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Show Mly,iill1irnMnar.i ,lltfy-1n- - y iy'iflr"gffi yi" pn yjir y iigf iitn yitiji niiim y iiaiyhny'TffiiyTry'iniiyi isyrteiimiir John Mooney jsnlt ialic r I rilnuit Krts Editor Sometimes You Have to Let The Kid Play the Game Becau.se more than 30 years ago a young fellow from California would have done almost anything to play baseball professionally, a young man from Salt Lake City is play mg major league baseball today. There are interesting parallels in the baseball careers of Rov Partee and the lad he signed to play for the New York Mets, George Theodore. I broke in with Bisbee. Am. right out of high school, Partee said last week as he scouted the prep baseball playoffs tor the Mets. "I was offered $90 a month but I held out and got $100 a month. pibunr ecoml By Marion Purm Tribune Sport-- . liter Page US ould Allen on tl'e second hole of a deah plavolf to wm bogey the title thoie s .dll, n PROVO Before the start the Mountdinlunds Provo Open at Timpanogos Saturday, BYU golfer Jamie Fdman pro-.- , dieted one of our guvs e. " going to win it all The prediction came true Sunday when Robert Harris, a mentor rtar on the CougaiV W VC team, championship defeated Billings pro Paul of Monday Morning. May 21. 1973 Garth lord, a vetuan from Provo, and I amc Suuki of The play idf climaxed a dav m whuh the uncial aition was jammed into the final holes and a louuianert ui ong Iutts and Mien I Hams tour-- . fmisli d rt gulation p!a tnd at par 41 and H.ous won tne playotf b n sinhuig eight-foo- t par put on the second hole Mien had knot ked his second sliol on the thiee In le into a trap and the best he one-unde- wiiih the anudeuis coinplete-!- outclassed the professional hold lu thiro place at 141 was an other PAL golfer. Bob Lapio. and at 144 were two arna pr vx . Lazzen came down to play a year with the Seals and when he went to Portsmouth the next year, he got me as his catcher. catcher. Aside from Lazzeris interest in me, my biggest break came when Charley Graham spent a week scouting Larry Jansen, who was pitching for Salt Lake City. I had a good week catching Larry and I hit well, so I went up to the Seals. Just Wanted to Play Many years passed and Partee now was a scout for the Mets, and that brings Theodore into the picture. I saw George play in high school and at the UniverNot many of the scouts sity of Utah, Roy admitted. were interested in him. But every time I saw him, he hit the ball well, he always seemed to catch the ball and he could run. put a uniform on him and let him to play pro ball and I knew he wanted He ball. play pro deserved the chance. I knew George had arrived when he told me after he burned up the league at Tidewater, I can think hitting now and that was what I had been waiting to hear. All the time I was catching I kept telling myself that when a hitter came up I had to call what he didnt expect me to call. I had it all figured out, as a catcher and a hitter, but after I hit .365 one year, I started getting batting tips, because they didnt think I could hit. Im happy no one has messed up Georges hitting the way a couple of geniuses did mine, Partee admitted. Surely, I'm happy George got to the big leagues because it justifies my faith in signing him. But Im just as happy because he deserved the chance. He wanted to play that bad, he added. I knew I had to Observation Ward was set to order see'ds for a Giant Redwood tree figured with the postal service the trees might arrive full grown and I couldnt afford the postage charges. I but I Baseball Standings American League National League Monday I Probable Pitchers Kansas City (SoHttortf 6 2) at Ook load (Hunter 4 2) twilight at Cleze Nw York (Medich turd (Perrv 5 S). twihght 4 at Baltimore Boston (Ttont 4) Vtt Nolly 3 5) (On game scheduled) Cincinnati 3, San Diego 2, 2nd Montreal 4, St Louis 1, 1st bt. Louis 7, Montreal 3, 2nd Chicago at Philadelphia postponed Atlanta 3, Los Angeles 2, 1st, 10 inning Los Angeles 8, Atlanta 3, 2nd Pittsburgh at New Yorn, postponed Houston 8, Son Francisco 7 Monday I Probobie Pitchers 3) at Montreal Chicogo (Poppas Renko 2 2) St Louis (Wise 4 ?) at New York iMcAndrew 3 J) mghl (Ellis J 4) at Vhiiodel-ohiPittsburgh night (Corlton 5 J) at San Francisco (Bryant Houston (Forsch 4 3) night (Only games scheduled) Amateurs Mien Hatvh of Provo and Peter J.uobi weie at I m s Tonimv Williams Brigham City pro. and Tom Storey of Las Vegas weie tied at 14S with amateurs James Blair, Gary F.splin and Dave Ship-leShipley is another Cougar golfer Mien took the first-dalead u while with a Hams was tied Tor second three strokes behind The status quo held until the 14th hole if five-unde- r Allen bogeyed the fust hole and then strung 12 straight pars and appeared to have it wrapped up as no one made a . Pimlico Bettor Bad Holes But then Allen faltered He bogeyed No. 14 and took a double bogey on 15 where he hit his tee shot out of bounds smu a t' , , V 4 California Tests SLC Crew By Ray Herbat Tribune Sports Writer The most successful sporting event of the summer calendar occurred last July when the California Angels came here to play an exhibition game with the Salt Lake Angels. This years exhibition contest is a bit earlier but should the weather hold there is a good posibility that last years crowd of 10,000 could be rivaled again Monday night when the two clubs battle at Derks Field. $1.50 and children 12 and under can get in for 75 cents Salt Lake baseball fans will be afforded the opportunity to see the exciting brand of baseball put forth by California skipper Bobby Winkles. Winkles is the former and successful college highly coach at Arizona State. He vowed should he ever get a chance in the major ieagues he would change the image of the game from a tortoise-lik- e pace to one of hustle at every moment. Winkles has kept his worn. The Angels are on the move both on the field and in the American League standings. His club is playing games in a much shorter time and the Angels are threatening the top in the West Division. Veteran baseball people are keeping a watchful eye on the Winkles method. Since the game traditionally has been slow to change or accept innovations, Winkles is on the spot this year but for the moment, at least, he is proving his theory on how to play the game. California brings in several outstanding players to the exhibition. They won here last summer but the game was dose and the big Angels had no better than a tie going into the seventh. Because of the large crowd which attended the exhibition here last July the California management e'ected to play its regulars almost the enlire game. Such gieats as Vada Pinson and Bob Oliver played all the way. And the big dub pretty much staved with Us championship season lineup Thus, the fans got their money's worth. Also, California general manager Harry Dal- was on hand for last years game and he made it a ton DaVanon and Winston Llenas, catcher John Stephenson and pitcher Dave Sells A ocr Special to The Tribune - Spiked by Rain heavy downpour after the Angels had batted m the third inning left the field unplayable and the Salt game Sunday afternoon was washed out with the Indians after three inleading, nings. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader Tuesday at 6:30 pm. The two clubs must play a twin bill Wednesday night, too. Spokane does not visit Salt Lake again this season so the final five games of this senes must be played in three days. The Angels and Indians both piay their parent clubs Monday mght in exhibition games. California meets Salt Lake Lake at Derks Field Monday at 7 p.m. while Texas plays at Spokane. Manager Les Moss will start Thor Skogan against California and he may use one or two other pitchers out of the bullpen. On Tuesday, Moss said he will pitch two nghthanders, Dick Lange ana Don Rose, against Spoxane. His probable pitchers for Wednesday will be Bruce Heinbechner and either or Greg Bill Kirkpatrick Washburn. A Lake-Spokan- e Art Kusnyer Catcher Returns point to mention to then manager Del Rice that let's keep our regulars in since so many oeople came out to see us. Dalton is expected to be on hand again. Although he wont pitch in the game, Nolan Ryan, a recent pitcher against no-h- it Kansas City, and the American League strikeout king, will be in uniform. It is possible that Ryan might be reached before or after the game for autographs. Former Fait Lake players who w'lll appear in the lineup include catcher Art Kusnyer, infielders Rudy Meoli, Jerry Kirkpatnck arrived Saturday night and was Sundays starting pitcher. ProfesCEDAR FORT sional motorcycle racers from all parts of the west will remember the racers of Utah after Sundays American MoAssn. qualifying torcycle motocross at Mannings Cycle Park. The race was part of a senes being held to determine which riders will race against the European world champions in the International-AMseries, which begins July 1 here. In the 250 class, Utah nders Kerry Fowler and Don Fuller made strong performances with a first and a second respectively in one of the three heat races, but they had troubles in the other heats. Motocross demands consistency and the days 250 winner was Doug Grant of Carpenter-ia- . Calif., with a fifth, third and fourth in the three heats. He was followed by Richard Grafton, also of California, and Utah's Phil McDonald m the overall results. open class was all with overall honors going to Denms Packard. Packard took a runaway win in the first heat, after Bob Brown and California star Jim West dropped out. Brown and West came back to beat Packard in the second heat, The Utahs Had Scoop, Earns $8,700 Harris was playing m the group just ahead and had birdies at 15 and 16 and suddenly he was in the lead. But things turned around again at No. 17. Betlev was in the same group as Lams and his tee shot on 17 was so close to being out of bounds that the group had to wait for a ruling. - BALTIMORE Sec(AP) Preak-nes- s the in victory Saturday meant a profit of $8,700 to one bettor at Pimlico Race Course. retariats Joe Giordano, a mutuel clerk, said a man approached his $50 advance sale window shortly after the first race and asked for $29,000 in win tickets on No 3 in the eighth race. That's the number Secretariat earned to victory. His $2 60 payoff for a $2 bet was the third lowest in Preakness history, but it returned a tidy $8,700 to the unidentified bettor. Allens group played through and the Billings pro birdied the hole with an eight-foputt to tie Hams. But then Hams hit his approach shot over the green, chipped five feet from the pin and missed a putt for a bogey and with No. 18 left Allen had Giordano said two other men bet $20,000 apiece on Secretariat to show, one bet $7,000 a stroke advantage. Turns Around and II others wagered $5,000 each. Each of those bettors collected five cents on the dollar. t But Allen missed a par putt on 18 and when Barns parred the hole the playoff was set up. On the first playoff hole the Cougar senior from Florida had to make an eight-foo- t putt to prolong the match and then he rammed in the clincher on No. 2 five-foo- Wins Davis Match MUNICH, GERMANY West Germany Sun(UPI) to day dumped Britain, reach the semifinals of the European Zone Davis Cup. Donna Young Cops Purse In Gals Links Tourney LOUISVILLE, KY. (UPI) -SDonna Caponi Young, hungry for her first Sandra Spuzich finished two strokes behind Mrs. Young for lenderized tournament success years, charged to a second with place three in 218. two-strok- e No one else in the field of victory Sunday in the $30,000 Bluegrass Invitation golf tour216 nament with a total for 54 holes. 61 pros and five amateurs was able to break par on a course described as extremely tough. Sandra Palmer and Betty Burfeindt were tied for third 220. Next place at came Murle Breer, Gloria Ehret and Sandra Hayme at Good Luck Back m her Mrs. Young was a Town, model of consistency in winning her first tourney since she captured the Bluegrass here in 1970. She shot a 72 for each of the rounds to collect the $4,500 first prize at the HuntCreek Club Country ing course. 221. at 222 were Deadlocked 69 on Friwhose Little, Sally day was the best round of the tourney; Susie McAllister, and Japans Chako Higuchi Indianapolis 500 Field Finally Completed - A INDIANAPOLIS (AP) field capable of running the auto race under Indy three hours for the first time was completed Sunday with the qualification of the last 500-mil- e three starters. A. J Foyt Stars Coming ' Utah Riders Star in Bike Event Angels Tred At Derks Tonight Game time is 7 p.m. Ticket Prices Ticket prices' are reasonable. Box seats are selling for $2.50, general admission for ' tss But Lance Suzuki looks anything but pleased with his tee shot Sunday on the Timp course. Paul Allen of Billings seems pleased with a tee shot in final round of the Provo Open. v Joey Boitsignore Studies Provo Open Putt charge. 1 New Yofk 4, Cleveland 2, 1st New York 7, Cleveiond 3, 2nd Milwaukee I Detroit 0. 1st Detroit 5 Milwaukee 3, 7nd Chcooo9 Minnesota 3, 1st Min esota 3, Chicago 0, 2nd Kansas City 8 'ikland2 t ollformo 4, Texas 2 Boston at Baltimore, postponed V Double Bogey But Tony From Portsmouth I went to the Boston Red Sox where I realized my ambition of becoming a big league ln High!, l.lovd Bmgh.nn had a l'rt. Ron Jackson. Fit Sieve ( iiristensen and Glen and Reese IVi, lewis, Howard, Fiii In B flight Join Sumner had 1)6, ken I oath am. 1'iS, and Bob Vilen and Doug Roth, bl pio Bob Bel ley 'hut a 14) w tin h was good for second pi o money of $.120, but be was tied al that spot bv Fdman n Fmi;, lit Anyway, after that year, 1 drew' my release and there I was, with my wife expecting a baby and no baseball jobs available, Roy continued. I haunted all the ball parks in southern California and someone said Eddie Mulligan was getting ready to open the Pioneer League season and needed a catcher. I wired Eddie and he said to come up for a tryout, so I grabbed a bus and rode all night, arriving just in time to catch batting practice that night. never had dreamed of playing in the major leagues; the Pacific Coast League was all the baseball I knew. ti op liy- Second Pro The amateurs were Jay Malulnh of BYU and John Wired Mulligan I - (j i' all-nig- Salt Lake went on to win the pennant and I went up to the Seals, where I sat on the bench all that season because Lefty O'Doul didnt think I could hit. - , Class and while the players were cleaning up and eating, 1 had to get the bus ready for the trip to Albuquerque. I drove from Bisbee to Albuquerque, an dme, without getting any dinner. When we arrived, the players sacked ou for a few hours before the game, but 1 had to get the bus serviced and ready to drive us to the ball park that night. With no sleep, I then caught a doubleheader, Partee laughed. yr- Mil'll reieived first pin money of $hHJ while Hams took home the championship BU ama-icur- bad a good year and thought I was set with the Cubs for a lifetime baseball career, but just before the season opened, they made some deals for catchers and I was released. One night, I caught a doubleheader - Three pros and two were deadloikcd at 147 The pros w ere Ian en Foy the leaihing pro at the Salt Lake Country Club who was tied for second pro spot aflei Satui day's round, Jen Muuss Vernal and Rusty Guernsey of Ogden's Riverside Club I Let me refresh your memory about those days in D baseball. he added. 1 was the only catcher on the roster, so I got plenty of work. Later on, I found out one of the players got an extre $23 a month for driving the bus, so when he was released, I also became the bus driver. lirty-- gProYO Sports Mirror b 6 fty jfpr Jr., Houston, Tex., shooting to become the first winner, survived the final runs after qualifying the previous weekend with a speed that looked vulnerable. four-tim- e 3 Got Bumped Sam Posey of earlier Only qualifiers was bumped from the lineup. Foyts teammate, veteran George Snider, Bakersfield. Calif., did it on the last and fastest run of the day an average of 196 355 mp.h for the 10 mile qualifying run in a Gilmore Coyote Foyt The 33 starters m the 57(h running of the $1 million Indianapolis Motor Speedway classic, May 28, averaged 192 329 in p h in the two weekends of tnals. beat the 1972 record by That field's qualifying 8.674 m p h McLaren Offenhauser May 12. In average of 198.183 was .543 m p h. faster than the slowest car to make the field, Ji 188 640. McElreath, Arlington, Tex., made the field Sunday after it was filled, bumping temporary qualifier rookie Tom Bigelow, who did 186 809 to fill the starting field. The other Sunday qualifier to stay m the lineup was ob Harkey, Indianapolis, who had run in two previous Indy 500s one m 1904 and the other in 1971 Harkey was clocked at 189 733 m p h and Mark Donohue. 3 Also in runs approached the qualifying record set by Johnny Rutherford, Ft Worth, Tex., m his Team Nobody in Sunday's McElreaths former winners Bobby Unser in a d Eagle Rutherford, never able to win the 500 in nine previous tries, will share tne front three-ca- r row on the grid with Linup Also in the lineup are former winners Foyt, Bobby Unsers brother Al, and Mario Andretti. Foyt had a problem in the waning hours of the trials. He was sitting in the heup with an average of 188.927 m.p h. due to some engine problems since corrected. Foyt had two cars capable of making the field but couldnt driving either of them himself without first withdrawing his original car. The cagey Texan's solution was to put rookie Johnny Parsons Jr , son of a former Indy Smvm J V ALIGNMENT, BRAKE & TIRE CENTER winner, in the qualifying lineup with Snider just behind im in the other Foyt car. reath, Sammy Sessions, Nashville, Mich., made the lineup at 188.986 in an Eagle-Fov- When time remained for only one more run, with Parsns atthe line, there were two cars in the tentative lineup at lower speeds than The only other complete qualifying run Sunday was by Jim Hurtubise, Indianapolis, former Speedway record holdt er, whose 184 262 in a ws too slow. t. Lola-Fov- Foyt's. Foyt then waived who was unfamiliar car, out of the lineup Snider on his way Posey. Parsons, with the and sent to bump Besides Snider, the Harkev andMcEI- - Do you have ordinary insurance or Moreton Insurance? 355-46- 51 Fred A. 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