El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 8

V- New Pitcher to Make Bow Against Brewers Christiansen Promises More Homers for Diabs lAs liWas Saying iiM pi 1 Newly-acquired lefty Pete Bonfils up from Salinas to replace disabled Frank Kenyon will be rushed to the to bring on workhorse Mike Overy who quelled the visitors for the duration European Failure WE KNOW ALL ABOUT the World Football League with its bankrupt clubs and unpaid "players We don't know much however about its cousin the European Professional Basketball League whose clubs were 95 percent filled with US players and which got off to a shaky start last January and came to a dead end in March It was a bigger fiasco than Tom Shackelford points out there was this difference Players of most of the defunct WFL teams could at least hitch-hike home It was impossible though for players of the EPBL to cross the 3000-mile Atlantic Ocean by hitch-hiking Shackelford the trainer of the Diablos held the same kind of a post with the Belgian Lions a team based in Brussels Fortunately players of the Lions and the other four clubs in the European League had airline tickets from Luxembourg Switzerland to Chicago The league them transportation from Chicago to their homes But the league come through and the players had to get to their homes the best way they could hill tonight KENYON who suffered a collapsed right lung over the weekend was scratched from last start at noon yesterday by Williams and replaced by powerful righty Panick driven from the hill after three and two-thirds in the series opener on Thursday The 6-1 200-pounder rebounded quite well last night fanning 10 in six and two-thirds frames while permitting five hits and only two walks felt I had to get even with the Captains for the way they treated me in the Frank remarked with only three days rest took a little out of me in the seventh and I get the ball A two-out walk to the Caps' Ken Melvin and Steve Nicosia's ensuing single convinced Jimy Crowds Dwindled order allows me the opportunity to take some pretty good Christiansen a free spirit in the mold of no one you'll ever meet proclaims I got the chances and hit a couple There'll be more" Ashford a vet flyhawk slammed two doubles raising his average over the 300 mark the highest been this early in the season in many years Sam was forced to play the last five frames at third when Paul Dade moved over to replace injured seoend baseman Dan Beerbower A muscle pull will keep Beerbower out of action tonight and Williams with only catcher Rocky Jordan left on the bench will use Sam at the hot corner tonight PLAYING AAA the last one and one-half years you're darn right I was mad about coming down Ashford assured nothing I can do about it Me and my roomie (Dade) are just gonna do the best job we can and hopefully somebody will want SHREVEPORT (1) DIABLOS lb abrhM ab bi Ed-ardsJb 4 0 I I Mhemerss a 0 Sextons 4 (I AshlordllX 4 121 Diakansondh 46 10 Lopez cf 4110 Paged 0 10 Dade 3b 4 00 1 MitcheM lb 4 0 0 0 Push lb 1110 Grundlerlb 4 111 Floresrf 4111 Melvin cf 2 0 0 0 Wilson dh 3 100 Nicosia 112 0 Christiansen 4 2 2 4 Olivares rf 3 0 0 0 Beerbower 2b 20 10 Standortp 0 00 0 Froodeff 1000 Gonzales oOOOPamckp 0000 Overy 0000 Total 1 6 2 Totals 8 7 01 SHREVEPORT 001 000 001-2 DIABLOS 201 101 7 Sexton 2 Flores Grundier DP -Machemer-Beerbowcr-Rush LOB Shreveport 5 DIABLOS 5 2B Ashford 2 Beerbower Rush HR Christiansen 2 12) Flores ID Grundier (3) Flores Nicosia Machever PITCHING IP RERSBSO Standertl(OI) 1 4 2 10 1 Gonzales 5 4 5 5 1 6 PanickwIMl 65 5 I I 2 10 Overy I I I I 4 WP Gonzales PB Christiansen Babich Galbraith 2 22 A 665 DIABLO CATCHERS Rocky Jordan left and Dave Christiansen right who do the catching for the Diablos are shown with manager Jimy Williams Christiansen hit two homers last night as the Diablos defeated the Shreveport Captains 7-2 (Herald-Post Photo by Bill Thompson) Umpire Says Billie Jean Not Cheated in Match Hose: Wt Plot Me in Los THE EUROPEAN LEAGUE was the brainchild of Dick Davis a San Diego man who had been connected with pro basketball in this country The other clubs in the league besides the Belgian Lions were the Switzerland Alpines the Germany Eagles of Munich the Madrid Super Stars of Spain and the Israeli Sabres of Tel Aviv The playing coach of the Belgian team was John Vallely a former UCLA star The league played American Basketball Assn rules using the 30-second clock and the three-point goal started off drawing crowds of around said Shackelford it dwindled down to 300 and 400 biggest crowd was at Tel Aviv It was about 6000 Many of the fans there spoke English and had a bigger acceptance of basketball than in other cities in the The Lions of Belgium in addition to Vallely had such American players as Joe Ellis a former Golden State Warrior Eddie Mast who had been a backup center for the New York Knicks Mike Quick a guard from San Francisco and Hank Simkowski who played for Villanova The only native European was a 36-year-old Belgian by the name of Willie Steveneis who was called the Bob Cousy of Europe it is Billie Jean King talking people listen But she is still wrong Jean King was not cheated out of the match she was beaten she wants to play me in a match at the same court to settle the situation be glad to and she can pick the MS KING HELD a 6-5 lead in the third set but lost a point in the 12th game when after she thought she saw linesman Larry Eichenbaum point on one of Miss shots she casually lobbed the ball out of court Eichenbaum of Austin did call however and despite an argument from Ms King Morton awarded the point to Miss Evert AUSTIN Tex (UPI) Jason Morton says Billie Jean King was not robbed of $50000 last Sunday but that if she thinks she was he is willing to play her to settle the matter Morton was the umpire Sunday when Ms King met Chris Evert in the Leggs World Series of Tennis championship match with $50000 going to the winner Miss Evert captured the match in a third set tiebreaker after a controversial call went against Ms King in the 12th game of the final set HATE TO SEE anybody paint a one-sided picture especially when they are said Morton 45 who was also the umpire when Ms King defeated Bobby Riggs in the Astrodome 20 months ago CINCINNATI (UPI) Pete Rose complains Los Angeles Dodgers fans are me and has asked Cincinnati Reds manager Sparky Anderson not to play him in Los Angeles Although Anderson concedes the tossing of objects at his star left fielder gets to he still intends to play Rose next time in Los Angeles play someone else instead of Rose asked Anderson after last four-game series in LA driving me crazy out there I can't concentrate and hurting the BUT SAYS Anderson got to think he just got fed up with all that Anderson told reporters think what he went through out there last year loused him up for the whole season It really got to him" Rose hit under 300 for the first time in 10 years last season The Reds lost all four games at Los Angeles last week but Ray of Sunshine THE RMATT LEAGUE had to buck the language barrier arctic weather conditions and the apathy of the soccer-conscious Europeans toward basketball Shackelford who was on Ross staff of student trainers at UTEP in 1972 and 1973 was feeling depressed on that night early in March Players of the team had been told there was no money to pay them The trainer was included among those holding the empty sack was 2:30 in the morning when I got a call from Tom said Shackelford Sommers farm director of the California Angels wanted to know if Tom could take the job as trainer for the El Paso Diablos Shackelford had more to come home to than many of GOT tired and I didn't want to waste any time getting him out of Williams allowed contrary to the belief of some people my reliefers are going to do the job here They're young and learning Sure some of the guys have had some rough outings but heck if you give up after that you might as well pack your bags and head on home nobody on this club ready to toss in the towel And you can print that Batterymate Christiansen provided Panick and Overy with sufficient offense pounding two long homeruns for four tallies off S'port reliefer Mike Gonzales and Gil Flores added a nightcap with an eighth inning deep to left EIGHTH in the don't play there again until Aug 1 forgotten about last says Rose the national most valuable player in 1973 just happy to be over 200 and that I don't have to face the Dodgers again until August JUST SAY I can't concentrate out there always playing out of position in the field because throwing things at me I don't want to be hit by a bottle do all I can to win the fans over I throw them baseballs and all they do is throw them back In Chicago and New York it's different They boo me there but it's in fun Not in LA want to get to the point where hurting my added Rose other day it was cold and they stopped the game to clean the garbage out of left field While they did that (Reds pitcher) Freddie Norman had to stand around and wait had to hurt figured Rose don't want that L0HE STAR rf fp sW incumes By PETE CICCARELLI Sam Ashford was gettin' mad Frank Panick was gettin' even and Dave Christiansen well far be it for this humble typewriter to even make an attempt at describing the character known as And oh yes Diablo skipper Jimy Williams also had a few well-chosen words of rebuttal after his club downed Shreveport 7-2 last night in the finale of the two clubs' six-game series in Dudley Field After losing four of the six games with the powerful Captains the Diablos begin a six-game set with San Antonio at 7 pm today in Dudley Nlanny Martinez Lujan Co-Winners in Juarez Meet Manny Martinez and Sammy Lujan tied for first place in the sixth annual Banco de Jaurez golf tournament held at Juarez Campestre Each had a score of 135 Other players in the championship flight: Chris White and Mike Ruet 136 Carlos Zuloaga and Charles Richcsin 142 Other results: A flight Paul Noland and William Karey IM Daniel James and Larry Blakely 145 Joe Ramos Jr and Manuel Quesada 146 flight Rafael Rodulfo and Luis Sallard 146 Joe Stickney and Bob Claus 150 Esteven Sansores and Jaime Canales 151 flight Oscar Herrera and Sergio Perez 156 Ralph Calderon and Calderon 150 Martin Silva and Craig French 161 flight Jose Hernandez and Alfonso Castenada Jr 113 Gutberto Vasquez and Arturo Werge 122 Jacinto Romo and Castaneda Sr 123 ladies flight Mrs Paul Noland Mariners Afraid of Howie TORONTO (UPI) The San Diego Mariners were celebrating their playoff win over the Toronto Toros but coach Harry Howell sat thinking unpleasant thoughts of guy named Gordie EPCC Ladies Play El Paso Country Club Wednesday Ladies Nine-Hole Golf Assn will play a tournament sponsored by Sheet Metal tomorrow at 8:30 am 1-13 3295 ER78-14 3795 FR78-14 3895 0178-14 4095 STEEL the players did get a free trip to Europe and had a chance to see the countries and cities said Tom I care to go While the WFL is going to try it again no indication that the European Professional Basketball League will be able to get off the ground again Maybe it is the way of not only saying Home but declaring Home Yankees" El Paso Herald-Itost Edited by Bob Ingram Eight April i Vi iUidMl- BELTED' ALOHIR3 tlAGS SUPER WIDE RAISED WHITE LETTERS DAY701 WIDE TKAC EMMDfB NEW TUBELESS WHITE LETTER RUES WITH SLIGHT APPEARANCE IRREGULARITIES hptripcid Lone Star Aluminum Mags 2-FG0-14 Peerless Sprint GT Blemished 8" Wide-White Letters Installed Including Valve Steams For Most Ford Chrysler and GM Cars BLEMISHED TIRE SPECIALS 560-14 WHITE 1st 1895 600-12 BLACK 1495 A78-13 WHITE 1695 C78-13 WHITE 1695 C78-14 WHITE 1895 E78-14 WHITE 19415 F78-14 BLACK 1895 F78-14 WHITE 2095 G78-14 WHITE 2195 560-15 WHITE 1595 G78-15 WHITE 2195 700-15 TRACTION 6 PR 2595 12-165 HI WAY 8 PR 4795 12-165 TRACTION 10 PR 67415 A70-13 1845 150-14 E70-14 yWITF'Yft-'j MUG F70-14 TRIIRTAU 2395 F6Q-14 670-14 2445 GSO-14 1170-15 2745 F60-15 060-13 2195 190-15 2 MAG WHEELS (I1 2 WIDE TIRES PLUS TAX A TRUCK fi CAMPER TRIES 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