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Back Mountain All-Stars Win Regional Title, 10-
MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION
Back Mountain Defeats Kingston
To Take District Championship
Ed Dubil’s gargantuan home run;®
Kern's one-hit balk and the base
running of Ken Jones were big
factors in the |All Stars copping their
first District Championship.
Kern was the master once again.
He had very little trouble with the
Kingston hitters rolling along for
his third All Star win. = The only
hit seemed to be the result of a
ruse pulled by Winters, the catcher.
With a count of one ball and no
strikes Winters crouched as if to
bunt while Kern was winding up.
Kern seemed to think that was a
fake and eased up on his throw
figuring Winters was going to take
the pitch, Instead Winters reset
himself and hit a lofty fly that
barely made it over the right field
fence for a home run.
Kingston team threatened in the
top of the fifth when Stinson
reached first on an error and \Stan-
ley walked. Paul Sanders tried a
bunt on the first pitch but fouled
down the first base line. Ken
then struck him out on a 2-2 pitch.
The first hitter for - Kingston
seemed to give fans the strategy of
the Kingston coaching staff. Kings-
ton’s hitters attempted one bunt
after another with Kern handling
all of them without any difficulty:
Score Tied
After Winter's homer in the sec-
ond, Back Mountain tied it up in
the bottom of the third. Ken Jones
led off with a single to left. Cook
sacrificed him to second with a
beautiful bunt down the first base
line. Jenkins then walked placing
runners on first and second. Harris
then threw a wild pitch while Martin
was: batting and Choo-Choo Jones
streaked for third, got the full
: throttle ahead signal from his brake-
man, Sponseller, coaching at third,
and streaked for home while Wint-
ers the catcher, finally spotted the
wild pitch. Harris, the pitcher, ran
in to home to take the throw from
Winters but Choo-Choo slid under
the throw to tie the ball game at pi keq on Shonk Motors Used: Car
one run each.
Nip And Tuck For Awhile
Goose eggs then became the pat-!
tern inning after inning as Kern
and Harris matched pitch for pitch.
Kern's fast ball was too much for
the boys from down Valley way,
while Harris, with a strange mo-
tion on the mound and a peculiar
side arm delivery, had the local
lads hitting most of his pitches on
the handle.
Kiefer led off the top of the sixth
for Kingston and was thrown out on
an attempted bunt, Kern to Town-
send. Michaels then attempted a
bunt but fouled off the first pitch.
Kern bore down and fanned him.
Harris then rifled a hard shot to
the right of Parry. Parry went
to his right, slipped to one knee
while stopping the grounder, and
threw to first from a kneeling po-
sition.” Townsend stretched half
way to second and gloved the ball
one-handed to beat Harris by a
split second.
The top of the order came to bat
for the Back Mountain in the last
half of the sixth. Jenkins went
out via the strikeout route while
Martin flied to the third baseman.
A Sweet Home Run
Ed Dubil then strode to the’ plate
and old-time fans remembered a
game four years ago against this
same Kingston group. In that game
Tom Kerpovich came to the plate
with the bags jammed with Back
Mountain runners and hit a grand
slammer. The fans were hoping
for the same. Harris ran the count
to three and two on Dubil. Dubil
jn his previous trips to the plate
Tad broken two bats with grounders
to short. The next pitch from
Harris was a pitch right down the
middle. Dubil hit it far over the
left field fence for a home run.
The bal' was hit straight at a
huge window in the home of Mr.
- Masteller, who . leaped from his
chair and got the’ ball before it
crashed into his property. Mr. Mas-
teller is the gentleman who donated
a huge sum of money to help build
the fence around the Kingston
field. After the game Dubil was
surprised to receive a three dollar
donation from Mr. Mosteller. Ac-
‘cording to reports from Kingston
fans, this sum is given to any Little
Leaguer who hits a homerun in
that ball park. In all due respect
to Mr. Masteller, Dubil should have
been given interest on his three
dollars for that mighty blast.
Mr. Price, district head of Little
League baseball, presented trophies
to the teams after the game. Young
Chris - Harris received the runner-
up trophy as his team’s represen-
tative while the big two, Kern and
Dubil, received the winner's trophy.
One of the key plays, easily for-
gotten when the fans remember
Dubil’s big hit, was the base run-
ning of Jones. His heads-up base
running on a wild pitch in the third
made the home run the deciding
factor in the game.
Fans will do well to keep their
eye on the coaching of young Spon- |
These boys know |
seller and Fox.
how to coach base runners. They
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COOLBAUGH BREAKS
LEG DURING EARLY
SEASON PRACTICE
Bob Coolbaugh, veteran end
for the Oakland Raiders Pro-
fessional Football Team, broke
his leg Thursday during early
season practice with the team
in California.
He was taken to Santa Cruz
Hospital where a pin was put
in the injured leg on Saturday.
His wife, Billie, and nine-
months old son, Robert had
planned to join him in Septem-
ber, but now will remain with
her family in Old Forge since
he probably will not be able to
play this season for he will be
in a cast for the next seven
weeks.
Bob was discharged from the
hospital on Monday and can be
reached in care of the Oakland
Raiders at 143 Franklin Street,
Oakland Cal. g :
Vandals Break
Store Windows
Hurl Beer Bottles
At Junior High School
Windows in Forty Fort Dairy Bar,
Orchard Farm Restaurant and Dallas
Junior High School were broken out
in a new wave of vandalisim sweep-
ing the Back Mountain Region on
Monday and Tuesday nights of this
week.
On Monday night a rock the size of
4 base ball was hurled through a
$150 plate glass window at Forty
Fort Dairy shortly after closing
hours.
The same night a rock was hurled
through the side window of a car
Lot.
Sometime after one Tuesday morn-
ing a fist-sized rock was hurled
through one of the plate glass win-
dows, at Orchard Farm Restaurant.
Wkile Dallas «Borough and Town-
| ship Police were investigating, they
| received a call from John Rosser, |
principal of the Junior High School,
informing them that beer bottles
bad been hurled through four win-
dows . in second story. classrooms,
probably early Tuesday morning.
Principal Rosser said other windows
have previously been broken by
vandals.
While police believe the damage
was done by local vandals, they are
not unaware that 68 windows val-
ued at more than $400 were broken
at Larksville State Street School
over the weekend.
Chief Shaffer
Stung By Bees
Attempt To Burn
Nest Causes Fire
Dallas Fire Company responded
to a call from the home of Harry
Nolf, East Dallas, Monday around
1 p.m. after an attempt by a handy-
man to burn out a hornet’s nest
ignited the main feed of the electric-
al system.
Dallas Fire Chief Alvin Shaffer at-
tempted to kick in the cellar door
underneath the nest in order to gain
access to the house. Seven or eight
hornets, angered by this series of
events, stung the chief on the arm
and neck.
Firemen extinguished the flames
in the wiring, and held off the hor-
nets with water. After some five
minutes the chief became dizzy from
the poison of the stings, so Fireman
Cliff Foss took him to Dr. A. A.
Mascali for treatment.
Natona Outing
This Saturday
Fifteenth annual Outing of Branch
A-23, Amalgamated Lace Operatives
of America Union of Natona Mills
will be held Saturday from noon un-
til 9 at Wat-A-Hunee Park, Harveys
Lake.
Arthur Roberts,
Branch A-23,
mittee making the arrangements. |
Other members of the committee |
are Eleanor Turos, Fay Smith, Char-
les Glasser and John Hardiman.
Catering will be by Columbia Ca- |
tering Service and an orchestra will |
be available for dancing from 5 to 9.
Special guests from the New York |
office will be: Mr. and Mrs. Marcel
Noe, Mr. and Mrs. William Freedman,
Mr, and Mrs. John Simon, Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Targoff and Mr. and Mrs.
Sam Keller.
There will be entertainment and |
athletic events during the day. Door |
President of |
prizes will be awarded.
BUZZ SZELA
ED DUBIL :
STEVE TOWNSEND
TOM JENKINS
BILL - SPONSELLER
KEN COOK ALLEN FOX
BOB PARRY
MEL MORRIS
KEN JONES GARY SPONSELLER
JOHN BESTWICK
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‘Little League All Stars Have Eyes On State Championship
BOB LONG
CHARLES = KERN
BOB PARRY
BILLY MARTIN
weekend of August 16,
Play Lewistown Friday
The final Interdistrict game will be played Friday night at 6 at Newport
Field against Lewistown which won last night
Enola All-Stars of Cumberland County. 2
in Interdistrict play!
‘The winner of the game at Newport will be pitted against one of
.Interdistrict. Championship teams in an slimination series at Williamsport, Home
of the Little League, for the State Championship. i
Should Back Mountain All Stars win the State Championship,—and every-’
body is praying—they would then play at Tufts College, Mediprd, Mass. the
17, 18 for the Eastern Regional Championship, and auto- .
matically be entered in the World Series at Williamsport the week of August 20 to 25,
against
three
RICKY BURKHARDT
‘Mike Wood Sets
Unofficial Mark
Top drivers in Giants’ Despair
Hillclimb set new marks Saturday,
a 55.858 for the three-year record
breaker John Van Meyer, Locust
Valley, N.Y. and a 56. 320 for Bud
Faust, Wilkes-Barre.
But their brows must be furled in
the thought that their mighty
Pontiac Special and Lotus- Buick
V-8 cars have to chase a little phan-
tom up the hill next year to crack
the Friday time of Harvey's Lake's
(about 30 ci.) Petty-Norton-en-
gined Cooper. His time: 55.1 sec-
onds, the fastest any car has ever
made Giants’ Despair.
In 1957, just before Mike entered
| the army, he tried the little Cooper
on the hill, turned in a negligible
time of 70-plus. The Cooper is
basically a track and road car, lack-
ing big-car torque: It gets its speed
from lightness and high revolutions,
often embarassing Ferraris and Cor-
vettes with its agility.
Friday afternoon, Mike was de-
termined to stay loose. The Cooper
has a low ‘center of gravity and
superb stability, and its driver
knew that if he could maintain a
uniform rate of speed between the
straightaway ‘and the recovery on
turns, he could substantially reduce
his time. :
is heading the com- |
Everyone was convinced that he
| had missed a shift when Mike sent
| the revs screaming toward peak at
{the starting line. Actually the
| Petty-Norton motorcycle engine has
to be revved that high in order to
| get some torque for the standing
| start.
He was off, leaving people at
the line picking pieces of noise out
| their ears for the next five minutes.
jar the infamous Devil's Elbow,
| whose sudden rise after the hair-
| pin leaves experienced drivers stab-
{ bing blindly at some elusive lower
| gear, Mike breezed through without
| hesitation. He was ready for all the
| remaining turns too, and therein,
|e
answer to the Giants’ Despair.
| When the announcer’s voice
ler acked the air with the report that
| Mike Wood had broken all records
| with his time, the favorites waiting
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Mike Wood. His car is a 500 c.c.:
figured afterward; lay the real |
Back Mountain Men Make Best Times
In Weekend Speed Trial Competition
Bad Track Spells Whire's Record Ariomnt
Harry White’s D&H Automotive Special, pride of the Back Moun-
tain, with owner-driver and crew, stands ready to go at Forty-Fort
Drag Races Sunday where it was top eliminator for the past three
years, and took highest speed of the day Sunday. Left to right:
David Evans (sitting on car), formerly of Claude Street, Dallas;
Harry White; George Isaacs; Randy Miller, Trucksville; Bill Hess, |
Trucksville.
Back Mountain Driver Makes Unofficial Record
Mike Wood, Harvey's Lake, warms up his Cooper at Giants’
Despair, where he set an all-time unofficial record of 55.1 seconds
at the Friday trials, and captured his class on Saturday.
Harry White
Held By Track
Harry White, Dallas, top eliminat-
or in Forty Fort Airport drag-
races for the last three years, regis-
tered the fastest time of the day
Special ‘with 115.61 miles per hour.
But this year he was not top elimi-
nator.
The airport has gained a reputa-
tion of being a hot-rodder’s horror
show. The right lane of the strip
has developed washboard contours
and some dangerous pits. As it
happened, Dame Fortune continu-
ally fed White's big 400-and-some
horse - power Chrysler - engined
roadster into the right lane.
In the elimination race, Robert
Steiner, Exeter,
lane for his Corvette-powered Stei-
ner Special, and smoothed it to a
top-eliminator victory over White.
No time was given on that run, but
it was safe to say that neither car
{achieved White's top-speed run of
| 115.61 which was accomplished in
the left lane, running alone.
White, 24, son of Niles White,
Baldwin Street, is married, and is
an apprentice toolmaker for IBM in
Endicott,
George Isaacs, 20, is the son of Ho-
ward Isaacs, automobile dealer in
Trucksville.
The D & H Automotive Special is
a 1941 Bantam body on a home-
made frame. The Chrysler engine
with a displacement of 413 cubic
inches, is equipped with a Vertex
magneto and six Stromberg car-
buretors. In the two years in
which White has dragged this car,
{he has won 12 trophies.
rod, which was started as a school
project at Dallas Township High
School, where he graduated in 1956.
Band Concert At Irem
The 55-member Irem Temple Band
under the direction of Peter J. Klein-
kauf, will present a program Sun-
day night at 8:30 at the pavilion at
Irem Temple Country Club.
Preceding the consert there will
be a short vesper service at 8 con-
ducted by Rev. Herbert J. Nahas of
St. Mary's Syrian Orthodox Church.
Sunday in his D & H Automotive |
N.Y. His chief mechanic |
He also drives a 1935 Ford hot |
VOL. 74, NO. 31, THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1962
Kern, And Morris
championship in All-Star play
touted Old Forge team 10-1.
Led by the Blistering bats
ceeded to put the game on ice
for manager Bill Sponseller’s
third-sacker Melvy Morris Back Mountain gave pitcher Ed
Dubil a comfortable 5-0 lead after two innings and then pro-
final inning with Kern's three-run homer the pay-off blow.
Kern with two gigantic homers and a single and Morris
with a homer and a double provided the big offensive punch
Dubil turned in another great pit¢hing chore allowing one ||
run, two hits and fanning twelve to go along with his no-hitter
against Dupont and a three-hitter against Forty-Fort. :
Blast Homers | 3
In Lopsided Win Over Old Forge
Back Mountain All-Stars captured their first regional
last night by blasting a highly ;
The game was played before a
oo, estimated at around 2000 on the Taylor Little League.
| fie
of shortstop Charlie Kern and
with five more markers in the
boys.
Demolition Of
School Building
Almost Complete
Many Alterations
At Lake And Lehman
As Pupil Load Eases
Steel beams erected around 1927
to support the ceiling of the gymn-
asium at Lehman, in the old trame
building now under process of dem-
olition are slated to start today.
The original Lehman school build-
ing was erected in a series of pro-
jects, starting with a modest frame
structure and growing as demand for
extra space was satistied.
When the new gymnasium and
modern high school addition were
built in 1951, schoolrooms were cre-
ated in the former gymnasium, both
on the ground floor, and above.
Demolition is being done by the
Roccogrande Wrecking Co. of Wilkes-
Barre, subcontractors for the Sordoni
Construction Co., which is disposing
of the materials on the spot. Much
good structural material has already
been purchased and hauled away.
The school yard, at present a mass
of rubble, will be cleared before
school sessions start, and the ground
levelled. Work ig going according to
i schedule, fair weather <contriouting
to the effort.
[to Anthony Marchakitus, high school
| principal, expects to purchase one
sixty-six passenger school bus, and
Lehman expects to purchase another.
The school already owns one school
| bus.
‘Most pupils require transportation.
| Mr. Marchakitus foresees a pupil load
of around 1625, for which twenty-
four buses are required.
All senior and junior high school
| students will be accommodated in
| the new building, with other build-
| ings reverting to elementary school
| status. Extensive remodelling of ex-
isting buildings is being done, to
bring them into accordance with
State requirements.
A pupil bulge, working its way up
through the grades, is resulting in a
peak pupil enrollment of 140 in the
seventh grade, as against a last year’s
graduating class of 90. Tapering off
is expected in two years.
Construction at Lehman includes
a vastly enlarged sewage system. The
| wide entrance to what was once used
as a shop has been blocked in to
make a smaller entrance way.
Administrative offices will occupy
space formerly used by the kitchen.
Much of the kitchen equipment
was salvaged, and is being used in
the new kitchen constructed in a
part of the gymnasium, serving the |
cafetorium. Children will no longer |
grabbed the left | carry trays to their classrooms, but | Morris, 3b
be accommodated at tables. These |
stored against the wall when space
Elementary school furniture, large- |
ly replaced last year, has been in-
stalled in former high school class-
rooms, and high school furniture is
being refinished and reconditioned
by Adelman for use in the new
Junior-Senior High School building. !
At Lake, where a wholesale exodus |
| of 294 high school students: leaves |
plenty of space, substandard class- |
rooms have been removed from the |
school picture, a cafeteria has been |
installed, and arrangements made |
education room. Lake gets new furn-
iture, long overdue.
Registration at Lake will be about
190 elementary students, with six
regular classrooms, in use, and the
two buildings across the highway re-
{ verting to residential purposes.
Kingergarten classes, two at Leh-
| man, one at Lake, already have 75
| registrants. No kindergarten classes
will be located at Ross or at Noxen
elementary schools.
Takes Cycle Trophy
Harry Wesley, Idetown, rode a
Harley Davidson Aermacchi Sprint
to first place. in the Lightweight
Division of the motorcyele at Forty
Fort Airport Sunday. The North-
eastern Pennsylvania Timers’ Asso-
ciation awarded him a 20" trophy.
| The joint school board, according |
| are of the folding type which can be |
is required for auditorium purposes. |
for one kindgarten and one special
Take Early Lead
With manager Bill Sponsellor ol
tering his batting order for the first
time in the play-offs, the Back Moun-
tain boys jumped off to an early 3-0
lead before Old Forge got to bat. -
Lead-off batter Morris started
with a walk, after Martin popped to
the pitcher, Dubil hit a screaming
liner to left which took a bad hop
over the left fielder’s head for a
double. After Kern struck out, Town-
send rifled a shot to center scoring
the two runners. Following a walk
to Jones, Parry hit a hot ‘smash off
the pitchers glove scoring Townsend. 2
Cook flied out with the sacks loaded
to end the inning. i :
Back Mountain Takes 5-0,Lead ~~
After Dubil retired Old Yorze in
order in the bottom half of the inn-
ing, Mel Motris batting - the
| second time laced:a 2-0 pitch f
over the leftfield fence to boost the
score to 4-0. At this point the Old
Forge manager yanked starting hurl-
er Bosta and brought in Pritchyk.
This young lad, possessing a fine
hook, proceeded to fan Martin and
Dubil before Kern unloaded a mighty
blast high on top the score board in
deep center field. ‘ ¢
This was the first of two lusty
clouts by the shortstop.
Dubil proceeded to mow down the
opposition with ease for the next
2 1/3 innings before Pritchyk finally
ended Dubil’s total of 9 1/3 innings
of hitless ball in the play-offs with
a mighty clout over the Igjtcenter
field fence.
Big Sixth ising
The bats of the Back Mottairt
lads were silenced pretty much over
the next three frames as Pritchyk
racked up 8 strikeouts in relief.
In the sixth inning the roof caved
in again. The Back Mountain lads
rapped out six solid hits good for
five runs including a three-run
homer by Kern. | :
Morris led off with a sharp sin-
gle past the third satker. Martin
lined a shot over second moving 2
Morris to third with Martin taking
second on the throw to third. After =
Dubil fanned for the third time,
Kern worked a full count before
Pritchyk grooved a fast ball and
Charlie parked another far hevod |
the centerfield fence to make it 8-1.
After Townsend singled, Jones el
into a forceout. Parry singled to
center, Burkhart batting for Jenkins
was safe when Pritchyk threw to
second on his grounder in an at-
tempt for the final out.. Cook fol-
lowed with a two-run single to
right to wrap up the scoring 10-1
for Back Mountain.
Fox made one of the outstanding
plays in the bottom of the sixth
when he made. a running: one-
handed grab mear the foul line to
rob pinchitter Giacommetti of extra
bases. Dubil then proceeded “to
strikeout Williams and Pritchyk to
wrap up the Regional Champion-
| ship for the local team. 3
| BACK MOUNTAIN
Martin, rf --
Fox, rf
| Dubil, P
Kern, ss
Townsend, 1b
| Jones, cf
| Parry, 2b
| Jenkins, If
| Burkhart, If
| Cook, ¢ -
TOTAL
{| OLD FORGE
Balardl, rhino
la. - Williams
| Pritchyk, ss, p oe
| Bosta, p, 3b -
Taroli, 1b
Festino, 3b, sg
Dziuba, If
Giglio, c=
Graziano, cf
b. - Giacommetti -
Artabane, 2b
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a. — Struckout in 6th,
b. — Fliedoud in 6th. |)
Walks - Bosta 2, Pritchyk 2, Dubil 0
Strikeouts - Bosta 1, Pritchyk 8,
Dubil 12. A
Jackson Car Burns { : ; ]
Jackson ‘ Township Fire Depart-
ment extinguished a fire which de- |
stroyed Herbert Southwell’s car be-
hind Lincoln's {Service Station,
Chase, Monday morning around 11.
Cause of the fire was unknown.
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