Slew Heads Nine-Horse Field for Preakness
Seattle Slew, Derby winner and favorite, led a nine-horse Preakness field at Pimlico. Trainer Billy Turner and jockey Mike Kennedy described the horse’s daily routine in humid 90 degree weather as Regal Sir, Run Dusty Run, Cormorant and others prepared for the race. Regally Sir arrived from Toronto and was to gallop early, while Cormorant settled in after an anxious first day on the new track.
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Counter Punch
Iron Constitution
J.P
Mike Smith
Pimlico
Toronto
Frank DiMarco
Industrial league softball results at Santa Fe Park
Coliseum, Kustom and Comfort Contractor won in A League slow pitch Wednesday. Coliseum beat Cardinal Drug 19 to 11 despite an eight run seventh inning rally by Cardinal Drug. Kustom downed Foodtown 12 to 3 in its season debut. Comfort Contractor defeated Las Palomas 11 to 3 in its first appearance.
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Santa Fe Park
Cardinal
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Olathean Aims for Indy 500 With Boyd Pit Crew
Overland Park resident Riddelle Gregory 49 will join George Boyd’s Indy 500 pit crew if Boyd’s car qualifies for this year’s race. Gregory has not yet raced at Indy but expects to be on the pit wall providing signal guidance to driver Tom Frantz of Littleton, Colorado.
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Indy
George Boyd
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Gregory
Tom Frantz
Littleton
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England
Green Confident In Tough Memorial Field At Muirfield
Hubert Green and 102 other pros plus two amateurs prepare for the Memorial Tournament at Muirfield Village in Dublin Ohio with a $225000 purse. Green says he is close to victory after a string of strong tee to green play and a better overall round.
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Rik Massengale
Gene Littler
Ray Floyd
Hale Irwin
David Graham
Oklahoma beats Kansas in Big Eight baseball tournament
Freshman Mark Nipp tossed a three hitter as Oklahoma defeated Kansas 5-0 in the second game of the Big Eight tournament. Missouri routed Kansas State 10-2 in the opener as Tom Bloemke worked the distance.
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David Rusch
Jim Leavitt
Rick Harreth
Tom Bloemke
KSU
Tom Korbe
Perry joins elite with 100 wins in both leagues
Gaylord Perry led the Texas Rangers to a 6 3 win over Detroit, becoming the third pitcher ever to win 100 games in both the American and National Leagues. He also surpassed 2700 career strikeouts, a club joined by Cy Young and Jim Bunning, and recalled the honor of being named among baseball greats.
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Perry
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Jim Bunning
Young
Walter Johnson
Bunning
Bob Gibson
North Carolina
Cardinals Acquire Metzger In Complex Trade
St Louis cards obtain relief pitcher Butch Metzger from San Diego Padres for pitcher John D Acquisto and infielder Pat Scanlon. Metzger rookie of the year 1976 11 4 record. this year 0 0 5 87 ERA in 17 games. D Acquisto had 4 50 ERA in 3 games after DL return. Scanlon with New Orleans farm club, tagged for three runs first inning.
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Baseball results and schedules across multiple games
Wednesday results include Chicago 7 Kansas City 4 Milwaukee 3 Toronto 2 Texas 6 Detroit 3. Probables: Toronto Singer at Milwaukee Cort. Other games Seattle at Oakland Oakland Langford 3-2, Baltimore at New York Figueroa 42, Kansas City at Chicago Colborn 53, Minnesota at California Goltz 22. Friday night schedules feature Milwaukee Boston and others with multiple prime matchups across leagues.
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Dantley Named NBA Rookie of the Year After Skeptics
Adrian Dantley of the Buffalo Braves won the NBA Rookie of the Year honor with 44 votes from a 66 member panel. He defied critics who questioned his size and position and credited his success to belief in his abilities despite draft scrutiny and season pressure.
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Kansas City
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New York Knicks
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Portland
Swimming enrollments and learn to swim courses listed
The notice outlines swimming course enrollments at the recreation office 17 S Highland May 31 to June 3 9 am to 4 pm for water safety and life saving courses. Learn to swim registrations at Chanute Municipal Pool in June 2 to 6 pm with several levels and phone registration.
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Kensett Wins Parsons Open Women’s Singles Title
Kensett of Chanute captured the women's open singles crown at the Parsons Open beating Kay Cleeland of Pittsburg 0-6 6-2 7-5 on the Dodds Courts in Forest Park. The Pittsburg State University student breezed through four rounds to reach the final. Men’s divisions in the meet are slated for this weekend as a replacement event for the Midwest Open.
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Kensett
Pittsburg State University
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