PAGV .VVL' THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1966 THE j~MICIU-jGN DAILY YAtaC. VP;N iN I i' i Arizona, Baseball, and Augie By GRAYLE HOWLETT The late Nat King Cole struck it rich in the early 40's with a song called "Get Your Kicks on Route 66." One line in this hit designed for those who motored from Chi- cago to L.A. included a roll call of cities along the way and went somlething like this: "You'll see Amarillo, Albuquerque, G a11u p, New Mexico, Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona, Kingman, Bartsow, San Bernadino." At this time Arizona was merely along the way to where you were going and the mention' of Flagstaff, Winona, and King- map was probably the most play it had ever had. In the early 60's a television show called "Route 66" came out where two modern knights of the road traveled the same famous strip glorified in the Nat Cole classic. In one episode they drop- ped off the route a little bit and wound up in Phoenix. It seems times had changed. A big sprawl- ing city with beautiful buildings and gobs of people appeared on the screen without one cactus in sight, except for that one in the lobby of their million-dollar motel. It was evident to every arm-chair quarterback that Arizona was booming. Baseball Takes Hint But this thought had already occurred to a few major league ballclubs and they were already down among the sinus sufferers, taking advantage of the dry heat and increased prosperity. College ballclubs also discovered that a damp fieldhouse in the cold North was somehow not the same as the fresh outdoors, and they began swarming to the land of the cactuses. Arizona and baseball go hand in hand, and with the influx of all the Northern ballclubs the local citizens naturally want to see their hometown institutions win, all of which brings us to the Michigan ball team and a fellow called Augie Acuna. Arizona Attire Michigan baseball coach Moby Benedict sat in his office dressed in light cotton slacks and a thin I. it knit shirt more conductive to the 94-degree heat in Arizona he had left a few days before than to the April snow falling here in Ann Arbor. On the other side of the desk was assistant coach Dick Honig dressed more appropriately in winter slacks and a sweater. Both sported deep tans, but Honig's was probably more a re- sult of the sun-Benedict was still red over the forfeiture by umpire Acuna to the Arizona Wildcats. Augie Acuna. The very name makes you think that he must have been named after long-time major league arbitor Augie Dona- telli and must resemble Charlie the Tuna. "Not so,' says Benedict, "he's long and skinny and his namesake is Augie Dogie. Father and Son Team "This was not something that happened unexpectedly," contin- ued Benedict discussing the game 'which resulted in his ejection and the unprecedented forfeit-all en- gineered by Acuna - "He's been with us for years. He always man- ages to give us a bad time. A few years back he umpired a game with us while his son was playing third base. How unethical can you get? "Over the years we always ex-' pect to get him and it seems like everytime he officiates we get beat. One time he struck out 17 of our boys, 13 on called strikes." Last Thursday, when the Mich- igan nine moved from the Phoenix area, where they had been playing Arizona State, to Tucson to take on the Arizona Wildcats, they were dead tired from playing a triple-header the day before and were considering this phase of the trip a low-point anyway. Honig pointed out that "the reason the boys don't like this series is be- cause of Sancet (head coach Frank of Arizona) and the treat- ment they get especially after the nice way everybody treats them at Arizona State." him down, and all the time I was nipping at Acuna. When I left the mound and went back into the dugout our catcher, Ted Sizemore, came walking over. When I asked him what was wrong, he said that Acuna ejected him out for kicking dirt on the plate. I asked Ted if he had and he maintained that he merely asked Acuna to wipe off the plate. That was enough for me. I went out and told Acuna off and if he was going to kick Sizemore out, he'd have to kick me out too. He did. "Then came the seventh and the forfeit. Actually, I don't blame Acuna for not looking at the rule- book when Dick (Honig) tried to show it to him. As you know they scored the tying run on an appeal play which was the third out. The rulebook was on our side because you can't score a run on a force play which results in the third out. Sancet Carries Weight "But Sancet came running out, yelling, 'The run counts, the run counts,' and apparently Acuna believed him. When Dick tried to put the game under pro- test, Acuna wouldn't even an- nounce it, something he's re- quired to do. It seems that the only person he would listen to was Sancet. "Then, when he finally resumed play, everybody was sorta milling around, not knowing what to do. Acuna called three strikes on Les (Tanona) before he could even get in the box. Al Bara came hustling up next not wanting to get called out on strikes, and then Acuna said that he had kicked him out earlier. He had never in- formed Dick and Al sure didn't know about it. Then he forfeited the thing. I think it was a sad thing but the fact that Sancet wants to count it as a victory is proof of their attitude." No Man's Land Arizona is booming and it seems that everybody is getting his share as witnessed by all the advertise- ments selling land in the cactus states and the hordes of eager buyers. But you can bet there's one stretch of land around Tucson which Benedict wants no part of. SPORTS NIGHT EDITOR: BOB McFARLAND GRADUATING ENGINEERS, SCIENCE & MATH MAJORS ARE YOU QUALIFIED TO START AT $850 TO $1200 PER MONTH? For free information, send a card with your name and address to: CEB, P.O. Box 23112 San Diego, Calif. 92123 Sizemore and Benedict ... First To Go Benedict quickly agreed, "San- cet has to win at any expense. To him, his record is most important. He fattens up on these teams out of the fieldhouse. "Our boys never really got a chance to get used to their field before the game. "This is especially rough on our boys after the way Bobby Winles (head coach at Arizona State) went out of his way for them. When their field was under water, Bobby personally got out and dragged and lined the Tempe high school diamond so we could play -and the game was with Wyom- ing. Bobby's interest is in playing." "I told their businessman when I saw him in the afternoon before the game," commented Benedict, "that with the way things are around here we'll probably get Acuna. "Sure enough we did and trouble started immediately, It was 2-1 in our favor in the bot- tom of the second when Eddie Leon, their shortstop, came up. He's a boy whom they all like to protect down there. When he boots a ball, they call it a hit. When he gets on because of an obvious error, they call it a hit. "Anyway, he takes two beauti- ful pitches, the second one he even swung at, and Acuna-calls them balls. Instead of striking out he gets another chance and triples in two runs. A Dirty Deal "I went out to talk (sophomore pitcher Zahn) to Jeff to calm U *1 N ew SLIM FIT Levi's STA-PREST' I 1 2000 W. 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