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2S Boston Evenir.g Globe Friday, June 30, 1972 Nothing petty about this Cash Cash won't rock Martin's boat, but he'd like less sitd own time It should be recalled that Cash won the American League batting title in 1961 with a .361, and belted a career high homers. He also has the distinction of being the only player in the league to slug 20 or more homers in nine consecutive years. And his lifetime total of 339 as a Tiger moved him into second place ahead of Hank Greenberg as the club's all-time power hitter. Only Al Kaline, playing in his 20th season with Detroit, surpasses Cash with a total 368 or 29 more homers. Cash is confident the Tigers can oust the Orioles this season as East champions.

"We're a good ball club even though our hitting is down," commented Cash. "It's the same way with the whole league." Cash, too, hears talk that the Tigers are thin in starting pitchers after foes get by Mickey Lolich and Joe Coleman. "Maybe so," he said, "but we think we're going to get some help from Bill Slayback, just brought up from Toledo. He pitched seven innings of no-hit ball against the Yankees the other day before he got touched up, and needed help. He looks good." The husky Tiger first baseman rates the team's bench as "good" and the bullpen "adequate." He cited Fred Scherman and Chuck Seelbach for turning in strong relief jobs, and wondered why Martin has been passing up veteran Ron Perranoski for more duty.

"Baltimore has put together a nine-game winning streak, and we haven't been able to win more than four or five in a row," noted Cash. "Maybe things will change around during the second half of the race. Who knows? They may change around for Norm Cash as well as the Tigers and that could spell pennant. By Neil Singelais, Globe Staff Detroit Tigers first baseman Norm Cash isn't too happy about his lack of playing time this season, but he says he's keeping quiet because 'I don't want to rock the boaf "He (Mgr. Billy Martin) isn't using me too much this season," complained Cash.

"I never go against lefties. But I should be playing more. Last year against left-handed pitching, I batted .242 with 10 home runs. That's certainly adequate." Martin's handling of Cash this season could be crucial to the Tigers. They're leading the American League East at the moment, and they're a good bet to end the monopoly enjoyed by the Baltimore Orioles.

"I get along fine with Martin," assured Cash. "I never did with Mayo Smith, who I never thought was a good manager. I suppose he (Martin) feels us old guys need nore rest." What bugs Cash is that he's afraid for the second year in a row he'll be denied a chance to win the American League home run derby. "Last year I batted 125 times less than Bill Melton of the White Sox, and he just beat me out by one, 33 to 32, last season," complained Cash. Going into last night's game at Fenway Park, where he was hitless in five trips, Cash had slammed 14 home runs or one less than league leader Reggie Jackson of Oakland.

Jackson gets to play every day while Cash, restricted to facing righties, hasn't yet gone to bat 190 times officially. The Tigers, batting .230 as a team, need the left-handed power of Cash's, especially in the Detroit park. h'J- iJ NORM CASH: HE'S A TIGER, AND HE'S ALWAYS READY. JERRY IZENBERG Campy did his part -He was better than the best He is back in the hospital again in a place called Valhalla, N.Y., and the prognosis is far from good. But he is no quitter, and if desire is any kind of weapon in this latest war, then Roy Campanella is going to give it one hell of a fight.

"'j He was the consummate best for a number of years, and if you want to measure the goals of militancy, then bear in mind that, without Campanellas to come through those doors which Jackie Robinson opened forever, it all would have meant nothing. The auto accident destroyed him as a ballplayer and as an ambulatory person. But it never destroyed him as a man. Now he is in a place called Grasslands Hospital suffering from lung congestion. He is barely a few months recovered from a heart attack.

A man can remember that big, solid body coming up the line and blocking the plate and telling the runner by its very presence, "you gotta come through me, man, if you want it because I ain't stepping aside." And now, under the worst possible conditions, he is trying to do just that for one more time." Jerry Icenberg is a syndicated columnist jor the Newark We live, of course, in both the best and worst of times, and because there is a new healthy awareness in the streets these days of the con job done on people of color for too many years, there is also a kind of emotional backlash afoot in which people who simply haven't been there make outlandish value judgement on ie's contribution would have gone down as nothing but a patronizing social experiment. In truth, some of them weren't ready. Some of them had stood ready too long, and because of a social 'retardation abroad on the playing fields in those days, their skills atrophied. Their reflexes becam a hair too slow. The calendar betrayed them.

They spent the rest of their artistic lives on a carbon-monoxide treadmill, living in a world where an empty ball park was good enough and only the ball was white. Some of them tried and were cut on merit. And there were the other early arrivals: The Monte Irvins and the Larry Dobys and the Henry Thompsons and the rest. Campy was one of them. Campy silenced so many half-witted arguments and wiped out so many false axioms each time he came to bat.

It was something to see. The rocking chair crouch in which his rump stuck out like a chorus girl's rear end in mid-grind and his body turned what surely looked far too much toward third base. And when he first came up, they saw that batting stance and they said, surely, he is going to try to swing that heavy bat and he is going to fall flat on his face. But the only thing that came crashing down were a great many myths. somehow a feeling among some that Roy Campanella was a kind of transient, quietly passing through a good thing.

Well, it wasn't that way at all, and anybody who says it was had better learn that nobody ever made-a social revolution without convincing the people who had to be taught that everybody wins in a case like that. Robinson's job as pioneer was a job for which he was uniquely qualified. Campanella's job was simply to be the best professional catcher in baseball at a time when the only way a black man could make it was by being better than the current best. And in his way and in his own life-style, he was uniquely qualified as well. For Campy it began on the sandlots, and he would be the first to tell you that, while he played as many as three professional games a day as a boy among grown men in the Negro leagues, he never once thought about it as being able to lead anywhere else because that's the way baseball's lily-white power structure wanted it.

Well, of course, that crumbled, too, and, of course, Campanella made it to Brooklyn and Ebbets Field where he became the best. People forget about that sometimes. In their rush to rhetoric and in their own self-importance, they forget that Robinson's role was one thing, but with nobody waiting to fill those other roster spots, Jack i People who have. Xfi In some areas, therefore, it ROY CAMPANELLA has become a kind of thing, when you talk about militancy, JUNE 30 thi jf STARTS TODAY! SUNDAY, JULY ULY9 to downgrade the contributions Campy made. In these same areas, they equate militancy with noise which is not always the case.

And because Jackie Robinson was there first and because in being there first he was able to do a job on social folk myths which had to be done, there is pes nn rniumaiiUiiJiJ to SporTViewBy JACK CRAIG GEQDi lvi: CTTTTC f.KI I 7:1 Closed-circuit has inside track for Canada-Russia series The entire TV package is complicated by the fact that Russia owns rights to the four games being played in that Protocol calls for the rights to them to be given to Canada, which in turn might release them to the United States. Also unsettling is the cost of bringing the four games in Russia back here, via Tel-Star. "On closed circuit you might need a total US audience of 300,000 or so to make it worthwhile," says Don Ruck, NHL vice president representing the league in TV arrangements. Heck, that many folks alone might fill every theater in Boston just from the Garden overflow alone. troit Live golf is the women's kind, Sunday only at 4:30 on Ch.

5, final round of the US Women's Open Channels 10 and 38 will carry the Holton Tennis Classic Sunday at 3:30 from Winged Foot in New York Only other live action will be Ch. 27's weekly coverage of Suffolk Downs tomorrow at 4:30. Wide World of Sports will show both of this week's closed circuit fights involving the KO'd Quarry brothers tomorrow at 5 on Ch. 5 The first of Canadian Football League's taped series will be on Ch. 38 Sunday at 8 p.m., the league all-star game that was held live Wednesday night and turned out a thriller The AAU Sunday series on Ch.

7 at 3 will be tapes of amateur boxers, including the controversial Bobby Hunter, and national decathlon championships CBS Tennis Classic that follows on Ch. 7 at 4:30 will pit Roy Emerson vs. Marty Riessen A tape of the Curtis Cup will be on Ch. 5 Sunday at 4. They're off! rtM They're off! Bids are closing at 5 p.m.

today for televising of the Canada-Russia hockey series throughout the United States. And there are strong reports that the closed-circuit promoters are coming in with the heaviest and winning hand. We'll consider everything over the long weekend," said Bob Baum of Hockey Canada, which is sponsoring the eight-game series along with the NHL and the NHL Players Assn. Bids have been submitted by the American networks for the first four games in Canada, on Sept. 2-4-6-3.

But the final four games in Russia, on Sept. 22-24-26-28 will occur during early afternoon hours in eastern US if done live and tapes the same night would be discouraged by the threat of pre-empting prime time programs early in the new TV season. "You might say Boston is unique," suggested Ted Hough of MacLaren Advertising, one of two firms bidding for the TV rights in Canada, whose deadline passed at 5 o'clock yesterday. Sole other bidder was a combine formed by Harry Ballard, owner of the Maple Leafs, and Orr Enterprises, the corporate label for the immortal Number Four. "You wonder how much of an audience the games will draw in Miami, though," says Hough.

The American networks have to project whether some of their affiliates would even take a hockey series in the early part of the football season. A quickie test of sports hustle by competing TV stations might be made by comparing their late news coverage of Pele's performance in Boston tonight On strictly scattered returns, the new Martin boys on Red Sox radio are a major hit The tremendous WHDH-TV sports film library remains unsold to any of the local station, with price apparently a big factor. There's a touch of chess in this weekend's television lineup The opening match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky of Russia will be on Ch. 2 Sunday, 1-4 p.m. Sox will be on Ch.

4 tomorrow at 2:15 and Sunday at 2 p.m. fromF enway, with Milwaukee the opposition both days NBC's national telecast on Channels 10 and 38 tomorrow at 2:15 will be Baltimore at De Pats get middle linebacker Flanigan from Saints for pick Perrault snubs WHA, re-signs with Buffalo Associated Press BUFFALO Center Gil Perreault of the Buffalo Sabres spurned the World Hockey Assn. today and signed a new multi-year contract with the National Hockey League team. The WHA's Quebec Nor-diques had been trying to get the 21-year-old French-Canadian to jump the NHL. "We are naturally very happy that Gil has chosen to remain in Buffalo," said the Sabres' president and board chairman, Seymour H.

Know III. Last season, he scored 26 goals and added 48 assists for 74 points, a club record in assists and total points. The Patriots picked up a new middle linebacker and the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce's biggest enemy all in one deal yesterday. Jim Flanigan, a five-year veteran from Pittsburgh, was obtained from the New Orleans Saints for a "middle-round" draft choice. He stands 6-feet-3, weighs 232 pounds and was a starter in 12 of the Saints' 14 regular season games last year.

"I'mjust happy to get out of the south," the 27-year-old linebacker said. "I never could get used to it. I was born in Pittsburgh, went to school in FitUburgh and had played in Green Bay. I just couldn't get used to it down there the people, the heat, anything." Flanigan played tha bulk of h's first four pro years for the Packers, who drafted Him in 1967. He was shipped to the Saints late in the 1970 season in a waiver deal.

liked him very much when he was in college," Patriots Gen. Mgr. Upton Bell said. "I was in Baltimore during that draft, and we had a big debate over whether to take Flanigan or defensive back Rick Volk. "We took Volk and the Packers then picked Flanigan." The addition of the veteran brings needed depth and experience to the Pats' linebacking corps.

Jim Cheyunski and Steve Kiner, starters a year ago, are the only other returnees with extensive experience. Flanigan has been used exclusively in the, middle in his pro career. He will be pitted here against Cheyunski, who will be coming off knee surgery, second-year veteran Dennis Coleman and rookie Ron Kadziel. "I'm very happy with the trade," Bell said. "I think this will give us a super-competitive situation among the middle linebacktrs." "Bourbon Street," Jim Flanigan said, a onetime place.

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