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Nationals Capture DistrictCrown, Prepare lor StateBY TOM RECKSeventh District championship in the Babe Ruth statewide tourney finally was decided yesterday afternoon, with the Terre Haute Nationals overpowering the Americans, 10 to 0.The game was started at Memorial Stadium Saturday night at 8 o’clock, but, because of Saturday night’s drenching rains, it was not completed until around 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon whenone and two-thirds innings wereTiger Ace CreditsTop PerformanceTo 'Good Control'aBOSTON, July 20.—big thing I had on my mind going out for the last inning was I didn’t want to walk anybody,” Detroit’s Jim Bunning said today after beating Boston on a no-hitter, 3 to 0.Bunning happily received congratulations in the dressing room following his masterpiece in the first game of a double-header at Fenway Park,“If you walk somebody,” Bunning continued, “the next guy comes up and singles and there goes your no-hitter. Then Ted Williams hits one out of here and there goes your ball game.”In the ninth, Bunning struck out Gene Stephens and Ted Lepcio for a total of 12, then got Williams on a long fly to right field.Williams also was the final out in the last no-hitter thrown at the Sox by New York's Allie Reynolds Sept. 28, 1951. Ted fouled to Yogi Berra that time.+ + +“I GUESS I was nervous but you don't notice how nervous you are in a situation like that,” Bunning said. “The best ball hit off me was the'first one by Stephens in the first inning to right field.”A1 Kaline backed to the wall to haul it in but catcher Red Wilson said the wind helped the drive.Coach Don Lund kept track of Bunning’s 332 pitches and broke them down to 51 fast balls, 49 sliders, 25 curves and seven change-ups.“I had real good control and good stuff,” Bunning added.As proof, the Red Sox did not hit a single ball to left field where stands the famed high wall where many a pitcher’s high hopes Have been buried.+ + +BUNNING RETIRED 10 batters on fly balls, two of them foul, and five grounders in addition to the12 strikeouts.While Bunning talked to the press, a note on a square piece of cardboard arrived from the Red Sox dressing room and losing pitcher Frank Sullivan,The note read:“Jim, greatest I've ever seen. You were terrific all the way. I knew if I couldn’t hit you nobody could.”It was signed:“Sully.”Sullivan has collected only five hits in 38 at bats.The Detroit bench refused, traditionally, to say anything about the no-hitter during the game but Bunning constantly let his teammates know he knew about ii.+ + +IN ADDITION, a constant chattelwent out from the Red Sox dug-out “Okay, Jim, we knlt;you’ve got us. We know you’re woriing on a no-hitter.”At the end of the eighth inning Bunning said to Coach Tommy Henricb: “Well, I've got to get three more.”Henrich, who didn't want to jinx it, replied: “Okay, Jim, we’ll go out and get you three more — runs.”Kaline ran in to give Bunning the ball after catching the fly by Williams. “I just wanted to make sure of the ball,” Kaline said.Wilson added: “I knew it wasn’t hit that good.”As the second batter to face Bunning, Pete Runnels, top league batsman limped down to first and almost beat out a smash to third, “A fast guy would have beaten it out,” Bunning said.Runnels injured his left leg in the top half of the inning while completing a double play pivot throw. He was hit by Billy Martin.BUJbBUtlPFBBYsercompleted.Larry Motz, Pimento ace, started on the mound for the winners and pitched no-hit ball until the sixth. Then, after having been given life on a missed pop fly,Paul Lorey doubled for the loser’s only hit of the game. There '£ one out in the inning and that’s when the rains came.Yesterday, Harley Lautenschla-ger took the mound for the Nats and retired the Americans in order. The winners had one base-runner, Larry Strohl, who walked in the top of the seventh. Ernie Horrall started and was the losing pitcher for the Americans, with Gib Bosworth coming in from third to pitch from the fourth to sixth. Horrall then pitched the final inning.+ + +MOTZ WALKED five and struck out four in his winning effort and never was in serious trouble. Horrall allowed seven of the nine Nat hits, struck out one and walked three. Bosworth struck out three and walked two.The Nationals picked up two quick runs in the first on only one hit, but the Americans had As; an error. They added one each in y** the second and third frames and iced the game with four in the j fourth.Chuck Carlson, shortstop, was leading hitter for the winners, getting two hits in three trips, driving in four runs, scoring one run himself and having a double. Bobby Lawson continued his hot hitting with 2-3, and Strohl had one for two. Lawson also had two stolen bases,+ + +THE NATIONALS now will meet j Jr. Rochester here in the second game j the Tuesday night of the state tourney, the District One and District Four | for winners go at 6 o’clock in the first game of the meet tomorrow eve- I TH ning. Two other games are on tap N Wednesday evening, semifinals Thursday night, and the state championship game is to be played | 3X11 at 8 o'clock Friday night.Coach Harry Strohl indicated he I the will start either Wally Marks or j Eddie Marvel on the mound against Rochester. vieNearly 600 fans attended the t,e: finals Saturday night, making the a tourney a good one—attendance- go] wise. It also was good so far as ne the two Terre Haute teams were 1 concerned. The Americans were a wi little younger, but they gave the nueta H of Cal the Sn€ mU mo ere va* 1 thaNationals a good game. Batting Averages:AH RAussie SwimmersTop World MarksLarry Hayne ........3Larry Strohl ..... 6 H. Laulenschlager ...10Chuck Carlson ......12Bobby Lawson ......9John Gedrick ........10Bobby Valle ....... • 7Larry Motz ..... 4Mickey Killing Id ..... 3Eddie Marvel ......3Gerald Fagg ..... 5Guy Weddle .........2Wally Marks .......4Danny Higginbotham 0 Tommy John, Jr. ... €03234 1 2 a o o 2 o o 0 DH021661311200200Av..000.333.100.500.667.100.429.250.125.667.000.000.500.000.000mienth.tochticfo:shthOiClTotals83 20 25 .301District ChampsTllatoNationals— ABStrohl. If.............IL’schlager, Jb-p ...... 3Carlson, as....... fWeddle, 3b .......... IUwson, 3b ...............3Gedrlck .................4Hayne. cf ................ ?Valle, cf ......... 3Higginbotham, rf ......... ®Fagj:, rf .......... 3Kulinski. c ............... JMarks, lb ................JMotz, ......... 3B2220100002001vie0 gf3020010010114rufoTotals ........-.......30Americans— ABPurcell, ss ...............JBosworth. 3b-p ........... *Horrall, p-3b-p ............ 2Snowden, cf ..............3Lorey. If ................3Cunning, rf......... IUtz, rf .................3Kovachi, lb .............. 3Lebowitz. lb ..... ”Morse, 2b ................ JHawk .........-..........JDove, c JBolk. 3b ................. JDetricfc, ss ................010R000o00000000009H00001000000o00fiiclthbiwa3Pi01inO't€Totals ................21 0Struck out for Dove in 7th. Nationals .......211 4ll 0—10 9Wb.bFo:bAmericans ........ 000 OOO 0 0 14E—Dove, Lorey, Lebowitz, Bosworth Detrick. Motz. Kulinski 12). gB*— Stroht, Carlson (4), Ifwson, Valle, L'schUger. 2B—Lorey. Carlson, KuJm-ski. Motz. SB—Strohl, Carlson. Dawson p lt;21. GedriCk. Motz. S—L’schlager, Motz. LOB—Nationals, 6; Americans, 5. BB— Horrall. 3; Bosworth. 2; Motz. 5, tlL’sehlager, 0. SO—HqiralL l: hot- 1 y worth. 3; Motz, 4; L'schlager, 2- BO— JHorrall. 7 tn 4% innings: Bosworth, 2 aIn 2^ innings; Motz. 1 in 5** innings, jL’schlager. 0 in 1% innings. FBDow. 1.WP — Motz. LP — Horrall. A — 583 . ^ foaidl.
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Terre Haute Star
Terre Haute, Indiana, US
Mon, Jul 21, 1958
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