European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 the stars and stripes league world series by Chuck Lucas Williamsport a. Spe Cial All indications were that the same lineup that recorded shutout victories in each of three Europe Little league tournament Ames or Wiesbaden Ger Many would take the Field for Europe against Pacific in the fourth and final opening round game of the 22nd annual world series wednesday. The Europe game at 11 . Get follows the opening round meeting Between East s Hagers town. Md., and West s Santa Ana tuesday opening round games South s Richmond va., the pre tournament favorite lived up to expectations with an impressive 6-2 Victory Over North s Turre haute ind., and earlier Sherbrooke Quebec advanced to the semifinal round by subduing latin America s Chi in Mega Nicaragua 1-0. Europe manager John de Simone interrupted his heavy daily practice schedule Only Lon enough to allow the sons of american air Force families i Wiesbaden to watch the color and pageantry of series opening drills took up much of the morning and the batting Cage was the Center of attention until darkness overtook the Little league Camp. Right hander Pitcher Dave tip ton was almost a certainty to be on the Mound against the All native japanese team from Wakayama. Impressed by the quickness of the japanese team in its work outs Desimone caused some sur prise by mentioning the possibility of starting Keith Dunn the team s regular second baseman. Dunn alternated As a Pitcher during the regular season but has no Mound experience in the playoffs. Desimone described Dunn As a junk Pitcher and said his Type of delivery might throw the Wakayama batters off stride. Most observers however Hereof the opinion that by game time Desimone would stick with themore experienced Tipton with his fastball specially and occasional curve and Slider. Andre Jones .474whose consistent hitting prompted de Simone to move him up in the batting order late in the Germany playoffs will Lead off and play Golf notes Casper tops on Money list again Palm Beach gardens Fla. Up Billy Casper has re claimed his Lead from to Weiskopf in the professional golfers association Money winning race but Julius Boros was coming up fast. Casper now has won $146,895to move Back in front. Boros who won the $50,000 first prize in sunday s Westchester classic Windup charged into second with $144.835. Weiskopf dropped Back to third with $143,721. Jack Nicklaus turned it into four Man race with his $141,007 Good enough Only for fourth place. The in Adrid with number at tour new in in 1 Billy Casper t j Julius bums Ruji 3 turn 2 1 4 Jack r. I 5 of Ai Ilii a 1 2 1 15. A i of 1 7. Dan cd. 8 Mill i h i Iii a ill l i a Stockton i2 10 Krai k a $140,805 144,835 143,7m 141,007 105,381 100,010 98,52 it 2,219 8s.5-11 Cincinnati a Carol Mann lost a Little ground to Kathy Whitworth in the ladies professional Golf association official tournament winnings Buther tie for second in the Holiday inn tournament at St. Louis enabled her to break the Lyga winnings record for one season. Lyga Headquarters Here said monday miss Mann who has won seven tournaments on the1968 tour now has won $33,810. The old record of $33,517 was set by Mickey Wright in 1968. Miss Whitworth picking upper fifth Victory of the year Sun Day has won $31,935. Sandra Haynie and Mickey right held to the third and fourth positions miss Haynie with $19,024 and miss Wright with $17,147. . Basketball team wins Gree tourney Athens special the 2140 15 communications Del. Won thele Greece basketball tournament by beating the technical school of Levias 57-56. Tom shoo Pinan paced the win ners with 28 Points and Mike Jio Pella followed with 19. The championship game terminate three months of basketball com petition. Kerr overtakes Moore for slim Pentathlon Lead san Antonio Tex. Up Jim Kerr of Waukesha wis., gained a seventh place in swimming Competition tuesday to overcome a near perfect shooting record by capt. Jim Moore of Erie a. And took a slim three Point Lead in the Pentathlon Champion ships and olympic trials. With Only one event to go Kerr had 8,768 Points to 8,766for Moore. Only one Point Back in third was Tom Lough Ofel town va., with 8,765. Moore took Over first place briefly tuesday morning by winning the shooting Competition with his Best score Ever recorded in competition197 out of 200. But Kerr who has Lead the trials much of the Way moved Back in front after the afternoon swimming Competition when Moore finished only15th among the swimmers. The final event a Cross country run will be held wednesday. The top three willbe on the olympic team with the next three being alternates. Paul Pesthy of san Antoni was fourth with 8,514, or. Bob Beck of san Antonio fifth with8,493 and capt. Don Walheim of Bala Cynwyd pa., sixth with8,291. Chuck Richards of Tacoma,wash., won the swimming Competition with a time of3 27.7, Only .4 seconds off his world record time set last Fri Day. Richards score gave him total of 8,253 and moved him into seventh place. Right Field. Tipton .306 will a second followed by Carl Gicic .333 at first base. Giese had the club s Only two Home run sin the playoffs. Jim Lytle .268 is at Short an will Bat cleanup. The right handed Lytle 4-0 in the playoffs also will be ready for Relief duty should Tipton run into Thomas .237at third base will Bat fifth. Cente fielder Doug Simpson who while batting .343, is considered to be in a slump by Desimone bats sixth. I look for Doug to bust of in this series for us Desimone said. Dunn .261 follows in the seventh Slot. Another expected to Surprise according to Desimone is Den Nis Mcnulty .214the left fielder batting eighth. Mcnulty and Simpson both hit the Longballa in regular season and could do it Here very easy Desimo Esaid. Completing the batting order is Catcher Steve Clark .229 who with Thomas at third has been most impressive in work outs to Date. Probably standing the bes Chance of breaking into this lineup is Reserve outfielder tonys t u d e a the club s Only left handed Batter who has a pair of hits in five times at Bat of a healthy .400 members of the squad ready to do anything they can toward bringing Home Europe s first Victory in series Champion ship play Are Dave Bjornson .167first base coach Ken Schmoke .333third base coach and Reserve outfielder Tom Pennington and infielder Chuck Hall each still looking for his first hit in the playoffs. Series slants the series open ing ceremony still ranks As one of the most colourful events inthe sporting world. The Brief but impressive activity consists of a four Man interservice Mili tary color guard each accompanied by a Little league player proceeding to five Large Flag poles which Are located behind ,. .6g ens 1 present the pledge concludes tin appearance of Snguan team almost caused crisis Over its Anthem the mexican Anthem has on k c l?j.hejfarchlvT, hut this is a a nation other to Ian has represented he Arica Region. A Call voice of America involved the problem. Smaller flags of each of thp50 states Complete the e of the Outfield Wall a200-feet from Home plate. Prior to the flaw raising Cere Mony Hal Schumacher Winner of 158 games with the new York giants during the Middle 30sthrew out the first Ball a slide that eluded John m. Und Emuth assistant to Little league presi Dent Peter j. I govern Schumacher joined Little league in april and is Princi Pally assigned As consultant tothe organization s new big league a Pilot program started this year with 24 leagues in the 16-18 age group. More than 6,000 leagues Are represented in this year s series a three per ent increase overcast year despite Normal Attri Tion losses. The 1,200 senior leagues Ages 13-15 represented a 13 per cent increase. Only a smattering of partisan fans were on hand for tuesday Slatin America Canada opener. It was a different Story in the second game with More than 300 Rabid Richmond rooters on Han with an ample Supply of con federate Miller one of four urn p i r e s assigned to tuesday games generated a Roar from the crowd with his expressive antics at first base a la Emmett Ashford of the american in ague. Cubs option Pitcher Chi Jago up the Chica go cubs have optioned Pitcher Gary Koss to Tacoma and called up Pitcher Archie Reynolds from the same team. Pitching in Dave Tipton left of Wiesbaden s in humps and Takuyuki n Ishido of Wakayama Japan team up to demolish some Valci Melon before going into action in the world series were expected to be opening round game. 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