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at park mrae Journal Herald poirte I 'I Tuesday, June 6, lJ 14 the Eastern Division-leading Mets. And if Nolan, the ace of the Cincy staff, with a 7-1 record, encounters any difficulty in the duel with Jim McAndrew, Carroll will be ready to come to his aid. Sparky Anderson's Reds, who were a 11 i five games below the ,900 mark with an 8-13 record on May 10, have done a complete turnabout and won 19 of their last 23 games to soar nine games over .500 at 27-18. By Bucky Albers Journal HtroM Sporto Writer NEW YORK You won't find Clay Carroll watching the Broadway musical "Sugar" at the Majestic theater. Don't expect to see him at the Metropolitan Opera the Copacabana or the Hayden Planetarium.

Those things just aren't his bag. Carroll, a 31-year-old Alabama strongboy, (eels right at home in the Big Apple when he's at Shea Stadium, how-ever. And that's where he'll be tonight at 8:05 (WLW-D, Channel 2) when ths Cincinnati Reds, baseball's hottest team, engage the game's winninsest outfit the New York Clefts. THE REDS, just half game behind Los Anneles In the National League West, will" entrust Gary Nolan with the chore of extending their seven-game win skein against And it Is just a coincidence that on May 10 Carroll got himself straightened out and started a fantastic tring of successful relief appearances. ELEVEN times since then he has strode forcefully in from the bullpen, hat pulled down to his ears, jaw thrust forward, scowl on his face and taken the baseball from Manager Anderson.

In those 11 appearances, totally 12 and a third innings, he has not given up a run and has Clay Carroll Training horses Mor riches to Ritter Collett DAYTON. OHIO i i A 1 iwrtH jw i I I 1 I 1 lournal of ports yielded only six hits. He has collected a phenomenal nine saves, raising his season total to 10. In one sequence, he pitched seven times in 10 days. "I don't like to talk about myself," Carroll said yesterday, begging off when asked to explain his bullpen brilliance.

"People always think I'm bragging when I tell them that I can pitch." The Reds' pitching coach, Larry Shepard, wasn't so reluct a to discuss Carroll's performance. "HE HAS the ability to throw the ball over the plate that's the main thing," says Shepard. "And he can have the same stuff when he gets to the mound that he was throwing in the bullpen. A lot of guys can't." Carroll, a 6-1, 200-pounder, is unlike many relievers in that he doesn't rely on a freak pitch ala Ted Abernathy, Wayne Granger, Phil Regan and Dick Hall. "He has every pitch you want a fast ball, curve, slider and change-up," says Shepard.

"He could be a starter except that he isn't one' to pace himself. He' just goes all out all the time. He gets so keyed up, yet he is able to control it." Shepard' said Carroll's sub-par performance this spring were probably -caused by his intense desire to keep his image as one of baseball's best relievers. "HE WAS trying to be too fine, too careful," says Shep. "He was aiming the ball Instead of throwing it and losing some of his velocity.

One day Sparky went to him and said, 'Look, you're the Hawk. All you have to do is fire the ball low and away. They won't hit And since then, they (opposing batters) haven't. Some guys, especially when they are going bad, don't want the ball," Shepard pointed out. "They don't want to pitch.

But I've never known Hawk to be that way. "He gets himself prepared in the seventh inning. He'll have (Don) Gullett or somebody put some warm stuff on his arm. Then he sits and looks at me and waits for the bullpen phone to ring. When it rings, he starts taking his jacket off." I THIS 'N THAT The Reds, who have landed such people as Johnny Bench, Gary Nolan, Wayne Simpson, Bemie Carbo, Don Gullett and Milt Wilcox in the past, will participate in annual baseball draft at Americana Hotel here today Cincy has 19-8 road record, winning 15 of last 18 on foreign soil.

Six years ago Jim Morgan resigned his job as basketball coach at Stebbins High School and departed for Florida to try his hand at what had become a gnawing ambition to train thoroughbred race horses. This was no ordinary decision for the onetime captain of the i i of Louisville basketball team. "I left my wife with the $4,500 we had in savings and the family car, borrowed a car from George Smith and headed for Florida Downs," Morgan recalled as he cut into a small steak in the clubhouse at Cleveland's Thistledown where he was the leading trainer in 1971. That first winter at the minor league track near Tampa was no luxury vacation. The onetime Stivers high school ath-, lete took a menial job as a groom and lived in a rented room, existing on the $80 per week he was making.

"I spent time with every trainer at that track who could teach me something," the former teacher put it. Morgan's 1971 income as a trainer would have exceeded that of every educator in the state of Ohio with the possible exception of Dr. Novice G. Fawcett, the president of Ohio State University. Although Jim doesn't care to document his financial status, his base pay is a matter of public record.

He gets 10 percent of the winning purses his horses collect. Last year Morgan-trained horses earned $360,000. The first horse race Jim ever saw was the 1953 Kentucky Derby when he was still a senior at Stivers. "I had signed to go to Louisville on a basketball scholarship and they got me a job as an usher at Churchill Downs," he recalled. "That was the year Dark Star upset Native Dancer, and I got caught up in the excitement.

"I worked at the track every spring when I was going to UL," he went on. "A lot of his friends thought he was taking an awful gamble doing what he did. But he's proven, himself and he's still rather young as trainers go. He's on his way up." When Morgan came north out of Florida in the spring of 1967, he went to Beulah Park. "I had only one horse at the start of the meet," he said, "but he was a good one.

It was Dames Red Boy, whom I had claimed for his owner for $1,500. He won his first five starts at Beulah and I started to get more horses." His big break came the next year when a trainer hired by the late Dr. R. C. Austin did not come to Keeneland.

Morgan's friends persuaded the Dayton horseman to give Jim a chance to handle the; horses he had there. One of Austin's horses was Federal Street, which won over $200,000 in his racing career under Morgan. Another was a mare named Ruilation, which had been foaled by Dr. Johnston's mare, the one in which Jim had invested. Morgan handles horses for Dayton industrialist A.

F. Polk and developer Paul Shawhan among others. "I have no idea how far I can go," Morgan said in response to the question. "I thought I was a helluva basketball coach and I didn't get very far there. "Training horses is something you do a great deal by instinct," he says.

"A trainer spends months with a horse before he ever races him. You find the proper distance, place and class of competition. It sounds simple, but it isn't 'as easy as it sounds." Morgan will spend most of 'the summer at the Cleveland track, but will make occasional trips east or to Chicago when he has a horse in a stakes event. He sent Polk's three-year-old Risquer down to River Downs last Saturday to win the feature there. The ex-Daytonian owns a residence in Hollywood, but still has to put in 12 hour days much of the year getting baby horses headed in the proper direction.

ap win? Mini Checkmate It may be tennis but It's tennis according to Bobby' Fischer, American chess master who will meef Boris Spassky of Russia for the world championship in Iceland in July. Fischer hits a serve yesterday while competing in the second annual Dewar'i Sports Celebrity tennis tournament at La Costa Jim Morgan "When I came back to Dayton, I knew George (Smith) and George Zimmerman had purchased a horse called Pineapple, and I started going around with them." Morgan became part owner of a mare purchased by Dr. Wilbur Johnston, Dayton dentist, at the Keeneland spring sales in 1959. "But 1 couldn't afford to keep up my share of the cost," Jim recalled. "I wasn't married then and spent all my spare time around the tracks." Smith, the Centerville realtor who is one of the area's more knowledgeable horsemen, encouraged Morgan's interest and provided Jim with the car he had to have when he left for Florida.

"I always felt Jim was a natural to be successful as a trainer," Smith recalled. Country Club in Rancho La Costa, Calif. His partner- i is Gail Goodrich of the Los Angeles Lakers basketv ball team. v' 1 1 i a Reds verage BATTING A8 HR RBI AVO. IB 4 0 3 .333 17J 54 4 17 .31 I Choney Tolon No qualifiers Open closed to Daytonians Bench 142 29 48 13 3S mcroc si 2 a 12 JW Peret 124 It 35 7 15 .282 i Morqan H3 44 45 7 21 .274 Jovl'er 44 3 12 Rose 193 25 50 12 .251 Hoque 32 4 I I 7 .250 Bench Me Rot Peret Morqan Jovler Rost Haqu MenKe I Concepclon 131 14 7a 1 148 1 34 1 11 .230 52 5 II 1 4 -212 51 7 10 1 7 63 11 0 4 .175 11 0 0 0 1 .000 Foster Geronimo Uhlaender Plummer xTotalt 1521 215 375 43 197 .245 xlncludei pitchers' bolting and pluyert no longer with club.

DEPARTMENT LEASERS DOUBLES Tolon 10, Rost 0, Morqan 4. "I JUST played mediocre all the day," he declared. "I bird-ied the first hole, but then I three-putted the second and never really got going. "These greens are prStty tricky. Compared to ours (at Sycamore Creek) they are so slow." a 's putting wasn't helped any by the fact that he Menke 5, Perei 5, Bench 5, Concepcion 5.

Geronimo Foster Javier Uhlaencer I. TRIPLES Tolon 4, Mornort 1, Rese 2, For answers to sports questions or just to comment on the sports scene, write SPORTS LINE, The Journal Herald, 87 S. Ludloiu Dayton 45401, or call 222-2867, Answers wiU be given only through this When did Mickey Mantle hit a home run out of Yankee stadium? B.F., Dayton. No major league player has ever hit a fair ball out of Yankee Stadium, although Negro League star Josh Gibson reportedly put one out in 1930. Mantle came the closest of any major leaguer on two occasions, in the first game of a double-header on May 30, 1956, Mantle hit a homer off Washington's Pedro Ramos that struck the facade of the upper deck in right field 107 feet above the ground.

On May 22, 1963, he hit one -off Kansas City's Bill Fischer that struck just about the same spot. ball was still cn the rise when it hit and Mantle termed it "the hardest ball I ever hit." most of the afternoon with their 140s, wound up as alter-nates. Musselman defeated Cardenas with a par on the second hole of a playoff for the No. 1 also-ran berth. But Ortman and Wilson both were on their way back up 1-75 long before the playoff after coming in second best in their bouts with Clovernook's grainy greens.

"I was leaving 'em in the throat (just short of the cup) all day long," admitted Wilson, who had a 77 in the morning and a 74 in the Bench 2, Geronimo 1 Concepclon 1. Hague good. In fact, sometimes I was hitting it too far. But I couldn't make any putts." Wilson said he felt he had "a real good chance," even after his first round 77. "In the afternoon I started birdie-birdie-birdie and I thought I might just sneak in.

1 guess what ruined it was No. 10. I just drove the ball too far and got it in a bad position. I was one-under for the second round but I took a bogey there and that just about did it." Ortman, who was paired with Wilson, had decided long before then that there was no great hurry td pack his swim suit. 1, perez i.

STOLEN BASES Morqan 15, Tolon 15, long as it took Jeffersontown, pro Carl Owen to put the finishing touches on his 72-66 -138. Cook and Owen split first and second place money, with each receiving $250 to help defray their expenses to Pebble Beach. THIRD-PLACE money of "$100 was divided by former Ohio State golfer Ross Bart-schy Jr. and Barney Thompson of Barboursville, W. Va.

Both pros had 139. Former tour pro Joe Cardenas and Cincinnati Local qualifier medalist Bill Mussel-man, who held the lead for Concepcion I. PITCHING W-L IP ER BB SO ERA 3- 1 28 24 7 14 1.93 Carroll Grimsley 2- 1 34 37 8 10 14 2.00 left his putter at home and had to borrow one from host pro Bob Harrison. But, as Ortman allowed: "That didn't bother me all that much maybe one or two strokes." And that still would have, left' him 10 shots back. 7.

1 77 42 10 14 43 2.22 3- 1 40.1 19 12 14 49 2.43 1- 0 20 14 ft 12 8 3.40 1- 1 32 39 14 11 14 3.94 1 35.1 30 14 13 14 4.14 2- 4 50 55 24 14 '29 4.32 3- 4 44.1 49 33 17 34 4.44 Noian Hall Sprnguo Borbon Simpson MeGlothlin Billlnqham Gullett I- 3 22.1 14 22 7 14 8.41 XTololS 27-18 414.1 390 147 121 244 1 44 xlncludei pitchers no longer with club. "I WAS hitting the ball real By D. L. Stewart Journal Herald Sporli writer CINCINNATI -For the fifth straight year, the U.S. Open will have to do the best it can without the help of any Dayton golfers.

Sycamore Creek's Jack Oilman and Madden's Dave Wilson both missed out by a dozen shots in their attempts yesterday to qualify for golf's No. 1 event. THE TWO Dayton entrants finished with 36-hole totals of 151 in the Sectional qualifier at Clovernook Country Club. It took a score of 139 or better to earn one of the four passes to the Open at Pebble Beach. Bobby Zimmerman, the last Dayton resident make it to the Open, had a 75-78-153 yesterday.

Another former Dayton resident, Gordon Waldes-puhl. had 77-76-153. Cliff Cook, an assistant to two-time PGA champion Denny Shute at Portage Country Club near Akron, posted the medal score, a four-under-par 138. But he was only in sole possession of first place for about half an hour or as No Open for Snead Herself, kids tr" WW "1 A irC'' refa grooms CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -j Sam Snead, the 60-year-old golf ing legend from the hills of West LOS ALAM1TOS, Calif.

(AP) Greta Anderson, champion of women endurance iwm mers for a quarter of century, still spends much of her time in the water. The 45-year-old Danish Olympic champion of 1948 pool proof babies as a main part of her business. She's also training (or sixth swim of the English Channel. Miss Andersen, who didn't learn to swim until she was 16, set more than 80 world amateur and professional records. She plans to end a seven year absence from endurance swimming this September with an attempt to regain the English Channel record.

She held it for 13 years until a Dutch school teacher broke It last year. Her 5-foot-9, 165 poundfiy-ure is just a few pounds heavier than 24 years ago when she won the Olympic gold medal for Denmark In the 100-meter freestyle. She eeps In condition with exercise and her work, which Includes cuddling children In the pool at her health spa in this Southern California community. For the past dozen years, babies have been her business. She personally concentrates on children under 18 months, because, "the older a baby gets, the harder it is to teach.

Later on, when a child reaches one or one-and-one-half, it has a mind of Its own. "Our objective is survival, to teach babies to fend for themselves, if necessary." One of her 1 1 2'2-year-old Pamela started swimming with Greta at the age of 10 months. Last week, she became one of the youngest to pass the Beginners Red Cross Skills test. Her father, Dr. David Virginia will not play in tne u.b.

Goren, said, "We have our own pool and feel it Is absolutely necessary for our little girls to be pool safe." Pamela's two-monuYDld sister, Amanda, has had her first lesson. Children are likely to cry when they are introduced to a big swimming pool, said Greta, in forewarning parents. Miss Andersen says It takes 18 to 30 lessons for a child to swim on its own. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Miss Andersen is married to Dr.

Andre Veress of Huntington Beach. The couple Is childless, Miss Andersen' says, because, "I've been too busy doing other things." Now she's back in training, swimming several miles a day in preparation for what she calls her last endurance swim. "I want to have the record and make It so good that everyone wl have hard time to break it," she said. Open championship this year. Snead failed to qualify yester day for the only major tourna ment he has not won, ballooning to a 78 In his second tour of the Charlotte Country Club's 6-729- yard, par-71 layout.

He missed the qualifying total of 145 by two strokes, despite a fine 69 in the morning round. Doub Sanders continued the hoi streak he started by winning the Kemper Open Sunday. Sand AP Wlrophoto ers, led the field of 57 pros and Greta Andersen and pupil Pamela Goren, Vli five amateurs with a 68-67-135..