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Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois • Page 5

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7' Hemy Couiity -iWTtfi ViM' IW ISs IVLJL JLCU Miss Jady Jteppar Wins ftiscn Ccnfesf HarveyNme- MdoseVins Ex-Matfoon BasebalH Star in All-Star Game -war essive In Impr Although he didnt get hU name Little League in the box score, a former Mat toon baseball player saw some ac tlon in the All-Star baseball game American League Stars 13-0 Triumph Monday in Los Angeles. Championship 10 Alex Slrota, a catcher with the Mattoon in 1953, served By HOWARD DECKER up the fat ones to the members of By BOB MYERS A three-run rally In the fifth: weBwuwuv wiu ocwy wounty the National League AU-Star Auoclated Press 8 porta Writer weni nome 10 vxx. weir wounasgluaj LOS ANGELES The count inning Monday gave Moose Lodge a 4-3 victory over Construction Materials and the Little League "1B.r! Sirota, well known for his hit- stood all square at one apiece for the-1959 All-Star classics between i the ow Mississippi-ohio championship for the second half of the spill season. the American and National League today. And baclc to the formal Both team carried 6-3 won-lost frp record into the playoff game.

pennant rape went the ballplay Neil Piller, and Denny Arlen ers. mm wftvvuuu wubwu ewj vuimubi Henry County, 7-3. Tonight Har-H staged a pitching duel. Piller (5-1) Manager Casey Stengel's Amer I struck out 14 batters in registering lean Leaguer pinned a 5-3 defeat vey plays Chester, the Southern the victory. Ariens (5-3) fanned 13 on Fred Haney's Nationals as while taking the loss.

Messrs of Chester Lfcbe Ruth Team paid attendance of 54.982, fourth Illinois representative, at 7 o'clock 'bo gave up nine hits. Westmont and Mattoon takes on strong Pala- batters tapped McClaln for seven tine at 9. hits in the seven innings, but the Mike Roberts carried away his strong righthander kept the hits Raamuseen Chevrolet and the highest In the game's history, sat American Legion were 'eliminated through the game in sun-baked from the playoffs for third place Memorial Coliseum Monday. in the second half. The victory avenged a 6-4 set Coca-Cola scored a 6-5 win over back absorbed by the Stengel men share of the glory in Mattoon's weu spaced ana lert nine victory over Henry County as he niont runners stranded, scored the pitching win and Between games a stereo record rapped out two base hit and player was presented to Miss Judy scored one run.

Rappe, who wqn the Miss Illinois' But it was third baseman John State Babe Ruth Queen contest. Raamussen with Buddy Mitchell in the first All -Star game July (1-1) earning the victory and Jim at Pittsburgh. echoler (6-4) the loser. The game grossed $283,120 and Mitcneu nammered home run netted, after taxes, $262,336.47, No. 7 with one man on base.

The Pittsburgh game grossed Logan who started things off for Misses Beverly Pryor and Paula the locals with a solid double to Yurcho tied for second and were centerfield to open the first frame, awarded transistor radios. Other, Logan moved to third base on a contestants were presented Jewelry Mike McCall (4-3) pitched his $229,636 and netted $194,303.46. Knights of Columbus team to Individual honor went to aacrifio bv second baseman Gary boxes, 14-11 win over the Legion. Charles catcher Yogi Berra of the Yan Underwood. He scored when short- A crowd estimated at nearly Phillips (5-3) absorbed the de kees; whose two-run blast off stop Jim Wells hit a sacrifice fly 3,000 was in hand for the corona- feat Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale put The Knights of Columbus and to center.

uon queen. Rlehtfielder Ralph Smith reach- FIRST GAME the Americans in front, 3-1, In Coca-Cola will play for third place the third Inning for a lead they ed first base in the third inning HARVEY AB ftr hA had hn hit hv nitrhcd MuehrUlg. lb 4 110 tm Mm. never relinquished. Oddly enough, this was Yogi's Horace Mason, Rock Island, director of Illinois Babe Ruth ball.

A sacrifice bunt by catcher Falica, 3b 5 12 0 Joe Spurpeoh moved' Smith to sec-McClaln. 5 110 nnri Smith tnnreA whm Imparl Lake, cf 4 2 10 11th All-Star appearance but the baseball, places a crown of first time he had hit for extra flowers on the head of Miss drilled his second base hit of the Oager, 2b 4 2 11 bases. Judy Rappe, who won the title Collective honors went to the player. Transistor radio were given to Miss Beverly Pryor and Miss Paula Yurcho, who tied for second! Other contestants were Miss Linda Hamilton, Sue New-gent and Mary Jo Proff itt. The floral crown and the dozen red roses Miss Rappe is holding were presented through the courtesy of Rainbow Gardens.

of Miss Illinois Babe Ruth base II rftrTn 'i tti 'in nf Timiiiin iirn-r rninnli iTIMH T-- rimiiiu i American League pitchers who ball here Monday night. Miss evening. Charles. 2b 0 0 0 0 Mattoon broke the game wide Mangano, ss 3 2 0 0 open in the fourth with three McKibben, rf 2 3 10 more runs. Wells singled to short Covert.

If 2-230 nA trmk uuvtnA on RntvrU' Zwelfel. 3 0 0 0 throttled such sluggers as Hank Aaron. Ernie Banks, and Willie The, managers and coaches of Rappe, winner of the title by virtue of selling the most tickets to the state tournament, was the Chester Babe Ruth team, which 1 entered la 'the Illinois Mays. him mMnh mi lnirW aJa-Swlatek 0 0 0 0 The winning pitcher was Jerry State Babe Ruth tournament at head coach of the team, which will play Harvey, at 7 p. m.

tonight in semi-final action. Shownar Rer. Erie Stump, Norbert P. Stump, Carrol Bam-hart, Carl Koch and Warden Randolph. awarded a stereophonic record Walker of Baltimore, 20, who Just sacrifice but ended as a base hit Totals 82 13 9 1 when no one could make a play, a-ran for Oager la 7th Inning Well scored on Kimery's sacri- WESTMONT AB VMinf arhiz-h wu miiffM hv DSDOtO.

C. D. Of 3 0 0 1 a year ago was laboring for Knox- By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Peterson Park, are shown above. Warden Ross v. Randolph of Menard Stat Penitentiary 1 American League ville.

in the Class A Bally League. Law Enforcement Officials 'Invade' Babe Ruth Meet third baseman Bob Jones, allow- pollings, 3b 4 0 1 in Robert also to score. Gross, 2b 3 0 1 Walker, inserted Into the squad Chicago Cleveland Baltimore JTImprv snored on a seueeze Sack, cf, 4 0 0 the afternoon before, yielded but one run and two hit in the three Jaycee Contenders nlav whan nnn ThmHanlt. laid Morse, 2 0 11 Pet G.B. 62 40 .608" 60 44 577 3 53 53 .500 11 51 51 .500 11 50 52 .490 12 51 55 .481 13 45 58 .437 17 43 62 .410 20 Kansas City innings he worked.

Desperate Cards Open Home Stand down a bunt that rolled to the Koberstein, 10 1 Warden Ross V. Randolph of The loser was strikeout artist iHouKh. ss 2 0 0 Menard State Penitentiary and Keep Hopes Alive New York Detroit Boston Washington Captain Ed Horn of the Mattoon In the fifth Logan reached first Ledesma, ss 10 1 has safelv on an error and scored Haraldsen. rf 3 0 1 Don Drysdale of the Dodgers. Don served up home run balls to Frank Police Department encourage teen Malzone of the Red Sox and Ber- ST.

LOUIS St. Louis and Pittsburgh, two ailing beseball age boys to steal. Monday Results on a long double by Wells. Wells Bacchl, rf 0 0 0 rode home on Roberts' single to Prokasld, lb 2 0 0 nr nhih mllw thrnticrh t.hp Christensen. lb 10 0 ra.

Coles County Sheriff, Bill Cox American League All-Stars 5, club suffering the same nialady I "This was a great day for the instructs some boys to "cut the sure in keeping my Babe Ruth team winning in the tournament is greater than I experienced in my school teaching days." He was a junior high school principal and coach at Kenney before going into law enforcement 27 year ago. Warden Randolph is also the person behind a Chester Little League team which is sponsored by the 1.200 inmates of Menard. The Inmates take up collection to furnish funds to buy uniforms for National League All-Stars 3 (no lees of Jim Yocum. PUot, If 2 0 1 lack of basehit clash tonight said Yogi, referring to the home run by Rocky Oblavito corners" to get what they want, nnn rmintv nndhMt twA nrtlJil JOVCC. If 0 0 0 regular games scheduled) across in the sixth stanta on two Totals 28 0 7 Schilling and My Store kept their slim Jaycee League pennant hopes alive Monday with easy victories.

Schilling downed Laughlin, 19-7, at Bennett South diamond. Tom Fleenor (1-0) was the winner, glv lng up only three base knock. Bryan Hyke (1-1) took the lose. John Schilling and Bryan Leitch hit their second home run of the a the Cardinals open a home stand. The Cardinal played 4-0 base Actually, Warden Randolph and Captain Horn want the members of Cleveland in the eighth Inning and Malzone's four bagger.

Qit inoi mvj m. fiddm-'s RBI McClain, Covert. 2B Tuesday Games Chicago at Baltimore N) Cleveland at Washington (N) Detroit at New York (N) Kansas City at Boston (2 Twi of their respective Babe Ruth ball on the recent road trip. But Sharing pitching honors wiu Robert wai wild at times in his ring, Mangano, McKibben, Da baseball team to steal bases in the Pirates considered a pre-sea Walker were Early wynn, Hoyt effort to keen the ball low. He noto.

Morse, Hough, Haraldson son pennant. contender were even Wllhelm, Billy ODell and Cal Mc- walked elirht batter and-struck LOB Harvey, 4, Westmont, 8. night) the state tournament And Sheriff Cox hopes Mattoon' pitcher can cut the corner of the Plate with worse. They triumphed only once Lish. the team out five.

ISO McClaln, 13; Morse, Sack, season for Schilling and Jtai Nal their last 13 games. For the Nationals, Dodger Jim Chester is located on the Missis Lokins Ditcher was John Car- 2, Danoto. 1. BB McClain, slammed his third. strikes.

Gilliam and Frank Robinson or National League Pet GJJ sippi River in County rase, who cave un seven base Morse, Koberstein. Sack. 3 The seventh place Cardinals 16H games back of San Francisco My Store claimed its 16th vie- Warden Randolph is manager of Cincinnati smacked home runs, and has a population of 5,389. hit. WP McClain.

LP Morse. 59 45 567 the Chester team and will use rookie Bob Gibson (1- Pitcher Dennis McClain was the Wright. Kennard, Kepp and Alex A powerful Palatine team will meet Mattoon's all-star team to 60 47 561 San Francisco Los Angeles Milwaukee tory in 19 game by trouncing the Lions Club, 15-1. Jim Baum (10-1) took the victory and Chuck Brown Horn is a coach of the Mattoon 0) against Vernon Law (11-7). hpro of the first came.

In addition ander. 57 45 559 1 225-Tackle Looks Good Babe Ruth all-stars. Sheriff Cox, night at 9 o'clock. St. Louis Manager Solly Hemusl th thiitnut vtetorv.

he SECOND GAME (0-6) was the loser. Chicago an ex-major league pitcher, has 50 53 .485 8V 50 55 .476 9Vfc plans to insert Qeorge Crowe in slammed a 315-foot home run over HENRY COUNTY AB At Washington School, Wayner'i The Palatine squad, coached by Ed Donohoe, Is made up mainly of Pittsburgh Cincinnati All-Star Grid Camp been called upon a few times this spring to give some tips to the Auto downed Columbia Machine, 49 55 .471 10 the lineup. Crowe, capable of hitting the long ball, has been used the left field fenoe in the sixth Miller, 3D Inning. Yocum, cf the members of the Palatine High 49 56 .467 10 18-3. Leonard Shirley was the win EVANSTON, 111.

Un The College local pitchers. St. Louis Philadelphia mainly in pinch hitting roles. Third baseman Dave Falica and Fain, ss 42 60 .412 16 ner in his second start of the year. School freshman team, Which bfeezed through 16 games last All-Stars got a taste of working The Chester squad will take, the The statistics show that with the Monday Result in the rain Monday in "stepped-up field at Peterson Park tonight to spring without a defeat.

lef tflelder Bob Covert each col- Jones, 3d lected two base hit for the win- ners. Vaughan, lb American League All-Stars 5, drills for their Aug. 14 meeting exception of Joe Cunningham the Cardinals aU nose dived on the nlay Harvey, 13-0 victory over The PHS nine won 10 games 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 0 4 2 0 0 I 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 Jeff Ferguson fT-ll) was the toser. Shirley hit a grand slam home run for Wayner and Dennia Quif ley also Russell's Cities Service brushed National League All-Stars 3 (no with Baltimore. Westmount Monday night.

from Tri-County Conference Losing pitcher was Paul Morse, Carlson, rf road, trip. regular games scheduled) The practice benefit the The Chester club downed Herrlh schools, claiming the. unofficial Cederotn, rr Cunningham slugged the ball at Stars since two of the last three in the district final, 4-0, and Nelson, If league title. a '563 clip away from Busch Sta games have been played in rain. then whipped Robinson, 2-1, to Carrasca.

In Babe Ruth action, the north dium. Tuesday Game Milwaukee at San Francisco (Nj Cincinnati at Los Angeles (N) Pittsburgh at St. Louis (N) Philadelphia at Chicago Coach Otto Graham has been Save uiorli take honors and the Totals Mitchell-Jerdan at Lawson Park, 24-3. Mike Morton (11-5) allowed only one hit in taking the victory. Steve High (0-4) was the loser.

era Illinois team aeieaiea rox 3 1 3 2 3 2 2 0 3 3 22 AB 3 :2., -2: 2 2 2 2 2 2 19 In Monday's' All-Star game, the impressed with, the showing of right to advance to Peterson Park Lake. 12-5. and clipped John Cardinals who played Stan Mu- Emil Kara, a 225-pound tackle MATTOON Logan, 3b Underwood, No stranger to baseball, Warden Marston of Chicago, 6-4. The Chi sial, Ken Boyer, Hal Smith and Dale Baker hit his first home team Joe Cunningham Went hltless In run for Wayner with three men cago team won the state cham pionshlp hi 1956 "and 1957. I from Daytoh: The coaching staff 'considers him one of the best pro I prospects in camp.

2rr2--J Mount Katahdln in Maine total of five at-bats. aboard. "However," he said, "the pre' 2 0 J)on't dip and gouge! 1 Btrip-dld priRf th easy way with Regular Strypeese Paint -Remover. Safe for your 5,267 feet above sea level. Winners of tonight's game will Roberts, Klmery, If v5 meet for the 1959 state title Wed nesday at 8:30 pjn.

in Peterson finest fiirntturet Good-4 Wells to Underwood to- Jones. 0 0 0 1 0 ThSrieLWFX Jones, lb Smith, rf I tt si Park. LOB Henry County, 8: Mat Housekeeping Seal. At leading paint and toon, 2. BB.

Robert, Car Spurgeon, Hardware store rascar 1. SO. Roberts, Car Totals 7 3 Theri- Sox Start 13-Game RBI Well. Logan rasca, 4. wp Kooerts.

ij Carrasca. Kennard, Wright, 64 Hoiktptaf ault. 2B Logan, Wells. SB ix Kepp and Alexander. gin, -Yocum, Falk, Nelson.

ur Tour on the Road; Cubs in Chicago CHICAGO UTl A 13-game road trip which could make or break Chicago's strong bid for American League pennant begins tonight at Baltimore. The Sex, who are 29-19 on the road and 33-21 at home, are rid ing a sis-game winning streak and hold a threegame lead over Cleveland in a two team race for the championship. After tonight's game, the Sox and Orioles tangle in a twi-night doubleheader Wednesday. Costs less than many makes without this comfort! i -II irmnawitrnnfirr- -nil- im.rt,lr there, the Sox go to Washington, Detroit and Kansas Citv before returning to Comlskey Park. Manager Al Lopez will use elth er Barry Latman (3-4) or rookie Ken McBride who was recently NORM ADVERTISING.

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