The Daily Herald from Chicago, Illinois • Page 25

THE HERALD Friday, April 22, 1977 Section 3 --I I i i -i i fc 1 MILOCH EXPRESS. Wheeling's Gail Miloch is all High School. Miloch ran 2:20 for the victory and alone, as usual, at the end of the 880 run at Hersey also won the mite to lead team to win. State play at New Trier West I 1 Girls bid for badminton by KEITH REINHARD again, the Mid-Suburban League is being treated like a step sister. The Illinois High School Association is preparing to unveil its very first state championship badminton tournament this weekend and three MSL schools among the 16 team qualifiers are being Ml but ignored on the pre- meet favorites list.

The tourney will get underway at New Trier West this morning at 9 a.m. and continue with rounds at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturday the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship rounds will kickoff at the same corresponding times. Arlington, Elk Grove and Prospect all captured district titles last Saturday and will be represented today by full six-girl contingents.

PUBLICITY information coming out of IHSA headquarters in Bloomington rates Harrington, Oak Lawn and Riverside-Brookfield along with New Trier East and the host Cowboy team as the strongest contenders to take home the brand new championship trophy. Others in the race for team honors are DeKalb, Homewood-Flossmoor, Highland Park, Normal, Oak Park, Carl Sandburg, Wheaton North and Springfield's Sacred Heart. Harrington, Oak Lawn and RB all picked up a maximum 16 points in dominating their districts. The Cardinals were one point shy of perfect in capturing their own meet and will be represented at the state gathering by Janet Haberkorn-Karen Zobel and Lisa Pugsley-Kris Richey doubles teams along with Leslie Grabitz and Jody Lyon in singles. ELK GROVE, also a district champ at home last weekend, will field doubles twosomes of Nancy McCabe- Wendy Salkin and Diane Quinn-Sue Cans and Kathy Gulliksen and Priscilla Olsen in singles.

Prospect, triumphant at the Maine South district, has Karen Kurka- Leanne Mache and Julie Reiter-Holly Williams entering doubles play and Lisa Young and Jean Rezny in singles. In addition to these area teams, Rolling Meadows will have Libby Iturralde entered on an individual basis in i the singles competition after finishing runner up at the Arlington district. Iturralde, Grabitz and Young were all seeded into a 5-8 group Thursday and two of 'them will take opening I Angels stop Sox turn down ANAHEIM Rain, sleet, snow and hail may not stop the mail from going through. But darkness will halt a baseball game every time. And Thursday the Chicago White Sox and California Angels were sufficiently in the dark to have their game called after just one out in the top of the first inning.

A TRANSFORMER had blown out earlier in the evening, darkening one bank. of stadium lights. Managers from both teams gathered with the umpires at home plate and conducted a lengthy debate over the merits of carrying on despite the partial darkness. After just one player Ralph Garr had batted, the officials decided to suspend the game until Sept. 8 when it will be resumed as an almost doubleheader.

For the time being it will go into the books as called on account of a power failure. Very shocking. Elsewhere around the American circuit, there was no power failure in New York where Chris Chambliss, batting just, .195 prior to the, game, drove in five runs with two doubles and a homer, while defending American League home run champ Graig Nettles belted his first to vault the Yankees to an 8-6 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. YANKEE STARTER Ken Holtzman earned his first win of the season with relief help from Dick Tidrow, who quelled an eighth inning Blue Jay rally, and finally Sparky Lyle. Chuck Hartenstein was the loser for Toronto.

With the game tied 3-3 in the seventh, the Yankees scored four runs, round byes while Grabitz faces off initially against Claudia Friederici of Highland Park. LYON WAS ALSO seeded in the 9-12 group and opens against Kathy Carroll of Sacred Heart. Olsen gets a first round bye while Gulliksen opens against Kathy Skiera of Waukegan East. Rezriy meets Jana Pope of Bar- ringtoh. In doubles the Haberkorn-Zobel tan- dem was awarded the top seed while Richey-Pugsley were placed in the 9-12 grouping.

The Mache-Kurka and Salkin-McCabe duos along with berkorn-Zobel picked up first round byes. i Fugsley-Richey meanwhile faces off against a Highland Park unit, Williams-Reiter takes on a Sacred Heart entry and QuiiwbGans meets up with a doubles duo from New Trier East. AL baseball the three coming on Chambliss 1 homer Into the third deck in right field, his second of the season. Nettles, who hit 32 homers a year ago, provided an insurance run with his first 1977 homer, a solo shot after one out in the eighth. Ex-Yankee Otto Vtlez contributed three hits for Toronto including a two- run homer in the fourth.

The homer was Velez' third of the year and sec-; ond in this four-game series in which he rapped Yankee pitching for nine hits in 15-at bats and eight RBI. ROOKIE RIGHT bander Dave Rozema threw a four-hitter for his first major league win and Jason Thompson drove, home four runs Thursday in boosting the Detroit Tigers to an.8-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox. The 20-year-old Rozema, making the jump from AA ball, struck out four batters and walked no one in his third start while not allowing a runner past second. Thompson rocketed his third homer of the season, a solo drive into the center-field bleachers in the fourth inning. He singled in another run in the sixth and drove in two more runs with a single in the seventh.

Rookie left fielder Steve Kemp drove in the first and winning run in the second inning with a single to cen- A ORFANDES looks around for the rest of the two- mllers during dual meet won by Wheeling. Orfandes of Buffalo Grove took first place in the dis- 1 tance event, running 12:45.3. ter after Ben Oglivie had singled. Mickey Stanley added a two-run homer in the seventh inning which knocked out loser Reggie Cleveland, now 1-1, and Aurelio Rodriguez added a soto homer in the eighth for the Tigers. LYMAN BOSTOCK and Mike Cubbage each drove in four runs and Minnesota roughed up aging Gaylord Perry Thursday night when the Twins clubbed the Texas Rangers 11-4.

Geoff Zahn won his third game without a loss for the Twins, but needed relief help from Ron Schueller. Perry, 38, gave up 10 hits in innings and was nailed for Minnesota's first eight runs. The Jirst three were unearned, however, with an error by first baseman Mike Hargrove in the third prolonging the inning and setting up a one-run double by Bostock and a two-run double by Cubbage. A double by Willie Norwood to lead of the fourth and a Bob Gorinsky single accounted for another run, and Minnesota scored twice in the fifth on a single by Rod Carew, a triple by Bostock and a sacrifice fly by Cubbage. Perry, 1-2, was driven from the mound in the sixth after Rob Winfong doubled and Rich Chiles walked.

Reliever Mike Wallace walked Roy Smalley to load the bases and Carew to force in a run. Paul Lindblad relieved Wallace, giving up a two-run single to Bostock and an RBI groundout to Cubbage. Cubs take on cellar-bound world champs The Cincinnati Reds, champions of all the world, come to Wrigley Field today at 1:30 to try to get out of the basement. The Reds, led by the highly paid Pete Rose, were too much for the New York Yankees in the 1976 World Series but this season, so far anyway, the 4-8 Red Machine sits at the bottom, of the National League West. Sparky Anderson will send Pat Zachry, 1-1, against Cub righthander Bill Bonham, also 1-1, as the Cubs, too, try to break out of the doldrums.

Herman Franks' team has lost four games in a row, and is just a half- game from last place in the N.L. East. FRANKS HOPES to be able to insert first baseman Bill Buckner into his lineup for the first time today. Buckner, still nursing his sore ankle, came off the injured list this week and celebrated with a base hit his first -time up as a pinch-hitter Tuesday. 'Ray Burns is due to go Saturday against veteran Woody Fryman, and either Mike.Krukow or Willie Hernandez will face Santo Alcala on Sunday.

i There Hey, can anybody out there play shortstop? Frank Mariani has a left arm he'd like to send your way. Free. Mariani is the general manager of the new Chicago Storm professional softball team, and he's been searching the state for a shortstop "Heck, I'd give my left arm for a shortstop if we could find Mariani, a Rolling Meadows resident, said this week. SHORTSTOP isn't the only hole right now for the Storm, but the position is so vital that it carries a "high priority" label for the outfit that will play 12-inch slow pitch. "We've already signed six players and have some others in mind, but no, we're not set by any means," said Mariani.

"We're looking at everyone. We'll carry 15 on the roster, possibly 17." The search for that shortstop and other players continues Sunday when the Storm, coached by former major league pitcher Milt Pappas, brings its road show to Klmball Hill School in Rolling Meadows at 10 a.m. The area stop will be the seventh in a series of tryout sessions designed to put together a formidable entry by opening day May 29. "WE'LL LOOK at everyone Sunday," said Mariani. "It's a matter of checking out the whole works hitting, running, throwing, defense.

We'll also break down into teams and play a few innings. "After the games if we like anyone that much we'll get them back in the afternoon for another look. We've signed players from ages 22 to 28, but if they can do the job, that's not a factor. 1 The Storm, a member of the American Professional Slo-Pitch League, will play its home games on weekends in suburban Bridge view but has spread the practice sessions around the state to get a good look at alt the eager, talented players in Illinois and (2) obtain as much media exposure as possible. "We've been very happy with the turnouts and the interest," said Mariani, a former football and baseball coach at St.

Viator High School. "We've been averaging around 100 per tryout although it was smaller last weekend in Rockford. However, we were able to sign a fine player in our Rockford trip." 'Storm comi area Frisk Sports Editor CLANCY HORN of Rockford, most valuable player in. the Class World Tournament last year and a lifetime (are you hitter, has signed With the Storm for "more than the minimum league salary." "The boy knows what the top dollar to be and he's going to get the top dollar," said Mariani. "He's that good.

Of all tha kids I've seen so far, he's the most complete player. 3 The signing of Horn helped ease the disappointment over a touted shortstop prospect in Rockford. Storm management even brought Cubs' Hall of Famer Ernie Banks along to take a look, but the shortstop search continues. It's estimated Storm players will receive between $800 and $1,500 for the 56-garae season. A player is ab)e to maintain his full-time job and still perform on the weekends, traveling and living first- class in a division that includes road trips to Cincinnati, waukee, Baltimore, Louisville, Detroit, Cleveland and New York.

-f THE STORM'S state-wide tour for talent has turned up some gems, including several stars from Ifr-inch softball competition; but Mariani admits there have been some frustrating developments. "The guy who plays baseball most of the time seems to have no trouble in the field but has problems with the bat in our game," he said. "Then again, the 16-inch Softball player can hit the heck out of the ball but can't field that well because he's used to playing without a glove." Maybe that perfect combination is out there. Maybe he'll show up Sunday in Rolling Meadows. If you're a baseball player, Softball player and shortstop all rolled into one talented package, you've got it made.

Remember, Frank Mariani is ready to give up an arm for a prospect like that. TRIVIA OCCUPIED this space last week with 10 questions. How did you do? Here are the answers: 1. Whom did Cookie Lavagetto bat for when he broke up Bill Sevens' bid fpr a no-hitter in the 1947 World Series? EDDIE STANKY. 2.

Who was the catcher for the famous 1934 St. Louis Gas House Gang? BILL DELANCEY. 3. In 1950 the American. League season leader dn stolen bases had just 15, the fewest in major league history.

Who was it? DOM DIMAGGIO. 4. When the Braves played the Yankees in the 1957 World Series, there was an incident involving a Milwaukee pinch batter. He claimed he was hit a pitched ball and he even produced a ball with shoe polish as evidence. Name that batter.

NIPPY JONES. 5. Spell the last name of the man who completed an unassisted triple pity in the 1920 World Series. BILL 6. Only one man in modern major league history ever stole six bases in one game, and he did it twice in less than two weeks.

Who was he? EDDIE COLLINS. 7. The two men directly involved in the final out of Johnny VanderMeer's second straight no-hitter both became major league managers; Who hit the ball for that final out and who-caught it. LEO DUROCHER hit the ball to HARRY 8. What major league baseball pitcher wore the name hometown on the back of his uniform? There are conflicting reports on this one, but most sources give BILL VOISELLE'S official hometown as Ninety Six, S.C.

9. Who broke Dizzy Dean's toe, with a line drive in 1937 All- Star game? EARL AVERILL. i. Which toe? BIG TOE. Which foot? LEFT..