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Earl Praises Pitt Pitchers Continued from page 108) By DICK YOUNG Pittsburgh, Oct. 13 The best damn ballplayer in the World Series, maybe in the whole world, is Roberto Clemente, and as far as I'm concerned they can give him the automobile right now. Maybe some guys hit the ball farther, and some throw it harder, 33 Ml) a to cd t-1 to we did in Baltimore and so did they. The pitching made the difference. We got in there and they got it here.

Momentum forget it." Weaver was asked if he thought of putting in a lefthander (Pete Richert) in place of righthander Eddie Watt when Milt May, left-handed hitting reserve catcher, came to bat with two out in the seventh and the score tied at 3-3. "I thought about it but in that situation the team at bat has the hammer. If I brought in Richert, do you think he (Danny Mur-taugh) would have let a lefthander bat? I don't. He would have gone to a righthanded batter, Pagan or Alley. Under the rules I couldn't take out my pitcher until he faced their batter.

"THE KEY to the inning was not May. We decided to pitch badly to him, hoping he would make out on a pitch which wasn't a strike. Watt tried to but May hit the bad pitch it wasn't in the strike zone according to Watt and Etchcbarren (catcher Andy) and the ball fell in for the winning hit. "Our idea was to let May get on with a walk jf he didn't go for the bad pitches. We wanted to work on Cash a righthanded batter.

Watt wasn't wrong. Ho made a bad pitch but May hit-it good." Weaver went back to "momentum," a word he spits out in derision. "It was pitching, not momentum which got us both in troulile. Luke Walker and Dobson didn't make enough good pitches. Kison and Giusti did Final close out on extreme sizes of discontinued styles and of broken lots Work Shoes Dress Sho )es Boots and one or two run faster, although I doubt that, but nobody puts it all together like Roberto.

"He's showing the others how to play the game, isn't he?" said Lee MacPhail at press where lots of people, in lots of little groups, were talking up the Roberto Cleniente-for-the-automobile movement. Roberto Gives Dignity to Word Hustler They were talking not only of how well Clemente plays the game, but how hard he plays it. Mainly how hard. In this day of the prima-donna athlete, the guy who isn't in the mood to run out a ground ball, or chase a fly, Roberto Clemente gives dignity to the word hustler. The true test of the baseball hustler is what he does when his team is losing.

In the first two games, when the Orioles were beating the brains out of the Pirates, you would hear baseball people saying, "How about that Clemente!" and there was a professional admiration which those in the game like to believe is their exclusive property. "Greatest throw I ever saw by an outfielder," said Andy Etche-barren after Game 2. He meant the play by Roberto Clemente in the middle of the game. The strangest part was that the throw didn't get anybody, didn't mean a thing. It came in the midst of a six-run Ealtimore inning, at a time when a player on the losing team might be expeeted to start going through the motions.

Clemente raced to the right line, caught Frank Robinson's fly on his glove side, did a complete spinning turn and fired a strike to third, where the runner was sliding in on a tag-up advance. The runner was Merv Rettenmund, a quickie. "You'd have had him if it weren't Rettenmund," a praising news The more for the money shoe. ffiS Y0NKERS. Central Park Ave.

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"Eef I have my good arm thee ball gets there a leetle quicker than he gets there," said Clemente. Playing With Sore Shoulder Since July Roberto has been playing with a sore shoulder sinee late July. It is one of the inside jokes of baseball that Roberto Clemente always is playing with some ache or pain, and the more he hurts the more dangerous he becomes. Somebody once said that three years after he is dead, Roberto will lead the National League in hitting. "They laugh at me, but I heet thee ball," says Roberto, pointing to his teammates.

There is very little humor in Roberto Clemente, and none at all where baseball is involved. It is his life, his escape. It has given the little boy from Carolina, Puerto Rico, with the running nose and the kicked-out knee in his pants, a chance to become rich, to live in a large and elegant home he has had built in Rio Piedras, and you do not laugh at such things. "When we have a meeting een thee clubhouse, when Harry Walker ees thee manager," says Roberto, "thee writers say that Clemente he ees taking the team away from Walker. Thee press crucify me, but they do not know what ees all about.

I tell thee players, either you play baseball, or you don't play baseball. Eet ees not too much that you geev one hunert percent. That ees thee on'y theeng that make me mad, when a player don' ron." In Game 3, Roberto Clemente hit a ground ball to the right side first time up. It was stamped DP. The Orioles got one.

In the seventh; Clemente led off with a bouncer back to the box. Mike Cuellar knocked it down, picked it up, was aghast to see the batter streaking down the line, hurried his throw, high, and Clemente was safe. Th next batter walked on four pitches, the next batter hit the ball out' of the park. Mike Cuellar's composure was shattered. The game was over.

"It all began with Clemente hustling to first," said Cardinal star Joe Torre, "who is here and who probably will be MVP. "He knows only one way to play this game." He Doesn't Squander God-Given Gifts He knows, too, that he must take eare of himself, or he will squander the gifts he has been given, as do so many. "I weel go home after thee Worl' Seeries," he says, "an' rest my shoul'er for a leetle" while, then I weel exrecise to make eet strong, an' next year I come back, an' hope eet weel be thee way eet should be. I lit WMk before the price freeze thaws) Right now you can own a 72 Ford for the same manufacturer's suggested retail price we sold the '71 for at this time last year. But the price freeze is scheduled to end November 1 3.

Make your move now, and you may also cash in on the proposed 7 excise tax cut. If Congress ratifies this Presidential proposal, retroactive to Aug. 1 5, your tax will be refunded promptly. And that could save you an average of about $200! Now, as never before, is the time to buy! Want an even bigger bargain? All 71 Fords are now clearance-priced. You could save on the price cuts and the tax cut on any one of these brand-new leftovers.

But don't hesitate and lose out. The price freeze may soon thaw, the clearance sale will soon end. Come see', come save. Buy now! have eet always een my head to take good care of my body. Some players go home an' start drinkin' and eatin' peanuts and come to camp weeth beeg bellies." Roberto Clemente is a 37-year-old roadrunner.

He has spent 18 summers of those years playing baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He has batted over .300 thirteen times, and for the last three seasons, in his decrepitude, he has hit .345 .352 .341. But everybody has numbers. Don't mind the numbers. Just watch how Roberto Clemente runs 90 feet the next time he hits the ball back to the pitcher and ask yourself if you work at your job that way.

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