The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 June 1964 — Page 6

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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA

THE DAILY BANNER

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Dressen Gets Lary's Apology

“I think he’s a darn good manager,” Lary continued. “And I happen to think his rules are real good, too. Every manager has to have some rules. I agree with every one

Palmer, Nicklaus Sing The Blues

NEW YORK UPI — Frank

Lary figures he owes ex-man- Dressen s rules,

ager Charlie Dressen an apolo-1 gy and promptly made it to-

day. Indians Split Purchased conditionally by, INDIANAPOLIS UPI

the Mets from the Tigers last Indianapolis Indians

The

opened a

Sunday, Lary was quoted as being severely critical of Dressen's method of managing as well as a set of “strict rules” he laid down for rll his players. “The story simply is not true,” Lary said. holding a copy of the wire service dispatch not UPI in his hand. “It gives the impression that I don't think Dressen is a good

belated home stand Wednesday night by splitting a doubleheader with Salt Lake City. The Bees won the seven-inn-ing opener, 3-2, on Bob Will’s sixth-inning home run but the Indians backed Fritz Ackley with 13 hits for a 9-3 triumph in the nightcap. The Tribe also lost the serv-

manager and that I don't like ices of right-hander Dave Dehim. Bussechere who suffered a frac-

“That's untrue, too,” said the 33-year-old right-hander, who

once was the ace

pitching staff.

RYE. N. Y. UP- — Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus were singing the blues today as they prepared to tee off in the first round of the $100,000 Thunderbird Golf Classic, but little Gary Player was all sunshine

and smiles.

Palmer said he had lost his touch after playing “only a couple of times in two weeks.” Nicklaus made it a gloomy duet by asserting he was “playing worse than I have in a long

time and can’t drive it.”

But Player jubilantly announced that he was playing

“the best I’ve played in my i . , , whole life and have never felt' J0 e

so strong or so well.”

Sachs, McDonald Rites Held Wednesday

WHITTIER. Calif. UPI — More than 500 persons overflowed the Hillside Church at Rose Hills Memorial Park W’ednesday at funeral services for Dave McDonald, 27 year old driver who was killed in the Indianapolis 500 Memorial Day. “His life interests primarily were two things,” said the Rev. Max Armitage in his eulogy “His family first of all and next of all racing. He gave himself wholly and completely to

them.”

and his home town friends from here and his native nearby Allentown, Pa.,, attended the viewing Tuesday night, and the requiem mass in St. Simon and Jude Church today. Amid the 200 floral memorials. said by funeral directors to be the greatest number of such memorials seen here in decades, were two which caught everyone’s eye. One was a spray from Mrs. Sherry MacDonald, widow of Dave McDonald, whose skid-

Vicki, 5, placed checkered flags on his casket. Pall bearers included four men he drove forMickey Thompson, Bill Stroppe, Don Steves and Carroll Shelby.

tured right thumb when hit by a line drive off the bat of Jesse ; Mj||||

third inning of | ^

of Detroit's White in the

the opener.

Champions 1963-64 Junior Mixed League, Boesen Dairy. Left to right, Terry Boesen, Howard Conyers, Billy Cromer and David Jenkins.

Local Keglers Honored

League g

1 Standings (

NATIONAL LEAGUE Houston at New York, ppd.

rain.

St. L.

013 000 210

— 7 11 0

Chi.

200 000 030

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— 26

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Milw.

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Pitts.

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— 04

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11 Innings

L. A.

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— 09

2

Phil.

000 000 000 01

— 14

3

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chi.

010 000 110

— 39

2

Cleve.

000 000 000

— 03

1

1st Game

Bos.

000 000 000

— 0 101

L. A.

000 000 02x

— 24

0

His children, Richie, 7, and ding auto brought on the fiery

crash during the early laps ef the Memorial Day classic which killed both Eddie and MacDon-

ald.

The other was a tiny rosebud, placed on the sealed casket b|r Sachs’ 2-year-old son Eddia. Other floral tributes' eamt from drivers and their wives, and from auto race operators across the country. The funeral mass was in a

BETHLEHEM, Pa. UPI —

Eddie Sachs, who laughed and

at the same speed he

drove his racing cars before his death at Indianapolis in the famed “500” last Saturday, was

buried yesterday while nundreds church only a few blocks from of sorrowing friends looked on. 1 where Sachs attended junior Race drivers and racing fans, high school. Burial was tn Holy officials of the Ford Motor Co. Savior Cemetery.

Roller Skates For Inmates INDIANAPOLIS UPI —Fifty pairs of roller skates were purchased for inmates at the Indiana Girls’ School-but the girls were unable to put the acquisij tion to immediate use. The recreation area in the basement of the chapel has a wooden floor which was found to be termite-infected. Arthur Campbell, Indiana Department of Correction commissioner, said the affected wood now has been treated and the girls will be able to roller skate there as soon as holes drilled in the floor are pegged. He said the skates were purchased with money from the canteen fund. “We felt there was a need for a recreation program with more activity, such as skating provides,” he explained.

Utah, hasn’t fought sine* last Aug. 28, when he waa knocked out in the seventh round of hie return title bout with Dick Tiger.

Cubs Must Cut CHICAGO UPI — The Chicago Cubs must cut one player today when newly acquired Len Gabrielson reports from Milwaukee, and there was speculation that utility man Don Landrum would be slashed from the roster. Gabrielson was obtained from the Braves Wednesday for $40,000. and a player to be named before June 15, and will raport today, putting the Cubs one over the 25 player limit.

! 2nd Game

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— si2 2 Fullmer Dropped

9 13 2

NEW YORK UPI — Former 3 10 o champion Gene Fullmer was

032 010 000 002 000 000

000 100 202 000 000 010

— 04 — 6 7 — 26 — 59 — 16

Champions 1963-64 Senior Mixed League, left to right, Roger Alspaugh, Joe Atkins, Barbara Harvey and Bill Atkins.

q | dropped out of The Ring magazine’s top 10 middleweight ratings today for the first time in 10 years, but another ex-mid-dleweight ruler. Terry Downes j of England, was returned to the 0 rankings as a light heavy-

weight.

Fullmer of West Jordan,

Memory Lingers On NEW YORK UPI — The memory of last Sunday’s marathon 23-inning loss to San Francisco still Ungers with Casey Stengel. After Wednesday's game between his New York Mets and the Houston Colts was rained out with the score tied 1-1 in the third inning, Casey said: “Well, that's one game we didn't lose.”

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Champions 1963-64 Jaycee Bantam Mixed League Gary Deem, Brent Baker, Danny Ross and Martin Baker.

Derby Winner Receives Praise EPSOM, England UPI — | Rival horsemen today heaped praise on Scobie Breasley, the 50-year-old grandfather from Austrialia who won his first English Derby aboard heavily1 favored Santa Claus. “It was one of the finest races I have even seen ridden at Epsom,” said Ireland's Paddy Prendergast, trainer of Dilettante II, the third-place finisher owned by Larry Gelb of New York. “If Breasley hadn't nursed his horse along like he did, he never would have won,” Prendergast added.

NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB.

27 15 .643

27 18 .600 I}*

26 21 .553

24 22 .522 5 24 22 .522 5 22 22 .500 6 20 23 .465 7 1 - 21 25 .457 8 21 27 .438 9

Philadelphia San Francisco

St. Louis

Pittsburgh Milwaukee Cincinnati

Chicago

Los Angeles

Houston

New York

15 32 .319 14^

AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB. Baltimore 30 15 .667 Chicago 25 13 .658 Cleveland 23 17 .575 4% Minnesota 26 20 .565 4fa New York 22 18 .550 5 Vs Boston 22 24 .478 8^, Detroit 18 25 .419 11 Washington 20 29 .408 12 Los Angeles 29 30 .388 23 Kansas City 15 29 .341 14 u

ATTENTION BOWLERS 3 GAMES SjOO EVERY FRIDAY EVENING Varsity Lanes

Weather Hampers Women Golfers In spite of a slow drizzle and temperatures in the 50's, nine golfers finished a Low Hole Net Tournament at Windy Hill Country Club on Tuesday, June 2nd. Coffee and rolls were served at 8:00 a.m. and the group waited until 9:00 for the skies to clear. No business meeting was held this week. Winners for the day were: A Class: Mrs. Roberta Mc-

Cormick.

PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB. Western Division

Portland San Diego Tacoma Seattle Spokane Hawaii

34 16 .680 30 18 .625 3 28 21 .571 513 25 23 .521 8 24 27 .471 10^ 18 31 .354 16

Eastern Division W. L. Pet. GB. Arkansas 26 21 .553 Oklahoma City 25 21 .543 Salt Lake City 24 23 .511 Denver 23 23 .500 Indianapolis 18 27 .400

2 ! 2 l a I 7

Dallas

11 34 .244 14

NATIONAL LEAGUE

B Class: Mrs. Mary Lou Gor- p r j da y- B (James

ham.

C Class: Mrs. Dama Crosby.

TREES, SHRUBS DONATED FOR TENNIS FACILITIES When tennis players from across the nation start arriving in Greencastle Monday for the national NCAA tourney at DePauw, they may be too overwhelmed with the scenery to concentrate on their game. A gift of 47 ornamental trees and 415 flowering shrubs from the Hobbs Nursery at Bridgeport has enabled the university to make giant strides in landscaping the area surrounding the new tennis facilities at Blackstock Stadium where the four-day tourney will open Wednesday, June 10 at 9 a.m. Shown with DePauw Athletic Director James Loveless, second from left, are Robert M. Hobbs, vice president of the C. M. Hobbs and Sons Company, Inc., right and two unidentified nurserymen. Hobbs’ son, Richard, was a 1961 graduate of DePauw.

Five Starters

NEW YORK UPI — Saturday’s $125,000 added Belmont Stakes at Aqueduct will have at least five starters. Louis Wolfson’s Roman Brother and Paul Mellon’s Quadrangle were added to the slim list of starters Wednesday and three horses are considered possible entrants.

at Cincinnati. Angeles at New

St. Louis

(night); Los „ York, (night); Chicago at Milwaukee, (night); Houston at Pittsburgh, (night); San Francisco at Philadelphia, (night).

AMERICAN LEAGUE Friday’s Games New York at Los Ang., (night); Boston at Kansas City, (night); Baltimore at Minnesota, (night); Detroit at Chicago, (night); Washington at Cleveland, (night).

OPEN COMPETITION SUPER-MODIFIED

BIG 100 - LAP FEATURE PURSE 75% OF GATE ADDED ATTRACTION — FENDER BENDERS PARAGON, INDIANA (On* Mil* West on Old Rood 67) Saturday, June 6th Qualifying 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. Race starts 8:00 p.m. DST REFRESHMENTS PLENTY TO EAT Paragon Speedway General Admission $2.00 Children SOc RACING EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT