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The Indianapolis News from Indianapolis, Indiana • 35

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Pie 36 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Friday, My 31, 1974 Bonham Wants No Part Of Bullpen Ashe To Serve Junior Tennis NATIONAL NOTES No program in Indianapolis Arthur Ashe, who has had some great moments in the National Clay Court Open tennis tournament here, will come to Indianapolis this summer to lend his support to the new National Junior Tennis League. Registration for the free program will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. tomorrow at the following parks: Awlatt Pratt Sometimes it can be murder being a starting pitcher, but Bill Bonham has no plans to ask for a return to the Chicago Cubs' bullpen. Bonham, getting a chance as a starter in his second full major league baseball season, calmed down after a shaky beginning yesterday and, despite being pecked for 11 San Francisco hits, committing a balk and unleashing a wild pitch, came away with a 5-3 victory over the Giants in Wrigley Field.

He got the triumph because he also recorded seven strike Milt May led off the loth for Houston with a single and made it to second when firrf baseman Hal Brecdon fielded Bob Gallagher's bunt and threw too late trying for the force. One out later, Helms singled to center. The Astros pushed across a pair of first-inning runs on a hit batsman with the bases loaded and Cliff Johnson's grounder, and they made it 3-0 in the seventh on John- son's sacrifice fly. Tommy Davis tied it for Montreal with a three-run homer in the eighth. Fuentea opened with a single." Garry Maddox then filed out, so Lockman said he decided to let Bonham pitch through the next batter before considering a change and the next batter, Ed Goodson, grounded into a game-ending double play.

Tommy Helms, who doubled but had been cut down at the plate trying to score in the eighth inning, lashed a tie-breaking single in the 10th to give Houston its fourth straight victory and its third in a row over the Montreal Expos. The Astros won, 4-3. midway in the game when I went io my changeup and I was getting it over," said Bonham. I've given up 21 hits in my last two games, but I'm getting strikeouts when 1 need them. This is my fourth season in the majors and I think I'm making progress as a starter.

I'd hate to go back to the bullpen because that changes your pitching style entirely." Despite Bonham's struggle, Chicago manager VVhitcy a said he "wasn't close to yanking him, except for the ninth inning after Tito Jerry Morales gave him the hit he needed most, a tie breaking, two-run double in the eighth inning. For Bonham, a big righthander with a 4-8 record and a 4.40 earned-run average, it was his third complete game of the season. In 571-3 Innings he's been tagged for 59 hits. But he's also come up with 53 strikeouts. "My fast ball was hopping in the beginning, but I was pitching oui of jams until Arthur Ashe Hoosier Participant TERRE HAUTE, Ind.

(AP) Air National Guard Maj. Mike Webb of Indianapolis is one of three Guard officers selected nationally as finalists for an international military sports meet in Oslo, Norway, in July. Webb is assigned to the 181st Tactical Fishter Group at Hulman Field. Competition will include weapons firing, running and swimming obstacle courses. CarfKM imtmif RIH4IUS UK Mi Arwiul li tni BroMwIT Martin lalMr Km Vvtt MoAfgcmtrv rail cxat Brtotlidt outs, several when he need ed them most, and because wanuu Ashe, of Miami, who won the Clay Court title in 1967, will spend one of five days he has earmarked for youngsters involved in the nation-wide NJTL date has been set.

The No. 3 ranked U.S. player will travel about the city to give instructional tips and encouragement to the participants who will be aged nine through 16. Lilly Endowment Inc. contributed $25,000 to fund the local pilot program.

Carl Williams, former Attucks standout who played varsity tennis at Purdue, is the program coordinator. John Barnhill, assistant coach of the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association, will be director of human relations. There will be program personnel at each park to assist in registering the novice players. A second registration will be held June 8. It is planned to have 20 leagues and 160 teams, with matches to begin June 14.

Playoffs will be held the middle og The program, which involves 150,000 youngsters nationally in 40 cities, is built on the instant competition concept of tennis. The youngsters will play matches before receiving any instruction. V. Caps Say 'We're For Real' CHECK OUR By LARRY FORTNER smmmD CLEM SAYS: We're bigger now than ever and proud of it too. Our lower prices and great service did it.

Come on out end let us prove it to you. We gotta' be doing something right. "We're not millionaires but we're for real," says Joe Wolfla. president of the Indy Caps, a mostly professional football team Before Wolfla and a group of -his buddies took over the team i lit after the first week of the season last year, the Caps NEW 1974 PINTO 2-DOOR Slock no. ngine, 4-sped, WSW tiros.

Radio, plus OUR PRICI FIBERGLASS BELTED were best known for winning To Attend Furman ELKHART, d. (AP) -Ron Smith, a member of the 1974 Indiana high school All-Star basketball team, has signed a letter of intent with Furman University in South Carolina. Smith, a 5-foot-9 i games and losing money, lots of money. But with Wolfla, a short, AMOCO. CXV WHITEWALLS bald, fat Haughville lepre guard from Elkhart Memori GEBfEEB al, scored 926 points in his high school career.

Sporty low-profile tire Wide massive appearance Two fiberglass and two polyester cord belts form four tough plies under the tread Computer-inspected Meets Department of Transportation standards for steady running at turnpike speeds chaun, running the Caps out of his home, his business office and his hip pocket, the organization fielded a team every week and even tied for the Midwest Football League championship, i i the "title" with a flip of a coin. Somehow they even managed to honor their debts. "We didn't sell a season ticket last year not one," Wolfla says. "And that was nobody's fault but our own. "But we paid every bill.

We don't owe a soul." Even with a woeful lack of a press and public relations staff, the Caps drew an average of 2,700 fans to CYO field last year. But this year, Wolfa says, they're going to fill the 4,500 seats for every one of their six home games, lor $(P i E70-14 plus S2.51 Federal Excise Tax each beginning with a July 6exhi A-1 toition game against a team from Flint, Mich. They'd better. "We've got to gross $60,000," Wolfla says. "That's true figures.

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