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Hill's 6th place earns All-America DePauw University junior Alan Hill of Terre Haute received All-America recognition for the second consecutive year after placing sixth in the pole vault at the NCAA Division 111 track and field championshiijprt North Central College in Naperville, 111., May 29-31. Hill cleared 15-2 in his third appearance at the national competition using a strange pole after breaking two of his own. The 1977 graduate of Terre Haute North placed second in last year’s meet. Hill was one of two DePauw trackmen to compete at the nationals. Sophomore Joe Farinella of LaGrange, 111., placed ninth in the decathalon with a point total of 6270. Farinella is a 1978 graduate of Lyons Township High School. Both Hill and Farinella were lettermen on the DePauw football team last fall and were key cogs in DePauw’s 3-4 dual track season which included a ninth place finish in the 18-team Little State Meet at Wabash College. N.P. scramble is off The North Putnam Football Dad’s Cub golf scramble originally scheduled for June 11 at Turkey Run Golf Course has been cancelled and the countdown rescheduled for Aug. 9 at the Roachdale Lions Club, North Putnam football coach Gene Roe said the golf scramble was cancelled because of scheduling conflicts. More details on the countdown will appear at a later date. Four teams tied Four teams tied for first place in the Windy Hill Ladies Golf Association Best Ball Net Team tournament Tuesday morning. Making up one of the four tying teams were Roberta McCormick. Lois Smith, Betty Jobe and June Beland. Another of the teams was Sandy Walters, Marry Ann Stuart and Wilma Proctor. The team of Pat Hess, Myrdel York and Dot Mason joined the log jam and Margaret Corbin, Margaret Harris and Ester Maney completed the tie. Margaret Corbin had the lowest number of putts. Three teams are 2-0 Torr’s, Central National Bank and Cloverdale Dairy Queen were Tuesday night winners in Greencastle Women’s Softball League. Torr’s is now 2-0 and has not given up a run, beating the expansion Banner-Graphic squad 40-0. Central National Bank pushed home 19 runs, beating College Castle 19-10 and Cloverdale DQ jumped Mace Construction 21-0 but no details were available. TORR’S POUNDED out 28 hits and took advantage of 17 BG errors to record its second victory of the season. The Ban-ner-Graphic managed only two singles one each by Sherri Knapp and Brenda Mcßride. Winning pitcher Margaret Huggard led Torr’s hitting with five hits for the game, one a double. Susan Lezotte and Kathy Pieper each had four hits, two of Lezotte’s being triples and Pieper having a double and triple to her credit. Ann Lear had three hits, one a double, while Joanna Beasley, Amy Taylor, Beth Vanßensselaer and Debbie Rose all had two singles. FIVE CENTRAL National Bank players had two or more hits, as CNB raised its record to 2-0 and College Castle Motel droppped to 0-2. Martha Emery, Susie Skinner, Trudi Sutherlin, Sue Bowser and Denise McCombs each had two hits for the winners. Jane Torr was the winning pitcher. Shirley Staley, Janelle Scheuman and Cindy Olmstead each had two hits in the 10-run CCM attack.

Nobody has Velez's story about Yankees right yet

By GEORGE VESCEY c. 1980 N.Y. Times News Service NEW YORK Otto Velez has never been noted for defensive skills as a baseball player, but as a teammate and as a friend, his defensive instincts are admirable. The husky slugger for the Toronto Blue Jays was injured earlier this month going to the defense of a teammate in a beanball fight, and ever since then he has been defending the reputation of a friend, Billy Martin. “People have got the story all messed up,” Velez was saying the other day while waiting for a chance to bat against his old team, the Yankees. Martin was Velez’s manager in 1976, his only full season with the Yankees. There were so many good players on that team, Velez recalls, that Martin could never give him enough batting time to satisfy Velez, but Martin and his coaches always encouraged him. When Velez was put up for the expansion draft after that season, the Blue Jays grabbed him, but Martin let it be known, as Martin invariably does, thhe decision had not been his. A streak hitter, Velez began the 1977 season as the League Player of the Month, and Toronto officials believed that a Yankee scout, Birdie Tebbetts. was observing Velez toward the possibility of the Yankees re-acquiring him. However, Martin self destructed later that summer and he and Velez were never reunited. Early this month. Martin and Velez were close again: So close that Martin was trying to embrace Velez to keep the slugger from joining a battle near home plate. The battle began with a beanball, or rather it began with Velez’s roommate, A 1 Woods, drilling a homer and a double off Rick Langford, the Oakland pitcher. When Woods came to bat a third time, Langford hit Woods with a pitch, and Woods predictably charged at Langford. Standing in the on-deck circle, Velez was the closest man to the action. “Otto went out there to be a peacemaker,” recalls Bobby Mattick. the Toronto manager, “but Billy grabbed him by the seat, just to keep him out of the fight.” Unfortunately, while Martin was restraining the lower half of Velez’s powerful body, another Oakland player, Steve McCatty, grabbed Velez up higher, and as the three men struggled, Velez’s right shoulder was strained. After the fight was over, Woods and Velez were both injured enough to leave the game. Since Woods was batting .380 and Velez was batting .345 at that moment, some Toronto fans and even a few media people suggested that Martin had planned the

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BRAD SELLERS: Throws one-hitter

Lincoln Park race fans watched Barr win first MOSS appearance

Allen Barr of North Vernon, raced to victory and $1,500 at Lincoln Park Speedways first of two scheduled MOSS races (Midwest Outlaw Super Sprints). The Moss Series returns again on June 27 and promises an equally exciting night of sprint competition, along with Street Stock and Hobby Stocks. Barr was of course thrilled with his win, but.didn’t come by it easily. The early laps were led by Ricky Hood, who dropped out with steering problems. And after Barr took the lead he was constantly dogged by Bobby Allan of Hanover, Pa. who was fast qualifier and took the trophy dash. Allen was held to second place finish, followed by Jack Hewitt of Troy, Ohio and Kerry Norris of Columbus and Mike Johnson of Martinsville. NORRIS AND JOHNSON also won heat races as did Kenny Jacobs and Greg Staab. The Sprint Semi-feature was also won by Norris, followed by

double-injury fight exactly that way. This is the kind of reputation that Martin can expect since his last couple of offseason fights. Ever since then. Velez has been advising everybody that the rumors are not true. “Billy is my friend. He always told me wanted to get me back to the Yankees,” Velez has said several times in recent weeks. “He would not try to hurt me He was trying to pull me away. He didn’t even have me around the arms. McCatty did. It was nobody’s fault.” The injury has watered down Velez’s magnificent early statistics. When he was hurt, he had nine home runs and 29 runs-batted-in, much of that accomplished in one glorious doubleheader on May 4, when he clubbed four homers and drove in 10 runs against the Cleveland Indians. He has not driven in a run since. Velez tried coming back on May 22, and had no hits in his first three swings, and then the old on-deck-circle jinx struck again. Swinging a bat while waiting his turn, he felt a muscle pull in his lower back, and had not played since although he was hoping for a productive weekend in New York. “I like to play against these guys, he said. “They treated me good here. Yogi (Coach Yogi Berra) and Dick Howser helped me a lot.” At one time, Velez envisioned himself as a star of the Yankees, having signed from his home in Ponce, Puerto Rico, not because he loved the Yankees but because “they offered me a lot of money at that time, $20,000.” He was signed by Luis Arroyo, the suave old screwball pitcher who had been the Yankees’ first Puerto Rican star, helping win three pennants from 1960 through 1962. The greying senor now the Yankees’ chief Puerto Rican scout happened to be around Yankee Stadium this week. He held out his left hand to show the three outside fingers permanently bent to the left side, a souvenir of throwing too many “scroogies.” And he remembered signing Otto Velez, a 6-foot, 190-pound powerhouse, and thinking Velez could be a star in the Bronx, where Velez has many relatives. “But they had too many other good hitters,” Arroyo recalled. “Otto is the kind of guy who needs to play a lot.” Drafted by Toronto, Velez started hot but then tapered off, playing in only 310 games in three seasons under a manager, Roy Hartsfield, a man who had many rules but little humor. “That man was too serious,” Velez said. “Like we were in the

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ALLEN BARR Wins sprints Rusty McCline and Dan Milburn. In Hobby Stocks Paul Crockett took the feature, holding off Tony Godsey and Larry Taylor to second and third. Crockett and Ray Smith took the heats, while Bob Hayden won the trophy dash

and Charlie Sentman was fast Qualifier. Gordon Stoneking from Colonial Motors in Terre Haute won the Street Stock Feature and Russell Freeland took the semi-feature. They both won their heat races as did Harry Sheppard. The Street Stock fast qualifier was Tom Russell and Kenny Carmichael won the trophy dash. THE WEATHER lifted long enough Sunday to complete the program, despite delays caused by the muddy infield and a street stock car leaving the track in the mud and sliding into the ambulanace. Two of the attendants, Gary Boswell and Bryan Colwell were checked at Putnam County Hospital and were treated and released. Larry Taylor held off Russ Petro and Jim Curry to take the

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army. I thought I deserved to play, and I asked to be traded.” When Mattick, the youthful 64-year-old rookie manager, was appointed last fall, his first public utterance was that Velez would have to play regularly, somewhere. "He hit 15 homers in 274 at-bats,” Mattick said this week. “If you pro-rate them, that makes 25-30 homes in a full season. I just

Legion gets out of Seller (s) fast

Legion and righthander Brad Sellers got the Greencastle Babe Ruth League started in style for 1980 Tuesday night with a one-hit 15-2 victory over defending champion Kiwanis. Sellers didn’t allow a hit until two out in the bottom of the final inning of the 10-run-rule-shortened game. The 15-year-old hurler struck out nine and walked six in the seasonopening victory. WALKING THE first two men he faced in the game, Sellers had little trouble thereafter. After another oneout walk in the second inning, he retired the next nine Kiwanis hitters. He got Gary Wilson himself on an infield tap along the firstbase line and fanned the second hitter in the last inning. But with no-hit fame only an out away, wildness prevailed and Sellers filled the bases with free passes.

Late Model feature and also won his heat. Billy Marvel took the other heat and Buck Ridenour was torphy dash winner with Paul Crockett fast qualifier. The Hobby stock scene was dominated by Charlie Sentman, “The Racing Auctioneer” from Waveland. He was fast qualifier, won the trophy dash, and late in the feature worked his way to the lead and then couldn’t be touched. Don Duncan of Brazil took second, followed by Dennis Mace and Tim Helton, Duncan also won a heat as did Gary Arola. Gordon Stoneking streaked to his third straight Street Stock feature win, and also won the trophy dash. Ted Rady and Kenny Carmichael took second and third with Carmichael also winning the Semi-Feature and a heat, Ed Thornburg and Cliff Smiley won the other heats and Tom Russell was fast qualifier.

Otto Velez knows how to swing a bat

June 4,1980, The Putnam County Banner Graphic

Cole Remsburg, the starting and losing pitcher for Kiwanis, punched a 1-and-l pitch through the left side of the Legion infield to spoil the no-hitter. LEGION BATS were ringing as the boys in blue parlayed seven Kiwanis errors and 14 walks into 15 tallies. Hits by Sellers and batterymate Matt Sage helped produce three runs in the first inning and Dorwin Duncan’s team was off and running. They added five more in the second inning with Jon Duncan and David Albin getting RBI base hits. Five more Legion runs came across in the third on only one hit, a single by Mike Lee. Albin’s RBI infield out and Sage’s single produced two more tallies in the fourth. DUNCAN scored four times for the winners, batting lefthanded for the first time in his Babe Ruth career after

Astros even record The Astros evened their Minor League record at 3-3 Tuesday by defeating the Orioles 15-10 on the Greencastle Little League diamond. Andy Pearson led the Astros’ eight-hit attack, as he blasted an inside-the-park home run and a single. Mike O’Daniel, who was the winning pitcher, aided his own cause with a double and a single, while Joey Mazur had two singles, and Andy Gibbs and Nicky York each had a single. Tom Miller and Mike Sutherland each had singles for the Orioles. The Orioles jumped out to a 5-3 after the first inning before the Astros exploded for eight runs in the bottom of the second and added four more in the third. The Orioles added single runs in the second and third, then pushed across three in the final frame. Braves win fifth game The Braves won their fifth game of the season by a 9-1 count over the White Sox Tuesday night in Greencastle Little League action. Ted Frye did most of the Braves’ damage, connecting for three hits in three times at bat to drive home five of the nine Brave runs, along with scoring once himself. Rick Stewart had two hits for the Braves. Tony Emery led the White Sox with two hits and Terry White connected for a double. Winning pitcher Chad Remsbrug struck out 10 and walked only two while limiting the White Sox to only three hits. It was a tough one for Terry White to lose on the mound for the White Sox, striking out 12 Braves and walking only four.

left him alone.” At first, Velez expected to play leftfield. but when the Blue Jays released the venerable Rico Carty. they made Velez the designated hitter and told him to leave the defensive plays to other people. But nobody could tell Otto Velez not to defend a teammate or a manager who once befriended him.

teaching himself to be a switchhitter. The Legion third baseman rapped one single and reached three times on errors, although each ball was hard hit. Remsburg, in making his Babe Ruth pitching debut, was in trouble in the first and second and got relief from Craig Flint. Coach Dick Borer later reentered Remsburg as his pitcher and the 15-year-old righthander settled down and struck out for of the last eight men he faced. Wednesday’s schedule finds Moose and Elks, the two teams who were rained out of the season opener Monday, squaring off in a 5:30 p.m. contest on the Greencastle High School diamond. Play will then pick up next Monday, with Moose and Kiwanis. R II E region 355 20 - 15 0 I Kiwanis 100 01 - 2 1 7 B. Sellers sna Sage: Remsburg. Fliri (2). Remsburg (4) and Tucker. WPSellers <l-0). I.P-Remsburg (0-11.

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