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The Voice Of St. Matthews, January 3, 1957: Highlight 1956Mallon Plan, Church Growth, Court Decision Highlight 1956Waggener also shone in basketball. The school team, paced by the pitching of left-hander Bobby Marr, won all four of itsseason's games. Marr pitched two no-hitters and a one-hitter.Baseball Spotlight: St. Matthews Babe Ruth and Little League baseball were in the spotlight all summer.The Babe Ruth League opened its first year on Memorial Day at the St. Matthews Community Center with eight teams ofboys 13, 14 and 15 years old.The Cubs, managed by George Marr, won the pennant with a 10-4 record.The Cub team was paced by the aforementioned Bobby Marr, 15.Bobby won the league batting title with an average of .406. He was the league’s strikeout king and second-best pitcher,percentage-wise.Danny Carter, of the Indians won the pitching title with a 4-0 record. Marr won five and lost one. He sent 82 men down onstrikes in six games and gave up only 21 walks.Marr in July threw a no-hit game to lead the National All-Stars in a 10-1 victory over Bowling Green in the State tournament.But the local All-Stars were defeated by the South End All-Stars 8-4 in extra innings and eliminated from the tournament.It was an auspicious start for the Babe Ruth League.Another highlight of the season was Charlie Long’s no-hit game June 5 as he led his Giant team to a 2-0 victory over theYankees and struck out 19 men.Little League opened its fourth season in May.Models and Lions: The Models swamped all opposition and easily won the American pennant with 15 victories againstthree looses. The Lions set a new record in winning the National pennant. They won 15 games, lost two, and tied one, thebest record ever compiled by a National League team.The two St. Matthews Leagues picked All-Star teams and quickly eliminated all competitor for the area title.Then in the title gave at the St. Matthews park, the Americans lined up behind the two-hit pitching of Jim Shollenberger todefeat the National 7-1. The Americans demonstrated their superior power with an eight-hit, three-homer attack.A few days later, the Americans got their long bats out of the rack again, and gave the Lexington Eastern All-Stars an unmercifulbeating, 11-2 for the District title. The St. Matthew boys got 13 hits.Then they went to Fort Knox for the state tournament. Here they met their downfall, through a combination of mentallapses, the breaks, and dumb luck. They bowed to Paducah 6-4 despite home runs by Wayne Glore and Cappy Hoskins.Highlights of the season wee Citizens pitcher Tuffy Horne’s no-hitter that defeated the Pryors 4-0 on June 19, and Tuffy’sthree –hitter that snapped the longest wining streak in St. Matthews Little League history.That was July 14 against the Lions, a game the Citizens won 13-0. It was the first defeat of the year for the Lions, who hadwon 12 in a row.Breaking Records: Carl Porter managed the pennant-winning Lions. He had the satisfaction of seeing his boys break thetwo records, the one for consecutive games won and the other for best season’s record.Both these records, had been established by a previous Lions’ team, the one of 1953, couched by Walter Bales. The fourbest pitching records in the League were captured by Lions. They were:Charles Kane and Him Lapsley, 4-0, Tommy Dudgeon, 3-0, and Mike Patrick 4-1. But little Tuffy won the strikeout title.Tuffy in 45 innings fanned 67 men.Davis of the Citizens team won the League bat crown with .452.In the American League, Tommy Pope of the pennant-winning Models was doing some record smashing.The 11-year old hurler won eight victories against only one loss. That was more victories than have ever been turned induring a single season by a pitcher in either league. Tommy was backed by a tremendous squad of hitters.Five Models, led by Wayne Glore with a .524 average, batted better than .340. Another Model, Merle Kruer, batted .472and blasted five home runs.