Campos Mathis Wesley Arndt Whittington To State Meeting
Coach Skeet Powers will take Cuero High School state qualifiers Sammy Campos Victor Mathis Frank Wesley Charles Arndt and Arthur Whittington to Austin for the State Track and Field Meet at Memorial Stadium. Campos ran 4 26.1 in a Corpus warm up meet and aims for improvement while Mathis tops long jump marks around 21 to 22 feet. The Cuero relay team has been clocked at 43 1 for their best 440 yard relay effort this season.
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Austin
Memorial Stadium
Texas
Sammy Campos
Victor Mathis
Mathis
Frank Wesley
Charles Arndt
Arthur Whittington
Campos
Sammy
Corpus
Coach Powers
Chs
Victor
Cuero
Wesley, Arndt
Whittington
Expos Top Astros 5-1 Behind Stoneman Six-Hit Win
Montreal Expos defeated the Houston Astros 5-1 as Bill Stoneman allowed six hits. Ron Hunt homered and scored twice, and Rusty Staub drove in two with a pair of hits. The Astros scratched a run in the ninth on Jim Wynn’s single, Watson’s groundout, and Stoneman’s wild pitch. Other NL and AL scores noted.
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Ron Hunt
Montreal Expos
Houston Astros
Bill Stoneman
Expos
Houston
Wade Blasingame
Hunt
Blasingame
Rusty Staub
Bob Bailey
John Boccabella
John Edwards
Staub
Jim Ray
Ron Swoboda
Mets edge Cubs 2 1 in halted game debate
The New York Mets beat Chicago 2 to 1 after a 14 minute stoppage over a controversial call that produced a double reversal in favor of the Cubs. Also notes Cuero Cuero district win 14 13 over Beeville Trojan. college sports elections. golf and football tidbits.
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New York Mets
Chicago
Durocher
Cubs
Ernest Henson
Harry Schumacher
Ricky Wheeler
Walter DeDear
Lalo Triana
Ronnie Saenz
Tony Allen
Bobby Meitzen
John Lee
Bobby Castillo
Lowell Cage
Fillo Garcia
Eugene Kach
Toby Summers
Ernest Jasso
Bobby Hesse
Lang Smith
Charles Kuecker
Charles Gohmert
Danny Strain
Henry Luddeke
L. J. Weaver
Beeville Trojans
Cuero
Cuero Mayor To Throw Out First Ball At Slo-Pitch Opening
Cuero Mayor Jack Edgar will throw out the first ball as the DeWitt County Slo-Pitch League opens the 1971 season at Live Oak Park on Tuesday May 11 at 7 p.m. The opener features Cuero American Legion versus Yorktown Pearl Wranglers with Cuero vs Yorktown Lone Star Stars in the second game and Cuero Lions Club against Cuero Foodcraft in the nightcap. A concession stand will operate all evening.
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DeWitt County
Live Oak Park
Cuero American Legion
Yorktown Pearl Wranglers
City of
Cuero
Yorktown Lone Star Stars
Cuero Lions Club
Cuero Foodcraft
Jack Edgar
Major League Standings and Tonight's Probable Pitchers
Standings show San Diego leading with wins over Atlanta and Cincinnati. Tonight's schedule lists Chicago at New York, Houston at Montreal, Cincinnati at Los Angeles, St. Louis at Philadelphia, and other matchup notes with several games postponed or rescheduled due to rain.
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Montreal
St. Louis
New York
Houston
Philadelphia
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Cincinnati
San Diego
Atlanta
San Francisco
Stottlemyre
Minnesota
Hall
California
Messersmith
May
Baltimore
McNally
Dobson
Twinight
Boston
Peters
Johnson
Moyers Chirino bout canceled due to Moyers injuries
The May 15 middleweight bout at Playboy International Lake Geneva was scrapped after Denny Moyers suffered training camp injuries including a broken wrist and leg. Jackie Robinson named to New York State Athletic Commission by Gov Rockefeller, pending Senate approval. John Duncan signs with the Nets.
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UPI
Denny Moyers
Jose Chirino
Playboy International
Lake Geneva
Wis
Moyers
Playboy
Albany
N.Y
Jackie Robinson
Nelson Rockefeller
Raymond J. Lee
New York State Athletic Commission
State Senate
Robinson
Brooklyn Dodgers
First Employee Named As Gen. Manager
Houston Oilers appoint John W. Breen their first hire and longtime talent leader as general manager. He succeeds Robert Brodhead who resigned April 2 after brief tenure. Brodhead becomes treasurer of the Cleveland Browns and had replaced Don Klosterman.
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Houston
John W. Breen
Houston Oilers
Oilers
Breen
Robert Brodhead
Brodhead
Cleveland Browns
Don Klosterman
Baltimore Colts
Nets Sign Duncan For 1971 72 ABA Season
Kentucky Wesleyan product Duncan signed by the New York Nets for the 1971 72 ABA season. The Nets eighth draft pick averaged 17.9 points and 23.1 rebounds per game last year.
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New York Nets
American Basketball Association
Duncan
Nets
Kalbaugh Named Basketball Coach at LaSalle Institute
Billy Kalbaugh, noted playmaker on St. Bonaventure teams led by Bob Lanier, has been named basketball coach at LaSalle Institute in Troy New York. Kalbaugh's father coaches at RPI in Troy.
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Troy
N.Y
UPI
Billy Kalbaugh
Bob Lanier
St. Bonaventure
LaSalle Institute
Kalbaugh
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
NBA Owners Gung Ho On Merger With ABA
NBA and ABA merger committees met separately to discuss an immediate amalgamation. Abe Pollin of the Baltimore Bullets and Wendell Cherry of the Kentucky Colonels lead their sides seeking Congressional approval of a merger to end escalating player recruitment costs and rising ticket prices.
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UPI
National
American Basketball Associations
NBA
Abe Pollin
Baltimore Bullets
ABA
Wendell Cherry
Kentucky Colonels
Gung-Ho
Treasuries
ABA Playoff Standings and Wednesday Results
United Press International reports finals in the ABA playoffs with standings showing Utah and Kentucky games. Utah defeated Kentucky 138 to 125 in a matchup noted alongside overall standings and results from Wednesday’s schedule.
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UGA
Kentucky
Utah
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Charlie Papacek
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NEW Commission
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Neal Daly
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