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— Griffin Daily News Friday, July 22, 1977
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The crowd cheers during a play in the Sub-District 4 East Little League Tournament played at Griffin’s Patrick Park.
District LL tourney opens Tuesday
Pike County, Thomaston,
East Coweta and Newnan will
participate in the District 4
Little League Tournament at
Stockbridge.
The tournament starts
Tuesday with Pike County
playing Thomaston in the 6 p.m.
game and East Coweta taking
on Newnan at 8 p.m.
The Tuesday winners will
play Thursday at 8 p.m. for the
District 4 championship and a
berth in the state Little League
Tournament.
A consolation game is
scheduled for Thursday at 6
p.m.
Pike County advanced to the
district semi-finals by beating
Goff returns
agent fee
to Broncos
MOULTRIE, Ga. (AP) -
Talk not of money-hungry ath
letes when discussing former
University of Georgia quarter
back Ray Goff.
Goff gave the Denver Broncos
a SI,OOO refund when it became
apparent that he wasn’t going to
make the National Football
League team.
“My dad always taught me
not to take things for nothing,”
Goff said. “A lot of people think
I’m crazy to give that much
money back. But I didn’t go up
there looking for something
free. I didn’t do anything to earn
a thousand dollars.”
So now he’s back in Moultrie
— with a gas station he and a
friend opened this week — and
planning to help coach the
Georgia football teams this fall.
Goff led the Bulldogs to 9-3
and 10-2 seasons the last two
years, but he was a running
quarterback and not noted for
his passing. Thus he was ig
nored in the NFL draft and
made it to Denver as a free
agent, signing for the standard
SI,OOO free agent bonus.
After five days in the Bron
co’s training camp it became
apparent that his passing
wasn’t up to standards. Den
ver’s coaches told him to work
on his passing or try to make the
team as a defensive back.
“I thought maybe the Lord
was trying to tell me some
thing,” Goff said about the pos
sible move to defensive back.
. So Goff told General Manager
Fred Gehrke he was leaving —
and returned the SI,OOO.
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the Griffin Nationals 7-4 and
blanking Jackson, 8-0.
Thomaston drew a first round
Hernandez, Reuschel
deal Braves loss in 12
By JOE MOOSHIL
AP Sports Writer
CHICAGO (AP) - Contrary
to common belief, Bruce Sutter
is not the entire Chicago Cubs’
bullpen. There are a couple of
guys out there named Willie
Hernandez and Paul Reuschel.
With Sutter sidelined because
of a knot in his back, Hernandez
and Reuschel had a chance to go
full steam Thursday and their
combined efforts helped the
Chicago Cubs deal the Atlanta
Braves a 4-3 loss in 12 innings.
Hernandez hurled two perfect
innings in relief of starter Bill
Bonham, and Reuschel worked
the final two innings in which he
allowed only one walk to gain
the victory. Bill Buckner ended
the game with a runscoring
pinch single in the 12th.
Hernandez and Reuschel
have done an excellent job this
season. But when a game has
been on the line, Manager Her
man Franks understandingly
has gone to Sutter who has piled
up 24 saves, five victories and a
1.11 earned run average.
Hernandez has a 3-3 record with
two saves and a snappy 1.89
earned run average and
Reuschel is now 4-1 with three
City-County
swim meet
Wednesday
The Griffin-Spalding County
Recreation Department will
conduct a city and county swim
meet Wednesday at 9 a.m. at
the city pool.
The swim meet will be open to
boys and girls 8 through 17.
The entry fee will be $1 with
pre-registration being con
ducted at the Community
Center in City Park.
BASEBALL STANDINGS"
By The Associated Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
East
..W L Pct. GB
Balt 53 39 .576 -
bye then beat Morrow-Lake
City 4-3 to advance to the semis.
East Coweta defeated Stock-
saves and a 2.25 ERA.
“Bruce has picked us up all
year,” said Reuschel. “Now
there’s a chance for us to do
something. I’d rather see Sutter
out there but without him we
have an opportunity to show
what we can do.”
Hernandez, a 22-year-old
rookie lefthander drafted out of
the Philadelphia system said,
“I know what I have to do now. I
have to save some games and
also finish up. I’m young, strong
and feel good. I can go three or
four innings every day.”
Hernandez and Reuschel got
a chance to prove their worth
Thursday because of a three-run
rally in the fourth inning led by
Jose Cardenal who doubled and
took third on a balk. Larry
Biittner drew a walk and when
Bobby Murcer grounded to first
baseman Willie Montanez,
Cardenal broke for the plate.
Montanez threw home only to
see Cardenal scramble back to
third leaving the bases filled.
Cardenal scored on a ground out
and Biittner scored on Manny
Trillo’s single.
Atlanta tied it in the sixth on a
single by Jeff Burroughs, a
walk, a sacrifice, a run-scoring
ground out by Darrel Chaney
and a run-scoring single by Rod
Gilbreath.
“You can’t make a mistake
against good clubs and not ex
pect them to capitalize on it,”
said Atlanta Manager Dave
Bristol, looking back at the
three-run fourth. “Make no
mistake about it, the Cubs are a
good team. Cardenal has done
that before. He’s good at it.”
Going down the drain for the
Braves was a magnificent
pitching job by Phil Niekro who
pitched the first 11 innings and
left for a pinch batter after
yielding seven hits and striking
Boston 52 39 .571 Ms
NYork 51 43 .543 3
Cleve 42 48 .467 10
Milwkee 42 50 .457 11
Detroit 41 51 .446 12
Toronto 34 58 .370 19
West
Chicago 54 36 .600 —
K.C. 52 38 .578 2
Minn 51 42 .548 4%
Texas 46 44 .511 8
Calif 42 47 .472 11%
Seattle 42 54 .438 15
Oakland 39 52 .429 15%
NATIONAL LEAGUE
East
..W...L...PCL...G8
Chicago 54 35 .607 —
Phila 53 38 .582 2
Pitts 51 42 .548 5
S Louis 48 45 .516 8
Montreal 43 47 .478 11%
New York 37 55 .402 18%
West
Los Ang 59 34 .634 —
Cinci 48 42 .533 9%
Houston 43 51 .457 16%
SFran 43 52 .453 17
S Diego 41 55 .427 19%
Atlanta 34 58 .370 24%
bridge and the Griffin
Americans and Newnan
stopped West Coweta, 11-1.
out eighth. Rick Camp took over
in the 12th and gave up walks to
Trillo and Joe Wallis, before
Buckner came off the bench to
deliver his game-winning hit.
“I try to make the best of it,”
said Buckner, who is currently
sidelined with a pulled thigh
muscle after hobbling all season
on an old ankle injury. “I don’t
mind pinch hitting, but I’d
rather be playing regularly.”
The two teams meet Friday
with Rick Reuschel, 12-3, going
for the Cubs against Dick Ruth
ven, 3-5.
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Pike may have best team
in Little League district
Pike County may have the
best Little League team in
District 4.
That was the consensus of
fans who watched Pike defeat
Griffin 7-4 and shutout Jackson
8-0 in the Subdistrict 1 tour
nament here.
Fans based their opinion on 3
things: pitching, hitting and
defense.
Pike is strong in all phases of
the game.
The Zebulon-based team
combined its strong points here
Thursday in the 8-0 victory of
Jackson.
Anthony Holmes pitched a 3-
hitter, struck out 14 and walked
only 1.
While he was taking care of
Jackson’s hitters, his team
mates were backing him with a
7-hit attack that included 4
home runs.
Jake Gamer and Jack Martin
each had a home run and single,
Eddie Burden and Clark
Dickerson homered and Troy
Burden singled.
Marvin Smith had 2 of
Jackson’s 3 hits. O’Neal singled.
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Shortstop Clark Dickerson of Pike County attempts to tag T-Bird O’Neal of Jackson in a
play at second base. O’Neal was safe.
Dwayne Washington pitched 2
innings for Jackson. He was
relieved by Marvin Smith. They
struck out 5 and walked 4.
Thomaston advanced to the
District 4 semi-finals with a 4-3,
7-inning victory over Morrow-
Lake City.
Morrow-Lake City had a 2-0
lead until Rodney Raine
unloaded a 2-run homer.
E. Coweta stops Americans
East Coweta scored 2 runs in
the sixth inning Thursday in a
come-from-behind 5-4 victory
over the Griffin American Little
League All-Stars.
Griffin had a 4-3 lead with 2
outs in the final inning when
East Coweta rallied for the
tying and winning runs.
The Americans took the lead
with a rally in the second
highlighted by Buck Lee’s 2-run
homer.
Mark Eskins was Griffin’s
losing pitcher. He allowed 7
hits, struck out 6 and walked 2.
Griffin had 8 hits and drew 2
Thomaston went on to win in
an extra inning.
Jerome Searcy was the
winning pitcher. He gave up 6
hits, struck out 5 and walked 3.
Morrow-Lake City used 2
pitchers. Rick Jeffreys worked
6 innings. He struck out 11 and
walked 2. Marvin Brand pitched
1 inning, fanning 3 and walked 1.
walks on East Coweta pitching.
Besides Lee’s home run,
Eskins hit a double and single
Humphrey having
second thoughts
GREENVILLE, S.C. -
Standout defensive end Claude
Humphrey may be having sec
ond thoughts about his long
stated call to be traded from the
Atlanta Falcons.
Raine hit a home run and
double for Thomaston. Ervin
Manuel had a double and 2
singles and William Mon
tgomery singled.
Brand hit 2 singles for MLC.
Carey Fleming and Mark
Mitchell doubled and Terry
Hazelrig and Barry O’Barr
singled.
for Griffin. Boyd Dixon tripled,
Rodney Harris doubled and
Donnie Gresham, Jay Burford
and Danny Stewart singled.
Humphrey says he will meet
today with Eddie Leßaron, the
National Football League
team’s general manager, and
“put our heads together” to de
cide what it will take to keep
him in a Falcons uniform.
Humphrey, who came to At
lanta in 1968, has said repeat
edly that he does not want to
play for the team, which posted
4-10 marks the last two seasons.
But Thursday evening, he in
dicated in a television broad
cast that he might like to stay in
Atlanta, where he has long been
a favorite of the fans.
“I can’t get this fame and
popularity anywhere else,” he
said. “Possibly my best shot is
to stay right here.”
Hunphrey was one of three
starting linemen among the
missing when the Falcons wel
comed their veterans to train
ing camp Thursday.
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