The Macon News from Macon, Georgia • 17

'Dogs' Guthrie Just Happy To Have Survived 1972-73 season McCarthy decided before the 1973-74 iels missed eight games because of Injury and forward David Reavis the Bulldogs' leading scorer also was sidelined at times by Injury The end result was that many times Guthrie was forced to start what should have been his second Tennessee and forced both Kentucky and Alabama Into overtime we had had Jacky Dorsey and Lucius Foster we could have played with anybody In this league maybe with anybody in the nation" said Guthrie "1 really 7 thought they would extend my contract but you can't blame me for being a bit concerned There had been some pretty negative things written about me and my team and I weren't sure how the university might react John Guthrie season began to return to the pros never coaching a game at Georgia and Georgia have time to shop around for another head coach The Guthrie years have not been impressive His overall record is 35-70 and his conference record is even worse 15-57 Some charge that Guthrie lacks the firmness to weld together the talent he and his assistants have recruited at Georgia that a coaching change might be the answer But Athletic Director Joel Eaves felt Guthrie should have another chance in view of the circumstances of this past season not really fair to Judge John's performance on what happened this year" said Eaves "He needs an opportunity to show what he can do when he gets all of his players healthy" "I hoped they'd extend my contract" said Guthrie "I thought they would but you couldn't blame me for being a bit concerned There had been some pretty negative things written about me and my team and I wasn't sure how the university might react to that" So while the Southeastern Conference coaches who had big seasons Joe Hall Tennessee's Ray Mears and Alabama's CM Newton fret about the playoffs John Guthrie is happy be back next year ATHENS Ga (UP1) The Georgia basketball team be in any of the post-season playoffs but Bulldogs Coach John Guthrie is not complaining just happy to have survived When the 1975-76 basketball season ended John Guthrie could hardly wait for this past season to begin This was going to be year Jacky Dorsey was going to be a contender for the Southeastern Conference scoring title 6-10 225-pound Lucius Foster shaped up as one of the best men in the SEC and the addition of highly heralded 6-10 freshman La von Mercer could mean the best front line this side of Kentucky Then disaster began to strike Guthrie wound up feeling a kindred spirit to Joe Johnston the Confederate general who tried to defend Atlanta His casualty rate may have been higher Dorsey who would have been a junior this season declared himself a hardship case Foster broke his elbow early in the second game and was lost for the rest of the year Tony Flanagan a starting guard for two seasons decided to play football and didn't play in the first 10 basketball games Neither did Charlie Dorsey a regular in 1974-75 who joined the team late because of academic problems And that's not all Starting guard Walter Dan believe that" The grey-haired 36-year-old Guthrie wound up as head coach at Georgia by chance He was serving as an assistant when the late Babe McCarthy as named successor to Ken Rosemond following the team With all this Georgia after getting off to a 5-1 start in December wound up 9-18 and finished In last place in the Southeastern Conference for the third time in Guthrie's four seasons as head coach But the Bulldogs had their moments They upset Hearn Column Prep Basketball THE MACON NEWS Fri March 11 1977 1C Coincidence Marshall's Business $-Making Rob Belloir utility infielder for the Atlanta Braves has had one coincidence after another in his life He's now playing for the team he ushered for several years ago married the captain of the Mercer cheerleaders and found out his wife was pregnant on the day he was called up to the majors There's only one coincidence left to start for the Braves Rob Belloir Rick Millions News Sfirli Mitur EAST LANSING Mich (AP) AtlanU Braves relief pitcher Mike Marshall conceded Thursday that he operates a profit-making business which treaU professional athletes on the Michigan Sute University campus The firm known as Mike Marshall Kinesiology Inc charges iu dienU up to $15000 for the pitcher's services Marshall told the Michigan SUU News the student paper The operation may be In violation of university ordinances because it uses school equipment and property a university spokesman told the newspaper But Marshall said "If there is any difficulty it's with the MSU ordinance I pay them for their Marshall has treated at least five professional athletes In the past two years reportedly using the school's clinical center Jenison Field House and highspeed cameras from the Health and Physical Recreation Department The treatment involves filming the athleu's body during athletic activity taking X-rays of muscles and examining and analyzing the films Cleveland Browns quarterback Brian Slpe underwent the treatment Feb 18 wanted to consult Mike on a training program and have him analyze my throwing motion and stretching of my Sipe said In a telephone interview with the SUU News from his home In Encinitas Calif took a film of me We worked out and there were Slpe said "I don't know how expensive it was because the Browns took care of it" have to pay me an initial fee of $5000 to talk to Marshall said they have to pay an additional $10000 to charity If the treatment la successful" Marshall said the original $5000 pays the corporation's expenses A Michigan Sute ordinance prohlblU use of university equipment for profit AsslsUnt athletic director in charge of facilities Gene Kenney and chairman of the Health Physical and Recreation Department Gall Mickles said Marshall has used Jenison Field House and Michigan SUte-owned high-speed cameras valued from $3500 to $5000 in his work "Marshall asked me for it (the use of Jenison) and I understood him to be using it for a class So I okayed it at the Kenney said I learned it wasn't but I didn't want to renege so I let Using the pay scale Marshall said he employs the SUte News estimated he has earned some $67500 by treating Slpe fellow National Football League quarterbacks Fran Tarkenton of Minnesota and Bill Kilmer of Washington tennis pro Sun Smith and Braves pitcher Andy Messersmith All have said publicly they received the treatments "It was the biggest break I've ever Belloir said of the trade noting that he not only was returning to his hometown but he was also coming to a team that needed a shortstop The Braves sent Belloir to their AAA team Richmond but he was called up to AtlanU for the last 43 games of the season He rejoined AtlanU catcher Vic Correll who has also been on the Monroe NC team An ankle Injury slowed Belloir during spring training last season and he spent the first 40 days of the season with Richmond before being called up by the Braves The same day Belloir learned his wife was pregnant with his first child Dana Michelle Belloir Immediately moved into a utility role for the Braves playing third and second base as well as his original position shortstop Now Belloir is currently in West Palm Beach Fla fighting for the job as the top utility lnfielder for the coming season "Everybody would like to be a says Belloir I'm happy In the role of a utility player as long as I have a role It used to be that utility players played a lot of positions but none very well now utility players are much more lmpor-Unt to a team And I think that (manager) Dave (Bristol) has confidence in my ability to play at any of the three infield Belloir isn't sure whether he or Craig Robinson will be the number one utility man but the Braves keep two utility Infielders so Belloir is confident of sUying with AtlanU all season since no other infielders were acquired in the off-season Being a sUrter in the stadium where he cleaned seats 10 years ago is the one coincidence that Belloir hopes is still to come It's not often that a player winds up with a team that he ushered for years ago marries the captain of the cheerleaders at the college where he starred in both baseball and basketball finds out his wife is pregnant on the day he's called up to the big leagues and winds up on the same team in the majors as a rookie teammate But that's just the start of the coincidences in 29-year-old Rob Belloir's life A utility lnfielder for the Atlanta Braves Belloir's life-story could kefcp a soap-opera writer supplied with plots for years Bom in Heidelberg Germany where his father was in the Army Belloir later moved to Atlanta and graduated from Southwest-Atlanta High School In 1966 While starring in basketball and baseball at Southwest Belloir worked as an usher and grounds-keeper at Ponce De Leon Park and Atlanta Stadium He came to Macon to Mercer on a basketball scholarship but kept playing both sports After a romance" he married Fran Hart from Miami who was the captain of the Mercer cheerleaders Uncle Sam Called He signed with the Cleveland Indians In 1969 and played with Class A Monroe NC for three months and Class AA Waterbury Conn for a month during the summer before returning to Mercer to pick up his degree in English in '70 The Indians moved him up to their AA Savannah tm the following summer but he didn't stay long Uncle Sam called He was drafted Into the Army for two years including a six-month stint in Vietnam didn't pick up a baseball the whole time I was in the Army" Belloir remembered being a pro athlete didn't make a hill-of-beans with So it was like suiting all over again when Belloir re-entered the Cleveland organization as well as civilian life in '72 He spent that summer at AA El Mira NY and the following two and one-half summers with another Cleveland class AA team San Antonio Tex But Belloir wasn't going anywhere in the Cleveland organization He had almost soured on pro baseball An all-star shortstop during his rookie year in the Western Carolina League Cleveland had changed management while Belloir was in the service and he wasn't In their future plans He was very bitter toward the Army They had caused him to miss two years of pro baseball something he had worked very hard to attain But again coincidence entered life Midway through his third season In San Antonio (June 75) Cleveland traded Belloir and John Odom to the AtlanU Braves for pitcher Roric Harrison Southwest Wins Too Northeast Advances Clip and Save Sports On Television TELEVISION SATURDAY 12:30 PM Wrestling on Channel 41 6 pift on Channel 17 and 11:15 pm an Channel 9 1 PM Ara's Sports World on Channel 2 1:30 PM NCAA HlghlighU on Channels 2 10 and 41 2 PM NCAA: Marquette vs Cincinnati on Channels 2 10 and 41 2 PJW The SupersUrs on Channel 9 3:30 PM Bowling on Channel 9 4 PM NCAA: UCLA vs Louisville on Channels 2 10 and 41 4 PM Doral Open on Channels 5 and 13 5 PJW CBS Sports Spectacular on Channels 5 and 13 5 PJW ABC Wide World of Sports on 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third period that the Raiders had their first lead of the game Bailey finished the game with 13 points The PatrioU shot 52 per cent from the field hitting 34 of 65 shots They outrebounded Savannah 43-25 and had 10 players score Skip Taylor despite a sore ankle led Southwest with 20 points Tommy Slocomb came off the bench to score 10 and Orlando Lee had nine poinU and 11 rebounds ATLANTA Southwest destroyed an outmanned Savannah team 74-36 at the Alexander Memorial CoUsetm Thursday afternoon Savannah lost by such a wide margin without the services of four players that coach Larry Burke suspended for the rest of the season Savannah was never In the game Southwest in rolling to itt 26 consecutive win without a loss led 17-10 after one quarter 38-18 at the half and 59-26 after three periods Don Richardson's Patriots play in the semifinals today at 3:30 when they take on Marietta a 85-65 winner over Newton County Although coach Richardson said he played a lot of reserves in an attempt to keep the score down the reserves still outclassed a dazed Savannah team The PatrioU shot 52 per cent from the field hitting 34 of 65 shots They outre bounded Savannah 43-25 and had 10 players score Savannah finished the season 23-2 In other Class AAA action the Northeast Raiders edged out Douglas of AtlanU as Darryl Greene stuffed a game-breaker with four seconds left to ice a 76-72 win The win earned the Raiders a semifinal berth against LaGrange at SAVANNAH (Ml Krttoy 72 Riley Hyman i Shaw 4 Chapman I SOUTHWEST (14) Wamack 2 RalHarP 7 Tayier 2 Hunt 4 Lae Siecemh IS Oman Huhhard Fair Tayier 29 CRISP COUNTV (32) WIIIMimen Lem-meat 14 Danieit 14 Lewi! 19 Hughes Varner LAGRANGE (SO) Meredith 11 Vgung 14 Lovett IS Maddos 2 Coleman Ross 2 Elliot Haitune Scare: Crisp County 24 LaGrange 24 Northeast's John Bailey (10) Drives for Basket -The Macon News I 4.