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Giants to hire Rigney
v By JOE SARGIS
UPI Sports Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
Bob Lurie and Bud Herseth, the
new owners of the San
Francisco Giants, are about as
different as two people can be,
but they have one thing in
common — they love baseball
and they want it to be a
success in San Francisco.
And the man they have
picked as manager — Bill
Rigney — presents a third
personality to the new organiza
tion, that starting today will try
to get off the ground and put its
house in order.
The first thing Lurie, a San
Francisco financier, and Her
seth, a Phoenix meat packer,
will do is trot out Rigney as
manager. Rigney is no stranger
to the Bay Area, having grown
up here and played Pacific
Coast league baseball before
coming back to serve as Giants
manager from 1958 through
June 1960, when he was
abruptly fired with the club
only four games out of first
place.
Lurie and Herseth, a sort of
darkhorse who was on Mayor
George Moscone’s list of
prospective buyers but virtually
unknown to Lurie, were unani
mously approved as the new
owners Tuesday after daylong
.meetings by the other 11
Mary Reed
bowls 231
Mary Reed bowled a 231 game
and a 620 series last night in the
Dundee League. Betty
Shackelford had a 222 and a 542.
Other leading bowlers were:
Brenda Ogletree 190 and a
527, Fab Manning 187 and a 520,
Frances Martin 183 and a 531,
Barbara Stinson 185, Martha
Bray 168, Bernie Zuberer 186,
Susie Clark 170, Peggy Crane
168, Mary Blanton 183, Hazel
Hilton 184, Betty Parkerson 169,
Linda Whidby 187, Sherrell
McPherson 166, Lila Williams
165, Brenda English 165, Sylvia
Crumbley 186, Margie Perdue
160, Pat Harrison 182 and
Debbie Harden 185.
Team Eight is in first place
with a two point advantage over
Team Five. Team Three is third
and Team Four is in fourth
place.
Sprayberry
bowls 622
George Sprayberry bowled a
221 game and a 622 series last
night in the Doc Craddock
League. Wilson Bevil had a 212
and a 619 and Curt Pressly
rolled a 212 and a 608.
Other leading bowlers were:
Billy Bevil 217 and a 606,
Perry English 202, Melvin
Whidby 213, Ray Jackson 214,
Rick Rodda 212, Julian Folds
204, Richard Home 210, Mike
Waddell 236, Joe Melton 209,
Alvin Phipps 200, Davie Hilton
230, Paul Phillips 201 and Lance
Brabham 202.
Griffin Cable beat Fran’s
Kennels 4-0, Fisher Hardware
and Mortell Co. tied, WGRI beat
Forrer Apartments 3-1, Western
Auton beat D&B Bottle Shop 3-1,
Harris Service Station beat
HUl’s Tire Store 3-1, Griffin
Auto Parts defeated Millican
Oil 3-1 and Chester Jones
Garage beat Buckalew Electric
3-1.
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National league club owners.
They purchased the Giants
from Horace Stoneham and his
National Exhibition Co. for $8
million in cash with Lurie
controlling 51 per cent in the
new organization and Herseth
49 per cent.
Sharkey regrets
not quitting
By MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sports Editor
NEW YORK (UPI) - The years have been
compassionate with Jack Sharkey. They have inflicted
some of the aches and pains that normally go with age but
they haven’t fogged his mind.
He’s 73 and still sharp enough so that nobody had better
mess with him. He doesn’t go around hearing bells in his
head as so many other ex-fighters do.
Three weeks ago, the old heavyweight champ cradled a
few ribs when he took a tumble varnishing the floor of his
Epping, N.H., home. He isn’t ready to go out dancing yet,
but he’s up and around again, staying abreast of
everything that’s going on.
Jack Sharkey got on the subject of Joe Frazier.
He talked about Frazier’s decision to keep on fighting
and what a mistake he thought it was.
Jack Sharkey was talking from experience. He made
the same mistake. He knew he should’ve quit after he lost
his world heavyweight title to Primo Camera in 1933 when
he was 31, but he didn’t. He kept fighting, hoping to win his
title back. He never did.
He got back to Joe Frazier though. “He’s a pretty smart
fella,’’ said the former champ. “He has a good aspect on
life and I’m sure he’s well taken care of financially. He’s
got the recognition, the money and everything else, so
what can he gain fighting any more? I know what he’s
thinking. ‘Just one more.’ That ‘one more’ could be the
one to do the damage. If I were him, I’d caU a press
conference and announce my retirement."
Jade Sharkey remembers how he felt when Camera
knocked him out in six rounds to take his title. He told his
manager, the late Johnny Buckley, he didn’t want to fight
any more.
“I was morose after Camera beat me,” Sharkey said,
remembering. “I had lost the championship to a
character. I told my manager I wanted to quit. I said to
him it was getting tougher for me to get in shape, I had a
wonderful wife, three lovely children, a beautiful home
and all the money I wanted, and he said to me, ‘Ahh-b-h,
you’re talkin’ crazy. You still got a few years left.’”
Sharkey won the heavyweight title by outpointing Max
Schmeling in 1932. He had beaten Camera the year before
and before fighting him again, he had told Buckley he
intended to retire after this bout. Buckley said nothing
about that, but while Sharkey was training for his title
defense against Camera, Buckley made two future
matches with King Levinsky and Tommy Loughran for
later in the year. So after he lost to Camera, Sharkey still
had to go through with those two bouts.
The Levinsky fight was to be held in Chicago’s
Comiskey Park.
Fight night arrived.
“I remember going to Comiskey Park; I remember
coming out of the dugout; I remember being introduced in
the ring,” Sharkey said. “That’s all I remember. Next
thing I knew I was in my hotel room. I said to Buckley, you
ready? C’mon let’s go to the fight.”
Buckley told Sharkey to relax, the fight was all over.
“Did I get knocked out?” Sharkey wanted to know.
“No, but you were up and down four or five times and
you lost the decision,” Buckley informed him.
Nine days later, Sharkey met Loughran in Philadelphia.
Four years before, Sharkey had flattened Loughran in
three rounds, but this time he lost to him in 15. Sharkey
remembers his annoyance with Buckley on the train back
to Boston.
“I said to him, John, whadd’ya want? Do you wanna
wheel me up to the ring in a wheelchair? I told you I don’t
wanna fight any more. Johnny, I’m telling you right now,
I’m all through, finished!”
Sharkey didn’t fight for 28 months. A young fellow out of
the Alabama cotton fields by the name of Joe Louis was
starting to come along about this time and Buckley put a
bug in Sharkey’s head by telling him he certainly could
lick Louis. Sharkey kind of liked the idea of becoming the
first ex-heavyweight champ ever to win back his title.
He fought four more fights and on the evening of Aug.
18, 1936, Jack Sharkey, pushing 34, met hard-hitting 22-
year-old Joe Louis, who knocked him out in three rounds.
“Suddenly I found myself on the floor,” Sharkey said.
“The referee was counting over me, on his fingers, and I
remember someone saying to me, ‘Take your time, take
your time, everybody’s with you.’ I thought to myself,
what a helluva wonderful place to be! Everybody’s with
me tonight.”
When he finally was helped to his corner, Sharkey, with
his gloves still on his hands, threw a couple of kisses to the
crowd and drew one of the greatest ovations he ever
received. He was kissing everyone goodbye was what he
was doing. Jack Sharkey never fought again.
Herseth became a partner
after Bob Short pulled out.
Short claimed, from Min
neapolis, he gave up as a
prospective buyer when Lurie
insisted on having the right to
resolve all ties between them
and representing the club in
Candalaria
PITTSBURGH (UPI) - John
Candalaria, a Pirate rookie who
struck out a NL playoff high 14
batters against the Cincinnati
Reds, Tuesday signed his 1976
contract for an undisclosed
sum.
The club also announced the
securing of pitcher Tim Jones,
veteran utility man Bob Robert
son and infielder Jimmy
Sexton.
Candalaria, a southpaw, was
brought up June 6 to help the
pennant contenders with their
pitching after ace Ken Brett
was placed on the 21-day
disabled list. He posted an MJ
record, with a 2.75 ERA.
league matters, but a source
told UPI NL owners simply
wanted no part of the former
owner of the Washington
Senators-Texas Rangers.
“Bob is a nice guy but he is
inexperienced in baseball,” said
Short of Lurie from his hospital
bed in Minneapolis, where he is
confined after suffering injuries
in a fall. “I believed I should
be the club spokesman and Bob
was equally adamant in want
ing that position. I’m sorry we
couldn’t work it out and I have
sent my apologies to Mayor
George Moscone.”
Short issued his statement at
about the time the National
League was announcing its
acceptance of a Lurie-Herseth
partnership. Told of that, Short
said “I wish them luck.”
Greg Jolly
LANDOVER, Md. (UPI) -
Defenseman Greg Joly, the
Washington Capitals’ first pick
in the 1974 amateur draft, is
being sent to the American
Hockey League Richmond Rob
ins to work himself back in
shape following an ankle injury
suffered Jan. 8.
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Lynn
NEW YORK—Freddie Lynn (in
’75 photo), first ballplayer ever
to be named MVP and Rookie of
the Year in the same season,
has let the Boston Red Sox know
he is willing to sign a three-year
package with them for $1.3
million. Lynn broke in
spectacularly with the Red Sox
last year batting .318 (second
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also finished second In runs
batted In, the league with 105.
(UPI)
Page 13
Paper says Hawks
looking for coach
ATLANTA (UPI) - The
Atlanta Hawks are looking for
a new coach to replace Cotton
Fitzsimmons and may have
narrowed the field to one man,
the Atlanta Constitution said
today.
The newspaper said that
Hawks President Bud Seretean
had officially denied the report
but that unless the NBA club
has “a miracle late-season
turnaround, Cotton Fitzsim
mons’ tenure as coach...will
end this season when his
contract expires.”
Fitzsimmons, whose team is
mired 11 games off the pace in
the Central Division with a 26-
35 record, said he had not
talked with Seretean or any
other club officials about next
year.
But he said that “in any
event, I won’t be back next
Griffin Daily News Wednesday, March 3,1976
season if we don’t get a center.
Without a bona fide center, I
don’t think I would like to
coach the Hawks.”
Racing
BALTIMORE (UPI) - Ber
tram R. Firestone’s Honest
Pleasure heads the list of 202
Thoroughbreds nominated for
the 101st running of the
Preakness Stakes at Pimlico
Race Course May 15.
Honest Pleasure is trained by
Leroy Jolley, who last year won
the Kentucky Derby with
Foolish Pleasure and finished
second to Master Derby in the
Preakness.
The 2-year-old recorded six
victories in eight starts in 1975.
The Preakness, the second
leg of the Triple Crown, is a 1
3-16 mile race.
Robins,
Crickets,
Lassies win
The Robins beat the Panthers
24-12, the Crickets stopped the
Tigerettes 23-8 and the Lassies
beat the Rangerettes 18-11
yesterday in the Rick Barry
League.
Lisa Head scored eight points
for the Robins and Caroline
Harris made six. Pam Foster
made four for the Panthers and
Robin Johnson had three.
Carol Henley and Beverly
Cleghorn made four for the
Crickets. Tara Reid made three
and Jennifer Reynolds two for
the Tigerettes.
Enid Watkins paced the
Lassies to their win with six
points. Charla Willismson made
four. Dee Ann Shirah scored six
for the Rangerettes and Anna
Tatum scored three.
BR meet
scheduled
Babe Ruth League coaches,
managers and officials will
meet Thursday at 7:30 at the
Recreation Center at City Park.
All managers and coaches are
urged to attend. Anyone in
terested in coaching or
managing a Babe Ruth team is
invited.