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Show ALD, Provo, Utah, Sunday, March 14, 1976 Batting Coach’ s Television Gives Behind-Scenes Look at Super Bow! Success Hopes TopValue Television (TV TV) takes an irreverent, behind the- scenes lookat profootball and its ultimate event, Super just starting to lear it.” Garver has high hopes for Darrel — his prototype — this By RICK VAN SANT CINCINNATI (UPI) —There is a small] and strange movement afoot to bring to baseball something it hasn't had in 35 years —a 400 hitter The movement is small because sofar only a coupleof men truly believe in its methods and: oneof the twois an oldtimer who is a f being laughed at by baseball traditionalists. The movement is strange because, well, the prototype hitter for the “method,” the man being watchedto seeif he can some day approach 400 — now don’t laugh too loudly is Darrel Chaney. Darrel Chaney? Thelight hitting utility infielder the incinnati Reds just unloaded to the Atlanta Braves? He could becomethefirst major leaguer since Ted Williams in 1941 to hit 400? Can that be takenseriously” “Yes,’’ answers John Garver, developer of the new hitting method. “In fact, Darrel has been using some of the techniques the past two seasons.”” That statement just adds to the strangeness, because Chaney has had one of the lowest averagesin baseball the last two years. He hit .200 in 1974 and .219 in 1975. “Wrong,” replies Garver “Those averagesinclude a lot of at-bats when Chaney was a late substitute in games. For full games, Darrel's average was about .280 for both years The year before he started trying my method hehit only 181. I figure he’s already improved his average .100 points with my method and he’s PowerStruggle Among Chargers LOS ANGELES (UPI) Eugene V. Klein, president of the Charger Football Co. denied Fridayhis partners had the authority to strip him of controlling interest National Football in the League team. “I am_ still in complete control of the (San Diego) club,” said Klein, who owns 35.5 per cent of the Chargers and controls another 25.5 per cent Five other partners in the season. He's goingtoAtlanta and he may get the chance to play regularly,” he says. “A lot of people may be surprised at Bowl X when TVTV SUPERBOWL airs Friday (19 Mar.) at 10:30 p.m. on Channel 11 (PBS), as part of Festival 76. TVTV SUPERBOWL is the largest location video project ever attempted by TVTV, with whathappens. "” Whatis Garver's method?It involves science and breaking some 42 personnel working old habits. “Bat-flowis onething,"’ says Garver, a high school teacher in the Youngstown, Ohio, Levy Wins suburb of Boardman “Batters really don't know where they're swinging the bat. They think they know, but they den’t ‘They don’t hit or connect solidly with a lot of pitches becausethey swing low at high pitches and highatlow pitches. ‘The answerhereis to learn to compensate — in effect — swing to missthe ball in order tohitit, “Muscle memoryis another factor. Without him knowingit, a batter's muscles are ready to swing at a pitch in the same area where thelast pitch was “For example, a carpenter can hit a nail more accurately on his second andthird swings because of muscle memory. Butput three nails in a row, ask him to accurately hit nails No. 2 and No. 3 with single swings after hitting the first nail and he can't do it. That's muscle memory “A pitcher makes abatter's muscle memory work against him by mixing uphispitches. But muscle memory fades after 15 seconds. So,the batter must keep the pitcher from quickpitching him, step out of the box, whatever. “Don't take batting practice in the usual manner — hitting pitch afterpitch quickly,” adds Garver. ‘That doesn't do anything for you in a game situation. “Also, use a coiled stance. Like Stan Musial usedto use. I've learned it increses quick ness and power. Garver claims that the batting average of an amateur ball player he has been working with has jumped from .200 to 600. Garver hasa disciple in Rex Bowen, an oldtime player and now special assistant and socalled “superscout” with the Cincinnati Reds. Bowen finding a new method toteacl hitting is a passion that has consumed him for several years company said in a Superior Court suit Thursday they ‘Garver's ideas excite me to club, citing “a lack of firm Bowen. “I think his method could produce .400 hitters. I think it’s a breakthrough But,” Bowen points out with eight camera crews. It covers Super Bow! week from il gain an unusual perspective onthe privatelives and feelings of players like gameat a popular Pittsburgh sports bar, TVTV covers the Forty, who described living range of sports fans — the groupies, the bookies, the people who saved for months to get the bus fare to the Orange Bowl, the experts and the fanatics. CBSoffered TVTVcomplete access to cover CBS’ coverage with football as of the Super Bowl, Pittsburgh's Ernie Holmes Mel Blount and Gerry Mullins and Dallas’ Jean Fuggett Golden Richards, and ex-Daiias offensive end Peter Gent, author of North Dallas “having a hangover all over all the The Players’ wives who are rarely heard, also have outspoken views on their lives Paraski Krump, a Dallas Cowboy who several different viewpoints— flew his friends to Miamiat his the players the fans, the own expense, to a group of 'L; and business football fans betting on the andthelives of their husbands From such rich fans as Fd including their preparations for the game; technical rehearsals interviews with CBS vicepresident Bob Wussler, the game's Producer; Executive CBS on-air personalities, and scenes of chaos in the control room Super Bowl. TVTY takes a look during gametime. including the Ford Punt -Pass The National League and branch, NFL Football its business Properties. organize and run the Super Bowl. Their public relations operation keeps up a steady flow of material to the press. Theyhandout press passes and tickets to Super Bow! events; and even coordinate details as varied as whosits where: and who runs the electronic scoreboard. Business companies such as Ford Motor Company and Warner-Lambert, reward clients, executives and salesmen with trips to the at some of these winners. Kick contest winner and the winner of NFL's Bicentennial essay contest Super Bowl’s periphera events, as only TVTV can capture them the photo sessions where photographers and reporters gang up on levers to ask the same Forthefirst timeinoneofits productions, TVTV is tions again Pete Rozelle’s experimenting with improvisational humor for TVTVSUPERBOWL. National Lampoon Show veterans Chris the Hialeah Race! ack; half-time show rehearsals. and what's really going on inside Guest and Bill and Brian Murray portray different characters — fans, security men, renorters—and create Improvisationalsituations often involve innoc bystanders Throughout the program viewers will see many of the the Goodyear TVTV Blimp. SUPERBOWL WNET-TV. PBS. SUN VALLEY, Idaho (UPI) Puyallup, Wash., were named men’s and women’s U. S. Para: ski champions Wednesday in the Cuervo National Championshipat SunValley Levy won $1,000first place. Farrington won $500 as the women's purse for the event. A combination teamof Clay Schoepple, 26, of Sandy, Utah and Jake ‘obson, 37, Pope Valley, Calif., won $250 each for their combinedeffort The last year's national champion Nancy Black, 27 Oxon Hill, Md., was second and 28, Charlotte. N.C., was third. Gloria Wood. 25,Salt LakeCity, was fourth Second place for men was won by Rudy Hubmann 29, Vancouver, B. C and third was Brett Pendleton, 18, Salt Lake City with Schoepple fourth The two day event combined accuracy parachuting from the first day with scores from slalom skiing the secondday Para-ski events were deve- oped in Europe in the 1960's when parachutists were unable to get airport operators in mountain areas to keep the airports open during the winter months. The jumpers told airport operators that if they would keep the airports open near ski resorts they would maketheir jumps thefirst day andski the second day There were 70 contenstants from the United States and Canadaentered in the cham pionship. After Mrs Farrington won the women’s championshipre porters were informed sheis pregnant with her first child the point that I don't know how whichis expected in Septem stripped Klein of control of the to contain myself,” exclaims ber. management control and general deterioration of com: munity respect for the San Diego Chargers.”” The five, including orginal Chargers’ owner Barron Hilton,alsofiled suit to seek an injunction to prevent Klein from naming a successor to represent his interest in the club. ‘myopinionsabout this are not Resort Complex MAUI, Hawaii (UPI) — The baseball tradi 600-roomHotel Inter-Continen: tionalists." So,therefiguretobea lot of people watching Darrel Chaney tal Maui was opened in mid: January. The de luxe resort complex is in the Wailea of non-traditionalists named Garver and Bowen this Hawaiian “neighbor’’ land accepted by this year — including a couple section on the leewardsideof CRAIG® is Just call us. 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