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Show Dac Anderson Column yxjee'tp M ' ty The halt Lakr Tribune, Sunday, June jsn 'v'v New York Times Writer YORK i It needs an interior decorator and landscape gardener but it has its comforts. And for Tug McGraw, the New York Mets bullpen at Shea Stadium is a second home. He sleeps theie occasionally. Dines there, too. Falls Asleep on-lo- assets. 5 VI love relieving, he sad. "Priving here, when I see big, .beautiful Shea, I tell myself theres a ball game there today and Ive got a chance to "beiJh it. If youre a starting pitcher, you only have a chance to be in a game one day out of four or five. Tarked Cars He glanced at several cars parked directly beyond the .preen wooden fence at the back of thp bullpen. We leave our cars there, I mine for during the game In the bullpens cave-lik- e area under the rightf'eld stands, there is a cushioned bench and a long desktop. We finally got cushions this season. Theyve had em in the dugout for years. It makes 3t easier sitting The desk top pets mostly this kind of use, he said, lifting his spikes onto it in a relaxed sprawl. But the in Some-Tim- LUBBOCK, TEX (UPD -who have The West not put together 69, will he victories since make A two favored lo 'traight when they clash with the East in the 12th annual football Coaches game June 24 Kickoff for 'he annual Satclassic, to urday be telecast nationally by ABC, is set foe 6.30 p m. MPT. The West offense will be headed by heralded quarterbacks Jack Mildren of Oklahoma and Jerry Tagge of Neoraska. Under thp direction coach Chuck of Oklahoma lieve I can make a lot more money as a good relief pitcher than I would as an aveiage back-to-bac- k 18 Starter. Sets Objective At age be the 27, his ambition is to maot leagues' fust relief pitcher, twice his current Salary. Befoie I got marri'-d- , I care what people thought about me. I was doing crazv things on the mound. 1 d jump up and down like a lull- - kid. But when I got mai-neit wasn't jus! me I was responsible foi. I didnt want Phyllis to take any abuse about me. And wb.en Gil Hodhe nevei ges took over, preached to me, but ..e made me realize that my enthusiasm was great but it had to be channeled properly. I developed true concentration blocking out everything from your mind but the pitch youre about to make His screwball is his money pitch now, but he's experimenting with a knuckleball. When my fastball goes in three or four years, maybe knuckleball be will my $100,000 rir't hitters In the early mnmgs, 1 fall asleep down here a iot, the lefthanded relief ace was The bathroom is a saving. good place Put a couple towels on the floor and get a pillow; It's nice and cool n there. Or in the golf cart with tne big Mets' tap for a roof, if you happen to doze off sitting underneath that, nobody notices. But by the sixth or seventh inning, Im always awake. I start sniffing out those saves. It wakes me up right away. With nine saves and a ;w record, he is one of most the Mets valuable put a snack mark on he glass pane in the fence. You can sunbathe here, he said. Take your cap off and get a nice tan. When were up, I i.ke to get my glove and stand up and maybe caich a home run Ive done it. When the other teams; up, I like to stand al Ihe far corner and walch their 358-fo- Above the two home plates, where a catchers hack would be to the stands, was a big overhand screen. They had to put that un lo protect our catchers. Fans were throw mg beer cans, beer, peanus. Somebody even threw a big hunk of cement. It couldnt have been our fans. Mustve been somebody else's fans. We're sorry we had to do it, but wp had to. And that mound, the nearest of the two, that's the one I always warm up on Warming lp When he warms up, the mound suddenly becomes a laboratory for this with an infericiity complex. he I was always small, Tuny Knap Helps Coach West Fairbanks, the duo will lead an explosive offensive also featuring flanker Gary Hammond of Southern Methodisi, of tailback Jeff K.nney Nebraska, speedster Bernard Jackson of Washington State, fullback Tommy Mozisek of Houston and running back Bill Butler of Kansas State Ill be using both Mildien and Tagge ai quarteiback, and weU p'ay Hammond at seveial places depending upon where ac need him the m o s t, F a i r b a nks said Weve got a group of very outstanding players, and Im cdtnw looking forward to an exciting game. The West posted a 33 78 victory in 1971 after the East decision in won a narrow 1970. Boih games were not dei ided until the final seconds. Helping Fairbanks coach the West will be Washington Slate's Jim Sweeney and Boise Stale's Tony Knap. Paul Bear Bryant, head mentor of Alabama's Crimson Tide, will pilot the underdog East with the he'p of MichiSchembe-chle- r Bo gan's Glen and Delaware's Harold running back, Johnny Musso, joined by Tennessees Curt Watson and North Carolinas lewis Jolley. On the receiving side of die Gilliam-Mille- r passes will be Glenn Doughty, Michigans Michigan State's Eric Allen, John McMakin, Clemson's Florida States Rhett Dawson and Alabamas David Bailey. IP IN Sears SAVE.S30 Sunny Area He looked at a small leafy plant near the fence in the sunny area of the bullpen. Thats our tomato plant, he said. Three years ago, when we won th World Series, we had a tomato plant. We had cherry tomatoes This year. Joe Pignatano, our bullpen coach, put in his beefsteak tomato plant. Its alive and doing well. In a few weeks, weU have some beefsteak As a freshman in high 98 pounds, school, I was the smallest kid in the class, but I made all the teams. I had an inferiority complex then, and I still do, but I think thats where I get a lot of my determination. Thats what I tell kids at Little League banquets, that no i, latter if youre small or slow, you can have determination. And even if I had a choice now between sarting and relieving. Id re 7 Tubby Raymond. The east also will have plenty of talent. Quarterbacking the team will be North Carolina's Paul Miller and Tennessee State's Jo Gilliam. Drja.it will have his own Efraipmeimt ready. said. D9 1972 West Rates Nod in Coaches Game Bullpens Home to Met Relief Ace By Dave Anderson It, Riveted Our 259.99 Aluminum Fishing Boats 14-fo- ot rIJ OJ tomatoes. 1 Made for tlie fisherman who fishes deep, rough water. Extruded aluminum spray rails and gunwales for extra -- in frigidity. Tires Effective Through Tuesday, June 13th guys use it for them nean- - Juts and potato chips. Crossword puzzles too. And sometimes I bring my fan mail out Riere to answer. It makes a nice office to do mv mail. 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