European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 26 the stars and stripes Friday september 16, 1977 yanks Guidry worries More about his pitching than his meager salary by Dave Anderson new York not not Long ago Ron Guidry was Riding up the escalator in a new Jersey department store where he was to appear at an autograph session. Behind him. He heard two teen age boys talking. That was some game Guidry pitched against the Texas rangers one said.  the other said he s some Pitcher Guidry turned and looked at them but neither of the youngsters recognized the new York Yankee Lethander they would meet later. I guess it s like my wife tells me. Guidry says now the uniform tends to make you look a Little bigger than you  but with a 14-6 won lost record and a 2.90 earned run average after his five hit 4-2 Victory Over the Boston red sox on tues Day inight. Ron Guidry is big enough. He s slender almost Bony at 5 feet 11 inches and Only about 160 pounds. But he has a fastball that magnifies his appear Ance and insults his salary. On a team where Ken i Zoltzman. The Pitcher he re placed in the rotation earns a reported $165.000. This handsome 27-Ye a old cajun with Black Wavy hair and a Gambler s Mustache from Lafayette la., is on the first year of a two year contract for an estimated �60.000 that s $30,000 annually. George Stem Brenner spends More than that just in phone Calls to Billy Martin. But somehow there is a sense of Justice in a $.30,000 virtual Rookie out of the farm system reminding the Yankee millionaires what baseball hunger is. Of All the Yankee regulars and leading pitchers Guidry has the lowest income but perhaps the highest motivation. I Don t worry about the Money he was saying in the Yankee clubhouse. All i want to do is go Back to the world series and pitch in it. I did t get into the world series last year. I got into the Champion ship series with the Kansas City royals for the american league Pennant but Only to Pinch run. That was a thrill. I got to run. But i wanted to  the Way Guidry is pitching if the Yan Kees get to the playoffs and the world series he will pitch. But what is it like to  he was asked that you re just about the Ace on a staff with so Many High salaried pitch ers Well he said calmly a couple of Guys had bad years and i picked them up. Maybe they la pick me up when i have a bad year. I think anybody wants to join the ranks of the High salaried but if i think about Money too much i la Stop thinking about the Way i m pitching. If you re going to get the Money you la get the  but when Guidry signed his contract he was overpaid. He hardly got anybody out in Spring training. Billy Martin kept telling me he re called let me know if you can get any body out and i la let you pitch to  but in Spring training i was t ready to pitch. I had no Opportunity to throw Back Home during the of season. I was Busy doing other  mostly he was Busy with his wife Bonnie and the birth of their now 9-month old Jami. If you go to the Winter leagues a Yankee official had suggested you la have a better Chance of making the  i know Guidry replied but my wife s having a baby. I want to stay  even so he would have thrown regularly if there had been somebody in Lafayette that he could Trust to catch him. Catching a major league Pitcher with a 96-mile-an hour fastball is not like catching your Uncle a in the backyard. I would t air it out he said of his fastball but if the kid s not ready he could get Hurt. It s on my mind i might end somebody s career. You re not going to get me to hit some Guy on the head. I Don t know what that could do to  As a teen age Pitcher Guidry had a bad experience that still haunts him. It was horrible he remembered. This Little boy i guess he was about 15, the same age i was. This Little boy squared around to bunt and i threw a fast Ball inside hoping to Jam him but the Ball hit him in the Chest and broke his Collar Bone in two or three places. He had to go to the Hospital. He was a Good Friend of mine and it really disturbed me. He s All right now. He knew i was t trying to hit him but it disturbed me. It still  because he had not thrown in the offset son As most pitchers do Guidry was pounded in Spring training. My  was t prepared to throw he said. If i had tried to throw hard i d have torn the Tendon out of my . And not being Able to throw hard i could t get anybody out. It was horrible. I did t know if i was Good enough to pitch up Here. I read in the papers that i might not come North with the team but i really doubted that they would Send me Back to the minors. I did t see anybody they would keep instead of  no longer Relief hurler when the season began Guidry was listed As a Long Relief Pitcher. But then Catfish Hunter got Hurt in the opener hit on the foot by a line drive Billy Martin says. I tried Holtzman first in that spot in the rotation and he did t Cut it. Maybe i did t go Long enough with him but he did t Cut it so then i tried Guidry and the kid Cut  among his teammates Guidry is known As the Yankees chess Champion and As the Ragin cajun a descendant of the French exiles from Nova Scotia who settled in the Louisiana bayous More than 200 years ago. His father is a Railroad conductor on the Southern Pacific run Between new Orleans and Houston. We were the Only Parish that s like a county up Here not to have High school baseball he said. We had american legion Ball that s How i got a scholarship to Southwest Louisiana University where i realized that maybe i could make it to the majors and the Yankees drafted  even As a third round Choice he did not get much of a Bonus just a Hotdog with Mustard As he says. I m still a country boy Guidry said. I miss a delicacy i can t get up Here crawfish. I be got an apartment Over in Bogota n.j., for my wife and Little girl. I Don t come into new York much. I hate the traffic. I despise the big City any big City. Lafayette is about 80,000 now and when it gets to 100,000, i la get out of  but it will be a Long time before the Yan Kees let him get out of new York. Leafs owner named to nil Hal of Fame Toronto a Harold Ballard the blustery owner of Toronto Maple Leafs and one of the chief opponents to a proposed merger Between the National hockey league and world hockey association this summer was officially inducted into the nil Hall of Fame thursday night. Ballard was selected in june in the builders category along with John f. Bunny Ahearne the Man who ran the International ice hockey federation for 18 seasons and Joseph Cattarinich a former part owner of Montreal canadians. Alex Delvecchio a former coach and player with Detroit red wings and the late Tim Horton who was a defence Man with Toronto new York rangers Pitts Burgh penguins and Buffalo sabres were also inducted. Ron Guidry is a Yankee Bonanza. Displays his 14-6 winning form in Lascar Point standings Yarborough  Lead Daytona Beach Fla. Up Gale Yarborough maintained his Lead in Nas car s grand National Point standings Fol lowing his fourth place finish in the capital City 400 at Richmond va., Fairgrounds raceway last sunday. Yarborough now leads Richard Petty by 118 Points with seven races remaining on the 1977 schedule. Yarborough has 3,800 Points followed by Petty with 3,682 Dar Rell Waltrip 3,433 Benny Parsons 3,422 buddy Baker 3,026 Richard Brooks 2,861 Cecil Gordon 2,651 James Hylton 2,619 Richard Childress 2,591, and Bobby Allison 2,546. Sunday s 400-Lap event was won by Neil Bonnett who notched the first grand National Victory of his career in a Dodge. Bonnett became the seventh Lascar Driver to visit Victory Circle in the 23 races run so far this season. Rickey Rudd s Lith place finish sunday was enough for him to maintain his Lead in the Rookie of the year Competition. Yarborough also continues to Lead in mets coach appointed player development chief new York up new York mets general manager Joe Mcdonald has announced the appointment of coach Tom Burgess to the position of director of player development effective at the end of the season. Burgess who joined the mets Organiza Tion last year As the manager of their tide water aaa farm club will remain a coach until the end of this season. He was the mets third base coach but has been sidelined since late july with a Back ail ment. Money won this season with $310,676. Fol lowing him Are Petty $267,590 Parsons $196,946 Waltrip $194,993 Baker $146,386 David Pearson $128,626 Brooks $98,420 Donnie Allison $83,150 Hylton $67,705, and Bonnett $67,325. The grand National competitors will meet sunday in the 500-mile Delaware 500 at Dover Downs International Speedway. King named . Coach for Weisman cup los Angeles up Billy Jean King has been named coach of the Ameri can team which will meet Russia in the second annual Weisman cup Tennis series Between the two countries world team Tennis commissioner Butch Buchholz announced wednesday. King Heads a team that includes Kris Tien Shaw Mike Estep and Raz Reid. Competition begins in Moscow sept. 21, followed by matches in Tbilisi sept. 24 and Leningrad sept. 26. The Weisman cup is named for financier Frederick Weisman who was instrumental in establishing the Tennis series Between the . And the soviet Union. Sports on of major league baseball Philadelphia Phillies at St. Louis cardinals 1 30 . Saturday