Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 183, Greencastle, Putnam County, 7 April 1980 — Page 9

With The Real major leaguers on strike, it really is hard to tell the players apart without a scorecard. But 10-year-old Adam Schrieder, a batboy for the Baltimore Orioles during spring training at Miami, was more than a little confused that a bevy of youngsters besieged him for an autograph. But who knows, with the player strike, little Adam may be the only uniformed Oriole in sight. (AP Wirephoto).

Tiger Cubs bats blanked 1-0 onSouthmont diamond

Greencastle’s varsity baseball team did everything but win its game Saturday at South mont. The Tiger Cubs outhit the Mounties, made fewer errors and got an excellent sixstrikeout, one-walk pitching performance from righthander Chuck Johnson. But the Mounties made a fourth-inning tally stand up for a 1-0 victory. “LOOKING AT the scorebook, it’s kind of difficult to believe we got beat,” coach Stan Ward said. Southmont scored its only run on a passed ball by catcher Jim

Babe Ruth plans There will be a Fillmore-Reelsville Babe Ruth baseball meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8 at the South Putnam High School library. Boys age 13-15 are eligible to play in the league. All interested players and parents should attend Tuesday’s meeting. Anyone with questions, or anyone desiring more information may call Jim Costin at 526-2484. Women organize softball schedule Teams interested in playing in the Women’s Softball League this summer should contact one of the following persons by this Friday, April 18: Dede Black (653-6256), Pat Miller (653-9244) or Kathy Pieper (653-6208). Friday will be the deadline for entries so that this summer’s schedule may be made up.

Brownie points: Hawks' Hubie 'unique among pro basketball coaches'

c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service ATLANTA Doesn’t anybody else see it? Are they all blind? Just outside of the arena in which the six-digit salaries play, the street is waiting to reclaim them all. Hubie Brown admits he sees the street, where people cannot afford telephones or cars or private houses, where lurking poverty and terminal despair menace him just as they menaced his late father. He admits this vision of the street is what drives hifh to be the fiercest coach in professional basketball, one who prowls the sidelines cursing and instructing every member of the Atlanta Hawks. This driven man has willed his players into 50 victories this season, has turned them into a physically fearless outfit that will punish the Philadelphia 76ers no matter who wins their Eastern Conference semifinal-round playoff war, despite the 76ers’ edge by taking the first game Sunday. As a team of “over-achievers,” by their coach’s admission, the Hawks have the reputation as the only team in the National Basketball Association that will play 82 hard regular-season games, that will race the length of the court every second of every game. “Hubie is unique among all pro coaches,” says Lewis Schaffel, who left as general manager in Atlanta this season. “He has an utter fear of failure. He must succeed.” This “fear” has led to broken friendships, stormy working alliances, feuds with journalists and players, and ejections from the last two games this season, one of them a physical removal by security guards. Brown wants his players to become the fittest who will survive. “This is the land f Mary Poppins, the land of make-believe,” Brown says in his tense, New Jersey dockworker accent. “When their little world evaporates, there’s only 10 percent of them ready for the real world. I tell them, ‘Avoid the street,’ but. hey, it’s the same for me, Jack I’m only half-a-stepfrom the street ”

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Black, a Tiger Cub who prides himself on defense. “Jim won’t have four passed balls all year,” Ward said, “and considering he’ll catch in the

The 46-year-old Brown is often depicted as the ultimate employee for Ted Turner, the brash and demanding “Mouth of the South,” whose broadcasting network owns the Hawks. With Turner, winner of yachting’s America’s Cup, often leading cheers and boos from the audience, people in Atlanta are beginning to acknowledge the Yankee game that has been barely surviving most of its 13 seasons here. At lunch in Reggie’s Pub in the lavish Omni complex the other day, the coach whose piercing eyes and feline posture have a trace of Paul Newman or Steve McQueen, was asked to autograph a few cocktail napkins. Life is good, Brown admits, but only as long as the players do exactly what he says. As the victories increase each year, several people wonder where his intensity is taking him. Practice time. The Hawks are awaiting the end of the mini-series between Washington and Philadelphia, and Brown is fearful their bodies and their minds will grow soft. In the steamy Morehouse College gym, he begins the practice with a characteristic huddle in center court. “We have carried your butt for years,” Brown’s voice carries throughout the gym. “You’ve got no excuses. Horsefeathers. Don’t give me that bull.” The object of his tirade is not some substitute, well-selected to be the whipping boy, but rather John Drew, the graceful forward who has been the Hawks’ leading scorer during all six of his seasons in the league. The day before, Drew missed practice because, he said, he had a toothache, and this day Brown vilifies Drew in front of his teammates. People say this is a daily occurrence between the coach and this player. Drew takes the verbal lashing without a twitch in his supple frame. Then the coach sends the team out to practice specific moves, as if the players were junior varsity sophomores performing agility drills. For all his swaggering longshoreman’s posture, Brown is first of all a teacher who has spent more time in high-school classrooms than in professional

neighborhood of 3,000 pitches, that’s not going to happen very often. The pitch was low and outside and he got his glove on it and actually thought he had it.

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Portland rookie eats his words

ByALEXSACHARE AP Sports Writer “Nobody blows out the world champions,” said Seattle’s Dennis Johnson, responding to a prediction made by Portland’s brash Billy Ray Bates regarding Sunday’s deciding game of their playof f mini-series, and he was right. The Sonics, defending National Basketball Association champions, raced to a 25-point thirdquarter lead and breezed to a 103-86 victory over the Trail Blazers to win their first-round series 2-1. Next on the agenda for the Sonics, who are bidding to become the NBA’s first repeat champions since the Boston

locker rooms. (After playing at Niagara University in the 19505, he had not been invited to try out for the NBA.) After the drills. Brown begins a scrimmage that is more like the practice of a Japanese volleyball team than anything in this high-salaried American sport. The Hawks throw themselves around the gymnasium like kamikaze pilots, all elbows and knees, and players go reeling against the bleachers. But Brown does not even notice when a player drops out until the player raises his hand to go back into the scrimmage. After practice, Drew gulps down a quart of fruit juice, a dreamy smile on his face. He says: “Hubie gets on me, but I don’t let it bother me. Everybody needs motivation in a different way, and that’s the way he motivates me. Even if he was buddy-buddy with us, we might not be winners, and that’s all that matters. I can’t say I know the man very well, but I like him.” At lunch Hubie Brown talks about himself. “I tell the players I don’t love them,” he says. “I don’t want them to love me. Nuts to that. I don’t even believe in loyalty, and let me tell you why: “These blankety guys, they think they’ve got it tough, but, man, I had it just as tough. No telephone, no car, I never even lived in a private house until after I got married. “My father put in 19 years at the Kearny docks, over in New Jersey. At the end of the war he got laid off, like everybody else. He got a job in the Singer factory for SIOO a week, not bad money, but after three months, Kearny called him back and said they were reopening. He went back there, and three weeks later they closed down for good. By now every job in New Jersey was taken. My father lost everything. That’s loyalty. They hosed him over, but good. “My father was a helluva man Charlie Brown he’s a legend in New Jersey. He took a job as the janitor at St. Mary’s High School in Elizabeth, where I was going to school. He made SSO a week,

portunities. They squandered chances in each inning, Ward said, and left eight men on base for the game. “We played everyone,” Ward added. “We’re still looking for our set lineup ~ maybe we’ll know by the weekend.” The Cubs, who were scheduled to host Fountain Central Monday afternoon, will be visited by Rockville Saturday. THE PITCHING of Johnson was a real bright spot for the Tiger Cubs Saturday. “He pitched a really good ball game,” praised Ward, who said the

Celtics of 1968-69, are the Midwest Division champion Milwaukee Bucks. That best-of-seven second-round set opens in Seattle Tuesday night. “Milwaukee has a much better outside dimension than Portland,” said Sonics Coach Lenny Wilkens. “We’re gonna have to be ready for that.” One second-round series got under way Sunday, with the Philadelphia Flyers rallying behind Julius Erving in the final period to beat the Atlanta Hawks 107-104. The other second-round matchups were determined Sunday when the Phoenix Suns and Houston Rockets won the third games of their respective mini-

righthander has mastered a curveball and is mixing his pitches well. Johnson, who absorbed the loss despite allowing only three hits, gave way to Mark Braden with two outs in the bottom of the sixth. Braden, coming in with a runner at third base, struck out the only batter he faced. The Greencastle junior varsity made it a split for the day at Southmont, beating the home team 4-2. R H E Greencastle 0000000 -0 4 1 Southmont 000 100 x- 1 3 3 Johnson. Braden (6) and Black; Brewer and Todd. WP - Todd. LP - Johnson.

series. Phoenix beat the Kansas City Kings 114-99 and will next face Los Angeles, while Houston won its Texas showdown with the San Antonio Spurs 141-120 and will take on Boston. Those series open in Los Angeles Tuesday and Boston Wednesday. Sonics 103, Blazers 86 Gus Williams led Seattle’s balanced attack with 21 points as the Sonics took command early and never relinquished it. Seattle led 71-46 early in the third quarter and 80-65 going into the final period, saw Portland close within nine but turned aside that challenge with a 12-2

and he worked his butt off seven days a week until he could find something better. My father taught me how to survive, Jack.” At St. Mary’s, Brown was the star athlete under A 1 Loßalbo (“the coach who influenced my life more than any other”). He also learned from Taps Gallagher at Niagara and Hal Fischer, his coach at the Army base at the Presidio in San Francisco and now an assistant with the Knicks. After the service, Brown went back to Niagara for his master’s degree in order to teach, and in the summers he worked on construction gangs. “I’d be lumping for seven masons, carrying cement and cinder blocks,” he says. “If I was slow with the cement, they’d say, ‘Hey, Jack, down the road.’ And I’d be back at Local 711 trying to get another job. That’s all we’re asking these blanketyblanks to do—earn their pay.” Brown is proud of the economics of the Hawks, whose annual payroll, he says, was $1.4 million when he joined. “We had some real idiots,” he says. “Guys so spaced out, they didn't know what day it was. I got rid of them ... well, most of them. Every team still has a couple, but I’ve got a saying. I think John F. Kennedy said it first: ‘The dogs bark but the caravan keeps rolling.’ ” Within a year Brown boasted that the Hawks were “an SBOO,OOO team” the lowest payroll in the league. The counsel for the players, Larry Fleisher of New York, says the Hawks were “cutting players not on the basis of ability but because of their salaries.” Brown admits he was’ “nervous” about how to handle professional players but says he found Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson, “just like my best high-school players the good ones want to be disciplined.” (The friendship with Costello did not survive the two seasons Brown spent at Milwaukee.)

April 7,1980, The Putnam County Banner Graphic

HR derby is DPU feast

As a between-games promotion Saturday, DePauw baseball coach Ed Meyer scheduled a home-run derby contest. It was like staging a wienie roast after the Chicago fire. It was a needless stunt indeed as Tiger fans saw seven DPU homers fly out of the home field in a 15-5 and 13-3 doubleheader sweep of lUPUI. DePauw banged out 27 hits on the day with roundtrippers coming from Tim Werner (a pair), Don Popravak and Tim Meyer in the first game and Mike Monnett, Terry Smith and Terry Decker in game two. THE TIGERS actually trailed 1-0 in the opener Saturday before the hit parade tuned up. When the dust had cleared 15 hits later, righthander Dave Finzer had the pitching victory with a distance-going, ninestrikeout performance. The sophomore transfer student from the University of Illinois, allowed only five hits and blanked the visitors after the first two innings. Werner, one of the Tiger tricaptains, had a big day in the opener with seven RBIs in addition to his two homers. Smith and Tim Meyer each had three hits and three RBl’s. In game two, the brilliant combination of great hitting and excellent pitching held true again. Not fatigued at all from trotting around the bases in the opener, the Tigers pounded out 12 hits to back sophomore Stu Ringel on the mound. RINGEL, WHO had pleased coach Meyer with three hitless innings on the team’s spring trip to Georgia last month, hurled the first four innings of the nightcap without yielding a hit. With the score 9-0, coach

spurt in a span of 3% minutes fora 94-75 lead. Bates led Portland with 26 points, while John Johnson added 18 points for Seattle. 76&s 107, Hawks 104 Philadelphia scored 37 points off its fast break, compared to 10 for Atlanta, in winning the series opener. Julius Erving led the Sixers with 28 points, including 11 in the final period. The Sixers trailed Atlanta 8781 with nine minutes to play, but Erving drove for a threepoint play that started a 12-0 surge that put Philadelphia ahead to stay. But the Sixers did not clinch the victory until, with 20 seconds to play and Atlanta

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TIM WERNER Powers two homers

Meyer got a look at two other young pitchers the rest of the way. Freshman Tom Weaver pitched two innings, allowing just two hits, while Kurt Jones finished up in the final frame. The homers by Smith, Decker (a freshman from the DPU pipeline at Clinton) and Cloverdale product Mike Monnett, again made it easy. Smith had two hits, as did Steve Clark. Ted Rutan went three-for-four for the Tigers who are now 4-3 on the season since returning for four straight at the friendly confines. THE TIGERS take to the road again this week for a single game Wednesday at Franklin with another road date Saturday. But after that, Meyer’s men return for 16 straight home dates. First Game lUPUI 140 000 0- 5 5 5 DePauw 510 234 x-15 15 1 Rogers. Quinlan (5) and Skaggs: Finzer and Monnett. Hohman (6). HRs-Wemer 2 <DI, Popravak (D), Meyer (D). Second Game lUPUI 000 010 2- 3 5 1 DePauw 214 20! x-13 12 0 Rice. Carter (3>, Perkins (7) and Vorris: Ringel. Weaver (5). Jones (71 and Monnett. Roberts (6). HRs-Monnett (D). Smith (D). Decker (D).

trailing by one, Erving hifr Bobby Jones with a lob pass for a layup. Suns 114, Kings 99 Center Alvan Adams had 19 points and 20 rebounds, making up for the absence of power forward Len “Truck” Robinson because of a knee injury, as Phoenix beat Kansas City. Rockets 141, Spurs 120 Moses Malone, who was hampered earlier in the series by a sprained ankle, scored 37 points and grabbed 20 rebounds for Houston, which pulled away from San Antonio with a 17-2 burst starting the second half for a commanding 75-56 lead.

HUBIE BROWN Coaching flair

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