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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1966
Page
4
Peters, described as giving less effort this season, fires a two hitter to cap Chicago White Sox sweep of a doubleheader against Washington. The Associated Press reports on his steadier delivery and the Sox victory.
Skeet Nicolet won the Cimarron Open at Cimarron Golf Club with a 61 in a windy, nine hole course. He topped 103 entrants from 15 towns, setting a new course record and breaking his own 62 mark from three years ago.
Garden City clubs swept four slow pitch games at Fansler Field, defeating Scott City squads in three contests. Kinney Glass led a 12-9Garden City win over Schwanke with a three-run sixth inning, while Welders Supply edged Bill's Mobil 9-5 to break a 5-5 tie. Kinney Glass then dominated Bill's Mobil 18-2 as Rich Meier homered and doubled. Welders beat Schwanke 12-4, with Jed Welders collecting a pair of doubles, a triple, and a single. Vern Stegall led Garden City with four singles in the middle game.
Scott City defeated Garden City's No. 2 Elks-Legion youth team 26 to 9 at Clint Lightner Field. Scott City pounded 20 hits while taking an early 11-run lead in the first inning and using two pitchers, M. Kits and D. Daubert, to seal the win after five innings under the runs-ahead rule. Garden's S Nelson, A Arnold, and D Rauhut had two hits each, while R Lord tripled and R Yost doubled for the losers. Next up Garden travels to Syracuse at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, June 14.
Independence golfer Dave Gaughan fired a 2 over par 74 to win the Parsons Invitational in Parsons Kansas. Nick LaForge finished second at 77 followed by Craig Turner at 78 with defending champ Jim Sealty of Kansas City placing fifth at 79 among 73 competitors.
Kathy Whitworth defeats Mickey Wright to win the Clayton Federal Open in St Louis. Whitworth cards 68 72 68 for a one under par 208 total, earning 1875 and bringing season earnings to 10344, while Wright finishes fifth after bogeying early in the final round.
Barbara McVicker won the A flight on ladies day at Jaycee Airlinks. B flight top hours went to Ruby Deibert Phyllis Holmes and Eleanor McDonald. Ivan Lambert captured the C flight. Play used most putts. Wednesday low net score to be decided by Kansas Women's Golf Assn. parings listed for four groups. Also noted is the first American League game on April 24 1901 with the White Sox beating the Indians 8 2.
National League standings show San Francisco atop with 33 wins and 18 losses, followed by Los Angeles Pittsburgh Philadelphia Houston Cincinnati St. Louis Atlanta New York Chicago. Saturday results include Los Angeles over New York 6 3 and Pittsburgh over Cincinnati 9 6, with Philadelphia beating San Francisco 6 1 in 10 innings. Sunday features Los Angeles 16 2 over New York and San Francisco 7 6 over Philadelphia. American League leaders Cleveland 30 17 and Baltimore 31 18, with Detroit and Chicago nearby. Saturday games included Chicago 6 Washington 0 and Baltimore 9 Kansas City 0, while current schedules list Chicago at California and Baltimore at Washington among others.
Neil Roush of Wichita lost the final to top seed at the Kansas Open men’s singles while Lucian Barbour of Winfield beat Steve Boradie in veterans division. Jeff Corbin and Chester Anderson of Wichita won the men’s doubles title defeating Roush and Rod Kubat of Arkansas City 6 2 6 3.
Garden City's No. 1 Elks Club American Legion youth baseball team routed Sublette 14 0 Sunday afternoon at Clint Lightner Field. Melvin Rupp allowed one hit in five innings with seven strikeouts as Garden improved to 4 0. Mike Dart had three singles, and six Garden batters scored in the second inning as the home club pulled away. The return game with Sublette is set for July 10 at 3 p m in Garden City.
Jim Ryun nearly matches the world mile record with 3 53.7 amid Big Eight action at three meets led by Compton and Notre Dame. Steve Herndon soars to a world season high 7 1 4 in the high jump as Oklahoma State and Kansas athletes collect podiums, with multiple event winners and record notes across the Compton Invitational Houston district meet and Notre Dame.
Four youth baseball games were staged at Clint Lightner Field over the weekend. Saturday saw Knights of Columbus Reds blank the Blues 11 to 0 in four frames, with G Brungardt going 3 for 3 and pitchers Brungardt and Berghainn handling the mound duties. Sunday's twin bill featured Lions defeating Kiwanis 16 to 3 in the A-team, while the B-team tied 5-5 to set up the later contest, with Stallsworth earning the win and Kiwanis pitchers tallying many walks. The item closes with a note about the National Wildlife Federation and a quirky ice cream nutmeg tip.
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