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1C ndy oyer Departs Quietly Cbfe Boyer 6 After High Noon Talk Roars Today Paul Richards and Clete Boyer were wearing sweaters and slacks and looked as though they might be heading for the golf course to resume a friendly match they had started last spring. Listening to the general manager of the Braves and the former third baseman Friday afternoon at Atlanta Stadium, you'd never have guessed that they had been the unfriendliest INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. ffl -Thirty-ihree seasoned drivers, each facing odds of 2 to 1 that he won't be running at Jie mmm mm mmmmmMsm $fQ jr- A Sr if it OUTLAR Sports Editor jjf i Bobby Unser i- SI Km mm men in baseball the past four days. Boyer ignited baseball's loudest verbal war in Atlanta last week in New York when he opened fire on GM Richards, Manager Luman Harris and the entire organization. He concluded the blast at Atlanta Airport Thursday night wham he volunteered to manage the Braves.

Richards lashed back at Boyer and offered to give the disenchanted infieldcr his outright release. Boyer readily accepted the offer, including the stipulation that he forfeit $12,000 in severance pay. Both kept their pomise. Iff iK I i I OUTLAR While Boyer conducted his final interview in the front office of the Braves' quarters in Atlanta Stadium, Richards sat down in his office. On his desk was a i III jltl.

''-Ar il I i i MMtiAM Stnff Photo Billy Dowm CLETE BOYER TAKES A FINAL LOOK AROUND THE ATLANTA BRAVES' DRESSING ROOM Third Baseman Will Obtain His Release after Criticizing Club General Manager Paul Richards check for $12,000, and next Wednesday Boyer will officially become an ex-Brave. The technicality of obtaining waivers, a routine formality in baseball, prevented Richards from presenting Boyer his release Friday. After a week of fierce feuding, Richards and Boyer were talking in soft tones. Critical all week, they didn't exchange a single barb at their final session. Main Event Was Anti-Climactic "Too much has been said and I don't have anything critical to say," said Richards.

"The reason we met almost two hours was because Boyer's attorney, Mr. Joe Williamson, wasn't familiar with baseball laws. The meeting was amicable." Boyer was making similar statements in an adjacent office. "I think that I have said enough," he said. "I guess sometime I talk too much.

I'm really sorry to leave this town. I love it here and plan to keep living here." Asked if he would repeat the accusations against Richards and the Braves, Boyer replied, "I don't know. This is like making your second shot first in golf." Compared to the build-up, the main event was anti-climactic. Members of the news media, however, detected a marked change in Boyer's attitude. When he entered the office shortly before noon, he was laughing and seemingly in a chipper mood.

When the long conference with Richards ended, Boyer appeared subdued. Boyer said the finalization of the feud should take a lot of pressure off the club, the manager, the general manager and him. Richards said only time will tell whether Boyer's release will help or hurt the Braves. It appears unlikely that another major league club will claim Boyer, so next Wednesday Clete should be a free agent. The 34-year-old vet who was in his fifth season as a Brave continues to talk about Japan as his next stop in baseball.

Japan May Be Boyer's Next Base Though several teams, including the Braves, could use a third baseman of Boyer's ability, there may not be a great demand for his services. His age and $45,000 salary are minus factors. Then, too, the baseball fraternity, as Marvin Miller notes, is a close knit society. Several members of the news media thought that Miller would accompany Boyer into the Braves' quarters Friday. Miller, executive secretary of the Players Association, had ad- Scc BOYER, Page 4-C Cards Trim THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION finish, will charge around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Saturday in a million-dollar speed battle almost certain to shred records for 500 miles.

A crowd upwards of 300,000 may see two records blown aside on the first lap 162.514 m.p.h. for the first time around the track, set by Mario Andretti in 1969; and 168,666 for any set by Lloyd Ruby in 1968, The three-car front row, the best in two weekends of 10-mile time trials, qualified at speeds from Peter Revan's record 178.696 for the pole position to Bobby Unser's 175.816 for the outside spot, with Mark Donohuo in the midd'-i at 177.087. Revson and Donohue have new Mark 16 McLarens, Bobby Unser an Eagle built bv ex-Grand Prix racer Dan Gurney of Santa. Ana, Calif. Another of the Mark 16s, built in England with help from sports car ace Roger Penske of Philadelphia, will menace the leaders from the second row with former world champion Denis Hulme of New Zealand at the wheel.

Also big in the front row's rearview mirrors will be Al. Unser, last year's Indy winner, and A. J. who has won it three times and intends to be the first four-timer. The winner could come from even deeper in the lineup, with See INDY, Page 4-C Atl 4-0 i' 'til Bit' WmtKlW 1111 l0mml By WAYNE MINSHEW Constitution Sports Writer ST.

LOUIS, Mo. Just like everybody else in the game, St. Louis pitcher Reggie Cleveland has been following closely the off-field controversy surrounding the Braves. Cleveland admits it has CD ting the Braves in a 4-0 Cardinal's win which was the 13th in their last 16 starts Friday night. Young catcher Ted Simmons made it a little easier for Cleveland by belting a three-run homer in the eighth inning, when the Redbirds See BRAVES, Page 2-C been good reading.

"But," he said, smiling, "after tonight, I think I'd rather pitch against them than read about them." There was, of course, a good reason for that. The 23-year-oid righthander had just finished piecing together his first big league shutout, four-hit May 29, 1971 1-C Stall Photo Billy Downs BRAVES' GM PAUL RICHARDS MEETS THE PRESS Third Baseman Clete Boyer, Richards Conferred Friday PERDONI, STACY, CARTY, CREEL CITED me Ind wets It our Hall of Fa i-K I i ''MX- wiltfM r-r-iiTii-yirrrr lo nil imnjpiPmiiTTiinninnn uji ji-j-jiWJU- I A By CHARLIE ROBERTS Frank Broyles explained the feeling. "This has a very special meaning for me. This moment is a deeply moving one for me. To be honored in one's own home state gives one a feeling that cannot be equaled in any other way.

It's one I shall treasure all my life." Earl Mann probed for the words to describe tiie feeling. He found them. "You know this is a fine night for me. I've been a most lucky fellow. Thank you." Harry Mehre ignored the lump in his throat and treated the moment irreverently.

"I don't know that I deserve this. It took a lot of coaching skill for me to hold Georgia back 15 years until Wally Butts came along. I pictured myself not as a seventh mule but a fifth horseman at Notre Dame. "But I'd like to be like the coach who got me started, Knute Rockne. He was a "go-giver," and that's what we need to cure what's wrong with the world today, a nation of "go-givers." Mrs.

Herman J. Stegeman put it reverently, with a tear in her voice. "I am so happy that you have honored my late husband in this way. It's made his children very happy, and his grandchildren. I just wish he could know about it, and maybe he does." These were the heart-felt reactions of honorees as four sports greats were inducted into the State of Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame here Friday night when Georgia honored its own at a gala banquet See HALL, Page 4-C WE CANT BLAME THE BOYS for having a water fight now and then.

If you worked in Jack Daniel's rickyard, you'd start one too. Looking after a burning hard maple rick is a hot job. But it's one we can't do without. You see, we take the charcoal that results and use it to help smooth out our whiskey. That's done by seeping it down through vats packed 12 feet deep Staff Photo Charlei Pugh HALL OF FAMERS SURROUND MRS.

H. J. STEGEMAN, WHOSE LATE HUSBAND WAS INDUCTEE, TOO Earl Mann, Frank Broyles, Herry Mehre (L-R) And Stegeman Were Top Honorees at Georgia "Hall" Fete NBAAU-Starsr Roar, 125-120 WEST DIVISION WEST DIVISION Won Lost Pet. GB 16 6'0 with this charcoal. What comes out is only the sippin' part, ready for 7 8't tost Pc.

CB 14 .696 22 6Vi 24 .473 10 24 .478 10 27 32 .299 Won 32 23 J2 52 19 13 23 22 .511 22 24 48 20 22 .176 Francisco Houston Los Anclei ATLANTA Cincinnati San Diexo Oakland Minnesota California Kansas City Milwaukee Chicago B'J CHARCOAL MELLOWED 17 16 23 .425 I0V4 23 .410 11 il I EAST DIVISION aging. Just a taste of Jack Daniel's, Lew Alclndor 17 16 1 1M 2' St. Lrnils New York Pittsburgh xMnntreal Chiraco 6 DROP ..25 26 ..18 .21 .630 .610 .578 .466 .467 .381 1 24 26 'StSiW xPhiladelphia 16 xlAta Games Not Included we think, and you'll agree it would be worth a water fight or two. HOUSTON (AP) -Sharpshooting Walter Frazier rallied the National Basketball Association all-stars, playing without Lew Alcin-dor, to a 125-120 victory over the American Basketball Association Friday night in the first all-star game ever between the rival leagues. The NBA held off a final rally by the prestige-hungry ABA that brought the ABA within one point.

Oscar Robertson then flipped through two free throws with 32 seconds left and Frazier hit two more with 11 seconds to go to put down the ABA bid. Frazier came in midway through the first quarter and rallied the NBA in the nationally See STARS, Page 4-C EAST DIVISION Boston 28 15 .651 Baltimore 24 17 .585 3 Detroit 24 20 4' Cleveland 18 24 9Vt New York 18 24 Vi Washington 17 28 .378 12 Results Minnesota Baltimore 6 Cleveland at Chicago Detroit 6, Milwaukee 3 California at New York KansRs City at Washington Oakland at Boston Saturday's dames Baltimore (Dtibson 2-3) at Minnesota (llamm 1-01 (Deli-nit (Coleman 4.0) at Milwaukee (Krausse 1-5) Cleveland (Lamb 1-2) at Chicago (Bradley 5-3) night Kansas Cilv (Dal Canton 4-2) iThnmiKniiA.il BY DROP -a. -x 1 NT- '(11 )v: rrmav dames St. Louis 4. ATLANTA 0 Chicaeo 4.

Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati Houstn 0 New York at San Dlik'n, ond rain Philadelphia at Los Angeles, late Montreal at San Francisco, late-Suturaayi Games ChlniTO (Hands 4-6 at Pittsburgh (Johnson 3-3) Atlanta (Nash 4-3) at St. Louis (Gibson 4-5) nishl Houston (Forsch 0-01 at Cincinnati (Nolan 3-4) nlcht Philadelphia (Wise 4-2) at Los Annies (Sinuer 2-9) nieht New York (Seaver 5-2) and Ryan (5 1) at San Diego Arlin (1-6) and Phoebus (3-4) 2. twinighl. Montreal (Morton 4-5) at Saft Francisco (Marlrhal 7-2) iff.vii'jni CHIEFS vs DALLAS TENNESSEE WHISKEY 90 PROOF BY CHOICE 1971, Jack Daniel Distillery, Lem Motlow, Prop.Ine.' BOTTLED BY JACK DANIEL DISTllLERY LYNCHBURG (POP. 361), California (Wright 4-3) at New York (Bahnsen 1-6) (Hahnscn l-6 Oakland (Dobson 3-0) at Boston (Loo-burg 1-0) Kirk Barry.