Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 58

2 Section 6 Chicago Tribune, Monday, August 6, 1979 Pirates' surplus overwhelms Phils Mays, Durocher steal the show at Hall of Fame sy ji i i 1 I m- J- i I IP--' A p. i dt lilt, i ii ImllS ViilfflilMHlHIMMfllA vlSSlWli Siom Willie Mays, who starred with the New York and San Francisco Giants and "New York Mets, waves to well-wishers following induction into Baseball's Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Sunday. Durocher, in from Palm Springs, chronicled his first recollections Mays. "The first time I saw Willie was in Harrisburg Pa.

when he was with the Trenton club in 1950," said Durocher, then the Giants' manager. "We played them in an exhibition game. I never saw him again until the following spring. "THEY SCHEDULED a morning game in spring training so I could look him, and all he did was throw one guy out at third base, another at the plate, and hit a double and a home run. I said right then, 'I want but Horace then Giants' owner Stone-ham wouldn't give him to me.

"Finally, during the season, we lost straight games, and Willie was hitting .477 at Minneapolis, so they bring him up." "It was May 29," Willie said later from the podium. "I'll never forget that date." Mays went 0-for-22 after joining the Giants, and, recalled Durocher, "He wanted to go back to Minneapolis. Said couldn't play in this league." "Leo told me to go back out there and get 'era," said Mays. "It was a-new day. As long as he was managing the ballclub, I was his center fielder.

gave me confidence." THEN MAYS looked over at Warren Spahn, one of the Hall of Famers here for the ceremonies, and said, "I think vou just laid one in there for me that day." Spahn only smiled. But Mays had broken his slump on that day in 1951 with his first major league hit a home run off Spahn. He had 19 more before the season was over and 660 in his career, third best of all time. "He carried us on his back," said Durocher, relishing his spot in the sun once again and telling newsmen, "I feel great, walk five miles every morning, and play nine holes of golf most every afternoon." But when they tried to get too inquisitive about him, Durocher barked, "Hey, this is Willie Mays day. Don't ask questions about me." HACK WILSON'S plaque was accepted by his son, Robert Wilson, an elementary school principal in Martinsville, W.

Va. It took 45 years for the stubby slugger to gain admittance to the Hall, and his son, who had been critical of the delay in the past, said only, "I'm proud to say that the rec- From Tribune Wire Services PITTSBURGH Most teams would be happy in the ninth inning of a tie game to see a man who already had four hits coming to the plate with the bases loaded. Put the emphasis on "most." The Pittsburgh Pirates are the exception. Pirate Manager Chuck Tanner sent up a pinch hitter, John Milner, to bat for Steve Nicosia 4-for-4, including a home run when the Philadelphia Phillies brought in reliever Tug McGraw with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, a man on each base, and the score tied 8-8. A brazen move particularly since Tanner was rejecting the percentages by sending a left-handed batter against a left-handed pitcher but one Milner National League rewarded instantly when he drilled Mc-Graw's first pitch into the seats for a grand-slam home run and a 12-8 victory in the first game of their Sunday double-header.

After hoisting Milner onto their shoulders and giving him a joyous ride from home plate to the dugout, the Pirates proceeded to dismiss the Phillies 5-2 in the second game, thus sweeping the teams' five-game series and moving into first place in the National League East, a half-game ahead of Montreal and 4Vfe ahead of the Cubs. "Even if he'd have struck out, I wanted that situation," Tanner said. Why? "That's my business. If I told you, then the Phillies would know, too." Phillie Manager Danny Ozark was at a loss to explain anything after Omar Moreno's two-run double and Phil Garner's two-run single sparked a fourth-inning uprising against Dickie Noles 3-3 in the rain-delayed second game. "One thing leads to another," he said wearily.

"I don't know what else can happen, other than me taking a hike." Milner's slam culminated the Pirates' comeback from an 8-3 deficit and nullified Greg Luzinski's grand slam. Pete Rose broke Honus Wagner's league record for singles with his off Bert Blyleven, in the fifth inning of the first game. Mets 4-3, Expos 2-7 MONTREAL Rusty Staub hit his first home run since returning to Montreal to lead the Expos to a 7-3 victory over the Mets, but New York's 4-2 first-game victoryfashioned by Jose Cardenal's first home run of the season dropped Montreal out of first place, a half-game behind the Pirates. Ex-Cub Cardenal, acquired by the Mets from Philadelphia last week, connected off Ross Grimsley 9-7 to break a 2-2 tie in the seventh. Willie Montanez then doubled home Frank Taveras for another run.

Staub's homer began Montreal's come- Cosmos triumph; Liveric scores 3 1 AP Wirephoto John Milner is carried from field by Pirate teammates after hitting two-out grand slam home run that beat Phillies 12-8 in first game of double-header in Pittsburgh Sunday. back from a 2-0 deficit, and Duffy Dyer and Ellis Valentine knocked in two runs apiece to support Rudy May 7-0, Dodgers 8, Giants 1 LOS ANGELES-The Dodge. rivalry has been anything contested-this season. Don Sutton 9-12 broke Don Drysdale's tr record for career strikeouts by fanning six Giants giving him 2,487, one more than Drysdale as the Dodgers crushed Trancisco 8-1, giving them eight victories in nine meetings between the teems this year. Reds 9, Padres 1 CINCINNATI Ray Knight says he's never won an award "of any kind" in the major leagues.

The National League's Player of the Week honor would be a good place to start. Knight's two-run homer, one of four hit by the Reds in their 9-1 victory over San Diego, gave him 18 RBI in his last 7 games or since he borrowed a bat from teammate George Foster, who's on the disabled list. Johnny Bench a three-run Joe Morgan, and Hector Cruz had the other homers. Astros 3, Braves 2 The Astros ran to their sixth straight victory, stealing a club-record seven bases in a 3-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Small MONEY AVAILABLE for any good reason For established or new independent business Operating Cap.Expsniion UPI Telephoto my first game in 1929, I never expected to be honored in this way." Elson, originator of the dugout interview and a Chicago favorite ever since he broadcast his first baseball game in 1930, was more than a sportscaster.

On his Pump Room show and on interviews from aboard the 20th Century Limited railroad train, he featured prominent figures from the entertainment, political, and sports worlds. He did both White Sox and Cub games in the 1930s, lunched frequently with Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's iron-fisted commissioner, and was the perennial appointee of Landis to air World Series games. In 1943, granted special leave by the Navy, Elson broadcast the Series to servicemen on a worldwide network. HE INTERVIEWED Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his Waldorf Hotel suite while the general bounced Elson's two infant daughters on his knee.

His radio guests included such figures as Dr. Charles Mayo, Loretta Young, Orson Welles, Jack Kennedy, and Charlie Chaplin. Elson is still active as a radio interviewer in Chicago. This compulsion for adulation was poignantly illustrated near the end of his career as a Brooklyn Dodger. Late in the game he hit a long home run that put the Dodgers in the lead.

During the next inning, as he ran to his position in left field, he was greeted by a huge cheer. By the time he reached his position, the sound had become deafening, and the crowd was on its feet. Then, as the noise began to fade, he ran back to the dugout. He disappeared and returned wearing his sunglasses. Once again the roaring escorted him back to his position.

For the next few days teammates had to keep secret the obvious: another reason had brought him to the dugout. His glasses were in his pocket all the time. WESTBROOK PEGLER, writing in The Tribune, probably understood Hack Wilson as well as Wilson understood himself: "Built like a Bulgarian wrestler, unacquainted with the poets and a laborer by trade, Wilson, nevertheless, depicted his own nature as that of a delicate flower which thrived on the warmth of executive sympathy, and required to be fertilized constantly by compliments from his boss, baseball players and customers. He was at his best when Joe McCarthy was there to condone his earnest failures and to celebrate his success." In his prime, Hack Wilson received enormous acclaim, since he excelled in America's most popular sport. Acquaintances boast that he was a great guy who would give you the shoes off his feet because he had a heart bigger than a suitcase.

But few people ever talked about him with intimacy. For everyone who knew him, Hack Wilson was someone to comprehend from a distance. By Richard Dozer Chicago Tribune Press Set ice COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. No matter how you slice it, this was the Willie Mays-Leo Durocher show. Mays was enshrined in baseball's Hall of Fame here Sunday, along with the Cubs' long-snubbed Hack Wilson, pioneer sportscaster Bob Elson of Chicago, and former National League President Warren Giles.

Wilson and Giles were honored posthumously. It wasn't the smoothest of Hall of Fame programs, although forceful speeches were made by Elson in his response to receiving the Ford Frick Award and by Giles' son, Bill, vice president of the Phillies. Paul New, a songwriter, sang the National Anthem-and to many ears, he butchered it. J. P.

Sarrault, a Montreal newsman who is president of the Baseball Writers' Association, had se-vere pronunciation problems with American names, and Dick Young, the New York columnist who was presented the J. G. Taylor Spink Award, had thousands edgy with a tirade against modern ballplayers who hide from reporters. EVEN MAYS wound up an otherwise exhilarating acceptance speech by rapping the current ownership of the San Francisco Giants for not supplying him with a uniform to present to the Hall along with the one the New York Mets delivered for the occasion. But, overall, Mays, one of the greatest outfielders in the history of the game, had everyone in his corner.

"I probably won't get excited until tomorrow when I pinch myself and say, 'Hey, I'm in the Hall of said Ways. "How can you put it on paper? You can't do it. That's my theme. It all started back when I was 10 years old, and my uncle, Otis Brooks, told me down in Alabama, 'You'd better play ball, and when they told me in high school, 'If you don't play sports, we're going to kick you out of BY THE TIME he was a teen-ager, Mays was pitching yes, pitching for the Birmingham Black Barons in the Negro National League. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, a trivia buff, noted that the New York Giants outbid the Boston Braves and the Chicago White Sox for Willie's services when he signed with them at age 18 in 1950.

"You wonder what happened to the rest of the clubs," Kuhn said. Pieces still Continued from page one son hangover. Later a football bounded out onto the field. Hartnett picked it up and booted it back, to the deiight of everyone. except Hack, who sat in the car and continued to glower.

Other popular accounts of the drinking man show him to be a naive and harmless boozer, one to be laughed at but not feared. This was the man who, at the urging of smirking strangers, would proclaim: "I've never played drunk; hung over, yes, but never drunk." He offered this boast as proof of his sound character. A SPEAKEASY raid in 1931 provided more unintentional comedy. Standing in the back of the room when the police entered, he hurried into the bathroom, opened the window and began to crawl outside. A few minutes later, the police found a wildly kicking patron halfway out and stuck fast.

McCarthy once brought a bottle of gin and a worm into the locker room. While the players crowded around curiously, Peter Gregg wins Winston GT 100 PORTLAND, Ore. I API Peter Gregg of Jacksonville, won his seventh victory of 1979 Sunday in the International Motor Sports Association IMSA national championship series. Gregg started his Turbo Porsche 935 from the pole position and led throughout the 100-mile Winston GT competition at Portland International Raceway. His average speed of 99.523 mph for 51 laps was a raceway record.

Gregg set the old record of 97.260 mph last year in winning the same event. The race, driven for the second time this year, is the G.I. Joe's Grand Prix. Teammate Hurley Haywood of Jacksonville finished second in his Turbo Porsche about one minute behind Gregg. Third through fifth places, in order, were taken by Bruce Canepa of Cupertino, Milt Mintner of Kirkland, and Charles Mendez of Tampa, Fla.

They all drove Porsche 935s except Mintner, who drove a Corvette. 'Motoring' captures Monticello Nationally advertised of at 11 he It missing to Hack Wilson puzzle ords he established 56 homers, the NL record; and 190 RBI, the major league record still stand today. This day will be long remembered by me." Giles' son, Bill, noted that his father probably would have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame while he was living if it hadn't been his nature to be always on the giving end of baseball. "Many baseball people tried to get him to retire from the Hall of Fame Committee," said Bill. "The committee couldn't select one of its own members.

But he'd have been proud to be inducted with these two great National Leaguers Mays and Wilson who are going in with him today." The elder Giles died last Feb. 7, less than a month before he was announced as a Hall of Fame inductee. ELSON, 75, made a brief, eloquent acceptance talk. Some had said he should have been inducted with the first announcers to be honored in the inaugural Frick Awards last year. But, said Elson, "I was rightfully preceded by Mel Allen and Red Barber." "Once you've got the bug, you've always got the bug," Elson said of his love for baseball.

"When I broadcast came to ending his career, the larger grew the crowds that greeted him at train stations to drag him off to local taverns. In Chicago, cronies even led him all the way to Cicero. Guy Bush, Wilson's occasional roommate, was awakened at 3:00 one morning in their room at the Commodore Hotel in New York by Wilson and some of these friends. Bush lay silently in bed and listened while they groped through Hack's belongings. When they left, Bush flicked on the lights and saw money scattered all over the room.

The following day a sheepish Wilson approached Bush in the locker room. "I must have been drunker than usual last night," he said. "I lost $600." Without a word, Bush reached into his pocket and produced a wad of bills. Throughout his life he attracted leeches. Willard Wurzburg, son of Hack's business partner, suspected that these relationships developed because "Hack was never able to deal with people on an adult level.

He was too busy pleasing everyone." This fact about Wilson his need fnr approval does not appear in most of the familiar stories. Yet it is unquestionably his dominant characteristic. AT TIMES this need took a peculiar course. Following the 1930 season, he and a few teammates formed a singing group to perform in downtown theaters in Chicago. At first Hack was content to play the role of group member, but then he began to insist that his partners Heathcote, Hartnett, and Cuyler stand behind him while he sang.

Later he ordered them to huddle behind the piano. Eventually he took to criticizing Cuy-ler's dancing and finally began demanding public appearances for himself alone. SALES Inventory Building Loins New Equip. Improvements ROCHESTER, N.Y. TAP Mark Liveric scored three goals Sunday night to lead the Cosmos to a 4-2 North American Soccer League victory over Rochester before the Lancers' largest regular season home crowd ever 18,881.

Liveric scored his first goal at 13:37 on an assist from Vladislan Bogicevic. Barely four minutes later, Liveric scored again, with Bogicevic and Marinho assisting. The winning goal was scored at 43:01 when Liveric blasted a 10-yarder past Lancers' goalie Shep Messing. Dennis Tueart and Johan Nees-kins were credited with assists. Tueart tallied on a penalty kick for the Cosmos in the second half before the Lancers could get on the scoreboard.

Branko Segota scored both Rochester goals, his 10th and 11th in the last seven games. Farm Loam Farm Equip. Application! taken by phona JOHN VANDERHOEK Burbank 425-8333 ADAM DOBROWOLSKI Schaumburg 882-8655 Toll Free 800-626-6544 COMMERCIAL Custom Hair Piece Anniversary Offer 246 p' take your measurements match select style Guaranteed at final fitting, or your $50 refunded Elurt librt ihrink proof potytftttrblftt flttmi shipt Evon AMr Swimming 7 DAYS: SUNDAY: fydtgfapel 545-2800 the manager dropped the wriggling animal into the alcohol. "What does this prove, Hack?" McCarthy asked when the worm succumbed. Wilson, standing in the back, replied, "It proves that if you drink, you won't get worms." NO STORIES made Wilson look more like a buffoon than the ones that involved Pat Malone.

One incident began after midnight in a Philadelphia hotel, with Malone crawling up the stairs and down the hall to the room he shared with Wilson. "Let me in, Hack. It's me, Malone." As his shouting grew louder, so did the pounding, until up and down the hall heads began poking out of doors. With a final bang on the door Malone stumbled back down the stairs, convinced that his roommate was playing a joke. Minutes later, Hack reeled onto the scene and repeated the same performance.

The hotel guests watched as he staggered back down the stairs, muttering. The next morning Wilson and Malone entertained the entire dining room with shouted accusations at each other. One night in a Boston hotel Wilson and Malone got drunk and smashed to pieces nearly every object in their hotel room. The mirror was sacrificed first, then the toilet seat, ashtrays, wastepa-per basket, desk, and finally the bed. Called to the area by terrified guests, the hotel manager took one look at the mess and evicted the entire team.

The Cub traveling secretary was able to cajole the manager a dapper little man named Lisle into giving his boys another chance, even guaranteeing a handshake from Wilson to make good his promise to behave. That evening Lisle, dressed in a tuxedo, came to Wilson's decimated room. Wilson and Lisle edged toward each other but just as they were about to shake hands, in burst Malone, his coat shredded and his hair askew. "Hey, Hack," he wailed, "who's the guy in the monkey suit?" WHATEVER TRUTH is contained In the notion of Wilson the happy and carefree drunk has to be diluted by the fact that during his drinking days he was hounded by hangers-on. The closer he THE NO.

1 SCHOOL FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE TRAINING Founded in1V66 Accredited by me Association of independent Colleges Schools Day evening classes Job placement assistance Downtown locationnext to Sears Tower CALL: 322-9650 COLLEGE OF AUTOMATION 209 W. Jackson Blvd. Rm. 1230 Chicago. III.

60606 6035 N. Cictio Avt. Chicigs, Illinois 60646 Siebert still winning WICHITA, Kan. AP Former major league player Sonny Siebert tossed a shutout Sunday to lead his Edwardsville, 111., team to a 3-0 victory over Pleasant Plains, in the first round of the National Baseball Congress Tournament. Siebert, a former University of Missouri standout, allowed only three singles and struck out five Arkansas batters to even Edwardsville's record at 1-1.

OPEN ION A Drive I 1 CORPORATION 823 Commerce Drive 10th We'll Color deposit I I vVN V- aos'X A fTj 'iWi'yyt e.iy sm. 1 SYSTEMS SALES REPRESENTATIVE If you have proven your capabilities in design, specitication and Implementation of computer systems and are looking for new challenges and opportunities, we would like to talk to you. Epic Data manufactures and markets a family of microprocessor-based terminals, controllers and peripherals used for data collection In factories, hospitals, libraries and many other special applications. These systems are currently installed In many "Fortune 500" companies. This is a ground floor opportunity to join an Innovative and dynamic young company with a generous Incentive program.

Positions are currently available In Chicago and Detroit. ADMINISTRATION Major corporation (non-technical) service organization seeks a developing Executive who will possess the capacity to sell new accounts, sell present accounts, perform administrative functions supporting the over-all sales effort and prepare for future managerial responsibility. Starting salary in the twenties commensurate with abilities. Comprehensive corporate bene-efits, expenses and scheduled salary review. MPG 209, Tribune 60611 SALES MANAGER direct in-home sates company seeks a self-starter who can motivate and provide direction tor sales team Company is ready to double sales to S3-S4 million range.

Program provides 3000 leads per month in Wise, and Ind. and requires supervision and coordina tion of sales lorce. The ideal candidate will have a sound background tn direct in-home sales and can earn upwards of $50 000 in incentives plus fringe. Send resume and salary history to: MKO 413. Tribune 011 Send your resume to: T.

W. Jackson MONTICELLO, N.Y. UPI Happy Motoring overtook pace-setter Tijuana Tax in the final yards and then held off a rOrious stretch drive from Happy Sharon Sunday to win the $270,000 Monticello Classic in a stakes re-cord-tying 1:57 3-5. EPIC DATA Suite 350 "Eat Better-Spend booklet by Dr. Jean Mayer, nutrition expert.

$1.00 plus tax at Tribune Tower. Oak Brook, Illinois 60521 I.