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PAGE 18 - PLAIN DEALER - FRIDAY, AUGUST 24,1184 Sports On the Sideline Dick Rabbitt Warriors seeking successful campaign Well, the Good Lord was willing, and I survived the golf season, ripe and ready for another year of high school sports. Like all Warrior fans, we are hoping for a banner season for all the teams. We would also like to welcome our new sports editor, Chris Juzwik, to the Plaindealer staff. We met Chris last week, and found him to be a most pleasant person, and one I will indeed find a pleasure to be associated with during the coming year. Chris is interested in all high school activities, so Warrior fans, when you run infathim at a game, give him a good Warrior welcome. SPIRIT IS HIGH IN THE Warrior football camp these days. After a couple weeks of double sessions, the Warrior are now on the one-a-day workouts. After watching the Warriors practice the other day, it looks as if Coach Joe Schlender has a team that can be a threat for the Fox Valley title. Although the squad is small in numbers, the quality is there, and, barring, )njuries, the Warriors should have a good season. The defending state 4A champion Woodstock Blue Streaks will again be the team to beat in the Fox Valley, but if the Warriors can stay healthy, they will have their say in the conference battle. The Warriors open at home against Morton East on Friday, Sept. 7. Dundee-Crown will kick the area football season off this year when they host Sterling Sept. 1. Next season, all teams will open before Labor Day, because of the new state playoff rules. MAYBE THE STATE FINALS will be played in good weather in the future, instead of the ice, snow and very cold weather of the past several years. One of these days, the principals of the high schools will have their say in the matter, instead of bowing to the wishes of a selected few from the state office in Bloomington. Spent a nice lunch with Nancy Fike, Don Peasley, Toney Roskie of Woodstock and S.I.H. to discuss the final plans for the McHenry County Sports Day ath the Historical Society in Union Sept. 16. All county fans are invited to attend this gala event. The Hebron Green Giant state champion basketball team of 1952 will be in attendance, along with other sport personalities of the county, past and present. BILL BOLGER HAS GIVEN A history of the McHenry Shamrocks baseball team in bookworm. I have donated seven volumes of high school basketball, not only for the county, but the state of Illinois as well. If any of you have anything to offer for the sports day, it will be most welcome. Put the date on your calendar, Sunday, Sept. 16,2 p.m. It should be a great day for McHenry County sports buffs. Any questions? Give me a call. This seems to be my week, for I had the pleasure, along with Don Seaton and Marge Adams to be honored guests at the Class of 1964 reunion held last week. \ Former Warriors came from far and near, and it was great to talk over old times with the many athletic heroes of the past. NOT IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER, Fred Kusch, still 6'10" but a little heavier, (what would Ken Ludwig do with this fellow); Tom Blake, a little bulge around the waist; Bob Mayfield from Minneapolis, who grew a little in the past 20 years; John Hickey, one our all-time favorites, now one of Chicago's finest and a dandy story-teller. Dick Jelinek, now a coach at Grant High School and a con­ ference discus champion his senior year; Rich Justen, a former neighbor; Gary Krispin, one of Don Seaton's cross-country runners; Don Mercure, a great fellow; Chris Newkirk, who I remember played with a lot of injuries; Russ Phillips, now a professor at LaCrosse along with Kusch. Fred Schmidt; Ron Kreutzer, a whale of a football player, now living in Shreveport, La.; Larry Schuerr, a 'Rassling Warrior'; and to the 'M.C.' of the eveing - and one cannot forget his two TD's against Dundee in the final seconds - who did an out­ standing job at the mike, (watch out you Chicago disk jockeys), the genial man on Green Street, Butch Meyer. To those of you I missed, and to the wonderful good-looking ladies who were present, (you noticed I didn't say girls), many thanks for a wonderful evening. Next week we hope to catch up with other Warrior activities, now that school has started. Let's hope for a great athletic year. Spasojevich wins Ironman Nail hammers way to 12" crown > * Snack Shop-McHenry Oil falls in four games In the end, there was never really a doubt. The Rusty Nail Inn refused to let up, and a banged-up Jack's Snack Shop - McHenry Oil team couldn't help but do so, as the Nail staked claim to the 1984 McHenry Men's 12" title. After splitting the opening doubleheader Monday night, this series appeared to be heading toward a full-five game set. But it wasn't to be. The Nail won games three and four in fine fashion, crushing Jack's 18-7 and 24-5. In the final contest, Jack's could field only nine players at the start, as an injured Ben Himpleman could not continue. In the sixth inning of game four, first baseman Rich Jablonski was injured, and Jack's was forced to forfeit. Jack's was missing six players from the start of the season, as work, injuries and college forced new personnel into action. / But the Nail, which pounded out a whopping 50 hits in the final two games, was not to be denied. IN GAME THREE, the Nail broke open a 10-7 games with eight runs in the seventh to win going away. Jack's left-Center fielder Jim Grabowski hit a two-run single in the bottom of the second to tie the game at four apiece, and in the bottom of the third, Jablonski and Bill Thomas singled in runs, allowing Jack's to take a 4-2 lead. . But the advantage was short­ lived. RBI singles by the Nail's Doug Freund, Rick Wakitsch and Don Bentz, plus two throwing errors allowed the Nail to take a 9-6 lead, one they would never relinquish. JACK'S TRIED TO KEEP within striking distance, but they couldn't manage to score after the fourth. In the seventh, the roof caved in, as RBI singles by John Connell and Ray Thelen, plus a two-run single by Freund preceded a grand-slam, inside- the-park homer by catcher Bentz, as the Nail took a 2-1 series lead. The fourth game proved to be quite anti-climactic, as the Nail lashed 26 hits, scoring 26 runs - including 13 in the second, to win easily. Jack's had to play with only three outfielders, and the Nail exploited the vacant outfield turf time after time. Run-scoring hits by Wakitsch, John Walkington and Joe Meyers provided the Nail with a three-run lead in the first. IN THE SECOND, 18 NAIL hitters came to the plate. Thelen had an RBI double and an RBI triple in the inning; Jim Zasada a two-run single; Walkington two-run single; John Meyers two RBI singles; Freund two singles, plus an RBI, and Bentz an RBI single. In all there were 12 hits in the inning, and three Jack's errors. The Rusty Nail added to their lead with three in the third, one in the fourth and four in the fifth, when Thelen singled to score a run, and John Meyers drove a line homer to right. Jack's finally got on the board in the top of the sixth, as Doug and Dave Oeffling hit two-run triples, and Jablonski singled in a run before the game was called. For the night, Freund was 7- for-9 with five RBI while Wakitsch went 6-for-9. John Meyers had ree hits and five RBI in game four, while Thelen was 4-for-4, scoring three times and knocking in as many. Bentz had six RBI in game three. Nail hurler Connell was 7-for-8 on the evening, scoring five runs and knocking in three. For the entire playoffs, Connell hit a cool .750, with 18 hits in 24 trips to the plate. iVVNf"?® Rusty Nail Inn s<^ stop on a ball headed Men's 12" championshi nd ba for man Chuck Marke makes a sensational t field Wednesday during the McHenry es. Marke made the stop, but his throw McHenry's Tom Spasojevich, competing in the 45-49 year-old age group, won the Ironman Competition in Paducah, Ken. last weekend. The win allows Spasojevich to compete in the largest Ironman contest in the world in Kona, Hawaii Oct. 6. The Ironman contests consist of bicycling, swimming and running. In the Paducah competition, Spasojevich biked swam 1.2 miles, biked 56 miles, and ran 13.1 miles en route to his victory. The Hawaii Ironman will test the endurance, strength and versatility of its entrants even further, as all distances will be doubled. Yes, doubled. Spasojevich will swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, and run a 26.2 mile race in the Hawaii event. VanKanegan clinic tomorrow Wonder Lake native Steve VanKanegan will present a tennis clinic tomorrow, Saturday, at West Campus. VanKanegan, a tennis teaching pro in California,^recently penned a book entitled "Optic Yellow Fever: Treat Tennis as a Game and You'll Get Better." - The book is a light-hearted, satirical view of tennis, and VanKanegan's clinic will mirror his writing. His teachings are designed to allow the students to enjoy the game while learning it. The clinic will begin at 9 a.m. Plaindealer photo by Chri> Juzwik to second was late. The Rusty Nail won the league title three games to one over Jack's Snack Shop-McHenry Oil. Area man heads Polo tourney A seniors polo tournament will be held Sunday, Sept. 2 at the Glendale Heights Polo Club. Dick Tauber, nationally-known polo club operators and McHenry real estate developer has been requested by Easter Seals to com­ plete its $1 million capital campaign fund. Tauber, handler of several world class polo ponies bred in McHenry, has brought the seniors tournament from California to Glendale Heights, and has pledged to help complete the Easter Seals project. Only players 50 or over are eligible, and all proceeds will be donated to the Easter Seals program. Easter Seals has purchased a single-story vacant schoolhouse in Villa Park. Renovation will be completed Nov. 1 to dispense rehabilitative services for physically handicapped infants. This campaign is two-thirds complete. Polo has been successful with other fund-raising efforts for infant welfare and the heart fund. For more information, call Bill Tauber (312) 337-1615. Carlton races to title Plaindealer photo by Chris Juzwik Rick Wakitsch, Rusty Nail third baseman, watches his single drop in left field. Waldtsch's single scored a run in the fourth inning of game three, allowing the Nail to take a 6-4 lead. WILMOT, Wis. - McHenry's Dennis Carlton scored a clean sweep as the point leader in the spectator stocks, as he set a qualifying track record of 20:03, won the third heat, and took top honors in the 15-lap feature race. The race was a special An- tioch Rotary Club Scholarship Fund Benefit held last weekend. Carlton was also a heat winner in the Kenosha County Fair Demolition Derby held recently. Other area heat winners in the race were: Mike Flanagan of Wonder Lake and Tyler Weinrich of McHenry. In other races, Duke and Sid Norton of Wonder Lake finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the late model sportsmen 20-lap feature. In the same category, Ed Ozog of McHenry and Bruce Guy of Johnsburg finished two-three in the second heat of the event. In the race which Carlton speeded home to victory in, Skip Martin and Vera Gliot, both of McHenry, finished third and fifth, respectively.