The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 28

THE FRESNO BEE Sunday January 25 1970 King Says Hart Will Lift Giants Willie felt Down Memory Lane Shore Added To Ring Lore SAN FRANCISCO (AP) jincluding a spring training trip-would rest when Manager Clyde King is optimis- to Japan The Giants will play needed it tic that slugging Jim Ray Hart nine games in five Japanese cities starting March 20 He said Willie Mays who will be 39 iri May would play in every game he felt able to and will be back batting in crucial runs for the San Francisco Giants next season a healthy Jim Ray A mathematics University of King related that that Bobby hit 45 homers if major at the North Carolina he had calculated Bonds could he could cut Hart we would have won the pennant last King declared in a news conference at Candlestick Park Hart 28 bothered by a severe shoulder injury appeared in only 95 games last year and knocked in only 26 runs He had slammed at least 20 homers and batted in at least 75 runs in five previous seasons 4 Ralston Ashe Eye Aussie Title he his strikeout total in half Bonds led the league with 184 strikeouts last season with a curve ball weakness He hit 32 homers batted in 90 runs and hit 259 guy is going to cut down on his strikeouts fids declared King a positive thinker In pitching the manager said the Giants would start with Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry as a good ore-two Ron Bryant and Rich Robertson should work into the starting rotation with southpaw Mike McCormick taking a fifth turn when needed King is counting mi Frank berger acquired from San Diego to share relief work with veteran Frank Linzy He conceded the Giant catching job is open King said Jack Hiatt and Dick Dietz both can be first-string catchers if they stay healthy but added John Harrell up from Phoenix will get real chance to show his stuff Py Ed Orman SEVERAL MONTHS ago a Fresno fistic figure of the visited this city the occasion being the annual Boxing Hall of Fame awards dinner His name was Julius Jessick but oldtime fight filberts will recall him as Jimmy Shore a talented young lightweight boxer out of Big Creek Big Creek was a bustling construction center in the Sierra Where hundreds of men were employed by die Edison Company building power houses dams and tunnels Jessick an amateur boxer out of Los Angeles was a welder To keep the men happy on the Job the Edison firm conducted various recreational activities boxing being one of them Jessick was given the job of searching for boxing talent and making matches Jessick appeared on each of them he A Big Creek merchant Bill Solomon made frequent trips to Fresno to visit his uncle a pioneer Fresno clothing merchant Louis -Solomon and to see the family doctor Dr AT Goldberg Bill Solomon discussed boxing with Dr Goldberg who advised Bill to contact Major Phil Williams the matchmaker lor the American Legion boxing shows in the old Civic "Auditorium on Street The late Dr Goldberg was a real boxing fan fe WILLIAMS BROUGHT Jessick to Fresno to box For some 6-1 3-6 4-6 7-5 6-3 The match was interrupted by arguments with the umpire and linesmen The Ralston-Newcombe battle the longest in time ever in this 65-yearold championship was a match of services The most recent US winner of the Australian title was Alex Omedo in 1959 In a doubles semifinal Californians Bob Lutz and Smith defeated Crealy and Allan Stone of Australia 6-4 6-4 64 The pain is gone from his shoulder declared King who guided his injury-riddled club to second place in the National Western Division in his first year as a major league pilot It was San fifth consecutive second-place finish King said he felt one of a biggest problems was fielding healthy men Therefore he declared Hart would start slowly in spring training to build strength in his shoulder King traveled from his Goldsboro NC home to consult with owner Horace Stoneham on organizing for the 1970 season ll CLYDE San Francisco Giants Manager Clyde King was in demand of autograph seekers at the Fresno Hot Stove League dinner honoring Tom Seaver SYDNEY Australia Dennis Ralston who outlasted John Newcome in a 93-game match the longest in Australian big-time tennis will meet Arthur Ashe in an all-American semifinal which boosted the United chance to win the Australian crown for the first time in li years Ralston coach of the US Davis Cup team defeated New-combe No 2 rated player 19-17 20-18 4-6 6-3 in a marathon which lasted four hours 41 minutes The match which began under lights Friday night at the White City Club was interrupted after the third set because of heavy midnight dew on the turf The sixth-seeded professional from Bakersfield Calif took only 21 minutes to win the fourth set when play was resumed Saturday afternoon in the combined New South Wales and Australian Open championships Ashe from Richmond Va lost the first set but he had a much easier time in eliminating Australian David Cupper Ray Ruffels 95 6-3 6-4 6-2 Richard Crealy the promising Australian Davis Cup hopeful plays the winner of Saturday Tony Roche-Roger Taylor match in the other semifinal Roche the first-seeded southpaw from Australia showed none of the effects of an ailing left elbow that bothered him a week ago and heat Gerald Battrick 6-2 6-2 6-4 Crealy had drawn most of the attention in the tournament until heroics He is seeded only 12th but he beat US Davis Cupper Stan Smith on Friday and then eliminated (AP) FRESNO AUTO CENTER Phone 485-1111 Open 8:30 AM VISALIA AUTO CENTER Phone 732-5561 Open 10:00 AM OPEN SUN 12 TO 5 VM au mm cottkbmxs chascz run Doctor Urges Cross-Body Block Ban To Reduce Grid Injuries Low low prices 4-ply polyester cord tires Vanderbilt Premium1 V-120 reason Jessick used the name of Jimmy Shore who was the big boss at the Edison project At that time in the old Jour round boxing days" Fresno possessed many promising fighters many of them from in south-west Fresno One of the topnotchers was Eddie Mahoney who I think 'was one of the finest prospects ever developed in Fresno Shore and Mahoney hooked up in three hairraising four "round matches the first Nov 21 1923 being called a draw They were rematched for another meeting July 29 1924 jin an open air arena in the old Firemen's and part on East Ventura Avenue This was another slugfest and again it was ruled a draw i- So a third match was made for Sept 23 1924 outdoors and it was a carbon copy of the other bouts but this time Mahoney was declared the winner Hundreds of backers of ijtheir idol came down from Big Creek They were violently with the decision and they vented their feelings with boos and jeers while hurling their straw beanies into the ring Shore made a big hit with the Fresno fans who still wanted 'to see more of him 5 i AT THAT time there was an up and coming local lightweight named Young Corbett fighting regularly and making progress in the square circle Shore was matched to meet the Fresno southpaw in a four round bout Nov 18 1924 in the old Civic Auditorium and this snappy scrap was ruled 'a draw Corbett built up an early lead with his speed and -counter punching but Shore finished strong to share honors Fans clamored for a return match and it was made for Feb 6 1925 and for the six-round feature under the newly -legalized California 10-round boxing law This was a hard fought draw with ringsiders split In their opinion over the decision and possible winner many thinking Corbett who took command early earned the nod while others feeling Shore finishing strong again against the tiring young Fresnan deserved the edge Gene Jewett was -the referee Early in his career Jessick was a star pupil of George Blake at the Los Angeles Athletic Club which turned out such great ones as Jackie Fields and Fidel LaBarba They pushed "Jessick for a berth on the 1924 United States Olympic Games team in the 1923 trials Jessick is employed by a Hollywood electrical firm supplying equipment for movie studios and TV productions Eddie Mahoney's real name was Fred Biehl Fresno boxing historian Billy Mahoney his brother was bom William Biehl He also became a boxer But this entails another story used increasingly as a substitute for traditional tackling The force of the cross-body block be likened to the thrust of a railroad tie against the side of the unprotected he said The dangers of the cross-body block has been recognized by coaches he said and noted that they designate special players as "suicide squads" for open field play during kickoffs and punt returns Dr Peterson said the injuries to the blocker using the crossbody technique are to be of a more serious nature than those to the player who is He pointed out that the standard hip and shoulder pads worn by football players do not protect portions of the body endangered when the body is stretched out for this block These include the spleen kidney lungs abdomen and spine officials have been obliged to approve a block delivered from the side while penalizing the' same block delivered from behind when Injury may result in both the doctor wrote From this it is concluded1 he said a blow from the side when the defendant can not see his assailant is proper and sportsman like It is my opinion that elimination of the cross-body block would obviate all concern about Coaches are divided Dr Peterson said over whether the aims of the cross body block can be accomplished by other means and some do not teach this technique the early high school level however the cross body block is taught routinely and it becomes an instinctive maneuver for most football players in desperation he said legislation will be necessary as the means of prompt control and the impetus to he said CHICAGO (AP) The crossbody block should be eliminated from football a University of Michigan doctor says Dr Thomas Peterson of the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Michigan Hospital studied 259 football knee injuries and found that 54 per cent resulted from this practice believe that football rules should be changed to eliminate the cross-body he wrote in the 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