The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 190, Ed. 1 Monday, August 11, 1975 Page: 3 of 8
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Monday, August 11, 1975-THE ENNIS DAILY NEWS-3
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Smith, New Astro Mgr.,
Brings 14 Years' Majors
Experience to Team
Talbot Smith, 41, named
general manager of the Houston
Astros baseball club, will bring
with him 18 years of experience
in Major League baseball which
includes three with the Cin-
cinnati reds, 13 with Houston
and two with the New York
Yankees.
“Tal will have complete
responsibility for and authority
to operate the baseball club,”
stated Pres. Shlenker upon
making the appointment.
Smith comes to Houston from
the New York Yankees of the
American League’s Eastern
Division where he has served as
executive vice president since
Nov. 1, 1973.
He was previously with the
Houston baseball organization
from Nov. 1, 1960, until leaving
to take a position with the
Yankees. His initial position attended
Astrodome-Astrohall Stadium
Corp. One year late he went
with the Yankees.
Upon making the ap-
pointment, Shlenker said, ‘‘All
of us are happy to have Tal
Smith back. He was very in-
strumental in development of
many fine players in the past
and he has done an exceptional
job over the past two years with
the Yankees.
“I would publicly like to thank,
Gabe Paul (president of the
New York Yankees) for his
understanding and his help. Tal
was a very important cog in the
Yankees’ future plans and while
Gabe was personally reluctant
to release him, he agreed to do
so because of his admiration
and respect for Tal.”
Smith was born Sept. 27, 1933,
in Framingham, Mass. He
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JOE LOWRY (SENIOR - 5"I0" - 185) will be the pivot man from his center
slot in the Lion offensive forward wall. Go Lions...Beat Athens!!!
Essary Welcomes
153 Grid Hopefuls
The National League made it
four in a row and 12 out of 13
when it beat the American
League 6-3 in the 1975 All-Star
game in Milwaukee.
Military
with Houston was assistant ot Academy in Culver, Ind., then
the general manager. Duke University in Durham,
Smith was then elevated to N.C. He received his bachelor of
farm director in April of 1961 at arts and business ad-
the age of 27. Exactly two years ministration degree from Duke
later , he was named assistant to in 1955. He was a lieutentant in
the president and acted the Air Force for two years,
primarily as a liason for HSA His first job in professional
during construction of the baseball was as secretary for
Astrodome. the farm department of the
Then in December of 1965 Cincinnati Reds in 1957. In
Smith was appointed vice March of 1958, he was named
president and director of player assistant farm director of the
personnel, responsible for Reds. He remained in that
scouting and development of capacity until 1960 when he
players. joined the Houston
In November of 1972 he was organization.
His early professional
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MIKE LEAKS (JUNIOR - 5'11" - 170) will be returning for his 2nd year on
the Lion varsity. Leaks saw considerable action in the Lion defensive secon-
dary last season. Go Lions...Beat Athens!!!
controlled scrimmages. These
dates will be Friday, August
22nd and August 29th. Let’s
back the Lions in these two
scrimmages and have the ball
rolling when the Athens Hornets
roll in here for an encounter
with the Lions September 5th.
Go Lions...Beat Athens!!!
Coach Don Essary and his
staff welcomed 153 grid
hopefuls this morning as two-a-
day drills got underway. The
Lions will workout in shorts
through Thursday. Then it gets
down to the nitty gritty and
blood-n-guts as pads will be
issued.
The Lions will continue drills
twice daily Friday and
^Saturday and cut back to the
usual daily practice next
Monday, the first day of classes.
Lion fans will have the op-
portunity to see the Lions in INDIANAPOLIS - It’ll be the
action twice before the season p0wer of Wimbledon champion
starts as we will entertain Arthur Ashe against the finese
Center and Sulphur Springs in of Manual Orantes of Spain
.. __ when the two meet tonight in
i MWa o Indianapolis for the U-S Clay
» C D H T 31 Court Tennis Championship
After starring in the All-Star
game, southpaw Jon Matiack of
the New York Mets lost his
next start to Atlanta, the result
of two infield errors.
named vice president and
director of operations for
The football team at Roches-
ter, N.Y., is known as the Yel-
low Jackets.
ex- work with Sporting News
perience includes six years in Magazine in St. Louis, Mo., and
the Cape Cod Standard-Times in June of 1956. They have two
Haynnis, Mass.
children -- Valerie Jo (17) and
He married Jonnie Adams in Randy (12).
SPORTS
SCENE
Jockey Jorge Velasquez has
won the United Nations Handi-
cap at Atlantic City four times.
while Miss Fronholtz picked up
five thousand for finishing
second.
Uruguay’s Fiorella Bonicelli
and Colombia’s Isabel Fer-
nandez won the women’s
doubles. They defeated the too-
seeded team of Gail Chanfreau
of France and Julie Heldman of
Houston 3-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Southern Methodist plays its
first three football games of the
fall on the road and under
lights.
commercial radio, summer newspaper assignment work for
1st of the week
Only change in Stanford’s
1975 football schedule over 1974
finds the Cardinals playing host
to Army on Oct. 4.
The reconstruction of New
York’s Yankee Stadium and
surrounding projects will cost
more than $57 million.
New York City’s National
Boat Show is listed for Jan. 10-
18.
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NEWTON, Massachusetts --
The week-long U-S Women’s
Amateur Golf Championship
gets underway today in Newton,
Massachusetts. A record field of
150 will tee off in the 75th annual
tournament. Cynthia Bill of
Colorado Springs, Colorado is
trying to become the first
player in 35 years to win con-
secutive titles in the event.
LEWISTON, New York - Jay
Sigel has played in 15 of 17
Porter Cup Amateur Golf
Tournaments. After finishing as
runnerup three times he
finally gained the top spot.
Sigel, of Berwyn, Pennsylvania,
shot a final round 69 for a six-
under-par 274. He won the
tournament in Lewiston, New
York by nine strokes.
1
o The winner gets the 16-thousand
jj, dollar first prize. The 26-year-
* old Orantes upset top-seeded
* Guillermo Vilas of Argentina 6-
-- 4, 6-2 in the semi-finals
yesterday to get a crack at
Ashe.
Orantes teams up with fellow
Spaniard Juan Gisbert in
today’s final match in men’s
doubles. They beat Argentina’s
Richard Cano and Chile’s Belus
Prajoux 7-5,6-2 yesterday.
They’ll meet Wojtek Fibax of
Poland and Hans Pohmann of
West Germany. Those two upset
the number-one seeded team of
Brian Gottfried of Florida and
Mexico’s Paul Ramirez, 6-3,6-7,
6-4.
INDIANAPOLIS - Top-
seeded Chris Evert has won her
fourth consecutive U-S Open
Clay Court Championship. She
beat Australian Diane
Fronholtz 6-3, 6-4 yesterday in
Indianapolis. Miss Evert
pocketed ten thousand dollars
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AKRON, Ohio -- Jack Nicklaus
has added one more title to his
impressive list of pro golf
victories, he carded a one-over-
par 71 in the final round of the
57th P-G- national cham-
pionship in Akron, Ohio to
capture his 16th major title.
Nicklaus ended up with a 276
total to garner the 45-thousand
dollar first prize yesterday.
EUGENE, Oregon -- Bruce
Jenner has set a world
decathlon record. His per-
formance boosted the United
States past the Soviet Union and
Poland in the 1975 international
• decathlon meet in Eugene,
Oregon yesterday. The 25-year-
old salesman from San Jose,
California compiled eight
thousand-524 points in the two-
day competition.
Jenner broke Russian
Nikolay Avilov’s mark of eight
thousand-454 set at the 1972
Olympics in Munich. He also
toppled the American record of
eight thousand-417 set by Bill
Toomey six years ago.
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Casebolt, Floyd W. The Ennis Daily News (Ennis, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 190, Ed. 1 Monday, August 11, 1975, newspaper, August 11, 1975; Ennis, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth777812/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ennis Public Library.