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PAGE I -PLAINDEALER • WEDNESDAY. JUNE 1M«W EARL WALSH So I Hear It gives a person a chuckle all to himself or herself to think of funny things that happen along the way. For no good reason, I am thinking about a fellow in McHenry many years ago who actually sawed off a limb of a tree while perched on that same limb. And -- this also happened. While visiting friends one time, I was,trying to end a lengthy back yard con­ versationwith a fellow "who just "dropped by". The lady of the house came out the back door and couldn't see the fellow around the corner of the garage so yelled, "Did that pest finally go home?" How do you answer that one? When I think of my lifetime friend, "Red" Winkel, as I often do, many a humorous happening comes to mind. We drove to Chicago one time in a Model "T" Ford touring car in search of jobs. I was armed with a letter of recommendation from our local banker, Carl Stenger, to an executive in a large office. We thought it best to get my job sewed up first, thinking satd executive would greet me with open arms. It must have been a fifth ranked assistant who took letter and said he would oh file. old story -- don't call us -\we'll call you. We drove around Chicago until alire blew out and we had toJpool our resources to buy a'new one. That did it! We headed for home, but decided we had enough cash left to take in a show and buy two boxes of popcorn. By the time we arrived at my mother's home, we were like the starving Armenians heard so much of in those days. Sitting here and recalling funny things brings to mind a time when a neighbor wrote a letter to her daughter and gave it to my mother for me to mail. The letter went in my coat pocket. No reply for some time so my mother quizzed me -- "Did you mail that letter I gave you?" "Oh. indeed I did" Under my breath. I said, "yesterday". It will be interesting to see how the moratorium on parking meters works. One thing that brought on meters was the practice of business people and their clerks parking in front of other business places that meant war "Big" Earl Dowell was McHenry s Chief of Police at the time and tried to reason with those who pulled the t r ick . With no regula t ions to back him up, he had a hard time. How times have changed. Now you face at least a five dollar fine if you exceed two hours of free parking in metered areas. When meters were first installed, the fine was ten cents and some people howled their heads off when they had to pay that amount. SUDDEN THOUG m: Why are there so many broken bats in big league baseball this year? There used to be a stan­ dard warning to hold the trademark up. Are bats made of cheaper wood? I dunno. When S.I.H. and Mrs. S.I.H. returned home Friday afternoon from McHenry Country Club where Publisher Larry Lund hosted a party to recognize my years as sports editor, we agreed the party was one of the nicest things that has happened to us. It was great to have fellow Plaindealer* employees surrounding us and spreading good cheer. A happy note was having Lynn Lund join the group. "Brenda", poet laureate, presented me with a masterpiece entitled "The Old Pro". Laura covered all angles in her list of things "that come to mind", the first being, "We always know when Earl is coming because his cigar gets here first." Artist Kathy Mathews sketched my picture on the mounted sheet and put a shamrock on the coat lapel. Nice to have it signed by all those lovely girls. Mary Miller, check dispenser, recalled our years of association auu gave me a reporter's note book and hook shaped pencil. She thought her 24 years at the Plaindealer was a long time until she put it against my 45. She's just getting started. Tom Miller presented me with a "loving cup" with a treasured inscription. Yep. Many nice things have happend in our lives. This party was one of the nicest. OK MVUTf SHUTS QUIZ 1. Who won the Kemper Open Golf Tournament? 2. Steve Carlton plays pro baseball for what team? 3. Who was named NBA Most Valuable Player? 4. Who recently had his 31- game hitting streak stopped? 5. Who was named NBA Rookie of the Year? Aisvcn U Spots Oaiz 1. John Mahaffey. 2. Philadelphia Phillies. 3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 4. Ken Landreaux, Minne­ sota. 5. ar_, I LEARN TO SCIBA MVE | Beginners Classes Start July 10th at CAMP DUNCAN YMCA in Volo I I I I I I I I I I I I I 6 Week Course Earns You P.A.D.I. OPEN WATER CERTIFICATION ONLY *85°® INCIUOCS: POOL ft OPfN WATIt SCSSKXTS •in mm d ̂ 9, MOWING THEM DOWN-is Joe "Nate" BelUch of the McHenry American Legion team, who struck out 15 Lake-in-the-Hills batters to set a new personal high for himself. Bellich struck out the side four times in the 10-0 victory. He plsns to pursue baseball at Southern Illinois university. -Tf* • - i: - mm 1 STAFF PHOTO- JOEL WAKITSCH Sets New High An eight-run first inning and a two-hit, 15 strikeout performance by pitcher Joe "Nate" Bellich was all the McHenry American Legion team needed Monday, evening to cap off an eventful week for the locals. McHenry smoothered Lake-in-the-Hills in a con­ fidence booster, 10-0. After splitting a pair of games last week with Algonquin and taking two from Rockford Harlem on Sunday due to forfeit, McHenry collected eight runs in the. first inning on six hits. After leading off the inning In Mens 16" 3-D Bowl Edges Out Old Bridge Standings Foxhole Tap JohnsburgTav. O.Bridge-John's S.S. Hautzinger Sunnyside Inn 3-D Bowl Little John's Palace Bow! In the firsit game Tuesday, June 10, Foxhole kept winning with a 12-5 win over Hautzinger Concrete. Foxhole scored 11 runs in the first four innings, as Hautzinger never could get the bats going. Twig Miller nnce again led Foxhole with two hits and three runs scored. Jim Yaworski also had two hits and three runs scored. Vern Peterson and Paul Morenz both had two hits for the losers. Hautzinger 1 4 0 0 0 0 0-5 Foxhole Tap »3 4 0 4 1 0 x-12 Sunnyside Inn scored eight runs in the two middle in­ nings which helped them to a 13-2 victory over Little John's in game two Tuesday night. Jim Perewee, Larry Lacny and Christ Felde led Sunnyside, all with three hits and two runs scored. Ben Himpleman paced Little John's with 2 hits and 1 run scored. L.John's 0 0 1 1 0 0 0-2 Sunnyside 1 3 4 4 1 0 x-13 In game one Thursday night, 3-D Bowl scored four runs in the fourth inning and took he lead for good, going on to «. 9-7 upset victory over Old Bridge-John's Sports Stop Once again, Jim Jachec led 3-D Bowl, this time with three hits and three runs scored, including an in-the-park homerun. Doug Freund paced the Bridge with three hits and two runs scored. 3-D Bowl O.B.-J.S.S. 1 0 3 4 1 0 x-9 1 3 4 0 0 0 0-7 Johnsburg Tavern moved its record to 4-1 with a 16-1 romp over winless Palace Bowl. Harry May, in his first game of the season, led the winners with three hits and three runs scored. Bob Buenzli led the Palace'With two hits. Johns. Tav. 2 5 1 0 5 3 x-16 P a l a c e B . 0 0 0 1 0 0 x - 1 Dan Long Tigers Win In McHenry Youth League In Saturday's Mini- Division action Jim Simon pitched and hit the Tigers to a 7-1 victory over the first place A's and wrestled the American league lead from the battling A's. Bret Derby pitched a two hit, 14-3 victory over the first place Giants to move the Cubs into first place in the National league. Marc Hubbard and Bret Derby both went three for three, Kelly Roach two for two to lead the eleven hit attack. As of 6-15-80 NATIONAL w 1 gb Cubs 6 1 Giants 7 2 Pirates 6 3 l Braves 5 4 2 Dodgers 3 6 4 Astros 2 6 4>* Phils 1 8 6 AMERICAN w I gb Tigers 6 1 A's 7 4 1 Twins 4 3 2 Sox 4 4 2's Yanks 4 5 3 Brewers 3 5 31* Indians 0 6 54 More Comfort wi th Less Energy LENNOX AatuUuvUtJT J02 I S* mm <M WHMl LJfe* »«»•, Mli Exclusive 2-speed Central Air Conditioning ^ SAVE GAS" with a IT gas furnace Electronic 'gnrtofi, Haatsaver** vant damps* quality construction g*v« you mora corrs*©*t with a walk, centerfielder Gregg McFerron scored on a double by second baseman Dave Mauer. A walk to Greve and a sharp single to left center field by Vallentin brought in the second McHenry run. A double by Ken Hoff, a single by Mark Vogt,Bryniarski and Mc­ Ferron combined with a passed ball on a strike out and a Lake-in-the-Hills error sent six more McHenry runners scurrying around the bases. A third-inning homer by rightfielder Mark Vogt and a run in the fourth on a wild pitch was all McHenry could come up with in the rest of the game, but Bellich had just begun. Bellich set another season- high mark of fifteen strikeouts by striking out the side in the second, third, fifth and sixth innings. He had previously struck out 12 against Genoa in a 1-0 loss earlier this season. Bellich walked two and spread out two hits while breezing thru the opponents batting order. Last Wednesday and Thursday, McHenry took on Algonquin at home and split. winning 2-1 and losing 13-1. In Wednesday's game, Dave Colberg picked up a complete-game victory while spacing out five harmless Algqnquin hits. Algonquin left six men stranded in the game, and the four McHenry hits were enough to produce the two runs. Shortstop Phil Brenner hit an RBI single and right- fielder Mark Vogt hit a triple for McHenry. Ken Hoff and Dave Colberg also collected singles for McHenry. On Thursday, Algonquin belted out 16 hits off three McHenry pitchers to record a 13-1 cake walk. Although McHenry had seven hits, they were unable to hold a second-inning 1-0 lead. The lone McHenry run was driven in by a John Seaver single which scored right fielder Mark Vogt. McHenry pitcher, Chuck Dicker was three for three to pace the losers. After last weeks action, McHenry is now 2-2 in Connie Mack league and 1-0 in Legion ball. Sunday, the legion team will come back home after three road games to face East Rockford in a 1 pm doubleheader. CLEANING THE BASE8~la«aa catcher Tim Tiger naner Jin Siaaan look far the threw which la yet to arrive alter Siaaea hit a pnhlia (• pa* the gaaw af reach ia the third t--iaf af Maatay aighu aitaali hapK pae at Petoraes part la the flrmt toateg. Rich I anaa af the Tiger* hit a faar ru haaarr to pat the Tlgera ahead 4-1. The gaaMt feaato the Ttgm tat tog a ftraa grip as flrat place wtth a 2S-I victory to torraaae their record tot and I. iTAff PffOTO-WAYNC GAYUJftD Bellich Leads Legion ab h aver 23 18 .783 14 10 .714 17 12 .706 10 7 .700 16 11 .688 12 9 .667 18 12 .667 14 9 .643 11 7 .636 22 14 .636 19 12 .632 16 10 .625 21 13 .619 18 11 .611 10 6 .600 20 12 .600 15 9 .600 17 10 .588 17 10 .588 12 7 .583 12 7 .583 ab . h aver Mike Rogers Top Hitter In 12" Ball After five games the batting statistics "show Mike Rogers of Doherty's leading the league with a .783 average. Three other Doherty's batters are included in the top ten with John and Irish DeCiccio both batting. 667 while Matt Oik is hitting at a .636 clip. Rich Meyers of Foxhole Tap holds down the number two position with a .714 batting average. Thirty-nine batters are hitting .500 or better from the twelve teams. Twenty-seven batters come from the Eastern diwsion while only twelve batters hail from the Western division. Mike Rogers also leads in runs sewed with 15 while teammate John DeCiccio is in second with 12 runs. Irish, DeCiccio and Rick Wiegman from Doherty's and Rich Mey< and Don Bentz from Foxhole Tap are current leaders in runs batted In with 13 each. Greg Freund leds in doubles with seven while Tom Spasojevich is tops in round-trippers with five homeruns. -- TOP TWENTY BATTERS Name, Team Mike Rogers, Doherty's Rich Meyers, Foxhole Tap Tom Spasojevich, Raymond's Bowl John Wilkinson, Second Federal Jeff Meddings, Little John's Irish DeCiccio, Doherty's John DeCiccio, Doherty's Bob Buss, Wayne's George Cadotte, Wayne's Matt Oik, Doherty's Jim Yaworski, Foxhole Tap Don Prazak, Wayne's JoeDehn, John's S. S.-Old Bridge Bill Sarbaugh, Huemann's Phil Kiefer, John's S,S.-Old Bridge Wayne Roewer, Doherty's Tim Whitman, King's Row Don Bentz, Foxhole Tap Pete Blackburn, Second Federal Gary Gilpin, John's S.S.-Old Bridge Ron Miller, Foxhole Tap TEAM BATTING Foxhole 164 91 .555 Doherty's 199 105 .528 John's S.S.-Old Bridge 182 89 .489 Raymond's Bowl 176 77 .438 Second Federal * 169 72 .426 Wayne's 141 60 .426 Little John's 140 57 .407 King's Row 146 59 .404 Huemann's 164 65 .396 Rusty Nail 179 66 ,369 Jewel Park 144 43 .299 St. Regis 160 46 .288 RUNS SCORED: Mike Rogers -15; John DeCiccio -12; John Walking ton - ll; MattOlk-lO; PhilOeffling-lO; and 10 tied with 9. RBI'S: Irish DeCiccio -13; Rick Wiegman -13; Rich Meyers -13; Don Bentz - 13; Myron Bentz - 11; Mike Rogers - 11; and Wayne Roewer - 11. DOUBLES: Greg Freund - 7; Jeff Meddings - 5; Phil Oeffling - 5; Joe Dehn - 4; Mark Schultz- 4; and Rick Wakitsch - 4. TRIPLES: Mike Rogers - 2; Bill Lomas - 2; Rick Wakitsch - 2; Mike Peterson - 2; and Don Prazak - 2. HOMERUNS: Tom Spasojevich - 5; Matt Oik - 4; Vinnie Freund - 4; and 7 tied with 3. In games played on Wednesday, June 11, Doherty's pulled itself into a tie for first as two homeruns helped defeat Rusty Nail Inn 8-5. St. Regis notched hits first victory in five outings by defeating Jewel Park of Barrington 11-2. In the nightcap Raymond's Bowl scored a seventh inning run to win a 2-1 contest over Huemann's. Western Division w 1 gb Huemann's" 4 1 Doherty's 4 1 Rusty Nail 3 2 1 Raymond's Bowl 3 2 1-- St. Regis 14 3 Jewel Park 0 5 4 Oik, Wiegman Long Balls Prove Decisive Matt Oik slammed a two run homer and Rick Wiegman powered a three-run blast to account for Doherty's five-run third inning as they helped their dub to an 8-5 victory over Rusty Nail. Oik added two more singles, another run scored and one more RBI as the game's top offensive player. Mike Rogers singled and doubled with two runs scored. Larry Jones wait three for three to lead Rusty Nail as Jones has hit safely seven times straight. Gary Schmitt singled, doubled and drove in a run while Basil Bakakos scored twice. Larry Winkfeman pitched his first game of the season for Doherty's and was impressive. In the first inning Winkleman caught a liner, fielded a ground shot and covered first On a grounder to the first baseman for two putouts and an assist Besides two more fielding plays in the middle iwiinga Winkleman ended the game by starting a double play off a ground shot up the middle. • 1 5 19 9 14 Ruaty Nail • • 3 2 • • M Nue man, Prolock Help Regla To Firat Victory Don Prolock doubled, tripled, scored twice and <hwe in two runs as he helped St Regis to their firat 1980 victory. Jim Neuman singled, doubled and tripled with an RBI. Dennis Gibson and Ray Collis both added two hits while Ron Zawada and Jim Reinhardt had two RBI's each. Roger Markum went three for three for Jewel Park «t Barrington. Leon Palates added two hits, a run scored and one RBI St.Regla *42 III Ml Jewel Park I • t • • 1 41 May Drives la Whuriag Ilea Harry May drove in Raymond Bowl's second ran of the game on a aacrifice fly in the seventh toning. The ran gave the Bowl a 2-1 victory over Huemann's la the season's lowest scoring same Mark Schultz led the winners in hMthsg wife s pair at doubles plus the winniag rua scored. Wayne Praats 4 the first run of the game as he found Hmstlf la the position instead of usual tenth apot in th player came thrse maanga late Wayne! played e aobd game at short Bill Sartwugh had half of Husmaatfs thrse with their only rua a wife s sacrifice RBI Tern Wt IU» gimiiif . s e e 111 • I • • MM Professional Rosidontial fjaton %aaa +**mm 2. | ***** * w « ah i<m CAU fAt* Mt-3343 # * « a###