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30 - TKwridoy, Jiily 8, 1965HOST GASTONIAHi-Toms:. I-;.’TOOMASVILLE.. •— .Thomas- ■ ViRe’s Hi-Toms aren’t able to i^uster much baiting punch of late, but ...the; way their pitching staff has been going, they haven’t' 'heeded too much.. The lilr^oms, now ih third place in (he Western Caro* lihas Lea^e,itry, to make it two in a row over Gastonia’s Pir ates tonight at Finch Field, Game time is 7 :15;J. . •. .It will • be the second ‘'High Point Chamber of Commerce Night” at IFinch Field; with persons who have obtained tickets from members of the High Point chamber being admitted free of charge. . JRighthander Bob Calvert (8-4) Will he bn the hill for manager Ralph Rowe’s Hi--.Tams. ■•THE TOMS got only two hits last night at Gastonia biit it proved to be enough for the’ •Victory as righthander Dick Sornmer bested the Pirates? Harold Clem in .a pitching duefi-0. It was Sommer’s 10th mound: victory, of the season . against six defeats, making him . the1 winmngest hurl er in the league. . ' '' / • The,: victory .was the. fourth 1-0 ; decision between- the two clubs—Thomasville .has won three, of them—ahd the eighth straight: game between the two teams to be decided. by one rum ,V '• u; V! •'•'Sommer scattered;Jive Pirate hits en route to the victory and there was no doubt that he deserved the win. But Clem, too, pitched well enough to.win most games.HE . HELD' the ; Hi - Toms hitless for 6 1-3 innings until Bob-Beckner lashed a single to bight field. The other Hi-Tom hit came in the crucial .ninth when ThomasvilleWESTEtZWr CAROLINA* LEAGUEWO* Lott Ret, *i*!M: Shelby ..........« 2 .*00 ' —Salisbury ...... 7 .3 .700 tTHOMAjVlLt,* A JU 19%Rock Hill 6 5 .545 m- ;Uxlngtan ......• 5 .SCO 3 'Gwlonla 5 f .-US 3V=tGreenvfUe 3 . ? . • $v»5p»ft#nburfl; ;v,... 3 .250 6■■■': • • ResultsTHOMASVlLi.6 h Gastonia 0 TexliWtcw .s^'Spartanburs 3 . Shelby 6, Roc* Hin: t . - -' Greenvilla' at Salisbury. pixi., rain., Th«r*lt;J»y’a $*lt;»«•Gastonia at THOMASVILLE, ?il5 p.m., Pinch Field Spartanburg at Lexington : Rock HW M Shalby .; ■ ' 'Salisbury at GrMflvWa . pushed across the game’s only . run.Rich Ashcroft led off the top of the ninth by flying but, but Tom; Videtich singled over the shortstop’s: head for the second Thomasville' hit of the;‘ game. Steve Thornton went in: to run for Videtich. -Clem attempted to pi ck Thornton off first base, threw wild - into foul territory' arid Thorritph raced all the way to third base. He scored when Beckner lifted a sacrifice fly into deep’ center field.- IF iSaERE; was a flaw in Clem’s performance, it was' in-', his fielding. He committed the only; three -errors in the game, including the one, that -helped set up 'three winning ruiis. •Sommer, meanwhile, appeared to be back in mid-sea-, son form as he fanned ii and ; walked orfy threO; .He got off to1 a slow; start, allowing' one . hit in: the first, two;in the sec-; ond and' one in the third.'After that, he was all business allowing only one more safety;, ait infield single ;by Stan Thomas; in the fifth. ;■ Affe.r Thomas’ hit,'Sommer retired II batters in a row before walking Bob Robertson in the ninth. No riiriner got past second base'during the game,; Which lasted on one hour and :'S4 minutes.; THE VWCTVRY ; was-the-: fifthin.a rowfor the Hi-Tdms in the second 'half campaign; They got away to a slow start, ; losing their first four but ;are . now 54 in the standings : and • m third place, 2 games back ; of; first-place Shelby, and i% games behind second - place Salisbury. Rock: Hill is- also 214 games back of the leaders, but Is in fourth 11 per-'centage points behind the Hi-Toms. - • ' : : • ,Following tonight’s games, the league will take a break for the first of two allstar games. An all-star team from the .other seven' clubs in the ■ league will meet the •'Astros,. winners of the first half title,: in Salisbury on Friday night. Two Hi-Toms, Sommer an d Videtich, were named to the league’s all-star team..■ IN OTHER games, Shelby .downed Rock Hill,, fr-2; Lexington defeated Spartanburg,, 5-3, and first - place Salisbury and Greenville were rained out. .,;••'' jj.v;;Tonight’s card; Spartanburg at Lexington, Rock: Hill at Shelby, Salisbury at Greenville and Gastonia at Thomasville — reverse of Wednesday night's order.THOMASVILLEBb r h biLiv'ston cf 2 0 0 0Glover ss 4 0 0 0AshcroU rf 3 0 0 0Vldatlch. c 40 10 Thornton pr 0 1 0 Q .C.Brown tiUfftef'n c : 0 0 0 0 Golden 2bBeckner 3b 2 0 1 lAlex'nder If 4 0 0 0Dooley lb 3 0 0 0Fre* Jb 3 0 0 0Sommer p 2 0 0 0Tntets - 37 1 2 1.Thomasville . ......GastoniaGASTONIAa b r h 1 Thomas cf 4 0 2 0 Oliver lb 4 0 10 Foster rf 0 0 0 0 Rob'tson 3b 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 10 3 0 10 3 0 0 0Cruz as Little c Clem pTotals30 0 5 0 COO 000 001—1 003 000 KNJ-OE-mierri 3. DP—Glavar and Dooley: Cruz and Oliver. LOB—Thomasville 5, Gastonia 6.SB—Foster, Thomas. S—Livingston. SF —Beckner.IP K R ER BB 50Sommer' tw, 10-51 9 5 0 0 3 11Clem (L. i-7) 9 2. 1 0 4 ?U—Shlves and AWrldoe. A—517.
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Thu, Jul 08, 1965
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