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8-- Bennjngton Banner, Friday, June 30, 1972 Mayberry is hot, and the Royals are happy Cepeda swapped for McLain MARTIN LADER UPI Sports Writer "When you're hot, you're hot, man," and there's just no one who's been any hotter in this month of June than the of those words--John The hard-hitting Kansas City first baseman had five hits in at-bats, three of them for bases, and he drove home Five runs Thursday night as the Royals swept a twi-night- doubleheader from the Minnesota Twins, 5-3 and 12-4. In his last 10 games, Mayberry has had 20 hits in 35 chances for a sizzling .571 percentage, raising his batting average from .244 to .302, and his slugging percentage over the last 11 games is 1.000 with 39 total bases in 39 at-bats. "I don't recall when I last had a streak like this. I don't recall when anybody had a streak like this, do you?" said Mayberry, who took a major league average of .191 covering parts of' four years with Houston Into the current campaign. Bill Kreehan, for one, hasn't been getting as many hits as Mayberry, but he unleashed an explosive blast Thursday night with a grand slam homer with two out in the ninth inning that gave the Detroit Tigers an 84 victory over the Boston Red Sox.

This enabled Detroit to increase its lead in the American League East to two games over the Baltimore Orioles, who dropped a 4-3 verdict to the New York Yankees. Mayberry and Ed Kirkpatrick each drove in two to Chess site bugs Fischer By MILTON RICHMAN NEW YORK (UPI)--The more Bobby Fischer thinks about it, the more it bugs him. support Dick Drago's nine-hit pitching in the'opener, then Mayberry and Kirkpatrlck belted consecutive pitches for home runs in the fourth inning of the nightcap. Detroit, trailing 4-0 entering the ninth, exploded for eight runs in the final frame to beat the Red Sox. Dick McAuliffe drove in two runs with a bases- loaded double to tie the score', and after the bases were loaded again Freehan hit his winner.

The Yankees scored three runs in the second inning and got what proved to be the winning run against Baltimore in the third on a triple by Bobby Murcer and a single by Roy White. Sparky Lyle, with his 15th save, protected Mel Stottlemyre's seventh victory. Wilbur Wood limited Oakland to seven hits in the opener to gain his 12th triumph for the White Sox but the A's earned a split as Mike Epstein hit a two- run homer in the eighth inning of the second game. would like to know. "Why not Zurich, Dallas or New York? Or even Moscow? Anv large city where there's people, activity and decent restaurants would be fine.

Some place at least where there genius, has a theory about why Reykjavik was picked as the site of the world championship which starts this Sunday. The Russians are the ones who picked Reykjavik. Fischer thinks the Russians have a motive. He thinks they want to "hide" the championship because he feels he's going to take it from the Soviet Union's Boris What's more, Fischer thinks the Russians know he's going to do it. In this own way, Fischer is a demonstrator.

Ke has been demonstrating the way he feels about having to play in Reykjavik by taking his good old time getting there. This has shaken up a lot of people but Fischer had a reason for his actions Call it oneupsmanship if you like. Boris Spassky needn't worry about Fischer not making it for their first match Sunday though. Bobby Hull may or may not play for the Winnipeg Jets next season and Rick Barry may or may not play for the Golden State Warriors, but Owe is no way Bobby Fischer ever is going to miss playing the.world championship.pt chess. Even i Reykjavik.

1 i Mainly becaus'e'he thinks he's going to win. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's right, and that has nothing to do with chauvinism. Spassky is good, but Fischer is better, and when the tall, curly-haired New Yorker is right, he's like Joe Frazier and Tom Seaver when they're right. Meaning nobody's going to beat him. Fischer doesn't hold back.

He is exceptionally outspoken and honest, and when you hear his objections to playing in Reykjavik, they do make a good deal of sense. Fischer has been there, so when he talks about Reykjavik he isn'tdoing so from hearsay but from personal experience. He says there is so little to do there, particularly at night, a guy can go out of his everloving mind. Not that Fischer is a rounder. If anything, he's much more of aloner, but there are times he would like to become part of the general mix, or at least observe it, and how can he possibly do that when there is no general mix? He also says the television coverage will be limited.

If he beats Spassky, he doesn't see why it should be some kind of secret. Fischer originally planned to go to the world championships with only one other person; Spassky is already in Reykjavik with what amounts to an entourage. Fischer reads significance into that also because the championship goes on for some time and while Spassky will have people to talk to and help him relax, Fischer won't. Fischer doesn't think any of these things are pure accidents. He sees them all as part of a general program by the Soviets to try to beat him psychologically.

"The world champion has the right to pick the site of the championships," says Fischer. "Spassky wasn't even there when the international governing body chose the site. A Russian delegation was there and they picked the site. Fischer feels the championships have become a political matter. That annoys him.

But it hasn't lessened any of his desire to beat Spassky. Fischer has a lot of that same "killer instinct" Jack Dempsey had when he was fighting. Some of that instinct shows up even whenhe's not sitting at the chessboard. Earlier this month, for example, he competed with 15 other top athletes in the Dewars Sports Celebrity tennis championships at little funny to watch such headliners as Rick Barry, Deacon Jones and Elgin Baylor all ask Fischer for his autograph. In the finals of the tournament, Hank Greenberg, the baseball Hall of Famer, and Bob Boyd, the basketball coach at Southern California, beat 0.

J. Simpson and Gail Goodrich for the title. Bobby Fischer was among the losers. "Next year," he said. "I'm going to win." He said it as if he meant it, too.

Bank where you shop Vermont Bank andTrust COMPANY ATLANTA (UPI) Atlanta Braves' first baseman Orlando Cepeda learned Thursday he'll be going back to the bay area where 14 years ago he started playing baseball with the San Francisco Giants. Cepeda, who has been plagued with sore knees, was traded to the Oakland Athletics by the Braves Thursday for pitcher Denny McLain, the onetime 31-game winner now working out his problems in Birmingham, and an undisclosed amount of cash. Both players expressed satisfaction with the deal. "That's super," said McLain, "That's just great. I'm 100 per cent armwise and my weight's good.

I just want to prove that 1 can pitch again." The Braves said McLain wiU start July 4 against Chicago in Atlanta. McLain, 28, won the Cy Young award twice, and his 31 victories in 1968 provided the biggest season for any pitcher in 30 years. At Birmingham he was 3-3 with a 6.32 earned run average. Cepeda had been bothered by his knees and appeared in only 28 games this season, hitting .298. Asked about the trade in Sin Diego, where the Braves were "I'm happy to going back to the bay area.

I started playing' there, I have lot of friends there so I think I'm very lucky. It could be worse." Cepeda said he expected a trade. "I knew it would happen. With the money I have been making, and with me not able to play the way I want to, and with some good young ball players on the team, 1 knew that they were going to do something with me," said. He said he is pleased with the trade because, "I wasn't too happy with Atlanta, not with the management because they have been good to me, but with things in general." Physically Cepeda said he feels fine.

"My knee is hot the way I want it to be but they are coming along. If my knees get well I have many years ahead of me. I feel very good physically, my reflexes are sharp and everything is going well for me." Paula is a born champion By GAY PAULEY NEW YORK (UPI)--Paula Sperber, 21, was born to be a champion in sports. Ever since the leggy blonde from Miami can remember, she competed in every swimming, paddle ball, golf, touch football, baseball, softball, bowling. "Our family always had some sport going," she said.

When Miss Sperber settled down to excel at one, it was bowling. First she racked up championships in Miami at the end of the 1960s, took the Florida Open in 1971, then went on to win the U.S. Open in 1971 and the title "Woman Bowler of the Year," which the U.S. Bowling Writers Association handed her. She joined the Professional Women Bowlers Association tour, in.

19YIK and, it-wasn't long until AMF Bowling Products spotted her signed her to a long-term contract for personal appearances, clinics and exhibition games, and turned her earnings from mere pin money into a lucrative $15,000 a year with expenses. She earns extras for her tournament appearances. "Lucrative yes," she said of her AMF affiliation, "but I've really been travelling so much I've had no time to plan investing. I just sock it in the bank." Travel time consumed has included two trips to Japan, where she said bowling is a whole new craze. "You'd see people at bowling places at six in the morning," she said.

"I taught clinics in sign language." Back here to resume domestic appearances, the bowling champ sat down to talk about the sport. "There are an estimated 52 million bowlers," she said. "About 50 per cent are women. We have more women bowling than in tennis and golf combined. It's a family sport.

There are housewives' leagues, men's leagues, bantam leagues, Hurley joins WHA Whalers BOSTON (UPI) The New England Whalers of the World Hockey Association announced Thursday they have signtl de- fenseman Paul Hurley of the American Hockey League's Boston Braves to a contract. Hurley, 26, scored seven goals and had 28 assists last season with the Braves, the top farm club of the Stanley Cup Cham I pion Boston Bruins. Summer basketball Last night the Novitiate All- Stars beat the Barons 55-42 in the second night of action in the summer basketball league. Hassenpflug was high man for the All-Stars with 18 points. Danisch scored 12.

Jim Maguire scored 15 points for the Barons, with Mike Callanan getting 13. The Jugheads beat the Pacers 47-44. Walt Parmenter lead the with 15 points, Tom Dwyer had 13. junior leagues, senior citizens leagues. "I guess the only sport that passes bowling is fishing." Miss Sperber said bowling keeps one fit, disciplines both mind arid body, but concedes that for pure exercise "I doubt if anything is any better than swimming." To any woman worried about developing bulging muscles, Miss Sperber said forget it.

The average bowler isn't on the lanes that constantly. In her case, however, her left arm (bowling arm) has grown slightly larger than the right. "Mother makes most of my clothes," she said, "so it's no problem." Miss Sperber is one of three daughters of a Miami manager of an. electronics firm. The whole family bowls, she said, "although I think that recently they've spent more time watching me." Her tournament average this year is running around 201, up from last year's 198.

What of the future? Well, she said, some professionals go right on into their 40s, even 60s. But one day, she plans to return to school. She had finished one year at Dade College when AMF hired Sportbriefs Natowich Retires Andy Natowich, Brattleboro Union High School coach for the past 27 years, this week announced that he will retire from the coaching ranks. Formerly a three-sport coach at BUHS, he basketball in 1951 and in 1965 called a halt to football coaching. His 1965 football team won the state championship with a record 445 points and is still considered the best team ever in the history of Vermont football.

This week he called It quits with baseball, but will continue as social studies teacher at the Junior High School. At 52, Natowich says "after 27 years you gat a little tired of doing the same thing over and over." Major League Standings Pittsburgh New York Chicago St. Louis Montreal i a i a Cincinnati Houston Los Angeles A a a San Francisco w. pel. 40 24 .615 40 26 .606 36 .554 33 33 .500 29 37 .439 24 41 .369 w.

41 26 .613 41 27 .603 36, 31 .537 30 35 .455 17 46 .365 4H 12 16W Detroit Baltimore Boston New York Cleveland Milwaukee Oakland Chicago Minnesota Kansas California CHy San Fran 3 Cincinnati 2 Houston Los Acgeles 6 Phlla 9 New York Pittsburgh 9 Montreal 0 SI. LotiLs 4 Chicago 2 San Diego a Atlanta 6 Today's Probable Pitchers Times EOT) NEW York a a 7-4). Bt Montreal (Moors 0-1). 51. Louis (Splnks 4-4) at Philadelphia a i 4-6).

nliM. Chicago (Reuschel 2-0) at Pittsburgh (Ellis 7-3). night. A a a (Reed 5-8) at Houston CForsch 4-2. night.

i i a i (Simpson 4-2) at San Diego (Klrby o-7. nlgnl. Lot Angeles (Osteen 7-5) at San a i (Bryant 5-4), nlghl. a a Games St. Louis at Phlla 2.

twl-nlgbt New York at Montreal, night Chicago at Pittsburgh Atlanta at Houston. night at San Diego, night Los Ang at San Francisco Ne York 4 Ernst w. 1. ft I. g.b.

3fl 27 .571 -34 29 17 34 .113 27 34 .413 27 35 435 25 37 .413 10 wesi w. i. pet. g.b. 43 2.Z .662 3B 27 .595 5 34 29 MO 31 32 .492 1114 31 36 .438 13 26 38 .397 16 Retails Baltimore Green Mountainettes Green Mountain jockettes Lois MeaU, left, and Judy Hancock, flank thoroughbred racing Erst dislaff outrider, Nancy Pultz.

The girls are readying for the two special holiday programs to be presented at the scenic oval Monday night at 7: 4S and Tuesday afternoon, the ourth July at 2 p.m. The spirit of '72 is in evidence when each of the girls mount up, much to the delight of the Pownal fans Smith needs proper arena, side courts hide his talent Chicago 4 Oakland 0. 1st Oakland 3 Chicago 1. Jnd Kan City 5 Minn 3, 1st Kan City 12 Minn 4. 2nd Detroit 8 Boston 4 a i i a 12 Tenas 4 Today's Probable Pllcbera (All EOT) Kansas City (Nelson 1-1) at Minnesota (Corbln 3-0).

6:30 p.m. California (Allen 2-3 at Teias a 4-5, 6:30 p.m. Cleveland (Perry H-6 at Mew York (Kline 5-3). 7:30 p.m. Oakland (Koltzman 11-5) at Chlcaro (Bahnsen 10-6), 8:30 p.m.

Baltimore (Dobson 8-7) at Detroit (Slaynack' 1-0). 9 p.m. Milwaukee' (Parsons 6-5) at Boston (Pallln 3-fl), 7:30 p.m. SatDrtay'l Oamea Oakland at Calif, ollht Texas at a a City i a at Chicago Baltimore at Detroit Cleveland at New York i a at Boslon I a (UPI)-Like all champions, Stan Smith needs a proper arena in which to display his talents. The top seed at the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships and favorite for the $13,000 dollar prize has not had a square deal at the 86th renewal of the world's premier tournament.

He struck the first ball in center court but since then has played out in the boondocks-where the stands massed together in the alleys leading to the other.courts. Smith struggled into the last 16 Thursday with a 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 9-7 victory over compatriot Alexander Mayer of Woodmere, N.Y., a man ranked 30th to Smith's No. 1 in the national list. The 6-foot-4 Army corporal said: "It was difficult to concentrate with all those millions of people jammed around the court. You heard the cheers from center court and scores of other matches and it was hard to think of the job in hand.

"But that's a problem we have to live with, I guess. The tournament referee (Capt. Mike Bruins sign two goalies BOSTON (UPI) The Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League have announced the signings of goalies Ross Brooks and Curt Ridley to multi-year contracts. Brooks, an eight-year veteran, led the American Hockey league last season with a goals agai nst averag of 2.38 while splitting the netminding chores with Dan Bouchard for the Boston Braves, the Bruins' top farm club. Ridley played in the Bruins' farm system at Oklahoma City last year.

The two signed contracts Wednesday. Gibson) told the seeded players he'd play us on the lesser courts in the first week so those fans without seats could see us in action." Patrons who had to pay five dollars a ticket were disgruntled, that Gibson had elected to play only four singles on the center and No. 1 courts, which have a total 24,000 capacity. Many ripped up their boards to plunge into but' choked the alleyways between, thej I ivl Smith's fourth-round opponent, Ian Fletcher, the eighth-ranked Australian, is a brand new assignment for Smith, who has never before met him in a singles match. Experienced observers who have seen both the top seeds in action believe that Romanian Ilie Nastase, the volcanic second seed, looks a much better prospect then Smith for nabbing the men's singles title.

Where Smith has creaked ponderously through his last two matches, Nastase produced one of the finest exhibitions of ever seen in the to obliterate New Graebner: Today's card calls for completion of the top half of the men's fourth round and the women's third round. Chichestersummons aid, becomes weak at sea LONDON "(UPI)--A British navy frigate and a French weather ship sped to the aid today of British yachting hero Sir Francis Chichester, who messaged a search plane Thursday "I am weak and cold." The Royal Navy frigate Salisbury broke off maneuvers with the aircraft carrier Ark Royal and joined the weather ship France in heading for Chichester's yacht, Gipsy Moth V. Chichester, knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1967 for his feat of sailing round the world singlehanded, was in trouble and heading for Brest at the tip of France's Brittany peninsula after being knocked out of the Observer.Singlehanded Transatlantic Sailing Race by illness. The Royal Air Force search plane that relayed his message today reported him off Spain's Cape Finisterre, about 400 miles southwest of Brest. Chichester, who had recently been ill with a blood ailment which affects the bone marrow and produces anemia, twice flashed with a signal lamp: "I am weak and cold." He also messaged: "Hope son and Anderson will meet me in Brest." His son Giles, 25, and Chichester's long-time yachting companion, John Anderson, had said earlier they expected Chichester to sail back to Plymouth, from where he started the race June 17.

The Salisbury picked up a navy doctor and a team of yachtsmen from the Ark Royal before heading for the Gipsy Moth. Navy officials said the yachtsmen would sail the Gipsy Moth back to Britain if necessary. McAlinden is champ I I A England (UPI) Danny Jack Bodell in the second round at Villa Park Tuesday night to become the first Irishman ever to win the British and Comm a a i championships. For Roofing Supplies Gutter Accessories Trot to Tuttle's Free Estimates Free Delivery ifflHILEi BtNBIIGTOHS rflfJGnESSIVE IUIID1NO SUfflY CENTER 13 DEPOT STREET BENNINGTOM. VT.

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