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Banner-Graphic, Greancastle, Indiana
Thursday, October 11, 1973
Baltimore Stays Alive
'Cinderella Mets’ Rip Apart 'Big Red Machine’, 7-2
NEW YORK (AP). — Tom Seaver, with ninth-inning help from Tug McGraw, pitched New York’s Cinderella Mets to the National League championship Wednesday, beating the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 on the strength of a wild four-run fifth inning in the final playoff game. A huge Shea Stadium crowd that started chanting, “We’re No. 1, We’re No. 1!” during the big outburst, spilled onto the field despite the presence of dozens of policemen, creating a tumultuous victory scene when McGraw recorded the final out. Ihe win gave the Mets their third triumph in this best-of-five series and put them in the World Series. The game was delayed several times in the Reds’ ninth because of demonstrative fans. The Mets will face the winner of the American League championship series between the Baltimore Orioles and Oakland A’s. The W'orld Series begins Saturday in the American League city. Cleon Jones contibuted three hits to the Mets’ attack, including a double during the freakish fifth when a string of strange hits and misses helped
New York in its decisive rally. The score was tied 2-2 when Wayne Garrett opened the Mets’ fifth with a double. Felix Millan bunted. Reds’ starting pitcher Jack Billingham quickly bounced off the mound and grabbed the ball. He fired to third base and the throw seemed to be in time to get the sliding Garrett. But rookie third baseman Dan Driessen, apparently thinking it was a force play, never tagged the runner and both Garrett and Millan were safe. Jones doubled on Billingham’s next pitch, scoring Garrett and giving the Mets the lead. That finished Billingham and left-hander Don Gullett was sent in to face lefty-swinging John Milner, who walked, loading the bases. Manager Yogi Berra then sent in Willie Mays, his retiring superstar, to bat for Ed Kranepool, who had delivered a two-run single in the first inning. The Reds then switched to Clay Carroll as the crowd gave Mays a tremendous standing ovation. The 42-year-old Mays, who had not appeared in a game since Sept. 9, swung at Carroll’s first pitch and chopped it in front of the plate, no more
than 30 feet up the third base line. Carroll rushed off the mound but his throw to the plate was not in time to get Millan, who slid home on the infield single. That made it 4-2 and, after a force play at the plate left the bases still loaded, Don Hahn hit a soft fly ball that fell in short center field. Milner scored on the play but center fielder Cesar Geronimo recovered quickly and threw to second for a forceout. Then Bud Harrelson singled past third for the fourth run of the inning and a 6-2 lead. Hahn was thrown out trying to reach third on the play for the final out of the inning. An inning later, Seaver doubled and scored another run on Jones’ third hit of the game. That gave Seaver a five-run bulge. The Mets gave Seaver a quick lead in the first inning when hits by Millan and Jones and a walk to Milner loaded the bases. Kranepool then doubled for a 2-0 edge. The Reds got those runs back one at a time. Joe Morgan doubled and reached third on an error before scoring on Driessen’s sacrifice fly. In the fifth, Pete Rose dou-
Greencastle X-Country Finishes Fourth
Greencastle’s cross country team finished fourth in the Western Indiana Conference meet run Tuesday at Clinton’s course. In the annual conference meet. Jay Franklin, Greencastle’s ace harrier, finished fourth with a time of 13:09. Gary Lemmick, Coach Kevin Vana’s number two man, was a close fifth with a time of
13:17. There was then an unbelievable small spread between Lemmick and the Tiger Cubs next finisher, Ken Ferrand. Ferrand ran a time of 13:42, 25 seconds behind L emmick, but finished 21. Mark Carr finished 25 with a time of 13:52, while Dan Losin ran 36 in 14:20. Nine schools competed in
the conference meet. West Vigo was the top team, Schulte finished second, Sullivan was third with 90 points, the Tiger Cubs was fourth with 91, and Clinton rounded out the top-five with 93 points. Greencastle now prepares itself for the county meet Saturday at Windy Hill Country Club. Meet time is 10a.m.
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bled, moved to third on an infield out and scored on Tony Perez’ single to tie the game. Baltimore Wins 5-4 OAKLAND (AP> — The Baltimore Orioles, after trailing Oakland 4-0 and appearing helpless against the pitching of Vida Blue, beat the A’s 5-4 Wednesday on late home runs by Andy Etchebarren and Bobby Grich to send the American League playoffs to the fifth game. Grich broke a 4-4 tie when he led off the eighth inning with a
385-foot homer off A’s reliever Rollie Fingers. Etchebarren had tied the score one inning earlier with a three-run blast off left-hander Blue. The A’s, defending world champions, will pitch 21-game winner Jim “Catfish” Hunter here Thursday. The Orioles are expected to start 23-year-old Doyle Alexander. The World Series will start either here or in Baltimore Saturday, with the American League champs facing the New York Mets, who won the Na-
tional League title earlier Wednesday by beating the Cincinnati Reds 7-2 in the final playoff game. Oakland knocked out Baltimore starter Jim Palmer, who had shut out the A’s 6-0 on five hits in the playoff opener, with a three-run second inning. Gene Tenace. Ray Fosse and Dick Green all hit doubles against the hard-throwing righthanded ace. Oakland’s fourth run was driven in by Fosse with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning. Blue, the first-game loser when he failed to last one in-
Thomas, Heekey Inspire Eagles’ Win
South Putnam’s eighth grade football team notched up their fourth win Tuesday night when they defeated visiting North Putnam, 14-6. The Cougars scored their only touchdown of the encounter when they returned the opening kickoff. The conversion attempt failed. Tim Thomas got the Eagles on the board in the second quarter when he capped 45yard drive on a two-yard run
for the talley. Cary Allen, South Putnam’s quarterback, teamed up with Darren Chadd for a 45-yard pass play to instigate the scoring play. The half ended with the Eagles ahead 8-6 when Allen and Chadd combined for the two-point conversion. It was not until the final frame when the Eagles decided to put it away for good. Bill Heekey ran over from the four for the touchdown. The two-point
conversion failed. “The boys were down after that runback,” Coach Paul McGill said following the victory, “but, they really came back strong in the second half to play a real good game.” According to McGill, it was the Eagles' best showing of the season in the passing department. South Putnam’s seventh and eighth grade teams take on Avon next Tuesday at home. Game time is 6 p.m.
ning, overpowered the Orioles through six innings, allowing just one hit, a single through the box by Paul Blair in the fourth. In the seventh Blue walked Earl Williams. Don Baylor singled to left, Brooks Robinson singled up the middle to drive home Williams and bring Etchebarren to the plate. Etchebarren swung at the first pitch from Blue and pounded it into the left-center
field bleachers to tie the game. That was all for Blue and Fingers took over on the mound for the A’s. The game-winning homer by Grich came on a 1-0 pitch from the Oakland reliever. Southpaw Grant Jackson, Baltimore’s third reliever of the game, got credit for the victory, which put the Orioles in position to win their fourth league championship in five years.
Greencastle 8th Graders Lose Fourth
Greencastle’s eighth grade football team lost their fourth straight Tuesday night when Southmont held them scoreless and went on to win, 16-0. Southmont scored a touchdown in the final two quarters and added the two-
point conversion alter each tally. The visitors scored in the third quarter when at 5:12 their halfback raced 10-yards for the score. A quarterback sneak racked up their first of two-point conversions. With only a little more than
DePouw’s Harriers Lose, First Wabash Victory
DePauw’s cross country team lost their third consecutive conference showing Tuesday night when Wabash placed six men in the top-10 to win 24-32. It was the first time in at least six years that the Little Giants have defeated the Tigers. “I knew it w ould be a tough meet,” DePauw’s coach, Robert Harvey, said folowing the meet. “They beat us by a very comparable score in the GLCA Meet here Saturday, so unless we ran an excellent race I knew they would have us.” Doug Rudd, DePauw’s ace harrier, finished third with a time of 26:55. The sophomore, who developed blisters
in the weekends’ meet was hampered when the blisters broke during the race. He finished though. Tom Rust, the only senior Tiger to finish in the top-10, was fifth with a time of 27:26. Bruce Long, finished sixth, 27:32, and Jamie Jones was the final DePauw runner to finish in the top-10. He ran seventh at 27:49. “We’ve had trouble all year in getting our number five man up there,” Harvery said. “I was real proud of Jones. It was his best time of the season.” Despite losing their third conference tangle, the record is not important as the Indiana Collegiate Conference. They have a conference meet on November 3rd.
Basketball Begins For Greencastle’s 4th, 5th And 6th Grades
Greencastle’s fourth, fifth and sixth grade basketball practice begins Saturday, according to school officials. Coach Tzouanakis will be in charge for this year’s program. The practice sessions will be held in Mc-
Anally Center, Greencastle High School. The fourth grade team will be made up of eight and nine year olds, fifth grade team will be nine and ten years olds, and the sixth grade team of 10-11 years olds.
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one minute remaining in the final frame a handoff went around left end for the score. They switched sides with the same play for the final two points of the evening. The Tiger Cubs suffered three fumbles, one accounted for the visitors first score. Southmont’s defense held the homesters intact, allowing Pat Feldzo lead Greencastle rushing with only 14 yards. Coach Steve Paquin’s troops 0-4, play host to North Putnam’s eighth grade squad next Tuesday. Game time is 6 p.m.
Lone Vigil-North Putnam's cross country coach, Gregory Ulm, walks a lonely trail during a recent meet. His Cougars will be pitted against South Putnam, Greencastle, and Cloverdale in the county meet to be held Saturday, 10 a.m., at Windy Hill Country Club. According to all the coaches, it’ll be the best, and most exciting one, in recent years. Dodgers’ Richert Receives Post Season Award
LOS ANGELES (AP> - Relief pitcher Pete Richert of the Los Angeles Dodgers checked his mail at the club office Tuesday and took possession of what may be the most post, post-season award. It was the 13-year-old Southern Association Rookie-of-the-Year trophy. Hal Potten, league president, sent the tro-
phy along with a letter. Potten said he discovered the trophy while cleaning out a store room, and "why 1 didn’t find it before now. I’ll never know.” Richert, who had a 19-9 record at Atlanta in 1960, also was the Southern Association’s Co-Player-of-the-Year that season.
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