Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1964 — Page 7

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Shraluka ’sSlants By Bob Shraluka It sure is nice to see Decatur athletics playing such an important part in the Connie Mack baseball league in Fort Wayne — and also being so sucessful. Four ot the 15 players in uniform for the W&W Gravel team, the 1964 pennant winners, are from this city. Denny Cookson batted in one of the two W&W runs as they defeated the Komets by a 2-1 score Tuesday to cop the regular season title. The two had finished the season with identical 15-3 records, necessitating a playoff. Cookson was playing shortstop, and Sam Blythe was the first baseman. Also wearing the W&W uniform are Dick Omlor and Greg Ladd, who are catchers. Ladd, of course, is out of action with a finger injury he suffered recently while catching, and Omlor has been sidelined by strained ankle ligaments. Cookson has recorded several pitching victories for W&W, and Blythe has also seen some mound work. CooksOn, Omlor and Ladd are now graduated, but Sambo has a couple of seasons remaining for the Decatur high school team. Terry Meyers, who had some amazing seasons in the Little and Pony leagues here is also playing in the Connie Mack league. Terry, who will be a senior at Decatur Catholic this fall, pitches for the Police Athletic League and has also recorded several victories this summer. The Connie Mack league affords rugged competition and a fine brand of baseball for young athletes. Speaking of Blythe reminds us that the horsehide ball is beginning to give way to the pigskin ball. IHSAA members will be allowed to hold opening practice sessions on Saturday, August 15 — just 24 days from today! The Decatur gridders will begin drills on that first day, and really get down to work the following Monday in preparation for the season’s opener. Worthman Field will be the site of the jamboree this year with the same lineup as last year, Decatur, Bluffton, Hartford City and Berne. The affair will be held Tuesday, Sept. 1, and the opening game of the regular season will be the following Friday at Auburn. On Friday, Sept. 11, the Yellow Jackets will open their home season by hosting Garrett’s Railroaders. This year’s season ticket will be good for four other home games, with New Haven, Portland, 3 Concordia and Angola. The only change In the schedule is the addition of Elmhurst of Fort Wayne. Elmhurst replaces Columbia City, who, despite what some may say, didn’t exactly “drop” Decatur. The Eagles play Huntington each season and the huge gate that contest attracts each season doesn’t hurt the school’s athletic fund. Well, this season, the only . date that the two could get together was the date for the Decatur game. So it was Huntington (and the gate) that actually forced dismissal of Decatur from the Columbia City schedule. r In fact, in the past five, or even ten years, De®*catur has a better won-loss record with the Eagles than any other school on its football schedule. Bus driver Rich Hendricks has spent many hours working on the school’s ground at Bellmont Park, cutting grass, etc., and the team will hold its practice sessions this year in the large area that was formerly a race track. If you’re getting anxious for football to begin, here is something to really make you look forward to Sept. 4. Some of the returning letterjmen are: Anspaugh, Elliott, Sam Blythe, Bill Blythe, Eichenauer, Egly, Magley, etc.!

Two Brothers Lose 12 Inning Battle

Three Kings of Hoagland scored six times in the top of the 12th inning to hand Two Brothers of Decatur a heartbreaking, 13-7 loss, in a Vim Softball League contest last night.

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Hoagland scored five times in the opening inning, but Two Brothers added a pair of runs in the fourth frame. Three Kings got those back in the top of their sixth inning, but Two Brothers staged a big rally to score five time and knot the score at 7-7. The two clubs then battled through five tension - packed innings before the Hoagland nine erupted in the top of the 12th. An error, a single by Lehman, a double by Girardot and home runs by Schaffer and Gerry featured the initial inning barrage by Hoagland. Two Brothers scored, their two runs In the fourth frame on a single by Jerry Price and Allie Marbaugh’s home run. Boost Lead A home rim by Grotrian, all error and a single by Gerry got those back for Hoagland in the top of the sixth, but Two Brothers refused to quit and tied the score in their half of the inning. Price singled and Al Marbaugh doubled in the sixth, and Huston followed with a single. Don Menter also singled and Dick Marbaugh then slammed a home run, scoring Menter ahead of him, to make it a brand-new game. Four singles, a walk, an error, and a sacrifice fly produced the winning tallies in the 12th inning.

Who Says A.L Doesn't Have Close Race? Phils Boost Lead To Full Game

By FRED DOWN • UPI Sports Writer The Baltimore Orioles are black and blue all over today because Johnny Romano is back in the pink. Ari American League All-Star in 1961 and 1962, Romano has ben plagued by injuries for the last year and a half so that he lost his regular job behind the plate for the Cleveland Indians and has been switched around from catcher to first base to the outfield. And* the fact is that the rugged, sometimes defiant native of Hoboken, N.J., is a ball player who’d rather fight than switch. Back in good health and ready to redciam his regular job, Romano came out fighting Tuesday night with five hits, includig three homers, and five runs batted in to lead the Indians to 4-2 and 85- victories over the Orioles. The stunning double defeat — climaxed when the Indians scored eight runs in the eighth inning of the second game — dropped the Orioles into second-place, five points behind the New York Yankees. Supplies Heavy Hitting Romano, who caught the first game for the Indians, homored in the fourth inning and then connected for a game-winning two-run round tripper in the eighth. Playing left fiend in the nightcap, he touched off the eighth-inning, eight-run outburst with his third homer on the night and singled home the seventh run of the frame. Lee Stange went eight innings to receive credit for his fourth victory in the opener and relief pitcher Gary Bell won his fifth in the nightcap. The Yankees moved back into first place with a 7-1 triumph over the Washington Senators, the Los Angeles Angels swept the Chicago White Sox 2-0 and 3-2 and dropped them into third place, the Boston Red Sox downed the Detroit Tigers 7-5 and the Kansas Ctiy Athletics nipped the Minnesota Twins 5-4 in other AL games. Bouton Wins Ninth Tom Tresh drove in three runs with two homers and a double and Jim Bouton pitched a four - hitter to win his ninth game for the Yankees. Chuck Hinton’s homer produced the Senators’ run. Felix Torres drove in < both Angel runs in the first game with a homer and a single and Vic Power’s two- run seventhinning single brought Los Angeles from behind to complete the sweep and give the Angels eight wins in their last nine games. Bo Belinsky and Bob Lee combined in a sevenhitter in the first game and Aubrey Gatewood earned the win in the second game with 5 1-3 innings of shutout relief pitching. Dick Stuart hit his 24th homer of the season with two aboard in the seventh inning to raise his major league leading RBI total to 82 and give the Red Sox’ Bill Monbouquette his sixth victory. It was a battle of homers with Felix Mantilla and Frank Malzone also connecting for the Red Sox and Norm Cash and George Thomas hitting two -t*ach for the Tigers. Rocky Cola vito’s two- run seventh - inning double enabled relief pitcher Wes Stock to register his fifth triumph for the Athletics and deal the Twins’ 10 - game winner Camilo Pascual his eighth defeat. N.L. Results The Philadelphia Phillies appeared to be throwing money down the drain in 1960 when they acquired Jack Baldschun for $20,000 in the 1960 major league player draft. The red-haired relief pitcher from Greenville, Ohio, had kicked around in the Cincinnati Reds’ farm system for five years — hitting such "minor league way-stations as Thibodaux, Wassau, Savannah, Visalia and Topeka without causing much of a stir. However, after Baldschun posted a 12-9 record at Columbia, S.C., in 1960, the Phillies decided to grab him. It was one of their better buys. Using a screwball as his best pitch, Baldschun was 5-3 in his Gkls Must Register For Tennis, Swimming Hubert Zerkel, Jr., supervisor of the city’s summer recreation program for girls, said this morning that all girls interested in the swimming and tennis program should register with him before next week. Zerkel explained that even though a girl registered at the close of school in the spring, she must again contact him at the pool to register for the program. The softball program concludes this week, with the swimming and tennis to begin next week. Time schedules for this phase of the program will be announced in the near future, Zerkel said.

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rookie year in 1961, 12-7 in 1962, 11-7 last year and currently is helping write a new “Philadelphia story” for the upstart Phillies. Ranpep Lead Baldschun enabled the Phillies to re-open a one-game lead over the San Francisco Giants in die National League race Tuesday night when he pitched hitless ball over the final 12-3 innings to preserve a 6-3 victory over the Mi Iwu kee Braves. Although his record is a deceiving 3-4, <lean Jack has saved five of the nine victories the scrambling Phillies have scored thus far this month. His latest effort was a typically strong mop-up operation. Taking over for Art Mahaffey in the eighth inning with the bases loaded, one out, and the Phils leading 4-2, Baldschun got Hank Aaron to hit into a forceout at home and retired Joe Torre on a tap in front of the plate. He set the Braves down in order iri the ninth to wrap up Mahaffey’s ninth victory in 13 decisions. Wine, Taylor Homer Bobby Wine and Tony Taylor homored off Wade Blasingame (2-2) to help the Phillies fashion a 3-0 lead and Wine sin gled home the decisive run in the eighth. In other NL action, the Gubs edged the Giants 2-1, the Mets downed the Reds 4-2, the Pirates outslugged the Cardinals 8-4, and the Colts blanked the Dodgers 1-0. Bob Buhl gained his 12th victory for the Cubs on the strtngth of Billy Williams’ tworun, sixth-inning homer and the airtight late-inning relief pitching of Bobby Shantz and Don Elston. The Giants filled the bases with one out in the ninth but Elston retired the side by getting Jim Davenport on a pop fly and Chuck Hiller on a fly to Williams. Four Triumph In Girl's Softball The Beatles, Sluggers, Blue Jeans and North Side Ten advanced to the semi-finals of the city girl’s league softball tournaament Tuesday. The Blue Jeans, regular reason champs, shutout the Sweet Cherries 12-0, while the regular season runner-up Beatles downed the Mustangs by a 15-10 score. The Sluggers edged the Rolling Stones 15-13 and the North Side Ten bested the Lassies 15-12. • The Blue Jeans meet the Sluggers this afternoon in the first game at the Homestead diamond, and the Beatles battle the North Side Ten in the second contest. The winners will meet for the championship at 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the Stratton diamond. All girls interested in the next phase of the city’s program, swimming and tennis, are to register with Hubert Zerkel, Jr., supervisor, at the swimming pool before next week. ♦ Four Teams Win In Northwest Wildcat Four teams, the Jets, Banks, Indians and Pirates, were victorious in Northwest Wildcat contests Tuesday. Steve Gage’s single in the fourth inning knocked in the winning run as the Pirates edged the Indians by a 2-1 count behind Caciano's no-hitter, in a Tiger League battle. In another Tiger contest, the Indians romped to a 9-2 win over the Twins. The Banks rallied for three runs in the last inning to edgethe Mays 3-1 while the Jets scored four times in the first inning and went on to whip the Comets 6-1 in a Pee Wee game. Joe Mendez and Ron Butcher, each had two hits for lheir respective teams, the Jets and Comets. *. Jets 402-00—6 7 2 Comets 000-10—1 4 0 Banks 000-03—3 3 0 Mays 100-00—1 2 0 Laurent and Minch; Shaffer, Mankey and Hodle. Twins 110-00—2 4 3 Indians 013-sx—9 10 0 Smitley and Sommer; August and Busse. Giants 100-00—1 0 0 Pirates 100-lx—2 4 1 WP—Cdciano LP—Villagomes Gehrig Mark NEW YORK (UPI) — Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees compiled 400 or more total bases in one season five times in his career, a major league mark.

Nails Down Win Bill Wakefield nailed down the Mets' victory with 5 1-3 innings of shwtout relief pitching that dealt Joey Jay his sixth straight loss and eighth of the season. Larry Elliot and Jesse Gonder hit homers for the Mets. The Pirates dimbed past the Braves into fourth place with Jerry Lynch’s grand slam homer capping a five-run rally in the fifth inning. Joe Gibbon received credit for his seventh win against three defeats although chased by Mike Shannon's three-run homer in the eighth. Ray Sadecki suffered his seventh setback for the Cardinals. Al Spangler’s lead off homer for the Colts in the eighth inning enabled Bob Bruce to best Don Drysdale in a brilliant 1 pitching battle and earn his 11th win compared to four setbacks. It was the ninth loss of the season for Drysdale, who has scored 12 victories.

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— PONY LEAGUE CARDINATK— This year’s edition of the Pony League Cardinals, which won five of 12 regular season games, is shown above. Front row, left to right. Dan Pierce. Tim Bolinger, John Hackman, Dave Tester, Mike Hart, Rich Fisher. Rear, coach Ken Birch, Ned Irwin, Dave Geimer, Doug Halberstadt, Steve Burger, Dave Winteregg, George "Diomas, manager Bill Fisher. Seated in front is coach Dick Foreman. Bill Borror, Dan Mcßride, and Dave Myers are missing.—(Photo by Mac Lean)

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