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v' -game -Yankees entertahrtheuew Mar ion club which is backed by the rival NewYork Mets" Other inaugural games 'will find Bluefield at Harlan' and Salem playing at Wytheville The parept Boston Red Sox have assigned Rac Slider who has been a coach at Winston-Salem of the Carolina League to manage Harlanr--" Wpperlnf Bluefield for the Bal-Other managers in the league timore Orioles for the first time are Bob BauerprTf More than 30 in Ap-Pete Pavlick at Marion and palachain League players are hit his first American League home run in relief of Mickey Mantle Moschitto joins Mel'Stoftfe-myre brillant young right hander who broke in at Harlan as an Appalachian a graduate with the parent Yankees This schedule Thursday and Friday Mar- lion at Johnson City Bluefield at Harlan Salem at Wytheville: Saturday and Sunday John: son City'at" Salem Harlen at Marion Wytheville at Bluefield Johnson City Yankee fans will get the opportunity today to take pictures of the team and to get autographs president Mitchell Thorp said Season tickets will also be at at the game Fans can purOL chastf tickets from any member of theYankee officers Chamber of Commerce or the Park and Recreation Board members Thorp also announced that famed St Louis Cardinal star open its 1965 season Thursday night with theminuteentrance of Harlan Ky that sent the eir-' cuit to six clubs Chauncey DeVault of Bristol launching his 20th season as Appalachian president will take in the opener at Johnson City where the defending champion players now playing major league baseball The latest to hit the big time Is outfielder Ross Moschitto rookie of the year at Johnson City last year who Friday night Lee Anthony for the Washington Senators at Wytheville Back in business at the same stand for another tyear George Detore at Salem for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Jim Frey Dizzy Dean will the Yan telecast kees in Saturday' JC Yankees Sideline By Henry Jenkins The l965 edition of Johnson City Yankees will be unveiled here today in a full-fledged exhibition game at Yankee Park Gametime will be at 3 pm The squad will be divided into two teams for the intra-squad -tilt with the public invited President Mitchell Thorp said yester- day ball park today Thorp reported Johnson City is the defending champion having finished nine games ahead of second-place Wytheville Manager Bob club opened training last week in preparation for the opener here Thursday night Harlan Ky was added to the league last week making the Appalachian League a six-club circuit The Kentucky city will be affiliated with the Boston Red Sox of the American League League president Chauncey is drawing up a new schedule which will probably be released early this week Other league members are Johnson City (Yankees) Bluefield-Wr VariOrioles)Salem Va (Pirates) Wytheville Va (Senators) and Marion Va FOUR NEW RECORDS- were established in the Ap palachian League last season The Appalachian circuit one of the oldest professional leagues in the land launches its ninth season as an rookie organization this week Johnson City beginning its second season as an affiliate of the New York Yankees is defending cham- -pion Managed by Lamar North last season the local team -finished nine games ahead of second place Wytheville Bob Bauer is manager of this club Two Johnson City players and one each from Blue-field and Salem carved new individual marks last season Ross Moschitto now on the New York-Yankee roster scored 72 runs to break the old mark of 70 held by two former Bluefield players and James Walrath batted in 84 runs to break Butch 82 while with Salem' in 1957' Gary Fancher had 164 total bases five more' than mark with WythUJe in 1961 Robert Robertson of Salem hit seven sacrifice flies to break the old mark by one held by Hector Soto also of Salem in' 1963 Oliva now an outstanding American League player vwith the Minnesota Twins hold the league's best average a 410 mark and the most hits 102 while at Wytheville in 1961 Other hitting record holders are Joey Gritts Wythe- ville most home runs (24) 1960 triples Jerry Pritchett-- Wytheville (11) 1962 doubles' Royce McDaniel Kingsport (23) 1961 Bob Savarine with Baltimore stole 36 bases at Bluefield in 1959 still a record and Jack Hamilton a pitcher now with Detroit compiled a 7-0 record at Wytheville in 1957 for the best percentage Joining Oiiva as formei rookies of the year here now in the majors is Danny Cater of the Chicago White Sox- Cater played with Johnson City in 1958 Regular season attendance in the Appalachian League last season showed Salem the leader with 36184 fol-: lowed by Wytheville with 17120 Bluefield pulled 15144 spectators and Johnson City had 14258: The league total was 82706 If Yankees open defense of the Appalachian League championship Thursdays Marion Mets INSTRUCTIONS New York Yankee supervisor of scouts Johnny NeurugivestheJohnsonCity club some instructions during drill The lead to two strokes RICHARD MAY On LMC Staff (Mets) With the addition of Harlan the schedule jumps to 70 games DeVault reported Each club will play a 14-game series seven away and seven at home the Appalachian League prexy stated Johnson City will open with the Marion Mets here Thursday and Friday nights This part of the schedule was not changed according to DeVault Meanwhile President Thorp urged all directors of the local club and all ticket sellers to attend game as an account will be made of all books of tickets sold According to Thorp the campaign to sell 500 books of tickets is still shy of the mark Tickets will be on sale at the to LMC Ted Ray of England did it 1920 No matter how warm it Player invariably buttons his black shirt right up to the collar but let it choke him in the muggy 80-degree heat Twice during the round over long 9191-yard layout' he lost the lead but he kept on fighting back took it for good on the 13th and never again looked back Player had two bogeys on the front nine and one birdie on the back nine 216 after his even par 70 Should Player go on to win in 18-hole windup he will become the only golfer of this era to have captured the US Open British Open Masters and PGA championships Accomplished Quickest Moreover the five-foot-seven 150-pound physical culture addict will have the distinction of having done it in less time than it took both Hogan and Sarazen Bantam Ben won the four big ones within a span of seven years and Sarazen took -13 years to do it yard 12th which proved a trouble spot all day long It was a place where the marshals broke up a fist fight between a pair of overheated galleryites at one point and where Nagle originally fell behind Players Asked For Relief Nagle asked for relief on the 12th when his drive strayed into the rough and came to rest in a depressed washed out area Joe Dey the executive director who has the last word on right and wrong in such championships as the Open denied petition declaring it (See PLAYER Page 30) MARION MANAGER Pete Pavlich is back in the palachian League after an absence of 22 years Pavlick played second base for the Bristol Twins in 1943 and went on to play in the major leagues with the New York Giants in 1951 THE CLUB TOURNAMENT at the Elizabethton Golf 4 5 and Course is set for the Labor Day weekend Sept By BOB HOPSON Sports Writer-BANNER ELK NC Richard May former head football coach at Jonesboro High School and a student assistant last year at East Tennessee State Univer 7 ST LOUIS (UPI) Iron-willed Gary Player widened his lead to two strokes in the third round of the US Open Saturday with a 211 total that brought him within 18 holes of joining Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen as the only golfers in history to sweep the four top titles Dead bent on winning this one than I have ever wanted anything else the thoroughly dedicated 29-year-old South African hand-forged a steady which put him two-strokes ahead Hf Australian Kel Nagle and Frank Beard of Louisville Ky Nagle the 44-year-old first round leader shot a for a 213 total with the aid of a decision by the rules Committee and the 26-year-old Beard who nearly died 15 months ago due to an attack of encephalitis Was at the same figure after Bespectacled Mason Rudolph Acres Fla was a back with 214 with his round 73 and A1 Geiber-ger Santee' Calif was at 6th Lewis Clark manager of the course stated last week Doug Brown wins NCAA 3-mile run If he wins Player will have accomplished the feat in six years and also become the first foreigner to win the Open since The ruling on Nagle- cutting a stroke off his third round total came as a result of an incident on the par four 460- Clark incidentally is one of the past champions winning the 1960 tournament Bill Greene formerly of Kingsport and now of Eliza-bethton is defending champion Champions of the past six tournaments are? 1959 Hal Nave Mountain City 1960 Lewis Clark Elizabethton 1961 Jim McGinty Elizabethton 1962 Lee Williams Johnson City 1963 Jim McGinty Elizabethton 1964 Ti" Greener sity has been named head line coach at Lees-McRae Junior College LMC head football coach George Lytton made the announcement yesterday believe we are getting the top line coach in the Lytton said are real pleased to get a coach with such a high caliber as Lytton added May will assume the duties of head line coach and instructor in the Physical Education department when the school resumes its fall semester No Contract Earlier reports said that May would be added to the Elizabethton High School staff However no contracts were signed The former ETSU Gridder began his coaching career at Uni-coi County High SchooLas an- LOUIS Third round scores US Open golf championship: MOUNTAIN Clyde Shoun is among 20 former Cincinnati players in line to make the Hall of Fame this season: Four players will be selected July 15th from the group Originally only two players were selected each season however the number was increased two this season to recognize more good players according to Cincinnati brass Shoun pitched for approximately five seasons at Cincinnati going to the Red club May 6 1942 and remaining until June 7 1947 1 It was during the five-year reign that Shoun hurled a i-0 no-hitter over Boston missing a perfect game when he walked his mound opponent Jim Tobin in the third inning SCIENCE -John Rippetoe and Terry Dellinger- JT his of Lehigh stroke third of ST in the Gary Prank Kel Nagle Mason Al Julius Gay Bruce Gene Dudley BERKELEY Calif (UPI) Little Doug Brown of the University of Montana rallied in the final 50 yards Saturday to nip John Lawson of Kansas in a photo finish and win the three mile run in meet record time at the NCAA track tod field championships Brown a five-seven- 140-pound package of running dynamite won the race by a nose as both he and Lawson were clocked in a sparkling 13 minutes 402 seconds The time wiped out the NCAA mark of 13:477 set by Pat Clohessy of the University of Houston in 1961 Oregon and the University of Calif omla finishedTin a tie for the team title The victory also gave Brown a double in this championships He won the gruelling six mile run on Thursday night in the national collegiate record time of 27:592 Clarence Robinson of University of New Mexico was the only other double winner in this meet Robinson who won the broad jump Friday with a leap of 25-10 1-2 took the Player Beard Rudolph Geiberger Boros Brewer Devlin Littler Wysong Bern assistant before moving to the Jonesboro helm in 1960 While at Jonesboro his teams rolled up a 30-8-2 record and is the only team in the history of the Watauga Conference to win three league championships in succession His teams won the title in 1961-62-63 I am well pleased to accept this position with May said Lytton is also a former as- a pair of juniors lettered in four sports for Hilltopper teams during the 1964-65 season The pair won letters in football basketball baseball and track Both were regulars on the football team Rippetoe the quarterback and Dellinger a halfback Rippetoe kicked 10 I extra points while Dellinger scored two touchdowns In basketball both were reserves with Rippetoe scor-! ing 11 points and Dellinger getting 17 On the track team Rippetoe was a weight man par- ticipating in the shot put and discus Dellinger ran the high hurdle and on the mile relay team and broad jumped In baseball Rippetoe compiled a 3-2 pitching record and hit 143 while Dellingerra reserve batted 250 Jit 213 70-76-70-216 72-75-70-217 72-75-70-217 77-73-69 219 71-74-75-220 76-71-74-221 73-75-75-221 72-76-74-222 73-73-76-222 80-49-73 222 74-74-72-222 74 74-74-222 76-71-75-222 72-77-73-222 73-76-73-222 73-75-75-223 74-76-74-224 76-74-74-226 73-76-77-226 77-73-76-226 75-74-78-227 75-73-79 227 74-75-80-229 7-73-79-229 Doug Sanders Raymond Floyd Charles Huckaby Gordon Jones Billy Maxwell Terry Wilcox Gardner Dickinson Tommy Jacobs-Duff Lawrence Miller Barber Billy Casper Bruce Crampton Harrison i Dick Hendrickson George Knudson Ted Kroll Jack Lumpkin Eric Monti Steve Oppermann Dean Refram Robert Reity Frank Verwey Lou Graham Jack Nicklaus Robert Rosburg Sam Snead Rex Baxter Labron Harris Dan Sikes Tom Welskopf Sam Carmichael Wes Ellis a-Ed Tutwiler Paul Kelly Bill Ogden Juan Rodriguez Dick Hart Franklin Keller a-Denotes Amateur ump with a leap of 50-2 sistant at ETSU riple Craig Jraig Fergus of San Jose State was second in the triple North Carolina College was (See BROWN Page 30) May is married to the former Grace Barnes of Blountville and the father of two children Beth 2 and Becky 4 A 'XrtK 'aa T' Summer basketball with four area teams participating launched operations last week at Happy Valley High School Schools entered in the league are Science Hill Hampton Unaka and host Happy Valley All games will be played oa the Warrior court 7 Games are scheduled each Tuesday and Thursday nights beginning at 7 JOHNSON CITY TENN PRESS-CHRONICLE SUNDAY JUNE 20 1965 MISSES PUTT Jack Nicklaus watches as his ball rolls short and he misses putt on third green in third round of the Open at the Belle- rive Country Club in St Louis yesterday Nicklaus is 12 strokes off the pace of leader Gary -Player with a 211 (UPI Telephoto) 1965 Appalac Jiian League schedule Rains joins Chamblee grid staff 7 RUSTY TREADWAY has marked off the month of June as a successful one in his sports activities Rusty 11-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Russell A Treadway of 910 Althea St plays Little League baseball with the Optimist Club A Little Leaguer now for three years Rusty realized a first June 7th when he hit a home run with two mates aboard then on June 14th he made a hole-in-one at the Par 3 Lake View Golf Course The feat Was accomplished on No 7 hole which is 93 yards Rusty will be 12 years old on October 12th at at BLUEFIELD at HARLAN at JOHNSON CITY at MARION --at SALEM BLUEFIELD THE 1964-65 TSSAA state championship list is complete and a recap of the winners: Football no champion selected basketball Mur- (See Sideline Review page 30) HARLAN At Municipal Course City Open qualifying continues JOHNSON CITY Former East Tennessee State University football star Edward (Eddie) Rains will enter the coaching ranks this fall at Chamblee High School in Ab lanta Ga A four-year letterman for the Buccaneers Rains will be line coach at the PeKalb County Ga high school Rains served last fall as a graduate assistant coach at State while completing work on his masters degree Rains was a regular tackle for the Bucs for two years during which time ETSU ran up a 14-5 record' He lettered in reserve roles hi? freshman and sophomore years Although small for an Ohio Valley Conference tackle at 6-1 and 210 pounds Rains made up for his lack of size with great speed and toughness He regularly manhandled opposing linemen who had 30-40 pounds advantage in size- tains was a star prep tackle at Clinton High School in Clinton Tentt playing for Coach Jody Fisher 1 He is of Mn and Mrs MARION SALEM Hawood 75: Lee Williams 76: Bobby Stout Earl Peters and Claude Babb with 77 and Billy Jack Smith 78 Club manager Leon Capps stated that he believed it would take a 76 at least to get into the championship flight A record 188 players toured the Municipal course yesterday The previous high to date was 144 in a single day-' 1 Match play will get under way tomorrow with the first round play lasting through Friday The second round is carded for Sab Bill Barnett fired a one-under-par 79 yesterday afternoon to take the lead for medalist hon- ors in the Municipal Golf Course 7 City Open tournament getting under way tomorrow -Qualifying continues today with defending club champion 5 Bobby Turbyfield former Ap-! palachian champion Marion 7 White and Brownie King ex-: pected to qualify for championship flight play Galjby Usary of Morristown fired the second lowest score i yesterday with a 75 jfcfccisSt'iO tr WYTHEVILLE i 1 'V.