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Pitchers in Command Opening Day Braveland Has 3 Shutouts Hooray! Frame Park Nears Readiness for 1972 Debut Braveland Conference opened its baseball season Monday and pitchers quickly took command with three shutouts and six teams finished their seven-inning contests with six hits or less. Brookfield John Rosenberg highlighted the pitching with a one-hit effort against Menomonee Falls East and Brookfield won, 10-0. In other games Monday, Nicolet blanked Sussex Hamilton Port Washington zeroed in on Brookfield Oen tral, 3-0; Cedarburg defeated Menomonee Falls North, 8-1; and Homestead bumped Brown Deer, 6-5. The losers scored a total of just six runs in the five games played and had a total of just 20 hits. Rosenberg struck out 15 batters while isuing two walks and had a no-hitter going for 6 1-3 innings before Falls East could touch him for a hit.

Bob Loomis hit a double and triple to lead the Brookfield East hitting attack. Port Washington scored single runs in the second, third and sixth innings while pitcher Wayne Willbrant limited Brookfield Central to four hits in its victory. Central pitcher Scott Stoner had a good game of his own with a five-hitter but get past Rick Schuknecht who slammed a home run in the second inning and a double later to account for two of the three runs batted in. Center Bill Graf said of homer, was a tremendous hit. I seen any quite like it except in the majors.

He hit it so high that (Tim) Rappe went back to right center and just stood there. I thought he was going to catch it but it was out. He almost rapped another, too, on that double. He can Stoner struck out six batters while walking just two while Wilbrant struck out seven and also walked two batters. Steve Moors had two of four hits in the game and Graf claimed, stranded seven runners which help but we have a very young team.

We started just two Cedarburg nursed along a 2-0 lead over Falls North until the sixth inning when the team exploded for six runs on seven hits. New Berlin '9' Is Starting From Scratch NEW BERLIN New Berlin West High baseball team will open up its season tonight with six returning lettermen, a new coach and the hope that the club improves last 4-12 season record. Doug Lange is the new coach, taking over for Keith Fossey, and Lange said, just going to try to improve last record. won something like 12 games in the last three years so starting all over from scratch. be playing a lot of young people and look to the The six returning lettermen are: seniors Bob Johnson, Scott Anderson, Dennis Graser and Rick Alf and juniors Dave Patzer and Gary Roe.

Johnson, Patzer and Anderson are pitcher-outfielders while Roe plays second, Graser is a shortstop and Alf a catcher. Lange lists other good prospects up from last 7-7 junior varsity team as pitcher-outfielder Steve Massey, outfielder Jim Bohlman, first aseman Mark Sell and third basemen Scott Mansch and Jeff Mihalek. Sell is a sophomore and Mansch is a freshman. Lange feels New Berlin Eisenhower, Greenfield and Whitnall will be the teams to beat this year in the Parkland Conference. Spytek Is Honored COLUMBUS, Ohio Fred Spyteg, a former Land Lakes player with Brookfield, has been named to the NCAA District 4 second all star team along with shortstop Tom Shipley from the University of Wisconsin baseball team.

Staff Photo) Gets Two Muskie Mark Czisny, who went fourfor-four in the game for the Cedarburg club, had the odd misfortune of starting and end- in gthe inning with a hitand making two of the inning's three outs. Falls North Coach Ed Schlumpf explained it, was picked off base the first time and he was thrown out stealing the second Jim Kirehenberger took the loss for Falls North while Steve Buchberger picked up the victory. Kirehenberger. a senior, was pitching in his first high school game ever and limited Cedarburg to four hits through the first five innings before tiring. Falls north averted a fourth league shutout in the last inning when Jeff Willborn singled, went to third on a wild pickoff attempt and scored on a error.

Another game oddity is that all 16 hits between Falls North and Cedarburg were singles. Hamilton finished third in the land Conference race last year when Brown Deer and Nicolet took the top two spots but have a young team this year and Coach Jim Willoughby figured hitting might be a slight problem. Hamilton had three hits. OTE: To all you skeptics who feared Frame Park be ready for use until the summer of relax. Word comes from the Waukesha Park- Park will be ready this week, possibly by Wednesday.

Okay, so you believe it until you see it. But Jitts Lawrence of the park- recreation department assures us that, unless we get more rain, the field will be completely sodded and seeded and ready for the local baseball teams. Way back in March when piles of dirt dotted Frame Park, Lawrence said, hate to take a guess but I think it would take a week a tthe most to get it done with good But the weather good enough and Catholic Memorial High School and Carroll College had to start their home seasons at Banting Field. Now Banting is a nice little field for young kids to play on, but it have the same atmosphere as Frame Park does. like asking the Brewers to play at one of the Milwaukee parks rather than County Stadium.

In early April, it became apparent that Frame Par going to be ready soon, and the park-recreation department admitted it seem likely the field would be ready by May. Not only it ready by May, but ail of a sudden, here came June and the Sportlight By LEE FENS IN Sports Editor park still ready. By this time, Catholic Memorial and Carroll had ended their seasons without ever playing on their and Waukesha's Land Lakes teams, along with the newly formed Waukesha Americans semi-pre team, had to change the sites of their scheduled Lawrence says the reason it has taken so long for Frame Park to become playable is because of lousy weather and the fact that the park-recreation department have its part-time summer help until recently. But now the sun is shining, the part- time help is there and hooray Frame Park is just about ready for its 1972 debut. Incidentally, the baseball diamond should be improved by the addition of a new seven-foot high Century Fence, which will replace the old four-foot high snow fence.

luuwn iMi. siiitwmiaau MMiirmttWRMNUKHif.in i uwtflfc Brewers Whip Evansville, 5-3 Slaton Stars Against Farm Club EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) Del Crandall and Jim Slaton at the Milwaukee Brewers were among the familiar faces who visited the farm folks Monday night. Slaton hit a run-scoring triple and kept Evansville curtailed with his pitching as the Brewers downed their subsidiary club 5-3 in baseball exhibition. Evansville conducted special festivities for the Brewers, and especially for Crandall who was the Association manager until he was named field manager in Milwaukee.

Slaton, who formerly pitched for the Triple-A town, gave a two-run homer to Pedro Garcia the first inning. Then he retired 16 men in succession while allowing the hosts only three hits in seven innings. He initiated Brewer scoring with his triple in the fifth, bringing home Bob Heise, who had singled. Slaton also collected a couple of singles. Tommy Reynolds hit a three-run homer for Milwaukee in the sixth inning.

His Jim Slaton teammates added their fifth run in the ninth on single and Bill triple. Evansville scored in the ninth off Eari Stephenson on a walk, and singles by Wilbur Howard and Bernie Smith, a former Brewer. Mike Herson pitched one inning in relief, and took the loss for the Triplets. Crandall was called to Milwaukee eight ago to replace field manager Dave Bristol. Mayor Russell Lloyd decreed Monday to be Del Crandall day for the southern Indiana community.

The farm club handed Crandall a cash gift certificate, a tape recorder, a table tennis outfit and a lengthy telegram. gone up twice to the big leagues, and each time it has been from this wonderful Crandall said. Crandall transferred from -Evansville in 1949 to join the Braves, and was an all-star catcher far Braves in the 1950s. iiHiniminwwiiniHHiilHifliiiniiii'nimnritff''': Gary Radtke, a former Pewaukee resident now living in Milwaukee, caught two muskie on a recent week-long fishing trip to Hayward, Wis. One fish was inches long and weighed 13 pounds while the other was 32i inches long and weighed pounds.

It's unusual for a fisherman to get two legal-sized muskie within such a short span of time. Squires' Owner, Foreman, Claims Pro Cage Merger Reports Are 'Babbling of Idiots' Mantles Not Would Like to Become a Manager TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) For 18 years, Mickey Mantle kept busy knocking out homers and breaking batting marks for the New York Yankees. Now Mantle says he's not busy anymore and no one will give him what he really wants. really have a Mantle said Monday, not doing much of anything.

We have real estate, public relations. I go to spring training every year with the Mantle said he would be particularly receptive to a managing offer. I was offered a good deal, I would consider he said. is all I have ever known. I tried working a month as a coach with the Yankees.

I like that too Mantle played in an old timers game in Los Angeles Sunday and he came to Tucson Monday to award trophies to Little League administrators. Hernandez Is Upset MILWAUKEE Unknown Gary Broughton of Brantford, Ontario, upset Art Hernandez of Des Moines, Iowa, Monday night in a 10-round middleweight boxing match at the Eagles Club. Baltimore 9' Continues To Surrender Meekly BALTIMORE (AP) Not even extra batting practice, spectacles for Boog Powell, or the arrival of usually friendly Minnesota pitching could snap the Baltimore hitting slump. Instead, the Orioles once again surrendered rather meekly at the Monday night as the Twins won 3-2 on a sixth inrung double by Bobby Darwin. The victory ended a four-game Minnesota losing streak and enabled the Twins to slip into second place in the American League West, five percentage points ahead of the idle Chicago White Sox.

Both Minnesota and Chicago are four games behind the suiging Oakland Athletics, who topped the sagging Cleveland Indians 3-2 on the 10th inning home run by Campy Campaneris in the only other major league game played Monday. One other scheduled game, Pittsburgh at San Diego in the National League, was postponed by ram. Manager Earl Weaver of the Orioles, at a loss to explain .220 team batting average as compared with last league-leading .261 mark, ordered batting practice Monday morning. Against Minnesota starter Dick Woodson, 4-3, and ace reliever Wayne Granger, however, the Orioles managed just five hits and two of those were bunts. Last season, Baltimore hit an amazing .312 against Minnesota pitching.

Veteran Brooks Robinson did slam his first home run of the season, in his 158th trip to the plate. The Orioles have now lost six of their last seven games to fall 3Vz games behind Detroit in the League East. Powell, erstwhile slugging first baseman with a .152 average, was hitless in three trips to the plate Monday. He wore glasses for the first time on one at bat, and struck out. In Cleveland, the homer by Cam- peneris extended winning streak to four and dealt the Indians their 10th loss in 12 games.

Reggie Jackson hit a two-run homer for the giving him the league lead with 11, while Eckfe homer tied the score Cleveland in the eighth, 2 2 John Odom, who needed help from Darold Knowles for the find out, was the winner and is now 3-1. The loser was die Cleveland workhorse, Gaylord Perry, 9-4. Brue Only State Golf Hope Left CHICAGO (AP) Bobby Brue of Milwaukee was the only Wisconsin candidate to survive sectional eliminations Monday on the road to the U.S. Open golf tournament next week in California. Brue, a pro at the Ozaukee County Club in Mequon, was among five hopefuls tying at 141.

The Chicago sectional was allowed seven graduates for the Pebble Beach affair June 15-18. Wiscorein sent 12 players to the Chicago trials. Brue carded 72-69, followed by Tommy Veech with Veeeh plays out of a Menomonee Fails club. Some other Wisconsin scores were Robert Mann Mark Bemowski 76-71-147 and J.R. Delich The Chicago pace was set by pro Bob Zender of Skokie, with Elsewhere in the sectionals, the defending titlist of the Greater Milwaukee Open, Dave Eichelberger of Waco, made the cut with Ken Still, winner of the Milwaukee meet in 1969, had 144.

Snead Fails to Make U.S. Open Golf Field By ASSOCIATED PRESS about the worst ever played my declared a very hot, very tired and very disappointed Sam Snead after failing Monday in his bid to qualify for this U.S. Open. After a fine morning round of 69 in sectional qualifying at the Charlotte, N.C., Country Club, Snead ballooned to a 78 in the afternoon round. His 147 total was 12 strokes back of Doug Sanders, the top qualifier.

More importantly, it was two strokes over the qualifying limit. So Snead, winner of 84 PGA co-sponsored not a single U.S. Open, will be absent when the field of 150 tees off at Pebble Beach, June 15-18. Sanders, the flashy dresser who won the Kemper Open on the pro tour this weekend, carded a to lead qualifiers at Charlotte. Other tour regulars who qualified there included Hubert Green, Dan Bies.

Red Funseth, Lou Graham, Kermit Zarley, Dave Man-, Bob Murphy, Bob Dunn, Mason Rudolph, Dave Hill, Charles Sifford, Jim Jamieson, Bruce Devlin and Gibby Gilbert. RICHMOND. Va. (AP)-Earl Foreman owner of the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association, said Monday reports that the ABA will be absorbed by the National Basketball Association were the of A story the Greensboro, N.C., Daily News, citing an unidentified source, said Monday the would cease to exist after NBA meetings June 15-16. The same report said the Virginia franchise was in debt to the ABA and may not be into the NBA.

Foreman said this was a by the people who are saying H. The Daily News story said Carolina Cougars owner Tedd Munchak, on behalf of the ABA, has been meeting secretly with NBA commissioner Walter Kennedy. The report said they have reached agreement to allow six or seven ABA dubs to enter the NBA. Squires administrative vice president John Kerr said have no kn-owledge of any new plans for absorption by the NBA. (Foreman) talked to Kennedy and Munchak and both of them said they know anything about Kerr said.

Fischer's Egomania Reigns Now But Could Soon Be Checkmated By LARRY ELDRIDGE The Christian Science Monitor News Service When Bobby Fischer was asked how he'd take a defeat in his coming world championship chess match, the brash American challenger replied; I lose, I won't be upset, because know it was a Remarks such as these, combined with phenomenal success over the past couple of years, have lulled many Americans into believing that he be beaten. In their minds, the result of his match with champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union is a foregone conclusion. But let last games or egomania fool you. Upsets are always possible in any kind of competition. Furthermore, not really clear just how much of a surprise a Spassky would be.

To be sure, Fische rhas dominated the international scene lately, scoring an easy triumph in the qualifying tournament and then winning three straight matches by lopsided scores to earn the role. In Spassky, however, the 29-year-old American will be meeting a much tougher foe than any of thpse he has disposed of so far. No one follows the long and arduous road to the summit without being a great player, and Spassky got there three years ago by beating some of the same people Fischer did this time. If all this convince you that Fischer is in for a fight, consider one more fact. The two have already met five times in various competitions, and Bobby is still looking for his first victo- Now before you change your mind completely and decide Fischer has no chance at all, let me point out that Spassky's three victories and two draws against Bobby were scattered over a period of years and really too relevant to the coming match.

They do indicate, though, that Fischer is quite human and that Spassky can beat him. A strange fact about play is that his games are not always as sharp as his results would indicate. There seems to be something about him a as a colleague once described it that induces his foes to play below top form. When Fischer swept the U.S. championship with an incredible 11-0 score one year, for instance, Denmark's Bent Larsen remarked disparagingly that his opponents had like But last year in the semifinals of the competition, it was Larsen himself who cooperated with similar sub- par play in absorbing a 6-0 beating.

Before that, Mark Taimanov of the Soviet Union had played as though in a trance to get swept out of the quarterfinals by the same 6-0 score. Former world champion Tigran trosian put up a bit more resistance in the finals. The Russian outplayed Fischer badly in the first three games, but Bobby pulled out a surprising win in one of them and a fluke draw in another. Instead of being ahead 3-0, Petrosian found he match tied, and after another pair of draws his game fell apart as Fischer surged to a triumph. It remains to be seen, of course, whether Spassky too will be spellbound.

So far he certainly shown much awe. ry. Waukesha Freeman The mental, physical and psychological strain of a match like this is beyond the comprehension of most of us, but perhaps it suffices to point out that nearly all top players are in their or Petrosian is past 40, which was duly noted by the Russians after his loss. But Spassky, at 34, be giving away much of an edge in the gruelling, 24- game struggle scheduled to begin July 2 in Reykjavik, Iceland, and continue throughout most of the summer. Indeed, when all is said and done, there seem to be as many reasons for picking one man as the other.

Thus not surprising that predictions vary. Virtually all Americans pick Fischer, while most Russians go with their man, so perhaps a more objective view can be obtained from outsiders. in probably the strongest player in the world, though not quite sure how he will fare against grandmaster Lajos Portisch of Hungary was quoted in Chess Life Review. rate the chances Former world champion Max Euwe of Hoirand, president of the International Chess Federation, favored Fischer about 5 per while Yugoslav grandmaster Svetozar Gligoris said the American good Grandmaster Jan Donner of Holland sounded an interesting dissenting opinion. not a Fischer fan, and his play strike me as very he said.

I must admit I understand his secret completely. I still think Spassky will win, but Spassky has a great respect for ability, and I fear that subconsciously he may desire him to become the next world Tuesday, June 6, 1972 Page 15.