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Enquirer and News, Battle Creek, Mich. June 21, 1971 B-3 Tigers lose 7 2nd game suspended Ohio, Duluth teams win ANG ball titles Teams warned against bean-ball tactics itf ilia 'ill nament as the only undefeated team. Utah had previously been beaten by Missouri. In the fast pitch classification, Duluth dumped Arizona 4-1 to take the title. Three Arizona errors hurt their cause as pitcher Lawrence Dempster allowed only two earned runs in the losing effort.

Only Duluth man with more than one hit was Gary Backstrom who was responsible for a pair of singles. Jay Hildebrandt and Christy Burdbtle had two singles apiece for Arizona. Earlier Sunday, Arizona forced an extra game bjr handing Duluth its only loss of the tournament, 3-0. Dempster pitched a three-hit shutout in that one. Battle Creek was knocked out of the fast pitch tourney Saturday night when they were beaten by Arizona, 10-2.

Earlier the cereal city squad had dumped New Jersey on the strength of five RBI's from Rick- Wells and four from Jim Kelley. Battle Creek also took a 14-3 loss at the hands of Duluth. The slow pitch Battle Creek A team was ousted Saturday at the hands of Utah. Joe Alfa had two of Battle Creek's five hits and knocked in a run, but it wasn't enough to stop the eventual runner-up team from taking the win. SLOW PITCH TOURNAMENT Championship Game Ohio 11, Utah 8.

Other Results Clinton 16, Pennsylvania 6. Utah 20, Pittsburgh A 12. Utah 4, Battle Creek A 1. Pennsylvania 11, Missouri 1. Atlanta 5, Indiana 1.

Georgia 12, Missouri 3. Pittsburgh 11, Georgia 10. FAST PITCH TOURNAMENT Championship Game Duluth 4, Arizona 1. Other Results Arizona 3, Duluth 0. Battle Creek 18, New Jersey 10.

Arizona 10, Battle Creek 2. Duluth 16, Arizona 10. Duluth 14, Battle Creek 3. Connecticut 10, New Jersey 6V Coinetticut 10, New Jersey 8. Clinton, Ohio and Duluth, Minn, emerged as champions in the annual Air National Guard softball tournament held this weekend at Bailey Park.

Two big innings helped Clinton, Ohio down to Utah to take the slow pitch title. Six runs in the second inning gave them a 7-5 lead and then four more in the fourth broke a 7-all deadlock. John Flor smashed a homer and knocked in two RBI's for Clinton as did Ken Schamer-loh. Mike Hillard contributed three hits. Bill Wortlin of Utah went three-for-three including a solo home run blast.

Clinton wound up the tour- Local pilots post wins at Galesburg Two Battle Creek drivers, Bill Brown, Jr. and Bob Eberhard, took first and second in the hiflier feature at Galesburg Speedway Saturday night. Gary Easy of Del-ton finished third-Heat winners included Rodney Smith and Melvin Colvin' of Battle Creek and Gales-burg's Don Morrison and Kalamazoo's Ron Wesaw. Bill Shields of Battle Creek was the semifinal winner, followed by Wesaw. Consolation winners were Don Mokison of Galesburg and Bill Downing of Kalamazoo.

Joe Mills took the midget feature. Battle Creek's John Tenney was the dash winner. Russ Jacobson of Drayton Plains was the semifinal champ. Sunday's racing was rained out. CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) Sunday's doubleheader or almost doubleheader between the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers provided more than 50,000 fans with some unexpected excitement.

Pitchers and managers were warned against using beanball tactics and the suspension of the second game because some 50-60 lights behind home plate went out. Cleveland won the first game, 7-6, on Chuck Hinton's leadoff homer in the 11th inning, and were on top by the same score when the second game was suspended on a complaint by Tigers Manager Billy Martin. I wouldn't have complained if some of the outfield lights weren't working," Martin said. "But the lights above the plate are important and the umpire said he couldn't see the ball either." "We're just going to have to wait longer to find out if we won or lost," he added. Sam McDowell had just entered the game in relief of Steve Mingori and had thrown one pitch a strike to Aurelio Rodriguez when Martin complained.

"I have no complaint with the game being suspended," Cleveland manager Alvin Dark said. "I agree with the decision because it was getting dark." The game will be resumed Sept. 28 when the Tigers next return to Cleveland. It will pick up where it left off with McDowell on the mound, facing Rodriguez with a 1-0 count. Dark said he would rearrange the pitching rotation so McDowell would pitch the remaining two innings of the game and then start the regular season game.

The Indians and Tigers started a free-for-all Friday after a series of brushback pitches and the decking of some batters. Detroit starter Mickey Lol-i hit Cleveland's Chris Chambliss with a pitch in the first inning of the first game Sunday and Cleveland starter Steve Dunning retaliated by hitting Lolich with a pitch in the third. Umpire Larry McCoy called the managers and pitchers together and told them: "If, in my judgment, a pitcher throws at anyone again, both the pitcher and the manager will be thrown out of the game. I can tell the difference between one that gets away and a deliberate attempt to hit somebody. I don't want anybody to get killed." Lolich said his pitch to Chambliss got away from him.

Said Dark: "There's only one way to stop that sort of thing and that's exactly what we did. I had a meeting yesterday and told our guys we are only hurting ourselves by fighting with the other team when one of our men gets hit by a pitch. "Look at what happened the other night. Here we have two guys catcher Ray Fosse and pitcher Ray Lamb who can't play for a week because they got hurt fighting. "I told them the next time something like that happens, the pitcher just has to get the other pitcher the one who hit our man even if we have to wait for another game to get him.

It's the only way something like this can be stopped." "I'd never do what Lolich did intentionally throw at anybody except to protect teammates," Dunning said. "When someone hits one of your men, a pitcher has to come back and show them he's got guts enough to stop them. Aurelio Rodriguez put the Tigers ahead 1-0 in the first frame by hitting Dunning's first pitch for a home run. The Indians rebounded with four runs off Lolich on Roy Foster's three run homer and Jack Heidemann's two-out run scoring double. After Dunning hit Lolich in the third inning, Rodriguez walked and Jim Northrup tied the score with a three-run homer.

An infield hit and a throwing error by Rodriguez put Ted Ford on second base in the sixth and the Indians took a 5-4 lead on Heidemann's CLEVELAND (AP) Detroit's Gates Brown touched home plate ahead of throw from utility man Chuck Hinton, who made a rare appearance as a catcher and had two passed balls to enable Brown, who doubled, to score in the first inning of second game of doubleheader here Sunday. Pitched Ed Farmer awaits throw from Hinton. West dominates cage benefit The game was dominated by the West, but there were a number of features to keep the folks interested. First, the East, coached by former pro and college coach John McClendon, started five hometown Indiana Pacers, much to the' delight of the crowd. Then NBA greats Earl Monroe of Baltimore, Cazzie Russell of San Francisco and Connie Hawkins of Phoenix combined with ABA starts Jimmy Jones of Memphis, Larry Jones and Mack Calvin of the Floridians and Willie Wise and Zelmo Beaty of the Utah Stars to give the fans plenty of fireworks for the West.

Finally, young John Brisker of the ABA's Pittsburgh team, the game's high-scorer with 21 points, put a topper on the show with some dazzling play for the East. Other focal points included Calvin-led fast breaks, some sleight-of-hand passing by Monroe Russell and Indiana's Roger Brown, and soaring dunk shots by Hawkins. Six players scored in double figures for the West, led by Jimmie Jones with 14 points. Wise, Larry Jones and Monroe scored 13 Brown followed Brisker in the East scoring with 14 points. GENERAL TIRE OF White Sox blast Twins 18-8; Orioles rout Yanks Ak f1 I hA fl If! ri I I ifi single.

The Tigers chased Dunning in the eighth when Northrup doubled and took third on Willie Horton's infield hit. Steven Mingori replaced Dunning and got Al Kaline to pop out, but pinch hitter Ike Brown's sacrifice fly scored northrup with the tying run. Chuck Hinton hit reliever Fred Scherman's second pitch over the left field fence leading off the 11th to win the game for Cleveland. It was Scherman's first defeat after five straight wins. In the nightcap, the Tigers wiped out a 5-1 Cleveland lead on a five-run sixth in-ning marked by two-run homers by Dalton Jones and Jim Price and a run-scoring single by Gates Brown.

The Indians bounced back with two runs in the seventh. Chambliss singled in the goa-head run in the seventh inning. Then Martin pointed out that a set of lights between home plate and first base were out and the umpires halted play. The Tigers are idle today, traveling to New York to open a series with the Yankees with a daylight double-header Tuesday. DETROIT CLEVELAND ab bi ab bi ARodrgez 3b 4 2 2 1 Nettles 3b 5 110 Northrup rf 2 2 3 Leon 2b 3 10 0 WHorton If 5 0 2 0 RFoster rt 4 2 2 4 Cash lb 3 0 10 Chmbliss lb 4 0 0 0 Kaline rf 2 0 0 0 Colbert 0 0 0 0 MAuliffe 2b 0 0 0 1 Harrelson If 3 0 0 0 IBrown ph 0 0 0 1 Uhlander If 10 0 0 TTaylor 2b 1 0 0 0 Ford cf 4 2 10 Freehan 2 0 0 0 Pinson cf 10 10 DJones ph 1 0 0 0 Hiedemn 5 0 2 2 Price 0 0 0 0 Suarez 4 0 10 MStanley cf 4 0 0 0 Dunning 3 0 0 0 Brnkman 5 0 0 0 Mingori 0 0 0 0 Lolich 2 10 0 Hennigan 0 0 0 0 GBrown ph 1 1 1 1 Austin 0 0 0 0 Schermn 0 0 0 0 Hinton lb 1111 Total 38 4 8 i Total 38 7 9 7 None out when winning run scored.

Detroit 103 000 011 006 Cleveland 400 001 010 017 A. Rodriguez. DP Cleveland 1. LOBDetroit 5, Cleveland 8. 2B Heidemann, Northrup, Pinson.

HR A. Rodriquez 7, R. Foster 2 (7), Northrup 5, G. Brown 1, Hinton 2. M.

Stanley. SF I. Brown. IP ER BB SO Lolich 8 7 6 5 3 11 scnerman (L, 5-1) 2 2 Dunning 7 6 Va 0 1 0 'A 2 2 0 Mingori Hennigan Austin Colbert (W, 2-1) HBP By Lolich, Chambliss; by Dun ning, Lolich by Colbert, Price. PM Price.

3:15. SECOr-D GAME Suspended in of 6th inning-power failure) Detroit 100 005 06 10 0 Cleveland 500 000 27 10 0 Zepp, Coleman (1), Kilkenny (2), Denehy (4), Scnerman (7) and Price; Farmer, Hennigan 6) Mingori (6), 'McDowell 8) and Hinton. HRS Hinton i3rd), Jones (4th, Price (1st). three-run homer in the seventh inning of the second game capped a five-run rally that gave Milwaukee its victory over Oakland. Homers by Mike Epstein, Reggie Jackson, Dave Duncan and Sal Bando helped the Athletics win the opener, their fifth victory in a row.

Tom Murphy's two-run double in the fourth and Jim Spencer's two-run single an inning later helped the Angels beat Kansas City in the second game. Bruce Dal Canton pitched a five-hitter before needing relief in the ninth and had a two-run single as the Royals won the opener to keep pace with front-running Oakland in the AL West. John Kennedy's two-out single in the ninth lifted Boston past the Senators. Washington built a 3-0 lead before the Red Sox tied the game in the seventh on Billy Con-igliaro's two-run double and Phil Gagliano's two-out pinch single. Pete Broberg, the No.

1 choice in last week's free agent draft, made his major league debut for the Senators, allowing only three hits and striking out seven before faltering in the seventh. Doren girls divide Coldwater twin bill COLDWATER Doren's Sport Shop girls fast pitch softball team split a double-header with the Coldwater e-etts here Saturday night. In the first game, 17 hits including four apiece from Sharon Heisler, Carolyn Taft and Ginny Dodd, gave Doren an 11- 0 win. Mary Latta contributed a triple and Ethel Hopkins, who knocked in a pair of hurled the shutout. In the second game, Doren pitcher Pat Swartz gave up nine runs in the first two innings and wound up taking a 12- 6 loss.

The local girls collected 12 hits in that one. LIFE HEALTH ANNUITIES BRUCE P. VAN DONGEN 157 CAPITAL N.E. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. Phone 965-3529 Metropolitan Life? New York, N.Y.

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Elsewhere in the American League, Baltimore routed Mickey Mantle league results Twin Valley A pair of RBI's from Tom Banks and Mark Hudson helped Pennfield beat Albion 8-L Banks allowed only four hits and a single run while striking out nine in picking up the win. Walston named CHICAGO (UPI) Bobby Walston, a former end with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League, has been named assistant to President George Halas of the Chicago Bears. JULY camber, adjust Pficed as shovn al General Tire stores. CompetM.vely pnced at indetxnoent dealers displaying the General sign. STORE HOURS: 7 A.M.-5.30 P.M.

SAT. 8 A.M. 1 P.M. mm in By MIKE HARRIS Associated Press Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS (AP) John Barnnill, a veteran of both the National Basketball League and the American Basketball League, flashed a grin and said, "That's the way this game should be played. Nice and loose." Barnnill, still playing for the ABA Denver Rockets, acted as coach of the West squad in Sunday's Martin Luther King Benefit game.

here, which attracted six NBA players and 17 ABA players. The West made Barnnill a winning coach by downing the East squad 111-100 in the hot Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum, but the score mat tered much less than the action. A paid crowd of 6,078 was announced. The actual number of spectators appeared much less than that figure. However, the game was nationally-televised and the people there were animated.

US-131 dragway results MARTIN Perennial drag favorite Bill "Grumpy" Jenkins outdrove a large field of Pro Stock racecars to win the feature event at US-131 Dragway Saturday night. Driving his own 427 cubic inch 1971 Camaro, Jenkins, the class record holder at Martin, sped past the factory-backed Dodge Challenger of Mike Fons to win the event. Holding the lead right from the race's start, the likable 18-year drag veteran hit a top speed of 140.84 m.p.h. on the Martin quarter-mile track in an elapsed time of 9.75 seconds to drive by Fons, who lost control of his Rod Shop Dodge Challenger about 1000 feet from the starting line and had to turn his 426 cubic inch hemispherical-head engine off. In the United Drag Racers Association segment, Jim Wick of Fond Du Lac, Wis.

drove his "Matchmaker" Dodge Duster to victory. In other action, Dave Van-Luke of Grand Rapids outlasted Bob Nichols of Kalamazoo for the meet's Super Stock. Eliminator honors, while another Kalamazoo driver, Dick Jamison, won the Modified Eliminator category. U.S. divers set for Pan-Am TALLAHASSEE, Fla.

(AP) Rick Earley of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dick Rydze of Ann Arbor, have captured the men's 10-meter diving berths on the United State's Pan American Games diving team. Earley and Rydze fought a close battle during two days of diving at the Florida State University pool. Air Force Capt. Micki King of Hermosa Beach, and Debby Lipman of Long Beach, took the women's 10-meter slots Sunday. laH Sip Grosse Pointe Thistle skipper wins Kssssstru "TT SM4JU-WMI si, 4 for 76 4for8G 4 for SB 4-PLY NYLON CORD Dual Tread Design IM AL ET Duragen Rubber Tread New York 10-4, Milwaukee beat Oakland 7-4, after losing the opener 11-4, Kansas City beat California 5-1 before bowing 8-4 in the second game, Boston edged Washington 4-3.

Mark Belanger had a two-run single and Dave Johnson stole home to highlight a five-run first inning in the Orioles' rout of New York. The Yankees cut the lead to 5-4 in the seventh before Baltimore put the game out of reach on Don Buford's run-producing double and a two-run single by Brooks Robinson. Dave McNally pitched seven innings to record his 11th victory against four losses. Pinch-hitter Andy Kosco's morning sailing by Terry Henshaw, who was second for the series. Hugh Welch was third, and Bob Hawes, fourth.

After the first three places in the Thistle fleet of 31, the finishers in the series were, in order, Bob Hills, Dave McDilL Ned Boies, Wendy So-derlund, John Cats, Scott Alberts, Bob Salemka, Fred Brydges, Pete Shaw and Dick Johnston. Dr. Don Pearson was race judge for the weekend. Arrangements for the Saturday evening steak broil and the Sunday picnic were made by Mrs. Maria Hills.

bowling tourney the 32 who entered. He took the lead from Russ London of Chicago in the 27th game Sunday, after London had paced the field from opening action Friday. London's 5820 total gave him run-nerup honors. Mrs. McClain, a 19-year-old kegler who had been a top contender, rallied Sunday to finish with a 4659 for 24 games to pace six women qualifiers to Milwaukee.

The Detroit bowler surged ahead of Jacquline Kott of Little Rock, who faltered in the final rolling and was fourth at 4567. The 15 qualifiers will take part in the world tourney which already has drawn entries from 30 nations in Asia, Europe and North and South America. fl Un I I SIZE I I 6.50-13 SIZE 7.75-14 7.75-15. SIZE 8.25-14 8.25-15. SIZE 8.55-14 Tubeless whitewall prices, plus $1.76 to FREE NO TRADE RA.IM CHECK Should our supply of some lire sizes Of tines run short during this $2.50 Fed.

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