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"-00iI"00kie's00SIDELINE SLANTS Babe Ruth All-Stars Lose In Finals That Jay.ell ConOndrum Disappointment is inescapable among the teenage athletes who composed Shelton's 1969 Junior Legion baseball club and their adult leaders. What should have been and what was came out so far apart. This was a squad which possessed the talent to have captured one title and if not another at least have come much closer to it than the team did. This weekend Puyalhtp goes after a berth in the American Legion state baseball tournament wearing the 4th District title Shelton should hold. Shelton dissipated two glowing opportunities to wrest that district diadem from Puyallup at Spanaway Park and Puyallup last weekend went on to trample a Tacoma team in the district finals. One game beyond the half-way mark in the Olympic Connie Mack schedule Sheiton owned a nifty 7-1 record and sole possession of first place in the league. At season's end Shelton sat at 7-5 and in fourth place. A sudden and inexplicable batting slump hit the squad right after the 4th of July tournament at Longview and the team went 23 consecutive innings without a score, had only one unearned run in a stretch of 30 innings. Just as suddenly as the plate affliction appeared it disappeared during the district tournament, and the team hit like its old self against Lacey and Puyallup, but base-running boo-boos and fielding boots handed the titular games to Puyallup. What accounts for such sudden ups and downs is a subject which has frustrated and confimnded experts since Abner Doubleday thought up the diamond sport. In this particular instance, a case could be argued on the platform of creeping exhaustion. Ed Adams and Joe Campbell worked graveyard shifts in Simpson mills, and accommodating sleep with playing schedules wasn't exactly simple for them, possibly. Neither used this as an excuse. Most of the other players had jobs, too, of more amenable hours and probably no different fundamentally from the situation on any other ball club. If creeping exhaustion did contribute to the problem, how come the batting slump suddenly disappeared virtually overnight? Whatever happened, one of the most promising seasons in many years for Shelton Jay-ells evaporated within two weeks and the posture of championship faded like a prom :on that old 11 still comforting cliche - wait 'til next year. With only three key players departing due to age eligibility -- and two of them did not have their best seasons - the outlook for 1970 is as promising as that preceding this season just concluded. Perhaps that fatal fall-off will fail to raise its ugly head a year hence. SPORTS SPLINTERS --- Truly remarkable among the myriad statistics of this Junior Legion ball season is Jim Corey's record with bat in hand. The slim ! 50-pound competitor walked up to the plate 82 times during the 21-game season and struck out just once. At the same time he drew only four walks from opposing pitchers for another highly out-of-proportion batting ratio. Jim was moved into the clean-up spot in the batting order late in the season and popped eight hits in 17 at bats during that period. Sideline Slants readers last week no doubt were slightly baffled putting the 76 years attributed to Frank Tobin with the picture bearing his name. Sorry about that, the picture was of Bob Tobey, some 38 years younger than Frank. Many of the golfers who participated in last week's 19th Hole Club competition could argue a strong case against the need for lugging so many clubs around the course with them. The special event was one in which the participants were allowed to play with any two clubs of their choice, and not a few found they did just about as well with the two as with a ftdl bag. Ran Ellis, for instance, won the event using a 3-iron and a 7-iron with which he concocted a 9-hole card of 45, which is just about on the button him a winning net card of 33. Just to see if it was a fluke, Ran played a second nine and came up with a 46 using the same two clubs. tte fotmd putting with his 3-iron as effective as with his regular putter. He wasn't alone in this general result. If 1 had to put money on one Shelton Junior Legion player making it in pro baseball it would be on stocky Mike Hagan, the sophomore right-hander from North Mason. With two years of high school ball yet to come, and three more seasons of Jay-ell eligibility, Mike has a great future in front of him if he takes care of his arm and ,,  IttitU,  ' a fortune hani from ,that right shoulder, if things go right in the next half dozen years. By CHARLES GAY The Shelton Babe Ruth All-Stars lost the district c ha m pionship last Sunday afternoon in Port Orchard after winning their first two games in a local tournament to send the best team to the state competition. On Wednesday of last week, Sheiton won its first Babe Ruth All-Star game in history. Clyde Rains hurled a two-hit shutout for Shelton's 1-0 squeaker over the Bremerton Police All-Star team. Both pitchers in the contest gave up two hits, struck out 10 batters, gave up seven walks, and went the entire distance. Bremerton's pitcher was in no trouble until the seventh inning, when Terry Knight got a single. Knight stole second, and the pitcher made an error on an attempted pickoff, sending the ball into center field and Knight to third base. Clyde Rains then hit the other single off the Bremerton hurler to score Knight. Shelton held off Bremerton by putting them down one-two-three in their half of the seventh, and the victory was secured. On Saturday afternoon, the local team had a field day off three Olympia pitchers. Dan Larimer pitched an almost flawless one-hitter. That one hit coupled with an error and walk scored Olympia's only run and spoiled Larimer's hopes for a no-hit shutout, as Shelton won, 8-1. Mike Nutt hit a home run in the sixth ining for Shelton. Larimer put down 14 straight men in the bali game until he walked a man in the fifth inning. He also made five good defensive plays on hits back to the pitcher. After two Shelton batters went down in the first inning, Bob for his average. His 12-stroke handicap gave Wallace got on on an error by the Ill I lllllllllllll I IIIIIIIIllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIII I lllllllllllll I IIIIIIIlllllmlllllllllllllllll I lllllllll III IIIllllll II I IIIIIIIIIIIIIll Ill I I I llllllll Ill I I I llllll Ill I IIIIllll Ill Ill I I I IIllllll Golf Club Calendar FIRST TEAM officially entered in the first annual Bayshore Best Ball two-day golf tournament next month came right out of the sponsoring club. Dick Bostrom (left) and Bob Coots, shown looking at a Best Bali advertising poster, paid their entry fee last week. Bob swings lefthanded while Dick hits in orthodox fashion. The competition will be limited to 68 two.man teams, Invitations to compete have been sent to 26 golf clubs in Western Washington. IIIIllIImmIIIIIIIIIIIIIltHIIIIIIIIIIImIIIIIImIuIIIIIHIII MIXED 2-BALL EVENT RETURNS MANY PRIZES Twenty-seven couples participated in the July mixed 2-ball competition at the Shelton-Bayshore Golf Club last ::, Thursday evening and the potluck di'nner which followed. :ii:! Prize winners were: Closest to pin on No. 3 --' Glen Sowers with Sue Anderson. Closest to pin on No. 2 after 2nd shot -- Ed Frodel with Ruth Houston. Ladies long drive off No. 4 -- Sue Daniels with Roger Anderson (for those over 36 handicap), Gert Batstone with Jack Kimbel (for under 36). Men's long drive off No. 9 - Sonny Lowe with Lila Frodel. Low Gross - Bill Batstone and i Nita Kimbel. Low Net - (first) John Long and Helen Rice, (second) Bob Olson and Hazel Durand, (third) Dick Bostrom and Maxine EFFICIENCY EXPERTS of the links, you might call them. Gunnarson. At least Harry Cole, Bean Daniels, Arn Cheney and Darrell * * * , * * Denniston (left to right) shot holes-in-one recently at the SANFORD-RICE ADVANCE Shelton-Bayshore golf course, and you just can't be any more IN TEAM CAPTAINS PLAY efficient than that. The quartet posed around the 3rd green Ron Sanford and Ray Rice cup, into which all but Denniston hit their aces. Denniston were the last winners in the got his on the 7th hole. second round and the first in the third round of the 1969 Team Captains tournament now in progress at the Shelton-Bayshore Golf Club. Ran and Ray defeated Bill Batstone and Rocky Hembroff to complete the second round last week, then over the weekend eliminated Mickey Goodwin and Glen Robertson in the only third round match played at this writing. Third round play must be finished by this Sunday. • OS¢/$* : WALKER PLAYING IN ,t ..... NORTHWEST GOLF OPEN i: Shelton golf pro Ray Walker shot a 76 at Seattle's lnglewood course Monday in the opening round of the 1969 Northwest golf open, a position about mid-way in the huge field of 90 pros and 114 amateurs entered in the 72-hole competition. In the pro-am preliminary to the main event, Walker's 71 was just two strokes off the winner's 69. Three others also shot 71 and four had 70. Ray was only one stroke behind the lead at 59 in L:: • .... the best-baU competition. Page I0 - Sheiton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, July 31, 1969 first baseman. Terry Knight then rapped a single. With Doug Long at the plate, both men advanced on a passed ball. Long earned a base on balls to load the bases, but the next batter struck out to end the inning. Larimer put out Olympia shortly in the first inning. He struck out the first man, then made a play himself to first. Another grounder was caught by the shortstop and the play was made for the third out. Shelton went down easily in. the second inning and Latimer got three more Olympia batters in a row, :i The first batter in the top of the third inning for Shelton struck out, then Dave Nutt was hit by the pitcher. Bob Wallace struck out, but Terry Knight got on when the third baseman made an error. Long struck out to end the inning. Latimer did it to Olympia again in the third on a flyout, a pitcher-to-first play, and a stikeout. In the fourth, Shelton started the feast. Mark Johnson was awarded a bse on balls to start it off. Then Mike Nutt, pinch-hitting for Jim Johnson, hit a single to advance Johnson to second. A sacrifice by Tim Fredson worked and got Johnson and Nutt another base towards home. Latimer helped his own cause when he got a single to score the two men on base. Elmer Herrel walked, as did Dave Nutt, to load the bases. Bob Wallace stepped up to the plate and hit a triple to right field. He raced around the bags as the right fielder had trouble with the key hit, and the three players on the bases before him scored. Wallace was left on third when the inning ended. Knight struck out and Mike Johnson, another pinch-hitter, went out to third base. Larimer had five big runs to work with when he started the fourth inning and put out three men in a row. He added a stikeout by whiffing the third batter of the inning. Mark Johnson started off the fifth inning for Shelton with a walk. A fly to the first baseman kept him on first on the next play. Fredson got him to second on a single and Larimer again singled to score Johnson. Herrel flew to left field for out number two and then Nutt singled to load the bases. Wallace had the bases loaded once again, but this time he popped to second to end the inning. Latimer had the first two men out in the fifth inning to stretch his string to 14 in a row, but that was all. He lost batter number 15 on a walk. The next batter was on when the second baseman made an error. The only hit of the ball game for Olympia, a single, came just in time to score their run. Two men were left on ;he bases for Olympia when the next batter went out on a shortstop to first play. Olympia had the first two Shelton battent out before some more trouble allowed Shelton to score two more runs. Mark Johnson was hit by the pitcher and Mike Nutt scored him with a 300 foot homer over the right field fence, As a result of this homer and Wallace's triple, Shelton's only two left-handed batters accounted for five of the eight runs. Fredson went out on a hit back to the pitcher for the last out. Larimer put down the next six Olympia batters in order in the last two innings, and m the seventh, Shelton did the same. One of the interesting statistics in this game is that Mark Johnson was officially O-for-I at the plate, but he scored three runs, more than any other Shelton player. This is accounted for by the fact that he struck out his first time at bat, then was walked his second and third times at the plate, and hit by the pitcher his fourth trip. Free rides do not count as official trips to the plate, but they played a key role in this game. He was sent home twice by Dan Larimer, and once by Mike Nutt's homer. BOX SCORE AB R H RBI E Herrel 4 I 0 0 0 Nutt, D. 3 I I 0 I Wallace 3 0 I 3 0 Knight 3 0 1 0 0 Long 2 0 0 0 0 Johnson, Mike I 0 0 0 0 Johnson, Mark I 3 0 0 0 Johnsen I 0 0 0 0 Nutt, M. 3 2 2 2 0 Bourgault I 0 0 0 0 Fredson 2 0 I 0 0 Larimer 4 I 2 2 0 H R-Nutt, M. 3b-Wallace lb-Nutt, D.,Knight, Nutt. M., Fredson, Latimer-2. BB-tlerrel, Nutt, D., Long, Johnson, Mark-2. HP-Johnson, Mark; Nutt, D. Sac.-Fredson. On Sunday, Shelton could not score any runs, although they threatened several times. Clyde Rains pitched a three hitter in going all the way, and the North Kitsap pitcher had a two hit shutout. The final score was 4-0. The North pitcher had a good regular-season record coming into the game. He had pitched four no-hitters and five shutouts in league play. Shelton was the visiting team again as it had been for the two previous games. Sheiton was put down in order for the first three innings. In the fourth, a walk was given to Elmer tterrel, and he was the only one to survive running the bases against the North pickoffs. Elmer had been put out at ftr :with pickoff in the firs( inning, as had Terry Knight. Six batters faced Rains in the first inning and one of them scored. Herrel made the long throw from third for the first out on the first batter. Then Rains walked the next man. He hit the next batter, and on the next play he made an error. lie put out the next batter at first, but it was a squeeze play that North had planned. With only one out, the batter bunted to the pitcher. The man on third was only a few steps away from home, and they had no play there, so Clyde threw to first for the out. The catcher Mike Nutt made the next play on an accidental bunt in front of the plate. North had gotten a run on no hits, an error, a walk, and a hit batsman. Rains got out the side in the second inning, but had trouble again in the third. The first batter led off with a single. Frying to pick him off, Rains was called for balking and the man was awarded second. North's next batter was called out because he stepped on the plate, and the man on second who had gone to third in the mixup had to go back. A fly to center field was caught by Terry Knight for out number two. Rains walked the next batter, but Mike Nutt's good throw" to third put out the runner. With two away and a full count, he was going on anything, and Nutt rifled the ball down to Herrel who made the tag. In the fourth inning, Dave Nutt caught a pop up for the first out, then Rains walked another. A fielder's choice got that man at second and the fourth batter of the inning flied to Larimer in right field. After Herrel got on in the fourth inning, Shelton went down in order, as they did the next inning. The fifth inning was the bad one for Rains. it started with a single by the first batter. That man got to third on an error after another single by the next North batsman. One man was put out at home on a fielder's choice play, but an error and a overthrow on another fielder's choice allowed the three men on the bases to come in and score. Rains made the second out and struck out the next batter to end the nightmare. In the" sixth inning, Shelton made a hid but was shut off. Bob Wallace got their first hit by: beating out a bunt. Rains struck out, hut Herrel kept it alive with the only other Shelton hit, another single. With men on the second and third stones, the next two batters went out. Rains got North Kitsap out in order in the sixth inning, and Shelton made their best and final bid for some runs in the seventh. Fredson struck out for the first out, and Knight got on when the pitcher threw him four straight balls. Mike Johnson was also awarded a walk by the pitcher, but this time the count was full before the pitcher lost him. Neal White also had a full count, but he struck out for out number two. Bob Wallace was also given first base by the pitcher to load the bases for Rains. He struck out to end the game. Both Wallace and tterrel were officially one for one at the plate, each having walked twice and hit a single. Terry Knight was the only other Shelton batter walked twice. North Kitsap moved to the state playoffs at White Center this week. Yesterday they were to have played their first game. On Saturday night, North was forced to use second and third string pitchers in their game with Central Kitsap to see who played Shelton in the championship the. next day. They barely survwed the game, winning it 15-14 in the bottom of the seventh inning after Central had come back to go ahead in the slugfest. The last Central run which was the go ahead tally was protested by a handfuil of North fans present to see the game, but it made no difference in the outcome of the game, as North scored the two runs they needed in their half of the seventh and the game was over. After North scored three runs in the first inning to take a lead for two innings, Central scored ten runs in the third. Some fans were wondering if the inning was ever going to end as they pushed across ten big ones. To top that, of course, Central blew their seven run lead when North scored seven off Central's bad pitching to, get them back in the game. it was the second time this season that North Kitsap has spoiled Shelton's All-Star hopes. A few weeks back, the North Little League team beat Shelton's at South Kitsap's field, 5-1. SEVERAL SHELTON ALL-STARS mob he had pitched a near perfect one-hitter I Olympia. CHUBB NUTT, right, congratulates son M homer in Saturday's game at South KitsaP. :7 CLYDE RAINS, left, and Terry Knight, two hits in the Shelton All-Stars' Wednesday. The two singles came in Rains' hit allowing Knight to score third. ELMER HERREL takes a cut ata Olympia All-Star during the two tea Orchard last Saturday. MIKE NUTT, running, is greeted smashing a 300 foot homer in the Shelton's game with Olympia.