| Japan's S top slugger gets People’s Honor — TOKYO AP - On an average of once every: 10.4- times at bat, the superstar of. Japanese baseball Sadsharu Oh, clouts the ball over the fence with his noted raised-leg swing. - That rate over 19 seasons brought him even Wed- nesday night with the record of 755 career home runs hit by American Hank Aaron, whose rate was one homer every 16.3 times at bat over 23 «seasons. Aaron, who faced tougher and longer fences tehing United States baseball, . retired last’ year with ai home runs more than Bobe Ruth's career record of 714. When Oh hits No. 756, he stands to receive a new People’s Honor citation from the Japanese govern- ment, becoming the. e: first person so honored. says he intends to pny bal five more years, in the belief be able to hit and field just as well at age 42. _The Japan-bor Chinese slugger of Toko’s Yomiuri’ Giants tied the record with a two-run homer in the first inning on a 3 and 1 pitch against 21 year old Jeft- hander Michio Miura’ of Taiyo Whales. — e 208 foot drive brought . a thunderous ovation from 50,000 spectators at Korakuen Stadium, the Giants’ home ground. But Oh said later, ‘I tied Aaron's record step by step, 801 have no special eeling now.’ “Since my 753rd homer there has been-a tense at- mosphere in the ballparks. . Some home runs. come easily but others come more . than 10 games apart.” The ball was grabbed in the right-field stands by a teen-age boy and later was exchanged for prizes and will be placed in Japan’s baseball museum. . The 755 home runs took Oh 2,425 games and 7,871 times vat bat, compared with 3,275 | games and 12,300 times at bat for Aaron. Oh gained. fame as a pitcher and slugger for aseda Commerical - High School of Tokyo. He. joined the Gia Giants after graduation | Oh “his "Firat professi or home run April 26, in the same Koreken Stadi um, Ob hit his 755 home runsin | some 4,000 fewer times at bat than Aaron: He has won the Japanese triple crown,, for batting average, home runs and runs batted in. He. _won the home-run title 13 ‘consecutive times and was & named the league’s most valuable player. eight times. ~ As a result of Oh's achievement, Prime ” Minister Takeo Fukuda has ordered a new civilian medal, with Oh to be the first recip ient. , - ’ The slugger, now earnin - $240,000 a year, is estimat: to have earned $2.64 million © during hig 19 year. career, _ Player’ =) wife gets “superstitious on win streak | PHILADELPHIA AP -— “Nah, Idon’t have any supers titions,”’ said er Danny Ozark of Phila iphia Phillies. “But you ought to talk to my wife. She has a million of them.” It’s true. The moat superstitious member of the Phillies’ family ‘ig Ginny oat divas ‘Bikes ey: sit in thesame cent when we're on a winning streak,” said Ozark. "In: Chicago, after we won the first game of a four-game series, she found someone else in the seat the next day. She bribed. him vit four beers to get the 80a Lh Mrs. Ozark never leaves - her seat when the Phillles are ahead, and wears a different hat every night during #2winiin the National baseball team. About never leaving her seat when the Phillies are- . ahead, Ozark said, “I don’t know how she held out the League fight v we played until 3:23 in | the morning.” Tommy Hutton, a. pinch hitter and late-inning defensive replacement at first base, says he always: chews gum during a game. If he geta on base he chews the same gum. If he’s out, he changes to gum. "T chew sugarless bubble gum,” said Hutton. ‘It’s the only kind my momma will let me ch Catcher Tim McCarver says he'll have nothing to do. with superstitions. “I'm a man of common reasoning,” says McCarver. “T don’t mess with: the ‘oceult.”” First baseman Rickie Hebner has a habit when he bats of reaching back and palling ‘on the top of his SVG 8 at don’t get a shirt that fits,” - Hebner said. . “It’s nota superstition, it’s a habit, T've been doing it since I played ‘in Little . League.” Davey Johnson, the superb pinch hitter, reveals ° that he is careful not to step | on the infield foul lines. “said not to do it - that if you 7 step on a crack you'll break ° your momma’s back,’ Johnson said, “I don’t know if that's being superstitious or, a belief.” Larry Bowa wears the ‘game sweat shirt every game of a winning streak, . which may explain why his , locker mates, Greg Luzinski = and Mike Schmidt, take a : quick postgame shower and _leave. says he has no rstitions, | but helped Schmidt observe one earlier this season when Schmidt was hot with me “We stopped at the samé place on. the.way,to the. ball 3 rk every day so he could y a green was just th driving. But I did ; try one of those green sodas , and T liked it.” It didn't help me,’ MILLIONAIRE SKIPPER Yacht Courageous chosen : NEWPORT, R.. JAP-- Coura agepus, the 1974 ed by Georgia or oa fionaire- Ted Turner, was chosen - Tuesday the New York Yacht ty to defend the America's Club for the 2ard time. After watching Courageous defeat En- se by one mitiute and 28 seconds Tuesday in the final defence series, the club - dispatched its launch to the Newport Shipyard to advise *the Enterprise syndicate, that his 12 metre yacht had been eliminated. Enterprise was the secorid American boat to get the axé in two days. On Mon- day, Ted Hood’s In- . ence was eliminated yeh was a rags-to-riches ‘story for the 38- | ‘ fear Turner, who gothis ¢< . t dinghy from his father - when he waa 11. Turner sta’ 1950, but it was not until 1074 that he got hia firat shot at the America’s Cup. it wase akipper of the yacht. Mariner. It proved extremely slow and emibarrassement for Turner who is owner of Baseball's Altantl Braves. This ‘year, however, Turner has himself a proven Feed y Courageous, - Olin Stephens and Fotesigned by Hood, the man ‘who had akippered Courageous to the 1074 Cup ‘ylctory . over Australia’ s- . the ew Mar Mar Southern Croas. The move b York Yacht Club’s ‘selection committee came as a surprise Most observers hai expected Enterprise to remain in competition for at least another week. The decision by the ‘committee 7 also means that Courageous wilt not race again for about three weeks, although she is expected to practice against © Independence, he sister yacht i in the ‘Kings Point They call Turner Terrible Ted, and T The Mouth in the - .He once called Lowell North, the ousted skipper of Ener rise, and ~ his ing partner, John shall, shall, co-helms-man on. etapeibe liars. “He North proved that ‘when he promised to sell me sails and he didn’t, ” Turner: said. Turner considers-himaelt a sportsman among ‘ professionals, who stand to gain advertising by doing ‘well in: the Cup. id “Pm just in t for my own 7 personal saisfaction.” Turner said. “‘I want to doa good job and do whatever I can to-help the New York ‘Yacht Club. 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