Mt. Vernon Register-News from Mt Vernon, Illinois • Page 12

Blufordr G-P Win Despite and cool weather conditioris, Bluford and Grand Prairie emerged victors in the Jefferson County Grade School Track and Field Meet yesterday. Bluford managed to rack up 67 points to take the District 2 crown, followed by Field with a total of 53. Opdyke-Bclie Rive finished third with fourth place went to Summersville with 34 points. Dodds took fifth with eiKht points. District 3 wUiner, Grand Prairie, picked up points to out-total second place Rome with WaltonvUle and Woodlawn tied for third with points apiece, followed by Ina, which totaled 15.

Bethel was sixth with IVM and McClellan trailed the field with five points. DISTRICT 2 (EAST) Discus 1. Langdon, Bluford; 2. Hines, Dodos; 3. Meador, Field; 4.

Finn, S'vUle; 5. Manning, Bluford. Distance 115-7. Jump I. Tackcll, B.R.; 2.

3. Bundy, S'vUle; 4. Baker, Bluford; 5. Marlow, Dddds. Shot Put I.

Oarrbd, B.R.: 2. WUJIams, Field; Hlg- glns, S'vUle: 4. DelU, S'vlUo; 5. Cross, Distance High Jump 1. Meyer, Field; 2.

Bundy. S'vUle; 3. Mc- Klnncy, Bluford; 4. Llzenby, Bluford; 5. Brookmen, Pole Vault 1.

Irwin, Bluford; 2. Burctz, Bluford; 3. Bell, 4. (tic) Richardson. Field, and Patrick.

S'vUle. Height-8-2. 440- 1. Brookman, S'vUle; 2, Irwin, Bluford; 3. Langdon, Bluford; 4, Brookman, 5.

Marlow. S'vUle, Time 60.2. 880 1. Tackctt. 2.

Brookman, S'vUle; 3. Smiley, 4. Mcador, Field; 5. Hlnea, Dodds. Time 2:16.

120 yard low hurdles I. Meyer, Field; 2. Irwin, Bluford; 3. Snmmons, Field; 4. Allen, B.R.; 5.

Brookman, .220 1. Baker, Bluford; 2. Meyer. Field; 3. McLaIn, Field: 4.

Bundy, S'vUle; S. Bruce, Bluford. Time 25.2. 7(h grade 100 t. Langdon, Bluford; 2, Hefner, 3.

Bonner, Field; 4. Ray, Bluford; 5. (Uo) Richardson, Field, and Dudley, S'vUle. Time 100-1. Tackolt, 2.

Baker, Bluford; 3. Sammons, Field; 4, McLoln, Field; B. Braden, Bluford. Time 7m Grade Relay -1. Bluford; 3.

S'vUle; 4. 5. Dodds. Vnrslly Relay I. Kicid; 2.

Bluford; 3. 4. S'vUle; 5. Dodds. DISTRICTS (WEST) Discus I.

Dorrts, Woodlawn; 2. Bcvlti, Ina; 3. Reich, Rome; 4. Sanders, Rome; 5. Winkler, CP.

Distance -122-3. Long Jump 1. Donoho, G.P.; 2. Rabat, WaltonvUle; 3. Cluck, Rome; 4.

Moador, Bethel; 5. Foreman, Woodltawn. Dl8tancc Shot Put I. Jurvis, Woodlawn; 2. DorrlH.

Woodlawn; 3, Cagle, McCloUun; 4. Sandere, Rome; 5. Avhby, G.P. Distance -40-10. High Jump 1.

Simmons, G.P.; 2. Donoho, G.P.: 3. Go- a wski, WaltonvUle; 4. (tie) eador, Bethel, ond Korchcr, Rome. Height Pole Vault 1.

Winkler, G.P,; 2. (tie) Kercher, Woodlawn. and Hodge. Rome; 3. Clark.

WaltonvUle; 4. (tie) Thouvonln. G.P., and Morlow, Rome. Height M. 440-1.

Clark. WaltonvUle: 2. Thouvenin, G.P. 3. True, Rome; 4.

Ungford. G.P.; S. Whiteside. BeUiel. 1.

2. True, Rome; 3. Rabat, vUle; 4. Whitevide, Bethel; 5- Donoho, BoUiel. Time "2:21.3.

120 yard low Simmons. G.P.: 2. Bovls, Ina; 3. Gajowskl, WoltonvUle; 4. Kerher, Rome; 5.

Hodge, Rome. 220-1. Clark, Rome; 2. Skidmore, WaltonvlUe; 3. Serlvner, Bethel; 4.

Foreman. Wood, Ittwn: 5. Germun. Woodlawn. 7UJ grade lOO I.

Qerntan, Woodlawn: 2. (Ue) McCowen, Never Made Much Money, Though Enos Slaughter Got Fun Out Of Baseball Standings And Schedules Enos "Country" Slaughter, whose .300 average in 22 major league baseball seasons never earned him more than $22,500 a year, says he got more from the game than the million dollar, free- agent players of today. "I got fun out of it," said 60, who lives on his 240-acre farm near here and coaches baseball at nearby Duke University. "Sometimes I wish I'd come along later and got the $100,000 everybody seems to be getting today. But 1 look back and I realize I got more from the game than these guys are getting today," Slaughter said.

Slaughter played right field for 16 seasons with the Foxes Top Eldorado In Track McLBANSBORO The McLeansboro Foxes' defeated Eldorado 105-48 in a dual track and field meet yesterday afternoon. Results follow: McUansboro 106, Eldorado 48. 100 Jones (E), Dale (Mc), 220 Jones (E), Hayes (Mc). Cox (Mc). 440 Forrest (Mc), Owena (Mc), Reed (B).

880 BIggersUff (Mc), Harris (Mc), Skcllon (Mc). Time 2:11.4. Mile McMohon Oregg Redmun (Mc). Time 2-MUc Owens (Mc). Reed (E).

Blggcrstaff (Mc). Time 11:34.4. High Hurdles Hobbs lE). T. Friedman (Mc )i Woods (E).

330 Low Hurdles York (Mc), Relster (Mc), Evans (Mc). Shot Put Sloan (Mc). llobbs (E). Scott (Mc). Discus T.

Friedman (Mc). Repasky (Mc). Kendall (E). Distance -103-0. Long Jump Kurchcr Reod (E).

L. WhUlow (Mc). High Jump Hulclicrafl (Mc). Woods (E). Ansclmcnt (Mc).

Height-fro. 880 Relay Eldorado. Time 1:43.8. Polo Vault Bcnbrook (Mc). D.

Friedman (Mc). Skclton (MO.Hel^t-lO-O. Frosh Relay Eldorado. Mile Relay McLeansboro. Triple Jump Reed Kurchor (Mc), Anselment 2-Mlle Relay McLeansboro.

440 Relay McLeansboro. St. Louis Cardinals before being traded to the New York Yankees in 1954, a move that brought him to tears in the Cardinal dressing room. "It broke my heart," Slaughter said. "I did so much for the Cardinals over the years.

There never was a Cardinal with any more fans Uian I had. I didn't see how they could do that to me." "Country" said he also can't see how the Cardinals paid him so little for so much. "The Cardinals never paid anybody ahy money. My first year, 1938. I made $3,000.

In 1942. when won the World Series, 1 made $9,000," he said. After Army duty during World War 11, the Cardinals offered Slaughter the same contract, saying he was getting old at 30. "But then the Mexican League started raiding us. and the Cardinals paid us better.

The most I ever made was $22,500 in 1949. And that's the contract I had every after that, with New York, Kansas City and Milwaukee, too." In 1957 Slaughter bought the large farm near where he was bom in northeastern North Carolina. He grows tobacco and corn and raises chickens and cattle. And he collects $381 a month from a baseball pension. "When you're a farm boy, you learn to appreciate life.

I still do," he said. "I know what it is to poor. As a kid, I wore triple patches on my overalls. BasebaU gave me everything I have." Slaughter thinks "it wasn't right" that the Cardinals would not offer him any kind of coaching or scouting job when he retired In 1957. He came back to the farm, and in 1970 Duke offered him the basebaU job, which he takes on only three months a year.

Duke offers no scholarships, while some other Atlantic Coast Conference teams offer as many as 18. "We haven't won many games, but 1 declare, our teams have been better than the record shows," he said. Slaughter admits he had a temper as a player. But at Duke, Slaughter slays calm and acts like a gentleman on the field. "It kind of hampers how sharp I can get with a player.

So 1 try to be as nice as I can," he said. "Without scholarships you can't be too firm with a guy. He might quit and then 1 ain't got nobody to play." But Slaughter does not tolerate laziness he says he sees among some major league players. "Today you see guys who don't hustle and who don't take batting practice and I just don't like that. In my day a player who done that would be eaten alive by his teammates," Slaughter said.

"We never had any Richie Aliens In my day." OB 2 4 7 I's 2 3 6 6 ppd WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON HIGH SERIES: Marilyn Sendelbach 600, Erma Schaiter 872. STANDINGS (Final) MyFalrLody Scaliest Action Realtors SUver Streak KlngCity Federol 411 Plumbing Mt. Vernon Neon Slgns53 Jackson Martin 45 BoBo'sPlm Davis S. Side Drugs Sapp'8 Nursery Fcnlon's Music 74 31 66 30 66 .10 S814 46W 58 47 54W 52 60 44 01 41 26 79 1-57 RACEWAY PARK 3Mi.Sp.Bttnton,l(t.37 Super Modified Modified Coupes Seo Th9 Fast Door Prlsos RACING EVERY SATURDAY NtTE Timf Trl9ii7 6 to Scores Five Goals "The Rifle" Sefs A Record A FOUR-POUNDER Mike Huff, No. 2 Lakeview Estates, shows off the four-pound bass he took from the Lakeview Estates lake.

The bass was 20 inches long. After Loss To Neis NuggefsRip Oiiiciating WoltonvUle, and Hodge, 4. Cojie, McClellon; 6. Groff, G.p.'flmo-U.a. 100-1.

Uevls. Ino; 2. Cluck. Rome; 3. Thouvenin, 4.

Gajewski. WallonvUle; 5. Scriv- 7Ut grade 080-relay l. Rome; 2. WaltonvUle; 3.

Grand Prairie: 4. Woodlawn: 5. Bethel. TimoV- Vorsity Relay 1. Grand Prairie; 2.

Rome: 3. Woodlawn: 4. Bethel; 5, ina.Tlnje—1!4».8. UN.IONDALE, N.Y. (AP) Julius Ervlng admitted he did not play particularly well, but when the pressure was on, in the closing minutes, he was equal to the task.

"It was a good win, but not a good game for me," he confessed Thursday night after his heroics in the final two minutes had carried the New York Nets to a 117-m victory over the Denver Nuggets and a 2-1 lead In their American Basketball Association championship series. While Ervlng was downplaying his role, the Nuggets were loudly criticizing the officiating of John Vanak and Jack Madden. Denver Coach Larry Brown and rookie star David Thompson both were critical of a charging foul colled by Vanak against Thompson with 23 remaining and the Nets leading 113-111. Thompson, In fact, was cryhig as he entered the Nuggets' iocker room, and confessed it was the first time he had broken down because of such circumstances. "I went up for a shot and (Rich) Jones pushed me back," said Thompson, Denver's high scorer with 32 points.

After Vanak made the controversial call. Thompson said he was "shocked!" "I couldn't believe it," he added. "I believe in fair play. That wasn't fair play." "When David breaks down and cries, and Bobby Jones, who never complains about anything, asks mc what's wrong, you know something isn't right," said the disgruntled Brown. "It makes no sense when things like that happen." That was not the only foul that played a major part in the emotion-packed game.

There were five personal fouls called against Ervlng three in the first period and two in the first five mhtutes of the third quarter. Those caused the Nets' star, who had scored 45 points and. 48 pohits In the opening two games of the series, to sit on the bench longer than usual and perform more cautiously when on the court. Going Into the last two minutes, he had scored a mere 23 points. Then, 1:36 to go, he hit an Inside jumper, for a 111-108 New York lead.

He then went high to block a jump shot by Bobby Jones and a one-hander by Chuck WUIiams, but Thompson came back and tied the score 111-111. Then it was all Ervlng. He spun around Jones for a spinning backhand layup with his left hand with 31 seconds left. Eleven seconds after that he converted two free throws, and just before the final buzzer, he climaxed a 31-polnt performance with an acrobatic dunk foiiowing a Nets' steal. By FRANK BROWN AP Sports Wrtter Reggie "the Rifle" Leach of the PhUadelphia Flyers gunned his way into the National Hockey League's playoff record books with five goals against the Boston Bruins Thursday night, while the New York Islanders ran out of cpmeback ammunition against the Montreal Canadiens.

Leach, scoring the five goals on seven shots against Boston nctminder Gilles Gilbert, Insured the Flyers a chance at defending their Stanley Cup championship in the finals against the Canadiens. His performance, which put him in the record books with all- time Montreal great Maurice Richard and Toronto Maple Leafs center Darryl Sittler, powered Philadelphia to a 6-3 triumph to eliminate Boston in the fifth game of their semifinal playoff. Now the Flyers wUI face the Canadiens, 5-2 victors over the Islanders In the fifth game of their semifinal. In the finals which start at Montreal Sunday. "It's the biggest thrUl of my life," said Leach, who tied Richard and SttUer by scoring five time and set two others records In the process.

"Five'goals In a playoff game? Iliat's like the Rocket!" he marvcUcd. in fact, it's even better than "The Rocket," as Richard came to be known. By scoring a goal In his ninth consecutive playoff game this season, he eclipsed Richard's mark of scoring in eight straight ganies over two years. The Rocket had done that twice. The 26-year-old Leach also tied a playoff record of 15 goals in post-season piay, which Montreal's Yvan Cournoyer set in 17 games durbig the 1973 playoffs.

Leach reached the mark in 12 games and has at least four more to break it. "It was one of those nights I caught the comer every time. 1 felt sharp and said Leach, who was all the more pleased it came against the Bruins, who traded him away. "I've seen a lot of hockey," added Flyers Coach Fred Shero, "but I've never seen such beautiful goals. They were classic goals he scored tonight." Larry Goodenough also scored for Philadelphia.

Gregg Sheppard, Don Marcotte and Andre Savard tallied for Boston. Odds are he'll score more against the Canadiens. who venture after their 18th Stanley Cup after turning back the comeback-minded Islanders. "I'm very, very proud of each and every one of my players." said New York Coach Al Arbour after two goals by left wing Steve Shutt and a goal and two assists by defenseman Serge Savard keyed the Montreal triumph. "We can certainly hold our heads up high," said Arbour after the comeback that wasn't to be.

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