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Newspaper
Morris Daily Herald
Location
Morris, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1968
Page
10
Bishop McNamara defeats Wilmington 4-1 to capture the Coal City Regional baseball title behind a strong battery of Schmidt and Crevier. Schmidt fanned four while Crevier drove in two runs and stole home. McNamara improves to 18 11, Wilmington falls to 11 4 2.
In Coal City Bishop McNamara Kan Kakee 4 Wilmington 1. At Pittsfield Pittsfield 2 Clinton Plains 0. At Springfield Griffin and Lincoln rain. At Peru St. Bede 5 LaSalle Peru 4. At Rockford Rockford Guilford 3 Freeport. At Bloomington Normal Community 6 Melvin Sibley 0. Second inning featured Tiburtini, Mayo, Weber, Crevier and others in a four run frame for the Irish. The game paused briefly for rain but Weber drove in Tiburtini to make it 4-1. In the seventh Schmidt forced a grounder, walked Senior, and Gunning flied out as the Irish celebrated a win.
Mazon Red Devils routed Sheridan Industrial School for Boys 14 to 1 as Dan Arnold pitched a complete game for his seventh win. Stalker collected two doubles and two singles, while Arnold and Jackson added triples and nine strikeouts. Sheridan scored on a hit, steal, and error as Mazon benefited from 10 opponent errors. The win capped a strong season with a home district-tournament winner Wilmington looming. Nick Walsh extended his hit streak to 16 games.
Standings show Baltimore 4 New York 2 Washington 2 Chicago 0 and Minnesota 4 Detroit 3 Oakland 2 Cleveland 0 Boston 4 California 0. Friday games include Cleveland at California and Boston at Minnesota with several N games listed.
Steve Stangland led the Redskins with a .333 average after 20 hits in 60 at bats to win the 1968 batting title. The team finished 14-7 with notable contributors including Dean Siron, Denny Steele, Rich Wells, and Chuck Olson.
Four time National League batting champion Roberto Clemente hit .357 with 23 home runs and 110 RBIs in 1967, pacing the Pirates in these categories as Morris and Minooka battled to a 2-1 final.
Mor ris Community High School names 115 spring letter winners as athletic director William R Ferguson lists 53 track 30 baseball 21 tennis and 11 golf lettermen. The roster includes Dan Darlington Ray Kope zick Rick Shannon Byron Thorson Pat Barr Kevin Connor and others with several managers noted.
Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Florida completed a 44 day racing session marked as the best in its 24 year history. Parimutuel handle reached 63,254,979 dollars, up 8.1 percent from 1967. Apprentice Craig Perret led jockeys with 55 wins and Arnold Winick topped trainers with 21 firsts for his ninth title in ten years.
Willie Stargell slugged three homers a double and a single driving in seven to lift the Pirates 13 6 at Chicago as they snapped a five game skid. Sam Bowens hit a two run homer for the Senators in a 2 0 win over the White Sox. Frank Howard added a homer and double to boost his AL leading average to .348 with 17 homers and 34 RBIs.
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