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4-B THE MIAMI NEWS March 10, 1969! Dade Lands 9 Oh North Squad MELVIN DURSLAG lei Anftlci Hrold-f ominf Heart Of The Matter Second-teamers are Coral Gables Roger Peace, Carol City'i Calvin Patterson, KH-Han's Greg Withers, North-western's Eddie Brown and Stranahan'i Freeman Allen. Honorable mentions from Dade are: Miami Beach's Warren Walk, Carol City's Terry James, Hialeah'i Vince Mrazovich, Miami Hlgh'a Andy Younts, Jackson's Robert Patterson and Coral Cables' Rob Compton, Howard Brown and 6-4 John Dilworth in its frontline. In Saturday baseball, Jackson salvaged the second game of a two-game series with Key West, 7-2. behind the four-hit pitching of Eddie Fernandez. Jackson lost the Friday game, 5-2, but stole nine bases Saturday and took advantage of six Key West errors.

Fernandez, coming off team, giving them a chance to make all-state. A player must first make the all-region team to qualify for all-state first team contention. The two qualifiers from Dade are North Miami's Jerry Bisbano and North-western's John Haslem. Named, from Broward, are Plantation's Mike Stump, Pompano Beach's Cecil Asher and Fort Lauderdale Nova's PatJarvls. a two-game disciplinary suspension, struck out 10 as Jackson raised its record to 2.1.

And Westminster Christian, getting two of its three hits from Terry Watson, opened Its season with a 6-3 error-filled victory over Key West Mary Immaculate. Two county basketball players have been selected to the Region 4AA, allnstar Mieht Be Mental GERALD TINKER Nine Dade County football players have been chosen on the 33-man South team for the annual North-South high school game in Gainesville In August State Class AA champion Coral Gables heads the local representatives with three center Doug Muirhcad, flank-; er Gerald Tinker and defensive back John Clifford. Other Miamians on the team: Coral Park offensive end Barry Smith; Miami Springs defensive end Mike Dcly: Palmetto guard John Tucker; South Dade linebacker Gary Mills; and running backs Oscar Anderson (Jackson) and Rufus Ferguson Monsignor Pace High's hopes for a Region 4B title were thwarted for the second straight year Saturday night. The Spartans lost to Bartow Union, 83-78, at Avon Park. Pace led by three (50-47) midway through the third period, but folded to taller Bartow, which boasted 6-8 Last Week's High School Basketball Stars GERALD TINKER ROB COMPTON 6-6 CENTER CORAL GABLES Compton scored 13 points including 10 in the first half and had 15 rebounds as Gables won the Region 4AA title, 54-41, over Miami Beach.

Against Nova, the night before, Compton scored 22 points and had 13 BILLSHEPPARD 5-11 FORWARD MONSIGNOR PACE Pace lost by five points in the Region 4B final to Bartow Union Academy, but Shcppard scored a game-high 31 points. He also had 16 points and 18 rebounds in semi-final victory over SPRINTER CORAL GABLES Tinker ran the fastest 100-yard dash of the season in the Miami High Relays a 9.7 and he was running against a 25-mile-an-hour wind. Gerald then ran a swift anchor leg in Gables' second place 880-yard relay CARLOS SUAREZ PITCHER-OUTFIELDER MIAMI BEACH Suarez started the season Impressively, pitching a no-hit, 14-strlkeout game against Corat Gables. Then for a topper he; played the outfield against Miami Springs and had three straight hits, including bases-loaded triple that gave Beach a 5-4 victory. ROGER PEACE 6-4 FORWARD CORAL GABLES Peace was the Cavaliers', top rcbounder in their drive to the regional title.

He had 19 rebounds and 23 points against Nova, and 20 rebounds and 10 points in the final against Beach. Hot Battles Rage In GMAG Golf Races Pioneers Challenge To Thoroughbreds TV With just two weeks left in the regular golf season, both division titles of the Greater Miami Athletic Conference are still up for grabs. The closest battle is in the Conference standings: Southern division, where Palmetto, South Dade and Miami Beach have 5-1 records and Coral Gables is 4-2. South Dade has a match today at Rcdlands against Gables, which should unscramble that division some. Palmetto and Beach meet Friday, but it's a non-conference match.

NORTHERN DIVISION Conf. Rtc. Overall Pic. Team play North Miami at the lattcr's field. North Miami, led by pitcher Stan Butkus, has only a 4-4 tie with Norland on its record.

The winner of the Dade portion of 7AA plays the Broward half of the district for a state title berth. Nive teams are tied for the District 8AA lead with 1-0 records after a week's play. South Coral Park, Jackson, Miami Beach and Miami High all are unbeaten in the district. However Miami Beach takes on South Dade tomorrow and Coral Park Friday. Jackson has a tough match with Killian tomorrow and Miami High plays winless Southwest Friday and pesky Edison Saturday.

0 7-J 5-1 i 41 75 ft Hialeah Curley Miami Springs North Miami 3-1 S-S Norland Norw.no 4 1.1 1.1.1 YOU HAVE A DATE AT The "RENDEZVOUS" VERO BEACH In trying to understand why fewer people are able to hit .300 today, thus creating nervous per-spiration among those invested in baseball, you first consider the basic cause. It is called the slider, a pitch developed durinjt the time of the mustache cup, but refined with increasing skill by vast ly increasing numbers. To be more specific, roughly 90 per cent of today's pitch- era are able to throw the slider with a good degree of accuracy, bringing to the batsmen a major problem. Now you may Inquire: What Is a slider and why is it making us a race of .250 hitters? Actually, the slider li a curve that doesn't look like a curve to the man at the plate. Thrown with greater speed than a normal breaking pitch and delivered with a different spin, It often deludes batters into believing It is a fastball.

i On record, In fact, are countless causes of hitters report-! ing that they struck out on a fast one, whereas in truth they missed a slider they weren't able to detect. DODGERS DECIDE HELP IS NEEDED Obviously, when guys no longer know what they are hitting, the game is in trouble, a fact grudgingly acknowl-. edged by the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have hired as a hitting instructor Mr. Dixie Walker, an accomplished batsman of a generation that saw the slider only occasionally. For missionary work in the field of hitting, Dixie has come to the right place.

Los Angeles has the distinguished record of having come into a World Scries (of 1965) with a team batting average of .226. It soared to .230 last year, a season in which its top batter hit .285. Clearly, here is a team ready for a hitting instructor. Asked why pitchers are able to make such donkeys of today's hitters, Mr. Walker isolates the problem in two areas.

"First," he says, "you must understand the commercial value of being a long ball hitter, as opposed to a man who slaps singles and doubles. The home run pays off in today's society. Young players are determined to knock the ball out of the lot The result is, we have more homers today than ever before and fewer guys who can hit .300. To smash homers, you try to pull. Well, there's no way you're going to pull a slider on the outside corner." 1 Walker's second explanation is related to the first.

To go for distance, today's hitters have gone to light bats, the kind that can be whipped about with greater speed and agility. "I am not suggesting that hitters go back to the long. heavy bats that were used years ago," says Dixie. "I only point out that light bats are more conducive to power and i less conducive to a good average. The man with the long, heavy bat merely tried to meet the outside pitch.

He would take any kind of hit he could get Today, the kids with the light bats will gamble on belting an outside pitch out of sight." 1 It is Walker's judgment that new standards soon will be established in baseball. Whereas the .300 average up until recently has been rated the standard of excellence, a .250 veVy likely will earn the same respectability before long. SATCHEL LONGS TO PITCH AGAIN The past few days in Florida, we have discussed hitting with diverse authorities in the field. One, Mr. Satchel Paige, reflected wistfully that it is unconstitutional and a dirty rotten shame he cannot be a young pitcher opposing today's batters.

"The way the kids are goin' for the seats today," said Satch, "they gives the pitcher every break. In my day, the hitters used to bunt us and drag us and push us. They'd do anything to get on base." "What's a push?" he was asked. "A push," he explained, "is when a man doesn't hit a i pitch. He just pushes it." As one of baseball's classic hitters, Ted Williams refuses to accept today's pitching as that much better than what he looked at between 1940 and 1960.

"I've seen these guys with their slider and their fast ones," says Ted, "and I'm not at all sure that this isn't stuff I saw before." "Then why rre averages dropping?" "Hitting is 50 per cent mental," said Williams, "Something has happened upstairs to today's batters. My job at Washington is to try to develop processes whereby guys feel they can hit the ball again." There is distinct logic to Ted's argument. When a man striking out on a slider thinks he saw a fastball, he could have a mental problem. A WHOLE NEW WORLD! 1 Carol City Edison 1-4 J-7 I SOUTHERN DIVISION Palmetto 5-1 131 I South Dade 10-2 Miami Beach 5-1 1-3 Coral Gables 4-7 7-5 Coli mbus 3-2 7-4 Killian 3-3 e-4 Coral Park 2-4 3-1 Southwest 1 a 1- Miami High 0-7 1-12 FOR MATURE SINGLES) NORTH 891.2804 SOUTH 445-3609 DISTRICT 7AA (southern hall) Dlst. Overall nr7 DAY OR rec.

no LTW018-H0LE Hialeah High's baseball team, with All-County stars Ric Soriano and Preston Jones back, may face a stiff District 7AA challenge tomorrow. The Thoroughbreds, 2-0, THIS WEEK'S SCHOOL SCHEDULE BASEBALL TOMORROW Curley at Coral Park Key West at Edison Columbus at Coral Gobies Hialeah at North Miami South Dade at Miami Beach 7:30 Norla at Carol City Jackson at Killian Palmetto at Southwest Miami Springs at Northwestern FRIDAY Coral Park at Miami Beach 7:30 Carol City at Hialeah 7:30 Killian at Edison Mays vs. Jackson Curtis Park Palmetto at Curley Southwest at Miami High Northwestern at Central Miami Soring at Norland South Dade at Coral Gables SATURDAY North Miami at Miami Beach 7:30 Northwestern vs. Jackson Curtis Park, 11 a.m. Edison at Miami High 11 Miami Springs at Coral Park 2 TRACK TODAY Curley vs.

Mavs Moore Park TOMORROW Norland vs. Central Dade North Palmetto at Southwest Killian vs. LaSalle Dade South Carol City at Edison Miami High, Miami Beach and Key West Dade North SATURDAY Central, Norland, Miami High and South Dade Dade North Flying Relays Ft. Lauderdale's Lockhart Stadium SWIMMING TOMORROW Jackson at North Miami, 4 Norland at Hialeah. 4 Southwest at Miami High, 3:30 Coral Park at Miami Beach, 7:30 FRIOAY Carol Cltv at Killian, 4 Miami High at Palmetto, 7:30 Columbus at Coral Gables, 7:30 Edison at Hialeah, 7:30 SATURDAY Wcodson Invitational Lauderdale Pine Crest GOLF TODAY Coral Gables at South Dade Coral Park at Palmetto Miami Beach at Columbus Miami High at Killian TOMORROW Central at Miami Springs WEDNESDAY Hialeah at Edison THURSDAY North Miami at Curley Carol City at Norland FRIDAY Coral Park at Miami Springs Norland at Killian South Dade at Miami High Palmetto at Miami Beach Team ret.

Hialeah 2-0 Northwestern 1-0 Central 1-1 North Miami 0-0-1 Carol City 0-1 Miami Springs 0-1 Norland 0-1-1 2-0 1-0 1-1 0-0-1 0-1 0-7 0-1-1 If COURSES Teeny'Boppcr Wallop Raymond Tozcr has his guard up to evade a left from Gregory Thomas during a bout for 55-pounders at the Toronto Junior Boxing Championships over the weekend. Gregory went on to win the three-rounder by a decision. DISTRICT IAA i i- I One a challenging championship beauty, one an executive course lighted for night play. Rental clubs, electric carts, lighted driving 20 2-0 21 2-1 1-1 1-1 1-2 11 0-2 0-2 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 0-1 0-2 South Dade Coral Park Jackson Miami Beach -Miami High Killian Edison Palmetto Coral Gables Southwest range. Dining room and bar; locker room.

Phone 821-1150 Miami Lakes Inn 0 Country Club Palmetto Expressway and N.W. 154th Street (Miami likewiy) Tuesdee Hopes To Begin Riding At Aqueduct The Associated Press VV TIRE j) IllSllIf YOU BET! AUTO RACING ARCADIA, Calif. Lady jockey Tuesdee Testa's abbreviated career as a rider at Santa Anita ended as it started she finished last on mounts that were prohibitive longshots. Back in New York today, hopeful of resuming riding at Aqueduct for trainer Everett King, who has her contract, 27-year-old Tuesdee closed out the season here Saturday with this boxscore: Ninth and last, first, 10th in a 12-horse race and seventh and last Saturday. Her last mount, Fast County, a 30-1 longshot, trailed from start to finish.

The winning jockey, on Terresto for a $6.60 payoff, was no stranger to the winner's circle. He was Bill Shoemaker. CAROLINA 5C0 Rockingham, N.C 1. Da' id Pearson, Spartanburg, Fcrd, $16,150. 2.

Bobby Allison, Hueytown, S.C, I Dade South Track Records Tumbling Dodge, sy.xo. J. Yarborough, Timmonsville, S.C. I Ford, 4. Paul Goldsmith, Munster, Dodse, $2,700.

5. Richard Pelty, Randlcrhan, N.C' Ford. 4. Donnie Allison. Hueytown, 7, Bobby Isaac, Catawba, N.C, Dodge, $1,375.

I e. John Sears, Ellerbe, N.C, Ford, sco. 9. James Hilton, nman, C.C., Dodge, $1,125. 10.

Ho- "liinton, Wilmington, Mer-! cur SI ,2 JO. each installed 5 FOR CONFIDENT CAR CONTROL AND NEW-CAR GET FAMOUS-MAKE SHOCK ABSORBERS 1 priedrich CENTRAL air conditioning in its four-year history, scored 95 points. The University of Florida was runner-up with 73 points. Behind the two leaders were: Florida State, 57; Miami-Dade South, 39; Florida 25; University of Miami, 22; University of Tampa, 16, Florida Atlantic University, 12, and Broward Junior College, 1. In gymnastics the same evening, Miami-Dade North had to settle for second place to Odessa (Texas) Junior College in the National Junior College Gymnastics championships at Miami-Dade North.

maintenance cost USE GENERAL'S CONVENIENT AUTO-CHARGE PLAN no money down months to pay Miami-Dade South won its second straight major track invitational meet of the season Saturday. The Jaguars walked away with the Manatee SunCoast Invitational in Sarasota. 1 South defeated host-team Manatee JC, 96-78. Dade North finished third with 51 points, Florida JC of Jack-) sonville, 31, and Polk JC i with two. Seminole JC with-' drew.

"Sprinter Tom Hargrett lowered his own school record in the 220 with a 21.8 time and took the 100-yard dash at 9.7. He was the only double-winner for the Jag- uars. Dade South took seven firsts total, including victo-. ries, in the 440 and mile re-. lays and the 880 run.

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