European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse The stars and stripes Page 21 la baseball trickery in today s game is not As successful As it was in the Halcyon Days. Managers coaches and players alike too Well schooled be now and Thenya Cratcha sucker napping. The Houston astros have been one of the very few teams Thi season to pull off a hidden Ball play a form of trickery that was Immon in Days of still use As a lesson for Young pitchers the Man Euver nrineewdbycraftymwerhuffginsbackinl�14. Miggins was manager of the cardinals then and from his thir Dase coaching Box he watched a Young dodger Pitcher named de Appleton hold his Wii in a 1-1 Duel. The Cardinal skipper needed a win badly. He was ready to resort with a Flinner on third Huggins yelled to the Mound from his y Hev Appleton i want to see that baseball you re holding. Vow it Over Here a minute will you innocently the dodger kid hurler obliged. Neatly Huggins Teo oed aside and allowed the Ball to Roll All the Way to the every Mouth in the Ball Park Hung open the winning car Inal run raced in from the dodgers protested bitterly the move was ruled strict y within Bounds since nobody had bothered to Call time just the same for every display of brains in baseball there Are literally a Hundred instances of unsound judgment. Under pressure it May be conceded wrong moves Are mad with ease although carefully planned procedures have been known o backfire too. In 1945 there occurred in Boston the strangest stolen base on record. Pint sized dodger left hander Vic Lombardi was working against the braves. Bilked by balls after walking Dick Culler Lombardi trapped him off first base. Immediately Boston coach Benny Bengough shouted"balk1" Umpire George Magerkurth nodded and pointed to second As Culler waltzed Over to the Keystone sack. ,._._ ,. At this Point it developed the Only one in the Ball Park to Call a balk had been the Quick thinking Stanley the dodger second Sacker tossed his Cap the Ball and Glove into left Field in a White rage. Culler was allowed to remain at second because time out had not been officially called. As it happens in so Many cases Culler came Home with the winning run. M. ,. Jit is said they did t come with a More trigger thinking nand than that of Mike King Kelly of the old Boston 1899 Kelly was warming the Bench one game his agile brain was working like mad. As a Cincinnati Batter lofted a foully in the direction of the Boston dugout it became evident to Kelly that his own Catcher would never be Able to reach the Ball. Quickly Kelly was on his now catching for Boston he roared making the substitution official in keeping with the rules of the King Kelly quietly reached Forward and caught the Ball for an All important out. Later the regulations on substitutions were changed but in Catcher Kelly s time his Snappy substituting was completely is no getting around it baseball players More than in any other sport Are dizzy dizzy and Daffy. ,. ,. For speaking of dizzy Brooklyn had one named Arthur dizzy Vance a smoke Baller deluxe if there Ever was dazzling batters with his Hummer dizzy hit upon a snazzy stunt to baffle the Batter even a pair of scissors. Dizzy Cut the sleeve of his sweatshirt so the ribbons would Flop in the air As he delivered the batters went goggle eyed trying to pick out the Aspen Ike Pellet Vance was dishing out from among the Maze of White create to by his sweatshirt cried like mad against dizzy s practice but the old Fox got away with it for some time. ,. In addition to employing tattered shirtsleeves pitchers have Fried to Blind batters with glittering buttons on the Cap shirt front or Glove. Awed by awning speaking of dizzy former Detroit Pitcher Paul Trout went to � great lengths to earn his of shagging flies in the Outfield Trout decided to dash under an awning and shield himself from the Sun for a he reached the awning. Trout bounced to the ground knocked cold. His teammates revived him and explained to him that this awning was not real it was painted on the left Field Wall. From that Day Paul Trout became dizzy Willie keeper one of the great place hitters of All time was a Man of playing with the new York americans of 1903, keeper round himself on third with teammate Joe Ganzel on a grounder to Short Willie tried to score but the Washington shortstop had him out by a mile so Willie pulled up Short grinned and stuck out his hand to congratulate the senator Catcher. Naturally the rival Catcher was flattered by the gesture an modestly accepted Keeler s Praise. The Catcher almost swallowed we Baa when the wee one dashed past him to the great haste the desperate Catcher uncorked a throw to is Pitcher covering Home but the Hasty Peg hit Willie smack in the Lack Ana rolled to the stands.,. As a result of Willie s Man Euver Ganzel also came loping in too. For a taste of of Juroe baseball Munich Augsburg unbeaten Heilbronn Germany Spe Cial William Jennings Home run with the bases empty in the sixth inning lifted Munich to a 4-3 Victory Over Heilbronn tues Day in the second Day of Competition in the Southern Section of District 4 Germany Little league play Here. Ralph Baker gave up five hit Sand was Munich s winning Pitcher. Steven Goodwin who gave up six hits while fanning eight took the loss for Heilbronn. Heilbronn came Back later inthe Day to oust Neu Ulm from the double elimination meet witha 13-hit attack that accounted for a 10-4 win. Paul Blair who relieved John Best in the third in Ning gained credit for the Vic tory. Ronald Gutherie took the defeat for the Neu Ulm team. In the other game played on tuesday Steven Trumbo fanned 15 batters in the six inning con test and gave up Only three hits but was the losing Pitcher a Augsburg nudged Oberammergau 5-4. Leroy Graham who took Over the Augsburg Mound chores in Relief of James re Neon in the second inning gave up Only two hits the rest of the Way an struck out 11 to get the win. American golfer beats . Seeking sixth straight Crown Fontainebleau Frances a the United states seeks its sixth straight Cir International Reserve officers Competition championship Here Start ing wednesday As five nations try to dethrone the yanks who have dominated this Competition the past five years. Headed by it. Col. Lawrence. Bocher jr., chief of the . Delegation and capt. Gerry , the team coach the by boo Odem staff writer stars and stripes local former German Champ Cologne Germany a James Dolson an american Serviceman stationed at Stutt Gart produced the first Surprise in the 33rd International German Golf championships Here Mon Day. He Defeated former Ger Man Champion Erik Sells Opp 5 and 4. In another first round result former Wimbledon Tennis Cham Pion Bob Falkenburg of Brazi Defeated John Matheny of Fitz Simons colo., 4 and 3.defending Champion Jan Ger hard Mueller is not competing. Chison rehire Gutteridge Chicago a Don Gutteridge has been rehired As Chicago White sox coach by manager Al Lopez. Gutt Ridgewas a White sox coach from 1955 through 1966. He leaves the Kan Sas City royals expansion team organization where he was scout. Boros climbs into top ten with pea win Palm Beach Garden Fla. Up Tulius boros1 pea championship Triumph vaulted him into the top-10 Money win Ning list with sixth place earnings of $82,701. Boros collected $25,000 Sunda for his first tournament Victory of the Palmer the All time Money Winner gained ninth place in the standings with his $12,500 share of the Rich pm purse. He has won $68,883. Billy Casper widened his Lead Over second place Tom Weis Kopf with a $5,750 payoff in Thetga that lifted his total for the year to $135,935. Weiskopf is the Only other Hundred grand Winner at $129,686.lee Trevino the . Open Champ retained third place at$97,645, but his position was seriously challenged by Georg Earcher who made $7,500 for his fourth place tie in the pea an now has won $96,041. Dave Stockton is fifth with $88,436.rounding out the top 10 Are Miller Barber 7$75,142 Jack Nicklaus 8th. $69,428 and Bob by Lunn 10th$68,875. . Is favored again to take tha968 Competition which includes free categories shooting obstacle course and Utility swim Ming. Shooting opens the six Day meet on wednesday at 8 . And the obstacle running an Utility swimming will be held at 8 . Friday. A military Orien tation March will be on thurs Day s Agenda and surveying Themo Nunelon military Camp is on saturday s slate. A Salute to the colors and the presentation of awards will be made closing ceremonies will be monday. The . Team will be quartered at Camp Guynemer located five Miles from Here. The entire Competition will take place Here. An Overall test of stamina Speed and skill is needed for this Competition. The entrant must be Able to shoot swim read maps interpret maps Aerial photos read a Compass estimate distances to eve throwing hand grenades for accuracy. The obstacle course will cover500 meters and the entrants must be Able to run crawl dive climb and jump through it in a matter of a few minutes. Host country uniforms the visiting nations Are bound by the regulations of the Cir to Wear the uniforms of the Host nation and compete with its shooting . May be at a disadvantage due to a mix up since twas Able to use the French weapons and equipment for the final two weeks of its training program. The equipment was available till then. The . Will have six three Man teams in the Competition. The . Delegation that made the trip Here includes it. Col. Lawrence c. Bocher or. Tea chief capt Gerry k. Knapp. Team coach capt. Carlos b. Gonzalez medi Cal officer and assistant coach capt. Peter b. Johanson capt Daniel w Hal pin capt James c. Rosenfeld capt Robert d. Manchester Urt it Ron 1st it Richard a. Maben 1st it Davidson f. Dunlap or 1st Lycurtis b. To Lufield 1st it John j. Asia 1st it Marvin Dupree 2nd Stmartin c. Coren 2nd it Raymond d. Miller 1st it John a Slattebo 2ndlt Holland Elsea 2nd it Charles t. Antku 1st it Donald a Bennett 2nd.lt Roger a Harvey 2nd it David a Brewer 1st it Richard d. Andrews maj. Alexander a. Garry 1st it Richard a Hubbard sgt . Robert j. coach 8,St Johnny f. Garlic Rifle coach. European championships to Host Field Archery meet by Ray Wrights a Ramsten Bureau chief Ramstein Germany is the european Field Archery Efa championships will beheld aug. 12-17 at Ramstein Archery think this will be the largest and Best meet in Man years said Lynn Burroughs vice president of the Ramstein club. From 250 to 300 archers Are expected from England Scot land France Austria Spain and members of the National Field Archery . Europe Faa aae Are encouraged to pre Register forthe Competition at a reduced rate Burroughs said. Those who wait until aug. 18 will have to pay the full Entrance fee. We have made Many improvements at our Range since our last fac meet in 1965,"said Curtis t. Wells club presi Dent. We have installed More picnic tables outside grills rest benches for archers and spectators at every target and have built a new lounge in our non members of Faa Abeare Welcome to participate whether classified or not Bur roughs said. A special International class has been formed to group those not affiliated. Events scheduled include open ing ceremonies at 8 30 an. Mon Day aug. 12, followed by assign ment of targets 28 Field at 9 . And shooting beginning at9 30. Afternoon targets will be assigned at 1 30 with shooting getting uner Way at 2 .thereafter, assignment of tar gets will take place at 8 30 .and 1 30 . Each Day with shooting beginning half an hour later. The schedule tuesday aug. 1328 Hunter morning and after noon and a running Boa Novelty wednesday aug. 1428 animal targets and a clout Novelty thursday aug. 15-28 Hunter annual business meeting of aae at the officers club Annex Friday aug. 1628 Field tar gets saturday aug. 17surprise novelties in the morning aae banquet at the no club inter National with awards present a Tion beginning with cocktail hour at 5 30
