Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1964 — Page 7

TUESDAY. JULY 14, MM

Little League: White Sox Defeat Red Sox 8-5, Winning Third Straight Pennant

Little League president Junior Lake and commissioner R. O. Wynn issued the following statement this morning: "Any player playing on an unauthorized all-star team will not be eligible to play in Decatur's Little League double-elimination tournament." The two league heads explained that arrangements have been made, and practice

'' " dr? J Em jffß?. w ■Rio 1 THIRD STRAIGHT— The White Sox, who copped their third pennant in succession in the Decatur LittleLeague last night, are pictured above. Front, Rich Fisher, scorekeeper. Standing, left to right, manager Charles Henkenius, Ron Kuhnle, Jerry Fisher, Larry Bracey, Roy Lehrman, Dave Beeler, Bob Bracey, Randy Gehrig, coach Jerry Gehrig. Seated, left to right, Tyler Hill, Curt Gerig, Brett Lutes, team mascot Hinky, Fred Schultz, Cecil Campbell, Jerry Foreman, Harold Painter, Ron Archer. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Pony League: Braves Edge Cubs, Regain Top Spot; Cards Winners

The Braves scored three times in the sixth inning to snap deadlock and went on to post a 5-3 win over the Cubs, in the opener of a twin-bill at Worthman Field Monday evening. In the nightcap, the Cardinals used a four-run fifth inning to wh i Monmouth, 7-2. By virtue of their victory, the Braves moved past the Cubs into first place in the Adams county Poney League, holding a percentage points lead. The Braves have won seven of nine games for a .778 percentage, while the Cubs have won eight of 11 for a .727 figure. The new leaders have three games remaining on the regular schedule, one with the Cardinals Friday evening and two with Berne. The Cubs have just one . game remaniing to be played, ’ with Berne. Win In Sixth A walk to Pat Loshe, a single by Ken Gause and a Cub error brought two Brave runs in the sixth inning, and Steve Haggerty’s single scored Chuck Cook with the third run of the winning rally. The Qibs had jumped into an early lead with a pair of first inning runs. Tom Miller and Don Williams sandwiched singles around a strike out,»to open the gamcN Miller scored on a wild pitch, and Williams romped home on a single by Stu Spiegel. The Braves got one run back in their half of the first when Jim

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sessions held, for an allstar team, consisting of local players, to compete in a tournament in another county in the near future. Righthander Ron Kuhnle chalked up his fifth win of the season without a loss, as the White Sox gowned the Red Sox by an 8-5 score at the Homestead diamond Monday evening, and clinched their third pennant in the past three years in the Decatur Little League.

Cass and Steve Johnson singled, and Cass scored bn a passed ball. The winners scored again in the fourth inning when Duane Thieme reached second base on an error, and later scored on a wild pitch. » The final Cub run came in the seventh when Alan Hutker led off with a double and moved around to home on a pair of ground outs in the infield. Tony Conrad went the distance for the Braves, scattering five Cub hits, striking out seven and walking four. Pete Mayclin hurled the first five innings for the Cubs, allowing just two hits and a run, and Alan Hutker worked the sixth and was charged with the loss, his first after five victories. Cardinals Win The Cardinals posted their fifth win in 11 games in the nightcap, scoring four times in the fifth frame and holding on for the win. Dave Winteregg reached base on a fielder’s choice in the second inning and scored on Doug Halberstadt’s single, and the Cards added their second run in the fourth when Dan Mcßride was hit by a pitch and went around the bases on a pair of throwing errors. The Cards then built their lead to 6-0 with the big fifth inning, using a hit batsman, two walks, and singles by Bill Borror, Rich Fisher and Geimer. Halberstadt walked and scored the final run in the sixth inning

After splitting their first four games this season, the White Sox have now reeled off seven straight wins and the Monday night victory clinched the 1964 pennant with one game remaining on their regular season schedule. Kuhnle, the league’s only unbeaten pitcher with more than two victories, hurled shutout ball through the first three innings before developing control trouble due to a gash on his knee. Lefthander Brett Lutes worked the final inning, and set the Red

when Seve Burger rapped out a double.— Monmouth scored its first run in the sixth inning when Krueckeberg singled and scored on an error, and they added their final tally in the seventh when Hakes reached base on an error and scored on Irwin’s single. CUBS AB R H E Miller, cf 3 12 0 Hutker, p —a 1110 Strickler, 3b 4 0 0 0 Williams, 2b 4 110 Bedwell, lb ......—— 3 0 0 1 Mayclin, p, cf 0 0 0 0 Spiegel, rs 3 0 10 Pettibone, c 3 0 0 0 Laurent, If 2 0 0 0 Rash, If 10 0 0 Kohne, ss 3 0 0 2 TOTALS —— 27 3 5 3 BRAVES - AB R H E Knittie, If 2 0 0 0 Conrad, p 3 0 0 0 Cass, js ... 3 110 Johnson, c _<23 0 10 Loshe, cf 110 0 Gause, 3b 2 111 Cook, lb -—— 3 10 0 Thieme, rs 3 10 0 Haggerty, 2b 3 0 11 TOTALS 23 5 4 2 Score by innings Cubs 200-000-I—3 Braves 100-103-x—s MONMOUTH AB R H E Hakes, ss - 3 111 Scheumann, cf .... 3 0 10 Irwin. 3b 4 0 11 Journay, c 4 0 10 Krueckeberg, 2b 3 12 0 Bertch, 1b... 3 0 0 0 Berning, p 2 0 0 0 Fuelling 3 0 10 Miller, rs 2 0 0 1 Boerger, rs -a 10 0 0 TOTALS- 28 2 7 3 CARDINALS ABRHE Fisher, ss 4 0 3 0 Winteregg, cf 4 10 0 Halberstadt, c 2 2 2 0 Burger, 3b 4 0 10 Geimer. rs 2 110 Pierce, rs 0 0 0 0 Hackman, 2b 2 0 6" 0 Hart, 2b 10 0 0 Borror. p 3 110 Mcßride, If 110 0 Bolinger, If 0 10 0 Thomas, lb 3 0 0 0 TOTALS . 26 7 8 0 Score by innings Monmouth 000-001-I—2 \ Cardinals 001-141-x—7 . t

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Sox down in order to preserve the victory. The White Sox now own a 9-2 record with a game remaining with the Red Sox Thursday night. The loss dropped the Red Sox into a second place tie with the Indians, each team with a 6-5 season record. Score Early The White Sox jumped into a early lead in the title-clinching contest, scoring twice in the second inning on a walk to Kuhnle, and two errors by the Red Sox which permitted Kuhnle and Randy Gehrig to score. The winners added another pair of tallies in the third inning on a walk to Curt Gerig and back-to-back singles by Lutes, Fred Schultz and Kuhnle. The Red Sox came back with three runs in the top of the fourth, scoring without the benefit of a hit. Mark Childs and Craig Barkley, who walked, and Ron Massonnee, nwho reached base on a fielder’s choice, each >, scored. Get Three .Back The White Sox got those three back in their half of the fourth, however, on two walks, a fielder’s choice, a single by Roy Lehrman and a double by Curt Gerig. The Red Sox scored twice in the fifth frame when Tom Hullinger and Greg Cook singled and scored on a White Sox error, and the White Sox closed out the night’s scoring with a single in the fifth on an error and Randy Gehrig’s single. WHITE SOX AB R H E Hill, ss... 2 10 0 Gerig, 2b X..TT 2 0 Lutes, lb, p 3 110 Schultz, c 3 0 10 Kuhnle, p If 2 2 10 Gehrig, 3b 3 112 Hammond, cf 2 0 0 0 Foreman, rs 10 0 0 Cambell, rs 2 10 0 Lehrman, If 10 0 0 Fisher, If lb .Z- 2 110 TOTALS 23 8 7 2 RED SOX AB R H E Cook, ss 3 12 0 Snyder, If r..... 10 0 0 Busse, If 2 0 0 0 Childs, c . 2 10 0 Roop, cf 3 0 0 0 Barkley, 3b 2 10 0 Mankey, 3b ...2....... 0 0 0 0 Massonnee, lb 3 110 Friedt, p 3 0 0 1 Price, rs 0 0 0 0 Rash, rs 2 0 0 1 Hullinger, 2b ... 11 1 0 Stonestreet, 2b 10 0 1 TOTALS 23 5 4 3 Score by innings Red Sox 000-320—5 White Sox 022-31 X —B Week's Schedule LITTLE LEAGUE Tuesday Senators vs. Indians, 6 p.m.; Yankees vs. Tigers. Thursday White Sox vs. Red Sox, 6 p.m.; Senators vs. Yankees. PONY LEAGUE Friday Cardinals at Braves, 6:30 p.m. Monmouth at Adams Central, 8 p.m. Geneva at Berne, 8 p.m.

S" ™ BtE 4 w •* | . ,• J . r IfcOßWWrfe ‘W K-' 1 jf H i I ' w r »'BHR W ■ SMsA ■ ISiR • w i wiW ar" 3R B M ■ M’J • THE FOUR MAN Racine, Wis., swimming team, Wirch took part in the national swimming meet at Fort I Wayne ths weekend, is pictured above. The Racine boys held a practice session at Decatur's pool before competing in the meet at Fort Wayne’s McMillen park pool. Gary Foreman, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Foreman of this City, and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Foreman, of Racine, is a member of the team. — (Photo by Mac Lean)

Duffer’s Divots: Two Remain Tied, Pfister Fires 36

by Dick Reidenbach The two teams leading the City Golf League, the Decatur Daily Democrat and Morningstar Auto Sales, remained deadlocked for first place with 20 points won as against only 4 points lost, to end the second week of competitive city golf league play. Both the Democrat and Morningstar's won equal points of 10 and 2 for the second consecutive Kuhnle Throws Third No-Hitter In Row Tom Kuhnle threw his third nohit game in succession today in the Northwest Kitty League, leading the Mantles to a 5-0 victory over the Aarons. The Mantles scored all five of their runs in the third inning and went on to register the triumph behind the sterling performance by Kuhnle. Dan Schaffer of the Mays shared the spotlight with Kuhnle. as he tossed his second no-hitter cf the season at the Banks, in an extra-inning game. The Mayo scored once in the last of the sjxth inning to produce the victory. Line scores: Aarons 0 0 0 o—o 0 Mantles 00 5 x—s 0 Kane, Hake and R. Roop; Kuhnle and Meyer. Banks 0 0 0 0 0 o—o 0 Mays ... 00 0 0 0 I—l 2 Laurent and Rumschlag; Schaffer and Hodle. Indians Thump Saif Lake In Opening Till SALT LAKE CITY (UPD— The Indianapolis Indians exploded for 14 hits Monday night including a ,two-run homer by Ramon Conde, to trounce Salt Lake City, 9-2, in the opener of a four-game Pacific Coast League series. The Inidans picked up two runs in the second inning, four more in the sixth, highlighted by Gary Johson’s triple; and three more in the eighth. Joe Shipley picked up his first victory of the season against eight defeats but needed help Jrom Ed Hobaugh in the seu> enth inning.

■ v.' * a,kLgMMMB;A i Het '|Rb GARY FOREMAN, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Foreman, of 1022 Marshall St, is shown above emerging from the water at the Decatur swimming pool in a Saturday morning practice session before the national swimming meet at Fort Wayne the same day. — (Photo by Mac-Lean)

week. The Democrat team defeated Leland Smith Insurance Monday, while Morningstar's swamped the Plungers. Third place is knotted with three teams vieing for that position. The Decatur Casting Co., last week’s sole third place contender, was held to only 4 points last night ’’"by Sherwin-Williams Co. Another team, The First State Bank, was held to 5 pouus by Gerber's Super Dollar Market, while Holthouse-on-the-High-way, jumped from eighth place in the standings to the third place tie with their 10 and 2 defeat over Decatur Industries. The three teams tied for third spot remain 7 points back of the co-leaders. Pfister Low With 36 John Pfister, playing for The Decatur Daily Democrat, shot a par-round 36 Monday evening to become low medalist for Monday's league play. Five other golfers broke into the 'thirties’. Don Elder and John Baumann had one-over-par rounds of 37, while John Hammond, Bob Helm and Alan Kalver, each fired rounds of 39. Elder plays with Morningstar Auto Sales, Baumann and Kalver are members of Gerber's Super Dollar Market, while Helm and Hammond play for the Decatur Daily Democrat. Sixteen ofdhe forty league golfers broke bogey golf. League Standings Decatur Daily Democrat 20 4 Morningstar Auto Sales 20 4 Decatur Casting Co. .. ... 13 11 First State Bank .. 13 11 Holthouse-on-the-Highway 13 11 Sherwin-Williams Co. ... 12 12 Decatur Industries ... ... *) 15 Gerber’s Super Dollar Mkt 9 15 Leland Smith Ins. Ag. .... 7 17 The Plungers .... 4 20 Low Scores: John Pfister, 36; Don Elder, 37; John Baumann, 37; John Hammond, 39; Alan-Kal-ver, 39; Bob Helm, 39; Dick Reidenbach, 40; Bryan Trout, 41; Fred James, 42; Qari Honaker, 42; Gerald Morningstar, 43; Bill Tutewiler, 43; Kenny Gaunt, 43; Norm Steury, 44; Morris (Rosy) Krueckeberg, 44; and Harold ShindfUdecker, 44. Next week's schedule: Gerber’s Super Dollar Market vs Decatur Casting Co.; Sherwin-Williams Co. vs The Plungers; Decatur Industries vs . Morningstar Auto Sales; Leland Smith Insurance Agency vs Holthouse-on-the-High-way; and Decatur Daily Democrat vs First State Bank.

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