The Courier News from Blytheville, Arkansas • Page 8

Bill i COURIER NEWS SPORTS EDITOR NOW THAT THE HIGH SCHOOL basketball season is ft- nally over, area coaches are putting the finishing touches on everything by naming the all-district and all-conference teams. Cave City's superstar Ricky Medlock heads the 12-man District 2-A elite team. Osceola Rosenwald, which finished second in (he 2-A tournament behind Salem, placed Lovie Caldwell and Lamar Thomas on the honor unit. Others named included Monette's 6-3 soph center Darrell Bridges; Mike Morris of Rector; Wilson Schmidt of Hoxie; Eteve Stroud' and Reggie Gleghorn of Salem; Jerry Davis of Corning; Jim Hansen of Highland; Monty Bellers of Piggott and Gary Foley of Cave City. Medlock, Morris, Schmidt, Sellers, Foley and Gleghorn all seniors.

Bridges and Thomas are just sophomores which that 2-A might be stronger. and more balanced in the couple of seasons, HAYTI'S POWERFUL INDIANS PLACED. all. five of its starters on the Boottieel Conference all-star squad. Seniors Buddy Moore, Willie Rogers and Connie Smith along with juniors Northern Mclntyre and Verdie Kuykendall were the honored Indians.

Caruthersville placed three underclassmen on the team -juniors Johnny Holmes and Peanut Reno and sophomore Joe Cagle. Delta C-7 had its deadly senior duo of Paul Scott and Kevin Williams selected while Gary Bishop of South Pemiscot and Joe Lynn of Cooter, both seniors, were also named to the-'team. North Pemiscot's trio of Terry McCulloch, Eddie Blackman and Tony White rounded out the team. Mclntyre and Rogers of Hayti were named to the SEMO Class all-district team while Delta's Williams was selected on-the Class Squad. Also named to a spot on the Class team was Randy Smith of Southland who doubles as a pitcher for Dwight Williams 5 Casons.

REBOUNDS AND PICKUPS Blytheville's Fred Edwards was near the top of the list when the first semester grades were posted for members of the University of Arkansas football team. Fred checked in with a 3.30 scholastic mark. That's on a four-point scale Ex-Cardinal first sacker Bill White has been added to the three-man broadcasting team for the New York Yankees, joining Phil Rizzuto and Frank Messer. The Yanks say White will be the first black play-by-play announcer in the major leagues. White has been doing a nightly sports program in Philadelphia since ending his playing career in 1969 Guard Allan Pruett of Arkansas State tied with Luke Adams of Lamar Tech the voting for-the Southland Conference's most valuable basketball player And John Belcher of the Indians' squad has been setected'as Arkansas' amateur athlete of the month for February by the Worthen Foundation Sports Award Panel.

Cage Standings By The Associated Preu NBA Eastern Coalerenct Atlantic Division W. L. Pet GB C-New York 52 30 .634 Phila. 47 36 .573 5 Boston 44 38 .537 Buffalo 22 60 .268 30 Central Division C-Baltimore 42 40 .512 -Atlanta 36 46 .439 6 Cincinnati 33 49 8V? Cleveland 15 66 .185 Western Conference Midwest Division C-Milwaukee 66 16 -Chicago 51 31 .622 15 Phoenix 48 34 .585 18 Detroit 45 37 .54921 Pacific Division C-LoeAng. 46 34 .580 San Fran.

41 41 .500 7 San Diego 40 42 .488 ft Seattle 3 44 .463 10 Portland 28 53 .346 C-clinchd division title Monday' Results No games scheduled ABA East Division W. L. Pet GB 51 27 .654 -Kentucky 42 37 .532 New York 39 39 .500 12 Floridians 34 36 .425 18 Pittsburgh 33 46 .418 Carolina 30 48 .385 21 West Division Indiana 55 24 .696 -Utah 54 24 Memphis 38 40 .487 Texas 28 50 .359 Denver 27 50 27 C-clinched division title Monday's Results Indiana 110, Utah 106 Only games scheduled -j COURIER NEWS PACT EGHT March 23, 1671 Mauch, Martin Ready To Start By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Okay, you can start the baseball season anytime now. Managers Gene Mauch and Billy Martin are ready. a whose Montreal Expos won an exhibition game last week on a double steal, outthought the opposition again Monday, beating Washington 53 with the winning run scoring on a squeeze bunt.

And Martin, returning to the big leagues as Detroit's man ager, used 26 players including eight pinch hitters to beat the New York Yankees 54. Elsewhere in exhibition baseball, San Diego blasted California 104, Pittsburgh clipped Kansas City 8-4, Philadelphia trimmed Cincinnati 8-7, the New York Mets topped St. Louis 2-1, Boston bombed Los Angeles 10-5, Baltimore nipped the Chicago White Sox 6-5, San form charts Chicago Cubs National Leapt East PROSPECTUS: Cube scored most runs of any major league team in 1970 and spent 64 days of season in first place--from April 22 to June 24--but on Oct. 2, when it counted, they were second. Leo Durocher hasn't made any major trades and too many of his players seem to be nearing the pivotal early-SOs stage.

Still, there is enough talent on hand to win a division pennant. Leo, it would seem, will have to stop burning out his players fay end of July. PITCHING--Ferguson Jenkins continues as the workhorse of the staff. He set club record of 274 strikeouts, was 22-16 last season. Ken Holtzman (17-11) and Bill Hands (18-15) are first-rate starters.

But after them, Cubs fall off. Milt Pappas and Jim Colborn best of rest. Phil Regan needs help in the bullpen. Lefty Larry Gura and Joe Decker, team's fourth starter much of 1970, could supply it. Rating: CATCHING--Randy Hundley missed half of last season with a knee injury.

He wound up playing in 73 games, and hit .244. Danny Breeden, fronrReds, has been added for depth. Rating: INFIELD-Joe Pepitone, picked up after he quit the Houston Astros, splits his time between first base and the outfield. He hit .258 and 19 home runs after Cubs salvaged him. Glenn Beckert, unspectacular but reliable, at second, had a typical season at plate last year, hitting Don Kessinger (-266) stays at short and Ron Santo (.267) at third.

When Pepitone plays out in the outfield, Ernie Banks, 40, plays first. Rating: OUTFIELD-John Callison, Jim Hickman and Billy Williams all had fine seasons in 1970. Callison hit 19 Hickman .315 with 32 homers, and Williams .322 with 42 homers and 129 RBIs. Williams was runnerup in MVP voting. Only concern is age: Hickman is 33, Williams and Callison bom 32.

Rating- ROOKIES TO WATCH-Catcher Ken Rudolph; 24, wffl be kept around, as will infielder Terry Hughes, 22. Predicted Finish: 3rd in East Japanese Baseball Growing By IRA BERKOW -NBA Sports Editor (NBA) -TSie dif- ferfence between Japanese baseball and American baseball is not aU that subtle. It was graphically illustrated when the Toliyo; Giants, Oriental champs, played the Baltimore consider themselves something beyond even Occidental champs. Some of the lithe Japanese players could disappear behind an upright Louisville Slugger. But a player of the magnitude of a Boog.Powell, for example, could merely hide behind Mt Fuji.

"If not for the size," said Sadaharu Oh, known Babe Ruth, "we could play like the Americans." The Giants are in America for three weeks to work out their kinks and cameras during spring training, guests of the Los Angeles Dodgers. When they came onto the Miami Stadium field, many Giants took photographs of the Orioles. But virtually all stopped and stood agape as Powell emerged in the batting cage and blasted over the right field fence. they exclaimed, in homage to their wrestlers back home. Behind the cage was also Gordon Windhorn, now a scout for the California Angels.

Windhorn had brief trials with the Dodgers, Yankees and Angels before leaving in the early 1960s for the Hankyu Braves in Japan. He stayed six years. "A few Japanese players could be playing major league ball now," he sai "Oh is one. But size, that's an important strike against them. But they are growing.

And their baseball is improving with it. "They are very self-conscious about their size. Most of the endorsements the Japanese players have concern vitamins and. other health must be working. You see 22- and 23-year-old fellas there growing to be 6-footers.

When I left, they changing the desks in the schoolhouses. They had become too small." Food is not the only answer, according to Masaichi Kaneda, formerly a great pitcher and now a popular television personality in Tokyo. "We live on the floor too much," he said. "We eat on (he floor, sleep on the floor, sit on the floor we do everything the floor. Stdthtn Oh of the CUaHs, Rath, compare BaMtatre's BOOK Powell.

That's bad for somebody who wants to play baseball It stops the circulation of the blood in the legs and makes them stiff and weak." Windhorn put his finger on another growth deterrent. "I went to Japan with Daryl Spencer," said Windhom. "The Japanese take spring training very, seriously. They start two- and-a-half months before the season, and go from nine to five. Well, the first thing we see is them running up this mountain.

they wanted me to run up it with Spencer on my back." As American-medical experts will tell you, this tend of activity restricts growth in the lumbar lats, among other places, and in fact could contribute to the development of an entire Pygmy sub-culture. It can cause greater shrinkage than a Chinese hand laundry. Another obstacle in the baseball progress of the Japanese, according to Windhorn, is an inscrutable lack of competitive edge. "They still, do not slide hard into a base to, say, break up a double play," he said "And a baserunner rarely watches the hitter-on a hitend-run. Spencer and I tried for years to tell them to the managers wouldn't listen.

They do it their way." Also, Japanese fastidiousness presents a competitive problem. Pitchers never brush back hitters. Windhorn said he had been Take Pair JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) Arkansas a University swept a baseball doubleheader over Northwestern University of the Big Ten Monday. The Indians, now 5-0, won the first game 5-0 behind the six- hit pitching of Charles Blackburn and captured the nightcap 6-4 as junior Vick Carrilto fired another six-hitter.

In the first game, the loser was Bob Artemenko and Dave Ratusnik absorbed the toss in the second game. Blackburn, who earned his second victory of the year, struck out seven and walked none in recording first shutout of tht season. brushed back three times, twice by American pitchers. The third was by a local product, and-he removed his cap and called, so sorry. "Their Wnuftorn, "is Yet he saw changes in attitude.

saw a dad-gummed manager punch an umpire, and be wasn't even thrown out of the game." But their umpires are in. somewhat different positions than umpires as we know them. The Japanese employ six at a time, and in close situations they confer, in a sort of saki- klatsch. The umpires still wear white gloves and are served tea between innings. Managers enjoy an uncommon respect.

Windhorn said that during at least half the game, television cameras study the manager in all his cerebral mbods. Windhorn mused that perhaps another preventive to hell-fire play is the lack of profane words in the Japanese language. "It's- very frustrating;" he rioted. "You can- call an umpire That means stupid. Bat that gets monotonous.

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San Diego punished Jim Maloney for all of their 10 runs in ripping California. Dave Campbell had three hits for the Padres, who collected 14 for the day. Al Santorini worked seven shutout innings for San Diego allowing just two hits. Pittsburgh used runs by Bob Robertson, Al Oliver and Richie Zisk to rip Kansas City. Philadelphia rallied for four runs in the ninth the last two on Woody Woodward's error, to whip Cincinnati.

Singles by Tim McCarver, Ken Stone, Don Money and Larry Bowa had gotten the Phils' first two runs across in the ninth. Money, Oscar Gamble and Larry Hisel all homered for Phila-v delphia and Lee May had a three-run shot for the Reds. St. Louis dropped its fifth straight game with pitcher Fred Norman's 10th inning throwing error allowing the New York Mets to score the winning run in a squeaker. Norman walked KerrBosweU with one out in the 10th and then threw away Tommie Agee's bouncer, allowing BosweU to score the deciding nut biak chow." "That means -manure farmer," said Windhorn.

American players haye been playing in Japan since the early 1960s, when Spencer, Larry Doby and Don Newcombe went over. The caliber of play, apparently, has reached such a high degree that some Americans make the major league: teams. And Masanori Murakami, the lone Japanese player to play in America (with the San Francisco Giants), re turned to Japan and suffered through two years on a farm team. "What surprised me when I came back here," said Windhorn; "was how far American baseball had dropped in comparison to how high Japanese baseball-had risen." Kaneda, who pitched for 20 years and the Nipponese equivalent of Cy Young, has not been entirely awed by the game in the.States. "Ite Baltimore is very nice, I so," he said.

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