Banner Graphic, Volume 15, Number 245, Greencastle, Putnam County, 11 June 1985 — Page 8

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Most appropriately, the Putnam County United Select Soccer Team will have a flag, an Indiana flag, to put on display when it tours England July 21 through 28. Representative John Thomas (third from left) presented team representatives (from left) coach Ron Price, Troy

Some teams rolling along,others struggling

While WJNZ is working on a six-game winning streak, Sherm’s Realty is trying to get over a hump two-runs high in Junior Division play of the Greencastle Girls Softball League play. WJNZ improved its record to 6-0 with a 7-4 win over HBG Insurance, while Sherm’s dropped a 14-12 decision to HBG and an 8-6 contest to State Farm Insurance. HBG defeated Dairy Queen 15-7 for its second win, and Dairy Queen took a 17-5 loss from Torr’s. NO ONE PLAYER dominated the WJNZ-HBG contest, as the 16 total hits in The game were all singles and all evenly distributed among the players. Hyidi Allen was the winning pitcher. State Farm Insurance is 4-2 after Mon-

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DOUG ROSE Second-year coach

White House visit reveals parallels

Lakers somewhat like President

By GEORGE VECSEY c. 1985 N.Y. Times News Service WASHINGTON On Sunday, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was not happy to find out the Lakers were not going home right away. His head extending high above the crowd of reporters, he asked a team official, “Aw, man, why not?” “The White House,” the official said. “We’re going to the White House on Monday.” “Oh,” Kareem said, not showing much expression one way or the other. Monday, one day after the 111-100 victory that shook loose the Boston Celtics after eight straight disappointments, and one day before the big civic welcome in Los Angeles, the Lakers made a detour to the White House, to be greeted by President Reagan. After a night of partying in Boston, and pinching themselves to verify that they really had beaten the Celtics in musty, intimidating Boston Garden, they got to spend a few minutes in another garden, the Rose Garden If they had enough time to look around in their 15 minutes, the Lakers might have noticed that there were only a few tea roses in the Rose Garden. But the intimate, well-manicured garden at the west end of the White House is a familiar sight to athletes and those who follow sports. The visit by sports champions is getting to be a regular item on the White House calendar in every season. And the president almost always finds time to call into the locker room of Super Bowl and World Series champions to offer his congratulations.

Wilson and Kent Jones with the flag at Sunday's fund raising Odyssey Race. The race was a benefit for the team to help expenses. (Banner-Graphic photo by Jeff Siner).

day’s win over Sherm’s. Missy Varvel led State Farm’s eight-hit offense with a triple and single, while Tami Kiger added a double and single. Leslie Bottoms had a double. Laura Ledbetter rapped out two singles and a double to pace Sherm’s seven-hit offense and Cassie Cox added a double. SATURDAY SHERM’S FELL to HBG despite a triple and single from Ledbetter. Sue Renschen, Susan Hunter, Lisa Wood and Cox also added two or more hits to the cause. Tonya Gregory led the HBG attack with a double and Kara Thomas, Karen Emberton. Lisa McCullough, Jamie Mark and Suzanne Beck supported winning pitcher Tina McKinney with two or more hits

American Legion baseball opens season at home Wednesday

The Putnam County American Legion baseball team, sponsored for the third season by the Greencastle and Cloverdale American Legion Posts, will open its season Wednesday night with a 5:30 p.m. game against Crawfordsville at DePauw Unviersity’s Walker Field. This is the first of nine home dates set for Walker Field. Among those dates are home contests with defending state champion Southport (June 26) and a doubleheader with Kokomo (June 29). The Putnam County team travels to Rockville Saturday for a 1 p.m. doubleheader and June 17 goes to Lafayette. DOUG ROSE ANI) Mike Meyer return

The brief ceremony takes only a small bit of time and energy from a president, certainly is more fun than thinking about arms control and tax reform, and opens up a whole venue of happy publicity. Before the ceremony, Pat Riley, the coach, and Abdul-Jabbar were ushered into the Oval Office for a chat. Riley recalled, “I said to Kareem, ‘Can you believe it?’” He said that Abdul-Jabbar had told the president “he wasn’t going to switch his affiliation, but he told the president how he takes yoga classes with the president’s son and daughter.” And Riley, who had broadcast Laker games between his playing and coaching careers, related: “I told the president, ‘From one broadcaster to another, sometimes we turn out all right.’” The president, of course, once served as a sports broadcaster in the Midwest. Apparently, Abdul-Jabbar did not remind the president that they had also had similar vocational experience. AbdulJabbar has appeared in four films: the current “Fletch,” “Airplane,” “The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” and “A Game of Death,” with the late Bruce Lee. Before his current vocation, Reagan appeared in “Knute Rockne, All American,” “The Winning Team,” “Bedtime for Bonzo” and “King’s Row.” The other party members filed into the Rose Garden. For this important occasion, the team had split, 7-5, between open collars and ties The five with ties were: Abdul-Jabbar, Mitch Kupchak, James Worthy, Ronnie Lester and the longhaired, counterculture figure. Kurt Ram-

each. HBG Insurance got a double and single from McCullough in the victory over Dairy Queen. Thomas, McKinney, Gregory, Mark and Niki York each had two or more hits for the winners. TAMMY WILSON, LeAnn Woodall, Angie Hood, Mandy Gascko and Brandi Cavaness each had two or more hits for Dairy Queen. Kristin Deer hit for the circuit in Torr’s victory over Dairy Queen Deer connected for a single, double, triple and home run in Torr’s 12-hit offense. Angie Senior added a pair of singles and a double to the attack and Kelly Layton and Amy Williams laced a pair of doubles

as the coaches this season and will be working with a veteran team. Out of the 18 players, 10 have at least one full season of Legion baseball experience Pat Meyer, Tim Mazur and Chris Colvin lead the list of veterans, as they enter their third and final seasons of eligibility. Meyer is expected to start at third base, Mazur first and Colvin in the outfield in Wednesday night’s home opener. Second-year players on the squad include Sonny Stoltz and Craig Whitaker. Stoltz is expected to start Wednesday, while Whitaker is away at the American Legion sponsored Boys State. ALSO BACK FOR a second season is

bis. The Laker party stood in the muggy sunshine for a few moments until Riley, Ab-dul-Jabbar, Bill Sharman, the team president, and David Stern, the commissioner of the National Basketball Association, joined the ranks. Then came the announcement that seems so mundane on television but produces a slight tingle in person: “Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States.” Wearing a tan suit, the president strolled across the lush grass, shook hands with every member of the party, and then spoke into a microphone set for his height. “I thank you all for the greeting,” he told some visitors, “but I assure you the Lakers deserve the applause.” And he told the athletes: “You showed America what pride and guts and determination, combined with talent, can do. It was showtime yesterday at the Boston Garden as you defeated another truly great time. You knew that in Boston it was not going to be a tea party.” Smiling at Abdul-Jabbar, the president said: “I see you compared winning the championship to the Dodgers beating the Yankees in the 1955 World Series. Well, Kareem, I remember that Series, too, and you may be, as they say of me, showing your experience. Yesterday, you showed why you were voted the most valuable player. You may be 38, but you played like 25.” The president also praised Magic Johnson for breaking the record of 60 assists in a 6-game series “by an awesome 24,” and he promised the high-flying Worthy, “If you’re ever looking for a career after

St. John's is latest team leaked out on NIT field

NEW YORK (AP) - The National Invitation Tournament, set to launch its first pre-season meeting this fall, may include the St. John’s Redmen, one of the NCAA tournament’s Final Four in 1985. “We are entertaining the thought very positively,” Lou Carnesecca, coach of St. John’s, said Monday. “It’s a very good idea but we have to go through proper channels.” Earlier this year, the NIT won NCAA approval for a pre-season competition, which will be in addition to its post-season tournament. Louisville, a semifinalist in last spring’s NIT, is also reported to be heading for the fall edition. A tournament spokesman said the field would be announced at a news conference Thursday, and he would make no comment on the teams mentioned. “They didn’t get it from us,” he said of the newspaper reports. The Redmen were beaten in the NCAA semifinals last spring by Georgetown. Louisville was ousted in the NIT semifinals by eventual winner UCLA. Kenny Klein, the sports information director at Louisville, declined comment. Two newspapers have reported either a full or partial list of the participants.

to help support winning pitcher Charlene Jones. Angie Hood led the four-hit DQ attack with a double and singles. TORR’S AND DAIRY Queen are both 3-3 in Greencastle Girl’s Softball League Junior Division play. Coaches, please put the exact number of hits and errors a team totals on the scoresheets provided. If you do not have these sheets, they are available free at the Banner-Graphic front desk Also, please indicate the exact division your team plays in, as a list of teams, team roster or schedule has not been submitted by the league.

Scott Hasty, Darren Haler, David Rushing, Ken Tew and Chris Gilbert. Coach Rose announced Monday night Hasty will be the starting pitcher with Haler behind the plate and Tew will go at second base. Gilbert has been tabbed as the starting pitcher in one of the two games at Rockville. Newcomers to the team include Greg Phillips, Fayne Custis, Jon Chadd, Tony Lewis, Trent Smith, Kevin Harrigan, Brian Singer and Tom Chadd. These players have been selected from the four county high schools. Admission to all American Legion games is free.

basketball, we have lobbying jobs up on the Hill.” Then the president paused and saluted Kupchak and Rambis, the bruising forwards, adding, “Kurt, not everybody would know what to say when diving out of bounds and suddenly landing in a lady’s lap,” a reference to a play-saving dive Rambis took last Friday in Los Angeles. And the president thanked the players’ wives for their work against drug abuse. These items all smacked of having been culled from newspaper articles and press releases by a diligent staffer, but Reagan read them well and everyone seemed happy Stern thanked Reagan, and noted that “basketball’s purely domestic origins make it America’s game” And AbdulJabbar, Johnson and Riley brought gifts to the president. “I was telling the president I’m not a Republican” Abdul-Jabbar said, “but I am one of his constituents, and we ought to suit him up the right way.” He unfurled a gold and purple Laker game shirt with a No.l on both sides and the name “Reagan” on the back. Johnson presented an autographed ball, and Riley a Laker gold cap and a T-shirt “for back at the ranch.” The president bounced the ball one time on the grass, thanked the players for stooping to the microphone set at his height, and after a few smiles for the camera, he went back to more demanding tasks. As the Lakers walked to their bus, Riley said he was looking forward to the big rallies in Los Angeles Tuesday.

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The Birmingham (Ala.) News, in its Sunday editions, listed teams in line for berths in the tournament, which will begin with regional playoffs Nov. 22-24 and wind up with the semfinals , and finals at Madison Square Garden. In addition to St. John’s and Louisville the newspaper also listed Auburn, Alabama-Birmingham, Pepperdine, Texas A&M, Lamar, Kansas, Miami of Ohio, West Virginia, Tulsa, Dayton, Washington, and Texas-El Paso.

Yankees win round two

The Yankees scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning Monday night to not only score 16-15 Major League victory' over the Mets, but also win the second round of play in the Greencastle Youth Baseball League. The Yankees finished in a secondround tie, forcing Monday night’s playoff game. The Braves finished third with a 3-2 record, followed by the Dodgers and Cardinals in a tie for fourth at 2-3 and the Red Legs finished fifth in Major League play. THE GIANTS CAPTURED the second round of Minor League play with a 4-1 record. The Tigers and Red Sox tied a 3-2, followed by the Cubs at 2-3 and Astros and Orioles at 1-4. The Mets outhit the Yankees 12-11

North Putnam wins third

Legion almost did it Monday night, but North Putnam pushed one run home in the bottom of the seventh inning for a 7-6 Greencastle Babe Ruth League victory and a 3-0 record. Weather permitting, the Elks play Kiwanis at 5:30 p.m. on the Greencastle High School diamond and South Putnam will host the Moose at South Putnam High School in Tuesday night play. Wednesday Legion squares off against Rokicki Insurance. LEGION SCORED FOUR runs in

Wide margins show up

There were few close games Friday and Saturday in Greencastle Youth Baseball League play. The Dodgers topped the Red Legs 11-7 and the Mets throttled the Braves 14-4 in Major League play, while Red Sox beat the Orioles 14-8 and the Astros toppled the Cubs 15-8 in Minor League action. DAVID DUFF LED the fourth Mets to their fourth victory of the second round of league play with a triple. Tim Manion paced the Braves with a double. The Mets had eight hits for the game, but committed eight errors, while the Braves had three hits and one error. Errors cost the Red Legs, as they outhit the Dodgers 6-3, but committed

Guokas next candidate

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - With Detroit Pistons Coach Chuck Daly out of the running for the Philadelphia 76ers’ head coaching job, the National Basketball Association club has turned its attention to assistant coach Matt Guokas. The 76ers rejected the Pistons’ demand for a first-round draft pick in exchange for signing Daly, and Sixers owner Harold Katz said Guokas and “possibly one or two more” candidates were under consideration. Guokas’s wife, Barbara, said her husband met with Katz for much of Monday in Katz’s office in suburban Jenkintown, but said she did not know what was being discussed. Numerous

Terre Haute North lures Jones

PRINCETON, Ind. (AP) - The Terre Haute North Vigo school board has approved Jim Jones, former coach at Princeton High School, as head basketball at the Terre Haute school. Jones, who has compiled a 311-205 career mark in 22 years at Springs Valley and Princeton, said after the decision Monday night, “I feel it’s a career opportunity I can’t afford to turndown.” He also will be a full-time guidance

The newspaper printed a list of potential teams and sites for the tournament, although it said last-minute changes could occur. The Dayton Daily News also said on Sunday that Miami (Ohio) University and Dayton will be invited. The Midwest Regional will be played at Houston, the East Regional at Hartford, Conn., the Mideast Regional at Indianapolis and the West Regional at Denver.

for the game, but committed two more fielding errors. Bryan Murray was the winning pitcher in relief of A.J. Myers. Myers led the Yankees with two singles and a double, followed by Wade Barger and Jeff Flora with two singles. Murray helped himself with a double, while Billy McCaffrey added a home run to the Yankee effort. MONYE STEADMON RIPPED a home run and two singles to pace the Met offense. Justin Homier had two doubles and a single, while Mark Pearson added a double and single. Pat O’Hair, who was the losing pitcher in relief of Jerod Duff, had a pair of singles and Duff added a double.

the sixth inning to tie up the game 6-6 Monday night, forcing North Putnam to rally to keep its record unblemished. Charlie Marcum led North Putnam with a double and single while Billy Hubble and Chris Gough-the winning pitcher-added two singles each. Mike Hart also added a double. DAVID PETTIT AND Tony Meyer each rapped out a double to pace the Legion offense.

three errors. The Dodgers played error-free baseball. Mike Scott led the six-hit Red Leg attack with three singles and Jason Inglert backed winning pitcher Billy Hudkins with two singles. ERIC GIBSON highlighted the Astros’ victory over the Cubs with a home run. That was the only information provided about this game. Courtney Armstrong rapped out two doubles and a single to lead the Red Sox by the Orioles. Russell Benson chipped in with two singles and Jimmy Coons added a double to the 16-hit effort. Mike Perrine led the Orioles with two doubles and Joe Spiker added a pair of singles to the nine-hit offense.

calls to the Guokas home Monday night were met with a busy signal. The head coaching position opened up last month when Billy Cunningham resigned after eight years. Daly has one year left on his threeyear pact with Detroit. “Obviously, I was interested,” Daly said in an interview with ABC Sports from his home in Farmington Hills, Mich. “I know the Philadelphia area extremely well and I like it there. But in this business, you learn to really love where they sign your paycheck, and I like it here.” Daly was once head coach at the University of Pennsylvania and also , was an assistant under Cunningham.

counselor at North. At Princeton, Jones was a guidance counselor and taught one class in substance abuse. This past season, Jones’ Tigers completed the first undefeated regular season in school history. They lost in the regional finals to Evansville Bosse. Princeton ended the season 23-1. In another coaching change, Larry Hurris was named head basketball coach at Wood Memorial High School.