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— Griffin Daily News Friday, December 12,1975
Old home week
for Bill Veeck
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (UPI) -
It was like old home week for
Bill Veeck.
Secluded in his suite at the
site of the annual baseball
meeting until the American
League agreed to let him
repurchase the Chicago White
Sox, Veeck quickly became the
center of attention after he
returned to grace.
The flamboyant Veeck loved
it
He’d been on the outside
looking in for 14 years and
often commented to friends that
he felt like a political prisoner
being held in exile.
Bill Veeck and other Ameri
can League owners never got
along very well. They felt his
showmanship was not in
keeping with the staid image
they tried to project for the
public.
So, they shot him down every
chance they got.
They turned down Veeck’s
efforts to move the St. Louis
Browns to Baltimore, but
wasted little time permitting
his successor to do just that as
soon as he stepped out of the
picture.
They also blocked his more
recent effort to purchase the
Orioles, and came mighty close
to blocking him from buying
the White Sox.
After first stalling his White
Sox’ bid by demanding that he
cough up a lot more cash, the
owners came up a vote short
even after he did what they
asked.
But conscience prevailed.
They took a second vote and
let Bill Veeck back in the
League.
You’d have had to have been
in the hotel corridor to
appreciate the look on Veeck’s
face as he limped toward the
meeting room He was, simply,
overjoyed.
And, he pretty well summed
up his feelings when he said,
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a new life.”
Veeck got out of baseball 14
years ago on doctors’ orders
after a serious illness. But the
game, of which he had been so
much a part since he was a
boy, stayed in his blood.
“Bill and I have been
stumping the country the past
several years trying to raise
the money to buy back into
baseball,” said Paul Richards,
an old friend who has been
sidelined himself since losing
his job as general manager of
the Atlanta Braves a few years
ago.
“We were snubbed a couple
of times, but it’s all been worth
while. I don’t know when I’ve
seen Bill happier than he is
now."
Veeck agreed.
“I really didn’t know if we’d
make it or not. But, I’ve been
counted out before and I’ve
always bounced back.”
Veeck had his right leg shot
up when he was with the
Marines in World War II and
he later had to have much of it
amputated after a series of
operations.
But that never flagged his
enthusiasm.
He took over the Cleveland
Indians right after the war and
more than tripled their attend
ance in three years.
Never one to shy away from
a gimmick if he thought it
would help boost ticket sales,
Hawks find killer instinct
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Atlanta Hawks found “a killer
instinct” Thursday night and
slaughtered the Buffalo Braves.
Sports Briefs
By United Press International
COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPI) -
Veeck’s most widely publicized
stunt was sending midget up to
bat in a regular-season game.
The midget walked, but the
league was quick to shoot down
that idea and he never came to
bat again.
Veeck took on an even bigger
challenge in 1950 when he sold
his interest in the Indians and
took over the all-but-dead St.
Louis Browns’ franchise.
He quickly boosted Browns’
attendance but saw greener
grass in Baltimore and tried to
move the club there. When that
failed, he sold out only to
surface again six years later as
owner of the White Sox.
Veeck continued his show
manship, including the installa
tion of an “exploding”
scoreboard — another promo
tion which his fellow owners did
not appreciate — and White Sox
attendance soared.
“I’m getting mellow,” said
Veeck after he took over the
White Sox again this week. “I
guess I’m getting a little old
and I’m pretty beat up to do
some of the things I used to do.
But, we are not going to cease
to try to be entertaining.”
Some of the other American
League owners may not be
amused by some of Bill Veeck’s
promotion schemes. But,
they’ve got to admit one thing:
It should be livelier than ever
with Veeck and Oakland’s
Charles Finley around at the
same time.
The 122-99 victory kept the
Hawks one-half game ahead of
the Washington Bullets atop the
National Basketball Associa-
The U.S. Trotting Association
says a record 13 drivers have
surpassed the $1 million mark
in earnings with more than two
weeks left in the 1975 harness
racing season. The previous
high was 12.
Carmine Abbatiello of Colts
Neck, N.J., leads the way with
$2,072,511, Canadian Ben Web
ster, with $1,969,819, is second.
Canadian Herve Filion is third
in the money standings with
$1,780,377 and William Gilmour
fourth with $1,741,806.
BALTIMORE (UPI) — PoUce
say jockey Eric Walsh, recently
convicted of horse race fixing
charges, tried to kill himself
Thursday, reportedly the se
cond such attempt in the past
two weeks.
Walsh was convicted Aug. 18
along with three other jockeys
and three accomplices of
arranging the order of finish at
a Valentine’s Day race at the
Bowie Race Course.
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Bulldogs break ice
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) -
Forward Jackie Dorsey scored
29 points and grabbed 15
rebounds Thursday night to
lead the Georgia Bulldogs to
their first win of the season, 83-
67 over Appalachian State.
Bulldogs freshman guard
Walter Daniels of Macon tossed
tion’s Central Division.
“Our problem has been
getting a killer instinct,” said
Atlanta coach Cotton Fitzsim
mons. “We get up by four
points and are content to let the
other team cut it to two.”
It appeared Fitzsimmons was
going to have to worry about
that problem again Thursday
night as Buffalo forged a two
point lead, 26-24, at the end of
the first quarter. But the
Hawks outscored the Braves 34-
18 in the second period for a 58-
44 halftime lead and then put
the game away in the third
period.
Fitzsimmons credited his
reserves, particularly John
Drew, the game’s high scorer
with 29 points, with sparking
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John Drew hit 29 points in 21 minutes last night to lead
the hot-shooting Atlanta Hawks past Buffalo 122-99 in
National Basketball Association action in Atlanta.
Braves
The Atlanta Braves have a new coach. Braves officials
said yesterday Chris Cannizzaro has been hired to serve
as bullpen coach for the National League team during
1976.
Bulldogs
The Georgia Bulldogs have their first win of the young
basketball season. Last night at Theens, forward Jackie
Dorsey scored 29 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to pace
the Bulldogs to an 83-67 win over Appalachian State.
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in 20 points with Charlie Dorsey
and Tony Flannigan adding 11
and 10 points respectively.
Dorsey was the game’s leading
scorer.
Georgia now stands at 1-2 for
the season and Appalachian
State fell to 2-3.
Georgia opened up a 26-point
the victory.
“I keep going back to our
bench. If they don’t play well,
we are in trouble,” he said.
Fitzsimmons went deep into
his bench as the score mounted
and sent in 18-year-old Bill
Willoughby, drafted out of high
school by the Hawks, with
seven minutes left to play.
Willoughby scored six points
and got five rebounds to the
delight of an Omni crowd of
7,948.
Atlanta’s Connie Hawkins
said the win came at a good
time for the Hawks.
“We haven’t been playing
well for the last five games,”
he said. “A game like this can
get us off the bad-track
syndrome."
(25) and Bob Pace (15) during first period play Thursday.
Georgia won 83-67. (UPI)
lead with 3:26 left in the half
and held a 49-25 lead at
intermission over the Boone,
N.C. team.
Appalachian State mounted a
second-half comeback as they
came to within 15 points of
Georgia, 70-55, with 6:38 re
maining in the game. But
Cannizzaro
joins Braves
ATLANTA (UPI) - Chris
Cannizzaro has been named
bullpen coach for the 1976
season by the Atlanta Braves.
Cannizzaro, named to the
post Thursday, was a catcher
on several major league clubs
until he ended his playing
career following the 1974 season
with the San Diego Padres.
He joins Vem Benson, Herm
Starette and Eddie Haas on the
Braves coaching staff.
Cannizzaro, 38, played his
first big league game in 1960
with the St. Louis Cardinals
and subsequently caught for the
Mets, Pirates, Dodgers, Cubs
and Padres.
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a base line jumper to build
Georgia’s lead back to 17.
Al Gintry led Appalachian
State with 17 points, and
Darryll Robinson and Tim
Leahy added 13 apiece.
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College
scores
By United Press International
East *
Maine 73 Rhode Island 71
Manhattan 79 LaSalle 78
Providence 98 Evansville 71 •
Rutgers 95 Penn 80
Villanova 108 King’s (Pa.) 75
South
Florida St. 81 Stetson 71
Furman 75 Illinois 73
William & Mary 61 Dickinson 56 ,
Midwest
Indiana 63 Notre Dame 60
Kansas 61 Boise St. 56 »
Southwest
Arkansas St. 75 Tenn. Tech 74
SE Oklahoma 71 Austin Coll. 67 *
W. Texas St. 63 Oklahoma St.
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Air Force 51 Gonzaga 35
Idaho 68 San Fran. St. 65 ,
Kevin Porter
OAKLAND (UPI) - Kevin ’
Porter’s injury is not as serious
as first feared, but the standout
Detroit Pistons’ guard will be »
out of action for five or six
weeks.
Porter hurt his right knee in
a freak fourth quarter accident *
and was taken off the court on
a stretcher during Tuesday
night’s 129-124 loss to Golden
State. *