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Show :(piIG EVEMj pi 7 L 1 TIGERS Playing on the Tiger team in the American League of WBBA action are 1. to r., kneeling kneel-ing , Bobby Crookston; Scott Rackman, bat boy; David Sorenson. Second row, Craig Gardner, Stephen Steph-en Sorenson, Steven Francom, Merrill Roberts; third row, Walter Durrant, Bobby Brooks, Jeff EasUian, Bruce Chetnut; and Bob Brooks, manager. Absent from the picture were coah Frank Eastman, and players Lonnie Turner, Jay Grant, Ted Frandsen, Bruce Frandsen and Albert Fit2gerald. 5 rsr, v KS27 If' - t . ' I , 8? j 1 i YATKS--Suiting lip fr'the Yanks in the American League of the local WBBA play are front row, 1. to r., Bret Glines, bat boy; Scott Shumway, Russ Holinarake, Dwane Wlllimas, Hai Allgood, Kaylin Street, Don Alexander. Second row, Arlin Williams, Ty Brown, DeVerl Glines, Joe Brown, Mike Shumway, Bryan Blomquist, Rick Street and Larry Shumway, coach. PITCHES PERFECT GAMECole Christiansen, 11-year old starting pitcher for the Giants in the National League of local WBBA action last week had an experience that most baseball pitchers only dream about even in the Major Leagueshe pitched a perfect game. Here he is shown with his catcher, Scott Marlin, 12, and coach Marriner Mitchell. Cole Christiansen Hurls First Perfect Game Cole Christiansen young pitcher pit-cher in Western Boys Baseball League created the big news in baseball this week by pitching the "Perfect Game." Cole, a strong player for Manager Man-ager Marriner Michell and the Giant team of the National League, Lea-gue, relied heavily oi his fast ball, a few change ups, and a couple of curves in achieving his masterpiece. Eleven years old standing five feet, three inches and weighing 110 pounds, the heavy hitting pitcher pit-cher was really elated. Following Fol-lowing the game his comment was, "I hit a homerun but pitching pit-ching a perfect game was real real, good." Cole the son of Wayne and Colleen Christiansen is in his third season, with one more to go. He loves to fish, and play golf, and is active in the Scouting program. A. V ... Young Cole praised his catcher catch-er Scott Marlin and other teammates team-mates for their flawless playing play-ing as the Giants won the game over the Cards 6-0. He twirled the first perfect game in the memory of many veteran observers. ob-servers. National League results saw the Dodgers defeat the Braves, 9 to 5, and the Giants toppled the Cards 6 to 0, in the game in which Cole Christiansen pitched pit-ched a perfect game. BEEHIVE LEAGUE Action on July 1, saw the hard hitting Wasps shelack the Bees 17 to 2, as Kurt Holmstead went on a homer spree. Kurt smacked three of the big hits, one being be-ing a grand slam. Pitcher Mike Miller also hit for the circut. On July 3; Holmstead again came up hitting two more round-trippers, round-trippers, for a total of five for the week. Roy Greenland connected con-nected for a bases loaded clout and the Wasps stung the hornets 26 to 6. Pitcher Steve Hard-man Hard-man crashed in a homer for the Hornets. In July 5 play, Jody Jones crahsed a roundtripper, and got home runs from Eric Dean, and 8? i Tony Anderson. Dean cracked two as Jones teamed with Robbie Robinson Rob-inson to pitch the Darts to a 12 to 3 win over the Bees. AMERICAN LEAGUE On July 1, Hal Bennett blasted a home run and pitched the Indians In-dians to a 12-2 victory over the Tigers. Jeff Eastman crashed in a home run, and shared pitching for the Tigers with Craig Gardner, Gard-ner, and Bobby Brooks. In July 2 play, the Sox came thru with a 7 to 4 verdict over the Yanks as Gary Pierce, Sox, and Ricky Street, Yanks went the full game pitching. July 5; Jeff Eastmond banged his second homer of the week to lead the Tigers past the Yanks 5 to 1. Ty Brown pitched and scored the only run for the Yanks. July 6; Everybody on the Indians In-dians team showed up in their hitting suits as they downed the Sox 17 to 6. David Nelson went the route for the winners, and Sandy Nicholes pitched for the Sox. California is the only state with two of the 12 largest cities in the nation, Los Angeles and San Francisco. . s, !. 1 y X 'f I - -t ,-! 'I ZD PLACES THIRD IN GOLF TOURNAMENT Steve Edwards, is shown here with trophy he won in the recent Pro-Junior Golf Tournament held at the Wasatch State Park Golf Course. Steve took third in the tournament in the 14 and under class, shooting an 82. The Tourney was held July 1. Others competing from the Alpine Country Club were Pro Phil Cannon, Tony Gibbin, Steve Elliott, and Kerry Christsnsen. Also Assistant Pro Joe Bonsignore, Fred Fisher, Corky Johnson, David Burger Bur-ger and George Hartvigsen. Phil Cannon, playing with Steve, shot a 74, for a combined score of 146. Pony League Results Listed In a July 1 game, Lindon 0, American Fork Athletics 13 was the way the scoreboard read at the finish of the game. Rick Warenski twirled the shutout, receiving hitting support from Daivd Durfey and Bill Allen who cashed in home runs during the rout. On July 2; Blake Buhler really had his stuff on the mound for the Am. Fork Orioles as Blake turned in a no-hitter. Blake, a husky lad, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Buhler of Highland, High-land, and withhis teammates getting get-ting him four runs, had no trouble turning back the A. F. Senators 4-0. Blake's no-hit job is the first in the Pony league this season. Randy Mott opposed Blake on the mound for the Senators. Sen-ators. In July 3 play, Roland Griffin, Grif-fin, and Bryan Miller combined hurling duties as the Orioles closed in on first place in second sec-ond half action. Final score was Orioles 13, PI. Grove Giants 10 in the slugfest, that saw pitcher Griffin cap his mound duties with a home run. On July 4, Lehi, winless in thirteen starts, shocked the League Lea-gue leading A. F. Athletics at Lehi in a 10 to 4 contest. Bob Baldwin and Richard Greenwood socked home runs in the Forkers losing effort. Bill Allen worked the hill for A. F. Managers of .the teams are urged to report the results to Jack Watkins promptly after each game. Whitakers Attend Family Reunion Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Whitaker of American Fork recently attended at-tended a two-day family reunion at East Mill Creek in Salt Lake City and at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Griffin inProvo. Approximately 350 family members mem-bers were in attendance. Activities Activ-ities included baseball, musical numbers and a short business meeting. Johnny Whitaker sang some songs on the program, one which was, ' Every Little Boy Can Be a President," which will soon be relased as a recording. Johnny John-ny will be remembered as as a star of the CBS TV show, Family Affair. Johnny is ' of eight children and recently turned eight years old. He has five sisters and two brothers. His parents, John and Thelma Willis Whitaker are former Utahns and now reside in San Fernando, Calif. Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Whitaker are his grandparents. All the children In the Sunday Sun-day School class of John and Vee Pulley were delighted to have Johnny attend their class and following church many autographs auto-graphs were signed. Hew Arrivals Babies born the past week at the American Fork Hospital are: June 30 Boy to Gene C. and Ila Wing Tomlinson of PI. Grove. June 30-Boy to Neil and Kay Storrs Harding of Dugway. July 2-Girl to Patrick and Sharon Wright Ellington of PI. Grove. July 4 Boy to Gary M. and Barbara Pulley Elton of American Ameri-can Fork. July 6 Boy to Zenneth K. and Alta Duns don Chamberlain of American Fork. fa i 1 ! r i f sr. YvK Michael L. Larson Michael Larson Named Leader in Insurance Contest American National Insurance Company of Galveston, Texas, announced this week that Michael L. Larson of the Provo Agency wes the leading producer for the Northwestern Region during the annual Furbush contest. The Northwestern region includes Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Washington, Washing-ton, Oregon, and Alaska and is represented by 280 agents. Working as one of the exclusive exclu-sive representatives for the University Uni-versity Program, a plan which gives college students special benefits and coverage for life, his total production for this period per-iod was just under one half mil- Impala Custom Coupe See vour r.lipvrolpt rlpalpr. deals, on all his cars, are honestly attractive, you'll get a Witness the special savings on popular V8's You aet and automatic transmissions for all big just where Brent Makin Injured on Vacation Trip Brent Makin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reed Makin, American Fork was inured in Glacier National Park at Logan Pass when alarge piece of ice was dislodged from the glacier by some climbers and crashed into Brent while he was at a drinking fountain. The size of the piece of ice as estimated es-timated by his father was near 400 pounds. The boy received a large laceration lacer-ation of the head and the loss of eight teeth in the accident. He was given first aid by Glen Austin his grandfather, and rushed to the East entrance of the park where doctors worked on the boy for about two hours taking twenty stitches to draw the wound together. The accident happend while Mr. and Mrs. Glen C. Austin and Mr. and Mrs. Reed (Glenda) Makin and family all of American Fork were on a two week trip to northern United States and Canada. The group spent some time in Great Falls, Montana where they attended the National Jeep Patrol Pa-trol Convention. Mrs. Austin reports that the Utah County Jeep Patrol won a Naional Award and first place In the Travel Money award. In the drawing held at the convention, Reed won a spot light and a flare gun and Glen won a case of oil. Following the convention the group toured Yellowstone National Na-tional Park and fished at Duck Lake in Canada. They then toured Glacier National Park at which time Brent was involved in the accident which prolonged their trip for about three days while they waited for the release of the boy before coming home. It is reported that he is at home recovering and doing well. CARD OF THANKS The family of J. George Harris wish to offer their sincere thanks and appreciation for the aid and sympathy of all their friends and neighbors in the recent death and funeral of their beloved husband and father. For the many kind acts, for those who took part in the services, serv-ices, for the lovely floral offerings, offer-ings, and to those who helped in any way, we are truly grateful. Mrs. J. George Harris and famiJ" lion dollars. American National has been in the life insurance business for almost 70 years, and is presently present-ly ranked nineteenth in the insurance in-surance industry with over nine billion dollars of insurance in force. The company is presently preparing agents to work with Securities Management and Research Re-search to give policyholders a more complete program in financial finan-cial investments. Mr. Larson is presently preparing for this service which will begin this fall. Mr. Larson is married to the former Beth Allred of Denver, Colorado. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Merlin B. Larson of Highland. His vear-end Chevrolets I r; r5 '.J I,. ' "' .y!?r' THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN, Thursday, July 11, 1968 Letter to the Editor A young soldier lay mortally wounded in a local mortuary, a victim of the war in Vietnam. What effect does his life have on you? Do we as citizens of this wonderful country for which he gave his life owe him a debt? How many of us took the time to show our thanks and honor to him and to pay our respects to his family. The reply comes back, oh so often, from so many of us, "we didn't really know him!" He really real-ly didn't know many of us, but he loved America enough to give his life to preserve our freedom. Have we become so far removed from this conflict in Vietnam that casualties lose their personal identity and become mere numbers? num-bers? It's a real tragedy when our national leaders are assassinated, assassi-nated, but the loss is just as great with our unsung heroes in Vietnam. Here we have a young man who came to American Fork at a very early age and grew up under the influence of our com A Fireplace from Otto Buehner Co. Adds value to your home... Adds joy to your life Whether your preference is a custom design in natural, gleaming marble ... or a pre-cast fireplace of lustrous Iridestone ... or a prefabricated, pre-fabricated, "built-in-look" model that can be installed in a house with no existing chimneys . . . Otto Buehner Company can have a fireplace fire-place in your home in days. Visit Buehner's big display room for free estimates, free ideas. I and Chevelles. Not to mpntion car worth owning. the biaaest vear-end savinas you'd expect to at your Chevrolet dealer's. t f munity. He was converted to the Mormon Church here ai:d represented rep-resented American Fork in the mission field. He would appropriately ap-propriately be described by those who knew and loved him as an outstanding individual with so much potential and so much real love for life. We would have been thrilled to stand in line for blocks to view this young soldier's body, but we didn't have to. Perhaps many people didn't know the time of his viewing. We hope this was the case. Nevertheless, the time has come when we as citizens must be more committed to our interests and conflicts abroad. We must feel more keenly the great sacrifice made by others for us. These young men who are giving their lives in the armed arm-ed forces of our country should be heroes in our communities. We shouldn't feel that we have to know them personally to extend our thanks and sympathy to their loved ones. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Bromley They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts. ,1 .. h .-. GM |
