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8D THE JOURNAL-NEWS, SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1976 World Series opens today Nationals outhit by bills i -'v -i Add to those expenses the costs of buses to the four New York State games, and to the Eastern Regionals in Glassboro, N.J., and meals at those games (some were free at the Glassboro State cafeteria), plus several hundred dollars in equipment. "We probably need about $2,000 if we're going to do this right," the league spokesman said. do not have transportation to restaurants, so we have to take what's nearby." League officials said they want to supplement the meal allowance by $3 a day, for a cost of They also said two extra coaches are necessary for supervisory purposes, and all expenses for these coaches must come from league funds. mental meal allowance which league officials say is an absolute necessity. The World Series only gives us $7 a day for food," said Manager Sam Zippilli.

"Anyone who has been here before knows you cannot eat decent food at $7 a day, ex-pecially for kids who are playing ball. The tournament director even sent us a memo recommedning the extra money. Besides, we Secret weapon' scores By NATHAN SALANT Staff Writer A lack of money may plunge the Rockland Nationals into debt before they play their first Big League World Series game today against Broward County, at 5:30 p.m., in Little Yankee Stadium, Ft. Lauderdale. "We've been hit with a couple of bills we never expected," a league spokesman said.

"We had to pay $300 because our original plane flight down to Ft. Lauderdale was delayed because of the court case. In-sead of the night -coach, we had to fly a weekend day coach, and pay the difference in price." "We also had to take the team out of the Glassboro State College dormitories Friday night because of the 100-degree temppratures in the rooms. The motel cost $127." The extra bills may prevent the league from giving the 15 players and two required coaches a supple- Staff photo Al Witt Brenda Saunders limbers up before practice The Rockland Nationals added something new to their Big League World Series arsenal. The new weapon is a two-inch green plastic gremlin, and the whole team swears it's a good luck charm.

The gremlin first appeared during the Nationals 3-2 win against Pennsylvan-. ia in the Eastern Regional semi -finals, Wednesday, when starting pitcher Mike Martorelli carried it to the pitcher's mound. mound, and Pennsylvania scored their two runs. He called time out, brought the gremlin out to the mound, and retired the side. The gremlin was used during the Thursday's championship game, went to court with the Nationals to fight the Jersey City injunction, and was present in Jay Candelario's pocket for the continuation and final victory Friday.

-By NATHAN SALANT Pennsylvania lead-off batter Brian Gatsby spotted it. and asked the umpire to order Martorelli to leave it in the dugout. His request was denied, an argument ensued, and the Gremlin stayed in the game. Martorelli and relievers Ron Peterson and Andy Toth, continued to use the gremlin, producing it as a hex symbol any time Pennsylvania threatened. In the fourth inmrg, Martorelli forgot to bring it to the Saunders runs to limelight SOFTBALL Mombi KO's Apollo 12 Magnus track coach, is a disciple of Australian distance running theorist Arthur Ldviard, who trained 1956 and '60 Olympic gold medalist Peter Snell.

Moran regularly corresponds with Lydiard, and has used his theories to come up with an outline for Brenda's training. "She has natural cardiovascular strength, and stamina," Moran explaind. "But she lacks speed, and didn't know how to apply speed training to her distance running program. I helped her do that." Adhering to Moran's advice, Saunders runs down slight inclines to get her muscles used to going faster than she normally runs, and is currently working on "hill resistance," a new concept in distance running which develops knee lift. It involves running up slight inclines.

"I spend a couple weeks with her to introduce her to a new concept, and then she and her father take over," Moran explained. All of it has brought Brenda success, a following of sorts, and a future. "She has encouraged other girls to become involved in track," Mrs. Saunders said. "She's a great influence on two Clarkstown South girls Wendy Bohrson and Marian O'Shea getting them started running 10 to 15 miles a day.

She has also attracted the attention of boys who run for the Roadrunners Club in Rockland County. They go with us to her races and have become even more dedicated to distance running as a result of her example." "I know I will continue to run in college," Brenda said. "I'm going to try for a cross country scholarship somewhere, and am heading for a cross country camp in Stroudsberg Pa. later this summer. Beyond that I really can't say." She was being typically modest.

Moran offered a hint of something more concrete when he said, "her greatest potential, I feel, is in Olympic distances like the 5,000 and 10,000 meters." do it? A lot of hard work, I guess, plus natural endurance. I swam a lot when I was younger, and I think that has something to do with it." "I think she was simply born with a great deal of drive; she's been a competitor all her life," said Mrs. Dallas Saunders, Brenda's mother. "She's very modest and would kill me if she knew I was talking about her so much. She doesn't want to have her races reported, and her trophies don't seem to mean anything to her.

She puts them all away in a drawer." Brenda's first distance was 50 yards, which she tried her freshman year. "But she bombed out," her mother recalled, "because she lacks natural speed. We told her she could do better in longer races because of her tall and slender build." Saunders moved to longer and longer distances, eventually settling on the mile and finishing third in the county her freshman year. The breakthrough to distance running came shortly after that, almost by accident. "My father was driving by Van Cortlandt Park (Bronx) one day and saw a bunch of girls out running," Saunders explained.

"He investigated, and concluded that I could have done fairly well against them." Now she runs six to 10 miles a day, through the streets near her home in Bardonia before work in the morning, or after she gets home in the afternoon. Brenda's father, John, is her principle coach. She is a member of the Golden Spikes Track Club of Long Island, but is too far away from it to get much benefit other than an attachment for some meets. She has also had some innovative help from one of her father's high school classmates and longtime friends, Jim Moran of Bardonia, who has served as a technical advisor. Moran, a Villanova University graduate and unofficial Albertus (Continued from ID) What nobody knows much about yet are all those trophies Saunders has won since discovering a talent for running distances far greater than a mile or two.

For instance, there is the one she brought home three weeks ago from an eight-mile race at New Milford, Conn. Saunders won the womens' division with a time of 55:02 in 92-degree heat. She placed second in a 10 kilometer race in Yonkers on June 27, and two weeks earlier finished fourth in the National Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) 20 kilometer (12.4 miles) race at Alley Pond Lake, Queens. Saunders finished in 1:26.23 against top distance runners in the East, and was the only woman under 27 years of age in the top five. Saunders wasn't able to compete in non-interscholastic races during the high school spring track season, but before it began she finished second at the Bob Preston Memorial 5-mile race at Central Park in late March, and third in the West Point Invitational 10 kilometer race in early April.

At West Point she came across the finish line a step ahead of Cathy Switzer, the first woman to compete in the Boston Marathon. Saunders has also beaten womens' distance running pioneer Nina Kusick, the first woman to break three hours in the 26-mile marathon. This winter Saunders won two "Patrick" distance races in Central Park, sponsored by the Roadrun-ners Club and Patrick Shoe Company. She placed first out of 29 women, Jan. 4, in a six-mile race, with a time of 37.59, and on Jan.

11 she ran 10 miles in a snowstorm in 1:10.57, for another victory. Saunders also completed a Central Park marathon last September. But neither 26 miles, nor one, is her best distance. "I think I'm best at between eight and 10 miles," Saunders said. "I can average about 6:30 for eight miles.

How do I Ben Mombi pitched a three-hitter Saturday as Ek-i i a Carpets eliminated Apollo 12 from the West Nyack Softball League playoffs with a 2-1 victory. Jim Hughes had the big bat for Ekizian, connecting for two hits, including a triple, and a run-bat ted-in. Joe Cotton went two-for two and belted a home run for Apollo. John Jemison took the loss, despite pitching a six-hitter. Holdt Landscaping defeated Tappan Steak Pub, 11-1, in the other playoff contest.

Winning pitcher Chuck Pod-gurski collected two hits whil Joe Paglia went three-for-three and George Coates had two hits and two runs-batted in. Joe Brady had a hit and RBI for Tappan. In opening round playoff action Friday Holdt Landscaping defeated Ekizian Carpets, 4-1. Bob Johnson drove in three runs with a bases-loaded triple. Joe Paglia had two hits and George Coates drove in a run with a hit.

Jim Hughes accounted for Ekizian's lone score with a home run. i llwomi Roger Cornell photo Rockland County Junior Bowling Association Secretary and coach Edie Blohm gives some tips to Bonnie Rappaport, 7, the youngest bowler in the Hi Tor Lanes Junior Leagues The Blohms: A family that bowls together BOWLING NR Industrial By ROGER CORNELL BABE RUTH LEAGUE Spring Valley girls lose Eastern final Recs will be after revenge with Giants -(Continued from ID) Spring Valley, which defeated Minersville on Friday to advance to the finals, Rockland Plumbing Supply held on to its one-game lead in the North Rockland Industrial Softball League Friday with a 9-0 win over Letchworth Village CSEA. Steve Weinberger pitched the shutout. Papo Rodriguez hit a three-run homer and Steve Schiller knocked in three runs. Steve Weinberger was the winning pitcher.

Rob Albert at shortstop and third baseman Willy Sanchez excelled on Bonnie Wenner's single, making the score. 4-2. Minersville applied the clincher in the fifth inning when it scored 11 runs to take an all but insurmountable, 15-2 lead. Eight walks, three hits, and one error led to the runs. Sp.

Vallty Al Moran, rf 3 0 1 Giles, rf 10 0 Miller, ss 4 12 Pia. 3b 3 0 2 Andrsi, cf-p 4 0 0 Gldstin, p-lb Minanvllle (14) AB Harley, 110 Ke Brl, rf 5 1 1 Cremo, cf 2 2 0 Liner, lb 3 3 1 Camelly, lb 2 3 2 Miller, If 2 3 2 Shulky, 4 3 1 Wenner, ss 5 2 4 Kr. Brl, 3b 4 0 1 Pinico, 2b 2 1 0 TENNIS 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 Kali, Dervn, Cadet, Bersa, If trace, Skdrna, 2b 3 0 0 Revenge will be on the mind of Tom Lucardi and his Clarkstown Recs teammates today at 1 p.m. when they face the Blauvelt Giants at Clarkstown North High School for the Rockland County Senior Babe Ruth League championship. The Recs, winners of the league's Blue Division, lost twice to the Giants during the regular season.

The Giants won the Red Division. Lucardi, today's scheduled starting pitcher for the Recs with a 7-1 record, will be facing Sean Reimer, 7-0 for the Giants during the season. Reimer beat Lucardi, 3-1, in one of two games between the two teams this season won by the Giants. The only other time the two teams met, the Giants won, 5-1. Powerful hitting, led by Pete Caterina, John Ryan, Jon Slater, Mike Barrett and Paul Schindelar, was primarily responsible for the Recs' division title.

All hit over or near .400 for the season. Giants' manager Frank Valentino pointed to overall team balance, with talent at almost every position, as the reason Blauvelt won the Red Division. Forming a particularly strong battery with Reimer will be Pat Condy, a strong-armed catcher who has picked more than one careless runner off second base. 28 14 10 28 I 7 It is pretty hard to find a family more involved in bowling than the Blohm family of Garnerville. Mother Edie, totally involved in junior bowling as the Secretary of the Rockland County Junior Bowling Association, is also a coach who spends most of her Saturdays year around at the bowling lanes instructing, organizing and counseling the youngsters at Hi Tor Lanes, and is able to count numerous graduates of her junior program who have gone on to the adult ranks in both league and pro bowling.

Husband Herb Blohm, president-elect of the Rockland County Men's Bowling Association (RCBA), is also treasurer of the Rockland County Junior Bowling Association, a certified coach, and assistant secretary of the RCBA Championships. Number one son Aln, although not involved in administration, bowls in two leagues with a 180-plus average. Daughter Linda Kom, also a certified coach with a 700-plus series in league play to her credit, spends her Saturday mornings at the lanes with the little ones. No. 2 Son Robert, a member of the maintenance crew at Hi Tor Lanes, is also a certified coach, a director in the RCBA and a high average bowler.

For one family, that's being pretty involved. Bonnie Rappaport is an example of just how young a junior bowler can be to start. Bonnie is seven-years-old, already has won an AJBC (American Junior Bowling Congress) patch for a 112 game, and is being sharpened up on her delivery by her instructor Edie Blohm. Junior bowling, the "farm system" of our adult American Bowling Congress and Women's International Bowling Congress 10-million member leagues, will spill over the 700,000 membership mark this coming year. The great majority of our bowling establishment proprietors realize that the AJBC is the future of their business, but we still have a few who do not fully support junior bowling.

They do not absorb the fact that these little people will grow into big people in a few short years and become the lifeblood of their business. The folks who brought the ABC tournament to Oklahoma City have discovered that it just about has the same effect on the economy as Christmas. It is now estimated that the local cash registers rang to the tune of over $8 million before it was all over. Lodging accounted for almost 25 per cent, mainly because there were so many out-of-state entries. But dining and shopping absorbed major chunks of the bowlers' spending.

With $801,000 in prize money at stake in the ABC events, the annual bowling vacation is a well-earned sojourn. Just think, in Reno, in 1977 there are many more ways to spend all that money. Just in case you have any doubts about Spring Vallay 200 0 0 0 0 2 7 1 M.n.rivilla 022 0 11 1 14 10 0 rbi; SV-Mlller, Pia; M-Harley 2, Kelly Borrell, Cremo, Miller, Wenner 3, Shulsky, Krista Borrell, Pizzico. 2B: SV-Steckler; M-Miller. SB: M-Harley, Mascola, Zebrowski win title just what "turned on" the significant growth of bowling since 1946, we are presented with these figures.

Since Fred Schmidt concocted the automatic pinsetter in Pearl River from a various assortment of "junk," flowerpots and lamp shades, the ABC membership was less than a million men. The W1BC consisted of less than 250,000 women. Today, the WIBC is fast overtaking the men with close to four and one-half million members. According to a recent Harris poll, there are 62 million bowlers in the U.S. Can you just imagine what would happen to the bowling picture if it was necessary to revert to pin boys to service this many bowlers? When Virginia Park rolled a three-game 808 series on the recent women's pro tour, she became so excited that she signed the wrong scorecard and was fined $10.

That'll teach her a thine or two next time she rolls an 800 series. She was only the sixth female in history of WIBC to roll a sanctioned 800 series. If the bowlers on the men's pro tour this fall insist on their non-sanction format (lane blocking). The scores rolled will not qualify for the record book. Those Pearl River Lanes juniors are at it again.

Richard Lesica. son of Kathv and Charles, Pearl River Lanes proprietors, won the Paramus segment of the Junior Bowlers Tour, with Dean Lavecchia, brother of maintenance chief Jim, runner up. This makes four of the Pearl River Lanes family to qualify for the Invitational Finals of the New Jersey tour at Bowla Bowla Lanes in Bergenfield to be held in August. The tour final, conducted by Chuck Pezza-no Jr. will terminate this year's junior bowling tournaments with 50 of the top juniors competing this month for the championship trophies.

Jim Lavecchia is resting up from his all-night, all-day 300 game stint for the Muscular Dystrophy Fund at New City Bowl last week. Jim has bowled in the 24-hour marathon for the past two years, collecting money for this charity. The 1976 RCBA average book is now in the hands of the printer and will be out soon we hope. League sanctioning materials for the winter RCBA Leagues will be distributed by the association directors at the end of this coming week. Three of the five bowlers who won bonds in last years BVL tournament have applied for their prizes this past week with two to go.

It's awfully hard to give money away in these affluent times. ivuiier, wenner. IP SO BB 7 2 7 1 4 4.1 8 7 1 8 .1 5 2 0 4 1.1 3 1 1 4 Harley (W) Goldstein (L) Andraessl Irace 'looked like it would repeat its victory when it took a 2-0 lead in the first inning. With one out Sherri Steckler doubled and scored on Kathy Miller's single. Miller moved to third base on an error and scored on Janet Pia's single, giving Spring Valley its only lead of the hot, 95-degree afternoon.

After that, it was all downhill. Minersville tied the game, 2-2, in the bottom of the second inning. Singles by Brenda Miller and Cheryl Shulin-sky, along with a walk to Linda Pizzico, loaded the bases with two outs. Winning pitcher Linda Harley walked to force in Miners-ville's first run before a wild pitch sent Shulinsky in with the tying run. Minersville grabbed the lead for good by scoring two more runs in the third inning.

Mary Ann Cremo led off with a walk and scored on Brenda Miller's double, giving Minersville a 3-2 lead. Miller then scored on Willie rambles YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) -Rambling the 4-5 favorite driven by Robert Farrington, broke the world record for IVt miles over a half-mile track when he defeated Keystone Accent by three-quarters of a length in Yonkers Raceway's featured $35,000 pace in 2:2925. The previous record of 2:2935 was set in 1962 by Irvin Paul. Ogden wins game OPEN an error, scored the third run of the inning on Allan-Friedman's single.

Friedman stole second and scored the inning's final run on Kuhn's single, giving the winners a 7-2 lead. BASEBALL Ronnie Zebrowski and Ted a 1 a won the Clarkstown Recreation Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament Saturday by defeating Carol and Melvin Falis, 6-3, 6-4, at the West Rock Indoor Tennis Courts. In the Clarkstown Recreation Mens' 35 and older finals, also at West Rock, a Ryan won the championship by defeating Cedrick Garlick 6-0, 6-0. Zebrowski and Mascola defeated Ronnie Carol and Richard Berger, 6-2, 6-1 in the semifinals. Melvin and Carol Falis defeated Martin and Harriet Cornell in the other semifinal, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Ryan defeated Howard Corey, 6-3, 6-1, and Garlick downed Dave Fisher, 6-4, 6-3, in the singles semifinals. FIRST CAME Nyack 010 I Paarl Rlvtr ooo RBI: NV-nnlftv DD.rt,H.n 100 0 243 111 1 347 2. SB: Pearl River swept a doub-l leheader from Nyack, Sat-1 urday, in the Rockland' Open Baseball League. Pearl River won the opener, 3-2, and the nightcap, 9-5. Pearl River scored the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning to win the first game.

Both teams were tied, 2-2, when Brian Kuhn led off with a walk. He advanced to second base on Eric Miller's fielder's choice before scoring on a single by winning pitcher Greg Ogden. Ogden, who won this first game of the season, allowed only four hits. NY-Lewis; PR Carruba 2, Bart! WP Lr: r-agano Pearl River scored four runs in the fifth inning of the second game to break open a tight, 3-2 game. With one out, Sal Carruba singled and stole second base.

Winning pitcher Bob Ballin then helped his own cause with a run-scoring double before Gary Bart's single sent Ballin home. Bart, who went to second on SECOND GAME Kick Si. 101 003 0 5 7 5 RBI: PR-Mlller 2, Ballin, Bart Fried-man, Kuhn. Schiedner; NY-Winlr Wagner, IB: PR-Miller H.V lln 3B: PR Kuhn SB: PR-TuMm r. Carruba, Bart, Nvi Wagner, wp: B.lhn l-o LP:.