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0 onipl 'Pm' elowiskg-40 THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Tuisday July 14 1964 11A KENWORTHY CREAM OF POOR CROP ctV la 11 arons Outshine All Stars 7-2 Ali'tp 44700' Ve''''''i k' i- rf -n :11 CO' 14-I 4 HITEY KELLEY Executive Sports Editor Home Run Double Only Bright Spots Eckman Advises Southern Refs: Be Sure Popular Teams Win Maryland's eastern shore crackled with verbal electricity this past week Highly charged sparks came flying from a pair of sharp-tounged Charley Eckman and baseball's Bill Veeck Eckman long recognized as one of the nation's most competent referees pinned a "bush league" label on the South- ern Conference after learning that three of the nine coaches black- balled him By WILT BROWNING Observer Sports writer EIRMINGIIAM Ala Lynchburg's Dick Kenworthy the Southern Leagues leading home run hitter since the departure of Ron Henry established himself as something of an All-Star's allstar here Monday night But as all-stars go it was a rather ineffective corps that gathered here to play the role of -heavy" as league-leading Birmingham huumiliated cream of the Southern League crop 7-2 before 7264 paying customers 1 Ilt i 7'' "4 A r''' rr 4: 714 4'4410L'S 11' '4 G' '17141: 1'1 1 3 f'''" illF! 4 4 i 04:4 i'A''' A'' )4' I i ILI 1' 4' 4 '44 4' 4' r'r 1 :4 0 c' i 4 q'4 1 1 ik i 't et '''''''t lit '14 4r -ar 1 i "-5" I 1 1 I ce ft I Vlt I' 41k ti 4 4 i e'4' 44 le I 4 1' 4 34 4 1 4' t' kt 40 brT 4 4 1''' 4 i 4 kt'' A' faidli '14 4" a' a tif '1' AA 'k it I 0 '''tA spolr 41 4 I 1 I i la 4 1 vt le -'14 i i tr11 01(10'0 Ya) -A3Fot r1'2 41' IA- 44-'''' -froi '-1-ti 10'' I' V''''''kv -f rr Asi 1 -4 0 14r 1 A 44N41Ir 0 1 4S: 1 '1441 1 al tv1 0 1 ii' 1 n4 -4 Al Iies 4 t- wi 0 'tf) 81 I i'' ----4-' A ip- V'T-4 11 r---ii As 4 Ift'' 4 1 4 09 r001 0 I 61: ri I 4- 0 4 4 ire 4" 4 0 4 ft N'' 4 AAAP'''' A'''' 4 41Gi4 'AtAAAtitAA' A A VGAV''''' a A A AA4 a A' 40' A4 ar 'a 0 A11 Afi AG A Alt GO AA 41 lipe- '4 04-z iyor 0- te44 '44 244 4 )1 t41 AAqx1 ft kV tior''S1216 40z: mit Ag Poel'4" ofr-7 77: P44 it 40'1: 4 1) 4 4 0 t' A 4 4-' 4 4 A 5i -4I -goto'4 14 Fie)P4ts: 'w go A) '4" kik 0 A-- S' -et 4 fr-: IN'4 fi -4 4- 7' 00- outor lo 4 40" -460 M1 fr 4 Iv vs 7 4 4 1 i fl) 4 11004 1 I I' 4t 0 'lly ot 73114t ti 1 I ECKNIAN ECKNIAN 4 --oge ctr-- At4 45 4 3e Veeck's thunder was direct- ed at American League club miners particularly Yankee co-owner Del Webb a longtime antagonist of N'eeck former miner of franchises at Cleveland Chicago and St Louis Blame for the present inferiority of the American League as hung around NVebb's neck A MUDDY STRETCII--Susie Rice (right) with Larry Adams up wins the first race at Aqueduct Monday nosing Autumn Serenade (second from right) and pay ing $1590 to win Dias (left) was third over the rain-soaked track )AP Photo) Greensboro Subdues Post 9 On Skinner Hit In 11-th 3-2 Rightly or wrongly Eckman claims that his trouble with the Southern Conference originated with Davidson and West Virginia ''t made the mistake of working the DavidsonVMI game in the tournament last season when Davidson got beat" he explained I would say to the officials working in the Southern make sure that Davidson and West Virginia get in the tournament finals Make sure that the teams that draw best in a particular area don't lose" It is not really important which three coaches blackballed Eckman That the conference allows such a protedure is almost too much to believe If the conference and its commissioner Lloyd Jordan allow the dismissal of an official on such a flimsy vote three dissenters among nine coaches then it deserves the bush league title The same would be true of the Atlantic Coast Conference under similar circumstances Ronnie Lemonds GIANTS MAD v- 70 i- 1 x''' i' -f: i 1 t' 451 4' A -i? i 1 ''N 2 1 i "4'1 5 41- r' I icltik vitt irvo 7 'gotiOe' 14- 4 tt: 1 1 I Good Officials Hard I I Ind A YEAR AGO Clemson Coach Bobby Roberts lashed out at officiating he claimed favored the Big Four It was his thought that some officials panicked under the pressure of home court crowds "And we don't get the good ones like Eckman" he charged "when we are away from home" He pointed out that Clem- son saw Eckman only one time that year on an away court while Duke the conference kingpin had him in five or six games away I' from Durham 11: NVhat Roberts '1435 projecting as that Eckman isn't known as a -sral homer he calls the game as he 4-d sees it not the way the home crowd sees it Surely the Glen Burnie resi- dent hasn't slipped that much in a year's time ROBERTS Nats Get Cunningham For Skowron WASHINGTON The Washington Senators traded first baseman Bill (Moose) Sidowron to the Chicago White Sox for another first baseman Joe Cunningham in a double waiver transaction Monday Carl Bouldin a right-handed pitcher was sent by the Senators to Indianapolis a White Sox farm team in the Pacific Coast league as part of the deal In addition the Senators are to receive another player at a later date Both teams said no cash was involved Under baseball law player deals after June 15 must be la the waiver route waiver price is $20000 Skowron 33 had a 271 batting average with the Senators this year He played in 73 games hit 13 home tuns and drove in 41 runs The Senators purchased him last December from the Los Angeles Dodgers who had acquired him the previous year from the New York Yankees in a trade for pitcher Stan Williams Cunningham 32 is left-handed all the way With the Sox he had a 252 batting average in 39 games The White Sox acquired Cunningham from the St Louis Cards in December of 1961 Gil Hodges the Washington manager said the key In the deal Is the unnamed player "When that player is named everybody will feel better about it" said Hodges We hate to lose Moose" Hodges said Skowron was especially helpful with young players lie said the name of the oth er player would be announced in a week to 10 days Skowron who watched Washington's Monday night game from the press box said he "always liked Comiskey Park one of my favorites" While Eckman howled in obsious pain to his prn fesslonal pride because of the blackballs he is not the real loser Southern Conference basketball is Good officials are hard Conference prefers those of it will get so long as three on the sidelines to find Ma)rbe the Southern ordinary ability That's what coaches can put an official Lined up beside those of other AllStars Kenworthy's accomplishments were staggering Tie doubled in the first inning and scored the Stars' first run on a single by Macon's Lee Maye who was playing before his home town fans Then in the seventh when erything for the All Stars was hopeless Kenworthy powered a towering home run 380 feet over the left centerfield fence for the only other run the Stars could muster His double and homer also were half the All-Star hits Birmingham scored its seven runs on 12 hits with second baseman Weldon Bowlin and leftfielder Tom Reynolds getting three hits each The result of the one-sided offensive was what may have been the most mis-matched all-star game in Southern or Sally league history The only comparisons are the 1947 game when the All-Stars won 13-6 and last year's contest when the All-Stars defeated Augusta 7-0 But both those games were won on wild 10th-inning rallies Neither of the starting pitchers Lynchburg's Manley (Shot) Johnston for the All-Stars and Birmingham's Ron Tompkins was particularly impressive But Tompkins IA as more impressive than Johnston and when he left after Jess Queen lined a single off his shin to open the second inning the Barons already had a 2-1 lead and the official scorer awarded the Baron firehaller the decision Johnston was or course the loser That hone-bruising single by Turn to Page 1'2-A Col 1 ALL4TARS (2) ab 1)1 3000 1000 4000 421 4011 2000 7010 1000 2000 1000 000 0000 loot 1000 1000 30247 5720 3737 1111 4112 4010 7011 7000 1000 int10 loon 7000 0000 4110 7 176 Futch 2h Columbus Quilici 2h Charlotte Spriggs rf shevill Kenworthy 3b Lynchburg May lb Macon McCall cf Lynchburg Queen If Knoxville! 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Ruth gesture calling (1-- 'C''id? 4 4047toc rt 1)Nt fityei) 7 a Ilouston May Sue Bat-Buster Perry TED UHLAENDER Long Out Triple A For Bees Doubtful By WILT BROWNING Observer Sports Writer BIRMINGHAM Ala and general managers of the eight member teams of the Southern League gave Sam Smith Jr league president the green light to begin planning for 1965 during their summer meeting here Monday morning All eight dubs will be back is the word here Rut this is mid-season and this In the All-Star game there every thing is supposed In look rosy Included in the planning for next season will he the Charlotte Hornets plus Columbus and Knoxville the latter two clubs that have been suffering RI the gate more than their directors think they should "Sure I think Charlotte is going to be in the Southern League next season" Smith said after the directors left their closed-door meeting "I talked to Calvin Griffith (Minnesota Twins president) in Sew York and he's not thinking about moving the Atlanta club to Charlotte" Smith said "In the first pirre that franchise is for sale and the Twins Just aren't buying And don't think the International League directors want Charlotte in the league either Charlotte is a good baseball town but they want to get the International League closer together up around New York and New England This airplane travel is just getting to be too expensive and it's beginning to hurt some of clubs "In fact I think the International League knows right now where that franchise is going And I think I could tell you but I don't think that's Any of my business Ill leave that arrangement up to Sam Richardson International League president)" Even the reports of clubs having troubles at the gate were rosy said Smith Only Knoxville and Chattanooga lir below their attendance figures at this time last season In third place In at tendance is Columbus with a total of 391415 fans through June Into 0 ut his how run shut Son tit a gun if he tiotyn't cut loose on the next pitch and line it off the centcrlield It's a standup triple for sure Rut instead of running Old turns to the crowd and bows Then he hlies off tipping his bat all the way 1AF threw hint fillt i evollri b117 A Question Of Race Place VEECK in a Saturday Evening Post article points out that the decay of the once-dom PAIIMINEMM110 inant American League began in 1950 Since that time National 4 League teams have on 6 out of 1)c the last 10 World Series and 13 of the last 19 All Star games 4 Perry San Francisco Giant pitcher smashed the bat of Nellie Fox Houston second baseman in a rage Sunday night after Fox had singled home the Nvinning run in thp ninth inning for a 5-4 victory This latest development in tirooK the rumpus between the first 0 kl in place Giants and the Colts that broke out in the seventh inning was disclosed Monday 4c-" Dark when the Colts filed a protest to with National League presi-' 4- 1 1 lingered II dent Warren Giles in Dark lingered it7 it I w4-- 7 Cone Nabs 620 Lead In Series By EMIL PARKER Observer Sports Writer Greensboro Cone nudged Charlotte Post 9's backs to the wall in their best-of-seven American Legion play offs with a 3-2 triumph in 11 innings at Griffith Park Monday night The win second straight one-run success for Greensboro gi es Cone a 2-0 lead in the series which resumes tonight at Greensboro Neither team's pitching choice for the third game has been decided Joe Baker who delivered the hit that beat Post 9 Saturday singled to open the llth advanced to second on a sacrifice and scored on catcher Terry Skinner's single lo center Skinner's hit broke a 2-2 tie and a lengthy rain marred pitcher's duel be tween Greensboro's Wayne Nunn and Otarlotte's Garry Hill who took a premature shower after the hit that scored Baker barely ahead of Skippy Hull's tag Charlotte grabbed a 20 ad-a ta in the third when Richard Warren opened with an infield single Larry Vessell rapped a sharp single to right and Ron Lemonds was credited with a hit on a bunt that refused to roll foul Skippy Hull bounced into a double play scoring Warren from third John Richards followed with a towering double to left that brought Vessell tcross from third Mike Carruthers ha had three of Cones 11 bits blasted the first of two doubles to the left centerfield fence and raced home on a single by Randy Stoneman In li fourth The Gate City nine knotted the count with an unearned run in the seventh Nunn was safe on an error to start the Post 9 downfall although he was later erased in a force out at third base Ilalker's bunt single and to fielder's choices set the stage for Clem Medley's line shot to left that scored Raker ith the tying run Carruthers and Baker created most of Bill and Post 'Ss trouble with three hits each Skinner had two safeties including the game-winner Warren and Lemonds collected two each to account for four of the losers' seven hits GREENSBORO I POST ab ab bi Medloy cf 4 0 1 Warred a) 311n Th'son 5 0 0 01 VesAall 2b 4 1 1 0 Shores rf 0 0 01 Lomond) 3b 4 0 2 0 Carthprs lb 4 I 3 01 Hull rtc 0 0 I) Slohe'd If 40111 Richards lb Sell Nunn IN 3 0 1 0 i Laillord If 4 0 0 0 nAkor 3j 2 3 01 M4441 II 114rtlett 211 4 0 0 01 Phyd oh Sk Inner 0 2 I inkr rf Irby if Hull rill' InfalS 42 It 3' Tottois 0000 0000 S010 3000 2000 400 30271 nroombore Pmt IP Ma MI 1M fl I Oa 000 064 06-2 Warren rarrtithor LOP Gre'onlhnrn 11 rest 9 i0 2R ArriN Catruthera 2 Sion men BArtlett I Ip I IR BB NWIrt (Op' (1) ii 1 I I A kill (I 02I 11 fl 1 1 it PAIneIA I 3 4 0 I WP Nunm -401014U 14 4 4 4 vrt 1 EECK Veeck wanted 111 1 EECK Veeck wanted Involved in the shift of power Veeck says are problems of race geography a high finance American League refused to go after the Negro player aggressively until It was far behind the National League after Branch Rickey broke the color line In 1917 with Jackie Robinson Observer Photo by David Nance Iwo Hits In Loss TOO By O'Dell ()lister Giant manager was cautious while describing O'Dell' ejection as unjustilied Dark said he wanted to word his reaction to the ejection very carefully because Warren Giles president of the National League already has umpire problems to handle A Bow Bob Oldis 0 i fr: OU44 Li onlet40134 :4 -1 ft to put an American League team on the West Coast in 1954 but his efforts were blocked by Webb The National League moved into the vacuum when Walter O'Malley made the big move from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and induced brace Stoneham to locate his Giants in San Francisco The National League two years later then established another franchise in New York giving it a stranglehold on the prime areas When the American League did move to the coast the Angels had to pay O'Malley a kingsized indemnity and were forced to rent Chavez Ravine from the Dodgers Whatever the reasons the American League most certainly has become the poor kinfolk of the baseball family A FUNNY THING HAPPENED Turns Easy Triple The Colts said they are sending a bill to Perry for the cost of the bat and indi rated legal action he taken against him if there ig no rule prohibiting such ae Lion by a player Perry who sat down on the pitching mound and changed his shoes when called into the game following the abrupt ejection of Billy O'Dell picked up Fox's bat and smashed it against the side of the Giant dugout "I think Perry's action as darn bush" Fox said "I've been using that bat No months and had just gotten it to the point where it was good and hard" Fox said ''I had sandpapered it oiled it a coddled i and I saved it for use only in games" Earlier Alvin Dark Giant manager said the ejection of O'Dell as a relief pitcher before he could throw one pitch to a hailer was very unjustified Umpire Lee Weyer chased O'Dell in the last half of the seventh inning Sunday night as the lionston Colts defeated Dark's league loading San Francisco Giants 54 Weyer did not like some of the language O'Dell used during an exchange of words over the number nf warmup throws Dark Mil iVeyer was rot' roet in permitting tho untiooat no thonge hut Petrocelli Draws Fine For Walkout 1 h'' 1 fi )104' Editor's Note The ports world is peopled with many funny characters The laugh is as much a part of sportt as the drama and excitement Recog nizing this fact The Observer is starting a series designed to bring its readers the lighter tide of the sporting life By SILL DAILEY Chartnti Hornet Pitcher rhe trouble with baseball is tt doesn't have enough characters like Jim Piersall and Bob ()Nis I'm talking about men who play to win but 1ke tn have a little fun when game is lop-sided Back in 195a Owl I iA'aS At Mobile and Old is was at Chattanooga 1 was beating Chat tannoga about 7-1 in the late From Obsorvor Wirt Reports Shortstop Rico Petrocelli is bark in good standing with the Pacific Coast League's Seattle Rainiers but his pocketbook is going to be a little thiner Petrocelll a 21-year-old borus infielder from Brooklyn Dick Bee talked with Petro-stormed out of Seattle's dress- celli Monday and took him to ing room Saturday night re- see the team physician who fusing to play because of a confirmed the injury The sus-pulled groin muscle pension was then lifted Petroclli was ordered to Manager Edo Vanni Num- rest and rejoin the club Fritered by suspending Petro day rein and fining him a "sub But the fine for walkirl out stantial sum" in a huff remains and It still Seattle's General Manager "substantial" 1 As A A A 14 4 4 ipooiludemam oft dt tdd it moftmeI gpamdwnmt gl otrmoom W00.