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PAGE 1Z-UNIONTOWN, TUESDAY, MAY 16, J967 Reds Beat Clemente In Late Game Rally THE MORNING HERALD TilB EVENING STANDARD CINCINNATI (AP) Tony Perez 1 run-scoring double in Ihe 10th inning lifted the Cincinnati Reds to an 8-7 comeback victory over Pittsburgh Monday night despite Roberto Clcmente's three homers and a double which drove in all the Pirate runs. Tommy Harper led off the 10th with a single off reliever Juan Pizarro. One out later, Pete Rose forced Harper at second. Perez then doubled off the center field wall for his fourth hit in the game as Rose raced home with Ihe winning run. The victory halted Pittsburgh's three-game winning string a moved National League-leading Cincinnati three games ahead of the second- place Pirates.

Clemente, who lashed two-run SPORTS STANDARD By TOD TRENT Herald-Standard Sports Editor In baseball there's little or no sentiment. At least that's what some would have you believe. But don't you believe it. Mickey Mantle's 500th home run is a case in point. None of the great players of the national pastime and Mickey must certainly be numbered among the greats has had to overcome- more personal handicaps than the Yankee strongboy.

It's been said and mitten that he risks an injury that could permanently cripple him every time he walks onto the ball field. Yet it has not deterred him from continuing to play the game that made him famous. There are many observers of Ihe grand old game who feel he could have challenged most of fte slugging records of the game had he been able to play on strong underpinnings. The fact that he blasted homer No. 500 Sunday to become only the sixth player in the history of the game to reach that plateau is, in itself, mule evidence of the remarkability of his accomplishment.

Only those who have been closest to Mickey and the Yankees through the years can really understand the injuries and pain he has had to overcome lo reach this milestone. That's why we got a big kick out of reading about the roaring greeting the better than 18,000 at Yankee Stadium gave him when the ball sailed into the seats. It had to he a thrill for the Oklahoma native he admitted after the game that his double error which enabled Baltimore to close ground resulted because he was still in a fog from the ovation, not only when he circled the bases but when he went to his first base position at the end of the inning. Since tjlickey has been a Yankee throughout his career it was poetic that he should hit the 500th at home. But it didn't keep the fans in California from pulling for him throughout the series with the Angels last week.

Jerry Coleman and Phil Rizzuto, former Mantle teammates now doing the play-by-play broadcasting, remarked several times during the course of those games about how the Angel fans were actually rooting for Mickey every time he came to the plate. Once when an Angel pitcher worked too carefully, he was booed by the home fans when he issued a base on balls to him. It was a new experience for the Yankees who are used to hearing nothing bul boos away from the home park. Of the five players who preceded him into the 500 home run club, three Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Mel Ott hit left- handed and the other two Willie Mays and Jimmy Foxx were righthanded swingers. Posterity will remember Mantle as the greatest switch hitter in the game's history.

Right or left few in the game have been able to slap the ball with greater velocity. If you haven't heard Waynesburg College football coach Carl DePasqua has to rank as the district's busiest off-season grid mentor as coach of the defending NAIA champions he's in demand on the banquet circuit--he's to be the main speaker Thursday night at Beth Center's all-sports fete Waynesburg College golfer Jess Romer finished second in the individual competition with a 75 in the West Penn Conderence Tournament although the Jackets would up sixth in the field behind champion Grove City Colgate has signed up two Monessen High School football products for September delivery halfback Ed Bass and tackle Tim Foster Waynesburg scored ZK'A points to take fourth place in the West Penn Conference Track and Field championships Grove City's ill points gave it the team crown California State lost a pair of tight pitcher's battles, 2-1 and 1-0, to Indiana State Jefferson's Keith Haney collected two of California's three hits and knocked in the lone run it scored in the opener of the twinbill Brownsville's Don Law starled at middle guard on the first defensive unit as Michigan State wrapped up spring football drills on the weekend. Washington anrl Jefferson dropped a 3-1 Presidents Athletic Conference baseball game lo Thiel hul Beth-Center's Fran Ostovic came up wilh two of the seven Prexie safeties The 60th annual VfPIAL track and field championships nt Penn Hills High School Stadium Saturday could he the record hreakingcsl in history seven WPIAI, marks have been topped in metis staged earlier this season Center's Ed Seese is one of those with a good shot at a new mark--he's topped 13 fed, 9 inches, which is a quarter of an Inch bctler than the WPIAL Meet mark Two Pennsylvania champions, Philadelphian George Locked and Sharon Hill's Ed LnBclle. will he competitors in the American Assn. for Motorcycle Road Racing scheduled next month at the North Carolina Motor Speedway in Rocklngham-lhe first motorcycle roari race in the slate's history Nipped 5-4 in (heir first meeting, Point Park has its sights set on a victory over Ihe rJuqucsnc baseball team when they play their second game next Monday The major league record for striking out Ihe most times In a season belongs to Dave Nicholson who fanned 175 limes with the White Sox In 1S63 Last month against Minnesota, Frank Howard ol the Senators socked a home run which cleared Ihe aisle running through the middle of (lie upper deck nl D.

C. Stadium It was the first ever to rcneh that portion of Uic stadium. Washington Defends Team Title Uniontown Invitational Draws 7 homers in the first and fifth innings and drilled a two-run double in Ihe seventh, sent the Pirates ahead 7-5 in the ninth with a bases-empty blast. But the Reds tied Ihe score in the bottom of the ninth when Perez singled with one out off Pizarro and Lee May followed with a two-run homer into the right field seats. Clemente's first two homers both into the right field seats off Reds' starter Milt Pappas -staked left-hander Bob Veale to a 4-0 lead.

But the unbeaten Venle, bidding to become the majors' first six-game winner, was knocked out in Hie sixth when the Reds struck for three runs. Pirates came back for Iwo runs in the seventh on two walks and Clemente's double off the left-center field Scoreboard. A walk, Perez' run-scoring double and an RBI single by May closed the gap to 6-5 in the Reds' seventh, bul Clemente unlonded his sixth homer of the season in the ninth. CJemente, with four hits in five at-bats. raised his hatting average to .390 while Inking the league RBI lead with 24.

He is the first player in the majors to drive in seven runs in a game this year. The Pirates took a 2-0 lead against Pappas when Matty Alou led off the first inning with a single, Maury Wills forced him at second and Clemenle homered. With two out in Ihe fifth, second baseman Chico Ruiz booted Wills grounder and Clemente followed with another two-run shot. Veale struck out five Reds in the first four innings and did not allow a ball to get out of the infield. Leo Cardenas, leading off the fifth, singled to left for the first Cincinnati hit and the Reds chased the tall left-hander in the sixth.

Singles by Pete Rose. Perez and May produced the first run and The 1967 Unionlown High School Invitational Track and Field Meet, with seven teams in the competition, comes off at Uniontown Stadium today. Only one change has been made from last year's seven team field which find Washington High School returning to defend its team title. The powerful Prexies are given a good chance of keeping that crown but not by any margin like they did a year ago. Washington scored 99 points in winning a year ago to more than double the point total of second place Unionlown.

a McMillan, i McKeesport, Redstone a Connellsville followed in that order. This year Connellsvitle could be the team to give Washington the toughest fight for the title. The Falcons were undefeated in regular season competition. With i and Redstone having merged into Ihe Brownsville Area District the seven team field was continued by bringnig in Laurel Highlands Six records tumbled in last year's meet two in the run- BIG- MAN FOR THE PIRATES-Outfielder Don Pavlehch sacrifice Roberto Clemente (21) is greeted bv third base- fly after a wild pitch by Veale sent another across. man Maury Wills, who was on base when mentc hit a homer in the first inning against The third run scored as Bill Cincinnati last night, Ctemente homered, again Mazeroski made a brilliant on Ruiz' grounder and threw' him out.

When Cardenas followed with a single. Pete Mikkelsen replaced Veale. PITTSBURGH CINCINNATI with Wills on base, in the fifth inning, then doubled with Wills and pitcher Pete Mikkelsen on base and then capped his night's work with a sole homer in the nintli frame. --A I' Wire photo ning events, two in field events and two in relays. Two of the individual winners will be back tonight, not only to seek another win for the second time but to belter their standards.

They are Brownsville's Ron Murray in Ihe triple jump which he set last year for Redstone, a a i John Buchanan in the two-mile run. Washington romped to its victory a year ago by winning eight events. No other team won more than three. Depth too figured in it for Ihe Prexies who were blanked in just one event. Uniontown Athletic Director Bill Power announced that trials in the running events are to begin at 5 this afternoon with the finals to get under way at (i.

Here are the Uniontown Invitational record holders: 100 Bo Scott, Connellsville (1961) and Roger Kochman, Wilkinsburg (19581. 8.9 220 Dick Crout, Wilkinstnirg (1961) and Kochman (1958). 22.4 440 Bob Turpin, Uniontown 51.3 880 Joe Thomas, Uniontown (I960). 1:58.9 Mile Thomas (1960). 4:28.8 2 mile John Buchanan, Washington (1966).

10:10.6 120 high hurdles Jerry Wise, Wilkinsburg I10B1) and Curt Fellon, Greensburg (1955). 14.7 140 low hurdles Merion Greene, Greensburg (1955). 15.1 880 relay McKeesport (19651. 1:31 Mile relay Washington (1966). 3:30.6 2 mile relay Connellsville (19C6).

8:29.1 Broad jump Fellon (1955) 21 feet, 10'i inches High Maurice Moon Connellsville (1961). 6 feet, 3 i inch Discus Bill Lcvine. Union town (1965). 149 feet, 7 2 inches Javelin Bill Schmidt Canon-McMillan (1965). 204 feet, 4 inches ab bl ab bl MAIoti cf 5 0 1 0 Harper rf 4 0 1 0 Mota cf 0 0 0 0 Pinson cf 6 0 0 Wills 3D 4 3 0 0 Rose If 5 3 1 0 Clemente rf 5 3 4 7 Perei 3b 3 4 2 11 0 0 0 LMay Ib 4 2 3 Mazroski 2b 4 0 1 0 Pavlelkh 3 0 0 1 Clndenon Ib 5 0 1 0 ArriKo 1 0 1 0 Alley ss 5 0 1 0 Ruiz 3 0 0 1 Paglaroni 3 0 0 0 Stiamsky If 2 0 1 0 Veale Mlkkelm McBean Piiarro 3 0 0 0 Snamsky If 2 0 0 0 Cardenas 4 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 Pappas 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Simpson ph 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nottebart 0 0 0 0 Cofcer Jh 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Edwards 1 0 0 0 Total Two Pittsburgh Cincinnati 39 7 8 7 Total 41 3 13 uinning run 2 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 1 -0 0 0 0 .1 2 0 2 1-- E--Majeroski, Perez.

DP--Pittsburgh 1. LOR-- Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 12. 211-- Cleroente, Perez (2). Shamsky, Arrigo. HR--Clemente 3 (3) SB- Wills, Cardenas.

SF-Pavlplich. IP ER RB SO Vrale Mikkelsen Pizarro IL.3'21 N'ottebart D.Osteen IW.3J)) 1 2 2 1 0 "I beat him before and I can a am was Tiger's com- menl on the reported Q-5 odds 0 1 1 1 2 0 4 0 0 3 1 WP VeaJe f2, Arrigo. BALK -Vcate. T- 3:18. A 5,222.

Qualifiers In Class Beth-Center's Ed Seese and a Waynesburg's Paul Wright led district high school qualifiers in the Class B. Qualifying Meet held at Cnartiers-Houston. Sccse won the pole vault, Yesenosky the two-mile run and Wright was first in the javelin. The first six finishers in each event qualified for this week's Class WPIAL title meet at Mt. Lebanon Friday.

The winner of each event and district qualifiers follow: 100--Saracco, Brrntwood. 10.6 220 Fisher. West i i South T. 23 4 4iO--Brown. Coraopolis.

2: 4Q i fff a Coraonolls; Bednar. WayneshurfT. i 2:05 Mile--Edwards, Coraopolis: Smalley. Beth-Center, sixth. 4:12 2 rnilc--YCKOnnsky, Beth-Center; a Beth-Center, fourth.

T- hurdles--Wilson. Turtle Creek: i Wayneshurg, sixth. in 1B6 hurdles--Broxv-n, Coraopolis, T. 21.6 880 relay--Brentwood. Wayneshurff slxth.

1:37.1 Mile relay- Coraripolis, burg sixth. 3:34.5 Waynes- 2 mile relay-Upper St. Clair. a i Wright. a i Waynesburg.

second; Joseph. Wayne.shurg. sixth. 174 feet. inches Pole vault--Seese, Beth-Center, i Carnnhell.

Bcth.Cenlcr. i I 12 feel. 6 Inches Shotput--Koplec, Chart krs-Hous- lon. feet, 3 Inches Discus--Kopiec, Charllcrs.Houstnn, 145 feet 9. Inches Firond jump--McGregor, IJgonlcr Valley; Adams, Wayncshurg, i I): 20 feel, lO'i inches Triple Turtle Creek; Brooks, Jefferson-Morgan, second; Jefferson-Morgan, fourth.

40 feel. 11 Inches. IN MORE GAMES Up lo the start of the 1966 season, Lou Groza, placckicker for the Cleveland Browns football team, had played in more NFL games than any other player--IBB. Jose Torres Given Pick To Dethrone Dick Tiger By JACK HANI) NEW YORK A Dick Tiger, an upset winner of the world light heavyweight boxing title in December, finds himself in the old familiar role of underdog again when he meets Jose Torres in a remafch Tuesday night at Garden. Madison Square favoring Torres, the Puerto Rican-born New Yorker.

"I'll knock his brains out," said Torres. "I knock him out within 10 rounds. I'll definitely quit if I lose. I might even quit if I win." The 15-round match will be carried on a national television network of Madison Square Garden-RKO General Presentations but York will be blacked out. Umpire Not Ham, 'Just A Natural' NEW YORK (AP) Emmett Littleton Ashford, the American League umpire who makes every decision a Broadway production, insists he's not a television ham he just does what comes naturally.

"I've been working this way every since I started 16 years ago," the 48-year-old Californian said Monday, "I guess you'd just call it a God-given talent." He doesn't deny he has color. 'Two ways," he says, wilh an amused wink. He refers to the color of his skin, which is black he is the first and only Negro umpire in the majors and to his field technique which has been conservatively described as "flamboyant" and "exuberant." When he calls a man out on base, his voice booms like a cannon and his gestures would shame the Barrymores. There's no one in the farthest reaches of the stands who doesn't know whether the man is safe or nut. "There's no use Irying to hide anything," Ashford explained.

"My philosophy in umpiring always has been to let the fans and the players know what's going on. An umpire can't afford to be wishy-washy. He must be firm and definite." Baseball people concede that Ihe Negro has an unusual flair bul the consensus is that he is not obnoxious that he is not strictly a show boat and hus- tlingcst blue coats in the game. Ashford often pirouettes like a ballet dancer, spins and pivots like a broken-field halfback and back-peddles like a Keystone cop on a berserk movie screen, bul he has a rare knack for always being where Ihe play is, Ashford, a resident of Los An- gele's, married but without children, quit a good job in the payroll and finance department of Ihe Los Angeles Post Office to begin umpiring in the Pacific Coast League in 1951. He was called up by the American League in September, 1965.

Coolspring Standings EAST W. Lemonl 2 Hopwood 1 Dunbar 0 Lebanese WEST Belle Vernon VFW 0 W. 2 1 Gallalin 0 Xaloy 0 Schedule this week: Tonight--Dunbar vs Hopwood; Gallalin vs Belle Vernon. Wednesday VFW vs Lebanese; Lemont vs Xaloy. Thursday vs Dunbar; Belle Vernon vs Lemont.

Friday --Xaloy vs Lebanese; Hopwood vs Gallatin. Teener Meeting A meeting of Uniontown Teener League baseball managers is slated for 6 p.m. Wednesday at lially Park. Supervisor Toddy Howard says Important matters pertaining to (he loop this will he discussed. In cnsc of rain (he session will he held Friday at the same time.

Fight lime is 10 p.m. EDT. In this era of multiple rematches and fighters whn shift back and forth from division to division, the bout will be the eighth championship bout for Tiger and the sixth for Torres. Tiger, a sturdy Nigerian who has been boxing as a pro since wan the middleweight crown in 1962, defended it twice successfully, lost it to Ciiardollo, on it back from Giardello and lost it again to Emile Griffith. The poker-faced veteran then moved up lo the light heavy class and won over Torres, Dec.

16, on a a i decision. Torres won the light heavy title from Willie Pastrann in 1965 but was inactive for 1C months because of an attack pancreatitis. He had risked hi crown successfully agains Wayne Thornton, Eddie Cotton and Chic Caldenvood before hi lost to Tiger. He had gone int the first Tiger match a 3-1 fa vorite. A the December bout Torres was placed on the and unavailable list" brieflv because of his "recent past his lory of relapsing pancreatitis.

However, doctors of the New York State Athletic Commission have examined Jose and found him fit for battle. He expects to come in at close to 175 pounds, the class limit, while Tiger probably will weigh about 1156. Sholput Don a irownsvlilc (19C6). 51 feet, 6 inches Pole vault Dave Morrison, Redstone (1966). 12 feet, 2 nches Triple jump Ron Murray, ledstone (1966).

40 feel, 11 nches istol Praises Bench By HAROLD HARRISON CINCINNATI (API- '1 always said we had a good bench and his proves i That was Ihe comment Monday from Cincinnati Reds' Manager Dave Bristol as he looked over Hie National League sland- ngs. showed his Reds still first place despite the fact two of his lop hitlers have been out of. the lineup for a week and a third one missed two full games. Urislol still doesn't know when third baseman Deron Jolmson and second baseman Tommy Helms will be back. "Il's a day-to-day proposition; just have to see what the doctor says," Bristol said.

Johnson was hitting .296 wilh seven home runs and 20 runs hatted in when he pulled a hamstring muscle. Helms, (he rookie-of-thc-year, was hitting with 7 RBI when he suffered a toe fracture. Both injuries occurred in the same game at Atlanta a week ago. Then center fielder Vada Pinson suffered a leg injury and missed two games last week. He was hilling .307 at the time.

He got back in as a pinch hiiler Saturday and returned to full-time duty Sunday, To fill the other gaps, Bristol has used Chico Ruiz at second base and Tony Perez was shifted from first to third with Lee May taking over at first. Ruiz hasn't been tearing the cover off the ball but he has beet! brilliant in the field. Perez playing out of his normal position has had 7 nils in 27 times at bal through Sunday, has had two home runs and driven In six runs in the week. Floyd Robinson was two-for- fivo filling in part time for Pinson with a key triple. "Everybody has been doing his job." said Bristol.

"I have told everyone on the club to he mentally and physically ready because they might have to play and they have done i The Rods have won four of seven since Johnson and Helms were knocked out of action. They won both of the games in which Pinson was unable to play. by Frank Beard Written for Newspaper Enterprise Assn. Because tlicre are two kinds of golf clubs, woods and irons, there are also two kinds of swings required, as well as two different outlooks in what you can expect from each club. Irons in general are used for control and arc never used for power or distance.

This is an elementary idea, but must he clearly understood before any success can be expected with your irons. The biggest reason for a poor iron shot is overswinging or trying for too much distance. The iron is a delicate tool -even the long iron. They are used to xero in on the flag stick, and accuracy is all that mailers. An iron shot is slruck with a descending blow, as opposed lo woods, which are hit on the upswing.

This basic difference in Ihe swings is how Ihe two clubs differ in their results. Because the woods arc hit on the upswing, there is nothing hut overspin imparted hence Ihe long distance thai results, but sometimes with loss of conlrol. However, because Ihe irons are hil on the downswing, Ihe ball gets considerable backspin, Ihe key lo consistent control. This difference in swings and technique must he kept in mind at all times. The thing to remember about good iron play is never under any circumstances to exert yourself wilh an iron.

Always take enough club and swing within yourself. The primary end of an iron shot is control and accuracy to the pin leave the power and distance to your woods. Maintain backspin with your iron shot and maintain control. (NEXT: Short Irons.) you Coaches Assn. Golf Tourney Moves Along Compclilion Is continuing In the second a a Fayettc County Coaches Assn.

golf tournament at Springdale Golf Course. Tourney director Matt Waskn said the inclement weather has caused the easing of some of the deadline rules. Deadline for completing first round play has been extended until Wednesday of this week. Wasko said that any player thai has completed first round play should move on to second action as soon as possible. All three rounds including the championship round must he completed prior to the annual Coaches Banquet on June 3.

According to Wasko I weather has caused a few openings in first round action in the flight (high handicap). Anyone wishing to enter the event should contact him at Brownsville Area High School, call him at 7nT.r8!r or altcnd the Coaches meeting at the Lebanese Club at 8 p.m. Wednesday. First round action completed include: First flight--Wasko over Tony Polink, John Katusa over Sibby Ixinigro, Steve Polink over Dick Majcrnik. Still to he played Sam Bill vs.

John Rohha. Second flight Frank Ptak over Joe Rosndy, Bob Perry over Mike Ujick, Pole Belch over Chuck Kelly, Francis DoCarlo over K. W. Richards. Still to he played--John DePasquale vs.

Max Zann; John Grufgowski vs. Paul Polink, Joe Menarcheck vs. Bill Fronczek, Jim Shaner vs, Norm Pcrrettl, Jim Cunningham vs. Lou De- simpne, Len Golemblcski vs. Skip Harbaugh..