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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1970
Page
9
Pabst edged Dayton National Cash Register 16-15 to defend the State Industrial Slo-Pitch title at Armco over the weekend, shutting the door on a late rally.
Wilsman's Trucking finished third after a 26-10 opening win over Wayside Inn of Lucas and a 11-1 win over Stauffer Realty, then fell to Brown's & Remy's in the losers bracket. Brown's & Remy's later won the tournament and will advance to Southgate, Michigan.
Trenton Middletown C D Sohio blanked Trenton 8 0 behind two hit pitching by Jeff Zornes to win the Trenton Invitational All Star Knothole Tournament Middletown went undefeated in four games to take the tourney Players on the team included Mike Bland Kenny Collins Craig Esposito Lee Elwood Dave Dennis Cliff Howard Tom Moore Mark McDaniels Skip Pettus Steve Yenser Mike Waits Mark Wood Greg Long and Beaver Honchul Pettus managed by Dalton Pettus with coaches Bob Elwood and Kenny McDanie
Trenton pitchers Beiser and Soward sparked no hitters and one hitters to push into the finals. Semi finals saw Pabst over PCC 28 8 and NCR 20 19. Finalists NCR and Westinghouse and Trenton vs Carlisle for the title.
In Vandalia Ohio Ray Stafford, a 23 year old Army dischargee from Thornton Colorado, won the International Clay Pigeon Championship of America by breaking 99 of 100 targets. Frank Little Endicott New York was second with 98, Joan Harbage Grove City Ohio led women with 84, Russell Hilton St Petersburg Florida top junior with 91. Little also won a 27 yard handicap event with 98. A 16 yard singles round saw 21 amateurs post perfect 100s and a shootoff to decide the leaders extended into the night with Emory Moyer Dayton and Charles Sheckler Walnutport Pennsylvania tied at 125.
Latonia Race Course lists entries for nine races with trot and pace divisions. Notable names include Trot Tranaquil Mite Royal Mistress Nelva's Princess Jill G and numerous pacers such as Tillie Thoughts Gypsy Lady and Suzy Dillard across races 1 through 9.
Dr. Ralph Clemens, Dr. Ted Martin, Dr. Jim Fiessinger and R. B. Thompson posted a 120 to win Brown's Run Country Club's 11th Annual Sweepstakes. In second, two strokes behind, were Bill McCabe, Jim Shull, David Murray and Tom Wortley. Don Davies, Dwight Neill, Bill Tuttle and Rick Davies shot 123 and won a playoff for third.
Bill Rupp shot a 73 for the low gross at Wildwood Golf Club yesterday. Osborne and Sanderson tied for second at 74, followed by Sherman and Weikel at 75. Low net winners were Osborne 69 in 0-8, Sherman 67 in 9-14, Revelos 66 in 15 over. Revelos won closest to pin on No 2. Wright on 9 and 18. Blind bogey 76 went to Stevens Fraley Grant Lindsay Murphy Walsh.
Hiroshi Kobayashi of Japan outpointed Antonio Amaya to retain his WBA junior lightweight title. The scores showed Kobayashi winning 15 rounds to Amaya's 0, with the final bell at 129 2.
The four day meet at Los Angeles Swim Stadium saw Gary Hall Jr. and John Kin set multiple world records as young swimmers dominated. Hall, 19, Indiana University junior, posted world marks in the 200 meter butterfly and 400 meter individual medley, while Kin surged in the 400 meter free. The crowd watched a historic day with records in the 1,500 and other events as top athletes chased global standards.
Pete Hamilton, 27, son of a former Northeastern dean, surged to victory at Talladega in a Petty Plymouth, boosting season earnings to 120 560 and extending his win streak to three. Denis Hulme won the Canadian-American Cup. Al Unser set a track record at Milwaukee. and Susie Atwood plus others posted multiple swimming wins.
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