Athens City Olympic Games Kick Off With School Challenges
The Athens City Recreation Department opens the nine day Olympics on Monday at Athens High School stadium with teams from The Plains West Side East Side and Morrison competing for 99 points in banner and challenge presentations. Activities run through Wednesday July 26 featuring seniors juniors and sophomores in basketball table tennis checkers tetherball softball kickball volleyball tennis golf archery swimming and more with points for sportsmanship and organization and penalties for tardiness or multi event entries. East has previously won the championship.
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Greg Black
Athens City Recreation Department
Athens
Plains
West Side
East Side
Morrison
Young Ath
AHS
Ohio U
Lakeview Rec
Morrison School
East
City Recreation
Regu
Athens City Recreation Nears Conclusion With Several Leagues Remaining
The Athens city recreation season ends soon with two leagues finishing this week and two more in the final two weeks. Little League, Pony League, and Women’s softball show leaders, while Friday games featured Kasiers and Rotary wins and individual standouts. East B girls Pony League captured the title at 5-0, with East A losing only to them.
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Athens City Recreation Program
East B
Gasee
Little League
Pony League
Hocking Valley Bank
Chauncey
Reds
Pee Wee League
Lakeview
Alex
Athens National Bank
Athens Teams Contend For District 12 Slo-Pitch Title
In Athens multiple squads vie for the District 12 Slo-Pitch softball crown at the W State St Jaycee field. Saturday games feature Marietta Frontier Construction vs Gallipolis Falls City, Athens National Bank against Dannies Trailer Sales, Marietta Smith-Phillips vs Athens Carlings, and Athens Tree Toppers vs Marietta Big 4 Sabex. Sunday wraps with four games, including the decisive championship set for 8 pm after earlier winners meet.
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Athens
W. State St. Jaycee
Marietta Frontier Construction
Gallipollis
Marietta
Sabex
Frontier Construction
WMCA
White
Wilcoxen
Lions Club Hole-In-One Contest Returns at Athens Fairgrounds
The fifth annual Lions Club hole-in-one golf contest runs July 23 to 29 at Athens County Fairgrounds with a $200 payout per hole in one. Daily closest to the pin wins a gift certificate, and a matched golf clubs set goes to the overall closest if no ace occurs. Co-chiefs Balding and Cooley oversee 7 to 11 pm sessions. past winners include Gardner, Haggerty, Strawn, and Brown.
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Lions Club
Athens County Fairgrounds
Fairgrounds
Kavanis
Jim Balding
Athens Country Club
Pepsi Cola Jana
Security Bank
Balding
Bob Cooley
The
Lions
Butch’ Gardner
Marshall Haggerty
Don Strawn
Siggs” Brown
Table Tennis Lad To Play In Toronto
Middleport youth John Tannehill, 11, will represent the United States at the Canadian International Table Tennis Exhibitions in Toronto over Labor Day weekend. He captains the two day junior team and joins a four man men's squad. Tannehill learned of his selection while in New York for a two week exhibition tour.
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Middleport
John Tannehill
United States
Toronto
Tannehill
New York
Top Scorers And Team Totals From School Stats
Lead scorer Leon Hanson posted 225 865. Teor contributed 9 459 and Team 8 449 897 across the season. Debates over output imply typed OCR fragments from a sports stats page.
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Sartte
Ditor
iWal
Deer-Sroanl
Leon Hanson
Teor
Team
Hornung May Lose Playing Career to Spinal Injury
New Orleans Saints star Paul Hornung, 31, may never play again after a neck nerve injury sustained with the Green Bay Packers. The Times-Picayune reports he will seek further evaluation at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, with officials cautioning a life paralyzing risk if verified.
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New Orleans
Paul Hornung
New Orleans Saints
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Hornung
Golden Boy
Green Bay Packers
National Football League
Bob Roesler
the Times-Picayune
Hor ‘Nung
Scripps
Women anglers and fishing contests gain nationwide prominence
The piece notes rising popularity of fishing derbies from coast to coast with prizes from trophies to cars. It highlights records and titles held by a leading woman angler, the International Casting Olympics, and organizations like the American Casting Association and International Game Fish Association.
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Chambers of Commerce
Union
Li. L
New Jersey
American Casting Association
P. O. Boxar
Nashville
Tenn
Europe
International Game Fish Association
Miami
Fla
International Women's Fishing Assocation
Palm Beach
IWF
WFA
De Vicenzo Wins British Open Golf Title
Roberto de Vicenzo, 44, from Argentina, won The Open at Hoylake England with a 278 total after a final round 70. Jack Nicklaus finished two back after a 69, while Gary Player tied for third with 284, and other Americans Doug Sanders Phil Rodgers and Bert Yancey also contended.
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de Vicenzo
Runerup
Fred
Nicklaus
Ary Player
South Africa
Ione
Vlord
Chive Clark
England
Je Vicenzi
Jack
Fai
Deane Bemian
Bethesda
U.S
Doug Sanders
Ojai
Calif
Phil Rodgers
Saniego
Cali
Bert Yancey
Philadelphia
Open champion Roberta De Vicenza stuns Hoylake crowd
At Hoylake the 1-year-old caddie Willy Rutchinson speaks for Roberto de Vicenza as the Argentinian leads the British Open by eight under par after ten tries. De Vicenza’s charm and language breaks endear him to fans and officials at St Andrews era.
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Willy Rutchinson
Roberto de Vivenés
Roberta
de Vicenza
General Micklem
Royal and Ancient Club
St Andrews
Gulf
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