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Show 1 nTrirnnrrry''r rr tv 1' t rro-rrvinnn- nr iTryyyymnr "rrr rrnrTTrn'rrrvnnnnry,r rr rvr vw h.l: Jiim6iLlj06ptarsA,-- T - I d Callisons Homer X, alt-ali!- SportsJUrror by Jolurlooncy Tribune Mi Page SB Salt Lake City, Utah July 8, 1964 Wednesday Morning ByAsaocUtedPma YOItK. July 7 Johnny Callison of the PhiladelphU Phillies hit a three-ru- n homer with two out to the ninth toning Tuesday and. toe National, League series squared the long All-Stwith the American League on a 74 victory. ' . Sports Editor -- . NEW When a major spectator sport begins to slump at the gate the logical condemnation is .this always was a lousy sports r ' , town anyway. , Weve heard this charge- leveled in respect to Salt Lake Citys support the Bees over the years and we think its time to rise in defense of our largest citys support of sports. - - i i city. It is true the Denver baseball Bears are drawing but a years ago, when smidgin of the attendance of a Coloradoans boasted of their home attendance of 500,000. It fa true, too, that the pro hockey Invaders lost ftelr' franchise just recently, because of failure to support the dub, And the first to fed the pinch w?s Denver University, which finally gave up the losing battle to slumping attendance and - dropped its intercollegiate football program. ON THE SURFACE, Denver, like Salt Lake City, could be 'I called a lousy sports town", ' little look a deeper. But, leti Bob Bowie of the Denver, Post conducted aa attendance half-doze- n - . survey, which provided some interestihg figures. Still Almost Two Million Fans While the Bears In baseball, the Invaders In hockey and the Broncos In pro football noted disappointing attendance totals rf if i i - ; t- i f i i yt v-- It X ' ' i - . m OF THE TOTAL pro paid attendance In Denver, 942,031 went to the dog tracks and 3587lTaid to see the horse races. I Thats 1.310,305 laying customers out of a total of 1,764,709 total paid for all pro sports. . : Heres the breakdown, for what its worth: 942,034 Dog racing (fbuf tracks) V. V y&vMv - f, PtPf i $ r r n 27,000 I ' ' Th dramatic moment is at hand In Tuesday's Game at New York as Johnny Callison of toe Phillies watches his three-All-St- vs4;o. x19Nx Ttt .V 3 a jg associates Pros Wlrcphate run homer sail out of Shea Stadium, giving Nationals win. Elston Howard of Yankees is catcher and umpire is Ed SudoL 7-- 4 pari-mutu- el );v; money,-- and perhaps interest, In other spectator would-have 'sports. ' u In Defense of Salt Lake Gty at the Ute Stadium half full with a full with a capadty Field one-fift-h Derks or 30,000, of capacity of 10,000 and gripe about poor support of athletics. - A visitor may look By Asaoclated Preaa NEW YORK, July 7 Go NE YORK, July 7 (UPI) -- get Callison, go get Callison, Im I thought Td try something dif- no hero, yelled a happy Willie ferent, but it didn't work too Mays in the National good. , . v dressing room. - f , League THAT WAS Dick Radatz' continued. me. You know, Radatz is sneaky fast, but in the dugout they said he wasnt throwing his best, so I was just looking for the first pitch to come over. un- ., League victory that gave toe National League a dramatic 4 victory over the American League to Game. Tuesdays over their American League Mays, the San Francisco Gicounterparts in the 35th ants great center fielder, had game Tuesday nt Shea Stadium. started toe rally, but with one The six swing against Dick Radatz, Calwno owns a bache- lison had stolen the spotlight hander, right la Utah and Colorado, especially, toe surge is toward . lor of science degree from Michsports. . r .' i partidp&tioa (T WAS THE first time Ive ' , i , igan State, explained that this even seen Radatz, said the ever had he iirst time In the was fctm numbers will turn out for Fans goodly spectator outfielder. I hit Philadelphia sports, but they prefer to pick the spectaculars" or the major faced Callison. belt high. one inside events, rather than the every-da- y pro sports attraction. T was glad nobody said anybatAS A rule, And for every day diet, they get their enjoyment in parters are good low ball hitters, thing when 1 went up there, he ticipation. and since I knew nothing about V him (Cailison), I pitched him Take the matter of golf. low when he came up, in toe '..-'.-.I j All-St- ar Right after the war, when the Bees were drawing so well, seventh, Radatz said. He got 13 at the most golf courses dotted the state. Now, in Salt Lake pretty good wood on that one, e courses. so Tdecided Valley alone, there Are 11 regulation and two fcrget the ball higher AMERICAN abT h rbl 0 a -- And few communities in the state are without courses, or toe second time. 411140 Fregradss dreams of courses.- - Yankees the Joo Pepitone, Oliva rf 400Q00 Once, summer bowling was unheard of. And, about the same first baseman who committed a Radatz p 100000 time as we mentioned the post-wa- r golf courses, the state may costly error in the final game 411020 have had a dozen or so bowling alleys. Now, bowling lanes dot of last years world series, made Mantlecf -0 0 0 00 0 Hall cf "the countryside and air conditioning makes it a d ninth in the error a throwing Killebrewlf 413100 sport itming that allowed Willie Mays Hinton If -000000 run. the to score tying ADD TO THIS competition toe newer sports of boating and Allison lb 300090 -- water skiing in the area, plus the old stand-by- s of tennis, fishing, 000010 I WANTED to make sure I fPepitonelb motoring and camping, and you'd agree the state of Utah is didnt throw the ball over Ellys Robinson 3b 402212 " as sports-minde- d as any area. 401004 (catcher Elston Howard) head, Richardson 2b The difference today is toe sports are' inore diversified in 310090 Pepitone recalled. I threw It Howard c interest and more competitive, with more opportunities to choose low enough, but it must have Chance p 100001 your entertainment, recreation and participation events. 000001 hit something because it took too Wyatt p 1 0 0 0 0 0 bSiebern a hop. big Observation Ward , 000001 was late Radatz backing up Pascualp . to eColavito rf . had he 201000 because Howard gone W thm Ikitt mn fimjlm f yom v xparfi third base thinking the play mot m If tmmt trti O whfc ft fat Iks tint jr would be there. favorably , to the .population potential of Greater Salt Lake and the valley.1 On the other hand, figure the stook cars will attracf somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 for their Saturday night shows and the dragsters may skim off anywhere between 50,000 and , . 80,000 for their weekly summer events. ' V 7-- 7-- All-Sta- All-St- All-St- ar loot-five, ( left-hjnde- d JUAN MARICBAL of the J- See Page B-- Columo-- 1 voting, ston for two reasons. 7, .Once again the big boy bore : down and poured a third strike : hitter Hank of Aaron past pinch Milwaukee. Many to the crowd Johnny-on-Spo- il of 50,850 at Shea Stadium booed when Aaron was sent up to hit for Ron Hunt, the New York Mets favorite. CALLISON, who came into the Al- by Hes a great play- er, said Alston. ,He can run, throw, hit and field. Then, too, left-hand- All-St- game as a pmch hitter to the fiftiy; then slammed Radatz first pitch ever the right field wall into the orange seats to foe lower stands. TJt was an exciting seesaw game, with the American opening up with a run to the first only to have the National grab the lead ir the fourth on home runs by Billy Williams of Chicago and Boyer off John Wyatt, the Kansas Gty relief specia- 3-- -- CALLISON said beating Lopez him any didnt give I NEW YORK, July 7 (UPIJ Johnny Callison of the Phlh xiintiv lies, whose three-ruinning home i;un gave the Nar n tkmals a 74 victory over fof American League, Tuesday was selected the games most valuable player" in a sporting news poll of newsmen and broadcasters, - a AU-St- CALLISON LED the balloting with 39 votes, followed by Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants wtih 28, Brooks Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles with 9, and Harmon Kil) brew of the Minnesota Twifas and Ken Boyer of the St Loifii Cardinals with 1 each. SUMMER SAVINGS special ' pleasure. rtf - You hit .170 and they dont keep you too long. CALLISON was not named to the team as a starter and was in the not among the runners-up Box Score -- par-thre- year-roun- M-J- ml )r; pn Tribunes Baseball Scoreboard , then walked Johnny Edwards of Gadaaatt iatewtVoaally. I wanted some more FIRST pitch came over hitting. went over the right field THERE WERE other things, Alston Hes added, laughing. shot drew the National even with the American beat us enough. I figured he to list competition, owed me something. 17 victories each with one tie. In a recent series at Los AnIt also helped beat A1 Lopez, geles, Callison hit two homers THE NATIONALS widened the the American League manager in two games against Alstons lead to 1 in the fifth on a and Callisons boss when he was Dodgers. single by Roberto Clemente of with the Chicago White Sox. JOHNNY Callison, a suppleTHE selection sat he as mentary Manager by and derstated explanation But, like Denver, there are competitive attractions now Walt Alston, had Just hit a three- - fence. minutes locker his in pf' front that baaebaB and football didnt have in palmier yean. run homer with two out in the after serving Johnny , Callison last of toe ninth inning; capping The The Bees, and Utes win draw something over 100,000 each ' League the ninth InniDg home run ball a four-ru- n rally that gave toe for their home seasons' annually. This doesn't compare very League a 4 National t Cepedas blooper went to right Right fielder Colavito of th.e Kansas City As, Bobby Richardson and Pepitone ail hesitated momentarily. MVP Choice v - , -- Radatz Finds And "Away It Went i Plan B Callison: Looking for First Pitch Poor Pilch but was selected It might have scared On the other hand, this is a choice of toe potential speo totor and if he prefers, to win or lose en the dogs and horses, yon can't fault (heir taste If the state allows gam- -' : lZ bfing., But in Denvers defense, it must be agreed that without the gambling competition more than one million potential fans Orlande Cepeda, another Giant, wha had gona Utfeaa la 21 trips, pterisa blooped a single late short right. NOBODY could get to it. PepiWhen Joe Pepitone of the New tone, a replacement at first base York Yankees picked up the ball for Bob Allison, finally picked in short right and threw wildly np the ball and threw it past Howard for the fatal error. r" to the date, Mays scored. the It was a tough break for the tying run. Pepi tones throw Yankee first baseman, whose bounced high over Elston How- error on a thrown ball helped the Los Angeles Dodgers make ard's head for an error. . , if four straight over New York Badati got Ken Boyer of SL last October to the World SeLouis on an Infield pop and ries. I , Vr-- a 368,271 154,798 155,634 166,277 . ur All-St- ar Att-Sta- , i ; S 3-- fast-bail- er , i oles, following singles by Mickey Mantle of , the Yanks arid Hannon Killebrew of Minnesota,"-tiethe score at 3 to the sixth. Rocky Colavito, aa 11th-hesub for the injured A1 right, field wall came on the Kafine, came through with first pitch to him by Dick Ra- double la the seventh inning datz, the monster of the Boston after Howard was hit by h k Dick Farrell pitch. Red Sox bullpen. As si result of the Jim Fregosl of Los Angeles, triumph, toe Nationals, who scored the first run of the evened the series at The game, drove in Howard with, a ., Americans dominated the earli- sacrifice fly to Mays. . er yean and held a 124 lead WITH RADATZ, fourth through 1919. American League pitcher, humNaGOING TO the bottom of the ming that fast ball past the tional the 4 3 lead ninth, Radatz had been in com- looked Leaguers, safe going into the ninth. plete control of the Nationals, Then It happened. ' striking out four?, men to two A walk to Mays and a sixth perfect innings of relief work. Willie Mays of the San Fran- stolea base for an record by the incomparable cisco (Hants worked the for a walk and stole Willie and the tying run was oa second. ' second. last year, the facts remain that almost two million spectators paid to see professional events last year in the Mile High City. OF COURSE, you tnay argue the horse and dog tracks prosper on the gambling interest, and you are correct It is doubtful if more than a few hundred spectators would turn out any day for horse racing or any night for dog racing without ( the incentive of wagering. -- CAULISONS homer over the IX RECENT MONTHS, Denver baseball fans and support- , ers of ice hockey have joined the collegiate football fans in of Colorados major attacking the sporting loyalty of 1 Pittsburgh and a double by Dick Groat. of. foe Cardinals.', A twO-ru-n triple by Broods Robinson' of toe Baltimore Ori- American League BttVnor Chtcrao 4t Nw Yorfc . Mmnno O . j Bom) LmAnctia' ..- OcveurxS Kansas CitT Wasftmaim M . ,--T . , .O t , J 31 31 .. t .1 34-- i 1 44- - 4 , PMIadafeMa jvs 1 San Francisc InCinoaH ) 3f 7 " iltsbursA' JU Wt loa Anssiaa St Lams ,4M Mtfwaul Mt 14 CMcaaa .JST M Houston Ja 1SVS Naar Yartt im jtSt'im 't D 3t , Jl Pwftaftla PNthart ViOniirt INa km adwiM. 31 Pet. 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