The Atlanta Journal from Atlanta, Georgia • 12

12 A "Cfcr AtlantaJournal Sat July 12 1975 AMERICAN LEAGUE Wind and Rangers Shoot Down Muscled Sox rom Wire Reports The Boston Red Sox had the wind with them which is like giving four strikes to Hank Aaron As if they tough enough at enway Park Bos muscled batters got help from a strong wind and rip ped 16 hits en route to an 11 8 victory over the Texas Rangers riday night can see the way the wind was said Boston Manager Darrel Johnson just get the fat part of the bat on the ball and it One of those aided by the elements was Bernie Carbo whose three run homer in the sixth put the Red Sox ahead for good 7 5 Another was Carl Yastrzemski who got two hits including a two run single in four run eighth get enough runs in a game in this ball said Yastrzemski not when the wind has been blowing out lately But everyone seems to be hit ting for us now how The victory was the fifth straight for the Red Sox the leaders in the American League East In the other American League games the Cleveland Indians beat the California Angels 5 3 the Baltimore Ori oles blanked the Oakland 4 0 the Chicago White Sox turned back the Milwaukee Brewers 5 3 the Kansas City Royals tripped the Detroit Tigers 5 2 and the Minnesota Twins routed the New York Yankees 11 1 in the first game of a doubleheader before losing the second game 4 3 Carbo hit his 14th homer of the season into the screen in left center off Stan Thomas 4 2 after singles by Bob Heise and Tim Blackwell with one out in the sixth Then Boston put the game away with its four runs in the eighth inning two apiece on singles by Doug Griffin and Yastr zemski The wind was kind to the Rangers as well as the Red Sox They walloped 10 hits including home runs by Jeff Burroughs Mike Cubbage and Toby Harrah1 hitting and said Johnson our re lief pitching that bad I thought two of our guys Jim Burton and Diego Segui did pretty well under those windy Indians 5 Angels 3 Rick inside home run with a man on base capped a three run rally in the seventh inning lift ing Cleveland over California The Angels led 3 2 going into the seventh when the Indians tied the game on doubles by rank Duffy and John Lowenstein Then with two out Manning hit a line drive to left Both left fielder Dave Collins and center fielder Mickey Rivers went after the ball and slammed together Collins falling hard on the grass Rivers momentarily stopped to aid his prone teammate and by the time he realized the ball was still in play Man ning had Completed his trip around the bases Orioles 4 0 lr 4: Mike Torrez pitched a four hitter leading Baltimore over Oakland Torrez 10 5 had a season high of nine strikeouts while outdueling Oakland lefthander Vida Blue 12 7 Blue gave up nine hits including five for extra bases Mark first homer of the season accounted for two of the Baltimore runs in the second inning A dou ble by Ken Singleton and a single by Tommy Davis got the Orioles a run in the first inning The fourth Baltimore run scored in the fifth on a sin gle by Belanger a stolen base an error and a sacrifice fly by Davis White Sox 5 Brewers 3 Jerry double with two out in the sixth in ning scored two runs and triggered Chicago past Milwaukee double to the right center field wall came after Deron Johnson had singled and Bill Melton had walked off Brewer starter Ed Sprague 1 6 The blow erased 3 2 lead' Royals 5 Tigers 2 Buck sacrifice fly capped a two run fourth inning rally that lifted Kansas City past Detroit and broke the Tigers' nine game winning streak Hal McRae started the rally against Mickey Lolich 10 6 with a leadoff single after the Tigers had taken a 2 1 edge in the top of the fourth Harmon Killebrew walked and John Mayberry drove in McRae with a single Killebrew was thrown out at third on the play Cookie Rojas doubled to right and Al Cowens was walked intentionally filling the bases before Martinez lofted a fly to left that scored Mayberry for a 3 2 Kansas City lead and the eventual winning run Twins 11 3 Yankees 1 4 Tony Oliva and Johnny Briggs blasted home runs to back Bert six hitter as Minnesota beat New York in their opener Roy tie breaking single in the fifth inning gave New York its triumph in the second game NATIONAL LEAGUE Bull' Destroys Astros 5 Please Call: I 4 Georgia Irrigation Inc 427 8890 Pos 5 the Braved Picture TORO I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 GB 14 20 9 0 3 0 0 0 9 33 41 40 85 17 19 74 95 Lost 42 48 49 19 17 77 37 28 34 15 4 31 12 22 30 17 21 31 18 10 34 35 13 10 27 0 7 A TORO yste is eiy io install Almost never needs repairs And costs less than you imagine Come for a system degn eno estimate today Won 46 37 a shame to see such unwar ranted criticism of these a personality feud Umpires are human beings and going to make mis takes Just because things go a way give him the right to ridicule the umpire The um pires have families McKeon 'described the criticism dished out against umpires as garbage When you start tearing down the umpires as umpires you start tearing down the game of baseball nothing but Mckeon admitted he has his and gripes like all other managers But I don't carry it over from one day to the BRAVES NOTES The Braves are gaining in one league the league Pitcher Ray Sadecki and Buzz Capra are the latest to join House and Ed Goodson with those curly permanent hairdos The hairdos are the latest rage among the major league players Phil Niekro started and pitched very well allowing only three hits and one run through seven innings Then Elias Sosa come on to continue his fine string of relief pitching Then House got the win a doubleheader and shirt day Saturday Game time is 6:05 with Carl Morton and Jamie Easterly going for the Braves Niekro had a no hitter through six in nings or until Tim oli led off the sixth with a double That string was lengthened that far by a fine play by Marty Perez at short a diving stab of a ball by young Gary Carter in the fourth Carter got even later doubling and scoring the lone Expo run Brave brodacaster Milo Hamilton takes a rare day off Saturday He is going back to 7 2 2 3 Larry Cristenson to beat the Astros with a five hitter Pirates 6 5 Padres 2 0 John Candelaria went Christenson one better with a four hitter for his fourth straight victory and his first shutout in the nightcap victory that gave the Pirates their sweep of San Diego and permitted them to widen their East Division lead to 6Vz games over the Phils He got all the backing he needed from Willie Stargell who drove in three runs with a homer and two sin gles and Ed Kirpatrick who hit a two run homer Dave Parker singled IP 9 4 1 3 2 3 328285283268267267241237231231230225215083183 so tn 4 129 13 237 11 261 80 264 16 356 34 371 27 3 80 35 427 6 435 14 568 11 588 51013 Watson Gets 1000 Prize NEW YORK (UPI) irst baseman Bob Watson of the Houston Astros will receive a $1000 quartz watch as his re ward for scoring major league one mil lionth run in ceremonies prior to the All Star game in Mil County Stadium this Tuesday Watson's historic stamp on home plate took place on May 4 when he came in on Milt home run Reds 4 4 Mets3 1 Pete single wrapped up a three run sixth inning that gave the Reds their first game triumph then Johnny three run homer in the first inning started Cincinnati on its way to the sweep of the Mets With the two victories the Reds opened a lOVa game margin over the Dodgers in the West 39 65 42 72 74 7 8 17 0 get me he added other people have been hurt by the voting too Richie Zisk of Pitts burgh had a good year last year and go That made some good pitches on Luzinski said he riiade some mistakes and I hit the mis Konieczny's biggest mistake was the sixth inning pitch that Luzinski put deep into the left field seats giving the Phils a 2 0 leacf and enabling 5 0 10 4 10 0 4 10 0 3 0 11 3 0 0 0 got a loss in LA this year and they get a ball out of the said House have no sympathy for him (War then) This is a professional game Luck factor and all 4 1 Ex3Si KANSAS CITY (AP) Manager Jack McKeon of the Kansas City Royals took a verbal shot riday night at baseball managers who blast umpires 1 3 0 (Baller)' 0 0 0 0 EWiiiams 1b 4 0 2 I uaKer ft 4 0 0 0 Blanks 1 ss A11O Cnrrplt 4 0 0 0 Office cf 2 0 0 0 4 0 2 1 Gilbreath ph 1 0 0 0 4 0 2 0 House 2 0 0 0 PNiekro 0 0 0 0 Gaston ph 0 0 0 0 Sosa Cubs 8 Giants 6 Giants shortstop Chris Speier had driven in three runs two on a seventh inning homer to help the Giants take a 6 3 lead But in the eighth inning he gave Chicago the victory With the score 6 5 Manny Trillo singled went to second bn a passed ball and scored the tying run on a sin gle by Pete LaCock After Don Kess inger singled Bill Madlock hit a grounder to Speier who threw wildly 'past first as LaCock scored the decid ing fun Dodger 6 Cardinals 5 Bill two run single in the seventh inning his third hit of the game vaulted the Dodgers past St Louis St Louis had taken a 5 4 lead in the sixth when Ken Reitz doubled moved to third on Mike Tyson's sacri fice and scored on Lou single about time some of the man agers in baseball realize the tremen dous job the umpires have done and are McKeon said ought to quit knocking umpires in general hr rbl 0 11 0 24 1 1 8 2 29 5 22 9 27 3 17 13 9 3 5 6 0 0 17 16 38 1 er bb 70 5 11 182 20 5 8 311 28 9 11 9 7 1400 137 41 31 2 2 430 38 17 19 9 9 1422 151 59 42 451 781 311 191 261 160 0 0 1 2:27 rom Wire Reports lot of people have been hurt by the All Star said Greg Lu zinski with a shrug A lot of people have been hurt by Greg (The Bull) Luzinski too Like Doug Konieczny and1 the Houston Astros on riday night and the rest of the National League on just about any other day or night Luzinksi drilled two singles a dou ble and a decisive home run to lead the Philadelphia Phillies past the Astros 2 1 In the rest of the National League Pittsburgh swept San Diego 6 2 and 5 0 Cincinnati swept New York 4 3 and 4 1 Chicago beat San ran cisco 8 6 Los Angeles edged St Louis 6 5 and Atlanta beat Montreal 2 1 in 10 innings not much you can do about the voting said Luzinski whose 24 homers and 76 runs batted both tops in the majors and his consistent hitting (his 4 for 4 night raised his average to 305) was over looked by the fans who named the starters in next Tuesday All Star Game SPRINKLERS can do all your watering automatically Lawns tlownis shrubs pa'kinq strips let A TORO underground ipnnkier sysiem water them tor you automatically One simple setting on a central controller operates your system tor up to to weeks Day or night Evenly and efiicunliy Evon when you're away The Associated Press Yanks' Thurman Munson Misses Pop up After Collision I Imnc Rn riraa I doubled and tripled and scored two Ullipd MU XJIcdl JUU runs in the opening game victory Says McKeon MONEY AVAILABLE Phyitcijn Dentist or top eaecuttves $5000 to $25000 or higher 7 year terms Signature Only 211 4211 HRABOWSKY REUSES ALL STARS ST LOUIS AP) St Louis reliever Al Hrabosky says no way pitch for the National League All Star team even if a vacancy does open up Manager Walter Alston of the Los Angeles Dodgers said riday that his own Don Sut ton might miss the All Star Game because of an injury and indicated that Hrabosky could be asked to replace him But Hrabosky passed over in the original selection for relievers Mike Marshall of the Dodgers and Tug McGraw of the Philadelphia Phillies nixed that notion I good enough said the Cardinals lefthander should I be good enough Hrabosky known as the Mad Hungarian has a 3 2 record and a 198 earned run average in 41 innings and leads the league with 14 saves Alston whose team is play ing the Cardinals in a three game series here this week end has resigned himself to local criticism for his omis sion they want to blame me the veteran manager said been wrong all year so take the Los Angeles has slumped games behind the front running Cincinnati Reds in the NL West Alston said he talked to each league manager before making his selections for next game in Milwau kee Dal Canton 0 0 Sosa 0 2 Beard 2 0 Niekro House Morton Leon Capra 4 7 Sadecki 1 1 Thompson 0 2 Easterly 1 3 Odom 0 4 32 1 5 1 Total 35 2 6 2 000 000 100 0 1 000 000 001 Atlanta 1 10 2B oil mack ER B8SO i Niekro Sosa House Combine or Victory Continued rom Page 10 A Iowa for his high school class reunion He is than Umwo will not saying which year reunion The kin 's lucky oZunhJcky or fill in for the doubleheader A' 'Washington Has ainting Spell OAKLAND (AP) Claudell Washing ton star Oakland left fielder fainted twice at his apartment riday underwent exami nations at Merritt Hospital then went to Oakland Coliseum to watch but not play in the game with Baltimore A club spokesman said the examina tions were negative but that more tests would be made Saturday There was no immediate decision on whether the 20 year old Washington named an American League All Star reserve out fielder could play in the inter league classic Tuesday at Milwaukee A hospital supervisor said Dr Edward Krug gave Washington an electrocardia gram test before releasing him to go to the ball park The supervisor said Washington injured his chin when he fell in his apart ment in nearby Alameda but the wound did not require stitenes Washington has had several fainting spells since early 1974 He said he know what causes them and an accompany ing shortness of breath and dizziness Braves Box MONTREAL ATLANTA at) bl ab bl gauey if i uarr if Biitiner If 1 0 0 0 MPerez 2b JoMrales ph 1 0 0 0 Evans 3b Murray PMansa! cf Jorgensn 1b Carter rf oote Parrish Mackanin 2b 3 0 0 0 Leon oii ss Warlhen Scanlon Ph TnlhArt nh TScolt If 0 0 0 0 Lum cf 10 0 0 TftUt One oul when winning run scored monTreai Atlanta Garr oote oil' Parrish Biiltner i ianer Montreal AAontrMl A Atlanta Carter Baker Warthen Warthen Murray (L 3) PNiekro Sosa Lew HBP by PNiekro' A 5010 i How They Scored EXPOS' SEVENTH Carter dou bled and went to third on oote's around oul Parrish singled scoring Carter One run two hits no none left Montreal 1 Atlanta 0 BRAVES' NINTH One out Baker was safe at first on Parrish's error and then went to second on Biilner's error in left Blanks single scoring Baker Blanks went to second on Biilner's on the olav One run one hit three errors two left Atlanta 1 Montreal 1 BRAVES' TENTH One out Perez walked Evans singled moving Perez to third Evans went to second on Carter's error on the play Williams singled scor ing Perez One run two hits one error two left Atlanta 2 Montreal 1 A Year Ago JULY 12 1974 rcr523 TODAY435 Tv Braves igures HITTING ao Office 122 11 Perez 298 32 Gilbreath 60 7 pocorooa 71 Blanks 277 Garr 356 Correll 195 Lum 241 Baker 281 Evans 312 May Gaston 71 Williams 177 Goodson 12 rtthAri 17fl PITCHING IP The Associated Press Niekro Misses on Pickoff Attempt I 1H "4M MA ly Warn "nr gg AJfcW "4 bl Rr 1 L' MOTOR SPORTS ROUNDUP uture Brightens or Speedway 39MPG DATSUNB and ZCARS arriving daily at BOOMERSHINE DATSUN 275 Ponce de Leon Tel 873 2971 By TOM TUCKER With Atlanta International Raceway announcement that the initial phase of the court administered reorganiza tion plan had begun it appears that there is now light at the end of the fiscal tunnel The financially troubled track has been mired in the muck of bankruptcy for four years riday AIR officials announced that a sum of $165200 was being distributed in tax and wage checks according to the dic tates of the court appointed trustee Stacey Cotton The plan of reorganization which was approved and confirmed by the Su preme Court calls for the satisfaction of creditor claims Under bankruptcy laws the debts are deferred while the court determines if the firm can be reorganized as a solvent business which the courts have decided appears to be the case with AIR The original application of the law called "Chapter was in the reorganiza tion of Charlotte Motor Speedway in the early 1960s The move there is considered successful The largest payment from ini tial reorganization was a check for $10319257 to the Henry County tax depart ment Back wage checks were also mailed out What the act means in lay terms is that the 15 mile speedway has made a posi tive action to begin paying back its debts It also means that the trio of men who have been overseeing the operation of the track move a step closer to becoming the control ling body The men Walter Nix James Baker and LG DeWitt have tried to keep the facility running on a shoestring budget Now that the Chapter 10 proceedings have begun some much needed improve ments can be made by the group without fear that the track might be taken over by some other faction Baker and Nix are Atlanta businessmen and DeWitt is a businessman from Ellerbe NC The track which had its first race in 1960 was taken over by the now defunct American Raceways Inc operated by De troit financial wheeler dealer Larry Lo Patin But the American Raceways tracks started losing money and in the end all of them suffered some financial problems one closed Other American Raceway tracks are Michigan and Riverside and the now closed Texas International at Bryan MOTOR SPORTS NOTES: Buck Sim mons won last week at Dixie Speedway in Woodstock and if last fireworks are any indication things should be tough this week Gates open at 5 for a show which will feature an Austrailian Pursuit race and a Powder Puff stock car race at Dixie Saturday night irst races start at 8 There will be an American Motorcycle Association Profassional short track race Saturday night at 8 at Holiday Downs Race way on Wilkerson Mill Road in airburn ADULT TENNIS CLINIC it East Lake Indoer Tennis Club 4 days of instruction July 14 thru July 17 Sessions: 10 to 12 AM 6 fo 8 PM 8 to 10 PM Instruction offered by experienced Professionals with credentials from Dennis Vandermeers Tennis University Cost $30 for 8 hours of instruction Call EAST LAKE TENNIS CLUB 373 2212 1 39MPG DATSUNB jand ZCARS arriving daily at BOOMERSHINE DATSUN 975 Tests 275 Ponte de leon Tel 873 2971.