Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1963 — Page 7

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MONMOUTH CHAMPS — The Braves won both the tegular season and tournament titles of the MonS? 0U ?u Ll f * Lea .^ 1 T e T . rec l en^y • Team members are shown above: Front, left to right, Kyle Foreman, Dan Sheaf, Arnold Chuck JXirr, Gregg Fuelling, Roger Hirschy. Rear, manager Don Werling, Brennan Miller, Jerry* Fuelling, Henry Witte, Rex Spencer, Mike Wealing, Mike Geyer, Dan DeLong, and Wally Durr coach. Jerry Hakes was absent when photo taken.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

Major League Leaders By United Press International National League Player & Club G. AB R. 11. Pot. Groat, StL . 113 459 63 156 .340 Clmnte, Pitt 102 399 56 134 .336 Gonzlz, Phil 112 414 62 133 .321 T.Davis, LA 97 361 42 116 .321 Aaron, Mil 113 446 82 142 .318 Pinson, Cin 116 466 70 146 .313 White, StL 113 459 80 142 .309 Kuenn, SF 75 253 37 78 .308 Wiliams, Chi 110 425 63 129 .304 Torre, Mil 100 346 40 104 ,30i r - • r* • American League Ystzmski, Bos 104 397 64 131 .330 Kaline, Det 105 407 . 69 129 .317 Rollins, Min 94 356 55 111 ,312 Wagner, LA 111 414 57 126 .304 Pearson, LA 109 413 58 125 .303 Malzone, Bos 107 413 48 125 .303 Geiger, Bos 79 262 52 77 .294 Causey, KC 101 408 56 117 .287 Hshbrgr, Chi 89 310 47 89 .287 Ward, Chi 110 428 56 122 .285 Smith, Balt 96 298 41 85 .285 Home Runs National League — McCovey, Giants 33; Aaron, Braves 31; Mays, Giants 28; Cepeda, Giants 20; White, Cards 19. American. — Killt&rew, art, Red Sox 24 Wagper, Angel* 22; Howard, Yanks 22. , Runs Batted In National League — Aoron, Braves 94; White, Cards 80;, Santo, Cubs 74; McCovey, Giants 74; Boyer, Cards. 73. American League — Kaline, Ti« gers 75; Stuart, Red Sox 72; Wagner, Angels 70; Allison, Twins 66; Battey, Twins 64. Pitching National League — Perranoski', Dodgers 11-2; Koufax, ledgers 18-4; Maloney, Reds 17-4; McBean, Pirates 11-3; Marichal, Giants 17-5; American League — Radatz, Red Sox 12-3; Bouton, Yanks 14-5; Pizarro, White Sox 14-5; Ford, Yanks 16-6; Downing, Yanks 8-3.

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High-Scoring Games In Softball League tjhe Decatur Casting Co. whipped .Citizens Telephone Co., 13-9, and McMillen trounced the K. of C. ( 18-9, in a pair of City softball league games played Wednesday evening. The Casting Co. scored twice in the' fifst inning and six times in ; the second and were never headed in their win over Citizens. M. Black had th’:ee singles and a pair of runs batted in, and A. Marbaugh rapped a double and a triple to lead the winners’ attack. L. Marbaugh chipped in with a pair of of doubles. Harding’s single and home run Knocked in two runs for Citizens, and Carr batted in a pair of runs with a fifth inning single. Two home runs by Roger Stevens tod a four-base blast by Jerry Voglewede paced McMillen to its romp over the K. of C. in the nightcap. Steveps hit a three-run homer in the first inning, a two-run homer in the third and a two-run double in the seventh, for a total of seven RBl’s for the veping. Voglewede hit his round-tripper with a -man in, the third. -j-ffip Riuhaphlag hit his second home run in two nights in a losing cause for the K. of C.. and Ron Baker also homered for the losers. A pair of games will be played Friday evening with Two Brothers taking on Citizens in the first contest, and the K. of C. meeting Decatur Casting in the nightcap. Wednesday line scores: R H E Citizens ...... 103 041 0— 9 3 7 Casting Co. ... 260 122 x—l 3 9 3 Chrr and Harding; Lautzenhiser and M. Black. R H E McMillen 406 301 4—lß 17 5 K. of C. 012 112 2— 9 7 2 Stevens, Je Voglewed and Canales Jackson and J. Omlor. Duke Snider Chosen Mets' Most Popular NEW YORK (UPI) — Outfielder Duke Snider will receive a Catholic Youth Organization award as the most popular New York Met player before tonight’s game with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Downing Hurls Three-Hitter As Yanks Win

By United Press International A1 Downing strengthened his bid for AL rookie of the year honors Wednesday night when he pitched a three-hitter as the New York Yankees downed the Washington Senators, 9-1. Joe Pepitone hit his 20th homer of the season and Elston Howard his 22nd to lead the Yankees’ 14-hit attack. The Chicago White Sox defeated the Kansas City Athletics, 7-3, The Cleveland Indians beat the Baltimore Orioles, 4-1, the Detroit Tigers nipped the Boston Red Sox, 5-4, and the Minnesota Twins whipped the Los Angeles, 9-4, in other AL games. In the National League, Los Angeles topped Chicago, 3-1, New York beat St. Louis, 7-3, Houston edged out San Francisco, 1-0, Pittsburgh shaded Milwaukee, 5-4, and Philadelphia downed Cincinnati, 2-1. Pete Ward, Downing’s strongest rival for the AL rookie award, hit his 14thhomer and two singles to lead a nine-hit White Sox’ attack that carried Juan Pizarro to his 14th* win against five losses. Pizarro yielded nine hits and three runs in 7 2-3 innings with Jim Brosnan preserving the win. Orlando Pena suffered hi s 15th setback for the Athletics. Homers by Joe Azcue and Fred Whitfield provided the power for Cleveland’s Jim Grant to register his eighth victory of the season with a five-hitter. A double by Woody Held, a walk, A1 Luplow’s single and Larry Brown’s infield out produced the other Indian runs as Milt Pappas of the Orioles was tagged with his seventh defeat. AL Kaline’s three-run seventhinning homer off Red Sox relief ace Dick Radatz lifted Detroit relief pitcher Bill Faul to his fifth win. Kaline also had a double and a single and drove in our runs to lead the Tigers' 12-hit attack while Gary Geiger hit two homers and Dick Stuart connected for a two-run homer for the Red Sox. Harmon Killebrew’s three-run eighth-inning homer gave the Twins a 5-4 lead and relief pitcher Bill Dailey’s shot in the ninth clinched their triumph at Los Angeles after the Angels staked Ken Mcßride to an early 4-0 lead. The homer was Killebrew’s 26th and gave him the league lead. Leon Wagner hit his 22nd homer and Jim Fregosi had four singles for the Angels.

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Sandy Koufax Chalks Up Two More Records Vs Chalk up two more strikeout records for Los Angeles fireballer Sandy Koufax today. Koufax struck out 11 batters in the Dodgers’ 3-1, 11-inning triumph over the, Chicago Cubs Wednesday. 1 Koufax’ 11-strikeouts lifted his season total to 210 in 213 innings and made him the first National League left-hander to record three consecutive 200-strikeout seasons. It also was a league record 48th time in which he has’ struck out 10 or more batters in a game. Koufax turned over a tie game to relief ace Ron Perranoski and the latter gained his 11th win of the season when the Dodgers came up with two runs in the 11th inning on Tommy Davis’ homer, singles by Willie Davis and A1 Ferrera and an error by Ellis Burton. The victory enabled the Dodgers to increase their NL lead to six games when the Houston Colts topped the San Francisco Giants, I- and the New York Mets surprised the St. Louis Cardinals, 7-3. The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds, 2-1, and the Pittsburgh Pirates shaded the Milwaukee Braves, 5-4, in other NL action. In the American League, New York defeated Washington, 9-1, Chicago beat Kansas City, 7-3, Detroit nipped Boston, 5-4, Cleveland topped Baltimore, 4-1, and Minnesota scored a 9-4 victory over Los Angeles. Dick Farrell went 8 1-3 innings and Hal Woodeshick threw a game-ending double play ball to pinch hitter Harvey Kuenn to give the ninth-place Colts their fifth win in their last six home games with the Giants. The Colts scored the game’s only run off Jack Sanford in the fourth inning on A1 Spangler's single, a sacrifice and John Bateman’s single. Jim Hickman hit a homer, triile, double and single and Duke Snider had three hits in the Mets’ II- attack that brought Tracy Stallard his fifth win. Ernie Broglio, who had beaten the Mets three straight previous games, suffered his eighth loss against 12 victories. \ Jim Maloney’s seventh-inning wild pitch enabled Tony Taylor to score with the run that snapped his six-game winning streak and dealt him Jus fourth toss agaihsr If wins. Cal McLish pitched an eight-hitter to win his 11th decision for the Phillies. Relief pitcher Frank Funk’s wild pitch in the ninth inning let Bob Bailey score the winning run for the Pirates and gave relief ace A1 Mcßean his 11th victory compared with three defeats. Jerry Lynch homered for the Pirates and Lee Maye had four hits for the Braves. International League Northern Division W. L. Pet. G.B. Syracuse 65 56 .537 — Rochester ._ 62 59 .512 3 Buffalo -s-szt;.???' <nr«i .«& 4 Toronto ._ 59 64 .480 7 Richmond .. 53 64 .453 10 Southern Nivlsion. W. L. Pet. G.B Indianapolis 60 50 .580 — Arkansas 64 58 .525 6% Atlanta 62 56 .525 6% Columbus 60 58 .508 8% Jacksonville 44 74 .373 24% Wednesday’s Results Jacksonville 5, Arkansas 2. Atlanta 4, Richmond 3. Syracuse 3, Inaianapolis 2. Columbus 6, Rochester 5. Toronto 7, Buffalo 4.

Major Leagues National League W. L. Pet. G.B. Los Angeles .... 68 43 .613 — San Francisco .... 63 50 .558 6 St. Louis 63 50 .558 6 Chicago 58 52 .527 9% Cincinnati 61 55 .526 9% Philadelphia .... 60 54 .526 9% Milwaukee . 57 57 .500 12% Pittsburgh 55 56 .495 13% Houston 44 70 .386 25% New York 35 77 .312 33% Wednesday’s Results New York 7, St. Louis 3. Philadelphia 2, Cincinnati 1. Pittsburgh 5, Milwaukee 4. Houston 1, San Francisco 0. Los Angeles 3, Chicago 1 (11 innings). American League W. L. Pet. G.B. New York ...... 70 40 .636 — Chicago 60 48 .564 8 Minnesota 61 50 .550 9% Baltimore 63 52 .548 9% Boston 54 56 .491 16 Cleveland 55 59 .482 17 Los Angeles 54 62 .466 19 Kansas City ...... 50 60 .455 20 Detroit 48 60 .444 21 Washington 41 71 .366 30 Wednesday’s Results Detroit 5, Boston 4. New York 9, Washington 1. Chicago 7, Kansas City 3. Cleveland 4, Baltimore 1. Minnesota 9, Los Angeles 4. Mississinewa Winner Os Summer League Mississinewa won the high school summer baseball league playoff championship recently, defeating Geneva, 11-9, in the third and final game of the playoff series, played at Gas Oity. Geneva took a 4-2 lead after two and one-half innings of the final game, but Mississinewa came up with six runs in the third and three more in the fourth for a 11-4 lead. Geneva rallied for five runs in the sixth inning but relief hurler Collins stopped the Cardinals to preserve the win for Neironimus. Three Geneva hurlers allowed 10 hits, walked five batters, bit two and fanned five, while the Mississinewa pitchers allowed only five hits but walked 12 and fanned six. Mississinewa won the western division trophy and the league playoff trophy, while Geneva, , eastern division champions, was awarded the division trophy. Line score of final game: R H E Geneva ... 022 005 o—9 5 4 Mississinewa .. 116 300 x—ll 10 4 Daniels, Newcomer, Lautzenheiser and Bollenbacher; Heironimus, Collins and O’Brien, n Parade Is Added To Wren Events The Wren, 0., Lions club has added a colorful parade at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, to the twoday special events Aug. 23 and 24. Many units are already lined up for the event, with additional ones expected. The Edgerton Drilletts will perform a precision drill display near the park and the Willshire American Legion will dedicate a new flag tyole and flag at the dose of the parade. Richard Stoner, Fort Wayne, owner of Stoner’s magic and novelty shop, will be featured with a magic show at the evening program, and the Crestview high school band will also entertain. A1 proceeds from the two-day affair will be used for community improvements. Champion Steer Sold To Liechty Cannery Liechty Cannery, Berne, has purchased the 960-pound H e r so r d which was selected as grand champion steer at the 4-H fair. Liechty’s paid $28.40 per hundred for the steer, which was originally purchased at the 4-H auction by the First Bank of Berne for $1 per pound. The animal was raised and sold by 12-year-old Phil Bentz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Bentz. Liechty’s purchased the steer Tuesday evening at the Berne-Geneva livestock sale. The meat will be canned.

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Major, Minor League Officials Meeting CHICAGO (UPI) — Major and minor league oficials were scheduled to meet today in what baseball Commissioner Ford Frick described as “routine meeting devotee* to discussion of almost everything that affects us.” A National League spokesman said no formal agenda has been prepared for thg meeting of the major and minor league executive council. p.m. Aug. 21 — Fenteps of Pennville vs. Three Kings. Hoagland; 7:30 p.m.; “66” Oilers, Markle, vs. Garrett Merchants, 9 p.m. Aug. 22 — Spear-Dehner, Fort Wayne, vs. Two Brothers, Decatur, 7:30 p.m.,; Jalapa of Marion, vs. Convoy Merchants, 9 p.m.