The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 68

SPORTS The Boston Globe Thursday, May 25, 1972 69 HAROLD KAESE In 1965, at Revere bar: 'Take Lakers and 4 points' Barboza says Conley gave Red Sox vote to play Miller still objects Don't call the Red Sox crybabies because Marvin Miller's Players' Assn. is filing a grievance over the Tigers-Red Sox game played a week ago in Detroit. Red Sox players did not object to the makeup game being played. They voted in favor of playing it. They did not complain after it was played.

mobster tip By Charles E. Claffey Globe Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Boston underworld informer Joseph Baron Barboza said yesterday that former. Boston Celtics basketball player Gene Conley once visited a Revere, gangland hangout and offered betting advice on an upcoming mnm t.c.. W' mmmmmfSkmmit 'inmiiimnm 1 1 mnninniii immiib ihi mi iiht i ii i. hi hiiwiiim imiimii inww i mi The complaining was done by the executive director of the Players' Assn.

on the grounds that the basic agreement between the owners and players had been violated, and Red Sox players did not have a right to vote on the issue. It was a matter for the Executive Committee. "We were asked by the Tigers if our players would 'play the game," said Dick O'Connell, Red Sox general manager. "If they didn't play game between the Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers. Barboza, testifying before the House select committee on crime, said he was introduced to Conley, also an ex-Red Sox pitcher, in 1965 at the Ebb Tide Bar.

Conley and Henry Tame-leo, a convicted murderer and one-time lieutenant to reputed New England Cosa Nostra chief Raymond Patriarca, withdrew to a back room for a private discussion, according to Bar MARVIN MILLER meant back-to-back doubleheaders it, it would have GENE CONLEY boza. After they concluded their talk, Barboza testified, Tameleo quoted Conley as telling him: "Take the Lakers with four points against the Celtics." Barboza told the committee that although he was "not much of a gambler" he made a bet and won $100 DEADLY DROP Doug Griffin looks ruefully at ball that fell out of his glove, messed up a double play that would have pulled the Red Sox out of the inning. Safe at second is Bobby Grich. (Frank O'Brien photo) Griffin error ruins Sox, 4-1 by following Conley's alleged advice to Tameleo. Barboza also said it was not unusual for jockeys from Suffolk Downs to drop into the Ebb Tide.

"They'd give these jockeys the best girls, let them the next1 time we were in Detroit. "I did not read the rule, just passed Detroit's request to Jack Rogers, our secretary, who passed it on to our player representative, Gary Peters. He took a vote, and the players wanted to play. "We didn't play the game for money, so much as to get it out of the way on a day we had off, and while we were traveling from Milwaukee to New York. We didn't expect to draw, and had less than 8000 people." O'Connell called the rule awkward.

Miller said, "The contract says one-day stands will not be rescheduled except to complete the championship schedule." "We weren't rescheduling a one-day stand, but a postponed game that was part of a two-game series in April," said O'Connell, "and we were doing something we thought best for our players. "It was an off-day. We could have made them play an exhibition game in Peoria, and they could've done nothing about it. Instead, we made up a league game that, since we had to charter two planes, probably cost us money." The grievance is paltry, the complaint picayune. Now players and owners can't play games when they want to.

This is the new tyranny. By Clif Keane Globe Staff "It just barely wall," said Ben. skun the Two quick strikes on Andy and the pinch hitter run up big bar bills, and then put the heat on them to pull (fix) races," he testified. Barboza also testified that Bob Cousy, then with the Celtics, and Babe Parilli, who was quarterbacking the" Boston Patriots, also met with Tameleo. He said Parilli and Conley spent 45 minutes in a back office with Ta- 1 maleo.

-i Barboza also linked the Mafia branch run by Ray- mond Patriarca of Providence, R.I., with Scarborough Downs racetrack in Maine and Berkshire Downs. Tameleo, he said, told him "The Office" the New England Mafia owned "about 50 percent of the horses that ran in New England." He also said jockeys were pressured into fixing races, and that horses were doped at Suffolk Downs. "They would use injections to slow down the three or four favorites and bet on longshots," he said. As Krausse was walking towards the dressing room in his despair, he rapped the door with his fist once, then again, and the panel was on the floor to be repaired. "I have to do something like that when I lose like that," said Krausse.

"I was so damned mad I coulda done anything. I feel awful sorry for young Griffin, though." slapped a single to center-field and two more runs came in and the lights were out for fair. The Red Sox had scored their run in the fourth inning on an error by Mark Belanger and three singles by Rico Petrocelli, Ben Og-livie and Carlton Fish off the talented right hander Jim Palmer. And as it hit the wall and dropped Crowley went to third and Baylor to second. Manager Eddie Kasko walked out to his pitcher as he had in the seventh, and Krausse reassured the manager that he was all right.

But he walked Grich on a 3-2 pitch in the dirt and up came Paul Blair. Blair hit the nicest of double play balls to Rico Petrocelli. It was to Rico's left, about knee high. Rico one-handed it, threw it perfectly to Griffin at second base, about eye high, and umpire Merle Anthony called the runner, Grich, out on a force play. But just as Anthony was making his call, the ball popped out of Griffin's glove and Anthony ruled the runner safe, and the tfWfy to MutfM imi Cuuim uwucaft or Camaou Cum www HRiM WB i SONS WTEO It was miserable enough for the customers to say "dammit" at the luck Lew Krausse had last night.

And hear t-b a i enough for the Red Sox right hander to punch in a panel of the door leading to the clubhouse after he had lost a 4-1 game to the Orioles. Krausse had a 1-0 lead through six innings, escaped with some brilliant "pitching in the seventh when he fanned Boog Powell with the bases loaded and got Don Buford to ground out to end the innings. But the eighth inning was something else and Krausse had to walk off the field head bent low as though he didn't care what happened next after Doug Griffin had made a costly error. There was one out in the inning and Terry Crowley, playing in place of Powell singled sharply to right field and Don Taylor, who is supposed to be the answer to Frank Robinson, came to the plate. Baylor has a long, sweeping stroke with his bat and a mistake can be costly, Krausse made one lie g't his slider inside to U.iylor, and the rookie outfielder took his wi'd lh the ball.

It K)arcd long and high toward leftficld and Ben Oglivie ran back to the wall, hoping the bull would drop down to him. John Stuart Mill wrote: "As mankind improves, the number of doctrines which are no longer disputed or doubted will be constantly on the increase." Since disputes are increasing, not decreasing, Mill would have to conclude that mankind is jiot improving. Nor are umpires. After being repeatedly denied justice by the men in blue, the Red Sox finally came out ahead Tuesday night. Reggie Smith's long fly to left rebounded to the playing field and was declared by umpire Merle Anthony to have bounced back from behind the fence, not off the fence, and therefore was a home run.

Fenway probably leads all big league parks in disputed home runs. Balls have hit screen uprights six feet over the wall, bounced back and been declared in play. Others like Lou Boudreau's in 1948 have been foul by feet and been declared fair. In 1964, George Thomas of the Tigers hit a ball that Red Sox left fielder Dick Williams said struck the top of the wall. The umpires called it a homer, then chased Johnny Pesky, Sox manager, for arguing.

In 1962, Frank Malzone hit one over the edge that came back, and a coasting Gary Geiger thinking it a homer was thrown out at the plate. Umpire Sam Car-rigan said the ball had hit a non-existent 2x4 on top of the wall. In 1952, Mickey Mantle bounced a ball back off a light tower in center field, but it was no homer to umpire Larry Napp. A home run was taken from Jackie Jensen here in 1959, because a ball bounced back off an upright. Tony Conigliaro lost one in 1966, but in 1970 he got it back on a foul fly that caromed off the roof's edge into the net.

Ted Lcpcio in 1957 saw umpire John Stephens chM his fly over the fence a home run, then had it taken away when Napp, the plate umpire, told Stephens the was foul. "I can understand Stephens not seeing it," said Mike Higgins, "but if he didn't see it, why did he ever call it fair?" Umpires don't have to explain why they miss 'em. tying run was across the plate. What was going through Griffin's mind? "The ball just popped out of the glove," he said. "I was going to go right into the runner to make the double play." On-o that happened, walked Brooks for a second run he came out when Vli-'d Hendricks came out of the MaMimnrc dugout.

The new choice was Gary Peters, and the Ori-o'os switched to Andy Et-chcbai ren. Yy'f I -Vi 1 I miaatmi mm A No trades Bruins vulnerable in draf 'Wri: MMf mmw www ftarts find' 4 mm i Hockey League teams can't buy, sell or trade a player. It doesn't rule out deals that would direct a new learn like Long Island or Atlanta to draft a particular player first for future thereby allowing a team like the Bruins or Rangers to protect players otherwise eligible to be drafted. Teams don't have to the way they have kept a steady stream of young talent coming into their organization. But that system has gone by the board.

So yesterday was a quiet day for Schmidt. lie didn't have any last-minute trades working before the reserve list became frozen at midnight until after the June meetings in Montreal. This means National r-L, A Which cne is the original Canadian whisky? I'ecoiniMcs NFL iorrialiy submit their protected list of 15 players and two goal- tenders until the night before the June draft and when they do, the Bruins wi'l piobably protect vet- nan goaltenders Gerry Chtcvers and Eddie Johnston while risking Dan Bouchard and John 1 Adams. Bourha-d is the 21--nr-old who w.i f.r-' team 1 1 -ccn Lf'osuc wh l.iVi'ia the liraves p'avrd a Oklahoma ry whe.f he v.hs the all-star goal in the Central Pro Lct'gtie. "Goaltcnding is just one of our problems," raid Schmidt, who ha two minor league learns to consider in addition to the Bruins.

"Suppose I trade a goaltcnder and some other team decides draft a third goal tender I have left unprotected? This leaves me with only two goal-tenders. By not trading 1 know 1 keep three." By Kevin Walsh Globe Staff The days of wheeling and dealing by National Hockey League powers appear numbered. "Draft choices aren't nearly as valuable as they were a year ago," said Bruins Gen. Mgr. Milt Schmidt, himself one of the better wheeler-dealers in professional hockey.

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