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Newspaper

Danville Register

Location

Danville, Virginia, United States of America

Date

May 05, 1976

Page

4

Archie Griffin Signs Multi Year Deal With Bengals

Archie Griffin, two time Heisman winner and Ohio State star, signed a multi year contract with the Cincinnati Bengals after choosing NFL over a CFL offer. Bengals coach Bill Johnson projects him as a factor in the backfield next season despite questions about his size.

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Wood Hurls Chisox To 3-1 Win

Wilbur Wood pitched four hits to lift the Chicago White Sox to a 3-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore. A quirky second inning produced two unearned runs after a misplayed ball by Ken Holtzman led to an infield hit and an error, enabling Downing to score as the rally began.

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Phillies Rally Over Astros Behind Lonborg Seven-Hit Gem

Bobby Tolan homered and Greg Luzinski cleared the bases with a double as Jim Lonborg pitched a complete game for the Phillies in a 5-4 win over the Astros. Lonborg allowed three strikeouts, no walks, and benefited from Dave Cash's two timely hits including a pivotal triple in the eighth to provide support.

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Four Danville Karate Students Place In Blue Ridge Tourney

Four Danville youths achieved high finishes in their first self defense competition. Mike Berry and David Berry earned first and second in Pee Wee division while Regina Hawkins took second in sparring and kata and Danny Hawkins finished second in kata.

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Braves extend winless streak to eight with another loss

The Braves remained in a four game losing streak and extended their winless skid to eight, the longest since moving to Atlanta. St Louis tied it in the ninth on a Mike Anderson double then Lee Richard scored on Lew Brock’s single. Four runs in two innings for Atlanta’s Niekro cushioned a six run first two frames, while McBride hit a two run homer off Denny in the first.

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Lockwood Aids Seaver Mets Top Reds By 5-3 Margin

New York gained two runs with no hits in the second inning as Fred Norman walked four. Dave Kingman hit his 10th homer to tie for the NL lead with Mike Schmidt. Tom Seaver won his fourth straight start, despite Reds threats in the seventh before Lockwood preserved the win.

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Bowling Scores Near Records In Local Meet Chaos

Fragmented OCR text describes a bowling league, with names like Peterson and Barstensen and references to scores and frames. It mentions teams, lanes, and a tense match in a city league, with unclear details and several garbled phrases.

Otis homers pace Royals to 7-5 win over Red Sox

Amos Otis slugged two homers driving in four as the Kansas City Royals beat Boston 7-5. His inning two three-run blast and another solo shot off Bill Lee highlighted a five-run uprising. Buck Martinez added a two-run double for KC while Rico Petrocelli homered for Boston.

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Harrah and Hargrove lift Rangers past Brewers 6 4

Toby Harrah belted two solo homers and Mike Hargrove added a two run single as Texas snapped a skid with a 6 4 win over Milwaukee. Don Money opened the scoring with his third homer for the Brewers. Jim Colborn took the loss after entering with the AL leading ERA. Roy Howell Tom Grieve and Jim Sundberg contributed with run scoring hits to spark a four run sixth.

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Softball Results From Woman's League

Readable softball results show multiple league games with team names and scores. Merita defeated Cat and Figare 12 to 6 at Cedarcrack Field while The Dealers beat Ban's Hill 6 to 6? and Sass edged Juli League 12. Riverside Field hosted Stores 7 and Shigorny 7 tied with Flece Gugds 14. At Rec Center Mullins Sugar Babies won 24 to 2 over Lollinces.

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