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American Legion
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Today’s Games
Detroit at Oakland, N
Cleveland at California, N
Baltimore at Seattle, N
Boston at Kansas City, N
New York at Chicago, N
Minnesota at Washington, N
Wednesday's Games
Detroit at Oakland, N >
Cleveland at California, N
Baltimore at Seattle, N
Boston at Kansas City, N
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Monday’s Result
Atlanta 3, St Louis 0
Only game scheduled
Today’s Games
San Diego at New York, N
Los Angeles at Montreal, N
St. Louis at Atlanta, N
Philadelphia at Houston, N
Chicago at San Francisco, N
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Wednesday's Games
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Los Angeles at Montreal, N
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“I woke up that first morning between .385 and .395 all season,
and looked out the motel win- says he believes it will be diffi-
dow. The stands were full and it cult for any one to end the sea-
was only 8 o’clock. It kind of son with a .400 batting average,
shook me up.”
STILLWATER - One “big" State and the rainout of the
reason the Oklahoma State scheduled single game, boosted
Cowboys captured their fourth Oklahoma State to the District 5
straight Big Eight baseball playoffs with Tulsa, beginning
championship was the booming Saturday in Tulsa.
bat of little Steve Houck. The physical education major
The 5-9 Mangum junior, who captured the Big Eight batting
patrols in leftfield, capped Big crown last year with a sizzling
Eight conference play by .424 average following a 10 for 12
nipping teammate first baseman performance in the final series
Mike Tate for the team batting with Missouri.
title. Houck finished with a .341 Why did Houck choose OSU
average while Tate had a .340 to display his talents? "I knew
mark. OSU had a good baseball team
Houck’s bat was felt in the and was a good baseball school,”
second game of the Kansas State Houck related.1' I also wanted to
series, won by the Cowboys 3-2, stay in Oklahoma to go to
when he lined a double to school.”
leftfield in the bottom of the Houck cited the experience
seventh inning, driving in the gained as the most rewarding was about the greatest thing." Oklahoma State bid for
winning run. asset of playing college ball. was a real consistent winner,” Hitting was also one of championship honors Houck
The two game sweep of K- “I never played on a team that Houck explained. “Coach (Chet) Houck's assets in high school as becomes a mighty big man.
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West Division
With 16 Teams
One of the top American Legion baseball tournaments in the
Southwest will unfold in Altus starting Friday and winding up
Monday as theStateChairman’s tourney will draw 16 teams.
Four fields will be used during play. Kiwanis Park and Bunker
Hill Field in town and Fisher Field and Scalf Field on Eddie
Fisher’s Southwest Baseball Camp in Warren are slated for duty.
Entered Putnam City, Home Decor of Lawton, Burns Flat
Gould, Guthrie, Clinton, Lawton Sprites, Fort Cobb, Hobart, Tulsa
Woodward Altus Colt All-Stars, Mangum, Alva, Sand Springs and
the host Altus Legion.
Play starts simultaneously Friday at 1 p.m. with Putnam City
drawing Home Decor at Kiwanis Park, Gould playing Guthrie at
Bunker Hill, Fort Cobb vieing against Hobart at Fisher Field and
the Colt All-Stars playing Mangum at Scalf Field.
Coach Kenneth Fancher's Altus Legion opens tourney play at 3
p.m. Friday by meeting Burns Flat at Kiwanis Park. At the same
time, Clinton will be playing the Lawton Sprites at Bunker Hill
Tulsa will be going against Woodward at Fisher Field and Alva will
be testing Sand Springs at Scalf Field.
I he winners at the four fields will vie for the championship at
Kiwanis Park. The winner at Fisher Field will play the Scalf Field
winner at 12:30 and the Bunker Hill victor will go against the
Kiwanis Park winner at 2:30.
"We supposedly have the top teams in every district,” state
chairman Jack Barnes, sponsor of the tournament, said. “It’s as
tough a tournament as you could line up.”
Tulsa, Altus, Lawton Sprites, Fort Cobb, Sand Springs and
Mangum rule as the favorites.
Fort Cobb could be the best bet. The Cobbers get the top players
from Anadarko including all-state pitcher Kris Griffin. Eddie
Bellamy, an all-sta te hurler from Fort Cobb, is also playing.
Rusty Tahsuda, who played high school ball this past spring with
Altus High, is also on the roster at Fort Cobb. Tahsuda will be at
Anadarko next year.
Price of admission to the tourney will be $1 for adults and 50 cents
for students per session. Each session will consist of two games
except possibly the finals.
Bryan is the reason because he he ended his senior year by
develops a winning attitude. reeling off a .523 norm.
“The experience will be with During last year’s series at
you for the rest of your life,” Kansas State, a group of
Houck continued. “The freshmen Wildcat bseballers
Washington Senators, their sixth he appears to be quick, speedy
consecutive loss. and shows power.
The two homers—the first “I don’t know how good a hit-
time in his career he has hit a ter he is on a one day perform-
pair in one game—brought his ance,” Williams said, “but on
season total to five. this one day, he looked pretty
They also came with Ted Uhl- good.”
two seasons and only one last And what does the last man to
year, hit a pair of home runs hit .400 think of Carew?
Monday night in leading Minne- Williams said: “I haven’t
sota to a 7-1 victory over the seen enough of him to say but
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WASHINGTON (AP) - “It’s tougher nowadays,” he
Minnesota’s Rod Carew not only said. "The pitchers are differ-
is happy, leading the majors in ent. They'll come in with break-
hitting and threatening to be- ing stuff on the 3-2 pitch today
come the first .400 hitter since but they used to throw straight
Ted Williams but he also has fast stuff before.
added another weapon to harass “But you never know what
enemy pitchers— the home run. will happen,” he said. “If you
Carew, who had only nine in get lucky, you never know.”
association of working with were seated behind the OSU
other players is also very dugout and harassed some of
important.” the Cowboys. ct ,0.
baSl gainedshisainterest for “At Kansas State, I picked up Pittsburgh 22 20 .5226
* Hosrrmmmi ofthpasin the nickname “little leaguer” St. Louis 20 22 .476 8
The Kla-Houck pfadnguma from their freshmen,” Houck New York 18 22 .450 9
professional ball Pia the old said. Coach Bryan said he bet Phila’phia 17 21 .447 9
Virginia Deagu before the wir thatwas the first time a little Montreal 11 27 . 289 15
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a war dance to celebrate every first time, doubled for one run.
Brave home run. On Monday, Then Boyer followed with the NEW YORK (AP) - For a
though, one of his smoke bombs homer which cost Nok-A-Homa “realistic price” the world of
backfired. his humble home. professional football entered
When Clete Boyer tagged a Carew, the major league's prime time television with the
two-run shot in the sixth inning, leading hitter, boosted his aver- announcement that the Ameri-
the Chief, an Ottawa-Chippewa age to .394 with his fourth and can Broadcasting Co. had
Indian from Charlevoix, Mich., fifth homers of the year, each agreed to view 13 regular sea-
whose real name is Levi Walk- with a man on base. son games for three years be-
er, went into his act. The second one came in a ginning in 1970.
Then, something unscheduled five-run fourth inning that The joint announcement was
happened. Flames enveloped his opened a 7-0 bulge for the made Monday night by pro foot-
canvas tepee, shooting up Twins. Carew also had connect- ball Commissioner Pete Rozelle
about two feet over the top of ed in the third inning,
the flimsy structure.
“It was sabotage,” said Walk- Frank Howard broke a nine-
er, who gets $10 per game for game homer famine with his
his homer celebrations. “Some- 15th of the season, accounting
body got in my smoke bombs for Washington’s only run on
and fooled with them," winner Jim Perry, 4-1.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Dick Ti- Commission.
ger’s upset victory over middle- “Right now we've got offers
weight champion Nino for Benvenuti of $100,000 in
Benvenuti turned slightly sour Puerto Rico, $150,000 in Miami
when it was learned the Italian Beach, and $200,000 in San Die-
had suffered a broken right go which is celebrating its 200th
hand. But there were lucrative year. My guy will take a lot waukee, N
fights ahead for both winner and less, we want the title shot. Minnesota at Washington, N
loser today. 1 m sick over it," said Mush-
"I broke the hand in the first ky Salow manager of light n l y
round when I hit him high on heavyweigh champion Bob Fos- onohue one
the head. The pain was terri- ter, before the word got out of ----uuF IVF-
ble,” said Benvenuti after drop- Nino s broken hand. He had
and Roone Arledge, president of ping a unanimous decision in a hoped a lucrative match nev DAnkInc
ABC sports at the commission- 10-round nontitle bout with the hetween the two champions. IHU Y KUURIU >
er’s plush Park Avenue office. 39-year-old Biafran at Madison A year and two days betore, ____
The weekly series, set for Square Garden Monday night. Foster won the light heavy INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) — boosted his average three points American Association baseball
Monday nights, will begin on the “I was a one-handed fighter crown by knocking out Tiger in Mark Donohue, A.merica’s pre- to .394, 16 points better than today after downing Denver 7-6
first Monday of the regular sea- after that," said Benvenuti, gri- the fourth round. mier road racing driver, tops Cleon Jones of the New York Monday night at Tulsa
on in 1970. The broadcasts, in macing in pain. Asked why he Vould Foster fight Tiger the field of rookies in cars for Mets and 55 points higher than The Oiler victory edged Tul-
color, will be the first contract didn’t quit, Nino replied quickly again? Friday’s Indianapolis 500. his nearest American League sa half a game past Iowa which
with a pro sports league for a and firmly, "Never. I am a “Sure we’ll be very happy to The rookie tag here, of challenger, Frank Robinson of toppled 6-3 to Indianapolis and
regular series during prime professional fighter.” do that if the money is right,” course, refers only to the lack of Baltimore. slid into a tie for second with
television time. The telecasts Dr. Edwin Campbell of the said Salow. previous 500 experience. Grand “I’m getting good pitches to Omaha. Omaha whipped Oklaho-
will originate at 8:30 or 9 p.m. New York Athletic Commission- “He wants a $100,000,” said Prix veteran Graham Hill of hit,” he said. “I haven’t been ma City 3-1 at Omaha.
Eastern time. er said handsome Nino had suf- Tiger. “I haven’t got that kind Britain was a rookie when he chasing too many bad pitches. The Oilers spotted the Bears
Although the amount of mon- fered a complete break of the of money." . , r won the 1966 race. Every once in a while I get in a four runs in the opening innihg,
ey for the package was not dis- second metacarpal bone (behind I he stocky, stolid Tiger, a 12-5 The average age of this year’s rut and start chasing bad pitch- then shelled three Bear pitchers
cussed, Arledge did say that 016 index finger) of the right underdog, weighed 166 to Ben- five rookies is 31. All but Bruce es but I haven’t been doing for eight hits to collect three
"the price was realistic. It was hand. V enuti‘s164. , .. Walkup, 24, are veterans in oth- that." runs in their half of the first,
priced accordingly. “He won’t be able to train un- The officials had Tiger the er racing circles. Carew, the 1967 Rookie of the three more in the second and
“Pro football is a great at- til a minimum of eight weeks,” winner by the following round Do they feel like rookies here? Year and All-Star second base- the winning run in the third.
traction and this association said Dr. Campbell. scores: referee Tony Perez, 7-2- “You bet I’m a rookie,” says man the past two years, led the Omaha collected all three of
with pro football is in keeping That means a delay in Ben- li.udge Joe,. 6-4-1, George Follmer, 35, of Arcadia, American League with a .301 its runs in the first inning on a
with ABC’s pioneering efforts in venuti’s next defense of his mid- and judge Al Berl 6-3-1. The As- Calif., who is driving his own average on Aug. 22 last year homer by Paul Schaal. Oklaho-
television sports coverage.” dieweight (160 pound) title. He PoSn4 ted3 rress had Tiger in car. “I don’t imagine you can and then went into a late season ma’s lefthander Dan Schneider
It was speculated that Rozelle whipped Don Fullmer in a title A crowd of 14 305 naid S147 431 hear, that big crowd race day, slump. settled down after that, howev-
would announce the complete defense on Dec. 14 and his six for the television piPet 3hlm but I m sure you feel extra pres- "I got into too much trouble er, and gave Omaha only two
television-money package after months Period of grace expires uti . 550 000 and Tiger sure” with the guys last year,” he hits the rest of the game. The
he meets with NBC and CBS of- on June 14. $35 000. Thev mav get more Follmer’s background in- said, "but this year I decided to 89ers collected their lone run
ficials to negotiate the remain- The World Boxing Associa- With television renins And eludes success in sports car rac- have a good time and have fun on three singles and a walk in
ing Sunday package. Current tion’s championship committee there’s the nossibilitv of a verv ing and a victory in the first playing baseball. the second.
contracts with the two networks insists that the 31-year-old lucrative retornmEh y U.S. Auto Club championship “The guys have been treating
expire after the 1969 season. champion must defend next • race of this season, a 150-mile me pretty good, so I’m relaxed.
CBS now covers the National against Luis Rodriguez, the MAnN-wFe Linker event in his native Phoenix, When I make a bad play on the MnNavVe tfarr
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casts the American League ami. । Donohue, who received the get about it. It’s been much bet-
games. Rodriguez, a one-time welter- BALTIMORE—Danny Per- Martini and Rossi Driver of the ter that way." By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Further speculation is that weight king, and his manager, ez, New York, outpointed Gor- Year award last year, said he But Carew hasn’t been mak- BATTING—Rod Carew,
each NFL club now receives Angelo Dundee, saw Tiger, who don Lott, Savannah, Ga., 10, was happy about the rain that ing many bad plays, as his Twins, rapped a pair of two-run
$1.2 million and each AFL team will be40 on Aug. 14, completely middleweights; Billy Lloyd, washed out the scheduled first mark of only three errors will homers to raise his major
gets between $800,000-900,000 per dominate Benvenuti, who had Baltimore, knocked out Johnny weekend of 500 qualifying May attest. league leading batting average
year under the present pact used his injured right only spar- Doylan, Miami Beach, Fla., 4, 17-18. Carew, who has been hovering to .394 in Minnesota’s 7-1 romp
with the two networks. ingly. welterweights. “I woke up that first morning between .385 and .395 all season, over Washington.
“We’re hopeful that in 1970 all “We’ll wait for him," said SEATTLE—Fraser Scott, and looked out the motel win- says he believes it will be diffi- PITCHING—Phil Niekro.
26 clubs will get more than $1.2 Dundee. “We’ve been waiting a 158, Seattle, outpointed Polo Co- dow. The stands were full and it cult for any one to end the sea- Braves, scattered five hits and
million apiece,” Rozelle said. long time. I’m posting a $2,000 rona, 162%2, Guaymas, Mexico, was only 8 o’clock. It kind of son with a .400 batting average, shut out St. Louis 3-0.
Rozelle emphasized that the forfeit check with the New York 10.
contract covers only 13 regular
season games annually. Con-
tracts covering the remaining
games of the 26 clubs in the
newly realigned pro football
league will be negotiated later.
Nok-A-Homa
Is Big Loser
in Atlanta Win
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Undaunted by the sudden
St. Louis got shut out by Phil emergency, the resourceful In-
Niekro and Washington got dian grabbed a trusty broom-
blasted by Rod Carew. But stick he keeps “in the tepee for
baseball’s biggest loser Monday housekeeping” and beat out the
night was Atlanta’s Indian mas- flames. But it was too late to
cot, Chief Nok-A-Homa. save his home. The canvas will
Niekro, the Braves’ knuckle- have to be replaced.
bailer, blanked the Cards 3-0 “Maybe," said Nok-A-Homa
and Carew’s two home runs led philosophically, "it was just a
Minnesota to a 7-1 romp over hot game.”
the Senators. Nok-A-Homa had It wasn’t so hot for the Cardi-
a rougher time than both losers nals, who managed just five hits
though. against Phil Niekro. The game
He got burned out of his te- was scoreless until the sixth
pee. when Felipe Alou opened with a
Nok-A-Homa, the Injun who single.
camps behind the left field Felix Millan forced Alou but
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HOUSTON (AP) — “A ball- "I know before there’s been
player has one privilege left in white and colored ballplayers
this world and that is to pick his who wanted to live together but
own roommate,” says Curt Ble- the establishment was against
fary of the Houston Astros about it. But this hasn’t been true in
his teammate Don Wilson. our case."
Wilson, a lanky, right-handed “My roomie and I are com-
Negro pitcher, has been living patible as anybody can be,”
on the road with Blefary, a said Wilson, who pitched a no-
stocky white first baseman, hitter earlier this season against
since the Astros went on a win- Cincinnati.
ter press tour. “And we’re good for each oth-
In major league baseball it is er,” he said. “When I'm sup-
rare for white and black players posed to pitch, my roomie will
to share the same room away say, ‘You’ve got to get your
from the home ballpark. sleep. You can’t do this and you
“As far as I'm concerned, it’s can’t do that. Remember, you
no big thing,” said Wilson. pitch tomorrow.”’
“Some have said this is the Blefary, a former Baltimore
first time this has ever hap- player, agreed with Wilson,
pened, this being a southern city “I was new to this league,”
and all,” he added. “I don't Blefary said, “and he gave me
know if it is or isn’t. It really a lot of help."
doesn’t matter.” “There is too much hatred,
Wilson, most of whose pre- war and static in this world,”
vious roommates were either Blefary said. "Why not live in
traded or placed on the disabled harmony?
list, said people keep asking “We could conceivably even
about living with Blefary. get into a fight,” Blefary said.
"It’s just hard for them to get “I had a fight with Andy Ethce-
it through their heads that we barren in Baltimore. It hap-
are just two human beings pens, but if Don and I had one,
trying to make a living in the it would be man versus man,
same game,” Wilson said. nothing else.
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Kansas City 20 21
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