Wednesday. August 24. 1977
University Daily Kansan
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Sutter tops among baseball's workaholic pitchers
By ED SAINSBURY
By ED SAINSBURY
UPI Sports Writer
CHICAGO (IGU) — Bruce Sutter once was on the verge of retiring from baseball before being traded.
Instead, he persevered and is now the No. 1 candidate for Fireman of the Year in the State.
Sutter is the kind of relief pitcher who
Frazier wants another title shot
runs from the bulpen to the mound. He's the kind of pitcher who thrives on work, although some observers believe he has been overworked.
Regardless, Sutter, when healthy, gets the call when the Chicago Cubs are in a tight match and are on the run to impete supreme relief. Thus, he's pitched in one-many run games this season and has
PHILADELPHIA (UPI) — Former heavyweight champion Joe Frazier, who said a year ago he'd never fight again, now says he will—if Muhammadii all means what
"I wanna fight again," said Frazier. I love fight. I live 'em every day. I run. I train. I road workhere wherever I go with my family. I travel in the small group, The Smoking Joe Frazier Review.
"The only way I'd ever put the gloves on, and not hit, and if he Allhj it to me. I will take."
Ali seems perfectly willing to met that condition and that could mean Fravier's 14-month retirement may be approaching an end.
And All, thinking ahead to a possible fourth ring meeting between the pair, mentioned the possibility himself the other day in London.
Frazier, at 33 just one year younger than Ali, is ready to come out of retirement on one condition. The condition is that the fight would be with Ali and for the world
"I think I will have another two fights," he said, looking past his Sept. 29 date with Earnie Shavers. "The first one will be against the winner of the Ken Norton-Jimmy Young fight. I don't know what the next one will be, but I hear Joe Frazier wants to make a comeback and fight me, I think this would be a great fight."
been successful most of the time, witnessed by his 51st won lost record and 24 saves.
Suffer missed 12 days in July due to a back injury which produced a swelling in his right shoulder muscles. Returning to make a few appearances, the injury was aggrimated and now he is on his way to disabled list but in time to play the Cubs September playoff drive.
Frazier last fought on June 15, 1978. After George Foreman knocked him out in five rounds in the Nassau Coliseum at Union-Joiner Stadium, he said he'd never step into the ring again.
At the moment, Frazier weighs 227, less than three pounds more than he weighed for the Foreman fight. He says his weight would be no obrolen at all.
He told his wife and children, as well as the press, that that was for him.
"I made a commitment to my kids that I would try to stay out unless it was necessary," Frazier said. "I told them I would try to stay out as long as I could, but to make a long story short, if the champ feels I'm washed up and wants to give me a chance to live, then if he says the word, I'm ready. I wanna give the people one more great fight."
Frazier and Ali have fought three times, each a moneymaker.
For their first meeting in 1971 which resulted in Frazier keeping the heavyweight title on a 15-round decision, Ali was guaranteed $2.5 million; for their second one in 1974 when Ali took a 12-round victory. In 1975, Ali won their third fight in Manila in late 1975, Ali went home with $4 million after stopping Frazier in 14 rounds.
Sutter does not feel he was overworked and said the amount of time he spent on the project had been very low.
"I'm not tired," he said. "I can work almost every day. My arm gets tired once in a whale, but maybe that helps as much as it does the bit off a pitch and make it hard to hit."
Franks, too, doesn't believe his star reliever was overworked.
"I hope I have to use him," Franks said, because Sutter usually gets into action only when the Cubs are protecting a meager lead in late im ages.
inning from scratch," said the relief ace who loves his work. "Situations make no difference to me. I pitch the same way all the time, there are no soft touches. You can't relat
"Going out there with men on base in a close game is no harder than starting an
"I just go from day to day. How long can I be?
I don't know. It can end in two or three
days."
Sutter comes to the ballpark every morning or when wool, heat and ultra-sonic insulation are needed.
"The swelling's going down," he said, "So that's how I know it is better. But the doctor won't let me throw and I don't believe he will until I come off the disabled list.
“It’s frustrating to sit in the bulpen and watch the games because I want to be able to get up and throw and get in them and I know I can’t. I must I guess I must have to wait.”
Sutter's decision to stay in baseball was made in 1974 after elbow surgery. He couldn't throw as well as he thought he should, but Fred Martin, coaching in the Cubs farm system, encouraged him and helped him develop a forkball, which he
home runs.
The Lawrence municipal swimming pool will remain open during Labor Day, Sept. 5. The pool, at 8th and Kentucky streets, is open from 1:30 to p.m.
from Aug. 19 to Sep. 27, the pool will be open from 4 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekends.
Over the same stretch he has compiled a 1.06 earn run average and allowed 50 hits.
"It's not a forkball." Sutter said. "It's a solitary fighter fastball."
Pool to stay open until Labor Day
Veteran players expected to help KU field hockey
One evidence of his value came since he was put on the disabled list. The Cubs purchased reliever Dave Giusti from the Oakland A's for $100,000 and Franks said bluntly, "We'd have made no effort to get Giusti, if Sutter had been available."
Admission to the pool, which is operated by the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department, is 60 cents for adults and 30 cents for children.
Top players expected to return from both the varsity and junior varsity squads include Ann Levinson, Winchester, Mass., sophomore, left wing; Nana Goncalves, Owlswood; Ward, Parkhurst, Lafayette, La., sophomore, right wing; Mary Aston, Haven senior, left halfback; Donna Sullivan Kansas City, Kan., senior, center halfback; Karen Schneller, Maverick, St. Louis junior, Calee Gober, St. Louis junior, fullback, and Janet Ballard, Haviland senior, goalkeeper.
carried into the National League as his "out" pitch.
Whatever it is called, the ball drops almost into the dirt when it reaches the plate and batters rarely hit it hard, if at all. It has been used in the early 1900s to 2-3 innings, and he has allowed only four
"The competition will be stiffer," she said, mentioning Indiana and North Dakota State as two teams which had been added to the Lady Jawhaws schedule.
Beebe also expects to face improved Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Nebraska squads as well as Missouri, last year's conference champion.
If the squad is to improve on last year's 12-8 record it must depend heavily on battle-hardened veterans from both the variety and junior varsity teams, Beebe said. Field hockey is not funded for scholarships, so any new players coming out are walk-on's.
When they take the field this fall, the women's field hockey team will be an improved and more experienced team, accented by Dana Beebe, women's field hockey coach.
The team returns all but three players from last year's squad, which took second in the Big Eight Conference, and with another team coming out of Florida, they should be more competitive this year.
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