The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 August 1967 — Page 3

Tuesday, August 8, 1967

The Dally Banner, Oreeneastle, Indiana

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Senators hot on trail CONTRACT BRIDGE

By B. Jay Becker

of pennant race

MEET AGAIN IN TITLE BOUT — Ismael Laguna (left) and Carlos Ortiz will battle for the lightweight championship at Shea Stadium, New York, Wednesday, Aug. 16. Each has won from the other in previous 15-round bouts.

a Leagues STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. GB St. Louis 67 42 .615 San Francisco 59 51 .536 8y a Atlanta 56 49 .533 9 Chicago 59 52 .532 9 Cincinnati 57 53 .518 10’/i Philadelphia .... 54 51 .514 11 Pittsburgh 52 54 .491 13% Los Angeles .... 48 59 .449 18 Houston 47 63 .427 20% New York 40 65 .381 25 Monday’s Results Pittsburgh 6-3, Chicago 3-3, 2nd game called 14 innings, dark-

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<^QLjUr ness Philadelphia 8, San Francisco 0 Los Angeles 6, St. Louis 4 Only games scheduled AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Chicago 59 45 .567 Boston 58 49 .542 2% Minnesota 57 49 .538 3 Detroit 57 49 .538 3 California 58 52 .527 4 Washington 55 55 .500 7 Baltimore 49 57 .462 11 Cleveland 50 59 .459 11% Kansas City .... 48 62 .436 14 New York 46 60 .434 14 Monday’s Results Baltimore 4, Cleveland 0 Washington 5, Minnesota 0 California 8, New York 4 Only games scheduled PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Eastern Division W L Pet. GB San Diego 65 51 .560 Oklahoma City 65 54 .546 1% Indianapolis .... 59 54 .522 4% Denver 55 61 .474 10 Phoenix 55 62 .474 10 Tulsa 51 65 .440 14 Western Division W L Pet. GB Vancouver 62 54 .534 Spokane 62 54 .534 Tacoma 63 57 .525 1 Portland 59 60 .496 4% Seattle 54 61 .470 7% Hawaii 50 68 .424 13 Monday’s Results Oklahoma City 2, Indianapolis 1 Tulsa 14, Hawaii 13 Seattle 6, Tamoca 1 San Diego 3, Vancouver 2 Only games scheduled

Those Washington Senators have started a gigantic filibuster that may delay the outcome of the American League pennant race for some time. Under the leadership of the soft-spoken Senator from Brooklyn, Gil Hodges, the Senators have launched a successful campaign against AL pennant contenders since the AllStar break and are well on their way toward winning a popularity poll on Capitol Hill for the first time in many years. Since July 13 the light-hitting Senators have won 20 of 28 games and have been especially unfriendly to the contending teams. They have beaten Detroit and California five times each during that stretch and whipped Minnesota twice in three games. Their latest victory over the Twins came Monday night when Phil Ortega hurled a three-hit, 6-0 triumph, and the entire surge has manager Hodges singing sweeter songs than Everett Dirksen. “I don’t know if we can consider ourselves in on this race,” the happy Hodges said following Ortega’s brilliant performance, but it would be awfully nice to sit in on another meeting and cut up some series dough.” The victory moved the Senators to wtihin seven games of first place and brought them to the .500 mark for the first time in many years, but Hodges is not too surprised at his team’s progress. *T thought in spring training that this club was capable of playing .500 ball, but I didn’t think we would have to play this well to do it,” the 45-year-skipper said. “A lot of things had to fall In place, and I think we’re capable of doing even better.” Ortega was in complete command of the Twins Monday night as he achieved a career milestone by beating them for the first time. He allowed only a double to Bob Allison in the fifth, a single to Ted Uhlaender in the eighth and a single to Cesar Tovar in the ninth while registering his ninth victory in 14 decisions. The Senators, meanwhile, took advantage of three Minnesota

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errors to score four unearned runs and tag southpaw Jim Kaat with his 11th loss against eight victories. Paul Casanova’s two-nm double following a costly error by Rich Rolins highlighted a threerun first inning and errors by Zoilo Versalles and Tovar led to another run in the sixth. Ken McMullen’s 13th homer of the j season in the sixth was the ; Senators’ only earned run. In the remainder of an abbreviated AL schedule, Baltimore blanked Cleveland 4-0 and California defeated New York 8-4. Los Angeles beat leagueleading St. Louis 6-4, Philadelphia blanked San Francisco 8-0 and Pittsburgh topped Chicago 6-3 in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader and the Cubs and Pirates played to a 3-3 14Inning tie called on account of darkness in National League games. Gene Brabender, backed by Sam Bowens’ two-run homer, limited the Indians to four hits and pitched his first complete game in the majors as he won his first game since being recalled from Rochester July 21. Brabender struck out 12 and walked just three while besting John O’Donoghue. The Angels slammed out six hits and scored seven runs in the eighth inning to defeat the Yankees. Rick Reichardt, Jim Fregosi and Bubba Morton each contributed two-run singles to the rally as the Angels tagged reliever Dooley Womack with the loss. Minnie Rojas notched his ninth victory in relief despite giving up a two-run homer to Mickey Mantle in the eighth.

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lead. He therefore went up with the king, on which East played the deuce, led the queen of hearts, and finessed. West permitted the queen to win, but won the jack with the king on the next play. There appeared to be no future to another spade lead, so West shifted to the ace of clubs on which East signaled with the jack. West then continued with the seven, declarer discarding a spade from dummy as East followed with the deuce and South with the five. It was at this point that West fell from grace by leading still I another club. Declarer won with the king, drove out the ace of diamonds, and came home with nine tricks. Instead of leading the third round of clubs. West should have switched back to spades. Had he done this. South would have been down one—he would have lost, all told, a spade, a heart, a diamond and two clubs. East’s play of the deuce on the seven of clubs—which held the trick — was the significant clue that escaped West’s atten- ^ tion. Obviously, if East had wanted clubs continued, he i would have overtaken the seven ' in order to lead another club. His play of the deuce therefore suggested a shift to an- ! other suit. Viewed in this light, | it should not have been too dif- 1 ficult for West to revert to

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Cloverdale Jr. League

A busy week found the Cloverdale Junior League baseball players playing four games and the Indians boasting an 8-2 season record to led the league. Tiger Mike Steele walloped a homer trying to secure a victory for his ball club, but the Red Sox claimed the victory, 19-16. In other action the Pirates thumped the White Sox 9-2, the Red Legs edged out the Yankees 6-4, and the league leading Indians tied one with the Dodgers after ten innings with a 16-16 score. Gary Allen, a member of the Indian team blasted a homer in that contest. The all-star game will be coming up soon for the junior leaguers and players chosen to participate were Charles Hoffa, Randy Nees, Jeff Williams, Mike Steele, Terry Steele, Phil Mugg, Billy Leonard, Kevin Patten, Tom Callahan, Gary Goble, Bill Walton, Jerry Wallace, Mark Jordan, Larry Nees, Steve Sanford. Roger Kilgore, and alternates Mike Broadstreet

and Steve Tague.

Coach Tom Mont to speak More than 500 guests will gather at the Murat Shrine Temple in Indianapolis for the Shrine All Star football game banquet next Friday. Coach Tom Mont of DePauw will be the featured speaker of the evening. In attendance will be all 66 players and the coaches for the game, parents, shriners, high school and college coaches and athletic directors and members of the press, radio and TV covering this first annual Shrine Game for the benefit ot Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children.

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SANTA MONICA, Calif. UPI —Race car mechanic and owner and former racing driver Vincent J. Granatelli was sentenced to traffic school here Monday for running a red light Granatelli pleaded innocent in Municipal Court but Judge W. Blair Gibbens ordered him to attend traffic school for four

nights before reporting back to court. Granatelli was crew chief for tiie controversial turbine-power-ed car, owned by him and his brother, Andy, which almost won this year’s 500-mile Memorial Day auto race at Indianapolis.

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Two teams at full strength INDIANAPOLIS UPI — The two teams of high school allstars who will take part in Saturday night’s Indiana Shrine Bowl football game here were at virtually full strength today with the addition of 23 players who took part in last week’s Boys Clubs game at Bloomington. Eleven participants in the Bloomington game reported Monday to the North training camp at Anderson and 12 to the South camp at Frankhn. The South also gained quarterback Frank Gilcrist who threw 18 touchdown passes for Franklin High School last fall. Gilcrist was declared eligible for the Shrine Bowl contest after he was released from the Air Force Academy Preparatory School because of an allergy. The North lost one player when A1 Fazola, North Central of Marion County, was unable to report because of a shoulder injury suffered in the Bloomington game.

Single gives Oklahoma win INDIANAPOLIS UPI—Oklahoma pushed across a single run in the seventh inning here Monday night to break up a pitching duel and score a 2-1 Pacific Coast League victory over Indianapolis. A sacrifice fly by Leon McFadden scored Bob Watson with what proved to be the winning run for the 89ers. Watson had singled and moved to third on an error. Cisco Carlos of the Indians and Howie Reed of the 89ers hooked up in a close pitching battle all the way although Reed needed relief help from Pat House when the Indians threatened in the irintb-

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