The Altus Times (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 63, No. 151, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 25, 1985 Page: 4 of 12
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session, the Cubs were ahead, 3-1, in me get along for all these years.
the sixth and I said, yeah, they’re
Many other sports greats were on in the city that night."
The other day he and his wife
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All of them had to do with the way says. “He didn’t give the score.”
they had been waiting two hours for
One of the stewardesses recogniz- any kind of help.
ed Banks.
Banks explained he had no cable,
anybody else because the Cubs never Padres are in the World Series.
talking about those Cubs he played said to her, tell me it’s not true.
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the final score of the game that fast.
"I was looking for some way that it Banks.”
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jorie, were here for the Legend of gonna do it. I was anticipating get-
Sports reunion party at the Sands ting back to Chicago because I was
“I told the stewardess I didn’t it to couldn’t believe their eyes. They
believe it, I didn’t want to believe it. I wanted to know where he got the
Two blocks away, he flagged down
a cab and secured a cable from the
driver. The people whom he brought
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faith.
He and his charming wife, Mar-
Banks had now heard the bad news
twice.
with and the ones he follows now,
primarily on TV.
Banks hit 512 home runs for the
Cubs and played in 2,528 games for
them, but the closest he ever came to
being in a World Series was in 1969
when the Mets came from behind in
August to pass Chicago and win.
says.
Until last October when he felt he
The stewardess said she'd go back
and check with the pilot. She did,
then came back to Banks.
"That’s true,” she told him.
Many things went through Banks’
Ernie says he really wanted to cry,
but he didn't.
He has been out of baseball 14
the Cubs keep losing.
Banks is a Hall of Famer and was
MVP twice, but people figure he
knows more about losing than
won during his 18 years with them
from late 1953 through 1971.
“It hurt then, and to tell you the
truth, it still does,” he confesses,
"Did you hear that " she asked but got out of his car and urged the
him. “The Padres beat the Cubs. The couple to wait.
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Darise Smith; 11. Steve Torrez; 12.
Justin North.
Trophy Dash-1. Dean Flanagan;
2. Buck Boyd; 3. Jorge Linares.
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First Heat-1. Frank Callahan; 2.
Jerry Crosby; 3. John Richardson; 4.
Steve Homkamp; 5. George Eiler; 6.
Teddy Pope.
Feature-1. Jerry Crosby; 2. John
Richardson; 3. Frank Callahan; 4.
Steve Homkamp; 5. Teddy Pope; 6.
George Eiler.
Trophy Dash-1. John Richardson;
2. Frank Callahan; 3. Jerry Crosby.
LATE MODEL
First Heat-1. Mike Salmon; 2.
Tom Caldwell; 3. Eddie Manning; 4.
Randy Allen; 5. David Bryce; 6.
Donel Deweese; 7. Bill Dean; 8.
Lorne Nuttral; 9. Walter Boron.
Second Heat-1. Steve Lewis; 2
Jimmy Wyatt; 3. Earl Jobe; 4. David
Newsome; 5. Gene Bryce; 6. Hank
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Second Heat-1. John Rodriquez; 2.
Steve Seay; 3. Jerry Don Hamby; 4.
Mike Deweese; 5. Jerry Duncan; 6.
Mike Crawford; 7. Donald Bolf; 8.
Trevor Deweese.
Feature-1. John Rodriquez; 2.
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Mike Deweese; 5. Donald Bolf; 6.
Johnny Morgan; 7. Harlan Carter; 8.
Jerry Duncan; 9. Trevor Deweese;
10. Steve McAdoo; 11. Mike
Crawford; 12. Floyd Pond; 13. John
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Fowler; 16. Norman Smith.
Trophy Dash-1. Jerry Don Ham-
by; 2. Steve Seay; 3. John Rodriquez.
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First Heat-1. Richard Smith; 2.
Justin North; 3. Dean Flanagan; 4.
Nicky Baker; 5. Darise Smith; 6.
Steve Torrez; 7. Junior Foley.
Second Heat-1. Jorge Linares; 2.
Jim Dollar; 3. Buck Boyd; 4. Larry
West; 5. Jim Cabbell; 6. Todd
Gastineau.
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Baker; 5. Dean Flanagan; 6. Jorge
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The Cubs' Richie Hebner hits the dirt getting away from a close pitch by Mets pitcher
Dwight Gooden as catcher Gary Carter watches in the 4th inning at Shea Stadium. The
Mets swept the three-game series from the Cubs, who have now lost 12 consecutive
games. (DPI Wire Photo)
nent in girls 14 doubles. They are Altus, and will team with Dawnya
ranked 11th in the state. Wilson of Lawton in girls 18-and-
:In boys 12-and-under singles, Ryan under doubles.
Adair, Mike Timoskevich and Danny
Timoskevich represented Altus. In boys 18-and-under singles, John
dair, who is state ranked and win- Bednarz, Roland Ferenczhalmy and
ner of both the Ardmore and Lawton Jimmy Sullivan are the Altus
tournaments, is top seeded in the players. Jason Shaw of El Reno, who
turnament. J.T. Elder of Edmond is is seeded No. 1, is ranked 28th in the
seeded seconds state, and Bil* Shaw, the No. 2 seed,
’ Adair and Mike Timoskevich, state Is ranked 45th in the state.
ranked in doubles, are the top-seeded Play is being held at both the Altus
tfam. High School and City of Altus Great
■ "In girls 12-and-under singles Plains Park courts.
hand like Warren Spahn, Bob Feller, The flight from Oklahoma City to rented a car and drove to Sausalito
Oscar Robertson, Julius Erving, Chicago takes an hour and 10 outside San Francisco. They stopped
Gordie Howe, Wayne Gretzky, Bob- minutes. to admire the view when a couple
by Lane and Doak Walker, but Banks “Forty-Five minutes after we from Colorado came over and asked
was the one who had to answer the were in the air, the pilot announced Banks if he had a cable because the
most questions. the Padres beat the Cubs,” Banks battery in their car was dead and
Intermittent showers were appearance of the defending ed his game sufficiently to dominate
forecast for Tuesday as well, women's champion Martina both tiebreakers.
threatening further delays in getting Navratilova. “I am glad to have got it over, and
Wimbeldon properly underway. The five-time women’s titlist was neither of us got hurt,” Lendl said.
The only match that was com- scheduled to open play on Centre “But if they stopped every other
Country Club of Indianapolis "It pleted, out of the 67 scheduled for the Court against fellow American Lisa match, they should have stopped
was real hard not think about what it opening day, took place on No1 Bonder. ours. Something could have hap-
would mean to me," she said. "But it court, where men’s second seed Ivan But the rest of “Ladies Day” at pened.”
was fun thinking about it ” Lendl + with difficulty + ousted Wimbledon had to take second place One player glad of the rain disrup-
Miller won by six strokes with an American Mel Purcell 6-4, 7-6 (7-2), to catching up the backlog of men’s tion was Chris Evert Lloyd, seeded
8-under-par 280, playing her steady 7-6 (7-2). matches postponed from Monday. joint No.1 with Navratilova.
brand of golf. ’ No play was possible on any of the McEnroe and McNamara were Evert Lloyd strained a neck mus-
She made par or birdie on the first 16 outside courts. due to follow Navratilova and cle last week, and asked for a
five holes, followed with a bogey, a Top seed John McEnroe got onto Bonder onto Centre Court, with postponement of her first round
Opening rounds began today in the Starley Gensman Steohanie Gav birdie and then six more pars. Centre Court and briefly into action, Yugoslavia s Slobodan Zivojinovic match against Mary Lou Piatek.
Altus Junior Open Tennis Touma- Jennifer Shurley and Robyn Adair A 67 gave Miller the first-round but his defense of the men s singles
ment, sanctioned by the United are representing Altus, while lead, but she ballooned to a 4-over 76 title was barely under way when
States Tennis Association and the Solveigh King and Stephanie Will- Friday to drop to a tie for fourth. A , .
Oklahoma District Association. ingham are also from the area, 5-under 67 Saturday brought her Trio wins
- Today, singles and doubles were representing Blair. back into the lead. F muj
played in both boys and girls 14 and Monica Lane of Oklahoma City is Beth Solomon, Mary Beth Zimmer- T IL 4
under and 12-and-under divisions. favored in the girls 12 singles event man and Jane Blalock finished se- I WIIIYnII
Inthe 14-and-under boys, Paul ’n the boys 16-and-under singles, condat 2-under 286. Zimmerman, ~
Reed and Craig Dickson represented which begins Wednesday, Bobby who began the final round in a three- tournev
Altus. Sullivan and Tommy Stranlee are W tie for fifth, paired every hole
Seeded players in boys 14 singles respresenting Altus. Sunday,
are Elton Jenkins, Oklahoma City, ,, , , The second-place finishers receiv- Bill Backstrom, Pat Simpson and
No. 1; Chris Wall, Moore, No. 2; Harrisonrrostof Duncan is seed- ed $17,709 each. Jim Baker combined to win the
Michael Sparks, Duncan, No. 3; and , , °: and 15ranked 2nd in the Lori Garbacz and Amy Benz tied weekly Twilight Golf tournament at
John Fenel, No. 4, state in boys 16-and-under singles for third at 287 the Altus Elks Golf and Country
Wall and Jenkins teamed as the -ohC a , 1Y 0 Seminole, seeded Amateur Martha Foyer secured Club.
top-seeded duo in boys 14 doubles. . p n a ■ Vcu in th e state: the highest finish for an amateur on The winning threesome carded a
-In girls 14 singles, Jill Fischer, in . e -egrin.o Edmon ♦ see ded the tour this year and the highest low net of 110, two strokes under the
Sarah Thomas and Sonja Gensman n ’ ran 5d 3rd in the state, and ever in the Mayflower, carding an runnerup team of Mike Hurley, Ran-
are the Altus players. Eichie . Worsham, who is seeded even-par 288. dy Moss and Rick Moss.
I The top-seeded player is Kelly ou ’ s ranked 62nd in the state Ross Lingle, Bill Smith and Flip
Ward of Oklahoma City, who is rank- Also representing Altus is Mike Mackin took third place with a 114.
ed 23rd in the state in girls 14 singles. Gross, who is teaming with Bobby WASHINGTON, D.C. (UPI) + Ap- Mackin also took low gross honors
The No. 2 and 3 seeds are Nicole Sullivan in boys 16 doubles, and proximately 60 former major with his 39 and Mike Hurley was the
Chappell of Oklahoma City, who is Robert Morey and Mike Bryant, leaguers, including 20 members of low net winner with a 32.
rpnked 32nd in the state, and De Ann another Altus team playing in boys baseball’s Hall of Fame, will don Eight 3-man teams participated in
Germany of Oklahoma City, ranked 16-and-under doubles. their uniforms July 1 in the fourth an- the event.
42nd in the state. In girls 18-and-under singles, Deb- nual Cracker Jack Old Timers The Twilight tourney is held each
‘Germany and Ward combined as bie Dent, playing up a division from Baseball Classic at RFK Stadium. Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
the No.l-seeded team in the tourna- girls 16-and-under, is representing _
cable.
“It came from heaven,” he joked
with them, smiling.
“How did you get it. ” they were
curious.
“I stopped a cab driver and told
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Tuesday, June 25, 1985 4
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) + Alice had one more. Maybe he wouldn’t be wasn’t true,” Banks admits. "I Marjorie Banks listened to the
Miller was en route to winning her in the World Series himself, but after wasn’t dealing with reality. I still whole thing and couldn’t help
fourth Ladies Professional Golf those first two playoff games with didn’t believe the Cubs had lost.” laughing.
Association tournament of the year the Padres at Wrigley Field, it seem- When he reached O'Hare Airport "Who else," she said, “would any
and breaking the single-season ed the Cubs certainly would be, and if in Chcago, his wife was waiting for cab driver ever give his cable, let
record for earnings when her caddie they were in it, then it wouldn’t be him. He searched her face for some carry it two blocks away and never
gave her some advice. that difficult for him to fantasize he clue, but she didn’t have the heart to have to worry about him coming
“Hey, they gotta catch you,” he was in it with them, too. To some tell him what she wasn’t sure he back ”
said.
And on Sunday, like in most tour- T • I quAy•Imm
carennheresidenesrpndenoggacozid Kain washes out Wimbledon
Miller, who in seven previous
years on the Tour had won just three WIMBLEDON, England (UPI) + McEnroe successfully appealed that taking on No. 4 seed Mats Wilander
tournaments and $374,000, captured Rain is as traditional an element at the court was too slippery to play on. of Sweden and West German super-
the $250,000 Mayflower Classic to the Wimbledon tennis champion- McEnroe was even at 3-3 in the teenager Boris Becker playing
break JoAnne earner’s single-season ships as over-priced strawberries, first set against Peter McNamara of American Hank Pfister.
earnings record of $310,399 officious officials and amazingly pa- Australia when the American made Lendl took two hours and 13
Consistency has been Miller’s call- tient fans. his appeal, which was seconded by minutes to overcome Purcell, who is
ing card In addition to her four vic- So this year's tournament got off to the tournament referee and Grand ranked 75th in the world but powerful
tories this year, she has finished in a predictable start when rain washed Prix supervisor, on grass courts. Making his usual
the top 10 nine times. The 29-year-old out almost all play Monday. Still, the near-capacity crowd, its slow start, Lendl went down 0-3 in the
is in position to break Judy Rankin’s Spectators waited vainly but in patience tried too far by waiting first set before recovering to 3-3 and
1973 record of 25 top-10 finishes in a good humor for long hours under um- more than four hours for the match then breaking Purcell in the ninth
calendar year brellas for play to begin, gatekeepers to start, booed McEnroe off the game and serving out the set.
Feature-1 Steve Igws. 2 Gene Mickey Wright’s 1963 record of 13 and court ushers tried everyone’s pa- court. There were no service breaks in
Brvce- 3 Eddie Manning’ 4' Mike tournaments won in a calendar year tience even further and there was lit- That match was due to resume + the second set, and one apiece in the
Salmon-' 5 Tom cdeie Randv is more of a long shot for Miller. tle to do apart from allow the weather, of course, permitting + third. But despite slipping and
Allen; 7. Don Deweese; 8. Hank "I just can’t believe what I've done strawberry sellers to make a killing. Tuesday afternoon following the first sliding around the court, Lendlrais-
Cournoyer; 9. Jimmy Wyatt; 10. to tell you the truth, Miller said
David Bryce; 11. Lorne Nuttrall; 12. after she won the $37,500 first prize.
Donel Deweese; 13. David The victory gives her more than
Newsome; 14. Bill Dean. $318,000 for the year.
Trophy Dash-1. Eddie Manning; 2. _As Miller toured the 6,132-yard
Earl Jobe; 3. Mike Salmon.
By MILTON RICHMAN degree, anyway. knew. She asked him how things had
UPI Senior Editor-Sports The Padres squared the playoffs gone in Oklahoma City. He said fine.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (UPI) + by winning the next two games in She told him his mother had called
The Chicago Cubs, HIS Cubs, have San Diego. Now came the fifth and the night before and everything was
lost 12 in a row and tumbled all the deciding contest, and with big Rick all right at home.
way from first to fourth, so how do Sutcliffe rolling along with a 3-0 lead They got in a car to go to the TV
you think he feels in the bottom of the sixth, the Cubs station and that was when she said it
What a silly question. looked like money in the bank. was a shame how the Cubs had lost
Ernie Banks, “Mr. Cub,” feels ter- Banks closed his eyes a moment the game. She did everything she
rible. Absolutely awful about it. He trying to block out the memory. could to cushion the blow for him,
manages to smile, though, because “I was in Oklahoma City for a saying how anybody could win, but it
as he points out, the Cubs are only 4% baseball card show and I was wat- took a much better person to accept
games back, there’s more than half ching the game on television in bet- so great a loss.
the season to go and he's sure they’ll ween signing autographs,” he "That’s right,” Banks agreed
bounce back. Ernie always keeps the remembers. "When I finished my quietly. “I guess that’s what helped
mind. San Diego was 1,500 miles him there were some people in trou-
away. He realized the pilot had ac- ble and may be he could help them."
cess to radio communication but it “And he just gave you the cable
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