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Barrie Examiner, 19 Jun 1976, p. 11

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APPEARS AS STRONG AS EVER SLIDING pos Gary Roenicke is tag ged out at second base by MONTREALEX Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Bill Russell 18 during an attempted dou ble play in the first inning of game in Montreal eaver hurls Mes to Friday Russell held up on his throw to first base CP PhotO Aaron looks for homer and finds it in ninth By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS When home run is needed its nice to have baseballs allv time homerun king stepping to the plate was looking for homer thats what we needed in that situation Hank Aaron said about his trip to the plate in the ninth inning of tied American League baseball game Friday night Having hit 749 previous home runs in his career Aaron had enough experience knew what was supposed to do and did it he said after hitting pitch from Jim Todd for his 750th homer giving Milwaukee Brewers 1+2 triumph over Oakland Elsewhere in the American League New York Yankees outlasted Chicago White Sox 32 in 14 innings Baltimore Orioles defeated Texas Rangers 94 Boston Red Sox topped Califor nia Angels 31 Kansas City Royals downed Cleveland In dians 53 and Detroit Tigers beat Minnesota Twins 42 Having long ago eclipsed Babe Ruths mark of 714 home runs they now all seem the same to Aaron NOTHING SPECIAL That was nothing special just another number he said of No 750 get kick out of hitting homer which wins the game Its better than if the scores 100 and it doesnt mean anything Milwaukees other two runs also came on home runs by George Scott and Bernie Carbo New York ran its winning streak to four in row and ban ded Chicago its eighth straight setback with run in the 14th inning on Fred Stanleys single bunt hit by Mickey Rivers throwing error by losing pit cher Dave Hamilton and Roy Whites sacrificefly Ken Holtzman making his debut with the Yankees after being acquired from Baltimore in 10playcr trade earlier in the week allowed both Chicago runs while pitching 13 in nings Grant Jackson who came from Baltimore with Holtzman picked up the win in his first New York appearance by hurling three scoreless in nings and working out of jam in the bottom of the 14th JACKSON HOMERS While Holtzman was pitching to no decision Rudy May one of the players who went to the Orioles from the Yankees hurled eight strong innings while Lee May and Andres Mora slugged threerun homers and Reggie Jackson added solo shot Baltimore crushed the Rangers for its fourth cori secutive victory Boston snapped tie with two out in the ninth inning scoring twice on Carl Yastrzemskis single Jim Rices runscoring double and single by Rico Petrocelli The runs saddled SPOR TS BRIEFS FIRST GERMAN TITLE WEST BERLIN Reuter Ekkhard Dagge brought the fir st world boxing title to Ger many in 34 years Friday night when he beat World Boxing Council WBC light midlt dleweight champion Elisha Bed in the 10th round of their 15 scheduled rounds fight The last world title came to Ger many in 1932 when Max Sch meling defeated heavyweight champion Jack Sharkey NORDIQLES SIGN COACH QUEBEC CP Marc Boil eau fired during the 197576 season as coach of Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League was hired Fri day to coach Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Associ ation Boileau who signed oneyear contract replaces JeanGuy Gendron Gendrons contract which still had year to run was terminated by the club LOTTON RESIGNS BRAMPTON Ont CP Ken Lotton has announced his resignation as coach of Bramp ton Excelsiors of the Ontario Lacrosse Associations Major Series Assistant coach Gary Drysdale has been named Lot tons successor In his three years as coach Lotton guided the Excelsiors to the national finals three times The team won the championship in 1972 his first year as coach PRESIDENT RESIGNS QUEBEC CP Raymond Lagace has resigned as presi dent of the Quebec Major Jun ior Hockey League but the name of his successor is not ex pected to be known for about month Lagace cited business interests as the reason for his resignation Thursday EXTENDS COURT ORDER BUFFALO AP federal court order barring the sale and movement of the Buffalo Braves basketball team to Flor ida was extended Friday to July Judge John Elfvin of US District Court had issued the order Tuesday after the City of Buffalo filed $48 mil lion antitrust suit against the other 17 NBA teams in an at tempt to keep the Braves from leavingtown Places second in gliding RAESKYLAE Finland CP Howard Firth of Ottawa placed second Friday in the standard class with 883 points at the world gliding champion ships The winner Renner from Australia was first with 1000 points He also leads the overall standard class standings with 1476 points while Firth is fifth with1153 Hal Wernerburg of Beams villc Ont is 44th over all with 483 points In the open class Jim Car penter of Toronto is 22nd over all with 887 points and Dave Webb of Fort Erie Ont is 38th with 517 points ORDERED TO LEAVE In 1290 the Jews were ex pelled from England but they returned in 1650 Californias Andy Hassler with his 15th consecutive setback since his last win April 29 1973 The American League record is 19 consecut ivc losses Cookie Rojas drove in three runs with single double and sacrifice fly as the Royals beat the Indians and increased their lead over Texas in the West Di vision to five games Bill Freehan collected three hits including home run and Dave Roberts scattered 11 hits helping the Tigers beat the Twins Rusty Statib singled home Detroits first run and scored the ligcrs final run on single by Alex Johnson after doubling Named franchise manager By my MacLAINE TORONTO CP Peter Ba vasi 12year veteran of major league baseball administration Friday was named vicepresi dent and general manager of Torontos franchise in the American League Bavasi 33 immediately warlt ned reporters that it was too much to expect to use an open chequcbook policy to gather playing roster that would be in pennant contention in its first year Bavasi was vieepresident and general manager of the Na tional Leagues San Diego Padres during the last four years His father EJ Buzzy Ba vasi president of the Padres was general manager of the old Montreal Royals of the Inter national League from 1947 to 1949 Bavasi will begin his duties almost immediately as chief executive with the asyet unnamed Toronto team which begins playing in 1977 He was introduced at hastily arranged news conference Friday Ile said the news conference was plotted with the same speed he completed negotiations with the Metro Baseball Clubs committee which first contacted him about the job three weeks ago Don McDougall president of Labatt Breweries Ltd and Gerry Snyder of Montreal rcp rcsenting the other major iii vestor in the baseball oper ationsR Iloward Webster made up the twoman com mittee OWN 45 PERCENT Labatts and Webster each own 45 per cent of the shares in the franchise with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce owning the other 10 per cent looked on it real chal lenge said Bavazi It pro vided an opportunity to begin at the very beginning with club Im sure is destined for great success McDougall sad the clubs board of directors wanted man young enough to relate to the youth image of the team yet steeped in baseball knowl edge The Barrie Examiner Saturday June 19 197611 in over Giants By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tom Seaver hasnt been the same since he came back from Los Angelesand its good thing for New York Mets Seaver started off the season in slump but since an adjust ment to his pitching style in California two weeks ago he appears to be as strong as ever certainly can win 20 games if keep pitchingthe way have been lately Seaver said after hurling twohitter Friday night to lead the Mets to 32 National League baseball vic tory over San Francisco Giants made an adjustment in Los Angeles am coming overhand more Ive pitched four good games since then The win was Seavers second in five days over San Francisco and his seventh of the season against five losses In other National League games Philadelphia Phillies nipped Cincinnati Reds 65 Pit tsburgh Pirates whipped Houston Astros 73 St Louis Cardinals downed San Diego Padres 74 Los Angeles Dodg ers beat Montreal Expos 65 and Chicago Cubs defeated At lanta Braves 64 HOMERS HELP Home runs by Ed Kranepool tworun shot and John Milner supported Seavers pitching lililners eighth home run broke scoreless tie in the fourth but Evans tied the score for San Francisco in the next inning with his second homer 0f the year Mike Schmidts threerun homer and solo blast by Dick llcn ed Philadelphia over Cin LA determined not to fall back By GLENN COLE MONTREAL CP quick glance at last years National League baseball standings show that Los Angeles Dodgers were 212 games behind Cin cinnati Reds in the West Division Following their 65 win over Montreal Expos Friday night the Dodgers now find them selves just two games behind the Reds and determined not to fall way behind like they did in last July and August think were lot better club this year said Dodgers outfielder Bill Buckner who keyed threerun eighth inning with runscoring single off Expo reliever Dale Murray But while the Dodgers are likely to be in the West Division race for while it is becoming increasingly apparent that the Expos are well out of any con tention in the East Division The eightAyear old ball club now is 20 games out of top spot and has shown no signs of im provement from shaky start As far as the Montreal fans are concerned the Expos just have not been tough enough Several times Friday night the cinnati George Foster hit two homers for the Reds to increase his National Leagueleading runsbattedin total to 59 Al Oliver and Manny Sanguil len each drove in two runs to lead Pittsburgh over Houston It was the sixth loss in row for the Astros who committed three errors two by starting pitcher Richard Richard also was plagued by wild pit ch and passed ball that re sulted in two runs Rookie Hector Cruz and vet eran Lou Brock hit insidethe park home runs both with two out and runner on base to lift St Louis over San Diego The Cardinals victory came at the expense of lefthander Randy Jones 123 who had won seven straight games since he was beaten by the Mets on May DODGERS WIN Runscoring singles by Bill Buckner Steve Garvey and Ron Cey broke 33 tie in the eighth inning and Los Angeles held on to beat Montreal The Dodgers threerun rally came after the Expos had come back to tie the score with three runs in the bottom of the seventh Charlie Hough who pitched the last two innings gave up tworun homer to Jose Morales in the ninth inning but managed to post his fifth save of the sea son Bill Madlock smashed grand slam home run in the seventh inning lifting Chicago over Atlanta Madlocks homer which barely cleared the fence few feet inside the leftfield foul pole was his fifth of the season GEORGE KNUDSON has reason to smile he finished By CHUCK SVOBODA MOUNT HOPE Ont CP Leon DeCaire hooked his shot off the fourth tee into some trees Friday and the only way he could get it out was to take lefthanded swing with putter lined it up and then wiffed it said the 34yearold Toronto golf pro It was the strangest feeling to wind up and miss Despite that strange predica ment DeCaire scrambled to bogey six on the fourth hole and then went on to shoot fiveun derpar 66 that gave him share of the lead in the Ontario Open golf championship Greg Pidlaski 25yearold innipeg native who now is member of the Uplands club where DeCaire is head pro also fired 66 for share of the lead in this $20000 threeday event Pidlaski with five birdies and no bogeys had less spec tacular round than did DeCaire who scored an eaglethree on the oarfive ninth crowd was hostile to the home club HEERED BRIEFLY The only time they had any thing to cheer about was threerun seventh inning which saw Jim Lyttle smash tworun triple and Jim Dwyer follow with single to tie the score against former Montreal pit cher Mike Marshall They also cheered loudly when pinch hitter Jose Morales slugged tworun homer in the ninth But they were not happy when Pat Scanlon recalled from Denver Bears 01 the Almerécgn ASGSOCiauon misd It was just routine three paye teve arveys groun ball with two out and the Dodg hmed it from dbom ers went on toscore two runson DeCaire was first in the Billy Russells single in the top Clubhouse with his 66 hwermg of the first Nor were they pleased when Manny Mom an by one stroke the compt original Expo slapped run scoring double to left centre in the fifth inning off starter WoodJI Fryman An when Buckner Garvey and Ron Cey had finished cracking their RBI singles in the eighth many of the 14623 fans decided to get head start to the parkinglots Mahaffey Oakland owner Finley angry at Kuhn ruling NEW YORK AP Com missioner Bowie Kuhns land mark decision voiding the $35 million sale of three Oakland As players seems certain to land baseball back into the courtroomsa playing field where the game has not fared well recently We will be taking it to court Monday stormed Oakland owner Charles Finley who called Kuhns decision very stupid and said the commis sioner sounds like the village idiot Marvin Miller executive di rector of the Major League Baseball Players Association said he also might take legal action Were considering it he said Obviously were not go ing to stand still while the pow ers that be attempt to ruin the careers of three players Kuhn said he expected his de cision returning pitchers Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers and outfielder Joe Rudi to the As would be tested in court SEES LITIGATION There is clearcut possi bility of litigation said Kuhn looking strained after two days of wrestling with the sales of Blue to New York Yankees and Fingers and Rudi to Boston Red BASEBALL RECORD By THE CANADIAN PRESS Natlonnl League Enut LPct GHI Philadelphia 42 17 712 Pittsburgh 35 25 583 New York 33 33 500 12h Chicago 28 33 459 15 St Louis 27 35 435 16 Montreal 20 35 364 20 West Cincinnati 89 24 619 Los Angeles 87 27 578 Chicago 33 28 541 Houston 29 35 458 10 Atlanta 24 36 400 131 San Francisco 23 42 354 17 Fridays Rriiults Chicago Atlanta Los Angeles Montreal New York San Francisco Philadelphia Cincinnati Pittsburgh Houston St Louis San Diego Todays Probable Pitchers Los Angeles John 34 Montreal Stunhouse 42 pm Cincinnati Philadelphia pm Houston Dierker 66 at Pittsburgh Kison 44 215 pm San Francisco Burr 45 at New York Lolich 38 405 pm at 215 Nolan 63 Carlton 63 Sex Both New York and Oak land have indicated they would test the decision by litigation We went by the baseball when fellow golfing pro told him he was chicken was boiling mad at first then said maybe the guy is right said the Texan who moved into the halfway lead of the United States Open on Fri day with 7068138 started getting more ag gressive going for the pins more and not leaving so many mle book said Dick OCon putts short am more deter nell general manager of the mined than ever to win this Red Sox How he can go again tournament cant forget that st it is incomprehensible In the had it in my hands and let it future when clubs want to slipaway makeaplayerdealwhodoyou Mahaffey 28 tied for the contact Publicly the Yankees had no official comment on Kuhns de cision which the commissioner Open year ago and then lost in an 18hole playoff to Lou Graham On Friday he attacked the 215 made under the broad inter 015yard par70 Atlanta pretation of his authority to act Athletic Club coursewith all his in the games best interests as vigor and seized the lead with outlined in Article Sec of near rfect round thatineluded the major league agreement four irdies and two bogeys But Finley who has tangled As the balloon burst for 21 with Kuhn repeatedly had yearold amateur Mike Reid plenty tosay whose 67 gave him three You never know what to ex stroke lead after the first pect from Bowie Kuhn snap round Al Geibergcr moved into the As owner There second place behind Mahaffey ave been many many cash with 7069 followed by Ben transactions through the years Crenshaw and Jerry Pate plus and nothing has ever been ques the 10year pro Rod Funseth tioned about those all tied at 140 Finley said his lawyers are GREEN CLOSE preparing right at this mo There was cluster tied at ment for legal actions against 142 including Hubert Green Kuhn Snead Lyn Lott Mike Mor The commissioner said be de ley and Butch Baird while cided to void the deals because most of the games stars were of his concern for maintaining strung out inthe rear public confidence in the integ The perennial man to beat ritv of baseball Jack Nicklaus reeled off til Chicago Coleman 01 at At lanta Niekro 44 605 pm San Diego Strom 65 at St Louis Curtis 46 pm Sundays Games Houston at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at Philadelphia New York Chicago Detroit Minnesota Baltimore Texas Boston California Milwaukee Oakland Todays Probable Pitchers Sun Francisco at New York Detroit Mctorinnck 0I at 405 AnBlItS BI MONT Minnesota Redfern 13 215 San Diego at St Louis Milwaukee Colborn Itll at Oakland Abbott 01 430 pm Kansas City Busby 31 at Cleveland Dobson 75 730 pm New York Alexander L4 at Chicago Jefferson 12 pm Chicago at Atlanta Mondays Games Montrenl at Philadelphia New York at St Louis Houston at Atlanta Los Angeles at Cincinnati San Francisco at San Diego Amerlcan League Baltimore Palmer 77 at East Texas Peterson 13 905 pm IPrtHl Boston Wise 511 at Califor New York 85 22 614 nia tTannnu ti5 1030 pm Boston 28 29 491 Sundays Games Cleveland 28 29 491 Kansas City at Cleveland Baltimore 28 11 475 ti New York at Chicago Detroit 28 32 448 Detroit at Minnesota Milwaukee 24 31 486 10 Boston at California Went Milwaukee at Oakland Kansas City 39 20 661 Baltimore at Texas Texas 33 24 579 Mondayu Game Minnesota 28 11 475 11 Texas at Oakland Chicago 27 30 474 11 Minnesota at California Oakland 29 33 468 112 Chicago at Kansas City California 26 11 400 16 Detroit at Milwaukee Fridays Results Boston at Baltimore Kansas City Cleveland Cleveland at New York under par and one stroke off the lead in Fridays course record tor the 6587 yard par71 Mount Hope Golf and Country Club course SEEKS FIRST PRO WIN After 10 years off and on the pro tour DeCaire is still looking for his first Canadian pro victory Pidlaski mean while continues to show the good form that won him the Saskatchewan Open last year and also made him runnerup in the 1975 Alberta Open This 54hole event offering first prize of $4000 is the start of the Canadian tour and this is Pidlaskis third year on the cir cuit He scored birdie on the same hole where DeCaire had wiffed his shot out of the trees and then added birdies on 10 15 16 and 17 He almost had birdie on 18 as well but left his 12foot putt just short of the hole The three before that were much more difficult putts said Pidlaski He holed putts of about 20 feet on 15 and 16 and scored from about 25 feet on the 17th ONE BEHIND One stroke behind the leaders were veterans George Knudson of Toronto and Moe Norman of Gilford nt amateur Greg Texan takes over at halfway mark DULUTH Ga AP John got his dander up consecutive pars for 70 and coupled with Thursdays bird ieless round of 74 challenged from six shots back at 144 Asked the last time he played two rounds without single bir die Nicklaus said think it was when was 10 Reid took triple bogeys on the ninth and 18th holes in shooting an 81 and suddenly discovered famcis fleeting Mahaffey said his current spurt was sparked by two even ts that cut deeply into his pride the playoff in the 1973 Open and the charge that he was chicken opening round of the Peter Jackson Ontario Open Patterson of the host club and Greg Wagstaff of Toronto total of 10 golfers scored eagles during the day and 24 had subpar rounds Many of the players described the cour se as being in perfect condition and the weather was sunny and hot Today could be different with thundershowers predicted and nearby air show presenting fullscale flights The low 60 and ties after todays round which starts at 730am will qualify for Sundays final 18 holes Among those in danger of not making the cut is defending champion Michel Boyer of Mon treal who shot an opening 80 Boyer 22 also starting his third year on the tour said he played in Mount Hope iCP Photo DeCaire has share of lead in Ontario Open tournament has not yet been able to get his game in shape after an oper ation for removal of wart on his left hand two weeks ago HYDRO LINES WATER LINES ELEPHONE LINES DRAINAGE DITCHES SPENCER TRENCHING TRENCHING AND BACK FILLING UP TO DEPTHS 207 KENNETH AVE PAINSWICK ONT Phone 726071 Cut the cost of moving anything milfly WIMP 00 by Brown Your Avis Licencee 101 DUNLOP ST III 7266527 IIUIONTAIIO $1 COLLIIGWOOD 4350331 The Amazing Every one of our Rabbits comes with Hatchback and 16 ltr engine front wheel drive rock pinion steering steel belted rodiol tires rear window defogger reclining front seat bocks folding rear seat dual diagonal braking system and the Volkswagen Owners Security Blanket KERV JOHNSTON MOTORS GOWAN STREET AT ESSA 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