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Greencasf/e Babe Ruthers Sweep Cloverdale Tourneys

Greencastle’s 13 year old and 14-15 year old Babe Ruth League All-Star teams claimed both Cloverdale Invitational tournament championships last week. The 13 year old team, coached by John Stevens, began their three game streak to the title by drop-

ping Mooresville, 4-1, behind the pitching of Terry Taylor and hitting of Mike Secrest, who stroked two singles and a triple. Steve Miller smashed a double while Jeff Stevens and Bob Cox both singled. Greencastle’s second victory came at the expense of

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Brooklyn, who was dropped from the single elimination tourney by a 10-5 verdict. Terry Taylor led Greencastle’s rejuvinated hitting attack with a single and double, while Jeff Stevens broke into the two hit category with a pair of singles. Steve Miller picked up the win on the hill in addition to stroking one single. Doug Lambert also collected a safety, and Mike Secrest a double. In the championship contest Taylor continued his team leading hitting with two singles as he pitched six innings of Greencastle's 17-11

The Plainfield American League All-Star team claimed the Cloverdale Invitational 810 year old Little League Tournament championship with a 7-6 seven inning victory over Mooresville Sunday night. Plainfield defeated Liberty Township to make it to the final game, while Mooresville downed Plainfield National to get a crack at the title. The champions pictured above are (left to right) front: B. Brocious, R. Murot, B. Fishel, S. Sortag, A. Pearman, D. Boesch, and K. Beaver; middle: R. Wilson, L. Axe, K. Lans-

berry, D. Eggers, B. Reno, B. Holsclow, B. Brocious, and K. Schoen; back: coaches B. Brocious, J. Reno, and T. Lansberry. The runners-up pictured below are front: D. Baker, B. Corbin, R. Topic, M. Payne, R. Miller, K. Witt, B. Davidson, and T. Wright; middle: E. Cunningman, B. Bible, S. Gregory, S. Smith, M. Rutledge, D. Taylor, and J. Smith; back: coaches H. Bible, J. Witt, and D. Taylor. (Banner-Graphic Photos)

Charles Martellaro Named Cougar Wrestling Coach

win over Wells. Jim Spencer came on in the seventh to pick up the save. Miller and Dave Corbin followed Taylor’s lead with a single apiece. Greencastle’s 14-15 year old All-Star team also started their title journey with a win over Mooresville, this one a 9-3 decision. David Braden received credit for the victory on the mound, getting a single and triple from Jeff Mager and a single apiece from Shane Huber and Terry Saunders in support. Greencastle’s sternest test in either division came in the 14-15 year olds’ next conflict, when Brazil’s pitcher balked to admit the winning local

run in a 5-4 thriller. Dan Whaley sent 14 Brazil batters back to the dugout as strikeout victims while picking up the win, getting one single each of support from Huber, Saunders, Mager, Braden, and Steve Bullerdick. In the championship tilt, Coach Bo Lear’s Greencastle crew knocked off host Cloverdale, 7-3, behind the 13 strikeout pitching of Braden. Mager smashed a triple and single for the winners, Huber a double and single, Bullerdick two doubles, and Whaley, Braden, Bill Losin, Larry Monnett, and Sherm McKee a single each.

And Runners-Up

Charles Martellaro, a 1972 graduate of Ball State University and varsity wrestling coach at Indianapolis Wood High School, has been named varsity wrestling and assistant football coach at North Putnam High School, replacing LeRoy Blocher as the head grappling mentor.

Martellaro, 24, had coached junior high football at Wood in addition to his wrestling duties, in which he had state contenders in certain weight divisions. The member of the Indianapolis Wrestling Association and Indiana Football Coaches Association will teach social studies

at North Putnam. He attended John Adams High School in South Bend, where he played football and wrestled. Martellaro was just married Saturday, and was understandably unavailable for comment. He will report to the opening Cougar football practice August 12.

Boilermakers Schedule Toughest In History

Another Girls Softball Game Tomorrow Night

WEST LAFAYETTE Ind. (AP) — Purdue’s Boilermakers announced 1975 and 1976 football schedules Monday, billing them as the toughest since the school took up intercollegiate football nearly 100 years ago. Perennial national powers Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Southern California pack the middle of the schedule, with the usual Big Ten opponents rounding out the slate. Here are the dates for the 1975 season: Sept. 13 at Northwestern, Sept. 20 Notre Dame.

Sept. 27 at Southern Cal, Oct. 4 Miami, Ohio, Oct. 11 Wisconsin, Oct. 18 at Illinois, Oct. 25 Ohio State, Nov. 1 Michigan State, Nov. 8 at Michigan, Nov. 15 Iowa, and Nov. 22 at Indiana. These are the 1976 dates: Sept. 11 Northwestern, Sept. 18 at Notre Dame, Sept. 25 Southern Cal, Oct. 2 Miami, Ohio, Oct. 9 at Wisconsin, Oct. 16 Illinois, Oct. 23 at Ohio State, Oct. 30 at Michigan State, Nov. 6 Michigan, Nov. 13 at Iowa, Nov. 20 Indiana.

The Greencastle Ball W'hackers, the newly-formed girls softball team, will take the field at Robe Ann Park for their second game Wednesday night at eight o’clock. Their opponent will be a team from Cloverdale that used to comprise part of the Greencastle team, but decided to go out and start a team of their own. It will be the Cloverdale team’s first contest. Alton Pugh, manager of

the Amo Stompers girls team that the Greencastle girls tackled in their premier appearance, said again Saturday that his team enjoyed coming down and playing a week ago. Pugh was encouraged by the fan response here, noting that female softball is really coming into its own in Hendricks County. His team is 9-0 in a league there, having scored 225 runs while allowing only 48. Eight of those runs were scored

against them last week by Greencastle, while the Stompers crossed the plate 22 times to win. “The material is there,” said Pugh of the Ball Whackers team. It’s just that it needs experience to be brought out, experience such as will be provided in tomorrow night’s game at Robe Ann. Softball enthusiasts are encouraged to come out and watch the girls go to it, in this new dimension to the game.

This One He Didn’t Walk Away From

PH tNIX CITY Ala. (AP>Calling motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel a “con artist,” cyclist Bob Pleso said a few days ago, “I'm going to jump so far, it's hard to figure how I’m going to land ’’ Pleso died of massive internal injuries Sunday after his motorcycle landed on the 20th car in a string of 30. hurling his body to the asphalt surface of a drag strip Witnesses among a crowd of about 3,000 said the force of the cycle hitting the car tossed Pleso cartwheeling 40 feet

through the air before he landed on his neck and shoulders and skidded another 20 feet. His motorcycle careened off the drag strip and hit a Columbus, Ga., television cameraman, Santiago Rivera, who was listed in fair condition in a Phenix City hospital with a broken hip Tommy Bush, an announcer for another Columbus station, said Pleso seemed to be in good shape as he took off at about 100 miles an hour from a fivefoot ramp. “After he hit, he just flew up

in the air, his arms and legs straight out; he looked like a rag doll,” Bush said. The stuntman died in surgery about two hours after the crash. Pleso. 22, of Ocala. Fla., had told the crowd he was gunning for world records in distance and number of cars jumped. He hoped to clear 200 feet, surpassing what he said were records of 171 feet and 23 cars. He said 21 cars is the most ever cleared by Knievel, the nation’s best-known cycle stuntman, who is famous for his

crashes and injuries as well as for his jumping exploits. “I’ve walked away from every jump and have no broken bones," Pleso said before his jump. Pleso said he was one of a small number of jumpers who take off from a ramp but land on pavement. Most cycle stuntmen, including Knievel, jump ramp to ramp. “Ramp-to-ramp jumpers are a dime a dozen,” Pleso said. “On the last 40 to 50 feet of my jump, all my forward motion — which is the only motion

the rampers experience — will change to downward motion. I have been able to compute my landing force on all other jumps but I just don't know how heavy it will be this time.” He was aided in designing his cycles and studying jumps by his brother. Bill Pleso, who was one of the first to reach him after the crash. Pleso scorned Knievel’s ballyhooed Snake River Canyon jump scheduled for next month in Idaho, saying, “For $6 million all he’s doing is rocketing off a ramp . . . pulling a ripcord

and then he and his skycycle will float like a feather to the ground.” But he gave the stuntman credit for setting up the bright future he thought lay ahead. “Evel is an old-fashioned con artist, but none of the riches I expect to make would be possible if he hadn’t broken the ground.”

Independent Cage Team Pictured above is the local independent basketball team sponsored by Greencastle Sports and Small Car Corner which recently advanced to the semi-final round of the Indiana University Varsity Club’s Outdoor Tournament in New Castle before falling to Park Place Auto Sales. The members of the team gathered for the picture are (left to right) front: Mike Steele and Mike Meadows; back: Bob Thornberry, Paul Trainor, Jeff Chandler, Rick Ford, Jim Coon, Steve Norris, and Pete Norris.

Runaway Dragster Leaves Two Dead

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EAST ST. LOUIS 111 (AP) — t was just all over the stands he people couldn’t get away," /stander Willie Weston said, ^ople were crying and one dy was screaming ‘leave me one, leave me alone.”’ The events described were ose Sunday when a superlarged car, its engine blown, ihtailed across a narrow agstrip and hurtled into owded bleachers, killing two id injuring 19. Authorities said Kent Myers, i. of nearby Wood River and ina Reed, 19, of Festus, Mo., ere dead on arrival at St. lary’s Hospital. Critically injuried were the r’s driver. Bill Bagshaw, 30. Long Beach, Calif., and Milael Tatkus, 23. of Quincy, 111. Authorities said Bagshaw’s te model car, vying in pro ock eliminator dashes during lals of the American Hot Rod ssociation's SI50.000 Gateway ationals, went out of control idway through a quarter-mile ce. The car hurtled a guard rail id careened on its side rough a wire fence into three:r bleachers lining the track. “It happened so fast. The car is just going down the strip id the next minute it was in e stands," said Randy Hicks, spectator who escaped injury. “As soon as I saw the bottom the car flying over the guard il I knew it was time to get it of there,” remarked Mi-

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chael Pegg. who had been sitting where the car landed. Unaware of the accident until she crossed the finish line was Shay Nichols of Abilene. Tex., Bagshaw’s opponent and one of a handful of women on the AH R A championship circuit. “I opened the door and jumped out before the car stopped rolling,” she said. “1 started to run to Bill, but three officials stopped me. That’s when I broke down and started crying." St. Louis International Speedway officials said more than

15,000 persons had lined the strip to watch the event, which was resumed less than two hours after the accident. The accident was the first resulting in a fatality at the track, officials said. Bagshaw, whose injuries included a broken collarbone, was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital and later transferred to Firmin Desloge Hospital in St. Louis. Other injured persons were treated at St. Mary's and at. St. Elizabeth Hsopital in nearby Granite City.

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USAC Standings

INDIANAPOLIS (AP)-Here are the point standings released Monday by the U.S. Auto Club for three of its racing divisions: Championship 1. Bobbv Unser, Albuquerque, N.M., 3,500. 2. Johnny Rutherford, Fort Worth, Tex., 2,990. 3. Gordon Johncock, Phoenix, Ariz., 2.080. 4. Jimmy Caruthers, Anaheim, Calif., 1.840. 5. Bill Vukovich, Fresno, Calif., 1,745. 6. Lloyd Ruby, Wichita Falls,

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ny. N.J., 770. Stocks 1. Butch Hartman, South Zanesille, Ohio. 1,820. 2. Norm Nelson, Racine, Wis„ 1,790. 3. Ramo Stott, Keokuk, Iowa, 1,250. 4. Don White. Keokuk, Iowa, 1,190. 5. Paul Feldner, Richfield, Wis., 1,145. Sprints 1. Duane Carter Jr., Huntington Beach, Calif., 619. 2. George Snider, Bakersfield, Calif., 450. 3. Bruce Walkup, St. Paul, Ind., 430. ' 4. Tom Bigelow, Whitewater, Wis., 410. 5. Bill Puterbaugh, Indianapolis, 376.

Chicago 4-1, Pittsburgh 3-7 Philadelphia 6-0, St. Louis 1II Atlanta 4-2, San Francisco 2-5 New York at Montreal, ppd., rain Cincinnati 7-0, San Diego 2-1, 2nd game 14 innings Los Angeles 2, Houston 1 Monday’s Games Houston (Osteen 9-9) at San Francisco (Williams 1-2) New York (Seaver 7-7) at Montreal (Blair 6-3), N Cincinnati (Gullett 13-7) at Los Angeles (Rau 10-6), N Philadelphia (Twitchell 6-3) at St. Louis (Gibson 6-9), N Atlanta (P. Niekro 11-9) at San Diego (Spillner 5-7), N Tuesday's Games St.Louis at Montreal, 2, N Chicago at Philadelphia, N New York at Pittsburgh, N Cincinnati at Los Angeles, N Atlanta at San Diego, N Houston at San Francisco, N

Boston 7, New York 3, 2nd game ppd., rain Oakland 10-1, Minnesota 4-2 Cleveland 4-3, Milwaukee 3-8 Chicago 6-13, Texas 3-10 Detroit 6-3, Baltimore 1-9 Kansas City 10-3, California 4-

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