Aiken Youth Baseball Wrapup Highlights Season Start and Closures
The Dixie Senior league moves into the season at Citizen's Field in June with early games at local high school fields. Donut Kastle leads the senior league with wins as Paul Martin, Artie Procter and others star in tight contests. Major and minor leagues post results and playoffs loom as sponsors sought for two teams.
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Dixie
Aiken
Citizen's Field
Graniteville High School
Larry Day
Day
SCN Bank
Donut Kastle
No. 3
Artie Procter
Procter
Stapleton
No. 4
J.C. Abney
Team 4
James Campbell
Lominick
Montgomery-Crawford
Southern Mortgage
Joe Anderson
Wayne Jones
Leminick
Jimmy Moore
Belk
RX Drugs
Brett Jarriel
Larry Powell
Jarriel
Reeve
John Ashley
Aiken Sporting Goods
Ashley
SCN
Leverett Shoe
Buchanan's
SOC
Unser Edges Grant After Indy's Protest Hits Top Ten
Mark Donohue won the Indianapolis 500 leading 56th Memorial Weekend classic with a record 162.962 mph average and 187.539 mph lap. Al Unser finished second after Jerry Grant was bumped to 12th for illegal refueling. Grant dropped further after a protest over fuel from Unser’s tank.
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Indianapolis
al Unser
Mark Donahue
Unser
Jerry Grant
Donohue
Brown University
Gary Bettenhausen
Tinley Park
Ill
Grant
Seattle
Indy
Joe Leonard
Speedway
George Bignotti
Bobby
Aiken Fisherman Captures Third Largest Lake Moultrie Striper
Charles Bayham of Route 1 Aiken caught a 19 pound 8 ounce striped bass on Lake Moultrie during the sixth week of the 1972 World Championship Landlocked Striped Bass Derby in the Santee Cooper area. The week’s top fish weighed 21 pounds with a 20 pound second. Two special $100 award tags were caught and about $28 000 in prizes remain.
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Aiken County
Lake Moultrie
Santee-Cooper
Charles Bayham
Route 1
Aiken
Bill Hughes
Bonham Point
Brewers Name New Manager Crandall Returns to Milwaukee Posts
Del Crandall, 42, chosen to replace fired Dave Bristol, arrives from Evansville to take over the Brewers as they suffer the AL's worst record. He vows a kinder, more enjoyable approach while the club absorbs an 11-3 win at Boston over the Red Sox.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee County
del Crandall
Milwaukee Brewers
Dave Bristol
Crandall
Evansville
Ind
Boston
Red Sox
Allan H. Selig
Bristol
Frank Lane
Lane
Brewers
Milwaukee Braves
Detroit skater Dave Roberts joins Michigan State hockey ranks
Dave Roberts of Detroit becomes the third brother to earn a Spartan letter at Michigan State while his siblings Jack and Doug previously won Spartan letters for the hockey team.
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Dave Roberts
Detroit
Michigan State
Jack
Doug
Palmer Captures Titleholders Title With 10 Stroke Victory
Sandra Palmer defeated rivals at Pine Needles, finishing 10 strokes ahead to set a Titleholders record. She earned 3000 dollars, a green jacket, a replica crown, and a year’s use of a foreign sports coupe. Officials noted the event’s new permanent home at Pine Needles Club in Southern Pines, previously at Augusta.
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Southern Pines
Sandra Palmer
Sandra
Baltimore
Pine Needles Country Club
Kathy Whitworth
Augusta
Racing Roundup of Major Stakes Across U S Tracks
The Associated Press reports several major race results: Executioner beat Bold Reasoning by a neck to win the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park. Smiling Jack edged to victory in the Jersey Derby at Cherry Hill with Upper Case seventh. On Your Toes won at Pimlico by a head over Native Heir. Natural Sound captured the Polly Drummond Stakes at Delaware Park by three quarters of a length. Full Pocket led Hawthorne’s Oil Tropical Handicap from start to finish for a half-length over Gay Gaucho. Laughing Gull and Titular won Oakland Handicap divisions at Golden Gate Fields. Fast Fellow and On The Track prevailed in the duakeside Handicap divisions at Hollywood Park.
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Associated Press
New York
Bold Reasoning
Belmont Park
Cherry Hill
N.J
Upper Case
Baltimore
Pimlico
Stanton
Del
Delaware Park
Chicago
Hawthorne Park
Albany
Calif
Golden Gate Fields
Inglewood
Hollywood Park
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Hunter
Tastee-Freeze
Hydrick
Lyon- Croft-Weeks
Lyon-Croft-Weeks
Triangle Pontiac
Kaplin
Brian Eberhard
Billy West
Coca-Cola
Gary Stutts
Maxwell Brothers
Danny Herndon
Satcher's
J.B. White
Tom Courtney
Ken Baldwin
Southers Mortgage Abrich Abrh Bt
Anderson
Joe
Newman
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Herrera
Dueckwth
Franzblau
Reece
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Bill Vernon
Stevens
George Funeral
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Clucas
Smith Haderwo
Peace
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Senith
Gree
Lewis Yeats
Ray
Fulmer & Ame
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Fulmer
Toolew
Martie Pé
Proctor
Dewet Baetie
Bates
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Owiedam
Scampeell
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Stapletoe
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Michell Ib
Owhitfield
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Tom Laughlin
Billy Jack
FOX
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Charlotte
N.C
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Bobby Allison
Baker
Charlie Glotzbach
Benny Parsons
LeeRoy Yarbrough
A.J. Foyt
United States
Auto Club
du Quoin
Foyt
Denis Hulme
New Zealand
Emerson Fittipaldi
Brazil
Oulton Park
England
Hulme
McLaren
Fittipaldi
John Player
Lotus
George Follmer
Loudon
N.H
Milt Minter
Highland Park
Newt Holloway
Wes Constable
Bill Charleton
Jack Smith
Charles Henshaw
Mickey Wright
Judy Rankin
Marlene Hagge
Marilynn Smith
Miss Wright
Pine Needles Club
Warren Bell
Peggy Kirk
Hal Wallis
Vanessa Glenda Redgrave
Jackson
Mary
ELION
Mark
St. Angela
Thomas Hurley
University of South Carolina
William A. Slover
Bamberg
Dixie Youth Baseball
Rick Hawkins
Stumper
Richland Ave
Ferdinand and
Isabella
Columbus
South Carolina
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