The Tribune from San Luis Obispo, California • 8

San Lull Obispo County (Calif) Tolatram-Tribuno Thursday July 171 AS for run at tion games at 5 pm and I pm Two games are to be played Tuesday one at 5 pm In the loser's bracket and the other at 8 pm in the championship bracket The tournament tapers off with one-o-day games on Wednesday and Thursday each at 8 pm with the loser eliminated Wednesday and the championship (if one team remains unbeaten) decided Thursday If both teams have one loss after Thursday's game the extra game is scheduled for 8 pm Friday The champion here advances to the Pacific Southwest Region tournament scheduled for Aug 9-13 in Madera That winner goes to the Babe Ruth World Series in Newark Ohio Aug 19-28 Actually the "marathon" could last through Aug 28 IF either San Luis Obispo or Arroyo Grande should go all the way ByJohuyNrttlnhip Sports Editor Another one of those marathon runs gets under way In San I uis Obispo at 10 am Friday The could last through July 28 and probably will This "marathon" is not of the huff lng puffing jogging type but one where one division of those people involved work throughout the day and most of the night another division plays baseball and still another division watches the games It's called the Central California State Babe Ruth lieague 14-15-year-old double-elimination tournament The "division" that works throughout the week-long tournament is called the Babe Ruth lieague tournament committee It has Eric Burdict as tourney director and Steve Gale as tourney chairman The buck stops with Burdict and or Gale but the presentation of Babe Ruth tournaments in San liUis Obispo has been so well organized in past years under Harry Henderson and Bob Janssen that Bur group expects absolutely no problems with this 14-15 state meet the first-ever for SI) Well almost no problems The "division" that plays throughout the tourney is of course made up of the teams coaches managers and batboys This group Includes the seven districts of Central California plus the hosting San Luis Obispo nine Winner of District I of which iff) is a member is defending champion Arroyo Grande The other district champs in order are: Salinas Visalia West Bullard of Fresno IodJ Canal and Mountain View These teams will be met at tournament headquarters in the Stadium all day Friday with the Foster Parents group headed by Dick Burke of the division greeting the players and taking them to homes in San Iuls Obispo for their stay here Burke who is assisted by larry Meek Mel Hahn and Dan Frank were short homes for 14 players going Into today's countdown for the arrival of players People wishing to house a couple of boys are asked to telephone Burke at 543-5666 (home) or 5434568 (work) Once all the players have arrived the worker's division Klwanis Rotary Exchange and Lions spring into action by presenting a 5 pm get-together barbecue at Sinsheimer Park with all tourney people welcome The service clubs have Arroyo Grande meets Bullard at 1 pm and Visalia West takes on Lodi at 4 pm for two other Saturday games before the workers return with opening ceremonies at 7 pm Carol Hallett state assemblywoman was pressed into service to throw in the "first ball" while Henderson who is in charge of opening ceremonies will handle the catching chore A feature of the opening ceremonies will be the introduction of the players the district directors and Marion Elliott state director Gapping the opening play will be an I pm game between SLO and Mountain View Four games are also scheduled for Sunday with loeer's bracket contests at 11 am and 2 pm and championship bracket tilts at 5 pm and 8 pm Two games follow Monday elimina presented the free feed for several years now and the feature has become one of the big moments of the tourney program The barbecue will be followed by a meeting of managers and coaches in tourney headquarters with John Iribarren District I director and head of the tourney manpower group explaining the ground rides The players division and watchers division get together for the first time at 10 am Saturday when Salinas meets Canal for the tourney-opening game The worker's division of course continues to operate with Pat and Ken Stanley heading the concession stand Barbara and John Buts presiding at the gate Jerry Dunlap spreading the souvenirs and Pat Murphy in charge of fundraising promotions during the games Sports By Associated Pw ft was probably tee least important hit and yet it was clearly the bixsest one of all One thing the Cincinnati Reds really need in the Wedneaday night was a After all Ken Henderson had hit a tereonm homer in tee seventh inning and George Foster had unloaded a grand slam in the eighth all the clout the Reds needed to wallop Philadelphia 7-1 But with nobody on and one out to go In the top of the ninth there was still the matter of Pete hitting streak Row had grounded out twice had struck out once and in the eighth inning had received a controversial walk With that it appeared streak would end at 31 straight game six shy of Tommy National League record But that walk started what turned out to be the Reds' biggest inning and it brought him back to the plate one inning later "That's what happens when you play with a great offensive he said later And after one pitch Row was on first with a bunt single acknowledging tee cheers of 45609 Phillies fens The streak was still alive! In three NL doubleheader splits San Francisco beat Chicago 7-5 and lost 7-4 Montreal defeated Atlanta 56 and lost 3-1 and Houston beat New York 56 then While Larry Sorensen right and Charlie Moore argued with limp Rich Garcia the Butch Hobson ran from first and scored 1 I Lompoc Vandy unbeaten ByDeeHoUoway A done contest and one not so dose featured the Babe Ruth League District One 13-year-old tournament Wednesday on the Atascadero High School diamond The meeting of the four unbeaten teams of the double elimination tourney saw Vandenberg nip Santo Maria 54 and Lompoc shut out Orcutt National 150 in a game called after five frames when the 15run lead rule was invoked Vandy took a 34 lead in the first three innings Gene Angd and Mickey Ma-nion drew walks and Dave GoodfeUow singled to load the bases in the flrat and Darrole Taylor walked to count Angel Manion and Taylor hit stages in the third Eric Oss and Tierre Cook drew walks to count Manion and Taylor came in on a wild pitch Santo Maria got a run in the fourth when Darren Lang was hit by a pitch and came in aa Emmett readied base on an error Vandy picked up what turned out to be the winning runs in the last of the fourth Gino Garda and Manion readied base on errors and GoodfeUow hit a one-hit single Taylor walked and Tim Walrath hit a one-run single Santa Maria scored three times in the top of the fifth Stacy Warner walked and scored on a single by Todd AmariUas Mike Jones reached base on an error and John Boatman singled to drive in Amarillas Jones scored on a wild pitch Lompoc batters collected eight hits to go with the one-hit pitching of Mike Howerton Howerton gave up the hit to Kevin Clark a single with two down in the first inning but the runner died on first He struck out 11 batters and walked four in the five innings Robert Ruiz walked in the second but was i rax picked off walked in the second but was left stranded The other two walks came in the fourth and fifth frames as Howerton faced only 18 batters to record the win Howerton also got the run-producing hit that let the 15run lead rule be invoked at the end of five Jeff Halm walked Robert Gardner singled and Howerton tripled to drive in both runners However only run counted as the game was over when Hahn readied home Steve Terrenes got a single in the first inning for Lompoc Anthony Miranda singled in the second and Brian Stevens got a third-inning double with Darrell Simons Howerton and Miranda hitting singles in the four-run frame In a pair of elimination games today Orcutt National was to meet North Coast at 11 am with Santa Maria and Arroyo Grande playing at 2:30 pm Big foot Rookie offensive tackle Milton Hardaway of the San Diego Chargers takes 17 EE-size shoes 2J3sS2 SAVE! lllVi 1 jL I 4 won June 18 against Oakland The loss was the sixth straight for the slumping White Sox Yankees 2 Twins Ed Figueroa 8-7 tossed a six-hitter and slumping New York won for just the third time in 12 games in besting Minnesota The Yankees scored single runs in the fifth and seventh innings Angels 3 Indians Struggling Nolan Ryan finally won a game after seven misses and regained the American League strikeout lead as he paced California over Cleveland with a six-hitter Ryan 4-8 had dropped five games in succession since beating Chicago on May 23 He struck out 10 batters reaching double figures in strikeouts for the seventh time this season and Ulth time in his career Tigers 5 4: Jason two-run single in a three-run seventh inning rallied Detroit over Oakland Lou hit to deep short scored Phil Mankowski from third base and tied the score at 3-3 After Matt Keough 66 walked Rusty Staub to load the Thompson drove in the deciding with a ground single through the right ride of the infield Slaton 156 pitched a six-hitter to snap four-game winning streak argue hut lose lost 2-1 In single games Pittsburgh defeated Los Angeles 56 and San Diego beat St Louis 56 The first pitch to Row from Phils' reliever Ron Reed wound up rolling tan-talizingly down the third base line was a perfect bunt" said third baseman Mike Schmidt who tried a bare-handed scoop of the ball hut never really had a chance to throw Rose out Giants 7-5 Cribs 4-7: In San Francisco's first game Larry Herndon collected four RBI with a trio of singles to make Vida Blue a 13-game winner but the Cuba rebounded in the nightcap with Larry three RBI on two singles The split left tee Giants two games ahead of tee second-place Reds in the West and Chicago three back of the front-running Phillies in tee East Pirates I Dodgers 3: The Pirates pounced on Doug Rau for three runs in the second inning and Dave Parker hit a two-run homer in the fifth to snap Los three-game winning streak drop the Dodgers into third in the West 2 games back of the Giants and inch third-place Pittsburgh within four of the Phils in the East Reggie Smith hit a tworun homer for the Dodgers Padres 8 Cardinals 3: Dave Winfield climaxed a three-run first inning with an RBI triple and Gene Richards had an RBI double to cap a two-run fourth in San Diego's victory All the scoring came off St Louis right-hander Roy Thomas making his first major league start jected giving financial responsibility to the private group Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley reacted by asking the City Council Tuesday to withdraw the Olympic bid Killanin said Wednesday that he thinks Bradley acted too hastily Killanin's message went to Robert Kane president of the USOC The IOC president said he agreed to a 21-day extension and added: do feel that tee reactions were somewhat rapid and consider that you should both review my letter with care" "Until the Games are awarded it is essential to deal with the USOC and the Killanin said Deadline for Olympics rowers Bp Associated Press no place like home for a good bpaeball rhubarb And they certainly had a good one in Milwaukee Wednesday night JIhis particular argument took place between Milwaukee catcher Charlie Moore and home plate umpire Rich GSarcia in the midst of a game-turning rgUy that helped the Boston Red Sox bt the Brewers 8-2 Ooh was Moore mad Enraged when Garcia called George Scott safe mi a play at home in the fcrenth inning Moore dropped the ball and charged the umpire Milwaukee pwher liry Sorensen had to restrain tapeatcher with a full Nelson hold PI thought when Scott slid he missed the said Moore I dove after min as he came bads for the plate and tagged him on the hand way before he gfe back But the umpire said he got in the first time around because he called him safe immediately" Garda concurred that Scott was in fact safe the first time and that he have to come back to make sure "When Scott slid by the plate he cgught the edge with his hand" said Garcia signalled him safe im-idediately The play was over there I dffq't know why he came back and obviously he would have been out then if he hadn't touched it the first time But he Moore was burned twice on the play for while he was arguing with Garda he forgot to call time Butch Hobson sneaked all the way around from first base to score the fourth run of the inning and the Red Sox soon had enough runs to win with a 4-2 lead Elsewhere in the American League the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 10- 3 the New York Yankees stopped the Minnesota Twins 2- 0 the California Angels whipped the Cleveland Indians 3-0 the Kansas City Royals routed the Texas Rangers 11-4 the Detroit Tigers edged the Oakland 54 and the Seattle Mariners turned back the Toronto Blue Jays 6-1 Frank Duffy's run-scoring single capped the controversial four-run seventh for Boston and the Red Sox scored four more tones in the eighth to win going away It was single to left that broke a 12 tie as Scott slid home and run later made it 4-1 Orioles IS White Sox 3: Rick Dempsey and Doug DeCinces drove in two runs each to key a six-run rally in the fourth and Jim Palmer won his first game in more than a month as Baltimore defeated Chicago The triumph snapped a four-game losing streak for Palmer 11-8 who had last LOS ANGELES (AP) The deadline for Los Angeles to agree to International Olympic Committee conditions or low the 1984 Summer Olympics can be extended until Aug 21 IOC President Lord KiHanin has told tee US Olympic Committee That keeps alive the possibility that Loa Angeles might still boat the Games although a proposal that a private corporation rather than the city undertake the financial responsibly for tee Games remains the major obstacle The private corporation plan was formed to avoid any burden on Los Angeles taxpayers in staging the Games When Killanin in a recent letter re TOP STOP SHOP CLEARANCE i Ex-Stanford football star dies Boo on la to 7-DAY TIRE said Friday morning at the Church of St Angela Mercy in Brea OFF NAVY OR AAIX AND WHITE TERRY LS TOPS AAATCH TANK TOPS SHORTS LEACH RACQUiTBALL RACQUETS Shipkey played with fullback Ernie Nevers in a 1925 Rose Bowl loss to Notre Dame After Stanford had a 156 record in the 1928 season the team returned to the Rose Bowl again in 1927 but Alabama scored a late touchdown to tie Stanford 7-7 Shipkey was chosen to the second team on The Associated Press All-America team for the 1926 college football season Survivors include his wife Gertrude and three sons A funeral Mass is to be Our Regular Low Price Was: Long Sleeve Top $1299 String Tie-Tank Top 899 Navy White Shorts 899 NOW 25H OFF FORI WEEK JULY 20th -JULY 26th Some slightly irregular perfect $2595 to $49:95 PLACENTIA Calif (AP) Ted Shipkey a star end fair two Stanford Rose Bowl teams in the mid 1920a died Tuesday night at the age of Shipkey a native of Fullerton had been ill for ime time suffering from disease -After graduation Shipkey riqnained in football as a col-lftge coach at the University of New Mexico University Of Montana and Arizona Arizona Teachers now SUte He also coached the fibs Angeles Dons of the All Football Conference before the conference merged wife tee National Football League in the 1924 through 1926 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