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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1972
Page
9
Three Curtis Cup team members reach the 70th North-South women's amateur golf semifinals in Pinehurst North Carolina. Nonmember Lida Fee Matthews faces Jane Bastanchury Booth while Beth Barry meets Lancy Smith for a place in the final.
Carolyn Cudone of Myrtle Beach shot 73 in gusty winds to build a nine stroke lead midway through the Women’s South Carolina Championship at Oakdale Country Club. Her 151 tops Jessie Finucan by nine while Kat Salley sits third at 161 and the field trails.
Jerry Steele, who resigned last week as head basketball coach at Appalachian State University, has been named athletic director at High Point College in High Point North Carolina. He succeeds Chuck Hartman who will continue as baseball coach and physical education teacher. Steele will teach physical education and handle some administrative duties.
Vern Crank 41 is out of harness racing indefinitely after a basal skull fracture from a collision in the eighth race at Liberty Bell Park. He was scheduled to drive Isle of Wight in the $40,000 Daniel C. Parish Memorial Race against Albatross this Saturday.
Tom Gorman carries the United States into the third round of the Italian International Tennis Tournament as top seed Stan Smith and Jim Connors fall to upset victors on Wednesday leaving Gorman as the lone American survivor in Rome.
Jack Nicklaus is the favorite in the Byron Nelson Golf Classic with $125,000 prize. Bruce Crampton is viewed as the main challenger as Lee Trevino Arnold Palmer and Billy Casper compete. Crampton, 36, is a consistent tour performer with 10 titles and over $750,000 in earnings, while Nicklaus seeks a third straight Nelson title after three wins this season and more than $154,000 in earnings.
Rule By Reason won the Intent Purse at Aqueduct by a head. Schaol Bay captured the Riverside Purse at Narragansett by a length. Mail Box edged Irish Brandy late at Hialeah. Groton Miss led Pimlico feature to win by three lengths. Saturnia rallied to win at Garden State. Sweet Enough held off Conisthal at Suffolk. Schlissel won at Hawthorne by a head. Gallant Davelle won the Bewitch Stakes divisions at Keeneland. His Kit led to Golden Gate feature victory over Lady With A Bonnet.
Aiken trainer John Burckhalter won again at Hialeah yesterday with Amps Boy. The horse, ridden by Bobby Woodhouse, won the second race and paid $6.20.
Heisman winner Joe Bellino blitzed Virginia for 198 rushing yards and four touchdowns, including a 90 yard scamper, in a standout Naval Academy performance at Annapolis.
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