The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 July 1965 — Page 4

4 Th« Dally Bannar, Oraaneiatla, Indiana i

Monday, July 5,1965

Thomas On Wavier List After Fight With Allen ' PHILADELPHIA U PI —■ was struck in the face by an AlFrank Thomas, 36-year-old in- len punch,

fielder - outfielder slugger dis- i

missed bv the Philadelphia Phil-1 Accordin ? to Thomas the lies after a pre-game f.ght with : fight WaS the reSUlt ° f l0 "f teammate R.chie Allen, regrets standing needling and name callthe incident but says placing * n ®’ ^ el - u een and -^-hen. him on the waiver list was un- The 205-pound Thomas said

that during batting practice be-

The much traveled Thomas f or e the game. Allen referred to a £ ed 150.046 miles per hour in Yarborough Iwho came to the Phils from the him as ‘Lurch’ — alluding to his 1965 Ford to finish a lap S.C.

Defending Chomp Foyt Wins Firecracker 400 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. UPI pole winner Marvin Panch of | year in winning the Firecracker

Daytona Beach had started with.

—Defending champion A. J.

Foyt won the Firecracker 4001 Panch had been suffering from stock car race yesterday after i heat in the cockpit and let Lorengine troubles and a wreck enzen take over at the 80th lap. forced out his main competition. | The leader through most of Foyt, a husky blond from the first half of the 400 mile race Houston, Tex., who has twice at the 2.5 mile Daytona Interwon the Indianapolis 500. aver- national Speedway was Cale

of Timmonsville,

FOYT said winning the race the second year in a row was a thrill but the biggest thrill was "this is the first race I’ve fin-

ished this year.”

Foyt spent 45 days in a hospital bed after a wreck at Riverside, Calif., earlier this year.

-Mets last August was put on

the Frankenstein monster-typ e i ahead of Buddy Baker of Char-

lotte, N.C.

WHERE WDS'E RATES HIGHEST

BI T HE BLEW the engine on

.the National League waiver list j character on a television show. N c * tv, iocvv, i ~ i SAN FRANCISCO (LPD ."irrevocably” five hours after I Thomas said he didn’t mind ’ ' ' ... hls Ford at th e 108th lap. Darel Cal i fornians and Ne w Yorkers the batting practice fracas last it because "I’m a great agitator. Baker dr ° Ve a hemi - head Dieringer of Charlotte, Dick drank more than one-third of {Saturday night. Then I called him Mohammed pl y mouth recently sanctioned Hutcherson of Keokuk, Iowa and the wine consumed in the Thomas said he told Manager Cassius Qlgy, and it hit him the by a rules change by the Na- Ned Jarrett of Camden, S.C. United States last y ear » the

Gene Mauch that if he was wrong way.” I tional Association for

placed on the list because of "He said ‘come up here and The incident at the batting cage, call me that' and I said ’if you ‘then the Phils were being un- want me come down here,'

Stock wrecked in trying to avoid Yar-

Wine Institute says.

•fair.

me come

Thomas said. "About 10 or 15.

Auto Racing (NASCAR).

I borough’s car but nobody was oq’s THEIR NUMBER

In third place was G. C. Spen-; injured. NEW YORK (UPI) _ Dean cer of Inman, S.C. in a 1961 The second p] cae finish was a Chance of the Los Angeles An-

~ Allen. All-Star third baseman, minutes elapsed and then he Fc “' d . followed by J. T. Putney moral \dctory for the hemi-head K els and Gar y Peters of the 4ias refused to talk about it. came up and shoved me and said of Arden, N.C. in a 1965 Chev- pi ymou th, racing for the first Chica £<> Wh ite Sox were the

•what did vou say ’ and I an-1 ro i et L tl _. ’ . only American League pitchers . ... 1 , „ | roiei " j time this season. It was a pn-1 . , • on ._ 1QC . , swered ‘if I hurt your feelings, poYT GRABBED the lead for i vate entrv since Chrvsler has t0 20 ? ameS m 1964 “ and

I’m sorry and said I was going i xate cntry smce Chr y sler has each won 20.

the final time on the 137th lap, no j. when Fred Lorenzen of Elm-

« Approached for comment on jhe brawl, Allen merely an-

swered: “What fight?”

* Early arrivals at Connie Mack in to hit.” ijptadium before the Cincinnati j "I got up and turned toward lame, which the Reds won 10-8; him. He threw the first punch. j| r 'ter Thomas’ game tying home My swinging the bat was a refim, saw Allen punch Thomas flex,” he said.

and Thomas swing a bat which |gtruck Allen on the shoulder.

yet prepared any factory cars to reenter NASCAR com-

hurst, 111., developed trouble in | petition,

his 1965 Ford and dropped out

of the race while leading by

nearly a lap.

At the time Lorenzen, whose

500 Tons

Thomas said he was wrong to swing the bat at Allen "but

Shortstop Ruben Amaro, one I would have gone after him

half a dozen players who | with my fists if I didn't have o'™ Ford blew early in the race,, (jumped in to separate the two.the bat.” i was driving the car in which

Foyt and Baker crossed the SAN MATEO, Calif. UPI — finish line side by side but the A flowing derrick with an un-SO-year-old Texan wan a lap preoedented liftins capaclty of

500 tons is being built for use

ahead. Foyt’s speed, slowed by in cons t ru ction of a new $70 caution flags, was just below million bridge across San Fran-

the record of 151.451 he set last 1 cisco Bay.

Casper's New Diet Betters His Golf Game

CHICAGO UPI - Billy Cas-: Western °P en S olf tournament -

« SOUTHPORT, England UPI —Jack Nicklaus began his count Mown for the British Open three “years ago and the portly golfing great was a 7-2 favorite to- j day to successfully orbit the 7,- 1

037 yard Royal Birkdale layout per testified gleefully today that I Cas P er ri PP ed ^ course a P art

■when the 95th edition of the'

championship gets underway successful treatment for aller-

Wednesday.

’ Player has an added incen-

Yive. The diminutive South Af- j an ailing golf game,

rican, who said "there’s no room j

.■today for the small man.” will. He discovered he was allergic .attempt to become the fourth to 10 f 0odSt SW jtched to a diet

‘golfer in history to win both

Opens in one year. Player, win- featuring lots of wild game, and

'.her of the British Open in 1959,' . J .

- . . t-, ., T ~ rediscovered his style on the

. Would join Bobby Jones, Gene J I Sarazen and Ben Hogan on the fairways as well.

exclusive list.

gies can also treat successfully

Mann Captures ■Women's Open ; ATLANTIC CITY. N.J. UPI— , Carol Mann, six-foot-three inch i woman pro from Towson, Md., j >|standa out in a crowd but she was "hiding” today after her' 1 dramatic victory in the 1965 <U.S. Women's Open Golf Cham--pionship. ; Miss Mann, who said she was “going into hibernation for three days,” sank a tensionpacked birdie putt on the 18th hole Sunday to capture the title .by two strokes at the Atlantic iCity Country Club.

The evidence was a comefrom - behind victory Sunday with a 14-under-par 270 to win the $11,000 first prize in the

VesperBoatClub Has Problem

—The Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia. beaten by Ratzeburger of West Germany in a magnificent Grand Challenge Cup race at the Henley Regatta Saturday, today faced the problem of where to go from here. The Americans, Olympic champions at Tokyo last fall,

Scrambled Eggs

1 had a standing invitation from

, NEW CASTLE W UPI-A truck Ratzebur & er to at the ♦belonging to the Muncie Egg & German club's regatta this .Poultry Co was involved in a weekend for a rubber match ffiery three-vehicle crash near | between the world s two finest

here Friday when it slammed in- ! crews > but also was considering • Littler tied for fourth with 275

on the front nine with a six-under-par 30, then came home | for a 64 on the round to miss the course record and the best I nine-hole tally on the PGA tour | this year by only one stroke. It was the best closing round by a tourney winner this year, although two other players. Ho- | mero Blancas and Gene Littler also finished with 64's. But Littler finished In a fourth-place tie and Blancas deadlocked for

12 th.

The win boosted Casper, 34, into eighth place in winnings this year with $40,308.15 and gave him golf earnings of $412,375.42 in the last 10 years, second only to Arnold Palmer, Jack McGowan shot a three- j under-par 68 and 1964 Western winner Chi Chi Rodriguez a 68, to share second place. Each

earned $4,950.

Tony Lema, Joe Campbell and

GREENCASTLE CITY SOFTBALL LEAGUE 1965 SCHEDULE OF GAMES

DAY DATE TIME TEAMS PLAYING*

Wed.

8:15

p.m.

Old Topper

vs.

Danville

End of First Round

Thur.

8:15

p.m.

Danville

vs.

Buis Feeds

Fri.

. 8:15 '8:15

p.m.

Cloverdale

vs.

Torr’s R.

Mon.

p.m.

Torr’s R.

vs.

Old Topper

Wed.