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Show Thursday, July 15,1971 THE HERALD. Provo, Utah—Page 7 Baseball Retains Do Louisville Sluggers Face Extinction ? Timeless Quality By IRA BERKCW NEA Sports Editor ront Slugger havebeen produced, afoot say ‘the we who manufacture Louisville Slug. to major-tea specific ationssince 1916,” he id. “Many of the differin our models are not We've be Tying to hornin on the base- NEW YORK Conspicuous by its absence at RiverStadiumwasa cloc bail bat business. Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati was barely completed baseball's nave previa previously horned m in on, in time to be the site of Major L all-star game last season. When the is were com peting in the Worid Series three months later, there was still no clock high up someplace ticking silently, hands monotony, ending where it firished pacingin relentle: and informing the ns not to forget that they were in sumevague rush. vas altog should not exist tha srgone in the past decade eno 7 or aividlent, ‘aid dattompec: ce other popular spectator team sports in America See ee ue a hair difference in the size of the handle or maybe an ouncein the weight.” The alltime best seller dusting Ran the : ie, bail b: it follows, are the Louisville Slugger according to MeGrath, is the old Babe next logical step. an model—whichisn’t the Sabe Ruth ol g r 4 uth sade! ny 2 Johnny Bench uses the Ruth mode so we've put his eine on oe a now,” heexikewise. the old plained is very aad Kale "bit imodel 2 Vern Stephens tae ae ae BOUIRAe Hie Fee pat-TMey're pop sketball and football, the clockvirtually sents life or death. It seems no coincidence that of wood—northern white ash, to beprecise. It is a beautiful, lightweight tim. grown in thé northern Portions of Pennyslvania and cate southern’ New batacout.4 game tinctive part of the 00doutfielders alway 2cquainted withthe sound of lmadaanien 1a Weany Pear ie teen stflage vemseeke blindfolded, so bat meeting ball. century degree: ecology freaks—and Astroturf. but it is a baseball Astroturf to the hichest 20th. dirt is down to a minimum. The“base paths” areall green except for a white line streaking from base to base which contributes to visual geometry but not to earthiness. Dirt exists only around the bases themselves, home plate and the pitcher’s mound. Increasedplasticity seems the aim. Yet, there is no clock. The game itself remains very much as it once was. And despite all the criticism of draws fans. Young people, old-time parks like Wrigley Parkin Boston last season. its obsolesence, baseballstill especially, were returning to Field in Chicago and Fenway In the general revolt of youth against a machinelike society run on inhuman time schedules, baseball appeared a welcome return to another era, an unhurried era Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, who played first base long ago in Minnesota’s semi-pro Sioux League, has said that baseball will revive in popularity as the Vietnam war comesto a close for us. The country,he said, is dog-tired of violence. Baseball represents sanity in a world gone haywire. Baseball’s time does not actually stop, but melts, as in a Salvador Dali painting of a clock soft and floppylike a flap of leather. All the momer*s of seeming lethargy arereally periods for reflection and looking back. seeing where we have come from and where wearegoing. In the timethatinfielders throw the bali around the horn after an out, one maycarefully mark Ws anes his scorecard.: It was startling to find once in a Saturday flea market in Blue Bell, Pa., a very well-kept scorecard from a 1912 game between the Philadelphia Athletics and the Chicago White Sox; alive today, for Buck Weaver, for example, went out 6-3, short to first, in the first inning. The game remained timeless Reflection has been lost in so much of modern sport; we are slugged into stupefaction by an unending procession of climaxes from second to second, championship to championship. Hownice to be able, like an outfielder be tween pitches, to contemplate a blade of grass—evenif, alas, iit is factory-made jory-made. é And drama in baseball? No, drama does not leap upon itself in denouement after denouement in the game. But asin thefinestof theaters, there are low momentsto allow one to catch his breath before a spine-tingling moment. Baseball is like that. A call was made to the man in Cincinnati who is responsible for the Riverfront Stadium being clockless. His nameis Wallace Powers, andheis public utilities director for the City of Cincinnati “It’s not intentional that we don’t have a clock up,” Powers said. ‘‘We are negotiating right now with some firms. It'll be another way to makea buck, hopefully. In f * up—so A that fact, we'll probably5 have two giant clocks everyone in the park can see whattimeit is.” (NEWSPAG ER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) National Hunting and Fishing Day Is Urged Hunters and fishermen will well as for fostering healthful get national recognition for their outdoor recreation.” contributions to conservation if The text of the resolution, Congress passes a Senate joint following the introductory resolution recently introduced reasons, sates: by Sen. Thomas James “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the McIntyre (N.H.). United States of America in S. J, Resolution 117 asks that Congress assembled, that the President Richard Nixon President of the United States declare the fourth Saturday of declare the fourth Saturday of each September ‘National each September as ‘National Hunting and Fishing Day.” Hunting and Fishing Day” to Sen. Melntyre said, ‘Since provide that Above there is no present national recognition, to recognize the recognition of the many and esthetic, health, and worthwhile contributions of the recreational virtues of hunting American hunter and angler, I and fishing, to drariatize the am asking Congress and the continued need for gun and boat President to declare this special safety, and to rededicate day. Hunters and anglers ourselves to the conservation traditionally have led in the and respectful use of our wildlife effort to preserve our natural and natural resources.” Tesources.”” The resolution has been referred to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Sen, James 0. Eastland (Miss. is chairman, DALLAS (UPI)—The Dallas In calling for a ‘National Hunting and Fishing Day,” Sen. Chaparrals Friday placed veMcIntyre said, ‘‘In the feran Levern Tart on the congestion and the complexities, waiverlist, the second veteran the tensions and frustrations of to suffer such a fate in two today’s life, the need for outdoor days as Coach Tom Nissalke recreation — the opportunity to continued to reorganize the “get away from it all” — has American Basketball Associabecome of crucial importance. tion club. The Chaps, however, pulled ‘There are few pursuits providing a better chance for healthy back its Thursday waivers on exercise, peaceful solitude, and Wayne Hightower after the appreciation of the great Denver Rockets had claimed outdoors than hunting and the 6-9 star. The coach said attempts will be made to trade fishing.” Warren Page, executive vice the pair, but he said neither president of the National would be with the Chaps next Shooting Sports Foundation, season. “Neither fit into our plans to predicted that sportsmen all over the nation would support create a young, aggressive passage of the resolution. Mr image for the Chaparral: ” Pagesaid, ‘‘Since the turn of the Nissalke said. century sportsmen have been Both Hightower and Tart, fighting a lonely battle for the obtained in midseason trades wise use of our natural last year, had been involved in resources. It is only fair that disputes with the Chaps during they be recognized for their the later stages of th leadership in conservation as campaign. Chaps Place Now, along come some eager , the best Chinese tradition, Carth, calmly. “I'm not sure er. "After about five years, the Astrodeme Houston would ine Seay noe ee ball andLittle League bats. Rock soun¢ ani a . sweet, satisfy ig crack, but perhaps a “GONG-G- : He And ourenginee: Rock would musicians and thebaseball ing with metz fans suffer same tempting ee premature deafness.’ “We've seen the ecology propaganda,” said H&B vice-president Jack Mc The H&B timber yard in Still too mild a term for some away What would baseball be without - broken-bat hits?” bats years Henry oer do with wood.” Godonly knows, ing the baseballs out of naugahyde,”* ‘Henry aa ad been: in the line for “it’s difficult to see how we! horses and they'll be mak- the use Aaron’ model any more, but for one will be worried about Aaron, for example, doesn’t The could previde the variety of models in aluminumthat we next thing you know some- making aluminum bats sound and feel more solid “But the aluminum bats are not allowed in grown-up some playvers, asked one fan. “It's ridicu- lous, that’s what it is. appears “Whenit comes to maaking baseball devotees soft a Many players. often change hots * MeGrath said coe is toe stocked however, so the disappear anceof the ash baseball bat ir “Far-fetched,”” however, is we are already “Anyway, some No longer the men’s baseball. Theideaof serious. businessmen —who Aluminum baseball bats! . F , alzuaite b s fet d tom know the take is not that marketing aluminum Think on it. : F E and catcherspease aus of trees it s akes to produce ovr six million bats each year, but I pEneny sciitie aut ar want to make baseball bats out of aluminum. i —_ “ ~ left, Nellie Fox, center, and Johnny Bench probably wouldn't think so evenif the ecologically concerned do. well was he Tn arieleer pees - WOULD ALUMINUMBATSbe the same? Bab’ Ruth, a ti crack of the baseball has become a dis: ample of that, ehed Le making —radsby h a at apesree et the be is_ Speaker, is said, could atm play centerfield ani se i Hillerich & For 86 y e games have beencalled thereflections of our times 3 at bas 5 been scor: mnt & eee ee has Deen’ scorned #2 Femins 2-0% 9. B seball Gece to the nonprofessional player. It might be Ecology freaks, we know Baseball bats are madeout roper a . 3 ee ere es okGot eee still no clock at Riverfront Stad there is recent New In baseball, as Roger Angell wrote f the at Desenhal Be NOgEE Aen Ene Ae SOUS a ashe he only by the Senotie ure uniqu the his game lains why this sport, for all the ball, and iy By LEE MUELLER se we didn't change Until this country runs out of trees, manypersons feel XB should adopt the same attitude toward aluminum according to McGrath, how manydifferent_models_of_Louisville bats: NEWSPA SHOOTERS BONANZA eee RIFLES, SHOTGUNS, PISTOLS, RELOADING EQUIPMENT, ACCESSORIES.. . oe SAVINGS FOR YOU DURING OUR JULY SHOOTERS REMINGTON, SAVAGE & GUNS... ALL WINCHESTER ei GUNS UNLIMITED WESELL ONLY THE FINEST NEW AND USED GUNS... . 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