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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1966
Page
4
Philadelphia's Allen returns to form with a 417-foot homer driving in four as the Phillies rally to a 7-4 win in the nightcap and sweep Chicago after an earlier 4-3 victory. Six of eight for Phils with Allen at .338, 9 for 30. Also notes Mays homer in Giants win and other MLB results.
Slow pitch action dominated Fansler Field with Welders Supply taking an 8 5 win over First Methodist Church in five innings. Alan Rupp and Jerry Roth each had two hits for Welders, while Cliff Burrows led Methodist with a triple. Western Kansas Sporting Goods edged Hapes Trucking 2 1 as Dreiling tripled and Porters added two singles. Renick Drug Stores defeated Ehresman Packing 13 3 in seven innings with Weber homering and Wicks adding two hits. No action tonight. Kinney Glass vs DeKalb Seed at 7 20 p m Smith Land vs WKSG at 8 30 p m Latin American Club vs Welders Supply at 9 30 p m.
Willie Mays moved a notch closer to Ted Williams for third on the career home run list as his inside the park homer powered San Francisco to a 4-3 win over Atlanta. Henry Aaron blamed a misplay by Mack Jones for allowing the ball to go through. Mays now needs four more homers to tie Williams.
Virgil Harsh rolled a 217 games and 554 series to pace the summer league opening at Garden Bowl. Ruby Deibert led women with 172 and 453. Deibert Construction and Hendershot-Staat shared top team game at 815. Deibert posted 2303 team series as multiple matches concluded 3-1 with scores from Farr Construction to Lynde's Shamrock Service and others.
The standings show San Francisco leading with 31 wins and 16 losses, followed by Los Angeles 28 and 18, Pittsburgh 25 and 20, Houston 26 and 21, Cincinnati 19 and 22, St. Louis 20 and 22, Atlanta 20 and 28, New York 15 and 23, Chicago 13 and 31. Wednesday results include Philadelphia 4 Chicago 7 and 3-4. Los Angeles 1 St. Louis 0. Pittsburgh 3 New York 1. Houston 2 Cincinnati 0. San Francisco 4 Atlanta 3. Today’s games list matchups across the league, with multiple venues noted and several doubleheaders.
American Products of Dodge City won the Hill City one-day invitational slow-pitch tournament. The Foster Lumber Co. club beat Hill City Jaycees 15–2, Bogue 8–4, and Clay Center 21–4 to secure the title after earlier success in the local pre-season tourney and a 1965 state crown.
Kansas City A's burst to eight runs and 13 hits to defeat Cleveland 8-3 before 7,485. Ed Charles opened the big seven with an inside the park homer, Dan ny Cater tripled, and Nossek and Harrelson provided key run production. Roland Sheldon earned the win as O'Donoghue suffered first defeat of the season. Harrelson homered for the third time since May 24.
Garden City No. 1 Elks Club American Legion youth team defeated Scott City 6 to 2 at Clint Lightner Field in seven innings. John Dunlap allowed two runs on five hits with nine strikeouts over seven frames, while Scott City starter Suppes took the loss. Garden City opened with three runs in the first inning and added three more across the second and fourth, with six hits and two errors in a steady win.
Nine 3 year olds head to the 98th Belmont as Kauai King seeks the turf Triple Crown. Trainers debate front running versus stalking while all rely on Aqueduct’s final stretch for edge. Kauai King has looked strong with a 1 1/2 mile workout and a 2 37 5/10 time for 114 miles.
Sandy Koufax avoided jinxing himself after blanking the St Louis Cardinals 1-0 to remain one win behind Juan Marichal. He remarked on past fear of Drysdale and noted this year’s strong start 9-1, saying he’s thrown his best yet with a sub 1.50 ERA. Marichal leads with a 10-0 record and a 0.80 ERA as Koufax eyes a 30-win pace set by Dizzy Dean in 1934.
Community plans an open house to honor Garden City High School coach John Dickerson at 8 p.m. Friday at the Civic Center with co sponsors the G Club and the Ambassador Club. Dickerson led GCHL football for 14 seasons and also coached wrestling and golf. He will serve next year as assistant to Superintendent Tom Saffell. Also noted is Halfback Bill Triplett of the St Louis Cardinals working on the police department community relations project in the off season.
The Garden City Men’s Bowling Association schedules its annual end-of-season meet Friday night at Garden Bowl. The session begins at 8 p.m. and will discuss plans for the 1966 67 season.
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