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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1968
Page
8
Ted Savage bloomed with four singles in five trips and the winning run as the Cubs defeated the California Angels 5 to 4 in 10 innings. The game featured a pitching machine mishap, early Angels surge, and solid relief by Joe Nickro and John Hermanck.
Morris Sporting Goods won the double elimination city parks and recreation tournament in Saguaro gym after two wins over Teepee. In the first game Morris and Teepee split with Morris taking 56 54 behind Jim Altengarten 27 and Dudley Williams 17. Teepee’s Dick Coffinger led with 22 and Walt Guy 19 in a 60 59 loss.
Cadet Nalur and six rivals share 117 pounds as favorites in a 1500 end allowance at Arizona Downs. Cadet Nalur has two Kentucky outings this season, finishing third and second, and was withdrawn from last weekend's Arizona Derby.
Arcadia hosts Saguaro as Saguaro’s Dana Jarvis and Randy Sanders faced Titan standouts. Bill Albright won the 120 yard high hurdles, Bill Avant led the 100 yard dash, Arcadia’s Jim Butler won the mile and 880, with Carter and Wogan among winners. Saguaro’s mile relay took the event. Arcadia swept the jumps and pole vault. Saguaro was disqualified in the 880 relays.
Coronado High roared past Scottsdale 108 19 to start the track season strong. Tim Forsythe, Dave McCombs, Mike Mecsey and Larry Mandarino set two relay records while Forsythe added two individual wins and Coronado claimed most events with multiple scorers.
Cubs acquire Roth Gardner from the Mets on June 12 1967 as Bob Hendley moves to New York. Gardner had earlier beaten Ken Holtzman 2-1 in 1966 for his first major league win while with the Mets. Gardner started the season with Jacksonville then Phoenix Giants before a Cubs call up. He went 4-1 with 31 strikeouts in 48 games, started five games and relieved 13 with an 0-2 record last season. He played an exhibition in Tacoma where Bill Stoneman pitched for Tacoma and joined the Cubs after the game. The 23 year old, who turns 24 on April 7, had five of seven wins for Tacoma, struck out 12 in 63 innings, then contributed in relief for the Cubs. He signed with the Cubs in 1966 after Idaho U postseason run and is pursuing a masters in Education. he spent the past off season in Army active duty.
Arcadia baseball opened with a 4-1 loss to McClintock as junior pitchers held tough. Three unearned runs came on Titan miscues, with Bruce Brown tossing four innings for Arcadia and Jim Hitchcock taking the loss after two innings.
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