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PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALKR-FHIDW . AUGUST 20, 1976 EARL WALSH As -this is written, the big bombs have not exploded in Kansas City, the scene of the Republican convention'. i The first night seemed to be set aside to blast "Jimmy Whor* Carter sailed through the primaries with the greatest of ease. Now comes the big test. Thli*tf|re many who think Carter &n take any opponent tossed into the ring. Whichever way it goes, Carter will now find himself in the big leagues. The\ have already thrown fast balls; curves and sliders at him. Re* Ma jibe1 he has some trick pitche* of his own. Time will tell. | The < con vent ion started true to form. Women were knitting and doing fancy work. Groups were having their own Utile visits while speakers were-fdring to impress. iWers on the floor So I Hear SPORTS EDITOR were doing what they are hired to do -- trying to get delegates to talk out of turn. Haven't seen Jo Ann Hut­ chinson in the crowd, but will be watching. Seems to us that big league baseball owners have asked for a lot of their troubles. Certain bigwigs in Washington, D.C. have been unhappy since the Senators moved away. They want a team in the nation's capital. So what do the owners do but arrange two franchises in Canada in the expansion. Montreal, where players say it is too cold for baseball in Spring and fall, was the first. NoW comes Toronto. Schedules^ are being printed covering MCHS athletics. A glance at the list shows the first football game will be played here Sept. 10 with Crystal Lake the opponent. Summer is fading away. So is S.I.H. for this time. Farm Bureau Team Defends State Title McHenry County Farm Bureau's Slow Pitch team begins defense of its state Illinc^Jfarm Sports Festival titlejby playing Macon county at l(|a.m. on Wednesday* Aug. 24 Minager Gary Miller's team clubped district opposition to advance to the state finals at Springfield for the two-day tournament. Competition in softball, swimming, tennis and horseshoes are being held those two,' days-Wednesday and Thursday. Golfers tee off in the state finals on Monday, and McHenry County Farm Bureau willjjhave nine golfers seeking stati honors. Those nine are Joha Pazera, associate male member; Carolyn Schmidt, individual lady; Mr. and Mrs. George Jackson, mixed doubles; Mr. and Mrs. William Hinber, husband-and-wife; Geofge Beckwith, men over 64; Dave Hutchison, 17 and under; and I Bo Palenske, 18-30. Hut­ chison was medalist in the District tournament at Plum Tref in July with a 77. Shimmers and tennis players frori McHenry county will be a factor in determining in­ dividual and team titles, they compete on Tuesday. McHenry County Farm Bureau will have a total of three softball teams at the state finals. The Boys' 4-H team, second last year in the state meet, begins the quest for the state honors in a grueling tourney that begins at 10 a.m. on Tuesday against Ogle county. The winner faces the Randolph-Kendall winner, then must play again to advance to the finals on Wednesday. In the new class, the 35'ers Slow Pitch, McHenry meets DeKalb county at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. This is the first year for this class; only six teams are entered from throughout the state. McHenry county did not enter a regular 35'ers class, a class in which it has been a perennial state contender. This is the 37th annual Illinois Farm Sports Festival. The softball tourney finds 70 teams competing in the eight classes. Neighboring DeKalb county has two state champions returning to defend their titles, the Girls' Open Class (two-time winner) and the 35'ers. X YAMAHA "Someday, you'll own a Yamaha!" ...and your neighborhood dealer h a s t h e b e s t p r i c e 1 N O W . . DT125B *598°°' Back - To - School ON A YAMAHA DT125B ONLY A FEW LEFT -- BUY NOWI •STREET OR TRAIL • AUTOLUBE--AUTOMATICALLY MIXES FUEL AND OIL • SPEEDOMETER & TACHOMETER • PUSH BUTTON ELECTRIC STARTER { •"PRICE DOES NOT INCLUDE TITLE, TAXES, LICENSE, L SET-UP OR FREIGHT." WOODSTOCK DIVOT DOLLS M.C.C. As you read this you may well be on your way over to McHenry Country club to form part of the gallery which will be viewing the second annual McHenry Women's In­ vitational. However, bear with us and we'll give you Tuesday's results. Tuesday was the first 18-hole round of the 54-hole club and class championship tournament. In Class A Carol Cooney is in the lead with 95, followed closely by Judy Smithson at % and Alvina Yopp at 97. In Class B Nancy Wilkins has a safe lead at 102, followed by Barb Weber and Carla Wright both at 108. Class C finds both Jean Napier and Joan Schlosky in with 120, followed by Virginia Spengel at 123. This is just the beginning of the tournament and anything can happen in the next two weeks, so, we'll be watching closely to see which leads are kept and which change. In net play Laverne Harpling took a 71, followed by "Sandy" Overton with 74 (in Class A). Everyone knows Dee is a bathing beauty who loves the beach but she seemed to overdo it a bit Tuesday by hitting six out of nine sandtraps on the front nine. The cure set in when her playing mate "Saint Liz" walked her ball across the water on No. 8 to put it on the fringe of the green. In Class B Nancy and Myrt Johnson tied for low net with 72 each. Close on their heels with a 73 was Mabel Smith. In Class C Jean Napier had low net of 76 as well as low gross. Right behind her were Ginnie Spengel with 78 and Jean REmke with 79. "Sandy" and Floss O'Connell tied for low putts in Class A with 29 each ; Nancy had 28 in Class B; and in Class C with 35 each Jean N. and Esther Jemiola tied. Although the day was beautiful weatherwise, some of the gals came in less than happy. When asked how she did, Char Zwissler replied that she had a lot of elephants. We're not sure whether that indicates she's a Republican or Democrat - or that maybe the scores on many of the holes were large ones. Jackie Victor was in the water six times - no details; and, Carla Wright was observed walking off the second green with her shirt blackened - no explanation there either. Some of the individual shots that bring a golfer back after a not-so-good round did occur for some of the gals. Bernice Dolce chipped in her appraoch on No. 12 as did Fran Weyland on No. 3. Also on No. 3 Carol Bolger let fly with a seven wood from the top of the hill (about 110 yards) to sink the shot. On No. 11 Liz Nolan chipped in from the bottom of the green for a bird. Other birdies were made by Joan Schloskey on No. 13, Carol Cooney on No. 16, Floss O'Connell on No. 14, Alvina Yopp on No. 14 and No. 18, and Dee Overton on No. 14 and No. 14. That sums it up for this week's play. One of our gals is in the hospital and would appreciate a card. Send get-well messages to Eleanor Kreuser in room 201, Condell-Memorial Hospital, Libertyville. McHemy Country Club By John Busscher At the half way mark in the Club championship, Art Jackson with a second one over par 72 leads Ed Buss by two strokes. Ed shot a 74 Sunday and is at 14& In third place is Gary Adams who shot a 76 on Sunday and has a 36 hole total of 147. Fourth place belongs to Tim Martin with a 74 on Sunday and a total of 149. There are only five strokes separating the leader and the fourth place man so anything can happen in the next two rounds. The third round of the club championship will be played on Sunday, Aug. 22 and will start at noon. In the Handicap club championship, Dr. Jay Sayler leads the pack with a net score of 132 followed closely by Ken Holmes at 134 and three tied for third place, Ted Spengel, Tom Burke, and Jim Kenton at 135. Carl Worthen leads the Senior Handicap championship with a 36 hole net score of 139 with George Johnson one stroke back at 140. In third place is Ralph Smith with 142 and Frank Johnson fourth at 143. The final round of the Senior Handicap championship and the third round of the Handicap championship will be played at the club on Sunday, Aug. 22 starting at 8 a.m. Plans are being finalized for the 2 day Labor Day tour­ nament which will be played at the club on Sunday, Sept. 5, and Monday, Sept. 6, with the largest field of entrants ever, expected to take part. Chapel Hill Golf P.A.R. Lois Anderson Last Tuesday we played for Low Putts with Nancy McAuliffe winning in Class A with a mere 13. Tied in Class B were Kathy Schultz and Shirley Montalbano with 15, and Sindy Popp won in Class C with 17. The prize for John Bolton's blind bogey this week was a ladies Pro-Staff golf bag, really nice. After much anticipation it was won by Betty O'Brien. Not to disappoint the rest of us, John drew more numbers for golf balls which went to Ev Sanford, Lucy Prouty, Gladys Blair and Harriet Wilson. Be sure to sign up Tuesday for another blind bogey, the prize will be an equally nice bag. Next Tuesday will be a fun day with Monkey Golf. For those of you who do not know or remember, you are alloWed to go out with three clubs of your choice and two golf balls. It really is a lot of fun and makes for an interesting round. We will also be treated to "coffee and", before going out. And if you were at last year's lun­ cheon you will remember how great it was. Terry has promised an even better one this year. A reminder...Mary Jane Nowak is collecting the money for Squaw Day so be sure to get it to her as soon as possible. Happy golfing. Security We don't fear an inva­ sion from Mars. We figure they've heard about the high cost on this planet. -Herald, Miami. E£ 1 S. Route 47--Woodstock, III. 60098-915-338-6464 SIGN UP NOW FOR YOUTH DAY GOLF TOURNAMENT Sponsored By Chapel Hill Country Club MONDAY, AUG. 23 A FULL DAY OF FUN & GOLF FOR BOYS AGES 12 thru 17 ENTRY FEE *4.00 Includes All Day Greens Fees, Trophies, Prizes and Hot Dogs and Pop on the course. TROPHIES AWARDED IN THREE AGE GROUPS - 12-13, 14-15, 16-17 FOR MORE INFORMATION & RESERVATIONS CALL: JOHN BOLTON - 385-0333 Q 2500 N. P CHAPEL HILL RD. HILLGOLFU MCHENRY, ILL. Ik* A CLOSE PLAY - but Dave Sundby, who reached first on a single, safely slides into second on a fly-out as Ron Miller of the House of David attempts the tag. Sundby then scored on a two out single by Bill Huff. The House of David nailed the Rusty Nail by a 13-3 score in the best of three playoffs of the 12-inch championship being played at the West campus field. (STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD) SOWERS NAILS ONE - for the Rusty Nail and the hit was good for a single in this second inning action in the first play-off game of the 12-inch championship game against the House of David. Charly • McHenry Area I I 12-Inch Softball I We have lost one of our gals. The passing of Ethel Conwayt Low saddens us all and we shall miss her sorely. A lady of grit and warmth, she was one of the fine examples of how dear some human beings are. Our memories of her will be happy ones. Our hearts and con­ dolences are with her family. House Of David, 13-3 Winners In the first game of the 1976 12-Inch championships the House of David won 13-3 over the Rusty Nail. The difference in the Tuesday evening game was the Rusty Nail's fielding as their infield defense collapsed. In fact the first ball hit was cleanly fielded but shortstop Jim Gray threw the ball six feet over1 tennis Schmitt at first. That was the first of seven ilfield errors plus an outfield bobble, which were eight too many for the Nail, costing them game one. The House of David, who have never lost a playoff game, made it seven straight wins over the last two years. They will try to make it eight straight on Wednesday Aug. 18. If they can not do it in two a third game will be played on Thursday, Aug. 26. If the House wins the championship this year they only need one more year in a row to win the travelling trophy. But the big question is, 'will the Nail bounce back?' Rusty Nail were the visitors in game one. Dave Sundby hit a line shot on the first pitch of the game but Greg Freund's glove was there for the first out. Gary Miller singled, followed by'a Randy Thiel single with Miller stopping at second. BUI Huff was next up and he hit a low liner to right which was trapped by the House of David's right fielder, Steve George, in a nice play. Both runners could advance only one base and the Nail had the bases loaded with one out. Jim Lay forced Huff at second on a grounder to second baseman Ron Miller. Gary Miller scored on the play. The next batter, Jim Gray, went down swinging leaving two runners on the bases. The House of David scored two in the bottom of the first. Tom Les grounded to short but made it to second on a throwing error. Ron Miller singled to score Less and made it to second base on the throw to home. Miller went to third on Joe Dehn's flyout and then scored on Greg Freund's groundout. Tim Althoff singled and Wayne Frantz walked but Gene Hester flew out to end the inning with the House ahead 2- 1. In the second, after one out, Rusty Nail's Dennis Schmitt singled and went to second after Charly Sowers singled to left. Leon Schmitt hit a hot liner down the third baseline which Gene Hester snared and then threw to second catching Sch­ mitt off base. The doubleplay ended the top of the second for Rusty Nail. The House scored 2 more runs in the bottom of the second to take a 4-1 lead into the third. Steve Rohrer hit a low liner to center which Randy Thiel dove for and missed, Roh^jr getting a homerun. After the next two batters made outs Tom Les doubled and then scored on Ron Miller's base hit. Rusty Nail scored their second run in the third when Dave Sundby led off with a single, advanced to third on two deep flyouts, and scored on Bill Huff's two out single. The House countered with a run in the bottom of the inning to hold a 5-2 lead after three innings. Greg Freund singled to open the bottom of the third, taking second on an outfield bobble. Tim Althoff flew out deep to left, Freund going to third. Wayne Frantz followed with a hard grounder to the pitcher's mound but on making the pickup, pitcher Bill Huff could not get a handle on the ball to make a play. Freund had to hold third on the play but he scored when Gene Hester flew out to left. The Rusty Nail scored their final run in the fourth inning. ATTEN1 .N MENU BOWLERS WANTED I! J, ALSO INDIVIDUAL OPENINGS CALL 385-2520 McHenry Recreation 1216 N. RIVER RD., McHENRY Sowers went 2 for 3 and had a RBI in the game as the Rusty Nail was hammered 13-3 by the House of David. (STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD) Jim Gray grounded out to deep short to begin the inning with shortstop Dave Schaefer making a good play. Larry Jones singled over second base, Ron Miller making a spec­ tacular stop from his second base position. However, Miller attempted to make a play at first and Jones made it to second on the only House error of the night. Charly Sowers singled again, after two were out, sending Jones across home. On a heads up play the House gunned down Sowers attempting to take second, on what he thought was a play at home. Gene Hester cut off Joe Dehn's throw from left and whipped it to second where Ron Miller put the tag on Sowers to end the inning. That was the closest the Nail would be the rest of the night as House of David added two 4 run innings to their 5-3 lead to win going away. In the bottom of the fourth Steve George opened with a walk. Tom Les hit what looked like a doubleplay but an error put runners on second and third. Ron Miller was out second to first when Gary Miller batted down a line drive and threw him out. On the play George scored and Les held up. Joe Dehn was the next batter and he doubled scoring Les. Greg Freund followed with an RBI double. Tim Althoff hit a bloop single behind second base, moving Freund to third. Wayne Frantz flew out to right for a sacrifice RBI and the last run of the inning. In the next two innings Rusty Nail mustered but one hit, a fifth inning leadoff single by Leon Schmitt, which was followed by six straight Nail batters making outs. The House had only one baserunner in the fifth but in the sixth four runs scored. Ron Miller walked to lead off. Joe Dehn forced Miller at second and Greg Freund followed with a two run homer to left center. Tim Althoff reached second on another infield error and scored on another error with Wayne Frantz reaching second. Frantz scored on Steve Rohrer's base hit. The next batter, Dave Schaefer, singled to left but Rohrer was thrown out by leftfielder Dave Sundby on a perfect throw to third. Rusty Nail led off the final inning with Larry Jones' base hit up the middle. Dennis Sch­ mitt grounded to short which went for an easy double play and CharljT Sowers grounded out to end the game with the House ahead 13-3. Rusty Nail Sundby, Dave Miller, Gary Thiel, Randy Huff, Bill Lay, Jim Ackermann, Len Gray, Jim Schmitt, Gary Jones, Larry Schmitt, Dennis Sowers, Charly Schmitt, Leon AB R H RBI 3 3 3 3 2 1 2 1 3 3 3 2 29 3 11 3 House of David AB R H RBI Les, Tom 4 3 1 0 Miller, Ron 3 1 2 3 Dehn,Joe 4 2 1 1 Freund, Greg 4 3 3 4 Althoff, Tim 4 1 2 0 Frantz, Wayne 2 1 0 1 Hester, Gene 3 0 0 1 Rohrer, Steve 4 1 2 2 Schaefer, Dave 3 0 1 0 Geroge, Steve 2 1 0 0 33 13 12 12 Doubles: Les; Dehn; Freund. Triples: None. Homeruns: Freudn; Rohrer. Sacrifice hits: Frantz; Hester. Base on balls: (by Freund) none; (by Huff R. Miller; Frantz; Schaefer; George. Rusty Nail 101 100 0 - 3 House of David 221 404 x - 13 Gaiy Shastal Is Finalist In Al McLean Junior Open The largest field ever to compete in the Al McLean Memorial Junior Open con­ cluded play Wednesday, Aug. 11, at the Wilmette Park District Golf Course in Wilmette, II. The 150 man field held Junior golfers from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa. This was the 11th year for the event, which is the leading independent Junior tournament in the midwest. It is unusual in offering tournament op­ portunities to both younger and older Junior golfers. Ages range from 13 to 21. Among the finalists in the 18 to 21 age group was Gary Shastal of McHenry in 6th place. David Esler of Wauconda took 4th place in the 13 and 14 year age group. "Service Tip of the Week" Summer is reaching an end. And shortly thousands of students will be returning to colleges throughout Indiana, niinois and Wisconsin. Before your son or daughter leaves for school, remember... your hometown mechanic can do it bet­ ter! He is the man that has been ser­ vicing the cars in your femily for years. You know his rates, he knows your car and the work that has been performed on it. So don't leave home without an oil change, tune-up, and safety check from the man you know best...your friendly, local mechanic. JIM JANICf K SALES T0RKELS0N LINCOLN-MERCURY W. Rte. 120, McHenry, 344-1200