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9 e 9 SS' CARDINAL MANAGER Red autographs the armami of RedbirdRe fan I Randy Harmon last night at Jefferson Junior High Randy is the son of Mr and Mrs Harold Harmon Route 4 Redhead MalesMakes No BootsBo ts On BBaseball Night Queri ss. By JOE LILLI two films one featuring highhigh- 18 living in or nenearr the city Missourian Sports Writer lights of the 1966 StarAll-Star game The CouncilCoun il aa major factor Last night beckoned to that and the other a movie HisHis-Hist- in the rebirth of youthyo basebase-base- ol01 hIi be-b allall- toryory of the Redbirds ball in Columbia is a groupgro p of gameouttakefeeling as several hunbunhun-bun- Approximately was colcol- the most dedicated dred takeeager youngsters and lected which will go to the people in ththe city Inrn 19661968 it dads packed Jefferson Junior Diamond Council in conjunc- inherited a program with 26 High theSchool auditorium to us-lis- tion with the City Parks and teams and boys The propro- lis ten to the skipper of the StSt. Recreation Department to be gram grew to 29 teamsteams' and Louis Cardinals Red used to operate four baseball boys last year The CounCoun- dienstd enst leagues the Bantam Midget cilscil's goal for 1968 is 35 teams For almost a quarter of an Junior Babe Ruth and Senior and boys and it also is hour after the scheduled openopen- Babe Ruth These leagues are planning to acquire a new ball inglag time dozens of boys lined for boys from nine through park up to get autoauto- graph Even then several of the youngsters were turned away in order to begin the program Rodney Smith president of the Columbia Diamond CounCoun- cilcli made the opening remarks then turned the affair over to the master of ceremonies Bob Morrow Morrow a former National Football LeagueLeogueLe gue playplay- er broke the meetingmeeting-like air with baseball jokejokes He concon- tinued with the history and purpose of the Columbia DinDiaDia- mond Council before introduc- ing For over an hour members of the crowd fired questions at who fielded them with ease The questions varied but snootymany hitbit at next year'syears outout- look Some Rogerat Maris'Maris future with the Cardinals in rightfight field others with next year'syears Cardinal pitching staff a strong factor in their winwin- ning ways of 1967 MarisMans will remain in right field but will share it with an alternate The pitching nucleus of and Nelson BriesBriles performed well last year andand- are expected to continue said The players might say that the manager gave them their confidence but itsit's the playplay- ersera who gave their manager said regarding the Cardinals confidence And the fans helped too We have the greatest fans in the country in StSt. Louis he said Asked who he thought was the most outstanding comcorncom- petitor he had faced dienst said that was the best Yet regarding the most ball playplay- eren of all time Stan topped his list 1 wish Stan was 15 years youngerI and on the team addadd- ed left the stage I amidst crescendo of applause The program concluded with