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Putnam Inn, Cloverdale IGA Chalk Up Victories
Putnam Inn increased their league lead to one full game and Cloverdale IGA jumped into a tie for third place in Wednesday night's Greencastle 12” Softball l eague action. The Putnam Inn crew improved their record to 12-3
with a seesaw win over Pizza Hut, finally taking the lead for good with a lone run in the sixth inning that sent them ahead, 4-3. They added two more in the top of the sesenth, and then limited a last-ditch Pizza Hut rally to one run to
claim a 6-4 victory. Marvin Querry wen t the distance on the rubber for Putnam Inn, also collecting two singles to lead his team’s nine hit attack off loser Wayne Tharp, who was also still around at the conclusion of the contest.
John Tharp led Pizza Hut with two singles'and a two run home run that tied the game in the fifth inning. Dale Mendenhall added two singles for the losers, while Rufus Hartman tripled and Mark Tharp doubled. The the second game at
Robe Ann Park Norman Hoffa limited Livestock to four hits as Cloverdale IGA made the most of three single run innings for a 3-1 victory. Hotfa had a shutout until the seventh, and aided his own cause with a single and double, while Terry Hoffa
stroked a single and triple. Bonebreak was the most ticklish briar in Hoffa's side with a single and triple for Livestock, but they weren’t enough to prevent Roy Swihart from beirtg tagged with the loss. The game was highlighted
with three double plays in the first three innings, all of them resulting from runners being doubled off base after line drive catches. Line Scores Putnam Inn 002 Oil 2 6-9-1 Pizza Hut 100 020 1 4-9-3
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12-3
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6-9
Livestock
6-9
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5-9
Castle-Brackneys
4-10
WIGGINS, Miss. (AP) Dizry Dean, known to millions as “OP Diz.” was headed home in a coffin today, more than four decades after he and the Gas House Gang boasted and bullied their way to baseball
mortality.
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The self-styled fastballer who ruled in St. Louis’ Sportsman's Park from 1932 to 1940, then turned televsion “commuItator”—ended a tumultuous courtship ot baseball fans early
Wednesday morning at St Mary’s Hospital in Reno, Nev., two days after he suffered a
heart attack He was 63.
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fan wanted him to be
‘‘Dean became a legend to literally thousands of people who didn’t know if he threw right-handed or left-handed. And didn’t care. This was the magic of Dizzy Dean ... he knew what people wanted to hear And he never got out of the mold.” said Buddy Blatt-
Rambling & Rummaging Not many will remember. A few old timers, maybe. But that’s about all. It was near the end of April some 3X years ago. The Gas house ganglrame to Greencastle to play DePauw’s baseball team in an exhibition game. They whupped the college boys soundly, 16-3, but wasn't so much the beating, but the fun of the game that stands out in the minds of those w ho saw it. “They really had a picnic. They were just a bunch of monkeys.” What else could they be with the likes of Frankie Frisch Pepper Martin, and I eo Durocher in the starting infield that scooped up every thing that came their way off the bats of the Tigers? Of the whole Gashouse Gang, however, one name stands out from the rest of the monkeys: Dizzy Dean. Dizzy didn’t start on the hill in that game with DePauw on April 24, 1936. and he might not have even got into the game. No matter, he still signed the piece of paper that hangs framed in the lobby of Bowman Gym as a momento of the Cardinals’ visit to Greencastle that day. as did good number of his teammates. He signed quite a few pieces of paper in his day. Now he won’t be signing any more. Not many will forget him A few youngsters, maybe. But that's about all.
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ner, who was Dean’s broadcast partner on the Game of the Week. “This man was the best at what he did in an era that was quite possibly the most colorful the game has ever known. This was the Roaring ’20s of Baseball. the Golden Era of the ’30s. There were the Yankees and the Gas House Gang and all the characters, and of them all he was No. 1 because he had the most talent,” Blattner said. Dizzy’s brother, Paul “Daffy” Dean, and wife Patricia were at his bedside when he died at 1:35 a m. “His philosophy was doing a fella right,” said Daffy. “He never saw a man he didn’t respect or like, and 1 never knew anyone who didn't respect or like Dizzy. Those qualities are God-gifted.” Shortly after news was made public of Dizzy’s unsuccessful battle with two heart attacks in the past five days. President Nixon issued a statement from Washington that said: “To my generation of Americans, Dizzy Dean will always he remembered as the blazing fastballer who led the Gas House Gang of St Louis to the pinnacle of baseball glory . “To the young. Dizzy will also be remembered as the sportscaster who brought an extra touch of excitement and color to every game he cov-
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“Dizzy was indeed a man for all generations.” The body was to be flown to New Orleans where it would continue its journey here by hearse. Dean whose Arkansas vernacular sent runners “sludding” into base or got them “threwed” out at home, was regarded as one of the game’s best pitchers, though his fastball was slowed by a foot injury' at age 27. He won 150 games and lost 83 in his career, throwing 27 shutouts. He led the National League in strikeouts four years running and compiled a 30-7 record with the Cards in 1934, his best year. The next two years Dizzy compiled 28-12 and 24-13 records and by the age of 25 he had won 121 games. As a baseball pitcher in the 1930s he was a true free spirit, a master of comic bravado made memorable by the exaggerated boasts he usually put into the record books. In one game, he vowed to throw nothing but fastballs and won. In another, he promised to throw any pitch the batter wanted. He won that game too. Jay Hanna Dean was born Jan. 16, 1911. but for years nobody was really sure where Records show he was born in Lucas, Ark., but Di/zy once was heard telling three different writers three different birth placesin a single day. Asked once about it, he replied: “I was helpin’ the writers out. Them ain’t lies; them’s scoops.” Dean began as a cotton picker in Mississippi He joined the Cards in 1930, pitching in the last game of the season, then was returned to Houston of the Texas League for seasoning before becoming a regular in 1932. When he arrived in Houston in 1931. he immediately went to the ballpark and phoned the rival manager: “Say. this is Dizzy Dean." he said. “Yep. back in town and I can hear you gnashing your teeth, brother. Just thought 1 would call and tell you that I am gonna pitch against your ball club this afternoon and hold them to two or three hits.” He allowed just two. For all his antics. Dizzy was serious about the game He was known to give away a few hits now and then, but not when they could hurt him Throughout his career, both as a player and broadcaster, he maintained his interest in baseball and its participants.
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Wrestling Clinics Slated
For All
sports
South Putnam Swimmers Beat Plainfield Elks
South Putnam's summer swim team traveled to Plainfield Wednesday for a meet with the Plainfield Elks team, and came hack U.S. 40 with a 309-166 victory to their credit. The crew of coach Steve Holsapple was strongest in the relay events, as they dropped only one of eight in both the medley and freesty le relays. The Eagles will be back in action Saturday when they travel to Cougar Country for a dual meet with North Putnam. Next Wednesday they will host Greencastle and then Saturday their invitational meet South Putnam Winners Medley relays: Meek. Parrish, Birt, and Scott; Toney, Parrish, Kendall, and McConahay; Bird-
sell, Huffman, Burnham, and Henderson; Whitman, Peeler, Hayes, and Briones; Hammond, Scott, Birdsell, and Kelly; Williams, Kelly, Albright, and Kelly, Broadstreet, Miller, Salsman, and Scott. Backstroke: Kendall, Birt. Toney. Whitman, Williams, and Broadstreet. Freestyle: Parrish, Toney, Parrish, Hammond, Kelly and Scott. Breaststroke: Toney, Hayes, Hammond, Kelly, and Miller. Butterfly: Parrish, Parrish, Peeler, Albright, and Broadstreet. Freestyle relays: Kendall, Brown, Lewis, and Parrish; Birt, Scott, Parrish, and Cooper; Burnham. Huffman, Birdsell, and Henderson; Powell, Birt, Briones, and Peeler; Birdsell, Dorsett, Kelly, and Hammond; Williams, Blanton. Kelly, and Kelly; Scott, Broadstreet, Miller and Salsman.
Indiana State University will offer a one-day Wrestling Clinic on Saturday, July 27, in the ISU Arena for local area high school coaches and wrestlers. Featured clinicians will be Dick Humphreys and Bill Reininger, ISU graduate assistant coaches. Top members of the ISU wrestling team will also assist. Registration for the clinic will start at 8 a m., and the morning session from 9 until 11 a.m. will cover set ups, takedowns, and moves from the bottom position. The afternoon program starting at 1 p.m. will include top work, pinning combinations.
and conditioning. A rap session at 3:30 p.m. will close the day’s program. The clinic is being presented by the ISU Division of Continuing Education in tv,..peration with the ISU Men’s Physical Education Department. Clinic fees are $5 for the high school wrestler and $7.50 for coaches. Registration can be completed with the ISU Division of Continuing Education, ISU Conference Center. 6th and Cherry Streets, Terre Haute.
Jeff Johnson, Cascade High School wrestling coach, has announced that he will hold a wrestling clinic
for boys that will be high school students next year. The clinic, which will be held at Cascade High School, will run from July 29 through August 8. meeting Monday through Thursday nights from 7:30 to 9:30. High school and college coaches from this area will be featured at the clinic, with a guest Speaker demonstrating moves every night. Enrollment fee is $10 per student for the whole clinic. Interested boys can register the first night of the clinic by coming a half hour early, or by contacting Coach Johnson at 839-9839 or by writing to him at Cascade High School in Clayton.
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Local Cage Team To Play Sunday
The Greencastle Sports and Small Car Corner sponsored local independent basketball team will be in action in the New Castle Invitational Tournament at 7:15 Sunday evening. They have drawn for their first round opponent in the 16 team single elimination tourney H-Salt Fish ’N Chips from Indianapolis, who, though entered in the recently completed Lebanon Boosters Club Outdoor Tournament, did not reach
the final eight teams. The 7;15 game Sunday will be the first game of the evening at Baker Park in New Castle, which, according to eager Mike Steele of Cloverdale, fans can get to by going up Route 3 and then turning left. Anyone interested in seeing some good basketball, and at the same time in lending the local team support, is urged to attend the tourney Sunday
DEER LAKE, Pa. (AP) All the corn at Muhammad Ali’s picnic wasn't on the cob: “Yesterday I murdered a rock; I injured a stone; I hospitalized a brick. I’m so mean I make medicine sick.” The occasion for Ali’s poetry and the picnic-style lunch was the official opening of Ali’s training for his fight with world heavyweight champion George Foreman Sept. 24 in the African nation of Zaire. “This is beautiful,” said Ali. “The stage is set now. We got a big. bad giant who is gonna kill me." Then he did a routine which included his imitation of Fore-man-punching in slow motion—and falling on his back and shouting.“that don’t look like me, do it 0 “There’s gonna be a rumble in the jungle." Later sports writers asked Magundu Bula, an official of the government of Zaire, if he thought Ali might ruffle some feelings in Zaire with such statements as “I’m gonna boil George Foreman in a pot." “Ali is Ali ” said Bula. “He is an American. He speaks like an American. “1 see no conflict. It (the fight) is the most suitable wav of getting our country known
The nature of the fighters—Ali being who he is and Foreman being the champion." “We would like to show what a black nation can do. We want to show that Zaire is a country where anyone can live in peace." Don King of Video Techniques. Inc., of New York the closed-circuit television promoter. said accomodations will be made available for 7.000 persons from Europe and America, but not on an individual basis. They will be handled by tours through Festival In Zaire.
Inc., “because we want everthing organized, we want no chaos," said King " Bula said many visitors from throughout Africa are expected and that “if we had a capacitv of 500,000 we could fill it.” The stadium in the city of Kinshasa, where the fight will be held, holds 120,000 “I draw people, not George Foreman." said Ali “He's making $5 million dollars (each fighter is guaranteed thai amount) because of me. He’s the challenger He’s trying to prove he’s better than me."
Marylanders To DPI)
DePauw University head football coach Tom Mont has announced that three members of the Maryland High School Football AllStars game to be played in early August have enrolled in college here. They are Ken Harris, an outstanding running back from Churchill High School in Potomac who averaged over seven yards per carry his senior year. Jim Pa-
tarinin, offensive guard from Bladcnsburg High School who is also a place kicking and kickoff specialist, and Geralk Richardson from Dundalk High School, a defensive halfback Another outstanding Marylander who will be a candidate for the Tiger football team is Richard Kelly, a defensive end from Gaithersburg High School.
Foster, Reds Ruin Gibson’s Night
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The night was to have belonged to the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson but George Foster didn’t know. Foster, a Cincinnati Reds outfielder, also had no knowledge of what he hit in the 12th inning. but his blow beat the
Cards 6-4.
“All I know is I'm sure it was a hieaking ball,’’ admitted Foster, whose two-out double lifted the Reds 5V$ games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West And, in so doing, it spoiled the momentous occasion of Gibson’s 3,000th major league
strikeout.
The 38-year-old Gibson, making his 279th consecutive appearance as a starter, blazed a fast hall past the Reds’ Cesar
Geronimo in the second inning to become only the second in history to reach the 3.000 level. In joining Walter Johnson, who had 3,508, he also fanned Reds’ starting pitcher Tom Carroll and set down Geronimo on a called third strike in the fourth. But after fanning Johnny Bench for his 3,003rd strikeout in the seventh. Gibson was lifted for a pinch hitter amid groans from a crowd of 28,743. “I thought he was getting a little tired.” explained Cards’ Manager Red Schoendienst. “He was also leading off the inning, and 1 thought we might get a run.” The Cards failed to score with the maneuver, however, and Gibson left with the score
tied 4-4 as a victim of poor support. “Our defense was bad," Schoendienst said. “We gave them all but one run behind him, and we should have had a
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Wednesday’s Results
The Greencastle Little League All-Stars defeated the Terre Haute National AllStars 8-4 W ednesday night in
Sullivan.
Mike Rader was the winning pitcher, giving up four runs on three hits, while chalking up five whiffs and
five walks.
Bart Spencer was the leading hitter for the Greencastle squad, posting three safeties. Rader, J.D. Asbell, and Chris Hobson each had two
hits, rounding out the attack. T H. National pitcher Frye gave up three of the nine Greencastle safeties, but was tagged with the loss. His l 1/3 inning suint consisted of four walks and no strikeouts. Stroup pitched the last 4 2 3 for the Nationals, giving up one run on six hits, walking three and fanning six. Greencastle will face the winner of the Clinton-Terre Haute game tonight.
San Francisco 6, New York 2 Pittsburgh 11. Houston 3 Atlanta 7, Chicago 2 Cincinnati 6, St. Louis 4, 12 innings San Diego 15. Philadelphia 1 Montreal 5, Los Angeles 4 Thursday's Games Pittsburgh at Atlanta. N Chicago at Cincinnati, N Houston at St. Louis, N Philadelphia at San Diego, N Montreal at Los Angeles, N Only games scheduled Friday's Games Pittsburgh at Atlanta. N Chicago at Cincinati, N Houston at St. Louis, N New York at San Diego, N Philadelphia at Los Angeles,
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Montreal at San Francisco, N
double play on one.”
Cincinnati. sweeping the three-game series, took an early lead against Gibson on Bench’s run-scoring single in the opening inning and an unearned run in the second But Carroll, plagued by wildness, walked Reggie Smith and Ted Simmons to start the Cards second and Joe Torre powered
his sixth home run.
Smith also picked on a Carroll change-up for his 13th homer and a 4-2 St Louis lead an inning later, then Gibson’s
luck again soured.
Dan Driessen’s routine fly to left field became a double when Lou Brock lost it in the lights and Ken Griffey’s vicious grounder eluded Simmons at first base to score a fourth-in-
ning run.
The 4-4 tie was forged when, with two out in the Reds’ sixth, Dave Concepcion singled and scored after Griffey walked on
Terry Crowley's pinch hit. In at least partial sympathy with Gibson was Bench, who noted. “He had a hard slider and a hard breaking ball. “Both clubs had beautiful relief,” remarked Bench, whose accurate throw eliminated a potential St. Louis run following a Reds error in the 10th. “They worked out of more tough situations than we did.” Mike Garman and Rich Folkers escaped Cincinnati threats in the 10th and llth before Folkers, 2-1, faltered in the 12th
Darrel Chaney drew a oneout walk and Concepcion again singled, then Foster drilled an Orlando Pena delivery on a line
past Brock in left.
“It was a slider," Pena later revealed in the Cards’ _ clubhouse. “I missed on the first pitch I threw him and I thought
I could get by with it."
N. Put All-Stars To Play
man. Mike Adams, and Recko Rocker; from Roachdale- Henry L^awson, Brent Clark, De Wayne Southwood, Mike Tyler, Mike Davis, John Gilstrap, and Matt Brown; from Russell-ville-Torn Purdue, David McGaughey, Jeff Smith, and
Brad Gillogly.
The North Putnam team will be coached by Mark Clodfelter and Kenny
Adams.
The North Putnam Little League All-Stars will take on the Southmont All-Stars Saturday at 6 p.m. at the Ladoga Little League Diamond. An admission charge of 50e for adults and 25c for school age children will be
levied at the gate.
The North Putnam squad consists of the following players: from Bainbridge-Dave McBride, Roger Zimmer-
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