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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1964
Page
4
Athletics sweep Minnesota in a doubleheader 7-4 and 8-7 as 12 homers lift their four game total to 24. Finley’s fence-shrinking strategy and new sluggers Colavito and Gentile fuel a stadium batting spree across the AL and NL results noted.
Twenty three small enrollment schools have entered the Annual Cimarron Invitational track meet to be held at Blicjay Stadium, preliminaries at 2 pm and finals at 7 pm. Teams include Cimarron, Fowler, Meade, Plains, Ashland, Coldwater, Greensburg, Offerle, Spearville, Burdett, Rozel, Beeler, Quinter, Ensign, Montezuma, Copeland, Ingalls, Holcomb, Johnson, Meade Bible Academy, Sublette, Satanta, and Jetmore. Last year Holcomb won with 4242 points, Cimarron runner up with 40, Fowler third with 33. several records were set in relays and sprints.
Softball annual meeting for adult women's summer program 7 30 pm at Garden Howl. Track Cimarron meet prelims at 2 pm final not stated. Weekly Ladies Day at Garden City Country Club. Bowling National League men at Garden Bowl. Golf Garden City hosts Hutchinson in junior college dual meet 1 pm at Garden City Country Club. Bowling Buffalo League for beginning women 1 90 pm. Yankee and Classic Scratch Leagues men and Dust Bowlers League at night at Garden Bowl.
Ten teams joined a Sunday slow-pitch event in Scott City boosting local fund for the Scott City High band heading to the World’s Fair. Games featured multiple high-scoring tilts with seven over-the-fence homers and several late rallies.
Syracuse High selects Cliff Schimmels, 27, of Clinton Oklahoma as the new head coach. He will attend Southwestern State College for his master’s degree and move to Syracuse by mid August. Schimmels has five seasons of assistant coaching experience and will also teach English and serve as assistant basketball coach.
Kentucky Derby champion Northern Dancer heads to Baltimore for the May 16 Preakness. Trainer Horacio Luro plays down the Triple Crown chase, saying the series isn’t what it was, even as Northern Dancer becomes the first Canadian-bred Derby winner. Jockey Bill Hartack earned praise for guiding The Dancer to victory, while Willie Shoemaker, who rode Hill Rise, offered no excuses for the runner up. The Derby time set a track record, with Northern Dancer finishing in two minutes flat, a quarter of a mile late, after leading from the stretch turn. The field also included Roman Brother Quadrangle Mr. Brick and Mr. Moonlight. The colt will join the others in New York before trainer decisions on the Preakness entry are made. Hartack’s Derby win marked his fourth in the classic, the jockey having just six mounts in the race. Northern Dancer, son of Nearctic Natalma, now has 13 victories in 16 starts, earning $114,300 for E. P. Taylor of Toronto. Earlier, Chateaugay, the 1963 Derby winner, failed in his first 4-year-old start at Aqueduct, finishing eighth in the Carter Handicap.
The Associated Press standings show Cleveland and Chicago tied near the top in the American League with Detroit and Minnesota close behind. National League leaders include Philadelphia and San Francisco with Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati chasing. Weekend results feature Washington, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Boston posting wins and losses, with several late games and postponed notes.
First weekend action completed in the third annual Mixed Doubles bowling tournament at Garden Bowl. The five week event runs through May 17 on handicap scoring with Ben's SS Cafe leading team pins at 2,292 and 352 handicap, while Gano-Horace Grain of Garden City holds 2,150 pins at 220 handicap. doubles leaders are Fred and Joan Rowan of Ingalls with 1,124 pins at 196 handicap. A color motion picture of the Meter of Garden City with 1,124 pins and 158 handicap is noted. A Breckenridge, Colorado camp film will be shown at Community Church Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., hosted by Hiram Lewis of the summer baseball camp for boys now in its second year.
Staff at the school includes former major league pitcher Vern Kennedy and Frank Prentup. Bob Brasher, ex Central Mo. College coach, is camp supervisor with eight years in boys baseball administration. Lewis, a 43 year old Wichita enthusiast, led a four year dream of a summer camp for ages 8 to 21, backed by Wichita businessmen who raised 400000 dollars. The facility near Breckenridge, 80 miles west of Denver, features three complete complexes, ten pitching areas, three sliding pits, and separate fields by age. The camp plans to accommodate 175-200 boys per two week session with hiking, fishing, and a ski-lift ride as extras.
Delbert Strickert of Garden City takes the men's singles lead with 634 pins after handicap, followed by Delbert Highbee of Tribune at 601. Betty Schreibvogel of Lakin leads women's singles with 588, while Maxine Highbee of Tribune is second at 956. In men's all events, Tribune bowlers top standings with Lester Hutchins first at 1 74 and Highbee second at 1 733. Betty Schreibvogel leads women's all events at 1,654, with Kathryn Yardley of Garden City second at 1,623.
Garden Beats Montezuma as Garden City Sale Co. won both ends of a Sunday afternoon slow pitch softball doubleheader. The seven-inning opener ended 18-12 and the five-inning nightcap finished 6-3.
Plains Cimarron High captures the team title with 57 points led by Chuck Butzine in the 220 and 440, Roger Timken in the high hurdles, Wayne Davis in the discus, Doug Sears in the broad jump, and Larry Addison in the shot put setting a league mark. Additional top finishes include Beery, Sears, and Whitesell in sprints and jumps. Andrew Jackson is noted as a former U S president linked to a 1831 Maryland Jockey Club fact.
Lloyd Feldman a Meade bank cashier won the seventh Plains Open at the American Legion Course in a playoff after a four-under 32 led to 101 and a 4 on the first extra hole. Joyce Hamm, Joe Vaughn, Ray Novinger, and Gordon Crone also placed in the event with multiple courses and flights detailed. Feldman and Hamm have swept all Plains Opens through the years, Feldman previously winning in 1960.
Thirteen teams chase a stoppage of Garden City High Buffaloes five meet win streak at the Class AA regional track meet in Hutchinson. Buffalos, coached by Wayne Dickerson, boast an improving run after a 7th at Wichita South Invitational and 2nd at Sterling Relays, plus regional wins at Garden City Relays and Great Bend Dodge City. Other entrants include Augusta Campus Dodge City Great Bend Hutchinson Wichita North Lincoln Wichita South Wichita West and more, with state meet set for next weekend.
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