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Syndoy. March 27, 197730 eallalrasBff Dftrwrrat Hatfield getting a chance to teach with Detroit club NOW IN OUR NEW LOCATION HWY 90 WEST 1-10 NEW USED AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT Red Berber FLETCHER FORD TRACTOR CO. Ttlephont TALLAHASSEE 576-280S or QUINCT 875-1212 The revolution Classified Ads Phone 599-2210 NCAA playoffs four times, and twice to the final of the College World Series. "As a college coach you have to start from scratch," Hatfield said. "Pitchers don't even know how to stand on the mound." Hatfield began as a minor league manager in 1960 at Little Rock, he took a third-place team to the playoff championship.

He was named Southern Association Manager of the Year. He served at various minor league clubs until 1964 when he got the Florida State job. Hatfield became a roving minor league instructor for the St. Louis Cardinals for three years beginning in 1969. During that time he managed two Dominican Republic winter league champions and guided Lewiston to a Northwest League title in 1970.

The 53-year-old Alabaman joined the Tigers system in 1972. He piloted pennant winners at Montgomery of the Southern League in 1972 and 1973 and Evansville's 1975 Junior World Series championship team. "The last couple of years I said my ambition was to become a major league coach," said Hatfield, called up from Evansville to replace Joe Schultz. "I had feelers out to be a coach at other wouldn't leave Detroit to become a coach with anybody else. I like the people in the organization.

I think I got a break becoming a coach in Detroit." Maybe it was the Tigers who got the break. LAKELAND (AP) The way young baseball players are hustled up to the major leagues these days, coaches have to be able to do more than send a runner borne, pitch batting practice and bark orders. More often, they've got to be able to teach. In Fred Hatfield, the Detroit Tigers got themselves one of the best baseball teachers around. Not only will the onetime Tiger infielder coach third base, but he'll also be able to work with the young Tigers who have advanced swiftly to the big leagues without the seven or eight years of minor league experience that was common two decades ago.

"About the only instruction you got in my days in the minor leagues (in the 1940s) was on sliding," Hatfield said, while watching the Tigers work out before an exhibition game. "You just took batting practice, infield practice and played. "The sooner you get a guy in professional baseball, the better," he said. "A guy can get bad habits. It can take a year to get a guy out of bad habits." Hatfield, nicknamed "Scrap Iron" in his playing days with the Boston Red Sox (1950-52), Detroit (1952-56), Chicago White Sox (1956-57), Cleveland (1958) and Cincinnati (1958), taught in college "on the major league level." He coached at Florida State for five years, leading his team to a No.

1 national ranking twice, a spot in the rffffyytH sports stadium fj-PD EE ERNIE LADD gjS BILLY GRAHAM I JERRY BRISCO Sr VERSUS gf MEPHISTO BRISCO SEIGFRIED STARKE VERSUS SKIP YOUNG GRAHAM HANS SCHRODER VS MERCED SOUS iff jr I j. PAUL ORNDORF VS GORD6n NELS5n ANGELO POFFO VS PHIL MERCADO Watch Ch. 6 Sot. 3 PM (( APRIL 1st I Bl 8:30 P.M. I for TV WRESTLING Phont 222-07t6 for wrvotloni of a game We're in the teeth of a revolution.

It started some 55 years ago at the Royal St George Golf Club in Merrie England. And, should you chance to turn on your TV set these weekends, it is accelerating right before your unbelieving eyes. This is a story that began in a Rolls Royce, and leads to a choice of any expensive automobile today. Golf began around 1440 in Scotland, and it had to be a good game to survive. James II in 1457 got a law passed that prohibited playing "golfe" in the month of March because such indulgence used up the leisure of the people, who had better' use their time in the practice of archery.

In those days, male citizens were required to practice long hours at archery, because of the fear of invasion. However, James TV of Scotland was a pretty fair country golfer, and played the game often. His granddaughter Mary learned to play. When sent to France to be educated she referred to young men on the golf course as "cadets." From this comes our word "caddies." So golf was first Scotch, and was first for the royalty. When golf clubs were founded they were strictly for gentlemen.

Strictly. But we Americans are as avid about stealing ideas and games from other cultures as are the Japanese. We got golf going in this country. ALONG CAME a fellow named Walter Hagan. He had a flair.

He went first class. He beat everybody in this country at golf. He out-gamed them, he out-drank them, he stayed up later, and he wore the most expensive silk shirts. He was indeed Sir Walter. The Haig, as he was also called at times, got to be a fast friend and golfing companion of the then prince of Wales.

Hagan always went first class. Fifth-five years ago the revolution began. The 1922 British Open was to be at the Royal St. George. Walter Hagan, egged on by his pal, and prince of Wales, entered.

But Hagan was told in no uncertain terms, only gentlemen were permit- Parker: Pirates' superstar BRADENTON (AP) Amid the hoopla surrounding the Pittsburgh Pirates' new image of speed and defense, stands a towering reminder of the Lumber Company-Dave Parker, "Parker should be the game's next superstar," says new Pirates' manager Chuck Tanner. "He hasn't even begun to reach his potential. He I WAN DJ AUTOMOTIVE COUPON SERVICE SPECIALS coupon W2. 8 cyl. tune up 1 88 Most IP Parts and labor.

American roints, plugs, condense mm mm Iffc and set system. does it all, runs fast, throws hard, hits, and hits with power. He has a great attitude." Pitcher Doc Medich, before his recent trade, said of the 6-foot-5 Parker: "He doesn't know his own coupon COMPLETE JBRAKE JOB Brake shoes, cyl. kits, front seals, turn drums pack, bleed and adjust system A mi a n. Kjn Parts ted to eat in the club dinine room.

He AU 1 UMAilt tfTl 1 QC KJKJ Labor TRANSMISSION I Most U.S. fef Filter Fluid Change C3 A Aisociatad Presi wirtphoto George Hawley can still smile pitcher loses throwing arm Amputee keeps up his attitude can strength." Almost any ranter player you talk with in the National League speaks in awe of the 215-pound Parker, who established himself last season as one of the best offensive players in the game. Parker has the power to challenge Philadelphia's Mike Schmidt and the New York Mets' Dave Kingman for the home run title, plus the consistency to win the National League batting title. He chooses to aim for the batting crown. "Home runs are not my style," claims Parker who hit just 13 last year in an injury plagued season.

"I'm a .300 hitter and I'm going to continue to look at the bottom line, average and RBI. "The home run is the glory thing," Parker continues. "The fans iike it. The home run champ is like the quarterback in football. He gets the notices.

Oh, I'm capable of hitting 25 or 30, but I don't think I'm capable of hitting more than Schmidt or Kingman. It's not my style. I don't have that type of swing. I don't have the home run swing." Parker says his goal is to be a sound player both offensively and OIL CHANGE 88 LUBE Includes Oil Filter Tallahassee Mall Auto Center Hours 7:30 a.m. p.m.

Open Sunday 1-6 P.M. could play as a professional, but being a professional, he was no gentleman. The British Open began. Time came for luncheon. And I know this to be true because Gene Sarazan told me about it a Rolls Royce arrived at the front door of the Royal St.

George. The chauffer was in full livery, and seated beside him was a butler in full regalia. Hagan appeared, the doors were opened. Hagan seated himself on the rear seat, and in full view of the members of the Royal St. George, was served a full course meal linen, silver, wine and butler.

The next day the prince of Wales said he wouldn't eat in the club dining room, unless his friend Walter Hagan ate with him. Hagan broke the doors down. Since then the golf pros are most welcome everywhere, and it may surprise you to know, they are gentlemen. Most of them are fresh out of college. Oh, to return to Hagan he won that British Open, the first of four he captured.

Golf has developed amazingly in the U.S. these past 55 years. An amateur from Atlanta named Bobby Jones set this country on its ears with his victories over the pros. Jones completed his "grand slam" in 1930. He was given a ticker tape parade down lower Broadway, the only time a golfer was so saluted.

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FOUR PLY POLYESTER CORD BODY. And he missed 15 games because of a knee injury. up completely on playing baseball, though he realizes, realistically, that his days as a college pitcher are over. He also said he realizes that he'll have to extinguish that small, hopeful flicker of a career in the big leagues. To keep the enthusiasm going, Hawley said he hopes he can receive permission from his doctors to attend a Louisville baseball game soon.

"I hope to just go out and see them do well," Hawley said of his teammates, whom he credits along with his family and doctors and nurses at Duke University at Durham, N.C., where the amputation was performed for helping his recovery. Later on, Hawley said he's going to try to learn to throw with his left hand at least well enough to participate in a softball league this summer. "I've thrown a little bit with my left arm messing around, but I've never done it much seriously," he said. Meanwhile, Hawley said he will continue his education and major in recreation at Louisville. "Recreation is a wide open field," Hawley said.

"Once you get done, they say they can get you into just about any field." LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Some might think that a pitcher without a pitching arm is like a car without wheels useless. But George Hawley doesn't feel that way and he's out to show he's not obsolete. "I'm already working out with weights for my left arm," says Hawley, a junior at the University of Louisville. "I'm going to have to learn to do a lot of things with my left arm." Injured in a freak fall on the Louisville campus three weeks ago, Hawley had his right arm amputated March 12 when doctors failed to stop the spread of a mysterious infection that developed after the arm was put in a cast.

"They really don't know what caused it," Hawley said by telephone Thursday from Suburban Hospital, where he is recuperating. "Four bac-terias were spreading and they couldn't stop it. "I felt kind of bad when they told me I'd have to lose my arm, but they told me the whole story and I had to give them permission to go ahead. What could I do?" Hawley, 21, transferred to Louisville last fall after two successful years as a hurler for Yavapai Junior College in Prescott, his hometown. He compiled a 5-0 record as a relief pitcher in his sophomore year.

Still bursting with youthful enthusiasm, Hawley said he hasn't given His defensive ability, however, still leaves something to be desired. He led the league in errors by an outfielder. Parker claims this is a case where numbers don't indicate the real truth. "I consider myself a better outfielder than the errors indicate," insists the husky native of Cincinnati, who was an overlooked 14th round selection in the 1970 free agent draft. "The average outfielder doesn't get to some of the balls I reach with my speed.

They are aggressive errors. Most of the errors are on throws, where I'm slightly off target." "There are not many great hitters who also are great outfielders," he observes. "I'm striving to be both." ft I WW JTC fj1 HU Petrocelli released by Red Sox; 33-year-old still hopes to olav I mf GENE SARAZEN was exciting. Sam Snead became the man to beat in every tournament he entered, and Sam won more events than any golfer. Byron Nelson was almost perfection.

Ben Hogan showed us not only golf but the dominance of the human spirit as he fought back from a crippling accident. Two men Arnold Palmer and Dwight Eisenhower plus television, made golf big-league. Palmer was so vibrant he had an "army" following him, and his favorite partner was Ike. Ike, of course, spent much time at Augusta National Country Club. Then came a fellow named Jack Nicklaus, of whom Bobby Jones said: "He plays a game with which I am not familiar." The revolution is now going full-speed-ahead.

This year there have been 11 weeks of the golf season, and the Young Turks have almost swept the boards. Jack Nicklaus has won once, and the youngsters have won the rest. Andy Bean, Andy North, Fuzzy Zoeller, Bruce Lietzke, Mark Hayes These are some of the young men who are leading the charge against Nicklaus, Miller, Trevino, Green, Weiskopf and company. Baseball, football, basketball are deeply troubled these days. Golf is our best regulated sport, our fairest competition, and in my view the most exciting athletic event on television.

A golfer plays by himself and against everyone else. And whatever a golfer gets paid, he earns. WINTER HAVEN (AP) Rico Petrocelli, who set an American League record for shortstops by hitting 40 home runs in 1969, was released by the Boston Red Sox llllllllllllimiltfcUlrfllliiinhrTiiin jr.imn typical car model size fez Trade-in Price VEGA or toe-la .22.05 VOUISWAGEH -Hg-gff- C78-14 201 26.14 CUTLASS or E7814 223 r.lATADOR 78-1 4 237 G78-14 2.53 30.19 H78-14 2.73 3l.69 5 1 .77 23. 1 4 sop-is "TIT 25.69 li.ilrviLA or I F78-15 I 2.40 I 29.66 I GALAXIE I G78-15 2.59 I $31.05 I H78-15 2.79 $32.55 J78-15 2.96 33.34 DUBCCt L78-1S 3.09 34.43 Saturday after 12 years with the club. The 33-year-old Petrocelli, who moved from short to third base in 1971, was placed on irrevocable waivers.

However, it was unlikely anyone would claim him and his reported salary. "I had a idea something was going to happen, but I'm surprised that I was released," Petrocelli said after meeting with John Claiborne, the Red Sox' assistant general manager, and Manager Don Zimmer. Petrocelli, passed up by both happens," Petrocelli said. "I'll make a few phone calls. I hope to continue playing.

I feel I have some good years left. I'm not old at 33, and I'm in great shape, down to 188 pounds." In his 12 years (1,553 games) with the Red Sox, Petrocelli hit .251 with 210 homers and 773 runs batted in. He is one of a handful of players to hit homers in consecutive times at bat in a World Series, accomplishing the feat in the sixth game in 1967. "It's tough to leave after all these years, but I wish the Red Sox all the luck in the world," Petrocelli said. His career was threatened in late 1975 by an inner-ear infection, but he played in the World Series, taking medication daily.

He recovered from the ear problem, but experienced the worst season of his career last year, playing only 85 games and hitting .213 with just three homers. He finally lost his job to rookie Butch Hobson. "I went to bat only 42 times after the All-Star Game and I didn't get a hit once during the entire month of September," he said. "I don't think the manager had any faith in me, but I understood that they wanted to give Hobson a good shot." 4 "Check dealer If your car is not listed. Petrocelli GRADDY'S Gulf Service Seattle and Toronto in the expansion draft because of his age and salary, will be free to make his own deal once he clears waivers.

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