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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1964
Page
4
Tryouts for the Lite League baseball players aged 9 to 12 are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday evenings at Weed Park and Oregon Field. Last year majors players need not attend. About 70 boys will be drafted into majors, others into minors under the same system as last year. Attendance at both sessions is urged to complete four drills. Unregistered youngsters may join at the tryouts.
Morning Sun secured two relays and placed fourth in Class B at the Fort Madison Relays. Coach Bob Darrah used the same lineup for the mile medley and mile relay, with Danny Jatinston and Eddie Wilson anchoring the legs. Moore ran the half mile for the first time this season as a test after a leg injury.
Dodgers win before 52 733 fans as Fort Madison Relays crown Burlington Ottumwa and Muscatine in a Little Six show. Merle Grigg and Jim Donegan shine with open field wins while Mel Wright falls just short in the 980 run. Muscatine gears for Clinton district meet with strong relay showings and Jim Donegan stars in both discus and broad jump.
Tarl Battey struck for a grand slam and a two run single to lift the Minnesota Twins past the Kansas City Athletics 10-5 at Municipal Stadium. Battey left the game with a toothache after a foul ball to the mask in the eighth. Rich Rollins and Tony Oliva contributed with key hits as Minnesota built a late lead, while Moe Drabowsky was charged with the loss. Whitey Ford delivered a two hitter for the Yankees in a separate AL win.
Three more Midwest League games were postponed by rain as the season stalled. Decatur rallied to edge Waterloo 6-5 in nine innings after trailing late, Dubuque crushed Quincy 9-1, and Clinton Burlington Cedar Rapids and Fox Cities Quad Cities awaited rescheduled dates amid wet weather. Pavich hit a three run homer for Dubuque in the third inning as the contest drifted through the rain delay.
Lawrence Kansas. Kansas swept a baseball doubleheader with Iowa State Friday 7 2 and 2 1 staking solid claim to second place in the Big Eight standings. Steve Renko and Chuck Dobson both sophomores pitched four hitters. Dobson had 11 strikeouts. Reiko batting cleanup got brovhils. The teams will play a single game today.
Local and area sports programs fill the week with bowling golf tennis and baseball. Assumption faces Muscatine in tennis at Weed Park while Park Lane and Park Lane Men’s Golf league are active. Little League tryouts run Tuesday and Wednesday at Weed Park and Oregon Field for east and west crews. Mississippi Valley Junior College Conference events include baseball golf and tennis with pairings and finals noted. Relays feature Durant and West-Central events with finals in the evening. Muscatine High meets Burlington in tennis at 3:40 p.m. and Tom Bruner Field hosts multiple college games and district meets across eight districts, with venues including Clinton Burlington Iowa City and Davenport.
Chi Chi Rodriguez leads into the third round of the 95,000 Tournament of Champions as wind and sand bite players. Jack Nicklaus sits two back while Gary Player Doug Ford and George Knudson chase at 142. Arnold Palmer and Ford post mixed rounds amid tough conditions at Desert Inn Country Club.
Pinehurst North Carolina saw Billy Joe Patton and Dale Morey reach the 16 hole North and South Amateur final. Patton edged Wayne Jackson 4 and 3 in the semifinal, while Morey routed Bob Ailea 4 and 5 in the other bracket.
Alexandria Louisiana Caral Mann the tallest player on the women's circuit posted a one under par 71 to lead the Clifford Ann Creed Invitational at seven thousand five hundred dollars. The 23 year old from Towson Maryland opened the tourney with the day’s sole sub par round and held a three stroke edge over a cluster including Mickey Wright who shot 74 in a noisy scramble filled first round.
Dodgers beat Giants 7-1 before a crowd of 52 733 in Los Angeles. Don Drysdale fanned nine in a five hit victory. Willie Mays, batting .489, moved to first base from center in the second inning and contributed a homer and a single, his first time at first in his 1-year major league career.
AFL-CIO defeated Phillips Bros Sales in a four game playoff for the championship at Town and Country Bowl. High team game was Town and Country Bowl at 785, 738 and J B Mark and Sons Ins at 738. Gutierrez won the Mexican welterweight title by stopping Batiling Torres in Monterrey Mexico.
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