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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1971
Page
4
Baytown YMCA swimmers earned a strong third place at the 1971 Harris County YMCA Championships in Houston led by Ann Girardeau who won three individual golds. relay teams and multiple events featured Cheryl Gowns and Tony Boyle among others in a dense, colorful meet report.
WESTBURY New York AP Stylish Major a New Zealand bred yearling may win the Roosevelt International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Saturday night. Norman Day the 61 year old Canadian born driver believes his horse is as good as any in the field. Fresh Yankee the eight year old Canadian defending champion is the 3 1 favorite. Dan Splaise from Drummondville Quebec remains confident saying his horse finishes fastest and could challenge down the stretch.
FORT WORTH AP The Texas Longhorns are chosen for the fifth straight year to win the Southwest Conference football title in a Texas Christian University service poll. Tech, Arkansas, TCU, A&M, SMU, Baylor and Rice follow in voting by sports writers. Texas leads with 78 first place votes and 837.5 points.
The Browns name Phipps to start at quarterback for the Dallas exhibition, dashing Nelsen’s chances. Dallas, missing Ditka and Jordan, eyes a continued win streak after two easy road outings. Browns will be without Schafrath and Gregory in Dallas.
Standings show Houston at Chicago and Los Angeles at Philadelphia. Night games include San Diego at New York and San Francisco at Archtreal. Pittsburgh visits Cincinnati while St. Louis visits Atlanta. Washington plays Kansas City and Chicago meets Cleveland. Minnesota plays Baltimore and Milwaukee visits Detroit. Botton hosts Oakland as New York travels to California. Night slate outlines matchups and venues.
Houston AP reports Rice University freshman quarterback Kent Ballard will miss the 71 season due to left knee surgery. Coach Bill Peterson said the 6-0, 185-pound Friendswood product should be ready for varsity spring training next year.
A. J. Foyt files a $500000 libel suit in Houston alleging an April Sports Illustrated story harmed his reputation. He contends the article could incite animosity that might spill onto the race track and cause him physical harm.
German Grand Prix driver Rolf Stommelen, debuting in a NASCAR stock car race, qualified at 183.286 mph to place in the third row beside Richard Petty for Sunday’s Talladega 500. Stommelen had only three practice laps and brief guidance from Tiny Lund before his qualifying run.
A fragmented list covers various subjects including anthropology, mechanics, bibliography and eulogy. The text also mentions boilermaking, business administration, chemistry, communications, computer science, and train dairy processing. It reads like an OCR grab bag of course or department topics with a phone number 427-5611 appended.
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