PAGE §, THE HERALD, Friday, October 14,197

i NEW YORK
‘Should Los Angeles Dodgers
0 on to win the 1977 World
Series, they ought to vote a
full share of the winners’
purse to a 52-year-old or-

‘thopedic surgeon and en-
rao his scalpel in the

(AP)

NEW YORK (AP) — Is
Catfish Hunter through?

It was a question that had
to be raised after the once-
brilliant pitcher was

unded for three booming

omers and five runs in just
2 1-3 innings Wednesday
night as Los Angeles
Dodgers trounced New York
Yankees 6-1 and evened the

‘He was the architect
behind Tommy: John’s
“bionic wing.”

“Tommy deserves all the
credit, not I,” says the
modest Los Angeles
physician. “It was his taith,
courage and determination

team's trophy case.

After all, it was Dr, Frank
Jobe who rebuilt the arm
that fueled much of the
pitching wer that shat-
ered the threatened
baseball dynasty of the
twice-champion Cincinnati
Reds.

| Losing Yanks pitcher
Aging star a has-been?

World Series at one game
each.

Manager Billy Martin
mercifully lifted him after
Ron Cey’s two-run homer in
the first inning, Steve
Yeager’s solo shot in the
second and Reggie Smith’s
two-run blast into the centre
field bleachers gave the
Dodgers a 5-0 lead in the

d rd

“Once in a while I think
that this season might be the
end, hut my wife talks me
out of it,” Hunter reflected
afterward.

During the off-season
I'm not gonna worry about
next year—I’m just gonna
worry about hunting deer, I
hope I don’t have a bad year

Team squabbles don't
stop on Yanks days off

‘LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Thursday was an off day for
New York Yankees, but
there was no letup in the
family squabbling that has
accompanied them through
the regular season, the
American League playoffs
and into the World Series.

New York manager Billy
Martin, reacting to Reggie

Jackson's, caustic com-
ments about the use of
pitcher Catfish Hunter in
Wednesday night's game,
said: Reggie's havin
enough trouble in right fiel
to keep him from second-

guessing the manager.

. We rean this World Series as
ateam; none of our players

Series fans
are animals

NEW YORK (AP)

“These — people are
animals,” Mike Garman,
relief pitcher of Los Angeles

Dodgers, said of the unruly
Yankee Stadium crowd
r the Dodgers .levelled
the World Series at 1-1 with
a 61 victory Wednesda

night over New Yor.
Yankees. —
“IT hope we can win the

next three so I won't have to
come back to this place,” he
added, ‘‘We are sitting
ducks out there. I'lk tell Pin
the truth—I was scared to
death.”

The game came close to
turning into a fan uprising in
the latter innings with a
half-dozen spectators at
various times running onta
the field and being chased
by security officers.

A smoke bomb, which
trailed streams of green
. Jumes, was tossed into right-

centre field near the 385-foot.
mark, obscuring outfielders’

from. the crowd of. 56,681.

" Outfielder Reggie Smith
of the D
on the head by a hard rubber
bail as the game ended, and
he went to the locker room
complaining of “spasms
down my neck and back.”

“They were throwing
apples, beer cans, rubber
balls and anythi they
could get their ha
Smith said. ‘‘It
ridiculous.”

Yankee Stadium security
officers announced that nine
people had been arrested for
criminal trespass, an of-
fence which carries a
maximum fine of $100.

on,’
was

Rookie helps
Flames in tie

BOSTON (AP) — Willi
Plett, the National Hockey
League’s 1976-77 Reokie of
the Year, scored two goals,
one a gift on a third-period
power play, to help Atlanta

mes to a 2-2 tie with

Boston Bruins in the season
opener for both clubs.

- > Plett was credited with his

* gécond goal of the game at

14:46 of the final period
‘when Boston defenceman

Doug Halward poked a loose

puck into his own net.

With Mike Milbury ser-
ving controversial
roughing penalty at 13:31,
the Flames struck to pull out

the tie.. Plett’s shot was
blocked = by Boston
goaltender Gilles Gilbert.:
» Gilbert, however, was not
able to hang onto the puck

' . which .stopped at the

goal'mmut bw ar

rushing: back from the
corner, tried to clear the
puck, but instead nudged it

into the net.

Boston, which lost to Mon-
treal Canadiens in the
Stanley Cup final last
‘season, jumped to a 1-0 lead
at 1:16 of the first period on
a fluke goal by Bobby Sch
mautz, who beat goaltender
Dan Bouchard with a 15
footer after his attempted

ss had bounced off an
Atlanta defenceman.

Plett tied the score at 6:06
when Tom Lysiak won a
faceoff in the Boston end.
Lysiak sent the puck back to
Plett whose quick slap shot
from 40 feet out beat Boston
netminder Gerry Cheevers.
He played the first period
before giving way to Gil-
bert.

The Burins went ahead at
12:15 of the second period as
Dwight Foster, a No.i draft
choice last summer, cashed
his own rebound from close
up for his first professional
goal, in his NHL debut.

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should be talking against
their team-mates or the

manager.” ,

Following the Yankees’ 6-
1 Joss that evened the best-
ofseven series 1-1, Jackson
said that Martin's use of
Hunter was not fair to the
pitcher and not fair to the

team.
During a break in New

York's workout at Dodger him

Stadium Thursday, the left-
handed hitting Jackson also
accused the manager of
having a short memory,
saying Martin had given
him the impression he would
play the whole series rather
than be platooned with
right-handed hitting Paul
Blair.

Martin would not say
whom he planned to start in
right field in the third game
of the Series Friday night

against the Dodgers and-.
left-hander: Tommy John. |
“sacrificed to give the

‘Yankees catcher Thur-
man Munson has

‘through

had

.

Rebuilds pitching arms

_____ Dodgers will owe Series

that pulled the whole thing
off, Personally, I feared he
might never pitch’ again.”

Others, including John
have called it a medical
thiracle.

Jobe, the Dodgers official
team doctor, was in the

doing that.”
Hunter’s 1977 numbers

were a %9 won-lost record, —

4.71 earned run average and
a whopping 29 home runs—
not including Wednesday
night’s trio—in just 143 1-3
innings.

His ‘season was in-
terrupted -by a spell on the
disabied list when he caught
a line drive on his foot
during an impressive open-
ing-day ormance. He
was sidelined the last month
by what was thought to be a
hernia but later was
diagnosed to be a urinary
tract infection.

“When I think about being
igh, 1 only think about
farming,’’ said Hunter, a
farm boy from Hertford,

NC, :
“My dad used to tell me to
et an education because
ere’s no money in far-

ming. I didn’t get an .

education. 1 made my
money in baseball. And
when I'm through, I'll ge
back to the farm just like

Even if Hunter can
become an effective pitcher
again next season, he says
he will pack it in when his
five-year, $3.5-million free-
agent contract runs out in
1978, ;
‘Two more years,” he
said. ‘My little boy will be
10 and my little girl will be
six andit will be time for me
to be with them the year-
round instead of staying
away from them.”
Hunter, winner ‘of 210
regularseason games, was

Yankees ailing pitching

contract squabbles with staff some much-neede

George
but

team . owner
Steinbrenner

has

rest...
“T thought I was throwing

generally staved out of the good while I was warming

argument. However, he
stood up for the manager
Thursday.

“We have a chance to
win the World. Series,”
said Munson. ‘
there’s another guy out
there second-quessing the

manager.

“] wouldn't be second-

essing the manager. I

ink it’s just a little
heated argument. You
know Reggis has not been
doing all that well. He’s
been doing okay, but not
all that well...and he
wants to.”

up,” he said, “but when I got
out on the mound it was just

e spring training. Billy
really didn’t have anyone
else and I had to go out and
pitch sometime.”

Hunter was asked if he
minded being used as a
sacrificial amb.

“The main jihing, 8s the
saying goes,” he replied, ‘is
that the sun doesn't doesn't
shine on the same dog all the
time. And it didn’t this year.
When you have a bad year it
just seems to keep going
on.”

stands that fateful day July
17, 1974, in Montreal when
John, pitching against the
Expos, unleashed a fastball.
He prabbed his left elbow
suddenly and strede from
the mound, obviously in
great pain.

“He had torn the long
ligament that keeps his
elbow from coming apart,”
the surgeon explained. It
left his arm like a lifeless
slab of rubber.”

John’s baseball career ap-
peared to be over. Even

obe suggested he should
consider a new profession.

But John vowed he would
pitch again and at his insist-
ence, the first of two

operations was performed

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‘There had been no
precedent for such an
operation, although we
followed a standard ortho-
pedic policy that was used in
the days of polio,” the
doctor said.

“A tendon was taken from
his right wrist—a tendon, in-
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Although the elbow had to
be reopened to remove some
ferve pressure, the pit-
cher’s determination never
wavered. He tied rubber
bands to his thumb to help
him hold the ball. He spent
the winter of 1974 and all of
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undergoing therapy.

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“was very concerned at
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wondered if his elbow might
snap on him again. But he
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