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'SPORTS BelPs Curves, I Yaz, Harrelson Leave As Limp By RAY FITZGERALD OAKLAND There was a time when Garry Bell thought a curve was something you saw on a girl or a mountain road. Now he knows better. A curve is something to get betters out with, and that's what he used it TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1968 KPeal Ei" Twenty-Nine iiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiijiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiii JERRY NASON ft -v. s-As i wi r- it wmt i ttxanrii-rmrni-n i nn nit ii i mi i ii Pitcher Gaw's Spanish Castle A funny thing happened to "Chippy" Gaw on the way to the ball park about a dozen years ago: he ended up at the bull fights in Mexico. jpjp for Monday night to beat the Oakland Athletics, 3-2.

"I wondered sometimes if I was calling too many of the darn things," said catcher Elston Howard. "I thought maybe I should mix the pitches up. That's what you're supposed to do. But he kept throwing curves for strikes so I kept calling them." For the first time this season, the Red Sox pitcher GARY BELL Ihis was bprmg tram- ing at Arizona, when another kibitzer suggested, "Let's duck the exhibition game today and drive down to No-gales to watch a bull fight." Dr. George (Chippy) Gaw had been in a lot of bullpens in his time, including one which was the property of the Chicago Cubs, but he'd never been closer to a bull than tenderloin, medium-rare.

He went to Nogales. That's the day baseball lost "Chippy" READY FOR OPENER Aerial shot cf new Foul lines measure 330 feet and dead centerfield is seat stadium indicates ample parking space. New San 420 feet. (UPI) Diego National League club will be tenants in 1969. National League Deals Canada In GEORGE GAW 1 for the next game didn't keep a chart on the game, so there's no telling how many curves Bell threw.

Coach Darrell Johnson left the charts in his car in the parking lot. "I had so much trouble trying to find the entrance to this place," he said, "that I left the dammed things behind." But Johnson estimated that Bell threw 50 curves and 20 sliders in his 131 pitches. And most of the curves were for strikes. This is the second time on the road trip that Bell has put the Red Sox back on the track after a two-game losing streak. He blanked the Angels last week, his first shutout in eight years, and a writer told him today: "Lloyds of London has just quoted the odds on your pitching another shutout.

They're 23 million to one." Lloyds of London was right, because the first inning the A's scored on two singles and Reggie Smith's bad throw to third. Carl Yastrzemski tied the game in the third when he smashed the longest homer in this infant park, a 430-foot blast to dead center field in the third. Ken Harrelson tapped A's starter Blue Moon Odom for another homer to lead off the fourth. It was his seventh and second in two games. Harrelson also had a couple of singles and is now nine for 15 against Oakland and Charlie Finley this season.

"Anything I can do to make Finley more miserable," Harrelson said, "is fine with me." Oakland tied the game in the fifth on Odom's single, a two-base wild pitch and Bert Campaneris' single. Bell and Joe Foy saved some grief in the sixth after Rick Monday had opened with a walk and moved up on a wild pitch. Danny Cater tapped a bouncer that Bell backed up on and caught. "Somebody yelled to throw it to third Bell said. "It was Rico said Foy.

Giles called the move the "most important decision the league has made since allowing the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to move to the West Coast." Giles said the vote accepting San Diego and Montreal followed at least 18 ballots. Giles pushed off the Milwaukee failure by saying "Milwaukee is only 85-90 miles rway from two major league clubs in Chicago." "We did all we can and we can't understand being left out," said a Milwaukee representative. "What more can you offer then a major league stadium at a dollar a year with perfect parking facilities." San Diego will be backed by E. J. "Buzzie" Bavasi, executive vice president and general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Bavasi, with backing of Los Angeles owner Walter O'Malley, also has behind him C. Arnholt Sith, a banker and owner of the San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League. Associated Pre si CHICAGO "If we're going to expand, let's really spread it out," said Warren Giles, pr- '-dent of the National League Monday night following a meeting of owners. The National League really spread it out from. San I to to Montreal as major league baseball took on an international flavor for the first time.

While Montreal and San Diego were being selected during a marathon meeting of more than 10 hours, Buffalo, Dallas-Fort Worth and Milwaukee were bypassed. Each of the new members will pay a $10 million prioe for the purchase and immediately share in National League and Series television contracts. The National League now has 12 teams to match the 12 the Amer'-in League will present next season with the addition of Kansas City and Seattle. The American League went on its own in expanding l-y 1969 and, in essence, forced the National League to do the same. WARREN GILES NX.

goes continental. (AP) The American League has its own meeting scheduled for today, presumably to announce a split division schedule. Game scheduling for the 1969 season will now become the debating point between the two leagues and various radio and television contracts will have to be taken into consideration. In announcing the selections of San Diego and Montreal, RED SOX Page 30 Gaw, who to that point had a thing for the game something similar to Heifetz' affection for violins. "Chippy" got hooked.

You could hardly drag him to the ball park after that. It was a terrible blow to us all. "I didn't know what it was all about, except that the bulls lost," he reported following his Nogales Caper. "That's when I started buying books about bull fighting. You name it, I have it!" He was 76 when he died in South Boston this week.

The last you'd heard from him he had gone through everything written in English on the subject of la fiesta brava and was learning Spanish in order to take on the Madrid Public Library, no holds barred. "Chippy" had gotten his kicks out of the Car-i Kids at Fenway Park last summer, but baseball really wasn't the love of his life anymore. Shortly after l.e discovered the bull fights the Ked Sox had sacked Bucky Harris. This did not meet with "Chippy's" approval. "Harris is one of the smartest guys in all baseball," Gaw said, and spent that evening reading "Death in the Afternoon" for the ninth time.

To have "Chippy" Gaw get hung up on the bullfights was no more surprising to people who knew him, say, than Joe Cronin taking up sky diving. You are never totally prepared for such drastic conversions. He died alone in his room Sunday, the police reported. Alone? He was surrounded by the bullfighting library he'd collected and for him Bel-monte and Manolete lived on the pages of those books. "Well, I always knew George had an enthusiasm for steak," remarked one of his old Newton chums.

"That man could eat. There wasn't anything in "Chippy's" background to suggest that he'd finally get taken in, by Hemingway and Kex Smith and Conrad (BSrnaby), and follow the sun to Mexico and the corridas. "He used to pitch no-hit games out at the high school here and he was a helluva hockey player and those are the games he used to talk about. Baseball and hockey. Bull fights? I'll be damned." He played hockey and baseball at Dartmouth and all over New England and coached either one of the other occasionally both at Hanover, N.H., Boston U.

and Princeton and some way stations. When I was a kid growing up in Newton the topics of conversation around Beale's Pharmacy were, "Chippy" Gaw, George Owen and Hank Gar-rity who was then busting tackles for Princeton. "Chippy" had made it for a short time to the big leagues which was an uncommon thing at that time in our town and still is. He was a BM in T. All the years in between we never managed to meet until, at last, it was too late to stimulate his reflections of the old "dead ball" days in baseball.

It was my intention that we should journey to the ball park and cut up the old town between 'nnings. "Chippy" wasn't having any. "What," he indignantly replied, "sit there and watch pitchers hit home runs?" Lowell, Lynn English In Bitter Showdown SO viewy oveir the inniailadtetted. TV rr -ri cy By NEIL SINGELAIS Everybody in the Essex County Baseball League should be talking about he perfect game thrown by Brian Martin of Lowell High against Peabody on Monday. But-they're not.

Most of the attention is focused on today's showdown battle between Lowell and Lynn English amidst a series of accusations and denials, and suspicions. What it all boils down to is that the winner of the Lowell-Lynn English game finishes the season in a first-place tie with Beverly at 9 and 5 and qualifies for a berth in the Class A Eastern Massachusetts baseball tournament The bad feeling shared by both Lowell and Lynn English stems from a postponed game between the clubs last Friday. Lowell coach Stan Stoklo-sa said the game scheduled at Alumni Field was postponed following heavy rain in the morning and "projected rain for the remainder of the day." Lynn English coach Dave Barry, according to Lynn newspaper stories, accuses Lowell of deliberately postponing the game to avoid having to face Lynn English ace pitcher, Mike Pazik. He suggested that Lowell knew English would have to pitch Pazik in its next game against Lynn Classical, thus removing Pazik as a starter against Lowell in today's re-scheduled game. It was also reported that SHOWDOWN Page 32 A Manhattan is a beautiful drink when you make it with Old Thompson.

Because Old Thompson is the mildest mannered whiskey you can pour. Next time vou want a reallv Thompson. And know victory over, the maladjusted Manhattan. The dour sour. The over-bearing Old Fashioned.

And the hard highball. Now isn't that the kind of whiskey. you could go for? smooth Manhattan, reach, for Old NASON Page 31 Dartmouth Five Tops in Early Returns N.E. Colleges Reap Rich Hoop, Ice Harvest versity are all expecting some outstanding area-bred talent. With more and better high school hockey every By JOE COXCANXON John Van Kurin is a high school basketball player.

One of the best. He had 65 offers to attend colleges that offered him the moon. He is going to Dartmouth, which didn't. This bit of news, received recently by Dartmouth coach Dave Gavitt, who did an exceptional job of coach- College Crop ward, Arlington High and Andover; Leif Rosenhurger, forward, Wellesley and St. Mark's; Dave Cavanagh, forward, Cranston East High, Cranston, R.I.

and Andover; Tom Paul, forward, Cathedral High, Duluth, Tim Smith, defense, White Bear Lake, Minn. BOSTON UNIVERSITY Hockey Toot Cahoon, forward, Marblehead High and Kimball Union; Rich Comfort, forward, Laynn and New Prep; Tim Regan, goalie, (6-3, 200) La Salle Academy; Ted Bryand, forward, Warwick, R.I. and New Prep; Joe Meehan, center, 1 0 -s: Tony Bryne, forward, Cretin High, St. Paul, Bob Haley, forward, Weymouth High; Kevin Horton, forward, Natick High and Trinity-Pawling; Vin Shan-ley, forward, Brighton and New Mike Sico, forward, Rindge Tech and Vermont Academy; John Smo-lens, goalie, Wellesley; Joe Ahearn, Goalie, Lynnfield; Charlie Ahearn, defense, (6-2, 200), Catholic Memorial; Jack Cronin, defense, Norwood High; Mike Holland, defense, Coleraine High in Greenway, Tom Henderson, defense; North Quincy; Dan Sarmir, defense, Don Bosco High in New Jersey. Basketball Dan Metzler, forward-guard, (6-2), Olean, N.Y.; Pete Schmidt, forward, (6-7), Syracuse, N.Y.; Bob Ray-nor, guard, (5-9), St, John's' Prep.

HARVARD Hockey Bryan Dench, goalie, Gloucester; Howard McAl-pine, defense, Lakefield College School, Lakefield, Donald Olson, defense, Du-luth, Minn, and Andover; Kaleb Warren, defense, Andover; Red Jahncke, defense, Deerfield; Skip Barry, forward, Needham High and T8ft; Bob Havern, forward, Arlington High and Andover; Denta Sullivan, ior year in the Greater Boston area, it is beginning to show up in the colleges. Added to this is the "big man." He is Jim Masker, 6-10, out of Kingwood School in Hartford. And his front court support comes from Tom Bryon (6-7) out of A 1 a y's Vincentian Academy, Paul Erland (6-6) from Nashville, Wells Martin (6-5) from Chicago and Pete Broberg (6-4) from Palm Beach, Fla. Van Kurin's running mate, Ed Wisneski of Weymouth, at 6-2, is the brother of Yale guard Frank Wisneski. Gavitt liked Ed the first time he saw him as a junior.

That, briefly, is a rundown on some of the names. Some colleges, like Northeastern with its unique cooperative plan, must adopt a "wait until September" attitude. A complete list, in hand at the moment, follows: BOSTON COLLEGE Hockey Scott Godfrey, forward (6-1, 195), Northwood School, Lake Placid, N.Y.; iiompsox Jk-rl- weston, uuy Burrows, forward, Niagara Falls, Bob Gryp, forward, Chatham, Ont; Dan Brady, goalie, Canton, N.Y. BASKETBALL Lou Graham, guard (6-1), Jamaica Plain High; Derrek Harps, guard, (6-1), Calvin Coolidge High, Washington, D.C.; Larry Roland, forward, (6-3), Dorchester High; John Funther, forward, (6-5), Cambria Rich Hassan, forward. (6-4), Weymouth High; John Creen, forward, (6-4); St.

John's High, Shrewsbury; John Nesbitt, forward (6-3), Augustine Academy, Staten Island. COLLEGE CROP Face 33 DAVE GAVITT ing this past season, might well mean the work ahead may be a lot easier. And Van Kurin, who is a tarter on the Indiana all-star team that meets its Kentucky counterpart in two games next month, is only one of many outstanding prospects headed for Hanover. In hockey, locally, Harvard, B.C., and Boston Uni- Ik. foMMiM.