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ox Lift Angels from Cellar HR Blunts Romo's Sharp Relief llgijiiiiil 1969 WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, JERRY 33 NASON 1 SS. MIKE ANDREWS Kaine Mutiny In Press Box As you may have recently noted, a woman sports-writer was scorned now hell hath no fury like The Kaine Mutiny. By ROGER BIRTWELL Stilt Writer ANAHEIM. Yaz with two on went for the homer and the runners were stranded. The Angels with two on went for singles and Jim Spencer, Aurelio Rodriguez and Joe Azcue batted in runs.

"Azcue," observed Manager Lefty Phillips of the Angels, "can execute. Did you see him hit to right and bring in our third run?" But, by a geographic paradox thanks to scout Joe Stephenson the Red Sox had some Californians of their own. And they put the Red Sox back in the game. Mike Andrews' dad died last winter, so he wasn't here with his gang from Callahan's Tavern. But Mike's mother was here, and so were the parents of Syd O'Brien.

Syd's mother, you may remember, works for the firm that built the rocket that went to the Moon. w. In the fifth, with the Red Sox trailing 0-3, Angel pitcher Tom Murphy walked Don Lock and nicked the uniform of Dalton Jones, hitting for Jim Lonborg O'Brien singled in a run. Andrews, with his third single, drove in two more and the score was deadlocked at three apiece. Then came a dazzling duel between two relievers, Clyde Wright the Tennessee southpaw of the Angels and Vicente Romo, the Red Sox tenor, Wright relieved after Andrews' score-tying single and in a stretch broken only an intentional walk to Rico Petrocelli retired nine in a row.

In the late innings, he permitted a couple of singles. Meanwhile Romo stepped in and for four innings gave his most brilliant performance with the Red Sox. Romo took over in the fifth and including four strikeouts retired 12 men in a row. "Romo pitched real good for you fellows," acknowledged Angel Manager Phillips. "We had him when I was with the Dodgers.

"He had a dry spitter when he was with the Dodgers. "Now he has a wet spitter. He used it to strike out Fregosi and Reichardt." But Romo's perfection couldn't last forever. On Jay Johnstone, leading off in the last of the ninth, Romo got behind, 3 and 0. I iliiiii He a At dr.

When Elinor Kaine mutinies she mutinies all the way to the Superior Court, making her a than-whicher among mutineers. Kaine is a young dish who does a peepsy sort of prb-football column via a New York syndicate and which appears, in season, on these newspaper pages. She is no novice peepsy, but Elinor presently sues for her press-box rights, denied her for the imminent Jets- I' 4 The Angels thought the next pitch was a ball, also and they were eager to settle for a walk. In fact, the game was stopped while plate umpire Larry Napp ejected bench-jockey Ruben Amaro from the Angel dugout. And Manager Phillips charged out to the plate to defend Amaro, of course.

So the count now was three-and-one, and Romo had to make the next pitch a little too good, as catcher Russ Gibson described it "A fastball, down a bit." Johnstone hit into the right field seats near the foul line and in Anaheim there was jubilation. For the Angels, for the first time since May 10, were out of the cellar. "It took Lefty Phillips 61 games to do it," a California writer explained. "And," he added, "the Red Sox were the club that did it. They knocked us into the cellar May 10, and we've been there ever since." "One time," added Manager Phillips, "we lost 10 in a row.

And we didn't just lose 10 in a row. We got the hell kicked out of us. "But now," continued Phillips, "I think we have more confidence. We don't go in there expecting to get beat. The last two or three weeks we've been going pretty good." "Why," Phillips was asked, "didn't the Dodgers keep Romo?" "There was a' situation," explained Phillips.

"We had to choose among two or three guys. And we'd just got Hank Aguirre. Romo pitched exhibitions for us, and he pitched pretty But he had trouble fielding his position. He couldn't make plays. "So we let him go.

Cleveland picked him up, and now the Red Sox have him. He was real good tonight. "With that wet spitter," he added. ELINOR KAINE COOL SPECTATOR A herring gull joins the fleet during Marblehead Race Week. (Ted Dully Photo) Noyes Leads Alone On Wrong Course Never Found Groove He Needs to Develop Feat VICENTE ROMO Jackson; Patriots other quarterbacks," Pats coach Clive Rush said.

"We do think he has the potential, but needs a great deal of development." Jackson said there wasn't as much catching up as he had thought there was going to be. He said his competition Tom Sherman, Kim Hammond and Mike Taliaferro had been good, but again, not as tough as he had expected. "The thing I have to do now is improve my timing," he said. "I have to get back in my groove and I have to improve my timing." The big guy sat in his room, with a copy of "Football News" on his desk, his wife smiling at him from a picture on his bureau. The rain was coming down, as it had all day.

"At first I felt badly," he said. "I thought about all the people I was letting down. "Then it set in. I accepted it. You have to learn to accept the bad things as well as good things.

The good things will come again." The Pats also placed Richard Zak, a free agent fullback from St. Procopious College on waivers Zak left camp almost immediately The team held its usual two practice sessions, disregarding the rain Dennis Byrd was transferred to defensive tackle, shifting from end, and Bryant a rookie fullback, was tried at tight end. (Frank O'Brien rhiXn) 1 Giants exhibition at Yale Bowl. 1 It should be a resounding triumph for the mini-i skirt. Kaine is a card-bearing member of the Pro-Football Writers Assn.

(hello there, If chivalry still survives among the corps, the boys on i the team will start aiming some vigorous place-. kicks. Count this as one. I Should they not well, most of the Tel-X opera-1 tors this agent has encountered lately are gals. Should they, in protest, walk out of press-boxes into which Miss cannot go there'll be the damndest communi- cations tieups since the British appropriated Paul Re-i vere's horse.

All of which brings into focus the presence of the fair young things in our profession. They labor under the obvious imposts where the boys suit up being, naturally, out of bounds. However, this is a sword with two edges. Asked if there were any card-bearing gal members of the Golf Writers their president from j. Quincy, Mr.

Roger Barry, replied. indeed. We don't discriminate. In fact, you have one right in your own office Kitte Desmond. "Now, there's a gal who is tough competition at I the local women's tournaments.

She can 'work' the locker rooms!" Most eminent of the golf writers' auxiliary members, of course, is Maureen Orcutt of the N.Y. Times. Nine times the Metropolitan champ, she can manage exclusive interviews with herself. Your agent can not remember the Baseball Writers ever granting membership to a femme. The BBWA membership list is quite misleading in the cases of Shirley Povich of Washington and Marion Jackson of Atlanta, both of whom develop 5 o'clock shadow at approximately 2 p.m.

daily. Povich was once selected as one of America's 10 1 most prominent ladies, a selection which had no traumatic consequences for him. Another time, when he was touring the Spring baseball camps in company with another writer, Shirley's companion phoned ahead for twin-bed reserva- tions at the next motel stop of the tour for him-self and Shirley Povich. "We'll gladly arrange reservations for you," he I was told," but Miss Povich will have to sleep in a separate room!" Larry Claflin of the local ball writers says, "To my knowledge there's never been a woman in the i Fenway Park press-box. "Years ago maybe 10 or so some woman writer from out of town attempted to gain access.

The writers held a meeting and denied her the facility." The ball writers are, generally, pretty stuffy about this, but Claflin said, "In one of our Red Sox trips to Comiskey Park in Chicago we saw a girl in the press-box. She was doing a feature on Conig that day. She is not, of course; a member of the BBWA." The relatively new Hockey Writers of which Globe staffer Tom Fitzgerald is the prexy, demands certain qualifications for membership, but does not bar the gals. NASON Page 36 N.B.A. Moves For Merger With A.B.A.

I.ol Ancelet Tlmn LOS ANGELES A Los Angeles Stars oficial today confirmed a report that hte fledgling American Basketball Assn. and The National Basketball Assn. may merge. "I'm disturbed that it's out," said attorney Paul Caruso, who represents the Stas of the A.B.A., of the report published in today's Los Angeles Times. "Ther have been some tentative discussions but nothing is firmed up," Caruso said.

"No meetings are planned in the immediate future but we hope to get something started soon." Three NBA owners Sam Schulman of Seattle, Dick Block of Phoenix and Franklin Meuli of San Francisco came to him and first broached the possibility of a merger, Caruso said. Asked if it weren't surprising that the NBA would make the first overture, Caruso said, "The owners of both leagues art concerned about the rising costs of players." Caruso said the merger would be similar to that of the American and National football leagues. He insisted no specifics have been worked out and he termed "absolutely untrue" a report that the plans called for each ABA franchise to pay as musch as $500,000 in indemnities to the NBA. "I haven't even heard the figure said. The Times said the N.B.A.

proposal to the A.B.A. featured three main points: only time it was mentioned at all was in joking around. "Like one time I ran the 40-yard dash in 4.8 seconds and Aaron Marsh yelled to me that I'd better watch cut, they were going to switch me to defensive back." The switch an historical route for fast, black quarter- ONREE JACKSON may be back backs from small, black schools, never came. It wag discussed only fleetingly. "The question never really came up," Jackson said.

"I talked about it maybe once with the coaches, but never seriously. I'm just quarterback size." At 6 ft. 5 205-pounds, Jackson fills the prerequisites for a pro quarterback. The problem came in other areas. "I never got in my groove, so to speak," Jackson said.

"I throwing naturally. I wasn't getting it over. "I guess 1 didn't do as much throwing as I should have done before I came." "He was just behind the a By PETER GAMMONS Staff Writer The 30th anniversary "oldtimers" 110 class race at Pleon yesterday was a big success; it was also very amusing and very wet. Take Brad Noyes. As owner of a 45-foot ocean racer he should have had little trouble going back into a 110.

He didn't have trouble handling the boat, it was the course. Noyes got a good start despite confusion at the line and was way out ahead. He was pointing high and no one was around him. He thought he had left everyone behind. After about 20 minutes it dawned on him eight of the other nine boats were headed for a different mark.

He later found out that while he was preparing for the start, he failed to see that on the first warning gun the course had been changed from EU to UE. Thus he watched the race and got soaked. John van Dusen, who now sails a Finn, won the race by what seemed to second place Knox Robbing like two miles. Robbins crossed the line more than four minutes behind Van Dusen, who after a start second only to Noyes, kept building up his lead by going straight across the harbor utilizing the tides. "The 110 seems like an' ocean craft after sailing Finns," laughed Van Dusen, "but like all of us oldtimers, I had to rely on my crew, and mine was the best, Ken Cormier crewed for Norm Cressy for years before By LEIGH MONTVILLE Stiff Writer AMHERST Onree Jackson called home last night.

It was a happy occasion in Brighton, Ala. It was his wife Nettye's 21st birthday. His news was not happy. He had been placed on waivers by the Patriots. "She was pretty sad," Jackson said while sitting at his dormitory desk, a small, sad smile on his own face.

"She told me a local company had started to print banners saying, "Welcome Home Onree." People were going to bring them to our exhibition game in Birmingham. "But now Now the banner company has to stop work, The homecoming was delayed. The first black man drafted by the pros to play quarterback exclusively had suffered a setback. He was on the waiver list and could be claimed by any other team for the $100 waiver price. Maybe he would be claimed.

Maybe the Pats would take him back. Either way, it looked like a trip to a team like the Lowell Giants or the Hartford Knights or to some other minor league team. It looked like Onree Jackson was at least a year away from the big time. More than anything, Jackson was wistful. He was not overly sad.

In no way was he bitter. The question of skin pigmentation, he said, never was a problem. "It never crossed my mind on the field," he said. "The Lexington, a town of 5000. Anybody with any football ability in Nebraska went to the university.

Naviaux went there and so did five of his Lexington contemporaries. He was a starting halfback for Nebraska for three seasons, two under Pete Elliot and then under Bill Jennings. He wasn't a flashy player. Hard-nosed is the term they use for Naviaux' type. "I never had many long runs," he said, "because my legs just didn't move that last." He did intercept a pass and go 93 yards for a score against Oklahoma.

"We never beat them. My senior year we lost something like 37-7." His high point with Nebraska came in a game against Pitt. "We were three-touchdown underdogs and beat them 14-6," he said. "Knocked them out of a bowl bid." NAVIAUX Pace 36 buying Norm's boat this Winter, and there isn't a better crewman around he told me just what to do." Invitations for the oldtimers race were sent out to two members of the original Marblehead 110 fleet, Frank Scully and George O'Day, but neither could compete. Scully would have, but his Shields Class decided to race yesterday because of the cancellation Monday.

Bob Danforth, who hadn't sailed a 110 before (he started in a Hustler), stepped in to replace Scully and followed Noyes' course. Jon Wales, who a few years ago won practically everything in the class, was third. Jim Grinnell had a miserable day in his Shields. He somehow picked up a piece of wood, with nails, on the hull of the boat, and on the impact the nails went right into the boat and it hung on. Gene Connolly won the Shields race, with Scully right behind him.

The 420's encountered some confusion at their start. All classes had to use a starting line which wasim possible for a starboard tack, and therefore everyone was coming off the same tack. Then there was a strange five second differential behind the raising of the starting flag and the gun, which ruined Tim O'Donnell of Hingham. O'Donnell was first over the starting line but over in conjunction with the flag and therefore he had to go back and start again. He didn't recover.

RACE WEEK Page 38 tion over some player-coach problems last year, being eased into a new postion? "That air," said Peck at the news conference, "ought to be cleared. I have always had the utmost confidence in Warren and there was no dissatisfaction with his coaching. I felt he had an excellent year." The change, Peck went.on, came about because of two things: (1) a vacancy created in the department by the death of Graduate Athletic Manager Vic Stout in June and (2) the confidence that Naviaux could take over the head job. "Take decision," Peck went on, "was based on an orderly process. Can I make the change? If we did not have such a strong assistant, I may not have made this change.

When I decided to, Larry was the obvious man for the job." "I gave it considerable thought," Schmakel said. "It was, to me, a chance to ad- SCHMAKEL Page 36 Old Faces, New Hats at B. U. Naviaux: Dream Come True Schmakel: Chance for Me 'i. 'i-' vr.

'V 4 I i 1 Y5? By RAY FITZGERALD Staff Writer The press conference was over, and now Warren Schamkel, Larry Naviaux and a few others stood in the hallway outside the Boston University atheltic offices. "See said Schmakel, smiling as he pointed to Naviaux' dark hair. "Next season, there'll be a lot of gray up there." Schmakel has plenty of gray hair. He's been the football coach at B.U. for five years.

Naviaux has been head man tor only one day. He was named to succeed Schmakel at Boston Univer-sity yesterday, with, Schmakel moving up to assistant director of athletics. But when a man' is 32 and has reached a goal in life, as Naviaux did yesterday, gray hairs and headaches are trivia. "This is what I've always wanted to be," Naviaux said; "a head football coach." Football has been part of Naviaux' life since he was a kid living across from the high school football field in By JOE CONCANNON Staff Writer Warren Schmakel began a new phase of what he said has been "a varied career" yesterday and the suddenness of the change raised a few eyebrows in collegiate athletics. In an afternoon press conference at Boston University, it was announced that Schmakel, four weeks short of welcoming his sixth football team, had been "promoted from within." He is named Assistant Director of Athletics, a position Athletic Director Robert R.

Peck said was "somewhat new," and Larry Na-viaux, an assistant under Schmakel, moved up to succeed him as head football coach. The change, coming as it does so close to the opening of the football season, caught just about everyone, including others in the B.U. athletic department, a little off guard. Was Warren, some wondered, actually being "promoted," or was he, because of administrative dissatisfac- drank O'Brien Photo) WARREN SCHMAKEL 1 1 assistant athletic director LARRY NAVIAUX head football coach i 4 i a a a a ta a a a i i ,4 a A A a A i -t a. a.

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