The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 107

THE MIAMI HERALD Saturday May 27 1967 Orioles Turning Into Fall Guys Me Sox and Tigers Create Eight-Team Second Division for AL Clubby Wh 725 of the New York Yankees When the White Sox in a rare outburst hit four homers in one game the other day it left the Yankees as the weakest homer-hitting team In the league As of today the Yankees have hit only 19 home runs in 34 games Nine of these are by Mickey Mantle who is keeping the once-lordly Yanks out of the cl lea place The trouble is ironically pitching In a year when they have Dean Chance the acquisition from the California Angels who has won seven games the Twins are missing the heroics of their 25-game winner of last year Jim Kaat who recently was demoted to the bullpen for Inability to win as a starter The Twins have been getting excellent hitting from the top of the batting order Including Cesar Tovar rookie Rod Carew and Zoilo Ver-salles who comeback is notably after his flop in 1966 But Bob Allison is not hitting and the ERA of Earl catching may be at an end He rarely is in the lineup When they traded Don Mincher and Jimmie Hall to the Angels for Chance they virtually stripped their bench Unbelievable Is the plight if" "ft to with their type of pitching THE Minnesota Twins who were supposed to be crowding the Orioles for the league lead now are locked in a battle with the for sixth MAC DIVOT Meanwhile cutcuthe WHITNEY PNK1N5 WES TOO MUCH SAND SOM A FAIRWAY BUNKER CM THE PAR-4 NOT FOR AWHILE? ANY WAY I CAM I PONT EXPECT YOU HARPIY WAtT TO TO HAVE ANY FURTHER! PUT MY NEW troubles on the astbokeinto JSPEENS PAM T-XACTlONf -rm ir-va JI Aisocleted Pru Wlrtphot OX BEXDED KNEES: Cardinal outfielder Lou Brock scoots toward second base only to find second baseman Woody Woodward waiting with throw In time to thwart stolen base attempt during Thursday game in Atlanta St Louis rolled 5-0 Commercial Contrast Cubs Gain New Togetherness With Jekyll and Hyde Adolfo Crash Program Rules Out 500 For Home TV JoImCamicIicel and are threatening to make first division the same project for this year that obviously is the Cub goal How? By winning more than they lose It could have been Durocher or Charlie Dressen or even Paul Richards who once held the reins on Frank Ga-bler the rather eccentric hurler and was forced one day to remove him from a game Gabler stalked to the bench stripped off his shirt and flexed his musclfis "Look at me" he said was never in better Came the reply: "Frank I want you to fight anybody for me just get somebody that simple sometimes WASHINGTON In the American League the fast-moving Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers are creating an eight-team second division although they are happy to have no part of it for themselves They are content with their very clubby two-team battle for the league lead far ahead of the pack The White Sox who are in first place supposed to be up there because they hit But the Importance of hitting is very much diminished when pitchers such as Gary Peters (6-1) and Joel Horlen (5-0) are at hand to contribute such fine moral support They also are useful when they are pitching The White Sox can make do with fewer runs than any other club because of their pitching and defense Unlike the Washington Senators they can carry 160-hltting shortstop and make out with him When Peters Is pitching they are virtually invincible inasmuch as he probably is the best hitter on the team But the White Sox must pray their pitching holds up The Tigers have been demonstrating they have nicer balance between their pitching and hitting and have been scoring more runs They are lVa games back of the lead but are built to overtake the White Sox Coach Johnny Sain has worked some wonders with the Detroit pitchers particularly Joe Sparma a two-game winner last season who now Is 4-0 and singing the praises of the new pitching coach DETROIT has been getting an immense lift from two of their other guys A1 Kaline and Bill Freehan are not only meeting the ball with frequency but are hitting home runs again The Tigers who went Into the season with the understanding the Baltimore Orioles were the club to fear have been taking direct action in that department They licked the Orioles in six straight games The Boston Red Sox who have been poking their heads into third place are the surprise team of the league For the first time in a decade they have blended some pitching with their hitting The Red Sox are outhittlng everybody but this season they are showing even more punch than usual No club has showed such solid sockers In array as Carl Yastrzemski Tony Conigliaro George Scott and Rico PetrocellL The Red Sox have been a pain to Detroit particularly winning four of six from the Tigers The illogic of baseball is thus demonstrated Baltimore which has been a pushover for the Tigers has licked the Red Sox in the only two games between those clubs But the Orioles have been having other troubles and are no longer a frightening force THE biggest winner is Steve Barber who has a 3-3 record and has been the biggest pain in Hank neck To state that Barber is on the wild side is putting it mildly He has even been walking opposing pitchers Dave McNally one of last pitching stalwarts also is flopping and Incredible is the record of Stu Miller erstwhile pride of their bullpen His record is 0-4 All this pitching trouble with Brooks Robinson not hitting much is agonizing for the Orioles Cleveland is sticking in there pretty well thanks mostly to its pitching and the batting heroics of Church Hinton who is Manager Joe newest hero But there is one statistic that makes the presence in the middle of the pack a bit suspicious They have been getting fat on a soft diet beating the Senators seven times They show only ten victories against the other eight clubs 1 Kansas City is helping to balance the race with its good pitching Catfish Hunter Jim Nash' and Lew Krausse command respect for the whenever they start and if they get in trouble Jack Aker Is probably the best reliever The hit much but like the White Sox they have HEWES HAS North Miami's Only Authorized Mercury Dealer BOB HEWES BOAT SKI SHOP 125th St and 7th Ave 481-6602 MERCURY SALES AND CHICAGO The camera was panned on Adolfo Phillips as the ball came down glanced off his hands and dribbled away for a two-base error You heard Jack Brick-house breathe: "Oh over the mike The next man went out and Adolfo could pull in his horns Six innings later Phillips legged it home on a high bounder past the mound with nobody out and the Cubs had a split for the day He had set his own stage by bunting himself to first against a third strike He made it to third by heads-up speed Maybe he could or should have waited for a fly ball or a hit to go home But he who hesitates can be lost Adolfo has become a fascinating performer a somebody to watch with a satisfactory blend of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in him Years ago there used to be a saying traced to Wilbert Robinson the former Dodger manager: "If at first you succeed try the and Robby had a gentleman named Babe Herman one of the paragons of mixed virtue Babe was a hit-or-miss patrolman who always hit and if he sometimes missed out yonder he had the same rebounding qualities that Phillips can exhibit Herman accepted his tainted accolades without rancor and they tell of the time he learned that some impostor was making a round of night clubs and even stores claiming to be the Babe himself His reply was: time take him outside and hit him a fly ball if he catches it call the BUT THE big thing about Phillips is that he has become a lifelike Cub helping to give the team a new togetherness that they had in some years They know that nobody gets any favors or passes from Leo Durocher and they also know that never criticize anybody for alert play no matter what the outcome Phillips saw that Leo Cardenas had to wait for the ball to come down MIAMI MARINE 31 Ave South at US 1 Ph 448-7448 racing broadcaster and newsman Chris Economaki For the first time three announcer-spotters also have been posted in turns two three snd four This year's showing will not be filled with tapes taken during the weeks of preparation for the race "Right or wrong here to do the race not fill it with old film clips If you spend your money to go at that time of day got to be a real racing buff And they want to see what happened two weeks LAST RACE was held up more than an hour due to the first lap multi-car crash There was no need said Burch to fill that time with old tapes "With just a good reporting job you can find enough things to talk about along with interviews and showing replays of the action Keep it fresh I just think damn good Two instant replay cameras will be focused on all the action drawing from a battery of 14 cameras One camera will hover over the track in the Goodyear blimp When will the race be cov-ered in color? makes all the difference in the admitted Burch "Otherwise all the cars look the same in black and white But there just aren't that many color projectors around the Costs soar too he said "It would cost us about 100 per cent more to do Saints Line Up Pack Stewart NEW ORLEANS (UPI) The New Orleans Saints of the National Football League announced Thursday the team has signed rookie guard Ronnie Pack from Texas Tech and linebacker Billy Bob Stewart from Southern Methodist Pack' was the hero of upset of Arkansas He is 6-3 235 pounds and was the 12th round draft choice Stewart was a 17th round draft pick Generals Activate Soccer Coach Aide NEW YORK (AP) The New York Generals last in the Eastern Division of the National Professional Soccer League activated their assistant coach-trainer Roy Har-tle Friday for game against the California Clippers at Yankee Stadium Romulus Byrd Head Rich Pace WILMINGTON Del (AP) Romulus Hanover and Byrd are even money choices for $34500 Battle of theBrandy-wine Pace at Brandywine Race Track Romulus Hanover winner of harness richest race the $178064 Messenger Stake and Byrd the leading two-year-old a year ago with winnings of $136-261 head a nine-horse field Best of All owned by Cincinnati meat packer Samuel Hutenbauer was quoted at 7-5 as next choice Best of All finished 2Ya lengths behind Romulus Hanover two weeks ago in the Messenger at Roosevelt Byrd was third 2Va lengths farther back Romulus Hanover has a career record of 1:59 1-5 set in the Messenger and King Omaha a 10-1 shot has done the mile in 1:59 Other entries include Jack Liberace Hanover Brown Smoke Bullet Star and Anchor Lad Phillies Set Date PHILADELPHIA (AP) The Philadelphia Phillies announced Friday that the May 21 postponed game with San Francisco has been rescheduled as part of a twi-night doubleheader June 30 MERCRUISER SERVICE I Mereruiser Stern Drives CRAIG'S 00 UAOIA Ms MAfttNt MOPmSHM Australis Fly ltd Ctaon at Brunswick Carp center Don Kessinger and Glenn Beckert at short-second Jenkins Rich Nye Ray Culp Joe Niekro Curt Simmons on the mound This too bad at all and would have been a lot better if Ken Holtzman run into service selection NO longer much of a middle-age bulge around the Cub waistline They still have a couple of all-stars in Ron Santo and Billy Williams to showcase A man named Ernie Banks who was cataloged In some quarters as an elder statesman type during spring training is leading the team In homers and runs-batted-in and if he never survives to see the Cubs fulfill his annual prediction of winning a championship it be his fault So right here in Chicago is one of the real live miracles of the baseball season no matter bow long it lasts You seldom see the Cubs kick routine plays anymore They can play everybody on more equal terms than in many a season and a last-Sunday crowd of 30000 came to watch them battle the Dodgers as an expression of thirst by parched Cub fans for more of this champagne diet I The Cubs alone in making news in Over in the American League a team called the Red Sox who have been disgruntled raggedly unappreciative and careless for more than a decade have suddenly found new life under Manager Dick Williams See at MERCRUISER MERCURY FOR DEPENDABLE SERVICE FACTORY TRAINED TECHNICIANS BENNETT MARINE 3000 STATE ROAD FORT LAUDERDALE FLA (Vi MILE WEST OF INTERSTATE 5 EXIT) OPEN EVERY DAY PHCXNE 583-3200 and all he needed was a quick getaway The more publicized deals of recent years have been centered around Frank Robinson Dean Chance Maury Wills Roger Maris etc all made within Cub regime But what about Phillips and Ferguson Jenkins and 'Bill Hands and Randy Hundley and the men for whom they came to Chicago Don Landrum Lindy McDaniel Bob Buhl and Larry Jack- son? The big swing to strength Is down the middle where pennants (now get carried away) are won Hundley behind the plate Phillips in Tampa Grid Fans Protest Sunday Law TAMPA (AP) About 500 students staged a mild-mannered demonstration on the University of Tampa campus Thursday night to protest suspension of two football players Jim Del Gaizo first string quarterback was dropped for misconduct and Mike Kraft for failure to report that he had attended another school before enrolling at Tampa The students blocked traffic on a busy boulevard passing the campus and set fire to about 200 copies of yearbooks on the tennis courts Jacinto Vasquez led the Garden State racetrack riders in victories last fall with 29 Jorge Valesquez led at the 1966 spring meeting with 60 winners Mercury Outboards DAVE SKYWAY MARINE Exclusive Dealer Far Glastron Boats 820 NE 79th St Ph 759-2476 Mleml Hrld-let Anjlcs Tlmu Wire INDIANAPOLIS In sports television has been called "the tail that wags the Football times out for example are called or stretched to suit the commercial schedule And last week a talkative soccer referee even disclosed that TV dictated the caliber of the gun he used to signal the end of the game But In automobile raring the dog still has control of his tall And for that reason the Indianapolis 500 never will be shown live In the United States on commercial television that is the kind we get for free on our home set This opinion comes from the man closest to the picture (no pun intended) Bill Burch producer-director of closed circuit theater TV showing of the Memorial Day 500 at Indianapolis "In the Masters sny golf tournament or If you need a little more time you have play slowed down In fact you cun control any live sports event If you want to" said Burch in hs trailer office adjacent to Alley" at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the reason why I think the Indianapolis 500 will ever go commercial TV Just when you think 'dull and switch to a commr-cial you may have the damnedest crash of all time You simply control BURCH CONFESSED that last theater TV of the 500 got a bit out of control "We know there was a great deal of criticism last' he said "It was valid Our communications broke down the communications to the tower" Burch was referring to the confusion over the leader of the race and MCA's communications with the tower where the scoring for the race la done Anchorman announcer Charley Brockman drew most of the over the situation But MCA and Brockman were hardly alone The confusion over the leader was general In fact two cars went into the circle at the conclusion of the event the actual winner Graham Hill of England and Jimmy Clark of Scotland who thought he had won "Brockman Is back said Burch believe in him why He have the best day last year but 33 times have a good day either It was a fouled up race in many BURCH SAID this year MCA will have a direct line to the chief scorer "Also have four of our own scorers We had two last They just handle rockman also will get additional help mainly former winners Rodger in the tower and Sam ks in the plt and veteran MERCURY-MERCRUISER SALES SERVICE PARTS LAYSON MARINE US Hwy 1 Homestead 247-5604 your Mercery Dealer! 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