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6A-DEL RIO (TEXAS) NEWS-HERALD, Thursday, July 23,1970 Del Rio Pits Power inst Pleasanton The Val Verde Little League All-Stars pack a light team batting average (.260) for the past six Little League playoff games but tote a heavy stick in the long ball department 9 home runs and 5 doubles, to Pleasanton today and the sudden death, one game District 21 semi-final series. The game against Pleasanton is set for 8 p.m. Regulars, Eddie Ortega with .429 and Mark Johnson with .375 are the only Del Rioans batting over the .300 mark. Alternates Raul Rivas with 1,000 and Sergio Gonzalez with .500 complete the elite .300 or over unit. Henry Fernandez is Bobby Lamontagne Billy McDonald Roland Zavala Al Lopez Jim Fernandez and, Eddie Ledesma .105 complete the playoff roster averages.

Craig dates, alternate first sacker batted only once officially with no resultant average. Del Rio manager Leo Lamontagne told the News-Herald shortly before noon that the All Stars would leave at 3 p.m. aboard a Del Rio Independent School District bus. The plans call for a first stop in Uvalde for malts and another further up the line for water. Once at the Pleasanton Park the Val Verdians will stretch and Umber up while Manager Lamontagne and Coach Al Lopez figure out tonight's lineup.

In all probability, Lamontagne stated this morning, Roland Zavala will get the pitcher's call if he weathers the 200-mile bus trip. Henry Fernandez is earmarked to catch, Billy McDonald at first base, Eddie Ledesma to play second base, Jim Fernandez at shortstop and Brad Johnson at the hot corner. The Val Verde outfield has Eddie Ortega in left, Bobby Lamontagne in center and Al Lopez in right. Raul Rivas and Sergio Gonzalez are the first two on tap for pinch-hitting duty and Jim Fernandez is the backup pitcher in case Zavala can't handle the six inning stint. The bus leaves -from Las Vacas Street, in front of the old Wildcat Shack.

MASCARAS WINS-Mil Mascaras (with mask) pours on the punishment in main event wrestling at the 4-H Club Show Barn Wednesday night. Mascaras won the match with a 30-second third fall. (News-Herald Photo) Mascaras Crowd Pleaser By CARL GUYS Left Her Mark When the great racing mare Barbara passed into the animal kingdom-come in May of this year she left her mark on the Quarter racing horse world. Besides becoming a Triple-A champion on the racing strip herself, she became the Quarter Horse breed's leading producer of AAA runners. One of Barbara L's progeny is Barbara 3, by Top Deck.

Another swift daughter is Miss Olene by Leo. These offsprings collected over $122,000 in racing wins. Miss Olene has special significance to us since she is the dam of Miss Angel Eyes, recent winner of the Kansas Futurity, bringing home a check for $70,862.40 to Spofford owner L.R. French. Friend James Chapman trains the French-owned filly whose grand-dam, Barbara was foaled in '47 on another friend's spread (James Hunt of Sonora).

Thus we pay tribute to a great race mare who did her running thing in top times and gave us fond memories in current running stock. Big Lift When the Val Verde Little League All-Stars steam into Pleasanton this afternoon for participation in the win-or-so-long-I-matcha' District 21 semi-final game they'll arrive in colorful style. A big bright Del Rio Independent School District bus will tote 'em. P.A. Tanksley, super of the DRISD, said, "Sure to All-Star manager Leo Lamontagne's request for a school 0XQI1S bus to haul the squad.

It won't be the last of the DRISD busses to buzz into Pleasanton since the high school of that city is now one of the 14-AAA family and we'll be on home and home basis for sports. Mil Mascaras, definite crowd favorite, used his superior speed to test rugged Johnny Valentine in the All-Star Wrestling main event before a packed house in the 4-H Show Barn Wednesday night. The event was delayed for approximately 10 minutes for the very popular Mil Mascaras Rams Play Host To Uvalde Sunday The Del Rio Rams booked the Uvalde All-Stars for a doubleheader in Roosevelt Park Sunday, the last appearance of the Queen City team here before it departs for the 10-day Texas State Baseball Championship Tournament sponsored by the National Baseball Congress of Texas at LaGrange. With a 14-2 record the Rams will send big Joe Rivera, Puerto Rico's gift to Laughiin AFB in the opener Sunday and come back with either Freddie Mireles, Al Soto or Danny Chavira in the late game. The first game is slated to begin at 4 p.m.

with a 1 5-minute intermission between games. to sign autographs; much to the dismay of Valentine who refused few people who asked for his. Valentine won the first of three falls with a devastating elbow smash to the throat of Mascaras, which stunned him long enough for David Cantu to count him out. The second fall was a complete turn-around. The speed of the well-built masked Mexican so confused Valentine that he was unable to muster To Sonora Sunday 1 Calling Card After our All-Stars de-bus, limber up for the sudden-death deal tonight, they'll present their calling card the home run ball.

This feature has been the main reason they are where they are today. A scan back over your shoulder will see the second game of the Area playoffs and how the team was down a game and facing extinction from the 1970 Little League playoff ranks. Came the last inning and even two out of that one a couple of Val Verdians were on the hassocks and Hurricane Henry Fernandez was at the bat shades of ol' Casey. Ah, but Casey blew his chance, remember? Not- young Henry. The Del Rio catcher belted one out of the park, the three runs were in, we won 10-9, and breathed again.

Then came the third game again we were facing the "bye, bye, blues time Roland Zavala took the bat into his own pitching hands and blasted two out for five rbi's and we were first leg champs. Then came Eagle Pass and after two games it was a toss-up whether we'd go on or stay home and watch them go. A left-fielder named Eddie Ortega came up. with the calling card again twice, yet to paste that little ol' pelota far out of the Pop Word Park diamond and guaranteed a trip to Pleasanton. In all the Val Verdians recorded nine homers in the six game Area series with Ortega and Zavala authoring three each, Jim Fernandez getting two and Henry Fernandez his'n.

Oil's Well, Charley Big Spring, Schreiner Institute and New Mexico State can pool their cheers when Charley Johnson takes the field guiding the Houston Oilers this year. Charley is a Big Spring native, studied as an undergrad at the Kerrville institution and made it big at New Mexico State. An off-season trade with the St. Louis Cardinals brought Johnson to the Houston fold and he came back to Kerrville to the training camp. The Oilers open their exhibition bit this year on August 8 in the Astrodome against the Chicago Bears and we'll get an umpire's eye witness report from Jim Costello who handles the high school baseball and LAFB softball officiating duties.

Costello, an Illinois boy, nonetheless has become an Astro baseball fan and is taking his family on a week's "vacation" which takes in four; or five Astro baseball games and the Oilers-Bears grid fest. Trotline Bit T'other day when we penned a piece about the August bass contest by our Amistad Bass Club it some how or' other came out with a "no trotline" amendment. Actually lads, the August bass wranglers of the ABC can, cast their wiggily worms off but then can not TROLL. Eddie Hollingsworth, one of ABC's most ardent anglers abided me on the Main Drag about that trotline bit but then he sorta' agreed trolling was rather like setting a line out and seeing what happens. Mike Haynes, prexy of the ABC group yelled to say it was 'no trolling' but was like Hollingsworth in regards to the similarity of the two methods of taking bass.

Mike also added that he's about to make an announcement about a venture into the fishing tackle business here. We told him we'd be glaH to hear his plans. That's so. The Del Rio Texans will travel to Sonora for a doubleheader baseball event Sunday. Tiny Ramirez, Texan manager will probably send Joe Gamboa to the mound in the first game and Ray Suarez to the rubber in the nightcap.

The first game is set for 1 p.m. with a slight intermission between the two contests. Catfish, Anyone? A Ib. yellow catfish was harvested from the Rio Grande Arm of Amistad Reservoir on July 20 by Tommy D. Wyirek of Vincent.

What made the catch so different was that the catfish was wearing a metal tag, numbered 326, attached to its gill. Tom Walters, operator of the Lazy Bait Store of Comstock, announced the catch this morning. Walters is of the opinion that the "would probably mean something to the people who stocked the lake." Biologist George Henderson, who is project leader for the Texas Parks and Wildlife's Amistad Lake stocking program explained the tagged fish system as follows: We take seine or net samples and whenever a healthy good looking game fish turns up we tag it and return it to the water. This way we have a chance to study the migratory characteristics and the growth rate on some species. Also, by catching the tagged fish the anglers have some real good food value." For Example, Henderson dug out the tagging records and discovered that catfish No.

326, the subject fish, was tagged on Nov. 19, 1969 and weighed 3 Ibs. .94 ozs. It in the same area where the Vincent fisherman caught it, showing a gain of slightly over a pound in nine months; about normal. Fight Results By THE ASSOCIATE!) PRESS CHICAGO-Ruben Olivares, 124, Mexico ji Chiyoda, 122, Japan, 10, non- title.

AKRON, Ohio-Doyle Baird, 167, Akron, knocked out Ellis Poole, 160, Lockport, N.Y., 1. SYRACUSE, NT-Billy Backus, 147, Canastota, N.Y., outpointedMannyGonzalezJBO, Houston, 10. any kind of an attack. With approximately 15 minutes gone in the fall, Mascaras put the finishing touches on a bewildered Valentine. Mascaras won the fall with an atomic drop which kept Valentine on the deck during the intermission.

At the sound of the bell, Mascaras was all over Valentine, never giving his opponent a chance to gain his senses. Mascaras was the victor in the third fall with a series of head rams in the amazing time of 30 seconds. The semi-final match proved no less exciting. This match pitted Big Bob Orton (275 Ibs.) against Joltin' Joe Blanchard (245 Despite the weight disadvantage, Joe Blanchard won the match on a disqualification in the third fall after both he and Orton had taken a fall apiece. Referee Cantu called for the bell after receiving several blows from Orton in an unsuccessful attempt to place the blame on Blanchard.

The preliminary match between San Antonio's Ben Matta and Mark Star of New Jersey was won by the popular Matta. Primarily a scientific wrestler, Matta was forced to mix it up with Starr proving that he could fight either type of match. This was only after repeated infraction by Starr. This card of Ail-Star Wrestling brought an enthusiastic, standing-room- ordy crowd to the ringside. Frank Brown, president of Wrestlethon, said that he was pleased at the number of farts present at this first card.

Brown has scheduled other top cards to test the consistency of the fans. The only problem was a slight seating problem which Brown promises will be remedied before the next card which will be set for the near future. $267 H12 $212 $143 $663 $163 $225 $200 $436 under Barracuda under Camaro under Chevelie under F-85 under Belvedere under Monte Carlo under Tempest under Skylark under Rebel under Road Runner ger than em. New lower-priced VGB MB at Ford Dealer's Economy Clearance prices shown based on manufacturers' suggested prices for lowest priced 2-door models. GILBERT MURRAY MOTORS DEL RIO, TEXAS.