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Veterans Rate Mays High On Long List Of Baseball Greats NEW YORK (AP) -- Willie. _ Even diehard 'veterans, al- ways loyal to their contempor- aries, agree that the San Fran- cisco special rates high among the all-time greats. This was put into greater fo- cus by Mays' tremendous get- away this season, a scorching yy start that threaten to bring (a new and greater honors to the player who has been the heart- beat of the Giants through 12 brilliant seasons. _ At his current pace, éver the spectacular fielder and base runner, not only threatens to become baseball's first .400 hitter in 23 years but has a chance to surpass the home: run records of Babe Ruth and Roger Maris. Septuagenarian Casey Stengel, who has seen all the great cen- tre fielders of the last 50 years, speaks of Mays in the same breath with Tri Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. Halli - of - Fames Fankie Fisch, Cal Hubbell and Paul Waner rate Mays on top of the list. George Sisler, one of the few to achieve a .400 batting av- erage, ranks Mays as the best in the game today. "TI had Mickey Mantie,"' said Stengel. "But who is better than Mays today. LIKED TRIS AND JOE "Next to DiMaggio and Speaker, Mays has got to-be the best centre fielder and I've seen some 15 good ones. Fellows like * Ed Rousch, Max Carey, T Moore, Happy Felsch and Jig- ger Statz. 'Mays has a chance to wind tp with DiMaggio ahd Speaker. He's got all the points. He can field, run, throw, hit and hit with power . . . and he makes it) look easy. There never was aldepartment. I'd rate him and! Dimaggio even - 7 Player who. made it look easier except DiMaggio. A Frisch, a staunch defender of . the past, found it hard to choose between DiMaggio and Mays for top rating among the centre fielders. fi 46 ' ; .|Sisler. "I agree with those who) gl ral pra foe say Mays is th best today." faster." Speaker Willie, LOOKING UP! San Fran- cisco Giants' centrefielder Willie Mays keeps his eyes on a fly ball as he makes ready with his _basket-like catch during a_ before-the- game practice. Mays has got- ten off to a fast start this | Palmer Rates High! THE OSHAWA TIMES, Pridey, Mey 15, 1964 15 | In Okl ahom a Open Ann IN CANADIAN OPEN|Aug. 2, it was announced Thurs mer winners, leads the field int tournament starting today. Other former winners back for a try at the $6,400 top money are defending champion) Don Fairfield, Fred Hawkins,| 1956 titlist, and Gene Littler, 1960 champion. Palmer and Littler share the tournament record for low win- ning score, 273. Both Fairfield and Doug Sanders, the 1962 win, ner, won with 280s. Par for the \ renee course is 36-36--72. 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Roach said jat Buffalo he was going to buy fa \the Bills, season and even the old-time skeptics are convinced, Mays is considered the greatest centrefielder one of the three greatest of all time, ranking with Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. playing today, | --(AP Wirephoto) eR | Rent-A-Car ONLY '1.00 A DAY Plus Low Mileage Cherge FROM stephen in} verything but speed. Mays is) considered centre said "IT have always the greatest elder I have ever seen," CONTINENTAL STEAM BATH 16A Ontario St. Oshawe Finnish Saune Ph, 728-2460 | MERCURY TAXI |] Oshewe's Lergest and Most Modern | Toxi ond U-Drive | 725-4771 break my neck to have either one on my team." Hubbell also called it a photo between DiMaggio and have to say Mays is the great- est I've ever seen." "Mays is the most spectacular | player I've ever seen," said Waner, one of the greatest stars ! in Pittsburgh Pirates' history.' 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