The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 215, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 18, 1978 Page: 15 of 34
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All Systems Go For Angels’ LL Title Defense
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M<^°r LeagueBracket—= = Qty Playoffs Open Monday
Phillies (North)*
1 p.m. Monday
al West Leagoe Put
Indians (West)
Dodgers (East)'
I p.m. Monday
at Howell Field
I p.m. Wfdaetdav
it Howell Field
Buffs (Central)1
Red Sox (West)*
8 p.m. Tuesday
al East League Park
8 p.m. Tuesday.
Juae 17. at
East League Park
CHAMPIONSHIP
Eagles (East)
8 p.m. Thursday
at West League Park
Pelicans (Central)
8 p.m. Tuesday
at North League Park
Angels (North)mmmmmm
The Baytown Little League playoffs begin Monday with seven
of Baytown's beat baseball teams trying to unseat two-time
defending city champion Angel's Self-Service
While the teams are about equal on paper, only Angel's really
has tradition on its side Angel's has won six straight playoff con-
tests and has captured the North League championship four of
the six yean the North circuit has been In existence
The Angels open at 8 p.m Tuesday when they entertain the
Century Savings and Loan Pelicans of the Central League
To get by the first round, the Angels will have to overcome one
of the Pelicans' two sturdy starting pitchers Reese Kimball has
been called the bast pitcher in the Central League in some
circles, and Joey Latham is right on his heels.
If the Angels win that one, they have to play the winner of the
Citisens National Bank Red Sox and the ISIS Agency Eagles
The Red Sox were supposed to be rebuilding this year, ac-
cording to manager Jerry Brewer, but they managed to get in the
action anyway. The offetuive-mindad Eagles, on the ether hand,
had little or no trouble in the sacking up the East race.
The other half of the bracket shows the Stauffer Chemical
Phillies playing the West champion Klwanls Club Indians and the
Baytown Police Association Dodgers meeting the J. M Huber
Buffs, winners in the Central circuit.
The Phils will have a hard time in living up to the McDonald's
Padres' habit of making it to the city finals In order to do that,
they will have to overcome a talented cast of Indians led by star
pitcher John Mabry.
The Mark Bookmyer-led Dodgers will be meeting a playoff-
tested team in the Buffs, who won the Central title last year.
Here is a team-by-team rundown of the entries in the playoffs,
based on information submitted by team and league officials:
STAUFFER CHEMICAL PHILLIES - The Phils are entering
the playoffs for the third time In-six yean, and are led by the
steady play of Albert Thomas, David Harvey. Snake Arable,
Jimmy Hoffman and Jessie Byrne, all of whom batted over .300.
Thomas led the pitching staff with a 3-3 win-loss matt. The
coaches, Carroll Russell and Les Holcomb, have coached the
team since the Inception of the North League, and are the only
coaches remaining from the North season.
KIWANIS CLUB INDIANS - John Mabry leads a talented cast
of players who compiled a 13-2 record In reaping the West title.
Mabry was devastating with both his bat and arm. He hit .628
with six home runs, and had a 6-1 win-loss mark backed by 79
strikeouts and a 1.53 eamed-run average. At the plate, Harold
Cohen (.532 average, seven homers) was also tough, and Chris
Mackert (.364), Bobby Lewis (.317) and Junior Lopez (.304)
provided frequent support Lopes was 34 on the mound with a
1.38 ERA. and Mackert posted a 4-1 record.
BAYTOWN POLICE ASSOCIATION DODGERS - Clay Craw-
ford and Mark Bookmyer lead the Dodgers Into the city
eliminations after a 104-1 campaign that speUed second place in
the East League. Bookmyer (64) and Crawford (4-1) are the
mainstays of . the Dodger mound staff, with relief help from
Richard Rice and Charlotte Saenz. Bookmyer, Crawford, Dwight
Fregia, Saenz and Jamie Wakefield lead the Dodger batsmen.
J. M. HUBER BUFFS - Mark Holloway leads the Buffs into
the playoffs for the second straight year Holloway paces the
Buffs mound corps and carries a .326 batting norm that includes
one homer Tracy Ethridge la the No. 2 man on the pitching staff
of the two-time Central League champs, while Rusty Welch leads
the hitters with a 423 average, third in the Central loop. Don
Walker also batted 392.
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK RED SOX - The pitching of
Donald and Donovan Forbes accounted for nine of the Red Sex 's
11 wins enroute to a second-place finish in the West League
Donovan also helped out the Sox offense at the plate with a .316
average, while John Byington and Ryan Russell batted .419 and
412, respectively.
1513 AGENCY EAGLES - Jay Carey leads seven hitters over
.300 with his 608 batting norm and six home runs. Rusty Hoke
(.444). Lee Sutton (.413), Greg Olive ( 388), Gayland Gardner
( 382). Kenny Rodgers ( 309) and Kendal Blalock (.300) enable the
But League champion Eagles to post a 357 team batting
average. Hoke and Carey combined evenly for 12 mound wins,
with Carey taking the only loss.
CENTURY SAVINGS AND LOAN PELICANS - Reese Kim-
ball and Joey Latham lead the Pelicans to the playoffs for the se-
cond straight year as the Central Loop’s No. 2 team. Kimball and
Latham were one of the top one-two pitching punches in the
league, and Latham was the circuit's leading hitter with a .444
norm Augusto Perez helps the offense with a .418 average, while
Kimball hit 325
ANGEL'S SELF-SERVICE ANGELS - Four players with two
years of dty championship experience lead the Angels In their
quest for a third straight city title. David Barnes was the North's
(op pitcher with an 84 record and carried a .510 batting average,
leading the league In hornets. Tommy Reynolds batted .600,
believed to be the best in North history, and has had four four-hit
games. Greg Abshier was the North's top catcher, and batted
.478. Steve Salinas also carried a batting norm better than .400.
Roger McNeill, Dennis Reynolds and Harry Pyron have been
with the Angels three yean and have won the North title every
year.
Minor League BrackeU
Expos (North)
6 p.m. Monday
at West League Park
Steers (West)
Bobcats (East)mmmmmmmm
6 p.m. Monday
at Howell Field
Owls (Central)mmmmmmmmd
Hornets (West)
; \ , 6 p.m. Tuesday
at East League Park
Hawks (East)
Cougars (Central)
6 p.m. Tuesday
at North League Park
Dodgers (North
Cubs Win In 13, 7-6 ■ -
Astros’ Four Rallies Fall Short
By FRED HARTMAN
HOUSTON (CN) - If you
wen to ptt Herman Franks hf
the Chicago Cuba and Bill Vir-
dob of the Houston Astro* in a
teeter-totter match and let
them see-saw for nearly four
hours, you would expect the
Cub manager to win because
he has more weight than the
trim Astro skipper.
That is exactly what hap-
pened at the Astrodome Fri-
day night to usher in a week of
what promises to be very live-
ly baseball.
The Cubs won 7 to 6, but
they had to battle 13 inings to
do it and use 18 players to turn
the trick.
The battling Astro* came
from behind four times in the
elongated game, and used 19
players in the effort, but the
Chicago*, who are used to
playing with the wjpd at their
backs, went to the dressing
room the winner.
It was another weird spec-
tacle as MVft many Dome
games in recent days. Houston
had more than one chance lo
win, but seettw only to be
able to tie.
The Astro* scored a run in
each of the eighth, ninth and
10th innings. Their best shot
came in the 11th with Wilbur
Howard on third and Jose Cruz
on second with two out. Bob
Watson couldn't do It.
There were heroes all over
the place and not a single goat.
The big Cub run came on
somewhat of a fluke.
In the 13th, Ivan De Jesus
singled with one out. Former
Astro Greg Gots hit a chopper
down the third base line, and
the bill took a big hop over
Eno* Cabell’s head, De Jesus
dashing to third, ________
Then in a matter of fact
manner, BiU Buckner hit to
center for a sacrifice fly,
The effort may have been a
costly one tor the Astro*. Ce-
sar Cedeno was hurt again, this
time for real. He slid into sec-
ond after knocking in a run in
the fifth and had to be carried
off the field on a stretcher. The
extent of a left knee ligament
injury will be determined later
Saturday.
Some more fireworks came
when umpire Bruce Froeming
waved out Cub coach Cookie
Rojas in the Astro 10th. Julio
Gonzalez grounded out to first
with the bases filled to score
Cruz with another tying run,
The Cubs claimed interfer-
ence on the part of Gonzalez.
Rojas became enraged and ac-
tually touched Froeming in a
baseball shoving match.
Cookie was so irate he had to
be carried off the field by Mike
Roarke, a giant of a man and a
Chicago coach.
The series continues Satur-
day and Sunday nights.
Larry Biittner of the enemy
and Cabell were the hitting he-
roes, each getting three. The
bats of Steve Ontiveros and
Joe Ferguson also spoke with
authority, each driving in a
pair of runs.
The Astros used Mark
Lemongello, Ken Forsch, Joe
Sambito and Rick Williams
(the loser) while the Cub*
countered with Ray Burris,
Bruce Sutter, Ken Holtzman,
Lynn McGlothen, Willie Her-
nandez, Don Moore and Paul
Reuschel, the ultimate win-
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Wild U.S. Open Finish Forecast
DENVER (AP) - Andy North, aftpr firing his second consecutive
- 1-under-par 70, might be inclined to take to heart some of the wisdom
of legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige.
’ “Don’t look back, somebody might be gaining on you,” Paige said,
and that comment seemed appropriate to North's situation.
The quiet, lanky North carried a £stroke lead into the third round of
the 78th U.S. Open Championship today. On Friday he couldn't help
noticing the players huking just off the lead.
For starters, there were Jack Nickiaus and Gary Player, who were
tied with J.C. Snead at 142. Another shot back were two-time Open
champion Lee Trevino and 1974 winner Hale Irwin, grouped with grit- /
ty 18-year-oid amateur Bob Clampett and Mark Hayes
Golfers posting 36-boie totals oi 144 included two-time PGA c h a m -
fun to lead after three and a whole lot more after four.”
North, whose only victory in six yean on the tour was in last year's
Westchester Classic but who stands 10th on the 1978 money list with
192,961, bogeyed the fourth hole but went 2 under for the tournament
with birdies at Nos. 6 and 7. He stayed that way by rebounding from
bogeys on the back side with a 25-foot birdie putt at 11 and a 30-footer
at the treadierous 18th,
p i o n Dive Stockton, Spaniard Severiano BaBesteros and powerful
Andy Bean, who has, won the fast two tour events.
All of which set up the possibility of a mad dash for the finish.
Player, for one, said, “I think, as in all major championships, it wifi
come down to the last hole.” "
If any of this pressure was bothering the 28-year-oid North, it wasn't
showing.
“ft’s nice to lead after two rounds,’’he said after skirting the terrify-
ing 7,063-yird Cherry HUH Country Club a secood day. “It would be
“You can’t (day this course aggressively,” be said, sounding much
like Irwin, the first-round leader. “Nobody beats a UK. Open come -
you just survive it.”
One who didn’t survive was 48-year-oid Arnold Palmer, whose only
Open title came at Cherry Hills in 1960 when he charged to the front
with a final-round 66. ---------------
The Palmer charisma was evident this week, aid the huge gallery
loved him, but the skills were diminisbed. Pahner, who said be “really
didn’t play well at afi,” posted a 75 to go with his opening 76 and miss-
ed die cat by 1 stroke.
Abo leaving the tournament early were defending champion Hubert
Green, who had a pair of 78s, and PGA champion Larmy Wadkins, who
had 77*79.
Four players shot 2-under-psr 89 Friday, still the best score in t b e
Dynamic Duo Keeps Coach
Of Argentina Optimistic
CHICAGO
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VII
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina
(AP) — “We have the two best
players in the World Cup,"
said Cesar Luis Menotti, coach
of the Argentine soccer team.
The whole of this soccer-crazy
country is ready to shout
agreement.
Menotti means Leopoldo
m
Division II
Minor LL
The Parts Supply Rangers
captured first place in the
North League’s Division n
minor league program Friday
with an 114 win over the
Keating Ford Orioles in the
only Baytown Little League ac-
tion.
The win gave the Rangers
the second-haft championship,
and since Parts Supply won
the first half, also in a playoff,
the Rangers are the overall
champs.
Fred Fires
77, Is Cut
From Buick
Luque and Mario Kempes,
both forwards with a flair lor
getting goals.
Luque, after missing two
matches with an injured elbow
in a plaster cast, is almost fit
again and is likely to play in
the vital match against Brazil
at Rosario Sunday.
His recovery is another fac-
tor in Argentina’s rising
chances of winning the World
Cup for the first time. A few
days ago he was reported un-
likely to play again in the
championship*.
If the Argentines defeat Bra-
zil and go on to win their group
for a place in the final, they
will face a European team.
Holland, Italy, West Germany
and Austria are battling it out
in the second group, with Hol-
land currently in front and
showing impressive form.
No European team has ever
won the WorkLCup on South
American soil.
Menotti appears to havz lit-
tle doubt that his team will
make it to the final confron-
tation: “We have the best at-
tacking team in the World Cup,
too,” he said.
His claim b not fufiy sup-
by stitiftia. Argentina
scored 6 goals in four
games so far, while Holland
has scored 10. But if Luque
comes back into the lineup be
will play in the front fine
* alongside Mario Kempes and
failed to qualify for Saturday's
play in the 8100,000 Buick
Open at the Warwick HQs
Country Club. i
Mat’s Friday showing gives
Mm a two-day total of 149.
GRAND BLANC, Mkh. (Sp)
Ne» F*ry Co«A
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -
Midfielder Alan Ball has been
named coach (ft the Phila-
delphia Fury of the North
American Soccer League, repl-
acing Richard Dtanis.
Rene Houseman, and together
they form a fearsome trio.
Kempes scored two brilliant
goals in Argentina’s 24 win
met Poland at Rosario last
Wednesday. He is a big
favorite with the Rosario
crowd because he played for
Rosario Central in this tame
stadium for three yean before
moving to Spain'
As Argentina's stock rises,
the prospects of West Germa-
ny, the defending champions,
are slumping.
After playing three scoreless
ties and struggling to find their
old form, the Germans have
lost a key midfielder, Heinz
Flohe, from the next game
through injury, and possibly a
second midfilder, Herbert
Zimmermann, as well.
The Germans play Holland,
and Italy meets Austria in
Group A Sunday, while Poland
and Peru battle in Group B.
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Sun Outdoor Guide
By CHESTER ROGERS
WIND, WATER AND TIDES - Offshore wave heights will be
two to four feet. Temperature range will be from the middle 70s
to the mid 90s. Trinity and Galveston bays will be slightly choppy.
Galveston beach water temperature is 84 degrees. Two high tides
Sunday on the Galveston beach will be at 5:28 am. and 2:34 p.m. '
Two lew tides will be at 10:53 ajn. and 10:19 p.m. Monday
Galveston beach Ugh tides will be at «:17a.m. and 3:13 pm. Two
km tides will be at 12:39 a.m. and 11:06 p.m.
TRINITY BAY-Both Trinity Bay fbhi and shrimping is pick-
ing up. Both the fish and the shrimp are biggerMarshall Deal
bad 15 nice specs when he came hack into Will's Fbh Camp. Jess
Vaught had 30 nice specs. Four boats came in with under W
specs.
GAL VESTON-Surf fishing has hit a new peak with both red-
fish and gafftop catfish yielding to' ‘ ' -----
A few flounder came in from the
fro. Fort Davis sand flats
off the third bar.
the jet-
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