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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1968
Page
10
AP dispatch from Grenoble notes France to stage the Winter Olympic opening next Tuesday with a brigade of hostesses. Paris airline hostess Solange Carry explains 1,500 women were interviewed and 350 selected for charm, poise, beauty, and multilingual ability to welcome visitors.
Middletown High's coach Dave Augspurger, former Middletonian, leads Southeastern Ross to a top Class A ranking while Middies remain near the Class AA leaders Columbus East and Ross both at 14-1. The AP rating shows close margins among top teams with several moves. Zanesville drops, Canton McKinley enters the top ten, and Newark and Columbus Iden hold spots.
Coach Paul Walker notes Middletown High's offensive core is the Big Three Fraley Edwards and Bierly contributing about 75 percent of the offense as the team averages 85.4 points per game. The trio accounts for 60.2 of Middletown's score while opponents average 66.1 points against them. Middletown has taken 1,009 shots to opponents 1,011. The team shoots 47.9 percent for 1,281 points this season.
Coach Walker praised Springfield South as a tough opponent after a 44.8 percent shooting effort by the Middies on 32 of 62 while Springfield went 30 of 67. He noted turnovers as the main concern, with 258 giveaways in 15 games, hoping to reduce to about a dozen per game through tighter ball handling.
Zelmo Beaty of the St. Louis Hawks becomes the latest runnerup to Dave Bing as the NBA scoring chase tightens. Bing, despite a rough week, maintains a 157 point lead with 1,394 points per season pace.
The Dallas Chaparrals defeated Denver 110-107 in overtime to move to second place, two games behind New Orleans. Houston dropped their eighth straight, 115-105 to division leader Bucs, slipping to last. Minnesota beat New Jersey 116-110 to stay within a half game of Pittsburgh.
Mark Howe scored three goals and added an assist as Detroit blanked London Ontario 7-0 in the opening game of the Silver Sticks Championship. The week-long event features 63 teams from Canada and the United States. Mark Howe is the son of hockey great Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings.
A long string of college basketball results lists Cornell beating Ohio State 76 64 and many other games with teams such as Loyola La Kenyon Hiram Wilberforce Rio Grande Cleveland St John Carroll Kentucky Mississippi Bucknell Colgate Vanderbilt LSU Tennessee Georgia Alabama Florida Auburn Richmond Furman NC State Virginia Hofstra Citadel Centenary Texas A&M Murray State Morehead La Tech South Mississippi Drake Tulsa Purdue Northern Michigan Houston Utah State Stanford? The report notes Dayton fouled out Janky and Otto fouled out for Cornell with attendance figures of 5882 and 6256. It also mentions 16 New York Giants players scoring last season led by Homer Jones with 84 points.
Cornell stung Ohio State 76 64 as Hank South led with 25 points and the Big Red used a 3 2 zone to disrupt OSU. Don May sparked Dayton past Loyola 81 65 with 26 points and 14 rebounds while other regional games featured Kenyon over Hiram 78 9 at home and Cleveland State over John Carroll 85 73.
Kentucky coach Adolph Rupp earned his 772nd victory, the most by any college coach, as his 10th ranked Wildcats beat Mississippi 85-76 in Oxford. Top teams Tennessee Vanderbilt and Florida won, while Maravich led LSU in a 99-91 defeat at Baton Rouge and Houston routed Fairfield 108-76.
A playful exchange during a field event shows a speaker scolding players to stop rolling over as they enter the field. The remark highlights coaches pushing for discipline and focus among competitors.
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