Sapulpa Daily Herald from Sapulpa, Oklahoma • 10

PAGE TEN Sapulpa Ofcla Herald Tuesday, July II, 1172 Hot Lions Eye District Tourney Sapulpa Daily FRALD BY MIKE LEONOVICH Herald Sports Editor The phrase 'never have so many, owed so much, to so few could easily apply to the Sapulpa lions contingent of the District 4 American I egion The Lions, who have won seven consecutive games for an overall 13-6 record, have a rostei of just 11 players Considering that it takes nine to play a game a bench of two players isn likely to scare away many opponents But what Sapulpa lacks in numbers is made up by agressive play, particularly while on the offensive The Lions sport six players batting ovei stressed to the players to learn to do it without their help said IT'T But ve a Je hit best, and swing the bat i0, of out at sitting6 on his shoulderlth the Concef Bar ne Tr' ManaKer Jess the prSm wilT run Barnes and assistant coach much better next year Paul Beaverson the dream of an Raymond Kelley and Don SPORTS Gibson Fells Astros Stargell Belts Braves i American Legion team in Sapulpa has been an uphill battle the entire year There aren that many ball players in Sapulpa and summer employment has hurt us, Sampson revealed ahwee, both playing fine defense, have been the hitting stars of late Mike Osborn and Million have shared the bulk of the pitching chores Osborn, who leads the team innings pitched, has yielded just the 300 mark and as a team arc donated money for the team's lacing the ball at a 282 clip new uniforms and the Jaycees Fischer Scores First Chess Win We ve some mental helped The Lions Club errors that have cost us runs and in some cases a few games, cup oaycees Sampson said But our pitching The only thing that worries have added 1150 to the pot to help has been brilliant I think we ll me is injuries admitted Coach expenses during the district do very well in the tournament if Hershet Sampson If anyone ornament we can keep everyone healthy ever got hurt we'd be in real We uldn have been able and minimise our mistakes trouble Sapulpa has four games remaining in regular season play, Claremore at home Wednesday night and Bristow at home Saturday night and Claremore and Bartlesville away, before the district tournament July 27 If we stay in our own district or possibly District 1 we could have a good shot at winning it, said Sampson But if they put us in the rough Tulsa district it would be tough The Lions started the season slowly and stayed at the break even level before the recent surge At the time we only had two pitchers and a schedule loaded with double-headers, Sampson explained Our pitching just couldn handle the load The addition of three key players solved the problem, but other players quit the team making the present club number 11 Boyd Jones, Vernon Billingsley and Gary York have played an important part in the success of the Sapulpa Lions Jones is a former Sapulpa High School standout who's hitting the ball at a 357 clip Billingsley and York both are pitchers and have pitched well for the Lions We don have a lot of players, but we have four real good pitchers, Sampson said And our hitting has improved greatly The boys have confidence and that's what it takes to win Leading the offensive parade is thirdbaseman Robert Beaverson at 384, followed by catcher Ronnie Shelton 371, Jones, shortstop Barry Million 343, Billingsley 333 and outfielder Onis Pankey 333 Hitting is 75 per cent mental, Sampson explained I've By Martin Lader UPI Sports Writer Even if Bob Gibson wins every game he pitches the rest of the season and don bet everything you own against it it still might not be enough for the St Louis Cardinals to Pi victory in a row for the Pirates, the winning run later in the In the only other game played inning on a single by Eld Crosby, in the National league, the a sacrifice and Lou Brock Cincinnati Reds stretched their single West Division lead over Houston Gibson allowed nine hits, but to six games by beating the retired 12 Houston batters in a Chicago Cubs, 7-2 row over one stretch as he Detroit remained one game in whipped the Astros for the 27th time in his career Stargell drove in three runs with his 19th homer of the year in the first inning and delivered the winning run in the eighth with a sacrifice fly He had injured his ankle in the second game of a Lung Trouble Ousts Gabriel LONG BEACH, Calif UPI Los Angeles Rams quarterback Roman Gabriel suffered a collapsed right lung Monday and will be sidelined for at least one month Gabriel was throwing the football in a non-contact drill at the Rams' Ix ng Beach camp on his first day of practice, when he complained of feeling ill He was taken to Ixrng Beach Community Hospital, where a tube was inserted into his right lung through a small incision in his back Dr Jules Kasinski Jr team physician for the Rams, said that it was a common illness, caused by a rupturing of a small air cyst at the top of the lung overcome the stinging bats of front of Baltimore in the Pittsburgh American league East as the Gibson struck out 13 batters Tigers beat the Chicago White and ran up his 10th consecutive Sox, 3-1, and the Orioles tripped victory Monday night as St the Texas Rangers by an Louis edged the Houston Astros, dentical 3-1 count The Boston losses fl'e Red 1,681 the California annie me second game of a year-old riuhih Angels, 4-1, and in the only other doubleheader against Houston tovethpr ni PU game sche l- A and on Sunday, but said, It feels a together nine complete games in Brewers were rained out at his 10-game winning skein Milwaukee But the Cardinals remained 9 Don dendenon's eighth inning Kames back of Pittsburgh homer snapped a 1-1 tie for St in the National Uague East as Louis and the Cardinals provid- Willit Stargell batting on one ed Gibson with what proved to be good ankle and one bad one, drove home four runs to lift the Pirates to a 6-5 triumph over the Atlanta Braves It was the fifth little tender but it'll be okay in a few days It doesn affect my swing He Manager Bill Virdon asked me if I could play and I said I could Bullet Bob Gibson Nabs 10th Win Allison, Petty Close DAYTONA BEACH, Fla UPI Bobby Allison and Richard Petty are just about as close to a standoff in stock car racing as two drivers can be, according to NASCAR figures released Monday Allison, who won Sunday's Northern 300 in Trenton, now has five victories this season in the NASCAR Winston Cup Grand National division House insured Now how about your home Don't fun main you houw but your homo and all it moons to you with an MFA Homsownsrs policy To Shottor that homo you'ya built Sac or call your MFA afant today Bill Bell 11 East Lee 224-7010 SaWBflHI 9 IT'S tike pride in the persona attention your prescription re ceives here Open Daily 9 to 7 Closed Sundays DISCOUNT PHARMACY Dial 224-3117 1720 So Main REYKJAVIK, Iceland UPI It was the greatest triumph in his career, yet Bobby Fischer missed the moment by arriving late Ten minutes before the 29- year-old American challenger rushed into the exhibition hall, titleholder Boris Spassky resigned, giving Fischer his first win in the drive to take the world chess championship His win in the third game in the 24-match world championship cut Spassky's lead to 2-1 The fourth game is scheduled to start at 5 1 EDTl today with Fischer playing white, thus giving him the first move The end of third game begun Sunday and adjourned until Monday was swift German referee Lothar Schmid and Spassky were alone on the stage with no sign of the American when the clock passed 5 Schmid opened a large, brown envelope, read the move Fischer had scribbled down Sunday- night when the game adjourned and moved Fischer bishop The crowd held its breath and waited for Spassky to sit down For 30 seconds the Russian stood by the board and looked at the pieces Then he calmly stopped the clock to his right He tipped over his king indicating he resigned, nodded curtly to Schmidt and left The hall was almost empty and Schmidt was ready to leave when Fischer rushed in He looked round but could not find Spassky What happened, had he resigned Fischer asked Sch- mid nodded and in one swift movement Fischer had grabbed his pencil and signed the game sheet Is that all he asked Not a flicker of emotion showed on his face although he had scored his Sapulpa Dump Edison Mark Tucker and Reggie Grant combined for 44 points in leading the Sapulpa summer league basketball team to a 68-59 win over Tulsa Edison Monday night Larry Nightingale had 9 points, Larry Brown 5, Mike Grant 4 and Kenneth Cochran 4 Calvin Dansby Terry Bruner, Jim Waite und Mack Jackson alsb saw action The Sapulpa team plays Sperry tonight, 6 at Reed Park, while the Sapulpa varsity takes on Inola, 7 30 at Tulsa Red Shield Club Sapulpa plays Tulsa Washington Wednesday night for the league championship and meets Tulsa Edison in the season finale Friday The team completes league action July 2S against Tulsa Memorial Sapulpa Girls Rout Bristow Fine pitching by Robin Adams first victory against Spassky Spassky decision to resign on the 42nd move came as no surprise for the large gathering of grand and international masters in the hall Fischer had the advantage of a pawn and a and clutch hitting by Lisa Bailey stronger attacking position and Beth Baldwin paced the With his protege back in the Sapulpa Iittle Sluggers to a 12-2 presidential suite Father Wil- conquest of Bristow in the liam Lombardy, Fischer se- opening round of the Sapulpa cond, told newsmen, This could Girls softball tournament be the turning point Monday night Dont forget Bobby came Robin went the distance for through a lot of trouble After Sapulpa striking out 12 Bristow four defeats and two draws batters Her catcher was Lita against Spassky including pre- 'hampion vious nonchampionship games lisa Bailey stroked four hits he has finally broken the ice with and Beth Baldwin added three more to come I think it was one more in pacing the Sapulpa of Bobby best and most im- 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