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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1987
Page
6
ESPN shows at 3 p.m. football and 9 p.m. boxing USBA welterweight championship. At 10:35 p.m. the Atlanta Braves visit the San Francisco Giants on WTBS with Wimbledon Highlights at 11:30 p.m. on WAGT.
Local schedule shows Aiken hosting Bamberg at 7 30 p m Thursday July 2 and Orangeburg visiting Aiken at 7 30 p m. The pair of games highlight a light summer slate with two neighboring schools on the court.
South Carolina official Hitopulos aims to attract major boxing to Columbia and Hilton Head. Breland, the WBA welterweight champion, may defend in Columbia August 22 against Tommy Ayers at Township Auditorium, with a potential first title fight in the state and ABC live coverage excluding local area.
Rev. Jesse Jackson says a baseball boycott is halted as owners show commitment to hiring more minorities in front offices. He cites promotions of Garry Maddox in Philadelphia and John Roseboro in Los Angeles and the hiring of a consulting firm led by Clifford Alexander to craft affirmative action plans for all 26 clubs. He notes some losing teams did not change managers to dodge the hiring issue.
Willie Horton slugged three homers and eight RBIs to spark the American League to a 24-11 comeback victory over the National League in the Sixth Annual Old Timers Game. Rocky Colavito added two homers including a fourth inning grand slam as AL erased an 11-0 deficit in five innings. Thirteen homers flew out, many over a short 250 foot left field.
Pat Cash and Claudia Kohde-Kirsch moved into the Wimbledon quarterfinals with straight-set wins over Guy Forget and Catarina Lindqvist. Gabriela Sabatini, the sixth seed, beat Natalia Zvereva after dropping a set. Navratilova strengthened form with a 6 2 6 2 win over Peanut Harper as second week play began.
Aiken Legion Post 26 defeated Walterboro 15-5 as Joey Batchelor hit his third homer of the season and drove in three runs while Darrin Rutland had four RBIs on four hits. Keith Taylor earned the win, Gary Rutland captured the save, and Post 26 improved to 8-1 with a 15-hit attack in Orangeburg.
Korean leaders push to end a political crisis as President Chun Doo Hwan appears set to accept Roh Tae Woo’s demand for direct elections. SLOOC members express relief and cite national consensus and broad international support for the Seoul Games.
The Canadian Olympic Association ruled five athletes banned for performance enhancing drugs will miss the next year’s Olympics in Seoul. Two had been reinstated locally but all remain ineligible to seek reinstatement until end of 1988. Names include Harold Willers Levante Mady Rob Gray Mike Spirito and Peter Dajia.
A writer and novice golfer recount sunlit rounds with friend Bob Stoner. They chase improvement amid bogeys and birdies, savor the outdoors, and laugh at missed eight footers and near hole-in-ones as afternoons drift into the woods.
Mark R. McCallum details his surprise return to golf after years of baseball passion. He recalls lengthy practice sessions and blistered hands as he notes parallels and contrasts between the two sports, admitting how golf’s challenges mirror his baseball obsession.
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