The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1969 Page: 13 of 16
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By CHESTER ROGERS
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Hte son, Orag, 13, whose more forma] name is Gregory Clifford,
Stml^ put I* tally Id th« fro, utebm' hm of fun on.
He had never seen one before but had heard about the kind of
frog it was.
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iy’s Results
96, Boston 94
128, Detroit 106
122, Los Angeles
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2. Milwaukee 12
112, Chicago 104
, San Diego 108
i scheduled
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Baltimore
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It was a full-grown specimen, measured right at 18 inches long
and weighed maybe two pounds.
Stanley thought so much of It he drove right on into Houston
and made a present 6f it to the Houston Museum of Natural
Science where it still is making its home.
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Monday, February 3, 1969
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Baseball Player Strike Gets Nearer
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NEW YORK (AP) - DM
dent major league baseball
players, threatening strike ac-
tion in their bid for higher pen-
sion benefits, were set to hokU
strategy meeting today la
midtown hotel. /
Marvin Miller,
the 34 clubs to attend
am.'EOT, session.
/The players recently rejected
the dub owners' offer of a M
million Increase in contributions
to the pension hind by an over-
whelming margin. The Associa-
tion is talking strike, and the
players have been urged not to
sign 1989 contracts unto their
pension demands are met
Wfllie Mays, Bob Gibson and
Hank Aaron are among the top
of the no-sign campaign.
With the start of Spring Train-
tag less than a month away and
player-owner pension negotia-
tions at a standstill, the New
York meeting was caned to in-
form the players of the situation
and cHscusa possible courses of
action shewid the deadlock con-
The ewnsot pension ag
men! saptoes March 3L Player
contrasts asa supposed to bo
lad by aB dubs before Fab.
16 and tadoing camps are due
to opea hr pitchers snd catch-
ers Feb. 21, with the rest of the
piayere to report a weak later.
At taist one owner has threat-
ened to suspend operations for
the entire season if the players
Since the Museum had no other frog like it, they gave It royal
treatment, and still give It the best possible attention and care
Right now this partially albino hero of our story, like most good
frogs, is steeping it off in the comfort of winter hibernation
MRS. L. C. STANLEY and the rare Albino Bullforg.
Sophomore halfback Billy
Hunter of Levittown, Pa., re-
. turned 13 punts for 247 yards for
dare who have voiced support Army’s football team last season.
fall to report for Spring training, apart as ever on the main 1s-
MiOer, in turn, hat accused the
owners of attempting to wreck
the Players Association.
“I would my we are as far
former pteym from participat-
ing in any Improved benefits.
The players turned down the
owners' proposed $1 million pen-
sion boost by a 461-8 landslide
mall vote. Mod of them have In-
dicated they wW not sign con-
tracts until the Issue is resolved.
sues,” Miller said last week aft-
er three fruitless meetings with
the owners’ committee.
MDier says the owners have
sought to delete reference to
television revenue in the new
pension contract, although it is
mentioned In the old one. He
claims the owners also demand
the right to unilaterally liqui-
date the plan at the end of the
contract and want to exempt
However, aome came to term*
for 1989 before the dispute
boiled to a heed last month.
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Basketball Round-Up
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The rare frog was caught in some marsh areas near Votaw, which DICK COUCH John’s roiling againd Temple,
to mod of ui is just about the heart of what the famous Bifl Associated Press Sports Writer Soph Greg Jackson put in 21
ThicketofTexasoncewas. The Uttlest Lobo wean No. 00 of his 36 points in the second
The capture of the half green bulldrog was such an event it °» w* basketball shirt ... and half, leading IUinois pad Wb-
stopped the whole party from flogging that night. They jud had Minds M feet tall in New Maod- consin, and LaSalle buried Loy-
to admire that beautiful creature of the lowlands. ” ' jeo today. oia after running off 17 succes-
, „ n_nil0h ,nH .. Pdle Gibaon, a 6-foot-8 sopho- sive first half points for a 86-17
hbwif*’Ruth> “ w11 ««e Stanleys Lore, pumped in a 80-foot jump bulge.
^ . ' X Idiot at the buzasr lad Saturday Purdue grabbed the Big Ten
"f, w.. . X at Albuquerque, giving the Lo- Conference leed with a 44)mark
' th f°r c*tchln« hi* frogs because he car I bos a 88« triumph over arch ri- by subduing Ohio State 9645 in
.n. J,!!* t"23*r on the gig, drop the frog in ajdw sack, and wai. I val New Mexico State. overtime. The Buckeyes and
until tomorrow, ir he wants to, for the cleaning chores. It wss the pint-sized piaymak-lows are 4-1, Illinois 8-2 in
A grab gig opastes on the spring pjtaciple, s lot like a spring *’* ff l“‘he k*«ue ^
. keep them in excellent bu‘ “ 'omP!et*d *
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I Results
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entucky 1(11
Unneaota 37
dkna 113 ____*_
akland 106
i Game
powered varmint trap. Good frog hu.
jar“'y m *•—“ - “• h»”” “»—•* Ran: ss*
Bund,0,1. like ^ on l* C™« «»rt Kina. tad«l Cokwdo to
care of properly if they live up to expectations. Stanley, like most ToP-renk«l UCLA continued first Blg^Eight Conference loss,
the middle-size ones. The small ones haven’t | ^ ** Buffalos troubles
frog hunters, l..™. v
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.“"W* H?™.toT«.(«l*h-ltt,«d,«hte,l»dto lodudl*
cun dud malnutrition he suffered from unemployment, and so
far the work climate has agreed with him
straight in Pacific 8 Conference
89 in succession on
Miami
iTo^’SSrenlred 8-ita XakeS 1st
for another one of thoae vary tare partial albino bulldrogs.
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Ira Berkow
NBA -Sporls Columnist
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m* mmrmFace-off in the Street*—*’^
NEW YORK—(NEA)—By one player’s count this was
about the 10th fight of the hockey game. And it would be
the last, as it turned out. ' I to the UA Army borrowed hhn,
Eddie had told Joey he Would kick his butt if he didn’t ffg ^ Qtfcago ft and did it in 28 shots,
quit it, whatever it was. Joey said Oh Yeah? Yeah. And Ithe Loboato And Nicklaus walked away,
naturally a time out ensued. The goalie, biggest kid on'the I thie[r m-'i vlctory In M games hearted today for the Bob Hope
street, removed his mask and skated toward the pair. *»h a high-arching shot that ctenje ,t Palm Springs, with
“All right,” said the goalie, casually, authoritatively, «opped d«“>ty through the y,e 830,080 winner’s loot in an-
“don’t no one elsq put their two cents in. j*0™* “ the clock ran out. other rather unusqal situation.
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“Let’s makeacirolCr” someone else said. “Hold sUcks.”
Eddie and Joey were face to face in the center and the
..............rry of b<
lonely confrontation (age-eld hi the history of boyhood)
It’s going In,’
Mint coach Norm EDenberg.
“I’ve got a few bruises, too,'
said Gibson, a grandson of for-
mer semipro baseball great required.
Josh Gibson, who was
court by New
the winning shot.
slowly grew more real, more fearful—Inevitable. Now,
we sireei wiui meir rouer »«tca. I tin’s 40 points and 12 rebounds final round two strokes In front
paced North Cnollna's attack of Nicklius. .
jand Glenn VMnovfc hit for 28 to “Scoring,” NkklaeV conced-
Iowa’s upset of David- ed, “was pretty bad this week. I
With slow and invisible strokes, the night was jialntlng
the day gray. Street lamps had just been turned on, still
too earlv to do much good. Here on Greenwich Strett in the
Lower West Side, a solitary brave tree stood starkly
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whiter undress. The wind was crisp. Later, the hockay
plavers would sit at the supper table with faces flushed
and bodies aching sweetly and heads stuffed with Warmth.
Dan lad and Mike Casey ledlnament with my score after the
jKentucky past Vanderbilt with scons we had here bat year. A *,
The foes were in ffght pose. Eddie, a lean dark-haired * *nd 34 points, respectively, 284 is not a great score and 71 is
boy;.wwe^ blue New YorV Ranger jersey and skates tied |and Joe DePre’s IS kept St. not a great score.” - ^
to white sneakers. Joey was shorter and shaggy-blond and
his red Chicago Black'Hawk jersey fit tight over his belly.
Tulsa reeled off its eighth
Nicklaus
In SD Open)
Clara, idle last weekend, are the
only unbeaten major
power*.
No. 2 North Carolina boosted
its season mark to 14-1 with a
107-87 conquest of Maryland, but SAN DIEGO (AP) - Tom
fourthjanked Davidson fell to Weiskopf, a soldier stationed at
Iowa 3641 at CUcago. Ft. Polk, La., may be wrfnder-
in8 how Jack Nicklaus won the
Raw*
OHeans Loyola 1Q2-86 in Weiskopf, you see, won the
ot*wr __^ tournament a jfiar ago, before
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me as be jumped up saying, etaohes, win by one-and do it
In,’ ’ said Lobaa aa- wiiji a final round one-over par
78. Jack did ft.
Generally ~ something like
four-under in the last round is
As it turned out Nicklaus, the
jried, half-dragged from the Big Bear from Columbus, Ohio,
by New Mexico
fans aftar|defeated San Dtefo’s hometown
hero, Gene Littler, in a two man
iIiiaI QiiiuIsv
Lew Alctador scored 27 points dud Sunday,
for UCLA against Stanford as Littler’s artistic 67 over the
can’t believe I could win a tour-
“I don’t wanna hit him," said Eddie. “Hetf younger den
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“He’s fatter, too,” someone observed.
As in flareups at Madison Square Garden,
and gloves had been discarded and were st
gotten on the street. I »,
Joey was the aggressor and stalked Eddie, who back-
pedaled. Joey wound up and hurled a right haymaker that
missed the mark by half a block. Or nearly the distance
between the two “nets.” (The goals were actually three
skids formed in a “C" and taken from the nearby docks.)
Somehow the combatants now had entwined themselves
Into a ball near the curb. Eddie rolled On top. “I don’t
wanna hit him,” he repeated.
VI can’t fight with my skates oir,” said Joey, on his back.
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12-Adjusting to Conditions
A lot of the p r ds have
I certain methods that they
jgLMrtfr. a°d_fo^c<^ I practice, Dick Weber may
the boys to get up. Eddie s knee-length blue stockings with l^ant to gtart around
red stripes drooped and exposed catcher’s shin guards.
Joey flung high one roller skate with a bravado unwar-
ranted by his feats in combat. ‘4
The circle was broken and Eddie again stalked Joey, up
and down and up and down the street. Two others em-
braced and danced and chorused “Here Comes the Bride.”
third arrow. This may be
his normal shot, and he’ll
adjust depending on what the
lane conditions are doing
from there. I use the second
Another bored spectator skated away and, in lazy circles,
stick-handled a puck. ' . .
arrow as mv starting point
and adjust from there my*
Now the fighters were against the corrugated sliding
door of a warehouse. A man in a cap strolled by, stopped,
continued on. Steam rose from a sewer. A car with lights
ued on. Steam rose from a sewer. A Car with 1
passed. It seemed far, far away.
The two boys were entangled again and the aluminum
door grumbled as they tussled and then, motio
each other in headlocks.
then, motionless, held
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A crash startled everyone. A skid had blown down.
"This ain’t nothin',” someone said “It’s gettin’ dark.
I’m goin' home.” It seemed a good idea. *
Eddie and his brother were the last to leave. His brother
waited while Eddie, sitting on the curb, tied on his skates
and pulled his stockings over his shin guards.
“I didn’t wanna hit hlm,”-said Eddie. “I'm 12, gonna be
13. He's only 10, gonna be 11.1 coulda murderlized him.”
They skated off with languid, graceful strides.
Eddie found a tin can and he stick-handled it toward
home. He and his brother and the scraping sound faded
into the dimness of memory. X
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[ grooving their steps and arm
swing so that it’s the same
every time they get up to
| the foul line. Then work
that follow-through; follow-
through and reaching for
I their spot. These are the
Improving
biggest points, in Improving
their game, let’s say from a
170 to a 190 average. From
“1 on up it's just a matter
consistency, of bowling
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 119, Ed. 1 Monday, February 3, 1969, newspaper, February 3, 1969; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1057981/m1/13/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.