The Atlanta Constitution from Atlanta, Georgia • 67

I 9 srrr? tone Stays Sane And Stop Braves Box ATLANTA ab bl CHICAGO ab bi Cardinal rf 4 0 10 Kcssuieer ss 3 1 1 0 BWillams If 4 0 2 0 Hickman lb 3 1 1 1 Santo 3b 4 112 Pnnovinh 4 0 0 0 Garr ri Baker ct Aaron lb Evans 3b EWillams Lum If MUIan 2b Perez ss Stone Upshaw 3 12 1 4 112 3 10 0 4 0 11 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 0 10 2 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 Monday cf 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 IT 0 Hundley Pepitone ph Hands North ph McGinn Fanzune ph SHamiltn 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 iooo 0 0 0 0 By WAYNE MINSHEW The Atlanta Braves' George Stone has been talking to himself a lot lately, and it hasn't been entirely because he's a lefthander. Stoney was saying things like "I gotta stick with it. I gotta bear down, I can beat this thing." A 1-6 record with a. 7.45 earned run average will provoke those kind of conversations with one's self, especially if one is the pitcher who owns those credentials, which Stone was. However, just as he was ready to begin to answer himself, which is when they say you're really in trouble, Stone Thursday night came up an impressive winning pitcher against the Chicago Cubs, hurling a 4-3 victory in front of 8,863 witnesses at Atlanta hander Billy Hands.

Ralph Garr, Dusty Baker and Dar-rell Evans drove them home, Baker with a two-run homer to extend his hitting streak to a dozen games. Stone made the four runs hold up as he turned in his longest stint of the season to collect his second victory with ninth inning aid from Cousin Cecil upshaw, who retired the last three cubs in the ninth after Ron Santo belted a two-run homer to get Chicago within a run. "The home run came at a bad time," said Stone, grinning. "Luman (Manager Luman Harris) had just come out there and asked if I was tired. I told him no.

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wt A OjOOj. July 7, 1972 Page 1-D The Braves spent their offensive energies in the third inning in behalf of Stone as they scored all four of their runs against Cubs' right Staff Photo Bud Skinner RALPH GARR'S THE ROADRUNNER BUT SOMETIMES HE TENDS TO BE SLOW GETTING BACK TO BAG He Made It This Time, However, as Chicago Cub First Baseman Jim Hickman's Tag Is Late QBs IN RESIDENCE, II: JOHNSON A Rebirth in New York Three QBs Speak Out Jesse OUTLAR -fa Sports Editor -fa This and That The late Col. Ed Danforth, sports editor of The Constitution, Georgian and Journal during an esteemed career, vowed that baseball was a game designed for retarded adolescents. I never agreed with The Colonel, but juvenile tactics such as 65-year-old Leo Durocher witholding Cub lineups in both games here. Wednesday support Ed's theory.

If you don't believe Charlie Finley is the most active baseball trader since Frank Lane, check his 1972 performance. The Oakland owner has acquired Orlando Cepeda, Bill Voss, Art Shamsky, Joel Hor- Thorny Tommy Nobis. Texas was not Texas, but Johnson came highly commended. Johnson was annointed as leader of a team in transit. At times he did not know the name of his guards or tackles.

Some were claimed on waivers on a Wednesday, played on Sunday and were released on Monday. Johnson had his best game in 1969 when he pitched for four touchdowns to beat the Chicago Bears, but the next Sunday he had a knee shattered at Washington and never again found any permanency at quarterback. He lost out to Bob Berry and, upon his request, was traded to the New York Giants prior to the 1971 season. Then things happened. Giants starter Fran Tarkenton was traded to Minnesota for, among others, quarterback Norm Snead.

Off his performance in the last game of the season when he passed for 395 yards and three touchdowns, John-See RANDY, Page 4-D By AL THOMY Conjure a replay of Randy Johnson as a Falcon and you see him there on the ground as Cleveland end Bill Glass stands to the side, as Tarzan stands over a fallen elephant. You see him in a dazed condition lining up behind a guard to receive the snap. You see him under the pressure of a furious rush trying to find the receiver before he can throw the pass. Johnson, in a replay, is a young man playing under duress, a young man in trouble in the National Football League. From the beginning and that's where he started, at the beginning of the Falcons no one doubted Johnson had the arm to become an upper level quarterback in the NFL.

He was the second player drafted by the Falcons, the alternate choice in the first round of 1966. The first was Fran Tarkenton, Randy Johnson and Bob Berry, three professional football quarterbacks with ties to the Atlanta sports scene, are examined in a three-part series. Constitution pro football writer Al Thorny continues the series with a look at Johnson. RANDY JOHNSON He's Seen Fire, Pain Henry's Blazing 65 len, Tim Cullen, Marty Martinez, Mike Kilkenny and Don Shaw. He has traded or sold Denny McLain, Brown, Kilkenny, Shaw, Bobby Brooks, Curt Blefary, Brant Alyea, Larry Haney, Jim Roland, Diego Segui, Ron Clark and Dwain Anderson.

Baltimore police have at least one clue in an unsolved robbery. Two thieves who boarded a bus and relieved Delaware Park-bound riders of $3,413 obviously were horse players. They got the wallets before the customers reached the wagering windows. I've never heard of anyone robbing in Canadian Leads Outlar year sweep of all the world's major titles, skipped this one to get an early start on his preparations for next week's British Open. Henry, a Georgia native who turned pro in 1967, has been in a deep, dismal slump since scoring his lone tour triumph in the 1969 National Airlines Open.

He won only $18,000 the following year and lost his spot as an exempt player. He hasn't been able to regain it, winning less than $10,000 last SEE HENRY'S. Page 3-D a bus leaving a track. Hoist a special toast to Pappy Waldorf, a great guy who spent 30 of his 50 years in football as an active coach. Now 70, Pappy is retiring after 15 seasons as personnel director of the Forty Niners.

Twins Fire Bill Rigney, NameQuilici MINNEAPOLIS -ST. PAUL (AP) Youthful Frank Quil-ici was named manager of the Minnesota Twins Thursday, replacing Bill Rigney who was fired by President Calvin Griffith. "The most Important reason for making this change was that the players weren't reacting on the field," Griffith told a hastily called news conference. "Too many were too nonchalant." The Twins, who led the American League's West Division early in the season, were in third place with a 36-34 record, games behind first place Oakland. Griffith said he feared another fifth place finish for the Twins, who returned from a road trip Wednesday after winning only once in she games.

"I'm just hoping Frank will have a little better luck the second half of the season," Griffith said. "I think as far as I'm concerned we can have the Twins See TWINS, Page 5-D Defending champion Lee Trevino, back in action for the first time since the U.S. Open, clipped two strokes off par and was one of a group at 69. "Every day I'm hitting it just a little better, just a little better," said Trevino, the 1971 U.S. Athlete of the Year.

"I don't think two under par is too bad for the first round. I'll take three more just like it." Gary Player of South Africa, who shared the favorite's role with Trevino going into this tournament, had a 71 and was tied with Arnold Palmer, who scored his first pro victory in this tournament in 1955. Palmer had to mount a birdie-birdie finish to match par. Jack Nicklaus is not competing. Nicklaus, who has won both the Masters and the U.S.

Open and is gunning for a one- Richest Active Horse Riva Ridge FORT ERIE, Ont. (AP) -Georgia's Bunky Henry, slump-ridden for three seasons, got off to a blazing start en route to a six-under-par 65 and the first-round lead Thursday in the $150,000 Canadian Open Gold Championship. The onetime placekicker for Georgia Tech's football team held a one-stroke lead over longshot Tommy Sanderson in this national championship being played on the par 71 Cherry Hill Golf Club layout. A quartet headed by 60-year-old Sam Snead followed at 67, two strokes off the pace in the chase for a $30,000 first prize. Also at 67 were former Masters champion Gay Brewer, Lou Graham and left-handed rookie Sam Adams.

Bruce Crampton, the Australian veteran who has won more than $100,000 but is still seeking his first victory of this season, was next at 68, along with Bob Smith. PITTSBURGH PIRATES DOUBLE HEADER TONIGHT 6:05 P.M. Auociated Preit Photo STAN SMITH FLASHES ALL WINNING FORM American Beat Kodes to Gain Finals Spot ii it "For the Marrying Kind" DO YOU QUALIFY? Smith, Nastase Play for Title WIMBLEDON, England (fl-Cpl. Stan Smith of the U.S. Army and Lt.

Hie Nastase of the Romanian Army won their men's singles semifinal matches at Wimbledon Thursday and meet for the tennis championship Saturday. DO YOU LIKE: SURGING POWER FREEDOM OF THE OPEN ROAD ADVENTURE CAREFREE SUMMER DAYS Free Guide for Grooms LOOK TO Bill Fulcher is the first Georgia Tech football coach to have his debut delayed by the Olympic games. In order not to interrupt the live show from Munich, ABC-TV told Tech and Tennessee to kick off at 5 p.m. in the Sept. 9 opener at Grant Field.

Phils' Joe Lis and Bill Robinson were roommates in the minors at Hawaii. When they checked into the hotel, Lis said, "you're the first black roommate I've had." "So what," retorted Robinson. "You're my first white." Mostpubli- cised player of the year is chesty Bobby Fischer, the U.S. chessman. It's really an era of inflation when a chess player creates an international crisis by demanding more loot.

Cubs' Joe Pepitone writes a daily column: "PepiPops Off," and during a recent slump, a newsmen recommended that he change it to "Pepi Pops Up." Riva Ridge, winner of the Kentucky and Hollywood Derbys and the Belmont, has a bank account of $862,192, making him at age three the richest horse now racing. Due to publicity about Henry Aaron's run at Babe Ruth's record, it is generally overlooked that The Hammer estab-; lishes a new NL mark every time he hits a homer. Beano Cook, colorful ABC publicist, isnt the bashful type. Asked to name the moat popular national college football teams on TV, Beano quickly nominated Notre Dame, Ala- bama and Oklahoma. Teddy Baseball on Managing Former Ted Williams' managers, in particular, should enjoy the following comment by the Texas' pilot: "A manager today has a more complex job in that his players tend to be more individualistic.

"I don't mind a guy being a little flaky. Hell, I guess I was 'called that more than once. But a manager must be able to handle the placid, introvert type as well as the extrovert. A requisite of any successful manager is to keep 25 players en-. thusiastic and eager to play the game." What in the name of Judge Hofheinz! Would yon believe It? Rain checks in the Astrodome the place is leaking and you get another ticket if it rains on yon.

It may give Savannah Manager Clint Courtney apoplexy, but new Brave Denny McLain insists umpiring is impressive in the Southern League. Requotable quote by KC outfielder Lou Piniella: "It is true the reason I lack one hour for my degree from the University of Tampa is that I flunked a course in square dancing. The instructor said I had two left feet. I blamed it on my partner." Reading that his long-time friend Lindsey Nelson, Voice of the Mets, now has 163 sports jackets, Knoxville News-Sentinel Tom Siler quipped, "That's 163 more than he had when he enrolled at UT." When harrassed Manager Luman Harris of the Braves ob-. served the full hou.

of 50,597 at Atlanta Stacfc'ym on the Fourth of July, he said, "Gosh, we must be on the road." from offy iSmith, the No. 1 seed from 0 1'OftMAlS SIX If you're looking forward to wedding bells, drop by and pick up this free booklet prepared by the editors of Esquire and Bride's in cooperation with After Six Formals. It will give the right answers to a lot of questions and is free for the asking while our supply lasts. KING KONG down, particularly on the volley. Kodes, who never before has gone further than the second round in six starts here, didn't have the experience to capitalize on Smith's weaknesses, however, and midway through the second set the American took command.

He had just dropped his service to Kodes to trail 3-4, but produced a pair of crisp volleys to break Kodes to pull up to 4-4, then go ahead 5-4 on his own service. Kodes, upset by a disputed line call, double faulted and Smith streaked in with a flashing forehand return to get another break and the set at 6-4. In the third set, Smith broke on the second game and reeled off the set at 6-1 in just 18 minutes. But he still hadn't stamped his authority on the match. With the score at 5-5 on Kodes See SMITH, Page 3-D Pasadena, overcame Jan Kodes of Czechoslovakia 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 in a lackluster match that lasted 2 hours, 10 minutes.

Nastase, the first Romanian ever to reach a singles final here, beat Manuel Orantes of Spain 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 in a thrust-and-parry battle that lasted just over an hour and with every minute full of thrills. It will be Smith's second straight Wimbledon final. He lost to John Newcombe of Australia last year. Smith started off badly in the semifinal, with Kodes serving well and reeling off the first three games. He never recovered from that setback in the first set, and it took him until the eighth game of the second set to regain some of his confidence.

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