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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1973
Page
8
Action from the Midwest and other conferences shows Cornell and Lawrence high scoring games while Wisconsin narrowly loses to Indiana. Colorado State and Oklahoma post decisive wins as Michigan, Colorado, and Kansas City clubs announce strong showings across the day’s schedule amid pro basketball and hockey results from New York, Philadelphia, and Seattle.
Sam Snead, at 60, captured his sixth PGA Seniors title at PGA National Golf Club Palm Beach Gardens with a 20 under par 268 total. He beat Julius Aeros by 15 strokes, earning $4,000 and extending his PGA totals to a record prize money haul.
New York AP reports George Kelly, Mickey Welsh and umpire Billy Evans elected by the Veterans' Committee. Kelly, a 1915 to 1932 slugger with the Giants, Dodgers, Reds, and Cubs, hit .292 across 10 seasons and was nicknamed Highpockets. Welsh went 211-207 in 12 seasons, pitching for the Giants. Evans, longtime umpire and former Indians GM, later a baseball columnist, praised as a refined gentleman.
Al Feuerbach of Preston Town competing for the Pacific Coast Club set a world indoor shot put record with a 69-44 throw on his fifth attempt at the Oregon Indoor Track Meet in Portland. Steve Prefontaine won the two mile in 8:24.6, erasing the American indoor mark, as Oregon competitors led a strong showing with several notable performances.
Michigan’s Mary Karen Campbell and Johnny Johns captured gold in the final event of the 1973 U S Figure Skating Championships at Bloomington. The pair earned the dance title and will join 11 teammates in Bratislava for the world championships starting February 27. Jane Lynn, the Rockford, Illinois skater, won her fifth straight national women’s title, while Ken McKellen Jr of Lake Placid took the men’s crown.
A Port Huron Michigan hockey team bus slid off Interstate 80 and into a ditch near Des Moines Iowa injuring two players Mike Ford and Mechan Bonnar, team trainer Ken Houston and radio broadcaster Leonard Hardman. They were taken to Des Moines General Hospital around 11 40 p m with minor back injuries contusions abrasions.
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