Banner Graphic, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 June 1974 — Page 3

Saturday, Jun« 8,1974

Banner-Graphic, Greencattle, Indiana

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Regional Baseball Tourneys Monday

Twelve of the top 20 ranked teams in Indiana high school baseball this season remain in the chase as the eighth annual state tournament moves into its regional level Monday. Only 64 teams remain from the 416 that began last week’s sectional tournament grind.

They’ll play off Monday at 16 sites for the honor of advancing to the June 15 semi-state tourneys. Indianapolis Chatard, ranked No. I by the Indiana High School Baseball Coaches Association, has been eliminated from the competition, as have

No. 6 Jeffersonville, No. 7 and two-time champion La Porte and No. 8 Michigan City Elston. However, Fort Wayne Northrop—already state basketball champion this year—remains in the running. The Bruins are ranked No. 2 and heavilv favored to win at Fort Wayne.

Tri-State Meet, Too

FORT WAYNE Ind. (AP>Top high school seniors from Indiana, Michigan and Ohio are scheduled to gather Saturday at Fort Wayne Northrop’s Spuller Field for the first Tri-State Champions Track and Field Meet. The Hoosier contingent includes six state champions, crowned last weekend at Indianapolis. The Indiana roster also includes four performers from Fort Wayne Snider and three from Gary West, the two teams that shared the state track title for 1974. The meet is sponsored by the Indiana Association of Track and Cross County Coaches and is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., EST, in the 5,000-seat Northrop stadium. The six Indiana state champions entered are Snider’s Rob Goshen in the discus event. West’s Rod White in the 100yard dash, Elery Dixon of Indianapolis Arlington in the 220, Phil Barker of Vincennes in the 880, Rick Murray of Elkhart Memorial in the long jump and Wilfred Rouse of Fort Wayne Wayne in the low hurdles. The Indiana entries include the top three finishers in the discus, 220 and long jump at Saturday’s state finals. Among the outstanding out-of-state entries are Doug Henninger of Ann Arbor, Mich., Pioneer, who has run 9.6 in the 100; Dave Hodge of Young-

stown, Ohio, Ursuline, who has a 13.6 best in the high hurdles; shot putter Harry Woebkenburg of Cincinnati, Ohio, Moeller, whose 66-6 heave is the best in the three-state area this season; Mark Harber of Huron. Ohio, a 440 star, and Barry Pajcic of Cleveland. Ohio, St. Joseph, in the 880. Also in the Michigan contingent are a 4:09 miler from Hastings and a 9:02 two-miler from Farmington. Events in the meet also will

OMAHA Neb. (API - An Eastern team hasn’t won the College World Series in 19 years, but Miami Coach Ron Fraser thinks the drought should end. “Wake Forest did it in 1955. and that’s a long time ago.” noted Fraser. “I think the brand of baseball we play in our part of the country is as good as any." Fraser’s team, Texas and Oklahoma, carry the top challenger rating as seven teams will be out to end Southern California’s dominance of the classic. The 28th collegiate finals open Friday night with Miami. 48-9, matched against Harvard, 31-9, and Oklahoma, 42-6, going

include the high jump, pole vault, two-mile relay and mile relay. Two-time Indiana high jump champion Noel Ruebel of Highland and pole vault champ Gary Hunter of Northrop will miss the Tri-State meet to take part in an international meet at Chicago. Two-mile titlist Rudy Chapa of Hammond High is only a sophomore and not eligible to compete in the Tristate.

against surprising Northern Colorado. 31-11. Southern Cal. 45-19, has it’s first test against Texas, 52-6. Saturday night. Seton Hall, 338, battles Southern Illinois, 4710, in the final first-round game Saturday. All except Miami have been to the series before. The tournament is a doubleelimination contest. The favorite Trojans hold a series record eight titles—and five in the last six years. Twice during the District 8 playoffs, Southern California was within a loss of failing to qualify for the series, but bounced back.

East Looks To Break College Baseball Drought

Keep On Droggin’!

COLUMBUS£ Ohio (AP> — Drag racer Herm Petersen laughs at his distorted body. “The look of my hands and face doesn’t bother me. I’m just so happy to be alive,” said the 31-year-old top fuel dragster pilot, who ranks in the front of 1974 sports comeback stories. Petersen is back racing less than a yar after a fiery California crash nearly cost his life. His nose was burned off. He lost both little fingers. Nearly 50 per cent of his body suffered third degree burns at Orange County International Raceway July 21, 1973. Petersen, from Paulsbo, Wash., relaxed in his motel room before the National Hot Rod Association’s $224,500 Springnationals Friday through Sunday at National Trails Raceway. He drifted back to 11 months ago and his near fatal qualifying trip at Orange County.

“Three hundred feet from the starting line the axle broke. The car turned dead right and flipped over a couple of times. It stayed upside down and slid 1,000 feet dtwn the track. “The fuel tank cap came loose and dumped fuel on me. The fire just curled myhands. All I could think about was holding my breath. I did for 55 seconds, until they got the fire out,” recalled the seven-year NHRA driving veteran. “Not breathing saved my life,” he said. Petersen's story parallels that of David “Salt” Walther, critically burned in the 1973 start of the Indianapolis 500 who came back to finish 17th at Indy this year. Petersen spent three months in the Orange County Burn Center and weeks more rehabilitating. His hospital bill alone was $30,000. “And I’ve probably got another $5,000 in

treatment still ahead of me," he said. Petersen was back racing in a major NHRA event in the 1974 Gatornationals at Gainesville, Fla., in February, losing in the first round. “1 never had any second thoughts about returning to racing,” he said “That’s probably one of the things that kept me alive. That’s why 1 worked so hard with therapy to get my hands working again." Petersen has been ruled a total disability case by his burn physician. Still, his grittiness has him as one of the favorites in the Springnationals top fuel dragster class. “I feel like I’ve got a good chance here. I’m going to run as hard as I can and see what happens,” he said. More than 500 drivers are on hand for the Springnationals. Qualifying began today toward the final eliminations Sunday.

NHL’s Odd Couple?

NEW YORK AP-Derek Sanderson, quickly becoming known as hockey’s one-man shake-up may be coming to New York. Ranger fans are ready; they’ve been clamoring for personnel changes since the Philadelphia Flyers eliminated New York from the National Hockey League playoffs in April. The loss marked the eighth consecutive year the club has made the playoffs in futile chase of the treasured silverware. Reportedly, the trade has been made. Informed sources say the outspoken controversial center will join New York next week

through a complicated threeteam transaction at Monday’s

intraleague draft.

The Rangers w ill leave defenseman Jim Neilson unprotected, and he will be chosen by the California Seals-owners of the

draft’s first selection.

Under NHL draft rules, the Rangers then would be allowed to accept a player or cash as compensation for Neilson. In this case, a player will be taken. Center Walt McKechnie, the lastplace Seals' third-leading scorer. McKechnie will be traded to Boston for Sanderson, the mod center whose lifestyle appears to

clash painfully with that of the club’s conservative coach and general manager. Emile Francis. Francis demands that his players wear neckties in public. \ necktie on Sanderson is a rarity. There is a No Smoking rule in the Rangers' dressing room, but one of Sanderson’s first moves in the room after a game is lighting a cigarette. Francis does not permit facial hair on his players.

Sanderson has a mustache.

Also, Sanderson, 27, is not known to mince words. He holds nothing back from reporters after a game-a move popular with the media, but unsettling to the far less outspoken Francis. There has been pressure on the New York front office to get rid of aging, high-salaried veterans while they can still bring something in a trade. High-priced lelt wing Vic Hadfieid was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins last week fora less expensive defense-

man named Nick Beverly.

The scrappy Sanderson is one player who could shake things up. He twice fought with teammate Terry O’Reilly in Oakland last March, and when Sanderson missed the team plane back to Boston the next day, he was suspended for the rest of the season. In 1972, he jumped from the Bruins to the then Philadelphia Blazers for a $2.5 million. But he injured his back after just eight games, and had his attorney negotiate his return to the Bruins. Through Boh Woolf, his attorney, Sanderson has expressed a strong desire to play for Francis. “Derek has always admired Emile Francis, and despite his flamboyant nature and style, Derek ha* said he really wants to prove himself and could be very compatible with Emile and the

Rangers.” Woolf said.

And strangely. Francis-despite the obvious conflicts-has admitted he’d love to have Sanderson in New York. The two could easily bectito hockey’s ver-

sion of the Odd C ouple.

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Defending state champion Lafayette Jefferson is ranked fourth, but the Bronchos barely made it out of their own sectional with a pair of one-run triumphs. Lafayette, which will host a regional, semi-state and the state finals at Columbian Park on June 22, is the only other two-time state champion. Other former champions are Hammond Noll, South Bend Clay and Bloomington South. Noll is ranked Ilth this season and enters the East Chicago regional as favorite. Clay and South both were ousted last week. No. 14 South Bend Washington remains the team to beat from that northern Indiana city this season, while No. 20 Bloomington North stole South’s

AMA Says CHICAGO(AP) -Girlsshould not play football, ice hockey or any other rough contact sports with boys, says the American Medical Association’s committee on medical aspects of sports. There is no reason why healthy women should not participate with each other in vigorous contact sports, and there are many reasons why they should be encouraged to do so, the committee said. But it added that participation on boys’ teams “with its inordinate injury risk jeopardizes the health and safety of the female athlete and outweighs the benefits of such participation.” Its statement, published in the June 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, was approved by the women’s and girls' divisions of the American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation. The AM A committee pointed out that girls are at a distinct

limelight this season. Washington’s Panthers will be a slight favorite at South Bend Monday, with No. 16 Goshen expected to meet them in a strong title game. Bloomington will be a heavy favorite at the Bloomington regional. The only other regional tourney with more than one ranked team will be at Brazil. The host team will play third-ranked Terre Haute North in the opener, with No. 10 Clinton going against Greencastle in the second contest. Fifth-ranked Seymour, with a 16-game winning string, will be favored at Jeffersonville. In other action involving ranked teams. No. 12 Chesterton plays at LaPorte and No. 17 Blackford will be at Anderson.

No To Girls disadvantage to boys in contact sports because they are less muscular and substantially lighter in weight. Even il girls are matched according to weight, it added, they are still exposed to potentially greater injury, since they have a higher ratio of fat tissue than boys. The committee noted that participation in girls’ high school sports competition has increased 175 per cent over the past two years, and cited the health benefits of appropriate sports. Girls also have asked to participate on boys’ teams in noncontact sports, it said, adding that where no comparable girls’ program exists or where separate athletic programs are not feasible, “this interim measure is a desirable solution for selected sports.” “However, it is in the longrange interest of both male and female athletes that they have their own programs.” the committee said.

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