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Page Ten SOUTHERN ILLINOISAN, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1967 Carbondale Herrin Murphysboro Iron man Best centervielde wwyyun'MM imum i .111 I I II tun tiooa A 1 fat .3 fv; V- Ui 3 -J' -r- -H n- AWfv 'TVh nsiv .300 four times in the last six years. Curt also is a graceful fly-hawk. How is he as an artist? Well, what artist painted the portrait of a president and had it returned? Did someone say Peter Hurd? Wrong. Curt Flood. And the president, in this instance not Lyndon B.

Johnson but Cardinals owner August Busch, didn't say it was the ugliest thing he ever saw. He liked it. In fact, he commissioned Curt to do portraits of members of his family. Flood got Gussie Busch's portrait back temporarily because he inadvertently had painted gold braid on ttie yachtsman's cap. Busch owns the yacht and thus wears black braid; the captain wears gold.

"It was a technical mistake," Curt says, "but I couldn't correct it because after the oil dried I sprayed it with clear fixation and that sealed it. It looks better with the gold braid anyway. Otherwise it would have been black on black." dried I sprayed it with clear He has designed dies for commercial packages (cans, cartons, and so forth) in the FAN FARE I PCNfTKNOWHOWI EVaR STRUCK THAT LAST 1 HAVE fif i 1 niu. off-season and is good enough to have turned down an offer from Walt Disney. "I live in Hollywood in the off-season, and I know a lot of people in the movie business," Curt explains.

"The Disney job was for a continuity artist. The money was good, and the hours weren't long, but it would have been copying other artists' work. "It just didn't seem my bag." Flood, one of six children, was born in Houston but his father, who was an unemployed laborer, took the family to Oak land, when Curt was one. He remembers the Bay Area as home. Money was scarce, but there were piano lessons for Curt.

"I didn't practice," he remembers. "I wish now I had. There was a lot of money spent on me, and it was money we didn't have." Ballplayers who come up through the minors frequently complain about the long bus trips. Curt can top that. He got his start in baseball riding the paddywagon.

When he was a little tyke he played in a Police Athletic League and the men in blue recruited youngsters off the street corners and trans ported them to the playing fields. A compulsive note-taker who has been known to scribble reminders to himself on glove, cuff or what have you, Curt recently had a case made for his paint and brushes so he can take them with him on road trips and spend time constructively that otherwise he would waste in his hotel room waiting for night games. "I'd like to have my own studio someday and do oil portraits," he said. "That's what I do best (he's done several of Cardinal teammates), and it would work out nice because portraits are generally sold before you do them." "I don't go into scapes or still lifes. I limit myself to life and living things no abstracts.

"Picasso? Yes and no. I don't like anything I have to scratch my head to understand. If a painting has nice colors and nice texture, I like it whether it's by Picasso or van Gogh or the guy down the street." There are many who belie'e Flood would make an excellent coach or manager when his playing days are over, and he hasn't ruled out his avai: ability to such a position, if offered him. "I only hope that whatever I do when I'm 35 and starting a new career that everything isn't anticlimactic," he says thoughtfully. "My art is in demand now because I'm an athlete.

"Would it make a difference if I weren't?" Unable to coax putt The ball stopped four inches short of the pin and Dickinson settled for a par. (AP Wirephoto) ley leads Cubs By Joe Mooshil Of the Associated Press Chicago Cecil Randolph Hundley is the name. But unless you want to chance tangling with baseball's newest Iron Man, forget the Cecil handle and just call him Randy. Hundley, a 25-year-old Virgin ian, is probably the steadiest factor in the crazy, hodge podge surge of the Chicago Cubs, a team which finished dead last in 1966 but currently is putting up a strong challenge for the National League lead. Everyday somebody else is wearing the heroes mantle while Hundley squats behind the plate and calls all the shots.

He did it again Sunday when he guided Bill Hands and Joe Nie kro to complete-game triumphs. Hundley missed the first three games of the season because of injuries suffered in spring tram ing. He started the fourth game and has caught every inning since. His show of stamina is not something new. Hundley caught 149 games last year to set a Na tional League record for rookie catcher and he led all major league catchers with 85 assists.

Although his yeoman chore has knocked his weight down from 185 pounds at the start of the season to a present 175, it hasn't affected his hitting. Randy carries a .306 average with eight home runs and has hit safely in the last 13 games. "The more I work, the better I can follow the ball when I'm batting," says Hundley. "The thing that worries me is my weight. If I can stay between 175 and 180, I'm all right.

But if I start losing again, I'm heading for trouble. "Last year I dropped down to 163 going into the final month," continued Hundley "and I hit my 19th and final homer on the 3rd of September while my av-j erage went skidding from around .260 to .236. "But I came to play and that's the way it is," says the man who in a little more than one season has established himself the finest catcher the Cubs have had since Gabby Hartnett played his way into the Hall of Fame three decades ago. Manager Leo Durocher is fully aware of Hundley's situation, vowing "don't worry, he's not going to get under 175 pounds. I plan to rest him but as long as the weather is cool, he'll keep playing and that includes doubleheaders." Durocher has been around a long time and claims Hundley is "as good a catcher as I'd ever want.

I didn't have Roy Campanella too long and Wes Westrum was great for me with the Giants. Yeah, but Randy does it all. He takes charge and has a great disposition." All of which is true, but don't call him Cecil. ROSEWALL TOPPLES LAVER IN NET FINAL Newport Beach, Calif. (AP) Ken Rosewall gathers momentum as he progresses along this year's professional tennis tour and needed just 51 minutes in the final match for his fourth victory in the past five tournaments.

The Aussie turned back fellow countryman Rod Laver, 6-3, 6-2 Sunday for the $3,000 first prize in the $25,000 Pacific Coast International Cup event. Andres Gimeno of Spain took third place when he turned back rookie Australian Fred Stolle 8-6, 6-4. VANSERVOORT WINNER OF PIKES PEAK CLIMB Colorado Springs, Colo. (AP) Wes Vanservoort of Colorado Springs won the championship division Sunday in the annual Pikes Peak Auto Races. He drove his Chevrolet up the mountain in 12:46.3.

Mario Andretti, of Nazareth, a pre-race favorite, lost all chance when his car blew a front right tire. MOWER BUSTED nunai am By Arnold Irish For Lindsay-Schaub Newspapers "I play a game in which you're not allowed to make an error," declares Curt Flood of a livelihood with standards that plainly seem more restrictive to him than they do to everybody else. The lean, lithe Cardinal, most baseball men agree, is the best centerfielder extant (which is saying something when a man plays the same position as Willie Mays). Doubters are referred to the Rawlings Golden Glove awards presented annually to the major leagues' best defensive players at each position. Flood has won four in a row.

Recently he set a National League record for flawless out-fielding 226 consecutive games (including the entire 1966 season) without an error yet he was disconsolate when on June 4 he committed his first defensive mistake since Sept. 2, 1965. "You'll start another streak," teammates told him in an effort to cheer him up. "It took me two years to get that one," Curt said. Flood usually can be found among the top 10 in hitting, but he leads the league in worrying.

"What I do for a living has a great deal to do with it," he explains. "Those notes you're taking if you misspell a word, you go back and erase it. "If I make an error, 30,000 people see it, several times that many hear it on the radio and they all read about it again in the paper. "It's on my record the rest of my life." Whether he feels well or not, the intense defensive genius is something of an iron man, rarely yielding to injury and frequently playing hurt. In each of his last five seasons with the Cardinals he has batted at least 617 times.

"Nervous tension? I've had it all," he says. "Trouble sleeping, upset stomach the whole bit." When insomnia strikes him out, he pores over a compre hensive book on pitchers he compiled at the suggestioa of Harry Walker (then a Cardinal coach, now the Pittsburgh Pirates' manager) until darn, if that's what it takes. The tension he sometimes feels is not evident in conver sation. He is articulate and speaks with a deep, resonant voice that might belong to a newscaster. Flood's smoking is a tipoff.

A cigaret usually dangles from his mouth when he isn't on the baseball field. "Things bother me when they aren't right," says the brooding athlete, "and it shows in my actions. I try not to take it all home with me, but I've got to relax sometime, somewhere along the way." Curt's outlet is art, but he is careful to relegate it to a station beneath his occupation. "Art is a relaxing way to occupy my time when I'm not playing," he explains. Flood thinks turning point in his career came when he learned to hit offspeed pitching.

He is a pesky batter. Although only 5-foot-9 and 160 pounds, he has led the Cardinals in runs-batted-in the last two seasons and batted over HIDE-AWAY CONTROLS Ventilation Control. Auto- "matic Thermostat. Fan Speed Control on tilt-out panel that tilts back for flush-front styling. a defe is CATCHERS VOHV I 65T ENOUGH I CRSPiT 'Mi? Fire walker This fire walker is testing a new fireproof coverall for race car drivers, proposed by a firm that manufactures synthetic materials in France.

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Pasareii has had tough luck in the Wimbledon draw in the last couple of years. Last year, too, he had to play the reigning champion then Roy Emerson of Australia. That was in the third round. Pasareii lost in three straight sets. The bookies have made Emerson the even money favorite to win the title for the third time in four years.

Santa is second favorite at 4 to 1. Last week's London Grass Court championships at Queen's Club did nothing except confuse Wimbledon prospects. Santana and Emerson were both tumbled out of the tournament by players who are not seeded for Wimbledon. So were two other Wimbledon seeds, Cliff Drysdale of South Africa, No. 5, and Bill Bowrey of Australia, No.

8. For the first time ever, the United States did not have one player seeded in the men's singles. Davis Cuppers Cliff Richey, of San Angelo, and Clark Graebner of Beachwood, Ohio, were the best bets to restore America's declining reputation. Both played in the disastrous Davis Cup match at Quayaquil last week, when the United States was eliminated by hole total of 271, tries to coax his 40-foot putt into the cup for a birdie on the 17th hole. First in 5 years Dickinson ends wins Cleveland By Hal Paris Of the Associated Press Cleveland, Ohio It was a long five-year drought, but Gardner Dickinson figures the first place money $20,700 was worth waiting for.

"It fas a very satisfying victory," the slightly built, 135-pound Florida pro noted after he breezed home in even par 70 Sunday to win the Cleveland Open golf championship. He finished nine under for the 72 holes with a 271, nine under par. It was the first tour title since 1962 for the steady Dickinson DICK RITGER TAKES FRESNO BOWLING MEET Fresno, Calif. (AP) Dick Ritger, 23, of Hartford, won 14 of his 16 matches in Sunday's final to take the first prize in the Professional Bowlers' Association $27,500 Fresno Open. Ritger's victory was his first of the year and third on the town.

Last year, he captured the Fort Worth, and Read ing, tournaments. His final pin count for the 40 games was 9,361. This included 700 bonus pins for winnins 14 games. Les Schissler of Denver, the leader through 37 games, finished second with 197 to win $1,500. CAROL MANN WINS Cincinnati (AP) Carol Mann shot a three-un-der-par 69 final round Sunday to win the $21,000 Buckeye Savings Ladies Professional tour nament by four strokes over Clifford Ann Creed.

PETTY SCORES Greenville, S.C. (AP) Richard Petty, driving a 1967 Plymouth, was in command most of the way Sunday as he won a 100-mile NASCAR Grand National stock car race. 1 only drought, tourney who has become a familiar trademark on golf courses everywhere with his white-billed cap. "I've played very consistently for a good while and haven't missed very many fairways. I've worked hard.

But I can't give enough credit to Tony Pen-na who has worked tirelessly with me to help my game the last six years." Dickinson, who played the tight Aurora Country Club course with precision accuracy, wasn't quite as sharp as in earlier rounds when he posted scores of 68, 66 and 67. He said his best hole was the 192-yard 13th when he dropped in a 25-foot putt for a birdie. "I thought I was in business when I holed that one." Two Texans, Miller Barber and Homero Blancas, finished tied for second with 275s. Tommy Aaron, who had the day's best round with a 66, closed in a five-way deadlock for fourth place with Jerry Edwards Allen Henning, Phil Rod-gers and Lou Graham. All had 277s.

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