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Sutton’s one-hitter
defeats Giants, 7-0
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Don
Sutton doesn’t have the reputa
tion of a Don Drysdale or a
Sandy Koufax but the numbers
show that the 32-year-old Los
Angeles right-hander is one of
the finest pitchers in Dodger
history.
One thing Sutton hasn’t done
during his outstanding career is
pitch a no-hitter. He just missed
accomplishing that feat
Thursday afternoon but even so
his name entered the record
book.
Sports
roundup
Golf
North eagles final hole
HARRISON, N.Y. — Andy North eagled his final hole
for a five-under-par 66 and tied veteran Miller Barber for
the first-round lead in the >300,000 Westchester Golf
Classic. Tied at 67 were former Masters winner Charles
Coody, Howard Twitty, Tom Jenkins and Grier Jones.
U.S. wins in Double Diamond
GLENEAGLES, Scotland — The United States opened
the Double Diamond World Golf Classic with a 3-1 victory
over Europe led by Danny Edwards, Lee Trevino and
Jerry Pate.
Soccer
Beckenbauer voted MVP
NEW YORK — Cosmos midfielder Franz Beckenbauer
has been voted the most valuable player in the North
American Soccer League. The captain and outstanding
performer for the West German World Cup champions in
1974, drew 282 votes to narrowly top teammate Pele who
was last season’s MVP.
Basketball
U.S. team posts win
SOFIA, Belgium — Darrell Griffith and Freeman
Williams combined for 38 points as the U.S. basketball
team whipped Belgium 136-57 in the World University
Games. In women’s action, Carol Blazejowski, America’s
top woman collegiate scorer last year, scored 27 points
and Gail Marquis added 18 to defeat Hungary 76-66.
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Sutton, 11-7, allowed only one
hit — Marc Hill’s clean single
with two out in the eighth inning
— as the Dodgers whipped the
San Francisco Giants 7-0 and
raised their lead in the National
League West to 12 games over
idle Cincinnati.
The one-hitter, in which he
walked four and fanned five,
was the fifth of Sutton’s career,
tying the NL record. The
triumph raised Sutton’s career
mark to 187-143 and tied him
with Drysdale for the Los An-
geles team record for victories.
In addition, it was the 46th
shutout of Sutton’s career, tops
among active major league
pitchers.
“I couldn’t remember every
pitch I made, but the numbers
on the scoreboard kept me
abreast of what was going on,”
said Sutton, who broke a four
game losing streak with his first
victory July 4. “I definitely
knew I was pitching a nohitter.
In fact, I even joked about it
with some of the guys in the
dugout during the game. There
were some great plays behind
me that kept it going.”
In the only other NL contests,
the Philadelphia Phillies
downed the Montreal Expos 8-3
and the Pittsburgh Pirates
edged the Chicago Cubs 7-6.
The only other NL pitchers
with five one-hitters are Tom
Seaver, Mordecai Brown, Gro
ver Alexander and Jim Malo
ney.
Dave Lopes staked the Dodg
ers to a 3-0 lead in the second
inning with a three-run homer
off Jim Barr and Reggie Smith
hit his 22nd homer in the third.
Phillies 8, Expos 3
Richie Hebner socked his first
major league grand slam
homer in the fifth inning to
erase a 3-2 Montreal lead. Heb
ner, who grounded out and
fouled out with runners in scor
ing position earlier, smashed
ex-Phillie Wayne Twitchell’s
first pitch into the right field
stands for his 14th home run of
the season.
Bake Mcbride also homered
for the Phils while Jim Lonborg
limited Montreal to five hits and
also drilled a run-scoring single.
Andre Dawson hit a three-run
homer for Montreal.
Pirates 7, Cubs 6
Al Oliver, Dave Parker, Phil
Gamer and Bill Robinson all
smashed home runs into a 17-
mile-an-hour wind. Three of the
homers came off loser Ray
Burris while Robinson’s was hit
off Pete Broberg.
The Cubs jumped to a 2-0 lead
against winner Jerry Reuss in
the first inning but Oliver
homered in the second, Parker
tied the game by leading off the
fourth with his homer and the
Pirates went ahead to stay with
three runs in the fifth.
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Don Sutton is shown in action Thursday as
he pitched a one-hit shutout against the San Francisco Giants, his fifth this season. The
Dodgers beat the Giants 7-0. (AP)
Only killer baseball
in majors still exist
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The
only killer baseball in major
league history is still in exis
tence, 57 years after it took the
life of a Cleveland Indians
shortstop.
Bob Curley, an editor for the
Orlando Sentinel Star, keeps it
locked in a cabinet in his home.
The scuffed and slightly tom
ball has been bad news twice.
The ball which killed Ray
mond Johnson Chapman 57
years ago was given to Curley,
then a sports writer, by one of
the players who took part in the
game.
Chapman, shortstop for the
Cleveland Indians, was struck
in the temple by a pitch thrown
by Carl William Mays of the
New York Yankees Aug. 17,
1920, at the New York Polo
Grounds.
Curley reported that Cleve-
t Sports World
An AP Sports Analysis
By WILL GRIMSLEY
AP Special Correspondent
Fairway maverick
Mothers, don’t be bamboozled by all the glamour,
glitter and gold that seems to surround the pro golf tour.
Be smart. Send your kid to college for a degree to be a
doctor or a lawyer.
That is the advice of Dave Hill, the game’s outspoken
rugged individualist who is wondering what became of
that first million dollars of tournament prize money.
“I have two sons, David, 17, and Robert, 15, and I think
I’d break their legs if they got serious about following the
profession of the old man,” says the wiry, dark-haired
firebrand. “Except for four or five guys — Jack Nicklaus,
Tom Watson, Gary Player and a couple of others — it’s a
terrible way of making a living.
“It’s boring. It’s back-breaking work. It destroys family
life. I have been on the tour 10 years. I have what most
people would call moderate success. I have grossed more
than $1 million in earnings and generally make better
than SIOO,OOO a year.
“But I find myself struggling to make expenses. If I
follow the tour on a regular scale, play 30 tournaments,
say, it costs me $40,000.
“That’s the reason I’ve decided to cut my schedule to 15
or 20 events. I am not socking away that much dough. I am
becoming a slave of the tour ... grind, grind, grind.”
Winner of 13 tour tournaments, member of two Ryder
Cup teams and 1969 Vardon Trophy winner for the lowest
scoring average, Hill is sitting out the $300,000 West
chester Classic this weekend.
He is using the break to promote his controversial book,
“Teed Off,” which not only is enjoying good sales and
rave reviews but is touching some tender nerves in the
golf establishment.
Among other things, he contends the $9 million pro tour
is run “like a kid’s lemonade stand;” superstars such as
Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer are given preferential treat
ment; efforts are made to stereotype competitors by
bleeding them of any individuality; the sport is tainted by
occasional, unadmitted cheating, and rigid rules have
promoted wholesale deception and lying.
“If I had my life to do over again, I would go to college
and get a degree,” Hill said.
land centerfielder Chuck
Jamieson put the ball in his
back pocket after it struck
Chapman. He said Jamieson
gave him the ball 27 years ago.
Jamieson died in 1969.
Curley says he placed it tem
porarily in the glove com
partment of his car. He was
then a coach at St. Luke High in
Ho Ho Kus, N.J.
The next day, a group of his
players discovered it and used it
in infield practice, the first time
it had been used since striking
Chapman.
Curley says a comparatively
soft bouncer was hit to the third
baseman. As he reached for it,
it took a bad hop and hit him on
the right eye, shattering his
cheekbone.
After that the ball was put
away for good, Curley says.
“It rarely sees the light of
day, and I confine it to a plastic
bag in a locked cabinet in
Casselberry,” Curley wrote.
“I’m always fearful that the
ball might roll out and that
someone will slip on it and
break his neck.”
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Leonard’s slider
blanks Indians
By HERSCHEL NISSENSON
AP Sports Writer
Now that Dennis Leonard’s
slider is finally sliding, the
Kansas City Royals aren’t.
Instead, the Royals have
come alive after a so-so first
half and are part of a torrid
four-team race as they attempt
to defend their title in the
American League West.
Leonard hurled a four-hitter
for his seventh victory in his
last eight decisions Thursday
night and boosted his record to
13-10 as the Royals blanked the
Cleveland Indians 4-0. The hard
throwing right-hander walked
one, struck out six and allowed
only three runners to reach
second base.
Leonard was struggling along
at 3-8 and the Royals were
struggling with him when Man
ager Whitey Herzog told him to
make the slider a large part of
his repertoire following a 10-1
battering in Boston on May 27.
“As soon as he started throw
ing the slider it gave him better
command of his curve ball,”
Herzog said. “When he started
throwing the slider it was the
turning point in the season for
him.”
Perhaps for the Royals, too.
Elsewhere, the Boston Red
Sox whipped the Milwaukee
Brewers 8-4, the New York
Yankees edged the Detroit Ti
gers 5-4, the Texas Rangers
trounced the Toronto Blue Jays
8-0 and the Minnesota Twins
trimmed the Seattle Mariners 8-
2.
The Royals wasted no time in
giving Leonard all the support
he needed when Tom Poquette
led off the game with a double
off Wayne Garland and Hal
Mcßae tripled. Mcßae contin
ued home when shortstop Lar
vell Blanks threw the relay into
the stands.
Red Sox 8, Brewers 4
George Scott drilled four hits,
including a pair of two-run sin
gles, and scored twice to lead
Boston to its 17th victory in 19
games. Ferguson Jenkins was
tagged for six hits and four runs
in the first two innings and then
allowed just three hits the rest
of the way, retiring 16 batters in
a row during one stretch.
Yankees 5, Tigers 4
Mickey Rivers put New York
ahead with a two-run single in
the seventh inning and then
scored what proved to be the
winning run on Lou Piniella’s
single. Jason Thompson’s tre
mendous two-run blast, only the
14th homer ever hit over the Ti
ger Stadium roof and the first in
eight years, had given Detroit a
3-2 lead in the sixth against
winner Catfish Hunter.
Rangers 8, Blue Jays 0
Dock Ellis shackled Toronto
on three hits and Toby Harrah
and Bump Wills slammed home
runs to keep the Rangers in first
place in the AL West by one-half
game over Minnesota and
Chicago. Eliis retired 18 batters
in a row over one stretch as the
Rangers rolled to their 30th
victory in the last 39 games.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our
sincere thanks to the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital
nurses and staff for their
kindness during the illness
and passing of Mr. George
(Boy) Bryant. Our thanks to
Dr. Releford, Antioch
Baptish Church, Rising Star
Baptist Church and Pomona
Products. Also a special
thanks to friends and
relatives for the cards and
flowers and every kindness
extended to us during that
time.
Thank You
Wife - Mrs. Sallie Bryant
The Cody Family and Other
Relatives