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10 THE OSHAWA TIMES, Monday, April 25, 1966 Mays' Historic Homer Ties Mel Ott's Mark By MIKE RATHET Associated Press Sports Writer) Herman Franks may have an imieresiing time € x piaifi inz "one baseball, slightly scuffed --$50" on the next expense ac- count he hands San Francisco Giants' accountants. But it's legitimate. So was the cause--the 5ilth homer of Willie Mays' career, a 420-foot shot in the eighth inning that tied Mel Ott's National league career record and triggered the Giants to a 4-2 victory over Houston Astros Sunday. Mays came to the plate with the Giants trailing 2-1, took aim at Jim Owen's 2-0 pitch and drilled a belt-high fastball into the Astrodome's left centre field seats, where a fan pounced on. the ball. The fan got his reward and Mays his trophy after the game when Franks walked up to his $125,000 centre fielder with the ball in his hand "Here,"' said Franks. 'I paid the man 50 bucks for this." Then Mays took over, "IT was going for a homer ev- ery time up," he said. "I wanted to do it in San Fran- cisco, but the game was on tel evision and I don't guess it makes much difference. 1 know it made our fans happy." CHASING RECORD One more home run will put |Mays in fourth place on the all- itime homer Mst, ehead of Ott, and behind only Ted Williams with 521. Jimmy Foxx with 534 and Babe Ruth with 714. Bar- ring injury, Mays should pass all but Ruth this season, While Mays was making his- tony, St. Louis Cardinals whipped Pittsburgh Pirates 5-2, Chicago Cubs shutout Los An- geles Dodgers 2-0, Cincinnati Reds edged Philadelphia Phil- lies 3-2 in a game shortened to 5% innings by rain and Atlanta Braves downed New York Mets 5-2 before losing the nightcap 3-2. In Saturday's games, the Cubs blanked the Dodgers 2-0, the Braves beat the Mets 5-4, Houston split with San Fran- cisco, winning 4-0 and losing 2-1 while the Pirates stopped the Cards 5-4 and Philadelphia at Cincinnati was cause of rain. Mays' homer, his sixth of the season, lifted the Giants into a 2-2 tie, and one out later*they lelinched it when Jim Hart rock- jeted a solo homer off Owens jinto the left field seats, |SADECKI STARTS Ray Sadecki made his Start for the Cardinals but jdidn't go the distance. How- lever, he slammed a_ two-run homer in the second inning that put it out of the Pirates' reach. first postponed be- Sadecki also singled and scored in the seventh inning but then needed Tracy Stallard's relief help. Rookie Ken Holtzman, a full- time. student and part - time pitcher available to the Cubs at home, and. veteran Ted Aber- nathy combined to shut out the Dodgers on five hits. The loser was Don Drysdale, who gave up five hits in the six innings he worked and lost on a two- run triple by Don Kessinger in the second inning. Johnny Edwards and Vada Pinson homered for the Reds but a triple by Tony Perez and Mel Queen's sacrifice fly in the fourth inning brought in the de- cisive run that ended Cincin- nati's losing streak at six games, Sammy Ellis held the Phillies' to three hits in the rain-shortened game but two were homers by John Briggs. Wade Blasingame won his a game in the opener against the Mets by stroking a two-run |single in a three-run second linning uprising that extended ithe Braves' winning streak to six But a throwing error by third baseman Eddie .Mathews en- abled the Mets to push across two seventh-inning runs in the inightcap and snap game losing streak despite a \two-homer performance by Fe- 'tipe Alou. A Pair Of Robinsons Ruin Hapless Yanks By MURRAY CHASS laverage, socked six doubles ja doubleheader between Cleve- Associated Press Sports Writer|and two homers, scored seven|land and Boston. If New York Yankees are having trouble sleeping these/Yankees haye scored only 13 Minnesota 4 - 3, nights, you can be sure they're not counting Robinsons. Frank and Brooks can't) clear any fences Sunday, but jruns and driven in 12, The runs in the five games. Against the whole league, Frank is hitting .467 with four homers and 13 runs_ scored Saturday, California edged Washington trimmed Detroit 5-3, Baltimore beat New York 4-3, Cleveland shaded Boston 5-4 and Kansas| City slipped by Chicago 2-1. they did figure in both of Balti-/while Brooks has a .405 aver-iscoRES DECISIVE RUN more's runs as the Orioles edged the hapless Yankees 2-1) and stretched a pair of streaks to six. The Orioles now have won six straight and are 8-1 over-all while the Yankees have dropped six in a row and are 1-9 over-all. Of the Yankees' 10 games,; five have been against Balti-| more, And in those five--one victory and four defeats--the Robinsons have been a night- mare to New York. Against the Yankees, they collectively have rapped 16 hits in 34 times at bat for a .471 BASEBALL SCORES By THE CANADIAN PRESS SUNDAY American League Minnesota 5 California 3 Chicago 4 Kansas City 3 Detroit 4-4 Washington 0-1 Baltimore 2 New York 1 Cleveland at Boston (2) ppd, rain 4 National League Los Angeles 9 Chicago 2 New York 2-4 Atlanta 5-3 Philadelphia at Cincinnati ppd, rain Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis & San Francisco 4 Houston 2 International League Toronto at Columbus (2) ppd, rain Buffalo at Toledo (2) ppd, rain Syracuse 2 Jacksonville 6 Rochester 6-5 Richmond 1-3 Pacific Coast League Indianapolis 3 Tulsa 4 Oklahoma 7 Phoenix 8 Denver 11 San Diego 3 Spokane 5 Vancouver 11 Portland 0 Seattle 8 SATURDAY American League Minnesota 3 California 4 Detroit 3 Washington 5 Baltimore 4 New York 3 Cleveland 5 Boston 4 Chicago 1 Kansas City 2 National League Los Angeles 0 Chicago 2 New York 4 Atlanta 5 Philadelphia at Cincinnati ppd rain San Francisco 0-2 Houston 4-1 Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 4 International League Buffalo at Toledo ppd, rain Rochester 3 Richmond 2 Syracuse 1-1 Jacksonville 7-2 Toronto 5 Columbus 11 Pacific Coast League (2) games Sunday Twins defeated gels 5-3, age with 16 runs batted in. The Yankees' hitting doesn't quite reach those lofty levels. Roy White is the only regu-| with Frank for consecutive dou-|---- lar above .300 at .318 while Bobby Richardson is hitting .289. But then comes » Tom Tresh ,263, Joe Pepitone Howard and Roger Maris .156 and Clete Boyer .086. As a team, the Yankees are hitting .199. In other American League California An- Detroit Tigers swept Washington Senators and Chicago White Sox "1 edged Kansas City 'Athletics 4-3 bles and the decisive run in the sixth. Minnesota stopped its a two-run homer in the and drove in another run with a single in the fourth. Reichardt's drove Twins' starter Camilo seventh Bill Monhouquelte game victory. Washington's Pete Richert tied a league rec-) | | | Brooks Robinson doubled in the Orioles' first run in the first inning Sunday, then teamed five. knocked .256, game losing streak behind the when Don Demeter doubled and |Mickey Mantle .200, Elston hitting of Don Mincher, who hit) scored on Ken MeMullen's er- third ror their five- y WILLIE MAYS, San Fra- ncisco Giants' centrefield- er, belts the 511th home run of his career to tie the all - time National League record of Mel Ott. Mays' homer travelled 420 feet in- to the left field seats and triggered an eighth - inn- ing rally that sparked Gi- ants to a 4-2 victory over Houston Astros. REMEMBER WHEN ...? By THE CANADIAN PRESS Toronto Maple Leafs de- feated Detroit Red Wings 4-0 two years ago today--in 1964--to win the Stanley Cup for the third year.in a row, under coach Punch Imlach. Before that, Leafs had not won the hockey trophy since Conn Smythe's day, in 1951. but the he was seventh Tigers, out in secutive A triple and a home run by Rick Norm Cash powered the Tigers two - run homer in the second game, Ken Berry led off the 16th Minnesota Pascual from the mound in the inning with a triple and trotted) 'home | scattered run on 4-0 and seven hits in Detroit's opening-;Kansas City tied the game in| Chicago's winning} McCraw"s single. with Tom the ninth when Dick Green sin-| gled, stole second -and scored in 10 innings. Rain washed out'ord by striking out seven con-|on a single by Ed Charles, Preventive Maintenance Preventive maintenance prolongs the life of your car -- ij D4 Ja:: basen pn earpiece Mae Te A Dn I --AP Wirephoto Bi Dae DN ed dig Mie. a Wine Be te A AN Mn A Ag Ai eels ge Giants' All-Time Giant ~ No Longer Say Hey Kid By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer The Say Hey Kid of 1951 has become the mature, elder statesman of i966. The mature boy who played ihe Oullicla as a tian swims and a bird flies now is an articulate, purposeful man who knows exactly where he is going. Willie Mays has changed in the turbulent years from 1951 to 1966, but one thing is con- stant, He is still the most excit- ing player in baseball. The basket catch, the flying cap and the home'run still are his trade- marks -- especially the home) | run. As befits a man who gets / $125,000 a year for playing ball for San Francisco Giants of the National League and at least another $100,000 in outside busi- ness deals and endorsements, Willie, with the aid of his finan- cial adviser Jake Shemano, president of a San Francisco bank, keeps things in financial order. Mays lives in a swank, five- E tiered, split-level home on top of a winding hill with a breath- taking view of San Francisco. His seven-year-old adopted son, Michael, lives with him part of the time.. Willie and his wife, Margherite, are divorced People who read the men's clothing ads in the newspapers probably have noticed Willie posing in a fashionable suit with Cesar Romero, He has broken into fields never before open to a man of the Negro race. Mays' relationship with Hor- jace Stoneham, owner of the yiants, has been on a high level since he first wa» brought up from Minneapol's ir. 1951. There are many indications that Wil- \lie eventually will become the manager of the Giants, It was Alvin Dark, the man- ager in 1964, who took the first step toward moving Mays to higher ground when he ap- pointed him captain of the Giants that year, | A falling out with Dark .in 1/1964 never wase fully explained. Willie is a sort of father-con- fessor to many of the Giants, a buffer between the sensitive athletes and the often gruff manager Herman Franks. He moves the outfielders, suggests changes in the infield and con- sults with Franks when prob- lems arise. Mays will be 35 May 6, and he feels the need of occasional jrest. He and Franks have an agreement that Willie can re- move himself from the lineup whenever he thinks it is neces- sary. The Giants played games last year, and Willie was in 157 of them. He didn't start 15 times but got in as a pinch hitter in all but six. "If a game is one-sided, I'm 163 11 short of Mel Ott's lifetime late innings," Mays said during the winter. . In 1962, Willie collapsed while sitting in the dugout during a late season game. In 1963, he suddenly dropped to one knee ai the piaie, Lasi winier,. wniie making a_ series of appear- ances for the Job Corps in Salt Lake City, Utah, he collapsed as he was about to walk out on the stage for a talk, With this history of fatigue, the Giants are going to give Mays every opportunity to call his own shots. How long can Willie go on?| Willie is reluctant to discuss it. "Tt don't know how long I'll! be able to go but neither does) anybody else. Don't compare| me with others. "T want to go on until I am 39 or 40,"" Mays said, About Labor Day, 1970, Willie! probably will smash Babe Ruth's record of 714 home runs, the record in baseball nobody thought would ever be broken. When Willie hit No, 500 last September in Houston, he was asked if he knew he was only PR Chari er TIP CIGARETTES REGULAR and KINGS . National League record, "Sure I know that," Mays, When did he check it? "| didn't have to check on it. said going to take myself out in the'I just know it." ' | | prevents costly repair bills and adds to your driving pleasure. WHEEL BEARING REPACK SPECIAL Indianapolis at Tulsa ppd, rain Oklahoma 3 Phoenix 1 Portland 4 Seattle 0 Spokane | Vancouver 8 Tacoma 3 Hawaii 4 Denver 6 San Diego 3 Discover The Swinging World YAMAHA RO-DON Sports TAUNTON 1 MILE EAST OF SIMCOE ST, Service to oll mokes and models of bikes. 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