Banner Graphic, Volume 9, Number 270, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 July 1979 — Page 5
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Major League Umpires are supposed to be experts on balls and strikes, but some of them are fast becoming equally proficient in judging managers' mouthwashes. As Cub manager Herman Franks breathes fire (above), umpire Dave Pallone goes
Parrott finds Fenway perch perfect
By The Associated Press If the Boston Red Sox ever hire a mascot for Fenway Park they probably couldn’t get the Sao Diego Chicken and they probably wouldn’t want the Seattle Parrott. Pitcher Mike Parrott of the Seattle Mariners seems to thfive there. On May 6, the right-hander waS brought in as an emergency jstarter he pitched two relief innings two days earlier and a 1 Fowed one unearned run and blanked the Red Sox on two hits over six innings. Parrott, 24. returned to Beantown Friday night for his first major league shutout, scattering five hits as the Mariners ended the Red Sox’ five-game winning streak 8-0. Parrott, struck out four and walked four and allowed only three hits as-
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Hockey to return to Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Hockey fans apparently will have their Racers back this fall.. Market Square Associates announced Friday it had agreed in principle with the New York Islanders to move the National Hockey League club’s Fort Worth farm team of the Central Hockey League here for the 1979-80 season. Both parties are proceeding on the assumpition approval by the CHL is only a formality, said Steve Waigand, president of MSA. “We expect the arrangement to be a profitable one for Market Square Arena. And the Islanders also appear very satisfied with arrangements.” The Indianapolis Racers of the World Hockey Association folded last December because of financial difficulties. Shortly after, the WHA also was disbanded. Waigand said Islanders’ President Bill Torrey will be in Indianapolis for a news conference Thursday to give more details of the move. Waigand said Indianapolis will be in a division with Cincinnati, Houston and Birmingham, and it will be called the WHA division Other cities in the nine-team league are Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Salt Lake City and Dallas. Fort Worth also will have an entry in the league, a team expected to be a farm club for the NHL Colorado Rockies.
maskless to brave the nose-to-nose confrontation. Apparently, umpire John Shulock (at right) is not as courageous as he lets his mask provide a buffer zone between his nose and the mouth of Boston's Don Zimmer (AP Wirephotos).
ter the first inning. “Pitching in Fenway Park brings out the best in me,” said Parrott, who has yielded just that one unearned run in 17 innings. Elsewhere in the American League, the Baltimore Orioles edged the California Angels 2-1, the Milwaukee Brewers blanked the Toronto Blue Jays 2-0, the Chicago White Sox nipped the Texas Rangers 2-1, the Oakland A’s downed the New York Yankees 5-1, the Minnesota Twins hammered the Detroit Tigers 14-6 and the Kansas City Royals trounced the Cleveland Indians 9-1. The Mariners gave Parrott all the support he needed with three runs off Mike Torrez in the first inning, including Dan Meyer’s 14th home run of the season. They added three runs
By BRUCE LOWITT AP Sports Writer Tom Seaver, one of the National League’s premier fast : ball pitchers during the last decade, has found a new secret for success slower pitches. “Three months ago I was trying to overthrow the ball. I was trying to throw a 150-mile-an-hour fastball,” he said Friday night after his fast stuff, curves and changeups baffled St. Louis and helped the Cincinnati Reds beat the Cardinals 3-0. “The way we played tonight and last night (a 16-4 romp over the Cards), nobody’s going to beat us,” Seaver, 10-5, said after the six-hitter that gave him his eighth straight victory, 229th career triumph and 50th career shutout. That bodes ill for the Houston Astros’ whose once-comfortable 10-game lead over the Reds in the West Division has been
in the third and two in the sixth, one on a single by Meyer. "I wasn’t thinking shutout until after the seventh inning,” said Parrott, who lost his last five starts but became only the third pitcher to blank the Bosox on their home turf this season. “Then I thought, ‘Why not go right after them?’” Orioles 2, Angels 1 Rich Dauer’s looping single scored Gary Roenicke with the tie-breaking run in the seventh inning to back Scott McGregor’s five-hit pitching. Roenicke singled after Jim Barr retired the first two batters. After Lee May walked. Dauer singled over shortstop Jim Anderson’s head on a 2-0 pitch. Carney Lansford’s four-th-inning homer gave the Angels a 1-0 lead but Ken Singleton homered in the bottom of
shaved to three games. The Astros have lost four in a row and 11 of 12, including Friday night’s 9-3 shelling by Pittsburgh. In the rest of the NL, Chicago clubbed Atlanta 10-2, San Diego edged New York 2-1, Philadelphia beat San Francisco 6-4 and Los Angeles outlasted Montreal 6-5 in 11 innings. ' The slugging stars of Cincinnati’s third straight victory were Johnny Bench and Dave Collins. Bench sent a John Denny fastball over the wall for his eighth homer of the season in the second inning. And after Cesar Geronimo drew a walk, Collins punched an oppositefield drive down the left field line, past charging Lou Brock and into the left field corner for an inside-the-park homer. “I still throw hard enough,” Seaver said, assessing his
Stormy end? Despite wind and rain, it was still Hale in front
LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England (AP) Jack Nicklaus has never been known to go down without a fight. And although he was three strokes behind consistent leader Hale Irwin going into today’s final round of the British Open golf championship, defending champion Nicklause still rated his chances. “Sure I’m behind, but I’ve gone closer to the leaders by scoring a 73. I’m within striking distance, so I must have a chance,” he said. “Maybe I can play a whole good round. I haen’t played a good back nine yet. If I make a birdie or two on the way out, I will be all right. I have no mental block at all about the back nine, but to win I will have to play better than I did today.” Nicklaus’ 2-over-par 73 was one of the better scores on a day
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the inning for Baltimore. Brewers 2, Blue Jays 0 Sixto Lezcano broke up a scoreless duel with his 12th homer leading off the seventh inning while Jim Slaton scattered seven hits in outdueling Tom Underwood. It was the Brewers’ seventh consecutive victory. Lezcano, who beat the Blue Jays with an llth-inning homer Thursday night, hit a 2-0 pitch from Underwood to the top of the left field bleachers. Underwood walked Sal Bando and a sacrifice and a single by Charlie Moore produced the second run. White Sox 2, Rangers 1 Chet Lemon lashed a tiebreaking home run in the sixth inning, enabling the White Sox to sweep a three-game series. Richard Wortham and two relievers outpitched Texas’ John
smoke. "You can’t sit back on my fastball ... I used to change up by accelerating speeds, as strange as that sounds.” Pirates 9, Astros 3 The Pirates are as torrid as Houston is frigid. Pittsburgh, 1 '/■> games behind Montreal in the East, has won five in a row and nine of 10. “The Pirates are hot, and that’s bad for us right now,” Houston Manager Bill Virdon said. Phil Garner drove in three runs with a homer and a single, Ed Ott had a two-run double in a three-run first inning and John Candelaria scattered eight Houston hits in the Pirates’ victory. Cubs 10, Braves 2 Pitcher Rick Reuschel drove in three runs and Ivan DeJesus capped a five-run fifth inning with a two-run single to lead the Cubs past Atlanta. Reuschel drove in Chicago’s
when the elements made subpar golf almost impossible for the late starters. Gusty winds and heavy rain made it hard for everyone, but the bespectacled Irwin was worse hit than most. “The rain on my glasses is a real nuisance,” he said. “There always seems to be some rain on the focal point. My visor helps, but it is annoying.” Irwin, the U.S. Open champion, was making no excuses for his 4-over-par 75 that left him just two strokes in front of the extrovert young Spaniard, Severiano Ballesters. Irwin was left with a 2-under-par three round total of 211, with Ballesteros at 213 after also shooting a 75. At one stage, Irwin had opened a 4-stroke lead over the rest of the field, but he allowed Ballesteros and Nicklaus to close within shooting distance, as well as Briton Mark James,
Henry Johnson. The Rangers’ only run was a fourth-inning homer by Richie Zisk. Chicago used singles by Greg Pryor and Mike Colbern and Alan Bannister’s sacrifice fly to score in the third inning. A’s 5, Yankees 1 Rookie Brian Kingman took his first major league victory by scattering eight hits in seven innings-plus and outpitching 13game winner Tommy John. Kingman fell behind 1-0 in the fifth when Bobby Brown doubled and Thurman Munson singled him home. But the A’s, helped by two New York errors, nicked John for three hits and three runs in the sixth and added single runs in the seventh and ninth. Twins 14, Tigers 6 Consecutive home runs by
first two runs with a first-inning single off Tony Brizzolara following Steve Ontiveros’ single and Barry Foote’s double. Padres 2, Mets 1 Craig Swan of New York had a no-hitter going for 42-3 innings in San Diego and a shutout in the works for six. and owned a 1-0 lead thanks to fourth-inning triples by Joel Youngblood and Steve Henderson. But in the seventh, Dan Briggs tripled and Dave Winfield singled, and in the ninth, Jerry Turner hit a one-out homer that propelled the Padres past the Mets. Swan ended with a four-hitter. Phillies 6, Giants 4 Greg Minton made three wild pitches in the seventh inning, but only one hurt. The first one allowed two runners to score as Philadelphia broke a tie and defeated the Giants.
who shot an excellent 69 to share third place with Nicklaus. "All the guys are still in contention,” Irwin said afterward. “It is a wide open game, and I must play accordingly.” That, according to Irwin, means aiming for par and letting the others do the worrying. “If you get too bold out there, you are courting disaster,” he said. “If I could shoot an even-par round, in similar conditions, that would be hard to beat. I am certainly not kicking myself for a lost opportunity.” Irwin’s round collapsed at the notorious 17th, where he shot a double bogey. Ballesteros, bidding to stop American domination of the 6,-822-yard Lytham St. Annes course in British Open play that has lasted since 1926, was not particularly happy with his round.
Ken Landreaux and Glenn Adams highlighted a nine-run fifth inning that rallied Minnesota, which trailed 5-0 after three innings but scored four runs in the fourth and sent 13 men to the plate in the decisive fifth. The 28-hit slugfest featured six home runs. Royals 9, Indians 1 Rich Gale allowed three hits in eight innings and Amos Otis, Willie Wilson and Darrell Porter combined to drive in seven runs. The Royals pounced on Rick Waits for five runs in the first inning. After Frank White and George Brett walked, Otis slammed his 11th home run. Another walk and John Wathan’s bunt single preceded Wilson’s two-run double. In the fifth, Porter chased Waits with a two-run triple.
The Phils trailed 4-3 going into the inning, but Tim McCarver and Bake Mcßride singled off Tom Griffin and Larry Bowa tied it with a double. In came Minton, whose first pitch to Pete Rose hit the plate and skipped away while Mcßride and Bowa raced home. Dodgers 6, Expos 5 Steve Garvey had Los Angeles’ only three hits through the first 10 innings, the last of them a two-run homer that kept the Dodgers tied with Montreal after Gary Carter and Larry Parrish had hit RBI singles in the top of the 10th. And after Rodney Scott’s fifth hit of the game put the Expos on top again in tjje top of the 11th. Manny Mota singled and Bill Russell hit a homer in the bottom of the inning to end the game.
“It is very difficult to get a good score when you go three over after the first three holes,” said the 22-year-old Spaniard. “I didn’t have much luck today. Maybe I am saving it for tomorrow. “But I can still win. Why not?” A bevy of players were three and four shots off the pace, and none were out of contention. Ben Crenshaw, Bob Byman and Australan Rodger Davis were at 215, with Greg Norman, Isao Aoki, pretournament favorite Tom Watson and early leader Bill Longmuir at 216. Watson shot a 76 Friday, bogeying the last three holes. “Those last three holes really hurt me,” he said ruefully. “But 1 still feel like I have a chance to win. A good score could win it for me. I just hope my putter is a little hotter.”
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Brick Chapel forges past Mac Tools, 15-14 Brick Chapel rallied for five runs in the seventh inning to edge Mac Tools 15-14 and Greencastle Sports scored five runs in the sixth-inning to defeat Powers General Store 12-7 in Men’s Fast Ptich Softball action. Jeff Cartwright led the 10-hit Brick Chapel attack with three hits in four times at bat while teammates Mark Wilson and Jeff Elliott each knocked out a pair of singles. Rich Parrish ripped a round tripper for Mac Tools while Brad Booe, Wayne tharp and the league’s leading hitter Rufus Hartman kept pace with his .500 average, rapping two hits in four times at bat. Greencastle Sports took advantage of the Mac Tools’ loss, moving ahead in the league standing by a game. Greencastle Sports is 8-3 with the win over Powers General Store and Mac Tools is 7-6. Greencastle Sports put on a power display with hammering out 11 hits. Gerry Hoffa crashed two home runs, while Dale Staley and Ron Nichols each hit one for the winners. Steve Shinn showed some of Powers’ punch with a home run Staley led the victors in three hits in three trips to the plate while Ray Black,Nichols and Hoffa each had two hits. Core Witt led Powers with a pair of hits. Behind Rufus Hartman’s .500 batting average is Wayne Tharp with a .481 norm and Brian Smith at .476 and Tom Gorham at .468. Ron Crain is also hitting .468 Fillmore girls up season mark to 6-3 Fillmore’s Senior Girls Softball team upped their season record to 6-3 with wins over Danville 36-6 and Monrovia 10-9. Fillmore is currently tied for first place in the balanced, seven-team “B” League, as Plainfield, Avon, Indianapolis, Clayton, and Fillmore each have three defeats on the season. In the Danville contest, Fillmore took advantage of 14 Danville errors coasting to victory. Jamie Weinhoft, Sandy Greenlee, Kim Gilley, Shar George, and Darla Ellis each stroked three hits to lead the 24-hit attack. Against Monrovia, Janet Sutherlin’s RBI triple capped a five-run sixth, as Fillmore fought back from a 9-5 deficit. Monrovia scored six big runs in their half of the inning only to see Fillmore rally with two outs and nobody on to go ahead 10-9. Nicki Ratcliff started the damage with a single, Melinda Heavin walked, Greenlee and Gilley singled and Sutherlin followed with her clutch triple and scored the winning run on an errant throw to the plate. Danville 300 0 3-6 Fillmore <2O)S4 4 3-36 Monrovia 021 006 0-9 Fillmore 500 005 x-io Alexander girls split two contests Alexander Construction split a pair of games this week, defeating Reelsville Sonics 11-4 and losing 22-5 to powerful McDonalds' in Greencastle Senior Girls Softball action. Alexander’s win was the first of the season and Tammy Ray’s double in the first inning knocked in the first run of the contest. Ray was also the winning pitcher. Tammy Clark banged out three triples, for McDonald’s Wednesday night. McDoanld’s scored eight runs in the first inning and was never threatened. Martha Giltz also had a McDonald’s triple, along with a double, while Kim Clark and Denise Weinhoeft each doubled. Bainbridge girls blast New Market Bainbridge Number one scored four runs in the first inning, then thumped New Market’s Angels 12-2 in Elementary Girls Softball action. Bainbridge out hit its opponent 14-6 for the contest. Heidi Blocher connected for Bainbridge’s only extra base hit, a double. Jamie and Kelly Smith each had three singles and Cheryl Mcßride and Robin Hacker each had two singles. Blocher had a single with her double. Bainbridge now has a 9-2 record. Babe Ruth banquet set Wednesday night An awards night program and dinner for the Greencastle Babe Ruth League players, coaches and Babe Ruth Board is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 25 at Torr’s Restaurant. The banquet will honor the regular season and playoff champion teams, league Most Valuable Player, individual team MVP’s, league batting champion, rookie of the year and all 15-year-old participants. Players should return their uniforms to their respective coaches either prior to the banquet or Wednesday night at the banquet. Kickers at Indy With one game left in their second season, the Cougar Kickers stand at 4-2 with the most recent victory being a 3-1 decision over Indianapolis East, on the opponent’s field. The final game of the season is Saturday at the Butler Bowl, where the Kickers play the Zionsville Colonials in a game before the Indianapolis Daredevils meet the Cleveland Cobras in a North American Soccer League game. While Roger Call and Brian Bowerman played solid goal keeper defense in the first and second half. Dave Warner scored the only two goals the Kickers needed. But Bill Huber supplied some insurance for the fourth victory. Forms available Any Greencastle High School student, girl or boy. planning to participate in athletics during the 1979-80 school year should pick up an IHSAA physical form and insurance form at the scfiool office. These forms must be filled out in order to participate in the first practice of the season. The physical is good for the entire school year, but those participating in fall sports of football. volleyball, cross country, men’s tennis, women’s golf and women’s swimming need these completed before August practices open.
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