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Page 12THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE PRESS, LOGANSPORT, INDIANAFriday Evening, November 22,19685 OTHERS HONOREDSix Berries On AII-NCC Footboll TeamSix members of the Logans-1 port football team are on the 1968 All-North Central Conference grid squad.The 36-membcr honor squad, selected Thursday night at Marion, includes four members of the Berry defensive unit and two members of the LHS offensive platoon. 'LHS NetterIn addition, five other Berries received honorable mention recognition on the All-NCC squad.First team selections from Logansport were Kurt Baker, John Baumann, Mike Paul, Sam Piercy, A1 Gleitz and Mike Szewczyk. All are senior*.Honorable mention selections from LHS were seniors Bill Ray, Bill Crispen and Don Dens-born and juniors Ron Collins and Pat Brewer.Baker, 5-5, 152-pounds, and Baumann, 5-11,159, were named to the offensive first-team. Baker was also an all-state honorable mention selection.Piercy, 5-9, 159 pounds, was named to a defensive end position on the elite squad.Mike Paul, 5-9, 178, and a member of the UPI third-team all-state squad, was named to the AII-NCC defensive platoon as a tackle.Gleitz, 5-8, 161-pound second team all-state pick, was selected to the first team as a line-fe acker.Szewczyk, 5-7, 162-pounds, was a linebacker for the Berries, but made the NCC honor squad as a defensive halfback-Crispen, Ray and Collins were given offensive honorable mention recognition at fullback, end, and halfback,respectively. Defensively, Brewer was named honorable mention at tackle, I tens born at linebacker.The Coach of the Year award went to first-year mentor Wayne .Tones of Marion. Jones guided the Giants this year to their first undisputed conference football championship in history.Their only NCC loss was a 13-0 setback at the bands of the Berries,Marion, which finished with a state ranking, led the way with nine first-team selections. Anderson had seven and Logans* port six.Richmond and Muncie Genii;al had four each, Kokomo, La-AII-NCCSelectionRon Brlnkmeyer, a senior Logansport High School tennis letterman, was the only local netter selected to the All Conference Tennis Team by the North Central Conference coaches.Brlnkmeyer ended the season with a 7-7 record overall while playing In the first position on the team.Jack Hopkins of Lafayette Jeff was named coach of the year.The remainder of the all-conference team Includes Fred Hall and Jim Hostetler of New Castle; Rick Peele and Tom Worfel of Richmond; Kim Kaufman of Muncie; Mike Cochran and Chuck Hill of Jeff, and Joe Sutter and John Burns of Marion.Worfel and Cochran are bothsophomores.The team was selected Thursday night at a meeting at Marlon.tAKURT BAKER„ ......L'wlR life.JOHN BAUMANN;• '.'s i,. - ■ ■ • • -.'i; ■fayette Jeff and New Castle two apiece.Defensively. Logansport was the leader with its four first, team selections. Anderson and Marion had three each. Marion had six offensive performers named to the first team, An* derson and Muncie four eacu.In first-team and honorable mention picks. Marion was also the leader with 14 overall selections. Logansport was second with 11, Anderson third with nine.The all-conference team was selected at a meeting of the NCC officials at Marion,AL GLEITZMIKE PAULSAM PIERCYMIKE SZEWCZYKJohn Bench Named N.L. Rookie of Year12ElementaryCage SquadsNEW' YORK (UPI)—Cincinnati catcher Johnny Bench today was named the National League's Rookie of the Year for 1'968 after edging pitcher Jerry Koosman of the New York Mets by a single vote.In the closest balloting since the award was instituted 20 years ago, Bench received 10’^ votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America to 9V for Koosman, a 24year-old lefthander who won 19 games. Bench thus becomes the first catcher in either league to win the rookie award.‘It’s just a great thrill, 1 can’t tell you how great I really feel,” said Bench, who remained in Cincinnati this winter to work for the Reds’ Speaker’s Bureau. I knew it was going to be a tough choice and I knew Jerry had a great year. I was hoping 1 would just luck out, and right now I’m very exciti i”Split BallotIndicative of the unusually tough choice facing the selector was the first split ballot in the history of the award. Although voting is on a secret ballotbasis, because of his unique vote Jim Enright of the Chicago American requested that his split ballot be made public.In all fairness I could not vote for one and ignore the other,” he said. Bench starred in one of the toughest positions on the field and for a kid of 20, he did a magnificient job all year. In an era when everyone complains that there are no young catchers coming up, Bench looks like a tailor-made star.On the other hand, how can you overlook the job Koosmandid winning 19 game; for a ninth place club. He didn’t just win 19 either. He had seven shutouts and he also had one of the best earned run averages in the league.”Bench, who once had a 16-game winning streak while a high school pitcher, barely qualified for the Rookie-of-the-Year citation. Only a late-season injury in 1987 limited his official at-bats to 86, and if he had gone to the plate five more times he would not have been eligible for the first-year prizethis seasonThe husky 6-1, 195-pound righthander got off to an indifferent start in 1968 but picked up in time to finish with a .275 batting average, 15 home runs and 82 runs-batted-in. He had hit only .163 with one homer in 26 games with the Reds in 19G7.Koosman, who wound up with a 19-12 record and struck out Carl Yastrzemski for the final out of the All-Star game, set ether team records with a 2.08 ERA, seven shutouts and by pitching 263.2 inningsDerbyPrizeStill UpFor GrabsOpenSeasonsLopsided victories were in the majority Thursday afternoon during opening games of the grade school basketball league.In the six contests played Franklin dropped Tipton 30-12; St. Vincent defeated St. Bridget 31-19: Columbia downed Longfellow 34-4; Jefferson clubbed Washington 47-20; St. Joseph surprised Fairview 14-11 and Daniel Webster handed McKinley a 26-18 loss.Mark Miller was high for Daniel Webster with nine points, while Fritz Bowyer was tops for McKinley with eight. Frank Slusser hit six for St. Joseph.• Ron Kinnaman and Tim Smith each scored 14 for Jefferson, while Dwayne Putnam was high for Washington with 14. Tom Packard hit 10 for Columbia and Jeff Mowery's two led Longfellow.Pat Barrett scored 13 for St. Vincent, while Rick Kreigh-baum’s 11 points was high for St. Bridget. Rick Ohman scored1f\ TrivnblinGKAPPLEKS READY - Logansport's wrestling team opens its seasotiTuevat wftsent are (iront front left) studentBrewer. Roger Wallace, Mike Paul, Hoy Decker, Jerry Davis, Don Howard,D„t. RamfcoMit fnliter Berkshire. Phil Brueh and HowardTina IIAMIApHLOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI)—If Dancer’s Image didn't have enough of an illegal drug in his system on Derby Day to affect his health or speed, should his owner still be prohibited from receiving the $122,600 first place money?This question, in effect, was posed Thursday by Arthur Grafton, one cf three attorneys representing Peter Fuller, the Boston millionaire owner of the 1968 Kentucky Derby winner during the fourth day oftestimony on Fuller’s appeal before the Kentucky StateRacing Commission.At the same time, Grafton finished his initial cross-examination of state chemist Kenneth W. Smith, who discoveredevidence of phenylbutazone, or a derivative thereof, in a urinanalvsis of the gray colt. One of Smith’s laboratory assistants, James W. Chinn, was on the stand at adjournment and was expected to return today.Grafton’s challenge of the Kentucky racing law automatically disqualifying a horse from a purse upon evidence of phenylbutazone in its system, came toward the end of Thursday’s session.In a move generally regarded as groundwork for a possible court appeal should the commission uphold the Churchill Downs’ stewards’ action, Grafton pointed to the state’s racingALL-NCC TEAM OffenseEnds—Bill Browner, Marion Rod Freeman, Anderson Gene McElhenney, Muncie Dennis Arc hey, New Castle Tackles—Brooks Clark, Marion Mike Armstrong, Anderson John Baumann, Logansport Bill Beach, Richmond Guards—Steve Turtle, Marion Larry Oradat, Marion Kurt Baker, Logansport Joe Mitchell. Mnnde Centers—Dick Graham, Marion Mark Hackard, Lafayette Quarterbacks—Duane Anderson, New Castle Mike McHenry', Anderson Fullbacks—Pete Lee, Monde Jerry Scroggins, Marlon Halfbacks—Dan Wagner, Lafayette Sam Stubbs, Richmond Blit Hampton, Anderson Roger Hamilton, Marion Honorable mention: ends—Bill Ray, Logansport; Art Hewitt, Marion, Tackles—Bob Anneat Muncie; Gary MasteUer, Marion. Centers—Tom Mayer, An-derson; Bob Harnett, Richmond. Quarterbacks—!ohn Chin, Marion. Fullbacks—James Currie,Anderson; Bill Crispen, Logansport; Jack Halsema, Lafayette. Halfbacks—Ron Collins, Logansport; Greg Callahan, Muide.DefenseEnds—Phil Bledsoe, Anderson Sam Piercy. Logansport Mark Swanson, Kokomo Tackles—Mike Paul, Logansport Brent Myers, Marion Guards—Bib Price, Anderson Rick Halfast, Kokomo Linebackers—Al Gleitz, Logansport John Jerrett, Marion Larry Burns, Anderson Tom Kelly, Richmond Halfbacks—Jerry Schuck, Richmond Steve Main, Marion Mike Szewczyk, Logansport Honorable Mention: Tackles— Tom Mench, Muncie; Pat Brewer, Logansport. Guards—Fred Gutre, Kokomo: David Pennington, Richmond. Linebackers— Tom Cory. New Castie; Larry Richardson, Marion; Mike Barr, New Castle; Don Detis-boni, Logansport. Halfbacks— Lode Smith, Marion; Tom
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Fri, Nov 22, 1968
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