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Pirates Bomb Phils, 16-1- Reds Explode for Six Runs in Seventh to Dump Astros, 10-7 By SAM GOLDAPER UPI Sports Writer The Pittsburgh Pirates wrote their own "Hit Parade" Friday night and the fans at Forbes Field greeted it with a four-star rating. Shouts of "more, more and more meetings," hoed through 'the stands as Willie Stargell, Gene Alley and Roberto Clemente roamed the bases almost at will. The fans even appeared to enjoy pitcher Billy O'Dell striking out four straight times. It was all part of the Pirates' 23 hits (tying Houston for the season high) and a 16-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirate fans.

haven't had much to shout about of late with only four victories in the last 10 games so one could hardly blame them if they sounded a bit blood thirsty. Gab Session Helps Their call for "more meetings" when Clemente collected three singles and Stargell a triple and two singles was in obvious reference to the session the players called among themselves after the Tuesday double loss to the New York Mets. The Pirates are 2-0 since that session. Elsewhere around the al League, the league-leading Cincinnati Reds outscored Houston, 10-7; St. Louis edged Los Angeles 3-2; Atlanta defeated San Francisco 5-3 and Chicago rallied to beat the New York Mets 3-2.

In the American League, the New York Yankees downed the Chicago White Sox in 10 innings; Baltimore ripped Minnesota Twins 11-2; Boston conquered Washington 8-7; Kansas City shut out Cleveland twice 2-0 and 6-0, and beat Detroit 4-0. Cincinnati didn't do too badly in the hitting department either. The Reds rapped four Astro pitchers for 14 hits. Pete Rose contributed three of them, including his sixth home It was a 7-4 ball game with Baseball Scoreboard (By United Press International) Major League Standings National League W. L.

Pet. GB Cincinnati St. Louis San Francisco: Pittsburgh Chicago Atlanta Philadelphia Los Angeles Houston New York Friday's Chicago 6 New Pittsburgh 16 Atlanta 5 San Goalby, Aaron Hold Lead in Buick Open GRAND BLANC, Mich. (UPI) -Bob Goalby and Tommy Aaron were standing in the same spot, with the same scores, leading the same field of golfers but the routes they took Friday in the second round of the Buick Open were poles apart. Goalby of Palm Springs, and Aaron of Calloway Gardens, had matching 142's to share the leadership at the halfway mark of the $100,000 tourney.

Aaron fired a two-under-par 70 in the second round Friday make his score while Goalby slipped all the way to a 73 after his first round 69. Just one stroke behind the coleaders, were Kermit Zarley, Seattle, Terry Dill, Austin, and Frank Beard, Louisville, Ky. with 143's. Except for their identical tworound totals there was little similarity between the games of Aaron and Goalby. "I played better today than I did yesterday, but I didn't score as well," said Goalby after his four-stroke slip from Thursday's first round.

Aaron, on the other hand, Mickey Wright Shares Bluegrass Play Lead LOUISVILLE, (UPI)Mickey Wright, the all-time leading money winner among Women golfers, and amateur Roberta Albers were tied at a one-under par 71 to lead a field of 45 lady golfers into today's second round of the Bluegrass Invitational Golf Tournament. Miss Wright and Miss Albers of Tampa, held a onestroke lead over first year pro Lesley Holbert of Coral Gables, at the start of today's action. Miss Wright held the hot hand in Friday's opening round, firing three birdies. "I predicted before the tournament it would take a three-under to win. Now I need two more rounds like this and I'll be satisfied," Miss Wright said.

Miss contention for Holbert her first stayed tour- in nament win with her even She birdied five holes and bogeyed an equal number. This year's leading moneywinner, Kathy Whitworth, was dissatisfied with her "real poor back nine." She ended with a 73 a tie for third place. Ed Tutwiler Leads Sunnehanna Tourney JOHNSTOWN, Pa. (UPI)-Ed Tutwiler, Indianapolis auto dealer, carried a three-stroke lead into today's second round of the 14th annual Sunnehanna tournament of amateur golf champions. Tutwiler, playing in the tourney for the 13th time, played flawless golf as he had five birdies and no bogeys for a 5- under-par 65.

Tied for second at 68 were defending champion Jack Lewis, Florence, S. and Lanny Wadkins, Richmond, Va. Those tied for fourth at evenpar 70 included Dale Morey, a former Hoosier now playing out of High Point, N. C. -Pitch Softball ler and Vogel the loser.

No Trouble Herbert's Shell downed BCA, 5-1, the Christian Church crew walloped Pepsi Cola, 23-10, and Hill-Rom rolled over the State Farm Insurance club, 16-2 in a match that was called at the completion of five innings, in the City Slow-Pitch Softball League Friday night at the Park. After two scoreless frames, Herbert's Shell plated a run in the third, rallied for three in the fourth and added an insurance tally in the fifth inning for their threat victory. BCA mustered a scoring in the fifth frame, chasing their only counter across. Hoeing paced Herbert's with three safeties and Duerstock and Schoettmer had a pair of base knocks apiece. For the BCA bunch, Bills slugged two base hits.

Worland was the winning hur- The Christian Church experienced no trouble with Pepsi Cola, plating four tallies in each the first and second frames, three in the third, five in the fifth and seven in the last inning. The Pepsi club came up with four markers in the fourth round and added three in the fifth. Buell, the winning pitcher, walloped five hits. Green, Gardner, Greve and Brown each had three safeties for the Church outfit. Gardner.

clouted two round-trippers while Hornberger, Green and Ogden blasted solo homers. Tungate hit safely three times for Pepsi. Fletcher was the losing pitcher. Short Game Hill-Rom, in their game with State Farm Insurance, exploded in the top of the second for five tallies. The defending champs added eight more in the fourth and chased home three in the fifth.

The State Farm team plated single counters in the fourth and fifth innings. Wingate had four hits, Bostic picked up four, of which two were home runs, including a grand slam blow, and Drockelman and Miller banged out three base knocks each to pace Hill-Rom. Goldsmith and Meyer also hit home runs. Moeller, Osting, Oliphant and Nelson had two hits apiece for State Farm. du.

i Wenning was the winning hurler and Nelson was charged with the loss. The contest was called at the end of five innings, with the 10-run rule in effect. North Park Schedule Today Minor League-4 p.m., Jets vs. Pirates (previously postponed game). Monday Softball-7 p.m., Union Bank Trust vs.

Crown Zellerbach; 8, Delta Faucet vs. Porter's Furniture; 9, Fireside Inn vs. DeMolay. Little League-6 p.m., Sox vs. Rams (north diamond); Bums vs.

Cards (south diamond). PAGE 2 Greensburg (Ind.) Daily News, Saturday, June 10, 1967 Cal Ermer Is ReplacementFire Sam Mele As Manager of Twins the Astros leading until the Reds exploded for six runs in the seventh inning with Deron Johnson and Don Pavletich joining Rose in the homer department. Atlanta offset three San Francisco homers with Denis Menke's two homers and a sacrifice squeeze bunt by pitcher Ken Johnson. Johnson and Mike McCormick of the Giants, were locked in a 1-1 pitching duel until Joe Torre, who has. hit in 15 straight games, singled and scored on Menke's homer into the left centerfield seats.

Rookie Dick Hughes held the Los Angeles Dodgers to seven hits in eight innings and drove in the winning run as the Cards moved up into second place. Hughes, who spent nine years in the minor leagues, won his fourth game in six decisions. Hughes singled home batterymate Tim McCarver in the seventh inning with the winning run. Ernie Banks' bases loaded single in the ninth inning scored Glenn Beckert with the winning run against the Mets. Houston 021 004 000 7 9 0 Cin.

310 000 60x-10 14 1 Wilson, Raymond (7), Latman (7), Schneider (8) and man; Maloney, Arrigo (6), Lee (8) and Pavletich. WP-Arrigo (5-2). -Raymond (0-4). -HRS -Rose (6th), Johnson (9th), Pavletich (1st). Greensburg Little League A real thriller and a lop-sided affair marked action at the Little League Park Friday night as the Reds barely nipped the Yanks, 8-7, and the Lions thumped the Bucs, 14-4.

The Reds had to come from behind to grab their win. The Yanks moved well in front, scoring three runs in the opening inning, addig two more in the second and a single counter in the top of the The Reds. came alive in the bottom of the third, chasing home six big tallies to knot the count. Both clubs tightened their defenses and it wasn't until the bottom of the last frame that the Reds scored the winning tally on a double, an error and a ground ball. Bob Alverson, the winning pitcher in relief, led the victors with three hits.

Bob Fisse, the starting pitcher, slammed two base knocks. Bill Ricke and Bruce Swegman had the hits for the Yanks. In the Lions-Bucs encounter, the Lions scored four runs in each the first, second and third innings and came back for two markers in the fourth frame that iced the victory under the 10-run rule. The Bucs had added new life to the contest in the second inning when they ralled for four counters, knotting the score briefly at 4-4. Don Wilson had a perfect night at the plate, banging four singles while Denny Merritt had three hits for the Lions.

Larry Martin was the winning pitcher yielding just three hits. John Stuhrenberg, Kenny Bray and Steve Lanane, each had a base hit for the Bucs. Lanane was the losing pitcher. HARRELSON SOLD WASHINGTON (UPI)-First baseman Ken Harrelson was sold to the Kansas City Athletics Friday by the Washington needed Senators, who no longer his servies since acquiring rookie Mike Epstein from Baltimore. Harrelson, who was batting .203 and had three homers in 7 79 at bats, had been acquired from the Athletics last year.

DCN A FULL SERVICE BANK INTEREST per annum On Certificates of Deposit of $500 or more deposited for 6 months or longer. County National Bank: By ROBERT PENICK MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) -Minnesota Twins'. President Calvin Griffith has spent his life in baseball, as a team mascot, minor league manager, and club executive. When he says.

a change in managers may be the best thing for the organization, lie sup- 36 20 .643 29 20 .592 30 22 .577 4 27 .551 26 24 .520 7. 26 26 .500 8 24 .480 9 21 31 .404 13. 20 33 .377 17 32 .347 Results York 5 Phil. 1, night Fran. 3, night couldn't understand how he got into the lead.

"I was a little disappointed in my game at times," Aaron said. "I made some bad shots but I was lucky, I guess. But I hit good shots too." The starting field of 144 was cut to top 70 with ties. The cutoff point was 151. Yank Cars Favorites In Le Mans LE MANS, France (UPI)Bruce McLaren of New Zealand and Phil Hill of Santa Monica, both driving American made cars, were the early favorites today to capture the Le Mans 24-hours of Endurance auto race.

McLaren, winner of last year's race, and his partner, Mark Donohue of Stony Brook, N.Y., were expected to grab the early lead over the grinding 8.38 mile course. McLaren and Donohue will be driving a Ford, one of 11 cars the Ford Motor Company has entered in the race. Hill and his partner, Mike Spence of England, are entered in a seven-liter Chevroletpowered Chaparral, a make that has had trouble going the distance in any endurance race this year. Chaparral, designed by Jim Hall of Midlands, has entered two cars in this race, and although they have engines bigger than Fords, they were slightly slower in the trials. However, the Chaparrals will be placed first on the track at the start because of their larger engines.

With engine size the determining factor in the placings and not come qualifying after times, Chaparral Corvette will right followed by the Fords. The smaller Mirages will come next followed by the Lolas and the Ferraris. Indians Swap Seale For Bob Sadowski INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -The Indianapolis Indians of the Pacific Coast League traded lefthanded pitcher Johnnie Seale to Seattle of the PCL Friday for infielder Bob Sadowski. Sadowski, who has batted .221 in 25 games for Seattle this season, is expected to join the Tribe this weekend at Oklahoma City. Sadowski appeared in 88 games with Los Angeles of the American League in 1963, batting .250.

He spent the past three seasons with Toronto of the International League. Seale compiled a 6-2 record as a- relief pitcher with the Indians last season. This year, he has appeared in 10 games, pitched 7 2-3 innings for a 0-0 record. The Indians. also announced the.

acquisition of John Bauer, a 25-year-old lefthanded pitcher, from Evansville of the Southern League. Bauer was 2-1 in 18 innings of relief with Evansville this year. At Lynchburg in the Carolina League last season, Bauer was 7-1, with an E.R.A. of 1.96. Cincinnati 10 Houston 7, night St.

Louis 3 Los Ang. 2, night Today's Probable Pitchers Los Angeles (Singer 1-2) at St. Louis (Jaster 3-2), 8 p.m. Houston (Giusti 3-5) at Cincinnati (Queen 6-1), 1:15 p.m: New York (Estrada 1-2) at Chicago (Hands 2-3), 2:15 p.m. Philadelphia (L.

Jackson 3-6) at Pittsburgh (Veale 7-1), 8:05 p.m. San Francisco (Perry 45) at Atlanta (Cloninger 1-2), 8:05 p.m. Sunday's Games New York at Chicago, 2 Philadelphia at Pittsburgh San Francisco at Atlanta Houston at Cincinnati, 2 Los Angeles at St. Louis, 2 American League W. L.

Pet. GB Detroit 31 20 .608 Chicago 28 20 .583 Baltimore 26 23 .531 4 Boston 26 24 .520 New York 25 25 .500 Cleveland 25 26 .490 6 Minnesota 25 .490 6 Kansas City 25 28 .472 7 California 23 32 .418 10 Washington 21 31 .404 Friday's Results Boston 8 Washington 7, night N.Y. 2 Chicago 1, 10 night Baltimore 11 Minnesota 2, night K.C. 2 Cleveland 1st K.C. 6 Cleveland 0, night California 4 Detroit 0, night Today's Probable Pitchers (All Times Chicago (O'Toole 2-1 or Peters 6-3) at New York (Tillotson 3-0), 2:15 p.m.

Washington (Pascual 5-3) at Boston (Lonborg 7-1), 2 p.m. Baltimore (Dillman 3-0 and Phoebus 5-1) at Minnesota (Kaat 1-7 and Boswell 3-3), 2, 9 p.m. Detroit (Wilson 84) at California (Willhite 0-2), 11 p.m. Cleveland (Siebert 5-4) at, Kansas City (Nash 6-5), 7 p.m. Sunday's Games Detroit at California Baltimore at Minnesota Cleveland at Kansas City, 2 Washington at Boston, 2 Chicago at New York, 2 Pacific Coast League Eastern Division W.

L. Pet GB Phoenix 28 26 .519 Okla City 27 27 .500 1 Indianapolis 23 24 .489 San Diego 24 27 .471 Tulsa 23 26 .469 Denver 22 27 .449 Western Division WL. Pet. GB Vancouver 27 23 .540 Seattle 28 24 .538 Spokane 27 24 .529 Tacoma 29 26 .527 Portland 25 26 .490 Hawaii 25 28 .472 Friday's Results Okla City 12 Indianapolis (T) Tulsa 7 Denver San Diego 4 Portland 3 Phoenix 8 Seattle 4 Tacoma 10 Hawaii 7 Spokane 5 Vancouver 2 Saturday's Games Tulsa at Denver Indianapolis at Oklahoma City Portland at San Diego Phoenix at Seattle Hawaii at Tacoma Spokane at Vancouver Sports Briefs WHITEY BACK NEW YORK (UPI) Whitey Ford, the brilliant New York Yankee southpaw who announced his retirement on Memorial Day, will participate in the sixth annual "oldtimers" game at Shea Stadium on July 8. The game will feature the 1960 pennant-winning Yankees and the 1962 New Mets.

ROOKIES REPORT ST. LOUIS (UPI)-Fifteen rookies, including top draft choice Tom Workman of Seattle University, will report to summer training camp Sunday for the St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association. Coach Richie Guerin has scheduled a drill Sunday night and workouts twice a day Monday through Thursday. Indiana Cage Pros Sign Bob Netolicky INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The Indiana franchise is the new American Association today announced the signing of another draft choice, 6-9 Bob Netolicky of Drake University.

Netolicky, who also was drafted by San Diego of the National Basketball Association, was: the fifth draft choice and the 10th player signed by the Indiana team. Netolicky was an All-Missouri Valley Conference second team selection last season. His college coach, Maurice John, said he has "great potential as a pro basketball player." Other draft choices signed earlier by the Indiana team were Gerry Jones of Iowa, Ed McKee of Rockford, Hubie Marshall of LaSalle and Craig Dill of Michigan. LONG SERVICE STOCKTON, Calif. (UPI) Amos Alonzo Stagg coached college football for 57 years at Springfield College, Chicago University and College of Pacific.

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Just stop in and register. FREE PANELING ENTER GP' WIN-A-WALL SWEEPSTAKES ENTER NOW LUMBER 314 HARDWARE W. MAIN PHONE: 662-8361 posedly knows what he's talking about. 'Introducing Cal Ermer as the replacement for fired Twins' Manager Sam Mele, Friday night, Griffith said no one thing caused Mele's dismissal. "It's, rather an accumulation," he said.

The apparent split in the coaching staff last October that saw coaches Johnny Sain and Hal Naragon go to Detroit, Griffith said, was not the reason Mele was fired, but it was clear it contributed. Then, 25-game winner Jim fans, Kaat, in said an that open if letter were to Twins owner he would hire Sain as pitching coach and then get a manager who could take advantage of him. The Twins have been plagued by missed signs, inferior baserunning, and a lack of the "thinking baseball" this year. "At one time last year, Thad turned something around in mind things and we started winning," Griffith said. The last half of 1966, the Twins were the hottest team in baseball, steaming at a .643 clip after July 4.

Mele's record as a manager was good. The Twins won the Regional Baseball Champs Due Today INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) The "sweet sixteen" of the first Indiana high school baseball tourney will be determined today with the 64 survivors of sectional warfare competing in regional playoffs. The 16 regional winners will advance to next Tuesday's semistate playoffs at East Chicago, Franklin, Jasper and Anderson. Those four winners will meet in the state finals June 17 at Vic(tory Field here. Forecasts of possible showers or thundershowers today threatened to disrupt the tournament again.

Sectional playoffs, which were to have ended last Satur-1 day, were delayed by rain and the last five did not end until Tuesday. Regional playoffs were scheduled today at Beech Grove, Brazil, Columbia City, Columbus, East Chicago, Franklin, Gary, Jasper, Jeffersonville, Lafayette, Anderson, Manchester, North Central (Marion County), Richmond. South, Bend and South Spencer. 1965 American League pennant; and Mele. also managed them to two seconds, a third, a tie for sixth, and a seventh-place finish in 1961, after taking over in mid-stream from Cookie, Lavagetto.

His overall 522-430. In Griffith's mind, however, he did not get the most out of the players. "I think we have the personnel to win the pennant," Griffith said. Three- Tie For World Cage Crown MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (UPI)-A three-way tie exists in the World Basketball Championships today as winless Uruguay boosted the United States' chance for the title by upsetting Yugoslavia. Uruguay edged the previously unbeaten Yugoslavs, 58-57, Friday night and the Americans routed Poland, 91-61.

The U.S., the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia each have records. If Russia beats Yugoslavia Sunday night, and if the Yanks get past tough Brazil, the U.S. will win the title of its one point triumph over Russia. The Americans, whose lone loss, was to Yugoslavia Thursday night, 73-72, were paced by Al Tucker's 20 points and Mike Silliman's 17 points Friday night. Kendall Rhine added 13: The Yanks pulled away after intermission when they led, 41- 39.

Broglio Evens Record at 4-4 By United Press International Ernie Broglio has finally found the winning touch again. Broglio, who won his first three games this season, snapped a four-game losing streak Friday night by pitching -a six hitter to give Buffalo a 82 victory over Richmond in the International League. wThe victory evened Broglio's record at 4-4 this season. Broglio a 21-game winner with the Cardinals in 1960, was sent down by Cincinnati and owned a 3-0 record by May 17 before lost four straight. Len Boehmer hit a solo homer in the seventh inning off losing pitcher Ed Rakow to snap a 2-2 tie and decide the game.

Drive The Safe Way Not The "Speedway" More United States citizens have already lost their lives in auto accidents this year than the total population of Decatur This is ,43 shameful indictment of our intelligence and good judgment. Why do we keep talking about safety? Because we have hopes of being able. to influence at least a few drivers, including those in the highest accident age bracket, under 25. years, to drive carefully. Most accidents are caused by excessive speed.

One out of every three drivers involved in a fafal accident is a young person who had been drinking alcoholic beverages. Remember--an insurance agency can pay claims for property damage and persons killed or injured in an auto accident, but. it cannot call back a human life. Remember--You can put your in. Insurance when your Insurance is with: Union Trust.

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