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PAGt rUUR
MUNDAY, MAY 23, 1966
Gould, Mangum Boys
Torres'Notion
f o r
get some experience
At the same time, he expres
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With Colonial
FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI)
have to stop Clay from circling
। punch but he could do it
Bruce Golf Tournament
Travis Woshington
Chapek to Play In
Pro-Junior Tourney
V) weight title. Torres admitted
capable with the bat as he
h
t h e
Maryetta Combs and Sylvia
lead to six strokes, but a bogey
the
of Chickasha and Frank Hames one judge and a 12-2-1 victor on
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champion. Leena Ahonen of Finland as she
is the Office of Governor
madison topped Pia Balling of Denmark.
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FOR SALE
In Oklahoma?
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Feb 3 and that scares me ”
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But the Office of Governor in Oklahoma Is
NOT FOR SALE
because
YOUR VOTE IS STILL YOUR VOTE
THAT IS WHY
PRESTON MOORE
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THAT IS WHY PRESTON MOORE WILL
BE THE NEXT GOVERNOR OF OKLAHOMA
PRESTON MOORE is a TRUE Democrat
Keyed to the Growth of Oklahoma
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Altus, Oklahoma
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rounds another on the ninth, a
double-bogev on the 10th and
bout with Canadian
George Chuvalo at
through June 30, are Jay Bor-
den and Hullum with 1155. fol-
lowed by Walt Bell and Bill
DeHart with
Jackson, 1271;
Faucher 1270
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RALSTON WINS
STOCKHOLM (UPD -Dennis
Ralston of Bakersfield, Calif.,
..... _______„ "Pitching is thin " the Altus
beaten day’s non league opener at El now have only 12 on the roster " mentor continued, but he noted
PRESTON
MOORE
FOR OKLAHOMA
ference goiters who will be par-
ticipating include Karl Jacobs scorecards of the referee and
won since the 1964 Waterloo a winer’s purse of $129,000 to
Iowa Open raise his earnings to $375,147
He paid $4, $3 and 12 40 across
the board after beating Stupen-
dous by almost two lengths
DIMOCRAr ‘OR
GOVERNOR
Bell and Sam
another on the 15th almost gave
of Frederick, both playing with the card of the other judge
Jack Rule and Andy Bass of
El Reno, teamed with Terry
Dill '
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Ragtime Tournament that runs I
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Loyd Colson
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age of 3 9 hits and one earned has been assigned to the four-
run per game He totaled 2751 ——
Some individuals seem to think so At least some of
the losers in the Democratic primary election have
"pledged” to deliver the votes they received in that
election to Raymond Gary in next Tuesday's runoff
election
, Mont and Clay
homa City, shooting for the hon indicated after his six round
TKO of Henry Cooper in
Jimmy Caster
England of Duncan are second prevhods"on bstopsthis
NEW YORK 11 PI i -South won an international outdoor
American heavyweight cham- tennis tourament Sunday by
pion Oscar Bonavena of Argenti- beating Austrialia’s John New-
na arrived here Sunday to combe 9-7, 8-6. in the final
Southside, ace chunker. Ken-
ny Helton will see a lot of ac-
tion on the mound for the Altus
team, and some duties as sig-
nal caller. while Mike Asenap
returns from Indiahoma and Ro-
land Alexander. another Red De-
vil player, is also out.
Tuesday's game at El Reno is
scheduled for Bpm Woolbright
urged Altus people to show en-
thusiasm by attending that
game and others on the schedule
and encourage boys in the com-
munity to come out for the
team.
Boys must be 14 years old and
not have reached their 19th
helped him win more than
while Gail Sanners and Lonnie
Mentor of Duncan head the
women's division with an 1194
Others among the top of the
list for men include Tom Cook
and Coy Suttle 1302; Charles Ho- j
ward and William Straily of
Lawton 1251. and Ron Hullum
and Harry Deutch, 1246 Cook-
Suttle and Deutch Hullum are
Altus bowlers
his next bout
for he women with an 1151
in the Town & Country Men’s
- - - • At one time. Devlin built his
Sundav and its horrors of heat,
humidity and stray shots
Devlin has only one previous
triumph in the States —the 1964
St Petersburg Open, but four . .... . _ . .
runnerup finishes a year ago *r -v > • pt 1
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to right" and that's the way I
played it"
The formula worked for three
days with rounds of 67-68-70
over the par 35-35 70, 7,100-
yard layout but then came
winner on
Torres, 5-10 and 175 pounds,
scored two first-round knock
downs and used Thornton's
head as a punching bag in his
first defense since winning the
light heavyweight title from
Willie Pastrano 14 months ago
and his first fight in a year He
in the Ladies No-Tap Splits-
A Strike Ragtime. Neg Brown
and Jo Westlake lead with 1598
Gladys Hornsey and Jo Ann
Greene are in second with a
1529
The SWPBA will continue at
Town & Country every day
through midnight Sunday when
the tournament ends house
manager Bill Ruhman has an-
nounced
Bill Foreman and Cecil Willis
teamed for a 1311 to lead the
men’s division of the Southwest
Professional Bowling Proprietor
Association with 1311, while
Gail Sanner and Lonnie Men
association ragtime doubles.
is leading in pre-runoff polls and increasing his lead
daily He is not buying and he is not selling Like
you, he believes in the honor of the office he seeks
second round, and made a 36- Stakes loomed as a small one
hole windup necessary Sunday m.ono.. .. 0... I
Miss Engle horn had to win a T ougho raci & history
... . . . .. only 14 Thoroughbreds reached
thrilling stretch duel with kin. .
"hookers."
"I asked Hogan, with whom I
played a couple of times and
who knows this Colonia course
like a book, how he played it.”
Devlin said He said from left
1uVIc3 -LivI--n/I , ALIUS, UKLAHUMA
and not the property of any one you might have sup-
ported earlier in good faith in a losing effort.
Miss Englehorn Kauai King
T । - । . Nears Turf
lakes /ananas immortality
have to stop Clay from circling FORT WORTH, Tex. (UPI) Devlin with the key to his wire-
and force him to throw the first I— A pretournament tip from to-wire $22,000 triumph in the
• । ।five-times winner Ben Hogan Colonial National Invitation
,, u, Altus Legion Coach
To fight Clay ... N .
Are South All-Stars IsSeconded Makes Player Plea
Torres notion that he be L, W. Dub Woolbright today 6 30 pm today at Kiwanis Park younger boys would report for
considered as a challenger for made an urgent plea for area and Woolbright said "we define the practice and if nothing else,
heavyweight champion Cassius boys interested in playing with tely need more boys" "We have get some experience
Clay was seconded today by •he Altus Legion team to report bee n holding prac tice with 10 stronger teams in the future
middle - and • welterweight king to the final prac lice be fore Tue offthe tune and right
Emile Griffith and I
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VO UR Fndcptn^nf
Insumncrg AGENT .
sERveS vou FinST
before tackling the Bayou Din
Country Club course that she said Ford as he watched his
was not going to let anything colt bounce back from the'
bother her And it didn’t vigors of hi, taxing schedule
on the sixth hole which he
i parred onlv once in four
She told herself Sunday
was 10-4I
it away
But, at the end only Sikes -a
two - time National Publinx
champion and national colle-
giate champion as an amateur I
— was really in contention
Al Geiberger, who bogeyed
the last hole to drop into a tie I
for third with Tony Lema, split
$13,530 with Champagne Tony
as both finished with two over
par 282s
provided Australia's
, ‘ ' : was Eddie Chapek an Altus high some nl pro Peter Thomson in | miner t pros playing in the jun- ... .. _____ _ .
blazing the fast ball across the school junior golfer instrumental the Pro-Junior Tournament, ier event, will have besides Cha- likely to be a light heavyweight
plate He posted a flashy 21-2 in helping the Bulldogs gain the opening event for the Oklahoma pek Randy Dugger of Okmul- defense against Roger Rouse of
record as a senior pitching 161 runner-up spot in the State Class City Open golfing extravaganza gee and Tom Marberry of Okla Anaconda,
innings and allowing an aver- A Golf Tournament this season at Q. -I Creek on Tuesday homa City, shooting for the hon-l indicated
has been1the all-around athlete trzuunKgzueun guenwunthe position Kauai King has
orCenan rromna
wizzard of the basketball court within $50 of top money d|d in the Welmont
with some net blistering perfor- winning Sandra Havnie in the Stakes four failed the
mance He was * key to Sny prize money, race this season test of champions
der s advancement tn f he semi Miss Enelehorn nicked un
finals of the Class B playoffs $1,350 for finishing first It was The colt, who cost Ford
the first tournament she had $42 000 as • yearling, I
BEAUMONT, Tex d'Pli - ...
Shirley Englehorn had just „BATMORE Md (UP) —
trudged through 36 sweltering Kauai King "Flo added a
holes of golf on an accident- preakness triumph Saturday to
weakened ankle and had the an earlier victory in the
Babe Zaharias Open title safelykentucky Derby, was close to
tucked away in her golf bag turf immortality today, with
ending a two-year drought But only the. Belmont Stakes
she was readv to play some between him and a sweep of
more the Triple Crown classics
' My confidence now is the As the Mary land-bred son of Sduare Garden, June 23
greatest," she said "and now Native Dancer slowly regained
everybody had better watch the strength expended in the
out •• near record performance in the i
„ . .... . Preakness, owner Michael Ford
Her warning had best not E° made plans to ship his brilliant
unheeded among the lady . . ict for the June
touring pros, for Miss Engle 4th running of the last and
horn is a firm believer in । longest of the classic
positive thinking
that there were also possibilities
of field assignments for new-
comers.
The Blair high school coach
has five of his own boys on the
team including catcher outfield-
er Mike Southall; pitcher-third
ba man Bill Hayes. short stop-
pitcher Don Biddy and Brian
Winters, a utility man and pitch-
ing candidate Randy Woolbright
is working for a starting role
at second base or in the out-
field
Altus star Kester Lackey is
tentatively tagged as the local
first baseman Other Bulldog
baseballers that are seeking
starting assignments are Lynn
Scalf, outfield; and Sammy
Mains. catcher
BARTLESVILLE Okla (UPD
The Phillips 66ers basketball
team. which represents Phillips
Petroleum Company in amateur
competition, has supplied 14
play ers a nd two winning
coaches to the US Olympic
basketball teams since 1948
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Before Torres got a match wih
Gay, however. I think he
should qualify by heating a
ranking heavyweight like Doug
Jones"
Torres claimed Sunday that
the unbeaten, six-foot three-
inch. 200-pound-plus Clay would
be easier for him to beat than
the eight timesbeaten. six-foot,
175-pound Thornton
"I think my chances against
(’lav would be good he said
"Especially since Clay is more
of a boxer than a fighter and
leant really trade punches the
way I can ”
Although enthusiastic about a
possible shot at the hea-
ts more
Thornton Saturday night Jose
hits as hard as most hea
i vyweights"
! "I'd give him a chance, too,"
said Gil Clancy. "He would
HUBBARD MUSIC CENTER
1025 N. Main Altus Rhone HU 2.6236
begin final preparation for his The women’s crown went to
strikeouts and walked only 37
batters At the plate, he would
up the year with a 348 aver-
age in the Class C finals this
spring. Colson stopped Asher,
3-0, with a one-hitter and in the
fall meet got a 5-1 victory
over Asher that he h Iped him-
self get with a three run homer
Washington, described by
Gould coach Glen Royal as one
of the "better all-around base-
ball players in the area with
lots of baseball knowhow ’ fur-
nished the long ball for the Cov-
otes‛ fall and spring meets H
compiled a 391 average and
did a fine job of patroling the
center field fences Like his
teammate, Washington has
started three years for the Hol-
lis American Leginn team al-
though only 17 years old Last
summer he walloped 13 home
runs
Houk's slugging record belies
his 5-9 by 160 size The little
outfielder lashed 24 hits in 42
official times at bat for a 523
average including six homers,
two triples and three doubles
He drew 31 walks A 16-year-
older until August, the Mangum
star earned a 450 average in
Western Legion play last year
He was a two-year football
regular, but passed up the sen-
ior season He started with
the Mangum varsity basketball
team for three years
Caster started at centerfield
for the Bulldogs this year and
was later switched to the short
stop gap in a defensive move
as Altus coach Ray Tahsuda
struggled to edit a repeat for
the Class A title but was never
able to come through with
strong enough pitching to suc-
cessfully defend that crown
The star quarterback for the
Bulldog s Class A9 football run-
ner. ups batted a 296 this year
Meanwhile Richardson who
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Southwest Oklahoma is well
represented in the Daily Okla-
homan's annual All-State base-
ball selections with two Gould
and a Mangum prepster making
the Souths first team and one
each from Altus and Snyder
selected for alternate positions
The two Coyotes to land first-
team berths were fireballing
righthander Loyd Colson and
centerfielder Travis Washington
Mangums Steve Houk joined
the ranks while Jimmy Caster
of Altus was named an alternate
short stop and Snyders right-
handed chunker Bob Richardson
was selected an alternate for
for the fourman mounds corp
Colson and Washington both
deserved the coveted honors
after spark plugging the Coy-
otes to the fall and spring Class
C baseball championships
Houck was the "big bat” for
Mangums Tigers
The Gould chunker was as
HARTER Is ( HAMP
BARCELONA, Spain i UP! •
— Kathy Harter of Seal Beach
Calif. a promising young tennis
hopeful, captured the women's
singles title of an international
tournament when she routed
Canada » Fay Urban, 62 6 2. in
Sundav ‛s final.
Thomas Koch of Brazil beat
Yugoslavia's Nicola Pilic, 6-1,6-
2, 3-6, 6-1, for the men a
championship.
BOWLERS CITED
NEW YORK .UPI) -Frank
Esposito of Paramus NJ, and
Philip Watterson of New York
will be honored by the
Metropolitan Bowling Writers
Associationuat its sixth annual
awards diner Jue 16
Esposito and Watterson will
be cited for special services
and ■ ■ bowling"
Wayne Thornton's trainer Reno.
"Jose would have a chance {
against Clay," said Griffith r a • p
Devlin Escapes
lopsided 15-round decision over, F
The 28-yearold Devlin out-
T o A I I ' 1 " rambled the field on Sunday I
IX.I I Ane( I ICT final heat-seared round with a
I - V LvIluJ Lljl five over-p ,r .’an to squeze in
' one stroke in front of Arkansas.
fV s' C bred Dick Sikes The winner
KAfTimA \CAFAC said he had noticed that most
•MY-NIV —•VI UJ of the players in practice were
She toured the 6.251 yard, par But the eight victories in
70 layout in 68 strokes on the those 10 races, particularly
morning round, and then shot a Kauai King s front running
70 as the heat of the afternoon triumph in the Kentucky Derby
sent steam rising from the and his stretch charge in the,
water which was left standing Preakness, had rival owners
by torrential rains and trainers scared too The
Those rains forced postpone; field for the 98th running of the
ment of Saturday's scheduled mile and one half Belmont
Thomson, one of the more pro o with him
; Juniors selected to play with London the! Jones, Ernie
the pros were picked from Terrell and Karl Mildenberger
____ oughout the state as the top each rated ahead of Torres as
THEAITUS TIMES DEMOCRAT duffers with a year or more of a contender
Also in he field will be Chris
Cole of Frederick, playing with
pro Frank Beard, Ted Goin.
State Class A medalist, and
J o h n Jadlowski of Oklahoma
City.
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