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ys Allen, hot home bats lift Chisox' gate CHICAGO (AIM The mighty swing of Dick Allen's hat, along with a hot home surge, may be fanning the Chicago White Sox into their first climb over the one-million attendance mark since 1965. The sixth largest paid crowd in Chicago baseball history, 51, DIM, Sunday watched the White Sox trim the New York Yankees 6-1, 54 with Allen's dramatic, ninth-inning, ilirce run pinch homer winning the nightcap. That boosted the White Sox' home record to 19 3 and their home attendance for 20 dates to 331,918, compared with 195.4HC for the same period last year. The lure of "hat day," causing more than 8,000 fans to he turned away at the gates, undoubtedly was a major factor in the biggest turnout since attended a Yankee-While Sox night game July 27, 1954. Hut the fact that Allen has pumped new life into the White Sox hasn't hurt the turnstile spin, either.

Allen, American league lender in runs batted in with 37, has baffled, intrigued and now awed (he White Sox since he signed for a retried $135,000 last April 1. The former troubled star of the Philadelphia I'll i Is, St. I-ouis Cardinals and Uh Angeles Dodgers missed the entire spring training period. He came to terms just as the player strike derailed the start of the 1972 season. Hut since then, everything Allen has done for the White Sox has been with class and clout.

He has been charming with the news media and is the club leader for the surprising learn which Ls second in the American league West with a 25-17 record. Until Sunday's second game, Allen had played every inning of the team's first 41 games. Then, Chicago Manager Chuck Tanner elected to rest him. When Allen's name failed to appear in the second game starting lineup, Chicago owner John Allyn alarmingly asked why. Tanner replied, "I'm just going to rest him.

I'll use him when we get the bases loaded. He'll hit a homer and win it for us. The bases weren't exactly loaded Hill Melton had walked and Mike Andrews singled when Tanner sent Allen in to pinch-hit for Rich Morales. In a rare pinch-hitter role, Allen blasted a 1-1 pitch by Sparky Lyle for his game-winning homer. "Allen hits the ball harder than anybody I've ever seen, and consistently," said Andrews.

"He can make you feel very weak, Just watching him. I can't even handle his 40-ounce bat and he swinrlike a 30-ounccr." The Sox last broke the one- with was 1970 million at the gate in 1965 1,130,519. 1971 attendance and that fell to 495,355 In when rumors were strong that the While Sox might be shifted to another city. Corn Belt Conference in grave, but memories sure to die hard it Iwimnum.i 1, in 1945 and came back into the fold for good in 1948. After Morris, Dwight and Fairbury quit in 1947 and 1948, the Corn Belt went forward with only five teams until 195(5 when Washington became a member.

St. Teresa of Decatur was in the loop from 19C7 through 1969. When NCI IS withdrew at the end of the 1969-1970 season, the writing appeared to be on the wall. Then the five remaining members Central Catholic (formerly Trinity), High, Clinton, Washington and Pontiac decided to move en masse to the new Heart of Illinois Conference next season and the Corn Helt was no more. Hut there's still those memories: Normal Community's football team went unbeaten in league play for 34 games from 1962 to 1969, winning or tying for seven titles, before losing 14-6 to Clinton.

The Ironmen had only two ties in that period both in 1967 the year High took the crown. Chuck Studley starred at Pontiac and then captained the Illinois team that beat Washington, 17-7, on Jan. 1, 1964. Dick Butkus was on the same squad. High's gridders took undisputed crowns in 1938, 1939 and 1940 and later teams took five straight championships from 1946 to 1950 the most undisputed titles in a row by any team.

High and Pontiac had numerous classic cage battles for Corn Belt crowns in the late 1940s and NCHS racked up four straight basketball championships from 1955 to 1958, although the Ironmen shared the first and last crown with Clinton. The conference added baseball in 1948, golf in 1955, wrestling in 1962 and cross country in 1964. But what about some of the men who made the high points possible? Howard Ivens, then assistant principal at High, and A.C. Watson, then principle at Fairbury Township, were two of the main driving forces that got the league going. And there were all the coaches.

Among the most successful and those with the most service were: Hap Arends at NCHS, Joe Axelson at Clinton, Burt O'Connor at High, A.C. Williamson at Pontiac, Dick Van Scyoc at Washington, John Snyder at Central Catholic and Bob Metcalf at High, and Red Pace at Dwight. There must be hundreds more athletes, coaches, officials and fans deserving mention and none will be overlooked at home or when a group of sports fans are reminiscing. Even in its closing years, the Corn Belt had all-staters Mike Wells, who played at NCHS and was Illinois first-line quarterback last year, and Jim Crews, a basketball all-stater from High. The Corn Belt never lost its excellence.

Houston (AP) Vict President Spiro Agnew returned to the sports world after speaking at the National Cover-nor's Conference Monday. At last report, his partner and both foes Watch out! Bloomington-Normal, III. June 6, 1972 B-l Snead fails in bid to make U.S. Open San Diego picks Oregon collegian faltered on the front nine of his second round. He carded five bogeys and just one birdie for a 40 on the front nine.

But even with that, he would still have qualified had he been able to match par on the back nine. Instead, he bogeyed the 17th, then double-bogeyed the par four, 423-yard 18th. Elsewhere in sectional qualifying, Dallas pro Ras Allen shot an eight-under-par 134 to top qualifiers at the Dallas Athletic Country Club. Among the other qualifiers at Dallas were two University of Texas golfers, Tom Kite and Ben Crenshaw. Non-qualifiers included two name pros, John Schlee and Jack Burke.

Carl Owen and Clifford Cook carded 138s to lead the sectional qualifiers at the Clovcrnook Country Club in NEW YORK (AP) David Roberts, a third baseman at the University of Oregon, was selected by the San Diego Padres today as the No. 1 selection in the regular phase of the annual major league baseball free agent draft. Roberts hit .410 in 37 games with 12 home runs and only one strikeout in 144 at-bats. The Padres, whose 61-100 record was the worst in the National League in 1971, got first choice in the two-day summer draft. Cleveland, picking second, selected Richard Manning, a shortstop at La Salle High School in Niagara Falls, N.Y., who hit .614 this past season.

Philadelphia then picked Larry Christiansen, a right-handed pitcher from By Dan Le Seurt Pantagraph Sports Writer An era that began in 1935 has ended. But the old CornBelt Conference will still evoke a lot of fond memories for a long time to come. For instance, what Dwight fan will forget Art Mathisen or what Clinton basketball buff could disremember Gene Vance? Indeed, what University of Illinois follower would overlook that duo that played with the Whiz Kids of the 1940s? Mathisen later went on to become a head coach and then principal at Danville High School and Vance is still the athletic director of all the Illini since his recent resignation has yet to take effect. And both came from the league that started competition with four schools in 1936. University High School, Le Roy, Normal Community and Fairbury were the initial members, but Pontiac replaced Le Roy in the league's second year.

The conference reached its maximum strength with eight teams in 1944 High, NCHS, Fairbury, Pontiac, Dwight, Clinton, Morris and old Trinity High School. Farmer City joined the league for one season in 1939 while Fairbury and Clinton were in and out over the years. Fairbury dropped out in 1940, rejoined in 1944 and quit again in 1948. Clinton first joined in 1940, resigned its membership Fairway Fables The McLean County Seniors Golf Assn. will hold its second outing at Minier Thursday morning.

Anyone wishing to play will be placed in a foursome at the course. Tee times already assigned are: 1:30 a.m. Bumgarner, Craghty, Barclay and J. Carlson. 8:38 a.m Hancock, Knudson, Davis, Gildersleeve.

8:44 a.m. Slanlsh, Cogdal, Dlllinger and Beier. 8:57 a.m. Boner, W. Kelly, La Rochelle and Dykes.

9:00 a.m. Warloe, Ingleman, J. Kelly and Rapier. 9:16 a.m. Caton, Alton, Thompson and McElhlney.

9:7 a.m. Douglas, Walker, Pluepott and D. Johnson. 9:32 a.m. Hall, Locke, Arends and H.

A. Brown. training for a sixth swim of the English Channel. Miss Andersen, who didn't learn to swim until she was 16, set more than 80 world amateur and professional records. She plans to end a seven-year absence from endurance swimming this September with an attempt to regain the Los Alamitos, Calif.

(AP) Greta Andersen, 45-year-old who hopes to regain her English Channel record soon, urges Pamela Goren, 2Vi, to Channel swim again Greta Andersen out to break mark Corn Hell champions Itasolinll CUMULATIVE STANDINGS, Won Lett Tied Normal Community 6i 50 I Clinton 107 St. Teresa 11 0 Central Catholic 10J lis 0 University High 1W Washington 75 3 1 Pontiac 70 144 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 1949- Trlnity, University High 1950 Trinity 15I University High 195? Normal Community 195J Normal Community 1954 Normal Community 1955 Trinity 195 Trinity 1957 Washington 1958 Clinton, Normal Community 1959 Normal Community 190 Normal Community 191 Clinton 196? Normal Community 196! Normal Community 1964 Pontiac 1965 Normal Community 1966 Clinton 1967 Normal Community 1968 Normal Community, Sf. Teresa 1969 Normal Community 190 Normal Community, Clinton 1971 University High 197? Central Catholic llaskHball CUMULATIVE STANDINGS, 1 3 7-197? Wen Lost Normal Community 99 Washington 105 59 Central Catholic 151 14? University High 169 16 Pontiac 16? 163 Clinton 117 137 Morris 1 Fairbury J7 50 St. Teresa 13 35 Dwight 20 54 Farmer City 1 Le Roy 0 4 "Total victories may not equal total losses becouse of inaccurate and missing early records. CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 1937 University High 1938 Normal Community 1939 University High 1940 University High 1941 Clinton 1942 Clinton 1943 Trinity 1944 Pontiac 1945 University High, Fairbury 1946 Pontiac 1947 Universltv High 1948 Trinity, Normal Community 1949 Trinity, Pontiac 1950 Pontiac 1951 Normal Community 195? Clinton 1913 Normal Community 1954 Trinity 1955 Normal Community, Clinton 1956 Normal Community 1957 Normal Community 1958 Normal Community, Clinton 1959 Pontiac 1960 Washington 1961 Clinton 1962 Washington 1963 Pontiac 1964 Pontiac 1965 University High 1966 University High, Washington 1967 Washington 1968 Normal Community 1969 Normal Community 190 University Hi)h 1971 University High 1972- Washington Fool hall CUMULATIVE STANDINGS, 1934 Won Lest Tied Normal Community 105 49 10 University High 89 43 14 Pontiac 86 6 II Central Catholic 66 66 10 Washington 41 7 Clinton 41 71 7 Dwight J4 3 Farmer City 1 1 St.

Teresa 5 10 3 Fairbury 11 1 Morris 4 71 0 Le Roy 0 3 0 Total victories may not equal total losses because of inarcurnte and mKsing early records. CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS 1936 University High, Normal Community 1937 Normal Community IV38-University High 1919-Unlversity Hlqh 19JO University Hluh 1941 Normal Community, Dwight 194? Normal Community 1943 Trinity 1944 Fairbury 1945 Ponllac 1946 University High 1947 Unlverslty High 1948 University High 1949 University High 190 University High 19S1- Pontiac 1953-Trinity 1914 Normal Community 1955 Trinity 191- Pontiac 1957-Pontlac WiB Norma' Community 1959 -Normal Community, Clinton, Washington I9MV Washington 1961- Pontiac 196? -Clinton, Normal Community, Trinity 1963 Normal Community 1964 -Normal Community 1965-No-mal Community 1966 Normal Community Wl- University High 19iR Normal Community 1969- Clinton, Normal Community, University High 19u- University High ivl Crn.ral Catholic By The Associated Press Slammin' Sammy Snead, who has won just about every major golf tournament in his long, illustrious career with the exception of the U.S. Open failed in his bid to qualify Monday for this year's Open, to be played at Pebble Beach, June 15-18. Shooting what he described as "the worst round I've every played," the 60-year-old Snead carded a 78 in the afternoon after a morning 69 in sectional qualifying at the Charlotte, N.C., Country Club. His 147 total missed qualifying by two strokes.

Doug Sanders, winner of the Kemper Open on the pro tour last weekend, topped the list of 30 qualifiers at Charlotte with a 68-67135. Other top qualifiers were Hubert Green at 136, Don Bies and Rod Funseth at 138 and Lou Graham at 140. Among the other tour regulars to qualify at Charlotte were Kermit Zarley, Dave Marr, Bob Murphy, Bob Lunn, Mason Rudolph, Dave Hill, Charles Sif-ford, Jim Jamieson, Bruce Devlin and Gibby Gilbert. Amateur Eddie Pearce, of Temple Terrace, Fla. and Wake Forest University also qualified.

After his fine, two-under-par morning effort over the par-71 Charlotte Country Club course, Snead Prince Fauquier to enter Be mont NEW YORK (AP) Buckland Farm's Prince Fauquier, who won his first race last May 15 after 18 unsuccessful tries, will run in the June 10 Belmont Stakes, trainer Johnny Campo said Monday. Prince Fauquier, fifth in both the Florida Derby and the Flamingo, finally won in a Hn-milc maiden race at Belmont Park. Trainer Bill Raymond also said Monday that Middlctown Stable's Freetex, sixth in the Kentucky Derby, will go the I'i-milc Belmont, which is expected to draw a field of from 10 to 13 3-ycar-olds. Three Belmont candidates worked Monday. Elcce-H Stable's Smiling Jack, winner of the Jersey Derby, went I'm miles in 1:53 3-5 and galloped out Vi miles in 2:09 4-5.

Grccnstrcc Stable's Ruritania moved a mile in 1:37 3-5 and galloped out l'n in 1:51 4-5. Cragwood Stable's Zulu Tom worked VA in 2:06 and another eighth in 2:10 2-5. Tribe signs Jackson CLEVELAND (AP) The Cleveland Indians announced Monday the signing of pitcher Larry Jackson, a former all scholastic from Cleveland East Tech High School. Jackson, 6 foot-5 and 225 pounds, attended Cuychoga Community College and played last year in the Cleveland AAA amateur league. The Indians said Jackson would report to the club's Sarasota team in the Florida rookie league.

Marysvillc DC. High School, Washington, The current draft is the 15th in major league history and sometime Wednesday the selection in that period will be made. Some 20 per cent of the high school and college players drafted eventually reach the major leagues. Three players drafted last year and nine drafted in 1970 currently are on major league rosters. The 24 teams pick in reverse order of their 1971 finish.

Order of selection is the secondary phase of the draft, which covers free agents picked in previous drafts but not signed as determined by a draw. The Los Angeles Dodgers will have the first choice, followed by Cleveland, the New York Mets, Texas and San Diego. exercise and her work, which includes cuddling children in the pool at her health spa in this Southern California community. For the past dozen years, babies have been her business. She personally concentrates on children under 18 months, because, "the older a baby gets, the harder it is to teach.

Later on, when a child reaches one or one-and-one-half, it has a mind of its own. "Our objective is survival, to teach babies to fend for themselves, if necessary." One of her pupils, 212-year-old Pamela Goren, started swimming with Greta at the age of 10 months. Last week, she became one of the youngest to pass the Beginners Red Cross Skills test. Her father, Dr. David Goren, said, "We have our own pool and feel it is absolutely necessary for our little girls to be pool safe." Pamela's 2-month-oId sister, Amanda, has had her first lesson.

Children are likely to cry when they are introduced to a big swimming pool, said Greta, in forewarning parents. "This point is also the moment of truth in this business," she said. "This is when we ask, 'Who's going to cry now, or who's going to cry "Once a child discovers he can crawl, it could be too late tragically, for some of them at least to be taught how to swim." Miss Andersen says it takes 18 to 30 lessons for a child to swim on its own. A naturalized U.S. citizen, Miss Andersen is married to Dr.

Andre Veress of Huntington Beach. The couple is childless. Miss Andersen says, because, "I've been too busy doing other things." Now she's back in training, swimming several miles a day in preparation for what she calls her last endurance swim. "I want to have the record and make it so good that everyone wiil have a hard time to break it," she said. vp.

5 a 1 I I LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (AP) Greta Andersen, champion of women endurance swimmers for a quarter of a century, still spends much of her time in the water. The 45-year-old Danish Olympic champion of 1948 pool-proofs babies as a main part of her business. She's also Shorties, too Iff il or A I I 1 English Channel record. She held it for 13 years until a Dutch school teacher broke it last year.

Her 5-foot-9, 165-pound figure is just a few pounds heavier than 24 years ago when she won the Olympic gold medal for Denmark in the 100-meter freestyle. She keeps in condition with constant jump into the pool with her. Mrs. Andersen spends much her time teaching infants to swim. She bolieves tots learn most quickly in the first year.

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