if anything it
would blow the ball around the
foul pole.”
The ball struck the yellow
foul pole halfway up the screen
at the 315-foot mark and
umpire Dick Stello waved Fisk
on.
Fisk, while he watched the
ball fly out, used body english,
waving his hands to keep it
fair.
casualties.
That loss put Griffin in a
“must” win situation.
They must defeat Lee,
Morrow and North Clayton to
make the Region 6-AAA.
“We can’t afford another
loss,” Coach Dowis said.
Red Sox
fans
celebrate
BOSTON (UPI) — Thousands
of happy Red Sox fans
celebrated near Fenway Park
early today following Boston’s
7-6 win over the Cincinnati
Reds in the sixth game of the
World Series.
Traffic was blocked in
Kenmore Square because of the
noisy throng in the streets. As
pedestrians shouted and chee
red, many of those in cars
joined in by sounding their
horns.
Some fans embraced each
other happily and a few
climbed utility poles. Some
firecrackers were exploded.
“Absolutely fantastic,” said
Steve Diamond, 35, of Boston.
“Best ball game I’ve ever been
to and I’ve been to 40 games
this year.”
Church bells were rung in
Charlestown, N.H., where Carl
ton Fisk’s parents live. Fisk’s
12th-inning was the winning
run.
David Conant, 61, said he
rang the bells in the Episcopal
Church after the game. He said
he’s known Fisk since he was a
baby.
“My wife used to change his
diapers,” Conant said.
Conant said the noise woke
up the minister*
Fisk 9 homer was
a dream come true
BOSTON (UPI) — Maybe you remember how Roy
Campanella always said you had to have some little boy in
you to play professional baseball and nobody goes along
with him more on that than another big kid by the name of
Carlton Fisk.
You should’ve heard him go back to his boyhood in the
Boston Red Sox dressing quarters early this morning
after the majority of interviewers had gcme, most of the
pictures of him had been taken and what he done out there
on the field more than an hour before finally started to
sink in.
Johnny Bench, over in the losing clubhouse, had put it
best about Carlton Fisk.
“He did what every single one of us wanted to do,” said
the Cincinnati catcher. “He hit the home run that won the
ball game. If you were a ballplayer and ever wanted to
pick the perfect spot, you couldn’t ask for a better one
unless maybe it would be in the seventh game.”
Carlton Fisk decided not to wait that long.
He stepped up there leading off the last of the 12th
inning, took the first pitch for a ball off reliever Pat
Darcy, then ripped the second one high off the left field
foul pole for a home run that brought the Red Sox a 7-6
storybook victory and squared the World Series at three
games apiece.
Fisk had a hunch he was going to hit safely. Before
leaving the Red Sox dugout, he said to Freddie Lynn, the
next batter, “when I hit one off the wall, I want you to
drive me in.”
That was perfectly all right with Freddie Lynn. He
wasn’t about to argue.
Fisk then stepped in against Darcy, a stringy right
hander out of Troy, Ohio, and when he hit a sinker that
Vols snapping back
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) —
Tennessee Head Football Coach
Bill Battle said Tuesday that
he’s pleased with the way the
Vols appear to be snapping
back from Saturday’s 30-7 loss
to Alabama.
Battle made the remark
following what he termed “a
spirited workout”, in which the
squad concentrated on basic
blocking, tackling and offensive
techniques.
“Judging by the last' two
workouts, everyone is trying
hard to learn the techniques
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American Kathy Heddy (r) Summit, NJ., and Canadian Cheryl Gibson congratulate each
other after the 400 meter individual medley at the Pan American games. Ms. Heddy won the
event with a time of 5:06.05, while Gibson was slightly behind in second with a time of
5:06.87. (UPI)
U.S. showing
its prowess
MEXICO CITY (UPI) — The
United States has shown its
prowess in track and field,
renewed its domination in
swimming and proven itself
once again in wrestling. Today
it will try to regain some
prestige in basketball and
baseball at the Pan American
Games.
The Americans have gone
without a major international
basketball victory since the
1968 Olympics, but that embar
rassment will be cured tonight
if the U.S. can knock off the
Cubans.
And over at the baseball
stadium the U.S. club coached
by Florida Southern’s Hal
Smeltzly will have a chance at
the Cubans as well, a win in
that game putting the Ameri
cans into a gold medal contest
with Mexico. The U.S. team has
won only one of the previous
six Pan American baseball
titles.
While those two clubs were
waiting their chance, the
American gold medal tidal
wave continued as the Games
they’ll need for the remaining
games on our schedules,” he
said.
Tailback Stanley Morgan and
linebacker Andy Spiva re
mained on the injury list, but
ran under the direction of the
team’s trainer. Both hope to
suit up for Saturday’s game
against North Texas State.
Battle also announced that
David Parsons, a junior from
Murfreesboro, has been promot
ed to first team at right
cornerback.
began to wind down. Os the 23
gold medals decided Tuesday,
15 went to the U.S.
It was a 6-for-6 sweep for the
United States in swimming, five
of 10 first places in freestyle
wrestling, a team gold in
gymnastics, two in yachting
and another at fencing in team
sabre.
That brought the American
gold medal total to 73 and
moved them within range of the
astounding 89 first places
collected in the Games four
years ago at Cali, Colombia.
Cuba was far back in second
place with 37.
As successful as the Games
have been for the Americans,
they would become even more
so if the men’s baseball and
basketball clubs win.
A victory over Cuba would
automatically give the U.S. the
basketball gold medal, even
though two games remain after
tonight’s contest. But a win
over Cuba in baseball means
the U.S. must knock off Mexico
Thursday to get the gold.
In three nights of swimming,
was down and in on him, the ball took off quickly and
began veering inside out toward the foul pole up against
the left field wall.
The strapping 27-year-old Red Sox catcher wasn’t sure
whether the ball would wind up fair or foul, so instead of
starting to run, which he should have done, he stood there
stock still watching the ball, which he shouldn’t have.
“Don’t go foul! Don’t go foul!” he hollered, as if that
could possibly influence which way the ball would go.
Fisk started down the first base line, sideways, so he
could still keep an eye on the ball, and after taking a
couple of hippety-hops, he saw the ball had stayed fair
whereupon he threw both hands in the air in a gesture of
unrestrained joy.
Now he was back in the clubhouse talking about his
emotions immediately after he realized he had hit the
home run that had tied the Series and brought the whole
business right down to tonight’s seventh game.
“When you’re a kid, you dream about being Ted Wil
liams or Mickey Mantle and hitting a home run to win an
All-Star game or one like this,” said Fisk.
“You only dream about it You never expect it to
happen. When you think about what happened out there
tonight, it’s like something out of a story book. The
pressure ... playing against the best club in the National
League... 12 innings ... I mean, it’s almost too good to be
true.”
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the U.S. has won 14 of 16 gold
medals awarded. Winners Tues- •
day night included Doug
Northway of Tucson, Ariz., 400-
meter freestyle; Dan Harrigan t
of Michawaka, Ind., 200-meter
backstroke; Rick Colella of
Seattle, 200-meter breaststroke;
Cathy Wright of New Albany, •
Ind., 100-meter butterfly; Greg
Jagenburg of West Chester,
Pa., 200-meter butterfly and
Kathy Heddy of Summit, N.J., *
400-meter individual medley.
Tuesday night was also the ,
final one for freestyle wrest
ling, and the U.S. won half the
first places available. The U.S.
took the top four weight classes *
—Michael Mcßeady of Dubu
que, lowa, over 202-pound ,
class; Russell Hallikson of
Oregon, Wis., 202-pound divi
sion; Len Peterson of Com
stock, Wis., 195-pound group; •
and Gregory Hicks of Santa
Ana, Calif., 191-pound division.
Lloyd Keaser of Annapolis,
Md., also won for the U.S. in *
the 149-pound class.