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Stan Hochman Rich MenVbtesf Escapade fiflay the first Expansion Draft but the Mets and Colts didn't pick him. Maybe it bugs him that his brother Hank had to escape the Phillies system to get the chance to prove he could play in the big leagues. And maybe he thinks they will never give Ron a chance. Maybe it stopped being a game a long time ago? THE SPORTS OF Skinner thought he had the key without probing into Allen's Allen was told he had been sus-r iC Pended indefinitely he said, "Good, I I I need a vacation." Then he paused, I I and the bitterness with which he regards the Phillies' organization came seeping through. "How important can the games be?" he muttered.

"They're not trying. They could be bringing guys up to find out what they can do up here. Guys like my brother." Richie Allen's brother Ron is hitting home runs in Reading this summer. The only position he can play adequately is first base. The first baseman for the Phillies is Richie Allen.

He must play there because he cannot throw a ball across Bachelors in, which is where he spent some time Monday night, flaunting an edict laid down by the president of the National League. Whoa! One thing at a time. Allen missed two more games last night, failing to show up at Shea Stadium. Between PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 1969 59 youth. He lacks Gene Mauch's impassioned speech-making, but he feels just as deeply about the game.

Which is why he felt he had to suspend Allen even before be heard any alibi. And Allen, reacting swiftly and thoughtlessly to the news of the suspension, headed away from any simple settlement. It will take a lot of bending to patch the wounds that this episode will leave. Skinner, who knows how scarce .318 hitters can be, must think the effort is worth-while. But the list of doubters is growing longer each day.

Maybe it is and maybe it isn't Maybe Allen's problems all started when he had nothing to say about which team he signed with. (His mother and brother decided for him.) Maybe he soured on the Phillies when they tried to abandon him in Allen AWOL as Phils Bow 2-1, 5-0 Wg Bat'Avay, So Mets Make May By BILL CONLIN NEW YORK. Oh yes. While the great Rich Allen manhunt was going on at Shea Stadium last night, the fractured Phils dropped a doubleheader to the euphoric, encharging Mets. 'Never Again' NEW YORK Rich Allen checked out of the Commodore notel at 10 A.

M. today and left the Phillies with the news: "I'll never play another game for teh Phillies." When Phillies Manager Bob Skinner heard of Allen's comments, he reacted as if the world won't collapse without his star slugger. "1 don't care if he ever plays for the Phillies again. Allen, who was suspended indefinitely last night after skipping the Phils twin bill with the Mets, was reminded the trade deadline has passed. "Well, they'll have to do something with me because I won't play for them again." BILL CONUN.

games, Bob Skinner munched ice cream to cool the fire burning inside him and announced that he had suspended Allen without pay. For how long? "That," said Skinner, "depends on Mr. Allen." Ten minutes later, Allen was located at the Commodore Hotel, the team's headquarters. The conversation was interrupted by the switchboard operator's persistent clicking. "Just say I fouled up," Allen suggested.

"I tried my damndest to get there. I didn't realize the game started at five o'clock. When I did, I called Turk Farrell and asked him to tell Skins. I tried to get there; then something happened." Allen would not say what had happened, but this Naked Tom Weaver outdueled Woodie Fryman 2-1 in an opener that took just 1:54. Then Jim McAndrew with ninth-inning help from Ron Tay lorzipped the Phis with two -V hits in a 5-0 nightcap that took only 1:56.

An ecstatic, roaring throng of 39,843 raised the second-place Mets' attendance to an incredible 384.303 for their last ten games in Shea and seemed oblivious to the fact that their most they drifted out of Gypsy Joe Harris' orbit. The only place Allen definitely was during his mysterious New York stay is frowned upon by the Nation League. A DECREE HANDED down by National League president Warren Giles Friday "suggested" that players stav out of Bachelors HI, Joe Namath's Valley of the Dolls. Allen and teammate Johnny Briggs were spotted there Monday after the Frazier-Quarry fight along with Allen's friend Herb Adderley, the Green Bay Packers' cornerback and several other pro football notables. "The club was told Saturday that Bachelors in was off limits," Skinner said.

(Briggs was on Army Reserve duty last weekend and might have missed the announcement). Last night the only thing off-limits for Rich Allen was where he makes his living And the real losers were baseball and the other 24 guys who depend on Allen's skills to make their livings. PHILUPS Johnny Callison's groin injury may force the Phils to make some emergency player callups from the minors. "We may have to make some adjustments, depending on how Callison's injury responds. But I'm firm on Allen's suspension.

He's not part of any other thinking" Bob Skinner said Bud Har-relson tripled home AI Weis in the inning of the opener and feared antagonist was missing City has 8,000,000 stories and maybe Allen became one of them. Before I could ask him what his plans were now, the operator told him "his boss" was on the line. "I don't want from the Phils' lineup. WOODIE FRYMAN noticed, though. It's tough to waste that kind of pitching.

Mike Ryan noticed, too. Especially when be looked up during the second game the 65th straight he's caught this season and noticed a lineup that was a conglomerate of the Eugene Emeralds, Reading Phillies and Rochester Red Wings. That was after John Callison left with a fourth-inning groin pull that reduced the number of first stringers in Bob Skinner's lineup to four Ryan, John Briggs, Larry HisTe and Cookie Rojas. Ryan had a few words to say SCORE OXE FOR THE METS Outfielder Art Shamsky slides home safely on basehit by Wayne Garret in fourth inning of nightcap during Mets' sweep of Phillies. Catcher Mike Ryan applies tag but it's too late as ump Ed Sudol and on-deck batter J.

C. Martin watch. about Allen's latest non-appear to talk to any boss," Allen said. It was an operator's small joke. His distraught wife was calling and Allen said he would talk to her and then get back to me.

He never did. So his latest absence remains clouded by mystery. And poor gentle Bob Skinner, who thought he had unlocked the riddle of his enigmatic slugger, had to sit there and answer a whole lot of questions. It was like picking the wings off a fly. "I think he's a great player," Skinner said.

"It's just too bad he has these other things. I think I handled it perfectly. This winter I wrote him two real positive letters, other than from his high school coach. He appreciated them. "When problems arise we discuss them.

I bend some, and he bends some If you go back, I don't think there's one man in this room who thought he'd be playing this way in a Phillies' uniform. I feel I motivated this guy to the things he's been doing. I don't think this has anything to do with the person handling him I don't have the answer. You'll have to ask him." It has to tear Skinner up, to scan the dugout ramp for Allen before a game then to jog to home plate with a revised lineup Then to sprint back (to show that his spirit is still blithe) and face his own players. "I've never been embarrassed in this game." Skinner said.

"I've been disgusted, but never embarrassed. Choose any word you want to describe how I feel now. I just hate to see the kid doing it to himself." Kid? Allen is 27. Isn't it time he kept track of the starting times of twi-night doubleheaders? Isn't it time he started conforming? Yeah, but if he watched what he ate and drank if he watched the company he kept and the hours he kept maybe he'd be hitting .218 instead of Yeah, and maybe some of the other less talented and more impressionable guys on the team might be hitting 10 points higher? "It's a 25-man operation," Skinner said, quoting from the manager's guidebook. "The other guys understand this game is too big for this type of thing." ance, It doesn't both me personal Nothing that woud ever leave the handing Gil Hodges a tinsel wrapped gift.

ly," Ryan began. "I say let's clubhouse. He's an unpredict beat them with what we've got "YOU CAN'T FEEL good We've been playing with subs about it," said Fryman, who is a able man. I guess that's an understatement. But he not only has an obligation to us, he has an obligation to all the people the last week and a half any mild-mannered man.

"When you have your best hitter out of way scored on a single by Cleon Jones. Larry Hisle's ninth homer, an opposite-field shot in the fifth, was the only Phillies' noise The Phils ran themselves out of the seventh inning when Rick Joseph singled and Terry Harmon reached base on an error. With no outs, Joseph was gunned out trying to take take third after Harrelson's throw got away from Donn Clen- the lineup, it's got to hurt you. who come to see him play. He THEN 'IRON MIKE' revealed But I still got to pitch good be the big man.

It'll come to the a little of now ne reauy ieeis cause pitching the only way top someday. It got to eaten about the insult Allen heaped on I've got to eat." an already crippled team. up with him." Allen has hit 27 career homers Apparently. Allen will neveri I don't feel bad for us, leei absorb the message that hitting's against the Mets, three in an bad for Richie," Mike said. denon.

Fryman sacrificed Har- awesome final-day display oi They've fined him a million man to second but Hisle struck power last season when he was times but it doesn't seem to help. the only way he's got to eat. And when he leaves baseball with his scarred hand and scarred reputation, the hangers- trying to lure the Mets into trad- wish I had half his abihty-J out. Fryman struck out ten, Seaver nine Jim McAndrew, ine for him Any time be sits guess all of us ao. we ve naa Continued en page 60 on will drift away as rapidly as talks about him in front of him.1 down against the Mets it is like STECttAICR MCWINg WIUCES-KIIM H.

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