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Show College Baseball Coming Out Party All Set at Omaha Paul Attner Washington Post Writer By Pnllnna JUt ,v, Vioeoli Wl UU annual WH. Ulii UpO coming out party begins Fn-da- y In Omaha, Neb The college Woild Senes is celebrating its 25th anniversary and, for one glonous week, the university version of the national ptstm.e will be watched by more than ust relatives and close friends of the players. More than 74,000 attended last y ears shindig, an alltime recoid, and officials are aiming for an even higher figure this tune around, the 22nd v ear Omaha has hosted the tones. Pet haps tins friendly midj western city is the only place m America that could support college baseball so well. For most schools, the sport is as popular as ROTC, Few dare BYU toward making the week a success The citizens actually want the series to stay aiound. The NCAA isn't about to aigue. Omaha Different ta Play Friday A few Brigham Young Universitys baseball team will open the College World Series Friday at 4:30 pm Salt Lake time, against Harvard. made yeais ago rhoemx some inquiries about Fv er proposition. suice Diesing formed a nonprofit organization six veais ago, the tournament has managed to at leat cover expenses, which now exceed $80,000. "Weve already sold 3,300 books of tickets for he senes and probably an equal njmber of box and reserved seats, said Diesing Talk I'p Tourney gfilnitir stoppirg me and talking about it, Diewng said Jwcnfhor nun ll o nlavcnc for- get it, smee they get a taste of Omaha hospitality. Each team is sponsoied by a service club that acts as an official rooting section at games and host at cLnneis. Each squad has a svveethear., chosen by lot Our goal is to have the players play in front of good eiowds and to lemember Tuesday Morning, June 8, 1971 Second Section Page 20 said Diesing Gathenng the crow os is accomplished through a senes of promotional etiorts aimed especially at youngsteis A bat boy contest attracted the-blac- k general-admissio- n No wonder then that tnr communitv has been talking foi about the tournament I cant walk down months the street without someone having the tournament there," said Jack D'esmg, the geneial chairman of the senes for the last eight years. I called the NCAA office to find oat what was happening. They said they had no intention of changing locations for charge admission lurMost have trouble games. ing spectators gratis. Omaha, though, is different. The series has become a civ ic the affair and seemingly w ho a works community to The NCA4, no fool when it comes to money, wasnt interested an m- in risking salt Omaha, to a team Safetv and two Sixteen 8 800 nominees were selected. 12 798 s nvin-bei- fire-patr- State last year drew fans into a 11 000 seat stadium, easdv a record Crow ds of 10 903 and 11 316 were lured later in the week. The Kansas City farm team here could draw onh 200 000 m 1370 " said Diesing. We had 74 000 in a week, and w ithout selling beer There is one pioblem Once the gan.es begin, the NCA runs the show and Diesing sits m a box to watch People with calls by the upset umpires continually come to He K, him and complain. there s nothing I can do W e do our job before Let em yell at the umpire, not me. Iowa are admitted free. There are special rates for senior cit'zens and service personnel Tie Paiks and Recreation Dcpaitment holds a clinic with coaches and playeis as instructor. Loyal Following Cerium teams have puked up a loyal following. Maine, m its one appearance w as a pai -- ticular favonte. Souliern Arizona State, Flonda Cbdi-foiri- a, State, Missouri and Minnesota are the all time popular clubs Local schools, however, are still the best bet for a huge crowd. A game involving st Angels Wallop Toros in 14 to 2 Contest If Ever a Guy Deserves Chance Its At Big Leagues, ! Llenas By Ray Herhat Ti lbune Sports W nter ' i As in all walks of life, baseball, too seems to have its injustices. Take the case of two professional playere , One was blessed with tremendous natural ability. The other has been bypassed and deprived of playing in the big leagues because he happens to be slow afoot. d The player is wasting his career and many opportunities; the other is giving of himself unselfishly, yet he remains in the bush leagues." One player in question is and richly talented Alex muscular strong, fleet, Johnson of the California Angels, a professional a paycheck, but player because he happens to draw could hardly be who, even stretching the imagination, called a pro. The other is a journeyman third baseman for is Winston Llenas. tlje Salt Lake Angels. His name So he, coo, is a J Winston also draws a paycheck. who is professional, but unlike the major leaguer Llenas twice monthly, paid by the California Angels is a pro. never having Despite the bitter experience of a at chance minute making major league more than a team. Llenas, who has kicked around the minor his enthusileagues for 10 years now, has never lost to duty. asm for the game and his devotion E.iiy Wynne, who has Suffered control problems this spnng and admits it, was backed by a attack and he breezed to his third victory of the year as Salt Lake City hammered Tucson 14 2 at Dei ks field Monday night. knowwhy I been pitching well of late," the former Tucson Toro hurler said recently, But I guess if you had to point o one thing it would have to be that Im just not getting the ball over enough to be effective, Wynne added. control Wynns Monday night was not exactly sharp as he walked five battt s ard was constantly behind on the hitters and he must have 150 thrown But pitches. Wynne had such a big lead that hs control problems didnt matter on this night. Tommie Reynolds, the hottest hitter in the Pacific Coast League in the last two weeks, ripped off four more base hits Monday night in raising his average to around the .380 4. Tribune Staff Photo by Tim Kliy Tucson batter Mickey McGuire ducks wild pitch by Salt Lake pitcher Billy Wynne as Angel catcher By Dick Rosetta Tribune Snorts Writer OGDEN Veldon Law beat out an infield hit then scored on a perfect bunt by Dave Hayward and two base throwing errors in the last of the ninth to give the South a 6 victory Monday night over the North in he 11th Annual Utah All Star baseball game at John Affleck Park. Law, a Piovo High star and son of all time Pittsburgh Pirate great Vernon, did not start the game. He came on in the sixth inning and struck out, but in tlr ninth, ha legged out the infield hit over the second bare bag Hayward, a Brighton High senior, did not start either but Wouldn't Take Break hurt his back Nothing to had but the senous, nag the third baseman injury and hinder his swung. Up through games of last Sunday, Winston was the only Salt Lake City player to play in every game. Manager Del Rice has w anted to rest Winston on occasion. Although Winnie is just turning 28 and is pot considered old for the game, a rest now and then is necessary for all players playing the exhausting minor league schedule. At the time the Angels were locked in the throes e of a losing streak. Winstons renlv to Rice was a simple- No, Skp, I don't want to ceme out now. Lets win a few games first and then well see. Thats Winston Llenas A real pro. a real fine flitter, a good third baseman, a great team player, one of the nicest guvs you'll meet anywhere. Now isnt it a real shame that this man among men is being penalized because he happens to be a step or two slower than, say, that major leaguer named Alex Johnson Sometimes baseball lacks in justice. t A few weeks ago Llenas six-gam- - Senior Tourney Deadline Near The death ne for enlenng 1b third anrual Utah Seniors Goa Cliarrp.opsl. p Wasalch .State Paik is Thmsday, Bob Hid, president of tl e Utah Golf Asn said Senior M mdc v One tournament Tune 24 25, 20 havfule will be held Entrarts must n cmbcrsl.ip in fit - CHICAGO (AP) Willie slammed his 19th Stargell home run and drive across three runs to rally the Pittsburgh Pirates to a windblown 116 victory over the Chicago Cubs Monday. Staigeli, leading the majors There will be a gro-.- s and nei dompiOTs and champions m each age division Larry Summerha vs is d e f e n d i n p and Jack gross champion Gard-won the net crown r last year. Great Rally The North had staged a miraculous comeback to wipe out a deficit. The North bunched five hits and capitalized on three South errors in the seventh inning to score the five runs. 1 It a brilliant mound took in both departments, drilled a two run homer in the first and a single in a four-ruPirates fifth which erased a Cubs lead swelled the Pittsburgh slugger's RBI total to 52 A1 Oliver belted a two run n 3 Baseball Standings National League EASTERN W 35 34 jO 26 Lous S P USDurgn New York DIV.UON L Pet San Francisco Los Angelas Hcutm ta Cmcir ati San O ego Atle W 38 29 27 25 T 18 Monday's American League Eastern Division GB 65 21 21 618 600 473 29 29 Ci raao 27 21 4 3 Montreal 32 29 Ph ladelph a 385 WESTFRN DIVISION L Pet 19 16 28 32 33 37 667 57 a 2 8 10 13 10 13 15 19 Results innings) at New York San Dieqo (A n 4 t), n ght Varlchal San Francisco 13) at Mont eal (Stiiemar 7 3) night 10 2) a Atlanta St Louis (Carlton 7), n gnt (Jrv C nc nnati ) at Hojson (Nolan U on 4-- ) mght Pn aoeipn a (inert 4 7j at Los Am ps binger 3 9) n qht (Jomscn 4 4) or talker Pitnburgh at Ch c3qo (Jenkins 9 5) Pacific Coast Ltague Division W 31 Sncfe 26 lA 23 K ad ne Eugene Southern l 6 a Monday f L ke 25 28 29 14 GB 574 v0 4 442 6 7 49 L 24 579 4 3 0 Pesjlts 7ucrr j 48? 444 5 5 3 6 2 L 22 25 585 628 ,8 351 53 9 Western Pet 19 44 3 Div sion City 37 26 37 a 3' ,7 29 20 30 78 30 18 2j 473 Jl 500 4 3 417 408 Mondey s Results (No games scheduled) Tuesday's Probable Pitenere New York iStottlemvre 43) 4, Cali-for- n a (Hassler n ght Boston (Culp 6 t) at Oakland (Odom r ght 11 Wa h ngton (Coy 1 !) at Ken-a- s City n qhf (So iltcrif CO M nnesota (Blyleven at Baltimore n qht. (Dobson Chcaqo (Wood a 3) at Cleveland (V Dowel mqh V Iwaukee (Parsons 5 4) at Detre (Lo ich 8 5), night Sih ester Wins Crow n MALMQE, CVLDEN (LTD American world dreus recoid holder Jay Silvester beat Sweden f European record holier Ricky Biuch in the Lm Pet H TbCSOl 5a Pet Division W Haws Png x Salt Lake L n Oakland W 31 31 28 23 Chicago M Iwaukee (Ge Mry Tacoma Detrot Clevel, nd New York Wash njton nnote Tuesday's Probable Pitchers Northern Balt mo e Boston M Ca ifort 8 439 400 37 t Gft 491 P tt burgh 11 Chicago 6 St Lous 7 At ante 6 (10 (Only flames scheduled) ami nus association have reached age 55 bv June 24, 1971 he played a hustling brand of ball when he did get in behind the plate and Ins bunt down the third base line couldnt have been better. North third baseman Rick Garcia made a fine pickup of the sacrifice, but his throw sailed v ide of the bag at first and deep into the right field coiner as Law circled the bases. stmt by Grangers Craig Clay-so- n the North bals. quiet The peiformanee by Clay son also earned him the Most Valuable Player award. Clayson, who had pitched his three inning allotment earlier in the game, came on d in relief of Provo's Rick with two outs and five runs across m the seventh. Clayson promptly got the third out on a pop up to third base. From there, the Lancer righthander struck out the side in the eighth he had seven whiffs for the game and after allowing two walks m the ninth, he retired the North The game seemed to be all to Clo-war- Pittsburgh Rips Chicago , 11-- 6 As Stargell Continues Hitting ship? Managers ask. sometimes beg their plavers to play in a similar fashion. The selfish ones do not. They cost their team a chance at victory on these occasions but in the box score the act goes unnoticed. John Harrel looks on in Pacific Coast baseball action Monday night at Derks Field. Angels won. Soudi Scores in 9di to Beat North, Should Not Be Denied A just dont I - havent $ all-rou- hitting his first home run of the season far over the ng! . center field wall with two mates aboard in the sixth. 16-h- multi-talente- Theie are a lot of players probablv, who should be plavmg better than mI..or league bail. Winston is one of them. Hes too good a hitter. Hes too much a team player. Hes too valuable to be denied a decent chance at making the maiors. So whv hasnt the Domincan Republic belter been offered more than ONE token shot at making the majors, despite hitting more than .300 the past two seasons (hes way over .300 again this year)? Hes too slow, the big league teams claim. Thats Triple-the rap against one of the finest in seen have fans Lake years. Salt City players But how fast s Alex Johnson being clocked these days when he refuses to run out ground balls ? , Llenas is a most unselfish player. Last year he lost the Pacific Coast League batting title by .001 of a, point. Now I know why. He gives himself up to advance a runner into better scoring position bv hitting the ball to the right side of the infield. These things heln win games. But in the box score it looks hke nothing more lhan a big, fat out. I wonder how manv times Llenas gave himself up. last year and by so doing lost a batting champion- Dip tnncriA tip could flnd of 15 homer and Bob Robertson hit a solo homer to chase Cub s starter Milt Pappas, 6 6, in the fifth as the Bucs moved ahead 6 after once bailing Also profiting by 20 mile-a- n hour winds was Billy Williams, who poked a two run homer in a four run Chicago third which chased Bucs starter Nelson Bnles Bob Veale, 2 0, second of three Pirates' pitchers, was the winner despde leaving because of a pulled shoulder muscle in the fifth. Cards Tip Brakes ATLANTA. Alou, hit bv was-mot- - Matty pitched ball on a controversial call, stole second and then scored on Ted Simmons single with none out m the 10th inning Monday night to give the St. Louis Caruinals a 7 6 victory over the Atlanfa E.aves The triumph, which kept St. Louis in first place m the National League East a half game ahead of Pittsbuigh, Went to Mue Dl above skv Wm) woiked the last two innings m relief. Bob Priddy took the loss meetings during Silvester's European tour Mondav Sib es.er, of Piovo. Utah hulled his discus 21 i feet three lncHs on his first e than attempt winch enough foi vie tore. (IPI) a 7-- 6 mark. South after the fourth inning as the Southerners piled up a lead with a two-rusingle by Clayson and the hit by Highlands Jeff Robert Johnson, Skylines Hyde and East s Richard 1 n run-scor- Smoiherman paving the way. Early Start Tne North had opened the scoring in the third when Clearfield's Lynn Slnmada lived on an infield hit and e scored on a throwing error and a wild pitch all by Kearns Monte Kennedy, the Souths starting pitcher. Then, in tiie seventh, the North put together one of the more weird innings on record. Ogdens Randy Lane doubled off the left field wall to greet Cloward who pitched a nohitter against Ogden m the state title game three weeks ago Bountifuls Dave Levet singled to score Lane and then consecutive throwing errms by the South allowed Levet to come all the wav around the score. Cleat field s Rose Steve walked, Garcia singled and Box Elders Matk Sackett siBonrevilles ngled in Rose Biad Hawkins drove in Gar-ui- a with an infield hit. The tying run came on a tamed double steal Hawkins ambled towards second and finally drew a throw- when he was five feet bom second and the ball was dropped by Wests Dan Marrelli as Sackett scampered home. P r o v os Scott Atkinson made perhaps the best defensive play of the game to end the inning when he dived to his left to spear a line drive by Ron Stewart of Bonneville. two-bas- Did Damage Actually the lower part of the Salt Lake batting order did most of the damage as Mickey Rivers, John Harrell, Ray Oyler and Wynn himself contributed seven of the 16 hits and 11 of the 14 runs batted in. Maybe Manager Del Rice had a good idea Morday evening wiien he mildly suggested that his regulars do rot take any batting practice. Harrell, who has been back-u- o catcher to Art Kusnyer all season, singled his first two times up giving him five straight hits in this series and his two run single in ihe fust capped the AngeLs four run rally and the Halos were off and running early. Oyler, who played shortstop in the Majo leagues for the Detroit Tigers a number of years and can play that position about as well as anyone in baseball, mustered up all Unique Figure Jerry Feldman, somewhat of a unique figure m that he gives the Angels a rare situation in winch a Lrst baseman leads off in the batting order continued his high run scot mg production by tallying three times Monday night. The concluding game of this four game set with Tucson winds up Tuesday at 8 p m. A pair of left handers Dennis Bennett ) pitches for Salt" Lake against Rich Hinton (3-2- (5-2- ). Baby Girl Batting Around Tom outfielder IT be- came a father for the third time Monday afternoon when his wife gave birth to a baby girl in a Salt Lake City hospital And at the same time popular third baseman Win-so- n Llenas learned that his wife will give birth to their second child next January. Pitcher Greg Washburn pitched 25 minutes of batting practice Monday afternoon givtn his arm its sternest test in a long, long time. Washburn, who injured ins arm on the last day of spnng training, is expected to go on the active bst soon. Washburn had an 8 8 record at Hawaii last year aid is considered to have some of the finest assortment of pitches in the organization . . . First baseman Jarry Feldhas participated in 38 games without committing an error . . . This Friday night is Dairy Night at Deiks Field man and the Angels expect more 4,000 to turn out. Next Monday is T Shirt night here and the first 1,000 youngsters each accompanied by one paid adult will receive a free Angel souvenir . . . 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