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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 41

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The Beei
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Danville, Virginia
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i The Bee: Donvilla Vo Wednesday September 29 1976 flvHnUta MPw mwwWSw MIj WLt wPWUhl wTa" i igySjii wil BI 1 fK IHH a BpM iv HEf 1 BHHBif jb SWEET VICTORY Oakland A's pitcher Mike Torrez is congratulated by second baseman Phil Garner and first baseman Ron airly foreground after his 2 hit 14 shutout Tuesday night oxer the Kansas City Royals The win put the A's within two and a half games of the leading Royals AP irephoto) Weaver BALTIMORE (AP) Earl Weaver the fiery and success 1 manager of the BaltimoreO holes has been given a pay raise and rehired for the 1977 I season by the American League baseball club "They made me an over I whelming offer as much as I could probably hope for" Weaver said after agreeing to I pilot the Orioles for his ninth 1 full season I Terms were not disclosed but the 46 year olri skipper is believed ready to sign a one year contract that will pay him i about $100000 next a hoibt of some $15000 over this 5 year Weaver whose won lost record is the third best of all time for managers with at least five years' sendee had in dicated he was interested in the kind of multiyear pact now being offered to players by the Baltimore management But the agreement reached Rehired in a brief talk Tuesday with Genera) Manager Hank Peters does provide other forms of se curity In addition to the pay raise Weaver will be able to benefit from a deferred payment clause And should he be fired before the end of the 1977 sea son or not rehired for 1978 he reportedly will receive sev erance pay in addition to his regular salary "We only talked about 10 or 15 minutes" Weaver said offer was better than 1 thought get so I saw no reason to hassle" Hie actual signing of the con tract won't take place until the language is worked out to ev eryone's satisfaction including a determination of how much will he set aside for deferred payments which will ease Weaver's current tax burden The Orioles with an 88 70 record after winning a double header from the Milwaukee or 77 Brewers Tuesday night will finish second tn the Eastern Di vision for the second con secutive season rom 1969 first full season through 1974 Baltimore won five of six division titles three American League pen nants and one World Series They finished third in 1972 five games off the pace Since replacing Hank Bauer as manager of the Orioles in the middle of the 1968 season Weaver has posted 812 victories and 547 losses The only managers with a better won lost record are the retired Joe McCarthy with a617 percentage of Sparky An derson of the Cincinnati Reds at 607 Peters had said he wouldn't announce Weaver's status for 1977 until the current season ended but he set up Tuesday's meeting after the Orioles were eliminated from the division race by the New York Yankees WAREHOUSE SALE SATURDAY SOAS and CHAIRS SAVINGS UP TO 40 END TABLES COEE TABLES PECAN AND MAPLE INISH Reg $Ofl Set Of 14995 NOW WW Three Vast Assortment of ine Quality BEDROOM SUITS SAVINGS 1 UPTO 2 PRICE A EASY TERMS a Chatham urniture Co Main Dial 432 3621 jJ A'S Rolling KC Reeling Richard Gets Just Reward bid to his no answer 797 5472 i I 208 Masonic Building 792 1013 REAL ESTATE BENDALL REAL ESTATE 3 2 St in the AT KIM SCHOOL TAE KWON DO THE ANSWER TO ALL THESE IS YESI first game of a douhleheader before losing the nightcap 6 1 the Boston Red Sox turned back the New York Yankees 7 5 and the Texas Rangers blanked the Minnesota Twins 7 0 Sal seventh inning home run and the two hit pitch ing of Torrez 16 11 provided the with their vital triumph The who have won five of their last six games have five games re maining and the Royals have four left Bando leading off the bottom of the seventh drilled a 2 2 pitch over the left field fence Kansas City starter Marty Pat tin 8 14 had allowed only three hits through six innings before Bando hit his game winning shot It was 27th homer of the season and his eighth against Kansas City The only hits off Torrez in his fourth shutout of the year were an infield single by McRae in the second inning and a single KimSchftolof Toe Kwon Do 254 Jefferson Ave 799 8741 2 his first major league victory as San rancisco topped At lanta Knepper 1 2 scattered five hits in six innings before being lifted for a pinch hitter He also singled home the Gi first run Tom Paciorek doubled home the lone run in the sixth Cardinals 5 Phils 3 Hector Cruz drove in three runs including two with his 13th homer of the season to lead St Louis over Phila MASTER INSTRUCTOR JU HUN KIM 7th Degree Black Belt fl INSTRUCTOR DR SC AUSBAND 2nd Degree Black Belt Bv KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer The Oakland are roll ingthe Kansas City Royals are reeling got the momen tum" conceded Kansas City's Hal McRae The respective directions of the American League West teams were more evident to day following 1 0 victory over the slumping Roy als Tuesday night That loss cut Kansas lead in the wild West to merely 2'2 games giving comfort to Oakland hopes of overtaking the Royals in the homestretch of the 1976 baseball season just not moaned Kansas City Manager Whitey Herzog reiterating a thought he has voiced with some consistency in recent weeks trying too hard" The unfortunate Rnyals have turned a runaway in the AL delphia The loss foiled Phils hut tar 'Java farlmnc I become a 20 game winner Carlton is 19 7 Down Louis took the lead fourth on two run blast in the fourth Mels 5 2 Expos 4 4 Ed Kranepool slapped a bases loaded single to lift New York to victory in the opener and Larry Parrish slammed his 10th homer as Montreal cap tured the nightcap By BOB GREENE James Rodney Richard feels his 19th victory is only a just reward feel I deserve to win 20" the Houston pitcher said after tossing a three hitter and beat ing the Los Angeles Dodgers 1 0 Tuesday night raising record to 19 15 worked hard I've fered" said the hurler goes by his initials JR I say suffer I mean that I figured I should have come up to te big leagues ear lier than I did The only differ ence between my pitching now and when I first came up is that I've been given the oppor tunity to Richard said Two of the hits were by Steve Garvey who now needs only two more to reach the 200 hit plateau for the third straight year Houston scored the lone run in the first when Cesar Cedeno reached base on a two base error bv second baseman Dave lopes and came home on to give rookie Bob Knepper 1 suf who hit 12 strikeout performance Red Sox 7 Yankees 5 Veteran reliever Tom Mur phy checked New York on one hit in the final four innings as Boston defeated the Yankees spoiling Ed igueroa's bid for his 20th victory of the season The Red Sox clobbered ig ueroa 19 10 for 14 hits Rangers 7 Twins 0 Toby Harrah slammed a two run homer in six run second inning and a solo shot in the fourth as the Rangers de feated Minnesota behind Gay lord six hitter to left bv Cookie Rojas in the fifth The Oakland right hander retired the last 14 batters in a row The game was held up at the start ty 62 minutes because of rain Orioles 7 7 Brewers 5 3 Bobby Grich hit a two run homer in the 11th inning to give Wayne Garland his 20th victory in the Orioles' opening game with Milwaukee Reggie 26th home run keyed a five run rally in the first inning which powered Baltimore's second game victo ry The Orioles clinched second place in the East with their sweep Tigers 4 1 Indians 0 6 Willie Horton hit a home run and drove in two runs and Mark idrych pitched his fourth shutout of the year to lead Detroit to its first game victory over Cleveland The Indians won the second game as Dennis Eckersley overpowered Detroit with a six Bob single It was 100th run batted in of the season Burt Hooton 11 15 took the loss Reds 5 Padres I Pete Rose's pinch hit single in the eighth and Ed Armbris ter's triple in the ninth pushed Cincinnati over San Diego Padres starter Randy Jones suffered a muscle pull in his pitching arm The injury to Jones bidding for his 23rd vic tory was not considered serious but could cause him to miss his final scheduled start this weekend hit scored Tony Perez from second base to snap a 3 3 tie The Reds scored the even tual winning run in the top of the ninth when Perez singled and came home on Armbris triple Giants 4 Braves 1 Bobby Murcer slammed his 23rd home run of the season and Chris Speier drive in two runs with a bases loaded single We hove wide voriety of residential properties rang ing in price from $5000 550000 Call us for an appoint ment to inspect the property of your choice Sylvia Boswell or Bill Powall West into a pennant race with their shoddy play of hav ing lost six of their last seven games With the opportunistic A's on a winning tear the com bined results have dissolved most of a hefty seven game lead held by the Rnyals as recently as Sept 21 The can make thinfp more interesting tonight in the last meeting of the West adver saries this season Larry Gura was nominated to stop the Kan sas City slide against Oakland's Paul Mitchell can't afford to lose any now" said Oakland pitcher Mike Torrez pointing to the ob vious all know that we just have to win again tonight and put more pressure on the Royals" In the other AL games Tues day night the Baltimore Ori oles swept a doublehader from the Milwaukee Brewers 7 5 and 7 3 the Detroit Tigers took the Cleveland Indians 4 0 in the KOREAN KARATE Interested in really1 learning a martial art? 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