Casa Grande Dispatch from Casa Grande, Arizona • Page 9

Grande (Ariz.) DISPATCH Friday, June 3Q. 1972 9 Legion Two, Drops One Casa Grande grabbed a 6-0 Caw Grande's winning pit- lead in the first inning and hung Rudy Ruiz, struck out nine on to beat Tempo, 12-1 Thursday batters and allowed only four night in an American Legion WUin the game played at Casa game. GRANDE DISPATCH Tuesday night in another game played at Casa Grande, the local team picked up a 6-2 score against Prescott after taking a 5-1 drubbing from the team the night before in Mesa, In the Preseott contest, the winning pitcher who let the opposing side have only two hits was Eddie Foster. Casa Grande had seven hits in that game. Monday night Casa Grande had six hits from which they took their only run against Mesa.

Casa Grande's losing pitcher John Dickerson allowed Five hits. Leading hitters for the local team during this week's were against Prescott Mark Sprinkles, with three hits fron three times at bat, and Mike Mitchell, with two hits. In the Tempe game Randy Gonzalez bit knocked two doubles and one single while Sprinkles had three singles. Jamie Angley bad a triple and Greg Coxon a double in that game as well. The American Legion team will meet Westwood next Thursday night.

Five Runs Ensure Cards' 7-5 Victory Locals Favored To Win Sunday at 11-Mile Corner the Cards took the Pee Wee Cham- pionsfaips as they closed out the season With aa S-l record. Members of the team, from the left in the top row, include: Mark Brashia-. Monte Alridge. Ricky McMahon, Craig Schmdder, Todd Matsinger, David of Ramos. Felipe Becerra, Monte Vandenberg, Mark Tackett.

Bobby Martin, Brian Dodge, Arthur Morrow, Russell Goff, and Brian Standford. Another Mark Bennett, is dot pictured. Do vis Team Wipes Out AJC To Take Fronfrunner Spot Die M. C. Davis women's slow pilch team ran over their Arizona Job College opponents 16 to 3 Thursday night to move into fifth place in the league standings.

The Davis team scored, their nans off 12 hits while the AJC players made their three on lour hits. Winning pitcher for Wednesday's game was Olivia Yubeta. to another Wednesday game Bob's Sport shop beat out Tom's Rounders with 12 runs on 24 hits win 12 to 2. Winning pitcher who allowed the Rounders only .11 hits was Martha Johnson. Monday evening league play sawPrettyman'srol) over Casa Grande Mills 7 to 1 and Don's Automotive shut out the Arizona tofl.

Prettyman's Barbara Hoops was winning pitcher in the first contest. Losing pitcher was Maria Cardenas. The Prettyman's had been able to capture their seven runs from a total of 13 hits. Winning pitcher for Don's Automotive, Suzanne Tapia, almost threw a no-hitter, as she allowed only one bit. The Don's bad six hits from which they scored their eight runs.

This week's results leave (he Prettyman's in first place with a 3-0 record. Close behind are Don's Automotive, with 3-1, Schaefer 500 Called Off MOUNT POCONO, Pa. (AP) The Schaefer 500, third. rJenest race in motor sports, has been canceled at least for the time being. Officials of the sanctioning U.S.

Auto dub took the action Thursday when they showed up at Pocono International Raceway and found the track locked and guarded by policemen. There is a chance it may be scheduled for a later date. William J. Smyth, executive director of US AC, said a meeting of the group's executive committee will be called soon, probably Saturday, to discuss a possible renegotiation of Pocono's racing schedule. Sunday's race was to have Olympic Trials Begun Today EUGENE, Ore.

(AP) The will be on Jim Ryun and bis allergies when US. Olympic track and field trials begin Thursday over the fast but wind-whipped track at the University of Oregon. Ryun, the world record holder in the mile, 1,500 meters and halfrmile, apparently has won Ms battle with mental fatigue but still is troubled with bay ftyon wfll try to qualify in two the 1,500 meters and the 800 meters. His sternest competition in 1he 1,500 meters is expected from Bave Wottle, the national ttegiate champion, and Tom JB Ruien, an old rival in the metric mile distance. Considerable attention will be centered on Steve Prefonlaine, the boy wonder from the University of Oregon, who wfll seek berth at Munich in the $000 meters.

Challengers will indudeCentral Arizona College coach George Young, Smith, Jack Bachelor, fSrank Shorter and Tost Laris, Competition in the sprints, a perennial strong point, is considered wide open. field of Juris Lusins, Ben Swenson and Mark Win- senried is challenged by the sas well as Rick i Brown, Steve Straub and Willie us, fee surprise winner of NCAA meet here a 1 month ago. paid just over $400,000 in prize and accessory money. Only the $1 million Indianapolis 500 and the $750,000 California 500 at Ontario are-richer. Plagued by rain on seven of the 10 days set aside for practice and qualifying, and pressured by Pennsylvania Gov.

Milton Shapp not to hold the event in the middle of the stale's flood disaster area, Pocono officials had announced Wednesday that the Schaefer would not be run as scheduled. Dr. Joseph Mattioli, the track's board chairman and chief t-xecutive officer, said he asked USAC officials as early as last Monday for a new date. Smyth refused, saying his racing crew was prepared to run the race. Additionally, Smyth said, the sanctioning agreement given USAC sole prerogative to run the race, or caned or postpone it, as conditions dictate.

Mattioli revealed that Gov, Shapp had written him Monday suggesting that consideration be given to postponing the race. He Shapp cited a possible-overtaxing of the areas already utilities and roads by an influx of possibly 100,000 people for the race. Smyth said a decision will be made at the USAC executive committee meeting about what to do with the $275,000 base prize money already turned over to the sanctioning group. The official earlier had indicated that the prize money would be forfeited outright. Dope Test Positive On Raamos MADRID (AP) The Spanish Boxing Federation asked the World Boxing Council today to deprive Mando Ramos of the" WBC lightweight championship because a dope lest he took had proved positive.

Ramos, of Los Angeles, won the title with a close 15-round decision over Spain's Pedro Carrasco in Madrid Wednesday night. After the fight Ramos and Carrasco took urine tests before a team of doctors from the Spanish Federation. The Spanish Federation informed the president of the WBC, Ramon G. Velazquez, in Mexico of the result of the test' and asked the WBC lo change die result and declare the Spaniard the winner and new titlebolder. Arizona Textiles's, 2-1, and Casa Grande Mills, 2-2.

In fifth place are the M. C. Davis players, with 1-2, then comes the Arizona Job Colleges and Bob's Sport Shop, both at 13, and Tom's Rounders, 0-3. Next league games will be Monday night when the Arizona Job Colleges face Bob's Sport Shop and the Prettyman's defend their lead against the Arizona Textile's, Cortez Scores 27-7 Victory, Safeway Wins The men's fast pitch league's Cortez team knocked over the Capital Wire players with a 27 to 7 score Wednesday night while what bad been billed as the game of the year between Safeway and Arizona City ended7to3in favor of Safeway. The Cortez players got their runs off 19 hits while the Capitol Wire team got seven runs off two hits.

Winning pitcher for the Cortez was Aurelio Cortez. In the second Wednesday game, winning pitcher in the Safeway-Arizona City game, Ron Poster actually allowed more hits, six, than did losing pitcher Rex Weinman, with Five. Safeway now is the only undefeated team in the league. Arizona City and Bob's Sport Shop have each lost one. Tuesday night Valley Seed blasted 16 runs in the last three innings to win 19 to 16 against the Heela team.

Winning pitcher Sam Boggs and losing pitcher Woody Madrid both pitched eight hit games. the night before Kentucky Fried claimed six runs on nine hits but Bob's Sport Shop managed 10 runs cm 11 to win that contest. Winning pitcher was Jim Stevens, with the leading hitter Bill Johnson. The Cards overtook the Yanks with five runs in two innings Wednesday night to score a 7 to 5 victory over their Little League opponents. The Yanks got four runs in the fourth to lead 4 to 2, but the Cards picked up three in the fifth and two in the sixth.

The Yanks last run in the sixth was not enough to ward off defeat. Winning Pitcher was Rickey Valdez with David Cruz the losing pitcher. The only homer was hit by Kenny Crouch. His season total now stands at six home runs. Wednesday's only other Little League game saw the Indians amass three unearned runs to beat the Cubs 3 to 0.

Each team got only two hits. The Indians' Gilbert Sato, who managed the for his team, knocked in two runners in the first who bad been put on base by an error and a pitcher's The Indians third run came on an error and a pass ball in the top of the fourth. Winning pitcher in that contest was Tommy Lopez; losing pitcher was Kirk Odom. In games tonight the Cards meet the Giants and the Orioles clash with the Cubs in games that start at 6 and 8. The Indians meet the Braves and the Dodgers the Yanks tonight also.

A local driver may be in the victory lane for the first time this year in late model stocks and claimers competition Sunday night during the 11-Mile Corner Speedway Holiday Championships, Windy McDonald, track owner, said, "A conflict in the race schedule will probably keep Carl Trimmer away from the track and he has been the primary reason for the non- winning by the locals." Trimmer not only is point leader at 11-Mile Corner, he also is setting the pace in the state point chase and the Southwest Super Stock Racing Association standings. The SSSRA has scheduled a race Sunday night in Winkeiman and Trimmer will be trying to protect his slender lead by competing in that McDonald predicted three Coolidge drivers might be able to pick up the winning spots in the 30 lap feature in the late model division. Jim Harrison, Jody England and Travis Brady have been running strong in recent weeks and probably will battle each other for the wm, McDonald said. The track owner added however, that Casa Grande's Rick Compton could pull an upset as he also has shown strength recently. The claimer division may be a different story as Phoenix and Tucson so far have fielded the fastest cars -and Sunday promises to be no different, McDonald said Billy Voland is the points Fischer May Be Out Arizona City Golfers ce Chess Mafch OeOT Up fOr TOUrnOrtlOnt AMSTERDAM The president of the World Chess Members of the Arizona City Men's Golf Tournament begin play this weekend competing for gift certificate prizes in the tenth annual Fourth of July Golf Tournament.

Duane Daley, tournament chairman, said all association members would be eligible to play in the two-man best ball, 36 holes, with 80 per cent handicap tournament. Not more than a 10 stroke difference in partner handicaps will be allowed, Daley said. Entry fees per man will be $10, with the winner taking home 45 per cent of these fees in gift certificates fron the club's pro shop. The second place winner will get 25 per cent of the prize, with third and fourth place golfers left with 20 and 10 per cent. Daley said the 36 holes may be played on any two of the three days, Saturday, Sunday or Tuesday.

The tournament also said last year's winners, Charles Belew and Bob Lamar, will be on hand to defend their titles. Federation has threatened American champion Bobby Fischer with blacklisting following reports he is holding out for a cut of the gate receipts from his World Series with Boris Spassky of Russia. Dr. Euwe, the world federation president and veteran Dutch grandmaster, said Thursday night that if the 29-year-old American fails to appear Sunday for the start of the world chess championship in Reykjavik, Iceland, he stands to lose his rights to play for the world title "not only this time but perhaps forever." Fischer was seen Thursday night at New York's Kennedy airport, but Icelandic Airlines said he did not board its flight to Reykjavik. When newsmen tried to question him, his bodyguards fended them off.

The next flight from New York 10 Iceland is tonight. But Fischer in the past has refused to fly on the Jewish Sabbath, between sundown Friday and sundown Saturday. Informed sources in Reykjavik said that Fischer informed the Icelandic Chess Federation that he wouldn't play unless he got 30 per cent of the gate receipts. leader and has won five main events. Dean Perm and Jim DeHaven have been the toughest of the Tucson drivers, with each having scored a victory.

A total of 40 cars are expected in the 10 event program which opens with qualifying runs at 7 p.m. Ariz, Western Takes One Run Win From Foes The Arizona Western men's slow pitch players eked out a 8 to 7 victory from the Kentucky. Fried nine in league action Wednesday night as the Arizona City team grabbed 10 runs and held the Tom's Peanuts scoreless. -The Arizona Western team nabbed two runs in the last half of the seventh inning to win thc-ir contest. The Arizona City players hit a total of 13 hits in their game but the Tom's Peanuts team got nothing from their five hits.

Winning pitcher for Arizona City Was Mark Snavely Jim Adkins took the losing pitcher tag. Tuesday night, in the first two games of the second half of the league's season, Safeway came close to shutting out Arizona Job Colleges with a 20 to 1 final score Winning pitcher was Joe Cardenas for Safeway. Losing pitcher was Jerry Yoshitomi. In another Tuesday game. Mel Vandenberg was winning pitcher in the Arizona Textile 12 to 7 victory against Al's Chevron.

Evert Beats Book Odds In Wimbledon Matches WIMBLEDON, England (AP) British bookies had been Tucsonans Take Wrestling Match Tucson brothers Kirk and Karl Von Steiger took the tag team main event last weekend in professional wrestling at Casa Grande. The Von Steigers defeated Kiko Torres and Eddie Lopez with a suplex hold in the third fall. Karl had wrestled Torres to a 20 minute draw in the opening match. In another match Salvador Dominguez defeated Nano Ortega in a roll-up and a pin. In the first half of the double main event Johnny Kostas was disqualified against Chuck Karbo.

Wrestling will go on again this Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Percy Palmer's Recreation Hall. offering odds of 100-1 today against a couple of 'American teen-agers carrying off both bledon Tennis Championships. were certain to attract plenty of cash support for Jim Connors and Chris Evert. But Miss Evert shook off center-court pressure today and advanced to the women's singles round of 16 of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships by beating American Mary Ann Eisel 8-6, W.

Connors, the 19-year-old left- hander from Belleville, has reached the final 16 of the men's division. "The odds seem rather btg to. me," Connors said. "I would have thought we have a better chance than the bookmakers seem to think." If Connors reaches the quarter-finals he is likely to come up against Romania's Die Nastase, the No. 2 seed.

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