Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 31 July 1963 — Page 7

WKDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1963

New York Mels Break Record Losing Skein By JOE SARGIS DPI Sports Writer The “old man” had his birthday wish today, and who is to say he didn’t deserve it. When friends from the baseball and business worlds gathered in the little house in Glendale, Calif., Tuesday to wish Casey Stengel a “happy birthday,” the 73-year-old skipper of the New York Mets said he had only one wish. “One year with the Yankees,” he explained, “I win 104 games and lose the pennant. This time my wish is more modest. I want to win just one game.” The Mets. wtio equalled the alltime record of 22 straight losses on the road when they lost to the Houston Colts on Sunday, obliged Stengel Tuesday night by beating the league-leading Los Angeles Doders, 5-1. And if you don’t think the “old man” didn’t do that little skip dance of his in the clubhouse after Tracy Stallard nailed down the final out, you just don’t know Casey. Snapped Losing Streak Your joy would be unrestrained, too, if you managed the Mets and had to watch them lose almost every day, and then were presented with a victory over the Dodger, a club the Mets have beaten only three times in two seasons. The win not only snapped an 11-game current losing streak for the Mets but also dealt the Dodgers a jolt just when t hey had hoped to recover from a slump, for both the second-place San Francisco Giants and third-place St. Louis Cardinals won to cut Los Angeles’ once “safe” lead to just 3% games. The Giants, paced by Billy O’Dell’s shutout pitching, rolled to their ninth straight victory, 5-0, over the Philadelphia Phillies, while the Cards, now just 4 games off the pace, edged the Cincinnati Reds, 7-5. Stallard, who pitched the Mets’ last road victory on June 15 at Cincinnati, went all the way for New York and gave up just four hits, one of them Ken McMullen’s fourth home run. The Mets’ meanwhile raked three Los Angeles pitchers,, beginning wjth exMet Bob Miller, for 14 hits in one of their finest hitting perform-

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Chicago Cubs Bring Up Two Pitchers CHICAGO (UPI) — The surprising Chicago Cubs, struggling to stay in the first division of the National League, Tuesday called on Salt Lake City of the Pacific Coast League to help strengthen their bullpen. Hie Cubs traded lefthander Dick Lemay to the Bees in exchange for southpaw Tom Baker, then optioned Jack Warner to the PCL team and recalled Cal Koonce. ances of the season. Every Met except Jim Hickman got at least one hit to make it a team “birthday present” for Stengel. Frank Thomas hit his pinth home run arid Joe Hicks had three hits. The Phils pecked away at O’Dell (11-6) or 11 hits but the Giant lefty survived, thanks to two double plays and Willie McCovey’s three-run homer, his 31st of the season which gave him the major league lead. Willie Mays, once again the clutch hitter, hit a pair of doubles and scored twice. Ray Culp (10-9) was the loser but the Phils may have suffered an even greater loss when Art Mahaffey twisted his right ankle while pitching in the seventh inning. , The Reds jumped on Lew Burdette for four runs in the first inning but they got only one more the rest of the way as Ernie Broglio and Bobby Shantz combined to hold the fort while the Card hitters caught up. A two-run homer by Bill White and a basesempty one by Charley James figured prominently in the St. Louis A pair of errors by Leo Cardenas made two of the St. Louis runs, unearned. Pirates Rout Colts In the other .National League games, the Pittsburgh Pirates backed Joe Gibbon’s seven-hit pitching with a 14-hit attack for an 8-1 win over the Houston Colts and the Milwaukee Braves routed the Chicago Cubs, 9-2, on homers by Lee Maye, Eddie Mathews and Denis Menke. The* Pittsburgh victory snapped a four-game Houston winning streak and gave Gibbon his fifth victory and Skinny Brown his sixth loss. Jim Pagliaroni batted in three runs for the Pirates with a single and his eighth homer. Hank Fischer (4-2) was the beneficiary of the lusty Milwaukee hitting. He gave up six hits, one Os them Steve Boros’ first NL homer. Bob Buhl, who was tagged for she-hits and four runs in two innings; was the loser.

Braves Wallop Beme In Pony Loop Tourney The Decatur Braves moved Into the second round of the post-season Adams county Pony League tournament, posting a 13-4 victory over Berne Tuesday evening at Worthman field. The second round of the tournament will ,be played Friday and lines up as follows: Decatur Cubs vs Decatur Braves, 6 p.m.; Decatur Cardinals vs Adams Central. The Braves won the right to meet the Cubs, who drew the first round bye, by blasting Berne Tuesday evening with a 10-hit barage. The local nine scored six times in the first inning last night and were never headed. A one-out error started the big first inning. Nick Smitley singled, and after two were out the scoring parade began. Steve Magsamen drew a walk, and Tom Blyhe, Jim Augsburger, Tony Conrad and Gary Hammond rapped out consecutive singles. Boost Berne got one run back in their half of the first, and Neil Schwartz’ double produced a second Berne tally in the second frame. Walks to Magsamen and Blythe, a fielder's choice and Hammond’s second single boosted the Brave lead to 9-2 in the fifth. Singles by T. Schwartz and Neal scored a Berne run in the fifth and they added their final run in the sixth on singles by Habegger and Neil Schwartz. The winners scored their final four tallies in the seventh, with Dave Alberding’s single the only hit of the inning, Conrad was the Brave starter and picked up the win with relief help from Smitley. The Schwartz boys had six of the ten Berne hits. BRAVES AB R H E Lutes, lb 4 10 0 Cass, ss 5 10 3 Smitley, If, p 3 2 2 0 August, c ... 3 11 1 Magsamen, rs 12 0 0 Alberding, rs, If 2 0 10 Blythe, 2b .... 4 2 2 0 Augsburger, 3b ...L 4 11 0 Conrad, p ...3 2 10 Haggerty, 2b 10 0 0 Hammond, cf . 3 12 0 TOTALS ...33 13 10 4 BERNE AB R H E S. Steury, cf... 2 0 0 0 Sprunger, cf 1 o 0 0 Luginbill, c ... 3 12 2 Neal, 3b, rs ...4 0 11 Beer, lb 3 0 0 0 Neuenschwander, ph. 1 0 0 0 Beitler, 2b 2 10 0 Habegger, ss 3 111 N. Schwartz, If 3 0 3 0 Flueckinger, p, 3b .. 2 0 0 0 T. Schwartz, rs, p.. 3 1 3 0 TOTALS ... 28 4 10 4 by Innings: , Braves . 600 030 4—13 Berne 1 ...... 110 011 0— 4 o Easy Wins Scored In Softball Loop Laurie Meyer and Lee Hoopingarner turned in three-hit pitching performances to lead McMillen to an 11,1 win over Citizens Telephone Co., and Adams County. Trailer Sales lo a 10-3 victory

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Tourneys Underway In Wildcat League Opening round tourney games in the McMillen Kitty league were played Tuesday, with the Mathews and Foxs posting wins, and in the McMillen Kat league, where the Leopards and Bobcats were victorious. The Mathews held off a last-in-ning rally by the "Banks to post a 5-3 win, and the Foxs scored three times in the sixth inning to edge the Colavitos, 15-14, in a slugfest. Tom Patch and Chris Hackman each hit two home runs and Tony Mendez one for the winners. Jim Kuhnle hit three home runs, onb h grand-slammer, in a losing effort. Tom Kuhnle, Wayne Franz and Dan Eash also hit round-trippers for the colavitos. The Leopards pushed across a run in the last of the sixth to hang an upset 6-5 loss on the Bears. The Bears had won the regular season title, while the Leopards had finished in last place. The Bobcats, season runner-ups, whipp'd the Panthers 7-3 in the second game. Line scores: R H Banks 010 020—3 3 Mathews .... 103 lOx—s 9 Diokerson and Butler; BraziJl and FeKirote. R H Colavitos 702 122—14 14 Foxs 204 153—15 11 Kuhnle and Eash; none given. R H Bears 200 012—5 2 Leopards .'. 040 011—6 5 R H Bobcats 220 121—7 7 Panthers 100 011—3 2 Zwick, Kohnc and Bracey; Keller and Niblick. Tourney Scores In Wildcat Plav Given The Affolders and Steiners were winners in opening tournament games at the Northwest diamorid in Kitty play, and the Athletics defeated the Angels in Tiger play by an 8-6 score. The Affolders were regular reason champs in the Northwest Kitty league, posting an 8-2 record. The Steiners finished one game back with a 7-3 mark. Members of the Affolder team include Kevin Affolder, Arthur Razo, Jeff Beery, Terry Baker. Al Fennig, Jim. August, Kenneth Geels, Richard Strahm, Mike Macklin, Harold Jones, Dean Cornett and: Leroy Hook. The Affolders defeated the Hammonds, 5-3, and the Steiners whipped the Schaffers. 10-3. In the Tiger tournament game the Athletics scored three times in the first inning and went <>n to down the Angeles 8-6. Kermit Summers and Greg Bixler had three and two hits respectively in a losing cause for the Angels. The Tiger championship games of the two leagues, are scheduled for today, with the Athletics playing the Orioles at 1:15 pm.. and the Reds meeting the Dodgers at 3 p.m. Semi-finals in the Northwest Kitty league tourney will be held Thursday morning at the Northwest diamond. The Affolders and Stainers will play, the opener at 8:15 am., and the Steurys will meet the Rashes at 9:45 a m. ove rthe K. of C. in City softball league games Tuesday evening- „ Meyer tossed his •three-hitter in leading McMillen to its tenth win in 14 games this season, turning back Citizens wit lip single run. Elliott paced the winners' attack with two singles and a home in three official trips,, grxxl for two RBl's. Herman added a pair of singles and a double to the attack. Carr had two of the Citizens’ three hits, a single and a double, and scored thoir only run. The Trailer Sales scored' four times in the first inning to support Hoopingarner’s effort! . and never trailed. Jim Bowman knocked in two runs for the winners and Ralph Busse homered in the fifth with the base, empty. Line scores: J: H E Citizens ------ 001 1 3 3 McMillen 340 (XM 11 II 1 Reef and Harding; Meyer and! Canales. - 7 -~ R H E K. of C. .. 001 200- 3 3 4 Trades Sales 401 014 x—lo 7-2 Waning and J. Omlor; Hooping-; garner and Morton, Hoffman.

Bouton Hurls 1 14th Victory For Yankees By MILTON RICHMAN 11’1 Sports Writer Okay, all you baseball experts, which player is principally re- : sponsible for the Yankees winning this year? i Sorry. but no matter who you name, you're dead wrong. ■ And if you intend to argue about it. better take your case to Ralph Houk, who claims the ' Yankees are winning ball games not because of any one player 'but only because of their fine bench. “I'm convinced beyond the slightest possible doubt that we I have the best bench in baseball," : Houk says. “Without it,; we would never have had a chance this 1 year, especially with injuries to such . fellows as Mickey Mantle and Koger Maris. “Everytime I look up though, our bench wins another ball game for us." Houk is referring to such filliris as Johnny Blanchard, Harry Bright, Phil Linz. Jack Reed and even player-coach Yogi Berra. It was Blanchard’s turn Tuesday night. Even though he had been discharged from the hospital only a few hours earlier following a four-day bout with bronchitis,- Blanchard t<xik over right field when Maris showed up with a sprained left hand and delivered a tie-breaking single in the eighth inning that helped the Yankees beat the Kansas City A's, 6-2. Bouton Won 14th Jim Bouton recorded his 14th victory against five defeats wilh a seven-hitter but he was locked in a 2-all tie with loser Moe Dra .bowsky until Blanchard broke the, deadlock. The Yanks then added three more runs in the same j frame. Wayne Causey had a homer and two doubles for the! losers. The victory kept the Yankees eight games., in.-front of the sec-ond-place Chicago White Sox, who beat the Washington Senators, 5-1. In other American League games, Baltimore downed Detroit, 9-0, Minnesota bumped Boston, 6-3, Los Angeles scored a 6-4 vicJbKJW* 1 ' Cleveland in 10 innings ana Chicago defeated Washington ,Milt Pappas held the Tigers to four hits in winning his 10th game for the Orioles. Btooks Robinson drove in four runs for Baltimore I with his sixth homer and two singles while Al Smith had four of the Orioles' 18hlt s. Hank Aguirre i 9-10) was tlie loser. Lemon Homered Jim Lemon's thrte-run hoiner off loser Don Rudolph in the sbeth inning . clinched the White Sox’ victory over the Senators. It was Lemon's first homer since returning to the AL from Ihe Phil lies. Dave Dcßusschere, who struck out eight and gave up the I same number of hits, was the 1 winning pitcher although Jiraj Brosnan came on to get the final 1 out. J The Twins tagged Bob Turley t with his eighth loss of the season and first since, joining the Red Sox when they drove him to the showers during a five-run sixth inning rally. Vic Wertz’ two-run pinch shingle plus another tworun single by Don Mincher were the key blows. Bill Dailey flanked Boston on two hits over the last four innings to notch his third win. Ken Hunt’s bloop single in the 10th inning broke a 4-4 tie bed tween the Angels and Indians after Felix Torres had launched the winning rally with a one-out double. Joe Kbppe hit a two-run I homer off Tribe starter Jack Kralick in the second and thei Angels made it 4-0 in the sixth I but the Indians tied the score in ■ the eighth Jack Spring <2 Oi was i the winner and Ted Abernathy; 14-2) the 16; er.

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Wildcat All-Star Games On Thursday Three Wildcat LeagUh aU-atar games are. scheduled for Worthman Field Thursday, and one will bi» played at the Northwest diamond. The Northwest Tiger American Association nll-stara will meet at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Worthman Field, with the McMillen Kitty all-stars playing the Northwest Kittv stars at 6:15 p.m. AU-star teams from the McMillen Kat league will battle nt 8.15 p.m. The Northwest Tiger American Association all-atins will play at the Northwei.t diamond at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Horse Show Results Found After Search A search party was hastily organised at the 4-H fair this morning f or a trip to the Monroe city duni| where it was feared the results and the winners of yesterday s two horse shows has been inadvertently taken Mrs. John Curroll. ehidrm.m of the 4-H horse show, led the reconnaissance mission. which io the dismay of all concerned, found nothing. Some time later Mrs Carroll, with visions of having to re run both the junior and senloi shows dancing in her head, di covered that the results were In the isisseswion of another 4 II leader.