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Show —Geo 1 ge Will By MARTY RALBOVSKY ILLE ‘ was impe at best (Tf Lewis asks for my advice, I will gladly give it to him. cific Time and for the ¢ John Wooden was sav Was glad, Life at the top had been frustrating For all the victories and all But | Goodric ch f feeding off Hazzard at the }s second delightin ~@ Wooden and his staff, were ra re. Forall his attributes, Lew Alc indor was have never tried to influ. erce his thinking He is an in to make concessions when unusual situ- ous dividual with a fine knowledge a to his own opinions.”) The independence of Alcindor, made. i Wooden concessions The jects, and entitled however, were never at the expense of dignity. He says John Wooden Frank SandsTries To Make OllieBrownMets Rely On Two Pifcaere Comeback After Eye Injury Belts Ball _ By MILTON RICHMAN I've lost m For Padres He's not fooling, he really! manager, Del Wi!ilbern * ‘I think UPI Sports Writer ORLANDO, Fla. (UPI)—I've wants Unfortunately, he was right Ca te By JOHN G. GRIFFIN) PETERSBURG, Fla G lockers ar by-side in the New Y clubhouse, their pictures on fust seen the best prospect of They rushed him to a hospital baseman but the doctors never had a But Sands made a few the spring. Beyond question. He won't make any impres chance. The damage was too discoveries, too. Once when all the pitchers were at the mound sion at all on the upcoming great pennantrace but he already has Exactly four weeks later, working on a move to hold made a lasting one on some Sands telephoned Wilber at the runners at both first and second, Sands did well enough members of the human race. ballpark I'm being discharged from with the guy on first out broke That includes me. up the group when he tried His name is Frank Sands, the hospital today,”’ he said Wilber said good and sent looking at the guy on second he's a 20-year-old catcher belonging to the Minnesota coach Johnny Gory] to pick him and said with a laugh Twins and the things he has up, thinsing Sands we"ld want Uh-oh, This one is going to locked up inside him are some to go first to a motel and then take a little work.” Manager Billy Martin, the of the seme things they write maybe home, but who do you think showed up at the ballpark pitching coach, Early Wynn, about in books. Young Sands comes from straight from the hospital? and everybody in camp grew tremendously fond of Sands Nassau in the Bahamas, which Frank Sands. annually produces only a few “That's where he told me he from the first day he arrived here. more professional ballplayers wanted to go,”’ Gory] said. than Kuala Lumpurin Malaysia Shortly thereafter, Sands was On Friday, however, before hurt Buzzy Bavasi’s reputation That's eS MAY are \ Tom Seaver and Jer S a shrewd judge of baseball Koosr He won't either, if he keeps during a stopover at Petersburg. here this Lew Alcindor Last His Eye hitting the way he did Monday Bavasi, the former righthand Dodgers who became the boss Padres’ Calumet Farms Will Not Enter Western Division and Miami Cleveland Indians and the San Francisco Giants played to a 5-5 can play in the major leagues escaped the cellar to finish s, and it could be higherif they can catch the Phillies or the Pirates. The league champion St. Louis Carginals and the Five games, the Braves vs. Chicago Cubs appear out of range the Tigers, the Phils vs. the Twins, the Pirates vs. the “I don't know whether the Orioles, the Red Sox vs. the 1969 Mets will also be the Senators and the Yankees vs ‘greatest’ or not,” says Manathe Royals, were canceled. The ger Gil Hodges with a grin, five games that were played “but I do think we'll be better started after the funeral servi- than last year. Last year there ces for President Eisenhower were four positions on the club had ended, according to the from which we got little help. guidelines set down by baseball That probably won't be true this jyear. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn. Hodges, a charitable man tie in a gamecalled after eight innings by darkness. | didn't pinpoint the four positions If you're the guessing Hockey League hetype,meant. try first base, shortstop, and right field Tagins Playoff icenter | He alsofielddign't mention hitting, In St. Louis which has been the Mets’ most woeful deaprtment. The club was last in the league in batting By United Press International in 1968 with a 228 average, Cinderella will be wearing a which impresses you even more different costume in St, Leuis with how good Seaver and seen anything like Frank Sands. | ayoff. SCORES UPSET Last vear the Blues were the ROCKVILLE, Neither have I. surprise team of the NHL, the losers {did not change its rule about upsetting Philadelphia, the division champon, in seven games. | shot 74 on the par 72 course rella tag. BYU coach Carl Tucker said ABA Standings |the administering of illegal » three other best-of-seven his team will defend their West East Calumet Farms will not be seen under way WednesW. L. Pet. GB Medicatinis to horses i ntme to ern Intercollegiate Golf Cham day night with Los Angeles at pionship next month at S Oakland in the West and New x-Indiana 44°33. S71. . Suit her Cruz when an estimated 28 Miami 3 2% “I said I would never race at York at Montreal and Toronto schools will compete for the Kentucky 35 3 Kentucky again until they 1969 golf ttle . at Boston in the East, The Minnesota 36 41 468 8 change these rules,” Mrs defending champion Canadiens earlier action Fridoy, the New York 17 59 224 26% Markey said from her Miami West \ Brigham Young team are favored to capture (heir 16th played Stanley Cup championship, their way to an easy 21% to 56 18.763 to nominate for the stakes and 54a victory over the University For Your of San Francisco, 45 32 4 make plans to come there |} TAX RECORDS 84 | (Kentucky).” | Prove your purchases with 4035 Calumet, one of the state's Bob Gibson of the St, Louis Expensebooks of your choice 33. 43-434. 25 |most prominent farms, has Cardinals played professiona OFFICE SUPPLY 22 64 .289 36 owned a record seven Kenjucky basketball with the Harlem| STANDARD 40 WwW. Ist N.. 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(UPI)— This season St. Louis had a had 29 in the losing cause for Calumet Farmswil |not be seen Brigham Young University’s cakewalk to the West title, Kentucky . at Kentucky race tracks this Jomes Jones scored 33 for the spring and perhaps not for Rolf team, in non ~ conference winning the race by 19 points, Bucs as the Stars were beaten Sone Hine play here Monday, defeated San while the Flyers didn’t clinch a even though George Lehmann ” Mrs Gane Mackay Owner Ot Diego State College 18% to 8 erth until the next-toscored 47 " Nace Calumet and 1968 Kentucky on a windy and bitterly cold last weel kend. Once again the course. Baa jonnie shoreny FreemanReed added a 22 as Derby purse winner; Forward The medalist for the tourney Blues and Flyers are meeting in Miami turned back Minnesota. Pass, sald Monday the Ken- was BYU's Lane Bennett who the playoffs, but this time Philadelphia carries the CindeConnie Hawkins scoreg 28 for) tucky State Racing Commission beat Minnesota 126-118 Kentucky Derby Doug Moe scored 31 points tor| LEXINGTON, Ky. (UPI— Oakland while Louie Dampier qe flashing devil red silks of that w d a for ha a lot he sande Iso r hitler would awin “lake? tewer J o had been disappoinient. In ton a cerca awitittamerien first choice were curtailed hy darkness. He's Not Bitter BYU Golfers Gain Win In Cold Weather Otis proposed traed with Joe Torre collen nes itti s heen poor ‘68 with knee problems, Agee in center, and Ron Just a little tired of waiting. finally gave up and underwent Swoboga in right. Jones may be! Art Shamsky is out with a and should be just coming into an operation Sept. 24. Hodges the most solid man on the club back injury, s0 the outfield door Division champion Oakland |to an 982 record during his had both his legs shotolf as a when the Blues host the Koosman were to win with that es Reoue®) outat te three-year collegiate career, has paratrooper during World War ene ia Flyers Wednesday kind of support. ight in the opening game of The Mets are set behind the ees Y refused an apparently more Il, topping the Colonels 119112. jiorative offer from the New But Wilber says he never has th ir National Hockey Legue | Oakland won all six games from | York Nets ofike ABA. pl 12th straight game by defeating | the Los Angeles Stars 123-111 to | clinch second place in mi up ove ¢ a ; UESDAY,APRIL 1, 1969 Daily Herald rel . e ¢ \ complete e d eeetinuren expansion draft even though Brown hit only .232 in 40 games Expected to Sign Today Kentucky this season. In the other two games, the New Orleans Bucs won their) back 234 @l.veae old Otis. who Ne ariaighaly Le AllStar ean entaelieldar as facbaiboas ake reality : Bucwe ° 5 his own. Southpaw Koosman, says he appears to be “moving —his .297 averagelast year Was|is open for rookies to impress. who just missed rookie of the okay” in limited drills so far/the result of hitting well over Thefront-runnerat the moment in the year honors in "68, had a 19-12 and may be ready to come! 300 in thefinal two months of is Rod Gasper, a switch-hitter record and struck out Carl back. If not, good-field, no-hit Al/the season without power who hit .300 at Yastrzemski for the final out in| Weis is available Agee is Hodges’ pet project, a Memphis with the Giants last year and the All-Star game. $$ ird base, says Hodges, will “TUES! ! spent a stretch in the minor Who wouldn't want two go either to Kevin Collins, who! 9 leagues. pitchers like that, and who of the mew San Diego team gambleq on Brown as the and I will keep trying. It hurts While warming up on the a little to leave here but I only sidelines, a ball he was trying |feel sad for Billy Martin beto handle tailed off his glove, cause I know it hurt hira to bounced up and smashed his have to tell me and the cheekbone. A piece of splinter others.”” from the bone pierced his right eyeball and when Frank Sands LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Su- Calvin Griffith will see to it put his hand to his eye andfelt perstar Lew Alcindor, who has Sands has some kind of job in the blood and everything, he declined to become involved in the Twins’ organization whether he ever makes it to the top or said quite calmly to his a “flesh-peddling” war between not because that's the kind of ithe rival American and National fellowGriffithis. Basketball associations, meets Del Wilber has been in today with reteeseniatlvee of baseball 32 years. As a catcher the Mulwaukee Bucks of the 4, a the Cardinals and Red Sox, NBA. has seen, first hand, such | The meeting today will be ent accomplishments as |strictly private, although Alcin- Stan Musial’s transformation dor's representatives have a sore-armed minor By United Press International promised a news conference league pitcher to a hall of The Indiana Pacers won the|after he signs. famer; Ted Williams lifting a Eastern Division title ot the) There appeared to be x0 50-pound weight the day after American Basketball Associa- obstacles in the way of thi they put a steel pin is tion the easy way Sunday night. UCLA basketball player aigning shoulder, and Johnny Grodzicki Pacers wereidle but Won! a contract with the Bucks. coming back to win ball games the crown when Western) Alcindor, who led the Bruins for St. Louis after he almost Pacers Claim ABA's Western Division Title JC relief man, rookie Amos Otis, Martin at Jacksonville + hai Mets are hyg wants and the Mets won't trade. shoristop Bud Harrelson, who| Unless some rookie surprises, As a rookie in 1965, hehit 19 Righthander Seaver, the Na- seemed to have “‘arrived” in the Met outfield al set with but he hasn't come close to that tional League's rookie of the late 1967, staggered through a Cleon Jones in left, Tommie since and the Mets are geiting ninth and were jokingly called “The greatest Mets team history” because they reached spring. “Everybody was wonderful to In the other four games, the lub highof 78 victories. This year the Mets, thanks to New York Mets blanked Cincinme during the two weeks I was Asks No Favors Sands didn’t ask special here,” he said, stuffing his gear nati 30, the Chicago White Sox the split of the National League favors and didn't whine about into a light blue canvas bag. “I topped the St. Louis Cardinals into divisions, must “rise” at his misfortune. He impressed learned g lot and made new -3 and the Oakland A's drubbed least to a sixth-place finish friends. As for my eye, it is not the California Angels 7-1 in a That should easily be fifth everyone with his desire. since the division includes one St. 7 =| such a handicap. Certainly I am game called after the top of the ion team, the Montreal notbitter about it. I still think I sixth inning by darkness. The camp thas irq Kran ander Jerry did good catcher who an ankle inj in 1967, has won 16 games man for Walter O'Malley of the two * earstraight years for the Mets owner, was so taken by Sands’ base in Melbourne, Fla., for Monday because o fthe funeral services for former President generalattitude and determina- reassignment tion that he invited him to Sands took it well, naturally Eisenhower and two of those Minnesota’s ef q Al-Star n, the Mets’ brilliant rookie Wayne G young pitchers whom everybody Sir talent But the 25-year-old righthand- hasn't tried to get them? | but that still isn't what makes titted with a glasr eye and the exhibition game with the ed uitter looked like the kind of “Every time Somebody talks) instead of going on home he Atlanta Braves, Martin called hitter Bavasi thinks he'll be for trade with us,” says President him so unusual. What does is his attitude. By told Wilber he would like to Sands and thee other rookies the Padres whenheclubbed two Johnny Murphy, ‘they mention far the most overworked word keep on playing ball. So they into his office. He closed the homers Monday as the Padres Seaveror ‘Koosman They're not downing the Chicago Cubsavail \ in al] the baseball camps each began working on trying to door and gave them the sad were news. He was sending them to spring is the word unbelievable. convert him to a pitcher. Thanks mainly to these two Calvin Griffith, the Twins’ the club's minorleague training Only five games were played young stars, the 1968 Mets They apply it to every rookie who knows how to get from first base to second without ving. In Frank Sand’s case, the word is warranted. His attitude is unbelievable. So is his outlook. 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