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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1977
Page
9
The field of 25 includes defending champion Marty Dickerson as she tees off at 8 30 this morning in the Middletown Women’s City Golf Tournament.
Dickerson bids to become first four time city golf champion since 1960 start after winning the last three. Field plays Valley View and Meadows courses over three days with two rounds tomorrow and Friday. Flights split by handicap include seven in Flight One and five in Flight Four.
Two Miami Dolphins linemen Randy Crowder and Don Reese were placed on waivers following NFL discipline over drug arrests last May. The NFL committee ordered they be traded reinstated or waived.
The Middletown Trojans host a six team double elimination baseball event at Smith Park starting tomorrow. Games run tomorrow and Friday with semi finals and loser's bracket on Saturday and finals Sunday at 3 p.m.
Former Tennessee basketball star Bernard King pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and marijuana possession in Knoxville. He received a 60 day suspended sentence and a $50 fine on each count with larceny and prowling charges dismissed.
WEST ELKTON The Camden Area Anglers Club will meet at the Town Hall to discuss resuming tournaments. The next bass tourney is tentatively set for Sept. 10 with a site to be picked, and a fish fry is planned for Sept. 3.
Middletown golfer Mike McGee posted a one over par 73 at Hampshire Country Club to earn a cut and advance among 74 players into two more qualifying rounds at The Woods in Benton Harbor Michigan. A field of 434 started with 360 cut after round one.
With 12 races left in the 1977 Grand National series Richard Petty has overtaken Cale Yarborough for the national championship lead after finishing second at Pocono. Yarborough remains money leader with 252 105 dollars, Petty 227 055, and Benny Parsons his next rival. The tour moves to the Talladega 500 in Alabama on August 7.
Tim Walton of Middletown receives an invitation to compete in the inaugural Tri-State Junior Golf Championships at Crooked Stick Country Club in Indianapolis August 18 and 19. The event gathers top junior golfers from Ohio Indiana and Kentucky with Walton coming off a third place finish in the state juniors.
On this date in 1967 the New Orleans Saints played their first NFL game in Los Angeles against the Rams. The Saints lost 16 to 7 but quarterback Bill Kilmer starred offensively, completing 15 of 25 passes.
Guillermo Vilas roared back to topple Eddie Dibbs 1-6 6-0 6-1 in the Louisville final earning $20 000 while Dibbs took $10 000. Jimmy Connors beat Jim Delaney 6-3 6-3 in North Conway first round. John McEnroe defeated Bruce Nichols 6-3 6-0 in South Orange first round. Davis Cup Europe finals saw Italy beat Spain 3-2 as Barazzutti edged Orantes. Other notes include Lutz, Solomon, and Norbac in early rounds.
Mayor Michael Bilandic announced Chicago is interested in hosting the 1984 Summer Games but would not bear the full cost. He said the city would require substantial federal financing and has contacted the International Olympic Committee about the bid.
U S District Judge Earl R Larson upheld the 16 million settlement between the NFL and NFLPA ending a long court fight. About 3000 players are to receive 150 to over 20000 dollars. only 19 of 5700 class members objected.
In Oxford Ohio during the National Archery Association event, a Canadian unofficial team led by Daniel Hesnoyer won with 2 163 points. Teammates Lucille Lemay Jean Manland and Roger Lemay scored 536 545 and 531 respectively as a US Army team took second. Official teams York Pa Archers Cape May Bowmen and New Orleans Archery Club also competed. The meet runs through Friday with international rounds and four day individual scores deciding the championships.
Los Angeles Ram draftee Nolan Cromwell will be tried at safety though he starred as a quarterback in school at Kansas and earned world class hurdler status.
Horse names and pace and trotting race entries listed for Latonia tracks. Competitors include Ray Barrett, Lu Ann Farr, Kentucky Coal, Authentic Atlas, and many more across eight races with trotting and pacing divisions.
In Cincinnati the 69th annual competition opens with distance casting marks reaching 350 feet for lures while fly rods target 175 feet. Placid crowds watch seasoned casters contest for supremacy in this annual event hosted by the casting association.
National Basketball Association players face slow free agency with 50 unsigned options as training camp nears. Len Robinson moved Atlanta to New Orleans for about 1.6 million over four years while Jamaal Wilkes and Glenn Hansen seek deals. Larry Fleisher hints at court action to enforce compensation rules amid a stalled market and a pending NBA commissioner ruling.
The Middletown Dental Group softball team sponsors a Class B tournament at Goldman Park this weekend. Entry fee is 60 dollars per team and the drawing is set for Thursday at 7 p.m. at Goldman Park. Chairman Dave Evingham can be reached at 422-4038.
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