Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 189, Ed. 1 Friday, May 23, 1969 Page: 7 of 10
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Brownwood Bulletin
SPORTS
EVEN WARM-UP MAN
with the Seattle Pilets
er. that earned the Westerner a
lots to a 7-6 victory over the Sox jumped on Denny MeLain timore’s seventh victory in eight
known by wearing them out.
had last year with the Tigers.
making some noise as a hitter , ter than his 125 with Detroit
ier
San Angelo teams were tops second places
in the first two flights Ida May flight after three teams played
Winters and Nora Wooten were
second ahead of Fort Worth s fore one inning of the final
Frances Woods and Pam El-
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Strikeouts ac
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safeties in the seven-inning con- scoring for the night
sixth in five games with a man
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out of vines and had to lay out.
son.
som. Weller and Romero.
Trio Favored in Pole Battle
Roscoe Beil, 150. Miami 10. 85.
Indy Trials Open Saturday •
feeSTRpinGs
By DALE BURGESS
tion winner and about $20,000 in with the Hawk, his winning car
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timated 250,000 holders of rain eran Roger McCluskey
time trials this weekend and lat-
checks from last weekend. prob-
That trio and Al I'nser. who er if necessary
ably will see a historic battle was sidelined by a motorcycle
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273 15%
314 12%
Montreal
West Division
Illi
Atlanta
hour he had done with the Lo turbine, oversized under this
8 Kansas City 17 21
year s rules, while winning the
tus
He was thoroughly familiar 500 pole position last year.
Astros Finally Off Launching Pad
shows no signs of stopping
and Boston tagged California 7-
Jimmy Wynn's ninth home Doug Radar and a two-run sin-
EVADRS
straight victory and 14th in 18 quick two-run lead against the
Atlanta collected 13 hits In-
Expos and then the Astros add eluding homers by Hank Aaron.
the National ed three more in the second
Felix Millan and Clete Boyer to
wallop New York
Five Met
Aaron's two-run shot in the
first inning was the 519th of his
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whipped San Diego 7-1.
real hits including a homer by
the alltime list. Cleon Jones
to bring Flood home.
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Four City Teams
Battle for Crown
S. Angelo, Brady
Linksters Triumph
No Drills After
This Weekend
aged to go the distance In the then singled in the tie-breaking
other games, the Chicago White run in a five-run seventh in Bal-
well of Comanche and Bernice
Orloff of Brownwood posted a
BIRDS OF A FEATHER—Two of the finest baseball
players of our era, Willie Moyes (left) and Frank
Robinson, can still be seen flying around the bases.
game. the superstitious Lolich
refused to throw He wanted
in fact, the night gave him 23
RBI and six homers, along with
a 253 batting average far bet-
TWO TEAMS
nine-hole flight.
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After 6% years in the minor
leagues and portions of two sea-
sons in the majors. Comer is
Wilson won his fourth game 3
Thursday night, beating Mont-
Oakland
Minnesota
Chicago
Seattle
setback against six victories as rapped a single in a two-run run in the seventh inning,
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first inning, two on Bill Melton's
grounder Joe Torre and Tim
McCarver followed with singles
3%
5
games this month
Elsewhere in 1
In the American League, Oil John Bateman knocked him out robbed him of another homer
cago rapped Detroit 7-3, Cleve-, Fred Gladding nailed down the with a leaping catch later. Inj
pitched his no-hitter against land downed Kansas City 4-1.
Cincinnati on May 1 and happi- Baltimore topped Minnesota 6-2,
ly for Manager Harry Walker, ft Seattle edged Washington 7-6
Sam Houston
Wins Opener
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Sam Houston State College used
long distance lightning to take
a 4-2 victory Thursday over St
Edward’s in the first game of
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games in the series with Comer
catching him between innings
and when Comer didn’t show be
after both teams had recorded
70s.
Best score of the day was
turned in by Char Collyns and
Wilma Breen of San Angelo in
winning first flight honors They
registered a best-ball 64 to whip
the second place team of Lou
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West Division
25 H .
. . ARNOLD PALMER
. . putting again
Powell and Margaret Cleveland
fired a best-ball score of 65 to 1
easily win championship flight
honors
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Brownwood's Liz Hadley and
Paul Rice fashioned a 73 in
championship flight competi-
top ranking and the shot at Fos-
ter
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Baltimore
Boston
Detroit
Wash’n.
New York
Cleveland
Foyt has been fastest in prac-
tice at 172 315 in his Covote-
Ford.
McCluskey has done 170 283 in
a Coyote-Ford Before his acci-
dent. Al I'nser had hit 169 141 in
a Lola-Ford which Bud Tingel-
stad could get to only 164 144
Thursday.
Joe Leonard set the Speedway
one-lap record of 171 953 in a
New York Yankees and Oakland
were idle.
In the National League, Atlan-
ta swamped the New York Mets
15-3. Houston beat Montrel 7-4.
Saturday for the pole position in
the 53rd 500-mile race May 30 at
the Indianapolis Motor Speed-
way
The scheduled opening ses-
sions last Saturday and Sunday,
which might have filled the 33-
ear starting field. were a wa-
tery blank.
The No. 1 or pole position goes
to the fastest driver on the open-
ing day of the trials, now Satur-
day
Best prospects for pole posi-
the Crusaders at 8 35 pm.
Finals in the double elimina-
tion tournament are set for Sat-
urday night
Beck faced only 16 De Leon
batters in the abbreviated five-
victory.
It was the seventh straight
loss for the Expos, who got
three runs in the fourth on a
pair of errors by Wilson and
Washington heard from him _ _ — _____ ________________ ___
Thursday night when he rapped American League pitcher man- homer in the sixth inning and ing Association's No 1 contend-
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LOU BROCK
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San Francisco 8-3 in 11 innings runs, doubled for two more in
Ferguson Jenkins pitched a the seventh _______._____________
four-hitter and blanked Los An- Wilson coasted with a 7-3 lead career, leaving him two short of
“I was a 3-1 underdog when I —
fought Eddie Jones at Las Vegas
in February and I beat him So
why should I worry about odds’
' You can t get hit by odds
“Foster is a good fighter"
added the flat-nosed ex-Marine
DON WILSON
. . . fourth win
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Brownwood Country place honors
Brady captured both first and
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By HAL BOCK
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Apollo 10 Astronauts are
filing around the moon and
their National League counter-
■ parts, the Houston Astros, have
R finally gotten off the launching
I pad.
| The Astros spent the first
league
York 1
By MIKE RECHT
Associated Press Sports Writer
Wayne Comer's claim to fame
as the indispensible warm up
man for Mickey Lolich during
last year s World Series appears
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
National league
East Division
W. L. Pct. G.B.
48 times last season, did get a busy next week grooming local 10th round by Eddie Cotton in
hit in his only at bat during the parks for the opening of the 1965 but says it was because of
senes, but it was his success as season June 2 a broken nose and cuts,
a warm-up catcher for which he
received special notice.
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MAY REASONER and Nelle
Virdell of Llano defeated Marie
omi Hickey of Stephenville in wood s Cam Slagle and Louise ing game at Camp Bowie Municipal ry Beck Was backed by a 15hit a best-of-three baseball series
a playoff for the second spot Smith registering a 36 for top But Comer never stood a Sports Center Creamer was the winning pit- Lion attack that ineiuaed two The second game of the senes
' ’ honors The team of Doris Max- chance of breaking into the pow The Cables nudged the Miners cher with relief help from Rog- hits each by Beck Bobby Jones is set for Austin today if a
er-packed Tigers' outfield, and 3-2 in the other half of the twin- ers. while John Reese went the Chapman. Darrell Ray. Jerry third game is necessary, it will
off he went in the expansion bill. route for the Three-Ms. Sims and Richard Parmenter be played as part of a double-
draft to Seattle, where he has
found a home.
inning opener
three weeks of the season in
their final countdown while the
rest of baseball was blasting off.
over. Instead of warming up Senators The five runs batted for a 7-3 victory over Detroit, games Reliever Dick Hall. 3-1 The champion, winner of 13
pitchers, he is making himself in gave him two more than he Baltimore trimmed Minnesota got the victory after starter Jim straight, including 12 by kayos.
'--1------‘—*----- ‘----—t---- 6-2, Cleveland stopped Kansas Hardin failed to retire a batter will have a huge advantage in
City 4-1 and. in the afternoon, as the Twins took a 2-0 lead
j , Atlanta bombed New Joe Morgan, who singled ____F -___ _____ .... ___
15-3, St. Louis whipped' home one of the second inning pitchers absorbed the battering
off ties at 69 Brady s Janet
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Don't Faze
Hugh Hamilton, the winning eagle and four birdies to offset a
pitcher, and Jimmy Pitt slam quadruple bogey 7 on the par 3
med homers for the winners third. hole, where he “swatted
Hamilton is now 10-0 for the sea- twice " and failed to get the ball
tion. Teams composed of Ruth .___________. ,
and of Minnie Cunning- Gary and Betty Humphries Mike Epsteins 11th homer and er singled for the only Plumber in the fifth inning capped Cable De Leon errors.
carded 70s in the first flight.
in the second
Boston added to California's
the seventh. Aaron was lifted
for a pinch hitter for the first
time in his career as Manager
Lum Harris took advantage of
the big lead to rest the 35-year-
old slugger.
Lou Brock broke a 2-2 tie with
an 11th-inning homer and the
Cardinals went on to score five
more runs to beat the Giants ,
St Louis had rallied tn tie the
score with two out in the ninth
when second baseman Hon Hunt
booted Curt Flood's two-out I
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real 7-4 for Houston's fifth run of the season gave Wilson a gle by Bob Bailey.
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Teams from San Angelo and ham of Cross Plains by two
Brady walked off with top hon- shots San Angelo s Elsie Ad-
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hit. Comer came back with his The Plumbers used three board in the fifth when Wall trailed in the nightcap after
three-run blast in the seventh Three-M errors and a base on reached on an error and scored jumping on eager pitching for
The White Sox wasted little balls to account for their final on Beck's single Houston sing- four second-inning runs on base
time handing McLain his fourth two runs in the fifth. Gonzales led and scored the second Miner hits by Ricky Evans, Joey Gris-
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Hitters Have Their Night =
Comer's outburst highlighted before 15,948 fans It was Kendall's upset victory
a night for hitters as not one Frank Robinson hit his 12th over Jones then the World Box-
Pittsburgh 20 18
New York 18 19
St. Louis .. 18 20
Philaphia . 15 20
Los Angeles 22 15
San Fran, 21 17
Cincinnati . 17 19
Houston .... 18 24
Lolich won his first two HI I c.LI, c,+,
FIUmoers, ~dDies capture
City Softball League Wins
The Plumbers made the most Three-Ms fifth and the losers
only Comer of two hits as they downed the tacked on another tally when
entered the Comer finally arrived and Three-Ms 6-3 in a City’ Softball Perkins singled aid came
with Brown- Lolich went on io win the decid- League contest Thursday night around on hits by Low and Ber-
Elsie Slivensky and Anole
Combes had a 73 and Kathleen
McGraw and Virginia Wedeman
a 74.
In the second flight, Ann
Franks and Grace Krischke
teamed up for 70. Connie Hud-
son and Bernell Dewees came
in with an 30 and Bettie Kerby
and Mary Milner recorded an
By RON SPEER four-under par 38 which left him
ATLANTA (AP) — Arnold only a shot off the lead shared
Palmer is putting like the Palm- by Jacky Cupit and George
er of the past in the 8115 000 Knudsoibgbing into todays sec-
Atlanta Classic Golf Tourna- ond round
ment, and if he keeps it up his The multimillionaire, who
rivals probably will claim he made a fortune out of golf but
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass has “a lady s touch on thelhasn’t won since last Septem-
(API - The 4-1 odds favoring greens ber. didn t spread the word But
light heavyweight champion The slumping king of the pro , It got out anyway that he took a
Bob Foster don't faze challe ng- tour knocked in birdie putts of Up from a lady about putting on
er Andy Kendall 15, 10, 10, 8. 2 and 2 feet for a the eve of Thursday > opening
San Diego 16 26 381 12
American League
East Division
W. L. Pct. G.B.
Associated Press Sports Writer special prizes that go with it. in a CSAC championship race at
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind 1AP1 — are three-time winner A J Hanford Calif. April 13.
One of the biggest crowds in Foyt Jr . former national cham The 33 fastest cars of 76 at the
sports history, swollen by an es- pion Mario Andretti or vet- track will be picked in 10-mile
5
accident last weekend, have
dominated three weeks of prac-
tice for the time trials Saturday
and Sunday
Andretti lost his original 500
car, a new Lotus-Ford, in a
fiery wreck Wednesday but he
came back Thursday in a
Hawk Ford and soon was run-
ning only a couple miles an hour
slower than the 171 739 miles an
Fight Results
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES-Richard
Steele, 174. Los Angeles, out-
pointed Eddie Talhami, 175. Mi-
ami, 10
TAMPA, Fla—Manuel Gon
zalez, 149. Houston outpointed
round
Palmer had dinner Wednes-
day night at the home of Tom
Brown an Atlanta executive in
the Arnold Palmer Golf Co.
whose wife Dodie, is a former
Georgia w omen s champion
The Browns showed Palmer
their den where the carpeting is
_ . .. designed to simulate a putting
height and reach when they The senior teenage baseball Tommy Roderick. Brown, green and a regulation golf cup
clash in the television 15-round tournament being unreeled at Fisher and Rasberry rapped is sunk in the floor
title fight at the Eastern States Camp Bowie Municipal Sports base hits as the Cagers cut the Mr, Brown said she thought
Coliseum Saturday afternoon Center this week has settled into lead to 4-2 in their half of the she could help Palmer’s putting
The 30-year-old ctamp from a serap between four Brown- econdsButEvans’ to-run which has been his downfall in
Silver Springs Md stands 6- wood clubs third-inning homer dashed any recent months
rlt 34 SPndhas a 79-inch reach The last of four ontside en- hopes of a Cager victory She stepped up and knocked
.E No nractice sossions will be Kendall 5-10 has a 691,inch tries was eliminated Thursday Crusader pitchers Jimmy Car- in 10 straight putts from 10 feet
St Louis topped San Francisco aiDoprastseosessionss“ihtbe reach night when the Lions smashed michael and Raymond Martinez “Arnie‛seeyeslighted up. and
8-3 in 11 innings, Chicago allowedinErownwoodslghted De Leon 20-0 behind a 15-hit were touched for 11 Cager hits he grabbed' the nutter Brown
blanked Los Angeles 3-0 and baseball parks after this week- Kendall, 29. claims that hex attack and the no-hit pitching The crusaders managed but sa8
Pittsburgh ripped San Diego 7-1 5• it! Par s and iRecreatin never been floored in his pro ca- of Danny Beck five safeties off eager pitching Men he knocked in 35 outts
Comer, a 25-year-old right- Director, reer of seven years and 32 The second half of Thursday’s Evans doubled and homered n Then he, knocked, inu35.
hander who batted only three dleton said today- - t.ouseue 64’ an" i: twinbili found the Crusaders up to fuel the Crusader attack while ina row froml eemaway and
times for the Tigers in 1967 and Middleton's crew will be fight He. was stopped in the ending the Cagers 744 Fisher s two singles and a dou .the.onyreasonbeumessed taen
____ ..ee . . ble were the big blows for the gling a nd laughing, and Arnie fi-
ACTION. RESUMES tonight Cagers. nall broke down laughing.’’
with a doubleheader sending the --------------— Brown said
— , Lions against the Cagers at 6
and the unbeaten Shoes against Cem Leusc+en Palmer stil. was grinning
nn Hnusron broadly after the opening round.
which he said was "the best I've
had in a long time "
The tip Mrs Brown passed on
was that Palmer should keep
the putter down when he follows
through
Putting was the whole show in
the start of the tournament on
the 7,053-yard Atlanta Country
Club course. with Cupit holing
three putts of more than 20 feet
for birdies and Knudson sinking
six birdie putts for their 67s
Plumbers bunched both hits Low pitched three-hit ball and The Lions jumped into a 2-0 header pPaimer 5 68 " as matched,
_________ and four walks for four third- slapped a two-run fourth-inning first inning lead and broke the The prize is the area 2 play- dODh ° nson nd Mason
His double in the third inning inning runs to break open a homer behind Dwayne MeDan- game wide open with a 14- run off in Phoenix Ariz May 28 30 IDfending chamnion Bob
gave the Pilots a 4-2 lead When scoreless battle with the Three- iel’s single to pace the Cable second inning that featured sev- Both clubs are in District 4 of I unn and big jck Nicklaur
the Senators pulled ahead 5-4 on Ms Hickey.tripled and.Cream- victory: Jerry /Low’s solo homer en hits, nine walks and three the National Association of In- were among* the band of 70
tercollegiate Athletics shooters, with Nicklaus using an
Chicago
They played 23 games, man-
aged exactly four victories and
seemed to be permanently
grounded
Then along came May and the
Astros started their engines It
all began when Don Wilson
r'
Friday, May 23, 1969 BROWNWOOD BULLETIN 7
homer
Gerry Nyman, 2-0, and Dan
Osinski combined on a five-hit
ter for the victory at Milwaukee
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