European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 22 the stars and stripes saturday february 1, 1969 Olga pall takes first in downhill St. Anton Austria up olympic downhill Champion Olga pall of Austria often called the Sophia Loren of Alpine ski ing staged a Fine comeback Friday after a poor Start to the season by winning the ladies downhill of the Arlberg Kanda har classic. The 21-year-old Gas station attendant from so bad Hall near Innsbruck dashed Down t h e2,100-meters Long sprint course in a new record time of 1 37.79minutes to beat freckle faced is Abella Mir of France by Halfa second. Miss Mir the olympic Silver medallist finished second in 1 38.28 minutes while another austrian. Wiltrud Drexel took the third place in 1 38.30. Ahead but out Annie Vamose of France How Ever retained her Lead in the world cup standings although she is out of action for the rest of the season following a bad crash in thursday s non Stop training. Miss Vamose Tore he Achilles Tendon and fractured her left leg. Miss farnese tops the stand Ings with 101 Points while Ger Trude gab of Austria retained second spot with 93 Points by finishing eighth Friday. The Best american girl was Marilyn Cochran from r i c h mond vt., who finished 10th,despite starting in 43rd position. She was timed in 1 40.15.kiki Cutter Bend Ore shared Lith place with a 1 40.19clocking. Other american finishers were Karen Budge of Jackson wyo., 17th in 1 40.74, and Judy Magelof Enumclaw wash., 21st in 1 41.10. Miss Cutter is now sixth inthe world cup standings with 59 Points and miss Nagel i eighth with 49, break time Dave Mcnally third from left hot Slider Southpaw of the Balti More orioles enjoys break at the Safe baseball clinic being conducted at wies Baden fab. With the orioles 1968, 22 Gairc Winner Are left to right Ken lost it for 5 years Tampary Canadian armed forces Jan Hartog the Netherlands and Paul Mcnel Lew and Boh Millan Canadas a Mcnally has his Slider Back Selkirk rejects lesser Nat Post Washington a George Selkirk fired after six years As general manager of the Washington senators rejected a lesser Post with the club thurs Day and will look for another baseball Job. Meanwhile he will continue on full salary under his con tract which has two years Torun and has agreed to continue in an advisory capacity until Heykes a connection. The announcement came from Selkirk and the Man who fired him wednesday the senators new owner president Robert e. Short. Or. Selkirk and i had pleasant meeting thursday morning Short said and hews offered another position in the organization. It is his wis that he be permitted to look for by Don Saue staff writer Wiesbaden is aftera mysterious absence of five years Baltimore Oriole lefthand or Dave Mcnally has his Slider Back and it made All the Dif Ference in the world for him in 1968, he s the first to admit. It s not the same Slider thatis i Don t throw it the same Way the Stocky Southpaw said during a session at the Safe baseball  it s obvious the results Are better than Ever if one Loo sat the 22-10 record plus a nifty 1.95 earned run average that earned him american league comeback of the year  regarding the Slider the 26-year-old, 5-foot-ll, 190-Pounderhad a word of caution. A Slider thrown properly will never Hurt your Arm. But thrown improperly will Hurt it almost every time. I grip mine the same Way do the fast Ball Only with the wrist a Little stiffer. And i snap it off a Little but not As much As a curve he  i just Hope it la be there when we Start Spring training next month Mcnally said with a knowing Grin. Accidental return that All important Slider popped up quite by Accident Las Spring after he had pitched three innings against t h e atlant braves in West Palm Beach and had thrown a couple of More frames in the bullpen. After finishing and just fool ing around Mcnally recalls Tell another Opportunity in baseball ing Catcher Andy Etchebarren and we have agreed course of  to this i that he was going to throw Ai half curve. Hey that was a pretty Good Slider was the Oriole Backstop s reply. Etchebarren also caught Mcnally when the Birds ports Der originally developed a Slider Adelmira in the new York state league in 1962 and won is game there his highest total before this past  threw it a few More times then started working on it regularly with George Bamberger our pitching coach. Although George spent the majority of his time in the minors he did havea Good Slider and was Able to help a with it Dave recalls the personable lefty explain neck that As the pitch developed Andas he gained Confidence in being Able to throw it for a strike housed it Tore and More. Towards the end of the season he was using the Slider about As much As his fast Ball and curve especially against left handed Bat ters. The Slider he first developed at Elmira was thrown with a cardinals9 Carlton full of Confidence font inked from Page is win the Pennant again. We begot the Best pitching the Best Fielding and the most Speed an Pinson should help our  but he is not sure about de troit. There s a Young fellow at the clinic who can be counted on clipping the Tiger Tail this sea son. He s Dave Mcnally Balti More s 22-game Winner Las year who like car it on is expected to be around the major for a Long time to come. With the inauguration of divisional play this season Carl ton sees St. Louis. Chicago an Philadelphia in that order fight ing it out in the Eastern division with Cincinnati san Francisco and Atlanta in the  looks for the cards to beat the reds in the  giants Are the hardest team for Carlton to beat he s Aba suspends Oakland Rookie after slug est Louisville Rookie Uard by. Up Warren Arm Strong of the Oakland Oaks has been suspended for 19 Days and fined by american Basket bail association commissioner George for unsportsmanlike con duct in a game at los Angele last week. The 6-foot-2 former Wichita state University Star was ejected from the game an charged with a flagrant foul after an altercation with Losangeles guard Jim Jar veg Jarvis suffered an Eye Cut an broken tooth. The suspension ends feb. 12and will keep Armstrong out of seven Oakland games. He has played in All 41 games to Date ror the Oaks scoring 854 Point Sand averaging 20.8. Beat them once and Philadel phia s Johnny Callison the Tough est Man to  takes Pride in having struck out Carl Yastrzemski inthe fifth game of the 67 world series. It was the Only time inthe series that the Yaz was fanned Carlton started the game Wen six innings allowing three hits and one run which was unearned. The cards lost 34, but Carlton looked pretty Salty one of his big moments came last year when he wrapped up the Pennant by beating Houston in a route going performance. He also had another big Gamin i. He tied a National league record by striking out10 As the losing Pitcher against Philadelphia s Chris Short 3-2,"and 1 did t even get to pitch the ninth inning Carlton added. One of these Days the cards Are going to have to Shell out big Money to get Carlton s Signa Ture and they will be thanking former pitching Star and coach Howie pallet once again pallet convinced the brass of Cariton s potential the Story goes Pollet said swag sold on him the first time i saw him i would have signed him even if i had to take the Money out of my own pocket slightly off Center grip and helped produce a 15-11 record and a shot with the orioles in 1063.Mcnally stuck with the orioles but never really realized his potential or regained his Slider. Although he worked off and onto get it Back Mcnally explained that he never really had an Success. A Slider in order to be effective has to break sharply. You can t hang it or they la kill you the Oriole Mounds Man said. I just could t get that slide to snap off until last  credits Kitten Mcnally also gives a lot of credit for his development to Southpaw Harvey Haddix for helping him when the Kitten was with Baltimore in 1064 and 1965."i had a problem on my Fol Low through and he had me throwing against the Centerfield Wall so i could concentrate Juston follow through and i finally whipped that problem. That s them Ala thing i work on in Spring  Baltimore lefty said he had two fast balls one tha Breaks in on the Batter and an other that moves Down and in a variation produced by a slight variance of his grip. Most used pitch it s Good to have More than one kind of fast Ball. That s the pitch a Batter sees most and if you Don t vary it a Little pretty soon hell know exactly what to expect and hell be Able Totime it just right and blast it on  he also added that a goo curve is hard work has to be thrown very hard with follow through an absolute must. A change up Mcnally pointed out is thrown less than other pitches and a Pitcher has to practice it More than other de liveries to keep it Sharp in summary the Chunky Bird Ace emphasized the importance of keeping Arm action uniform on every pitch hitters go All by Arm action. If there s any change they Pickit up he concluded