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Horse Kaany 4 The Arts 5 Obituaries 7 Business 8 J. A. Livingston 8 section Tuesday, July 15, 1975 "I always felt the National League tried -Mickey Mantle oes Aggressiveness in All-Star Game? Wk Inquirer sports By FRANK DOLSON rr-r Tv Ci Sifi MILWAUKEE No, insisted Vida Blue, the American League's starting pitcher for tonight's All-Star game, all that talk about National League superiority didn't bother him. "I don't think there's no doubt in my mind the American League is just as good as the National League." So much for the minority opinion. Mickey Mantle spoke strongly on the subject.

Almost eloquently. He's a retired All-Star now, a Hall of Famer, a "vice-president in charge of special markets" for a Dallas bank. guess that entails playing golf and going to cocktail parties," he said, smiling.) But he remembers the old days, when Mickey Mantle was Mr. Big in the American League, when the All-Star spotlight was on him. "I always felt like the National League tried harder for some reason," the ex-Yankee said yesterday.

He was talking about the '50s and the '60s, but the results indicate the situation hasn't changed if anything it has grown worse in the 70s. "It's embarrassing as hell for the National League to keep beating us in every All-Star game," Mantle said. But the beatings go on. The Nationals have won three in a row, 11 of 12, 22-of 29 (including a tie). Why? Surely, the edge in talent can't be that great.

Maybe Mantle provided a clue. "It always seemed as soon as one of us (on the AL team) was out of a game, he showered and left," he said. "They still had players on their bench. Ours were gone." He was including himself. In 1967, nearing the end of his career, Mantle flew from Dallas to Los Angeles on game day, taking a helicopter the last leg to Anaheim.

"Hank Bauer put me in for a pinch-hitter for the pitcher," he recalled. "I struck out, got dressed, got back to the helicopter and was back in Dallas in time to watch the end of the game there. Some of the guys couldn't believe I was back so fast I i -A Or that he would want to leave the ball park in such a hurry, with the game barely begun. Hearing Mantle talk about it you get the impression he wished he had stayed. The All-S'ar games might not have seemed that important to him then.

They did now. "When you get through you wish you had done he said. "I didn't do very well In fact, the American League superstar hit only .233, with two (See DOLSON on 2-C) The Lineups The starting lineups for the 46th All Star game: NATIONAL Rose, RF .319 Brock, LF .314 Morgan, 2B .345 Bench, .293 Garvey, IB .318 Wynn, CF .270 Cey, 3B .252 Concepcion, SS .265 Reuss, (10-6) AMERICAN Bonds, CF .238 Carew, 2B .272 Munson, C.31 Jackson, RF .244 Rudi, LF .279 Nettles, 3B .287 Tenace, IB .272 Campaneris, SS .268 Blue, (12-7) Umpires: Bill Haller, Bruce Froem-miitg, Rush Goetz, John McSherry, Chris Pelckoudas, Marty Springstead. Time: 8:30 p.m. (EDT) Television and radio, NBC, 8:15 p.m.

(EDT). United Press International ANTHONY DAVIS 'honored to be compared' if tf- jf 1 I 9y If) '1 it 's 1 I wit 7 Next? BILL LYON Davis Lives With Ghosts Of the Past By BILL LIVINGSTON tiouirer stall Writer When he played at the University of Southern California, time stood still for Anthony Davis. But that was about the only thing, including the USC record book, that the runner they called A. D. left undisturbed.

In three seasons, Davis woke up the glamorous echoes of O. J. Simpson and Mike Garrett, while delivering more personal offensive thunder than either of those Heisman Trophy winners. He scored 52 touchdowns, most of them capped by a frenetic end zone dance. He scored 11 against Notre Dame, leading the Irish to look upon him as a disaster slightly greater than a potato famine.

He gained a total of 3,724 yards, more even than Simpson, and last (See DAVIS on 2-C) JERRY REUSS NL starter VIDA BLUE AL starter Eagles Open 'Peaceful' Drills Today By GORDON FORBES Inauirer Stall Writer Consider the scenario. Empty pavements around Widencr College. Tom Dempsey, the militant player-rep, located 2,500 miles away. Those "No Freedom, No Football" tee-shirts left back home for the kids to wear. It suggests a lovely if forced peace between management and the National Football League Players Association as the Eagles open training camp today for 35 rookies and 20 veterans.

Indeed, even Dempsey's successor as union rep, cornerback Bird Lavender, isn't due to make the scene until next Sunday when the remainder of the vets check "I'm excited about Mike McCormack admitted the other day before beginning his 21st training camp. "I wish we could have gon (See EAGLES on 2-C) karate's violence Associated Press SOMEONE must have told six-year-old Scott Morgan to keep a good eye on the bat instead of the baseball. Regardless, Scott is on top of things in the T-Ball Crackers pee-wee baseball league in Morrow, Ga. GOOD EYE Is Pro Karate By 1 Bill Wallace still (pow) gets (zap) choked up (bam) when he (splat) remembers (oaf) that first (crunch) time. "A green belt showed me a spinning back kick," he said.

"It was love at first sight." The spinning back kick, that is. Not the green belt. "It's a pretty advanced move and I was a raw novice, but I watched him do it and then I did it. Zip-zip. Perfect.

Just like that. He couldn't believe it." It was like a third grader, just introduced to the multiplication tables, whizzing through a problem in advanced calculus. Today, Bill Wallace is the world professional middleweight karate champion and he can coldcock you with a variety of chops, forearms, kicks and as- sorted lethal maneuvers designed to put you in a bodycast in roughly four seconds. But, in the best serenity and style of Kung Fu, he says he would rather downplay the violence stuff. "I guess you'll always have guys who'll come in and wanna learn two or three moves so they can think of themselves as walking killer or something," he said.

"But most good karate teachers will weed those jokers out in a hurry. A guy comes in and all he wants to learn is how to thump somebody, you get rid of him quick. "Karate is really catching on. You look around and on every street corner there's a teaching studio. But we have to watch it that it doesn't get abused or exploited.

Karate is like anything else, it's a good thing as long as you don't overdo it." Wallace has more than a passing interest in the future of kante. It's his livelihood. He instructs in a big studio in Memphis (among his current strdents is the chief of security for Elvis Presley) and l.e goes about the country giving seminars. One of them is scheduled for Wednesday night at Washington Townshio Hieh School in Turneisville, N. J.

"If it's like most of them, there'll be anywhere from 50 to 100 people," ha said. "I guess you could say it's kind of like a basketball camp. I give about two-three a month." (See LYON on 2-C ivy a I v. I i i mmmmmmm i i i -r- Middleweight champ Bill Wallace (left) downplays.