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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1971
Page
27
The JCs announce a championship and five flights with trophies and prizes for top three in each flight. Indian Hills course features hazards on holes three through nine and a demanding front nine with lakes, bunkers, and trees. entry is $12.50 with call-in number 355 3117 for Jim Benefield.
In Chicago, the Cubs built a 2-1 lead by the sixth with Glenn Beckett homering, Santo driving in two after Williams and Pepitone, who extended his hitting streak, contributed key hits. Alou had earlier put the Cardinals ahead, and Pepitone added seven straight hits across two games. Meanwhile Giants beat Padres 7-4 on Mays’s game winning hit, Mets outslug Phillies 6-5 on Clendenon’s 15th inning homer, and Expos rout Pirates 10-1 led by Fairly’s homer and a string of misplays by Pittsburgh.
The 6-foot-8 Porter who earned NCAA tournament MVP honors after his team lost the final to U C L A repudiated the ABA deal and joined the Chicago Bulls. A Charlotte paper’s January report alleging Porter's ABA contract in a motel room with Jack Dolph was denied by the B A Commissioner.
Eight meet records dropped across the event with notable performances. Ohio State’s Ray Hupp registered 7 456 points in the decathlon while French entrant Jacque Accambray from Kent State hurled the hammer 227-10 and Garry Bjorklund of Minnesota clocked 27 48.8 for the six mile.
Can Am unlimited series uses a driver best eight of ten races to determine the Johnson Flontile trophy winner. Denis Hulme the defending champion, is a New Zealander living in England.
Amateur golfer Simons, four strokes off the pace, shoots 65 at Merion to threaten the national championship lead. He trails Nicklaus and Nichols, with Trevino and Archer among others at 211, and eyes a possible 64 after birdie spells on holes two through ten before a late bogey on 17.
Washington pitcher Jackie Brown and Casey Cox combined on a six hit shutout as the Senators beat Boston 2-0. Del Unser and Don Mincher scored in the first inning and Dick Billings drove in a run in the seventh. Billings, catching for the first time this season, had a near homer robbed by Carl Yastrzemski.
In mid May at Old White in White Sulphur Springs West Virginia seven irons produced two holes in one on the 18th. The feat was achieved by Mrs. Helen Post of Fort Washington Pennsylvania and R W Erskine of Santa Clara California.
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