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Page 18 i — Griffin Daily News Thursday, May 5,1977 John corrects delivery, halts Mets with 4-hitter By KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer Tommy John can thank tele vision for his recent successes. More specifically, he can thank his friend for watching it. During a baseball game ear- Capital 9 Bobcats win in softball Capital Motors defeated the Black Panthers 6-4 Wednesday night in the Women’s Softball League. The Bobcats defeated Jester- Hooper 18-12. Hilda Ackiss and Liz Young each hit 2 singles for Capital. Fannie Copeland hit 3 singles and Evonne Williams hit a single for the Black Panthers. Claudette Williams hit a double and 2 singles for the Bobcats. Evelyn Gaston hit two home runs and 2 singles. Kay Watkins hit a home run and single for Jester-Hooper. Sandra O’Dell hit 3 singles. Commercial League The Griffin A’s defeated Chevron Oil 4-1 Wednesday night in the Commercial Softball League. B & F TV Sales and Service downed Southern States 13-3, Trophy Shop bombed Borden Chemical 26-7 and Griffin Merchants clipped Signal Mills 16-6. Chuck Dunn hit 2 singles for the Griffin A’s. Gary Pugh hit a single and double. Bruce Penn hit a single and Frank Steward a double for Chevron Oil. Bennie Fears hit a triple and 2 singles for B & F. Sammy Touchstone hit a triple and double. Randy Vaughn and Russell resigns as coach, general manager of Sonics By TONY BAKER AP Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) - All Bill Russell wanted was to win his way. But after four years filled with more disappointments than victories, Sam Schulman apparently grew restless of Russell’s dictatorial approach, and Russell resigned Wednes day as coach and general man ager of the Seattle Super Sonics. One of the nation’s most fa- Ii ’ w kA i • '■j WF jfegSr \ ▼ - 1 ia " "~" L " ps? - •■ ~'£sar r j B ** 1 • *'■ »■ • jf •* Cub can’t quarrel Greg Gross, a .298 hitter bat a tench wanner on a Chicago Cabs team with six strong oat fielders, says he really can’t quarrel with Manager Herman Franks. He prefers to present his case with his bat. Gross is shown here exercising at an away from home game recently. (AP) Her this season, a pal of the Los Angeles Dodger pitcher taped one of his performances and discovered a flaw in his de livery. “I saw that I was leaning back too far,” said John. “That Charles Compton each hit a single for Southern States. Tony Head hit 2 home runs, 2 doubles and a single for Trophy Shop. Mitch Jones hit 3 doubles and a single. James Lawning hit a home run, triple and single for Griffin Merchants. Ken Strickland hit 3 doubles and a single. Gordon Smith hit a double and single and Michael Jackson 2 singles for Signal Mills. Church League New Salem defeated Grace Baptist 13-3 Wednesday night in the Church Softball League. First Presbyterian defeated Wildwood Baptist 13-4 and Union Baptist downed First Assembly 13-11. James Evans hit a double and 3 singles for New Salem. Steve Bailey hit 3 singles. Bill Goldstein hit 2 singles and Tony Phillips hit a double for Grace Baptist. Lane Ely hit a triple and double for First Presbyterian. Danny Ray hit a double and single. Bobby Hamil and BiUy lx>ng each hit 2 singles for Wildwood Baptist. Eddie Duke hit 4 singles for Union Baptist. Mike Thaxton hit 2 doubles and a single. Claude Grant hit a home run and single for First Assembly. miliar but complex person alities, Russell was cheered four years ago as the Sonics’ salvation when team owner Schulman lured him back into the game he dominated for more than a decade as a player to coach the National Basket ball Association team. But the Sonics never became the consistent winner under Russell that Schulman — and Russell — yearned for. So Schulman put his foot down and was causing me to get my fast ball up.” John has since corrected that slight error and the results can be seen in his last two starts. The veteran left-hander has aUowed but one run in 15 2-3 innings and Wednesday night looked as good as ever with a four-hit, 2-1 victory over the New York Mets. Elsewhere in the National League, the San Diego Padres turned back the Philadelphia PhiUies 4-1; the Pittsburgh Pi rates routed the Atlanta Braves 8-0; the St. Louis Cardinals beat Cincinnati 8-1; the San Francisco Giants whipped the Montreal Expos 5-1 and the Houston Astros downed the Chi cago Cubs 5-4. Bill RusseU and Reggie Smith singled in runs in the first for the Dodgers while Dusty Baker slugged his fourth home run of the year in the second inning off loser John Matlack, 3. Padres 4, PhiUies 1 Rookie Gene Richards drove in three runs with a single and his first major league homer, and fast-working Randy Jones hurled a four-hitter as San Diego defeated Philadelphia. Richards’ homer foUowed a leadoff double by Jones in the seventh inning and provided last year’s Cy Young "award winner with a three-run lead going into the last two innings. Pirates 8, Braves 0 Dave Parker drove in four runs with a pair of two-run dou bles as Pittsburgh beat Atlanta and handed the Braves their 11th straight defeat. Parker delivered a two-run double in each of the first two innings, helping the Pirates mount an early 5-0 lead off Frank LaCorte. Pittsburgh’s Larry Demery hurled a three- decided that Russell would not return for the fifth and final year of his $250,000 contract with the club. “Bill Russell has always giv en me 110 per cent, just as he gave the Celtics and NBA fans 110 per cent as a player,” Schulman said in a prepared statement announcing agree ment with the former Boston Celtics great on settlement of his contract. The agreement calls for a hitter before being lifted in the eighth when the Braves loaded the bases. Cardinals 8, Reds 1 Lou Brock smashed three hits and passed Lou Gehrig on the aU-time major league hit pa rade and Bob Forsch pitched a four-hitter to lead St. Louis over Cincinnati. Brock’s three hits gave him 2,724 for his career and lifted him past the onetime New York Yankee great into 32nd place on the aU-time list. Giants 5, Expos 1 WiUie McCovey drove in two runs with a single and Jim Ban pitched a six-hitter as San Francisco broke a five-game losing streak with its victory over Montreal. McCovey singled home a pair of runs in the first inning, kept a third-inning rally going with an infield hit and started an eighth inning raUy with a walk. Ban struck out five and walked two and was rarely seriously challenged. Astros 5, Cubs 4 Julio Gonzalez singled home the tying run in the ninth inning and the winning run in the 11th to lead Houston over Chicago. Joe Ferguson walked to open the 11th, was sacrificed to second and reached third when second baseman Manny Trillo bobbled Ken Boswell’s ground er. Boswell made it to third when Ferguson was caught in a rundown on Enos Cabell’s grounder, then scored on Gon zalez’ hit. GROGAN OKAYS CALLS FOXBORO, Mass. (AP) - There are quarterbacks in the National Football League who don’t like the plays called for them but Steve Grogan, the young star of the New England Patriots, is not one of them. payment of $150,000 a year to Russell for the next two years, a team spokesman said. During the past season, in which the Sonics finished 4042 and missed the playoffs for the first time in three years, Schul man said Russell had become “too expensive” in his dual role as coach and general manager. Schulman said he preferred that Russell continue in one or the other jobs next season, but not both. “Sam Schulman has a dream which I know he will fulfill to bring the NBA championship to the wonderful people of Seattle,” the 43-year-old Russell said in the statement. “I have mixed emotions about leaving the Sonics, but I feel I have reached a point in my career where I want to pursue other activities,” Russell said. “I find Sam Schulman to be an extremely good man, civic minded, with a goal which I wish we had realized together.” Neither Schulman nor Russell was available for further com ment. The names most mentioned as Russell’s successor as coach include Jerry Tarkanian, the successful head coach at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and Bob Hopkins, Rus sell’s cousin and assistant coach the past three seasons. A news conference to an nounce a new coach, assistant coach and possible director of player personnel is scheduled for next week, a club spokes man said. Tennis pro joins staff Kirk D. Blackmon is the new teaching tennis pro at Quail Lake Golf Club in Williamson. Blackmon is a graduate of Valdosta State College where he was a member of the tennis team for four years. He was assistant tennis pro at Dunwoody Country Club in Atlanta and the Brittany Country Club and was instructor at 8 apartment complexes in Atlanta. A former member of the Griffin Tennis Association, Blackmon will be conducting private and group lessons at Quail Lake Wednesday and Sunday afternoons, all day Saturday and after 5 p.m. on weekdays. * ■ « - Jr - ’ -t- •' O >—• • — -w. . W OL •"** -to •■*—■** SB* Doing his thing LOUISVILLE—Kentucky Derby Favorite Seattle Slew, best, running, as they gallop the backstretch at Churchill with exercise boy Mike Kennedy up, does what he does Downs, Wednesday. (AP) Adams not ducking run against ‘Slew’ By DICK JOYCE AP Sports Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Smiley Adams didn’t smile when someone suggested he’d purposely avoided running Run Dusty Run against Seattle Slew this year. “I ain’t been ducking that so and-so,” the crewcut trainer said Wednesday in his country twang. “I run ’em as they come." Unbeaten Seattle Slew and Run Dusty Run will be running against each other for the first time on Saturday in the 103rd Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs. Entries were taken to day. “I’ve been waiting for this Ist Federal, Forrer win in BR circuit Barry Smallwood hurled a two-hitter Wednesday in the 13- year-old Babe Ruth League as First Federal nipped Griffin Cable tv 7-6. Forrer Apartments defeated Commercial Bank 16-10. Smallwood struck out 10 and walked 7 enroute to his victory. He yielded a double to Clay Morris and a single to Wayne Dutton. Clay Morris suffered the loss in relief for Griffin Cable tv. Paul Lewis pitched the first four innings. They struck out one and gave up 16 walks. Scott Floyd hit a triple and double for First Federal. Robert Fiestsam hit a single. Danny Hayes picked up the win for Forrer Apartments. He struck out 3 and walked 10. Tim Evans was the loser. He struck out 6 and walked 13. Kevin Peek started and was relieved by Evans in the second. Hayes rapped 2 singles for Forrer. Ray Lemons hit a double and Kevin York and Danny Buice hit singles. Mitchell Cardell hit two singles for Commercial Bank. Pursley bowls 223 Kay Pursley bowled a 223 game and a 529 series Wednesday morning in the Holt’s Reloading and Equipment Wednesday Morning Ladies Bowling League. Agnes Debenedittis rolled a 197 game and a 543 series. Other top bowlers were: Gerry Gillespie 189, Gail Bush 180, Joanne Todd 178, Norma Head 178, Judy Griffin 175, Barbara Moon 170, Nellie Pitts 169, Kay Maddox 168, Mary Harrison 165, Mary Johnson 165, Sandy Landers 163, Bonnie Rounds 161 and Marlyn Shackelford 160. The Buckshots and the Gatlin Guns tied 2-2. The Pistol Packin* Mamas and the Daisy BB’s tied 2-2; the Saturday Night Specials beat the Sharpshooters 4-0; the Four Muskets beat the Sureshots 4-0; the Bullets stopped the Thirty- Ought Sixes 3-1 and the Peashooters beat the Pistols 3-1. day since the 2-year-old Eclipse Award was made,” said Adams, who saddled 1975 Preakness winner Master Der by. “We’ll see who the best horse is on Saturday.” Although Seattle Slew raced and won only three times as a 2- year-old, he was voted the di vision honor. Included was an impressive 9% length triumph in the Champagne at Belmont Park. Run Dusty Run was much more active, going to the post nine times last year, registering six victories and two seconds. Seattle Slew’s purses in 1976 amounted to $94,350 while Run Dusty Run’s bankroll totaled $268,241. Todd Aaron, Mike Smith, Mark Williams and Tim Evans each hit a single. IF YOU CONSIDER • ALL THE DAYS OF SUNSHINE • GALLONS OF WATER • BAGS OF FERTILIZER • POUNDS OF SEED • HOURS OF HARD WORK NEEDED TO GROW A BEAUTIFUL LAWN ESEZ"YOU] would I THINK IT I I WtNSBk/ I I WaQm to | I with I I we no W anything] I TAKE I | TRADE INS cobb's | COBBS 4 Lawn & Garden Center few DEfipi E 371 N. Expressway rEUrLE QUALITY SERVICE AND PRODUCTS Phone 228-2414 “We got robbed on that one,” said Adams. “Seattle Slew didn’t run enough." Adams, a Kentucky native from the small town of Ver sailles, near Keeneland race track, has passed up running his horses at New York and West Coast tracks. Perhaps because of that, Run Dusty Run was overlooked in the voting last year. Adams also hasn’t been smil ing as much lately because Run Dusty Run has finished second in his last three outings, in cluding the Blue Grass Stakes on April 28. The son of Dust Commander, the 1970 Derby winner, Run Dusty Run had won his first two starts of the year. Adams will be saddling an other entry in the IVi-mile Der by. In addition to Run Dusty Run, who is owned by the Gold en Chance Farm, he is running Bob’s Dusty, owned by Bob Lehmann, whose mother runs Golden Chance Farm. Bob’s Dusty has lesser cre dentials with one victory (at Latonia) in four starts this year, including a fifth-place finish in the Blue Grass Stakes. New coach WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Lafayette Norwood, Wichita Heights basketball coach, is heading for the Kansas Jay hawks as an assistant coach, according to the Wichita Eagle. The announcement was ex pected to come today in Law rence, said the newspaper. Special Sale JON BOATS Friday & Saturday 12’ Jon Boats *l69°° GRIFFIN BOATING SUPPLY 715 E. 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