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10 Tuesday. June 18, 1974 Jones May Sign With ABA's Rockets VKR i UP! The American Basketball Associa tion iN-nver Rockets fighting to a living member of la be a dying league, ailed a Tuesday news net- at which time they peek'd to announce the of Olympian Bobby North Carolina day the National Bas Association Houston said could not neet Jone contract and would no longer negotiate with him an an noun (vment common in pm basket ball when a player has been lost to the rival league Jones was drafted in the ABA by the Carolina Cougars but I lenver obtained his negotiation rights several weeks ago and newly named (ieneral Manager Carl Scheer and Coach Brown said they were confident Jones would sign with I )enver The signing would improve Denver's hopes of being includ ed in any consolidation that might I' 1 announced by the NBA and VBA That announcement quite conceivably could come this week as both leagues hold annual meetings In earlier talks of consolida ion Denver was not mentioned as one of the teams that would be included, but recently managing owner Frank Goldberg has tried to overcome some of the negative feelings that may have been generated about the team Denver already had an 18.000 seat arena set to open for the 1975-76 season, but post-season developments such as rumors of unhappy owners and unhappy players like all-star guard Ralph Simpson left the Rockets situation very much up in the air Karl 1 er this month, the Rockets tried to change their image by hiring Scheer and Beeler Wins Second Ramsey Award tWIflDfR DAVf ROSfttO StlDfS SAFELY PAST PADRES CATCHER BOB BARTON IN THIRD INNING Umpire Tom Gorman Stgnah Roieifo As He Scores On Ken Frailinq Hit To Right Padres Topple Cubs In 13th 7-5 Tigers Halt Ranger had tied Quarry Overpowered NFU YORK Quarry i Quarry hut Qua it refe The Monda Quar whs a bit mes- as the be nan fifth ven romj: liete fnv dom by opponent. Ku mg a vieked over the It ft eve one pomi Quarry ste sped back ind his hands seommg but kept up he Mi slopped the fight a Quarry btvn troublt Sq throughout and via ous if the midsod had dr hirr ad i nun l'orner as thf Never say without saying Mon women with a the never say without saying Because they won settle for less than the unique taste that distinguishes it from ail other whiskies. A taste that never stops pleasing. In short ones before dinner, tall ones after-Canadian Club is perfect company all evening long.

So discover tonight. Lifetime friends are rare. vjiiurrt Iti Ai a .7 ixth wir from unear in the third Monday opened wit I id Rich Morales fum Cardenal potentia grounder An in ten to Thomtui basev and Dasi home Monda' the bai R(i Hustling first Mike Beeler who rorless baseball this earn Fan American all time (k)lden inors. has been voted the second annua! Memorial Award twitted 306 while spark Fan American cord of 50 victories ion impressively the Dallas handled 323 298 putouts ststs- without making -jack U) 1973. Beeler consecutive games s.iking an error iy Ramsey Memorial lonors the man for he Fan American baseball stadium is he Jody Ramsey mg star outfielder for cs was killed in an award recognizes idors besides baseball performance The award specifications say it is based upon character leadership dedication and ability the largest sense of each word Beeler earned the award both on and off the field One of the team captains he batted .302 and 306 while helping Fan Am compile an 81 -28 record in two years Despite being bothered by injuries including a concussion he sustained in a home-plate collision in 1973.

Beeler successfully switched from the outfield to first base and became Fan Am only infielder ever to field (KM) Vietnam War veteran. Beeler is married He and his wife Barbara, plan to move to Taft. Texas where he will become head baseball coach at Taft High School Beeler graduated from college with a 3 0 grade point average and was runner-up to Don Cardenas for the Lou Hassell scholastic award, which Bucs Stun Dodgers, 7-3 Hine doub Astros Clipped problems wound PHU.AOKLPHIA tUPIi the 1 the 12th Finch hitter Tony Taylor hit a unit season up two run homer with two out in and out 10 the eighth inn mg Monday night Ms him 1 900 stri to give the Philadelphia Phillies a 7 f) vidory over the Houston vst os Fayh.r blitted for winning pit her Wayne Twitchell after a Bob Boone single and hit his fir st homer of tiie season Tw itchell, 11. picked up his first victory since suffering a knee injury last September Toitvh 4 Hemaiz picked up the save and Claude took the loss The home run was the first for Taylor as a Fhil since May bb s0 12. 1971 Houston tied the game at in the seventh while knocking out starter Steve Carlton May singled off reliever Wayne Twitchell after the Astros had Cards Blanked, 3-0 ifded lhv a by Roger Metzger and two walks ST LOUIS (FFF Gary Thomasson drove in two runs with a pair of singles and the Giants added a third on a wild pitch Monday night to give Jim Barr a 3-0 victory over the St I uis Cardi nil Is PITTSBURGH iUPli The Pittsburgh Pirates, feasting on two Los Angeles errors, a passed ball and a fluke double by Richie Hebner that led to six unearned runs.

defeated the National league West leading Dodgers 3 Monday night to stretch their winning streak to a season high four straight Southpaw Ken Brett benefit ted from the ragged Dodger play notching his eighth vie tory against four defeats while Dodger starter Don Sutton, vie timized by five unearned runs, suffered his sixth setback against as many wins Richie Zisk, with help from thf Dodger outfield, got the Pirates first run leading off the second He lined a single into right center and continued around to score when the ball went through nghtfielder Joe Ferguson and rolled to the wall Ferguson was charged with an error Another Dodger error, this one by shortstop Bill Russell on a grounder by Manny Sanguil len, opened the gates for four more unearned mas in the fourth Sanguillen moved to second on a groundout by Rennie Stennett and scored on a two-out single by Mario Mendoza Brett followed with a single, moving Mendoza to third from where he scored on a double by Gene Clines, Then Jimmy Wynn lost a towering fly by Hebner in the lights the ball dropping behind him for a double that scored Brett and Clines. The Dodgers who had taken an early 1-0 lead on a sacrifice fly by Steve Yeager in the top of the second, took advantage of two Pirate errors to score a pair of runs, one unearned in the sixth Steve Garvey who had singled and moved to second on a walk to Ron ('ey. scored on a throwing error by Stennett which occurred on a force play by Ferguson Ferguson moved up when Hebner booted a groun der by Tom Padorek and then scored on a single by Yeager That cut the Pirate margin to but they got both ruas back in the bottom of the inning The final one being scored by Brett on a passed twill by Yeager The vidory was only the Pirates' third in 16 games against the Dodgers over two seasons Scurlock Low In PGA Juniors Barr gave up eight hits, but St Louis couldn't take advan tage of many scoring opportunities and left 11 men on base eight in the first four innings Southpaw John Curtis started for the Cards and took the loss dropping his m-ord to 4 7 He started out strong, striking out four of the first five batters he faced but got into trouble in the third when the Giants loaded the bases with one out Expos Crushed CINCINNATI i FFF Fete Rose Dan Dnessen and Cesar Geronimo pounded out three hits apiece and Tony Perez added two more, including a three run double Monday night when the Cincinnati Reds walloped tin- Montreal Fxpos 12-3. Fred Norman picked up the vidory his sixth of the season against five losses, yielding 10 hits while striking out four and walking two The loss went to Steve Rogers, who was battered for nine hits and eight ruas before departing with one out in the fourth inning Bill Scurlock of McAllen completed the three rounds of South Texas Junior PGA Qualifying with the lowest score of the tournament field at the River view golf course in Brownsville the Palm View golf course in McAllen and the Tony Butler Municipal golf course, respectively. a 140 total The junior golfers two lowest scores of the three round 54-hole tournament were added to determine their totals All competitors the tournament are eligible to play in the regional tournament at Padre Isles Country Club in Corpus Chnsti Monday July 1 The five lowest qualifiers in the Corpus Chnsti tournament will be eligible to compete in the PGA Junior South Texas Cham pionships in Houston The qualifier with the low individual score in the Houston meet will be given an expease 80 Unusual Number For Running Back LFBBOCK IVx IFF When you mi No 80 in the Fast backfieid Saturday night in the American football game don mess with the focus on your television set Wilbur Jackson of Alabama says it no mistake either He has worn that number on his jersey since high school days 1 used to be a receiver and I just kept that number when I moved over to running back, said Jackson, a 62 195 pounder who led Alabama in rushing as both a junior and a senior and paced the Southeastern Confer ence on a yards-per-carry basis both years Jackson was recruited as a split end from high school but switched to halfback when the Crimson Tide went to the wish bone offense his sophomore year And after Saturday's clash he will head for San Francisco where the plan to keep him at halfback a receiver has helped me know how to catch the ball on a pitchout or short halfback pass Jackson said And, for this game it may help keep me in a little more of the action Jackson admits it's much easier to put in a passing offen se in one week than a running game and for that reason he expects the east will be throw ing the hall more in fad, head Fast Coach Johnny Majors of Pittsburgh has said he expects the team will throw at least 30-35 passes Of course we'll use the run some, but it 's just harder to put in a running we don't have that much time.

Jackson said In three seasons under Coach Paul Bear Bryant. Jackson had a career average of 7 2 yar (is per carry rushing 212 times for 1.529 yards and 17 touchdowns 1 look forward to Saturday night, and then to the coming pro season at San he said I think I'm going to get to play a lot in both Kickoff Saturday is set for 8 30 1 FI i before a near capacity crowd of 45.000 in I'exas Tech's Jones Stadium goes to Fan outstanding senior student athlete In 1965 Beeler helped Dallas Samuel! win the state high school baseball championship He then spent four years in the armed forces during the Viet nam War paid trip to the World Junior Golf Champioaships in San Diego, Calif Scurlock won the 17-year-old title and Steve Pennock of Edinburg took runnerup honors with a 164 total Other winners were Jay Gomez of Harlingen first in the 16 class ith a 149 total followed by Ray Chavana of Fdinburg with a 161 total Guy Stout of Fdinburg took the 15 title with a 153 total and John Mathieson of McAllen took the runnerup trophy with a 158. Harlingen's Chuck Reininger captured the 14 age group title with a 171 and Jud Fbv of McAllen followed with a 179 for second Bobby Chavana of Fdinburg swept the 13 crown with a 157 total and Bill Mathieson of McAllen grabbed runnerup with a 183 total Brown away from Carolina, which has virtually closed up shop and with the pending announcement of Jones sig rung the Rockets appear to be very serious about membership in anv consolidation plan Denver already has two potential stars in Simpson and rookie Mike Green and reports were that the Rockets also had purchased guard Mack Calvin from Carolina Fans Chant For Santos By Craig Smith Professional wrestling, termed a sham by and authentic by others, is any way you look at it still a crowd pleaser. as the capacity crowd at Casa De Amistad last Thur sday night proved Just like the old adage proclaims no matter how good you are there's always someone so it is with pro wrestling Wrestlers like Gorgeous George and Man Mountain Dean have been replaced by men like Jose Uithario and El Santo Lathario from Mon terrey carrying 245 pounds and thinning hair teamed up with El Santo from Mexico City Thur sday night to win the main event tag team match with the approval of the faas El Santo, called Santos by his fans, stole the show His popularity stems from his frequent roles in movies and strong following in the Spanish speaking movie houses especially in the Valley When their opponents took the first fall of the two out of three fall match, the faas littered the ring with crumpled paper cups The losers took the first fall unorthodoxly with the use of improper tags and an abundan ce of hair pulling 'Phis, of eour se greatly displeased the audience, which immediately treated El Silencio and his partner as villians Booing was followed by shouts from the audience to the referee, every time the eventual losers committed an infradion of the rules After the match the crowd chanted for the 220-pound San tos. whose acrobatics in the ring drew praises, to come out of his dressing room Easy Win For 'Joltin' Joe MIKE BEELER Wins Ramsey Award Perry Nabs 12th Game CLEVELAND (FFF Jack Brohamer singled home Frank Duffy with the winning run in the ninth inning Monday night to give Gaylord Perry his 12th straight vidory as the Cleveland Indiaas defeated the Chicago White Sox 4-3 Duffy who scored three ruas during the game, opened the ninth and was safe at first when reliever Cy Acosta pick up his slow roller Duffy took second on Fd Crosby's sacrifice and rode home on Brohamer's second run-scoring single of the night Perry who took a 2-1 lead into the eighth inrung, had retired 16 White Sox hitters in order before Pat Kelly singled with two out in the eighth Jorge Orta, who got Chicago's first hit in the first inning when he beat out a 60-foot roller to third, then sliced his first home run over the left field fence to give Chicago a 3-2 edge The Indians bounced back to tie it in their half of the eighth with an unearned run After one out, John Lowenstein reached second on first baseman Dick Allen's two-base error and Charlie Spikes lined out Twins Nudged, 1-0 BALTIMORE (UPI) Second baseman Bob Gnch increased his club home run lead to eight with a two-out blast in the sixth inning to help Mike Cuellar win his ninth straight game Monday night when the Baltimore Orioles edged the Minnesota Twins 1-0 Minnesota's Vic Albury gave up his ninth home run of the year to Gnch.

who slammed only 12 homers all last season JOE BLANCHARD, who consented to an interview following his easy victory over part time wrestler Garcia in the semifinal match, said you can't expect to compete in the time" matches weighing under 220 pounds A wrestler com petes in a world of big guys Blanchard added Blanchard, now 45 and weighing 245 completely outclassed the younger Garcia Garcia usually a referee, was standing in for the Texan a 180-pounder who didn't show Garcia weighed in at 230 but he knew few wrestling holds well Blanchard's sloppy execution of the abdominal stretch produced a quick submission from the flabby Garcia, who kept pulling his trunks up Blanchard also drew support from the crowd Blanchard's skill in the nng is well known He was 1950 Big Eight Con ference wrestling champion, as a collegiate wrestler for Kansas State He played various positions on the line for the Edmonton Eskimos of Canadian Football League Blanchard recalled playing against Jim Cason, former Life Begins at Forty champ Cason was playing for the Saskatchewan Ruff riders of the CFL. as a defensive back Cason also played with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football league Blanchard wrestles only occasionally now. spending most of his time as a wrestling promoter in San Antonio When Blanchard travelled the wrestling circuit, he would cover as much as miles a week A wrestler might be wrestling in Fort Wayne. Indiana on Monday, in Denver, Colo and Milwaukee. Wis in the middle (rf the week and Cincinnati.

Ohio on Sat urday His son. a referee, was injured during a match recently when Mephisto committed a piledriver on the younger Blan chard His father (called "Joltin" Joei was seeking a revenge match with the wrestler, but Mephisto has left the area Blanchard said. wrestlers are self employed, "they can come and go as they please Blanchard added that it wasn unusual for a wrestler to be in disagreement with a certain referee or promotor Patera Not Underrated BLANCHARD WONT rate any one wrestler as the strongest or the best, but he did mention some of the most powerful adive wrestlers Thesz Blanchard says is a wrestler of proven ability with six World Championships to his credit He also rates Jack Briscol. Jose and Johnny Valentine very high Blanchard said that most wrestlers spend many hours weekly in workout sessioas Massive Ivan Put ski can execute 10 repetitions of the military press with 300 pounds of weights. Blanchard said 1 once saw Putski put away 15 eggs and side orders of French fries, ham and toast, after a fight one night Andre the Giant has to rank as one of the strongest wrestlers alive.

Blanchard proclaimed. He weighs 425 pounds and stands 7-4." But Blanchard also recognizes Ken Patera as one of the strongest men in wrestling Patera holds an unofficial record of 535 pounds in the military press and over 500 in competition, according to Blanchard Blanchard said "Patera squats with 900 pounds on his shoulders He does 10 repetitious of the military press with 400 pounds of Blanchard said wrestling should be introduced at the high school level He was happy to report that it was creeping into the San Antonio high schools. and a national television audience i ABC The West won a ear ago and holds a 7-6 lead in the series This marks the fifth game to be played in Lubbock after five years in Buffalo and four in Atlanta ve seen the game on television the past couple years, and that made me want to play in it this time. Jackson said Other reasons for his playing in the game included Bryant suggesting he come and I still have a lot of respect for anything Coach Bryant wants me to do It will also get me back into the swing of football. and get me ready for the 49er rookie camp he said.

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