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The Back Mountain Girls’
Softball League completed its
fourth week of the season with
the Dallas Orioles taking over
sole possession of first place in
~ Division I and the Shavertown
Pirates in the top spot in Divi-
sion II
Both clubs are 4 and 0 thus
far.
In Division I the Dallas
Orioles blanked the Trucksville
Tigers 25 to 0; Dallas Yankees
over Lehman Angels 19 to 8;
and the Shavertown Red Sox
beat the Lehman Indians 26 to 8.
In Division II the Shavertown
Pirates defeated the Dallas
Phillies 14 to 1; the Lehman
Reds nipped the Shavertown
Mets 5 to 4; the Dallas Cubs
over the Lehman Braves 27 to
19; and the Trucksville Giants
got past the Dallas Cardinals 9
to 2.
In Division I action, Jackie
Bergevin pitched and batted the
Orioles into first place with a
previously unbeaten Tigers.
Jackie collected six hits and
scored four runs to aid her
cause. She is the top hitter in
Division I play after four games
with a perfect 1.000 batting
average. She has 11 consecutive
hits.
Chris Kern added four hits in-
cluding a triple for the Orioles.
Chris is hitting at an even .857
clip.
The Yankees broke into the
win column behind the hitting of
Holly ‘Moore, Susan Veitch,
Janice : Steinkirchner, Debbie
Reese,~Paula Abrantes, Nancy
Shaw, Laura Shelby, Teresa
Reese and Karen Dombeck.
Karen Cook, Donna Ide, Carla
Kuznichi, Chris Coombs and
Barbara Hrabowski paced the
Angels” hitting attack. Cook is
batting .846.
Jean Mihal,
Tammy Hons,
Vicki
Lori
Martin,
Sorber,
son led the Red Sox to victory
with some heavy hitting. Ander-
son smacked a homer and a
triple while Mihal, Martin and
Gdovin fattened their averages
with four hits apiece. Mihal is
hitting .909, Martin is at .800,
and Gdovin is at a .777 mark.
Heidi Anderson’s homer ties
her with Lehman Angels
slugger Karen Cook in the home
run department with one each.
The Red Sox, coached ‘by
Carol Hons and Nancy Roberts,
pulled off the first triple play of
the season in a game a week
ago.
In Division II action, Michelle
Kravitsky scattered five hits in
pitching the Pirates into first
place over previously unbeaten
Phillies. Michelle also smashed
a triple and single to aid her
own cause at the plate.
Other Pirates sluggers were
Jennifer Booth, Carol Kriedler,
Kim- Sheffield and Eleanor
Ehrhorn. Tina Charney played
a fine game for the Phillies.
Ellen Adams, Kathy Kittle
and Cindy Yascur led the Reds
to. victory with some good hit-
ting. Kandi Karuza and Ann
Harleman paced the Mets at-
tack with three hits each.
Lisa DeWitt, Sheri Bell,
Sandy Mahalick, Sue Dreher
and Betsy Reese paced the hit-
ting attack for the Cubs. Brenda
Stuart and Heidi Allen collected
three hits apiece for the Braves.
Brenda socked a homer and a
triple and scored four runs.
Ann Hawk scattered six hits
in pitching the Giants to victory.
She was the leading hitter for
the Giants with a single double
and a triple. Brenda DeWitt
socked a double and scored two
runs to aid the Giants. Cindy
Leftko led the Cardinals attack
with two hits including a double.
The Girls’ Softball League
will conduct a candy sale in the
area from July 1 thru 15. Linda
Whitting, Shavertown, is chair-
man of the fund raising event.
Team mothers are asked to
contact Mrs. Whitting to pick up
the candy at the distribution
point as soon as possible.
Team managers are asked to
nominate six players from their
team and submit the names to
league commissioner Mike Wil-
liams for the All-Star team by
July 5. Managers are also
reminded to return picture
money and orders by June 28.
Westmoreland, with a 10 and
(: record, won the first half
championship in the Back
Mountain Teeners League.
They continued to come on
strong in the first week of the
second half with a 16 to 0 victory
over Lehman and a 14 to 5 win
over Dallas.
Steve Skammer collected
both wins for Westmoreland.
He helped his own cause against
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Jack Shaver stroked three
hits and Farben and Konopke
each had two.
Kliner led Westmoreland with
three hits in downing Dallas.
Riefenstahl tripled for the
losers.
East Dallas stayed right with
Westmoreland in the second
half with a 5 to 4 win over
Shavertown and an 8 to 5 vie-
tory over Lehman.
Dave Thomas and Gary Culp:
The past Sunday was marked
as a first when the newly-form-
ed softball team of the Back
Mountain Police Association
tangled bats with the Loyalville
Lily's. It was a high-scoring
game with the Lily’s winning it,
© 22-20, even though the ‘‘fuzz”’
Baseball for Boys
To Pick All Stars
Back Mountain Baseball for
Boys Inc. will hold their mon-
thly meeting July 1 at 8:30 p.m.
at the Dallas American Legion.
After the meeting, the mana-
gers of the Back Mountain
American Little League and
Back Mountain National Little
League will select the All Star
teams for their respective
"leagues.
The All Stars will begin play
on July 15. The Back Mountain
Americans will play Newport at
home. Back Mountain
Nationals will play Mountaintop
South away.
supplied the umpire, Chief Ray
Titus of Dallas Borough.
The police are not dismayed,
however, and are welcoming
any challenges from other non-
league teams. The Lily’s were
sparked to} victory by the
playing of Woody and Timmy
LaBar, Adam Stefonovich,
Emory Harvilla, Rick; Bob and
Ray Price, Bob Gebhart, Bob
Naugle, Howard Cornell, Joe
Germick, Vito Polisi, and Bob
Reed.
The B.M.P.A. showed their
strength, led by the pitching
ability of ‘‘Terrible’” Tim Car-
roll, Harry Wesley Jr. catching,
“Slippery’”’ Sev. Newberry. on
first, Elliot ‘‘Eagle Eye’’ Ide on
second, ‘‘Happy’’ Harry Wesley
on third, and Jim, ‘‘Gallopin,”’
Gruver as shortstop: The field
was held up by ‘“Rompin’’ Russ
Banta in right, ‘‘Joggin’’ John.
Appel in center, Bobby Wesley
in Left, and ‘‘Rovin’ » Joe
Burbe as rover.
The next scheduled game will
be June 27 when the ‘Fuzz’ will
try their skills on Elby’s ‘‘Ter-
rible Ten” in Fernbrook at the
Roushey Plot Field at 6:30 p.m.
Davis and Mark Cassiday
backed up Thomas’ win with
two hits each. One of Davis’hits
was a four-bagger.
Bruce Devine banged out two
hits each in backing up Gary
Jim Taylor
kept Lehman in the game with
his two hits.
Jackson nipped Dallas 8 to 7.
Mark Kalish was the winning
pitcher. Brian Sickler was two
for three in a losing cause.
Here's how, the second half
standings shape "Up: | West
“moreland 2-0, East Dallas 2-0,
Jackson 1-0, Shavertown 0-1,
Dallas 0-2, Lehman 0-2.
Dallas Girl for Trip
Dottie Henry, Dallas, is
eligible to win a free trip to
Scotland and $1,000 as a result
of scoring a hole-in-one at the
Wyoming Valley Country Club.
Miss Henry's ace qualified
her for the annual Rusty Nail
Hole-In-One Sweepstakes, a
national competition sponsored
by the Drambuie Company of
Edinburgh, Scotland.
The winner will be announced
carly next year.
Pool Owners
Need Permits
Kingston Township Zoning
Officer John Dana warns all
residents that swimming pools
having a depth of water over 18
inches are required to have a
permit before installation.
Thére are also rules and
regulations which must be
obeyed during installation, he
said. ;
The rule also applies to pools
which have been installed and
no permit was ever issued.
at them.
For Pocono
With Schaefer 500 qualifica-
tions extended to June 27 due to
last Sunday’s rains, Pocono In-
ternational Raceway and the
Kodak Company have also re-
scheduled ‘‘Camera Day’’, ori-
ginally set for last Sunday, to
June 27.
The interruption of qualifica-
tions last Sunday left five start-
ing positions unfilled and ten
cars eligible to qualify. Among
those remaining to qualify were
last year’s race winner A.
J. Foyt and 1973 USAC champ-
ionship division points leader
Roger McCluskey.
Thursday’s trials will be held
on a ‘‘no-bump”’ basis, meaning
500 Race
that none of the 28 drivers who
Saturday’s trials can lose these
positions due to another
driver's faster time. The
Schaefer 500 pole was awarded
Saturday to Bobby Unser, Albe-
querque, N.M., on the basis of
Thursday’s schedule lists
practice 9 0t0 39:30. a.m.;
qualifications 10 to 11 a.m. ; car-
buration tests 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.;
and pit practice 2 to 4 p.m. The
500 mile race will begin at 1
p.m. June 30 Reserved seats
available and may be pur-
chased at any Ticketron outlet.
The LakesLehman jrecres
ational program will run from
July 8 through August 16 for
children of the district age six
through eighteen.
The program will include
games, crafts, baseball, flag
football, volleyball, tennis,
archery and golf.
: Activities at the Lake-
Lehman High School play-
ground are set for Monday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Fri-
day from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to
4 p.m. Tuesday afternoons.
Activities ‘are ‘scheduled ‘for
the © Lake = Elementary’ play-
ground 9 a.m. to noon Tuesdays.
Noxen Elementary, 1 to 4
p.m., Monday and Thursday.
Evening sessions for people
age 12 to 18 will be held at the
Lake-Lehman High School play-
ground and gym from 6 to 9 p.m.
Monday, Wednesday and Fri-
day. The evening programs will
include weight lifting, agility,
softball, tennis and flag foot-
ball.
The Dallas Recreation Center
is now in full swing for the
summer. Many activities are
currently being held and the
month is full for all ages.
The Center will hold its an-
nual hoagie sale July 13 from
noon until 4 p.m. The children
will take orders from now until
July 6. There will be a prize for
the best salesman. Cost of each
hoagie will be 80 cents.
Proceeds will go toward new
equipment and expenses for
special events and trips. It is
hoped that the project will meet
with a tremendous response
from residents.
Tennis lessons are given for
both women and children be-
tween the ages of eight and 14.
The women’s lessons are to be
held each Tuesday and Thurs-
day, and the children’s lessons
will be held Monday and
Wednesday. Lessons for both
11:30 a.m.
While the women are having
their tennis lesson, their chil-
dren can enjoy arts and crafts,
directed by Diane Masoner. The
arts and crafts project is held
Tuesday and Thursday, also
from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
The beautiful flowers planted
around the recreation center
building were one of the
projects Miss Masoner and her
mother, Gladys Masoner, used
to acquaint children with plant-
ing marigolds and gardening.
This is just one of the examples
of ‘the nature-oriented work
which will be done in the arts n
crafts program.
The Dallas Recreation Center
is currently accepting names
for participation in the up-
coming CYC Basketball Clinic.
Arrangements have been made
to participate in this program
and all Back Mountain boys will
be eligible. The clinic will be
The Kingston Township
"Recreation Commission has
announced the opening of their
two playgrounds, located at the
Westmoreland School and at the
Shavertown School Grounds.
The program will run from
June 24 to Aug. 23. The
playgrounds will be open from 9
a.m. until noon and from 1 p.m.
until 3 p.m. Monday through
Friday. pa
The building on
Shavertown School grounds will
not be used this year but
arrangements have been made
with the Shavertown United
Methodist Church to use their
facilities for arts, crafts, and
movies.
Some of the activities planned
for this summer include the
junior olympics, movies, field
trips, soap box derby to be held
on July 27, and the final picnic.
Charms-Letters
At Dallas High
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Letters for the Dallas High
school band, chorus, football
managers, majorettes and
ciicerleaders are available at
he Dallas Senior High School
any time from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Monday through Friday.
Charms for the district and
state band and regional chorus
are also available.
Those students who should
receive these awards may pick
them up at the school office.
What's
by Bridgette Correale
The week of June 17 and our
Little Leaguers were giving all
they have on the fields, in the
dugouts, in their driveways and
if you have one like mine, in the
den. From September to
March, I hear the thump,
thump, of a basketball-April to
August, the crackling sound of a
pitched rubber ball, and I'm
afraid to be around when he
starts with football.
Monday evening the Dallas
8-5. Rick Wilson was the win-
ning pitcher and his teammate
Up In Little
Bryan Muldoon, hit two home-
runs, one in the first inning and
the other in the fourth.
Fernbrook Yankees took a
win from Shavertown Red Sox
11-2 with Clarke Lewis pitching.
Lehman Cardinal’s Wayne
DeCessaris started the Wednes-
day night game between Leh-
homerun. With the pitching of
Jim Michaels, the Cards beat
the Giants 8-6. In the bottom
half of the sixth inning the
Giants scored three of their six
runs, and if they only had two
Seven boys from the Back
Mountain area enjoyed the first
week of Coach Ed Donohue’s
sixth annual basketball camp at
the King’s College gym in
Wilkes-Barre.
They heard a number of
basketball experts, but the
highlight was last Thursday
when the great Calvin Murphy
of the Houston Rockets of the
NBA visited with the young-
sters and worked out with them.
He gave them numerous tips on
the art of dribbling and showed
his super speed in going from
one basket to the other with the
ball. .
Legion Sluggers
To Play June 29
The next home game for the
Harveys Lake American Legion
baseball team will be at the
Lake-Lehman High School field
June 29 against Mountaintop.
Attending from the region
were Scott Bryan, 170 Lime-
wood Road, Shavertown; Bob
Crawford Jr., Highland Drive,
New Goss Manor, Dallas; Joe
Gries Jr., Westminster Drive,
Dallas; Jim Mahon, RD 5, East
Ridge Street, Chase Manor,
Shavertown; = John and Lee
McCarthy, High Point Acres,
Dallas: and Sam Soltis, Sutton
Road, Shavertown.
Coaches giving lectures in-
cluded Tom Pugliese of Lehigh
University; Bill Raftery, Seton
Hall University; Donohue of
King’s; and Jim Atherton,
Luzerne County Community
College.
Among the outstanding coun-
selors was Kevin Burke, starter
for Penn State in basketball and
baseball, along with being a
dean’s list student.
Second week of the camp is
now under way in the King’s
gym. Monday afternoon’s
speaker was Tom Inglesby,
former Villanova star now with
the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA.
f
more outs they could have
won—maybe.
Lavon Sheffield, whose bat-
ting average after the end of the
first half was .455, hit a home-
run assisting the Shavertown
Orioles with a win 10-7 over the
Westmoreland Indians. Frank
Manuski and John Jones -both
contributed a homerun each for
the Westmoreland Indians.
Friday evening the Dallas
Dodgers beat the Dallas Phil-
lies 8-4. Shaun Cavanaugh
pitched for the winners with Ed
Janosik catching. Mike Stern-
chine hit a double for the Dod-
gers, giving them the lead.
At the 4:30 game Saturday,
the Trucksville Tigers: beat the
Westmoreland Indians 3-2.
Shavertown Red Sox Jim Mi-
halick pitched a shutout to
Shavertown Orioles, 7-0. This
was like big league baseball.
Minors
played Saturdays. The first
game was won by the Dallas
players of the Trucksville
Tigers showed, so four Phillies
joined them and played a prac-
tice game.
Shavertown Orioles defeated
the Fernbrook Yankees 16-6. It
was a close game up until the
third inning, the score was 5-5,
and some Yankees fans were
hoping this would be their first
win, but? :
The Dallas Reds defeated the
Westmoreland Indians, 10-7.
After a while you try to think
up words to describe a win other
than defeated, beat and so on,
My seven-year old Adele did it
for me with this paragraph—
she came running inside saying
“Lehman Cards creamed the
Dallas Dodgers 16-5.” All I
could think of at that time was
creamed corn all over the field,
and if so it certainly didn’t
affect Mark Boyle's hitting.
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The following have been
assigned positions on the
summer recreation staff:
Westmoreland School - Russell
Johnson. Joan Dillon and Len-
chen Hefft. Shavertown School -
Jim Glenn, Nancy Roberts and
EKmanuella Prutzman.
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run from July 1 to July 6 and
will feature many local college
players and coaches. Reser-
vations can be made by calling
675-4574, or by signing up at the
Center. For further information
call the Center.
A fourth, fifth and sixth grade
the Center. Gamesg will be
played Tuesday anifursday
afternoons at the Yollowing
times: fourth grade, 12:30 p.m.
to 1:30 p.m.;
p.m. to 2:30 p.m. and sixth
Registration for the league will
be on June 27 and 28. Boys can
register by calling the Center or
signing up at the building. More
information will be given at the
time of registration.
A quoit league for men will be
organized soon after July 4th.
able at a later date.
An exercise club for women
will be held daily from 3:30 p.m.
to 4:30 p.m. at the Center. All
call or to register June 28 or 29
in person or by calling the
recreation building.
programs, residents are asked
to call the Dallas Recreation
Center or to come over to the
Center and get into the action.
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Release 74
Two new teams and, a three
game local rivalry will high-
light the Wilkes-Barre Bullets
1974 Football Schedule.
The schedule slates eight
games at home, including two
with arch rival Seranton, and
five on the road. The opener is
July 20 against the Wyoming
Valley Giants at Wilkes-Barre
Memorial Stadium.
The two new entries into the
Seaboard Football League are
Bridgeport = Jets, former
members of the Atlantic Coast
Football League. The two are
sure to add formidable opposi-
tion to an already strong league.
Boston won the ACFL Cham-
pionship in 1973. Bridgeport has
for a long time maintained close
ties with the New York Jets,
picking up many Jet reserves.
The Atlantic Coast League
has long been regarded as an in-
formal farm system for many of
the established National Foot-
ball League teams. Such NFL
players as tight end Bob Tucker
and former quarterback Lee
Grosscup of the New York
Giants and running back Marv
Hubbard and defensive tackle
Manny Sistrunk of the Oakland
Raiders are a few former
players who have climbed the
ranks from leagues such as the
SFL and the ACFL. West Scran-
ton native Don Jonas, who has
been the leading passer in the
Photo by Gary Van Scoy
Mario Andretti,
Schedule
the past two seasons, started his
career in the ACFL with Harris-
burg.
Bullets Head Coach Eddie
Brominski promises that the
season will feature ‘week in
and week out warfare with little
chance for breathers. I don’t see
an easy team on the schedule,”
Coach Brominski said. ‘With
three games against Scranton
and both Chambersburg and
Norristown recruiting strongly,
we can’t can’t go a week without
all out preparation.”
The Bullets’ 1974 Ppchedule
shapes up like this® July 20,
Wyoming Valley Giants, home;
July 27, Lackawanna County
Eagles, home; Aug. 3, Jersey
City Oaks, home; ug. 10,
Valley Forge NE Men,
home; Aug. 17, Boston
Colonials, away; Aug. 24,
Lackawanna County Eagles,
home; Aug. 31,
Minute Men, away; Sept. 7,
Chambersburg Cardinals,
away; Sept. 14, Chambersburg
Cardinals, home; Sept. 21,
Lackawanna County Eagles,
away; Sept. 28, Bridgport Jets,
away; Oct. 5, Boston Colonials,
home; Oct. 12, open; Oct. 19, to
be announced; Oct. 26, Bridge-
port Jets, home.
Home games will be played
Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. at
Wilkes-Barre Memorial
Stadium. :