The Mercury from Pottstown, Pennsylvania • Page 27

Sports PottstownMercury Sports Owner Tose Guest at Tourney Leonard Tose, the dapperjcourse after dark, from day started at 6 a.m. and wound jowner of the Philadelphia indications gotten, we up after 10 m. was there. expect a better crowd There was a troublesome I So were Carol Ann Zacny and; people told us they wind that raised some scores, Biboo, members of the enjoyed themselves so much, and made certain holes more Phillies Mot Pants Patrol, along going to buy another difficult, with some 225 golfers for the ticket and come back and play They were the fifth 13th and a 1 continued. 15th holes, where the wind blew Area ood Relief Got jn most cases, only one straight in on the golfers.

The nament at umencK uolf Uud. starting time was reserved, but hole is the longest hole on Tose, arriving in his Eagle Schlichter said in the situation the course, a 570-yard par five, iflreen helicopter with the where a golfer played twice, his The fifth and 15th are also par emblem as decoration, had no better score would count toward fives. Hfflculty reaching the Limerick the prizes. The wind, though, also proven Pants pjve golfers shared the leads helpful on some other holes, in two categories heading into Schlichter pointed out. They Miss Zacny and Miss Bibbo second and final day.

were the third. 14th and 18th, as far as Royersford, and Fifteen-year-old Mark Fritz, where the wind was at the needed a Royersford Police 914 N. Washington Street, back. Hescort to the tourney, where carded a 75 to tie Ed Dunn Schlichter, who received measured distances for for the low gross leadership telegrams from Lamar Hunt closest to the pin competition. In low net competition.

Harry and Arnold Palmer prior to the However, the girls were at Dobbs of Norristown. 16-year- tourney, received two more i x'imerick first They and course old Ken Bevan, and Dan telegrams from distinguished Stan Schlichter greeted Fabrizio fired 70s to set up a people Thursday, nhe head when his three-way tie for honors. They were from U.S. Senators landed between the ninth Dobbs is the only one in the Hugh Scott and Richard -Sch Jiole and the clubhouse. group who golfs regularly at weiker, who both wished very pleased with the Limerick, Schlichter said.

He Schlichter success in his effort Jesuits of the first also tied for the longest drive to help flood victims. Schlichter said upon leaving the on the 18th hole, equalling Mike drive Starting Time Because of the large number of entries, there were four Auuif lOflS foursomes who finish their rounds on the 6.800 yard, par 71 course. few were given permission to come back and finish said Schlichter, whose yiyers Acquire Contract of John McKenzie PHILADELPHIA (APi Philadelphia Flyers, apparently preparing for a battle with the World Hockey Associ-j acquired Thursday the Contract of John McKenzie, new Philadelphia Blazers play- who jumped leagues "from the Boston Bruins. A spokesman for the National League Flyers said terms of the transaction with Boston would not be disclosed, it is and The spokesman also said jihere would not be any immediate further comment on the announcement. McKenzie, a fiery, pugnacious "competitor with the world champion Bruins until the end of the 1971-72 season, signed with the Blazers of the WHA on 'June 14 amid much publicity.

The contract amount released, but it was believed to Xbe for more than $100,000 a £year. Another Bruin, Derek Sanderson, has also jumped leagues 4 to play for the Blazers. Kaas Foursome Roney Foursome and Mrs. Charles Zopfl, Mr. and Mrs.

Alfred Widdick Grater Foursome Mauqer Foursome Foursome Holubeck A MEASUREMENT BY THE HOT PANTS Carolyn Bibbo, left, and Carol Ann Zacny, right, members of the Phillies Hot Pants Girls, check the distance for closest to the pin competition in the Area Flood Relief Golf Tournament that started Thursday at rick Golf Club. Watching the measurement are Terry Schlichter, standing behind Miss Bibbo, and Limerick golf pro Jack Watson. High winds played havoc with scores in the first day of the two-day tourney. (Mercury Staff Photo) Pine Forge Survives Jitters With 9-8 Win: Pottstown Out Merle Pine Forge Junior Legion team has come up with a different version of the seventh inning stretch. called the seventh inning jitters.

Wednesday the Twin-County League entry lost its first game of the State tourney on three last-inning runs. Errors were the big letdown in that 6-5 loss to Ford City, and some more miscues Thursday helped throw a scare into Harner again. a he said Thursday night, remembering the 9-3 lead his team carried Baby HomerCity ab bi 4 0 0 0 4 12 0 2 3 2 1 TODAY'S SPORTS GOLF Second day of Pottstown Area Flood Relief Tourney, Limerick Golf Course, 7 a.m. BASEBALL Pennsylvania Jr. Legion Tournament Pine Forge vs.

Homer City (Game 4 A), 1 p.m.. The Hill School Winner Game A vs. Ford City, 5:30 p.m.. The Hill School Chester County Junior Legion Roberts at Parkesburg, 6 p.m. RECREATION DEPARTMENT Senior League and vs.

Judges SOFTBALL Industrial Slow-Pitch League Jones Motor vs. Royersford Foundry Columbia Boiler vs. UAW 644 No. 2 Flagg's No. 1 vs.

Smith Frozen Steelers ab bi Rupert, 2 10 1 Supko, 2b Abuch, ct 3 0 0 0 Plcha, ss Cotellese, cf 0 0 0 0 Skulty if Calvario, lb 2 0 0 0 Tanner, lb 3 0 0 0 Grsmer, If 3 0 2 0 Appleton, 3 2 1 0 Sovia, 3b ss 4 0 0 0 Miller, cf Coine, rf 2 2 2 0 Sabedra, Sochko, ss 1 1 0 0 Swencky 3b3 112 Bedell, 2b 1 0 0 0 J.Supko, rf 2 111 Pachik, 3b 4 1 1 0 Rdenouer, 1 0 0 1 into the seventh and the 9-8 victory it came out with to kayoe All-Stars. kids are Harner explained, the errors are just coming in bad The win was Pine first of the tourney, and moved the team into a 1 p.m. game against Homer City today at The Hill School. Homer City dealt the host Pottstown Baby Steelers, a 10-5 loss Thursday, and, dubiously, the Baby Steelers were the first of the six teams eliminated. Six unearned runs killed their hopes of winning their own series.

Harner entered the tourney, 2 111 3 111 Ford Totals 23 5 5 2 Totals 26 10 9 6 Baby Steelers Homer City 020 030 5 103 060 City ab bi cf 3 12 0 4 110 4 12 1 4 13 2 4 0 0 0 4 13 1 3 0 11 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 WAITING TO MAKE THE Pottstown Baby Steelers catcher Dave Rei- denouer crouches with ball in his glove for sliding Homer City runner Gary Miller during third inning of Junior American Legion game at town High. Miller tried to score on a grounder to Pottstown shortstop Bobby Sochko. The Baby Steelers lost, 10-5, and bowed out of the state tourney. (Mercury Staff Photo) (2), Sabedra (2), Tanner, Plowchak. Steelers 1.

LOB Steelers 9. Homer City 6. Griesemer, Pachik. Miller. Skutety, Miller.

(2), Rupert, I Griesemer. IP ER BB SO Sabedra (W) 7 5 5 3 1 4 Pachik (L) 5 8 10 4 5 3 I Rupert 1 1 0 0 2 1 Ftzgrld Kilgore ss Smith 3b Prcyszys lb Birch 2b Kijowski Eiger Flowers Hoponski Grqbiec rf Totals 32 5 12 5 Totals Northampton ab bi Hammel ct 3 1 1 0 Guttmn ss Tamzosh If Onkotz lb Bubba rf Agstne 2b Dmtrts 3b Wnklbr Williams 4 10 0 4 2 3 0 3 0 0 0 4 0 2 3 2 0 10 3 10 0 110 0 3 0 12 Ford City Northampton 005 000 300 200 1 Augustine. City 6, Northampton 7. 3B Procyszyns. Bubba.

IP 7 3Vj 3 Williams (W) Hoponski Flowers (L) Eiger figuring he had a pitching- strong team with a one, two, three combo of Mark Kish, Frank Kleman and John Myers. But he noted that Kish had wildness problems in his narrow win Thursday. one of his better the coach evaluated. Today Harner will go with curve-balling Myers in hopes of keeping the area represented for the semifinals and championship game Saturday. Either Pine Forge or Homer City will be eliminated at 1, and the winner meets Ford City (2-1) at 5:30.

also at The Hill. The winner there will then test Northampton (2-0) for the title Saturday. Kish walked seven men, but he also had a big, bases-loaded triple during a six-run, sixth- inning rally. Leon Sendecki singled home what proved to be the winning tally, and his hit knocked out starter, Lou Fink. Kevin Lessig also tripled for Pine Forge, and catcher Don Weller had two hits for a pair of RBI.

Frank Kleman got the save, coming in to rescue Kish for the last two outs during the big Franklin seventh. Homer City rallied for six runs in the fifth to wipe out a 5-4 Baby Steeler lead. Steve Skultety clouted his second homer in two days for Homer City and had two of the nine hits off loser Mike Pachik and reliever Tim Rupert. Ed Sabedra limited the Baby Steelers to five hits, with two each going to Paul Griesemer and Don Coine, and the other to Pachik. In the third game Thursday, Northampton nipped Ford City, 6-5, on a balk in the seventh inning with two outs and runners on first and third.

FIRST AUUNAl WINGED MIDGET MID-SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIP 50 LAP FEATURE Seven Events TOP NAME DRIVERS SUNDAY NITE 8 P.M. Grandview Speedway Route 100, Bechtelsville, Pa. 10 miles north of Pottstown, Free Parking Kids under Roberts Dumps Parkesburg, 5-1 In Chester County Loop Finals Franklin ab Gulnac, 3b 3 2 i Haun, 3 0 I 4 0 Gilliland, rf 4 0 IDaye, 2b 4 1 lb 2 1 iLake, cf 3 1 Barther, cf 1 3 Fink, 3 0 ph 1 0 Pine Forge bi ab bi 0 0 Made i ss 1 1 0 0 0 1 McGee, 2b 4 0 10 2 2 Lucas, 3b 3 10 0 1 0 Kish, 2 2 13 2 0 Sendecki, rf 2 1 1 1 1 0 Lessig, cf 3 2 10 0 0 Weller, 3 0 2 2 1 1 Carter, cf 10 0 0 0 0 R'myer, cf 2 10 0 0 0 Myers, lb 2 10 0 Kleman, 0 0 0 0 Randy bases- loaded triple and the six-hit pitching of Larry Bednar propelled Roberts to a 5-1 victory over visiting Parkesburg in the opener of the Chester County Junior American Legion League finals Thursday. Roberts can wrap up its first crown in the three-year-old circuit with a triumph tonight at Parkesburg in the second game of the best-of-three series. Bridegam, the top hitter at .367 with 11 hits and 15 walks as well, drilled his triple to the 350-foot sign in center field on one bounce in the fifth, sparking a five-run flurry.

It was the first solid hit off Parkesburg loser Mike Knaisch, Gromalski Captures Twin Ponds Crown who blanked Roberts 1-0 in the season opener. Knaisch faced the minimum of 12 batters through the first four innings, as Roberts had two baserunners erased on an attempted steal and a double play. Parkesburg touched who is now 7-2, for an unearned third inning run before Roberts rallied for the lead in the fifth. Dave Berger drew the second of his two walks off Knaisch to lead the inning off. Jim Parkersburg Roberts ab bi ab bi Knaich, 4 0 10 A.Stbilla, 2b 2 0 0 1 3 0 0 0 Kelley, rf 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 Stamy, ss 3 0 10 3 0 0 0 Berger, cf 0 10 0 3 0 2 0 Hippie, cf 10 0 0 3 0 10 Custer, 3b 2 110 3 0 0 0 Reish, If 10 0 0 3 0 0 0 Lincoln, lb 2 1 1 0 3 12 0 B.Stbila, lb 1 0 0 0 Brdgm, If 2 113 McAfee, 3b 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 Symons, 2 1 1 1 Custer got a second life when a Parkesburg infielder dropped his foul pop, and after a foul bunt for a second strike, singled in the hole between third and short.

Dennis Lincoln followed with a base-hit bunt past the pitc.ier to fill the bases, and Bridegam sent Roberts in front with his smash over the center head. After running the count to 3-2, Clay Symons lined a double to right center, scoring Bridegam, I Totals 28 8 7 4 Totals 23 9 6 8 and after a bunt by A1 Strubilla plated the fifth run ooo 3 tS with a Sacrifice fly to left (3), Myers, Lucas, Madeja.i rontpr 1. 11; Pine Forge 7 Kish, Les- Bednar lowered his earned SB -Barther, Madeja, sendecki 2 run average to 1.12 this season. Two good defesnive plays Kish helped keep Parkesburg to one run though. jHaun I Fink (Sendecki).

FOR YOUR BEST SAVINGS! BESTSELLERS! Bill Gromalski 962 Terrace Lane, pulled a mild upset in emerging as the Twin Ponds Golf Club champion. Gromalski defeated Harold Mecherly one up in a tight, 36 hole final, after Mecherly led a 11 qualifiers to become medalist. Previously this year Mecherly paired with Gregg Gottshall to capture the Better Ball Championship. The eighth annual Don Hoffman 72 hole, medal tourney starts Saturday and continues Sunday with 18 holes each day. One hundred-five golfers will compete, with a partial handicap, for the one-year Twin ttMtds membership first prize.

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