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m - •; ^ mmp" • - • -: tmimmmm • Vf a' ' 6t - PLAIN DEALER - WED., JULY 24, 1968 Shoot Chairman Babe Ruth Deer JHunlers May Apply Bow Permits ., Sunday July 14th, another double header was held at the V.F.W. Babe Ruth Field, the first game between the Cards and the Sox. Pitching, and going the distance, was Mel "Butch" Morgenson, and his side-kick Don Prazak did the catching which turned out to be a combine. Cards allowed two runs, three hits, one walk cameup with six strikeouts. Goingonthe mound for the SgxwereGaupdpn and Harrison with Del Gerstad doing the catching. Hie Sox allowed five hits, seven walks, eight runs and came up with thirteen strikeouts. The score was a factor but the hot sun managed to get his nose in there. The second game of the day was between the Braves and the Giants and this was a most interesting game because of th@ home runs hit. Pitching for th® Braves Was John Pitzen and behind the plate, his steady partner in crime Pete Merkel. Braves gave up five walks, nine hits, and came qp eleven strikeouts. Out of the nine hits five went for homers. Two homers for Bob Kuechel, both to left field, one for liggenmann to Jim Norris, Woodstock, is chairman for McHenry county's trap shoot entries at the state meet July 27. County entries will go direct to the finals and Farm Bureau will assist right field, Steinsdoerfertocenin payment of entry fees and travel expenses. (Don PeasleyVj®r field, Rohrer to right^center Photo). Earl Walsh SO I HE C It was the week that was. McHenry was the liveliest and biggest little city in the country . . The Marine Festival brought great crowds to McHenry and those crowds had a good time. There was a variety of entertainment provided. Sport* Editor Old Timers in McHenry. Decided Leo Heimer is another. Then we looked around and saw Annabel Aicher. She has an edge on those kids even though she rates as one of the spriest and youngest looking Old Timers you will find. We like to meet people who remember earlier days in McHenry. Most of us still like some things about life in those days. Chi Thursday they said there'll be dancin* tonight -- and there was. Music, music, music for all ages. W • There was something moving all the time. Saturday was a wow of a day as business places really went all out to doll up with special themes. The sidewalk sales packed the streets and parking lots to capacity. Customers were happy with their bargains; On June 26 ouF sports page was favored with a picture of a bird watching patiently as a fisherman offered a worm to the fish in Fox River at the McHenry Dam. Wayne Gaylordtook the picture which captured honorable mention in the Illinois Press Photographers contest for the month of June. Keep 'em coming* Wayne. We like those pictures for the sports page. We drove around the city to see as much as possible. Not having our best legs under us on Saturday, we didn't want to atteirpt blocked off Green St., but certain people said we just had to see Harry Dean and Earl Cooper in their kilts (real cute). John Shay in his green Leprechaun suit (the biggest Leprechaun we ever saw), and Sam Leibsohn in his Mexican garb (•Twas a beautiful outfit, but we could hardly find Sam under that big hat). We were most impressed with the young fellows carrying patriotic sighs. "Dissenters Go Away" pleased us. We always advocated taking those who would destroy our country to our ocean shores and tell them to walk until their hats floated. Met Tom and Ellen Phalin the other "Sight and had a lot of fun about their high school class reunion picture -- the 50th! We decided they were real SPORTSMEN'S CLUB ANNUAL PICNIC SEPT. JS . The McHenry*sSportsmen's club voted to hold its annual picnic and club championship shoot on Sunday, Sept. 15. Members set the date at their July 11 meeting. Club gunners will shoot it out for the high gun trophy, as well as for class championships in A, B, C, Ladies, Junior and Senior classifications. Classes will be decided by the Lewis scoring system. While all McHenry Sportsmen's club events are open to the public, this one is for invited guests and members only. To insure that the gunning public does not miss any shooting because of the picnic, the club has scheduled open shoots on the eighth and twenty-second. In the event of rain on Sept. 15, the picnic will be held on Sept. 29. Closer at hand, the club will hold a mid-summer prize shoot on Sunday, July 28. Competition will start at 11 a.m. Shooters will set their sights on winning tender-aged steaks and fryers. Low average shooters will win their fair share of the spoils in contests weighted in their favor, as for example,the Pitching for the Giants Kuechel and doing a fine job once again behind the plate was Dan Camasta. Giants gave up ten hits, five walks and got themselves eight strikeouts. A home run for th® Braves was hit by John Pitzen which he adds to his collection. Final Score - Braves 8 - Giants 7. Tuesday, July 16th, a game between the Cards and the Tigers was a pitchers game 'till the fourth inning. Going all the way for the Tigers was Chris Long on the mound and behind the plate was Wanta. The Tigers gave up two doubles, one by Rick Weigman and the other by Jim Stilling, also a home run by Greg Bartos his third of the year, two walks and got ten strikeouts. The Cards had Wickenkamp and Prazak pitching and Morgenson and Prazak catching. Chris Long, his fourth and fifth; and Johnson hit his third homer of the year. One walk and four strikeouts were recorded. The final score was Tigers -- 4 - Cards - 1. Wednesday, July 17th this game between the Giants and Sox was a bonecrusher with the (Hants coming out on top. Pitching for the Giants was Tiggemann and Bolger with Dan Camasta doing the catching. The Giants allowed four runs, six hits of these one was a double by Tom Gausden, nine passed balls and six strikeouts. Pitching for the Sox, Jenkins and Kern wih Gerstad catching. Sox gave 19 fourteen runs, eleven walks, ten hits, of which two were doubles by Camasta and Rohrer and the second grand slam of the year hy .Mark Steinsdoerfer. There, were four strikeouts. The final score: Giants - 14 - Sox - 4. Thursday, July 18th it was the Giants and the Tigers. It seems the Giants should have saved some runs from the previous day for this game as they came out on the short end. Pitching for the Giants Rohrer, Knaack and Steinsdoerfer and behind the plate once again Camasta. Giants allowed ten hits with Ludwig getting his first homer of the year and A1 Stilling getting four strikeouts. On the mound for the Tigers was Roger Ludwig in his first start of hi-lo-white bird shoot, inwhich the lowest scoring gunner wins a prize, as does the high scorer and the lucky one who bags the white target. Regular targets are black and yellow. Winnertake- all events will attract the top-notch shooters. Lady shooters compete too. The public is invitee! to this and all McHenry Sportsmen's club prize shoots which are held on the club's trap range on the west side of Pistakee Bay. A Applications for a special deer hunt will be included with all bow hunting permits beiiig issued by the Beer Permit Of- 7 fice, the Illinois Department of Conservation announced last ; week. Two Hunts have been scheduled for the Gardner Division, Mark Twain National Wildlife Refoge near Quincy. Dates of the seasons are Oct. 12 to 15^ inclusive, and Oct. 19 to 22, inclusive. A total of 800 per*? mits will be issued for each hunt. Applications must be filled out according to instructions# They must be mailed to thQ Gardner Division, Mark Twain National Wildlife Refuge, Boo| 225, Quincy, 111. They should not be sent to the Illinois Department of Conservation. September 15 is the deadline for the applications and any received. after that will not be processed. Hunters will be chosen by a drawing. The Gardner Division consists of several islands in the Mississippi River and access to them is by boat. Hunters must arrange for their ovsjpl. transportation tothe islands because it will not be furnished by the Department of Conservation or the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Last year 1,000 permits were issued for a special/deer hunt and 154 deers were killed. REPORT THEFT The sheriffs office reported the theft of over $150 in tires. and other items from McHenry Implement Co., Rt. 120, last week. the year and Wanta doing the catching. This boy is coming around. Tigers gave up six hits with Steinsdoerfer getting his fifth home run of the year and two doubles, one by Bolger and Tiggemann, three passed balls and three runs and getting four strikeouts. Final score Tigers - 12 - Giants - 3. Friday, July 19th the Braves and Sax went at it with the Braves coming out on top. Hie battery for the Braves was Gary Freund pitching, with Merkel and Ruemelin doing the catching. Freund gave iq> five hits, one being a four bagger fay Harrison, seven walks and got seven strikeouts. The Braves are sure trying to close the gap between themselves and the Giants, great playing. Pitching for the Sox, Gausden, Rogers and Harrison, with Gerstad and Dalton doing the catching. The Sox allowed nine hits, one a double by Pete Merkel, homer by Randy Mauch and, not to be outdone, a grand slam by John Pitzen his sixth home run of the year, seventeen walks and six strikeouts. This was a tight game 'till the fourth inning and then everything broke loose. Final score Braves - 14 - Sox - 5. Saturday, July 20th a make up game was to be played between the Braves and the Cards, this gave goes down in the record books as the first forfeit game of the year. There were only eight players present for the Cards. TOP TEN J. Pitzen 514 C. Long 500 T. Gausden 437 S. Rohrer 421 J. Donnelly 418 R. Kuechel 394 R. Miller ,379 J. Stilling 375 D. Prazak 363 A. Stilling 361 Ravens^ Jeff, Julie and Joey5 On Safari tawtmm 6MUS. The regular scheduled games for both Major and Minor leagues ended on Friday, July 19th. First place in the Majors was not decided until the last night with the Cardinals beating the Hawks 1 to 0 in a well played game by both teams. This makes the third year in a row the Cardinals, sponsored by McHenry State Bank, have been champions. Congratulations to Cardinal coaches Gary Gough, Ray Boro and the following players: Dave Adams, Ray Boro, Jeff Sorter, Tim Doyle, Terry Gough, Brian Henshall, Mike Jablonski, Joe Kuna, Jerry Larkin, Jeff Meddings, Ray Steege, K.C.Wright andSteve Griesbach. Also to the coaches and players of the remaining teams who finished in this order: 2. Bluebirds-Tonyan Const. 3. Hawks-Overton Pontiac 4. Falcons-Althoff s, Inc. 5. Owls-Hester Oil 6. Condors-Riverside A.C. In the Minors, the Condors, coached by Dick Weber, finished first and the rest as follows: Hawks, Cardinals, Eagles and Bluebirds tied Owls. The winning Minature team was the Yanks, coached by Dick Golbeck. Congratulations to those coaches and their teams. Chi Friday, July 26, the 1st and 2nd place teams in the Majors will play the 1st and 2nd place teams from Crystal Lake Little League. The games will be at 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. on McHenry* s Little League field. Come and root for our local youngsters. On the next night, Saturday, July 27, the coaches and their wives will be able to show their baseball skills when the Major coaches oppose the Minors, with the Miniatures coaches splitting between the two teams. The coaches wives play the first game at 6:30 and the men follow at 8:30. Both will play with a 16 inch softball, which should prove interesting. All parents and players in the league are invited. Home Run Hitters J. Pitzen - 6 C. Long 5 S. Rohrer - 4 A. Stilling, J. Johnson, D. Prazak, G. Bartos and K. Congdon with 3. *"• R. BPS J. Pitzen 29 M. Steindoerfer 23 Stolen Bases D. Prazak - 18 R. Weigman -11 Righy 2B 4 0 0 Wench RF 3 1 0 Crenshaw 3B 3 1 1 Winkleman IB 4 0 2 Watson CF 4 0 0 Botton C 3 1 2 Dolcos LF 3 1 2 Sarbaugh SS 2 0 1 Setser P 3 1 2 Totals 29 5 10 McHENRY AB R H Fairchild CF 3 0 0 M. Janik SS 4 0 0 T. Janik RF 3 0 0 Bottari C 3 0 1 Meyers 3B 3 0 1 Stahlman IB and P 3 0 0 Smith LF and IB 3 0 0 Stilling 2B 1 0 0 Freund P 2 0 0 George LF 1 0 0 Totals 26 0 2 5 tm. ' it ,<S AMERICAN LEGION BASEBALL <3 The American Legion team played two games over the weekend. Saturday they travelled to Sycamore and beat a real strong team in twelve innings, 2 to 1. Sunday they lost another one to Woodstock 5 to 0. Janik pitched four scoreless innings, then Steve Salter came on in the fifth. Sycamore scored an unearned run in the fifth, but Steve held them scoreless the rest of the way. He had a big assist from John Smith, as he threw a man out at the plate from right field in the last of the seventh. John also got the big hit, leading off the twelfth with a triple and scoring on Chuck Reilly's single. Tom Janik drove in the first run. Sunday was a case of no hitting again. McHenry had good scoring chances in the first four innings, but couldn't get the big hit. This loss dropped McHenry out of first place in the standings. WOODSTOCK Score By Innings: Jeff and Julie Raven take aim at the 8 foot gorilla and other life sized animals ready for the Northern mini Bowmen "SAFARI" this weekend, July 27 the SAFARI tiger! and 28. Joey Raven tames Woodstock 030 020 0 - 5 McHenry 000 000 0 - 0 SYCAMORE AB R H Barnaby 3B 6 0 2 Quinn C 3 0 0 Scott P. and IB 4 0 0 jEleng CF 5 0 1 Robertson RF 4 0 2 Vories IB and P 5 0 0 jPearson SS 5 1 ,0 Greener McHenry rass Onty a little over one year after the ratification by the members of the McHenry Country Club, the newly completed watering system was turned on. Water piping was presently installed in the course but was very limited and had to be operated manually. The new system, costing $70,000, added many more sprinklers, larger pump, more mains, and made the sprinkling automatic and timed thru the night hours. Should the Greens Supt. Harold Michels deem it necessary to water a green more than usual tie may switch the system to manual for that manicured look. Hie plan is to put 1" of water on the course - a week which is considered ideal watering. This will make McHenry* s course the greenest in the area. At the time of the OK by the Club members, Ed Buss of McHenry was the Greens chairman and has assisted present Green chairman Jack Phelan to see that the projectwas completed. The financing of a project of this size is always a big job the answer to this one seems to have worked. Ray Johnson, president of the club states, "In order to finance this project we decided to sell bonds to the members at 5% interest and also add a small assessment. At that time it was figured that the bonds could bc| retired in 7 years but it looks like this time will be cut considerably.*' It should be noted that the old system cost $54,000 when it was installed and together with the new addition, McHenry* s Country club has a new image; green acres, purindealer Photo * .a-: Olson LF Smith 2B Fairchild C M. Janik SS T. Janik P and LF Bottari 2B Stalhman IB Smith RF Reilly 3B George CF Fluger LF Salter P 5 0 0 5 0 1 Totals 42 1 6 McHENRY AB R H 3 0 0 5 0 1 4 0 2 4 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 Totals 37 2 6 Score By Innings: McHenry 000 010 000 001 - 2 Sycamore 000 010 000 000 - 1 Be Wise Shop In McHenry lorthern Mini lewiisn P©w* Northern mini Bowmen invite- archers and the public to their 11th annual" 3-DSAF ARP' this weekend, July 27 and 28. For this important sports event there are 28 Safari animals made three dimensional, actual life size, from a Gargantuan 8 foot gorilla to an innocent looking stork. Actual hunting is similated with distances from 20 feet to 80 yards. Shirley Heffernan has designed special trophies to be presented thru 3rd place in all classes including youth and archers who have not shot a range before or are unclassified. These handmade leather pooled trophies will be presented to the lucky winners at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. Plate lunches and sandwiches will be available at the NIB range both days. 4 pancake and sausage breakfast will be in charge of Oscar Sommer Sunday morning. Registration will open at 8 h.m. on Saturday and not close until 1 p.m. on Sunday. The public is invited to participate in the shoot or just to observe. The Northeren mini Bowmen range is easy to locate a mile west of McHenry just off Illinois 120 on Draper Road. Follow the archery signsypp July 27 and 28 to NIB "SAFARP% BISHOP LANE DIES Rockford diocese in 1956. Funeral Mass will be offered at 11 a.m. Friday morning at St. James Cathederal, Rockford, with Cardinal Cody as celebrant. Shop In McHenry NOW ENDS THURS. | COLOR by Deluxe Shows at 7 and 9 P.M. IF I CAN FLY, YOU CAN FLY! $5.00 buys your first lesson in a Cessna at: GALT AIRPORT FLYING SERVICE (815) 648-2433 Call now for more information and make a date to fly! 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