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Show Page 10—THE HERALD. Provo. Utah. Friday byPolio Vic Wertz, Ex-Major League Slugger, Scores in Tough Business (Editor's note: In 1935, careers. UPI Sports the year after he helped Editor Milton Richman relates in this dispatch the American League how Wertz came back to pennant, Vic Wertz was baseball and eventually playing ball and strugg!- built his business into a ing to start a new multi-million dollar “., 1 didn't see anything where it was the Cleveland Indians win written that all bal Iplayers were necessarly stupid and all beer dis- tributers were geniuses.” — Vie Wertz, in reply to business on the side. Then operation. he was hit by a form of MOUNT CLEMENS competitors who said he'd never succeed in business. pelio that threatened both Mich (UPI - Some bal Iplayers become multi millionaires overnight the easy way. by signing a pieceof paper A handful of others do it the hard way by going into some outside business or venture and breaking their backs working, and if there's any question in your mind fer me tw which of these two ways brings the most satisi baseba tion, the greatest inner thanks glow then all you have to Jo is ask someone like or three mil. Lowenbrau beer, to various sections of the US. and Canada We're proud of the place says Wertz walk Says vid Vic Wertz who once played for the Detroit Vic Wertz Tigers. St. Louis Browns If someonecould turn Bal more Orioles back the clock make me eveland Indians 25 vears old again and of Boston Red Sox and Min Wertz adds state law American League mak- like that. Today he heads the Vic Wertz Distributorship, a highly successful multi-million dollar operation which is still growing so a two or three million dollar contract wouldn't begin to tempt him Wertz and his wife Lucille are sole owners of the company which numbers 75 employeesall busily engaged in distributing their product Miller, Lite, and Gossage Unhappy With Fight Fine Gossage’s fine comes out to approximately $18,000 — believed to be the largest ever imposed on a major-league baseball player. Johnson, a reserve catcher will be fined about $5,500. Gossage was operated on Sunday night and has been placed on the 21-day disabled list ‘The Yankees didn’t even computethe fine for the Giants and Indians the one Willie Mays miraculously caught up with and grabbed with his back to the plate. Vic Wertz out-hit Willie Mays as well as every other regular on both sides in that Series getYear whenhehit 32 home Ung eight hits in 16 times runs and knocked in 106 up for a 500 average. He runs for the Indians. That did other notable things had nothing to do though. ing named tothe All-Star with his outside busi- team four times, shaky but ractically everywhere e goes, people in- variably ask him the same question: "What about that catch? Rosewall Wins MIAMI (UPI) — Ken Rosewall defeated Rod Laver, 7-6, 6-3, in an all Australian final of the Tennis Lagends cham pionships Sunday The victory was worth $6,000 for Rosewall Laver received $4,000 Laver also moved into a tie with Cliff Drysdale. winner of the first tour event each with 60 points in the standingsthat will determine the eligibles for a $77.000 Tennis Legends Classic Aug. 22 26 at Newport RI during the 1954 World Series. UPI Telephoto. E-GS FERRES(QPSON it, Marvin Miller, ex- Reich, Johnson's lawyer, ecutive directer of the are expected to recomPlayer’s Association, mend sucha grievance to said his organizationfiles their respective clients. grievancesin disciplinary “This is not a matter of matters only if a player wishes to. He did not breach of contract as the know if either player reported earlier statewould do so — although ment might have been,” both Kapstein and Tom he said. Series opener between 55th RoiversarySpeci a NEW YORK (UPI) — Rich Gossage made news by hurting his right thumb last Thursday in a clubhouse fight with New York Yankee teammate Cliff Johnson and Wednesday he suffered two more injuries — to his wallet and his feelings. Gossage, who tore the ligaments in his right thumb April 19 during a clubhouse brouhaha with Johnson, said Wednesday he was ‘‘very unhappy’ with the team’s decision to fine him the equivalent of 10 days’ pay “All I knowis I’m very unhappywith the fine and with the release I received today from the Yankees,’’ said Gossage, who will miss eight weeks. ‘The only thing I know is Jerry (Kapstein, Gossage’s agent) will be scheduling a meeting with the Yankees and we will discuss the situation.” nearly 500 feet at the Polo Groundsin the 1954 World Comeback Player of the and what we have ac‘Some of the comcomplished together ments of other disWertz adds. “Lucille and tributors would come I started with a minus back to me” he pool. and if she hadn't They said I wasa balbeen there to help me Iplayer who knewnothing along the way this whole about the business and thing never would've wouldn't last five months been possible. The man in it My answer to that responsible for giving me was I didn’t see anything an opportunity to buy a whereit was written that beer distributorship was all Ts were Jerry Hoffberger the necessarily stupid and owner of the Orioles that all beer distributors whomI metin Baltimore were geniuses in 1954." Wertz played close to 20 Wertz didn't have years and collected 1,692 enough money to get hits, including 266 started, so he borrowed it homers while knocking and haslong sincepaid it in 1178 runs, yet what back. He waswith the In- most people remember dians whenhegothis dis- him best for is one long tributorship in 1955. That out he made was the same year he was ‘That wastheball he hit ing $35,000 or something Wertz holds up a souvenir photo showing Willie Mays robbing Wertz of a home run attack, Wertz was voted I'm proud of all the ness, which was still very people who work for me leading players in the or $3 million to play baseball. Here paralytic and he played for eight more years. In the season following his prescribed by Michigan championship Wertz was one of the VIC WERTZ, former major !eague slugger, said he wouldn’t take an offer of $2 square foot warehouse which boasts along with neatly stacked rows and cans and bottles as team. I feel I'mfinally with one now love the business I'm in Twenty five years ago. baseball able to run it from a wheelchair? 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