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: PAGE SIX BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13,1969
IN MEN’S SOFTBALL-
Wm Penn Wins Slow Cr. STROKES
wurnon-rem-aaneu-ue----------am Tappe, who has pit-- by F.c.k Beard
the championship of the slow- ched most of his team’s Kelm each belted in grand 0
pitch league Tuesday night on games this season that saw slam home runs for the win-
the Bob Schroeder Field when them with only one loss. Char- ners along with Larry Fire-
they defeated Kelm’s Store ged with the loss for Kelm’s .“stone who had two homers.
9-5 in a hard fought battle. was Tex Thielemann,. -
The --ina--oitcher was „Ezwin Rortenherk, eolt-e B. Y. Boeker, Monroe Gas
lected homers for the losers. A friend of mine, a teacnr
M ing pro, was having his usual
Tonight on the Bob Schroe- trouble with a woman golfer.
V
Major. League Roundup--
- Erwin Rortenherk, collec-
ced a home run for die users.
In the second game of the
slow-pitch doubleheader’ K&G
Steak House staged a scoring
< SPORTS
(ust)) FACTS
E. FINNEY CLAYn
" Spree with Grace Lutheran
Joe Carter of the Philadel - to win the game 24-18. ,
phia Eagles led the National . Tony Joswiak was the win-
Football League in pass recei- ning hurler, while Monroe
ving with 18 in 1934. Gaskamp was charged with
the loss. veal
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Astros Explode Mets
RCUSTON (UFD)=It sound- Houston A the om in the cap the imis and supply the
ed like the Nor mandy invasion first when Jesus Alou singled winning margin.
Tuesday night at the Astro- and went to third when Wayne
dome. But it was really the Garrett threw wide to first
Houston Astros exploding past with Jim Wynn’s grounder,
the New York Mets 8-7 in a Doug Rader singled him home
hits and two home runs.
Houston added two insur-
ance runs in the seventh, and
needed them when the Mets
- . tallied for two runs in the
Gywur--2HZotra snbe-an-olghtheNewforkegrt. 02
7) infield. Two Montreal pitchers.
It didn’t start out like that. The Mets exploded for five Steve Renko and Bill Stone-
though. For the first three in- runs in the fourth, primarily man throttled the Cincinnati
nings it looked like the pitch- on Ed Kranepool’s three-run Reds’ heavy hitting attack and
ing duel everyone expected homer. Jerry Grote and Bud sparked the Expos to an ama-
. between New York’s Jerry Harrelson followed Kranepool zing 8-3 and 5-2 sweep of the
Koosman and the Astros’s Don wth singles and Tommy Agee Reds that snapped their five-
Wilson, , drove them in with a hard game winning streak and tigh-
mg "7 : . 2 single to right. h tened the race in the National
Reathard Houston battled backin their League’s Western D Division.
De dHdrO KEdGY half of the fourth, scoring one In the first game, Renko
r on Doug Rader’s triple. Rader pitched a seven hitter and
- for And scored on Blefary’s slow-rol- Stoneman came back with an,
-narz ler to the infield.,eight-hitter. in the nightcap
Houston went ahead to stay to pace Montreal to the sweep,
-anything 1 just swing - COIT Deienses in the sixth, scoring four bie Renko, who’s 2-4, also hit his
i our hast 14 installments KERRVILLE, Tex, (UPI) - runs, Jimmy Wynn started first major league homer.
we will look at several Quarterback Pete Beathard of a e nter Menke In other games, San Fran-
methods of improving your the Houston Oilers riddled the single tod as forced atsec- cisco beat Pittsburgh, 6-3,
game by simply swinging Baltimore defensive align- walked and was forced 1 Chicago edged San Diego, 4-0,
: - ment with a succession of pas- ond on Rader’s ground ball to Los A neles topped St. Louis,
ses to Jim Burns, Charley the indie duo on the play 5-2, and the Atlanta-Philadel-
Don’t look like a duffer on the course: Joiner and Ed Carrington. - ameKen phia game was rained out af-
Frank Beard covers every phase of golf Now Beathard hopes he can when Met second basemen,en: ter Atlanta had jumped to a
in his new book, Shaving Strokes, 75 . . . , t Boswell threw wild to first. 6 A 1 the 4.012th inning
Steps to Winning Golf." To get it send do as well when the real thing , , c -double 5-0 lead in the fourth inning,
name, address and $1 per copy to Shov- comes along-namely Balt- trying to complete a double
ing Strokes, c/o (name newspoper), P.O. . 2 64 54 4 play. Rader was safe on a
Box 489, Dept (first three digits your more’s defense, P .
Zip No.). Radio City Station, New York, - The Oilers meet the Colts fielder’s choice. Marty Mar-
: Frday nient in a preseason tinez followed with a single,
--------------, contest inside the Astrodome, sending Rader to second.
1-The Easy Apprach
der Field the fast-pitch lea- Like so many other people. -
gue will be back in action with she was convinced that golf
St. Paul’s taking on Citizen’s is a.complex game. Her
Drug beginning at 8:15 mind was crowded with dos
rus. beginning at 8:17. and don’ts and no matter
Thursday niebt beginning at how he tried, he couldn’t
Iursday mgAt beginning at convince her to swing natur.
7:30 in the slow-pitch league Aly -
it will be Long Point egainst, 7 % S d .30
Schroeder’s Store, followed boy swinging a club near
by Grade A Marketand Kelm s. He called the kid over, teed •
Store. . up a ball and asked him to
—in a fast - pitch leagueplay- hit it. The boy nonchalantly
ed a Hempstead Tuesday night socked the ball 200 yards
Hanath Brothers downed the down the fairway.
Hustlers 3-2 in. 10 innings. , The woman blinked. " What
Elwood Hanath was the win- were you th inkin & about
ning hurler, while Lamar Sty- when hit that balls she
ers was charged with the loss. repnea. " otme at an boy
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‘ "But that’s impossible,"
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remember to hit a ball that
well."
"Maybe so; lady," the boy
said, “but I don’t think of
So Oller coach Wally Lemm
had his defensive team initiate
the defense of the Colts and
ran the Oiler offense
Up jumped the devil, in the
guise of Curt Blefary, who sl-
ammed his ninth home run high
into the right field stands to
In • the American League,
Chicago routed Boston, 10-5,
Detroit topped California, 7-
1, Cleveland edged Seattle,
6-5, Baltimore nipped Oak-
Show Biz Comes To Yale
In Battle Of New Yorks
land, 4-3, Kansas City defea-
ted Washington, 6-3, and New ...
York drubbed Minnesota, 10-
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in New Haven, Conn., over the
years and now Tryout Town
has a guaranteed smash in the
Yale Bowl Sunday-New York’s
Super Jets vs. the old line
Giants.
It’s a pre-season pro foot-
ball game that comes as close
. to being a grudge match as
these things ever get.
Coaches Allie Sherman of
the Giants and Weeb Ewbank
of the Jets play it down as
strictly a training game, ano-
ther step toward the official
start of a long season.
season ticket holders for home
games of the two New York
teams and to regulars who
supported Yale’s six previous
pro exhibitions since 19605
First ones to respond got the
precious tickets.
Charities have realized
more than $100,000 from each
New Haven pro game. The
first three produced revenue
for the building fund of the
Albie Booth Boys club. The
others have been for New Ha-
ven’s United Fund.
For the Giants and Jets, as
well as their loyal backers
it’ll be for blood.
The first meeting of the
two New York teams would
have been a dandy in any
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case, but this one took on
______monstrous proportions when
Ewbank, “may take it upon . the Jets scored their upset
themselves to make quite a over Baltimore in the Super
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play as little as possible in” aranteed sellout,’? all their is
pre-season games, already home games this season, the .
has proclaimed he’ll play as Giants are strictly second ba-
* long as necessary. Other Jets nana in the big town. And
say they, want this victory none knows it better than vet-
more than the Super Bowl, eran Giants who date back to
They all want to show up championship days of their
the Giants, who had New York own.
all wrapped up as their per- This one also is for the fans,
sonal property long before he particularly the hard core of
— Jets were born as a team. Jet season ticket holders who
New Yorkers wanted this adopted the AFL team in the
first place only because they
were shut out on Giant seats
‘‘But the players,” admits
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game at either one of the local
parks, preferably an annual
affair on a home-and-home and took the only other game "
basis, but it wound up in New in town, - S - 9
Haven when no deal could be
worked out for either Shea or
Yankee Stadium.
Every seat in Yale’s famous
bowl, all 70,874 of ’em at $7
a throw, have been sold since
March 21 - four days after the
applications were mailed.
"We had 100,000 orders
the first four days,” says Jack
Blake, Yale’s ticket manager.
"The way it turned out, I’d
say the crowd will be split
three ways - one third Jet
fans, one third Giant fans and
the rest our New Haven reg-
ulars who subscribed for
tickets to our charity game
last year."
Applications were sent to
Ewbank has been trying to
keep his team on low key but
without much success.
“The college All Star game
at Chicago was more import- peid
ant to me than this,” says !
Weeb. “We had to uphold our
league, pro football and the
good name of the Jets against
the collegians. I like to win
every time but pre-season
games are to help me pick my
best 40 players and every-
thing is being done to point
to just one game - our opener
with the Buffalo Bills on Sept.
14.”
) The players on both sides,
however, may have other
ideas...
AMERICA’S CHAMPION
caber-tosser, the Rev.
Arnold Pope of Fayette-
ville, N.C., warms up dur-
ing the Highland Games in
Aberdeen, Scotland. Caber-
tossing is traditional sport
in Scotland. The caber,
itself, is a 20-foot-long tree
trunk.
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