EIGHT The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore., Thursday, April 7, 1977
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WIL PHINNEY
Umatilla Song
Smiles of anticipated elation can quickly turn to sour
scowls at the horse track.
In a quick matter of about two hours, my brother Kelly and
I watched a Jackson and a Lincoln climb from our pockets
and into that of the state of Washington.
Now losing 25 smacks at a horse race doesn't sound like
such a big deal. But it was to us. ..we had tips.
And we won the daily double!
Kelly is a semi-avid race
track frequenter. But he's
smart. Or his "financeer"
(derivative of fiance) is. He
raps a ten spot around his
thumb when he leaves and
when he finds the thumb bare,
he's done.
But he knew a few people at
the Yakima Meadows, and he
thought he had some excellent
tips for us Sunday. In a couple
cases, the tips turned out to be
favorites and in a couple
cases, the tips turned out to be
duds.
Let's see, the daily double. We'll go with Steel Neck in the
first and Candy Matt in the second. One and nine, we say at
the two dollar daily double window.
But Kelly overhears an acquaintance putting some heavy
bread on four and nine. We'll try that one, too, he figures.
The first race starts and Steel Neck stretches to the line
and noses out Sweet All Over. We're halfway home and
getting excited. I never thought my heart could beat as fast
watching horses run. as it does during participation sports.
The announcer breaks over the loud speaker and with a
horse racing drawl, counts down the list of horses in the
second race, matching them with Steel Neck and giving the
daily double payoffs.
Steel Neck and Greco Aereo, $28.60. Pasa Lista, $70.90.
Chevalert, $57.40. Born a Maiden, $20.10. Instant Monarch,
$74.00. Suhail, $320.90. Ottawin, $120.10. Hot Fleet, $297.30. All
right, Kelly and I are sitting on the edge of our seats, waiting
for him to wheel Steel Neck with Candy Matt, anticipating a
huge payoff if the horse comes home.
The horse came home. Candy Matt won by six lengths,
destroying Born A Maiden in the final stretch.
But the payoff was a dud, like a couple of tips we got. It
paid $6.70. From the two, $2 tickets we tried, we yielded $2.70
on winning daily double tickets. ;
If not my heart, then my stomach sunk about three feet. I
went and scarfed a hot dog."J
"Well, at least we can say we won the daily double," Kelly
sympathizes. The third race is the biggie anyway, we figure.
We've got tips here that aren't favorites.
Moon Ace and Lotta Lahk on a quinella ticket. A claiming
race of five and a half furlongs. We got the tip and we're
gonna win. No doubt.
Moon Ace lists at 7-2 odds and Lotta Lahk is at 12 to 1. With
those odds on the second horse, we can rake a bundle. But
Lotta Lahk wasn't the second horse. He finished third. ..and
Moon Ace was straggling for the finish in the pack about fifth.
We couldn't figure it out. Kelly even knew the Moon Ace
trainer, Jim Mayer, about six times removed.
The fourth wasn't much better. A horse by the name of
Umatilla Song was the number nine horse and out of
sentimentality, I was going to wager a couple bucks on him.
'Till I saw him.
I told Kelly, when he got back from the cashier's window
with our daily double earnings, that I thought I might be able
to outrun Umatilla Song in this 350 yard sprint. The horse, I
told him, looks like a dink. Those Shetland ponies can move
pretty fast in the short races, Kelly reveals. Short little legs,
he says.
I said nope and didn't let on that I'd turned a $6
combination on the number seven horse instead. It wasn't a
long shot. Hi Ho Caviyo was six to one when I went to the
window. When the race started, he was seven to one and
listed fourth by the odds makers.
He came in third, behind the two favorites and ahead of the
third favorite. But the combination paid for third only and a
show was worth just three bucks. So I lost half my money. I
could have made a buck on a simple $2 show ticket.
Mid-afternoon and the sun was shining, the track was
termed fast and so were a couple dishes walking along the
fence line. Kelly and I both agreed it was nice the races only
lasted about a minute and that there was a 17 minute
intermission between races.
In the fifth, Kelly figures, was our best bet. It was
Tacky-on, an eight to one odds horse with John Champie on
his back. Kelly had heard about this one from the wife of his
girl friend's father, who wouldn't give Kelly the tip.
Then we heard it from another source. So we figured the
horse was ours. But like a couple other tips that day, when we
bet, the odds were good at about eight or seven to one. But by
race time, the whole Meadows wagering gallery must have
heard the tip and the odds made old Tacky-on the favorite.
There were a lot of people mad at their tippers. The nag
finished in the pack, with our bucks tucked in his pocket. One
jockey fell off in that race. His horse finished first and he
finished in the ambulance.
Kelly had it figured out how much we were out. We'd won
the daily double and still were down about eight bucks. I had
to add three from Umatilla Song's buddy, Hi Ho Caviyo.
The races carded ten featured races, but Kelly and I
decided to get out of that joint after the sixth. We put a pair of
win tickets on a favorite, hoping to regain at least a couple
bucks.
Rambling Reb. The Clocker picked him and the paper
picked him and the racing form picked him. So did we. So did
a lot of people. He started the race at an 8-5 listing and by post
time was a 4 to 1 favorite.
Even if he'd have won, the best we could have made was 50
cents on the win tickets. He came in third anyway.
The whole day was one big show ticket and we were holding
the winners.
"...and it's Rambling Reb by a nose. Here comes All Salt on
the outside. It's Rambling Reb by a nose. It's All Salt and
Rambling Reb. All Salt and Rambling Reb. All Salt and
Rambling Reb. And Sure Nuf wins it at the wire!"
Sure Nuf. So it goes.
Heppner's Mustangs pounded out a 12-11 six inning win over
Weston-McEwen Tuesday. The slugfest included 27 hits, 16 by
the winners.
Heppner took revenge on the Tiger-Scots, who beat them the
same way with bats last week, 17-12. Randy Worden led the
Mustangs, smacking four for four, including a double.
Bruce Young continued to perform well at the plate, hitting
three for four and Dale Holland broke an early season slump
with a three for four evening. Holland's first basehit of the year
was a three run homer in the third.
While the bats were hot, so was Heppner's mound work.
Worden was relieved in the third by Dennis Peck. Peck, who
hurled a four hitter at Pilot Rock Saturday, gave up two hits in
almost four innings and didn't allow a run.
Weston-McEwen started the scoring, scoring eight runs in the
first inning on five hits. The Mustangs came back in the bottom
of the first with four runs on three hits, singles by Peck, Worden
and Young.
In the second, the Tiger-Scot lead grew to 11-4. The Mustangs
were shut down in the second but came storming back in the
third.
An error put Peck on base and Worden and Young singled
before Holland's blast cleared the bases and put Heppner within
three runs, 11-8.
Peck took over the yard work in the fourth and didn't let the
Tiger-Scots get another chance.
In the bottom of the fourth, Kindal Thomas reached first on an
error, then Peck doubled. Another error put Allstott on base
before Worden doubled, Young singled, and Holland singled.
The result was four runs on four hits and a 12-11 lead.
The Mustangs tried to rally in the bottom of the sixth, before
the sun went down, when Worden and Holland collected singles
again.
The game was called because of darkness.
Leland Jones carried a hot stick for Weston-McEwen, rapping
four hits in four trips to the plate. The TS third sacker had a pair
of homers, one in the first inning and another in the second.
Peck struck out eight Tiger-Scot batters in his three and
two-thirds innings on the mound. Worden k'd two.
HEPPNER - 404 40012 16 2
WMcEwen 830 00011 11 5
Heppner: Worden and Peck to Holland. Thomas 1-5, Kenny
2-4, Peck 2-4, Allstott 1-3, Worden 4-4, Young 3-4, Holland 3-4,
Sweek 0-3, Marlatt 0-1, McEwen 0-2. Homerun, Holland.
Heppner women leading
state bowling tourney
As the pins fall, so do the
weeks. Heppner women are
doing a good job of trying to
nail down top honors in
Pendleton at the Women's
State Bowling Tournament.
Heppner keglers lead three
divisions and eight Heppner
women have their names
listed among the leaders in
eight different events.
The top leader as of April. 1
is Barbara Strahm. The Hep
pner league bowler, sporting a
Condon girls
blank lone
"Condon is good. They
really are," lone netter men
tor Martha Doherty acknow
ledged. Ione's tennis team
agreed after the Blue Devil
netters leveled lone's opening
win hopes with an 8-0 girls'
triumph.
Condon swept through the
singles and didn't stop there,
destroying lone doubles play
ers in the same fashion.
Jennifer Bauman stopped
Susan Thompson, 6-0 and 6-0 to
take the first singles' win.
Jana Miller bumped Ione's
Arlene Cannon, 3-6 and 2-6.
Leah Potter took Jan Peter
son, 3-6 and 3-6 before Mich
elle McElligott ended on the
short end of a 0-8 proset match
with Cindy Satland.
In doubles, things didn't get
any better for lone, who
hosted the match under a sun
filled sky. Carol McElligott-
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Cindy Kerr
Bucks whip
Mustangs
Mark Sargent was medalist
for the field at 68, but Pen
dleton came on strong in a
pack to nip the Mustangs at
Willow Creek Country Club
Saturday, 295-299. Cindy Kerr
led the Fillies to a two stroke
edge over the Pendleton junior
varsity boys.
Sargent toured the par 60
course, eight over par to take
top honors. Charlie Rawlins,
the Mustangs' leading sticker,
was playing in a valley tour
ney on Saturday.
Jeff Edmundson, a fresh
man, was second at 70 before
the Bucks put four in a row:
Rinehart 71, Kottkamp 73,
Christensen 75 and O'Rourke
77. Two more Mustangs, Don
McEwen and Jerry Cutsforth,
finished in 79 and 82, re
spectively. Kerr fired a 75 to lead the
Filly attack against the Buck
JVs. Following that score was
Vicki Edmundson at 80, Kristi
Edmundson at 90 and Joan
Warren at 96.
Jan Peterson fell 1-6 and 0-6 to
Rene Rattray-Sue Riney. Car
ol McEUigott-Natalie Tews
dropped a 2-6, 2-6 match to
Kim Learman-Rose Kackley.
In third doubles, Natalie
Tews-Tammy Ticker fell to
Hildred Davis-Tami Harrison,
4-6 and 3-6. In the fourth
doubles, Amy Harrison-Carol
Hartley beat Martha and
Michelle McElligott in a
proset match. 2-8.
lone faces Oregon Trail in a
girls' and boys' match in
Stanfield today (Thursday).
Gentry
hurls three
hitter
Jerry Gentry of Heppner
pitched the second game of a
Tuesday double header as
Oregon State University JVs
swept through the Lane Com
munity College varsity. 10-6
and 6-2.
It was a no-hit shutout for
Gentry during the first five
innings of the second game.
Lane scored twice in the sixth
on two hits. The third hit came
in the seventh inning.
Gentry came away with the
win. allowing three hits and
three bases on balls. There
were no strike outs for the
Oregon State sophomore.
112 average, is sitting in first
place in class "D" singles with
a 505; is currently first in class
"D" all-events; and is third
with Jackie Allstott in the
class "C" doubles competit
ion. Strahm rolled a 1338 to lead
the all-events action by seven
pins over Cook of Pendleton at
1331. Strahm's singles' lead is
also slim, a four pin edge on
Cook.
Martha Doherty stepped
into the limelight two weeks
ago. busting the class "C"
all-events roster with a 1404
tally. Her closest competitor
is Fraklin of Independence, 13
pins back at 1391.
Doherty got to the all-events .
lead with a good performance
in the singles' competition for
"C" class bowlers. Her 498 is
second behind Carey of Hood
River, the leader at 505. Pat
Harshman, another Heppner
bowler, is fifth in that cate
gory with a 481 total.
Jackie Allstott is making
her presence felt at the lanes
in Pendleton. She is currently
listed fourth in class "B"
all-events with a 1512 total.
The first place leader is
Brown of Monmouth-Independence,
who holds a big lead
at 1560.
Allstott is seven pins out of
third place in all-events ac
tion. Faye Ruhl is listed fifth
in that class "B" all-events,
four pins behind Allstott. Ruhl
is also fifth in class "B"
singles with a 538 total. 23 pins
out of first place.
In doubles, Hilda Yocom
Iris Campbell have emerged
as the second best class "C"
doubles unit. The Heppner duo
rolled a 982 to bump out third
placers Allstott-Strahm at 926.
Following Strahm in class
"D" singles, Yocom is listed
sixth at 442 and Betty Brown is
eighth at 438.
The action is five weeks old
in the five month long tourney.
It will end in the first of June.
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Peck, Thomas all-stars
Dennis Peck and Kindal Thomas were
named to the Pilot Rock Baseball Tour
nament All-Stars Saturday for their play in
Heppner's third place finish.
Peck went three for five on the day at the
plate and Thomas was three for nine. In the
first game, Peck was one for two including a
!"Uble. In the second, he was two for three.
Thomas started things for Heppner against
Gervais, leading off with a double in his two
for four effort. In the second game, he went
one for five.
Peck hurled in the second game, going all
seven innings, allowing one run and four hits.
Thomas played center field in both contests.
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