The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 April 1968 — Page 5

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Wednesday April 17, 1968

International track star and hubby make Greencastle their home

They say marriage is a series of compromises. Very few people, however, take “what they say” quite as literally as the athletic household of Larry and Cherrie Bridges of Greencastle. Larry grew up in Terre Haute. Cherrie’s home is Indianapolis. They were wed in DePauw University’s Old Bethel Church and set up housekeeping in Greencastle, midway between hometowns. ’’actually,” confessed Cherrie, “it’s the only place in between that had apartments.” Besides being domestically suitable, this geographical meeting of the minds had some pretty practical considerations. Cherrie is a sophomore at Indiana State University where she’s earning a “B” average as a physical education major. Husband Larry, a 1963 ISU graduate, goes the other direction. He’s head track and cross country coach at Marian College in Indianapolis. DePauw fits only coincidentally into the picture. It is the proximity of the Bridges--both runners, DePauw’s head track coach Bob Harvey, and the university’s approaching invitational track meet April 20 that even brings the matter up. Harvey has been bugged all spring by smiling interrogators who have seen Cherrie jogging Greencastle’s streets and Putnam County’s roads. “Got a secret weapon on the team this year, coach?” they ask. Harvey was puzzled. He decided to pursue the matter. The secret weapon turned out to be Cherrie, of course, who turned out to be Indiana’s premiere cross country lass. Furthermore she’s a member of the United State’s women’s cross country team which last month won the International championship at Blackburn, England. Harvey couldn’t get her on his team unfortunately, but he did the next best thing. When some 250 males gather for the Saturday extravaganze here, Cherrie will be on hand to run an exhibition half-mile. To make it competitive, a pair of near high school age friends from Indianapolis and some ISU coeds will run with her. Her running career began late in June, 1965. That’s when the North Central High School graduate appeared in the state AAU meet. And that’s where her track crossed Bridges’. “It was strictly a coach-pupil relationship at first,” said Cherrie. “He was three years out of college and I was going into my senior year in high school. I called him “Mr. Bridges” out of respect for his age,” she intimated. Always the good pupil, Cherrie was still asking “the coach” if she could go out on premeet dates a year later. By this time she already had established herself in meets at Cambridge, Mass., the Mason-Dixon Games in Louisville, and the AAU indoor finals at Albuquerque, N'.M. Cherrie went to her high school prom the night before the big United States Track and Field Federation meet in Terre Haute. “Mr. Bridges said it was o.k. My mother thought it was un-

wise for my training program,” said Cherrie. Apparently she could have danced all night. She won the 880 at the USTFF meet. Her time was a good 2:21. But as it turned out, Mother eventually knew best. Cherrie admits she fell off considerable the next day in a Chicago meet. “I was just too tired to run well,” she remembers. The setback was only temporary. Cherrie, who decided to concentrate on the longer runs, plunged into an arduous schedule. She won ninth in the 1,500 metei ^AAU outdoor nationals in the East, followed it with a fourti in the women’s two-mile run and then won the Junior National Meet in Baltimore. Those were exciting, but nothing like her second trip to Albuquerque. Actually, all the excitement came after the meet ended. Cherrie had gone home with a good seventh place, but still a notch shy of making America’s six-women international team. “Two weeks before the international meet in England I was notified I could go because one of the team members had had an emergency appendectomy,” Cherrie recounts. Coach Bridges put his deliriously happy pupil-wife on a crash training program. When the underdog American team flew from New York March 18 Cherrie, with the help of Indiana State’s athletic department, was aboard. “You didn’t read much about it,” says Cherrie with a trace of chagrin, “but the U.S. upset England 19-20 for the international championship. Cherrie ran the 2 1/2 miles in 16.11, placing eleventh in the meet and fourth among the winning American gals. Mixing three careers—student, housewife, runner—hasn’t tripped up the blond, blue-eyed, poney-tailed 20 year-old. But preserving all of them hasn’t been easy. “Oooooh, it’s terrible trying to get the cleaning and ironing done on weekends,” Cherrie moans. "Larry helps out well, but I also have to do my homework and we have meets on weekends too!” Learning to cook has been Cherrie’s biggest domestic headache, she says. By a crazy, orobablv fortunate, twist of fate, her training diet pretty well dictates what she can—and therefore what he does—eat. She just follows orders! She weights 12'7 pounds. Cherrie still believes her good pre-matrimonial coach-pupil relationship exists despite the fact the couple has been married now for eight months. “Oh, Larry probably would say I’m not as coachable now as I was before we were married, but I still do pretty much as he says. He would say I’m more temperamental, but if 1 do have different ideas or opinions about running or training I just keep them to myself. Really!” As a matter of fact, Coach Bridges, an Indiana Collegiate Conference champion himself for Indiana State and the former holder of DePauw’s stadium mile

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Red Sox blasted in opener, 9 -2

By JOE GERGEN UPI Sports Writer The Boston Red Sox hoisted their first American League pennant in 21 years and three hours later the Detroit Tigers all but heisted it.

The AL flag, earned so dramatically on the final day of the 1967 season, was raised atop historic Fenway Park Tuesday only to be desecrated by the Tigers, who displayed their

Cepeda, like wine, grows better with age

COMPETE SATURDAY—Cherrie and Larry Bridges will make their debut at DePauw University Saturday. Cherrie will serve as clerk for the annua! DePauw invitational track meet in Blackstock Stadium. The meet will begin at 1 p.m. record (4:18.9), is a pretty lib- “He even gave me a couple eral mentor, Cherrie remem- of days off from training, bers, amused. for our honeymoon,” she laughed.

Major League Standings

By United Press International

National League W. L. Pet. GB

American League

Houston

.833

• ••

W. L. Pet. GB

St. Louis

.833

...

Minnesota

5 0 1.000 ...

Pittsburgh

.600

1V2

Detroit

4 1 .800 1

San Francisco

.600

IV2

C leveland

3 2 .600 2

Los Angeles

.500

Oakland

3 2 .600 2

Chicago

.400

2/2

Baltimore

2 2 .500 2V2

New York 2

.400 2V2

Boston

2 3 .400 3

Cincinnati

.400

21/2

Washington

2 3 .400 3

Atlanta

.333

California

2 3 .400 3

Philadelphia

.143

4V 2

New York

1 4 .200 4

Tuesday’s Results

Chicago

0 4 .000 ^2

Cincinnati 9 Chicago

1 8

Tuesday’s Results Oakland 4 New York 3 Cleveland 3 Chicago 1 Detroit 9 Boston 2 (Only games scheduled) Today’s Probable Pitchers (All Times EST) Chicago (Carlos 0-0) at Boston (Ellsworth 1-0), 1:30 p.m. Cleveland (McDowell 0-0) at Detroit (McLain 0-0), 1:30 p.m. Washington (Bosman 0-0) at Minnesota (Merritt 1-0), 2:30

p.m.

St. Louis 6 Atlanta 2 Los Angeles 5 Philadelphia 3 (Only games scheduled) Today’s Probable Pitchers San Francisco (McCormick 00) at New York (Koosman 1-0), 2:05 p.m. Chicago (Nye 0-0) at Atlanta (Niekro 1-0), 8:05 p.m. Los Angeles (Drysdale 1-0) at Pittsburgh (McBean 1-0), 1:35

p.m.

St. Louis (Carlton 1-0) at Cincinnati (Pappas 1-0), 8:05

p.m.

ISU,Evansville dominate ICC in swimming

Coaches and athletes from Indiana State and Evansville dominated post-season honors in swimming and wrestling in the Indiana Collegiate Conference. Indiana State mentors who led their teams to ICC titles, Chuck Sanders, wrestling coach, and Duane Barrows, swimming coach, were selected by their ICC counterparts as Coach of the Year winners. Sanders is a repeat winner. For Barrows the honor comes for the first time. Indiana State’s 123- pound wrestler Ted Parker carried off the league’s MVP honor in his sport. The only athlete to break the ISU monopoly was Evansville’s Ted Foland w-ho was picked by ICC swimming coaches as the league’s' premiere swimmer. Team captain for IndianaState’s wrestling squad, Parker regains the league’s MVP honor which he won as a sophomore but lost last year to teammate Bob Pychinka. Parker has won an ICC championship for three consecutive years and put together a 39-3 mark during his collegiate eligibility. Last month he placed fifth in the NCAA University Division national meet. He is from Deerfield. 111. Foland is a senior from Kokomo, Ind. He tied for the ICC 500- yard freestyle championship in the league’s meet and also turned in a second place in the

1000- yard freestyle event. He owns two Evansville school marks and twice has earned AllAmerican designation in the NCAA College Division.

Orlando Cepeda is leading the National League in everything these da/s except humility. “I’m like a fine old wine, I’m getting better with age,” the 30-year-old Cepeda grinned Tuesday night after he continued his early season rampage by raising his average to .520 with a perfect 4-for.4 performance against the Atlanta Braves. Cepeda’s outburst and a three-run homer by Mike Shannon carried the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals to a 6-2 victory over the Braves and moved them back into a first place deadlock with the idle Houston Astros. Cepeda, who won the National League’s Most Valuable Player award last season, now has 13 hits in 25 trips to the plate this season. He has nine RBI’s, has scored four runs and has three doubles, a triple and a homer. Presses For RBI’s Cepeda had two doubles, two singles and a walk in the rout of Atlanta but he was more impressed with his three RBIs. “I’d rather lead the league in RBIs than batting,” Cepeda said. “That’s what counts when it comes to victories.” Nelson Briles, scattered nine hits over the first eight innings to gain the victory. He’s now 2-0 after going 14-5 last season. Joe Hoerner finished up for Briles in the ninth. In the other two National League games, Cincinnati edged Chicago 9-8 and Los Angeles topped Philadelphia 5-3., In the American League, Detroit battered Boston 9-2, Cleveland nipped Chicago 3-1 and Oakland edged New York 4-

May Leads Reds Lee May, who homered and collected three singles in five trips to the plate, drove in Alex Johnson with one out in the ninth inning to snap an 8-8 tie and give Cincinnati the victory over Chicago. In the see-saw game, Cincinnati jumped to a 50 lead but Chicago came back with seven runs in the third inning. Tony Perez and Pete Rose both hit two-run homers for the Reds. Ernie Banks homered and doubled for the Cubs and drove in three runs. The Dodgers built up a 5-0 lead and then held on for the victory over the Phils to give rookie starter Mike Kekich his first major league victory. Kekich was lifted in the eighth after giving up two singles but reliever Phil Regan let in two runs with a walk and a Richie Allen's single before Hank Aguirre came on to save the victory. Willie Davis doubled in three runs to highlight a three-run

contempt with an eight-run fourth inning against the defending champions. The pennant wasn’t lowered to half staff but a bugler in the stands, who had sounded the “charge” during countless Red Sox rallies in 1967, blew “taps” instead. And his heroes quietly expired 9-2 before a disheartened crowd of 32,849 who had come to see the start of another

miracle year.

Wilson Returns Compliment Earl Wilson, one of Boston’s own until midway through the 1966 season, presided over the rout. Ye yielded but four hits in

spoiling Boston’s home opener and returning the compliment. The Red Sox had beaten Wilson and the Tigers on opening day

last Wednesday in Detroit.

In other AL action, the Cleveland Indians handed the winless Chicago White Sox their fourth defeat 3-1 and the Kansas City Athletics rallied to beat the

New York Yankees 4-3.

The Cincinnati Reds outslugged the Chicago Cubs 9-8, the St. Louis Cardinals whipped the Atlanta Braves 6-2 and the Los Angeles Dodgers downed the Philadelphia Phils 5-3 in

National League games.

Dodger rally in the fourth. It was the Phils’ sixth straight loss since they beat the Dodgers

on opening day.

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