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9 00 00 0 0 000 0 0 0 0 0 00 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 Elwood Wednesday July 12, 1972 Clarence's By Clarence Young Call-Leader Sports Editor 'Meeting Thursday' The new school board will conduct its monthly meeting Thursday night in the school library and all indications are that this meeting will be well attended by some of our Elwood citizens. Fine this is the way school functions should be attended. We need more attendance at meetings where our tax dollars are put to use by fine men elected to office. Approximately 100 persons were in attendance at the special meeting called by the Elwood Athletic Club last Thursday and quite a few persons voiced their views they would be in attendance Thursday night when the school board meets. Coach Bill Hocker stated last Thursday that he didn't want any person's position in any school system.

"All I want is a good football Hocker related last week. number of teaching positions or other good and just cause. Members of our school administration have not. on the surface. disobeyed any of these rules and should be in good standing with members of our school board.

Several things could come forward at the meeting Thursday night. Elwood fans, especially junior high parents. will probably want to know why our lay personnel have been dismissed for the coming school year. The entire junior high football program at Richmond. as the rumor goes.

IS run by, men outside the school system. However, this is Richmond and none of our business. We have our own ideas about this subject. The men who donated their time to the junior high football program turned in a fine job. However.

if we have the coaches to run the job now fine. Blackie Wilson. Ken Hill and the other men will be happy to leave the job of teaching football fundamentals to our young men to the school coaches. School officials made a statement last week that they can't hire persons to coach football and another one to teach classes. We need men who qualify in the classroom to teach besides coach on the sidelines.

This is a fair statement. The main part of any junior high and senior high program is the educational side not the "athletic side. We maintain that our young men and women should receive an education first Fischer Sets World To Watching Chess NEW YORK you one-time Boy Wonder who play makes guys like Joe Namath "No." said Wes Parker. first and Dick Allen look like a baseman for the Los Angeles couple of amateurs when it Dodgers owner of one of comes to doing his own thing. baseball's more active minds.

his own way and in his own "but I'm interested in the good time. The opening match in mean the world cham- vik Tuesday was a perfect pionship going on in Iceland example. now?" Word had filtered down that "Yes. I'm following it." Fischer was "go. go.

for "Because of this guy Fis- that first match with Boris Spassky. Russia's world the main reason. pion. suppose. All the embroidery had been "How do you feel about him.

taken care of. The drapes. the do you like him or not? TV cameras. the lights. the like him.

chess board. all the things Fischer had kicked about. Wes Parker mulled it over Spassky was all set. awhile. Everyone in the Reykjavik "I like him because he has Chess Hall was holding his -s." said Parker.

using a word breath as the Russian. playing which is perfectly okay in a the white pieces. made the first baseball clubhouse but not in a move. opening with the Queen family newspaper. a word pawn.

meaning not only brass but much more. and one which Game Officially On describes Bobby Fischer. the The world championship offi. pensive. seemingly strange cially was on.

chesss genius from Brooklyn But something was missing. Fischer. 8 perhaps better than any other word think of. He wasn't there. What was you can Serious Game the rush? He had an hour Most back to antiquity before he had to make the first Chess dates been called the most move.

Fischer didn't set out to and has serious game played by man. keep Spassky waiting. He didn't It's such a serious game and do it purposely. The official requires so much concentration. clock was ticking but he didn't relatively few men play it.

Less care. Bobby Fischer ALWAYS than 5 per cent in the United is late. He has been late for States even know the rules but more important things than a an astonishingly large percen- chess match. Even a world tage has begun following the championship one. game the past few weeks.

And bet on it. he'll be late Only because of Bobby again. That's the way he is. Fischer. Finally.

after eight minutes. Here's a pale. studious. during which time Spassky got almost timid-looking 29-year-old up impatiently and walked However. several people may show up at the meeting Thursday night and.

more or less. demand that something be done about some school positions at Elwood high school. Anyone entering the meeting Thursday night with this in mind will only be barking up the wrong tree. The 1938 teacher tenure states that "a tenure teacher working under a fivecontract for a given position may not be demoted during the termoi the contract. Cancellation of an indefinite contract of a permanent teacher may be made for incompetency.

insubordination (which shall be deemed to mean a wilful refusal to obey the school law of this state or reasonable rules prescribed for the government of the public schools of such corporation). neglect of duty. immorality justifiable decrease in the Jackson Ruins For Pattin In Marty Pattin threw only two League West by edging the bad pitches all night The first Cleveland Indians. 4-3. and cost him peace of mind and the Detroit remained one game in ssecond cost him a lifetime front of Baltimore in the East dream.

by beating the Texas Rangers. In the second inning of 6-5. while the Orioles were Tuesday night's game at shading the Kansas City Royals Oakland. Pattin hit A's third 2-1. In 10 innings.

Elsewhere. baseman Sal Bando with a the New York Yankees beat pitch that just got away the California Angels. 7-3. and With one out in the ninth the Milwaukee Brewers tripped inning. he threw a fastball the Minnesota Twins.

5-4. I got up a little too In the National League. and Reggie Jackson jumped on Houston and Chicago split a it for a single. It was the only doubleheader. the Astros taking hit of the game off the Boston the opener.

6-5. and the Cubs righthander as the Red Sox winning the nightcap. 9-5. whipped Oakland, 4-0. Montreal edged San Diego.

6-5. When it was over. Pattin was in 12 innings. San Francisco more concerned about Bando beat the Mets. 6-1.

Philadelphia than about his lost glory. "I'm beat Los Angeles. 4-1. Cincinnajust glad that Sal's okay." said ti beat Pittsburgh. 5-0.

and the 29-year-old journeyman Atlanta edged St. Louis. 5-4. in pitcher. was worried and 15 innings.

shook up for a while." Carlton Fisk drove in two of of my biggest dreams Boston's runs with his 11th has been to pitch a no-hitter in homer and a single as the Red the bir; leagues." admitted Sox tagged Joel Horlen with his Pattin. who walked three first loss after two triumphs. batters and struck out seven. Jackson's hit came on a 2-2 guess this is the closest will count. ever come.

The White Sox. trailing 3-1. The Chicago White Sox closed rallied for three runs in the to within games of first- seventh as Rick Reichardt hit a place Oakland in the American two-run homer and Ed Spiezio in this day a and age. Football. or any other sport.

will not them outside the school system in the labor market unless they are a John Mengelt. However, we have always maintained that a healthy athletic program. aids a school and city in a lot of ways. Attendance in school (when a school is having a winning season) is bound to be up and the towns -people are in a better frame of mind on the streets. We saw this when our 1964-65 basketball club finished with a 19-1 record.

Some of the other problems or questions that could pop up at the meeting Thursday are: why we had improper equipment for our boys last fall and other times over the seasons like cold showers. Athletic director Bob Moore has promised this won't happen this fall. 4 We need a pep club for our football program- -a pep club that will back our cheerleaders and school band. We need football banquet or fall banquet for our boys and girls. more interest from our service city clubs and better equipment for our bovs.

Football can be a money making project. It was last season. A total of $8.268 taken in for the football season of 1971 and this can be traced back to an interest on behalf of our coaches and fans. We have to add one thing to this $8.268 total. The increase In revenue last fall was not due to an increase in ticket prices.

The $1.25 ticket price last fall was in force for the 1970 football season also. Elwood had a proud football tradition until around the 1967 season. Since that time our football clubs on the high school record (freshmen. junior varsity and varsity level have won only 31. games and dropped 78 for a 28-percentage.

Our clubs in 1967. 1968 and 1969 won only 18 and lost Harden 13 seasons. and lost Not 34 too over good the a record. This is a proud city. We want a better school and are in the process of building that long awaited school.

Maybe new school facilities will help our athletic football program. don't believe they will help that much, We need the backing of the entire school and city to get the job accomplished. I'll back any school administrator. school board member. coach or fan who wants the right thing for our young people and city.

We don't like any under the table tricks or the entire program will be exposed to the public by this fellow. This is only fair reporting on the part of any newspaper person despite what some people may say or do. We should all make an attempt to be in attendance at the school board meeting on Thursday. However. we can't go to the event half-cocked or nothing will come of our ideas and dreams.

Athletic Award Systems The current athletic award system was rewritten and adopted back on May 11. 1970. We have heard many pro and con statements about the system but we don't plan on issuing any comments on the item right now. 26. However, we should review the system.

The athletic board that individuals cannot reach their potential in athletics by being part time athletes. To become a good or great athlete one must participate consistently in various fields of athletics as each sport contributes to the total development of the individual. The original award system had the division of program divided into four seasons. The summer months had baseball as a major sport. fall had football as a major sport while cross country was listed as a minor Basketball was the major winter.

sport while swimming and wrestling was classified as minor sports. Spring found track listed a major sport while golf and tennis was in the minor sport department. The new system made up in 1970 had only three seasons cross country and tennis: winter-basketball and wrestling and spring -track. baseball and golf. All sports are classified as being major now.

System of point awards old award system had ten items while the current one has only four listings. Points for awards may be achieved in the following ways now: 1. Participation in a sport entire season-'2 point: 2. Participation in a sport entire season but meeting higher qualifications as set up by head coach in that sport-1 point. 3.

For team conference championship. undefeated season. state tourney inning of the first game of a twinbill game, 6-5, but Tuesday at Chicago. Billy finished with (UPI Telephoto) SOLO TIME Billy Williams, eight hits in eight trips to the plate i in Chicago Cubs' outfielder, receives the the two games, driving out five singles, cheers from crowd of some 27,000 fans one double and two homeruns. The as he runs back to the dugout after National League constructive hit hitting a solo in the sixth record is 10.

The Cubs lost the first Rain Halts Play In LL Rain forced a suspension of the second little league game between league champion Ebe Cotton Insurance and second place Emka Machine until tonight at 6 p.m. Cotton led 3-2 in the bottom of the third inning when the rain arrived. Emka took an early 2-0 first inning advantage but Kirk Fewell's homerun in the last of the first inning with a runner on base gave the champs a 3-2 edge. Riegel's won the opener. 6-3.

from Schwitzer behind the 16 strikeout pitching of John Burdsall. Box scores of both games and tonight's twinbill between Tam's Elks and Security Bank and Chase Motors will appear in Thursday's Call-Leader. The second game of the Babe Ruth baseball tourney found Jeff's Golf Shop scoring an easy 9-1 decision over Riegel's. No details of this game were turned in to the C-L office by BR officials. STANFORD.

Calif. (UPI)Bill Jones. assistant basketball coach at the University of California at Barbara. was named Tuesday to a similar post at Stanford: Jones played his college basketball at the University of Maryland in 1967-68. championship such as sectional champion, each, member of tearn 42: point: 4.

For individual recognition on all-conference teams. for individual championship in conference or state competition. or for outstanding achievement as to bring state-wide recognition to Wendell Willkie High School-'2 point. The old I system of point awards found any boy participating in a mjaor sport for an entire season gaining 2 point and participating in a minor sport for entire season receiving point. Freshman participating in a major sport for an entire, season received '2 point and point for a minor season.

Boys on the varsity level received point for playing on a title team or for being on an all-conference club and sectional title club. Boys with good scholarship ability with a average received 1.2 point while boys with an A or received a 3, point. Awards--Awards today are awarded to boys in various ways. One only 6-inch letter will be awarded to a participant when he has earned his first point as a varsity participant. This letter will be worn only on a sweater which is purchased by the athlete from the athletic department.

A certificate is awarded each time an athlete receives one point in any sport in one season. A chevron will be awarded in the first sport once each year for varsity play. regardless of the number of sports played. An award jacket with a standard 6" inch, letter. chevrons denoting years of play and an emblem denoting any team title will be awarded to an athlete upon earning a total of six points.

No athlete will receive a jacket who has not earned a point in varsity competition. No jacket will be presented prior to the athlete's senior year. An athlete may also be presented a blanket upon gaining a total of 12 points. These are the main points of the current award system-a system which has drawn both pro and con from people over the years. The system has its good and bad points.

I have one opinion about the system. I believe the biggest complaint about the athletic award system has to do with boys participating in only one sport and not gaining anything except letter. Maybe we should keep all sports a major project but award two points each year to boys who participate on basketball and football varisty clubs on a regular basis. After all. these two sports are the only ones bringing in any money at the This way a boy will be awarded a jacket if he participates on a varsity football or basketball team for three years on a regular hasis.

This is only an idea of ours and we may be out of line but we like to put our foot in the bucket every once in a while. imagine the system will receive a viewing by our athletic board and maybe some changes will be made. However. you're always going to find someone unhappy over any system. just can't please everyone.

Bench Paces Reds Past Pittsburgh, 5-0 Steve Carlton is happy with the script despite a weak cast of supporting actors. Carlton recorded his seventh straight victory Tuesday night as the weak-hitting Philadelphia Phillies won two games in a row for the first time in a month with a 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Carlton. tied with Gary Nolan of Cincinnati for the league lead in victories with 12. raised his major league leading strikeout total to 182 with eight strikeouts.

It was Carlton's fifth straight complete game. Johnny Bench backed up Jack Billingham's shutout pitching with four straight hits. including his 22nd home run of the season. and drove home three runs as the Reds shut out Pittsburgh. 5-0.

"Home runs by Rick Monday. Billy Williams and Joe Pepitone powered Chicago to a 9-5 nightcap victory over Houston after the Astros the opener. 6-5. with a four-run rally in the seventh inning. Williams went 8-for-8 in the doubleheader.

He belted his 17th homer in the opener and No. 18 in the nightcap. both with the bases empty. A wild pitch by Lowell Palmer with the bases loaded in the 15th forced home Gil Golden Dan Dean Sets New Record CONVERSE. Ind.

(UPI)Golden Dan Dean. with Nate Trimble of Windfall in the sulky. set a 1972 Indiana harness racing heat record Tuesday night. but it was only good enough for a tie for first in the summary. The horse won the first heat of the Indiana Pacing Stake's second division for two-year-olds in 2:08.

the best Hoosier time this year for a two-year-old over a mile. The action came in the first of four nights of harness racing at the Miami County Fair here. Running for a purse of $750. Golden Dan Dean finished 1-3 to tie for first in the summary. Quick Steady.

with Dave McClain of Lima. Ohio. in the sulky. was 3-1 to tie with the record-setter. Quick Steady's second heat time was 2:10.

In the first division. also four $750 purse. there was also a tie for first. Rex Robbins. Anderson.

drove Spoiled Brat to 1-2 finishes in the heats. as Harley Yoder. Shipshewana. held the reins for Michiana Tiger. who finished 2-1 and the tie.

Times were 2:10 3-5 and 2:08 1-5. Third place in the first division was captured by Early One. driven by Charles McClain of Richmond with finishes of third in both heats. Rambling Willie. with Raymond Gibson.

Monroeville. in the sulky, was third in the second division. with seconds in both heats. In the Free-For-All Trot. held for a $500 purse.

Skylark Girt took it all with Jerry Landis of Portland holding the reins. Skylark Girl finished both heats in Na around. Fischer appeared. He shook hands with Spassky and then sat down in his special swivel chair which he had flown in from New York for these championships. Fischer studied the board two minutes.

then made his first move. knight to King bishop three. In his own mind. Fischer feels he's one little guy taking on the whole Russian government. He doesn't feel this way because of any politics.

the usual politics between countries. that is. but because of chess politics. to Tuesday's first game was adjourned. meaning each man had made his allotted 40 moves in the five- hour time limit with no decision being reached.

When the game is resumed today. Spassky will have the upper hand although Fischer can still get a draw. In this first of 24 games. Spassky played the way everybody thought he wouldconservatively. That figured because if this whole business winds up even.

say 12-12. Spassky goes back home to Russia the same way he came to Reykjavik-world champion. Fischer has the first move in Thursday's second game. though. Watch him go! He'll play a completely different game.

You can bet on that. too. Wes Parker doesn't have to be a chess expert. He's still got Bobby Fischer tagged perfectly. Always Plays to Win Regardless.

he always played win. Dreams Ninth followed with a solo shot. Ray Fosse had hit a two-run homer for Cleveland. Mickey Stanley snapped a 5-5 tie with his ninth homer of the vear in the sixth inning and Dave Seelbach limited Texas to two hits over the final 3 2-3 innings to gain his fifth victory for the Tigers. Dave Nelson had a homer for the Rangers Pinch-hitter Tom Shopay drew a walk with the bases loaded and none out in the 10th to enable Baltimore to snap a five-game losing streak.

Jim Palmer went the distance for the Orioles. allowing Kansas City seven hits to stretch his record to 12-4. A two-run single by Felipe Alou and a two-run double by Ron Swoboda highlighted a sixrun Yankee rally in the third inning as New York beat California and Joe Lahoud's A two-run single by Felipe Alou and a two-run double by Ron Swoboda highlighted a six run Yankee rally in the third inning as New York beat California and Joe Lahoud's two-run homer in the top of the Garrido with the winning run and gave the Braves a 5-4 victory over St. Louis. Clyde Mashore doubled down the left field line with one out in the 12th inning to score Bob Bailey with the winning run in Montreal's victory over San Diego.

6-5. "I'm pitching more consistently this year and getting my three pitches (curve, slider, and fastball) over more." Carlton said. In the other National League game San Francisco defeated New York. 6-1. In the American League Detroit edged Texas.

6-5. Baltimore nipped Kansas City. 2-1. in 10 innings. Chicago slipped by Cleveland.

4-3. Milwaukee downed Minnesota. 5-4. Boston blanked Oakland. 4- 0.

and New York whipped California. 7-3. Ron Bryant pitched a twohitter and Willie McCovey homered as San Francisco downed New York. McCovey got the Giants started as he led off the second with his sixth homer of the season off starter and loser Jerry Koosman. Bryant raised his record to 7- 4.

walking four and striking out six. Koosman had a six-game winning streak stopped and absorbed his fourth loss. Entries For Tourney Being Accepted Now Minor League Results Kendall Canoe took an early advantage and went on to score a 9-8 decision over EPA in minor league play last night. Box Score KENDALL (9) Lane 3 2 2 Head Clark Kendall 0 0 D. Loser 2 Jones 0 Creech 3 Retherford Hoffer Tillman 2 0 Hughes 0 Mead 2 Weddell 0 0 Lane 0 0 Richards 2 16 9 9 EPA (8) Garcia 3 Sheets 0 Hoppenrath 3 Daulton 2 2 Cummings Hook Boyland 2 Call Marley 2 Stapleton: 0 B.

Hook 0 0 McCorkle 0 0 16 8 6 Larry Fox, tournament manager, announced this morning that the second annual Frankton Outdoor basketball tournament will be staged from August 6th to 13th. The event is sponsored by the Frankton Little League baseball program. The deadline for entering the field is August 1st and the entry fee is $25. Anyone wishing to enter the tourney should contact Fox at 754-7298. Logansport Mr.

Happy Burger captured the title last summer. ninth inning lifted Milwaukee pas Minnesota. Kaat On List Bloomington. Minn. (UPDJim Kaat.

leading American League pitchers with a 10-2 record. was placed on the 21- day disabled list Thursday by the Minnesota Twins. X-rays confirmed that Kaat suffered a broken bone in his left wrist while sliding into second base against Chicago a week ago. The Twins called up right -hander Dave Goltz from their Tacoma farm team in the PCI where he was 8-8 with a 3.89 ERA. HOUSTON -Mac Haik.

a wide receiver for the Houston Oilers who has suffered leg and ankle injuries during the last three seasons. retired Tuesday from professional football. Haik. who plans to work full, time in the real estate business. said he was retiring "because I wouldn't want to play just to pick up my check and qualify for the pension Oakland (UPD)-Orlando Cepeda.

34-year old first baseman of the Oakland Athletics. underwent surgery for a troublesome left knee Tuesday and was said by a hospal spokesman to be "resting comfortably. Cepeda. acquired from the Atlanta Braves for Denny McLain. was 0-for-3 in pinchhitting appearances for the Athletics.

SAARBRUECKEN. Germany (UPI)-August Tiedtke. winner of the world's three-cushion billiards championships twice and the German title 37 times. died Tuesday at the age of 59. No funeral arrangements were announced.

first place. Irish Dandy. driven by Lafe Hughart of Frankfort. took second with heat finishes of 2-3. and, Margalo.

driven by Larry Ingles of Kokomo. was third with heat finishes of 7-2. Times in the trot were 2:07 3-5 and 2:08 2-5. a 59. by.