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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1978
Page
11
Butcher Block wins the $17,500 Cluster Purse at Meadowlands by 2 lengths over Sparky Bullah. Quadra Ped clocks $72.20 victory at Laurel. Morning Frolic takes Belmont Park feature. other tracks report baseball trades and NFL and NBA moves.
New York AP reports Bucky Dent, 1978 World Series MVP, wrestles with media frenzy in a championship Yankees season. He says he prefers silence and focus on play, despite the soap opera atmosphere surrounding the team. Dent acknowledges the difficulty of staying quiet during ongoing controversy.
Aiken High's Booster Club will meet tonight at 7 30 in the school library.
The Aiken Standard corrects yesterday's mis identification of the Aiken High player shown scrambling for a fumble. The athlete is James Farrington, not John Stephenson, with an apology for the error and glove remark.
Highland Park Country Club Gold Club sponsors a husband and wife golf tournament on October 29 starting at 12 30 p m in the afternoon. A clubhouse dinner follows the competition. Registration is open at the pro shop.
New York Yankees place three players on the AP All Star roster as Ron Guidry Willie Randolph and Graig Nettles lead the selections along with Rod Carew Al Oliver Rusty Staub Jim Palmer and others rounding out the AL squad. The NL side features Steve Garvey Dave Lopes Pete Rose George Foster and more.
Gaffney Indians rise to first in the Associated Press prep football poll after an 18-14 win over Spartanburg Vikings, who drop to fifth as Summerville holds at No. 2 and Hartsville climbs to third with a 26-7 victory. Myrtle Beach stays sixth despite a 27-7 win over Mullins. Pickens jumps to seventh with a 33-0 win over Palmetto. Wren rises to eighth after a 41-0 drumbeat of Daniel.
Maryland's Marlin Van Horn and NC State's Donnie LeGrande earn ACC defensive player of the week honors. Van Horn, a 239 pound junior, sacked Wake Forest quarterback three times, forced a fumble, recovered another, and made 11 tackles in a 39-0 win. LeGrande pressured NC quarterbacks twice in a 34-7 victory over North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
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