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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1971
Page
27
A column urges high school athletes to recruit peers into sports this summer. It stresses personal outreach, encouragement, and sharing athletic experiences to spark interest, noting some youths face handicaps or home issues yet can still join teams. The piece encourages not pressuring but guiding peers toward sports.
Springfield Special Bill Johns is Wittenberg University’s star sophomore distance runner from Trenton. He has won eight distance events this spring as the Tigers extended their dual meet win streak to 19, a new Ohio Conference record. Johns swept the mile and 880 at Kenyon for his first double win, and he also contributes as a top four mile runner for the fall cross country team. He is the son of Mr and Mrs A R Johns of 203 Johns Street in Trenton.
Carlisle High School will announce a new head basketball coach Monday night after more than 20 applicants applied to replace Garr Deatherage, who stepped down from the post.
Summer bowling leagues begin in June at City lanes and Laynecrest Franklin. Sports Bowl adds air conditioning with six doubles leagues on Saturdays and Sundays, three-man and women leagues midweek, and adult junior leagues on Thursdays. Eastern offers mixed doubles five-man women teams three-man leagues and juniors. Laynecrest runs six days weekly with diverse leagues including a women’s breakfast league and beginner league.
Valley View's Fred Alves hit two home runs in a doubleheader against Edgewood, guiding Valley View to 7-5 and 9-4 wins. Alves plated four runs with a fifth inning homer in game one and a third inning homer in game two driving in three. The Spartans improved to 19-15 overall.
Reports say applicants have been screened and four remain for the job. Carlisle School Board will meet Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Sept David Way's office to announce the selection. Hall and Withrow won the Wildwood Two Man Handicap Tournament with 58 beating Edgewood 000 1310-55. Marconi Johnson second with 60. Szabo and Yost tied for third with 62. Low gross winner was Bill Ritter with 68.
An outdoors note highlights walleye fishing at Salt Fork Lake in Guernsey County and Berlin Reservoir with nets revealing 2,000 walleyes averaging 11 to 24 inches and a population estimate of about 74,800 adults. It mentions other favored lakes near Dover and Westerville, plus muskie chatter about Cowan Lake and a 52 inch Seneca Lake record.
Expos pinch hitter Ron Swoboda tripled in his first at bat as Montreal faced Philadelphia. The Phillies won 114 with rookie Roger Freed driving in five runs for the winners.
Cincinnati coach Paul Brown praised two running backs for pass catching at the rookie tryout camp Fred Willis from Boston College and Dave Buchanan from Arizona State. He also lauded first round pick Vernon Holland and others while noting Stammbaugh can handle center snaps on punts.
New Miami man Les Miles won the 220 mile Greater Cincinnati Club race from Franklin Kentucky with a four hour 3 minute flight at an average 48 mph. Over 432 pigeons started the race and Miles’ birds took second and third place as well. Jack Schultz of Cincinnati was fourth. Winning birds released at 9 am Saturday and reached Miles’ loft at 1 33 pm.
Fenwick's John Rouster captured the school's first district tennis title by defeating Reading's Bob Lawley 7-5 6-0 at Hamilton Barfield yesterday. Lawley beat Falcon Bob Cramer 6-4 6-0 in another round. Rouster also beat Jerry Collin 6-2 6-1 in his first match. Rouster advances to the regional tournament Friday at Hamilton Taft.
Montreal reports detail a 2-0 Hawks win that puts Chicago 3–2 in the series with one game left in Montreal. Penalty killers stifled the Canadiens as Billy Reay praised special teams while Henri Richard sparked a coaching controversy. Montreal hopes to even the set at home Sunday.
Purdue surged from behind on the final nine holes to win the Big Ten Golf Tournament by nine strokes over Michigan State. The Boilermakers finished at 1501, while runner-up MSU totaled 1510 and Ohio State was third at 1513 in Columbus, Ohio.
Kansas City Royals beat Oakland A's 5 to 4 after a four run seventh inning. Gal Hopkins lined a center single scoring two as Amos Otis tied the game with a two out double, paving the way for Hopkins's decisive hit. The A's had taken a 3-1 lead in the fifth on a bases loaded scene with Fingers scoring and Campaneris crossing the plate on Patek’s miscue. Reggie Jackson triple produced Oakland's first run.
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