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could get used to swinging with his hands about two inches start of the season ner tries to break up double play former Boston Red Sox batting great for turning things around for him where wasnt controlling the bat Griffin said Now Ive ing Alfredo Griffins grip improved his hitting Hitting improved Jays Griffin TORONTO CF Times have changed for Alfredo Grif fin Two months ago the Toronto Blue Jays shortstop was rookie trying hard to show he belonged in major league baseball His batting average was embarrasing and he wasnt living up to his Dominican Republic nickname of Manos de Oro Hands of Gold Followers of the American League team were muttering we wuz robbed remembering ace reliever Victor Cruz who was traded to Cleveland Indians for Griffin and rookie infielder Phil Lansford But now the mutterings come only from opposing pitchers and batters And Griffins teammates feel he should be given serious consideration for rookieoftheyear honors Things have changed lot Griffin 21 said Sunday before getting four hits against Oakland As including gamewinning basesloaded single in the bottom of the ninth COULD ONLY IMPROVE At the beginning of the year nothing was going good for me The only thing was never got down on myself kept thinking could come up Up he went turning 082 batting average after 14 games into teamleading 290 average after 63 games His per formance includes 10 doubles five triples 25 walks and teamleading 73 hits Griffin credits Toronto batting instructor Bobby Doerr Bobby changed my hitting style and made me choke up on the bat Griffin said Doerr slipped rubber knob over the bat handle so Griffin from the end of the bat They started working on it April 23 and the result has been ZOOpoint increase in Griffins aver age Before used to grab the bat at the end and got to got more balance in my bat It makes me hit the ball more on the ground make more contact He also realizes that people criticized his fielding at the SELIOM MAKES ERRORS Now with experience the errors come infrequently and usually because he is being upended at second base as run feel very comfortable fielding now try to get it better every day You always have something to learn But it is his speed that has manager Roy Hartsfield beam Griffins reputation in beating out bunt is growing His speed on the base paths has turned many lethargic player intoa goat Recently in Seattle Griffin reached second base with an if other runner at third Mariners pitcher Odell Jones un corked wild pitch and naturally the runner scored from third Jones trotted in to home plate to take the throw from his catcher To his shock he found Griffin also sliding in to score try to be agressive runs Make things happen and sometimes they do Peewees take consolation After dropping their opening match to Elora Hurono Rotary Pecwccs were 91 in its second game and scor ing 96 vitory over Whitby in the consolation championship the Barrie determined to get on top and stay there in the consolation flight of the annual Huntsville lacrosse weekend The Barrie squad bounced back from its opening 62 loss to the eventual finalists by ham ritering Gloucester of Ottawa Nolan Keogh led the Barrie attack in the final game scor the ing twice and adding three assists Mark DAmbrosio and Gerry Price each scored two goals and singles were scored by Richie Webster David Slomka and Craig Celeste tournament on said Griffin who has scored 40 NEW YORK AP Vowing that things wont be much dif ferent than in the past Billy Martin has returned to manage New York Yankees But one thing that may be very different from the first time around is Martins rela tionship with slugging out fielder Reggie ackson Everyone knows we need Reggie to win Martin said Monday after the World Series champions ended three days of speculation acknowledgemen ts and denials by announcing that Martin would take over as OTTAWA CP Field goal kickers provided most of the scoring Monday night as Ot tawa Rough Riders nipped Win nipeg Blue Bombers 1312 in dull Canadian Football League exhibition game Gerry Organ back from oneyear retirement kicked four field goals and 75yard the American League baseball clubs field general for tonights game against Toronto Blue Jays He replaces Bob Lemon the man who took over last July when Martin tearfully resigned the position dont think Reggie will be problem said Martin who had more than his share of run ins with the tempermental outlt fielder Hes awfully im portant to the team He knows it and know it Jackson has been sidelined for two weeks with muscle tear but when hes ready to Roughriders single to lead Ottawa to its first win in two preseason games They were beaten 3620 last week by Montreal Alouettes His Winnipeg counterpart Bernie Ruoff kicked three field goals as the Bombers suffered their second straight loss haw ing been beaten 3513 by Cal gary Stampeders week ago Ruoff missed only one field go hell be the designated hit er Then hell move into right field but not until hes com pletely healthy Throughout their 12 years to gether with the Yankees Mar tin and Jackson were at odds The two nearly came to blows on national television in Boston in 1977 as Martin lifted Jackson from game when he felt the outfielder didnt hustle after fly ball Jackson also was sus pended for five games for dis obeying the managers orders to swing away and bunting in stead near the end of Martins tenure last season Yankee owner George Stein brenner apparently wants no such incidents this time and made that clear to Martin Steinbienner told Tom McEwen sports editor of the Tampa Fla Tribune that Martin had agreed to tell Jack son the Yankees cant win without him that he is needed if we are to win another cham pionship Jackson was mum on Mar tins return but Matt Merola Jacksons agent said he felt Martin returns to Yanks Jackson under the right circumstance they can get along And Martin wasnt worried about his relationship with Jackson either saying he doubted reports that Jackson once accused Martin of hating him Martin 51 originally was scheduled to reassume his duties as field boss of the Yan kees next season With the de fending champions skidding to fourth place in the AL East however Steinbrenner decided to bring the fiery manager back now nip Blue Bombers goal 48yard attempt with fewer than two minutes remaining in the game Win nipegs other points came on fourth quarter safety touch when Ottawa quarterback Jimmy Jones was tackled in his own end zone Neither team looked impres siive in front of an sparse unenthusiastic crowd of 18870 fans who rose off their seats only in the fourth quarter to boo Jones acquired this season from Hamilton TigerCats Ottawa ran up meagre 202 yards of Offense with 176 of them coming through the air Winnipeg fared little better accumulating only 236 yards of which 167 were on pass recep tions orts Editor David Fuller7266537 Clarkson ignites for upset Starr Electrics spark has cooled Barrie and District In termediate Fastball League leaders in the early going Starr fell to record of six wins and four losses with 62 loss to Clarkson Hotel Monday leav ing them in second place Barrie CoOp leads the league with record of six wins three losses and tie Clarkson sits in second last place but came up with the runs when it counted taking ad vantage of an error in the fourth inning to score the winn ing run Gary Leduc put City wants grass The Barrie City soccer Club is willing to offer its players as labor if the City comes up with the money for badlyneeded im provements of the Eastview Athletic Centre soccer pitch team president Tom Delaney said Sunday We asked for improvements three years ago and its still disgrace as far as Im concern ed said Delaney He said the field is rough full of dangerous potholes and so dry if you dropped match at one end and there was slight breeze the whole thing would burn away Even the referee complained about the field conditions before the teams Ontario Cup match Sunday said Delaney The only solution is that it be resodded Weve already spoken to the players and well contact the Parks and Recrea tion Department to offer our services Delaney also said the pitch could use some bleachers to avoid the unpleasant crowd peblems which cut Sundays game short Most places have bleachers and often they have fences to keep people away from the sideline he said Its games like Sundays that underline Clarkson the tremendous need for bleachers WOODSEGROWING Swedish officials hope to make wood the countrys main source of fuel within to to 15 vears Yacht club stresses safety ahead for the game with his run on an error following leadoff triple Starr pitcher Dan Duffy retired the side walking Darrel Grant and striking out Dan Massarato and Jim McDonald Fred Fritz took the win for Clarkson giving up six hits oti two errors McDonalds home run in the third inning started tworun tying rally for Clarkson that ended with onerun single by John Greenside the leagues runnerup in the batting stan dings Ledux again leadoff with triple in the sixth inning to elcome Starr reliever Alex Smith McDonald hitting for Fritz singled to set up two run double by Massarato that put the game away Ron Millar scored in the seventh to end Clarksons scor ing Duffy took the loss Both he and Smith gave up 10 hits Starrs two runs came on Starrs spark cooled again sacrifice by Tom Micks and fielders choice by Pete Par tridge in the first inning Chambers named Marlies coach TORONTO CP Dave Chambers former hockey coach at York University in To ronto has been appointed head coach of Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Major Junior Hockey League Chambers 39 succeeds Bill White former National Hockey League defenceman who coached the Marlboros for one season Under White the team had poor regularseason record and was eliminated Surprise its Dolt Nesbitt retiring head of Central Collegiates Boys physical education department shows his approval as Ruth Edwards jumps out of the cake at Nesbitts retirement dinner Monday at Barrie Country Club It always was hardworking club and its still quite good By GARRY FORBES Of The Eainiiier Steele is happy to see the club progressing rapidly He Faculty Believe it or not the Barrie Yacht luharbor alongside Johnsons Beach have not been around lntt the beginning of time li11952 the year the club was formed remembers Harr ris Steele one of the five founders the waterline reached up past what is today The gateway and boat shelter consisted of only small shack and rickety garage There was practically nothing there just stretch of shoreline says Steele who with Maurice McLaren Ozzie Rowe Reg Welham and Colonel SA Lee purchased the property and began the task of building fullfledged yacht club Today 27 years later there are 120 member families and 75 boats anchored at the clubs everexpanding factlity and long waiting list The club holds regular races competes with other clubs in Lake Siincoe and Kempenfelt Bay plans junior sailing program and is constantly working at its chartered aims to encourage boat building amateur sailing and yachting and above all to maintain water safety on the bay The club is safetyconscious says Bob Bogardis newly elccted commodon and theres never any shortage of Keinpenfelt Bay boaters willing to test that worthy motive Just before the clubs recent seasonopening sailpast an overcrowded illequipped motorboat sank near the BYC harbor Members went out in the clubs 14foot rescue boat to help retrive the careless boaters recalls several time during the early days when rescue boat filled with safetyconscious RYC members would have come in handy My boat used to leak pretty badly when it sat out there anchored without any protection at all said Steele remember when Hurricanc Hazhl came through went out that night to bail it out and when stepped on the forward end of the boat it just dipped right under The creation of the club was slow The little shack even tually fell down and an oil drumraft being built for the Chamber of Commerce summer carnival blew away before it was finished Trying to place fill in the harbor seemed an endless task and the first wharf built of recks trucked in by the original group disappeared before it became Useful Eventually however things began to fall into place and Steele and aSSociates completed the first arm and the BYCs docks in 1960 Steele and McLaren are the only two original members still sailing with the club Theresa lot of enthusiasm today Steele said Theres lot of young people getting around and thats good to see It always was hardworking club and it still is Were pleased at the way it going Incidentally that little boat which used to sway precariously in the waters off Johnsons Beach and fill with water so easily is still anchored in slip at the BYC Its the only boat left from the old club and its still qune good Steele says of his 75yearold craft friends and former is 251 Condredge Holloway clicked on eight of 14 pases for 131 yards and Jones on four of 13 tries for 45 yards and two inter ceptions Dieter Brock who played most of the game for Winnipeg was good on 15 of 25 passes for 151 yards while Ed Schultz com pleted one of six tries for 11 yards and two interceptions Ken Washington was good on two of three Winnipeg passes for 25 yards None of the running backs rushed for more than the 22 yards picked up by Winnipegs Jim Washington on six carries The only apparent injury was broken ring finger on his left hand for rookie linebacker Carm Carteri as both team de fences showed far stronger than either offense The only excitement was gen erated by miscues early in the furth quarter with Ottawa lead ing139 The teams traded flurry of interceptions most of them in Ottawas half of the field in space of about three minutes Veteran linebacker Mike Nelms picked off two for the Riders and Bombers veteran Gary Rosolowich hauled down two for his side After Nelins second inter ception Jones was sacked in the end zone to cut the Ottawa lead to 1311 before Ruoff drilled 42yard field hoal with less than two minutes remain ing to conclude scoring In tonights exhibition without any Wins in the games Edmonton Eskimos playoffs return to the site of their 1976 Chambers who began coach Grey Cup victory to face ing at the University of Sas Toronto Argonauts at katchcwan in 1966 will 6011 Exhibition Stadium and tinuc t0 teaCh 111055 and British Columbia Lions meet coaChlng COUISCS ill YOIk Hamilton TigerCats at Van University couvcr He guided York University Yeomen to three fiistplacc and two secondplace finishes in the Ontario Universities Athletic Association from 1972101977 cheerleader Argonauts opened the pre season schedule with 1479 win over Hamilton TigerCats last Thursday with newcomer Tony Adams going all the way at quarterback students gathered to roast their hero as he retires after 33 years at Central Former athletes and students presented Nesbitt with trip for he and wife Peg to Florida while friends gave him new set of golf clubs Examiner Photo by David Fuller JO lt firm Ali rams4 ah Barrie Yacht Club members compete in regular club races but also Billy Martin returns to Yankees AP Beatrice pounds Floor and Beatrice Foods pounded reliever Dave Beauchcsne for five runs Monday to defeat Bare rie Floor and Wall 124 in Barrie and District Interlockingball league play at Queens Park Already leading by two runs Beatrice scored five runs on five hits after starter Jim Angus left the game Beauchesnc walked in Beatrices Glen Richardson to start the rally Corbv Adams Wall hanged in two more runs with his single Hutch Boyd took the win for Beatrice giving up eight hits Angus and Heaiiscliene scat tcrcd 15 hits between them Four of Floor and Walls runs ciiic in the third inning Beatrice scored one run in the second inning four in the filth and one in the fourth before the destructive seventh inning Antonick wins in style leads Merchants home Pitcher Ross Antonick won the game in fine style Monday as Barrie Merchants edged Caiiplas Industries 87 in Barrie and District Recreational Fastball League play at Mac Morrison Iark Antonick belted thrccrun homerun in the eventh inning to push his team past anplas The homer also gave Aiitoiiick the win after he put on seven hit performance on the nioitnd for Merchants Dave Lowc took the loss for anplas also giving up seven hits correction report in The Examiner June 18 of Harrie City Soccer Club game incorrectly at tributed the statement seem ed to have had few too many beers This statement was made by Tom Delaney presi dent of the club in reference to spectators at the game not by spectators about Delaney In the other game of the night Georgian Sports pitmml ed Fisher stoves 1873 The game was called after five inning when Georgian pounded in eight runs on six hits Dan Modgridgc won for Georgian allowing only three hits Rob titty took the loss for Fisher Georgian took command of the game in the second with four mns on two hits scored four more in the third 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