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ZEB JOHNSON RUSTY GUIDROZ FRED DAVIDSON DICKIE WICKS LLOYD FISHER Stevedores, Sulphur Claim Playoff Wins TONY STEPHENS STAN LEVY LEO STUTES if By FRANK ADAMS The Lake Charles Stevedores! have moved into the showdown round of the District Seven American Legion baseball playoffs but they won't know until Wednesday night who their opponent will be in the final round. The Stevedores blasted Crowley, 7-2, on Johnny Fryar's one-hitter at Legion Field Monday night to put Crowley on the sidelines in two straight. Fryar came within two outs of a no-hitter but faltered in the seventh. Sulphur's Post 179 scored four times in the seventh to trim Opelousas, 5-1, at Opelousas. Kyle Carlin fashioned a three- hitter.

The two teams now face the rubber match, a 7:30 p.m. game at Sulphur' Wednesday. The playoff round started Saturday, with the Stevedores Fryar struck out 14, whiffing seven in a row in one stretch, and had only two balls hit out of the infield prior to the seventh. The Dockers struck quickly against Trahan. Ray Cole opened the first with a walk and stole second and Wayne Savoy promptly lashed a sinker that got past Cart and rolled to the right field corner.

Cole scored easily and Savoy romped on home when Cart threw behind him to third. Trahan's doom was spelled in the third, after he had retired the first two batters. He issued straight passes to Delmon McNabb, Greg Dupin and Tom 01- ney and Dowies hit a 1-1 fastball high over the fence in left- center to clear the sacks. Leonard Arsement greetec Butch Canty with a sharp sin whipping Crowley 8-1 and Ope- i file to center and went to thirc lousas beating Sulphur, 8-2. Sulphur was the Western Division winner, with Lake Charles the runncnip, while Opelousas was the runnerup in the Eastern Division.

Crowley's only base runners prior to the seventh got aboard via a walk and an error. Trahan drew a pass but was left stranded in the third. Bruce Cart reached first in the fifth, when Leonard Arsement let a third strike gel away from him, but Arsement quickly made amends by pegging Cart out at second when Wade Smith missed a third strike with the hit and run on. when the ball bounced ovei Murray Morgan's head but Can fy struck out Fryar to end the threat. In the fourth, with one out, Savoy smashed a double to left- center and scored when David Spell followed with a single to the same area, ending the Stevedore scoring.

Fryar made Enos Spell his 13th strikeout victim to open the seventh and it proved an unlucky 13th. Jerry Elkins worked Fryar for a walk and Morgan lashed a 3-1 pitch down the right-field line for a double, sending Elkins home. Morgan came home on a bouncer to third by pinch-hitter Uhane Leonard, then Fr a 'anned Wade Smith to end it. Trahan struck out five, but six walks hurt although he allowed, only two hits. Canty fanned four, and walked one.

Sulphur jumped ahead of Opelousas in the first. Charles Ve- nissat walked and advanced on Terry Saucier's sacrifice. After Darrell Ardoin flied out, Richard Dore blasted a double to chase Venissat home. Opelousas tied it in the second when Carlin had a touch of wildness. He walked Richard Horecky and Bov Votier followed with a single.

A walk to pitcher David Soileau loaded the bases and Chip McArdle worked Carlin for another pass to force in Horecky before Carlin settled down to retire the side. Ken Smith opened the seventh with a single and stole second, then Carlin sacrificed and Smith raced home when Bob Landry's throw went wild. Venissat struck out, but Saucier home, then Dore crossed the plate on Robert Babineaux's single. Carlin fanned nine and walked six, five of the passes coming in a shaky stretch. Crowley 000 000 LC Stevedores 204 100 Duke Trahan, Bulch Canly (3) ond Clyde Broussord; Johnny Fryar and Leonard Arsement, Ron Hidalgo (5).

Dowies, LC, 3rd, 3 on. SPORTS CALENDAR TODAY" SCUBA DIVING: Meeting to organize SCUBA Club at '2309 Norven Drive, 8 p.m. BABE RUTH: Regional playoff at Opelousas, Lake Charles vs. Abbeville Nationals, 8 p.m. TOMORROW LEGION BASEBALL- Opelousas at Sulphur Post 179, sub-district, semi-final playoff, 7:30 p.m.

Russ Coach Warns Of German Team LOS ANGELES (AP)-Gavriil Korobkov, head coach of the USSR's track and field team, thinks Unified Germany may turn out to be the powerhouse at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this fall. Korobkov, 45, here for the dual meet Saturday and Sunday against the United States, said in an interview Monday: Germany may have a better team at Tokyo than ei- Luck Will Miss Meet Rus- LOS ANGELES (AP) Jay Luck, American star of the 400- meter hurdles, will be missing next weekend when the United Stales and the USSR compete in their annual dual track and field meet. Luck advised meet oflicials iiday by teleyram from New City that he was forced to wi'hdraw because of a virus His illness opened up a spot in the hurdles race for Rex Cawley, former University of Southern California athlete who was already on the scene. Cawley had been tapped for the 1.600-meter relay. His place in that event be taken by Mike Larrabee.

Officials, meantime, made their first public announcement on the makeup of the two U. S. relay teams. In the 400-nieter team will be ther the United States or sia. "This will be a well-balanced team.

East Germany is stronger than it ever better of the two. What the East Germans lack, West Germany possesses." Korobkov believes the combined speed of East and West German sprinters will pose a real threat in the 400-meter relays. "You must remember that their athletes, like ours, have not yet caught up with your Americans in their training," Korobkov added. Germany, united by decree of the International Olympic Com- mittee prior to the I960 Games, won 15 gold medals in the over- all competition at Rome. The Soviet athletes took great! delight in observing the high- i jumping talent of a female por-1 poise named Flipper at ihe i nearby Marineland of the Paci- fie Oceanarium.

leaped 16 feet to grab a baton extended over her tank by an attendant. "Did you learn anything?" someone asked Valery Brumel, the tall Soviet who holds the men's high jump record of 7 feet, 5 inches. "You can always learn something, he replied. Brumel found meet officials ready to oblige him when he complained that the newly located takeoff area for his specialty in Memorial Coliseum was not to his liking. Because he takes an exceptionally long run, part of the takeoff area was grass-covered and too soft.

So meet officials got busy and expanded the dirt Sulphur 179 1000004-5 6 0 Opelousas 010 000 3 2 Kyle Carlin and Richard Dore; David Soileau and Fred Bourque. Two Capture Pelican Girls Playoff Wins Bell City and Maplewood took first-round victories in the Sheriff's Pelican Girls League in the best two-out-of-three series play off for the league championship Monday night. Maplewood edpcd Marion, when Linda Rhodes drove in the winning run in the person ol Bonnie Landry in the sixth inning. Betty hurled two hit ball for Maplewood. Bell Cily hit Starks, 6-1, aa Merella Guidry fanned nine Starks batsmen and posted a four-hit mound performance.

Frankie Gore posted a four-hit game for Starks. In Dixie action, Bell City bombed Marion 21-5 in a makeup game which gave Sam Houston second place in the Eastern Division race and set the stage for tonight's opening of the first- round playoffs. Bell City, first in the East, will host Maplewood at 7 p.m., while West champ Starks will entertain Sam Houston at 6 p.m. 4 1 Me- PELICAN GIRLS Starks Bell Cily .201 030 Frankie Gore and Francis Clark; rella Guldry and Phylllj Frugc. Marion 0210000-3 2 Maplewood 120001 i 6 Linda Guidry, ond Dlann LaRorca Beliy Flnney and Cathy Oickson Local Ruth Stars Eye Tourney Game OPELOUSAS (Spl.) The Lake Charles All-Stars open a quest which they hope will lead them to the.

state Babe Ruth League baseball championship when they take the field here tonight, in an 8 p.m. a against the Abbeville Nationals in the district tournament. The double-elimination tournament is scheduled to get under- way at (i p.m. with a game between Opelousas and the Abbeville Nationals. Mamou, ihe fifth team in the meet, has a first- round bye.

Af. stake will he a berth in the slate tournament, to be held in Ville Plalte from July to August 1. The remainder of the tournament schedule calls for a duel between Tuesday's losers at 6 p.m. Wednesday, while the Opelousas Abbeville National winner plays Mamou at 8 p.m. The winner of this one will tangle with the Lake Charles-Abbeville American victor in an fl p.m.

game Thursday, the only game set for that night. Two games arc scheduled Friday night in the losers bracket, while the title game Saturday is set for 7 p.m., with another to follow immediately thereafter, if needed. The Lake Charles nine, working under the direction of Wy- inan Wicks and Henry LeBert, will be trying to regain its perennial grip on the state title after a year's absence from the throne room. A year ago, Lake Charles was beaten by Abbeville at. the district level.

Here is the Lake Charles roster: CATCHERS: Xcb Johnson, Fred Davidson. PITCUEHS: Dickie Wicks, Lloyd Fisher, Tony Stephens, Stan Levy, Leo Sttilcs. IN FIELDERS: Wayne Wicks. Sid Jones, TUisty Johnny Janese, Cleorge Tralian. OUTFIELDKKS: Louis I ruin, Ronnie O'Brien, Mike Kohlcr.

ALTERNATE: Doug Taylor. Crum Medalist In Western Amateur i WYMAN WICKS Nfew Zealand Saves Davis Cup Finale MEXICO CITY (AP) New Zealand wound up its Davis Cup match against Mexico Monday with Ian Crockenden beating 19-year-old Vicente Zar- azu b'-4, 6'-4, 4-(i, This made the final of the North American match 3-1-1 in favor of Mexico since the last singles match between CIIICACO (AP) Maureen Crum, 2f)-yearM)ld junior high school gym teacher, started battling the jinx of the Women's Western Amateur Golf Tournament today. Only six times in the meet's 64-year history has the medalist continued to the title. Miss Crum, a port brunette from Plant City, Fla. and a i scmifinalist In the Southern Soviets Accept Chess Challenge MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Chess Federation said Monday that it would accept.

U.S. chess star Bobby Fischer's challenge ol its top players if the U.S. Chess Federation sends a corresponding official challenge, Fischer was quoted as being Amateur this led 32 ificrs into Ihe first round. She topped Monday's trials over the par 37-Uli--73 Oak Park Country Club course with a 3B-75. 37- Onc stroke behind was do- fending champion Barbara Mc- Iiilire of Colorado Springs, Barbara Fay White of Shreveport.

La. and Mfireella Rose of Jefferson City, 19R3 Missouri State champion. Miss Crum's opening opponent was Kathleen Newton of Cleveland, who qualified with an 80. Miss White met 19-year-old Fela Chavez of Mexico City. Miss Chavez made the championship match play bracket of 32 with 40-40-80.

Miss Rose faced Phyllis Preuss of Fort Lauderdale, Via. Lew derrard and Joaquin Ixiyo roa( jy to prove in a match here i farmer Curtis Cup player and Mayo was halted by rain in Ihe or jsj ew York that ho ranks' North-South amateur winner filth set and was culled a draw, Soviet Union's world tms vefir nullified with 42- Mexico had clinched Die right to meet Australia by winning Sunday's doubles. UK- first two sots from (Icrrard ti-4, (i-4. The New Xeahmder took the next two (i-2, 6-3 and they were lied 3-3 in the fifth set when rain halted play. with champion Tigran Petrosyan as, the world's leading player.

Tass. tlii! Soviet news agoncy. reported that the president of the Soviet Chess Federation had recejved Fischer's challenge in a letter from "the well-known patron of chess, A. Hisno" of the United States. 38 80.

Miss Mclutire another Ohio I I-W HS Purlsni'mth. Ind -W-W no Match play will continue leading to the 315-hole finals Saturday. MIKE KOHLER DOUG TAYLOR The perfect DIXIE GIRLS Bell Cily 517 1J2 6-21 38 0 Marlon 220 001 24 0 Ursula Zoumbrecher and Sheila LeDoux; Judy Guldry, Carolyn McAllster (61, Linda Snyder (7) and Linda Smith, Mary Carpenter (6). City: Connie Reed, HI. none on.

Four Gomes Open Boys Sheriff's Loop Playoffs makes a perfect Tom Collins composed of Paul Dray ton, Dick Stebbins, Bernie Rivers and Bob Hayes. Ollaii Cassell, Henry Carr, Larrabee and Ulis Williams will run the 1,600 meters. The meet will be held Saturday and Sunday, starting in the! urn when tbi aiternoons. i der way. area all the way back to his usual starting point.

Brumel cleared 7-4 Sunday in practice at the University of California's Cromwell Field. But he'll be competing in the Colise- Banner Miller Claims 2 Titles In Tennis Meet ASHEV1LLE, N. C. (Spl.i Bonner Miller, Louisiana's High School girls champion from Jennings, captured singles titles in both the 16 and under and the 18 and under girls division of the 53rd annual North Carolina Invitational Tennis Tournament held here July 15 to 20 at the Biltmore Forest Country Club. Also with doubles partner Liba Rogers of High Point, North Carolina, she won the runner- up trophies in both the 16 and under and 18 and under girls doubles.

Miss Miller, the only entry in the junior division of the tournament to reach the finals in four events played 9 sets on the final day. In both the singles finals she met Elizabeth Sloan of Winston-Salem, North Caro! Una, topping her each time in identical scores Tiie "I oil; 'games is over in the Sheriff's; leagues ard the second round will be i-iaycd tonight jui' 1 look victories in tin- Pelican leagues in the best ii: se ncs Maplewood L' Marion 11 10 in a neck and neck game which saw the change several times in seven innings. Marion left two men on base in the last inning- the tying and winning runs, Ji-fm Amy hit a two-run homer for Marion in the sixth. DcCjumcy clipped Sam Houston, 6-1. with John Upchurch hurling one-hit ball for the victors.

S-'ini Houston scored one. run in tin- first inning and v.ent I'll IC-I ol lilt aii'l Lake took victories IM the Dixie League with VVe.1 Lake shutting out DcQuincy, ti-0, and Maplewood routing Sam Houston, 11-0. Mark Able hurled a no-hit shut out for Maplewood while Kerry a --11111 on' Inr West Luke. Mid-City Minor Playoff Is Set The Indians and the Eagles Wori0n tangle tonight PELICAN UVOf. Pur.i, Clark (5) ar.d Bullies; Upcliurch and Edward Hans meet gets un-1 two sets with of.

6-1 6-0. will tangle tonight at Locke Park at 7:30 in the first of a best-of-three series for the Mid- City Minor League championship. The second game will be played at Locke Wednesday, with a third game, if ueces- sary, at Huber Park on Tburs- iday. Od 300 043 I- II 10 3 7 6 John Martin, Piiky (1) and Klegg Barlon; Mickey Priolo, Stevt Hamilton (4t and Watuirv Hamilton HR ion: Arr, 6ln 1 or, DIXIE BOYS V) WO 0 I atr it. tlJj b.

rt fj-i'Uid K'vrry Hmcier.on Poftf. IilliOfilOa UMM. Sam Houston 00000-0 0 6' McplewOG-d 2I3SX-1I Roger oil! arid Gary Hyatt; Mark Abe! and Martin..