The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 62

FIRST C6 THE MORNING CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 18, 1986 Ddleim Sdoes Patriots, Brass Rail tournament favorites play agjaiLTD By KEITH GROLLER Of The Morning Call -JA LA 1 )': BOSTON (AP) Carl Yastrzem-ski sipped a beer and said that an injury would keep him from playing. Ted Williams was introduced as "simply the best hitter who ever lived." Joe DiMaggio donned his old No. and was given a standing ovation in the park he once played at as a New York Yankee. Warren Spahn, who pitched the first of his 363 victories while with the old Boston Braves in 1946, was welcomed home. And another old favorite, Tommy Holmes, showed up in his old Braves' uniform, which had turned almost yellow with age.

Nostalgia flooded Fenway Park yesterday, the first stop of the Equitable Old-Timers Series for the benefit of former major league baseball players in need. The Boston Red Sox' alumni, led by Hall of Famers Williams and Bobby Doerr, played a pickup squad of so-called Major League All-Stars, headed by Hall of Famers Spahn and DiMaggio. Many of the participants were 'nearly as old as Fenway, which is observing its 75th birthday this year. Retired umpire Jocko Conlan, dapper in his old uniform with bow tie, was even older a spry 86. However, some younger guys had to be recruited to help out in the three-inning game.

The youngest was former Detroit star Mark Fi-drych, only 31 but the victim of arm trouble that cut short his baseball career. Nineteen members of the Red Sox' 1946 American League pennant team were presented championship rings 40 years late. Red Sox co-owner Jean Yawkey decided to give the rings when she learned that 40 years ago only World Series champions received them. A moment of silence was held in memory of deceased members of the 1946 team, including its manager, Hall of Famer Joe Cronin. Then Cronin's widow, Mildred, threw the ceremonial first balL The Major League All-Stars hung on to edge the old Red Sox 5-4.

Rico Petrocelli gave Boston a 1-0 lead with a first inning home run off Spahn in the first inning. However, the All-Stars charged in front 4-1 in the second on a two-run homer by Tom Grieve, now the Texas Rangers' general manager, and RBI singles by Al Bumbry and Art Howe. Joe Ferguson made it 5-1 with a home run off Dave Ferriss in the third. Then the Red Sox just missed in a last inning rally, scoring three runs on an RBI single by Frank Mal-zone and a two-run double by Carroll Hardy off Tom House. DiMaggio, 71, was joined in uniform by his brothers, Vince, 73, who once played for the Braves, and Dominic, 69, a one-time star with the Red Sox.

They presented a tree to the city of Boston. It will be planted in Boston Common. "It's jusf a fun time and I'm very excited," said Spahn, now 65. Boston was selected for the start of the series, founded with the cooperation of Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, major league club owners and the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Associated Press Next weekend's Allentown Patriot Spring Open Fastpitch Softball Tour nament could very well shape up as a showcase for the two local teams competing in the event Both the host Patriots and Brass Rail are considered top contenders in the double-elimination, four-day event which gets underway at 9:30 Friday night when the Patriots face Neal Thompson of Philadelphia.

A total of 15 clubs are expected to participate in the annual Memorial Day holiday event which always gets the local fastpitch season into full gear. The defending tournament champion, Gorga's of Paterson, NJ, does not have a team this season, but several quality clubs will be in town to -compete for the first- and second-place trophies. The field will include D.C. Tire of Philadelphia; the New York Warriors; the New York Eagles; Delaney's of Middletown, N.Y4 Hyde Park (N.Y.) Merchants; the Port Jervis Merchants; Dill AC of Ocean, J4 Boswell Engineering and Four Corners, both of Fairlawn, Clancy's Mustangs and UnifoiL both of Paterson, NJ, and Brunswick (N Leasing. All of the games will be played at Patriots and Bicentennial parks.

Saturday's play begins at 10:30 am at Pates with eight games scheduled and at noon at Bicentennial where five games are slated. Sunday's play begins at noon and the championship series is set to begin at 11 a.m. Monday at Pates. Both Patriot manager Ron Dallago and Brass Rail skipper Dale Culton feel their teams could stay around all the way to the end. Dallago's crew has been creating a stir throughout the early part of the season with its knack for late-inning comebacks.

As of Friday, the Pates were 12-7 overall and 4-1 in the East Penn League where the team has come up with several thrilling comebacks. "We're an exciting team to watch; there's never a dull moment with us," said Dallago, who is assisted by Jack Ohl and Chris Koval. "This is a young team which really hustles. These guys feel they are never out of a game. We've scored 39 runs in our last five games, so you know we can be very explosive." The pitching staff is headed by Mike Ohl and Joe Stinner, while Jim 1 Lees and Jim Sherer also get their share of work and Ed Bennick is also expected to contribute later on in the year.

Larry Peck and Darrell Stoy alternate behind the plate; Tom Stinner and Barry Buchman handle first base; Joe Stinner and Mike Ohl alternate at second when they are not pitching, and Tom Hoffman also sees some action there. Tom Adams is the shortstop and Mike Smith handles third. In the outfield, Ron Konapelsky, Joe Toth and Scott Fick give the club speed and excellent throwing arms. The statistician and batboy roles are handled by Duane and Brent Ohl. It's a group that Dallago feels can be the future fastpitch power in the Allentown area.

"Most of these guys are in their young 20s, well before the time most players reach their full potential for most of them, their best days lie ahead," said Dallago. "We think this team could be the team of the future, as well as the present, if we can just keep everybody together as they mature and gain experience." While the Patriots feature a young crew with lots of new faces, the Brass Rail is loaded with veterans familiar to area fastpitch fans. The team had been known for years as Wessner Beverage before changing sponsorships and the club is a perennial East Penn League leader. Through Friday, the club owned a 4-2 record, but very well could have been 6-0 were it not for one bad pitch in each loss, according to Culton. The club has solid pitching in Darrel Stofflet and Brent Windsor, while Culton, Jim Ney and Lou Frey are among the team's top hitters.

"We've had a few injuries which have hurt us," said Culton, noting the losses of Mike Pessina and Tom Gallagher for the season. "But sometimes, teams come together in the face of adversity and that's what we seem to be doing now. This team has pretty much been together for 10 years and we -have a lot of camaraderie and friendship which keeps us together during the course of a season." The Rail playing under the Wessner name, finished second last year in the Pates' Spring tourney, while the Pates took third. The tournament is an ASA-sanctioned event and the Lehigh Valley Umpires Association will handle the officiating along with the Patriot Tournament Committee. The Patriots all also running a Class tourney next weekend and a few openings are still left For further information, call Don Hunsicker at Ted Williams showed he was still the 'Splendid Splinter during an Oldtimers Game at Boston's Fenway Park yesterday afternoon.

The game pitted the 1 946 American League champion Red Sox against an all-star team from that era. The series will move on for $10,000 per game to establish a fund games in 25 other major league cit- to help former major league players ies. Equitable pays all expenses and in financial trouble. World Cup trophy placed in bank committee's general coordinator, said. "It already is under custody in the vaults of the National Bank of Mexico." The trophy, known as the FIFA Cup after the International Federation of Association Football that governs world soccer, completed its tour Monday of the eight World Cup sites outside Mexico City.

The cup weighs a little more than MEXICO CITY (AP) The 18-carat gold trophy that will be awarded the world's best soccer team next month will be guarded in a bank vault until the inaugural World Cup game May 31, the Organizing Committee announced yesterday. "Its exhibition has ended, and it will not be shown again until the inaugural day," Elena Juarez, the 11 pounds. It is a sculpture of a globe hoisted by a woman in flowing robes. It was presented Monday to city authorities who placed it in the vaults of the bank, which is one of the event's sponsors. Organizing Committee officials say the decision against exhibiting the FIFA Cup in the capital was made for security reasons, but they declined to elaborate.

The tour of the trophy, which was brought to Mexico in time for the World Cup lottery last December that determined which of the 24 teams would play where in tournament play, started in Puebla. It then was sent to the other provincial sites of World Cup stadiums. Mahanoy Area wins title Bloomsburg ousted Marian came back to tie it in the sixth when Diane McCullion walked and scored on a Danielle Mears double. Kim Kapes followed with a two-run homer. Mahanoy Area 4, Marian 3 A seventh-inning sacrifice fly by Shelly Boman gave visiting Mahanoy Area a 4-3 win over Marian Catholic and the championship of the Schuylkill League's Division 2.

The sacrifice fly scored Maria Benjamin who had walked and advanced on an error. Mahanoy Area took a 3-0 lead in the third on four walks and singled by Karen Zeplan and Benjamin. The Huskies got a run in the first when Suzanne Luna smacked a solo homer, but Austin got three runs in the sixth to ice the game. Susan Ko-cher, who suffered her first loss of the season, was fashioning a no-hitter until the sixth. She finished the season 16-1.

Winning pitcher Pam Clay allowed three hits in getting the victory. AKRON, Ohio The Bloomsburg women's softball reached the NCAA Division 2 Final Four for the first time this year, but was eliminated by Cal State-Northridge 5-4 yesterday in the double-elimination tournament The Huskies lost to Steven F. Austin of Texas 3-1 earlier in the day. The Huskies (42-5 on the season) took a 2-0 lead in the first when Jean Millen of Whitehall drilled a two-out, two-run homer. Bloomsburg grabbed two more runs in the third, on the strength of two doubles and a single, to take a 4-0 advantage.

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