Imperial’s Catcher Hurts Spencer Imperial's standout freshman catcher, Rod Brethower's, bat helped beat the Spencer Pirates, 6-3, in Thursday’s class B semi final game in the state baseball tourney. The Pirates earlier had com peted in the state class C basket ball tournament. The Spencer - Imperial show was tied, 3-all, at the end of 4'^ innings, but Brethower doubled in the go-ahead run and sent Im I>erial on its way to the finals. Husky Brethower, 15, banged out a triple during the game and turned in a flawless job of catch ing. Dwayne Newman and Len Unzicker were Imperial hurlers. Frank Soukup chucked for Spen cer. In Friday’s finals. Central City blanked Imperial, 3-0, and won the class B diamond title. Boxscore-. SPENCER (3) ab h o a Lam pm an, 2b 4 2 2 1 Schmidt, c . 3 1 8 0 Soukup, p ... 4 0 0 1 Friedrich, ss.3 0 1 3 Scheinost, rf .... 2 1 10 Cork, If.3 1 1 0 Kiasna, cf . 3 1 1 0 Havranek, 3b .... 2 0 1 0 Rosengren, lb .. 3 2 3 0 Totals . . _ 27 8 18 5 IMPERIAL (6) ab h o a Brethower, c . . 3 2 7 0 Hoskins, ss . 4 0 0 2 R. Radcliff, lb _3 0 12 1 Wagner, 2b . 3 2 1 2 Travis, If .3 0 0 0 Faubian, If . 0 0 0 0 G. Radcliff. 3b _ 3 0 0 2 Kelly, cf . 2 1 0 1 G’d’rd, cf . . 0 0 0 0 Jaeger, rf .3 0 10 Cr’nwell, rf ...... 0 0 0 0 Newman, p 2 10 5 Unzicker, p... 1 0 0 2 Totals 27 6 21 16 Spencer 020 010 0—3 Imperial 300 030 x—6 Inman-Springfield in I 2-Inning Go The Inman Tigers and Spring field battled for 12 innings Thurs day afternoon in the state class C baseball tourney. Springfield won, 3-2, in the longest game in tournament history. Dick Kiger led off in the 12th for Springfield with a double to left center. Don Joern singled him out. Springfield had scored in the first inning on two walks, a fielder’s choice and a squeeze bunt by Duane Neitzel. Kiger made the tally. Inman then commanded a 2-1 lead in the top half of the sixth on singles by Ned Kelley and Charles Butterfield. The Tigers were abetted by a Springfield error and by one walk that was issued. Springfield evened the count in the sixth when Tom Webster singled in Neitzel. The Tigers lost their chance in the seventh, when, with two down, Bob Reimers tripled to deep left. He tried to stretch the play into a homer, was obliged to change his mind, was picked off while scrambling back to third. Gene Couch went the distance for Inman and whiffed 11. Bob Zimmerman, going the route for the winners, set down nine. In man outhit Springfield, 9-7. Dodge upended Springfield, 8-5, for the state class C baseball crown. Dodge outhit Springfield, 12-5, in the finals. Boxscore: INMAN (2) ab h o a Neal Kelley, 3b 6 0 4 2 Sawyer, cf . 6 0 2 0 Reimers, ss ...... 6 1 4 1 Ned Kelley, c . 4 3 10 0 C. Butterfield, If 4 3 1 0 Couch, p . 5 2 0 4 Dorr, lb . 5 0 10 0 Watson, 2b ... . ■. 3 0 1 5 Coventry, rf . 1 0 1 0 G. Butterfield, rf 2 0 0 0 Totals 42 9x33 7 SPRING. (3) ab h o a Timmerman, 2b .. 3 1 5 4 Kiger, ss......... 6 2 4 1 Joern, c . 4 1 9 5 Neitzel, 3b . 4 1 2 1 I Webster, lb .. 4 1 14 0 Blum, cf . 3 1 1 0 IVIeisinger, If . 4 0 1 1 Zimmerman, p . . 5 0 0 2 Grube, rf . . 5 0 0 0 Totals 41 7 36 14 xNone out when winning run |scored. Inman . 000 002 000 000—2 1 Springfield 100 001 000 001—3 U of N Numerals to O’Neill Athletes The following high school track athletes from north-central Ne braska have been aw’arded nu merals by Track Coach Frank Se vigne of the University of Ne braska: BASSETT— Ardell Anderson, Don Fox, Harley Gesiriule, Garry Marcellus, Ernest Hasch. Ronnie Strote, Jack Johnson, Jim Rich ards, Marvin Reynolds, Charles Anderson, full blue; Harold Mc Guire, Ronnie Marcellus, Jim Jones. Larry Sanger, Harry Polen, Leo Vawser, half blue. ELGIN—Robert Busteed, Merle Faubel, full blue. EWING — Virgil Potter, full blue; Jack Sisson, Francis Heu messer, half blue. NELIGH — Bendt Brodersen, full blue; Ron Rittscher, Arnold Harmill, Jerry Taylor, Ted Reth meier, half blue. O’NEILL HIGH — Kenneth Backhaus, full blue; Bob Burival, Ivan Kaiser, half blue. O'NEILL ST. MARY’S—Larry Johnson, full blue; Larry Dono hoe. Gene O’Neill, Gary Holly, Larry Tomlinson, Tom Head, Bill Craig, half blue. OSMOND— Ronald Van Ack eien, half blue. SPRING VIEW— Curtis Linse. Carlyle Cook, half blue. STUART—Lowell Scger, Jerry Taylor, Dana Bigelow, Alan Brewster, full blue; Don Schmad erer, Mike Batenhorst half blue. VALENTINE — Gene Wilson, Bill Lamoureaux, full blue; Rog er Rhoades, Jim Lee, Ron Mer cure, Bob Smith, Jeep Grooms, half blue. 35th Annual Golf Tourney Dates Near Entries are beginning to arrive from contestants who will be bid ding for honors at the 35th an nual dad’s day open golf tourna ment to be held at the Country club. Dates for the event, one of the longest continuously operat d tourneys in the state, arc Sat urday, Sunday and Monday, June 16, 17 and 18. There will be prizes for winners and runnersup in all flights and in the consolation flight. Qualifying rounds will be play ed on Saturday and scores can be posted at any time during the preceding week. First round matches will start at 9 a.m., on Sunday. Title play will be finished late Monday. There will be consolation play in all flights and refreshments will be served in the clubhouse. Ladies’ bridge will be in progress at the clubhouse on Saturday af ternoon. On Sunday there will 1 lnJIne' 11 i ry r\n f nl 1 hv bridge. On Saturday night there will be a Calcutta pool and a Dutch lunch, and on Sunday evening a dance. A. P. Jaszkowiak is chairman of the tourney committee. The tournament each year us ually affords a homecoming op portunity for many former resi dents. Telling of Fortune Shower Feature— EWING— Mrs. Robert Bartak, a May bride, was honored last Thursday evening at a miscel laneous shower held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sanders. About 40 friends and relatives were in attendance. Contest games with prizes awarded provided en tertainment. Mrs. Waldo Davis created special interest when she told Mrs. Bartak’s fortune. The Misses Joellyn Eacker and Rowena Rotherham assisted with the gifts. Miss Geraldine Roth erham had charge of the gift book. A luncheon was served by Mes dames Arthur Sanders, John Archer, Waldo Davis, Earl Bil lings and Robley Sisson, sr. STUDIES TELETYPE EWING— Pvt. Franklin Boll witt, RA17451668, Co. M 940C TUTSS, Ft. 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