Rookie Whips Veteran for Ladies Golf Title
Sutton Mass AP Amazing Sandy Post from Canada won an 18 hole playoff over defending champion Kathy Whitworth to take the LPGA championship. The 20 year old rookie from Oakville Ontario shot 68 with eight birdies including two from off the green, tying Whitworth at 294 two over par. Post earned 3000 dollars with Whitworth taking 2300 and each setting tour year totals.
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Mass
Sandy Post
Canada
Kathy Whitworth
Miss Post
Miss Whitworth
Sandy
Oakville
Ont
Sandra Post
Ontario
Pleasant Valley Country Club
Casper Tops Money List With Canadian Open Win
Casper leads the PGA money list after winning $3,687 at the Canadian Open in Palm Beach Gardens. He has appeared in 14 tourneys with four wins and $130,185 earned this year, while Weiskopf adds $5,156 to reach $91,546 and Archer, Trevino, Nicklaus, Knudson, Barber, Lunn, Palmer, and Yancey follow with their totals.
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Palm Beach Gardens
Fla
Billy Casper
Professional Golfers Association
Casper
Tom Weiskopf
George Archer
Lee Trevino
Jack Nicklaus
George Knudson
Bobby Miller Barber
Lunn
Arnold Palmer
Bert Yancey
Roseboro's Hit Wins Ball Game
John Roseboro singled home a fourth inning run and Dean Chance pitched a three-hitter as the Minnesota Twins edged the Chicago White Sox 1-0 in a rain-shortened game called after the fifth inning in Milwaukee. Chance improved to 7-8, striking out key hitters in the third, while Chicago stranded a runner in the fifth before rain halted action.
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Milwaukee
John Roseboro
Dean Chance
Minnesota Twins
Chicago White Sox
Bob Allison
Roseboro
Bob Priddy
Chance
Leon Wagner
Pete Ward
White Sox
Buddy Bradford
Chicago
Minnesota
Chicago Abrh
Aparicio
Causey
Uhlaender
Sb—Allison
S—D.chance
Ex Major Leaguer OK After Seizure
Former major league pitcher Max Lanier, manager of the Dubuque Packers, remained in satisfactory condition at a hospital after collapsing Saturday night likely from a heart attack. Lanier, 52, is the father of Hal Lanier, an infielder for the San Francisco Giants.
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Dubuque, Iowa
Max Lanier
Dubuque Packers
Lanier
Hal
San Francisco Giants
Pirates Cardials Tilt Rained Out Rescheduled as Twin Bill
Rain forced the postponement of the Pittsburgh Pirates vs St. Louis Cardinals game on Monday night. The game was rescheduled as part of a twilight doubleheader on Wednesday.
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ST. Louis
Pittsburgh Pirates
St. Louis Cardinals
Canadian lefty Bob Charles captures Canadian Open title
Bob Charles of New Zealand, a left handed golfer, won the Canadian Open with a six under par 274, besting Jack Nicklaus by two strokes. Charles credited a late caddie tip for a crucial approach and noted the unlikely boost to sales for his Lefthanded Golf book.
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Charles
Toronto
Bob Charles
New Zealand
United States
North America
Jack Nicklaus
Christchurch
N.Z
Villacompo Wins Technical Knockout In Tokyo Flyweight Bout
Bernabe Villacompo of the Philippines defeated Japan’s Yuzo Narumi by sixth round technical knockout in Tokyo. Villacompo weighed 109 pounds and Narumi 111 pounds for the flyweight bout.
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Tokyo
Bernabe Villacompo
The
Phillippines
Yuzo Narumi
Japan
Villacompo
Narumi
Australians Win Open Championship Debut at Wimbledon
Rod Laver beat Eugene Scott 6-3 4-6 6-3 6-2 to lead Australian stars in the first Open Wimbledon. Ken Rosewall, Lew Hoad advance as rain-delayed play draws 20,000 spectators. prize money totals 62,760 with $4,800 to the men's winner and $1,800 to the women’s champion.
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John Farrow
Associated Press
Wimbledon
England
Rod Laver
Lew Hoad
Ken Rosewall
Laver
Eugene Scott
St. James
N. Y
Rosewall
Abe Se
Gal
South Africa
Hoad
Jaidip Mukerjea
India
Dennis Ralston
Jim Brown
Australia
Los Angeles
Scott
Ron Holmberg
Brooklyn
N.Y
Donald Dell
Bethesda
Red Sox say Lonborg ok after X rays negative
The Red Sox announced that Jim Lonborg’s right shoulder X rays were negative and he would rest five days. Dr. Thomas Tierney said the Cy Young winner has mild tendonitis and should not throw for five days after being taken out in the second game of a doubleheader against the White Sox.
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Boston
Boston Red Sox
Jim Lonborg
Thomas Tierney
Lonborg
Chicago
White Sox
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Nationwide
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Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co
Ide Life
Lewis C. Hartsock
Coal & Coke
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Robert Vickers
North St
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Bluefield, W. Va
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Bluewell, W. Va
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