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PAGE 6 - PLAINDEALER-WEDNKSDAY, \UGUST 25. 1976 YOUTH DAY al ihe Chapel Hill Golf club found 80 youngsters competing in three age groups at the annual youth day tourney Monday. At left. Club Pro John Bolton presents awards to (12-13 age) Jim Pepping • 86 and Andy Rains - 87; (14-15 age) Bob Lunkenheimer - 77 and Pat Sweeney - 79; (16-17 age) Tom Pepping - 70 and Jim Buenzli - 73. (STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD) EARL WALSH I Hear _ SPORTS EDITOR Driving around the corner near St. Patrick's Church, the other member of our family (the one with the sharp eyes) called , my attention to a bumper sticker that read: '*Jf you think I'm a bad driver, you ought to see me putt." Lost some sleep watching that Republican Convention. If you think a high school or college pep rally is noisy, just watch a convention to nominate a candidate for President of the United States. A lot of time is taken up by delegates who have to slip in those cute remark9vabout their home state. While all that clever stuff is going on, the TV audience around the nation wishes they would get on with the voting. Hours roll past as voting takes longer than it takes a young fellow to say goodnight to his best girl. Guess we should be thankful to live in a country where people can still speak. Think we can now cut down on our TV watching since so many commercials have assured one and all that the firms are only in business to help the customer. Of course, if they happen to make a buck, it is alright with them. Uh-huh! Knowing of our interest in gardens (looking at them, that is), Alex Adams phoned to ask if we would like to see one of the best. So -- up we go to the Gilliford home on North Court Street. You never saw such tomatoes. So many on a vine and so big. One of those would weigh a pound and a quarter. Maybe more. Russ Gilliford has ap­ proached gardening in a scientific way. making a study of soil, seeds and needs. Weeds are so scarce in that garden as vegetables in ours. Russ's gracious mother was kind and generous as she sent us away with a bag full of very choice items. It was a pleasant visit. Russ has ideas*for next year, but it is hard to see how he can improve on the '76 product. Hadn't seen Wally Frett for some time so our meeting was cause for discussion of sports. We got to wondering if anybody is ever going to knock off that Hettermann softball team. Wally goes back a few years, but not to the era when it was smart to bet on the Yankees, Notre Dame and Jack Demp- sey. Didn't remember that Wally is a Yankee fan. Oh - well! You can't expect everything of your friends. We are thinking of Walt Freund's famous story about the girl who said: "They are Irish -- but they are real nice people." In a brief visit to McHenry County Club, we saw some of the tournament gals tee off. Wow! Those gals can smack a golf ball. Somehow we golL our dates mixed. 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SPONSORED BY LAKE REGION Y*S MENS CLUB WORLD'S j£RGEST< 15 ELEPHANTS • 25 FEATURED ACTS B O X O F F I C E O P E N S A T 1 0 A M SAVE ON ALL TICKETS PURCHASED BEFORE CIRCUS DAY! Reserved & Gen. Adm. Tickets On Sale Now At ACE HARDWARE. 3729 W. Elm. McHenry and at Y.M.C.A. in Crystal Lake • McHeniy Area I • 12-Inch Softball I Northern lllini Bowmen News Northern lllini Bowmen's recent Jack Perry Broadhead shoot was attended by 78 shooters. The high scorer for the day was again Howard Wagner of Elgin; Howard has taken top honors at this shoot for the past 3 years con­ secutively. Howard shoots his broadheads using a sight on his bow. Second place winner using sights was A1 Spetley of St. Charles. 3rd, 4th and 5tfi places were taken by Chicago area men, Larry VanDyke, Kurt Seita and Gary Conner. Winners shooting without sights, called barebow, were John Borger of Antioch. Second place went to Jim Bunting of Aurora. Third place was taken by Earl Paddock of McHenry. 4th by Bob Lockhart of Chicago. 5th place winner was Keith Meilke of Round Lake and 6th place went to Glen Carlson of Wildwood. Barebow women 1st place was taken by Ardene Raven of McHenry. 2nd went to Shirley Heffernan of Lake Villa and third to Karen Lang of Kenosha. First place winner in youth was David Wagner of Elgin and 2nd went to Lenny Carlson of Wildwood. Cub, Joey Raven took first place and is from McHenry (son of Ardene). The Jack Perry NIB traveling Trophy winners for high member of the shoot went to Earl Paddock of McHenry with a 470 shooting barebow and to Scott Gates of Wauconda with a 425. The next event is a pig roast and nite shoot for members and guests on Aug. 28th at the NIB outdoor range on Draper Rd. Irene Trumble over. Ted Spengel got us back on the right track. The door swung in and the door swung out Sunday evening- just long enough for "Biff" Meyer to stop and "encourage" us about the Sox losing and the Cubs winning. He was heading back to Chicago, and didn't even have time to sit down. Just time enough to give us the business! HOUSE OF DAVID THE CHAMPS FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW The House of David won the 1976 McHenry Area Men's 12- Inch League Championships for the second year in a roy*! They did it with a most con­ vincing 23-12 victory over the first place Rusty Nail. The win concluded a two game sweep of the series and kept their record unblemished in playoff history at 8 wins, 0 losses. In Wednesday's final Rusty Nail's offense was the best it had been in two games but compared to the House of David's hitting the Nail took a distant second. Rusty Nail's infield was never sharp without A1 Elliott's glove at short. The position juggling which manager Kevin Bauer tried to compensating for Elliott's absence never worked. In the two games alone the infield accounted for an astounding 14 errors while the rest of the team added another six. The errors did not give Rusty Nail a chance but on the other hand the House would probably have won without the benefit of a single Nail error. The House of David's first five batters accounted for 17 hits in game two. In fact the same five batters reached base 22 times during the game due to either a hit, an error or a base on balls with a total of 28 trips to the plate! Including the seminfinals, the House outscored their opponents 62 to 17 in four playoff games. In hitting it was slightly closer - 56 to 41, but in extra base hits alone the House had 20 to their opponents 4. That is quite an offensive punch! Next year the probable acquisition of the league's leading hitter, Don Prazak, plus the number four hitter, Twig Miller, should insure the House of the league ^season title. The House had the number 2 and 3 batters in the league this year - a full report on league statistics will be reported in this Friday's paper. In Wednesday's final game Rusty Nail's manager Kevin Bauer moved Bill Huff to shortstop from Huff's regular positon on the mound. The decision was costly as the House hit the ball just about anywhere they pleased. In 5 out ,of 7 innings 8 or more batters pounded out 21 hits including 3 doubles and 3 homeruns. Bauer also shifted regular leaftfielder Dave Sundby to shortcentejr^yhe move cost the Nail, again as the substitute lertfielder dropped 2 fly balls. The new infield alignment was no better as errors took their toll. Whatever hopes Rusty Nail had of staying in the ballgame were either dropped, booted or thrown away. The House was on the scoreboard in the first inning with 3 runs. Tom Les led off with a base hit, moved to second on Ron Miller's base on balls, and then moved to third, Miller taking second on Joe Dehn's ground out to second baseman Charley Sowers. Sowers made a good play going to his left. Mark Bentz, cleanup batter, came up with his first of' four hits plus 2 RBI's. Bentz went to third on a throwing error and later scored on Greg Freund's groundout. The next batter, Tim Althoff, walked and then moved to third when Wayne Frantz's fly ball was dropped in left for a two-base error. Gene Hester's flyout to center ended the top of the first. After going 3 up, 3 down in the second the House added 5 runs in the third to make it 8-0. Ron Miller led off with a double and scored on Joe Dehn's two base hit. Mar^ Bentz powered a homerun to left center, good for 2 more runs. Greg Freund hit a fly ball which was dropped, Freund reaching second. Tim Althoff flew out deep to right with Freund moving to third on the play. Wayne Frantz drove in Freund with a base hit and then moved to third on an error, Gene Hester reaching base. Steve Rohrer flew out to right which scored Frantz making the score 8-0. Rusty Nail had only one batter reach base in the first two innings when Dave Sundby singled and was stranded in the first. In the second it was 3 up, 3 down. The Nail finally scored 4 runs in the bottom of the third. The first 3 batters all singled to load the bases. Dennis Schmitt, Charley Sowers and Leon Sch­ mitt were on base third to first. Greg Johnson reached base on a fielder's choice, one run scoring, Leon Schmitt forced at second. Dave Sundby singled in another run and Johnson scored while the House of David's "outfield jugglers" went into their act. Sundby was on third when Randy Thiel grounded out to second, Sunby scoring on the play. Bill Huff lined out to short to end the in­ ning with the Nail behind 8-4. The Nail would never get any closer as the House scored the next 14 runs. In the Fourth Tom Les reached base on error, Ron Miller singled and Joe Dehn doubled in both baserunners. After Mark Bentz grounded out to first baseman Dennis Sch­ mitt, Greg Freund hit a long homerun making the score 12-4. In the fifth the House scored another 4 runs. After two outs the top five hitters in the lineup all hit safely with Les, Miller, Dehn, Bentz and Freund get­ ting base hits. Miller drove in Les, Bentz drove in Miller, and Freund drove in Dehn. Bentz scored on a throwing error to round out the scoring, House ahead 16-4. The next six runs put the House ahead by 18! Steve George singled to open the sixth. After moving to second on a groundout, George scored when Paul Rogers reached base on an infield error. Dave Schaefer powered a two run homer to right center scoring Rogers in front of him. Tom Les singled but was forced at second on Ron Miller's grounder. Joe Dehn singled and Mark Bentz did likewise as Bentz picked up his sixth RBI of the contest. Both Dehn and Bentz advanced one base on a play at home and that set up Gred Freund's 2 run single, giving Freund 6 RBI's. Pete Merkel reached base on another infield error and Steve George walked to load the bases: John Hiller was next up and he grounded to the pitcher to end the inning, House ahead 22-4! Rusty Nail had only one baserunner in each of the fourth and fifth innings. Neither Jim Lay's single nor Greg Johnson's double led to any runs. But in the sixth the 'never-say-die' Rusty Nail came up with a four run rally. Randy Thiel reached base on error; Bill Huff tripled; Larry Jones singled; and Gary Miller homered accounting for the four runs. With no outs Jim Lay kept the rally going with a base hit; but Dennis Schmitt, the next batter, hit into an easy double play, short to second to first, putting a damper on the rally The next batter grounded out, House ahead 22-8. The House added one final run in the seventh inning. Paul Rogers singled but was forced at second on Dave Schaefer's fielder's choice. Schaefer moved to second on Tom Les's long flyout. Ron Miller hit a ground shot to short which was not fielded, Schafer scoring the 23rd run. In the bottom of the seventh the Rusty Nail scored four more. Greg Johnson singled, followed by Kevin Bauer's pinch hit single. On the next play a throwing error scored Johnson, Bauer going to third, as Randy Thiel reached base on a fielder's choice. Bill Huff singled in Bauer, with Thiel going to second. Gary Miller, after two were out, doubled scoring the final runs of the game. Jim Lay's groundout to second concluded the 1976 12- Inch season, The House an easy 23-12 winner. Special JOE'S gjg SERVICE $6 9 5 COMPLETE OIL CHANGE Includes Oil (up to 5 qts.), Filter, and Complete Lubrication OFFER GOOD UNTIL SEPTEMBER 12, 1976 MECHANIC ON DUTY 6 AM to 10 PM SEE US FOR ALL YOUR AUTO NEEDS Tireston* 2500 W. Rt. 120 McHenry BuiAMIRiCMB 385-9820 A CHIP ON-for Tom Pepping of McHenry and he captured first place in the 16-17 age group with rounds of 36-34 for an excellant 70 in the youlh day tourney at Chapel Hill Golf club. Pepping's 34 on the back nine came with birdies on holes 12,13,14 and 15. u (STAFF PHOTO-WAYNE GAYLORD) Rusty Nail ab r ti rbi Johnson, Greg 4 2 2 1 Sundby, Dave 3 12 1 Bauer, Kevin 1110 Thiel, Randy 4 2 0 1 Huff, Bill 4 2 2 2 Jones, Larry 4 110 Miller, Gary 4 12 4 Lay, Jim 4 0 2 0 Schmitt, Dennis 3 110 Sowers, Charley 3 11 0 Schmitt, Leon 3 0 1 0 Frantz, Wayne George, Steve Hester, Gene Hiller, John Rohrer, Steve Rogers, Paul Schaefer, Dave 3 1 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 5 2 1 House of David Les, Tom Miller, Ron Dehn,Joe Bentz, Mark Freund, Greg Althoff, Tim Merkel, Pete 37 12 15 ab r h rbi 6 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 49 23 21 20 Doubles: R. Milelr, Dehn (2), Johnson, G. Miller. Triples: Huff. Homeruns: Bentz, Freund, G. Miller. Sacrifice hits: Rohrer. Base on balls: (by Lay) R. Miller, Althoff, George, (by Freund) None. House of David 305 446 1-23 Rusty Nail 004 004 4-12 Pat Wirtz Golf Outing To Aid Cancer Fund A golf outing to provide a setting for fun to help raise funds for the American Cancer Society is planned Wednesday, September 8 at the Plum Tree Golf Club, Harvard. Eustice Klein, chariman of the sponsoring McHenry County Unit of the American Cancer Society, said tee off times will be from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. A luncheon will be served at the Club from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and the donation will include the golf, prizes and the buffet luncheon. The McHenry County Unit of the ACS provides many local services in addition to raising money for research and education conducted on a state and national basis. The county unit has a committee that works with cancer patients. Another committee helps provide transportation to hospitals when cancer vicitms need specialized treatment with sophisticated equipment. A n o t h e r c o m m i t t e e distributes printed and movie material to schools and civic groups-education of both professional people and the general public is a major ob­ jective the local chapter carries out successfully. An i n f o r m a t i o n a l c o m m i t t e e presents news stories and radio public announcemtn messages regularly, all geared to help the public become aware of ways preventive steps can be taken to reduce the number of deaths caused by cancer. Funds raised by the golf outing will go toward local programming and to meet statewide ACS fund-drtve goals, Klein said. Jaycees Announce 3rd Kids Tennis Tourney The McHenry Area Jaycees have set Saturday, August 28th at the West campus tennis courts as the date and place of their third Kids Tennis Tour­ nament. Registration is free and will be from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. at the courts with play starting at 8:30 a.m. The tourney is open to all boys and girls who reside in high school district no. 156. Trophies will be awarded the winner of each of the ten age groups with ribbons for second, third and fourth places. Brackets are as follows: Hoys 1. up to 10 years of age. 2. 11-12 3. 13-14 4. 15-16 5. 17-18 Girls 1. up to 10 years of age 2. 11-12 3. 13-14 4. 15-16 5. 17-18 A n y q u e s t i o n s s h o u l d b e directed to Gary Gray, Tourney chairman at 385-8268. JACKSON ASPHALT PAVING DRIVEWAYS Ifs Not!Too latei PARKING LOTS PUT THAT NEW ^^LACKTOP SEALING DRIVEWAY IN BEF0REV REPAIR THE SNOW FLIES! WORK * CALL ANYTIME % .Woodstock - 1-338-4739 Berries and Cherries Berries and cherries are es­ pecially perishable and should be refrigerated as soon as possible Do not wash them before putting in the refrigerator. Leave stems on cherries and caps on straw­ berries. Sort carefully and place loosely in shallow containers so that air can circulate and the berries of cherries on top do not crush those on the bottom y.vcswt £