Show Sox and Birds Teams to Beat By JOE SARGIS L'PI Sparta Writer TUCSON Aril (L'PI)— Alvin Dark proved year ago that with aolid pitching and defense a club- - even one like the Cleveland Indians— cm go a long way He's going to have to prove the 19GB if the point all over apin in Indians are to be in the Eastern American League’s Division race and for the very same reason Once apin it's hard to see the Indians going all of course the way unless hitting the missing ingredient materialises out of somewhere “The Red Sox Orioles and Tigers are the teams to beat" says Dark “No question about it although of the three I think the Red Sox will be the toughest They are experienced and if (Tony) but young Conigliaro comes back they will be even that much tougher" Dark although he doesn't come right out and say it believes the Tigers aren't as good as their 1968 record shows and as such doesn't think they will do it apin McLaia the Difference "One man (Denny McLain) wins 25 more pmes than he loses and that makes the big difference" said Dark "He wasn't good He was fantastic and when was the last time any i pitcher went 25 games over If he has just a good year then his club is not say 51)0 20-1- 0 really all that tough" As for his own dub the Indians the club will itart the 1969 season with one of the best pitching staffs in baseball Luis and a 160 earned ) Tiant Sam run average in 1968 (21-9- Iran Christensen Extends Thanks Coach Evan Christensen has ’ asked the paper to pass along his very sincere and heartfelt thanks for the support the valley his ball team throughout the year “We never played before an empty house” he noted “There are people who have never missed a pme since has given the school was opened “We're mighty thankful for them It means a lot to the boys and the staff” He also expressed his appreciation to the administration cheerleaders pep club song leaders and pep band for the fine support they have given McDowell (15-1- era Sonny Siebert and a (12-10- lExpamsia&im (CImBds CdDmMme too 1 1 °4 181 and ) ) 298 and Sun Williams and 250 are the big four once (12-10- By FRED DOWN ''PI Sports Writer The Kansas City Royals and the major leagues' three other expansion teams may not be apin Behind them Dark has the d Steve Marpn as a spot of fifth starter and Vincente Remo Horatio Pina and Jack Hamilton in the bullpen Eleven other pitchers none with any major leape experience to speak of are battling for the other two spots The catching is solid with Joe Axcue and Duke Sims They split the job last year and between them drove in 86 runs and hit 15 homers Ken Suarez and Ray Fosse who batted 031 with Portland of the Pacific (8-1- sore-arme- patsies after all One week of training doesn't make a season of course but who would have thought the four newly formed teams would have a combined record and 733 winning percentage at this stage of the spring? The Royals who completed a three-gam- e sweep of the Washington Senators with a victory at Pompano Beach Fla Monday are showing the 1 record in way with a exhibition games The San Diego Padres are next with a 1 mark and the Montreal Expos and Seattle Pilots have 1 slates 11-- 4 4--0 Coast League last year are battling for the third spot Dark isn't sure how many catchers he will carry It all 4-- 14 I PI Sports Writer BEACH POMPANO Fla (UPI)-T- ed Williams can count some He has discovered people helping him count lately The same people who stuff both fingers in their ears back off a bit get their kicks with a count down when a match is put to a stick of dynamite Nobody has to send Williams d a wire telling him his Washington Senators have lost four in a row and haven't won a game yet He knows that perfectly well thank you Nobody has to tell him either that on the attack the Senators look like they're going to war carrying broomsticks Thanks again Nothing gets by the Big Guy with the navy blue blazer and shoes He takes the ripple-solein everything that happens Williams naturally isn't happy about the Senators' sorry start particularly since they were the major leaguea' Grapefruit League champs a year candy-stripe- He didn't throw anything around following Monday's shutout either It is obvious Williams is trying It shows plainly in almost everything he he makes a does—whether special visit to the trainer's room to examine the damap done by a line drive to pitcher Bruce Howard's forearm as he did Monday or whether he obliges a man who asked would he please hold still long enough for a snapshot with the man's wife which he also did Williams as a player frewas criticized by quently outsiders for his temperament but never once by the umpires He felt they had a job to do By United Press International The Baltimore Bullets have a pair of armed guards always available for rescue duty Baltimore in the throes of a ' it" Plenty of Chatter He's right Eddie Brinkan the shortstop kept up a steady stream of chatter during the contest with the Royals Other Washington players talked it up a great deal too But in the end they couldn't squeeze a single run out of all that spirit Those who know Williams art rather surprised about the way he's accepted Sunday's defeat by the Royals That was the Senators' third straight setback but Williams didn't peel any pint off the clubhouse wall “Yoc’re taking it George Scott 7-- 4 Snap Atlanta San Francisco Chicago San Diego 45 29 38 39 31 43 608 4 42 417 18 30 494 124 419 18 28 46 378 21 Seattle e i6 50 211 34 losing streak that Phoenix threatens its Eastern Division Monday's Results lead in the National Basketball San Fran 123 MU 106 Association found Earl Monroe Baltimore 140 Phoenix 121 and Kevin Loughery rallying to (Only games scheduled) the call Monday night The Tuesday's Games Bullets' backcourt duo respondPhiladelphia at New York ed with a combined 6(ioint Atlanta at Chicago performance that beat Phoenix Detroit at Los Angeles 1 Phoenix at San Diego Monroe the league's second (Only games scheduled) leading scorer netted 33 points and Loughery chipped in with 27 to boost Baltimore's lead to 14 Phigames over second-plac- e Jyf ' v : AFTER SITTING sat most of the 1968 season following a kidaey operation Pittsburg Pirates' Bob Robertson practices sliding In a sawdust pit at the Pirates' spring training camp Miami Drops Fourth Falls Behind Bv United Press International The Miami Floridians who've been giving Coach Jim Pollard uclers all season now seem intent on giving him a heart attack The Floridians who rose from last place to first place In the Eastern Division of the American Basketball Association with n drive have hit a a losing streak of four games when it counts most They've drifted 14 games behind Kentucky in the Eastern race The Dallas Chapa handed the Floridians their fourth straight FraNEW YORK (UPD-J- oe 8 loss Monday night as of the share his will defend zier too and he would never abuse Ray Boone scored 25 points and them Nor would be become world heavyweight title apinst John Beasley 24 Les Hunter infuriated by his rare slump Dave “The Animal" Zygiewicz scored 28 points for the in Houston Texas on April 5 as Floridians Patiently almost torturously his showdown with he worked his way out of them a tuneup for It was the only game scheduled Monday night in the That’s the same way he's Jimmy Ellis But Yancey Durham FraABA trying to do the job as zier's manager insists that he of Some his ABA Standings manager greatest is not looking forward to a fight strides are being made with the United Press International By with Ellis until Ziggy is out of East pi ess the way W L Pet GB is with “Nobody cooperating The bout will be held in the 47 35 29 them more than me" he says Houston Coliseum and televised Kentucky 37 32 536 4 Indiana He's right Nobody is live on Saturday afternoon on 523 14 34 31 Miami the American Broadcasting 33 31 516 2 Jim Lemon fired as WashinMinnesota Wide World of Company's 17 48 262 184 gton's manger this winter is If Frazier New York Sports Program West helping Williams with some beats Zygiewicz he is expected W L Pet GB information about the Washingto face Ellis in the Astrodome 51 12 J10 ton players Lemon has not title in June with Earl Gilliam Oakland 39 27 591 134 Denver and will return home in a promoting both bouts 34 32 515 184 New Orleans couple of days for left Durham Frazier and Owner Bob Short asked Jim Houston on 32 32 500 194 Tuesday for the Dallas 26 38 406 254 to come as a personal favor and official announcement of the Los Angeles 19 45 297 324 Lemon did Houston STOP! Stop thinking you can’t afford an Olds Frazier Will late-seaso- Meet Dave Zygiewicz 109-10- signing models are priced under $2999) Think an Olds is out of your league? It’s not You're closer to Olds than you think Take this Cutlass S It’s just one of twelve Olds models priced under $2999 And it's got all the thinp (12 Olds ladelphia Phoenix showing surprising strength of late took an eight-poilead at intermission and for a time it appeared the Suns could stage an upset But nt Baltimore's fourth nt per- iod put the damper on any Phoenix ambitions Dick Van Arsdale led the Suns with 37 points and Gail Goodrich scored outing three-innin- g impressive for the White Sox John Hartenstein Barry Houser and Larry KiUingsworth held the SL Louis Cardinals to four hits as the Pittsburgh Pirates won 20 for their third win in four games Bob Robertson highly touted rookie first baseman homered for the Pirates Catcher Tim McCarver was the only regular in the Cardinals' lineup On other fronts: The PhiladelPhillies defeated the phia Cincinnati Reds 21 behind the seven-hi- t pitching of Grant Jackson Larry Colton A1 Ralfo and Bill Wilson Frank Fernandez' homer and hits by Bobby Murcer John Orsino and Bill Robinson were the big New York blows of the Yankees' 2 triumph over the Atlanta Braves Doug Rader tripled with the bases filled and scored on Curt Blefary's single as the Houston Astros scored five runs in the fifth inning fa beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2 Dave Mcwinner for the Nally a Baltimore Orioles in 1968 wu hit freely in an intra-squa- d game but Manager Earl Weaver said McNally had been cautioned not to throw hard Sonny Siebert who had a 0 record in 1968 signed with the Indians for an estimated 632000 run-scori- 5-- 5-- 12-1- 140-12- ago “I guarantee that" Washington's new manager went on “This dub'll have lifelots of Ken Harrelson four-gam- d But it is likely that those folks who are counting— and waiting —until Williams explodes will go away completely disappointed He seems to have made up his mind he won't and any time Ted Williams makes up his mind to anything you canvunsi-de- r it 9999 per cent done “We'll have spirit" Williams promised before Monday's white-was- h at the hands of Kansas City which by the way has won four of its five pmes 5-- Losing Streak after coming over from the “I don't ever want to lose ball pmes but if I have to I'd rather do it down here than up there where it counts" scored a 4 victory at Tucson Ariz Pitcher Dick Kelley's throwing error permitting the Indians to score the goahead run in the seventh inning was the key play of the game UBinllLets Wash Mat Wiainimg Ted Nat HBlowfiimg By MILTON RICIIMAN 4-- 2-- carry three In the infield Cuba and Synder batted 281 The other candidates are Jimmie Hall 198 Lee Maye 281 Ron Allen 282 at Rock Hill and Rich Scheinblum 304 218 at at Portland and Cleveland 6-- and Jerry Moses hit homers in a four-ru- n eight inning that carried the Boston Red Sox to a triumph over the New York The Royals who some ex- Mets Billy Conigliaro younger perts feared might be the brother of Tony hit his second weakest of the expansion teams homer in as many days to tie on how the hitting shapes up elsewhere In other words he'd like to go with just two receivers but may have to big ‘"uiy homers and 59 runs batted in last year and Max Alvis who slipped to just 223 and eight homers in 1968 are the only ones sure of regular work Dark is trying out nine players at second and shortstop and probably won't make up his mind until the season is well underway That's because he doesn't have a single solid candidate for either job Zoilo Versalles who came over from the Dodgers and Larry Brown are the leading candidates at shortstop and Vern Fuller and Dave Nelson at second Nelson had the best batting averap of that quartet— 274— in 1968 but that was at Portland The outfield is just about in the same disarray with only Jose Cardenal who hit 257 in 1968 set in center With outfielders in the Cleveland camp in short supply— there are only seven in all—it will be a case more of elimination than competition The best bets are that Dark eventually will settle on Lou Johnson and Rusa Snyder Johnson hit 257 in 85 pmes 12th-innin- 3-- depends Horton with dealt the Senators their fourth the score for the Red Sox at 23 in the fifth inning It was the straight Ion under Manager Mets' third straight Ion comTed Williams behind the g Buddy Bradford's bined seven-hi- t pitching of White the lifted homer Chicago and Jones Steve Galen Cisco to a 5 win over the Larry Sherry Jones obtained Sox from the Senators in the draft Detroit Tigers after World was the most impressive of the Series hero Mickey Lolich three pitchers with three hitless allowed one unearned run in two innings in his spring debut innings for the world champions Gary' suffered their The Padres last season allowed first loss in exhibition play Peters run in an unearned one Indians when the Cleveland Jaycees Sponsor Gun-E- d Program Jaycees Sponsor Hie Logan Jaycees announces the adoption of a shootinj education program part of a national effort by Jaycees to tead good gunmanship to youngsters across the nation It is by Daisy Manufacturing Company Hie program is open to all boys and girls 7 to 14 years of age aiu instructs in all phases of good gun usage and proper gun handling fa a 13 lesson gun course It concludes with a Jaycee shootinj league in which boys and girls will participate in regulation lean match competition Heading the new project will be Gerald Voeller who will serve general Chairman and Instructor throughout the 13 lesson B-- gui B-- B 26 San Francisco posted a rout of Milwaukee in the 123-1- only other action Rudy La Russo's 13 points in the third period combined with Jeff Mullins' 11 for the quarter enabled the Warriors to over7 come a halftime deficit La Russo had a game high of 33 points Mullins and Nate Thurmond each scored 25 points in support Jon McGlocklin had 31 for the Bucks 54-4- B course The first lesson in the new Shooting Education Program fa scheduled for 9:00 am Saturday at the Logan Jaycees Clubhouse 440 Park Avenue in Logan Subsequent lessons will be announced a this time Boys and girls 7 to 14 years of age can enroll by filling ou the registration blank below or pick up a registration blank at Al'i Sporting Goods Sunset Sporting Goods or Billmarks Registration Blank NBA Standings Jaycee Shotting Education Program By United Press International East W L Pet GB wish to learn more about the fun of shooting through the knowledg 52 22 703 Baltimore of good gun manners safety procedures in gun handling and th 51 Philadelphia fundamentals of marksmanship New York Boston Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee 49 43 37 29 24 Signed Parent's signature Address West Los Angeles W L 49 25 Pet GB 662 Telephone No ThiL oiank is to be turned in at the 1st preview lesson 4YtittoigiiseiTMai()TniWMcaBMBwiwwLMisHnBseeiTioiTiiicx Ifi ji i im no urn cuudim mm like Canadians join the Club Canadian Clubman's Code: Rule 1 1 Six you like A Kocket 350 V-- 8 or Action-Lin- e Hideaway windshield wipers Full carpeting Right on down the line So why settle for the ordinary when it's so easy to own an Olds ri f If you like Canadian whisky join the world's favorite Club After all Canadian Club is "The Best ' In The House" in 87 lands T No other whisky tastes quite like iL It’s the one f whisky that's bold enough to be lighter than them all Police lleCaiudan Clubman's Code Rule 1 1 : If you like Canadians join the Oub ' Da pretty well'' somebody said to him “If it were during the regular I wouldnX" Ted said mum src ism MMilCMUl |