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Stephenville Softball
Farmer’s takes undisputed second place
front row; Wayne Keith, Dean Keith, Craig Barker, David Hodge, Bobby Batte,
Kurt Patterson. Coach, Gary Roberts. (E-T Staff Photo by Gary Fritcher)
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ently taught good manners,
he comes out of his shell and
swings around on his stool,
Holmes’ punch in the 11th
round that layed him out flat
Both men were dog tired
They had absorbed a giant's
share of punishment. With
time running out in the 11th
round and Weaver knowing he
was behind, the challenger
actually sullen, when a guy
who’s a virtual stranger in-
trudes on his reverie and
.. Century 21 took command of
Norton's with a 21-3 win.
Century 21 had nine hits and
no errors. Randy Collier was
the leading hitter with two for
two. Norton’s had one hit and
one error Randy Rose got the
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it I said I was all right He
said, 'No, you’reot ' They just
didn't want me to win the
fight. Everybody was against
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A’S - Members of the Stephenville Pee Wee League A‛s include: back row; Danny
Hampton, J.J. Clark, Jody Ballard, Cary Heaton, Joseph Browning, Eric Hatch;
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5. Rookies
6. B.S.’s
7. ALCO
8. Scrubs
9. G’s & D's
10. P.G.’s
Wednesday Afternoon
League
1. Double D
2. Dairy Maids
3. Strugglers
4. Peanut Patties
5. Pin Ups
6. Double Trouble
7. Busy Bees
8. Sparettes
Super Sports.
Leaguestandings include:
Ladies Twilight
League
1 Pill Rollers
2. Spares
3. Young & Restless
4. B.G.E.’s
5. Split Ups
6. Harbin
7. Ky Fried Chicks
8 Banana Splits
Wednesday Night
Mixed League
1. Shoestrings
2. Super Sports
, 3. Do Nothings
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one of the highest-paid hitters in baseball. Foster
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Friday, June 22
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.. In the battle of two of the top
teams in the league, Farmers
Bank defeated Ramada Inn,
13-5. Farmers had 17 hits and
four errors. Leading hitters
were Guest and Fanning with
three for four. Brown, Stacey,
Hartsfield and Fanning had
one home run each, Ramada
had eight hits and three
errors. Kelly was the leading
hitter with three for three.
whelmed the Stephenville
Merchants, 17-2. Gulf had 18
hits and two errors. Manley
was the leading hitter with
four for four Merchants had
three hits and seven errors
Getting the hits were McGee,
Peters and Ratliff with one for
two.
Town and Country Bank 11
Gibson's 0
Town and Country Bank
blanked Gibson's, 11-0. Town
and Country had 12 hits and
four errors. Sullins was the
leading hitter with four for
four. Gibson's had seven hits
and three errors. Leading
hitter was Spikes with two for
three.
two for three and Nita Gray
with one for two were the
leading hitters Cross Timbers
Air had eight hits and two
errors. Karen Thiebaud with
two for three and Patty Hart
and Jan Lowrey with two for
four were the leading hitters.
Dairy Queen 15
Dykes Tire 7
Led by the hitting of Laune
Fair with two for four, the
Dairy Queen defeated Dykes
Tire, 15-7. Dairy Queen had
eight hits and five errors.
Dykes had seven hits and six
errors. Nancy Gile and Karen
Norton’s 3
The Norton’s team found out
just what the Cross Timbers
Ice team is made of as they
lost 22-3. Cross Timbers Ice
had 19 hits and five errors.
better or that it's going tQ
have a tangential effect, the . bracing his back against
Frank Duffy.
John McNamara, who now
manages the Reds, was a
coach with the Giants then
George couldn't hit the
breaking pitch at the time,”
recalls McNamara. Even
after he got to the Reds, they
had to send him down to the
minors.”
Foster recalls "I always _
had the confidence I could
play. All I needed was the
chance, which eventually I
got here."
In 1974, the Reds moved •
Pete Rose from left field to
third base to replace Doug
Driessen, who had goofed up
in the field during the Na-
• Little League
Friday, June 22
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ECA blalked the A-Tox
Termites, 10-0. ECA had seven
hits and one error. Anthony
Bundrant was the leading
hitter with two for two. A-Tox
had no hits and six errors.
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"Weaver. Weaver."
The 11th round was furious,
and Weaver perhaps had the
best of it until that right up-
percut ended his made-for-
Hollywood fight script
This man might not have
much credit or recognition."
Holmes said, "but you'll have
to give it to him now Mr
Weaver surprised you like I
did two years ago."
Holmes said Weaver hit him
in the ear in the first round,
and his ear was still ringing
after the fight He also ac-
cused Weaver of twice poking
him in the eye with his thumb
•| couldn't see vfor two
egory of runs batted in" for
three straight seasons He
could become the first man
in major league history to
win four straight RBI titles.
He has topped the league
in homers the last two years,
and the total of 52 he hit in
1977 has been exceeded by
only two other players (Hall
of Earners Hack Wilson and
Ralph Kineri in National
League history.
wall of the stall, his feet
propped against the other
Side And he is ready to talk.
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In a close game, Blantons
defeated the Hico Scramblers,
6-3. Blantons had three hits
and two errors. Lance Crosby
with one for one was the
leading hitter. Hico had four
hits and one error. Lisa
Rainwater with one for two
was the leading hitter
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leading hitter with three for
four. Norton’s had three hits
and nine errors. M. Henderson
the leading hitter with two for
two.
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rounds," Holmes said.
backed Holmes into his own
corner with a hook and two
right hands
Suddenly, Holmes turned
loose a right uppercut that
took the legs out from under
Weaver The challenger took
the eight count 'and two
seconds later, the bell saved
him
in the 12th, Holmes went im-
mediately to the attack, back-
ing Weaver to the ropes with
vicious combinations to the
head, and the challenger was
defenseless Referee Harold
Valan stepped ill and stopped
the fight with 44 seconds gone
in the round. Weaver's corner
protested \ igorously
"I just got killed at the end
by that right hand,' said
Weaver, who had many of the
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football and basketball under
a two-year probation
The penalty would prevent
the Tiger football and basket-
ball teams from appearing in
postseason events and in tele-
vised games under NCAA
sponsorship, but will not
prevent the basketball team
from competing in the Metro
Conference championship
tournament
The NCAA suspended the
second year of the probation
because the university moved
to halt violations of recruiting
regulations even before the
NCAA began its investigation
almost three years ago. '
HOCKEY
NEW YORK (API - The
National Hockey League's ex-
pansion to four cities became
official when league President
John Ziegler announced the
granting .of franchises to the
Hartford Whalers, Edmonton
Oilers, Winnipeg Jets and
Quebec Nordiques.
The expansion, which swells
the NHL to 21 teams, was ap-
proved by the league's Board
of Governors on March 30
COLLEGE
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -
The National Collegiate
Athletic Association placed
Memphis State University’s
Slowly. because some-
where George was appar-
the Pittsburgh Pirates
star ) when he got his cheek-
bone crushed Not knowing
whether his career is over or
not. That's the way it can be
for me "
This day. George is out of
the lineup, temporarily . w ith
that damaged ankle and not
sure how it's going to affect
him, present or future It's
making him moody.
Injuries are an occupa-
tional hazard that profes-
sional athletes live with, and
the good ones, like Foster,
recognize them as a tempo-
rary deterrent But there's
always that nagging worry
that it's not going to get
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another South African, Kallie
Knoetze.
Bob Arum, head of the Top
Rank boxing organization that
is staging the fight, said the
site of the title bout will be de-
cided on the basis on Sunday's
winner.
If Coetzee is the winner,
there are real possibilities the
fight will take place in South
Africa," Arum said.
Al Tucker, the South Afri-
can’s manager, said he
considered Spinks tougher
than Tate.
"This Sunday’s fight will be
the hardest for Gerrie,"
Tucker said before leaving
Coetzee’s camp in this Italian
Gulf Oilers 17
Merchants 2
..The Gulf Oilers over-
Well. not everybody
in the fourth and fifth
rounds, the crowd began to
chant "Weaver, Weaver," as
the challenger being to attack.
Holmes went down midway
through the fourth round from
what Weaver said was a right
hand, but the ref called it a
slip
in the sixth round, one of
Holmes' worst. the champion
looked tired Again it was
Weaver on the attack How-
ever. in the seventh, eighth
and ninth rounds, , Holmes
regained the initiative,
throwing a heavy jab and
combinations to the head
Weaver got in an occasional
body punch, but when Holmes
was dancing and jabbing.
Weaver was helpless
Then, in the 10th. Weaver's
left jab found its mark He hit
Holmes w ith a walloping right
hand that hurt the champ with
less than 10 seconds left, and
the crowd resumed it's chant:
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tional League playoffs the
preceding season. That left
the opening to move Foster,
and his bat, into the starting
lineup. By 1975 he had be-
come an established 300
hitter with power.
He's a player not addicted
to slumps. "I try to maintain
a positive attitude," he says.
"My religious principles
support me."
Religion creeps frequently
into his conversation. When
he signs autographs, he fre-
quently tacks on a Biblical
phrase? When “fans get on
him from the stands, George
claims, I think of some
scriptures "
So outwardly, he always
looks placid, calm. But in-
side the cauldron boils more
than he lets on. . 2
Early. in his years with
Cincinnati, hounded by feel-
ings of inadequacy and by a
persecution complex, he
went to a hypnotist for treat-
ment
The George Foster you see
before you today is more
composed, assured and
aware.
“I'm sorry,” he says, "I
snapped at- you when you
first came up to talk to me "
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By JOHN NELSON
AP Sports Writer '
NEW YORK ( AP) - Mike
“Hercules" Weaver probably
is not a name that will be
remembered for long. Except,
perhaps, by Larry Holmes.
They called Hercules a tune-
up They called him a bum
They said he wasn't worthy to
fight for the world
heavyweight championship
Network television shunned
the fight because it wouldn't
sell.
But Friday night in Madison
Square Garden, 26-year-old
Mike Weaver, who fought his
first professional fight in 1972
for $85, proved there might
really be a "Rocky Balboa."
Holmes still has his World
Boxing Council championship
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Edith Beyer was the week's
top bowler at the Tejas
Bowling Lanes in Stephenville
league action. Beyer bowls for
the Dairy Maids in the
Wednesday afternoon league.
She rolled a 217 for the top
honors.
Other high bowlers include:
Pat Ross, 187, bowling for the
Young and Restless in the
- Indies Twilight league. In the
Wednesday Night Mixed
league it was Emn Gaddy with
a 197 bowling for the
Shoestrings and Randy Gill
with a 194 bowling for the
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SAN REMO. Italy (AP) -
An world heavyweight title
fight in South Africa before a
record crowd of 100,000 fans
would be Gerrie Coetzee's
reward if he manages to
defeat American Leon Spinks
in a 12-round fight in Monte
Carlo Sunday.
Coetzee, a 24-year-old un-
beaten professional from
Boxburg. South Africa, is
confident he can do it.
A victory against Spinks will
earn him a place in the World
Boxing Association heavy-
weight title bout against John
Tate of the United States, who
made the finals of the elimina-
tion series by defeating
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -
Kansas City may still be run-
nerup to the New York Yan-
kees in the American League, -
but ball fans here do have one
first-place claim.
"Trash Ball," a citizen-parti-
cipation game invented by the
Kansas City Clean Qty Com-
mission, won first-place honors
in the 1978 Keep America
Beautiful Awards program.
The local trash-ball campaign •
urged residents to battle litter
by tossing it into a trash can
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Pitcher John Clarkson won 53
games for the Chicago Cubs in 1
1885.
Cross Timbers Air, 4-1. De Nelson with two for three were
Leon had six hits and six the leading hitters.
errors. Sharon Robinett with Cross Timbers Ice 22
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SAN FRANCISCO (NEAi
He sits in one of those bare
cubicles, without privacy,
that are the norm for base-
ball dressing room architec-
ture. He’s on a short stool
without back or arms And
his face is sunk into his
cupped hands, only the steel
wool of his black hair show-
ing. .
George Foster, who banks
more than $4,500 every time
the Cincinnati Reds take the
field for a National League
baseball game, is not a
camieo of jubilation
His right leg is bare to the
knee and heavily swollen ■
around the ankle.
My God," he's thinking
to himself. "imagine.what it .
was like for Dave Parker
"asks how Foster's life has always have, living by the
been affected by the afflu- principles of Jesus Christ. I
ence that Jias come to him in__don't see any change."________
1979. The difference, of course.
You see, after threatening is that George Foster has *
to play out his option to become a celebrity baseball
become a free agent, Foster player He is someone to
was signed to a whopping listen to, or we are geared to
three-year Reds contract believe that
that calls for more than “Back when no one was
$700,000 per annum, which aware of me," muses Fos-
was more than the club was ter,."I said the same things
willing to pay his ebullient that I do now And no one
ex-teammate Pete Rose.- paid any attention But now
Rose and Parker are the people listen to me because I
only two men in baseball have the stats."
earning more than George. Well, the statistics show
“Why do you ask me that that George Foster, age 30.
question?" he reacts testily is the premier power hitter
to the query about affluence. in baseball today and has
"You ask Pete Rose that’’’ been for the last three years.
No. But Rose is not in He has led the National
town. George' Foster is. League in the important cat-
Women’s Softball
Friday, June 22
E-Bar Ranch 23
K-Mart 12
E-Bar Ranch defeated K-
Mart, 23-12. E-Bar had 13 hits
and six errors. B Strickland
with three for four and P.
Owens and B. Lee with two for
three were the leading hitters.
K-Mart had five hits and seven
errors. Sharon Parsons was
the leading hitter with one for
one.
De Leon Bank 4
Cross Timbers Air 1
.De Leon Bank slipped by
belt, but only by the grace of a .14,136 fans at the 'Garden
tremendous right uppercut conjuring up visions of Rocky
that seemed to come from in his ragsto-riches movi
nowhere. Some of the fight against world champion
ringsiders didn't even see it Apollo Creed.
"Yeah, it hurt, but I wasn’t Did the referee say anything
finished," Weaver said of to Weaver when he stopped
Riviera resort for the fight
scene in the nearby prin-
cipality of Monaco, -
Tucker said Coetzee “has
good chances to down Spinks
because he is in outstanding
condition and because his box-
ing technique is better."
Spinks, 25, a former world
champion with a point
decision victory over All in his
record and also Olympic and
Pan American Games titles,
was not talkative as the fight
approached.
"It is a sign he is con-
centrating. that he already is
thinking ahqut his opponent."
his manager, Hank Groom,
said.
swear I couldn’t see the man,
but I kept on fighting Any
man who believes I should
have quit should die and go to
hell".
Holmes, 29, of Easton, Pa.,
kept his flawless record intact
with the victory, going 31-0
with 22 knockouts. He weighed
215 Holmes' next fight is
planned for September
against Earnie Shavers
Weaver, of Los Angeles,
now has a record of 20-9 with
12 knockouts He weighed 202
for the fight
in a 10-round welterweight
preliminary, which many
thought would be the best fight
of the night, former light-
weight champion Roberto
Duran, 145‛a; of Panama,
scored a unanimous and
rather lopsided decision over
Carlos Palomino, 1453a, of
Huntington Beach, Calif
in a 10-round heavyweight
prelim, a rotund Jimmy
Young of Philadelphia, at 235
pounds at least '20 pounds
overweight, stopped Wendell
Bailey of Baltimore at 2:37 of
the third round, when the
referee stopped the fight
Bailey. 20312, won the first
round and many ringsiders
thought Young was headed for
a quick shower But the wily
30-year-old ring veteran held
on to finish the round and
came back strong in the
second and third Young now
has a record of 23-8-2 with
eight knockouts, and Bailey
dropped to 13-2 with three
KOs
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