Rene Aubry Shoots Perfect Snooker Game
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Thursday, October 19, 1972 The Ottawa Journal 27 ~ MacC-'AKE SAYS: Billingham gives Reds another life Rene Aubry shoots By JOHN G. GRIFFIN dub, too, and you're starting single by Tony Perez, a sacri- hadn't noticed that Perez had hitter." Only three balls were gers not to risk a dangerous UPI Sports Editor to see it now." fice by Denis Menke, and fallen and he never thought hit to the Reds' outfield, all of pitch to? Bench but to walk perfect snooker game OAKLAND — Suddenly, de- For tonight's 5.15 p.m. PDT another single by Cesar he had a play at home. them caught by centre fielder him intentionally. fying history, the Cincinnati fourth game at Oakland Coli- Geronimo. Catcher Gene Tenace was Bobby Tolan. Catcher Tenace held out his screaming for the ball. From -4-416 Reds are alive again in the seum, Anderson named . fire- Perez was on second base Billingham needed ninth-in- arm in the usual gesture for Minnesota Fats, the storied pool hustler of inter- 1972 World Series and have a balling left-hander Don Gullett when Geronimo, who had gone the dugout, Williams was hol- national acclaim, is nothing but a windbag, and there ning relief from Clay Carroll an intentional ball — then chance to deadlock the series (9-10) as his get-even pitcher 0-9 in the series up to that lering, too. Campaneris never jumped behind the plate as are dozens of men in Canada who could beat him at heard 'em — crowd noise. - or , anyway, Anderson snooker. if they can follow up with and manager Dick Williams of point, laced into a pitch from thought he needed it — after Fingers caught the edge of the That is the considered opinion of Rene Aubry, and another victory over the Oak- the A's also picked a ' left- A's starter John "Blue Moon" ' I bear nothing," said he had thrown three balls to plate with a slider for called Aubry is one of the men who could beat him. land A's tonight. bander Ken Holtzman (19- Odom and rapped it into short Campaneris. "I was looking at leadoff batter Mike Epstein. strike three. "We're on our way," trum- Just a couple of weeks ago; Aubry played a perfect 11), the winner of the opening centre field for a single. Perez the ball and at Geronimo." Carroll threw a strike, then On third base, runner Mor- peted Reds' manager Sparky game of .snooker, a feat much rarer, than, say, a no-hit, game of the series in Cincin- came around third on a wide "I was yelling for the ball, got Epstein to ground out, and gan had spotted the ruse and no-run game in baseball. No records are kept on such Anderson in the wake of nati last Saturday. turn heading for the plate and but nobody heard me," said got the next two batters, too, was yelling, "look out, Johnny things, but as far as we could check, Aubry's was the Wednesday night's 1-0 pitch- BUCKING HISTORY suddenly he slipped and fell Tenace. "If there had been a to end the game. — they're pitching to you." first perfect game of snooker ever shot in Ottawa. ing battle triumph that cut the The Reds, who are bucking on the soggy turf — a souve- quick relay, I think we could "I knew I had to keep the Later he admitted, "I should He believes it might have been done two or three A's lead in the best-of seven baseball history which says nir of the rainstorm that post lave gotten Perez." tidies before in Canada, but he's not sure. ball low against Oakland, and hae called time." fall classic to two games to But the moment was lost, To shoot a perfect game of snooker, the player that no team ever has lost the poned the third game from that's what I did," said Bil- "I was half-fooled," Bench one. and with it the game. Because must make a red ball off the break, then the black, then first two games of the series Tuesday night to Wednesday lingham. admitted. "Watch us now," said An- at lhome and come back to meanwhile Jack Billingham another red, and the black again, and so on. Until he night. "Jack was just great," said The record book will say the derson. "I still think the same winj the world championship, was mowing down the A's. has potted all the reds, and the black ball after each one, I n centre field, Geor Anderson. "He'll get another Reds scored that win on Oct. and then he must run through the colors. as I did after we came here to won their first game with the Hendrick had run in, scooped GIVES UP THREE So it is much more difficult than cleaning the table, start in the series, probably in 18, 1972. But baseball men will Oakland trailing, 2-0, in help of, of all things, the noise up the ball, and threw it to Ingham gave up only the sixth game." tell you they won it in De- when the player can take a red and then any color, games — we are going to win hits, none of which left of the Oakland_crowd. shortstop Bert Campan "Plummer (second-string cember, 1971, in Phoenix, according to the position of the balls. A perfect game the series in seven games. It happene the infield, which prompted d the seventh Instictively, Campaneris look- catcher Bill Plummer) said Ariz. It was then at the winter requires exquisite positioning, and perhaps a bit of luck. They've got a real good club Anderson to claim with So it's a long way from the old days of the smokey inning when Cincinnati scored ed to first base to keep Gero- a after he warmed up Billing- baseball meeting that the pool rooms and the $2 hustlers. Most of us gleaned what but we've got a real good the game's only run on a nimo from advancing — he laugh that he pitched "a no- ham in the bullpen before the Reds, as part of a big trade ;mall knowledge we have of the game from those days, game that his sinker ball real- with Houston, acquired: when, if a young ingrate were to bum school, he might ly was exploding," said Reds' Billingham, who pitched this have no place to keep warm, other than the poolroom. catcher Johnny -Bench. "It win; Menke, who sacrificed CLEANED TABLE MANY TIMES sure was." Perez along, and Geronimo, But Aubry's level of play is a whole new league. Cougars, Nationals `Flu' bug big The Reds' triumph spoiled a who singled him in. He learned from his father as a teenager, and by the time he was 17, he had cleaned the table more than brilliant pitching effort by "Geronimo didn't hit the onc. meet here tonight Odom, who fanned 11 batters ball very good," claimed Wil- He was invited to play around at the better gentle- i n the seven innings he liams, adding with a sad men's clubs in the city and he reached a plane where smile, "just well enough to concern for HOUSTON (AP) — New worked and gave up three of Webster scored two goals in he could have played for a living ... but he never did. the Reds' four hits. Cincinnati win the game." England Whalers, behind the the second and ,a single goal He was in the automobile business all his life, and pool got one more hit in the eighth was a hobby, and now that he's retired, pool and three goals of Tom Webster, in the third pe($od, his first * * * " defeated Houston Aeros 4-1 in goials.of the season. inning off Vida Blue, who was photography are his hobbies. ineffective in brief relief, but He's a small man, maybe 5'5" and 125 pounds, with a World Hockey Association Houston took the lead in the Sooners' coach then were closed out the rest horn-rimmed glasses and an extraordinarily gentle k# game Wednesday night in first period as Ted Taylor Box score manner, and that's the way he plays. Houston. scored on a power play from of the way by Rollie Fingers, "Good players never play a hard game," he says. Ottawa Sooners won't be sit- It was the only league game an assist by Gordon Labos- who pitched out of a bases- CINCINNATI - "To be precise ... to have control ... you must play ting on a 16-point lead, as far scheduled, but tonight the loaded jam in that eighth. ABRHal siere with just 2.22 gone in the Rose, If 3 0 a soft game." as head coach T Chiarelii is leagues moves into high gear game. And the victory got Bench, Morgan, 2b 3 0 He's 66 years of age now, still steady of hand and with five games on tap in- Torr, cf 4 1 concerned, when his club com- New England tied the game the Reds' super-star off the Bench, c 4 0 keen of eye, and a couple of weeks ago, at L'Institut pletes the second game of cluding a clash between Ot- at 1-1 on Webster's first goal hook because he was in the Perec, lb ___.-- 2 1 Canadien Francais, he was playing with a friend, Bob tawa Nationals and Chicago at 4.19 as he connected from Menke, 3b 2 I 3 their two game total point running to be the "goat" of Geronimo, rf 4 1 1 Cameron.