Pioneers Open Season with 13-0 Win Over Lamar Merchants
Garden City Pioneers blanked the Lamar Merchants 13-0 in the Kansas-Colorado League home opener. 13 players saw action as Lynn Overton, Bob Faurot, and Chico Reyes split the mound duties for Garden City, which pounded 16 hits and committed no errors. Ken Bauer and Leo Eck produced multiple hits for the victors, with Bergkamp driving in key runs and Billinger homering in the eighth. The win follows a May 29 season opener 11-5 at Las Animas. The Pioneers travel to Liberal for their next game, with potential starters Overton or Reyes on the mound.
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Pioneer Town
Lamar Merchants
Focals
Lamar
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Garden
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Ovideo
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Tom Bergkamp
Homer
Laverne Billinger
Bob Smith
Liberal
Reyes
Briggs in Critical Condition After Cerebral Hemorrhage
Walter “Spike” Briggs, 48, noted sports figure and former Detroit Tigers president, is in critical condition in Benningon Vermont after a cerebral hemorrhage at Williams College events. He was transported from Henry Putnam Memorial Hospital. his wife said doctors offered little hope.
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Spike
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Detroit Tigers
Detroit
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Williamstown
Mass
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Briggs, Sr
Toma . Brigas Manufacturing Co
Fonglime
Igerts ‘Bros
Pair of Softball Games on Local Diamond Tonight
Two more softball games are scheduled as the first round nears completion. McClung-Payne Pharmacy faces Garden City Co-op in the opener, followed by Century Refinery of Shallow Water meeting the Latin-American Club. McClung is managed by John Frey, Co-op by Jerry Bevan, Century by Jim Robertson, and the Latins by Rufus Delgada.
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Garden City Co-op
Century Refinery
John Frey
McClung
Jerry Bevan
Century
Jim Robertson
Rufus Delgada
Richie Regan to Coach Seton Hall Hoops Next Season
Richie Regan, former Cincinnati Royals player, will coach the Seton Hall basketball team in South Orange, New Jersey, for the upcoming season. The hire places Regan in charge of the Pirates as the program seeks improved performance.
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Richie Regan
Cincinnati Royals
Seton Hall
South Orange
Opening rain washes out city baseball schedule
Weather halted the planned opening round in the Major Minor and Mid get leagues. Knights were set to face Lions, Majors at Clint Lightner Field and Minors at Finnup Park Little League Field. No makeup games planned. Rotzmans and Kiwanis were scheduled for Major and Minor action tomorrow, weather permitting.
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Lions
Clint Lightner
Finnup Park
Herman Beringer
Rotzmans
Kiwanis
Pender Defends Boxing Title Rematch With Robinson
Paul Pender, current middleweight champion of New York and Massachusetts, defends his title Friday against Sugar Ray Robinson who has worn the crown five times. The bout, a 15-round rematch at the Boston Garden, follows Pender's January 22 upset of Robinson. NBC will carry the fight. Robinson receives 76 percent of the television money and 30 percent of the gate, with Pender taking the remainder. Robinson, suspended earlier for a missed bout, is a 9 to 5 favorite in New York circles to regain the title.
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New York
Massachusetts
Sugar Ray Robinson
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Maryland
Pender
Boston Garden
Joe Zapustas
Gene Fullmer
NBA
Pender-Robinson
NBC
Boston
Providence
Sam Silverman
Girls' Softball Starts Tuesday In Local League
The 1980 season opens Tuesday night with Coca-Cola facing Welder's Supply at 7 30 pm at the local diamond. A second game may follow while Pierceville's girls team prepares to play Coca-Cola Thursday. A fourth team may join the league this season.
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Pierceville
Coca- Cola
Chadd Brothers Star Visitors Blank Southwest in Twin Bill
Dodge Citians sponsored by Frank Epp Chevrolet win 4-0 and 3-0 in a Sunday softball doubleheader. Lynn Chadd pitched both games with 24 strikeouts and Rollie Chadd homered twice. Southwest Carpet and Tile managed only two hits per game as Epp’s lineup produced 10 hits and three homers.
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Rollie
Hollie
Lonnie
Conests
Rollie Chadd
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Dodge City
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Grain Products
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Southwest
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Carpeters
Lynn Cladd
Roberts
Mack Jameson
Don Weyand
Chadd
Weyand
Max Ladner
Jerry Schultz
Joyce Ziske Wins Wolverine Open at Hillcrest
Joyce Ziske, the Wisconsin proette famed for power and a steady putter, won the $7,500 Wolverine Women's Open Golf Tournament at Hillcrest Country Club, finishing three strokes ahead of Betsy Rawls Wiffi Smith and Mary Lena Faulk. Her winning total of 299 was one under par on the 6500 yard course. she earned $1,313.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Joyce Liske
Hillcrest Country Club
Wisconsin Proette
Betsy Rawls
Wiffi Smith
Mary Lena Faulk
Miss Ziske
Hillcrest
White Sox ride two shutouts into pennant chase
Chicago defense hinges on trades for Frank Baumann and Russ Kemmerer as they sweep Kansas City in a doubleheader. Freese and Minoso boost offense with key hits and Minoso adds a homer. The wins pull the Sox within one game of Cleveland and three behind Baltimore in the AL standings. Baltimore expands lead. New York twins vs Boston and Detroit vs Cleveland alter the landscape.
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Associated Press
Chicago White Sox
Bill Veeck
Windy City
Minnie Minoso
Gene Freese
Roy Sievers
American Leas
W. L. Pet. G.B
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Detroit
Washington
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Boston
Frank Baumann
Russ Kemmerer
Baltimore Orioles
Kemmerer
Baumann
White Sox
Sox
Ron Jackson
Soxo
Indians
Tigers
Freese
Minoso
Reese
Luis Aparicio
Dick Hall
Ted Kluszewski
Sherm Lollar
Ned Garver
Snead Says Open Is No Life or Death for Him
Sam Snead, 48, says he is fed up with chasing the National Open and will approach it casually. He plans no special prep for the 60th Open at Cherry Hills in Denver, arriving just before the event for light practice.
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New York
Sam Snead
West Virginia
Sam Parks
Jack Fleck
Snead
Cherry Hills Club
Denver
Stitch Dies in Rescue near Louisville Dam
Rudelf Stitch a 28 year old Negro welterweight boxer and father of six who won a Carnegie medal for heroism two years earlier saved a man from drowning near an Ohio River dam. He died while attempting another rescue less than 100 yards from the earlier site. Joseph Schifcar of Elizabeth Indiana described him as a fine man and very nice.
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Louisville
Rudelf Stitch
Stitch
Stitch hero who aided Oliver in dam fall tragedy
A worker saved by Stitch in 1953 is identified in Garden City Telegram. Stitch, returning from boxing in Australia, aided Charles L. Oliver when he slipped from a ledge under the dam. Both men died in the swirling waters. The paper quotes the survivor expressing shock and sickness over the incident.
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Stitch
Australia
Hewan
Charles L. Oliver
Oliver
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