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Reds With Fatten Averages 17-2 Explosion By this time Jim Panther was in the gam" and he managed to get his only out when Tolan Hied to left, Perez scoring. Say you want more, eh? Wed. Geronimo singled, Darrell Chaney did likewise and another run was in. Boos were everywhere. Now it was up to starting pitcher Don Gullett.

He singled, another run scored. Rose, somehow hit less to this point, then doubled and two more runs: scored. Up stepped Morgan. Another double, the linal run and exit Panther. Danny Krisella came on to fan Driessen and the Inning ended.

-V' 0 I 7 REDS' second baseman is Perez on attempted theft A threw, Tolan ht-aded There was no play as the throw went into cen'er-field. What happened the next Inning almost defies description. The Reds went into the fourth leading, 4-0, and they came out with a believe it net 13-0 lead. Nine runs in the inning. Picture this: Tlic Reds sent 13 men to the Seven hit safely.

Three After three and half innings every Red owned a hit and had scored a run. Eight had driven in runs. Walks to Pete Rose and Morgan got It started. Driessen followed with his third single cf the game and one run was in. Perez hit a high chopper to Darrell Evans at third, ruled an infield hit, and two more runs scored as Evans threw the hall into the right-field corner.

Perez wound up at third. AP W'fephon Rarity: Joe Morgan Caught Stealing Braves, and one of the few times this year or last Morgan has been nabbed on the basepaths. 'Roohie SlufP Out OS Watson's System Gift To Bengals Looking Up By BOB IIERTZEL Enquirer Sports Reporter ATLANTA The Cincinnati Reds exploded for nine runs In the fourth inning as they rode to their biggest victory of the season, 17-2, over the Atlanta Braves while Don Oullett hurled a four-hitter. After the first three games in the- series things started calmly. But then again a hurricane would have seemed calm after watching the two teams combine for 58 runs, 80 hits and 14 homers in the first three games.

They actually played two Innings of scoreless ball before the dam broke and when it did it broke in classic fashion, the Reds exploding for four runs in the third against starter Rorlc Harrison. Joe Morgan was the first to reach base In the in-ninc. drawing a one-out walk. Moments later he was at third as Danny they give me a tryout. That's how I came to rookie camp last year." Watson oozes confidence.

"I feel real good, and I've got all that rookie stuff out of my system," he says. "My wife is here In Ohio with me now and that makes a big differ- autographs. But who ever heard of Darrell Evans? "I think at least the pitchers in the league know who I am," he grinned. Indeed they do. They know because he continues to leave an impression on them.

And what an impression. He may just be the first man ever to lead the National League in home runs and runs batted in and to be known only In scouting reports. Darrell Evans owned SI home runs for 1973 before Thursday i 's game. That was enough to tie him with Willie Stargell for the league lead. 1 1 1 1 August 3.

1973 31 Driessen drilled a hit-and-run single to right. Tony Perez brought Morgan home with a sacrifice fly to right. That got Johnny Bench to the plate. Unable to do much of anything lately, Bench found himself with a long home run over the centerfield wall. The bases were clear, but not for long as Bobby To-lan drew a walk and then scooted to third on a hit by Cesar Geronimo.

At this point the Reds decided to do some running. Geronimo took off for second and as soon as catcher Paul Casanova nice. I've made the transi-front Tufts to the tion pros. "All I thought of last year was making it. I couldn't think of anything else.

I couldn't relax. Just being In summer camp every day was an accomplishment. I guess I want He also owned 78 runs batted in. That was just one less, prior to Thursday's onslaught, than the total Johnny Bench had to lead the league. Stargell and Bench are known, of course.

But the Atlanta Braves are merely Henry Aaron and company so Darrell Evans goes about his Job in obscurity. To watch Evans hit is to watch the reincarnation of Eddie Mathews, the all-time Boston-Milwaukee-Atlanta great who now manages the Braves. Last year was Darrell 's first full season in the major leagues. He hit 19 home runs. The year be "Bill Walsh (the Bengals' receiver-quarterback coach) is a good friend of my college head coach Rocky Carzo," Watson recited.

"They had coached together when they were on the staff at California. So coach Carzo called coach Walsh and recommended The Man In Aaron's Shadow ed to go home and be a hero, say 'look, I made "I know what 1 can do now, and I'm a pro athlete as opposed to being someone from Tufts trying to make it. Yes. just being from Tufts was like one strike against me in professional football." fore he played 89 games and hit 12 home runs. This year he may hit 45 and lead the league.

It hasn't been easy. Even though he hits In front ot Aaron In the order, he's such a good hitter they often pitch around him. Relieve it or not, Darrell Evans has drawn 82 walks. He's been on base more times than Joe But you know about Morgan. You know about Pete Rose and Bench and Stargell and Bob Gibson and Vida Blue and Steve Carlton and Joe Torre and even that character named Dock Ellis.

Someday you'll know about Darrell Evans, too. There's something in the week on WLW Radio! In Tin Siin Of Iliiiins THERE WILL be a swimming meet here next Monday and Wednesday without Olympic pold medalists or champions from the past Nationals or even a Marlin. Those are swimmers concerned mostly with finlsh-inc first. These swimmers are concerned mostly with finishing. The Red Cross was checkinK around the public schools a while to see how manv of the children there could save their lives in deep water.

It seemed "ii'i of them couldn't. The Kcd Cross was suitably frightened. So was the city and the rerreatim commission and certain businessmen, who ail pot tocet her to do something about it. What they are rioina; Is teaching 5000 Cincinnati kids to swim this summer and the cominc meet is more of a celebration than a contest. Everybody is a winner.

The first phase of the meet will take place Monday at Evanston pool. That's the deep water part. The shallow water competition will be at Lincoln Center pool Wednesday. There will hi individual races and relays, all of them calling for one stroke: freestyle. You rarely hear of a swimmer in trouble going to the butterfly.

THE FREE PROGRAM has been conducted throughout the summer at 51 locations in Cincinnati. Covington, Elmwood Place and Cheviot by Red Cross certified Instructors such as Bill Bachus. Bill is a recent graduate of the University of Dayton headed for the Boston University Law School in the fall. He swam four years at St. Xavicr High, where the quality of competition exceeded that at Fairmount Pool but the satisfaction was the same.

"You teach them to swim without their ever really knowing it." he explains, "kind of on the side." South Fairmount is. according to Bachus. "sort of a rough neighborhood He says: "it's net good to be afraid or anything here. Even the water. We try to turn their competitiveness In the direction of swimming." He has taught sometimes as many as 50 boys and girls at a session, children from six to 14 years of age, some of whom began the lessons very afraid.

"The hardest thing for a lot of them." says Bachus, "is Just sticking their heads in the water." A few of the pupils Bill and the other Instructors acquire can float a little or even swim a bit. "It's really satisfying to us in every case, but we like petting a child who's starting from scratch with no bad habits. "We get these kids swimming and trying to catch up with their friends, then we may mention that their heads are too high or their arms should reach farther or they're not breathing right. It's not like they're being taught, but like they're being helped in the races." THE RACES coming up are long-awaited events brightened by ribbon prizes and tee shirts marked "Super Swim 73 Each pool has its own team, but Bachus confesses, "you don't really care If you win or lose." In order to compete In the deep water swim, one must demonstrate the ability to swim a length, 25 meters, float on his hack and throw a rescue line 10 "Those who fall short in the tests, who can make it perhaps only 20 meters, arc heartbroken," Kill says, "but they just keep at it and they'll be hack next year." This Is the main thing: that everyone has the ability to come back next year. Times will be kept at the meet and Bill Bachus expects some of the age group times will be surprising.

He thinks some class swimmers may come out of this. Maloney Tapped TIKI The feeling the fifth that tUdn't exactly existed in the Braves have their heart in tli? Reds it anymore as added another two runs to pj ahead, 13-0. Perez letl off with a walk and Krisella wild pitched him to second. A double by Tolan, the only Red who didn't have a hit until this point, scored the run. An infield out moved To-'an to third and, when the count went to 2 and 1 on Chaney.

the Braves for seme reason known only to themselves, intentionally walked Darrel. Friscllu obliged again, throwing another wild pitch and Tolan trotted home REDS NOTES-Hai King remains In a hospital in Atlanta undergoing tests and It isn't yet known when the reserve catcher will be released Gary Nclan and Roger Nelson pitch tonight against Hous-tcn as a five-game series cpcr.s at Riverfront Joe Hague's daughter has had the pin she inhaled removed frcm her lung Henry Aarcn left the game after four Innings and didn't get No. 702, even though he had hit Gullett for seven previous home runs. Aaron, In fact, Is 12 for 22 against Gullett in his career. Kilkcn AthU Tost ARCADIA.

Calif. (LTD Lou Eilken, racin? secretary at Hollywood Park, has been appointed to the same post at San'a Anita Park. Eilken was a member of the staff here from 1946 through 1970. He also is director of racing at Del Mar. Cleveland Browns Pittsburgh Steelers Kansas City Chiefs Pittsburgh Steelers Dallas Cowboys Buffalo Bills New York Jets St.

Louis Cardinals Minnesota Vikings Cleveland Browns Houston Oilers rfr brought to you by tnRRert out by Atlanta's Marty in Wednesday's loss to the Jim Maloney 1 I limy Tufts' By DICK FORBES Enquirer Sports Reporter WILMINGTON. Ohio When you grow up on the tough lower east side of Manhattan, play football at enc- of these Eastern prep schools and later at a low picssure but high academic university like Tufts, the path ir.to pro fcotball is difficult. Yet that's the path Pete has followed, and na cr.c in tr.c Bengals' training camp feels he's gcir.g to make this man's football team more than he Watson is on the Bengals' roster for the second year, a 205-pound running1 back who signed as a free last year. He played in tw; mi: cure was put on waivers, and spent mcst if the season cn the taxi team. Everything hapnencd to Pete last year Incluriinc the deaths cf his bid hi In October and his wife's aiar.dmo'hcr a little And there was the trying to make a pro football team.

Part of that pressure included just being a graduate of Tufts in Medfonl, which has never hp-lore produced a player for the National Football ramie, and another part was getting acclimated to trainign camp and living in Ohio. "My wife and I really fircw up last year," Watson icflectcd while waiting for afternoon practice at Cincinnati's Wilmington College training camp Thursday, the clay before the club leaves for Miami and Saturday night's first exhibition game with the Dolphins. Marianne Watson, who now lives In Cincinnati, is expecting the couple's first child in January, an event that Pete Is a 1 I awaiting. "My wife says 'We had all bad things last year, so we'll have the good things this year'," Wats-on remembered, "and she also says 'We had death last year, and life this Practically no one ever grew up in New York City, where there is no high school football, and went in to play in college and later in the pios. How did Watsen manage it? "I spent one year at Stiivvesant High School (noted for its basketball stars) in anticipation or prep school.

1 was enrolled in the New York City Boys Club Educational Program with my brother. "That's how got to prep school Phillips Exeter at Medford, N.H., for three years and that's where I played football." He was a fullback, then a defensive back. There are no athletic scholarships at Tufts, and Watson whose father is a pressor in a dry-cleaning-shop no money for on affluent school like that. Eut he had something else. 'I've always been interested in insurance," he said.

"I've been selling it, really, since I ws a Junior in high school. I had a Kemper Insurance schol-urshtp that grit mo through Tufts," where he was an economics major Willi a minor In insurance. The pros, in 1972, paid no particular attention to Pete Watson, and how he signed on with the Bengals as a free agent is another strange story. mm beer you con stay with. By BOB IIERTZEL Enquirer Sports Reporter ATLANTA He is the supporting actor who should, in all reality, be stealing the show.

He's the shadow walking ahead of the man: the sparring partner knocking out the champion. His middle name should be obscurity. His address, nowhere. He is the young star starting to bloom but the blossoms go unnoticed, overshadowed by the tall redwood tree that towers over his. He is Darrell Evans.

If baseball were a movie, his name in the list of the cast would appear under "others." This cast, you see, has but one star and his name is Aaror, Henry Aaron. At one time Henry Aaron labored in the relative obscurity. He would hit home runs, firlve in runs, steal bases, play de fense. He would do all this and the world wouldn't hear about him. It wouldn't hear about him because the stars were named Mays and Mantle.

But Henry Aaron per-servcred. The years went by, catching up to Mays and Mantle. They didn't catch Aaron and all of a sudden, a stunned world realized Henry Aaron was going to hit more home runs in his career than Babe Ruth. He became a celebrity. Writers from everywhere gathered around him.

Home run followed home run and now he has 701, Just 13 shy of The Babe. Television cameras n-tered on his eveiry move. In a way a shame. As great an achievement as Henry stands to make, It is no greater than the season the obscure, anonymous Darrell Evans Is having. Henry Aaron realizes what his chase of The Babe has done to Darrell Evans.

He knows what Evans is fighting because he once had to fight it himself. The other day he took time out between the ln-t I and the autographs and the cameras to think about it. A cornpas-s 1 a understanding man is Aaron; a marked contrast to the gregarious, fun-loving Babe. "I feel sorry for Darrell," he said. "Here he )s having a great season, hitting home runs, driving In runs, playing a great game and it's getting buried by all this." Darrell Evans says he doesn't mind.

At age 26, he knows he has the glory days ahead of him. He knows that, just as It was with Aaron, his day will come. It will come when Henry Aaron has caught The Babe, passed him and retired. It will come when the shadow of someone else's greatness leaves. "I can't say it bothers me," Darrell Evans said Thursday night before he went out against the Cincinnati Reds.

"Hell, I enjoy reading about Hank, just like everyone else." Of course, it would be nice to be recognized, to be pestered Just a bit for For Reds' Sll li li VVct 7Sunl0 ins f'l I I IJ--J I I 1 rvt t.l sn i-nnoiw Dolph PRE-SEASON-WLW RADIO Aug. 4 Sat. 8:00 PM Aug. 11 Sat. 8:00 PM Aug.

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23 Sun. 1:00 PM Houston Oilers Sept. 30 Sun. 4:00 PM San Diego Chargers Fire-balling Jim Maloney, who pitched three career no-hitters, including two in chic season, has been named to the Cincinnati Reds' Baseball Hall of Fame, the club announced Thursday. Maloney will become the 37th member of the shrine when he Is officially inducted August 8 in pre-(rame ceremonies at Riverfront Stadium." He was the top vote-getter among the 10 candidates and won the honor the first time his name was placed on the ballot.

Fans voted during a one-week stretch last month. Maloney, 134-81 in 11 years with the Reds, holds three Cincinnati pitching records. SEETHE SEASON OPENER-BENGALS vs MIAMI DOLPHINS SATURDAY, AUGUST 4 at 8 PM on WLW-T Ch. 5 The Burger Brewing Company, Cincinnati, Ohio rtlfti tkf1hjfriiBiith 'ftirft i Ti -ti 1 'T'A'Aiif-Air4'4rfi ji I ifl A 4.