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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1968
Page
9
Detroit trails Baltimore by 6 1/2 games after a 4-0 loss to California while the Orioles beat the Yankees 8-2. The two clubs kick off a four game set in Detroit with 13 meetings left.
Four teams were eliminated in the losers bracket of the USA Linn county Metro softball tournament at Springville. Concrete Material defeated St. Paul’s Methodist 6 to 5, Happitime rolled Collins 15 to 5, The Pub beat Nordman Jewelers 2 to 0, and Wilson & Co. outlasted All Saints 5 to 4 in nine innings.
Richie Allen hits two homers driving in three as the Philadelphia Phillies extend their post All-Star break streak to seven with a 5-3 victory over the New York Mets. Allen's torrid stretch lifts his season average to .314 with 20 homers and 53 RBIs while manager Bob Skinner notes his power and pace toward the Triple Crown.
Green Bay Packers announce that three NFL veterans have signed 1968 contracts. The players are split end Boyd Dowler, and fullbacks Ben Wilson and Chuck Mercein.
Quincy Cubs toppled Dick McVay 6-2 at Memorial Stadium as Paul Zahn limited Cedar Rapids to seven hits. McVay exited after five innings with four runs charged, while Zahn struck out nine in a nine inning complete game for the Cubs. The loss extended Cedar Rapids’ skid to five straight and nine of ten.
Standings show Selma 8 3 at Pittsburgh Veale 7 9 at N Chican Hands 5 at Philadelphia Short 9 8 Los Angeles Drysdale 10 6 at Cincinnati Maloney 5 Atlanta Stone at Houston Lemaster 8 N San Francisco 10 at St Louis Briles 10 6 N Games list Dodgers at Cincinnati Braves at Houston Giants at St Louis Cardinals at Mets Chicago at Philadelphia New York at Pittsburgh two night games Results Monday Cleveland at Washington Minnesota 7 Boston 5 Baltimore 8 New York 2 California 4 Oakland 7 Cleveland McDowell 9 8 Boston Sanfioso 9 4 at Minnesota Chance 7 9 Lattimore 10 5 Chicago Peters 3 10 New York Washington Colemans 10 and Ortiz 4 8 Detroit at Oakland San Francisco 7 8 Cleveland McDowell 9 8 Boston at Minnesota Chance 7 9 Lattimore 10 5 Baltimore Chicago at Washington New York at Detroit Oakland at California Boston at Minnesota Washington at New York
Paul Brechler leaves the Western Athletic Conference to become athletic director at the University of California Berkeley. He earned 24,300 at WAC and 27,000 at Cal, with optics of last minute ambivalence about the move.
Chicago AP. Eddie Stanky and his six children were separated after a motel stop on a Midwest trip. The two-car group lost contact, prompted an all-point alert, and the second car later reached Nashville to report all were safe and well.
In South Bend Indiana ticket manager Bob Cahill reports the September 21 college football matchup between Oklahoma and Notre Dame is sold out. The announcement confirms all available seats for the high profile nonconference game.
The feature notes that golf had no US courses 85 years ago and that the first American courses appeared in the late 1880s. It frames golf as an imported sport during its early adoption era and touches on limited American familiarity.
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