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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1964
Page
9
The Mets debut at the $25 million Shea Stadium ends in a 4-3 defeat amid a traffic nightmare and a faulty scoreboard misprinting Hall of Fame names. Officials blamed electrical shorts for misspellings while news lines were kept quiet due to a union dispute.
Spaniard Ramon Sota and Americans Don January Billy Maxwell and Buster Cups alter share the lead at 139 in the Houston Golf Classic. Jack Nicklaus, after a five under par 66, sits three strokes back at even par at Sharptown Country Club as gusty winds challenge scoring.
The United States women’s basketball team opens its world championship bid Sunday in Chiclayo against France. Paraguay and Bulgaria follow in Peru’s qualifying round with Argentina vs South Korea and Chile vs Japan at Tacna and Arequipa. The top two teams advance to Lima finals April 2 to May 3.
New York AP CBS secures the National Football League championship telecast rights in a 1.8 million one day deal. The pact matches CBS TV with Rozelle and MacPhail announcing the agreement as exclusive to CBS due to AFL network commitments. aims to protect NFL from conflicts of interest.
Jack Lamabe delivered the best game of his major league career after being traded from the St. Louis Browns to Boston in a move that sent Dick Stuart away. Lamabe’s performance created a new problem for the Red Sox as they adjust to the impact of the deal.
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Lamabe pitched a complete game five hitter to lift Boston over Chicago 4 to 1. The victory boosts him into a No 2 starting role behind Monbouquette as Boston seeks a fifth starter.
The lineup includes CBS for NFL championship games in 1964 and 1965 at 1.6 million per game and 28.2 million for regular season 1964 1965. ABC secures AFL regular season rights for 1964 at 2.35 million. NBC signs five year AFL regular season rights starting 1965 at 36 million and regular season college games for 1964 1965 at 13 million.
Willie Stargell hit a homer a double and two singles driving in two runs and scoring twice to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4 3 victory over the New York Mets in their home opener at Shea Stadium.
Joey Jay won his first start for Cincinnati allowing six hits and two homers as the Reds beat the world champion Dodgers 7-3. Bob Craig pitched five hitless innings for St Louis in a 4-3 loss at San Francisco in ten innings as Willie Mays hit a four hundred foot homer. Philadelphia outslugged the Cubs 18-8 in an eight homer game while Milwaukee beat Houston 5-2 on Frank Bolling two homers. Willie Stargell had four hits as Pittsburgh defeated New York 4-5 in Shea Stadium. Larry Richert pitched for the Dodgers in defeat, with Pete Richert taking the loss.
Talawanda pitcher Dave Churchman held Monroe High to two hits as the Braves won 3 1 yesterday in Oxford. A homer by Adams produced Monroe’s brief lead in the fourth before Talawanda answered with two runs in the bottom of the frame to seal the victory. Conley and Adams, Churchman, and Bowers contributed for Talawanda in the scoring.
LANCASTER Ohio AP Earl Jones a 33 year old Granville native and Miami University graduate was named head football coach at Lancaster High School. He succeeds Ray Pelfrey who resigned to enter private business. Jones has ten years as assistant coach and has mentored basketball and track in addition to football.
Today's games feature Pittsburgh at New York, St. Louis at San Francisco, Milwaukee at Houston, Cincinnati at Los Angeles, Philadelphia at Chicago. Sunday's slate adds St. Louis at Houston, Milwaukee at Los Angeles, Cincinnati at San Francisco.
Cleveland AP report. Champion Joey Giardello edged Juan Rivero in a 16 round middleweight title fight, winning by split decision. Scores 4-5-? on official cards. AP sees Rivero as the winner 43-44. Giardello improves to 10-2-2. Rivero at 41-11-1.
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