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Griffin Daily News Saturday, July 30,1977 Page 6 ■I if ajwA j J t JLi Jr J® r . Jr BhS.' * -* r - ..i-sjSßk. , ..<*■■ -** ■ |>.XJ . $ - t . * ■ *~ •_ -.'p ’ ■ Jfy Jtyrl■ ■'<>' ■'■ ■■ " — , •** ■ ' •"*•** ■* ;-■ ,■ . '•? ' . 4 ’ ■' ** ATLANTA — Pittsburgh Pirates’ Omar Moreno (IB) looks up to disbelief as he is tagged out by Atlanta Braves’ 2nd baseman Darrel Chaney (15) who took the throw from 1,000,000-plus The New York Yankees have drawn more than one million fans a year on the road for the last 31 seasons. '/xy a3 o \ I 9 J BOGGED DOWN? A BEEPER can help prevent some of those sticks situations. It can keep you in touch with your office while you’re out getting your business on a more solid footing. Give us a call. We'd like to show you how a BEEPER works. MOBILE TELEPHONE & PAGER 227-0909 Ask For Pam SSOEvereelnnßd.tu. Griffin, Ga. C WE'RE THE DRAPERY PEOPLE ALL DURING AUGUST WE'RE HAVING A SALE! Hmm® b > iw jH'fcfy f M > j-irHl' UU I//U4IIW tfr»FFWilwM : 1 Th/x/ VlllilT •! 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Action was in the 4th inning of Friday night’s game in Atlanta. (AP) Little League games postponed again The Championship and consolation games in the District 4 Little League Tour nament have been postponed until weather conditions are suitable for play. Officials had planned to begin play today at 11 a.m. if possible. The games were to be played Senior BR Stars will play tonight The Griffin Senior Babe Ruth All-Stars game with the Newnan Babe Ruth All-Stars was rescheduled for tonight at 8 p.m. The second game of the best two-of-three series will be played Sunday night at 8:00 and the third game, if necessary, will be played Monday night at 8 o’clock. Seahawks’ Raible says he’s ready CHENEY, Wash. (AP) — Seattle Seawhawks wide receiv er Steve Raible said he had trouble as a rookie adjusting to the precise pass patterns of professional football. But this season, with a year of experience behind him, Raible says he’s ready. And he had better be, because he’s involved in a highly competitive battle for the four wide receiver positions on the team. Raible’s problems with the pass patterns stemmed from his collegiate career. He was a tight end at Georgia Tech, which used the wishbone of fense and seldom threw the ball. “My biggest problem last year was running under con trol,” Raible recalls. “I was slipping and falling. I would make a great catch but run a bad route to get there, or I would run a good route and drop the ball.” Raible’s turnabout as a re ceiver began, he feels, when he left his home in Louisville and returned to Seattle about April 1 to work out with Seahawk quarterbacks Jim Zorn and Steve Myer, and other receiv ers. That was shortly after veter an Sam McCullum, Seattle’s starting split end, suffered a se vere knee injury in a basketball game. Jerry Rhome, coach of the quarterbacks and receivers, asked Raible if he could move to Seattle. “It was the best move I ever made,” Raible said. “I learned so much working out with those guys. Steve Largent (second year wide receiver) runs such great routes. He showed me a lot, and Sam was as big a help as anyone else. He couldn’t run the routes himself, but he gave me a lot of good advice.” The change in Raible has been dramatic. He was both ered last season by an aching Achilles tendon and, by his own analysis, his own attitude. “When I came to camp I was scared, really nervous,” he said. “I didn’t know if I wanted to sacrifice that much to play. Now I know." Thursday night in Stockbridge but were postponed because of rain. Pike County was to play Newnan for the district championship and a berth in the state Little League tournament at Marietta. Thomaston was to play Coweta in the consolation game. The series was scheduled to begin Thursday night in Newnan, but had to be rescheduled for Friday because of rain. The series was rescheduled again after more rain made it impossible to begin on Friday. Griffin and Newnan are the only 2 teams in the tournament. The Achilles problem hobbled Raible for about two weeks last summer and he lost valuable practice time. “The trainers did a real head job on me,” he said. “They said just take care of the injury, and making the team will take care of itself. “It was a new experience for me. In college, you went wheth er you were hurt or not. Here, at this level, you’re no good to anyone if you’re hurt.” Niehaus surgery CHENEY, Wash. (AP) - The Seattle Seahawks’ defensive player of the year last season, second-year tackle Steve Niehaus, will undergo surgery on his troublesome right shoulder and will be out from 10 to 12 weeks, says Coach Jack Patera. Patera said Thursday “the effect of this injury to Niehaus is a good-sized blow” and that he had “counted on Niehaus to be an integral part of this year’s Seahawk defense. Steve gave us the pass rush we need so much.” Niehaus suffered a minor shoulder dislocation, Patera said from the Seahawks’ train ing camp here. Open Sunday 1 to 6 H Summer Cross-band Sandal Wedge has Comfortable Cushion Insole sale... X Women's Sizes Price Good thru Tuesday ♦ MasterCherge or BankAmericrd 372 N orth Expressway Open Evenings ’til 9, Next To RBM Volkswagen Sunday I’till — Get to know us; you’ll Mice us.* Brares-Pirates Neikro’s knuckleball ends Pirates 9 winning streak By ED SHEARER AP Sports Writer ATLANTA (AP) - “It’s as good a game as I’ve ever seen him pitch,” said Chuck Tanner, manager of the red-hot Pitts burgh Pirates. It was, however, one he would have preferred not to have seen—a route-going-eight-hitter by knuckleballer Phil Niekro that gave the Atlanta Braves a 5-3 victory, snapping the Pirates’ eight-game winning streak. “He was a complete pitcher— fielding, the pickoffs, strike outs—he did it all,” Tanner National League Roundup Astros and Giants claim shutouts By The Associated Press Reds $-3, Cardinals 5-10 Pitcher Paul Moskau smashed two hits and scored two runs to help Cincinnati beat St. Louis in the first game of their doubleheader and break a six-game Cardinal winning streak. Keith Hernandez’ first grand slam homer capped a nine-run rally off Cincinnati’s Jack Bil lingham in the second inning and helped the Cardinals beat the Reds in the second game. Dodgers 4, Expos 1 Held hitless by Steve Rogers for the first five innings, Los Angeles bunched three hits in the sixth to score two runs and defeated Montreal behind Doug Rau’s four-hitter in a game American League Roundup Sox’ Bannister unnerved by crowd By JOHN NELSON AP Sports Writer Alan Bannister figured it was the noisiest crowd he had ever heard at Comiskey Park. Fans numbered 45,919— Chicago’s largest home crowd in three years—and the White Sox short stop was nervous. “I was tight in the first in ning,” said Bannister, whose throwing error in that frame led to three unearned runs. “I think we all were because we were so high for this series. We want to win them all.” But he made up for the mis take in the seventh, when he smacked a two-run single that capped a four-run rally and gave the White Sox an 11-8 vic tory over the Royals Friday night. The victory gave the White Sox a 4%-game cushion over Kansas City in the American League’s West Division. Bannister’s wild throw in the first inning allowed Hal Mcßae to score, and after two were out, John Mayberry slugged a two run homer, his 16th of the season, to put the Royals ahead 3-0. Chicago rallied for six runs in the third—Chet Lemon’s homer drove in two and Richie Zisk doubled home a pair—but Kan sas City tied it 6-6 in the fifth on George Brett’s three-run homer. Two innings later, the Royals took an 8-6 lead on Mcßae’s RBI single and a bases-loaded walk to Joe Zdeb. Dave Hamilton, 2-3, the third Chicago pitcher, got the victory, while Mark Littell, 5-4, the third of four Kansas City pitchers, took the loss. In other AL games, New York blanked Oakland 4-0, Baltimore nipped Seattle 5-4, Boston edged added. Niekro did do a little bit of everything, including tying a major league record with an unusual four strikeouts in one inning. He also had eight as sists, three in picking runners off bases, make a putout and had a perfect sacrifice bunt that set up a two-run triple by Jerry Royster, breaking a 2-2 deadlock in the fifth inning. Niekro, who fanned seven for the night, tied the record held by 14 others in the sixth inning. He fanned the first two before Al Oliver doubled. Rennie Sten nett then struck out but reached called in the seventh inning be cause of rain. After Rogers fanned Steve Yeager and got Rau to ground out to start the sixth, Dave Lopes singled to center. Bill Russell followed with a triple to the left-field corner to score Lopes and Reggie Smith deliv ered a check-swing double to score Russell. Astros 1, Cubs 0 Joe Niekro hurled a four-hit ter and Bob Watson’s fourth-in ning double drove home Cesar Cedeno with the only run of the game as Houston blanked Chi cago. The victory snapped Hous ton’s four-game losing streak as the Cubs maintained their two game lead over second-place California 6-5 in 10 innings, Detroit beat Texas 13-6, Min nesota downed Cleveland 3-1 and Milwaukee defeated To ronto 7-3. Yanks 4, A’a 0 Rookie left-hander Ron Guid ry, 8-5, pitched no-hit ball until the fifth inning and, with relief help from Sparky Lyle, held Oakland to five hits in the Yan kees’ victory. Cliff Johnson homered in the sixth off losing pitcher Pablo Torrealba, 3-2, and Graig Net tles smacked his 24th homer of the season off reliever Doug Bair in the eight. Willie Randolph doubled and * > F r x 1 ■ ■ 'siiß |b>. 9 it South of the border Julius “Dr. J.” Erring of the Philadelphia 7«ers gets an assist from John “Hondo” Havlicek of the Boston Celtics as he lit up a cigarillo at poolside at a hotel in Acapulco, Mexico. The two were on an off-season visit south of the border. (AP) We Like C/ 1 To Talk Insurance - Come See 11$. 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Giants 7, Phillies 0 Willie McCovey slammed a home run and drove in three runs and Jim Barr scattered eight hits to post his second straight shutout, leading San Francisco over Philadelphia. Barr, who blanked Montreal Sunday, struck out three and walked two. Barr now has pitched 19 consecutive scoreless innings. scored on Thurman Munson’s single in the first and tripled and scored on Mickey Rivers’ infield hit in the ninth. Lyle earned his 16th save when he came in with two out and the bases loaded in the ninth to strike out pinch hitter Rodney Scott. Orioles 5, Mariners 4 Lee May hit his 16th home run of the season, a two-run shot in the top of the ninth, to pace the Orioles. Eddie Murray led off the ninth with a walk off loser Mike Kekich, 5-2, and May hit the next pitch into the left-field seats. Lee Stanton’s two-run homer inning and Gilbreath collected his fourth in the seventh. Tanner called Burroughs “a strong, capable hitter, but the guy who did the job out there tonight was Niekro.” Niekro said he threw only one slider and a couple of fast balls during the game—the rest knucklers. It was a fast ball that set up the first Pirate run, a triple to center by Frank Ta veras, who then scored on a wild pitch in the first inning. Duffy Dyer singled home a Pirate run in the fourth and an other crossed in the ninth on consecutive doubles by Rennie Stennett and Moreno. The Giants gave Barr aU the runs he needed in the second when Jack Clark tripled as left fielder Greg Luzinski lost his fly ball in the lights. McCovey then hit his home run over the right field fence. Mets 4, Padres 1 Felix Millan hit a two-run, bases-loaded single in the sev enth inning to spark New York over San Diego. The victory went to Mets starter Jerry Koosman, who struck out eight in seven innings of work, raising his season total to 13-7, second best in the National League. Koosman allowed only two hits and two walks. off Dick Drago, 4-3, had given the Mariners a 4-3 lead in the bottom of the eighth. Bill Stein also homered for Seattle. Red Sox 6, Angels 5 Bernie Carbo led off the 10th inning with a home run, and Bill Campbell, 10-7, picked up the victory in relief. With 17 saves, Campbell now has been directly involved in 27 of Boston’s 56 victories. Danny Goodwin hit his first major league home run off Fer guson Jenkins in California’s three-run seventh inning, and Jerry Remy tied it 5-5 with an RBI single off Campbell.
