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NL Shows Attendance Increase Fred '111 fcWMV- Cuellar, McLain Young Award Ends in a Tie A ens Sports Writer Glummp I i ill P-'I fir I III- C' 4 Iff im In 44 I 1 ZJV- Ijk0? Pz Jr "13 y) By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) For the first time in the history of balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of America a major award wound up in a tie today when Mike Cuellar of Baltimore and Denny McLain of Detroit each received 10 votes for the 1969 American League Cy Young Award. The other votes of the 24-man committee, two from each league city, went to Jim Perry of Minnesota, who got three, and Dave McNally of Baltimore, who received one. The Cy Young winner in the National League, announced last week, was Tom Seaver of the New York Mets, who topped both majors w'th 25 victories. Seaver received 23 of the 24 votes in the National League. McLain was a unanimous winner of the award in 1968 when he won 31 games.

Bob Gibson also scored a 24-0 shutout in the National in 1968. "I'm surprised," said McLain in San Jose, Calif. "I thought sure they'd go with the pennant winner." The award, conceived by Ford Frick, former baseball commissioner, originally went to the outstanding pitcher in the major leagues. In 1967 the writers voted to present award to the outstanding pitcher in each league. The closest thing to a tie came in 1958 when a 15-man committee gave Bob Turley of CINCINNATI (AP) Divisional play highlighted by the tight race in the West plus the addition of two teams combined to draw 3,309,588 more tans to National League ballparks in 1969 than in 1968.

The league office here, in an-n i attendance figures Wednesday, also credited the East race with helping buoy attendance. New York, which topped the teams in attendance with 2,175,373, broke into a convincing lead only in the closing weeks. Seven of the 12 teams surpassed the one million mark and Cincinnati missed by only 12,009. The 12 teams together drew 15,094,946 in 1969 while the 10 established teams accounted for 13,369,368 of that. Of the seven clubs over a million, St.

Louis showed a drop in attendance, from 2,011,167 in 1968 when the Cardinals won the pennant to 1,682,783 in 1969. Philadelphia was the only other club whose home attendance fell off, from 664,546 in 1968 to 519,414 in 1969. The Chicago Cubs, who led in the East much of the year, drew 631,584 more fans than in 1968 to take the honors for the club with the biggest increase. One of the expansion teams, Montreal, had a surprising attendance figure of 1,212,608 which helped offset the disappointing 512,970 mark at the home of the other new team, San Diego. I approach the football contest between Georgia and the University of Florida with confused emotion.

The feeling isn't a strange one, however. I've suffered several lapses in emotional behavior before when the wife threatened to return home to mother. My acquaintance with the Bulldogs isn't as casual as you might think. My old high school coach is now the Administrative Assistant to Vince Dooley. Back in the days before he wore such fancy titles he wasn't casual at all.

It is through his influence that I began following the Bulldogs of Georgia. Our high school team was also known as the Bulldogs, which reminds me of the time we were surrounded on our 20-yard line and I single-handed but that's another story. My idol in those days was a guy with the appropriate nickname of Pud Mosteller. Pud, you see, couldn't keep his fat little hands from snitching banana pudding. He had a shape like a pie plate.

Thus the name James "Pud" Mosteller. I couldn't keep my fat little hands from food of any fashion, so naturally I looked up to a guy with an honest to-goodness nickname after a food substance. Anyway, Doc Ayers, Dooley's assistant now, was in charge of whipping a bunch of regamuffins into a football team. I was the lead ragamuffin. He preached (actually there wasn't much preaching going on, but for purposes of taste we'll use the word) that one day, if I played my cards right, I could be like Pud Mosteller and play for Wally Butts at the University.

I kept eating. Some scouts were down one day, looking over Coach Ayers Cedartown, crop. The coach was extolling the finer attributes of guys by the name of Moose Woodward and Bear Beecham. I'll explain why later. "Who's that big old boy you have out there?" a scout said to coach.

MIKE CUELLAR Baltimore pitcher the New York Yankees five votes. Warren Spahn of Milwaukee four and Lew Burdette of Milwaukee and Bob Friend of Pittsburgh, each three. McLain, sharing the laurels, was the first American Leaguer to repeat. Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers won it three times. McLain had a 24-9 won-lost record for the Tigers and a 2.80 earned run average.

His nine shutouts led the league. Jack Lang, secretary-treasurer of the writers association, said there were no tie-breaking provisions. The secret ballot is (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3C) DETROIT PITCHER DENNY McLAIN CY YOUNG WINNER McLain performs at organ Wednesday night at San Jose, Calif. (Pensacola Newt-AP Wirephoto) After Missing Practice at Indiana The Pensacola News Aire Memoes mossed The Dummy Drill Thursday, November 6, 1969 Section BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) Coach John Pont of Indiana University dismissed 10 Negro varsity players Wednesday when they boycotted football Pont said, "We have always had a dialogue with our players.

We know how they feel and what they are thinking. This one kind of surprised us, especially after the Michigan State game which went so well and we played as a team." Highbaugh, a junior who won three individual Big Ten track championships last year, scored the only touchdown as Indiana downed MSU 16-0. A university spokesman said Highbaugh's eligibility for track (CONTINUED ON PAGE JC) against a Hawkeye team also hit by a player boycott this year. Sixteen of Iowa's 20 Negro players skipped spring practice and were suspended by Ccach Ray Nagel. Some were reinstated this fall.

Indiana "will have to pick up the pieces and go from here," Pont said after meeting with Negro players Wednesday. "We're going to miss them, but sometimes decisions like this have to be made. I dislike the present situation because it is unpleasant to see young men give up competition." To Step Into Racial Controversies 8ack Students Challenge Western Athletic Conference "Why, if I didn't know better, I'd say he's the spitting image of Pud Mosteller," the scout raved on, hoping perhaps he had fallen upon a real find such as Mosteller. "Oh, you mean Brown? No, no, I don't think he's another Pud Mosteller. He's big all right, but in all the wrong places." "Can he run?" the scout wanted to know.

"Nope. Not one whit," said my coach. "We timed him yesterday in the 40 and it took as half the practice. The way he was wheezing we thought he was having a heart attack. "Actually what he does is just sort of glummp." "Glummp?" said the scout, searching his brain for a new football term.

"When he hits the ground everything goes The next move he makes is to roll over like a dying hippo, snort and go glummp again." About this time, word rifled through the team that a scout from the University of Georgia was on the field looking over prospects. We were in a dummy drill. A few other dummies and I were getting the worst of it. I wanted desperately to impress the scout, so I exhibited my best move, which was my chin against Moose Woodward's elbow. drills a second straight day.

The other four Negroes on the varsity squad returned to practice and Pont said they would play Saturday against Iowa. All 14 black players missed Tuesday's practice. Pont said his longtime personal policy is to dismiss any player with two unexcussed absences from practice. While reports circulated that several boycotting players were upset because they think they have not gotten enough playing time, Pont said he received no list of demands or grievances. Reason for the boycott is not clear, the coach added.

Those dismissed are punt return specialist Larry Highbaugh and linebacker Mike Adams, both starters; Bob Pernell and Greg Thaxton, halfbacks; fullback Greg Harvey; linebacker Don Silas; defensive end Clarence Price; guard Gordon May; defensive halfback Ben Norman, and tackle Charley Murphey. Those returning to the team were starting tight end John Andrews, defensive halfback Steve Porter and defensive tackles Tim Roberson and Bob Jones. There was no statement from the boycotters. Price had said earlier there was dissatisfaction the way some black players were being treated but declined specifics. The Indiana Hoosiers, 4-3 this season and fighting for a Rose Bowl berth, play here Saturday DENVER (AP) The Western Athletic Conference Council cut short its meeting Wednesday after 50 black students walked into the session and challenged the league to step into racial controversies at some of its member schools.

The challenge, posed in a series of questions, came as the conference leaders were discussing recent black athlete unrest, including allegations of discrimination at Brig-ham Young University and the dismissal of 14 black members of the University of Wyoming football team. A few hours after the intrusion, conference Commissioner Wiles Hallock announced tersely that the council made up of faculty representatives and athletic directors had recessed. He said "Much progress has been made and there is no inclination to take either hasty or drastic action." Hallock said there would be "no further statement at this time since no definitive conclusions or recommendations we.e made." He said the council will resume its meeting "in the near future at another time and place." He was not more specific, but a conference spokesman said it would be before a meeting scheduled in February in Phoenix, Ariz. It was reported that most of the black students were from the University of Colorado, a member of the Big Eight Conference. They identified themselves as members of the Black Student Alliance and wore armbands carrying the numeral "14." It was two weeks ago the 14 Wyoming football players were (CONTINUED ON PAGE JO I ft 1 fife 1 1 l.p fn New York Has the Best 'Bench' A Detached That guy Moose had the biggest elbows ever endowed to man or beast.

What I hadn't counted on was that Moose was out to impress the scout, too. I mentioned something to Moose about gnawing his elbows right off his fat arms and he let out this scream that even frightened Coach Ayers. Only animals scream that way. On the next play I became an official detached member of the football team. Moose can thank me for getting a scholarship.

Except I still think he holds a grudge against me. You see, that yell scared the Georgia scout as well as the entire team and the coaches. Moose wound up at Auburn. I don't think he ever forgave me. Next, Coach Ayers wanted to show off his prime beef, Bear Beecham.

I wanted no part of Bear Beecham. Just his name made me go glummp. But, my coach wanted Bear to win a scholarship. Why he picked on me to get his boys scholarships, I'll never know. "Brown," he shouted, "get in there against Bear." I looked around, hoping there was another Brown on the team.

I kept pointing to other fellows as the line coach pushed my leaning body toward that line. The Bear was not a pretty man. I've seen better men on the FBI's most wanted list. He'll put anything on a Post Office poster to shame. The boys on the team sort of looked upon Bear as Mr.

Equalizer. I mean, he could equalize you quicker than anything else. if I 4 a I I feL i By LEE MUELLER NEA Sports Writer NEW YORK (NEA) It all began quite innocently, just after the New York Knickerbockers off handedly announced that they had the best bench in basketball history. "Look," said a Knicks' spokesman. "It's got depth, strength, dependability, size and youth.

It's got everything you'd ask of a bench. Perfection doesn't come cheap, though. We've also got the most expensive bench in pro basketball." According to Madison Square Garden superintendent Dick Donopria, the chairs of the New York bench cost $19.25 each. Early last season, Renopria replaced the traditional slab bench with individual contour chairs, constructed of durable molded plastic with cast aluminum legs and back supports. "A guy who plays hard likes to relax on a comfortable bench," said reserve guard Mike Riordan.

"We got a great bench." References were made to the poor quality of benches in Philadelphia and Chicago and Los Angeles and Boston close to the Then the reactions began to pour in. One former high school coach from the Kentucky hills wrote of a team called Carr Creek that played its home games on an outdoor court. "The coach and his three substitutes sat on a hay wagon during the game," he said. "What's more comfortable than a hay wagon?" Since Dr. Naismith invented basketball in the Winter of 1891, the sport has known many types and qualities of benches.

Most of them have gone unnoticed. "Apparently," says Lee Williams of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, "benches are pretty much taken for granted." Morry Saperstein of the Harlem Globetrotters organiza- (CONTINUED ON PAGE X) Football at a I never did like the line coach. And that nasty little laugh he blurted out upon seeing my humble self in front of Bear didn't help rcy feelings toward him, either. You've heard of people dying and coming back to life? I'm a breathing example. I absolutely died of fright right there in front of Bear.

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