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i-rr -r Dear Richie: On The Ball 9 mall mu real upended the Chicago Cubs 5-2 and San Francisco bounced SanDiegdM. By Jim Kimball The Phillies rate Fryman staked former rt- to a 4-0 lead with 'Bleacher Bums' Deserve Some Credit ing. Division race. tl Hank Aaron drilled his 21st homer, a three-run shot that keyed Atlanta's slx-ruthlrd. inning explosion.

Niekro opened the third with a single and doubled home two runs In the Osteen, 10-6, retired the first 14 Astros he faced and he'd them hltless until the seventh inning, when a walk and.one-out singles by Doug Rader and Mar- ty Martinez ruined hi shutout bid? Wes Parker doubled home the second of two first inning runs and singled to ignite anoth- er two-run rally in the third. Mike McCormick scattered seven hits and Willie Mays, Willie McCovey and Ron Hunt knocked in two runs aniece, leading the Giants past the Padres, who have lost three games in a row, 14 of their last 15 and 22 of 25 since June 6. Mets. They haven't been beaten since then. While Skinner waited in vain for "ir phone call "from" Allen-Monday, the Phils placed outfielder Johnny Callison, their only other standout, on the 21-day disabled list with a severe pulled groin muscle.

Then they struggled past the Pirates as Ryan clubbed a two-run homer, Briggs delivered a pair of key Singles and reliever" John Boozer pitched out of a bases-loaded bind in the ninth inning, saving the victory for left-hander Woody Fryman. Elsewhere, Atlanta's Phil Niekro became the majors' first 13-game winner with a 9-4 nod over Cincinnati; Los Angeles hipped Houston 7-1 on Claude Osteen's four-hitter; New York buried St Louis 10-2 on a three-hitter by Jim Mc Andrew; Mont- By DICK COUCH Dear Richie wherever you are: Don't call us; we'll call" you Love, Bob Skinner Skinner, of course, wouldn't think of Bending such a message to Richie Allen even if he knew where to send it. The Philadelphia manager misses his runaway superstar. So do all the Phillies. They Just don't show it.

The Phillies reeled off their seventh consecutive victory Monday night, trimming Pittsburgh 4-2 behind the hitting of Mike Ryan and Johnny Briggs. Allen vanished into the night a week ago at New York and the Phils, beset by injuries before his disappearance, lost both ends of a doubleheader to the the help of Ryan's nintn nomer, a. fourth Inning shot that followed Larry Hisle's triple. The Pirates got one run back in the seventh, then chased Fryman with, four hits in the ninth, But Boozer came on and retired pinch hitter Willie Stargell on a pop to second for the last out Briggs singled across an unearned rUh in the first and singled, stole second and scored on Rick Joseph's single in the sixth. Niekro, 13-5, survived 11 Cincinnati hits and four wild pitchesone short of the major league record as the Brave3 hung one-half game behind first place Los Angeles In.

the West Tuesday, July 1, 1161 Expos Sandbag Cubs 5-2; Twins Extend -Sox Woes SPORTS Manager Leo Durocher, pitcM ina coach Joe Becker and play ers Ernie Banks, Ron Santo, Billy Williams, Phil Regan, Billy Hands, Ken Holtzman, Ferguson Jenkins, -Don Kessinger and Randy Hundley have been primarily responsible for the Cubs' runaway of the Eastern Division race in the National League. But give some credit to the "Bleacher Bums." Who are they? They're a group of staunch Cub fans, mainly college-aged men and women, who sit as a group in the left field bleachers of Wrig-ley Field and serve as a pep club unique in major league circles. majority of them wear yellow plastic helmets and dress along-the lines- of hippie. Their support of the Cubs is rapidly becoming the talk of the league. They were in top form Sunday as the pennant-bound Cubbies easily rolled over the defending National League champion Cardinals, 3-1 and 12-1.

The. "Bleacher Bums" are well organized. Resembling a rooting section at a major college' football gamy they have one fellow dressed In a Bears costume, who stands on the top of the wall In the center of the group and leads the various cheers. The burning sun, humid weather or a long, drawn-out dou-bleheader doesn't seem to dampen or slow their enthusiasm. They were still going strong in the late Innings of Sunday's twtnblll- Bums Rough OhFlychqsers The group's membership sppm tn en-owing too.

Where- lhnlteoVto'a good-sized gathering far the left field corner, 'Bleacher -Bums" appeared to dominate the outfield bleachers from one corner of the park to the other Sunday, Opposing players art the targets of both physical and vocal abuse from the group. Recently (0-1). Holtzman, who fashioned his brilliant record earlier in the season, Is 'In need of a convincing triumph to get back into the graces of Manager Leo Durocher. The White Sox suffered their sixth loss in the last seven games when they 'dropped a 7-3 decision to the Minnesota Twins. The Twins scored five runs in the ninth inning to add to an earlier 2-1 lead.

Harmon Killebrew lashed out three singles and drove in two runs to lead the Twins to victory. Buddy Bradford had three hits for the Sox and Bill Melton slammed his 12th homer of the year in what proved to be a lost cause. The two teams again Tuesday night with Jim Perry (6-4) going for Minnesota against young Billy Wynne CHICXGO (AP) Somewhat still giddy with their three-game sweep "over the St. Louis Cardinals, over the weekend, the Chicago Cubs were sandbagged in Montreal Monday night and dropped a 5-2 decision to open an 11-game road trip. Don Kessinger opened the game with a homefun to put the Cubs ahead and then doubled and scored on a single by Paul Popovich in the seventh.

But in between Kessinger's hits, the Expos managed to take command as Coco Laboy drove in three runs with a pair of singles. While the Cubs were losing to Montreal, the New York Mets moved within seven games of the National League's Eastern Division lead with a 10-2 triumph over the St Louis Cardinals. The Cubs' hope to right them-velves Tuesday night when they send Ken Holtzman (10-2) enkor The "Bleacher Bums" have even been following the Cubs on the road trips and lending their vocal support much to the satisfaction of the Cub play ers. Before 'the start of Sunday's twinbill, the Cubs were having a ball responding to the cheers Santo was practicing his kick' Ing-the-heels routine while reserve outfielder Al Spangler was kicking a miniature football in field goar fashion. Each Cub player got a big hand as he came on the field and each responded by waving his hat or taking a long, deep bow.

Banks, in particular, gave a long, low-sweeping bow send ing the group into an extended handclap. Naturally, each Cardinal player running wind sprints in the outfield was loudly booed. During the game, St. Louis did manage to hit a couple home runs and both times the ball was returned to the field. This has grown to be the custom among bleacherites for each opponent's round-tripper.

After Vada Pinsori's first game homer, centerfielder Don Young tossed the ball back into the bleachers. But it was re turned a second time and so Young kindly tossed it into, the Infield. Plenty of Banners The year's biggest crowd of 41,060 was in attendance and there appeared to be about as many homemade banners. Pennant fever in Wngley Field is thick as the densest smog inLos Angeles. You can almost cut it with a knife.

Wrigley Field is jumping like it hasn't since 1945 the city officials, not always so proud to publicize the Cuds aid Wrigley Field, have even" put up a sign on the Lake Shore Drive Expressway helping direct fans to the Cubs park. As Ernie Banks said during his January visit to Mattoon "The Cubs Will Shine In '69." Results 10-0 white-washing of Warehouse Sales in a Babe Ruth junior division contest on Grimes Field. Tom Dulaney collected' the lone hit off Shaine, now 3-1. Star Service broke fcthe game open with an elghtrrun outbreak in the second inning. The game was called after five innings due to the 10-run rule.

Star collected six hits off two Warehouse pitchers, Tom Dulaney and Rod Cox. John Mat-tox and David Reel each had two hits for Star. Mattox scored twice and batted home a pair to personally have a hand in four of the 10 runs. American Legion Kiwanis Club 4: Dave Sanders pitched and batted American Legion to a 7-4 win over Kiwanis Club in Babe Ruth senior play. Sanders banged out two hits driving home a pair or runs In support of his five-hit pitching performance.

Sanders evened out his mound record to 2-2 with Mets Hurler Beats Cardinals With Blistered Pitching Hand Ryun Won't Run Anymore This Year MIAMI, Fla. (AP) Mile jecord holder Jim Ryun plans to run no more this year. Ryun said Monday he would cancel a planned European trip and all future track competition during the 'current season. The announcement came the day after he walked off a track for the fourth time this year. He completed less than one-half of tb fmv lans fa the National AAU meet here Sunday.

Ryun, Kansas, said he hadn't decided on re-' tirement. But this could have been my last race." he said. "Right now, I think It's better to go home and let the desire build up." Fan Fare the victory. Alan Hall slugged a triple for Legion while Larry Lawrence socked a double and scored one run for Kiwanis. RIGHT Youth Baseball National League East Division W.

L. Pet G.B. Chicago New York Pittsburgh St. Louis Phila'phia Montreal 49 27 40 32 38 38 35 41 33 39 21 52 .645 7 .500 11 .461 14 .458 14 .288 26 West Division Los Angeles 44 29 Atlanta 44 30 38 32 39 36 39 39 27 52 .595 .543 .520 .500 4 6 7 Cincinnati San Houston San Dieeo :342 20 New YorRioosfo rTrilfl iMrttrat Atlanta 9, Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2 Montreal 5, Chicago 2 Los Angeles Houston 1 San Francisco San Diego 1 Today's Games Chicago (Holtzman 10-2) at Montreal (Renko 0-1), Houston (Lemaster 7-7) at Los Angeles (Sutton 11-6), New York (Ryan 3-0 and Di-Lauro 0-2) at St. Louis Carlton 8-5 and Torrez i-4), 2, twi-night Cincinnati (Merritt 8-3) at Atlanta (Jarvis 6-5), Philadelphia (Jackson 8-6) at Pittsburgh (Blass 8-4), San Francisco (Marichal 9-3) at San Diego (Niekro 3-5), Wednesday's Games Chicago at Montreal, Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, New York at St.

Louis, Cincinnati at Atlanta San Francisco at San Diego, Houston at Los Angels, Bob Poftinbarge? Bowls a 298 Bob Poffinbarger recently came through with a sparkling 298 score while bowling in. the Mixed Doubles League at the Mattoon Bowling Lanes. He threw 11 strikes in succession in his bid for a perfect score. acquired Cardinal pitcher Jim Mudcat" Grant was struck In the side of the face by a hard rubber ball before Friday's game while standing near the left field wall signing autographs. Centerfielder Curt Flood complained after Friday's game that he had everything from fruit to coins thrown at him.

I know Sunday that any time a Cardinal outfielder roamed near the wall to chase a fly ball he was the target of flying objects newspapers, fruit, rubber balls, etc. At least twice during the long afternoon (especially long and weary for any Cardinal fan in attendance) public' address announcer Pat Pieper made pleas to bleacher fans to refrain from throwing newspapers and other debris on the playing field. The plea always went unwarranted even though, the threat of the game being forfeited accompanied one warning. I'm sure leftfielder Lou Brock played in constant fear of being hit. He tried to Ignore the in-suits and the flying debris, but it pretty hard to do when mis siles were landing all arouna him whenever he.

roamed to make a catch. The "Bleacher Bums" declare it's not any of their group responsible for the flying objects, but the work of. infiltrators into the section. Developed A Monster? This columnist wonders if the Cubs haven't let a monster develop much Jike Harv Schmidt let prosper last winter at tne Assembly Hall. Schmidt requested that bleachers be set up directly be- to add close support, but wnen the opposing team became the direct object of constant vocal abuse, Schmidt was sorrowful of his request.

In fact, at the tail-end of the season, he started having the Hlini enter the arena at the same time of the opposition to help drown out the boo out 18 hits In rolling to a 24-11 win over Bob Peters The winners belted six homers with Robert Ostoff collecting two, Including a bases-loaded drive. John Bailey, Terry Alvis, Keith Lowry ahd Ren-ato Sison each homered once. Ostoff colected five straight hits. VFW 22; Mltchell-Jerdan 1: VFW scored In every frame of this three-inning affair in breezing to a 22-1 victory over Mitch-ell-Jerdan. The winners tallied nine times In the first followed by five in the second and eight in the third.

Kirk House was the winning pitcher. One-Hour Martinizing 16; Lions Club 10: One Hour Martini-zing dented home plate seven times in the third inning to snap a 6-6 tie en route to a 16-10 win over Lions Club. The winners collected six hits. Mike 'Warner slapped a home run while Dan Warner and John Botts each had two safeties. Warner was the winning pitcher." Grobelfiy 11; 500 Platolene 3: Grobelny Motors displayed some long-ball power in rolling past 500 Platolene 11-3.

Shawn Henderson blasted a grand slam homer for the winners and Bill Horn connected with two on. Babe Ruth Star Service Warehouse Sales 0: Dwayne Shaine fashion ed a sparkling one-hittr Monday in leading Star Service to a ing two of them. Dave Hood had a pair of safeties for Elks. Teamsters 12; Cooks Mills 1: Dave Runner pitched five innings of scoreless relief in pacing Teamsters to a 12-1 victory over Cooks Mills. Runner entered in" the second inning.

club trailing arid proceeded to hold Cooks Mills 1 scoreless the remaining way. Keith Willison and Kevin Shirley each had two hits One of Willison's pair was a home run. Mattoon JOURNAL-GAZETTE American League East Division W. L. Pet G.B.

Baltimore 55 21 .724 Boston 43 31 .581 11 Detroit 39 32 M9 13Vi Wash'n. 38 39 494 17 New York 36 42 .462 20 Cleveland 29 44 .397 24 West Division Oakland 40 30 .571 -Minnesota 41 33 .554 1 Seattle 34 39 Chicago 31 41 .431 10 Kansas City 31 43 .419 11 California -25 47 .341 1 16 j4" Washington at Cleveland, rain Minnesota 7, Chicago 3 Kansas City 2, California 1 Only games scheduled Today3! Gaines Baltimore (McNally 11-0) at New York (Stottlemyre 1M), Seattle (Brabender 5-5) at Detroit (Sparma 4-4 or Dobson 9-5), Minnesota (Perry 6-4) at Chicago (Wynne 2-1), California (Brunet 3-6) at Kansas City (Hedlund 2-3), Washington (Moore 6-3 and Cox 4-1) at Cleveland (Hargan 1-5 and Williams 3-7), 2, twi-night Wednesday's Gaines Minnesota vs. Chicago at Milwaukee, Baltimore at New York Boston at Detroit, Seattle at Oakland, California at Kansas City, Washington at Cleveland, Lakers Name New Coach LOS ANGELES (AP)-Twen-ty years after he averaged less than a point a game playing for the Boston Celtics, Joe Mul-laney returns to the National Basketball Association as a coach seeking a championship. The Los Angeles Lakers, losers to Boston xin the final playoffs the past two seasons, hired Mullaney from Providence College "and handed him a three-year contract believed to call for $40,000 per season. Northern DE KALB, 111.

Northern Illinois University became a totally University Division-oriented member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Monday when the Huskie football program was granted University Division status by the NCAA sanctioning committee. The decision of the eight-member committee was revealed by Larry Klein, chairman of the group and director of the National Collegiate Sports Services. The NCSS is the statistical aim: of the NCAA. Klein made the announcement following a two-day meeting by the committee in Atlanta, Geor i Granted ST. LOUIS (AP) Jim Mc-Andrew pitched a torrid three-hitter for the victorious New York.

Mets Monday night, un troubled by the blisters that have been plaguing his pitching hand in recent weeks. "It's sure fun to play the game when you have six runs to work with before you even put your foot on the rubber," McAndreW said after evening his record at 2-2. The Mets got off to a quick 34 lead then Jerry Grote stepped up to clout a three-run homer his first of the year and make it 6-0 before Mc-Andrew strolled onto the diamond. The final score was 10-2. McAndrew said he two mistakes in the course of the game," and "both of them were hit out of the park." Joe Torre led off the Cardinal second with a solo homer and Dal Maxvil bot the sixth rolling with another.

The victory capped a high point in Met history. The New York club finished the month of June with a 19-9 record, its best month ever. It was the fourth straight loss for the Redblrds. Starter and loser Nelson Briles (6-7) gave way to Ray Washburn in the first with the score 3-0 Grote walloped Washburn's first pitch for his home run. Football JAYCEE LEAGUE Rotary Club 12; Gehl's Hardware 2: Scott Brown and Bo Seaman combined on a no-hit pitching effort to provide Rotary with a 12-2 win over Gehl's.

Rotary Club is now 8-0 Gregg Clem, Bryan Allen and Dave Harrelson led the winners' 10-bit batting attack with two safeties each. The winners scored in every frame of the five inning contest topped by a four-run outbreak in the third. Elks Club Presbyterian Church 0: Elks Club remained the only unbeaten team in the Eastern Division rolling to its ninth straight victory Monday at Lawson Park with a 2-0 decision over. Presbyterian Church. Ed Lash picked up the pitching victory.

He fired a one-hitter and struck out 10J)atters. Elks collected only four hits off losing pitcher JeirjrBaltarar Lash, Bryan Hastings, Jeff Al-lee and Berry Biggs accounted for total. Osco Drugs 9: Kiwanis Club 8: Bruce Ballinger made a game-saving catch tocut off a last-inning Kiwanis Club rally and save a one-run victory for Osco Drugs. Kiwanis rallied for two runs in the final inning to move within one run of tying when Ballinger came through with a fine catchv Ballinger was the winning pitcher. Barristers 24; Bob Peters Ford 11: Barristers slammed The' Mets and the Cards meet today in a twi-night doubleheader with Steve Carlton (8-5) and.

Mike Torrez (1-4) set to start for the Cardinals and Nolan Ryan (3-0) and rookie southpaw Jack Dilauro (0-2) up for New York. Pony Tail Results Arcade Drugs 26; Mi-Own Beauty Shop 12: Arcade Drugs registered its first victory of the 1969 season Monday with an easy 26-12 win over Mi-Own Beauty Shop, Denise Furste paced the victory. She scattered three bits in picking up the pitching victory while coming through with a solo Corner at bat. Sheree Farrier had two hits for Arcade. Teammate Susanne Lathrop unloaded a bases-loaded home run.

Tammy Fitzpatrick slammed a grand-slam homer for Mi-Own. Cookies Restaurant 27; Crawford Shoes 5: Joyce Adkins was the whole show as Cookies walked over Crawford Shoes 27-5. She slapped out two hits in support of her no-hit pitching effort. Joyce fanned five batters and walked ten to help account for Crawford's five counters. Program Previously, the Jootball Huskies have competed in the NCAA's College Division in football.

In 1963, NIU was voted the National College Division champion while Texas, was selected the University -Division champion. Northern. Illinois University competes in 11 varsity sportsT" ten of which enjoy University Division status prior to Monday's annouacement. The Huskie basketball team was voted into the University Division by the United States Basketball Writer's Association in Previously, the nine other varsity were admitted into University Division competition by declaration of intent by NIU. University Status Little League Results i mm Is 'm 4 gia over the weekend.

Four schools were admitted to. the University Division this year, expanding the group to 118 teams for competition in 1969. The were San Diego State," Idaho, and Pacific. Northern Illinois University's acceptance in the University Di-. vision is the first from the state of Illinois since the NCAA established its two divisions, College and University, 33 years iilinoii linois' two Big Ten entries, University of Illinois and Northwestern University, have been the only other institutions enjoying University Division status in football.

Moose Club 12; Cater Vend 3: Moose Club worked up an 11- 0 lead in the first 3Vz innings of play in rolling to an easy 12- 3 win over Cater Vend. Jim Ferguson was the win- nitg pitcher, on a "three-hitter. Steve Boyle collected two of Moose's Construction Materials 9 Elks Club 5: Constructionaterials seized a healthy 6-0 lead in the first inning enoute to a 9-5 win over Elks Club; Scott was the winning moundsman." He allowed eight, hits with Mark Fleshner collect Elk Club's Berry Biggs Slides Safely under Presbyterian Church's Trent Hucksrade.