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Yankee All-Timer Rolfe Finally Finds His Utopia i 1 -1111. n. um iiiiniinniiiwi.au.. wimmi mmnimuwmmimmmmMLM0imiim.mmmM V'. 1 The jollowing is the first of a series of stories which Rbger Birtwell, veteran Globe baselhll expert and columnist, is writing on New Englanders native 6r inherited who are being selected to the Ail-Time clubs of major league teams for the 100th anniversary of baseball celebration in Washington.

By ROGER BIRTWELL Staff Writer GOVERNOR'S ISLAND, N.H. New York is the town of the noisy. It's the home of the blatant and brash. It's the heart of the nation's rat-race, and Manhattan has more wise-guys per acre than any other place on earth. Yet the baseball fans of the brassy metropolis, in voting for their all-time New York Yankee team, picked as their third baseman a quiet, serious, studious man from a New Hampshire farm town whose entire population would be lost in a dress-sale at Macy's.

The man they picked was no pun intended a real Yankee. He came from Penacook, N.H., and his name is Red Rolfe. Along with Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and the rest of them, Rolfe now is ranked as one of the ten they picked two pitchers all-time Yankees. Rolfe came out of New Hampshire, and now he's back there 30 miles or so farther up state. He and his wife Isabel live in an idyllic spot.

They live here on an island Governor's Island in Lake Winnipesaukee. The waters of the lake sparkle in the sunlight as the Rolfes from their pine-paneled living room look down through the pines. At their own dock, just below the house, is their own twin-motored cabin cruiser. "Some times we take our friends on it, and have breakfast on it, as we cruise around the lake," explains Red. Red retired two years ago, and the charm of his home exoeeds the dreams of most men.

Yet he worked hard, improved on God-given gifts, underwent physical suffering, to achieve his Utopia. Three separate and distinct careers carried Rolfe the 30 miles from Penacook to Governor's Island. There also has been a fourth, which we'll mention later. First, there was his career as a ball-player. It began on the meadows of Penacook, It took him to Exeter, to Dartmouth and with stops at Albany and Newark to the New York Yankees With them, he played third base in six World Series, on five teams of World Champions.

Colitis, when Red was 33, ended his career as a baseball player. His second career, Red told me today as we looked out over the lake, started in Mass. General Hospital. "My physician, a Dr. Townsend, was a Yale man.

He told me because of my colitis I would have to give up the traveling, and uneven living, that baseball requires. "He said 'Would you be interested in coaching on the college 'After what you've just told I answered. 'I 'Joe Wood is retiring as baseball coach at Yale. I know the athletic director. I'll call the doctor told me." ROLFE Page 30 Si 3 RED ROLFE A great Yankee who worked hard for hi Utopia.

(Robert St. Louis photo) Enemy Blitz Routs Nagy White Sox Touting SPORTS May as Top Rookie 29 By NEIL SINGF.LAIS RUft Wrltrr White Sox rookie outfielder Carlos May had his first look at Fenway Park last night As far as the Red Sox are concerned, they TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 19G9 llllliiilllitlilllliiillllilllliiiiiiiiiliilliliillillllllilllllll JERRY NASON wish they had never seen i Carlos May. 1 For the sturdily built 21-year-old made his debut here a memorable i one as ne Deuea an eighth inning grand slam off Red Sox reliever Sparky Lyle to cap a six-run rally and give the White Sox a 6-4 win over the stunned Red Agent Reports Mat Hysteria Jack Fred Barry, my associate and friend, hadn't witnessed the torso twisters in action since his pre-' courtship days in the late '30s, when Papa Paul Bowser was the local rasslin' entrepreneur. "About 4 In the ninth, the Red Sox put men on second and third with one out. The batter was Dalton Jones and after him, Carl Yastrzemski.

For the Red Sox, because Jones was hot, with two doubles and a single, and so was Yaz, with a double and homer. But baseball does not work that way. Success an- hour ago does not mean success again. Wilbur Wood, who has not given up a hit to Jones in two years, got him out on a pop to short. That's the way Yaz went, also, after trying to hit the first two pitches over the Tobin Bridge.

Final score: 6-4, White Sox, and 21, 265 went home muttering "They shouldn't have lost that Maybe the Red Sox shouldn't have, but they did, and they must be content with the philosophy of George Thomas, who said he borrowed the phrase from Abner Dou-bleday "Get 'em tomorrow." BITS AND PIECES: For the second game in a row, a batter thought he had a walk after three halls Last night it was Walt Williams of the White Sox The day before, Dick Schofield went to first on a 3-2 count and had to return sheepishly to the plate Pitching coach Darrrll Johnson, though unhappy that Nagy didn't la.st, said "the kid is going to win a lot of ball games if he pitches like that Jim Lonborg goes for hi fiftli straight tonight against Gary Peters, who beat the Red Sox last week Petrocelli's 16th homer, which ties him fur the league lead, hit the foul pole in left, several feet above the screen. Baseball, however, has an endless supply of ifa. The bases were still loaded, the score was now 4-2 and it was time to consider Sparky Lyle. A day before, the lefthander had come into a similar situation against the Twins. The bases were loaded with one out when he pitched to Rod Carew, who" was hitting only .400 and beating the tar out of southpaws.

Lyle got him to hit into a double play and saved the So there he was last night, facing another lefthanded batter again with the bases filled. The man this time was Carlos May, who had belted a double off Lyle a week ago in Chicago. The first pitch was a strike on the outside corner. "He was lunging on that pitch," said Lyle, "so we figured we'd throw another fast ball, inside. I threw it just where I wanted." May hit the pitch just where he wanted, about a dozen or so rows up in the.

right field grandstand. "He just leaned back and smashed it," said catcher Russ Gibson. "It was almost as if he knew what was coming." Lyle said his only hope was that the drive would curve foul. If the game was being played in Yellowstone Park, it might have. "That kid doesn't care who is pitching," said White Sox reliever Dan Osinski.

"He doesn't worry about whether the pitcher is right-handed or lefthanded. Lefthanded pitchers don't make him back up." All right. So it was now 6-4, but anyone who has been to a Fenway game knows a two-run lead is not safe as long as there is a man alive on the trailing team. By RAY FITZGERALD Uff Wxltir If there is one lesson a major league ballplayer learns in a hurry it is this: The time to be most wary of disaster is when things are going great. The game is a roller-coaster, filled with highs and lows.

Today's lollipop is tomorrow's sledgehammer, and somebody's hitting you over the head with it. Take, for example, the ball game at Fenway last night, won by the White Sox, 6-4. Consider first young Mike Nagy, who was pitching like Christy Ma-thewson, or if you don't remember him, like Dennis McLain. Nagy, for seven innings, had the White Sox mystified. He was on his way to his team's first home shutout, with only two singles and a walk off him in that time.

That was after seven. After eight, he was in the locker room, still trying to figure out what happened. "I've never had better stuff. I've never had a fast ball like that What went wrong? Damned if I know." The White Sox, with two out and a man on first, got an infield hit, a run-scoring single to center and a walk off Nagy. Consider next Vicente Romo, who relieved the rookie.

Romo faced Luis Aparicio and threw one pitch. The pitch seemingly did the job. Aparicio hit the ball, not very hard, back toward Romo, who stuck his glove down. He slowed the ball and shortstop. Rico Petrocelli couldn't get it in time.

"If the ball came through cleanly, I'm pretty sure I could have made the play," said Petrocelli. 1 Sox. Vo.i.,if l.T 1 If rtrra the time, he remembers, "when The Angel was very big." Jack recently decided to bridge the generation gap. He took his male offspring to the Garden bouts featuring B. Sammartino versus Killer K.

At this writing neither Sammartino. the loser, nor Mr. Barry has quite recovered. "Some of the fans," remarks Celtics staffer Barry, putting in his trophy bid for JACK BARRY ft. 1, CARLOS MAY whcn hu it May "The pitch I got was inside and belt high.

"It's the fust grand slam I've hit in the majors, although I did hit one in the minors for Appleton back in 19(17," he added. This was the second time May, a left-handed batter, had faced Lyle, a left-handed pitcher, in eight days. "I hit a double off Lyle when the Red Sox were in Chicago a week ago and it was on a slider at time, too," recalls May. There was a one-strike count on May when he walloped his 11th home run into the 15th row of seats in the right field corner. Waiting at the plate to congratulate May were baserunners Tom McGraw, Walt Williams and Luis Aparicio.

May, who had grounded out, struck out and hit into a double play in three previous trips, said he was just looking for a base hit. Someone suggested that Carlos' brother, Lee, who plays first and bats right for the Cincinnati Reds, might have watched Carlos belt his game-winning home run because the game was televised nationally by NBC. "I don't think so," responded Carlos, "He had a game to play tonight." Carlos says he hasn't talked to Lee recent-ly, "but we phone each other once in a while." Iee, 26, is five years older than Carlos. May is a dangerous road hitter. Eight of his 11 home runs have been hit in away games and seven of those have been walloped to straight ccnterfield.

He rarely pulls the ball as he did last night at Fenway Park. May today has a .307 average and 23 runs batted in. Not bad for a kid who got his baptism in major league competition last year, appearing in just 17 games for the White Sox. May might now be in the thick of the runs batted in race if he hadn't started the season as leadoff man. "Maybe so," says May, "but I didn't mind hitting leadoff.

I found I got better pitches to hit." Don Guttcridge, who took over as White Sox manager for the ailing Al Lopez, thinks he may have the "rookie of the year" in Carlos May. "Carlos Is certainly way up there in the running," remarked Guttcridge. "We knew at the beginning of the season he had a good strike zone. We put him in the leadoff spot in the lineup because we didn't want to put any undue pressure on him. "The kid doesn't scare," assured Gutter-ldge, "He was knocked down by Sammy McDowell of Cleveland in a recent game.

Then he got up and hit a home run on the next pitch." -r-- 'CJi 1 yfif tuf 'r-if-rirtfn-' -i Understatement of the Year, "get carried away a little. "There was this lady near by, with muscles like a man. Must have been Rosie the Riveter in her matronly years. She kept yelling, 'Kill him! Kill I must say that Killer Kowalski did his best, although I suspect the lady was a Sammartino rooter." To the left of our Agent in Dementia there was seated well, occasionally a rasslin' sophisticate of the advance age of about 14 years. "When, suddenly, a something happened and Sammartino's face became all bloody, my boy Dave said to 'Dad! He's all 'It's nothing to worry about, I told him.

'It's just "The kid to my left said, 'No it ain't. It's cow blood! "How about that? Fourteen, or so, and he's hep to Paul Bowser's old invention, the beef-blood capsule." At this point it seems pertinent to point out that Mr. Barry probably saw the first and last girder laid in the original construction of the Garden. In the interim he has spent so many reporting hours in the place he is often mistaken for a piece of garden furniture. Although he has never yet been late to a Garden assignment, he has had a lot of photo-finishes, due to the fact so many patrons know or recognize him and therefore must stop to talk with him.

"So, I go to the rasslin' matches," he says. "Fifteen thousand people and I don't recognize a souL I take that back. There was one Coogie McFarland. I recognized him by the tilt of the cigar. "If it hadn't been for the ushers saying 'Hello' to me on the way in I'd have thought I was in a strange town." Mr.

Barry, in his forthright manner, said he did not even recognize that evening an old friend of mine, although this friend was, you might say, immediate to the scene. "I couldn't believe," Barry said, "that Killer Kowalski was the nice, soft-spoken, gentlemanly guy who comes to visit you in the office. You must like to live dangerously. "I had hardly gotten my Garden seat warmed up when Kowalski picked up a chair and broke it over Sammartino's head. No, I don't think it had been lightly glued together in advance." It impressed Barry, an old Celtics' bibliographer, that there were 12 cops stationed around ringside for the main bout.

"Rasslin' fans, you might say. have a tendency to overreact," was his impression. "The closer they are to ringside the more they react women, old folks. No generation gap. "Frankly, I don't know how to describe them.

They aren't Bruins or Celtics or Red Sox fans. I doubt you'd find any of them at the boxing bouts. Maybe they're a new breed, bred by television. "They are extremely vocal. And frank.

'Sit down, ya a guy behind kept yelling at me but the bum in front of me kept standing up." Jack Fred Barry won't go so far as to say he's now hooked on torso twisting, but probably he's hooked on the audience types. He plans to take in the next one, at Fenway Park. June 23. "It's great entertainment, a lot of laughs," said he. "And you don't have to keep track of how many rebounds Russell has." Civil War Breaks Out In Newton By MARVIN PAVE Uff WrlUr "NEWTON TAKES TITLE, BEATING DURFEE, 10-3" 'The yellowed newspaper clipping brought back some pleasant'memories yesterday for Newton High baseball coach Howie Ferguson.

He thought back to 1958 when a pitcher named Dave Craig won 12 games. Craig's last victory, against brought Newton the Class A Eastern Mass. title. "And that's the last time a team of mine has won the championship," said Ferguson, in his 2lst season at Newton. "Two yean later, the school was split (Newton South High was opened).

Now we're both going for the championship." This afternoon (3:30) at Newton High Field, the cross-town rivals will meet in the tourney's quarterfinal round. Newton won the Suburban League championship with a 13-3 record. South was second at 11-5 and boat Weymouth in a playoff to qualify. Ferguson will start pitcher Norm Weslund, a senior with a 7-1 regular season mark, plus a 7-2 triumph over defending 'A' champ Reading in the opening round last Saturday. South coach Neil McPhee will counter with either Jim Gamble or diminutive Frank Hurvitz.

SCHOOLS Page 31 Prince Prepares Bid for Belmont Globe handicapper and racing writer Sarn McCracken is at Elmont, Long Island, for the Belmont Stakes race, which will be held Saturday. Today, he describes Majestic Prince's preparations as he bids for the third jewdLon the Triple Crown. Page 32. YOVVY TAKES HIS CUT Harvard coach John Yovicsin tees off in college coaches' golf tourney. Observers are Jack Zilly, University of Rhode Island; Emerson Dromgold, also U.R.I., and Jim Root, University of New Hampshire.

Event was at Glen Ellen course, Millis, (Frank O'Brien photo) i DiSarcina Good Pro Prospect, Says UMass Coach The draft will be held this weekend in New York. After DiSarcina. two more Red-men may picked. They re the or.es that might mean problems for Berquist. Thry are the Juniors, Bob Hansen and John Kitchen, trie top two returnees for next year.

Har.rn, a wide-chested first baseman from East Hmton, has been the leading UMass h.tter for each of the la two years. Kitchen, 6-foot-2 fastball pitcher, has won eight games in nine atarts year. Both are eligible under the fine print In the draft rules. has had to attend aummer school each year to make up business courses, This kept his playing at Cape Cod down to half a season each year." Berquist'i logic Is ovious. More playing time will mean a better DiSarcina.

The coach sinpcc'li the major leagues will fhe same way. "Scouts have br-cn folio wine us all year," HerKquifit faid, "They've been at all our games and they've even come to our practices to ace DiSarcina work." "I'm sure he'll bo drafted." can play baseball. Berqui't he can get better. "I think Joe standi a really ood chance at playing professional baseball," Bercquist said. "You have to look at it this way he hasn't rrally been able to play that much for us." "He ha m.tyi our Fall programs t-vcry year bec-aus ho was play me ha ketball.

That meant' he missed about 15 yrr cs that everyone else tou.d play. "AL his past two Summers have been chopjy-d in half. He switched his major two years ago from math to busmesi end he "Time after time he'd do it. Every time it would be hard to believe. Every time it would inspire our own plavers" The fruits of the inspiration arrived Sunday.

and his UMass teammates, in methodical fashion, eliminated Boston University, 6-1, to advance to the College World Ser.es in Oma'a. D.Sarcina ws? solid. He' had one hit in three appearances at the piste. There were not ar.y problems in the i.f.'.A. In Berquist's mind, it was only a amall Indication of how the 21-year-old senior By LEIGH MONTVILLE urr Wrier University of Massachusetts baseball coach Dick Bergquift has one memory of Joe DiSarcina, his senior shortstop from Scmerviile.

The memcTy isn't cr.e catch, or one play, or one swat of a Louisville Slugger. It is one continual picture, one top-action, how-chd-he-do-it sequence cf Joe DiSarcina in action. "A ball would go deep into the raid yes-tor day. "Joe would fiivp. grab the ball, skid along on his knees and then he'd tf.row the man out.

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