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Show Vern Law Credits Bullpen With Keeping Pirates First In National League WEDNESDAY. AUG. . U'ih aioflty. If s iCardwell have done a trenien. Bv MILTON RICHMAN have fdoas job - for t'PI Sports Wrter we had in': than bench better Vern YORK NEW (UPI) 1960 a"d more Pwer. much Law is the tvpe who tells the w h?v.e boys sitting on. m(rand whole truth truth, the "We Denc-- rutting Jou. inais a nothine but the truth. 0 we didn't have six years He won't knock his own craft, luxury ago." in will all he .but neither say The Gone Greati is conscience that pitching 1960 That Pittsburgh crew keeping the Pittsburgh Pirates bunch which d in first place. Not their starting; was a us uvu mm iucn ,inciuueae ' anyway. ...w'Hoak. Dick Groat, Bill Virdon, . vuc uk c Dick Rocky Nelson and pennants are won and. lost, 1 .ill V-- H - VS.-,- .A J 4- JJ - v i m , 3s - a high-spirite- .JL -- ' side-line- Gun Club to Hold Shoot Thursday Billy O.'Dell and even Don shooting. V - BIG ORIOLE BATTERS Big guns of the American League Orioles line Baltimore up on difgout steps before a leading night game yesterday at Boston. They are, left to right, Brooks Robinson, FraokRobinson and John Powell. Frank tfnd John hit homers in yesterday's game. (Hetald-UP- J J Telephoto) UPI Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPI) -T- here's a tieht race in the American League and a runaway in the National but only in the sideshows. In baseball's main arena it's the the pennant . races other way around as the Baltimore Orioles romp toward a championship in the AL and the usual traffic jam is hitters m 4his year 's JeanL' thev have come- - on real fast. -- especially the during ner of" the Regional 'Orangeburg, South goes to Carolina. Dave Nuttall, will face- - Honov lulu, Hawaii, at 6 p m. to- SQUAD CUT morrow night. If they win, PEEKSKILL, N.Y.'(UPI) -I'rovo will face the winner of The New York Jets fourth Richmond, round draft choices for 1985 and Nev., at 6 p. m. Friday eve- ri96C, flanker Bob Scliweickert and center Jim ning. Otherwise, they will play of VM1 the loser at 9 a. m. Friday. 'Waskiewicz of Wichita, wer Other teams in the tourney in- dropped from the squad clude Los Alamos, N. M., Den ver. Colo;, and the host AriAlso released were halfback zona squad. The teams will Kern Carson, defensive back be housed at the University of Randy Beverly of Colorado Arizona. Slate and defensive end Gary of New "The boys have been practic- Plumlee Mexico, ing real hard this week," ac- trimming the roster to 49. cording to "Mott. He continued, "Our pitching staff is more President Abraham Lincoln mature this year and although carried important papers in we do not have as many strong the crown of his stovepipe hat Winning Ways In IL Activity By United Prss International After one slight pause for breath, the Columbus Jets appear back on the pennant trail. The Jets, .who had their eight-gam- e winning streak broken returned to their Monday, winning ways Tuesday night by The victory beating Toledo enabled Columbus to maintain a lead over second-plac- e Rochester in the International League pennant race. John Gelnar, with ninth- inning help from Sam Jones, won his 11th game against six Dave losses for Columbus. Wissman homered in the sixth inning to provide the Jets with their first run of the game. Mike Epstein hit his 19th and 3--1. 20th to runs home Rochester to an 8-- 6 Premium Quality Nylon Cord Tire tested by A. I. Foy t for 500 miles at 120 mph help triumph over Toronto. Buffalo In other games, scored two runs in the ninth 5 and inning to nip Syracuse Richmond edged Jacksonville 6-- , 4h KV. Tr,j&v, pait winner of Indianapolis "500" A. J. 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Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers In the National League, won 19 of his first 25 decisions, however, Matty Alou of the Gaylord Perry of San Francisco Pittsburgh Pirates has opened 18 of his first 20 and Juan up a gap in the batting derby Marichal of San Francisco 17 of on defender Roberto Clemente, 22. a teammate. One of them almost certainly Earlier this week, Matty will Award bag the stood at .343 with a lead of 15 as baseball's top pitcher. percentage points oyer CleStill it s' a tight race while mente and ' 18 over brother there's a runaway in the Felipe Alou of Atlanta. American where Jim Kaat of And in the RBI race, Hank the Twins, winning 17 of his Aaron of the Braves has a first 26, is well out front in comfortable lead over a batch total victories. of rivals including Clemente, the in the top clogging National. But in those sideshows, the annual scrambles for individual titles, the American League has the hottest races for the batting honors, crown, stealing bases and maybe even the Most Valuable Player Award. Those prizes not only are good for glory all winter but for an extra chunk of gold at contract signing time. Richie Allen and Bill White of the Phillies and Willie Stargell Oliva The Leader Minnesota's Tony Oliva, bat of the Pirates. Base Stealers Race champ in his only two major There s also a tight race league campaigns, has been the AL leader most of the way in between the American League Bert Campaneris his quest for a third in a row but he keeps getting a mighty of Kansas City and Tommy challenge from Frank Robin- Agee of Chicago while Lou of Louis St. the son, the slugging refugee from Brock Cardinals is on a runaway Cincinnati. ' Not far back is Al Kalinrof course' in the National ' over Detroit, on a nifty comeback Sonny Jackson of Houston and AUGUST PAINT SPECIAL! 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The win- -, Jets Return To Players In American League Staging Furious Races For Individual Honors By STEVE SNIDER Pfovo's State Legion chamby .Bullock pions, sponsored on Honda, left this, afternoon Bonanza Airlines for Tucson, Ariz,, site, of the 1966 Region al Legion tournament. The state champs, managed by Troy Mott and coached by n, J t.rZr ' , ' - v 01 that's the bullpen." says Law,dl,0'"Ui, who hanoen1! In hp a starter. 8one' Law believes, however, thd -- n,,, k.,ii- - i. m.nB- " Pirate club has as present ivi an uuicii3c i uuuuc aiau, IUUI.11 IGCfl SUU1L U1C A3 1JW he went on. "No one stays with contingent too starters long anymore "Maybe the fellows, we had because the bullpen has become little more a were so important. Harry Walker;" realizes this and he uses his sophisticated than some of those we have now," he pitchers accordingly. I think he deserves most of the. credit for laughed, "but we have guys who like to talk it up. Jerry where we are now." for one and Clyde King Lynch Lucky Somewhere for another. On occasion, ' Walker certainly is doing RoBerto demente gets fired up something right, and that goes real goddand Pag (Jim for pitching coach Clyde King, Pagliaroni) hollers a lot. I try too, because on the face of it to do my part, too.the Pirates should be no better Law feels he finally (,has than fifth at the moment. himself out "after straightened That's precisely where they a rib muscle while pulling are insofar as their overall warming up for his second pitching record is concerned! start of the season. to the the According figures, Pirates' rank fifth in pitching in "That took me out for a to the National League with an month," he said. "I tried I I it when rush back and came aggregate earned run average of 3.57. The dodgers are first guess it's difficult hurrying a arm. Rushing back with 2.74. It's an old baseball axiom that quickly did me more harm I that pitching is 75 per cent of than good, but think "I'm okay now. My last our, five starts the .but seem Pirates the game, to be disproving it if you insist have been all right." Law, naturally, thinks the on going strictly by statistics. The last time Pittsburgh won Pirates can win and remember, in I960, Law was the big man he's the type who tells the of the pitching staff with 20 truth. d If that turns out to be the victories. This time, by a rib injury earlier in the case, it'll mean figures someyear, he has won only eight times lie. Pitching figures, games. Bob Veale, with 12 anyway. victories, is the club's top winner and 12 wins at this stage of the game doesn't exactly qualify him for the Cy Young, award. "There's a considerable differ ence between this team and the The Provo Gun Club will one I was on which won in sponsor . a merchandise shoot 1960," Law points out. 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