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National League Roundup THE BATTALION TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1981 Page 11 mirts (28! md polo: imraing nt is av ' rental, ■ . and Easli 1 pan. a 10 p.m. Idfiouse 8 p.m. 6 p.m. dball Cor pled du on-Fri) nurts 10 pan, 10 p.m. loom ) 2 p.m. 1 pan. Pool p.m. i p.m. Now you’ve got it Staff photo by Greg Gammon Amy Gloss, sophomore tennis player for the Texas Aggies, carefully watches Flo McDo nald, 15, of Killeen go through the motions of the two-handed backhand. Gloss is one of the coordinators for the Texas A&M Tennis Camp underway this week at the tennis courts. The camp, sponsored by Aggie Ten nis Coach David Kent and Dr. Ronnie Smith is divided into three sessions this summer. The first session has 104 partici pants from all over the state ranging from 8 years of age to 18. The camp features indi vidual instruction from some top players in the area, including current Texas A&M players. Each camper puts in at least five hours of tennis per day. The second session begins Monday, June 8th, the third, July 5th. Hall-of- Famers find time to reminisce about past ty -, 30fortliei United Press International EW YORK — For 14 years, i never had much time for each |>er and you had to know the character of them both to understand. I Oh, they’d say hello whenever ley happened to pass and there Itainly was no personal animos- [eforSlOti (ybetween them, but they were a A&M IM Siiple of gutbusting competitors ept. oal jn (he purest sense of the word, pt. 19 * Ihi y were on opposite sides, and 26 Loiii'IVillie Mays and Bob Gibson were <as Tccl always trying so hard to beat 17 at Hi (everyone, they both wound up in )ct. 31' thi Hall of Fame. ; Nov. 2! It was altogether different now, is. Ipigh. The tw'o of them were lilable f#! completely relaxed sitting nas games |gether Sunday in the New York _-4Mets’ clubhouse at Shea Stadium Rlore a ball game with the Chica go Cubs, Mays holding the keys to >aterf#carin his hand and looking like |e just came from the golf course | his dark blue sport shirt and light blue slacks and Gibson, one of joe Torre’s coaches, already in hi*. Mets’ home uniform. 4 Hearing them begin to talk ab out the “old days, ” which actually feren’t so long ago for either the 50 year-old Mays or the 45-year- ;dld Gibson, hoth of whom look as if they can still play, Torre sat JW [fmii to listen on one of the club’s 'thinks across from them and out fielder Lee Mazzilli camped him- f If on another one. You know how you usta hold the ball behind you. like this? Millie laughed, getting up to de- lonstrate to Gibson. “Well, we |(|)uld tell what was cornin’ by the jay you put your fingers around the seams. We could see it. “I knew you could, Gibson let I/l Him know, getting up himself and IL 1 [ assuming his old pitching posi- Jon, “but I was doing all kinds of Jttle things with the ball. See, like liis!” “You mean you knew?” Vlays * . j J ijiquired incredulously. iflfilf “Sure, I did, Gibson laughed. I “Gene Mauch (now managing , j fce Angels but then managing the • f® Phillies) usta’whistle to let the hit ters know what was coming when I pitched against them,” Gibson ent on. T’d hear him whistling [id I’d change what I was gonna row. I’d just move my fingers differently across the seams, that’s Mays shook his head in disbe lief. He jumped to another sub- pt, talking about how much nore the pitchers would throw at jhe hitters then than they do now. “They usta’ throw at you like Bogs and we didn’t have any hel- fmets when I first came np, he aid. itudenli :re in i?- RSJ or Inge 45 and you were 25 when I got here.” “Shoooot, Willie came right back at him. “I started when I was 18 in Trenton, New Jersey, spent three months there and then went to Minneapolis. I came up to the Giants from Minneapolis when I was 18. The guys — the reporters — they changed my age when I got older. But I’m 50. I’m an old man now.” ‘You’re not old,” Gibson offered. “Sure I am,” Mays laughed some more. “But I see all these young guys wantin’ to fight now just because somebody throws at ‘em and I remember the way it was when I first came up. They’d throw at you the whole first week just to test you and see if you could take it. And remember, we didn’t wear any helmets. But we never had any fights, did we?” “Nahh, Gibson fibbed a little. ‘‘We never had any fights.” “We’d throw at you and you’d bail out,” Torre needled Mays but maybe Willie didn’t hear him, be cause he didn’t bother answering back. “Talking about pitchers knock ing guys down, did you ever hear the story about Ernie Banks and Tony Cloninger?” Torre asked. No one had, so the Mets’ manager proceeded to tell it. “You know how Ernie talks all the time — “it’s a great day to play two’ and all that — well, Clonin ger was pitching for us and Ernie told our first baseman he could hit Tony with a wet rag. “Word got back to Tony what Ernie had said and he knocked him down three straight times. Ernie had enough. He told Tony, I’m sorry’ and Tony said, ‘okay.’ Next time he came up, Ernie went right down on his ears again. And what about “The Deacon? He’d knock you down every time you faced him and then tell you he was sorry.” “Who was “The Deacon? ” Mays wanted to know. “Vein Law,” Torre informed him. “Oh, yeah,” Willie said. “I re member him real good.” “So do I,” Gibson put in. Mays talked about some of the other players he remembered. “What about Bob Veale with Pittsburgh?” he said. “He could really throw. He was pitching against us and when I came up, he took his glasses off to wipe ‘em. After he did, he put ‘em back in his pocket. I said, ‘wait a minute’ and called time. Shoot, ! wasn’t gonna hit until he put his glasses back on. Not me.” Day students get their news from the Batt. th< “How old are you?” Gibson (fahted to know. Fifty, ’ Willie answered him. “Fifty?” Gibby repeated ques- tioningly. “How can that be? “I’m DIETING? Even though we do not prescribe diets, we make it possible for many to enjoy a nutritious meal while they follow their doctors orders. You will be delighted with the wide selection of low calorie, sugar free and fat free foods in the Souper Salad Area, Sbisa Dining Center Basement. OPEN Monday through Friday 10:45 AM-1:45 PM QUALITY FIRST Templeton wants to be traded to team closer to California United Press International One day after St. Louis shortstop Garry Templeton voiced his desire to be dealt to a West Coast team, he went 3-for-4 and drove in two runs to spark the Cardinals to a 4-2 triumph over Montreal. “I ain’t got nothing to say fellas, sorry, Templeton told reporters after Monday night’s victory in Busch Stadium. “Find someone else to talk to. But Sunday, after he had been dropped down in the Cards’ batting order, he had plen ty to say, telling the media he wanted to play on a team closer to his California home. He even tried to help St. Louis Manager and Gen eral Manager Whitey Herzog figure out a deal with San Diego. Before the game against the Expos, howev er, Templeton released a statement that said his words had been distorted. “The trouble with the press is that if you don’t talk to them, they get on your case — and if you do talk to them, you are either mis quoted, or misunderstood, or exaggerated,” he said. Rookie John Martin, 2-1, and Bruce Sutter, who notched his ninth save, combined on a five-hitter as St. Louis moved past Montreal into second place in the Eastern Division be hind Philadelphia. Herzog said it’ll be a cold summer day in St. Louis before he even thinks about trading his .307 lifetime hitter. In other games, Philadelphia edged New York, 5-4, Los Angeles downed Atlanta, 5-2, and Cincinnati rallied past San Francisco, 8-5. Phillies 5, Mets 4 Pinch-hitter George Vukovich’s eighth-inning infield single scored Greg Gross from third with two out to rally the Phillies. Reliever Sparky Lyle, 4-1, picked up the win and Tug McGraw pitched the ninth for his fifth save. Dodgers 5, Braves 2 Fernando Valenzuela pitched a seven-hitter and struck out 11 to become the major leagues’ first nine-game winner. In snapping a personal two-game losing streak, Valenzuela took over the major-league lead in strikeouts with 90 and in innings pitched with 99. Reds 8, Giants 5 Ray Knight’s one-out, bases-loaded single in the ninth snapped a 5-5 tie and Dan Driessen capped the four-run outburst with a two-run double to rally the Reds. Darrell Evans crack ed a two-run homer for the Giants. Brett finds himself, leads KC past Seattle in American League play United Press International Keeping cool is the only way to get hot. Defending AL batting cham pion George Brett found himself losing his composure at the plate in Bloomington, Minn., against the Minnesota Twins and was cal led in for a chat by manager Jim Frey Saturday morning. “I can’t say what he (Frey) said, Brett said. “But he wasn’t too happy with me. I don’t know if I was feeling sorry for myself or what but I know I was reaching the point of no return. “So I decided to go up there and start to enjoy myself again . I felt really good tonight. I hope this is a start. Frey’s advice was simple. He told Brett to just be himself. “I don’t want to make a big deal about it, said Frey of the meeting with Brett. “It was something I felt I had to do. Sometimes guys of the George Brett caliber try to car ry the whole load. They can’t do it. No one can. So I say, Just be natu ral. Be yourself. It’ll be good enough.”’ Brett’s eighth-inning single off loser Larry Andersen, 1-3, knock ed in the winning run and gave the Royals their fifth triumph in their last six games. Yankees 5, Indians 3 Dave Winfield and Bucky Dent belted solo homers to highlight a 14-hit attack that sparked New York. Doug Bird, who has not lost a game since Aug. 16, 1978, went five innings to notch his 11th straight victory and fourth of this Tigers 4, Brewers 3 Pinch-runner Mick Kelleher scored from third base on Lynn Jones’ ground single up the mid dle — his fourth hit of the game — with one out in the 12th inning to give the Tigers a triumph. Angels 3, Blue Jays 0 Ken Forsch fired a three-hitter and Butch Hobson and Dan Ford belted solo home runs to spark California. Forsch, 7-3, posted his sixth complete game and third shutout. San Diego owner claims he never wanted to move United Press International LOS ANGELES — A member _ ’ Le ;eles Coliseum Com mission has contradicted testimony given by San Diego Chargers’ owner Eugene Klein, who had told tL _ ...y he never expressed any interest in moving his team to Los Angeles Commission member William Robertson testified Monday at the trial of the Coliseum-Oakland Raider antitrust suit against the NFL and the Los Angeles Rams that Klein had told him in 1978, “I would love to come to Los Angeles.” Robertson said Klein had told him his lawyers had checked the Chargers’ lease with the stadium in San Diego “and we can’t break it.” Klein testified last week he “never under any circumstances said or intimated that I had any interest in moving” to the Los Angeles Coliseum. 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