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CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MONDAY. JANUARY II, 1971 Section 3 3 MOON MULL17JS If fSf tjoour At Hi wv-. IliilliJiU-- izxzzzLrl oHH "THAT 5f500Vy yoilU BE LATE fTte'sA VHAT A sWEtL-M a Off, oun l. tooKiN7 PAY I Sl0 for school: ALWAYS Tmmm Tumi Widjrirvr' icro Along the Sports Trail 1 I ts Fans! Spor THINK that if someone would have asked him in i by Robert Markus FROM THE CONTINUED lamentations of White Sox fans over the departure of Luis Aparicio you'd think the Sox had sent him to Buchenwald instead of Boston. Personally, I can't get too excited about it.

I mean little Luis was a great guy, sure, and until Don Kessinger came along I MAC MAC Aft PRCfESSOIAL TED I -HE'U. BETAKEN THKJOSH SOU I ll EVERVBoOV unci- ieapuX divot rb MiW AY kku aw gp, APPRE, SWKE TME- I PRSAMStf JKOW LEARN THEM WW TO VPU'P BETTER HAVE SOMETHING -SPECIAL UP-y If 'CCtrcr tlftl ji thought Aparicio was the greatest defensive shortstop who ever lived. But I'd hardly call him a Chicago institution. This was not the first time the White Sox have traded him, and the last time he left Luis had some unkind things to say about the management. In fact, he did such an effective job of burning his bridges I'd thought he'd have to hire a construction firm to get back into town.

The White Sox ought to be congratulated for peddling Aparicio at a time when he commanded a relatively high Luis Aparicio price. One more season ana ne a have i replaceable part? been available for cash and a couple of itart Your Engines by Martin Wyant there is only a slight delay because it is necessary for the players to get to the huddle in a hurry. But in baseball it is a different thing. After a controversial play, action stops and the players argue with the umpires. Baseball needs a delay-of-the-game penalty.

Give the plate umpire the power to order the batter to bat and the pitcher to pitch. If the batter is derelict, call strikes on him. If the pitcher will not deliver with the batter in the box, call a ball about every 20 seconds. Anybody got a better idea? CHARLES POOLE HOW ungrateful can one get? Without Notre Dame, Texas would still be No. 1.

Shame on you, Bob De-vaney. FRANK PEDRO I'M IN "the Air Force stationed near Boston and occasionally get to see The Tribune. When the Red Sox fans where I am at found out that their team had given up young Second Baseman Mike Andrews for old Luis Aparicio, their reaction was just about as wild as that of the Chicagoans. Aparicio had a great year in 1970, but Andrews has the potential of having many great years. So you see, White Sox fans, it goes both ways.

But the White Sox will come out the best in the long way. BOB SAFRANEK THE exhibition hockey season is now about half over. Soon, the regular season more commonly known as the Stanley Cup playoffs will begin. BRUCE ROSENFELDER HOW TO make pro football an even greater sport than it is and how to enable each city to be a contender at least once a decade: At the end of every- third season, put all players in each division in a common pool, with the last-place finishers picking first right on down the line. This system would give a player of the Dick Butkus caliber and others a chance to be with a winner at least once during their career.

J. CORBETT a nice wayj, ram roweu would have built a domed athletic stadium for Chicago. It could have been called Paul Powell's Palace. RAY RYSON IT'S strange to me how sports writers and broadcasters got carried away with that George Blanda "miracle" stuff, altho I suppose they have to seek out new "heroes" to have something to write and talk about. Oakland could have beaten the Colts if it had not been for Blanda's Interceptions.

He lost a key game for the Raiders in the regular season because of his bad passes. "Luck" won some games for Blanda and the Raiders, but not "miracles." ROBERT H. SCHMIDT A NOTE to Ted Damata Dec. 30: As a loyal St. Louis Blues' fan I find it impossible to become interested in a team that broadcasts only the second and third periods of their home games, I have come to this conclusion after reading your opinion of the Western Division National Hockey League All-Star game: The whole All-Star system is wrong.

Until such time that the "other" Western Division teams can claim a Stanley Cup winner in their midst, the All-Star game should match the regular Black Hawk team against the stars of the five other established teams. Incidentally, Mr. Damata should have pointed out that the reason for the drastic drop in Red Berenson's point production this season was because of the stretched knee ligaments he suffered at the hands of the one and only Keith Magnuson. LUCINDA BIRK CASSIUS CLAY is not boxing's best and Joe Frazier will have an easy test. STEVE SABATS WHEN pass interference is called in a football game, the guilty defender will complain to the official.

And when it is not called and the pass is incomplete, the intended receiver complains. However, in each instance, Joe Grzenda trading cards. Besides, when White Sox fans, especially the gals, get a look at Mike Andrews, they're going to forget all about Aparicio. I don't know if Andrews can play second base, but after meeting him for the first time during the round of baseball parties over the weekend I can report that the noise you hear coming out of White Sox Park this summer will be the sound of a thousand hearts breaking simultaneously. If the Sox miss Aparicio at all this year it will be during spring training when they go to Venezuela for an exhibition series.

Aparicio was so popular in his native country that when his dad died this winter the front pages were given over to the obituary. Luis is known simply as "a great one" in his homeland, and you'd have to wonder what they'd call him if he'd ever learn to hit. So imagine the reception the Sox are going to get when they show up without Looey in a country where a three-game losing streak is considered just cause for a riot. The Sox management is understandably edgy about the situation and one official suggests: "We may try to get the Red Sox to loan Aparicio to us for the trip." Meanwhile, of course, the question Sox fans want answered is: Who's at short? That has seldom been a problem on the South Side. Even in years when the rest of the club has played like the Arlington Park Press-Radio-TV All-Stars, the Sox have had outstanding shortstops.

Starting with Luke Appling the almost unbroken chain of succession runs thru Chico Carrasquel, Aparicio, Ron Hansen, and back to Aparicio. Spring training in Sarasota this year is going to be interesting for a variety of reasons and not the least of them is the battle for shortstop. First crack at the job will undoubtedly go to Luis Alvarado, who came from Boston along with Andrews. There are those who believe that any similarity between Aparicio and Alvarado begins with their first names and ends with the first letter of their last. But Andrews predicts: "Alvarado will be the fastest man on this ball club." pany has announced that it will put a new radial passenger car tire into competition this year in the 24-hour Daytona and 12-hour Sebring races.

The unique tire, to be campaigned on a 425-horse-power Firebird specially prepared for BFG, will also be run in 12 selected Sports Car Club of America national races, according to Gerard Alexander, president of the company's tire division. This "Radial TA" 60-se -ries tire will be the only domestically made "street" tire in competition against the pure racing tires on major tracks this year, Alexander said. The manufacturer's suggested retail price for the Radial TA will be about the same as for 60-series bias-belted tires, he added. The Trans-American championship race series this year will have purses raised by 20 per cent over 1970 figures. Each Trans-Am event has been guaranteed a purse up from last year's $25,000 by the Sports Car Club of America, "I think we should try to keep him warm until help arrives!" JUST WHAT effect will the drastic cutdown in factory-backed racing teams have on the chances of the average independent driver this year? "This definitely will help us," says Jerry Lagod, young Barrington driver embarking on his second year of competition in the Trans-Am series.

"This brings the big money and the winning places closer to the really independent driver such as myself. "But of course there are still a number of millionaire independent teams who will be spending beaucoup dollars and they'll still be ahead of the rest of us." Lagod, 30 -year -old mechanical engineer for International Harvester, this year will be driving under his first sponsorship, being associated with Dupli-Color Products, of Elk Grove Village and he's also looking for further backing for the campaign of his 1970 Camaro. Lagod last year drove to sixth place at Donnybrooke on the Trans-Am trail and had the first pony car to finish in the USAC 250-miler in Indianapolis, grabbing fifth. He was third in the SCCA American Road Racing Championships at Daytona in 1969. Lagod thinks the lack of direct factory support for racing could lead to diminished fan interest.

"The fans like to see the colorful display the factory teams lend to the sport the big vans, 20-man crews, big name drivers. He added that with the big companies pulling out of racing, amid the nation's economic tightening-up, "promoters are going to have to go out and really promote these races. Maybe in some cases admission prices could be lowered." Four pit stops will be required in the Schaefer 500 at Pocono Pa. International Raceway. "We feel, after checking with officials of the United States Auto Club, and with many of the competitors, that the four-pit-stop rule will add a great deal of interest ALVARADO was the sensation of the Florida training camps a year ago but came unglued once the season started.

Part of his problem, however, may have been caused by being switched from shortstop to third base. If Alvarado doesn't make it, Manager Chuck Tanner suggests there is always Rich McKinney and "don't forget a guy named Mike Andrews. He used to be a pretty good shortstop." But if you want an inside tip, put your money on Lee Richard. Glen Miller, the Sox farm director, hangs the "can't miss" label on Richard, who came off the campus of Southern University last year right into Triple-A ball. "Even if he doesn't make the team in spring training," says Miller, "I'll guarantee you he'lf be back up before the year is over.

This kid will be the Sox shortstop for the next ten years." If Miller had his way, tho, Richard would have some competition from another college prospect, a kid from down in Mississippi named Archie Who or something like that. Unfortunately, Archie happens to play football for the University of Mississippi, and there's talk that he'll be offered a pro football contract that the Sox couldn't match even if they threw in Arthur Allyn's butterfly collection. Not that they didn't They drafted Manning Oh, yeah, that's his name last year, and, according to Miller, "made him a really good offer. In fact he was promised that he would come right up to the big club. He said he liked baseball, too, but, of course, he had another season of football left." If Manning had left Mississippi to play for the Sox, it would probably have started the Civil War all over again, but Miller reveals the Sox have the promise of some unexpected support in their efforts to land Manning.

The Louisiana State Boosters Club offered to chip in $5.00 a man for us to sweeten the pot to sign Manning," says Miller. Well, I guess it's all for the best, anyway. This town isn't big enough for two shortstops from the University of Mississippi. to the race," track manager Bill Marvel said in making the announcement last week. Marvel added that the additional stop three pit stops are required at the Indianapolis 500 and the California Ontario 500 "should serve to keep interest high thruout the entire event, while adding to safety measures being taken for the race." The 500-miler on July 3 will mark the opening of the 2V2-mile oval in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountain resort region, and bring the Indy-type cars east for the first time.

The Indy May 29, Ontario Sept. 5, and Pocono 500s will comprise the United States Auto Club's Triple Crown. Dwight Arrowood, 10-year veteran of drag racing, yesterday was named national race director of the International Hot Rod Association. In announcing the appointment, I. H.

R. A. president Larry Carrier said: "We're on the move, and by the end of the year, the I. H. R.

A. will be making its challenge for the No. 1 sanctioning body in the sport. We are growing much faster than we ever anticipated." Veteran driver Johnny Rutherford was amazed at the hard-driving competitiveness of Saigon traffic, on his tour Army installations there last month. "It's absolutely unreal.

They must kill off at least a couple of thousand people a day. I've never seen such a wild thing in my life," he said. Roger McCluskey, Larry Dickson and Gary Gabclich also represented the United States Auto Club on the tour. The four drivers dubbed an intersection in front of their hotel in Saigon "Rodeo Corner." "You can look at it and still not believe it," said McCluskey, noting the six lanes of traffic from motorcycles and bikes to cycle-cabs and 1-ton trucks tangling on the four-lane street. "This makes the demolition derby at Islip N.

Y. look like a Girl Scout parade. "I think we can find a whole bunch of drivers fcr the U. S. Auto Club right here.

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