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Show The DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., June 5, 1970 Sportstqpe Vote Returns to Fans All-St- ar Who is going to lie the National League third baseman this year and who will start in the American League outfield? You baseball fans can help provide the answer this year for the first time since 1957 when it was decided that the Cincinnati fans had stuffed the ballot boxes. Major league baseball has returned the voting to the fans. It was taken away from the fans after the 1957 voting when 500,000 late votes from Cincinnati resulted in seven Reds being named to the starting team. Only George Crowe, their first baseman, was beaten out and it took Stan Musial to do that.' Two Reds, Cus Bell and Wally Post, were dropped from the Hjuad in favor of Willie Mays and Hank Aaron. Bell was later renamed to the team by manager Walter Alston. The other Reds named to the team, which lost were Ed Bailey, Frank Robinson, johnny Temple, Roy McMillan and Don Hoak. Getting back to the present, it looks like the reds should have five or six this year, too. John Bench, Tony Perez, Jim Merritt, Wayne Simpson, Bobby Tolan, Lee May and Pete Rose should all be candidates although the fans have nothing to say about the selection of pitchers. The game is less than six weeks away, scheduled for July 14, in Cincinnati's brand new, 50,000 seat Riverfront Stadium. It was touch and go for a while as to whether die stadium would be finished by then, but apparently the problems have been solved and Cincy it is. You American League fans should be real anxious to get out and vote for the best team possible so that the e AL can snap the senior circuits winning 4 at Wrigley streak. The Juniors last won in 1962, Field. Only seven men from that team are still in the big leagues. in either leaThis year there are very few shoo-in- s should National Rico start with In the Carty League, gue. of because nomination but the ease, system he ignorant must rely on write-i- n votes. John Bench has a good shot at the catching slot, but if Friscos Dick Dietz continues to hit it could lie close. Third base voting should be really close with comGrabar-kowitpetition between Tony Perez, Richie Allen, Billy and Richie Rader Don Money, Doug Hebner, all of whom are powdering the ball at the present time. At first base the leading candidates are Lee May, Orlando Cepada and Willie McCovey. At short it looks like Dennis Menke and Don Kessinger have a clear edge over die remainder. At second die front runners are Felix Millan, Glenn Beckert, Joe Morgan and Ron Hunt Besides Carty the outfield is anybodys guess when the candidates include Henry Aaron, Bob Clemente, Billy Williams, Bob Tolan, Jim Wynn, Bobby Bonds, Rusty Staub, Art Shamski, Jiin Hickman, Ken Henderson, Pete Rose, Clarence Gaston and Willie Mays. In the American League the voting will be just as difficult as one can tell with a quick check of the May 24 statistics. The top five batters were all outfielders, as were two others in the top ten. The candidates for the AL outfield include Frank Robinson, Tony Oliva, Felipe Alou, Alex Johnson, Roy White, Vada Pinson, AI Kaline, Reggie Smith, Tony Conig-liarCarlos May, Willie Horton, Lou Pinielia, Mike Walton, Caesar Tovar, Frank Howard and Carl Yastrzemski. LeaDid you notice that five of the best are 'V All-St- ar A All-St- - !ir . t tv-- : ' Whal a Ya Say? !& ' Hank Aaron has joined the 3.000-hi- t chili, Y.A. is hack in foottall as a coach with the New York Giants. Tony Conigliaro is among the leaders in hitting and honicriins, even though doctors told him he would never lie able to play lull again after lieing 1 leaned by a pitcher in 1967. But baby, all is still not well in the toy Tuttle SPORTS 6--5, department! People who follow the sweaty arts much too often the flip pages of the morning paper to SPORTS completely ignoring deaths at Jackson State, the dip in the Stock Market, or troubles in Southeast Asia. Sure its important to see how the Culis and the Tigers nude out the night liefore, hut how alxmt the Kent State four! We are living in the most permissive age since perhaps the Restoration Period in England. Anything goes now. Bums are heroes. Law breakers are tatter respected than underpaid policemen (or PICS as we call them). We build gigantic screens in front of outfield walls so a ballplayer won't he hit liv a brick or rut by a piece of glass thrown from tta stands. Cold-evehutches are merely the poor liewildered of maladjusted childhoods. Murderers lieat the products Millions home. upon millions of decent people in our jury of them are even throwing rocks some are upset, society All-Sta- rs All-St- ar seven-gam- d 9-- (PHOTO by Sp4 Mel Kvser) GREAT FORM Col Charles M. Shadle, DPC commander, opens the Intramural Softball League with the first official pitch of lire season. His form and the recent high scores id ball games have couches and scouts recalling Opening Day activitiesdooking o, guers. The catching spot will probably go to Bill Freehan with Gerry Moses, Ed Hermann and Thurmon Munson battling for the backup spot or spots. The first base position should go to John Boog Powell, but the second spot is anybodys guess with Danny Cater, George Scott, Gale Hopkins, Jim Spencer, and Don Mincher all having a chance. Second base looks like the property of Rod Carew and Tommy Harper, but Davy Johnson and Horace Clarke should challenge them. The other half of the keystone combination will come from among Jim Fregosi, Luis Aparicio, Leo Cardenas and Rico Fetrocelli. Ed Brinkman and Ted Kubiak might have an outside chance if enough people look at them. Third base will be owned by Harmon Killebrew and Brooks Robinson with Sal Bando, Bob Oliver, Ken McMullen and Bill Melton looking for the third spot. See if you can find TAKE A LOOK AROUND who are hitting over .300, a fifth who the four is hovering right near that magic figure and two more who are vital cogs in the starting lineup of one of the division leaders. All of these men are in the AL with one Leaguers are stars in exception. . . How many trade has . . What the NL and been a 1 looming success for both teams involved? Id say trade. Alex ' Johnson has lifted the the Angels to a contending position and Jim McGlothlin is pitching very well for the Reds, despite the fact that they get him fewer runs than any of their other pitchers. ex-Re- ds vice-versa- Cincinnati-Califomi- off-seas- ?. a (JMII) The intramural softball sea- is in its third week and only two teams have gotten this far without a loss. The Met team is but after drulihing the Officers and the Hospital, they, have had some trouble in their last two games. They managed only three hits off the Civilians Howard Austin, but benefited from six Civilian errors. Roger Pestori- ous pitched well for the Mets, giving up six hits, and received much better .fielding support as his mates committed only two errors. In their next tilt the Mets faced HHC No. 1 and were in a tough game until they explod- ed fra 11 runs in the fourth inning. They got six hits, but IIIIC helped them out by com- mitting three errors. Until that time it was a 1 ball game. The MPs are holding down second place, but they have actually played only one game, Their beating HHC No. 2 other win came via a forfeit by the Officers. In the HHC game the MPs came from behind to win it in the last inning as HHC committed a couple of costly errors. The Hospital has been ripping the ball at a fantastic clip since their loss at the hands of the Mets. They pummelled HHC No. 2 30-1- 7 and outslug-ge- d the Officers 28-2HHC didn't help their cause by making 14 errors. Time will tell if the Hospitals hitting can continue to compensate for onlv fair pitching. IIHC No. 2 came back strong after their shellacking by the Hospital. They dumped IIIIC behind the two-hi- t No. 1 22-pitching of Earl Edwards and a attack of their own. Edwards and Wade Shields led the IIHC offense as each was on base five times and scored five times. son 4-- 3-- 7-- 6. IIHC No. 1 has lieaten rally the Civilians, but that victory is indicative of their potential, The Civilians were one of the favorites and held the Mets to an 6 score. HHC has had trouble scoring in their recent games, notching only three runs in each of their last two games. The Civilians have lost two close games due to errors. They have gotten strong pitching from Austin and have some good hit- ters in the lineup. Red Kirk is one of the better spray hitters in the league and Bob Bardsley' clubbed a triple and a ' homer against the Mets. A tighter de-fense is all the Civilians need if they continue to get good work from Austin and some hitting. The Officers have shown little so far except at the plate where they got 23 runs against the Hospital and still lost. The pitching has been raked pretty thoroughly and their defense has been porous at best pre-seas- 8-- 3. 1. Who was the first goal tender in the NHL to wear a face mask? 2. Who was the first catcher to wear a face mask? 3. When is the major league baseball trading deadline? 4. How many times have Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer sudden death playoff? The fMtu.kwhkh Turn at ballplayer? 6. Who holds the National League record for home runs in a season? How many appearances niiirt a batter plate make to qualify for a batting championship? 8. In which American League Prk tje fewest home runs Dugway's entry in the TooGrantsville Balie Ruth Base- tail League is still searching for its first victory, but don't dc- spair liecause the young men ',g nlwhen ?Lre that first one there just might be "hole flood behind it. The team has been battling adversity since the season be- ele- Bt" tcheduleor which 10. The Yankees have retired What city? 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Much to the players credit, they went out and hust- led and fought and made quite sure that their opponents knew they had been in a lull game, There WBS 1,0 wa.v that these kids were going to let them-S- 6 selves be embarrassed. 8- ... g. igg th Bears Looking For First Mets Take Lead z, sjua AN uaqeusaig jaSog laquoj( ioj iu SujXvjd ajiqM ajuejg nnbaef x but ID mZ it seems to have made them all the more determined to gain their first success. There is plenty of team ,,d the l,la'ers arv far sPirit The from lieing discouraged. Plpneiflt Wins flnlf Tnnrnpv have the ability and the The first golf tournaments of plavers to lie winners if tliev a(titiule the 1970 season were held over jus, lhnjw off the that has plagued them thus m 3 SOFTBALL 12-h- it and Ken Cagle tied fra second with 154 with Tom Kearney grabbing fourth plan. Dick Simpkins with a net tif 140 licating out larwis Stout and Walden Gurney by two strokes with Del I .milliard finishing fourth one stroke out of second place. More than 25 Dugway golftourers entered the two-da- y STANDING: at ROTC buildings. Suddenly we all know the answers and are willing to enforce our will upon others even if it means the spilling of blood. Our heroes are all so shabby now. A loud-moutwerp with no real following gets more attention than a dozen brilliant men. Little Johnny knows and reads what a great man Ernie Banks is on the tail field, lint he cant understand why his Daddy wont let him play with the little Black guy down the street. heat People will pay $25 a seat to sit in cold dusting snow flukes off their shoulders or to watch a game, hut they'll lock their doors when they get home and ignore the person pleading for a $1 contribution to help fight cancer. All the old virtues are perishing. Possibly there is some correlation lietween the liaskettall center who can expect a one million dollar taunts just to liounce a ball, and an age when three prominent political leaders can lie gunned down in the streets and where colleges turn into battlefields. We are supposed to lie producing the most highly educated young in our history. But what sense does it make to burn down a university when its inhabitants dont agree with its policies? The lielief that violence is the answer makes aliout as much sease as taking a called third strike. Nobody can deny that everyone could do with a gentle push now and then thougfr. Keeping silent is no answer either. Lets not dose the debate on social questions. If we do, even voting will become obsolete. The seminars which were just held here at the Proving Ground could lie a new lieginning. Let's send this communication gap to the showers! If you ever hear a real pro in any sport lieing interviewed, one thing he is always sure to do if he is a true champ, is give credit to others who were instrumental in making his success possible. Sometimes it will lie that old d cigar smoker who was tatting coach, or the too small and not talented enough to excel at the game himself. Then there is the guy who credits a letter from a lioy in Nleadowville, West Virginia. None of us are so gifted that wre cant learn something hy listening to others. The fool who thinks he knows all the aaswers and blocks his ears while others speak will never make it in the big leagues. He is strickly bush. silent And as for all you members of the majority, taliv you are brainwashing yourself without even realizing it. The attitude to let the other guy do it and 111 judge his actions, or I shouldnt get involved, has no place on a Democracy team. Did you know that in the old days when someone said a person had become a memlicr of the silent majority it meant that the person had died? These long hairs may not have all the answers hut, thank God. they all haven't at least copped out. The late John Kennedy (nice said that it was a good thing that the young constantly questioned power liecause it Is their involvement which insures that the people govern the power and the power doesnt govern the people. Weve got a great team with great potential. But teamwork and team spirit without the two essentials this country will lie its own worse enemv. Whuta ya sav? (TCV) tald-heade- . ed ney. In the IS hole Scotch Double tournament, Tran and Sue Kearney won the low gross portion followed by Mr. and Mrs. William McIntyre, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Poole with Billy McIntyre Austin and Kathy garnering fourth place. Mrs. Gina Stanley and Ken Cagle paired to win the low net honors with SFC and Mrs. Bill Roy ending up in the runner-u- p slot. Third place was won by Mr. and Mrs. Vem Sidling while two teams Major and Mrs. Jim Marshall and Sir. and Mrs. Bill Smith tied for fourth place. Prizes were also awarded to winners in the driving contest and closest to the hole on iniiii-Infour in the two-dawith Gurney grabbing top honors in the driving contest and Cagle was the winner in the closest to the pin contest. ' - The above men comprise the 1970 nucleus of the Dugway Proving Ground baseball MEET TOOELE SUNDAY team. The men, who will be representing Dugway in the posts first season as a memlicr of the Beehive Stale Leais 1 p.m. Left to right the team includes: (kneelgue, travel to Tooele this Sunday for the season opener. Game time Nick DiBartholomeo, Eddie Foster (player-coachBill Sliclby and Iam Rose-boring) Chuck Edmonds, Dave Erickson, Standing: Mike Lynch, Duane Drake, Bob Chadwick, Jeff Maloney, Denny Kruse, and Jesse Santos. Check the next issue fra indepth look at the post club. -r y trair-name- nt GOLF- - WINNERS John Pleasant, winner of the low gross division of the opening tournament of the 1970 golf season receives his first place prize from Chuck Bvid as K. Malone (I) and Ken Cagle who tied for second look on. Y |