Statesville Record and Landmark from Statesville, North Carolina • 11

riday June 18 1976 Statesville Record Landmark Page 11 Kingman Homer Rain Erases Tiger Runs BASEBALL Paces Mets Gives Twins 4 0 Victory Win a those 6 4) at at WINSTON SERIES Louis Kuhn Nears Decision in Detroit 0 5 On inley's Bargains at Califor 2 2) at EAGUEKS Three Tilts LEISURE SUITS Troutman Event Set Twins Snare la Jeff RONNIE'S WOODCRAT TOOLS 235 ront St the six 50) (n) a of (alcone 45) (n) Saturday's Games Angeles at Montreal because of arose in his to their third consecutive triumph following a nine game losing streak Un beaten Wayne Garland notched his sixth triumph with two inning relief from His decision regarding action was ex pected some time today The maverick owner had the explanation of his moves well prepared want unsigned he said after hearing referring to the fact that the Ted Williams figured in the scoring of seven runs when the American League beat the National 12 0 in the 1946 All Star game Burnette as Mark Lazenby and Burnett Westmoreland had three hits each and Jack Gaither homered Wayne Edwards paired hits for the losers Jerry Winebarger had three hits Gary Green Tom Jones and Jimmy Walker paired hits and Winebarger and Walker each homered as Gilliam urniture took a 12 9 win over Uniglass William Nesbit James Woods Ken Clark Robert Grady and Lonnie White each paired hits and Clark and Grady had homers for Uniglass Stevens took a 15 13 win over Melville as Keith Mackey had four hits and Mike Pope and rank Hol land paired hits with Pope having a homer Richard Campbell with three hits and Steve Miller and David Boone with two each led the losers Mike Larkin had four hits David Imes had four hits and Greg Nichols and Ronnie Tatum each had three hits as Bernhardt of Statesville gained a 26 19 win over Thonet Lynn Gresham and Ronnie Tatum had homers for the winners Jerry Poole Junior Ernest and Glenn Avery each had three hits and Ernest had two homers for the losers sym Glenn I Kirbv 110 Stockton Street Statesville NC 26677 872 1569 Cort I Brittain atrgrounds Sh Ctr Troutman NC 28166 528 4801 David Kvles 1 10 Stockton Street Statesville NC 28677 872 7616 LaMorr Porch 307 East ront Street Statesville NC 28677 873 3693 one In Bill Sharpe 307 East ront Street Statesville 28677 873 3693 among seven Oakland players who had not signed contracts for the current season want one either It was only the Red Sox and Yankees who said take these ballplayers even if want to sell them We had made every effort for two months to make trades to no said inley dressed in a grey plaid suit with a yellow golf shirt and matching hat were trying to make trades but when we got to within six hours of the (trading) deadline we had no but to sell the athletes Kuhn apparently wanted to be made sure of that and called the hearing Though neither would comment on what had transpired in the 90 minute session inley explained wanted to know the reasons I sold and they inley made it clear he felt he was right in making the deals and that frankly think he (Kuhn) was satisfied with the in formation we presented Bill Holland 307 East ront Street Statesville NC 28677 872 5245 end case usually By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Detroit Tigers were fit to be tied but the um pires said the playing field was solid said umpire in chief Jerry Neudecker explaining why he called off a 4 4 game between the Tigers and the Minnesota Twins in the bottom of the sixth inning Thursday night you could put sand on the field but you put it all over the Unfortunately for the Tigers they scored their four runs in the top of the sixth So when the proceedings were washed out with one out and two Minnesota runners aboard in the bottom of the inning the score reverted back to the end of the fifth and a 4 0 triumph for the Twins The decision after two delays totaling 94 minutes sent Manager Ralph Houk into a shirt throwing rage in the Detroit clubhouse want to talk to any censored he ranted talk to the censored umpires the ones that censored up the game played in The Statesville Twins picked up two triumphs in city county baseball league action this past weekend The Twins topped Southern Screw by 15 5 as Robert Long and John Pharr had three hits each and Zes Everett Stanley Avery and Marvin Speaks paired hits Speaks was the winning pitcher Adrian Cowan had three hits and Luther Dalton and Eugene Culbertson added two each for Southern Screw Jeff Lewis was the win ning pitcher Billy Stevenson had three hits and I Clarence McCall Paul 1 Ramsey and Amos Neil paired hits as the Twins up I ended Piney Grove by 25 9 McCall had a home run George Holmes had four hits Ravon James added I three and Aaron James con tributed two in the losing effort issue I have to wrestle said Kuhn have to consider these transactions in the best interest of baseball I have the inherent power to do what 1 feel is in the best interest of By The Auocieted Press NATIONAL LEAGUE Eight encounters were recorded on Thursday night in the city recreation slow pitch softball leagues irst Baptist Davie Avenue was a 10 3 winner over irst Presbyterian as Mike Burton Andy Burch and Dave Coppie each had three hits Don Strauss had three hits and Keith Norris added two in the losing ef fort Gary McMillian had three hits and Tony Campbell and Vic Hepler contributed two each as Boulevard Methodist was an 11 1 winner over St Johns No players paired hits for the losers The Jaycees managed an 8 3 win over Rose Chapel as Donnia Thomas had four hits red Layton added three and Thomas and Tom Myers homered Lowell Harmon and Chip Wedding ton paired hits and Harmon homered for Rose Chapel Scotty Harris and Jimmy Davidson each had four hits Billy Harris added three and Johnny Norris homered as Western Avenue Baptist romped to a 19 3 win over the House of Prayer No players paired hits in the losing effort Bernhardt of Troutman was a 10 7 winner over WEST 7 GIANTS 7 The game was suspended after eight innings and will be completed at a later date Stanley Stevenson Vince Jenkins Mark Coffey and Phillip Howard each had Kingman either strikes out or hits it out and Thursday night it was the latter still swinging at bad pitches still in 4 Texas 1 2 Milwaukee 0 Oakland 3 NEW YORK (AP) Oakland owner Charles inley lashing out at a baseball system that has stability and no per saia ie had no alternative but to sell three of his star ballplayers because he couldn make a trade for them inley appeared with representatives of the New York Yankees Boston Red Sox and player union head Marvin Miller at a hearing with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn Thursday and said the current system of player management three athletes sold were behavior is the In a matter of hours Tuesday inley sold Joe Rudi and Rollie ingers to the Boston Red Sox for $1 million each then sent left hander Vida Blue to the Yankees for $15 million after signing the pitcher to a three year contract Kuhn prohibiting the purchased players from reporting to their new clubs had ordered the hearing questions that mind over clearance sale issue is whether the assignment of the three contracts is appropriate or not under the cir cumstances the The Town of holiday tennis tournament is scheduled for the week of July 4 and registration for the tournament will be held from June 21 25 at the town office All residents age eight and older are invited to par ticipate in the tournament and the registration fee for the event is $2 per person Town officials also report that registrations are also being accepted for the summer playground program at Troutman school Registration fees are $3 per person and may be made at the town office Latest Summer ashions Sizes 36 to 56 in Reg Longs and Longs Were $4500 to $8500 NOW By KEN RAPPOPORT AP Sports Writer One hit slump but in the Dave Kingman it ends a ballgame Results 3 San rancisco Kingman insisted despite a 14th inning home run that led the New York Mets to a 1 0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers homer was his 23rd of the season but only his first at home since May 28 He prefers hitting on the road obviously feel less pressure on the said Kingman who hit his last seven shots away from Shea Stadium last few days been wishing been on the Despite leading the major leagues in home runs and despite a healthy RBI figure of 50 Kingman is not happy with his season He had hoped for more consistency than just a 240 batting average as well as fewer strikeouts have a good day and then I have a bad Kingman said would rather be mediocre I have been having some rather bad days Los Angeles reliever Charlie Hough will remember Thursday blast for a while was a bad pitch right in the zone where he wanted it the knuckleballer had no spin on it and it was straight It was a In the only other National League game the Philadelphia Phillies nipped i the San rancisco Giants 3 2 Kingman's eighth game winning hit of the season came with one out in the 14th inning and landed in the left field bullpen Skip Lock wood 3 2 was the winner in relief of Craig Swan or Hough it was his second loss against seven victories Swan pitched the first 10 innings for New York allowing only three base runners on three singles the total of Dodger hits for the evening He struck out eight Don Sutton the Los Angeles starter worked the first nine innings per mitting six hits and walking two Phillies 3 Giants 2 Dave bases loaded sacrifice fly in the ninth inning carried Philadelphia over San rancisco game winning RBI scored Garry Maddox with the winning run for relief pit cher Gene Garber 1 1 RETURNS WEST MARCO ISLAND (AP) Ralph Terry the New York World Series pitching star of 1962 through his seventh game 1 0 win over the San rancisco Giants is returning to the west The 40 year old native of Big Cabin Okla is the golf pro at a nine hole golf course in Hutchinson Kan New York 5 Chicago 4 Minnesota nings rain Baltimore California Boston 8 Only games scheduled riday's Games Kansas City (Leonard 6 2) Cleveland (Waits IT) (n) New York (Blue 6 6) at Chi cago (Johnson 3 7) (n) Detroit (Roberts 5 5) at Min nesota (Hughes 2 7) (n) Baltimore (May 4 3) at Texas (Umbarger 7 4) (n) Boston (Wise 5 3) at nia (Kirkwood 26) (n) Milwaukee (Augustine Oakland (Bahnsen 2 2) Saturday's Games Detroit at Minnesota Milwaukee at Oakland Kansas City at Cleveland New York at Chicago (n) Baltimore at Texas (n) Boston at California (n) Sunday's Games Kansas City at Cleveland New York at Chicago Detroit at Minnesota Boston at California Milwaukee at Oakland Baltimore at Texas (n) hits for West Mark Josey and Shoney Mc Whorter paired hits for the Giants and Michael isher David Jordan and Dwayne Stone added one hit each HORNETS 10 WEBB INSURANCES Earl Crosby was the winning pitcher with seven strikeouts Anthony Steven son had three hits Dwayne Blair added two and Chris Culburtson Paul Stevenson ano rankie Cline added one each for the Hornets rank lin McCrary Rick Johnson and Russell Taylor had hit each for Webb surance KIWANIS 12 CIVITANS 1 Neal Murdock was winning pitcher with strikeouts and Bobby Mason had two homers Kenny Smith had a single and homer Tommy Alexander paired hits and Murdock and Joe Brown added one hit each for the winners Stoney Blevins Danny Babbs and Patrick Myers each had hits for the losers VW20 LIONS 2 Marshall Allen Grayce Terry McCrary and Richard Bevis each paired hits and Allen Grayce Be vis and Jeff Miller had homers for the winners Allen pitched a two hitter for the winners and struck out six Jeff Teague and Jimmy Mason had the hits forthevW New York 1 Los Angeles 14 innings Only games scheduled riday's Games Chicago (R Reuschel Atlanta (Morton 0 5 (n) Los Angeles (Rhoden Montreal (ryman 7 4) San rancisco (Dressier 1 4) at New York (Seaver 65) (n) newly acquired Dave Pagan The three tie breaking runs were unearned thanks to an error by Texas first baseman Mike Hargrove Angels 2 Brewers 0 Gary Ross fired a two hitter for the second com plete game of his career and first since he was with the Chicago Cubs in 1968 He allowed singles by Darrell Porter in the sixth inning and Von Joshua in the ninth Since 1968 Ross has been used primarily as a reliever in both the majors and the minor leagues Nationwide has some budget priced life insurance plans" that may save you money Here is an important way for a young family man to buy the big life insurance protection he needs now and at low premiums he can really afford ind out how you might save money on your life Call a Nationwide agent today much worse censored weather than this many censored times before going to report those cen sored umpires to the cen sored league already gone in and told censoreds blame Neudecker said pathizing with Houk but standing by his decision can understand his In other American League action the New York Yankees nipped the Chicago White Sox 5 4 the Boston Red Sox trounced the Oakland 8 2 the Baltimore Orioles downed the Texas Rangers 4 1 and the California Angels blanked the Milwaukee Brewers 2 0 Kansas City and Cleveland were not scheduled Before the rains came in Minnesota Mike Cubbage drove in three runs for the Twins with a double and over the center field wall off sacrifice fly Dave Goltz Nelson Briles in the eighth was credited with a three hit inning to propel the Orioles shutout with relief help from the weatherman after being kayoed in nonexistent four run rally which included a two run homer by Aurelio Rodriguez Yankees 5 White Sox 4 Reliever Sparky Lyle overcame a throwing error by first baseman Chris Chambliss and pitched out of an eighth inning jam to preserve Catfish eighth triumph With two runs in runners on second and third and only one out Lyle retired Bucky Dent and Buddy Bradford to record his 10th save Red Sox 8 3 Dwight Evans knocked in three runs with a two run homer and a double and Jim Rice and Carlton isk also homered as Boston pounded Mike Torrez and Stan Bahnsen and averted a three game sweep by the Dick Pole went the route for Boston scattering nine hits Orioles 4 Rangers 1 Reggie Jackson cracked a 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SEE A CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING WED JUNE 23 8:15 WIN WINSTON DOOR PRIZES ADULTS $500 STUDENTS $250 UNDER 12 REE Eight Softball Tilts Recorded Thursday's Philadelphia 2 IL 1 fww pw 1 'X I I 1 A A I I 1 A it 1 1 I XdBElZvl LA El 1 fl flTfl nviA A I East Pct GB Phila 41 17 707 Pitts 34 25 576 7'j New York 32 33 492 12'? Chicago 27 33 450 15 St Louis 26 35 426 Montreal 20 34 370 19 West Cincinnati 39 23 629 Los Ang 36 27 571 San Diego 33 27 550 5 Houston 29 34 460 Atlanta 24 35 407 13Vs San ran 23 41 359 17 Cincinnati (Billingham 5 4) at Philadelphia (Lonborg 8 3) (n) Houston (Richard 7 6) at Pittsburgh (Candelaria 5 4) (n) San Diego (Jones 12 2) at St Pct GB New York 34 22 607 Cleveland 28 28 500 6 Boston 27 29 482 7 Baltimore 27 31 466 8 Detroit 25 32 439 9'j Milwkee 23 31 426 10 West Kans City 38 20 655 Texas 33 23 589 4 Minnesota 28 30 483 10 Chicago 27 29 482 10 Oakland 29 32 475 10'? California 26 38 406 1 5 Thursday's Results.