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the Journal Times, Sunday, April 3, 1977 3D Raclnt Wli. iowml Jiimes sports 3-tirne winner- NEW YORK (API The RnrinA Jniirnal Plnkston, Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, heart transplant puts bowler back on tour. FEATURES: 1. Arnold Irish, Metro-East Journal, East St. Louts, 111., 15-part bicentennial series.

2. Rick Starr, Tarentum (Pa.) Valley News Dispatch, Bert Jones is brightest new star among quarterbacks. 3. Mike Syostak, Woonsocket (R.I.) Call, why Marvin Barnes can't get it together. NEWS: 1.

Mike Kennedy, Anchorage Times, sled dog racing. 2. Cliff Kirkland, South Mississippi Sun, Blloxl, Jimmy Young's blood boils over loss to All. 3. PAUL BODI, Racine (Wis.) Journal Times, don't ever forget Claude Humphrey.

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: 1. Mike Hembree, Spartansburg (S.C.) Herald-Journal, the sound of silence. 2. Kevin Lyttle, Willoughby Hews-Herald, dilemma: public vs. parochial.

3. Bob Abbott, Rochester (Minn.) Post-Bulletin, participation fee proposed. SECTION MAKEUP: 1. St. Petersburg JOURNAL TIMES.

3. Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune. GENERAL EXCELLENCE, DAILY: I. St. Petersburg Evening Independent.

2. Allentown Evening Chronicle. 3. Wilmington (Del.) Morning News. GENERAL EXCELLENCE, SUNDAY: 1.

Belleville News-Democrat. 2. RACINE JOURNAL TIMES. 3. Burlington (N.J.) County Times, Wllllngboro, N.J.

APSE, organized in 1974, now has membership of almost 300 newspaper sports editors from around the nation. The goal of the organization is to improve sports journalism through exchange of ideas and mutual contribution to The AP sports wire report. The contest committee was headed by Bill Millsaps, sports editor of the Richmond TimesDispatch, and included Bill Brill, sports editor of the Roanoke Times, and Cooper Rollow of the Chicago Tribune. Judges in the contest were managing editors nominated by the AP Managing Judges tn the contest were managing editors nominated by the AP Editors Association. The contest winners' Over 50,000 Category COLUMNS: 1.

Blackie Dallas Times Herald, the U.S. Olympic basketball team's gold medal victory. 2. Peter Finney, New Orleans States-Item, a race track losPeter Finney, New Orleans States-Item, a race track loser. 3.

Bill Lyon, Philadelphia Inquirer, a Navy football player with cancer. FEATURES: I. Tony Kornheiser, New York Times, the Brown brothers, separated by distance and style. 2. John Schulian, Washington Post, a man of many dimensions.

3. Skip Myslenski, Philadelphia Inquirer, fun and games at Marquette. NEWS: 1. Bob Pacecky, San Bernardino Sun-Telegram, Barstow Community College basketball program. 2 and 3 (joint award).

Thomas Boswell and Leonard Shapiro, Washington Post, on two Maryland basketball players. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING: 1. Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) News and Sun Sentinel, series on marijuana smoking among high school athletes. 2. Milwaukee Journal, misuse of federal funds in operation of a boxing program.

3.. Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, irregularities in use of state funds to finance a state college athletic program. SECTION MAKEUP: 1. Philadelphia Inquirer. 2.

St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times. 3. Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle. GENERAL EXCELLENCE, DAILY: 1.

Eugene Register-Guard. 2. St. Petersburg Times. 3.

Miami Herald. GENERAL EXCELLENCE, SUNDAY: 1. New York Times. 2. St.

Petersburg Times. 3. San Francisco Examiner. Under 50,000 Category COLUMNS: 1. Gordon Smith, Allentown (Pa.) Evening Chronicle, rebuilding Yankee Stadium a financial rape.

2. Ted Diadium, Willoughby (Ohio) News-Herald, a coach football can't afford to lose. -3. Buddy Times won three awards and the Milwaukee Journal took one award In the first annual Associated Press Sports Editors Association nationwide sports writing and editing contest. The Journal Times, competing in the class for newspapers ot under 50,000 circulation, won second place for section makeup and another second for general excellence of Sunday sections.

Journal Times sports writer. Paul Bodi took third place in the news category with a feature story on Claude Humphrey of the Atlanta Falcons. 'The Milwaukee Journal, competing In the over 50,000 circulation class! won a second place award in investigative reporting for its report on misuse of federal funds in operation of a boxing program" The contest, open to members of APSE, was for material published in 1976. Awards will be presented at the fourth annual APSE convention in Chicago June 6-8. Evening Independent.

2. RACINE Editors Association. Bill Byrne makes a slow pitch fftfeaiD Dttcs itd piroff ssD dh a0 Book AMERICAN PROFESSIONAL In return for that $2, fans will be able to see the best slo-pitch talent in the world in three hours of competition. "We're going to have to depend on the people coming out and seeing us," said Korinek. "I was a little reluctant to get Into this thing because I didn't know how firm the footing would be or what the ground work was like.

"But once I got into it and met with three or four of the other owners, I could see what was put into it and I really believe it's going to make it." Even the quickest glance at the APSPL will catch the name that makes things go Byrne. By Mark Eickhorst Journal Times Staff MILWAUKEE A dream. It could be any town in the United States the name and place doesn't really matter. But there he is. Mr.

Jock Slo-Pitch. The man whose stomach hangs over the belt ever so slightly. The man with arm that resembles a noodle kept in soup storage for a year.Tthe man whose bat invented the power bunt. The man whose glove has gone through acupuncture, but still loves the game of 12-inch slo.pltch softball. The game is played and loved by millions of people across this land of milk and honey each year.

And like any sport, the degree of the athlete varies. But there is the dream. Jock returns 1iome after a night of local softball action. The clock has already struck a Cinderella midnight. He's hit a local establishment and tipped more than Just a few beers with his teammates and friends.

One last time he relives that inspiring victory or disheartening loss in his mind as he pulls his beloved uniform off. His head, slightly spinning, hits the pillow. The dream. i in nut vci veiy uiaggauunuuB, uui I ueuueu lu uu 11, Bryne said. "I put together the factor.

I ran the research, and the best thing I've done is come up with 12 strong owners. And at the same time, I'll take the blame if the league folds. "I'll lose a lot of money if the league folds, but I'll feel bad because I'm the one that sat down and penciled the factors that wouldn't happen." Byrne is confident, though. "The interest is there. When these teams hold tryouts, they've been getting 300 to 400 people out," said Byrne, who stuck $53,000 into research before forming the league.

"They're going to be putting 10 exceilerft ball players on the field. You're not going to see what you call 'rinky-dink' softball. I believe people will pay to see the best. "Over 35 million people from age eight to 80 play the game each year and the game is still growing." And it's big business. "I've never cried to the media," Byrne said.

"They (the press) are going to help you If you do your part. If you field a good product or team, they're going to look without you asking them to. It's not their job to make you money if ours." And while all this is going on, Pro Enterprises Incorporated will publish a magazine called Pro Softball Magazine. "It's going to be better than Sports Illustrated," said Publisher H. Glenn Reed.

"We're putting a lot of money Into this. The first copy will be over 100 pages long. We plan to put softball on the map." Byrne also will be trying to accomplish the same thing. "We have to crawl before we walk. I don't want to blow things out of proportion and say we're going to do this and that," he said.

"So far we've done everything we said we were going to do. The cities we said we were going Into we're in." Byrne is a professional with just a touch of Bobby Riggs in him. He was the director of player personnel with the Chicago Fire of the now-defunct World Football. League. "I don't want to sound braggadoclous, again the WFL' folded, but I did my job," said Byrne, who also owns a national scouting organization.

"There's 88 players on National! Football League rosters that I helped bring into the WFL and there's another 27 to 30 playing In the Canadian league. "I've been an owner, a scout, a coach, a general but I don't want to talk about myself. Now I'm the president' of the APSPL and that's my concern. I've been through the' pitfalls. I'm not, ashamed of anything I've done in profession-' al sports.

I love it it's my livelihood." And for the time being, it's called Professional Slo-Pitch Softball. Travel. Excitement. Money. A stadium filled with people.

Kids asking for his autograph. He's playing professional slo-pitch softball. Dreams can become reality, though. On May 29th, Milwaukee Copper Hearth and 11 other teams In cities across the United States will begin play in the American Professional Slo-Pitch League. It's the first pro league of it's kind.

"It's true that the game of 12-inch softball is available to a lot of people," said John Korinek, president, manager, and part-time pitcher for the Milwaukee franchise. "But the caliber of talent we're offering is not readily available and that's what I feel will bring in the people." Korinek feels Copper Hearth will make a strong showing in the league that includes teams from Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Louisville, Cleveland, Trenton, Columbus, Minneapolis, New York, Pittsburgh and Cinncinati. "There's no wayjn hell that we're not going to win this thing with the contingent of ball players we have," said Korinek while introducing his team to the public this week. "There's no doubt in my mind that we're not going to be in the top two. We're going to get a share of that playoff money.

"I don't know the other teams, but I know the nucleus of our team is second to none: We're going to have players sitting on the bench that made all-world last year." League President Bill Byrne thinks the Milwaukee franchise has a good chance of making Korinek ls a world CTiamplon," JBJfq uQicxa mQii houA onf a 1 ate etart nn thin net film atdAUiAltriri' "John Is going to make it because he does things first class," said Mike Petesch, president of Mid-City Sporting goods. "He's spent about $200 on each player just in uniforms, and they're first class uniforms." The individual uniform includes four shirts, three pajrs of pants, one pair of shorts, two jackets, two caps and three pairs of socks. The roster will be made up of strictly local talent, including Racine's Ron Danoski. -EfH home games will be played at Wilson Stadium, South 20tll and West Howard Avenue in Milwaukee. Its home opener Is June 4 against Detroit.

The cost to see a doubleheader will be $2 for adults and $1 for senior citizens and children. Season tickets are also available. He'll field a good team. If it looks like the baseball player can't play this game, he won't be around. "Ron Santo was a great great ball player, but If he can't play the game, he's going to go home.

He dosen't want some guy playing softball making a fool out of him. The league will create its own stars." The APSPL Is planning on a $100,000 playoff In the World serJeVof softball, at the end of the a M-game schedule, including a 50,000 first prize and championship, rings valued at $480. All of the games will be played on weekends with double-headers on Saturday and Sunday. The average player's salary will be $2,000 plus expenses. The cost of operating Copper Hearth In the initial season will be in excess of $75,000.

i5 'QDn to malte moves.ln the next two or three weeks that took other clubs a couple of months." The talent will be the best. The Chicago-based team will be managed by former Cub pitcher Milt Pappas and the roster may include former Cubs Ron Santo and Paul Popovlch. "Milt Pappas plays softball," Byrne said. "He's no fool. East leads in Golden Gloves ry Tatman of Lafayette.

The 132-pound division will match Sammy Ay-ala of Fort Worth, Texas, against Pat Jefferson of Omaha, and Ayala is the pick after he stored a semifinal triumph over Billy Williams of Jackson, Tenn. The 139-pound division will have Robert Young of Huntington, "i ijVa. goings against Hearns. Young beat Ronnie Newton of Jackson, while Hearns defeated Jeff Ferguson of Elizabeth, N.J. Michael McCallum of Miami declsloned nis Danforth ot Minneapolis to gain the 147-pound final where he will meet Cliff Hlnkle of Rocky Utah.

Hlnkle declsoned Anthony Teague of Louisville, Ky. Golden Gloves titles as a 147-pounder, is heavily favored to take his first 156-pound crown when he meets Parker. Broom advanced by decisioning Bill Tuttle of Washington, DC, while Taylor won easily over William White of Springfield, III. Orlando Maldonado of Miami declsloned Shawn Thomas of Grand Rapids, to be come the favorite In the 112-pound division. He will meet Billy Ranelll of Syracuse, who won over Sonny Long of Columbus, Ohio.

Wayne Lynum of Chicago, the top ranked 119-pounder in the country, is the favorite to whip Rocky Lockrldge of Las Vegas after scoring a unanimous but very close decision over Honolulu's Ralph Aviles. Johnie Bumpbus (125) of Las Vegas beat Lar HONOLULU (AP) Heavyweight, Jimmy Clark of Pennsylvania declsloned Tony Tubbs of Columbus, Ohio, Saturday to give the eastern team a one-point lead going into the finals of the 50th annual Golden Gloves boxing Knoxvllle, currently tied with Detroit with 19 points apiece, remains the favorite to take the team title btxjifle of Olympian Clinton Jackson (156), Bernard Taylor (125), and Keith Broom (165) all In the finals. Detroit landed Rick Jester at 178 pounds and lightwelter Thomas Hearns. In the heavyweight field, Clark will meet Louisville's, slugger, Gregory Page. Page declsloned Tommy Thomas of Huntington, W.

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